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Don’t be the Basque sheep of the family and miss out on Jaialdi.
It’s still blue skies for old-school pop-punkers The Ataris.
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pop punk THE ATARIS The Ataris’ lead singer Kris Roe has always been a softy compared to his pop punk peers. From crooning love songs for Claire Danes: “Ever since I saw you / on My So-Called Life / I’ve been writing you these letters / asking you to be my wife,” to lamenting his broken heart in songs like, “The Last Song I Will Ever Write About a Girl,” Roe charmed the late-’90s lasses with his pierced-lip vulnerability. The video for “Summer Wind Was Always Our Song,” off The Ataris’ third full-length End is Forever, is a blast back to the early aughts, with an aloof bleached-blonde chick in red lipstick and a baby-T sucking on an appletini as Roe vies for her attention. And though The Ataris will forever be preserved in the memories and on the mix-tapes of lovelorn pop-punkers, on Wednesday, July 28, you can catch Roe and Co. in the flesh at the Red Room Tavern. Describing the throw-back vibe of their latest yet-to-be-released album The Graveyard of the Atlantic, Roe told Cincinnati’s City Beat: “My favorite shows [involve] people spilling beer on your pedals, dog piling and sharing the microphone. [The next album’s] songs bleed that vibe.” Now that way-back fans of The Ataris are officially old enough to drink, that beer spilling has become a lot more probable. With Gasoline Heart, All Hands Go and Strings and Chemicals. 8 p.m., $10, The Red Room Tavern, 601 W. Main St., 208-343-7034.
FRIDAYSATURDAY JULY 30-31 hogs ROCKET RALLY AND MODS VS. ROCKERS Every American subculture has one thing in common: an iconic form of transportation. Beatniks hitchhiked across the country a la Jack Kerouac,
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hippies packed into Volkswagen buses, and more recently, hipsters have pedaled through neighborhoods on fixed-gears. During the 1960s, the two clashing British youth subcultures—the mods and rockers—differed in not only their style and music tastes but how they got around. The mods, in their snugly tailored suits, traveled by Vespa scooters, while the knifewielding rockers packed their gear onto motorcycles. Both cultures will see a revival
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this weekend at the third annual Retro Rocket Rally and Mods vs. Rockers Weekend. The two-wheeled partying starts Friday, July 30, at Union Motorcycle Classics in Nampa at 8 p.m. with a bonfire and campout. On Saturday, vintage bike aficionados will meet up at the Flying M Coffeegarage in Nampa at 10 a.m., where different routes for all levels of riders will be determined. They will make their way to Donnie Mac’s for the Mods vs. Rockers celebration at
Jaialdi is officially in full swing. A mind-boggling 35,000 to 40,000 Basques and Basqueappreciators have descended upon the City of Trees looking for hot solomo sandwiches and ice-cold kalimoxtos. So where should you go to Basquerade with the best of them? Here’s a run-down of all the events going on during Jaialdi: On Wednesday, July 28, from 5-11 p.m. you can celebrate Jaialdi on the Basque Block with food, drinks and music. Around the corner at the Egyptian Theatre, there’s the Basque Cultural Conference from 7-9 p.m., which features experts discussing Basque immigration. On Thursday, July 29, check out Sports Night at the Qwest Arena, featuring weight lifting, wood chopping and farm sports competitions at 7 p.m. On Friday, July 30, from noon to 6 p.m. the Basque Block will be brimming once again with hungry and thirsty revelers. Later that evening at 7 p.m., the Morrison Center will host Festa’ra, which includes a Basque-themed dance by the Trey McIntyre Project. On Saturday, July 31, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., don’t miss Basqueing at the Fairgrounds at Expo Idaho, which will feature the official Jaialdi opening ceremonies along with vendor booths, grub and a display of Basque sheep wagons. Later that evening, attend Catholic Mass spoken in Basque at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Cathedral and the Basque Street Dance from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at Expo Idaho with music by Amuma Says No and groups from the Basque country. Things wrap up on Sunday, Aug. 1, with another installment of Basqueing at the Fairgrounds from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Expo Idaho. This event will include the official Jaialdi closing ceremonies as well as music, weight-lifting demonstrations and plenty more opportunities to stuff your face. Various locations. For more information, visit jaialdi.com.
5 p.m., which features a competitive bike show, food and drink from Donnie Mac’s in Boise and a raffle from local stores. Period clothing is encouraged, so expect to see plenty of leather jackets, greased-back hair, Italian suits and leather pointedtoe shoes. Just leave your switchblades at home. Friday, July 30, 8 p.m., Union Motorcycle Classics, southwest corner of Ustick and Can-Ada roads, Nampa, 208-466-4474, unionmotorcycle.com. Saturday, July 31, 10 a.m., Flying M Coffee-
garage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533, retrorocketrally.com.
SATURDAYSUNDAY JULY 31AUG. 1 theater AN IDEAL HUSBAND Nineteenth-centur y literar y bad boy Oscar
Wilde once showed up three weeks late at the star t of the semester at Oxford University. Although Wilde was disciplined for his laziness, there is no punishment for sluggishly waiting two weeks to see Wilde’s comedic play An Ideal Husband, which star ted its run July 16 at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. You will actually be rewarded with a richly decorated production of a play that has stood the test of 100 years. An Ideal Husband pulls audiences into the WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M