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THE NEXT BIG THING There’s no slow season here at Boise Weekly. As soon as we finish one project, another is waiting in the wings. This week marks our 20th annual Best of Boise edition, where we push aside pretty much everything else to present the results of voting by readers on an array of the best people, places and things in the Treasure Valley (plus BW staff picks). As we were putting this baby to bed, our thoughts turned to the next Big Thing—the 13th annual Boise Weekly Cover Auction. We’ve made a couple of changes to this year’s auction, which is set for Thursday, Oct. 16. First, we’re moving the festivities to Gallery Five18, located at 518 S. Americana Blvd. Second, local speedtalker Josh Houk will be returning. A third-generation auctioneer, Houk was nominated “funniest auctioneer on earth” by the National Auctioneers Association, and he presided over our (record-setting) 2012 auction. Fourth, artists will receive 30 percent of the proceeds from the sale of their cover (covers dated Jan. 1-Sept. 17). Third, the remainder of proceeds will be used to fund grants for individual artists and, of course, support BW—specifically, our long-form investigative journalism program, BW Watchdogs (to learn more, visit boiseweekly.com/boise/BWWatchdogs/Page). Admission to the auction is $10 and parking is available in the northeast corner of the St. Luke’s Shoreline Office Building at 1500 Shoreline Blvd. All that business out of the way, we can’t tell you how excited we are that it’s almost Cover Auction time. Not only is it a helluva party—with food from Bonefish Grill again this year, wine from Bitner Vineyards and beer from Highlands Hollow Brewhouse—it provides for one of our most important contributions to the local arts community. Since we started our grants program, we have funneled more than $120,000 into support of various artistic endeavors around the city. That’s a big deal, and it’s a win-win: more art is good for everybody. With food from Bonefish Grill again this year, wine from Bitner Vineyards and beer from Highlands Hollow Brewhouse—it’s one of the most important things we can do for the local arts community. Since we started our grants program we’ve funneled more than $120,000 to support various artistic endeavors around the city. That’s a big deal, and one that we feel—actually, we know—is a win-win: more art is good for everybody. So mark your calendars for Thursday, Oct. 16, 6 p.m. at Gallery Five18. In the meantime, follow Boise Weekly’s Facebook page for a daily update looking back at all the covers published from Oct. 2, 2013-Sept. 17, 2014. See them all in one place in our Countdown to the 13th Annual Cover Art Auction slideshow at bit.ly/1rhtet5. —Zach Hagadone

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SUBMIT

Boise Weekly pays $150 for published covers. One stipulation of publication is that the piece must be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in November. A portion of the proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all artists are eligible to apply. To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. All mediums are accepted. Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded.

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BOISEWEEKLY.COM What you missed this week in the digital world.

FLASHBACK On July 14, 1994, Boise Weekly published the ﬁrst Best of Boise poll. We dug through the archives and came up with the original edition, and have digitized it for your reading pleasure. Discover which TV personality Boiseans most wanted to Jell-O wrestle, the most useless BSU course offering and the local politican who most deserved a kick in the butt. Read it at boiseweely.com/bob94.pdf.

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THE WAY IT WEREN’T Where’s Saddam when we need him?

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Late at night, when you’re struggling to get to sleep but you can’t because you’re too worried about the Middle East—about guys who dress like ninjas beheading guys in orange scrubs; about the entire region disintegrating back to stone-age values, only with nuclear-age weapons—do you ever wonder what things would be like if Saddam Hussein were still in power? Alternative timelines have long been a staple of sci-ﬁ writers, historical revisionists and chronic day-dreamers. Who can forget Captain Kirk’s adventures on planets where the Roman Empire had never fallen, where Hitler won and the society was a fascist nightmare, or where Capone-ish gangsters with tommy guns were living like their world was all a rum-running racket? And did you know there are novels out that give those nostalgic for the Confederacy a pretend history in which the South was triumphant and the whole U.S. of A. now lives as it did in antebellum Dixie? So, as useless as it is in any real sense, it’s not unusual for someone to wonder “What if?” For instance… …what if George W. Bush had been born with even enough intelligence to learn something useful from his father, who was born with enough intelligence to know… yes, Saddam Hussein was a triple-A asshole, and no doubt murdered a great many of his own people… but that this particular area of the Earth’s surface was known for producing triple-A assholes, and that there were plenty more of them lurking around in the shadow of Saddam, just itching for a chance to come out from under their rocks and demonstrate their leadership style—which, in that neck of the desert, often amounts to murdering a great many of their own people? And what if Bush, rather than invading a place where the perpetrators of 9/11 weren’t, had instead focused his meager attentions on where the perpetrators of 9/11 were; and rather than destroying one of the few regimes in the Middle East that was even more adamant than America about denying Jihadist savages a place to set up shop, he would have directed America’s awesome vengeance exclusively at those countries where Jihadist savages had been allowed to set up shop? And what if Bush had not unleashed hell on the wrong country, leaving as many innocent civilians dead as Saddam could only dream about; that he and his neo-con cohorts had not turned the Iraqi military into a shambles that we’ve spent the past 10 years trying to rehabilitate; that the infrastructure and administrative capabilities of Iraq had not been smart-bombed into dust; and that there was still a functioning government in Iraq, no matter that it didn’t quite live up to American standards—standards that America itself is struggling to live up to?

And what if Saddam Hussein was still there, still the strong man in Iraq—(this is a particularly iffy “what if,” since he would now be 77 years old, which is pretty over-the-hillish for a “strong man”)—and either he or his asshole sons (Uday and Ixnay?) were still managing to keep asshole Jihadists savages from setting up shop anywhere in that country? And what if there had never been a unilateral invasion, a surge, a sectarian civil war and 30,000-plus American soldiers dead or severely damaged? And what if we’d never heard of WMDs, which didn’t exist, or IEDs, which did? Or billions of dollars being delivered on pallets into the unaccountability of corrupt contractors and Dick Cheney’s old pals at Halliburton? Or the purple finger sign that Iraqis were voting, as it has turned out, for the majority power of the Shia to screw the Sunni like the minority Sunni had screwed the Shia for all those years? Or the Iraqi treasury, armories and museums being looted like a convenience store during a hurricane. Or Fallujah? Or the Green Zone? Or the Ba’ath Party or Nouri al-Maliki or Muqtada al-Sadr? What if we’d never had to withdraw our troops because they were never there in the first place? And what if we’d kept it like we had it before March 2003, when a no-fly zone was keeping Saddam from dropping any more poison gas on the Kurds? When Saddam was always bitching about us and we were always bitching about him, only a lot more people— ours and his—were still alive? When the cities and roads and power grid were still in one piece? When Saddam’s army, as feeble as it proved to be when it went up against ours, would have been plenty strong enough to squash ISIS like a baby camel spider, assuming those asshole Jihadist savages even had the nerve to show up when the asshole Saddam was in power? When we hadn’t thrown onlygod-knows-how-many-zillions of dollars into the ancient winds that have blown through those sands since the beginning of time and swept away greater empires and greater armies and greater monuments to assholes of the past than Saddam could even dream of, all without any help from Hellfire missiles and bunkerbuster bombs? And what if George W. Bush had developed a strategy which thoughtfully and deeply considered the ramifications of what he was about to do before he did it, rather than recklessly casting America’s fate to those ancient winds, hoping “It’ll work out in the end… somehow?” And finally, what if Bush’s strategy had succeeded, rather than so miserably failed, leaving the following president, and most likely the president after him, and the president after her, etc. etc. etc. to be haunted by the eternal curse of George W. asshole Bush’s legacy? Ah, what if... what if… Now, back to what is. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

JOHN REMBER/OPINION

IF YOU HAD $1 MILLION And other false pursuits

A million dollars will not buy happiness. Neither will $10 million or $100 million. I understand you’d like to find that out for yourself, by having a rich person hand you a boatload of cash, instead of having to watch that same person flail away at existence by buying Porsches, living in big houses, engaging in punitive litigation, marrying a new surgically enhanced spouse every 10 years and watching grandchildren spend their allowances on crystal meth. You say if Bill Gates gave you a big boat stuffed with $100 bills, your grandchildren wouldn’t end up as meth addicts. You’d still vote for Democrats. You’d fund Ebola research and send poor but deserving students to college. You’d continue to live in your modest rental, and—with apologies to the Barenaked Ladies—would still eat Kraft Dinners (but more of them). You’d start up solar start-ups. You’d fund Mars colonization feasibility experiments. You’d become an Alzheimer’s respite worker. You’d improve the world, even if you had to drive a Prius. But the sad stories of recent lottery winners indicate you wouldn’t do any of those things. A million dollars has a life and a momentum of its own, just like meth has a life and momentum of its own. In money’s case, that momentum is toward stress-filled lives short on intimacy, compassion and authenticity—and long on Ayn Rand politics and shopping. Ten million dollars allows for less intimacy, less compassion and less authenticity than a million. More Ayn Rand and more shopping, though. A hundred million? You have to pay for friendship. You even have to pay people to experience life for you. You have to pay people to run your foundation. They screw things up and you have to cut short your annual six weeks in Bali—saying goodbye to your new, surgically enhanced Australian friend—to come home and fix things, along with some awkward stuff involving your broker and those stock tips he shouldn’t have even told you about. Full disclosure: I used to work in Sun Valley, a known hangout for folks with millions of dollars. While still in high school, I worked as a ski patrolman on Bald Mountain for $6.50 a day, tobogganing the wounded wealthy to ambulances at the bottom of the mountain. I began my teaching career at the Community School in Ketchum, where some of my 14-year-old students had cars that cost twice my annual salary. The rich people I met spent their lives in a weird, artificial existence. Measuring their worth as parents by the value of the new car they bought their 14-year-old was only the weirdest symptom of that weirdness. Their wealth insulated them from family and friendship. They ruined their health by eating and drinking too much when they weren’t following nutritional regimes that promised BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

a bright anorexic immortality. They bought stuff and more stuff when antidepressants would have worked every bit as well. It turns out that buying stuff wrecks your happiness, mainly because the Second Law of Thermodynamics—entropy—gets a good workout the morning after a shopping binge. Clothes don’t show as well in the bedroom as in the store, and neither do you. The Porsche gets keyed in the parking garage, or a beggar points at it at a red light and you have to pretend to be texting. The only space to store your never-used camping gear is in the garage between the Bowflex and the rowing machine, items you moved from your home office months ago because they were acquiring a dusty coat of guilt. The gulf between what money promises and what it delivers accounts for the astonishing viciousness endemic among billionaires. The solution isn’t earth-shattering: you need just enough money to avoid the cruel and ugly authenticities of poverty, which are dead-end minimum-wage jobs, unpayable college loans, medical bills that wipe out major food groups, multiple deployments to Iraq, clothes-on-the-sidewalk evictions and so on. When I taught liberal arts, I asked students for essays describing the true face of happiness. It was a depressing exercise. Almost all of my students mentioned a million dollars. They also brought up authenticity. “I want an authentic, rich life,” they wrote. “On my own island, with a big house, a riding arena, a helicopter and a dance studio. I also want to write novels about the human condition.” They weren’t happy when I told them that in my experience, the human condition was dead after the first helicopter, whether it had crashed or not. They weren’t happy when I told them that a liberal arts education would make it OK not to have an island, a personal dance studio, a riding arena or even a horse. The liberal arts, I said, emphasized kindness in the face of sadism, sanity in the face of bad craziness, and self-denial and restraint in the face of greed and gluttony. Liberal arts graduates could see human beings as persons and not as objects to be manipulated. They could let themselves understand that the world is an insoluble knot of light and darkness. They could achieve the courage to address the inevitable tragedy attending every human life. “We’re working on improving your soul,” I told my students. “It’s easier if you have a soul to begin with, but we can start from scratch if we have to. What you’re beginning to learn will allow respectful relationships with friends and family, at least those with liberal arts educations. Get to the point where you can feel a soul—your own or that of another—and you might one day achieve a dark, minimalist form of happiness.” “For this we pay tuition,” they said. “Big time,” I said. “And well worth it.”

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The First,

The Best Wow. Twenty years. That’s how long we’ve been publishing Best of Boise. in 1994, everybody was talking about Tonya Harding, who had her ex-husband kneecap her rival, Olympic ﬁgure skater Nancy Kerrigan. NFL star/actor O.J. Simpson led Los Angeles police on a slow-speed chase before being tried for the brutal murder of his ex-wife and her alleged lover. Schindler’s List won seven Academy Awards. Kurt Cobain committed suicide. George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas. Green Day released Dookie, TLC released CrazySexyCool, Notorious B.I.G. released Ready to Die; and Weezer, Oasis and Korn all dropped their debut albums. Woodstock ’94 devolved into an historic suck-fest. Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley. And maybe most important, the world learned how to browse the “World Wide Web” on Netscape Navigator. Meanwhile, on July 13, 1994, 2-year-old Boise Weekly printed the results of the ﬁrst-ever Best of Boise, providing a snapshot of the citizenry’s likes and dislikes (see BOB 1994 at boiseweekly.com/bob94.pdf). Among the highlights: House of Hoi Polloi won Best Local Band; Blues Bouquet was the Best Place to See Live Music; Tom Grainey’s was voted Best Bar; and the Best Concert in the Last 12 Months was Nirvana, which performed at the Boise State University Pavillion in December 1993 with The Breeders and the Melvins. Boiseans seem to have been harsher 20 years ago, too.

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For example, Best Place to Break Up With Someone? “Over the phone.” Snottiest Sales Staff? “Bon Marche” (strangely, also Friendliest Sales Staff). Most Overblown Local Issue? “Gay rights.” Ouch. Obviously, much has changed in Boise since ’94. For one thing, The Hole is no more. When BW’s inaugural BOB published, local developer Rick Peterson had announced plans to build the 25-story Boise Tower on the site. Evidence of that project’s progress was visible for more than a decade as a web of rebar and mess of concrete at the bottom of the pit. Some things haven’t changed, though. Looking back over 20 years of BOB, we see that Elizabeth Duncan—then with Channel 6—is the only person other than Channel 7 anchors Maggie O’Mara and Dee Sarton to take ﬁrst-place in the Best Local TV Anchor category. (We also see that Dee Sarton doesn’t seem to have aged a day since 1994). Channel 6’s Scott Dorval won Best Local Weatherperson in 1994 and has had a lock on the category since 2007, after Channel 7’s Larry Gebert took the title in ’06.

Year after year, Idaho Shakespeare Festival has won Best Live Local Theater. As a matter of fact, it has won 19 times—sadly, not consecutively: ISF’s perfect two-decade streak was broken in 2003 by Prairie Dog Productions. That pushes ISF’s chance for a 20-year run to 2023. Best of Boise’s only perfect record? Drumroll… KTVB Channel 7 has won Best Local TV Station every year since 1994. So it’s with a nod to history that we begin this 20th anniversary edition of BOB with a few words from the ﬁrst Best of Boise intro: “Turn off the TV and gather the kids ’round the La-Z-Boy, because it’s here. ... The oh-so comprehensive survey in which Boise Weekly readers tell us what makes Boise such a swell place to raise a dysfunctional family. In the elite journalistic circles we run in, surveys like these are called play-at-home journalism, and seeing the way our readers got involved gave us a warm feeling inside.” Still true, after all these years. —Zach Hagadone

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AT LEAST TWENTY CONSECUTIVE WINS

READERS’ CHOICE :: PUBLIC EYE 10 :: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 12 :: SPORTS & RECREATION 16 :: GOODS & SERVICES 20 :: BARS & NIGHTLIFE 30 :: FOOD & DINING 32 STAFF PICKS :: PUBLIC EYE 40 :: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 46 :: SPORTS & RECREATION 50 :: GOODS & SERVICES 52 :: BARS & NIGHTLIFE 56 :: FOOD & DINING 59 8 | SEPTEMBER 24–30, 2014 | BOISEweekly

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PUBLIC EYE READERS’ CHOICE

BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT Jimmy Hallyburton, BBP co-founder, wants Boise to be the “cycling capital” of the United States.

BEST LOCAL NONPROFIT

BEST LOCAL NEWS SOURCE

BEST LOCAL POLITICIAN

Boise Bicycle Project

KTVB Channel 7

Boise Mayor Dave Bieter

Holy velocipede, Boiseans are bike people. From the Foothills to the Greenbelt and beyond, the bicycle is less a mode of transport than a lifestyle choice. Here to help support cycling in all its pedal-powered forms is the Boise Bicycle Project, which offers bicycle education, hosts bike events, opens its shop for repairs and workshops and even recycles bikes back into the community. BBP’s mission is to make Boise the “cycling capital” of the United States, and it’s rolling toward that goal. boisebicycleproject.org

They of the perfect hair and snappy suits, KTVB Channel 7 has once again seized Best of Boise glory as the Treasure Valley’s premier news source. From breaking stories to community news, KTVB has it covered—both on the tube and the net. ktvb.com

Boiseans made a bet on Bieter back in 2004 and after 10 years in ofﬁce, it’s clear they think they have a winner in Hizzoner. One survey respondent, possibly in error, possibly as a nod to authority, even called him Major Bieter—whatever his actual rank, it’s high in the minds of his constituency. Whether it’s his commitment to sustainability, his bike-friendliness, his unrelenting boosterism or a combination of all three, if there was a Great State of Ada, we bet he’d be governor. cityofboise.org

2nd Place: Women’s and Children’s Alliance, wcaboise.org

KRBX Radio Boise 89.9 FM

2nd Place: Boise Weekly, boiseweekly.com 3rd Place: KBSU/KBSX Boise State Public Radio, boisestatepublicradio.org

BEST LOCAL RADIO STATION

3rd Place: Idaho Youth Ranch, youthranch.org

BEST LOCAL WEBSITE boiseweekly.com Aw, shucks. We can’t tell you how happy we are that you like our website. We might be a weekly newspaper, but boiseweekly.com is a seven-day-a-week affair, and we’re glad you’re with us from dawn to dusk. boiseweekly.com

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For the second year in a row, KRBX Radio Boise took the top spot in the hearts (and ears) of Best of Boise voters. From public affairs on Democracy Now! to local, regional and national touring acts on Antler Crafts with Eric Gilbert; glitch-fest Toast n’ Jam with Chad, Marisa and Sarah; and reggae et al. on Sunday Sound System with Dr. Fresh, there is—literally—something for everyone at 89.9 FM and 93.5 FM. radioboise.us

2nd Place: KRVB 94.9 FM The River, riverinteractive.com 3rd Place: KBSU/KBSX Boise State Public Radio, boisestatepublicradio.org

2nd Place: Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, gov.idaho.gov 3rd Place: Boise School District Board of Trustees President and Democratic gubernatorial candidate A.J. Balukoff, ajforidaho.com

BEST LOCAL DJ OR RADIO PERSONALITY Mike Kasper and Kate McGwire, KCIX Mix 106 FM Boise Weekly readers aren’t the only ones to heap praise on Mix 106 morning hosts Mike Kasper and Kate McGwire: Since teaming up in 2001 (then at Magic 93.1), Mike and Kate have earned four Best Radio Show nods from the Idaho State Broadcasting Awards. Every weekday

from 5:30 a.m.-10 a.m., the duo helps wake up the Treasure Valley with a high-energy combo of news, cultural commentary, humor and contests. It’s a helluva a “mix,” pardon the pun. mix106radio.com

2nd Place: Misty Taylor, KRVB 94.9 FM The River, riverinteractive.com 3rd Place: Tim Johnstone, KRVB 94.9 FM The River, riverinteractive.com

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD PARK Camel’s Back Park Camels have been known to go upwards of a week without drinking water, but that’s too long for many Boiseans to go without visiting Camel’s Back Park. The land was acquired from a relative of former Mayor Herbert Lemp in 1932, and the park dedicated in 1965. Today, Camel’s Back is 11 acres of grass, playground equipment, tennis courts and picnic tables bumping up against the Boise Foothills and giving easy access to a network of trails that goes for miles. Of course, few parks can contend with the sloping sand slide down the southern side of the “hump”—one of the best sledding spots in the city when the snow ﬂies. parks.cityofboise.org

2nd Place: Ann Morrison Park, parks.cityofboise.org 3rd Place: Settlers Park, meridiancity.org

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BEST LOCAL WEATHERPERSON BEST WAY TO MOVE AROUND BOISE Scott Dorval, KIVI Channel 6 All hail Scott Dorval, seven-year ﬁrst-place winner for best local weatherperson in the Best of Boise poll. This guru of the green screen, prince of prognostication, sultan of smoke advisories and wizard of winter weather warnings has proved his pride of place year in and year out as Boise’s most trusted storm tracker. jrn.com/kivitv

2nd Place: Larry Gebert, KTVB Channel 7, ktvb.com 3rd Place: Rick Lantz, KTVB Channel 7, ktvb.com

BEST LOCAL TV STATION KTVB Channel 7 What? There are other local TV channels? You wouldn’t know it from the past decade-plus of Best of Boise rankings. KTVB Channel 7 has demolished the competition in this category since the mid-’00s. The tagline for the NBC afﬁliate is “#1 for Idaho News & Weather,” and it’s not kidding. ktvb.com

2nd Place: KAID Channel 4, Idaho Public Television, idahoptv.org 3rd Place: KBOI Channel 2, kboi2.com

BEST PLACE TO SEE AND BE SEEN Alive After Five

Whether it’s a combination of biking and walking or biking and busing, or it’s biking nude, biking with beer (via pedal-pub), biking carefully, biking on formerly existent bike lanes, biking a tandem cycle, biking on the Greenbelt or using the upcoming Boise bike share program, Boiseans are clear: Two-wheeled transport is the way to go.

2nd Place: On foot 3rd Place: By automobile

BEST ADDITION TO DOWNTOWN BOISE Eighth and Main Tower Boise is obviously happy to be rid of its signature hole—so much so that we wonder if it really mattered what went into it. More than a few responses to this question referred to the Eighth and Main Tower simply as “the hole-ﬁller,” or “the building in the hole.” We tend to think that Eighth and Main is a little more than that, with its gleaming glass and steel design, spiffy lightup spire and mix of restaurants. If you’re going to ﬁll a hole, might as well do it with a skylinetopping tower. (And yes, we know that Trader Joe’s was a life-changing addition for many, but we didn’t include it in the top three because, of course, it’s not local.)

2nd Place: JUMP (Jack’s Urban Meeting Place), jacksurbanmeetingplace.org 3rd Place: Bike lanes KTVB

The nickname “city that never sleeps” is already be taken, but Boise is plenty lively after 5 p.m. Nowhere is that more clear than Alive After Five, which brings thousands to the Grove Plaza each week through the summer for open-air concerts, food, beer and community togetherness. If you don’t bump into at least three people you know at AA5, you need to get out more often. downtownboise.org

Ride Your Bike

2nd Place: Downtown Boise 3rd Place: Eighth Street

BEST FREE PARKING SPACE IN DOWNTOWN BOISE Tie: Bike Racks/Downtown Streets after 6 p.m. and on Weekends Let’s be honest. We all know there are plenty of secret free parking spots scattered around the city but, Best of Boise voters kept those havens close to the vest. One of the most common answers for this category was “I’m not telling you.” Regardless, survey respondents doubled down on their cyclophilia by pointing out that parking is always free for the two-wheeled set. For the car-bound, city streets seem to do well enough after hours, which suggests that Boise’s parking situation might not be as bad as some say—that or Boiseans are playing coy about their hidden fee-less haunts.

BEST LOCAL TV ANCHOR Dee Sarton, KTVB Channel 7

2nd Place: First hour in downtown garages

We might as well rename this category “Best KTVB Anchor.” For years, the top three spots have been a game of musical chairs between Dee Sarton, Maggie O’Mara and Carolyn Holly. In fact, we could have copy-pasted this blurb from last year, when the rankings were identical. Whatever these broadcasters are doing, they must doing it right. ktvb.com

3rd Place: Fourth Street

2nd Place: Maggie O’Mara, KTVB Channel 7, ktvb.com 3rd Place: Carolyn Holly, KTVB Channel 7, ktvb.com

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K ELS EY HAW ES

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT READERS’ CHOICE

BOISE TRAIN DEPOT Ever wanted to photo-bomb a wedding album? Hang out at the Boise Train Depot any weekend in June.

BEST LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL TREASURE Boise Train Depot Passenger trains stopped chugging through the 89-year-old Union Paciﬁc depot on the Boise Bench in 1997, but the graceful Spanish-style building has remained a community hub. Operated by the Boise Parks and Rec Department as a public meeting space and historical site, its Klatt Gardens and koi pond are an almost constant site of wedding and senior high-school photo shoots, as well as a big draw for lovers of trains, architecture and stellar views of the downtown skyline. parks.cityofboise.org

BEST LOCAL COMEDIAN

BEST LOCAL BAND

BEST VENUE TO SEE A BAND

Tie: Matt Bragg, Gabe Dunn

Big Wow Band

Idaho Botanical Garden

Two guys walk into a bar. They get on stage. They tell jokes. People laugh. People vote in the Best of Boise poll. Both guys win. The end. What? You were expecting something funnier? We didn’t win Best Local Comedian, so we’ll leave the comedy to the experts.

There are some big wows associated with the Boise music scene nowadays. There’s the Treefort Music Fest, of course. Then there’s the plethora and variety of good original music being made across the city. And for a cover band to win Best Band in Boise in the face of all this… Well, that’s a big wow indeed. When you’re good, you’re good. bigwowband.com

Imagine yourself sitting on a blanket, watching the sun disappear behind the mountains and listening to a music legend like Bob Dylan or Willie Nelson. Obviously, many of you haven’t just imagined it—you’ve experienced it at Idaho Botanical Garden. Sounds like a winner to us. idahobotanicalgarden.org

2nd Place: Ryan Noack 3rd Place: Tie: Alisha Donahue, Jessica Holmes, Mikey Pullman

BEST LOCAL CULTURAL ATTRACTION OR MUSEUM

3rd Place: Idanha Hotel, boisearchitecture.org

Boise Art Museum

Curtis Stigers Um… We’re not sure if Gene Harris would agree with this. Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) might raise an eyebrow, too. But Stigers is an institution in this town, so like the great Chuck Berry said, “Roll over, Beethoven.” curtisstigers.com

2nd Place: Boise Philharmonic, boisephilharmonic.org 3rd Place: Del Parkinson

2nd Place: Knitting Factory, bo.knittingfactory.com 3rd Place: Neruolux, neurolux.com

3rd Place: Built to Spill, builttospill.com

2nd Place: Idaho State Capitol Building, capitolcommission.idaho.gov

BEST CLASSICAL MUSICIAN

2nd Place: Hillfolk Noir, hillfolknoir.com

Despite its relative distance from downtown, Boise Art Museum is into First Thursday—so much so, it lets the public in to see the exhibits on a pay-what-you-can basis. There’s a genuine interest in what’s on display and over the years, what’s on display has often been of a pretty high caliber, like Kehinde Wiley’s oversized portraits, Billie Grace Lynn’s White Elephants, and Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick’s Mars Revisited. Boiseans agree: BAM’s where you go when you want to see some ﬁne art. boiseartmuseum.org

2nd Place: The Basque Block, thebasqueblock.com

BEST LOCAL MUSICIAN

BEST LIVING IDAHO WRITER

Clint Budge, Big Wow Band

Anthony Doerr

Hey, Doug Martsch does all-cover sets now and again. Clint Budge does it all the time. Look at it that way, this makes sense, right? Budge is certainly no slouch, singing from the age of 5 and playing guitar since age 10. As frontman of cover band Big Wow, Budge is a busy dude, playing a set somewhere in the Treasure Valley and surrounds pretty much every week. During wedding season, we bet he doesn’t see his family much. bigwowband.com

2nd Place: Curtis Stigers, curtisstigers.com 3rd Place: Thomas Paul, thomaspaulmusic.com

Set in the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, France, Anthony Doerr’s latest novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is the story of a German orphan named Verner and a blind French lass, MarieLaure, as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of World War II. Twelve years ago, Doerr, who hails from the Gem State, published the acclaimed short story collection, The Shell Collector, and has been cutting a ﬁne ﬁgure as Idaho’s most celebrated living writer ever since. anthonydoerr.com

2nd Place: Alan Heathcock, alanheathcock.com 3rd Place: Tim Woodward, woodwardblog.com

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ISF Question: “To be, or not to be a fan of ISF?” Answer: To be.

BEST LOCAL LIVE THEATER

BEST LOCAL PUBLIC ART

Idaho Shakespeare Festival

Freak Alley

In honor of Idaho Shakespeare Festival, we present Boise Weekly’s first ever son-not, “From You We’ve Not Been Absent In Summer,” written in the style of William Shakespeare’s “From You I Have Been Absent In the Spring” (Sonnet No. 98). From you we’ve not been absent in summer. We can’t wait for June, dressed in floral finery, For it hath put season’s tickets in our mailbox. When heavy Sol drops ‘neath the hills, Green Show begins. And we lay out blankets, dishes and drinks, Anticipating plays from the Bard and others. We wait for tales to transport us afar, Or speak to us as if from where we grew. We don’t wonder at the words we don’t know, Nor question the deep meanings in the prose. We watch the drama unfold with delight, Drawn into unparalleled productions, We return many times ’til summer’s end. Ah, love, Idaho Shakespeare Festival. idahoshakespeare.org

Every year since 2011, more than 80 artists have splashed the brick walls of the alley between Bannock and Idaho streets off Eighth Street with pretty much whatever they want. The alley is the most dynamic public art in the city, especially since it changes every summer. Murals range from classic grafﬁti to mosaics of mirrors; from cartoonish ﬁgures to complete abstraction. A mix of well-known and under-theradar artists display their work side by side. Making one dingy, forgotten alley a giant canvas—not such a bad use of the city’s wallspace. And next year, it’ll change again. facebook.com/pages/ Freak-alley-gallery

2nd Place: Boise Contemporary Theater, bctheater.org 3rd Place: Boise Little Theater, boiselittletheater.org

BEST LOCAL DANCE COMPANY Ballet Idaho There’s a lot of dancing that goes on in Boise. Contenders for 2014 Best Dance Company include Trey McIntyre Project (no longer a full-time dance troupe) and young adult modern dance dojo cum dance troupe Balance Dance Company. Other programs include Off Center Dance, Project Flux, Idaho Dance Theater, Oinkari Basque Dancers and Boise Dance Co-Op. But the votes are in, and Boiseans have said that when they think about dance, they think about Ballet Idaho. balletidaho.org

2nd Place: Trey McIntyre Project, treymcintyre.com

2nd Place: Trafﬁc Box Art, boiseartsandhistory.org 3rd Place: Art in the Park, boiseartmuseum.org/art-in-the-park

BEST LOCAL MOVIE THEATER The Flicks The tickets are printed on receipt paper and the ushers barely glance at them before nodding a go-ahead into the shoebox theater. It’s as though The Flicks is a gateway to an alternate universe where cinemas more closely resemble used book stores than the popcorn-riddled cinemax where you gaped at The Avengers. But that is, in part, why Boiseans have had a lasting love affair with The Flicks. It is the only place in town that shows smaller-release and arthouse films, it is a more intimate place to go see a movie. It’s also the only place in the state of Idaho where you can drink beer and wine while watching a subtitled German noir film. Or it’s the only place in the state of Idaho where you can watch a weird foreign flick while you have a brew. Either way, it works. theflicksboise.com

2nd Place: The Egyptian Theatre, egyptiantheatre.net 3rd Place: Overland Park Cinema, opcmovies.com

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ERIN CUNNINGHAM We love her for that slightly maniacal twinkle.

BEST IDAHO VISUAL ARTIST

BEST LOCAL FESTIVAL

Erin Cunningham

Treefort Music Fest

Last year, we said Erin Cunningham was “weird.” We also used “whimsy” and “morbid,” “ethereal” and “bizarre,” and “even funny” to describe her work. When we bumped into her at Winco after the 2013 Best of Boise hit stands, the only term she objected to was “whimsy.” OK, we’ll take that one back and replace it with “best.” BOB voters obviously agree, applying that superlative to her oeuvre for the second year in a row. erincunningham.net

Ah, Treefort. How do we love thee? Let us count the ways. The way it ﬂoods our downtown venues with good music for four straight days. The way it seems to bring out the best in our community (lots of volunteers, donations from local businesses, not too much litter, no festival-related arrests). The way it draws attention to Idaho for something other than absurdist gubernatorial debates and regressive positions on gay rights. There are more reasons than these three. And there could be even more after Treefort 2015. treefortmusicfest.com

2nd Place: Ward Hooper, wardhooper.com 3rd Place: Kirsten Furlong, kirstenfurlong.com

BEST LOCAL ART GALLERY Boise Art Museum There’s a difference between a museum and a gallery. A museum collects and conserves art, technology and other artifacts for the sake of some higher purpose; a gallery is a place where works are presented, organized usually by their makers, aesthetic merits or themes. In Boise, these terms are used interchangeably to describe Boise Art Museum, where works by local or gallery artists are often on display near exhibits featuring tribal art and native pottery. It’s an eclectic mix at times, but, that may be part of what keeps Boiseans so enamored of BAM. boiseartmuseum.org

2nd Place: Visual Arts Collective, visualartscollective.com 3rd Place: Gallery Five18 (formerly Lisk Gallery), galleryﬁve18.com

2nd Place: Art in the Park, boiseartmuseum.org/artinthepark 3rd Place: Hyde Park Street Fair, northend.org

BEST LOCAL JEWELRY MAKER Precious Metal Arts Mike Rogers lives the life we all aspire to. The man brings his dog to work every day, spends the whole day doing something he loves, and when he doesn’t want to do it anymore, he puts a sign up on the door saying, “Gone on vacation.” He describes himself as “raised by wolves,” and “gradually enter[ed] civilization by posing as a Mormon missionary.” On top of all that, he also makes some pretty spectacular jewelry, on display at his Eighth Street studio. His pieces are often gold or silver, inlaid with diamonds and garnets, and rarely can they be described as straightforward. Whether you’re in the market for a custom engagement ring or in the mood for a good chat, Mike’s your guy. ﬁnecustomjewelry.com

2nd Place: Jamison Rae Jewelry, jamisonraejewelry.com 3rd Place: R. Grey Gallery, rgreygallery.com

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SPORTS & RECREATION READERS’ CHOICE

ALBERTSONS STADIUM

You can’t buy this kind of exposure. Oh, wait. Yes, you can.

BEST LOCAL PUBLIC SPORTS FACILITY Albertsons Stadium Obviously we love our Broncos very much (see: Best Sports Team), but how much do you really know about the blue tur f on which they play? Here are some fun facts to tide you over until the next kickoff. The stadium first opened in 1970, originally playing the role of a track and field facility as well. It didn’t get its signature blue tur f installed until 1986, and became the first non-green playing sur face in football history. Today it seats more than 36,000 people. In May, Albertsons LLC committed $12.5 million over the next 15 years for the naming rights to the stadium. broncosports.com

2nd Place: YMCA, ymcatvidaho.org 3rd Place: CenturyLink Arena, centurylinkarenaboise.com

BEST LOCAL YOGA STUDIO Sage Yoga and Wellness Sage Yoga and Wellness goes far beyond the mountain or half-lotus pose. The downtown studio offers traditional classes such as vinyasa, ashtanga and prana ﬂow, but it has

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branched out to incorporate what Boiseans are into. Yogis can now give dance, slackline and stand-up paddleboard yoga classes a try, too. So namaste, Sage Yoga, and congrats on being the best. sageyogaboise.com

2nd Place: Hollywood Market Yoga and Spa, hmyboise.com 3rd Place: Essential Hot Yoga, essentialhotyoga.com

BEST LOCAL DOG PARK Military Reserve Dogs live confined lives, from being stuck inside while their owners are at work and being stuck on the end of a leash when they go for walks, to being stuck in kennels when there’s nowhere else to go. At the Military Reserve dog parks behind the Fort Boise Community Center, pups can shake off the feelings of confinement on 10 acres of glorious freedom, complete with a large pond to swim in and 480 acres of on- and off-leash trails in the Foothills. The park might not be a typical grassy field, but dogs don’t need much more than sagebrush and sand to be happy. As Boise makes the effort to add more off-leash hours to other neighborhood parks, Military Reserve is still the doggone best. parks.cityofboise.org

2nd Place: Morris Hill, parks.cityofboise.org 3rd Place: Nampa Dog Park, nampaparksandrecreation.org

BEST LOCAL SPORTS TEAM Boise State Broncos After the so-called guns-on-campus bill passed through the Idaho Legislature this year, Boise State University took action by purchasing some 50 walk-through metal detectors and 75 ﬁrearm detection wands; but they could put in full airport security, complete with TSA security guards, X-rays and pat downs, and Boise State Broncos fans would still ﬂock to the stadium in droves. That’s how you know you’re No. 1. broncosports.com

2nd Place: The Steelheads, idahosteelheads.com 3rd Place: Boise Hawks, facebook.com/pages/boise-hawks

BEST LOCAL SKI SHOP Greenwoods Ski Haus While the summer wanes and we find ourselves pulling on sweaters and ditching the flip flops, Greenwoods Ski Haus is just gearing up. Since 1957, the ski shop has seen a lot of things: skinny retro skis, the invention of big fat powder skis, rockered and

cambered skis, even the ﬁrst all-plastic buckle boots. They’ve rented, sold and tuned skis for generations of Boise skiers, and assuming we continue to get snow in the Treasure Valley, they’ll probably be a ﬁxture as long as the chairlifts continue to run. greenwoodsskihaus.com

2nd Place: McU Sports, mcusports.com 3rd Place: Backcountry Pursuit, backcountrypursuit.com

BEST LOCAL RACE Race to Robie Creek For the past 37 years, on the third Saturday of April at high noon, Race to Robie Creek has been a “fun, slightly irreverent, top quality” half-marathon race with heavy emphasis on the after-race party. Everyone is invited to run the uphill trail race, including “runners, trotters, walkers or crawlers,” but participants must be able to ﬁnish the 13-mile contest in fewer than ﬁve hours— and be prepared to climb more than 2,000 feet while doing so. Race to Robie Creek is called the “toughest race in the Northwest,” but that isn’t a deterrent: This year, more than 2,300 people were up the challenge. robiecreek.com

2nd Place: Boise Twilight Criterium, boisetwilightcriterium.com 3rd Place: Dirty Dash, thedirtydash.com/race/boise WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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GEORGE’S CYCLES AND FITNESS The best bikes, by George.

BEST LOCAL BIKE SHOP

BEST LOCAL TRAIL

George’s Cycles and Fitness

Table Rock

Any time you drive on Hill Road, there’s a good chance you’ll spot a spandex-clad bicyclist on a state-of-the-art, ultra-light, carbon-ﬁber road bike, sporting a George’s Cycles and Fitness jersey. Chances are, the bike came from the same place—as did the helmet, the shorts and the little light reﬂectors around the rider’s ankles. George’s Cycles has equipment for the die-hard cyclist chugging up Bogus Basin Road, the casual cruiser and the extreme mountain biker. Plus, the folks at George’s are always ready to throw in a new tube or give your two-wheeler a thorough tune-up, too. georgescycles.com

Around here, it’s easy to feel like you’re hiking in the middle of nowhere—even though you’re at the edge of the city. As soon as you pop up on the other side of a hill, the city stretches out before you but behind you, there’s nothing but scrubby sage brush and harsh rock formations. Table Rock may be one of the best examples of practically-in-the-middle-of-town wilderness. With the trailhead mere minutes from downtown, Table Rock offers miles of trails suitable for hiking, mountain biking and jogging with the dog. And you can explore the caves that are so popular with doobie-rolling adolescents. ridgetorivers.org

2nd Place: Boise Bicycle Project, boisebicycleproject.org

2nd Place: Greenbelt, parks.cityofboise.org

3rd Place: Idaho Mountain Touring, idahomountaintouring.com WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

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WARM SPRINGS Consistently voted best place fore a round.

BEST LOCAL GOLF COURSE

BEST LOCAL BOARD SHOP

Warm Springs Golf Course

Newt and Harold’s

The city of Boise must be pretty damn proud right now. Boiseans voted for the city’s two municipal golf courses as ﬁrst and second place in this year’s Best of Boise. The city runs its golf courses entirely without tax dollars, only using revenue brought in by the courses to maintain them. And they must be doing a pretty ﬁne job to be coming out on top. Yes, Warm Springs golfers have it made with a view of the Foothills to the east and the Boise River to the west, all at affordable rates. warmspringsgolfcourse.com

Rather than a congratulatory blurb, this is more of an obituary. For almost 30 years, Newt and Harold’s has provided the valley with the sickest skate shoes, snowboards, skateboards and apparel for both men and women—and defended its title as Best of Boise for more than ﬁve years. But this fall, the business made the decision to close its doors and sold off all its leftover inventory at discounts even the shabbiest of park rats could afford. Newt and Harold’s, Boise will miss you. newtandharolds.com

2nd Place: Quail Hollow Golf Club, quailhollowgolfclub.com

2nd Place: The Board Room, boardroomboise.com

3rd Place: BanBury Golf Course, banburygolf.com

3rd Place: Prestige Skateboards, prestigeskateboards.com

BEST LOCAL SKI RESORT

BEST LOCAL OUTFITTER

Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Cascade Raft and Kayak Area Hey, here’s a river guide joke: How many river

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There aren’t a lot of melting pots as true as Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area—one of the only places where you can see diehards right alongside folks giving skiing a try for the ﬁrst time (and wearing blue jeans while they’re at it). Bogus is certainly a mountain for everyone, from the tiny toddlers in the Mogul Mouse program, to lifetime skiers as old as the resort itself. Bogus was one of the ﬁrst resorts in the country to slash ski pass prices, making the mountain accessible for even more people and, boy, are we glad they did. Once again, Bogus Basin is king of the mountain. bogusbasin.org

guides does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to change the light bulb and two to brag about how big the hole was. Heyo! But really, it’s safe to say that Cascade Raft and Kayak has dominated this corner of the market. For the family-owned raft guide service, family includes its staff of 40 river guides and support crew to folks enjoying a day on the river. CRK offers everything from low-stress half-day trips down the Main to intense runs through Class IV sections of the South Fork of the Payette. The company also offers kayaking classes and roll sessions at the YMCA pools. Here’s another one: How do you know a river guide is in the room? Don’t worry, he’ll tell ya! cascaderaft.com

2nd Place: Brundage Mountain Resort, brundage.com

2nd Place: Idaho Mountain Touring, idahomountaintouring.com

3rd Place: Sun Valley Resort, sunvalley.com

3rd Place: Backcountry Pursuit, backcountrypursuit.com

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GOODS & SERVICES

READERS’ CHOICE

EDWARDS GREENHOUSE

If you want to chlorophyll your world with color, leaf it to Edwards.

BEST LOCAL NURSERY OR GARDENING STORE Edwards Greenhouse We all want to give gifts that set us apart. Next time you’re at a loss for what to give your loved one, friend or co-worker, think about checking out Edwards Greenhouse. We recommend picking up an artsy recycled pot arranged with succulent plants of every weird shape and size. They look great, they’re easy to take care of and they’re fun to pet (if you’re into that kind of thing). The greenhouse and nursery spans 10 acres and offers some spectacular ﬂorist services, as well. These guys have been voted Best of Boise for the past decade for a reason. Listen close to the sound of growing things. edwardsgreenhouse.com

2nd Place: Zamzows, zamzows.com 3rd Place: North End Organic Nursery, northendnursery.com

BEST LOCAL WOMEN’S CLOTHING STORE Mimi Marie One reason people often cite for staying in or moving to Boise is quality of life: a slower pace, friendly people and a low crime rate are contribu-

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tors. The ﬁner things in life needn’t be mutually exclusive, though, and with Mimi Marie, you can style yourself like a Hollywood Boulevard hotshot or Park Avenue ingenue. Mimi Marie Boutique carries designer men’s and women’s clothing and accessories by the likes of True Religion, Juicy, 7FAM, Twill 22, Jimmy Taverniti, English Laundry and Robert Graham. Maybe you chose to leave the rat race behind and live a little more down to earth, but just because now you have chickens in the backyard instead of an inﬁnity pool doesn’t mean you have to trade Rock Revival for Osh Kosh B’Gosh. facebook.com/mimimarieidaho

2nd Place: Piece Unique and Shoez, pieceuniqueshoez.com 3rd Place: Dragonﬂy, facebook.com/dragonﬂyboise

BEST LOCAL BANK Idaho Central Credit Union Idahoans see themselves as independent and ﬁercely loyal to the great state. It makes sense that we’d want our money to stay local. Idaho Central Credit Union offers that for its members. Founded in 1940, it has risen to become the largest credit union in the state with services that have earned the loyalty of even the most independent among us. iccu.com

2nd Place: D.L. Evans Bank, dlevans.com 3rd Place: CapEd Credit Union, caped.com

BEST CD/RECORD STORE The Record Exchange In an age in which music collections are measured in gigabytes, it’s refreshing to know that somewhere, tunes are taking up space. At The Record Exchange, Boise’s downtown music fortress— and perennial Best CD/Record Store winner— music has acreage, with thousands of titles stacked and collated not just in rows, but in tracts. Next door to Neurolux and across the street from The Crux, it has a literal corner on Boise’s music scene. therecordexchange.com

2nd Place: Dunkley Music, dunkleymusic.com 3rd Place: Yesteryear Shoppe, theyesteryearshoppe.com

BEST LOCAL HAIR SALON Graeber and Company We ladies can get a little protective of our hair. When you find a good stylist, he or she might be the only person you allow to even touch your hair for the next five or 10 years. You just can’t risk it! At Graeber and Company, your hair is in good hands. This isn’t the first time the salon and spa has been voted Best of Boise, and probably won’t be the last. Maybe it’s because they greet you with a cup of tea, give you a full tour of the

facilities, and guide you toward looking and feeling good. Of course they know what they’re doing, they’ve been untangling tresses for more than 45 years now. graeberandcompany.com

2nd Place: Euphoria Salon, euphoriasalonhydepark.com 3rd Place: Two Rivers Salon and Spa, tworiversspa.com

BEST LOCAL GYM Idaho Athletic Club In 1978, Cheryl Wardle was ahead of her time. At a time when gyms were solely patronized by muscle-bound bodybuilders, she opened Cheryl’s Body Shaping, the ﬁrst of what would become a network of Idaho Athletic Clubs. Wardle wanted to create an environment where anyone would feel comfortable. Now, nearly 40 years later, seven IAC locations—plus a new women’s ﬁtness center—span the Treasure Valley, providing a slew of amenities and technologies for anyone, regardless of age, shape or size. idahoathleticclub.com

2nd Place: Axiom, axiomﬁtness.com 3rd Place: Boise Fitness Factory, boiseﬁtnessfactory.com

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BOISE CO-OP When the stuff on your shopping list is top-shelf.

BEST LOCAL GROCERY STORE

BEST APPLIANCE STORE

Boise Co-op

Jim’s Appliance and Furniture

You know you’re transforming into a true Boisean when you park your milk-crake-equipped bike outside the Boise Co-op, pull out your canvas grocery bag, stock up on local produce, pick up a mixer of craft beers and buy a little something from the deli. The transformation is complete when, at the cash register, they ask you for your membership number and actually respond with something other than, “I don’t have one.” Don’t pass up the Co-op Wine Shop, across the parking lot, and when in Meridian, remember that the Co-op will soon have a spot in the Village. boise.coop

It’s weird how long our modern conveniences will last and then, without warning, cease to toast, blend, bake, chill, chop, mix, wash or dry. Rather than get a small appliance repaired, buying a replacement is often easier and cheaper, but a new fridge, stove or dishwasher may require a bank loan. Or will unless you go to Jim’s Appliances. You need a new mattress and living room suite, too? This is your lucky day because Jim’s has both. What’s that? Oh, you’re welcome. jimsappliance.com

2nd Place: WinCo Foods, wincofoods.com

2nd Place: CHF Home Furnishings, shopchf.com 3rd Place: Wes’s Appliance

3rd Place: Albertsons, albertsons.com

BEST ETHNIC MARKET BEST LOCAL TATTOO PARLOR Inkvision Tattoo People always say they never want to get a tattoo because they just don’t know what they’d want on their skin forever. Well they’re thinking about tattoos all wrong. Yeah, sure, they’ll never wash off, but think of them like timestamps. When you were 18, it was really important to get that Incubus album cover tatted on your calf. We get that. When you got married, why wouldn’t you get matching inﬁnity signs with your newlywed spouse? Once that divorce comes around, get that ﬂock of silhouetted birds to help you feel free. And when you’re ready to memorialize these important moments in your life, give Inkvision Tattoo a shout. We hear they’re the best in Boise. inkvisiontattoo.com

2nd Place: Chalice Tattoo Studio, chalicetattoo.com 3rd Place: A Minds Eye Tattoo, amindseyetattoo.com

Asia Market Get your bok yum on. In a ﬁerce head-to-head ethnic food combat, Asia Market has stolen the Campos Market crown for best ethnic market. The 2014 winner boasts the largest selection of Asian foodstuffs in Idaho—everything from baby bok choy to octopus, with a smattering of Asian tchotchkes. With fresh food arriving every Friday, it’s a sorely needed taste of the Orient in Southwest Idaho. asiamarketboise.com

2nd Place: Campos Market 3rd Place: The Basque Market, thebasquemarket.com

BEST LOCAL SMOKE SHOP Big Smoke Don’t get all high-horsey here. Smoke shops aren’t just about tobacco anymore. Big Smoke does carry a vast selection of cigarettes and cigars, but it also offers e-cigarettes and vape paraphernalia, a bunch of beer, incense, a few nudie magazines and snacks.

2nd Place: Hanniﬁn’s Cigar Shop 3rd Place: Sturman’s Smoke Shop WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

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PETERSON TOYOTA Making square deals since the Hoover administration.

BEST LOCAL CAR DEALER Peterson Toyota Ah, that new car smell. Peterson Toyota has been selling the intoxicating mixture of new upholstery and factory-fresh rubber since it would have wafted from a new Chevy National in 1928. Of course, back then it wasn’t called Peterson Toyota, but with changes have come growth. Today, Peterson Auto Group has ﬁve locations serving the entire Treasure Valley and featuring 11 brands. Looking for reliability? Is 86 years worth of service enough? Seems that it is for Best of Boise voters. petersontoyota.net

2nd Place: Bronco Motors, broncomotors.com 3rd Place: Fairly Reliable Bob’s, fairlys.com

BEST SECONDHAND SHOP Idaho Youth Ranch Scrounging for a suit coat at the last minute on a shoestring budget? Maybe you’re moving and feel the need to update your furniture. As with any secondhand shop, Idaho Youth Ranch is full of minor gems, but Boise has long known that there are real treasures to be found there at bargain prices. In the immortal words of Macklemore: “I wear your granddad’s clothes / I look incredible / I’m in this big ass coat / From that thrift shop down the road.” youthranch.org

2nd Place: Plato’s Closet, platoscloset.com 3rd Place: Backcountry Pursuit, backcountrypursuit.com

BEST LOCAL WINE SHOP Boise Co-op Wine Shop For years, Boise Co-op was a cramped mishmash of local/ organic/whole grain foodstuffs. But somewhere between the grand openings of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, the Co-op stepped up its game, halved the height of its shelves and moved the bulk of its wines to the Boise Co-op Wine Shop across the parking lot. While the Co-op proper still has a fair selection of wines,

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the new Wine Shop has thousands of bottles and an expert staff that has made it an audience favorite and Boise’s Best in 2014. boise.coop/wineshop

2nd Place: BodoVino, bodovino.com 3rd Place: Crush, crushidaho.com

BEST LOCAL TOY STORE G. Willikers Toy Merchant The best toy stores are built on a foundation of love—and excess. Kids live in a world of video games, television shows and all manner of media vying for their attention, and toy sellers have long known that the best way to get their attention is to be eruptive with stuffed animals, gewgaws, dolls and action ﬁgures. G. Willikers Toy Merchant is part of that proud tradition. Located next door to the Goody’s on 13th Street, this tiny toy store looks like it’s about to burst. Like, the windows might burst and the walls might buckle if one more stuffed tiger or kid-size water slide is forced inside. it’s a garden of earthly delights for the doodad-addicted. facebook.com/gwillikersboise

2nd Place: Penny Lane Kids, pennylanekids.com 3rd Place: All About Games, allaboutgamesboise.com

BEST LOCAL ANTIQUE STORE Antique World Mall Ephemera, miscellany, ragbag, hodgepodge, gallimaufry, call it what you will (we also like “salmagundi”), the collection of items brought together at Antique World Mall are as various as they are fascinating, useful, curious, beautiful and, above all, old. From mid-century cameras to porcelain dishes, vintage toys, furniture and weird gimcracks, if you’re looking for something out-of-the-ordinary you’ll probably ﬁnd it somewhere in Antique World Mall’s historic trove. antiqueworldmall.com

2nd Place: Once Upon A Time 3rd Place: Blue Moon Antiques

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THE MODERN

In Boise, The Modern Era began in 2007.

BEST LOCAL HOTEL

BEST FURNITURE STORE

The Modern Hotel and Bar

Renewal Consignment Homewares

At a lot of fancy hotels, the theory behind a “good stay” seems to be to overwhelm the guest with comfort. Pillows have their plush turned up to 11 and televisions have enough options to commandeer a shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral. A night at The Modern, on the other hand, has the quality of an Apple product, and the rooms’ crisp minimalism is a virtue rather than the sin of tawdry absence. (“What? No coin-operated bed massagers?”) The mattresses are firm, the rooms’ color palettes and design are spare, and ornamentation is kept to a minimum. Less is more at The Modern, which is part of the reason Boiseans voted it as Boise’s Best Hotel. And with 2014’s Best Cocktails on the first floor, it’s a good place to spend not just a night, but an evening as well. themodernhotel.com

In a time of increasing interest and emphasis on “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” Renewal Consignment Homewares found its niche. Shopping for furniture at the consignment shop does not feel like rummaging around and sifting through a thrift store. With a brick storefront and hardwood ﬂoors, Renewal is the Pottery Barn of used furniture. It’s also an ideal ﬁt for folks ready for a change and stuck with too much stuff (like their spouse’s favorite chair, which they swear is the most comfortable thing they’ve ever sat on, but is actually way too big and doesn’t match anything else in the room). Renewal gives sellers 60 percent of the price for their item once it’s purchased, making it almost guaranteed that they’ll be back as buyers. renewalhome.com

2nd Place: The Grove Hotel, grovehotelboise.com 3rd Place: Hotel 43, hotel43.com

BEST LOCAL CARWASH J’s Ultimate Hand Car Wash When you move to Idaho, you get your Subaru, your Nalgene water bottle and your Labrador at the border. After adventuring in Idaho’s backcountry, whether you’re traversing dirt roads, throwing sandy river gear in the back or skirting muddy potholes, your car transcends into the purest form of ﬁlth. Cue J’s Ultimate Hand Car Wash. Offering full services—including detailing—for vehicles ranging from motorcycles to work trucks, buses boats and RVs, J’s lives up to its name as the “ultimate.” Celebrating 10 years in business in 2014, owner Jason Smullin is on the job six days a week—proof that he’s a master of the “wax on, wax off.” ultimatehandcarwash.com

2nd Place: Dirty Harry’s Car Wash, dirtyharryscarwash.com 3rd Place: Like Nu Car Wash, facebook.com/like-nu-car-wash

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2nd Place: CHF Home Furnishings, shopchf.com 3rd Place: Ennis Fine Furniture, ennisfurniture.com

BEST LOCAL FLORIST Flowers At Will Will Heatter didn’t take the most conventional route to becoming a florist. He started with a degree from Boise State University and a job at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. After 10 years of that, he started to prefer his side jobs putting together bouquets for weddings and events. And then, “the flowers were calling and [he] finally decided to listen.” Now, the eponymous Will runs Flowers at Will and he’s doing a damn good job at it. His arrangements are never dyed or manipulated, and always earthy and spectacular. His shop by the intersection of Vista Avenue and Overland Road features many unique gift items as well. Now, where Will you buy your next bouquet? flowersatwill.com

2nd Place: Boise At Its Best, boiseatitsbestﬂowers.com 3rd Place: Blooms Flower Studio, bloomsﬂowerstudio.com

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IDAHO MOUNTAIN TOURING You have to go indoors before you go outdoors.

BEST OUTDOOR GEAR

BEST LOCAL RIVER GEAR

Idaho Mountain Touring

Idaho River Sports

Some Boise institutions are like Cheers: Everybody seems to know your name. That’s certainly the case at Idaho Mountain Touring, where staff aren’t just knowledgeable about the products they sell, they’re invested in the people to whom they’re selling those products, making visits to IMT personable and efﬁcient. Getting to know its customers has played a part in the business’ success, and this year, IMT opened a second, bike-speciﬁc location in Meridian on Cherry Lane. See? Just like Cheers, except without the beer, the know-it-all mail carriers, overweight drunks and preening lotharios. idahomountaintouring.com

Several years ago, Idaho River Sports took a gamble and relocated its store from Hyde Park to a cinder block building off the beaten path, near Quinn’s Pond. That move has more than paid off, as Stan, Jo and their crew watched the city revamp Whitewater Park Boulevard and construct the Boise River Park. IRS has everything one could ever need on the river, from canoes, whitewater kayaks, stand-up paddleboards, to NRS straps, river guidebooks and life jackets, as well as a friendly staff to navigate customers through it all. We’re stoked that they took top honors in the Best of Boise’s ﬁrst-ever “River Gear” category. idahoriversports.com

2nd Place: McU Sports, mcusports.com 3rd Place: The Benchmark, benchmarkadventures.com

2nd Place: Cascade Outﬁtters, cascadeoutﬁtters.com 3rd Place: Outdoor Exchange, outdoor-exchange.com

BEST LOCAL DAY CARE

BEST MECHANIC/AUTO REPAIR

Giraffe Laugh

Hurless Brothers Foreign Car Service

Any working parent will tell you that their lives— and the lives of their children, their spouse, their friends, their extended family, coworkers, mailman or anyone else they encounter on a given day—would be far less pleasant without the tireless, patient work of a good day care staff. In Boise, it’s hard to find a better crew of people to keep an eye on, entertain and educate your kids than the folks at Giraffe Laugh. The private, nonprofit organization, with full-year locations on Resseguie Street and Grand Avenue and a center for pregnant teens at the Marian Pritchett School, is much more than a kid corral. Beyond offering a full menu of healthy food, Giraffe Laugh hosts parenting classes, takes kids on field trips, makes available extracurricular activities ranging from ballet to Zumba and gymnastics, and enrolls children from infants to 5-year-olds. It’s not exactly cheap, but scholarships are available and the center accepts Idaho Child Care Program Subsidies. The only downside is the waiting list, which currently includes about 400 families. giraffelaugh.org

There are a lot of good reasons to drive an import: German cars tend to be reliable, safe and powerful; Italian cars are stylish; Japanese cars are economical and speedy. That’s all well and good, until something breaks and you ﬁnd yourself scouring the Internet for someone who can get a part priority shipped from the factory in Dusseldorf. The folks at Hurless Brothers are those someones. Housed in a downtown Boise shop on Main Street, they specialize in BMW, Volvo and Mercedes Benz, and—believe us—they get your auto in tip-top shape toot sweet, and without costing an Arm und ein Bein. hurlessbros.com

2nd Place: Mike’s Boise Clutch and Automotive, mikesboiseclutch.com 3rd Place: 27th St. Automotive, 27thstauto.com

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TWO RIVERS SALON AND SPA Where it really is all about you.

BEST LOCAL SPA Two Rivers Salon and Spa Maybe some folks think they have to travel to Hawaii or Tahiti to reach a luxurious, relaxing spa setting, but Two Rivers Salon capitalizes on being in the heart of Eagle, along the bank of our very own Boise River. Trade poolside for riverside and indulge. The spa offers everything from your standard Swedish massage, to a hot stone massage using rocks from the river, to the exotic “Parafango Mud Wrap.” It’s not all for women, either. Men can treat themselves to a “Jack Black Facial,” the “Citrus Body Polish” or a relaxing session of body waxing. tworiverspa.com

2nd Place: Panache Hair Studio and Day Spa, panachespaboise.com 3rd Place: (tie) Spa Urbana, spaurbana.com; Zenergy, zenergyboise.com

BEST LOCAL BOOKSTORE Rediscovered Bookshop Most cities have an iconic bookstore. In Portland, it’s Powell’s; in New York, it’s The Strand. But these are warehouses of books piled atop each other, indulging the bibliophile’s inner desire to be physically and psychologically immersed in the printed word. Rediscovered Bookshop, by contrast, is a swept, tidy neighborhood retail bookstore; but in the ﬁnest bookshop tradition, it has deep roots in the city’s array of book clubs, champions banned and challenged books, and hosts author readings and book signings when they’re in town. If you’re looking to get lit, you know where to go. rdbooks.org

2nd Place: Hyde Park Books, hydeparkbooks.net 3rd Place: Trip Taylor Bookseller

BEST LOCAL PET BOARDING Camp Bow Wow Family vacations rock for everyone except the family dog, who gets a ride in the car and then

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spends seven days staying at a kennel, wailing to go home. Camp Bow Wow makes vacations fun even for the dog. Fido gets to play in doggy daycare all day, and for a little extra, stays in a “luxury suite.” Camp Bow Wow also offers inhome pet care, poop scooping and even rentable webcams so you can keep an eye on your pets while you’re away. campbowwow.com

2nd Place: Emerald Street Kennels, emeraldstreetkennels.com 3rd Place: Escape The Crate, escapethecrate.com

BEST LOCAL DOCTOR Waj Nasser, M. D. We’ve long felt Dr. Nasser is tops. Once upon a time, he was a lauded Boise Weekly contributor and if he hadn’t already gone and spent all that money on medical school, we would have offered him a position on staff. Our loss is Boise’s gain. Dr. Nasser is not only smart and creative, he’s a nice guy who genuinely cares for people. But if he ever gets tired of doing that, we’d like to talk to him about a job opportunity... stlukesonline.org/clinic/family_medicine/ capital_city

2nd Place: Jason Ludwig, D.O. 3rd Place: Aaron Moorhouse, D.O.

BEST LOCAL HOLISTIC CARE Pulse Holistic Health When you feel under the weather, your instinct might be to head to the nearest doc-in-a-box, but Pulse Holistic Health can offer some alternatives. The clinic treats colds, ﬂu, menstrual issues, fertility, anxiety, depression, allergies, weight loss, headaches and even cancer support. The practice offers acupuncture and amma therapy—a form of bodywork that “combines energetic, rhythmic massage to the energetic channels with precise pressure.” Intrigued yet? pulseholistichealth.com

2nd Place: Boise Acupuncture Cooperative, boiseacucoop.com 3rd Place: Boise Natural Health, boisenaturalhealth.com WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

GOODS & SERVICES

READERS’ CHOICE

BEST LOCAL VETERINARIAN

BEST LOCAL WINERY

Habitat Veterinary Health Center

Cinder Wines

For some of us, pets are our children, and that means they deserve the best in veterinary care. Well, there’s no better vetting process than our Best of Boise voting, and Habitat Veterinary Health Center rose to the top of the list. The ofﬁce is fully equipped with an inhouse pharmacy, laboratory, radiology facilities and an intensive care unit. The veterinarians even encourage owners to be with their animals during most medical procedures. Located in Southeast Boise and open on Saturdays, it’s no wonder Habitat Veterinary is so popular among the city’s pet owners. habitatboise.com

Melanie Krause was 24 when she made her ﬁrst wine. Now she and her husband, Joe Schnerr, own Cinder Wines, where they proffer a top-notch terroir. Krause was recently chosen as one of the nation’s top winemakers under 40 by Wine Enthusiast Magazine. The couple grow their grapes in the Snake River Valley and run a tasting room in Garden City, where they also display local art. As they say, “In vino veritas,” and the truth is that Cinder Wines has been a “grape” success (sorry) with Best of Boise voters. cinderwines.com

2nd Place: Broadway Veterinary Hospital, broadwayvethosp.net 3rd Place: Ada Veterinary Hospital, adavethospital.com

2nd Place: Ste. Chapelle Winery, stechapelle.com 3rd Place: Indian Creek Winery, indiancreekwinery.com

BEST LOCAL GIFT SHOP Dragonﬂy

BEST LOCAL DENTIST The doctors at All About You Dental are experienced mandible masters—founder Dr. Taylor Clark even established a dental-assistant training program, Assist to Succeed, that has been instituted in more than 50 dental ofﬁces in the United States and Australia. Not only are the doctors at AAYD knowledgeable in cosmetic, rehabilitative and family dentistry, each dental doyen cares about more than just your chompers: These kings of crowns care about you. The molar of this story? It’s all in the name. allaboutyoudental.com

There aren’t a lot of places in Boise where you can choose from a selection of greeting cards the size of a library, pick up handmade artisan earrings, grab a box of Magnetic Poetry (options include Dog Lover, Music Lover, Beat Poet and Cocktail Hour) and find some fine threads to try on while you’re there. Dragonfly is one of those stores where it’s hard to walk out with just that birthday card you wanted to get for your sister—maybe she’d rather receive some Nag Champa and a punching nun. It’s been the locally owned and operated go-to gift shop since 1983, and that’s probably not going to change anytime soon. facebook.com/dragonflyboise

2nd Place: Summit Dental, facebook.com/summitdentalgroup

2nd Place: Eyes of the World, eyesoftheworldonline.com

3rd Place: Daniel Bodily, D.M.D., danielbodilydmd.com

3rd Place: Bricolage, bricoshoppe.com

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BEST LOCAL JEWELRY STORE Lee Read Jewelers There was a time when Boise and Meridian were actually separate and it didn’t take 45 minutes of sitting in trafﬁc to get from one to the other. Back then, Lee Read Jewelers occupied a storefront in the Idanha Hotel. The shop opened in 1963 in 55 square feet of space. Today, Lee Read is still a family owned business, but it now lives in a location that helps bridge the gap between Meridian and Boise, at the Eagle exit. The store got a little bigger—about 20 times bigger— and offers every style of jewelry imaginable, from contemporary styles to classics to custom-made heirloom pieces. leereadjewelers.com

2nd Place: Molenaar Jewelers, molenaarjewelers.com 3rd Place: R. Grey Gallery, rgreygallery.com

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BEST LOCAL PET GROOMING Zamzows We’re beginning to think there isn’t really anything Zamzows doesn’t know. Need a greener lawn? They’ve got a lawn care program to turn your yard into a resort golf course. Need a new little pet for the kid? They’re fully stocked with bunnies, ﬁsh, hamsters, birds and chinchillas. Does your dog or cat desperately need a haircut? Yep, they’ve got the shears sharp and ready. Zamzows boasts it offers the “best dog groomers in Idaho,” and apparently they’re right—at least our readers sure thought so. Eight of their 10 locations offer grooming of blue ribbon standards. zamzows.com

2nd Place: Do It Yourself Doggie Detail, boisedogwash.info 3rd Place: Tie: Dirty Paws Dog Wash, dirtypawsboise.com; K-9 Wash n’ Go, k9washngo.com; Wizard of Paws BOISEweekly | SEPTEMBER 24–30, 2014 | 27

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BARS & NIGHTLIFE READERS’ CHOICE

PAYETTE BREWING CO.

Cicerone Certiﬁed Beer Server Alexa Hinson knows how to pour a brewtiful glass of beer.

BEST LOCAL BREWERY

doesn’t hold much sacred. Not love, not money, not friendship. But booze is a different story. He even has a prayer to the patron saint of morning eye-openers, which he invokes at the hint of a hangover: “Bloody Mary, full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon. Amen.” Best of Boise voters sang their own praises of the nutritious, delicious, socially accepted day-drinking staple—speciﬁcally as it’s served at Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery. With three brunch-time varieties—the classic, with Bardenay vodka, tomato juice and spices; the Spicy Bloody Mary, with horseradish, garlic and three types of pepper; and the Basil Bloody Mary, with fresh sweet basil—if you still feel like a dog after sucking one of those babies down, you might rethink a few things. bardenay.com

to the walls. Like second- and third-place in the Sports Bar category—Crescent No Lawyers Bar and Grill, and Ram, respectively—Cheerleaders has a standard selection of beer, but it’s in the menu that this particular sports bar, which is right across Capitol Boulevard from Boise State University, really shines. With an innovative burger and sandwich selection, and piles of french fries and buffalo chips to go with them Cheerleaders is where local sports fans are catching games in 2014. cheerleaderssbg.com

2nd Place: Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine, riceeagle.com

Balcony Club

2nd Place: Sockeye Grill and Brewery, sockeyebrew.com

3rd Place: Bacon, johnberryhillrestaurants.com

3rd Place: Crooked Fence Brewing, crookedfencebrewing.com

BEST LOCAL SPORTS BAR

Boise’s getting bigger, but there still aren’t many places where you can let your freak ﬂag ﬂy and get down with your bad self. Which is what makes The Balcony Club so special. thebalconyclub.com

Payette Brewing Co. This is the first year that Best of Boise has included a Best Local Brewery category. We probably should have added it sooner, considering the flood of local craft beer that has flowed into the Treasure Valley in the past couple of years. According to last count, there were about a dozen breweries operating in the City of Trees and surrounds, and the beer foam seems to rise every year. Payette Brewing Co., in Garden City, was at the forefront of the recent surge in local brewing. Founded in 2010 and opened in 2011, PBC has, year-round, made us Outlaws on the North Fork, taught us how to be Mutton Busters and given us a Fly Line worthy of the mighty Payette. The message from Best of Boise voters was clear: Keep those kegs flowing. payettebrewing.com

BEST LOCAL BLOODY MARY Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery Self-proclaimed “world’s greatest secret agent” Sterling Archer, from the FX series Archer,

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Cheerleaders Sports Grill With its high ceilings and tall windows, Cheerleaders lacks the wood-paneled, memorabilia-ﬁlled obscurity of your traditional sports bar. In fact, its interior looks like a reclaimed Best Buy with a bunch of the biggest TVs left behind, mounted

2nd Place: Crescent No Lawyers Bar and Grill, sportsbarboise.com 3rd Place: Ram Restaurant and Brewery, theram.com

BEST LOCAL DANCE CLUB

2nd Place: Humpin’ Hannah’s, facebook.com/humpinhannahs 3rd Place: China Blue, boisesbestbars.com/china

BEST LOCAL KARAOKE BAR Terry’s State Street Saloon Sure, Neurolux gets a big crowd most nights it has karaoke. If you’re truly dedicated, though, you make the drive out to Collister and State. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Oh babe, just you shut your mouth. Don’t stop believin’. We could be heroes just for one day. terryssaloon.com

2nd Place: 44 Club 3rd Place: Jim’s Alibi, jimsalibi.com

BEST LOCAL STRIP CLUB The Torch Lounge This ins-tit-ution has been at the top of the local tata scene for ages, its giant, neon purple sign burning like a beacon for fans of giving dollar bills to bikini-clad ladies. Flush with penny-pinching drink specials, regular events and bar games, The Torch is a legendary oasis for the discriminating boob oogler (sic). thetorchlounge.com

2nd Place: Kit Kat Klub 3rd Place: Satin Dolls

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BARS & NIGHTLIFE READERS’ CHOICE

BEST LOCAL BARTENDER

BEST LOCAL HAPPY HOUR

Major Ludwig, Rice Contemporary Mai Thai Asian Cuisine Boise’s downtown Thai destination has long The prophecy has been fulﬁlled. When Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine bartender Major Ludwig took top honors in this category last year, we wrote that if Ludwig “keeps it up” with his artful achievements in alcohol (see Best Local Martini), we expected to see him named Best Local Bartender for a second year in a row. Well, here we are a year later, and here is Major Ludwig with another major feather to put in his cocktail-cap. riceeagle.com

2nd Place: Michael Reed, Mai Thai, maithaigroup.com 3rd Place: Michael Bowers, Modern Hotel, themodernhotel.com

BEST LOCAL COCKTAILS Modern Hotel and Bar If hipness were an alcoholic beverage, The Modern Hotel and Bar would serve it up with rhum agricole blanc because hipness wouldn’t be cool enough on its own. The cocktail menu is a ledger of Latinate boozes and printed in a font that could be best described as “19th Century Apothecary.” Even better, you’re sipping your selection on one of the most secluded patios in town. In a city where there are a lot of respectable bars to choose from, MH&B has chosen expat elan as its X-factor and won Boise’s heart. themodernhotel.com

been lauded as one of the best restaurants in town, but more recently it has been gaining acclaim for its liquid refreshments. When it comes to a little quitting-time tipple, you can’t go wrong with Mai Thai’s happy hour. First things ﬁrst, it’s two-for-one on all drinks from the bar, including Mai Thai’s slate of featured cocktails (Zocalo Milk Punch anyone?). Second, Mai Thai is very liberal about that whole “hour” thing—the happiness ﬂows from 5-6:30 p.m. and 9-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5-6:30 p.m. and 9:30-10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 5-9:30 p.m. on Sunday. Third, the restaurant has started offering Japanese-fusion small-plate appetizers called izakaya from 5 p.m.-close, Monday-Saturday. We’ll give you one guess where we’ll be after work. maithaigroup.com

2nd Place: Barbacoa, barbacoa-boise.com 3rd Place: Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine, riceeagle.com

BEST LOCAL MARTINI Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine

3rd Place: Mai Thai, maithaigroup.com

It’s ofﬁcial: The lemon basil martini at Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine is “a thing.” Last year, Best of Boise voters resoundingly tipped their hats to this concoction and, yet once more, Rice’s signature LBM has landed at the top of the list. Whatever those Rice mixologists—led by two-time Best Local Bartender winner Major Ludwig—are doing, it’s working to win the hearts, minds and mouths of Boise martini mavens. riceeagle.com

BEST LOCAL BAR

2nd Place: Chandlers Steakhouse, chandlersboise.com

Pengilly’s Saloon

3rd Place: Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery, bardenay.com

2nd Place: Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery, bardenay.com

One of the jewels of the Boise bar scene, Pengilly’s has only gotten better—and bigger—with age. Opened in 1976, the booze hall knocked out a wall and spread out into its neighboring space in 2013, though even longtime regulars said the expansion did little to alter the vibe. And that’s a good thing. No less than Esquire magazine called Pengilly’s “the one true classic in Boise,” paying homage to its bottle selection and “stunner” of a bar: a century-old Brunswick. Whether you’re a happy hour habitue; a riled up college kid; artist; musician; or simply a lover of atmosphere (including stuffed buffalo heads), ﬁne libations and stellar service, Pengilly’s ﬁts the bill. facebook.com/PengillysSaloon

2nd Place: Neurolux, neurolux.com

BEST LOCAL GAY BAR Balcony Club Not a lot of words are needed to describe why The Balcony Club wins Best Gay Bar year after year: good music, good people and good times. As usual, Best of Boise voters said it best (and simplest): “The Balcony. Duh.” thebalconyclub.com

2nd Place: Lucky Dog Tavern, facebook.com/pages/lucky-dog-tavern 3rd Place: Neurolux, neurolux.com

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FOOD & DINING

READERS’ CHOICE

TIE: GINO’S, ASIAGO’S

Una decisione difﬁcile. Gino’s (left), or Asiago’s (right)? Both are molto delizioso.

BEST LOCAL ITALIAN

BEST LOCAL BREAKFAST

BEST LOCAL DINNER

BEST LOCAL CHINESE

Tie: Gino’s, Asiago’s

Goldy’s Breakfast Bistro

Fork

Yen Ching

Best of Boise voters seem to be of two minds when it comes to their top pick for Italian food. We ran the numbers again and again, and everytime Asiago’s, in downtown Boise, and Gino’s Italian Ristorante-Bar, in Meridian, came up with exactly the same (high) number of votes. We understand the difﬁculty. Wild boar shank at Gino’s or the herb-crusted veal loin at Asiago’s? The nice thing about that dilemma is there’s no way to go wrong. facebook.com/pages/GinosItalian-Ristorante-Bar; asiagos.com

Goldy’s has been around since 1999, and it has been voted Best of Boise for the past 11 years, but the buzz never seemed to wear off. The wait is still long, but the food still always makes it worth it. No matter how many times you’ve ordered the french toast with the bananas, walnuts, cinnamon and brown sugar, or the smoked salmon hash with potatoes and capers and hollandaise sauce, it never gets old. And now, when you hear your table won’t be ready until your next birthday, Goldy’s on the Corner offers a place to sit and sip a cup of coffee while you wait. goldysbreakfastbistro.com

From the moment the oversized utensil after which Fork is named was mounted to the side of the Boise City National Bank Building on Eighth Street, locals knew the restaurant was going to have character. Among other things—its patio, the beautiful interior—Fork has become known for its dinner menu. Looking for a recommendation? Check out the chicken and wafﬂes, served until they’re gone on Tuesday evenings. boisefork.com

For years, Yen Ching has been code for Chinese food in Boise. A lot of the food falls into the hybrid category of Chinese-American fare—General Tso’s chicken, moo shu pork, potstickers—but locals know about the more inspired menu items like Yen Ching sizzling beef with scallops and Kung Pao squid. yenchingboise.com

2nd Place: The Griddle, thegriddle.com

BEST LOCAL PATIO

2nd Place: Alavita, alavitaboise.com 3rd Place: Luciano’s, lucianosboise.com

BEST BANG-FOR-YOUR-BUCK Los Betos When a burrito is so big it needs its own car seat, and it costs less than a George R.R. Martin novel, it is, without a doubt, a serious buck-banger. idaholosbetos.com

2nd Place: Pie Hole, pieholeusa.com 3rd Place: The Basque Market, thebasquemarket.com

3rd Place: Big City Coffee, bigcitycoffeeld.com

BEST SOUTH-OF-THE-BORDER El Gallo Giro El Gallo Giro has long been a byword for jawdropping Mexican food and long been a favorite for its house specials. elgallogirokuna.com

2nd Place: Chapala Mexican Restaurant, chapalarestaurants.com 3rd Place: Andrade’s Restaurant, andradesboise.com

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2nd Place: Mai Thai, maithaigroup.com

2nd Place: Twin Dragon, twindragonboise.com 3rd Place: Golden Star

3rd Place: Barbacoa, barbacoa-boise.com

Bardenay The sun is shining; the little sidewalk birds are hopping around eating crumbs; smiling people are riding by on their immaculate cruisers; you have a plate of delicious food, a glass ﬁlled with delicious beverage; your dining companions are smartly dressed and witty; all is right with the world, because you’re on the patio at Bardenay. bardenay.com

2nd Place: Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine, riceeagle.com 3rd Place: Reef, reefboise.com

BEST LOCAL LUNCH Bleubird Now in its second year, Bleubird is still where Boise goes for lunch. Through a deft combination of brilliant sandwiches (the roast beef and the Reuben are stellar), side salads with rock salt and shaved almonds and a lot of community buzz, lines out the door during the lunch hour remain long. bleubirdboise.com

2nd Place: Mai Thai, maithaigroup.com 3rd Place: Jenny’s Lunch Line, jennyslunchline.com

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JAR R ETT M ITC HELL

MAI THAI Best Thai, Best Service, Best Happy Hour... it’s a win-win-win.

SHIGE How do you make an octopus laugh? Ten tickles.

BEST LOCAL THAI

BEST LOCAL SERVICE

BEST LOCAL SUSHI

BEST LOCAL DESSERT

Mai Thai

Shige Japanese Cuisine

Fork

There are plenty of Thai dining options in Boise. Almost everybody has a favorite place to grab a bowl of pad Thai or pad see ew, but one restaurant has stood above the rest: Mai Thai. Its depth of menu, killer lunch specials (the buffet deserves its own blue ribbon) and innovative cocktails earned it a few ﬁrst- and second-place accolades. And Mai Thai is in it to win it. Along with new experts in the kitchen, new concepts in the bar and creative new items on the menu, Mai Thai placed a huge, custom-made, vinyl ﬂoor sticker just inside the door, reminding patrons to vote for it in the Best of Boise poll. With so much going for it, Mai Thai probably didn’t even need it. maithaigroup.com

Service can seem like a lot of talk and not a lot of walk. The best customer service isn’t simply a smile or good cheer, it’s making things right for customers when they go wrong, being prompt and accurate, and delivering all of it with grace. By that deﬁnition, Mai Thai’s stylish downtown restaurant is the home of good service, giving dining in Boise the added element of elan. maithaigroup.com

With enough of his own eateries to be considered a chain, Shige Matsuzawa knows sushi, which is why it makes sense his flagship restaurant is a repeat winner. Eating there isn’t for people on the go, though— that kind of craftsmanship takes time. Shige Express, however, is precisely the place to go when a sushi craving and a packed schedule are fighting for your attention. At Shige Express, you won’t have the standard table-all-to-yourself experience. At the downtown restaurant adjacent to two other locations in the Matsuzawa empire, customers sit shoulder-to-shoulder, all seated around the itamae—sushi chef—as he delicately wraps pieces of fish in rice and seaweed. For 22 years, Matsuzawa has pushed customers out of their Japanese cuisine comfort zones and his restaurant has dominated the Best of Boise sushi category since 2006. facebook.com/ Shige-Japanese-Cuisine

The course that comes after the entree—dessert—must be pure decadence, so let Boise Weekly sum up this year’s Best Dessert-winner, Fork, with these words: Warm Butter Cake, Gluten Free Brownie Bowl, Warm Sugar Doughnuts, Local Bread Pudding, Cloverleaf Ice Cream. boisefork.com

2nd Place: Chiang Mai 3rd Place: Pad Thai House, padthaihouseboise.com

BEST LOCAL HANGOVER FOOD The Capri Believe it or not, science has no clear understanding of what a hangover is. Dehydration? Maybe, maybe not—according to Dutch researchers with the Alcohol Hangover Research Group (yes, that’s a real thing), electrolyte levels don’t differ much between dried out hangover sufferers and those who had the presence of mind to drink plenty of water. Ethanol breakdown in the body? Nope. Hangovers are worse when the ethanol byproduct acetaldehyde is low. Low blood sugar? Tests reveal that glucose the morning after doesn’t alleviate symptoms, but makes them worse. Here’s what’s not a mystery: A big, greasy meal at The Capri can save your life post-booze up—or, at least, loosen death’s the icy grip a little.

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2nd Place: Tie: Chandlers, chandlersboise.com; The Basque Market, thebasquemarket.com 3rd Place: Fork, boisefork.com

BEST LOCAL SALAD Fork There are a few theories concerning restaurants’ salad menus. A menu should cover all manner of diners, from the mildly peckish to the famished. Or, rather, salads should include off-the-wall ingredients to pique patrons’ curiosity. Conversely, a selection of salads should embrace the familiar, relying on quality ingredients to rise above the competition. Fork’s salad menu manages to embrace all these theories. The B.C.S. is a standard chopped salad with buttermilk basilpesto dressing. For the adventurous, Fork has developed Bogus Bosc, which includes Waterwheel Gardens Bosc pears, candied City Peanut Shop hazelnuts, smoked gouda and Champagne vinaigrette; and for the shaking-with-hunger ﬁne diner, there’s the Northwest Crispy Chicken Salad, which, atop the aforementioned crispy chicken, also contains cherry tomatoes, onion, dried sweet corn, roasted red bell pepper, tortilla strips, Ballard Family cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce and ranch dressing. According to Best of Boise voters, it’s no mere theory that Fork’s salads are sublime—it’s a fact. boisefork.com

2nd Place: Superb Sushi, superbsushidowntown.com 3rd Place: Fujiyama, fujiyamaboise.com

BEST LOCAL INDIAN Madhuban

2nd Place: Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery, bardenay.com

When walking into Madhuban, one might notice the walls lined with Best of Boise awards. Our readers know what they like, and once again, they like Madhuban best. And how could they not, with a lunch buffet worth driving out to State and Glenwood for? Nine dollars buys as much Indian food as one can pile on a plate, from soft, warm naan to several kinds of curry to veggie samosas to tandoori chicken drumsticks. And then, there’s always seconds. Suck down a mango lassi, pay the bill and tuck yourself in for an afternoon nap. madhubanindiancuisine.com

3rd Place: Flatbread, ﬂatbreadpizza.com

2nd Place: Taj Mahal of Boise, tajmahalofboise.com

2nd Place: Goody’s Soda Fountain and Candy Store, goodyssodafountain.com 3rd Place: Barbacoa, barbacoa-boise.com

BEST LOCAL SANDWICH SHOP Cobby’s Ah, the simple sandwich. Meat, cheese and veg in edible packaging: a perfect example of form and function. Its simplicity shouldn’t override its quality, though, and Cobby’s has long lived in the sammy sweet spot, where deliciousness and ease live side by side. Plus, you get free chips. Free chips, people! cobbys.com

2nd Place: Bleubird, bleubirdboise.com 3rd Place: Deli George, deligeorge.com

BEST LOCAL FOOD TRUCK Archie’s Place There’s nothing fancy about Archie’s Place, and that’s the way folks like it. With a menu straight out of a babysitter’s playbook, Boise’s Best Food Truck 2014 has serious street cred, and no food truck rally or cultural event seems complete without the Charlie Brown-colored van parked out front. archies-place.com

2nd Place: The Funky Taco, thefunkytaco.com 3rd Place: P. Ditty’s Wrap Wagon, foodtrucksin.com/p-dittys-wrap-wagon

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ZEPPOLE “All sorrows are less with bread. ”—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

BEST LOCAL BAKERY

BEST LOCAL FROZEN TREAT

Zeppole

Fanci Freez

Zeppole’s ﬁrst loaf of bread was born in the oven of Gary Ebert, a local attorney sick of the courtroom. Ebert traveled Europe, gathering Old World recipes, and returned to launch a bakery full of rustic bread. He named his shop “Zeppole” after a fried bread he discovered in Italy, but ironically, it’s a bread never seen on the menu. Eventually, the bakery changed hands to the Alper family, who runs the bakery today—still as popular for lunch with Boise High students as it is with Boise’s upper crust, which likes to present loaves of challah and pane rustica at dinner parties. zeppolebakery.com

Boise has its own unique calendar that changes as the seasons come and go. When things start to heat up, the line in front of Fanci Freez grows longer. The progress of summer can almost be measured in the length of the line to get a Boston Shake, or a dipped ice cream cone. With Fanci Freez’s warming tent nearby, the cold weather doesn’t have to be a deterrent to enjoying a frozen treat in the middle of winter. There are 55 shake ﬂavors to choose from and they make some 100,000 shakes per year. Do the math: That’s a shake for every sixth person in the Boise Metro Area. That’s also what we call popularity. facebook.com/fancifreez

2nd Place: Pastry Perfection, pastryperfection.com 3rd Place: Gaston’s Bakery, gastonsbakery.com

BEST LOCAL VEGETARIAN Shangri-La Tea Room and Cafe There aren’t a lot of restaurants in Boise one can walk into and order a “DLT” sandwich (the “D” stands for dulse, by the way—a dried red algae akin to lettuce) with cold Thai coconut soup on the side and a cup of “Mocha Surprise,” which is an alternative to coffee made with chicory, re is hi, mushroom and licorice, and served in a French press. OK, actually, there’s really only one restaurant where one could order such a spread, and that’s the Shangri-La Tea Room and Cafe. Nestled on the Bench on Overland Road, it’s a little out of the way, but ask any die-hard vegetarian and they’ll tell you it’s the hottest spot for herbivores. Time to satisfy your curiosity—and maybe make some dietary changes. shangri-latearoomandcafe.com

2nd Place: Goody’s Soda Fountain, goodyssodafountain.com 3rd Place: Blue Cow Frozen Yogurt, bluecowfrozenyogurt.com

BEST FAMILY RESTAURANT Flatbread Neapolitan Pizzeria Flatbread has unlocked the secret to the classy, yet family-friendly restaurant. While the downtown location in the brand-spanking-new Eighth and Main Building feels more like a restaurant found in San Francisco, kids are kept quietly preoccupied with the fun activity of making their own pizza, while the adults kick back with a cocktail from the full bar. The Bown Crossing location offers a large patio complete with a posh ﬁre pit and a case full of gelato. Another plus: most every Wednesday from 5:30-8:30 p.m. features live music at all the locations. ﬂatbreadpizza.com

2nd Place: Mai Thai, maithaigroup.com

2nd Place: Raedean’s, raedeansrestaurant.com

3rd Place: Boise Co-op, boise.coop

3rd Place: Highlands Hollow Brewhouse, highlandshollow.com

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CHANDLERS STEAKHOUSE

The best cuts of beef are at Chandlers. We’d steak our reputation on it.

BEST LOCAL STEAK Chandlers Steakhouse This one has been kind of a no-brainer for Best of Boise voters for years. If Chandlers isn’t winning Best Steak, it’s getting darn close. We could talk about the marbling, the marinades, the thickness, fat content, types of cuts, breeds of cow, where the cows come from, what the cows are fed, how many steaks Chandlers sells in a year—all that stuff. Truth is, none of it matters once you take a bite and let that morsel ﬁll your mouth with the stuff of dreams. Mmm… sweet, steaky dreams. chandlersboise.com

2nd Place: Lock Stock & Barrel, lsbboise.com 3rd Place: Texas Roadhouse, texasroadhouse.com

BEST LATE-NIGHT DINING Pie Hole There’s late-night pizza, and then there’s Pie Hole. It is truly the perfect combination of all things good: The joint is open until 4 a.m. on the weekends, a slice of pizza won’t cost you more than a few bucks, it’s just divey enough to keep things interesting and the pizza selection is always creative. We personally love the enchilada

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pizza, complete with refried beans and cheddar cheese. There’s also the chicken and wafﬂes pizza, the Thai chicken pizza and the “drunk candy.” Pie Hole’s rotating selection makes it easy to visit several times a week, whether it’s for lunch, a quick dinner on the go or when those midnight munchies hit. pieholeusa.com

2nd Place: Solid, solidboise.com 3rd Place: The Matador, matadorrestaurants.com

BEST LOCAL CHEF Chef Lou, Westside It isn’t every day that you roll past a ma-and-pop burger joint and think, “There’s a chef in there.” That’s because the popular image of chefs is dominated by white-uniformed folks like Gordon Ramsay and Wolfgang Puck. In a profoundly Boise-esque twist, Chef Lou, the mastermind behind Westside Drive-In and the Idaho Ice Cream Potato, wrestled Best Local Chef away from his ﬁne-dining competitors like John Berryhill and Jered Couch for the popular vote. cheﬂou.com

2nd Place: John Berryhill, Berryhill & Co., johnberryhillrestaurants.com 3rd Place: Jered Couch, The Dish, thedishboise.com

BEST LOCAL BRUNCH Red Feather Lounge Brunch in Boise is a big deal. Swing by Goldy’s Bistro or Bardenay (second- and third-place in this category, respectively) on a Sunday morning and just try to get a table for two. This year, Boiseans picked Red Feather Lounge as Boise’s best, and with menu items like Son of a Biscuit and Ham & Haloumi, it’s not hard to see why reservations are recommended. bcrﬂ.com/redfeather

2nd Place: Goldy’s Breakfast Bistro, goldysbreakfastbistro.com 3rd Place: Bardenay, bardenay.com

BEST LOCAL FINE DINING Chandlers Steakhouse Chandlers is always all over Best of Boise, whether it’s drawing praise for its steak, its famous 10 Minute Martini or, as in this case, its general “ﬁne-ness.” True, a trip to Chandlers means putting on some posh, but the place is still plenty accessible. Located at Hotel 43— also no slouch when it comes to swank—the intimate interior is just the right kind of dark, with well-spaced tables, a regular slate of smooth lives tunes and a chic bar with big-city ﬂair. Best of Boise voters aren’t the only people to hang

accolades on Chandlers; as recently as this summer, the steakhouse announced it received the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for the second consecutive year. Add that up: great steak + great cocktails + a great wine list = greatness, obviously. chandlersboise.com

2nd Place: Barbacoa, barbacoa-boise.com 3rd Place: Fork, boisefork.com

BEST LOCAL BARBECUE Goodwood Barbecue Swing by Goodwood Barbecue on any given day and it’ll be packed. And it’s all because of the barbecue. West Texas smoked beef? Yes, please. In the mood for some pulled pork? Goodwood has it. You’ve got to give props to a place that has 12 different menu items under the “ribs” category, and props are exactly what Best of Boise voters have been giving Goodwood for the past six years in a row. goodwoodbbq.com

2nd Place: MickeyRay’s, mickeyraysbbq.com 3rd Place: Bodacious Pig, bodaciouspig.com

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BOISE FRY CO. You’re in good hands with spud specialists like Sarmad Jasim.

BEST LOCAL FRIES

BEST LOCAL BURGER

Boise Fry Co.

Boise Fry Co. is the place where you order your fries first, and your burger on the side. One would never think potatoes could be so diverse, but when ordering fries, picking the perfect potato becomes a major decision. Do you go with the russet or the purple potato? What about the traditional gold, or the exotic Okinawa? (Definitely the Okinawa). But after that, there are more decisions in store: curly fries or shoestring? Never has there been so much freedom and flexibility when ordering french fries. So, obviously, Boise Fry Co. takes top honors. boisefrycompany.com

With a name like “Boise Fry Co.,” one would think that this house of starchy treats would have expended its culinary energies on french fries (see Best Local Fries). But Boiseans agree that BFC’s burgers, which come in a few choice varieties, are the best “side” in town. boisefrycompany.com

2nd Place: Fork, boisefork.com 3rd Place: Highlands Hollow Brewhouse, highlandshollow.com

BEST LOCAL COFFEEHOUSE Flying M Coffeehouse If you ever wanted to take a survey of Boiseans, you couldn’t ﬁnd a much better sample group than those hanging out at the Flying M Coffeehouse. There you’ll meet hippie teenagers, college students with books sprawled over their tables, and punks with multicolored hair sitting next to businessmen conducting meetings, stay-at-home moms rocking strollers back and forth, and every other variety of person who calls Boise home. Flying M attracts everybody—some coming for the smooth, locally roasted coffee, others for the art decorating the walls, and us for the comfy couches and people-watching. ﬂyingmcoffee.com

2nd Place: Java, javabowlofsoul.com 3rd Place: Big City Coffee, bigcitycoffeeld.com

2nd Place: Big Jud’s, bigjudsboise.com 3rd Place: Fork, boisefork.com

BEST LOCAL PRODUCE Capital City Public Market When most people think about where they get their raw foods like fruits and vegetables, they probably think about grocery stores. In Boise, they think about open-air markets with the freshest goods brought to them by the farmers who plucked them from trees, vines and out of the soil itself. In 2014, that place is Capital City Public Market. capitalcitypublicmarket.com

2nd Place: Peaceful Belly Farms, peacefulbelly.com 3rd Place: Boise Co-op, boise.coop

BEST LOCAL MEDITERRANEAN Mazzah Mediterranean Grill Mazzah is a perennial Boise’s Best favorite in the Mediterranean category, though the competition for the spot is ﬁerce. Soﬁa’s Greek Bistro and The Gyro Shack have loyal followings, but Boise has fallen in love with Mazzah’s two locations, killer shawarma, Arabic coffee and an amazing selection of desserts. mazzahboise.com

2nd Place: Soﬁa’s Greek Bistro, soﬁasgreekbistro.com 3rd Place: The Gyro Shack, thegyroshack.net

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PEACEFUL BELLY FARMS

Old MacDonald, eat your heart out.

BEST LOCAL FARM Peaceful Belly Farms Sprawling over 60 acres of the Dry Creek Valley, Peaceful Belly Farms prides itself on keeping its produce strictly organic. Farming practices include composting, drip irrigation, companion planting and chicken pasturing. If you’re not savvy in these terms, pastured poultry is raised in a pasture rather than confined to a coop. The sustainable agriculture technique leads to superior texture and flavor. On top of that, the farm grows more than 180 different types of vegetables and offers a Community Supported Agriculture membership, which will fill your kitchen with the freshest from the Peaceful Belly Farm. The farm also offers dinner classes designed around growing and eating locally. peacefulbelly.com

2nd Place: The Berry Ranch, theberryranch.com 3rd Place: Linder Farms, linderfarms.com

BEST LOCAL MARKET Capital City Public Market Stretching from the Grove clear down to State Street, the Capital City Public Market has grown into Idaho’s largest farmers market. Booths line both sides of Eighth Street with colorful, local produce, ﬂowers, food carts, artisan food products

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and art. One can skip from the cinnamon-covered toasted almond tent to the Global Gardens booth where New Americans sell their produce. Pick up a bottle of MFT hot sauce and a ceramic mug, and you get the gist of the market. Boiseans aren’t deterred by heat, cold or crowds and are perfectly happy to while away a Saturday morning in April to December perusing the market. capitalcitypublicmarket.com

2nd Place: Boise Co-op, boise.coop 3rd Place: The New Boise Farmers Market, theboisefarmersmarket.com

BEST LOCAL SEAFOOD Fresh Off the Hook

BEST LOCAL PIZZA Flying Pie Pizzaria We all do it. Every time we go past a Flying Pie Pizzaria location, we can’t resist craning our necks to see whose day it is at the pizza place. If you’re lucky enough to have your name appear on the marquee—or some interesting skill you possess, like playing the accordion—prove it to the pizza makers and watch as they slap a goofy hat on your head and bring you behind the counter, where you get to make your own pizza with whatever you want on it—for free. We opt for Flying Pie’s own whole roasted garlic, marinated artichoke hearts and linguica (Basque sausage). ﬂyingpie.com

Boise is pretty far from the ocean and when it comes to seafood, there’s one degree of freshness: the first. But even seasoned coastal seafood lovers warm to Fresh Off the Hook—and so has the City of Trees. Boise Weekly’s favorites include cod fish tacos and the salmon fish and chips. freshoffthehookseafood.com

2nd Place: Guido’s Pizzeria, guidosdowntown.com

2nd Place: Lucky Fins, luckyﬁnsgrill.com

The need for a caterer isn’t an everyday occurrence, so sorting through Boise’s catering options can be a daunting task. Fortunately, 3 Girls Catering makes it easy by offering straightforward menus like Barbecue and Idaho Favorites.

3rd Place: Reel Foods Fish Market, reelfoodsﬁsh.net

3rd Place: Idaho Pizza Company, idahopizzacompany.com

BEST LOCAL CATERER 3 Girls Catering

Feeling more adventurous/experienced? Try out Build Your Feast or Vegetarian and Vegan. 3girlscatering.com

2nd Place: Louie’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant, louiespizza.com 3rd Place: Open Table Catering, opentableboise.com

BEST LOCAL SOUP Jenny’s Lunch Line The menu at Jenny’s Lunch Line is a moving target because it changes monthly. It’s a testament to Boise’s love for the Old Boise hole in the wall that it won Best Soup in 2014, voted for by people who know the liquid delights are well worth chasing after. JLL’s soups can be summed up in two words: unparalleled freshness. They’re made from scratch using terriﬁc ingredients, and each bowl comes with a slice or two of bread for dipping. Don’t forget to ﬁnish lunch with one of JLL’s delectable desserts. jennyslunchline.com

2nd Place: Boise Co-op, boise.coop 3rd Place: Zeppole Baking Company, zeppolebakery.com

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2014 REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE

(Left-right) The biker, the curmudgeon, the cowboy and the regular guy.

BEST POLITICAL CIRCUS

BEST POLITICAL CAGE MATCH

The 2014 Idaho Republican gubernatorial debate

GOP leadership scufﬂe

“A cowboy, a curmudgeon, a biker and a regular guy walk into a bar…” That sounds like the setup to a joke, but it’s true—except the bar part. Actually, the archetypes walked into the 2014 Idaho GOP gubernatorial debate, and it’s hard to say if anyone was in on the joke. In May 2014, rancher Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, everyman Meridian Sen. Russ Fulcher, and perennial ofﬁce seekers Harley “I Wish My Last Name Was Davidson” Brown and irascible old Walter Bayes squared off on Idaho Public Television for their one and only debate before the primary election. It made for must-see TV, with Brown—clad in biker leathers—delivering gems like the “cowboy, curmudgeon ...” line, as well as “I’ve got a Master’s degree in raisin’ hell” and “I’m about as politically correct as your proverbial turd in a punch bowl.” With his enormous white beard, Bayes could have passed for Santa Claus if ol’ St. Nick was an angry hermit, thundering about everything from the evils of abortion and wolves, to lands policy, homeschooling and radioactive contamination. Otter looked amused, but Fulcher didn’t think any of it was funny, later calling the debate “a mockery of the Republican Party and of Idaho.” Otter handily won the primary vote, while Brown’s performance reportedly scored him a contract with an L.A.-based company hoping to produce a reality show in which he runs for president of the United States. No joke.

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Raul Labrador was supposed to fix everything. The Republican U.S. congressman was in Moscow for the June 2014 Idaho GOP state convention, trying to lead his party out of a longtime power struggle between moderates and a powerful Tea Party faction. That didn’t happen. Not by a long shot. Right-wingers tried to expel a raft of less right-wing delegates (mostly from the Treasure Valley), and the whole thing broke down without electing officers or adopting a platform. Labrador left Moscow licking his wounds—“At least I tried to fix the problem,” he said. Worse still, then-Chairman Barry Peterson retreated to the party’s offices in Boise and had the locks changed. A lawsuit in July settled that Peterson was out, and, in August, gloriously bald East Idaho political consultant Steve Yates was elected as Grand Old Elephant.

BEST FULL-METAL BACKPACK SB 1254 ‘Guns on Campus’ bill In March, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed into law SB 1254, which allowed retired police ofﬁcers and holders of advanced conceal-carry weapons permits to carry their weapons on Idaho’s public college and university campuses. As the bill moved ﬁrst through the Senate, then the House, it was met with nearly universal opposition by

school administrators, faculty and students, who worried that the increased presence of guns on campuses could detract from learning environments. Meanwhile, campus security at Boise State University and the University of Idaho has been enhanced to meet what are seen as new challenges to student safety. Under the new bill, one guy has already shot himself in the foot—literally: In September, a University of Idaho instructor’s concealed ﬁrearm discharged, wounding him. In. The. Foot. See, safer already.

BEST ‘WHO ELECTS THESE PEOPLE?’ Mark Patterson resignation Former Boise Republican Rep. Mark Patterson had a thing about the truth. He apparently didn’t like it. Not only did his campaign fudge facts about his education and sports accomplishments, but he neglected to mention, on his concealed-weapons application, that he’d been arrested and charged with raping a woman in Florida in the 1970s. When the story broke in November 2013 that Patterson’s permit was being yanked by the Ada County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce, the lawmaker lashed out at the media (former Statesman reporter Dan Popkey, in particular) and Sheriff Gary Raney. After a few lengthy press releases, ﬁlled with threats of lawsuits, his own party decided to push him out the door.

Patterson resigned in December, proving that you can betray your colleagues during the primaries, you can compare Obamacare to the Holocaust and you can get arrested for DUI on Father’s Day and still keep your seat in the Idaho Legislature. Lie on your pocket-gun application, though, and it’s all over.

BEST STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Dan Popkey quits Idaho Statesman, becomes Raul Labrador’s press secretary For almost 30 years, the name Dan Popkey was synonymous with Idaho political reporting. The veteran Statesman reporter covered dozens of legislative sessions, broke more than his share of scandals (earning a Pulitzer nomination for his dogged pursuit of former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s sexual habits) and became as much a part of the Statehouse as its faux marble columns. So it was with a collective “WTF?” that Idaho politicos and media types greeted the news in July that Popkey would be joining Idaho U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador’s staff as the maverick Republican’s press secretary. Popkey said he “wept” over the decision to move from gadﬂy to spin doctor, but he may have wiped away the tears with some of his reported $84,000 salary.

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EAGLE ISLAND STATE PARK Get your shots before you put on your shorts.

BEST AQUATIC QUAGMIRE

BEST STREET FIGHT

Outbreak of norovirus at Eagle Island State Park

The smart meter scandal

The water at Eagle Island State Park is 12 feet deep and with a temperature hovering around 80 degrees, maybe it shouldn’t have come as a shock when more than 100 people got sick after swimming in it earlier this summer. It wasn’t from elevated levels of E. coli; the water became contaminated with norovirus after an infected person visited the park and spread the stomach bug. Never having had to deal with norovirus before, folks at the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation were left scratching their heads. They promised to drain the lake but could only drop the water level three feet. The park’s 600 parking spots sat empty for weeks while IDPR hoped the sun would kill the virus. It did and since the park reopened, no further illnesses have been reported.

BEST FAITH-BASED END-RUN ‘Religious Liberty’ bills Supporters called them a “shield” while opponents said they were being used as a “sword.” Either way, it was a full-on fight over a pair of so-called “Religious Liberty” bills introduced by Boise Rep. Lynn Luker in the 2014 legislative session. Based on similar laws introduced in statehouses around the country—and written from the Focus on the Family playbook—Luker’s bills would have legally protected businesses and professionals (including doctors, attorneys, firefighters and police) that decline services to customers based on their religious beliefs. Seen as code for “you can legally discriminate against anyone you don’t agree with,” the opposition was swift and broad-based, from members of the LGBT community to faith leaders and civil libertarians. After more than a week of fiery public testimony, one of the bills was quietly killed while the other slipped into committee, where it rode out the session. There could be a resurrection. Lord knows, the Idaho Legislature works in mysterious ways.

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Some people can’t seem to get along. The city of Boise and Ada County Highway District have been butting heads for years—on bike lanes, roundabouts, traffic direction or, recently, socalled smart meters—and the two entities are never short of something to fight about. The saga of the smart meters goes back to 2012, when the city of Boise announced it would be installing technology that detects when a vehicle leaves a parking space and resets the meter. Motorists could pay for parking online and also receive an alert on their smartphones when a space opened up. It sounded like a win-win, but trouble reared its head when the city started embedding the sensors necessary for the meters to work into streets this year. ACHD, which owns the streets, cried foul—the city claimed it didn’t need permission for the installation. ACHD fired off a cease-and-desist demand, and an opinion from the attorney general backed up its authority to do so. In late August, ACHD commissioners voted to halt the project, leaving the city to come up with a contingency plan: installing the sensors on the meters. We’ll call that one a draw.

BEST TAXI TANGLE Boise’s unregulated cab companies Boise is most certainly the Wild West of taxi cabs, with some 85 cab companies and 165 vehicles on the road (the number changes monthly), but the city hasn’t done a lot to regulate the number of taxis that come and go out of business. City ofﬁcials insist on respecting the free market and if that means a line of 25 cabs at the airport, duking it out for one or two fares a day, so be it. In July, however, the city proposed a new $150 annual fee for taxi cab companies. It’s a carrot on a stick: Cab companies can have the fee waived if they go the whole year with no violations. Maybe the Wild West just got a little tamer.

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BEST DENIAL OF SERVICE Madelynn Taylor denied request to be buried with wife at Idaho State Veterans Cemetery Madelynn Taylor served her country, but her country—at least her home state—doesn’t seem interested in serving her. The 74-year-old Navy veteran left the military under a cloud, after she was outed for being gay and told to name names or face two possibilities: a court martial or administrative discharge. She refused to out others and took the discharge, leading to a yearslong ﬁght for her beneﬁts. After leaving the military, she married Jean Mixner and the two raised cattle in Idaho. Mixner died in 2012, and Taylor requested they be buried together at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery. Because of Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriages, their union wasn’t recognized—her request was denied. Taylor sued the Idaho Division of Veterans Affairs in July, and as of press time, is still waiting for a result.

BEST REASON TO CRANE YOUR NECK Eighth and Main Building From Boise Hole to “Hole-y shit, that’s a big building,” the Eighth and Main tower puts the “sky”scraper in Boise’s skyline. At 323-feettall, and boasting 20 ﬂoors, Eighth and Main

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ofﬁcially became the tallest building in Idaho when it opened February 2014. No less than ’90s rockers the Goo Goo Dolls feted the ribbon cutting at a massive block party that drew thousands of revelers into the bitter cold. Home to the Idaho headquarters of Zions Bank and law ﬁrm Holland and Hart, the tower also hosts Flatbread Neapolitan Pizzeria, lunch spot On the Fly and upscale chain Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Though its spire generated some controversy— with a few Boiseans complaining that it looked suspiciously “Mormon Temple-ish”—many agree that it’s a glass-and-steel beacon of urban prosperity.

BEST REASON TO BUILD AN ICE CREAM SHOP The Vista neighborhood meeting In June, the city of Boise embarked on a quiet, yet revolutionary project to mine the community for data, neighborhood by neighborhood. The survey, Energize our Neighborhoods, kicked off at the Whitney Community Center on the Boise Bench and focused on Vista Avenue. Residents sat down with representatives from various city departments to talk about jobs, parks, crime and sustainability. The goal was to build a grassroots vision of what’s happening in Boise neighborhoods and how to make improvements. Among the takeaways from that ﬁrst meeting: Vista Avenue really needs is an ice cream shop. We’ll take two scoops of civic engagement any day.

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CSHQA Using waste heat to warm its ofﬁce. Next: harnessing hot air at the Capitol.

BEST GREEN THINKING CSHQA recycles computer heat A lot of heat comes off a desktop computer. That has always bothered Russ Pratt, a mechanical engineer at the architectural firm CSHQA, and he waited 20 years for the opportunity to do something with all that energy. Tinkering around in his garage, he finally figured it out: he invented a mechanism that pulls heat from the computer and re-uses it to keep the CSHQA offices nice and warm in the wintertime and discards the extra heat in the summer. It makes up for almost half the office’s heating, and cuts down on air conditioner use. Better get that patented fast, Pratt.

BEST BONDAGE Boise bond push tries and fails When Boise Mayor Dave Bieter sprung his 2013 State of the City address, the centerpiece was a package of bonds intended to raise more than $30 million for a pack of projects, including ﬁre department upgrades, improvements and construction in city parks, and preserving a chunk of the Boise Foothills. The cost to an average homeowner would have been about $12 per year for 20 years, and bond supporters hit the streets and airwaves in a full-court press to win approval. Despite the heavy promotion— including a slick video that played as an ad on

YouTube for more than a week leading up to the election—both bonds failed to reach the twothirds majority requirement. Voter turnout was pegged at 23 percent, with most of the “yes” votes coming from north and northeast Boise. Disappointed but undaunted, bond boosters vowed they’d return with another proposal.

BEST WHY-DO-YOU-EVEN-ASKQUESTIONS-LIKE-THIS? Creative BOB voters The Best of Boise poll contains a handful of questions that seem to have but one answer— either because the person/place/thing truly is the best or the human/location/item is the only one in town, or he/she/it is a combination of both. Boise Weekly readers aren’t shy about letting us know they know there is one obvious answer with responses like “What do you think, dumbass?” “Really?” and the perennial favorite, “Duh.” We ask because even though we all have a pretty good idea who/what the frontrunner will be when the polls close, we think it’s important to remind ourselves that certain beings/businesses are still doing their thing—and doing it well. On a side note, one particular reader made it clear (typo notwithstanding) he/she has bigger things than a poll to worry about, angrily answering all the questions in the Bars and Nightlife category with: “I ain’t go time for this shit!”

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BEST COURTROOM DRAMA Gay marriage ruling, Add the Words sentencing The words added up to sentences when more than 190 arrests took place in February 2014 during demonstrations by Add the Words advocates who want to see the words “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” added to the Idaho Human Rights Act. Adding the words would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination by landlords, business owners and employers. In July, each of those arrested in the Statehouse were charged with trespassing and sentenced to community service. Despite this being the ninth year of protests, the Idaho legislative session came and went without so much as a public hearing to add the words. Maybe next year. Or the year after that. Or the year after that. In another courtroom drama, Idaho inched closer to joining progressive states in legalizing same-sex marriage—after four lesbian couples sued the state for the right to marry and won—but Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter quickly asked for a temporary stay and appealed the ruling. Otter is prepared to spend $1 million to defend the Idaho gay-marriage ban, which, after a hearing in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in September, might go all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

BEST REASONS TO GO BACK TO JOURNALISM SCHOOL Channel 2’s politically-driven promos, Channel 6 steals student’s video for story

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Boise Weekly played media watchdog not once but twice this spring. In March, BW reported on a pair of 30-second news promos airing on KBOI Channel 2 that crossed journalistic lines by openly advocating for small government and deriding “outsiders” for trying to “impose their will” to ﬁx Idaho health care. After our report, KBOI-TV Vice President and General Manager Don Pratt sent an internal memo instructing staffers not be “distracted by this [BW’s story],” but informing them the promos would be rewritten because “the tone and phrasing of our new campaign needed adjustment.” Then in May, another local TV station ran afoul of news ethics, when it lifted student footage of a Boise State University campus altercation and aired it without attribution. KIVI Channel 6 ran with the story about a tussle between anti-gay fundamentalist preacher “Brother”Jed Smock and a Boise State student, using video taken by 31-year-old student Farzan Faramarzi—a journalist, human rights’ activist and incoming BW intern—without his approval and without crediting him. Though legal, Boise State Communications professor and Arbiter student newspaper adviser Seth Ashley called it “lazy and unethical journalism.”

Homeless ticketed for ‘camping’ after day shelter closes

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It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. With July heat hovering at or near triple digits, homeless shelter Corpus Christi House closed for renovations. With cramped quarters at Interfaith Sanctuary, the River of Life Men’s Shelter and City Light Home for Women and Children, dozens of homeless people were forced to ﬁnd shelter under the overpass near Rhodes Park, a half a block from Corpus Christi House. As the numbers of homeless on the sidewalks swelled, Boise police started writing tickets for “camping.” The ordinance, which proscribes “use of public property as a temporary or permanent place of dwelling, lodging, or residence, or as a living accommodation at any time between sunset and sunrise, or as a sojourn” drew a lawsuit from attorney Howard Belodoff and Idaho Legal Aid in 2009. With tensions rising as high as temperatures under the bridge this summer, Belodoff, alongside ACLU of Idaho, hit the street to inform the homeless of their rights. For their part, Boise police said they were unhappy about having to write the citations, and ACLU of Idaho Interim Executive Director Leo Morales said the problem needs to be solved at City Hall. “It’s regrettable that our city has a 10year action plan to deal with homelessness and yet, they haven’t dealt with it,” Morales said. WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

City Center Plaza project breaks ground The Grove, with its shady brick avenue and burbling fountain, is the heart of downtown Boise. From Alive After Five to the city Christmas Tree Lighting, odds are if you live in Boise you’ll schlep through the Grove at some point in the year. Beloved as it is, it’s changing in a big way. Marshalling the forces of Boise’s most powerful movers and shakers, ground broke this summer on the $45 million, 370,000-square-foot City Center Plaza project, which comes complete with an $11.9 million, 55,000-square foot underground bus station. Whoa. The City Center building will house ofﬁces for Clearwater Analytics, shops and restaurants, as well as expanded convention space. The project hasn’t been without snags: First, crews digging in the Grove struck gasoline left over from former service stations and, in late summer, news broke that part of the ﬁnancing deal violated rules in the Idaho Constitution about how much debt public entities can incur without a vote of the people. It’s unclear how that will shake out, but, in the meantime, the Grove of yore is no more.

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‘HELIOTROPE’

The $42,000 sculpture “Heliotrope” spent a few months chilling in a parking lot before it was installed at Eighth and Front streets.

BEST WAY TO SIDELINE A PIECE OF PUBLIC ART ‘Heliotrope’ stored in empty lot Sometimes it can be hard to know quite what to do with a 16-foot-tall, $42,000 metal sculpture when you have to move it. So it was with “Heliotrope,” originally installed on Eighth and Main streets but in need of relocation once construction on the City Center Plaza project began at the Grove. The city of Boise’s strategy was to pull it out and drop it off in a vacant lot—speciﬁcally, in the corner of an empty lot off Fairview Avenue and 24th Street, where the art piece lay on its side from the middle of June until the beginning of September. “Heliotrope” has since found a new home, on the corner of Eighth and Front streets in front of Urban Outﬁtters and literally on top of another public art project called “Virgo.” We’ll call its stay in the parking lot a “vacation.”

BEST DANCE OFF Trey McIntyre Project closes its doors In January, Boiseans were shocked to learn that beginning July 1, the Trey McIntyre Project would cease to be a full-time dance troupe and frontman Trey McIntyre would, in addition to occasional choreography, launch artistic careers as a photographer, public speaker and documentarian. The shift cut loose most of TMP’s employees, reducing the project to a three-person staff, includ-

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ing McIntyre. Then, in late June, as the end of the 2014 ﬁscal year—and dissolution of the dance company—approached, McIntyre came up short to the tune of $25,000. After a blaze of fundraising, however, he pulled through and made his big exit as the “TM” in TMP. treymcintyre.com

BEST WAY TO MAKE JON STEWART DISAPPEAR Cable One showdown with Comedy Central As Dire Straits sang back in ’85, “I want my MTV.” Cable One subscribers were singing that tune back in April, but adding to their “wants” BET, Centric, CMT, MTV2, MTV Hits, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Nick Teen, Nick Toons, Spike, TV Land, VH-1, VH-1 Classic and, horror of horrors, Comedy Central. On March 31, as a result of a billing dispute between the cable giant and Viacom, more than 700,000 customers in 19 states—including Idaho—saw some of their favorite channels yanked from the airwaves. According to Cable One execs, the blackout came after Viacom, which owns the channels, demanded fee increases greater than 100 percent to carry all 15 of its properties. The blockage also included online content, and Viacom’s actions have since drawn the attention of federal regulators. In the meantime, Viacom announced that it was partnering with Netﬂix to carry its original programming, which probably made more than a few TV addicts a little less edgy. Still, there’s nothing worse than messing with an American’s remote.

BEST TIPPING POINT Treefort Music Fest’s third year The folks at Treefort Music Fest seem to have worked the kinks out of the quickly growing downtown music extravaganza. In year one, Treefort took many by surprise, including the Boise Police Department, as thousands of fans—both local and visiting—bounced from venue to venue like pinballs, trying to see every act possible. The surprise was not only the number of people who attended, but also the high caliber of acts booked for the fest. This past spring, festival organizers took TFMF III to another level, adding several “forts” to the program, including HackFort, with discussion panels by local computer scientists, engineers and coders; StoryFort, which featured fiction and poetry readings; and YogaFort, where, yeah, yoga happened. Along with other forts as well, other types of performance art were added, all indications that Treefort was coming into its own. Though TFMF isn’t yet in the black financially, fans have definitely fallen for the ’Fort. treefortmusicfest.com

BEST PROVOC-ART-EUR Kara Walker Emancipating the Past exhibition at BAM It’s not often that an exhibition comes with a formal community conversation, but such was the case with New York artist Kara Walker’s

Emancipating the Past at Boise Art Museum this summer. Walker uses silhouettes to explore America’s history of misogyny, slavery and debasement of blacks. Her work riles audiences everywhere it shows, but we don’t know how many other museums have brought people together in a public setting to talk about what it means. The gathering took place July 29 at BAM, including a forum with local leaders both public and private. “A lot of anger came out of me at ﬁrst,” said Wells Fargo ﬁnancial adviser Louis Sheppard. “I’m reminded of being seen by others as a second-class citizen. By the way, you should feel free to ask me what I prefer—African American or Black. I prefer Black American. But someday, it will just be American.” We say bravo to BAM, and that goes double for the people who came together to talk about the show. boiseartmuseum.org

BEST KIDS THESE DAYS Young artists contribute to creative community The pages of Boise Weekly often contain stories about young local creatives. Whether they are chefs, musicians, visual artists, athletes, scholars or volunteers, they attract other creatives, they enhance our community and they enrich our way of life. Though they may eventually leave our enclave for greener pastures, hopefully they gained something by spending their formative years here, and we are certainly better for their contributions. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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GOO GOO DOLLS The dream of the ’90s was alive at Eighth and Main.

BEST DANCING IN THE STREETS Goo Goo dolls play Eighth and Main Tower opening Heck, we’d be dancing in the streets because that friggin’ hole on the corner of Eighth and Main ﬁnally got ﬁlled. Still, you can’t go wrong with a free concert. Well, actually, you can (see: Altamont), but not in this case. Also, you could see this show as a warm-up for Treefort 2015.

BEST BARD BOOSTERS Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 season This season, Idaho Shakespeare Festival presented what seemed like a lineup of old chestnuts. Of course Shakespeare’s venerable plays (As You Like It, Merry Wives of Windsor) are old were written nearly half a millennium ago. The non-Bard offerings, however, Les Miserables (1980), Deathtrap (1978) and Steel Magnolias (1987) aren’t so much old as dated. But in the nearly four decades ISF has been staging plays, we’ve learned to trust those at its helm, and, once again, our faith has been rewarded. Everything was spot on: directing, acting, costuming, lighting, sound and even the groups of volunteers. The 2014 ISF season was an all-around outstanding experience, and there’s no doubt 2015 will be as good, if not better. Trust us; we trust them. idahoshakespeare.org

BEST ‘IN THE BEGINNING…’ Northwest Science Museum In the teaser photos for the Northwest Science Museum, a skeletal tyrannosaurus rex is perched on the building’s glass-and-white-concrete ediﬁce while a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark looms in the background. In other words, this isn’t your typical “science” museum. According to NSM’s mission statement, the completed facility would be vast—300,000 square feet—and contain several exhibit wings, a cafe and a gift shop. The museum’s vision center is more modest, with an assortment of exhibits designed to cast doubt on so-called “old-Earth, naturalistic science” (read: evolution) while holding up evidence for the socalled young-Earth movement (read: creationism). These include impossible-to-verify Peruvian burial WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

stones depicting interactions between humans and dinosaurs, and a life-size plaster cast of a mastodon skull. Despite the derision the idea of a creationism museum attracted on social media and comment threads, the museum has its fans, and the vision center is rarely empty during open hours. northwestsciencemuseum.com

BEST IDAHO-BORN GENIUS Samuel D. Hunter, playwright He was born in Moscow, schooled in New York and Iowa, has written about Boise, and on Sept. 17 he became a “genius.” Samuel D. Hunter, who won an Obie Award for his play A Bright New Boise and wowed national audiences with The Whale, received one of the most coveted and mysterious distinctions in the United States: membership in the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program. Known as a “genius grant,” selection is anonymous, made by nomination and carries with it a no-strings-attached $625,000 cash prize. In other words, MacArthur Fellows are simply given the money to keep doing whatever amazing thing they’ve been doing. Now living in New York, Hunter, 33, told the Washington Post that hearing he’d won a genius grant felt “so mythic. Somebody calls you out of the blue, and they tell you this thing. It’s like winning the lottery.” macfound.org/fellows/918

BEST DEMONSTRATION DOC Add the Words film at the Egyptian In 2012-2013, the Add the Words movement, which advocates for adding “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to Idaho’s human rights law, asked its allies to write “Add the Words” on sticky notes and put them on legislators’ office doors. It was a creative, charming and unsuccessful move. In 2014, things were less congenial: ATW demonstrators blocked the Senate and House chambers during the legislative session. There were more than 100 arrests, and Michael Gough and Cammie Pavesic caught the—again, ultimately unfruitful—action on film. Their documentary, Add the Words, premiered at the Egyptian Theatre in June. Whether there will be a sequel depends on the 2015 Idaho Legislature. addthewords.org

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BEST PLACE FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC IN CANYON COUNTY Langroise Hall at C of I Among the treasures on the College of Idaho campus—itself a small green jewel tucked away in Caldwell—is the Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts. Through the sparkling white marble foyer of the two-story, 54,000-square-foot building is the simple, intimate Langroise Recital Hall—home to not only some of the best classical music in Canyon County, but the Treasure Valley at large. The 200-seat, proscenium performance space has hosted some of the ﬁnest classical musicians in the country and regularly puts on performances by the nationally touring Langroise Trio, whose members have served as artists-in-residence at C of I since 1991 and performed in such venerable halls at the Kennedy Center. Classical and classy in Caldwell. collegeoﬁdaho.edu

BEST FRESHMAN GRADUATION Boise’s Funniest Person II Kaz Gable isn’t originally from Idaho. He’s not even from the Mountain West. Before moving to Idaho from Wisconsin, he’d barely heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had never seen a whistle pig and was more-or-less unacquainted with racist car decals. On Aug. 2 at the second annual Boise’s Funniest Person showcase at Liquid, Gable expertly parlayed his quasi-ignorance of the Gem State—and his “high-level dick jokes”—into comedy gold, earning him the title of Boise’s Funniest Person. Gable went home with bragging rights, a more conﬁdent swagger, thicker, more luxurious hair and a $1,000 prize after beating strong contenders Gabe Hess, Merry Cole, Tommy Chartier and Brett Kennedy. Welcome to Boise, you funny sonuvagun. boisesfunniestperson.com

BEST GOOD VS. EVIL Re-release of Barry “Konrad” Konarik’s album EVIL Though not a native, Barry “Konrad” Konarik has lived in the Boise area for years. He’s a familiar face to longtime employees at The Record Exchange, not only because he loves to listen to music but because he loves to make it, too: In the early ’80s, while still living in Brooklyn, N.Y., Konrad wrote, recorded and played every instrument on what would be his magnum opus: EVIL. Though it never saw mainstream success, EVIL earned Konrad a loyal cult following, and copies of the album found in estate sales and second-hand stores fetched as much as $300. One of EVIL’s most avid supporters happens to own a small record label that specializes in bringing obscure, near-extinct vinyl releases back to life, and a new pressing and new distributor put EVIL back on shelves (now, both physical and electronic). In an accompanying mini-

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documentary, the musician with the gift of gab shares his thoughts about the making of EVIL, extraterrestrials, Jim Morrison and scientiﬁc theories. Intrigued, Boise Weekly sat down with Konrad and after a few hours (in which he did most of the talking), we, too, became fans—or as Konrad says, “konverts.”

BEST HELICOPTER PARENTS West Ada School District bans Sherman Alexie novel In April, the Meridian Joint School District No. 2 (now the West Ada School District) voted to remove Sherman Alexie’s young-adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian from its supplemental reading list: A grandparent caught a student reading the novel, objected to its references to masturbation and occasional use of harsh language. Speaking “from the heart,” she asked the school board to “do the courageous thing and remove this book from the curriculum.” The board went one step further and convened a panel to review the entire reading list. Irked by the move, two Washington fans of Alexie’s work raised funds and shipped hundreds of copies of the book to Idaho, where they were distributed to students. The National Coalition Against Censorship wrote a letter to the school board, pointing out that the district could be opening itself to a First Amendment challenge, and, in the end, the school board reinstated True Diary to the reading list but with caveats: The book can’t be read aloud in classrooms and is only accessible with the written consent of a parent. Sigh.

BEST LET YOUR NERD/GEEK FLAG FLY Comic/anime conventions “Con” is a great example of how a lexicon evolves. As the opposite of pro, it means to be against something: “After that asshole Bernie Madoff defrauded so many people, politicians who once lobbied for lighter white-collar sentences began voting con.” It’s a verb meaning a shady deal or a double-cross: ”Only an asshole like Bernie Madoff would con old people out of their savings.” It’s an abbreviation of the word convict: “That asshole con Bernie Madoff deserves to be behind bars for the rest of his natural life.” Con is also an abbreviation of convention and when used in conjunction with words like Comic, Gen, Anime, Star Trek and Cosplay, has come to mean “a gathering in which fans celebrate a shared love.” In recent years, Boise cons like Library Comic Con, Anime Oasis and Fandemonium have surged in popularity and recognition and have opened the door for even more conventions. No longer seen as functions solely for a particular subculture, cons are fun and welcoming for aﬁcionados and newbies alike. Cons deﬁnitely belong in the pro column. Except for Bernie Madoff. boisepubliclibrary.org, animeoasis.org, fandemonium.org

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BEST WE’RE GONNA MISS YOU BEST ‘ANCHORMAN’ WHEN YOU’RE GONE IMPERSONATION Newt and Harold’s closing A collective gasp rose from Boise’s snowboard and skate communities in August 2014, when Boise Weekly broke the news that Newt and Harold’s, which sold snow and skate equipment and accessories, would be closing after nearly 30 years in business. Owners Lori Wright and Lori Ambur said they were shuttering the shop, at 1021 Broadway Ave., after years of struggling to compete with online shopping—that and the fact that they’d been doing it for nearly 30 years. “It’s just that we’re getting a little older and the industry has changed so much in the last ﬁve years,” Wright told BW, adding that she and Ambur opened the store in 1985 when they were both in their mid-20s. Wright said she plans to continue being active in the community, though, lending her support to fundraising for skate improvements at Rhodes Park. “The big thing I want to say is ‘thank you so much’ to Boise, we could never have done this if this community did not support us,” Wright said. No, thank you.

Paul Gerke does sportscast as Ron Burgundy Dressing up for Halloween at the workplace can be a cringe-worthy ordeal but not if you work at KIVI Channel 6. For the Oct. 31, 2013, newscast, Channel 6 Sports Director Paul Gerke went on air as Ron Burgundy, eponymous anchorman of the Will Ferrell comedy films Anchorman and Anchorman 2. Gerke donned a faux mustache, red sports jacket and pulled off an impressive Ferrell/Burgundy impression. What’s better, he managed to stay in character for more than five minutes—flawlessly delivering the sports report and sticking with the schtick through a news promo, taking over the weather from colleague Scott Dorval (see Best Local Weatherperson) and, last but not least, signing off with a riff on Burgundy’s signature line, “You stay classy, Boise.” Video of the broadcast went viral, picked up by news sources from the Huffington Post to NPR, and landing Gerke a role from Paramount Pictures to help promote Anchorman 2, which was released in November 2013. You stay classy, Paul.

BEST TWO-WHEELED TUSSLE City vs. ACHD on bike lane pilot The green paint and “candlestick” barriers were ugly to some, cumbersome to others. They ate up lanes of traffic on Capitol Boulevard, and Main and Idaho streets. A few even said they slowed down traffic. But for a little over a month, the buffered bike lane project gave Boise the look and feel of cyclist-friendly cities like Seattle and Washington, D.C. The Ada County Highway District, which has curb-to-curb control over Boise’s streets, saw more cyclists using the sidewalks than the lanes themselves, and a slew of irate motorists irked that car traffic lanes had been given over to bicyclists who seemed to scarcely know how to use them. Despite objections from cyclists and the Boise City Council, the lanes were scrubbed, serving as a bummed-out memory for downtown bike commuters.

BEST JUDAS MOVE Chris Petersen leaves, slams Boise State in poll When former Broncos coach Chris Petersen left Boise in December 2013 to run the University of Washington’s football program, he was the highest-paid government employee in Idaho—by

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a lot. Like, by almost $1 million more than the next highest-paid person (Boise State head basketball coach Leon Rice, who makes almost $439,000 a year). Washington nearly tripled Petersen’s salary—to a reported $3.2 million— and it didn’t take long for the longtime Boise State veteran to turn his nose up at his old team. In August, Petersen voted in an ESPN. com poll of 65 coaches to exclude the Broncos from playing teams from the Power 5 conferences. It was an informal survey, but ouch. Et tu, Coach Pete?

BEST FOOTHILLS TRAILS EXTENSION Daniels Creek easement Open space won again in the battle between construction and conservation of the Boise Foothills. This time, the victory came in the form of a 12.6mile trail easement offered up by Daniel’s Creek Lanc LLC, a subsidiary of Grossman Company Properties. The trail stretches from northwest Boise to the Shafer Butte trail system at Bogus Basin, and the easement won’t cost the city a thing. Trails are being mapped out by the Ridge to Rivers staff, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. Hooray hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding.

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BOISE RIVER PARK Everybody’s gone surﬁn’, surﬁn’ B-O-I.

BEST $3 MILLION EDDY

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Stand-up paddleboarding on the Boise River

Caldwell Night Rodeo/Snake River Stampede

Whenever out-of-towners venture to Boise, the tour guide in all of us kicks in and we consult our go-to list of things to do in the City of Trees. Near the top of the list, of course, is a float down the Boise River—specifically, the stretch from Barber Park to Ann Morrison. But we think we may have found something to top it: spice up the float with a couple of rented stand-up paddleboards. It only takes a few minutes to overcome the giddiness and get comfortable on the 10-foot boards. Not to worry, the ripples and rapids are easy in a kneeling position. Really, it doesn’t get much more novel than exploring the city via river, via SUP.

As the old saying goes, “Never was a horse that couldn’t be rode; never was a cowboy who couldn’t be throwed.” Nowhere in the Treasure Valley is that truism more on display than the Caldwell Night Rodeo and Snake River Stampede. Each year since 1937, when it was renamed from a rodeo dating back to 1911, the Snake River Stampede has thrilled crowds in Nampa with feats of skill and agility that would make even the most saddle-weary cowpoke jump up and cheer. Down the road, the Caldwell Night Rodeo has been doing the same since 1935, serving as a beloved community gathering. Taken together, that’s more than 150 years of broncbustin’, wranglin’, ropin’ and general rowdiness. Despite its years, it never gets old.

There is seldom a shortage of crowds at the Boise River Park, from surfers to kayakers and boogie boarders. But like any resource that needs to be shared, there is seldom a shortage of conﬂict, either. This summer made for some rough waters as Boise River Park wave technicians tried to keep both surfers and kayakers happy. Both user groups rely on a very different setup from the adjustable wave, and when area kayakers felt it catered too much to area surfers, well, Boise Parks and Recreation didn’t hear the end of it. The learning curve for new wave technicians to create a fun and surfable wave through various water ﬂows didn’t help, either. It left a lot of river-running enthusiasts leaving the park shaking their heads.

BEST WAY FOR A REFUGEE TO MAKE MONEY AND SEE SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME Bogus Basin’s refugee hiring program As Boise Weekly reported earlier this year, Bogus Basin partners with several refugee organizations to provide work for some of Boise’s newest newcomers, many of whom had never seen snow before. The ski resort employs some 20 refugees every season in its lodges to wash dishes, cook food, bus the tables or work the cash register. Because most of them have a loose grasp on English when they get here, the mountain managers have come up with completely visual communication systems to help their employees navigate the workplace. Many of the refugees work at the resort season after season, but not too many of them have gotten the hang of skiing quite yet.

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BEST ‘HEART AND SOUL’ Comba Park Boise Parks and Rec Director Doug Holloway said it used to host “more goatheads … than all of Boise, including the Foothills.” Now, redeveloped and christened Comba Park, the 3.2 acres at 2995 Five Mile Road are a haven for rowdy kids and happy parents. Formally dedicated in August 2014, Comba Park realizes the 14-year dream of Dr. Trudy Comba, who donated the land in West Boise to the city in hopes that it would someday be put in service of local children. The park boasts some of the most innovative features among Boise’s public play spaces: 3-D hexagonal climbing structures; spinning tea cups; a multistory, roped merry-go-round; and a splash pad served by UV-treated potable water. Even cooler, the splash pad is inlaid with a foot-activated piano keyboard. Dance, run, splash or spin, kids are king at Comba.

BEST OTHER IDAHO GOLD MEDAL WINNER Kaitlyn Farrington wins gold in snowboarding Longtime Bellevue, Idaho, resident Kaitlyn Farrington had a big year in 2014. The 24-year-old snowboarder, now of Salt Lake City, won the gold medal in the women’s halfpipe snowboarding competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia and later embarked on a public tour that included appearances ranging from the Late Show with David Letterman to serving as grand marshal of the Bellevue Labor Day parade. Sun Valley ofﬁcials even renamed Farout Bowl on Bald Mountain Kaitlyn’s Bowl. Farrington is inspiring kids in her hometown, but she also might inspire more downloads of “Give Me The Beat,” by Ghostland Observatory. She told Letterman she listened to the track “the entire season,” including while making her winning run in Sochi.

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EVERMORE PRINTS

Jake Soper and the rest of the Evermore staff make the front page of Boise Weekly every week. Literally.

BEST ‘COVER US’ Evermore Prints One of the things that makes Boise Weekly unique among other alternative newspapers is our longtime commitment to running work by local artists on the cover of the paper each week. We’ve been doing that for more than a decade, pulling together each year’s worth of artwork and putting it up for auction, with proceeds beneﬁting the artists themselves (and taking a chunk for ourselves, too). The reason that artwork looks so damn good printed on the cover of BW is thanks to Evermore Prints, which takes the work of artists, digitizes it and works the necessary magic to faithfully reproduce the colors and shades on newsprint—notoriously not the best medium for crisp, sharp images. If you’re a fan of BW’s artful covers, applaud your local artists, but don’t forget to put your hands together for Evermore. evermoreprints.com

BEST BUREAU OF COMPLAINTS Tate’s Rants on Craigslist Let us now sing the praises of Craigslist. Speciﬁcally, the mix of strange, horrible and sometimes wonderful stuff that pops up in “casual encounters,” “missed connections” and, occasionally, “services.” In our time-wasting perusals we’ve found a guy who’ll clean your house in nothing but a T-shirt (you don’t even have to pay him!),

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more than a few dubious massage services (beautiful staff and convenient to the airport!) and, in July, a little gem of a service called Tate’s Rants. Run by two 20-something Boise guys, the mission of Tate’s Rants is simple: people can “complain about each and every one of their ridiculous problems” because, of course, your friends and colleagues don’t give a rat’s ass how you feel, “they’re aggressively thinking about if the ending to Breaking Bad could have just been a little better.” One of the founders told us Tate’s Rants was overwhelmed with responses to the Craiglist ad, so they set up a website at tatesrants.wordpress.com. The Craigslist post is gone, but the site remains. Maybe they’re still taking on clients? There’s only one way to ﬁnd out… tatesrants.wordpress.com

BEST PLACE TO HEAR A CATTLE RATTLE Boise Main Auction Where does one go to score stacks of lumber, rusted bicycles, John Wayne collectible plates and boxes full of Beanie Babies? The Main Auction, of course. It’s been passed down through the Wesely family since it opened in 1938; and, for more than 75 years, the Main Auction has sat on the corner of what is now Whitewater Park Boulevard and Main Street. Every Saturday from 10 a.m. to well past midnight, the auction offers the very best in oddities and people

watching. With several experienced, cattle-rattling auctioneers, it’s more than the neighborhood junk auction—selling close to 3,000 items in a day. That’s 100 items an hour. That’s some fast talking. mainauctioncorp.com

BEST PLACE TO GET BLOOD PRESSURE PILLS, A BOTTLE OF BAY RUM AND A PAIR OF SURPRISINGLY ATTRACTIVE ORTHOPEDIC SHOES Ladd Pharmacy It’s tough to remember a time when pharmacies, now mostly corporate entities, more closely resembled their apothecary ancestors—back when your town/neighborhood drugstore was family owned and the pharmacist knew you by name. Ladd Family Pharmacy is compact, clean, staffed by friendly people and as modern as any big-chain pharmacy, if not more so. Ladd’s is one of the few accredited compounding pharmacies around, meaning its pharmacists can add ﬂavors to, change the delivery method of or change the strength of medications to suit a patient’s individual needs. If that weren’t enough, Ladd’s also has a small but interesting selection of toiletries on hand and a rack of Dr. Comfort orthopedic shoes, some of which are as cute as they are comfy. laddfamilyrx.com

BEST GROWLER GROWTH Gas stations and grocery stores now offer growlers Boiseans may never go thirsty again. Amid the big beer boom of recent years—in which upwards of a dozen breweries have opened across the Treasure Valley—is the growth of places you can fill your growler. For the uninitiated, a growler is a container (usually a 64-ounce brown glass jug) that you fill with beer. In the olden days, you could only get your growler topped off at a brewery taproom, certain bars and/or select beer stores like PreFunk, Bier:Thirty, Brewer’s Haven, Brewforia and others. Apparently, that wasn’t enough. This summer, Albertsons announced it was getting into the growler game by installing a spiffy filling station at its 36th and State Street location. The same technology—from aptly named California company The Growler Station—has also popped up at the Columbia Village Albertsons and (to date) four gas stations in the city: the North End Chevron, the 13th Street Stinker, the Jacksons on West State Street and M&W Market on Warm Springs Avenue. The Middleton Road Gem Stop in Nampa is similarly equipped, as are three Fast Eddys in Meridian: Ustick, Ten Mile and Locust Grove. Rest easy, Boise, you’re never far from a growler fill. growler-station.com

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BEST EXCEPTION TO THE RULE BEST IF IT’S ABOUT BEER, IT’S NOT JUNK MAIL Trader Joe’s We are fully aware that Trader Joe’s is not local but since earlier this summer, Boise Weekly has had a front-row seat to the chaos of excited and curious people flocking to the grocer. We did not anticipate becoming flockers ourselves. Within a matter of weeks, we had tried Trader Joe’s strawberry licorice, mochi, prosciutto-wrapped mozzarella, dolmades and praline pecans. Each BW staffer seems to have his or her favorite TJ’s treat. Editor-in-Chief, Zach Hagadone digs the microwavable Indian food. Staff writer Harrison Berry has dropped more than a few bucks on chocolate-covered pretzels and Associate Editor Amy Atkins can’t resist the roasted seaweed snack. If TJ’s would let us open a tab and bill us monthly, we would greatly appreciate it. Until then, we’ll continue making field trips across the street to our own personal pantry. We need the exercise anyway. traderjoes.com

BEST YARD SALE Velma Morrison estate sale When iconic Boise philanthropist Velma Morrison died in June 2013, she left behind her “Camelot,” a mansion overlooking Ann Morrison Park on the Boise Bench. The 12,000-squarefoot home, complete with a two-story stained glass window depicting a princess reaching for a knight on horseback, was left chock full of Morrison’s possessions. This past spring, Corbett Auctions rolled in and sold every last piece of jewelry, jade, china, oil painting and piece of furnishing. Even Morrison’s half-empty bottle of Windex went for a price. Zoo Boise made a sweet score when an endangered taxidermy sea turtle named George was donated for educational purposes and will help the zoo teach kids about protecting endangered species.

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Boise Beer Buddies mailing list Like so much of our email, it showed up in our inbox unsolicited. We wouldn’t have opened it if not for the word “beer” in the address. Holy hops, it was the best brew-ﬁlled email we’ve ever received. Compiled by Stacy Connelly, a longtime local bank employee, Boise Beer Buddies is a comprehensive listing of all things beer-related in the Treasure Valley: from brewery events and beer releases, to openings and specials. Connelly told Boise Weekly that the newsletter started about 10 years ago when she started sending lists of the goings on around town to a handful of friends. Her circle of recipients grew until last year, when she rebranded it Boise Beer Buddies and started sending it to anyone and everyone. Today, it’s the go-to source for craft beer enthusiasts and one of the only emails that BW looks forward to receiving each week. boisebeerbuddies.com

BEST A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME Albertsons Stadium, Ford Idaho Center “Putting your name on something” used to mean doing something so great or heroic that a bronze statue of your likeness would be placed in the town square of the city you were born in. Maybe you’d get a park named after you. Maybe a street. Now, naming something like an events center or sports arena is a way for a corporation to market itself and a venue to make a sponsorship dollar or two. Who can blame ’em? It may take us a while to remember that the Idaho Center is now the Ford Idaho Center and Bronco Stadium is now Albertsons Stadium, but as long as they keep offering the big-time entertainment options, we’ll call them whatever they want. broncosports.com, fordidahocenter.com

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THE VILLAGE AT MERIDIAN More like the Unincorporated City at Meridian.

BEST VILLAGE OF THE CRAMMED Village at Meridian Hit the gym, buy some clothes, go to the dentist, get some lunch, go bowling, visit the spa, see the chiropractor, get your hair done, have a beer, eat some dinner, catch a movie, pick up some dog food and buy a new bed because you’re freaking exhausted after a day in The Village at Meridian. The only thing you can’t do is live there, but that’s what Meridian is for. thevillageatmeridian.com

BEST AND-YOU-THOUGHT-WEONLY-ATE-POTATOES Boise International Market The Treasure Valley is not known for being a multicultural mecca but in recent years, our demographic has changed for the better. As immigrants and refugees have settled into the fabric of this community, they’ve opened stores and businesses that help their fellow countrymen feel more at home and also introduce their cultures to people who may otherwise never experience them. The markets bring the world in a little closer for some, expand horizons for

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others and soon, the Boise International Market will provide even more traveling-without-leaving all under one roof, with entrepreneurs selling goods and services from all across the globe, including Columbia, Congo, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Somalia and even Boise and Boston. facebook.com/boiseinternationalmarket

BEST ONE-STOP TAKEOFF Boise Airport expands services There is more taking off at the Boise Airport than passenger planes—much more. In August, airport officials announced new direct service to Houston and SkyWest’s plans for a $20 million maintenance facility went public. At the same time, big changes are coming to BOI in the form of retail and concessions: specifically, shops and restaurants bearing the names of the Idaho Statesman, The River 94.9 FM, The Greenbelt, CNBC, Boise Co-op, Parrilla Grill, 13th Street Pub and Grill, Bardenay, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Big City Coffee, Cross Grain Brewhouse, and Harvest and Ground Bakery and Coffee. Beyond that, flyers will be able to buy local products including beer from Sockeye Brewing Co. and Crooked Fence, wine from Cinder Wines, coffee from Flying M and baked goods from Zeppole. Forget actually flying anywhere, we just want to hang out at the airport from now on. iflyboise.com WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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THE MODE LOUNGE, MAI THAI

BEST WAY TO LEARN YOUR LIQUOR LESSONS Classes at The Mode and Mai Thai Many of us unofficially enrolled in booze class in college, but we never took alcohol academics as seriously as Mai Thai and The Mode Lounge. Seasoned bartenders from both went to New Orleans for specialized training and upon their return home, recently launched a lineup of liquorrelated educational experiences for their customers. Mai Thai’s Sunday School is a weekly event that costs $25 a person and includes a flight of booze, food pairings and a liquor lesson. The Mode’s classes are a little spendier—$60 a person for high-end booze and snacks—but the bar’s first whiskey class sold out so quickly that they hosted a second a week later. themodelounge.com, maithaigroup.com

BEST SOLO SOMMELIER BodoVino’s self-paced wine-taste At BodoVino, BODO’s mechanized wine bar, you can work your way through 144 of the world’s

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The Mode’s Brian Livesay (left) and Mai Thai’s Michael Reed (right) offer lessons in the international language of liquor.

wines, in one-, three- or ﬁve-ounce pours. Just insert a pre-paid card, stick your wine glass under the Wine Emotion spout and savor a splash of wine without some snob telling you how it should taste. Don’t like it? Move on to another row and try another sample until you settle on something you like. If you really love it, you can buy a whole bottle to drink onsite at a retail rate. bodovino.com

shaking thoroughly mixes the ﬂavors and with a bit of dilution keeps your tipple from tasting like lighter fuel. The mixologists at The Modeave studied up on their martini science. Boise Weekly loves a crisp, balanced gin martini, and that’s exactly what we got on a series of summertime visits. Big ups. themodelounge.com

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All-ages venues

Martinis at The Mode Lounge “The art of the martini” is a redundant phrase for aﬁcionados of the drink—the martini is art. As plenty of pedants will tell you, a martini is not really a martini unless it contains two basic ingredients: gin (or in modern times, vodka) and dry vermouth. It can be garnished with a green olive or a twist of lemon and must be served “up,” in a stemmed—preferably chilled—martini glass. The science on shaken vs. stirred is still out, according to no less than the Royal Society of Chemistry, and cases can be made for and against either technique: stirring gets rid of the oily character of potato vodka and keeps booze from getting watered down by ice, while

BEST EQUALIZER “Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”—Italian proverb. Stepping into a room full of teenagers can make otherwise happy, healthy adults feel like Methuselah a week before the Great Flood. In the same way, a bright, energetic young adult can become reticent and self-conscious in a room full of 30-somethings. Music straddles— nay, hurdles—demographic boundaries, and at all-ages venues, everyone stands shoulder-toshoulder sharing an experience—regardless of whether they’re kings or pawns.

BEST UNTRACEABLE WEAPON Flying ice at The Modern Hotel and Bar In a 1972 episode of Columbo, the brilliant (but underrated) Robert Culp portrays a killer whose weapon of choice leaves no trace—actually disappears completely. Culp portrays the egocentric manager of a football team who, to prevent a self-indulgent bon vivant (portrayed by the equally great Dean Stockwell) from inheriting the team, murders him by smashing a thick, jagged chunk of ice down on his head as he steps out of his swimming pool. By the time Lt. Columbo arrives on the scene, the ice has melted and voila, no weapon. The cocktail virtuosos at The Modern Hotel and Bar are not plotting the perfect murder, but they have been known to be so hyper-focused, they don’t even notice the frozen shards ﬂying scattershot as they shave and sculpt ice for mixological masterpieces. Honestly, sitting at the bar watching the magic happen is worth the risk—just be prepared to guard, turn, parry, dodge or spin. And if you do get hit by a frozen missile, there’s no point in saying anything. You’ll soon have an exquisite concoction before you, and the evidence will be long gone. themodernhotel.com WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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IBU SCALES Better beer drinking through bitter education.

BEST SCIENCE LESSON

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IBU scales listed on beer menus

Comfy hidden chairs in the Owyhee Plaza Bar

In the mid ’90s, Coors Brewing Co. ran an ad campaign for its Keystone Light, claiming it was the remedy for “bitter beer face,” a condition apparently caused by craft beers that contained actual depth and flavor. In scientific terms, bitter is measured by the International Bitterness Units scale, which measures the parts per million of isohumulone in hops. Even though a slew of other factors determine where a beer falls on the IBU scale, in layman’s terms, it’s a good indicator of a beer’s bitterness or “hoppiness.” Preference is relative, with some people preferring a beer as smooth as Barry White while others are drawn to brew as hoppy as a white bunny. In the simplest terms, the higher a beer’s IBU number, the hoppier it is, and since restaurants and breweries around the valley have been adding IBU numbers to their menus, you’ll know before the first sip if you’re getting a Barry or a bunny.

BEST CINNAMON CHALLENGE Matador’s tequila chaser No matter how ﬁne or expensive, even the smoothest all-agave, extra anejo tequila can impart an acrid taste—although it’s easy to forgive as a boozy warmth spreads through your torso—and rather than let that detract from the experience, following a sip (or gulp) with the right thing can make tequila a nectar of the gods. With nearly 100 tequilas on site, Matador (yeah, yeah, it’s not technically local) knows a little something about how to get the most out of the agave liquor, and it’s not the ubiquitous lime-and-salt chaser, which does help cut the bitter taste of cheap tequila. The folks at Matador recommend a cinnamon-sugar shot with all of their tequilas. It enhances the booze’s natural essence, giving it a layered ﬂavor and making that warm sensation a little sweeter. matadorseattle.com

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For years, Boise’s best and brightest congregated in its dankest, darkest bar. Countless clandestine conversations took place in The Gamekeeper’s dated booths, far from the prying eyes and ears of others. Though the old bar was bulldozed during the Owyhee Plaza’s recent glitzy makeover, designers kept a row of cozy chairs concealed behind the bar’s low wall. It’s a throwback seating section for folks who want to throw back a few in relative privacy. theowyhee.com

BEST GRAPE IDEA Five wineries form Garden City wine district First came Cinder, Telaya and Coiled—three urban wineries that linked up to share space and resources under one Garden City warehouse roof. Then Split Rail Winery and Syringa Winery relocated their tasting rooms to a nearby building, bringing the total number of wineries clustered around 44th Street to ﬁve. Garden City’s im-press-ive new wine district is now giving the nearby brewery belt a run for its money.

BEST WHAT’S BREWING IN BOISE Proliferation of breweries You can’t throw a growler in this valley* without hitting a new brewery. Breweries need brewers and you can’t throw two growlers in this town without hitting a brewmaster. Brewmasters must love a party because you can’t throw three growlers in this town without hitting a craft-beer festival. Mmmm, craft beer. With all this growler throwing, that sounds really good right now. *Boise Weekly does not recommend, support or condone growler throwing… unless it’s full and you’re tossing it our way.

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WHISKEY BAR If whiskey is the water of life, this place will make you immortal.

BEST WAY TO GET WHISKEY’D OFF YOUR FEET Whiskey Bar Whether you want your Manhattan made with Masterson’s 10 year, your Sazerac shaken with Seven Devils or your Old Fashioned ordered with Old Weller Antique, Boise’s new whiskey wonderland, Whiskey Bar, has brown liquor-lovers covered. And with Mark Allen— former Best of Boise Best Bartender winner— shaking things up behind the bar, you’re sure to have a spirited evening. facebook.com/whiskeybarboise

BEST RESURRECTION Crazy Horse saddles up for another ride Wes Malvini told Boise Weekly that he and fellow Crazy Horse co-owners discovered what made the Red Room/Terrapin Station/JD and Friends rest rooms smell so horrible. It was old pieces of crap stuck in the pipes. How old were they, you ask? So old that mushrooms were growing out of them. So old, in fact, that they probably dated back to when the space housed Crazy Horse the ﬁrst time. Malvini and company would deserve props just for redoing the plumbing in that place. Everything else—the fantastic grand opening, the exciting lineup of shows, the sake cocktails—is gravy. crazyhorseboise.com

BEST NOT-SO BITTER PILL Bitter liqueurs and amaros ﬂood cocktail menus Thanks to the resurgent popularity of Fernet as the bartender’s quaff of choice, Italian amaros as a whole have been making a splash on craft cocktail menus across the city. A category of herbal Italian liqueurs that have long been prized for their digestive properties, amaros range from lightly alcoholic to full-blown boozy. Amaro literally means “bitter” in Italian and the

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liqueur gets its bite from time spent mingling with a variety of herbs, roots, ﬂowers, bark and citrus peels. Our favorite way to savor this bitter booze? Sub the sweet vermouth in a Manhattan with Averna and sip slowly in a dark bar.

BEST BE STILL MY HEART Idaho distilleries making moonshine (but it will be a while before the bourbon is ready) In early July, we took a peek at Boise’s booming bourbon industry, profiling five local distilleries that are trying to break into the wide world of whiskey-making: 8 Feathers Distillery, Idaho Bourbon Distillery, Northern Pacific Distillery, Bardenay and Seven Devils. But aside from Seven Devils, which is distilled in Kentucky then cut with Idaho water and aged at Koenig Distillery and Winery in Caldwell, it’ll still be a few years before any locally made whiskey or bourbon is on the market. Until then, we’ll just have to take a shine to drinking local moonshine.

BEST COME FOR THE DRINKS, STAY FOR THE CLAMS Dutch Goose in Caldwell Caldwell is more than 500 miles from the ocean, but you wouldn’t know it at the Dutch Goose. Located on Cleveland Boulevard, a stone’s throw from the College of Idaho, this rollicking pub and grill is open seven days and has it all: games, plenty of TVs, a streetside patio, powerful liquor drinks and a robust of pub food menu that features a bucket of steamed clams—the house specialty. When we’re in Canyon County, you’ll ﬁnd us bellied up with a mug of beer and a mess of mollusks. dutchgoose.com

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CROOKED FENCE LITTLE BITCH OTTER

If you like beer and support LGBT equality, you otter try this IBA.

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Crooked Fence’s Little Bitch Otter beer

Latin Twist food truck

The bottle for Crooked Fence’s India brown ale shows a scowling cartoon otter dressed in a cowboy hat and tie. But the fuss over the brew had nothing to do with the bottle’s adorable illustration. It was all in the name: Little Bitch Otter. A jab at Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter, who asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to put a hold on legalizing gay marriage back in May, the beer was released to show support for marriage equality and Idaho’s LGBT community. Crooked Fence earmarked 10 percent of the proceeds from the Little Bitch Otter release party for LGBT advocacy groups Pride Foundation and Add the Words. Idaho’s same-sex marriage case was heard by the 9th Circuit in early September, with a ruling expected sometime this fall. Otter has vowed to take the ﬁght to the Supreme Court of the United States, so hang onto those bottles of Little Bitch—you might need them for a celebration (hopefully not to drown your sorrows). crookedfencebrewing.com

Though it’s not much to marvel at—a long white truck lingering under a gas station awning surrounded by the sound of traffic and the low hum of buzzing flies—the food turned out by Latin Twist is enough to transport you to a faraway beach town. Specializing in Caribbean, Central American and South American cuisines, Latin Twist serves mind-melting jerk chicken smoked on pimento wood imported from Jamaica. Add a side of grilled corn smothered in cotija cheese and poblano cream, and a flavorful scoop of rice and black beans, and you’ve got yourself a meal on wheels that rivals any restaurant in town. facebook.com/latintwistboise

BEST FALSE START Bogus Brewing becomes Boise Brewing

entirely unrelated bogus journey, local brewery Bogus Brewing had to strike some of its own deals when lawyers from nonproﬁt ski hill Bogus Basin said the two couldn’t share the name “Bogus.” In the end, the microbrewery backed down and changed its name to the equally alliterative Boise Brewing. All ended well, with Bogus Basin agreeing to help defray some of the costs associated with the brewery’s name change and to sell their beer at the ski hill. boisebrewing.com

BEST POUTINE ON THE RITZ Fancy poutine at Bittercreek and Saint Lawrence Gridiron You’ll be poutine on some “eh’s” after filling your belly with Canada’s fanciest export (behind the Canadian tuxedo, of course) at Bittercreek Ale House and Saint Lawrence Gridiron. The former offers hand-cut French fries smothered in duck confit, local cheese curds and duck demi-glace, while the latter ladles cheese gravy over housemade fries topped with smoked brisket and black bean paste. bcrfl.com, saintlawrencegridiron.com

BEST CHEAP EATS Boise Weekly Smartcard This might seem like a cheap piece of self promotion but if you haven’t used Boise Weekly’s Smartcard phone app, you’re spending too much on your dining habits. It’s super easy: on your smartphone, download the free app for iPhone or Android from boiseweekly.com, load whatever amount of money you want and start saving up to 40 percent at select restaurants (and bars and retailers, too). It’s a smokin’ deal and can be used to chow down at places including Addie’s, The Basque Market, District Coffee House, Kana Girl Hawai’ian BBQ, Piper Pub, Pizzalchik, Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine, Shanaz Home Kitchen Cuisine, Smoky Davis, Solid, Soﬁa’s Greek Bistro, Thai Basil, The Dish and Yokozuna Teriyaki (downtown location only). You get the picture, now get the app. boiseweekly.com/boise/bwcard/page

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CUPPA CREATIVITY

A trio of coffee peddlers are taking their beans where no joe’s gone before (at least in Boise).

BEST BUZZ-WORTHY BUSINESSES Neckar Coffee, Afro Phil Coffee and Stream Coffee Bike bring third-wave coffee to Boise For those who speak the language of third-wave coffee culture, words like pour-over, Aeropress, single-origin, gooseneck, cupping and Chemex are all part of the basic lexicon. For those who don’t, local businesses like Neckar Coffee, Afro Phil Coffee and Stream Coffee Bike are helping to spread the word about ethically sourced, artisanally roasted and painstakingly brewed coffee, one outstanding cup at a time. neckarcoffee.com, afrophil.com, facebook.com/ streamcoffeebike

BEST KIND OF COINCIDENCE Kindness and Kind Cuisine Cafe “Kind” isn’t exactly a culinary buzzword. Gastropub? Sure. Seasonal? Deﬁnitely. Local? Absolutely. Kind? Not so much. But that didn’t stop two local restaurants from launching this year with kind-of similar names: Kindness and Kind Cuisine Cafe. The ﬁrst opened its doors in August in the newly revamped Owyhee Plaza, slinging

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down-home breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes, seven days a week. The second was all set to debut its vegan-friendly cafe and juice bar in the Collister Shopping Center in late March when it was contractually obligated to move to another nearby storefront. Vegetarians are still waiting with bated breath to sample Kind Cuisine Cafe’s local, seasonal, organic and gluten-free goodies. How’s that for a list of culinary buzzwords? kindnessboise.com

BEST SECOND SEATINGS State & Lemp’s reduced-price Saturday Night Supper Club When high-end pre-ﬁxe restaurant State & Lemp opened, Boise’s ﬁrst reaction was, ‘Oh, cool!” Its second reaction was, “Wait, it costs how much to eat there?” Multi-course meals there cost $75 per person, with the option of pairing meals with wine for an additional $30. Then, in July, S&L announced its Saturday Night Supper Club, which slashed the price for a single meal, including wine pairing, to $60. The meals themselves are adaptations of the standard S&L menu designed, as co-owner Remi Mcmanus told Boise Weekly, to “give some people the opportunity to try us who haven’t had the opportunity to do it because we understand that not everybody can afford that price point.” stateandlemp.com

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K-Fusion, Noodle Korea and Wasabi Crooked Flats takes over sprawlserve Korean fare in stylish spaces ing Woodriver Cellars Last year, Boise had zero Korean restaurants. Now it has three, and they’re not dingy dives, either. K-Fusion slings Korean classics like bibimbap in a sleek, slate-gray space. Noodle Korea serves Korean wok-style favorites under a sea of giant ﬂoating lanterns. And Wasabi, formerly Sonobana, offers Korean bulgogi and barbecue rib specials alongside their main sushi menu in its revamped restaurant. k-fusion.com

BEST BUY-VALVES Reel Foods Fish Market launches oyster bar We’re stoked that seafood shack Reel Foods Fish Market has hooked Chef Jason Bruzewski to spearhead its new lunch menu. Now, in addition to hawking raw fishes, Reel Foods also serves prepared dishes like fish and chips, lobster rolls, ceviche and, our favorite, reasonably priced oysters on the half-shell. Buy us a dozen creamy Totten Inlet oysters and a glass of French muscadet and we’re sure to squeal, “Aw, shucks!” reelfoodsfish.net

Crooked Fence’s new brew compound, Crooked Flats, brings new meaning to the word lush. Not only can you get bent on local beers while playing bocce, you can also traipse around the verdant ﬁve-acre property while listening to live music and snacking on house-made pub grub. All in all, Crooked Flats is a luscious locale for lingering over some libations. crookedfencebrewing.com

BEST GUILT-FREE PIG OUT Idaho Pizza Company salad bar Yeah, we know it’s called Idaho “Pizza” Company, but seriously, we could go there and shell out the $5.96 for a run at the salad bar any time. Oh, and along with ham, cheese, olives, cucumbers, beans, cottage cheese, potato and macaroni salad, bacon bits and other tasty toppings, there’s pudding. Yep, pudding. Seriously, for that triﬂing amount of cabbage, lettuce give thanks. idahopizzacompany.com

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MFT The omnivore’s delight.

BEST OPPOSITES ATTRACT MFT brings carnivores and vegans together Differences can keep a relationship interesting but can make it difficult to maintain. One particularly complicated coupling is when one half of a dedicated duo is vegan and the other half is an uncompromising carnivore. Dining out becomes a study in compromise, someone always sacrificing to please the other—until now. MFT BBQ and Vegan Food recognizes that barbecue and vegan food are not mutually exclusive. All of MFT’s vegan dishes are prepared by a vegan cook and are as hearty as any of MFT’s meat specialties. The vegan/barbecue couple no longer has to stifle resentments or eat separately. They can break bread (or tofu and ribs) together, further strengthening their bond. It’s about time. mftque.com

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of greasy classics like omelets, benedicts and scrambles? Then saunter your way over to The Modern Hotel, where a recently launched brunch menu includes fare like house-corned beef with Yukon potatoes, kale, carrots and mustard cream; beef and porcini empanadas; and graham cracker pancakes. Of course, it wouldn’t be The Modern without top-notch cocktails: The Wild Card (blanco tequila, Amaro CioCiaro, espresso, demerara and cinnamon), The Sparkling (aged rum, lime, honey, ginger and prosecco) and The Low Octane (ginger-peach kombucha, gin and Vouvray). We call that brunching like a champion. themodernhotel.com

BEST MEAT MARRIAGE Bleubird uses MFT’s pulled pork Almost out of the starting gate, Bleubird became a staple of Boise’s downtown lunch bunch. Lines to get in stretched out the door, and the staff scurried behind the sandwich joint’s zinc countertop whipping up Italian, roast beef, Cubano and its famous reuben sandwiches. The summer of 2014, Bleubird teamed up with the meat masters at MFT, a local barbecue and vegan restaurant on the Bench, to supply it with barbecued pork for its Cubano sandwiches—and let’s just say the results are worth seeing (and tasting) for yourself. bleubirdboise.com

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY SEPT. 24 A-N-D AND FRIENDS—6 p.m. FREE with dinner purchase. Black Bear Diner BRANDON PRITCHETT—7 p.m. FREE. Reef

BLAKE SHELTON, SEPT. 25, TACO BELL ARENA Earlier this year, Blake Shelton broke a record when “Doin’ What She Likes,” from 2013’s Based on a True Story… (Warner Bros.), became Shelton’s 11th consecutive No. 1 single on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, garnering him the most No. 1 consecutive hits in the chart’s history. Though Shelton stays true to his country music roots, calling him a “crossover” artist isn’t totally wrong: Six seasons as a judge on NBC’s The Voice introduced millions to the charismatic, quick-witted singer—people who didn’t even listen to country music joined the ranks of the genre’s fandom because of him. Then, when Voice co-star Shakira tapped Shelton for “Medicine,” a country-esque duet on her new self-titled album (RCA, March 2014), even more people became Sheltonians. (Sheltonistas?) Between those who have followed the singer since his 2001 debut and his new Voice/Shakira devotees, when Shelton plays the Taco Bell Arena on his “2014 Ten Times Crazier Tour,” he may see a record-breaking full house. —Amy Atkins With The Band Perry, Dan and Shay, and Neal McCoy. 7 p.m., $30-$60. Taco Bell Arena, 1401 Bronco Lane, 208-426-1766, tacobellarena.com.

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COUNTRY CLUB 2—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow DANIEL AND THE BLONDE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s FLY MOON ROYALTY—With Dedicated Ser vers and Customar y Hip-Hop. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux JENN SNYDER & CO.—7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Brewing KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

THE ‘PRESIDENT’S OWN’ U.S. MARINE BAND—7:30 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center VHSHIT SCREENING & SHOW—Braided Waves, Hedtriip, Clarke and The Himselfs and Har vey Krishna. 7 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse

THURSDAY SEPT. 25 ANNIE GIRL AND THE FLIGHT— With Miss Miniver Rose and Starlings Murmurations. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

BILLY BRAUN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

PINBACK—With Tera Melos. 8:30 p.m. $15 adv., $18-$30 day of. Knitting Factory

BLUE LOTUS—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

SHABAZZ PALACES—With Oso Negro. 10:30 p.m. $13 adv., $15 door. The Crux

BLAKE SHELTON—With The Band Perry, Dan & Shay, and Neal McCoy. See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $29.75$59.75. Taco Bell Arena CARTER FREEMAN—7 p.m. FREE. Modern Hotel DOUGLAS CAMERON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

PATIO CONCERT SERIES—Rex Miller, Lawson Hill and Rico Weisman. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill

GAITHER VOCAL BAND—7 p.m. $25-$69. Ford Idaho Center GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: POKE—6 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden

MOIRA SMILEY AND VOCO (A CAPPELLA)—7:30 p.m. $5$20. Jewett Auditorium

SIR MIX-A-LOT—7 p.m. $18 adv., $20 door. Neurolux

COUNTRY NIGHT WITH DESIRAE BRONSON—6:30 p.m. $10 per car. Still Water Hollow

TALBOT BROTHERS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

CYMRY—8 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny

TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DEJFAK—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

UNDERPASS—With The Nunnery, Rollersnakes and The Cry. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

NORMANDIE WILSON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

LIMEHOUSE JAZZ TRIO—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement THE FREAKNIGHT TRAVELING CIRCUS—Featuring Tritonal, Botnek and Darrius. 7 p.m. $27$45. Knitting Factor y

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GIGGLEBOMB—10 p.m. FREE. Reef

ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE— 9 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

JEFF KNOWLES—7:30 p.m. FREE. High Note

THE AMITY AFFLICTION—With For the Fallen Dreams, Obey the Brave, Favorite Weapon and Exotype. 6:30 p.m. $13.50. Shredder

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

AMY ROSE AND THE BEN BURDICK TRIO—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

K.FLAY—With Night Riots and The Earthlings. 8 p.m. $12. The Crux

AUDIO MOONSHINE: ALBUM RELEASE—Ticket includes copy of new album. 7:30 p.m. $10. Linen Building

MOIRA SMILEY AND VOCO (A CAPPELLA)—7:30 p.m. $5$20. Jewett Auditorium

HOKUM HI-FLYERS—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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GUIDE PIRANHAS BC: ALBUM RELEASE—With Trigger Itch and Wilt Chamberlain’s Baby. 8 p.m. $3. Crazy Horse THE SKY COLONY—With Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats. 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub TERRY JONES & CLAY MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill

DJ HOLODECK HUSTLE—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

SMOOTH AVENUE—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

DJ HOUSE MUSIC—8 p.m. FREE. Mode Lounge

TOMTEN—With Tisper and guests TBA. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux

DON MCLEAN—7:30 p.m. $49 adv., $52 day of. Egyptian DOUGLAS CAMERON—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub DOWN NORTH—10 p.m. $5. Reef ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

SATURDAY SEPT. 27 B’ARC N BREW—With Wooly Buggers, Emily Tipton with Kayleigh Jack, and Like a Rocket. 2 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow BOISE HIVE: A NIGHT OF NASTY ROCK—Deep Creeps, Meat Jesus, Pork Chopper and Unhallowed. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse

FROM HELL—6 p.m., $8, Shredder GLASS ANIMALS—7 p.m. With Rome Fortune. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux HECKTOR PECKTOR—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s JACK HALE—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue MITIS—With Cr ywolf and Bear Grillz. 8 p.m. $10-$35. Revolution

MONDAY SEPT. 29 1332 RECORDS PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

SUNDAY SEPT. 28 A-N-D AND FRIENDS—Noon. $15-$25. Sawtooth Winer y HIP-HOP SUNDAY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN— 2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar JAZZ AT THE RIVERSIDE—Featuring Bill Courtial and The Jazz Angels. 6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s NOAH PETERSON—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY— 6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

CHUCK SMITH & NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers ERIC TESSMER BAND—With Ampliﬁed Heat and Zack Quintana Band. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux JACK’S JAM—6 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s KARA-O-KANEE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT & ROB HILL—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s THE SHON SANDERS BAND— 6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar STEPBROTHERS—8 p.m. FREE. High Note

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THE MOONSHINE—8:45 p.m. With Stoneseed. FREE. Pengilly’s

CONOR OBERST—With Jonathan Wilson. 8 p.m. $25-$50. Knitting Factor y

THE NAOMI PSALM BAND—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

BEN BURDICK—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

NOAH PETERSON—7:30 p.m. FREE. High Note

BERNIE REILLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

DARK MATTER TRANSFER— 10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

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REBECCA SCOTT—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

EDMOND DANTES EP RELEASE—6 p.m. FREE. Record Exchange

WEDNESDAY OCT. 1

GYPSY LUMBERJACKS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

BIKE THIEF—With Fiddle Junkies and Mt. Joy. 9:30 p.m. $5. The Crux

IDAHO SONGWRITERS ASSOC. OPEN MIC—6 p.m. FREE. Sapphire Room

COM TRUISE AND RONE—7 p.m. $12 adv., $14 door. Neurolux

KEVIN KIRK WITH SALLY TIBBS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DJ HOUSE MUSIC—8 p.m. FREE. Mode Lounge

NATHAN J. MOODY AND AMY ROSE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill SYMMETRY IN BLACK—With Revocation, Havok, Fit for an Autopsy and Armed for Apocalypse. 7 p.m. $15 adv., $18 door. Crazy Horse TEACH ME EQUALS—With Red Rumsey (Vern from Unwound) and guests. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid MACHINE HEAD—8 p.m. $16$30. Knitting Factory THE MCGINNIS BAND—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow WILLISON ROOS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

TRAPT—With Darling Parade, First Decree and Midline. 7:30 p.m. $14-$30. Knitting Factory

CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

WHIRR—With Blackcloud and CAMP. 7 p.m. $12. The Crux

CYMRY—8 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny

WHITE FANG—With Literature and Braided Waves. 8 p.m. $7. The Crux

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY SEPT. 24 Festivals & Events BOISE FIRE DEPARTMENT EXHIBIT—The Boise City Department of Arts and Histor y celebrates the BFD with A Histor y of Ser vice, A Tradition of Courage: The Boise Fire Department Past & Present, on display at the Sesqui-Shop through Saturday, Sept. 27 12-6 p.m. FREE. Arts and Histor y SesquiShop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150.org/ sesqui-shop.

On Stage POPPIN’ CHERRIES PRESENTS CHERRYLICIOUS—New monthly showcase for ﬁrst-time acts, featuring burlesque and other varieties of talent. 8:30 p.m. $5. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6605. STEEL MAGNOLIAS—Through Sunday, Sept. 28. 7:30 p.m. $18-$69. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Workshops & Classes STAR GAZING WITH THE STREET ASTRONOMER—Learn about the stars in your own backyard. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrar y.org.

Art ALEXIS PIKE AND JACINDA RUSSELL: FAUX—Photography exhibition. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Galler y 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110, 1819 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu. GAIL GRINNELL: ANGLE OF REPOSE—Seattle artist Gail Grinnell combines drawing, sculpture and the craft of dressmaking to create grand-scale installations. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

books. Through Sept. 27. 10 a.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208376-4229, rdbooks.org.

street life and urban decay. 8 p.m. $5. Woodland Empire Ale Craft, 1114 W. Front St., Boise, woodlandempire.com.

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INSERT FOOT THEATRE—Comedy improv. 8 p.m. $5. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208287-9200, reefboise.com.

COMEDY OPEN MIC—7 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Animals & Pets IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY’S FRIENDS FOR LIFE CALENDAR—The Idaho Humane Society is looking for local pets to grace the pages of its 2015 “Friends for Life” calendar. Entries accepted through Oct. 3. $14.95. Idaho Humane Society, 4775 W. Dorman St., Boise, 208-342-3508, idahohumanesociety.com.

THURSDAY SEPT. 25 Festivals & Events UNCORKED IN THE GARDEN: HAT RANCH—Chat with vintners and discover your new favorite Idaho wine. 6 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage COMEDIAN VINCE MORRIS—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com. HOMEGROWN THEATRE: POLAROID STORIES—Naomi Iizuka’s 1997 retooling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses set in the present-day illuminates contemporar y problems like

Workshops & Classes BLOGGING QUICKSHOPS— Learn how to tell your stor y from local blogger Linda Whittig. 5:30 p.m. $20-$25. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208331-8000, thecabinidaho.org. POWERFUL TOOLS FOR CAREGIVERS—Learn strategies to reduce stress, improve communication, and navigate family dynamics. Preregistration required. Contact Friends in Action at 208-333-1363 or kelle@ ﬁaboise.org to register. 1 p.m. $65. AARP Ofﬁces, 3080 E. Gentr y Way, Ste. 100, Meridian.

Odds & Ends COMEDY OPEN MIC—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com. TRIVIA—Test your knowledge of random things. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s Saloon, 12505 Chinden Blvd., Boise, 208-3315666, willibs.com.

FRIDAY SEPT. 26 Festivals & Events 2014 OKTOBERFEST—German beer and brats with live entertainment in the Garden by Wolﬁe and the Bavarians. 5-10 p.m. $5. Nampa Civic Center Calliope Garden, 311 Third St. S., Nampa.

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JULIE GREEN: THE LAST SUPPER—Features 600 ceramic dinner plates painted with images of the last meal requests of death row inmates in the United States. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Galler y 1, Liberal Arts Building, Room 170, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-3994, boisestate.edu/art. TVAA: MONSTERS—Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance presents this macabre and quirky show of inner demons, childhood nightmares, and a few ghouly, cooly creeps. FREE. Boise State Public Radio, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, boisestatepublicradio.org.

Literature BANNED BOOKS WEEK—Celebrate your right to read freely with a variety of activities, plus 20 percent off on all banned

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8 DAYS OUT GROW THE GARDEN PARTY— Local food, cocktails and live and silent auctions. Beneﬁts the Garden’s education programs. 6 p.m. $65-$75. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Literature FALL DOLLAR BOOK SALE—All books are $1. Beneﬁts the Friends of the Garden City Librar y. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. FREE. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208472-2941, notaquietlibrar y.org.

On Stage BOISE PHILHARMONIC: OPENING NIGHT—Featuring works by Bach and Schumann, with guest pianist Anne-Marie McDermott per forming Beethoven. Get tickets at boisephilharmonic.org. 8 p.m. $21-$42. Brandt Center at NNU, 707 Fern St., Nampa, 208-467-8790, nnu.edu/brandt. COMEDIAN VINCE MORRIS—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. HOMEGROWN THEATRE: POLAROID STORIES—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $5. Woodland Empire Ale Craft, 1114 W. Front St., Boise, woodlandempire.com. MIDNIGHT MIC—Comedy open mic. Midnight. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: UNCHARTED ODYSSEY— Aerial acrobatics, burlesque, boylesque, comedy, modern dance and more. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

Citizen IDAHO SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE BENEFIT—Drink specials, rafﬂe prizes and entertainment by artists including Black Tooth Grin, Malachi, Ghostbox, The Cooling Tower, Kyle Letner and Tony Caprai. 7 p.m. $5. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6605.

SATURDAY SEPT. 27 Festivals & Events THE BISHOPS’ HOUSE 125TH BIRTHDAY PARTY—Featuring house tours, historical displays, music, quilts, cars, children’s activities and lots of birthday cake. 1-4 p.m. $1.50-$3. Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208342-3279, thebishopshouse. com. BOISE FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Boise Farmers Market, 1080 W. Front St., Boise, 208-345-9287, theboisefarmersmarket.com.

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BOISE FIRE HISTORY WALKING TOURS—Explore the histor y of Boise’s buildings and how ﬁres affected the city’s evolution. 12 p.m. FREE. Ar ts and Histor y Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150.org/sesqui-shop. CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—Local foodstuffs, produce, household items and ar ts and crafts. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-345-3499, capitalcitypublicmarket.com. EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET— Fresh produce, specialty foods, and ﬁne ar ts and crafts. 9 a.m.1 p.m. FREE. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle. NAMPA FAMER’S MARKET— Fresh produce, baked goods, specialty foods, local craft and live music. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Lloyd Square, Intersection of 14th and Front streets, Nampa. OLD BOISE OKTOBERFEST 2014—Enjoy music, bier, prizes and more bier. 3-10 p.m. $15. Old Boise, Sixth and Main Streets, Boise. SALSA AT THE SAPPHIRE— Boise Casino Rueda presents DJ Filmon for a dress-up, suit-and-tie night of dancing. Full bar, appetizers and drinks available. 8 p.m. $5. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, riversideboise. com/dining/sapphire-room. WALKABOUT BOISE—One-hour guided tour through 150 years of histor y and architecture. 11 a.m. Downtown Boise, Downtown Corridor, Boise, preser vationidaho.org/walkaboutboise.

On Stage BOISE PHILHARMONIC: OPENING NIGHT—Featuring works by Bach and Schumann, with guest pianist Anne-Marie McDermott per forming Beethoven. Get more info and tickets at boisephilharmonic.org. 8 p.m. $22-$70. Morrison Center for the Per forming Ar ts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu. COMEDIAN VINCE MORRIS—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. COMEDYSPORTZ—See Friday. 7:30 p.m. $9.99 and under. ComedySpor tz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedyspor tzboise.com. HOMEGROWN THEATRE: POLAROID STORIES—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $5. Woodland Empire Ale Craft, 1114 W. Front St., Boise, woodlandempire. com.

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DAISY’S MADHOUSE AUDITIONS—Daisy’s Madhouse Theatre hosts auditions for Be a Good Little Widow. Needed: woman, 20s; woman, late 40s-60s; two men, 20s-30s. Rehearsals begin the week of Sept. 29. Per formance dates: Nov. 7-22, Fridays and Saturday nights. 11 a.m. FREE. Boise Public Librar y, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrar y.org.

COMEDIAN VINCE MORRIS—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

Festivals & Events B’ARC & BREW CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL—Southwest Idaho’s largest dog-friendly craft beer festival. Featuring beers from local and regional craft breweries, vendors, a dog parade and costume contest and live music. Proceeds beneﬁt employment opportunities for people with disabilities at The Arc Idaho. 12-8 p.m. $15. Highlands Hollow Brewhouse, 2455 Harrison Hollow Lane, Boise, 208-3436820, highlandshollow.com.

Kids & Teens CHILDREN’S BOOK SWAP— Ever y Saturday, take one book (current titles and good condition please) and trade for another book from the cart located outside the door. For ages preschool to about 10, as most books are early readers and chapter book series. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Penny Lane Kids Toy Store, 1778 W. State St., Boise, 208-344-5437, pennylanekids. com.

Literature AT THE MARKET WITH BECK ANDERSON—Meet the two-time 2014 RITA Award ﬁnalist, who’ll be signing and selling copies of her debut novel, Fix You. 11 a.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208376-4229, rdbooks.org.

FRANKLY BURLESQUE—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344.

isolation and depression. Taught by former Trey McIntyre Project dancer Elizabeth Keller. Call 832594-7887 or email Elizabeth@ treymcintyre.com for questions and registration. 1-2:30 p.m. FREE. Ballet Idaho, 501 South 8th St, Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

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Workshops & Classes MAKE AND LEARN: DESIGN YOUR OWN TOTE BAG—In this two-hour class, you will handcar ve your own rubber block stamps and print on canvas to create a one-of-a-kind tote. Get more info and register at bricoshoppe.com/collections/ classes-workshops. 12 p.m. $30. Bricolage, 418 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-3718, bricoshoppe.com.

MONDAY SEPT. 29 On Stage SUBTERRANEAN COMEDY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement, 109 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208345-2505.

Workshops & Classes TMP DANCE FOR PARKINSON’S—Uses dance, live music and community to develop artistr y and grace while addressing PD-speciﬁc concerns as balance, ﬂexibility, coordination, gait,

FALL DOLLAR BOOK SALE— Support the Friends of the Garden City Librar y. All prices reduced. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. FREE admission. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrar y. org.

Odds & Ends COMEDY OPEN MIC—Enjoy some of the best stand-up comedians Boise has to offer. 7 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

TUESDAY SEPT. 30 On Stage FREE LOCAL COMEDY SHOWCASE—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. REAL TALK COMEDY WORKSHOP—6 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

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FALL DOLLAR BOOK SALE— See Friday. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE admission. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrar y.org. GRAPHIC NOVEL READS—Join in the graphic novel book club and discuss September’s picks. Call for titles. For ages 16 and older. 2 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Librar y, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

SUNDAY SEPT. 28 Festivals & Events BEER, WINE AND SWINE FESTIVAL—Celebrate the tastes of Idaho’s best breweries, wineries and barbecue amid a beautiful vineyard setting. Get tickets at sawtoothbeer wineswine. bpt.me. 12-5 p.m. FREE-$35. Sawtooth Winer y, 13750 Surrey Lane, Nampa, 208-467-1200, sawtoothwiner y.com.

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8 DAYS OUT Workshops & Classes LOVE AND LOGIC PARENTING CLASSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Strengthen your parenting skills and learn to work with your school-age child using Love & Logic techniques. Registration required by emailing Leah at lellison@ gardencitylibrary.org or call 208-472-2944. 5:30-7:45 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org. SWEETS AND TREATS RECIPE CLASSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Learn how to make dairy-free and gluten-free and fat-free onion rings, french fries, apple pie a la mode, carrot cake and banana bread. 6:30 p.m. $35. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 W. Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northendnursery.com.

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Literature D&D 5TH EDITION RELEASE PARTYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Check out the release party for the D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be tables available for you to roll out new characters, plus snacks, a drawing for some D&D prizes, and a sale for 20 percent off all gaming books. 6 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Talks & Lectures BOISE RIVER PARKS FOR RIVER HEALTHâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Idaho Rivers United and the Garden City Library present a program on how new Boise River parks can prevent water pollution, reduce the risk of ďŹ&#x201A;ood damage, provide critical ďŹ sh and wildlife habitat and clean the air. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Kids & Teens HOMEWORK HAPPY HOURâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tutoring and oneon-one assistance will be provided. All ages are welcome, K-12th grade. 5:30-7:45 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

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COMEDY OPEN MICâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Enjoy some of the best standup comedians Boise has to offer. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 1 Kids & Teens THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This program combines music and movement with a story time and craft that will keep even the wiggliest little one engaged, entertained and learning. For ages 1-5. 10 a.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

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Odds & Ends COMEDY OPEN MICâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Enjoy some of the best stand-up comedians Boise has to offer. 7 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

Workshops & Classes THE ART OF MARKETING BEERâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kelly Knopp, of Crooked Fence Brewing, will show examples of his original artwork, tell the stories behind the art and discuss the visual marketing of all things Crooked Fence. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary. org.

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Utah 84335. Such Petition will be heard on OCT 14 2014, at 1:30 p.m. at such time as the Court may appoint, and objections may be ﬁled by any person who can, in such objections, show to the Court a good reason against such a change of name. WITNESS my hand and seal of said District Court this AUG 28 2014. CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Sept. 10, 17, 24 & Oct. 1, 2014. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Corey Shane Godfrey Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1416488 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Corey Shane Godfrey, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been ﬁled in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Rio Shane Love. The reason for the change in name is: I no longer care for my birth name. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) November 6, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objec-

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s no secret. The wealthy 1 percent of the population has been getting progressively wealthier. Meanwhile, the poor are becoming steadily poorer. I’m worried there is a metaphorically similar trend in your life. Am I right? If so, please do all you can to reverse it. Borrow energy from the rich and abundant parts of your life so as to lift up the neglected and underendowed parts. Here’s one example of how you could proceed: For a while, be less concerned with people who think you’re a star, and give more attention to those who accept and love your shadow side. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job,” says Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, “because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” That’s good counsel for you right now, Taurus. You’d be wise to get in touch with your inner lazy bum. Let the slacker within you uncover the least stressful way to accomplish your difficult task. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there is no need for you to suffer and strain as you deal with your dilemma. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you don’t identify and express your conscious desires, your unconscious desires will dominate your life. I will say that again in different language, because it’s crucial you understand the principle. You’ve got to be very clear about what you really want, and install a shining vision of what you really want at the core of your everyday life. If you don’t do that, you will end up being controlled by your habits and old programming. So be imperious, Gemini. Define your dearest, strongest longing and be ruthlessly devoted to it. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Henri Cartier-Bresson (19082004) was a French photographer and pioneer of photojournalism who helped transform photography into an art form. In 1986 he was invited to Palermo, Sicily, to accept a prize for his work. The hotel he stayed in seemed familiar to him, although he didn’t understand why. It was only later he discovered that the hotel had been the place at which his mother and father stayed on their honeymoon. It was where he was conceived. I foresee a comparable development on the horizon for you, Cancerian: a return to origins, perhaps inadvertent; an evocative encounter with your roots; a reunification with an influence that helped make you who you are today. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With expert execution, musician Ben Lee can play 15 notes per second on his violin. Superstar eater Pete Czerwinski needs just 34 seconds to devour a 12-inch

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pizza. When Jerry Miculek is holding his rifle, he can get off eight shots at four targets in a little more than one second. While upside-down, Aicho Ono is capable of doing 135 perfect head spins in a minute. I don’t expect you to be quite so lightning fast and utterly flawless as these people in the coming weeks, Leo, but I do think you will be unusually quick and skillful. For the foreseeable future, speed and efficiency are your specialties. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As the makeup artist for the film Dallas Buyers Club, Robin Matthews had a daunting task. During the 23 days of shooting, she had to constantly transform lead actors Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto so that they appeared either deathly ill or relatively healthy. Sometimes she had to switch them back and forth five times a day. She was so skillful in accomplishing this feat that she won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Her budget? A meager $250. I’m naming her your inspirational role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. I believe that you, too, can create magic without a wealth of resources. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I am a seed about to break,” wrote Sylvia Plath in her poem “Three Women.” That’s how I see you right now, Libra. You are teeming with the buoyant energy that throbs when a seed is ready to sprout. You have been biding your time, gathering the nourishment you need, waiting for the right circumstances to burst open with your new flavor. And now that nervous, hopeful, ecstatic moment is about to arrive. Be brave! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The English verb “cicurate” is defined as “to tame or domesticate” or “to make mild or innocuous.” But it once had an additional sense: “to reclaim from wildness.” It was derived from the Latin word circurare, which meant “to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness.” For your purposes, Scorpio, we will make cicurate your theme, but concentrate on these definitions: “to reclaim from wildness, to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness.” In the coming weeks, you will be exploring rough, luxuriant areas of unknown territory. You will be wrangling with primitive, sometimes turbulent energy. I urge you to extract the raw vitality you find there, and harness it to serve your daily rhythm and your long-term goals. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence,” said psychologist Carl Jung. Extrapolating from that idea, we can hypothesize that the more willing and able you are to

be influenced, the greater your influence might be. Let’s make this your key theme in the coming weeks. It will be an excellent time to increase your clout, wield more authority, and claim more of a say in the creation of your shared environments. For best results, you should open your mind, be very receptive and listen well. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Congratulations, Capricorn. Your current dilemmas are more useful and interesting than any that you have had for a long time. If you can even partially solve them, the changes you set in motion will improve your entire life, not just the circumstances they immediately affect. Of the several dividends you may reap, one of my favorites is this: You could liberate yourself from a messed-up kind of beauty and become available for a more soothing and delightful kind. Here’s another potential benefit: You may transform yourself in ways that will help you attract more useful and interesting dilemmas in the future. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Alan Moore is the British author who wrote the graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta. He is now nearing completion of Jerusalem, a novel he has been working on for six years. It will be more than a million words long, almost double the size of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and 200,000 words bigger than the Bible. “Any editor worth their salt would tell me to cut two-thirds of this book,” Moore told the New Statesman, “but that’s not going to happen.” Referring to the author of Moby Dick, Moore adds, “I doubt that Herman Melville had an editor. If he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring stuff about whaling: ‘Cut to the chase, Herman.’” Let’s make Moore and Melville your role models in the coming week, Aquarius. You have permission to sprawl, ramble and expand. Do NOT cut to the chase. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For a long time, an Illinois writer named ArLynn Leiber Presser didn’t go out much. She had 325 friends on Facebook and was content to get her social needs met in the virtual realm. But then she embarked on a yearlong project in which she sought faceto-face meetings with all of her online buddies. The experiment yielded sometimes complicated but mostly interesting results. It took her to 51 cities around the world. I suggest we make her your inspirational role model for the coming weeks, Pisces. In at least one way, it’s time for you to move out of your imagination and into the real world. You’re primed to turn fantasies into actions, dreams into practical pursuits.

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