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FRIDAY-SUNDAY SEPT. 16-18
Two can play this game at Fort Boise Community Center.
tie-dye HYDE PARK STREET FAIR 2011 Boise’s North End is known for attracting hippies and nonconformists, but the Hyde Park Street Fair draws a diverse crowd. For more than 30 years, folks from every part of the Treasure Valley have come to Camel’s Back Park to experience that famous North End relaxed spirit. The moment you arrive at the park, you’ll be surrounded with the tempting aroma of fried foods. Stock up on grub, relax on the cool grass and chow down. Or wander the paths between the vendor booths, where hundreds of Northwest artists display and sell their creations. The street fair is a great place to find something unique: beautiful silver and hemp jewelry, countless crafts, bizarre bug key chains and some of the quirkiest hats and accessories. Take a hike to the top of Camel’s Back to look down on the street fair, and you’ll see a mass of color. You’ll also get an aerial view of the live music, which includes acts like Voice of Reason, Thomas Paul, Steve Fulton Music, Phantasmagoria, and Kevin Kirk and Onomatopoeia. Like wine—and there’s plenty of that at the street fair’s wine garden—the Hyde Park Street Fair improves with age. It’s a great place to take friends and family to get away for the weekend without driving far. And, best of all, in a world of $10 movie tickets, it’s free. All proceeds benefit the North End Neighborhood Association, North End community neighborhood groups and other local nonprofit organizations. Friday, Sept. 16, 5-9:30 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 17, 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 18, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., FREE. Camel’s Back Park. For more info, visit gruntwerks.net.
ex-Bronco football player who wishes his days as a star jock never ended, a kid who is elated to have made his first black friend, and an affable security guard at the Boise Public Library. Boise dwellers are sure to connect with the exploits of these characters and perhaps see a little bit of themselves in their portrayals. Each night will also feature live music by Atomic Mama and other local bands. Bring your ID: VAC is a 21-and-older venue so you can imbibe while you’re entertained. Wednesday, Sept. 14,
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pay what you want; Thursday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 17, $10 general, $7 students and military; 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, alleyrep.org.
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SATURDAY SEPT. 17 video games X-TREME GAMERS NIGHT When playing video games, you can participate in violent tactical missions, slay big game, play sports or take care of cute, cuddly animals. A new game from Starving Eyes Advergaming even allows you to get your political rage flowing. Tea Party Zombies Must Die equips players with an arsenal of weapons, including a crowbar, a shotgun and, as you level up, a machete. You can use said weapons to wreak havoc on Tea Party zombies, including a Newt Gingrich zombie, the Sarah Palin zombie and an “express racist views anonymously on the Internet modern Klan zombie.” The landscape of the game is bleak, littered with Fox News logos and decaying Tea Party propaganda. Though Tea Party Zombies Must Die is an amusing option for left-leaning adult gamers, Fort Boise Community Center will offer more kid-appropriate games for your little ones to play during X-Treme Gamers Night. Kids and parents are invited for a night of gaming on Saturday, Sept. 17, featuring open play and tournament gaming. They will have 12-foot screens, food, drinks and prizes. And if you can’t make it this Saturday, Fort Boise will also have gaming nights the third Saturday of every month through January. 7-10 p.m, $2. Fort Boise Community Center, 700 Robbins Road, 208-384-4486.
boulder-hurling abilities, Scots are among the few who manage to make a plaid skirt look macho. If you want to join your manly Scottish brethren and kick it in a breezy kilt this weekend, there’s no better place than the Treasure Valley Celtic Festival and Highland Games at Expo Idaho. On Saturday, Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Scottish American Society of the Treasure Valley will host an array of athletic competitions, including the famed caber toss, where athletes hurl a long tapered tree through the air. The festival
Pigs are oft credited for being cleanly creatures. They take off their shoes at dinner parties, floss obsessively and even pull their sleeves over their hooves when reaching for public bathroom doors. Yeah, that’s total hogwash. When left to their own devices, pigs roll in excrement and stuff their snouts with anything you put in their troughs, etsy.com/shop/elmsoapmakers including pork. Pigs are considered to be so dirty that they’ve long been shunned by both Islam and Judaism. Which is why bacon soap makes complete sense. Who wouldn’t want to wake up, jump in a hot shower, and start lathering themselves with smoky, pig-fat scented soap? By the time you’ve finished bathing, you’ll smell like the grease-caked flattop at an all-night diner. Well, lucky for all you baconphiles, ELM Soap Makers in Eagle is now selling bacon soap at the Meridian Farmer’s Market and online at its Etsy store, etsy.com/shop/elmsoapmakers. Or if you prefer to keep your bacon in the fry pan, ELM also offers equally agrarian but substantially less porky soaps made with moisturizing goat milk. Scents include lavender, cinnamon, coffee and rose. —Tara Morgan
will also include ample bagpipe music and competitions along with traditional Scottish folk dancing demonstrations. Entertainment this year comes from acts like Swagger, Heathen Highlanders, City of Trees Pipe Band, Celtic Sisters Folk Bank, An Buille, and Thistle and Ghillies Scottish Dancers. Advance tickets for the Celtic Festival and Highland Games can be purchased at Aquatic Supply, located at 1925 N. Wildwood. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $4-$10. Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-2875650, idahoscots.org.
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