It's Thanksgiving today—the day of ultimate gluttony, when we as a nation celebrate ... wait, what are we eating all that food and watching football for? Oh that's right—pilgrims, Native Americans, thankfulness, family, a day off work, all that stuff.
If you're a fitness buff, today kinda sucks. It's all about eating and lying around. So if you want to feel a little bit better about doing nothing, head to Boise Co-op today at 11 a.m. with your bicycle. St. Luke's Sports Medicine Cycling and Lost River Cycling Club have put together a Pre-Bird Informal Group Ride, and all levels and styles of riders are welcome. Individual groups may form, segregating the road-bikers from the mountain-bikers, and the rides are expected to be about two hours long.
Want to feel even better about chowing down later? Bring a donation for the Idaho Foodbank. Then not only can you feel good for having worked out when most people's level of activity will involve going from the couch to the table, but you can feel even better for having contributed to a worthy cause.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game announced that the batch of hatchery-raised steelhead the department released on Nov. 22 would be the last of the season. IDFG has already released roughly 1,000 of the fish in the Boise River between Glenwood Bridge and Barber Park in several earlier releases, but a declined trapping rate at Oxbow Dam put an end to the program before the final scheduled release.
The good news is that many of those fish are still in the river. All you need in order to try your luck at hooking one is a valid 2011 fishing license, as well as a steelhead permit ($12.75). Limits on the river are three fish per day, with nine in possession and a statewide season limit of 20.
For more info and regulations, visit the IDFG website.
The tradition of decorating evergreen trees with ornaments dates back to pre-Biblical times, when European pagans would decorate their houses with the trimmings of shrubs. Early Christians picked up on this, and adopted the practice by adorning their homes with wreaths of laurel at Christmas. The tradition evolved and developed in the 19th century, when the modern manifestation of the Christmas Tree, with lights, paper ornaments and precious metals materialized.
For over two decades, the Saint Alphonsus Festival of Trees has latched onto this tradition and taken it to the next level with extravagantly decked-out holiday trees, which are displayed at the Boise Centre. This year's event features a variety of themes, including Snoopy, Angry Birds, Boise State regalia, and various types of booze. Money raised from the event is donated for the purpose of community health care.
Check out a slideshow here to catch a glimpse of this year's fanciful offerings.
The flames of outrage were fanned in Davis, Calif., last week when riot police pepper-sprayed a crowd of nonviolent student protesters. At the core of the populist backlash was an image of Davis Police Lt. John Pike that showed him pepper-spaying protesters as casually as if he were watering a garden.
That image went viral, spawning countless parody images of him casually pepper-spraying everything from Renaissance paintings to Britney's hoo-ha. Pike has been placed on administrative leave.
But by far the best response has been the boom in product reviews for pepper spray on Amazon.
Here's one example:
You need gifts and you want to buy them locally. Don't worry: We got your back.
Click on the image below to check out the digital edition of Boise Weekly's annual all-local Gift Guide, with gift ideas for everyone from your nosy neighbor to your bossy boss.
Remember when bar trivia was all the rage and trying to think with a higher-than-normal blood-alcohol level became the hot new thing to do on a weekday night? Well, unless you killed too many brain cells, you should, because trivia is still going strong around these parts.
So much so that a new version of the "sport" has arrived at two Boise bars. Tonight, you can catch Geeks Who Drink, a national trivia game that claims to be different by incorporating both audio and visual rounds. Teams play eight rounds, consisting of eight questions. You can play with up to five of your smartest friends, or if the intellect level of your acquaintances leaves something to be desired, you can brave the brain teasers solo.
The fun starts at 8 p.m. at Piper Pub. Visit the Geeks Who Drink website to get some practice beforehand, and impress all your friends with your level of genius. Can't make it tonight? You can catch it again on Tuesdays at the Ram, also at 8 p.m.
The Occupy Wall Street protest in New York inspired hundred of similar protests across the world. And though officials in cities like Portland, Denver, Oakland and New York have tried to break up OWS camps, the movement has shown no signs of losing steam. Protesters simply show up the next day or somewhere else and everyone goes back to the start.
The public at large may be wondering how long this dance can go on and what sort of devious tricks the vampire squids over on Wall Street have up their sleeves.
Well, now we know. And it's more horrible than anyone could have dreamed. Nineties alt-"rockers" Third Eye Blind just released a new song in "support" of the movement. And though it's full of audio samples from notorious viral videos, there's nary an interruptive mic check to be found.
Smooth move, Wall Street, you win this round.
There's snow in them thar hills—seriously, it's dumping in the mountains. Here's a roundup of what regional resorts have seen in terms of snow.
Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area: Past 24 hours, 2 inches.
Brundage Mountain: Since 5 p.m. on Nov. 21, 9 inches.
Pomerelle: Overnight, 1 inch. Opening date, Wednesday, Nov. 23.
Sun Valley: Past 48 hours, 1 inch. Opening date, Thursday, Nov. 24.
Dinner and theater have been linked together for some time—dinner is almost a prerequisite to attending a show, and there are even dinner-theater companies that merge the two together.
Brick 29 Bistro in Nampa is combining food and theater in a different way with its Turn the Tables and Give Back initiative. Today, you can go gobble up some goodness at the restaurant and the net proceeds from your bill (minus the credit-card processing fee and alcohol) will be put toward fixing up the 1946 Pix Theatre, which will become a space for visual and performing arts in Nampa.
So today, you can feel a little better about that pre-holiday food binge, knowing that the money you spent on that delectable mac-and-cheese is going to a worthy cause.
The comedy YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History made two big announcements over the weekend.
The first is that the evil geniuses behind it, Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd, are busy preparing the show's second season, which from the trailer looks like it may involve Han Solo.
The second is that said season will be moved from Nice Peter's YouTube channel to its own dedicated Epic Rap Battles of History channel. The move shows that the series—which has been viewed tens of millions of times—has gained enough weight to stand on its own apart from the rest of Mr. Peter's oeuvre, which involves a lot of commentary on garage sales and insults directed at Fifty Cent. The existing 15 episodes of the series will also be on the new channel, YouTube.com/ERB.
The new season will launch in December.
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