AltWeeklies Wire
Idaho's Gasland Rules Debatednew
As the state clears the path for industry to frack for natural gas, new rules neglect to specify restrictions on carcinogenic material used in fracking and now, lawmakers are proposing to strip local authority of permitting controls.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
02-09-2012 |
Environment
Your Oscar Cheat Sheetnew
A how-to guide to be an Academy Award know-it-all this year.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
02-08-2012 |
Movies
Tags: 2012 Oscars, 2012 Academy Awards
Get Your Adrenaline Pumping at Banff Mountain Film Festivalnew
Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to Boise.
Boise Weekly |
Lisa Huynh Eller |
02-04-2012 |
Movies
The Dirty Dance: Idaho in the Middle of a New Coal Rushnew
Plans to bring coal trains across the Northwest raise big questions.
Boise Weekly |
Zach Hagadone |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
Everybody Into the (Oscar) Poolnew
But the Motion Picture Academy has no Shame.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-27-2012 |
Movies
Tags: 2012 Oscars, 2012 Academy Awards
Checking in With Refugee Citynew
"I think audiences are looking for something that might be a bit atypical."
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-23-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Refugee City
The Spy Who Came In From the Fognew
No gadgets or disguises, but a nearly impossible mission.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-18-2012 |
Reviews
The Iron Lady is Weaknew
"Is there anything you're crap at, Meryl?"
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady
Morning Owl Farm Has Its Ducks in a Rownew
Without the subsidies and economies of scale enjoyed by industrial agriculturalists, local-food farmers are often trapped between their ideals and the limits of what consumers, even those who value local food, will pay.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
12-22-2011 |
Food+Drink
Silence is Goldennew
A French kiss to Hollywood's golden age.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: The Artist
The Once-Blighted American Chestnut Makes a Comebacknew
Once a stately member of the Eastern hardwood forest ecosystem, up to 4 billion American chestnut trees fell victim to a blight during the 1930s and 1940s, virtually scouring the species from its native habitat.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
12-14-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tintin is Box-Office Goldnew
"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles."
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Tintin
Patron Saints of Ominous Creepnew
Foreboding palls and incipient malevolence is singer guitarist Pall Jenkins' preferred shade, coating his band's muscular chamber roots with a gothic air. It's kind of like the electro-addled blues of Califone transplanted into Nick Cave's murky environs and given the ramshackle, wounded grace of a Tom Waits tune.
It isn't called The Black Heart Procession for nothing.
Boise Weekly |
Chris Parker |
12-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Memory-Invoking Power of Quincenew
Boisean Dave Turner knows all about taste and memory, if not Marcel Proust and his madeleines. The catalyst that shot Turner into his past was quince, a fragrant apple-like fruit.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
A First Class Bitchnew
Young Adult is pitch (perfect) black comedy.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-07-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Young Adult, Diablo Cody
