City Grill

Great news! All of the bureaucratic dragons have been slain and Mitch and Christine are almost ready to open the new City Grill at the corner of Idaho and 8th. Boisee.com is predicting the Pair pair will break the jinx of this location and CG wall soon become a boise tradition. Expect great Sunday brunches, wonderful dinners, and a prefectly crafted martini. All in an easy, warm and classy space that exudes old downtown charm. OK, I will admit to a bias here, not only have I worked for Christine in a past life, my art will adorn the walls. That said, I have seen the decor and the layout and it is a winner. Just hope the bar will have a bottle of scotch or two.

Look for an opening around the end of the month. Can’t wait!

What an insult

In a world were an insult usually consists of a finger or a swear word here is a list of classics, well though out barbs. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." Moses Hadas "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." Abraham Lincoln "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." Groucho Marx "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." Mark Twain "He has no enemies , but is intensely disliked by his friends." Oscar Wilde "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." Winston Churchill, in response "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." John Bright "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." Irvin S. Cobb "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." Samuel Johnson "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." Paul Keating "He had delusions of adequacy." Walter Kerr "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." Jack E. Leonard "He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." Robert Redford "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." Thomas Brackett Reed "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." James Reston (about Richard Nixon) "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." Charles, Count Talleyrand "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." Forrest Tucker "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" Mark Twain "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae West "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang (1844-1912) "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." Billy Wilder

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Don't forget

Eddie Shaw and the Wolfgang

A longtime blues favorite Eddie Shaw is workin' the whole state this week. In addition to his Haggerman performance this weekend(see below) he will be in Caldwell Tuesday. Eddie played at a Sunny Slope Blues Festival a few years back and ripped it up. Take the time to go see the Wolfgang Here are the details from the BBS and Nancy. . . Nancy M. McIntosh

Greetings BBS Members and Friends: This coming weekend is the Hagerman Blues in the Park on Saturday with headliner Eddie Shaw & the Wolf Gang.

The following Tuesday, Sept. 11th, Eddie Shaw and the band will play for a ribbon cutting/fundraiser in Caldwell from 6 to 9 pm to help raise funds for The Center for the Arts new amphitheater to be built. Details can be found at www.caldwellcenteronline.org

Tickets (donation) are $5.00. Come on over to Caldwell for a great time!

Hagerman Blues Fest

This description from Nathan Jay's e-mail sums it up prefectly. . . Lori B! and the Boys will be playing in Hagerman this weekend. Friday and Saturday nights. We did this last year and had a blast! Lots of great bands and great blues. All day on Friday and Saturday. If you can find Hagerman, you can find the blues fest.

Villanos

Sad, oh so sad-We miss you Ms. V.

Monday Follies-No water for YOU

How about a game?-update

Been having fun reading the comments/suggestions for our game. Still don't really have that "gem." So how about another round?Also thought more casual readers might like a closer look. . . enjoy.

Send me a phrase, or a quote, or even just one word. I will try to match it with a photo for photo Friday. Just enter it as a comment. If I use your comment/phrase you receive a copy of this next years Calendar. Could be fun!

8 Comments » I took this right before it mauled me.

Comment by Lee — August 26, 2007 @ 4:25 pm Shoot happy - Shoot often

Comment by Richard — August 26, 2007 @ 6:44 pm “Catch Me If You Can”

Comment by vp — August 26, 2007 @ 8:09 pm extreme calm. I could give you an example. http://bp2.blogger.com/_GyV0C5uVYj8/RjJRpRrZwXI/AAAAAAAABw/CkBxFdghrZo/s1600-h/allphotos1128.jpeg

Comment by Dr. Dave — August 26, 2007 @ 11:00 pm “another one bites the dust”

Comment by monica — August 27, 2007 @ 11:11 am “Wide stance.” … Nah, cheap shot.

Speaking of cheap, how about Cheap Trick, like the band? Comment by anonymous — August 28, 2007 @ 4:25 pm

This is the Senator tapping his shoe while humming the musical stylings of Liza Minnelli. Comment by Lee — August 29, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

Monday Follies-Who you callin' a hoochie mama?

Estrous cow calls?

From the Calbelas ad

Thanks to Don O.

Tauge & Falkner at Angells

For many years my friends Jon Falkner and Jeff Tauge have played together as a duo. Their music speaks to good times past, of friends made and loves lost. A sound for all times, for good times and yes, of times not so good.Jeff and Jon will be together on the patio of Angell’s Saturday the 25th and again a month later. Stop by and create some new times!

Haley @ Alive after five.

Free Spirit and former Dawson Barrista Haley, spins through Alive After Five on her way to Nevada for the Burning Man. She and 799 other fire dancers will perform at the “Burn”. The final ceremony that gives Burning Man it’s name. Would I love to have a camera for that!

As you can see the crowd was light at AA5. Wonder if the lack of local music and the Lori b!'s comments against that are having an effect?

Will have to say that what little time I have spent on Wednesdays walking to my car this summer, the music has been good.

Chandlers-Steve and Marcus Eaton

Wasn’t your fathers Lugenbeals! The company was fine and the martini finer!

The Friday happy hour at Chandlers was near prefect. With Martini Mix-off master Pat Cardin at the helm of the bar. My freinds and I found and the wait staff well trained and subtlely attentive. The new bar in the old Statehouse Inn now Hotel 43 was a great place to end the week. Even better? Steve Eaton was at the baby grand. His now Seatleite son Marcus joined in on guitar to make his father proud and well, ya shoulda been there. Cell phone image from Don O-Thanks

In the words of that old Terminator movie guy. . . “I’ll be baaaack.”

Monday Follies-Run

And no! It is not my image. The keys on my Mac wouldn't sneek off like that!

Music @ Berryhill

Berryhill will be featuring piano music some evenings . . Tuesday, Aug 21 6-9 PM MIKE RUTLEDGE Thursday, Aug 23, 6-9PM MIKE RUTLEDGE Friday, Aug 24, 7-10PM KEN HARRIS

Barbacoa-Angells a photo Review

Barbacoa Angells

So I wrote long boring reviews of Barbacoa and Angells. After I up loaded the photos. They summed up the experiance far better then I could.

Guess which dinner I found the best. It was less money also.

The King of Kong

The trailer says. . “In 1982 Video Games Ruled.” In Boise they ruled at Wizzards the arcade at 1002 Main and I was their leader Now the most important movie since Tron will delve deep into to the video game world. The THE KING OF KONG is set to release August 17, 2007. Think I’ll go and relive the glory.

Contest! We have a winner!

Jerry Hardy was kind enough to give Boisee.com a pair of tickets for either days event at Blues in The Park for this weekend. The first person to correctly identify the exact location of either Friday or Saturdays concert wins! Just make sure you fill in your e-mail address in the sign-in so we can figure out a way to get them to you.>/i>

Benifit for Pat Ames

Pat "o-top" Ames was injured by a hit and run driver recently. Like most in the food and beverage industry he has not a dime of insurance. Please come by the nurolux and donate to help him out. Heck, you can even bid on one of my signed photos.

But they should be!

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More sadness Minneapolis

As sad and stark as yesterdays post from (Dr.) Dave Wren was this is even sadder. Again we in Boise morn your cities loss. On 8/3/07, David Wren wrote: the scene was more horrendous than I described it, I know for a fact that the death tole is higher than what they say in the news, I watched as they were pulling bodies out of the river at 12 last night, the visual that won't leave my head is the body of a young lady, probably teen, being brought by boat to the med tents, I assume it is more of a temp mortuary, this young lady was covered in mud and blood, from head to toe, no movement, and very horrifying, I also saw a male child (about 6 years) being brought up the bank with both an arm torn half off and his foot missing. It was a horrific experience to see