FIND BROKEN HEARTS, BROKEN IPHONES
Boot, scoot, ’n’ boogie, BW-style. Sip, sip, sippin’ on fermented grape juice.
SATURDAY AUG. 28
SATURDAY AUG. 28
one big ass block party
sipping wine THE FOURTH ANNUAL EAGLE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL A recent study by the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania found that simply holding an alcoholic beverage during a job interview causes your interviewer to perceive you as less intelligent. If that is true, those who are selfconscious about being perceived as drunken fools should steer clear of the Fourth Annual Eagle Food and Wine Festival on Saturday, Aug. 28, where glass after glass of fine Idaho wines will be served to hundreds of oenophiles at Banbury Golf Club. Banbury, Bardenay, Bella Aquila, Chef Tom Atkins, Cool Hand Luke’s, The Porterhouse and River Rock Ale House will dish up the grub. Pair your plate with a wide range of wine varieties from local wineries 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards, Cold Springs Winery, Davis Creek Cellars, Periple, Syringa Winery, Vale Wine Company and Wood River Cellars. The evening will also play host to live jazz and a silent auction, benefiting the Eagle Food Bank and the Landing Community Center. 6-10 p.m., $40, Banbury Golf Club, 2626 S. Marypost Place, Eagle, facebook.com/eaglefoodandwinefestival.
SUNDAY AUG. 29
to watch more than 100 various acts—bands, hula hoopers, karate kids, stiltwalkers, burlesque troupes, break dancers—vie for the top prize: $1,000 cash and their name etched onto the 3-foot-tall metal Curb Cup created by sculptor Amber Conger. Here’s how it works: Each Curb Cup attendee gets three tokens to distribute among the per formers, who line Eighth Street from Jefferson to BODO, in what event organizers are calling “a Farmers Market where the lettuce is replaced by
street circus BOISE CURB CUP If you’re not completely pooped out after BW’s rocking block par ty, the Big LeBoise on Saturday, Aug. 28, you can continue your street strutting on Sunday, Aug. 29 with Curb Cup 2. Last year, the event over whelmed downtown, with thousands of people converging on the streets
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THE BIG LEBOISE Nihilists, severed toes, rug-peeing, bowling. Luckily, you won’t find any of these things at Boise Weekly’s inaugural block party, the Big LeBoise. You will, on the other hand, find enough crafts, bands and booze to make the Dude drop his white Russian in excitement. We’re completely shutting down Broad Street in front of the Boise Weekly offices, and starting bright and early at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28, you can wave goodbye to your hangover with our bloody mary contest finals while kicking it with the craftiest crafters this side of Craftsville. At 11 a.m., Sherpa kicks off a long day of local music. Hillfolk Noir takes over at noon, New Transit is at 1 p.m., Boise Rock School follows at 2 p.m., Trevor Kamplain from ATTN takes the reins at 3 p.m., Fauxbois rocks out at 4 p.m., Finn Riggins commandeers the stage at 5 p.m. and a sweet dance party gets kicking at 6:30 p.m. and runs until 10 p.m. Want to take home a brand-new, super slick Vespa scooter? Raffle tickets are only $10, and you don’t have to be present to win. You can pick up your very own raffle ticket at BWHQ at 523 Broad St. or at the BW booth at Alive After Five on Wednesday, Aug. 25. The raffle drawing takes place at the Big LeBoise at 6 p.m. sharp. So, make like the dude and abide our command: Get yourself to the Big LeBoise, man. 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Broad Street from Fifth to Sixth streets, 208-344-2055, boiseweekly.com.
guys singing Jack Johnson and tomatoes are bellydancers.” Snagging first place last year was the Dragon Karate Team, followed by the Summer wind Skippers Jump Rope team in second place and the Maxwell Street Band in third. Other prizes awarded this year include, Drake Cooper’s Sippy Cup award, Idaho Dance Theatre’s Street Dancing
Remember when late-90s ska band No Doubt gets attacked by princess phones in the video for “Spiderwebs”? All those corkscrew cords wrapping the band in a freaky, tangled web of communication? Well, the new technological spiderweb hails from an even more Tragic Kingdom. Yes, we’re talking about the spiderweb-like shattered screen of a precious iPhone. Made from oh-sobreakable glass, the iPhone has long had the misfortune of falling prey to screen-crackage. But the new iPhone 4, with both its front and backsides crafted from glass, is a klutz’s worst nightmare. Not to mention, the slippery little beast loves to wiggle right off high counters when the phone is set on vibrate. Luckily, there’s a local store that can fix all your smart phone calamities. CELL ME Cell Me, a repair store 683 N. Five Mile Road, with two locations—one 208-343-0333 916 Vista Ave., 208-275-0060 on Five Mile Road and cellme.me one in the Vista Village Shopping Center—will repair cracked screens, fix water damage, repair ports, speakers and microphones, and replace missing or broken buttons. For replacing the screen on the iPhone 3G it’s only $75. But for the new iPhone 4, which has considerably pricier parts, it’s $225. Guess for now, we’ll have to shell out the bucks until Apple starts making products that are more structurally sound than peanut brittle. —Tara Morgan
award, FameFifteen’s Most Likely to Become Famous award, GoListenBoise’s Best Band We Ain’t Never Heard award, TRICA’s Children’s Award of Innovation and Trey McIntyre Project’s Great Dance award. 1-4 p.m., FREE, Eighth Street from Jefferson to BODO, 208-368-0000, boisecurbcup.com.
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