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STRFKR proves an aspic-ture is worth 1,000 words.
Use your melon and celebrate the Day of Idaho Food.
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MONDAY SEPT. 5
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STRFKR AT REEF
DAY OF IDAHO FOOD
Oftentimes, when a band blows up, people complain the members become out of touch, forgetting the early audiences that propelled them to stardom. With a five-star rating on Amazon, a South American tour and festival appearances at Bumbershoot and Outside Lands, Portland’s STRFKR is certainly blowing up. But on a recent Facebook post the band made about the vastness of the crowd at Outside Lands in San Francisco—approximately 60,000 people—Anina Kashmere Jones commented, “way to forget, Boise. Guess you guys are too big for us now.” Surprisingly, STRFKR quickly personally responded that it just booked another Boise show. The band will be back on Sunday, Sept. 4. And this time, instead of the smoky Neurolux, it will offer up electro hooks and dreamy looks at the tiki-themed Reef instead. The show is 18 and older. With Beat Connection. 9 p.m. show, $10 adv., $12 door. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.
In B-dubsville, we’ve been celebrating the Year of Idaho Food all freakin’ year. Writer Guy Hand has turned out one insightful article after another chronicling the local-foods movement in the Potato State. Why then, might you ask, are we psyched for the Day of Idaho Food, when we’ve been donning our local party hats for 242 days and counting? Because the official Day of Idaho Food—Monday, Sept. 5—is kind of like the Year of Idaho Food’s birthday. Across the state, folks will host get-togethers and barbecues featuring Idaho-grown goodies and, hopefully, candle-studded Day of Idaho Food Cakes. Though the Idaho Legislature proclamation only suggests that people consume one Idaho food product that day, the revelers at Northwest Food News have different plans: “Here’s what I’m eating: Sweet Dakota Rose watermelon, Pomodorini [del] Piennolo tomatoes, Santa Fe grande chiles, Middle Eastern prolific cucumbers,” wrote Janie Burns of Meadowlark Farm. State Sen. Tim Corder has an equally delicious plan: “We will be eating fresh tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peas out of the pod, some green beans, cantaloupe and watermelon, crook neck squash, carrots and a salad right out of the garden. Perhaps even an Idaho-grown steak on the grill. More is possible but we will be full. We will eat Idaho cheese and I will drink a little Idaho wine, strawberries for desert,” wrote Corder. Or, our personal fave—BW contributor Randy King’s burly DOIF menu. “I am going to eat a bear meatloaf stuffed with garden chives and tomatoes. I will also use some wild gathered Idaho currants, and then I am going to wrap the whole mess in some Falls Brand bacon. Mmmm …meatloaf,” wrote King. In addition to individual DOIF parties, you can celebrate at the Twin Falls County Fair Ag Pavilion, where Idaho Preferred will sponsor cooking demonstrations and a food exhibition. To submit your own Day of Idaho Food recipe, or to find out what other events are going as a part of the one-day celebration, visit nwfoodnews.com.
THURSDAYSUNDAY SEPT. 1-4 theater THE FOREIGNER A local theater professor once said that a play is a created experience for the audience, and even the best-funded productions with shiny new sets and costuming can’t create that experience; it comes from the whole company understanding and successfully executing the action of a script. For the past 30 seasons, Stagecoach Theatre has been striving to do just that. Stagecoach is a local community theater group that is “dedicated to bring-
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ing quality contemporar y live theater that reflects and celebrates the human spirit for, by and accessible to the community.” To kick off its 31st season, Stagecoach will present The Foreigner by Larry Shue. This witty farce is set at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia and follows two old friends on vacation, Froggy LeSeuer and his painfully shy pal Charlie. To ease his friend’s anxiety about having to talk with the other guests, Froggy decides to tell everyone Charlie is a foreigner who doesn’t understand a word of English. The action of the play unfolds as other lodge guests unload their deepest secrets in front of Charlie. Froggy’s nefarious plans go south, and the comedy takes off. Stagecoach is currently searching for a permanent
home, so Foreigner will be staged at 5012 Emerald St., next to the Wireless Toyz store and will run through Sept. 10. Thursday, Sept. 1, 7:30
Ever ybody jokes about filling a CamelBak with booze. But let’s talk logistics here: Say you dump a magnum of white zin into that thick plastic pouch and strap it on your back. You take a few pulls from the mouthpiece—as you’re working up a sweat hiking or biking—and you star t to feel a etsy.com/shop/oopsmark little tipsy. But after the novelty wears off, you’ll star t to crave a cool sip of H20. Too bad your CamelBak is filled with gradually warming, sticky sweet plastic-permeating hooch. Well, lucky for all the drunksersizers out there, there’s another way to get your wino on while you’re on the go. Etsy seller Oopsmark from Montreal, Canada, makes the Bike Wine Rack, a simple leather strappy device that keeps a bottle of vino in place as you’re pedaling your ride down the street. The rack attaches to a 1-inch bike frame and can be adjusted to fit different types of 3-inch bottles with a clamping system that holds the bottle securely in place. The elegant, brass-buttoned rack attachment costs around $30, plus shipping, but is sure to come in handy when you’re on your way to a park picnic, a barbecue or a family reunion. —Tara Morgan
p.m.; Friday, Sept. 2-Saturday, Sept. 3, 8:15 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 4, 2 p.m.; $15. Stagecoach, 5012 Emerald St., 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.
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