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Soak up some suds on the Great Idaho Brew Tour.
SUNDAY MARCH 4 suds THE GREAT IDAHO BREW TOUR Beer. More beer. No driving responsibilities. How does that sound? Pretty amazing, right? Thought so. And now that we’ve got your attention, here’s what’s up. Boise Party Bus, the company behind the wine tours of Idaho, myriad bachelor/bachelorette/prom/children’s birthday parties has a genius idea. Playing on Boise’s love for craft beer and the plethora of new places serving it, the bus peeps created the Great Idaho Beer Tour. “We wanted something centered around the guys,” Party Bus Office Manager K.C. Farrar said, noting that the company’s winery tours garnered about 85 percent female attendees. But don’t worry ladies, the tour may have been born out of that idea, but it’s not filled with gender stereotypes. Just a lot of tasty brews. The bus departs Sundays right around noon. Tour times and dates are subject to the number of people signed up, and where the bus goes may change based on breweries’ hours or special events. The tour includes five hours of party bus time and trips to up to six locations, including but not limited to Sockeye Brewing Company, Highlands Hollow Brew House, Payette Brewing Company, The Ram, Brewer’s Haven and Tablerock Brewpub and Grill. Disembark and head in to the beer houses, sample some suds (many places will craft beer flights or have free samples for party bus members) and then hop back on. Farrar suggests sharing flights with a friend, after having tried to consume them all himself. “I failed miserably but I had a lot of fun trying,” Farrar said. Interested parties should email boisepartybus@gmail. com or call with their two preferred dates. Noon, $75, Boise Party Bus, 208-322-4386, boisepartybus.com.
An Evening of One Acts is directed by Wendy Koeppl and consists of one drama and two comedies. The first is the short drama A Candle on the Table. The play features three elderly women of different social backgrounds who meet for lunch on their first day in an old folks home. The new housing accommodations stir up the sentimental memories of these old-timers, and when a matron places a candle on the table, it incites the women to share different nostalgic memories of the past. The second play is the comedy Lost, from Tony
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Award-winning playwright Mary Louise Wilson. The play is about two absentminded elderly women trying to leave the house to go about their day. In the course of preparing to leave, the friends engage in lots of silly banter and end up finding compromise and clarity. The third play, The Travelling Sisters, is a comedy that centers on the story of two elderly women. Twice a year, the ladies go to a travel bureau and plan elaborate vacations with ritzy accommodations. Thing is, they can’t actually afford these vacations. After a series of events,
Japanese artist and educator Ryosuke Kobayashi will discuss his “super realistic” work at Boise State.
TUESDAY MARCH 6 from afar VISITING JAPANESE ARTIST LECTURE On Tuesday, March 6, two artists and educators from Japan’s Nagoya Zokei University will host an evening at Boise State to discuss their work. Toyotsugu Itoh and Ryosuke Kobayashi will be the third group of visiting artists since Boise State graphic design professor John Francis began the partnership with NZU in 2004. Their visit is facilitated in part by Francis at Boise State. Almost a decade ago, Francis began a study program to take Boise students to Japan. Now he’s part of an exchange program that swaps Boise faculty and artists for their Japanese contemporaries. At NZU, Kobayashi works with photography and other media. His work includes large-scale photographs, some 5-feet by 9-feet in size. “He sets up a camera on a tripod, and he takes maybe more than 100 pictures and puts them together to become super realistic,” said Francis. Itoh’s work is on posters done in the traditional Japanese style. The subject matter is political in nature, featuring traditional icons of Japanese histor y and arts with a more modern message. Francis said the program is about showing students what’s outside the university. “It’s an excellent opportunity for students to get a perspective of a culture that’s different than their own—the commonalities as well as the differences between the two cultures,” said Francis. The opening reception for work by Itoh and Kobayashi will take place Thursday, March 8, from 6-8 p.m. at the new Arts and Humanities Institute Galler y on Parkcenter Boulevard, and the show will be up Monday, March 5-Friday, March 30. 6-7:30 p.m., FREE, Boise State Liberal Arts Building, Room 106, 1874 University Drive, 208-426-1000, boisestate.edu.
they have a run-in with a bank robber who, strangely enough, might end with the opportunity to make their dream vacation a reality. Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, March
PET’S EYE VIEW DIGITAL CAMERA For years, you’ve been trying to make your cat a LOLebrity, snapping paparazzi shots with your digital cam each time it yawns or instigates an impromptu cuddlepuddle with the dog. You might even spend idle moments at work daydreaming about all the adorable things Mr. Sniggles could be doing at home, with no human around to $49.99 thinkgeek.com see and no camera to preserve it for Internet posterity. Well, fret no more. Now you can let your pet do the work for you. Introducing the Pet’s Eye View digital camera, a small 4.5-ounce camera that fastens to your pet’s collar and captures all the crazy things (naps) it does all day while you’re away. You can set the camera to snap a shot every 1, 5 or 15 minutes and then when you come home from a grueling day at the office, you can plug the thumb-drive-like device into your computer and download hundreds of photos of the floor, the back of the couch and underneath the bed. Or as ThinkGeek dubs it, “a photo diary of your pet’s travels and travails.” As one excited potential customer posted on the Pet’s Eye View Facebook page, “Well, it’s more like whether he has any friends or is secretly getting fed at other people’s houses! I mean, the last time he disappeared, Osama Bin Laden was killed ... coincidence? I think not.” —Tara Morgan
2-Saturday, March 3, 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 4, 2 p.m.; $9-$12.50, Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org
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