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DISPOSABLE BARBECUE White Fang gets amped for their upcoming Ziesta performance.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY JULY 23-25
Lift your spirits at Bogus in the summertime.
music zestival ZIESTA Long-time partners in crime, “siesta” and “fiesta,” are cut from the same linguistic cloth. When you fiesta at night, you siesta the next afternoon. But what the heck is a ziesta? “Ziesta was originally conceived as a backyard barbecue to help celebrate Jaialdi, which is the following weekend,” said Sam Tibbs, co-founder of the new two-day music festival. “The more we started talking about it, the more we thought it would have a greater impact if we increased the number of bands and made it more of an event.” Long-time friends who both recently lived in Memphis, Tenn., Tibbs and Jon Zubizarreta networked and got an assortment of out-of-town garage rock acts to sign on for a weekend-long music festival. On Friday, July 23, at Neurolux you can rock out to Thee Headliners (Portland, Ore.), Broken Spells (Provo, Utah), White Fang (Portland, Ore.), Bare Wires (Oakland, Calif.) and the Goodnight Loving (Milwaukee, Wisc.). Then, on Saturday, July 24, beginning at noon, there’s a barbecue behind the Boise Depot catered by Basque restaurant Leku Ona with music by Thee Headliners, La Knots (Boise), Low-fi (Boise), Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside (Portland, Ore.) and Pure Country Gold (Portland, Ore.). Finally, on Saturday night, Neurolux will host Colleen Green (Oakland, Calif.), Girlfriends (Boston, Mass.), Thee Goochi Boiz (Boulder, Colo.), the Parallels (Vancouver, BC), the Mean Jeans (Portland, Ore.) and the Mystery Lights (Salinas, Calif.). “All these bands ... kind of have rock ’n’ roll attitude,” said Tibbs. “There’s a bit of swagger. There’s some stage antics. I don’t know if I’m going to go so far as to say there’s going to be high leg kicks, but you might see some windmill guitar riffs.” Ziesta wraps up on Sunday, July 25, with a float down the Boise River starting at Barber Park at 1 p.m. After that, you’re gonna need a mad siesta. Friday, July 23-Saturday, July 25, $10-$12, Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886. Barbecue: Saturday, July 24, Noon-4 p.m., FREE, behind the Boise Depot, ziesta-rocks.com. downside is the potential formation of a black hole that could destroy the Earth. Rich Orloff’s comedy, The Whole Shebang—part of the Stage Coach Theatre’s double feature—isn’t quite as scientifically privy (or devastating) as the CERN
about 100 meters underground and circling roughly 30 kilometers. The primary purpose of this machine is to smash two proton beams into each other, which could potentially reveal how the universe was created and where we came from. The
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SATURDAY JULY 24 mountain biking SUMMER SUMMIT FEST TWENTY TEN The withdrawals are setting in—the early morning sweats, dreams of fluffy white powder, itching for that “on top of the world” feeling, forgetting about day jobs or family, sailing into a white abyss. Unfortunately, ski season doesn’t start for another five or six months, but if you’re looking for a good excuse to get on top of the mountain—a temporary fix—Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area is opening up the chair lift for Summer Summit Fest Twenty Ten. Load up your mountain bike and helmet and breathe easy as the chairlift carries you to the top of the hill. Then get on your bike and topple down the rocky gradient. Repeat as many times as necessar y. Or, if you’re too worried about hitting a rock and diving head first over your handlebars, pack a lunch and take a quiet hike with the kids. But don’t miss out. This is one of only two days this summer that the lift will be running, other wise you’ll just have to wait until the snow falls. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., $15, Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, 2600 N. Bogus Basin Road, 208-332-5100.
experiments but the plot is similar. God is working on a science project—the creation of Earth and its inhabitants. The project could go up in smoke at anytime, so God seeks the help of two other nerds in completing the job. Again, the lives of everyday people are put in jeopardy by dorks in lab coats. In a similar mash up of science and religion, Mitch Albom’s play And The Winner Is is the story of egotistical movie star Tyler Johnes,
Hypothetically, let’s say you graduated college in the midst of a recession so buried in oppressive student debt that even when you manage to find a job, you’re still going to be living in a studio apartment for a long, long time. As a studio-dweller you would likely lack a patio/porch/ yard, so you would also theoretically lack a barbecue. And what if, on top of that, your friends are mired in the same situation and also sans Hibachi. Under such a barbecue-less nightmare scenario, how would you ever accomplish the Ameriezgrill.com can dream of having a drunken barbecue at the river/sporting event/roof of Boise State with scantily clad members of the opposite sex? Well fear not because the geniuses—nay, “heroes”—at EZ Grill have the solution: the disposable instant grill. For less than $10 you get a complete barbecue and grill packed with natural match-ready charcoal and fold-out legs that gives you 90 minutes of fire on which to roast a slab of the dead animal or vegetable of your choice. When you’re done, no need to pack it up or scrape off burnt chunks of flotsam. Just trash it and you’re gold, Ponyboy. The only other thing you’ll need to feel like you’re in a beer commercial is a single match to light it with. Game effin’ on. —Josh Gross
who dreams of winning an Oscar. After finally receiving a nomination, Johnes dies. Pissed off and downtrodden, Johnes pleads with God to let him return to Earth and claim his prize. God obliges and Johnes drags his friends into a whirlwind of comedy. Thursday, July 22, 7:30 p.m., $12; Friday, July 23-Saturday, July 24, 8:15 p.m. $15; Stage Coach Theatre, 5296 Overland Road, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.
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