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BEST PLACE TO GET A TENPENNY NAIL WITHOUT A BOUT OF AGORAPHOBIA
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OVERLAND LUMBER 4100 W. Overland Road, 208-336-4600
They might be Nirvana for the DIY home remodeler, but big-box home improvement stores are overwhelming, especially if you’re just looking for a couple of nails or a few planks of MDF lumber. At Overland Lumber you can still find all the stuff you need for home repair. You just won’t need to walk a few miles through a store to do so.
BEST LITERARY MOVEMENT
REDISCOVERED BOOKSHOP
180 N. Eighth St., 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org You know when you move and you pack all your books into a couple of boxes, then you try to pick up one of those boxes and you throw your back out and have to go to the emergency room for Xrays and then you have to hire movers to move your boxes of books? Well, imagine if all you owned was books—a whole store full. We can’t imagine that the moving process was easy for Rediscovered Bookshop when it left its old Bench location for new digs in Downtown Boise, but boy are we glad they did. Now all those book signings, author discussions, book groups and, of course, books, are all that much closer. We bibliophiles thank you.
BEST BOOZE TOOL
COCKTAIL COMPASS
Who needs to know where north is when you know where the closest happy hour is? Pointing you toward the cheapest, closest booze 24 hours a day, seven days a week is Cocktail Compass Boise. Get it at the iPhone app store.
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BEST GODDAMN DELIVERY DUDES IN THE UNIVERSE
NORTHSTAR CYCLE COURIER northstarcourier.com
If we thought we had to be all proper about what exactly it is Northstar does, we’d describe them as bike messengers. Need legal docs ferried to your ex-whoever? Northstar. Need an urn of coffee ferried across downtown? Northstar. Need several thousand copies of BW distributed throughout downtown Boise every week? Northstar. We love ’em.
BEST PRETTY PICTURE MAKER
BLUE DOG FRAMING 208-407-4045
With few exceptions, every piece of work that graces the cover of Boise Weekly gets a matching frame. The man who makes it all look good, week after week, year after year is Rick Jackson at Blue Dog Framing.
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