AltWeeklies Wire
Wild and Scenic Film Festival Comes to Boise On Tournew
These films will highlight some of the environmental issues that are troubling us today.
Boise Weekly |
Alex Blackwell |
04-20-2011 |
Movies
Kiss My Apps: Geology IDnew
Geology ID ($6.99 on iTunes) may be the best iPhone, iPod and iPad app about Idaho rather than the stuff that people say about Idaho or what people do in Idaho.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
04-20-2011 |
Tech
Think You're Not Poisoned by Plastic? 'Plastic Planet' Says Otherwisenew
Plastic Planet says we're in the age of plastic and we're all treated like laboratory animals.
Boise Weekly |
Jordan Wilson |
04-20-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Plastic Planet, Werner Boote
Comedy Central's 'Workaholics' Doesn't Worknew
Basically, they're the kind of guys most of us wish would just hurry up and go extinct.
Boise Weekly |
Damon Hunzeker |
04-20-2011 |
Reviews
The Projector: Movies Opening Friday, April 15new
Singing cartoon parrots, presidential assassinations and one more reason to Scream, it's all at the movies.
Boise Weekly |
James Ady |
04-15-2011 |
Movies
Zach Galfianakis Is Between Two Ferns and a Hard Placenew
If only more interviewers could be like Zach G.
Boise Weekly |
Alex Blackwell |
04-13-2011 |
Movies
I Love You, Phillip Morris (Even If The U.S. Didn't)new
I Love You Phillip Morris, now out on DVD, almost didn't see the inside of U.S. theaters
Boise Weekly |
Jordan Wilson |
04-13-2011 |
Reviews
'The Confession': A TV Show That Doesn't Require A Pesky TVnew
The Hulu-only show fits more substantive dialogue into seven minutes than the entire DVD collection of Grey's Anatomy.
Boise Weekly |
Damon Hunzeker |
04-13-2011 |
Movies
Abe Lincoln and the Sundance Kid: Redford's Latest on the Other Lincoln Lawyernew
Oscar-winning director Robert Redford chose the unlikely figure of Mary Surratt for the centerpiece of his newest effort, The Conspirator.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
04-13-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Redford, The Conspirator
Looks Like Charlie Sheen is Still #Winning As Others Look to Cash In on the Madnessnew
A few people are trying to make some cash off that crazy. Case in point? The new DVD release of Troma's 1989 drama A Tale of Two Sisters, which was written and narrated by Sheen and is "from the mind, poems and DNA of Charlie Sheen."
Boise Weekly |
Jordan Wilson |
04-13-2011 |
Reviews
Get Gnarly With the Red Bull Rampagenew
See the footage of Red Bull's annual mountain bike competition and get a thousand easy answers to your kids questions about why you won't buy them a bike.
Boise Weekly |
Alex Blackwell |
04-07-2011 |
Sports
High Levels of Drugs Found in Cattle Linked to Dairiesnew
When test results released last year by the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service showed extremely high levels of drugs and antibiotics in cattle from dairies across the nation, the federal agency announced it would launch a series of tests to address a potential problem. The Idaho dairy industry decided to preclude the FDA action with some unofficial testing of its own. Yet records of the testing are inaccessible and records of their strategy meeting don't exist.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
04-07-2011 |
Animal Issues
Idaho Vodkas Make High-End Use of the Humble Potatonew
From boutique distilleries to multi-brand companies, Idaho's most famous crop is getting fermented instead of fried.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
04-06-2011 |
Food+Drink
'Desert Flower' Needed a Better Gardenernew
Considering its subject matter and broad scope of characters and landscape, Desert Flower comes across as a bunch of posies pulled from the ground rather than a florist's carefully designed bouquet.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
04-06-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Desert Flower, Sherry Horman
Wow, This Sucksnew
What Sucker Punch lacks in dignity, it makes up for in bad taste.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
03-30-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Sucker Punch
