Idaho

A Blackwater State

In Boise Idaho? Jiminy!

Cheese-a-palooza

Jazz in Idaho? It's true!

Moscow gays march for IDAHO?

Cowboy Mike Sentenced

Afternoon Edition: Who Says White Boys Can't Dance?

Asking a bartender out is a no-no. But if you must, here's how to do it. Krist celebrates his one-year Daily Weekly anniversary by revealing that he and current blog colleague Duff McKagan got into it backstage at that infamous '92 MTV Music Awards show when he took a bass in the face. Idaho's f ... More >>

Northwesterners Driving Less

The Daily Score's Clark Williams-Derry reports that the last decade has shown a steady decrease in per-capita driving by residents of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. A review of Federal Highway Department data produced the above chart. He also notes that driving in Oregon has decreased more rapidly t ... More >>

Breaking the Bank at the Pump

Click to enlargeGas prices got so high in 2008 that Washington, Oregon, and Idaho spent a combined $30 billion importing fossil fuels, reports Sightline Daily. That averages out to $2,500 per resident. Government accountability and transparency are good things, but it is kind of amazing how we beef ... More >>

Shakespeare on Film

Click to enlargeGas prices got so high in 2008 that Washington, Oregon, and Idaho spent a combined $30 billion importing fossil fuels, reports Sightline Daily. That averages out to $2,500 per resident. Government accountability and transparency are good things, but it is kind of amazing how we beef ... More >>

"Minidoka on My Mind"

Home and family from a Japanese-American perspective

Melaleuca Gives the Amway Treatment to “Natural” Products

An Idaho Republican is moving expensive laundry detergent to neighbors everywhere.

Edie

A 6’2” diva fabs up a Broadway eatery

Noir Daydream

Welcome to Gus Van Sant country, circa 1985

This Week's Reads

Tom Groneberg, Adam Johnson, John Rember, and Ian Spiegelman.

Brief Re-Encounters

Tom Groneberg, Adam Johnson, John Rember, and Ian Spiegelman.

News Clips— Stars/Also-Rans

Tom Groneberg, Adam Johnson, John Rember, and Ian Spiegelman.

A Season of Hard Western Truths

This may be the best post-Stegner year yet for books about the West.

Letters

Potato Head racism

Palin Out As Alaskan Guv

The Idaho grad is resigning at the end of the month. And did you know Alaska was female? Not the governor, but the massive state itself. (Check Palin's quote in the linked ADN piece.) Me neither.

Because Puns Are Fun

​After a solid showing against LSU and a comfortable win over Idaho, Husky football no longer seems so moribund. The fans hath awakened. Thus, in advance of the team's big matchup with powerhouse USC, where new Husky head coach Steve Sarkisian was an assistant just last year, the student secti ... More >>

The Plot Thickens, The Legend Grows: Camano Island Teen Suspected of Idaho Airplane Theft

​It's hard to tell if this kid is really an epic fugitive along the lines of Jason Bourne and Frank Abagnale, Jr. or just a convenient scapegoat for sundry thefts in the rural Northwest. Colton Harris-Moore is now suspected of stealing a plane in Idaho, "hard-landing" it in Granite Falls, and ... More >>

Nube Green Opens in Oddfellows Building

​"We are so focused on local food--and then we serve it on toxic linens." That's just one dilemma that Ruth True means to remedy as proprietor of Capitol Hill's newest green-minded shop. Specializing in ecologically-minded gifts, the just-opened Nube Green offers a number of food-related items ... More >>

Finn Riggins

​"We are so focused on local food--and then we serve it on toxic linens." That's just one dilemma that Ruth True means to remedy as proprietor of Capitol Hill's newest green-minded shop. Specializing in ecologically-minded gifts, the just-opened Nube Green offers a number of food-related items ... More >>

Timothy Egan

​"We are so focused on local food--and then we serve it on toxic linens." That's just one dilemma that Ruth True means to remedy as proprietor of Capitol Hill's newest green-minded shop. Specializing in ecologically-minded gifts, the just-opened Nube Green offers a number of food-related items ... More >>

Bored Teen Behind Boy-for-Sale Craigslist Hoax

According to science, bored teens are responsible for 83 percent of all crimes.​Selling your son on Craigslist sounds like the work of a depraved father or a bored teen. Fortunately for Spokane police, it's the latter. Last month, a Spokane woman saw an ad from a man named Rick Obelophy offer ... More >>

One Crock Away From Beef Stew

The Crocksman is a weekly Voracious column about you and your slow-cooker. It runs every Tuesday.​Back in the day, my grandparents used to buy a cow (or two) a year. They divided the beef among their kids. So once a year my grandparents would come over with a chest full of T-bones, roasts, gro ... More >>

Potato Heads

Moscow, Idaho’s music scene breaks into Seattle.

Tony and Medina Green Charged After Kid Eats Pot-Laced Rice Krispie Treat

​In today's edition of What the Hell Is Wrong With Idaho we'd like you to meet the Greens, model parents from Boise. Like many average Americans, Tony and Medina like to add a little medicinal flavor to their lives. Like many average Americans, they're also fans of sugary treats. Unfortunately ... More >>

Breaking News: Search on for Missing Cessna Aircraft Near Packwood

​Nisha Marvel at the The Washington State Department of Transportation writes that a twin-engine Cessna airplane has gone missing after departing the Chehalis Municipal Airport this morning. The plane had a pilot and two passengers and reported an engine failure over the Packwood/Morton area, ... More >>

Idaho to $190 Million Lottery Winner: Please Claim Your Freaking Prize

​UPDATE: Sorry, Ric Flair, Idaho woman Holly Lahti just claimed the $190 million Mega Millions prize. Hmmm, Lahti . . . I swear that sounds like a distant cousin of mine . . . Ephrata, Wash., couple Jim and Carolyn McCullar waited a whole two days to show up at a press conference in Olympia ... More >>

FBI: MLK Parade Backpack Bomb Linked to Aryan Nations. People of Spokane: Seriously?

Image via cdapress.com​We now know what the backpack bomb placed on the route of Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade looks like, but the bigger question still looms: Who planted the potentially catastrophic device and why? In public statements, the FBI has suggested that the Aryan Nati ... More >>

Holly Lahti, Idaho Mega Millions Winner, Is On the Run from Abusive Ex-Husband With Claim on the Cash

​It took more than a week before the world learned that Holly Lahti, a 29-year-old single mother of two from northern Idaho, was the second winner in the $380 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Jan. 4. At first folks might have thought the woman was just media-shy, or perhaps was thinkin ... More >>

Idaho Police Raffle Off Handgun and Gun Accessories to Benefit Cop Shot in the Face

​Whoever decided to donate a handgun and other firearm paraphernalia to the raffle to benefit a Nampa, Idaho, police officer who was shot in the face probably had the best intentions. But still. Guns? For a cop who was shot? Really?

Also Tonight: The Intersection of Hippie and Indie--aka Finn Riggins--Sweats It Out at the Sunset

Finn Riggins, "Dali," from Tyler T. Williams on Vimeo.I've written before about Finn Riggins, old friends of mine from our time in Moscow, Idaho. These days they spend their time wandering the nation's roads with folks like Built to Spill, right at the intersection of indie and hippie. These kids u ... More >>

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Tries to Fight Racism With Tacos

​The problem, sometimes, with hating Mexicans is that their food is just so damn good.

Free (!) Champagne at Monsoon's 12th Birthday

​Happy birthday, Monsoon! To celebrate 12 years of business, the popular restaurant (see its food at right) will serve each customer a complimentary glass of champagne at lunch and dinner today, as well as offer its signature dishes--crispy local drunken chicken and caramelized Idaho catfish c ... More >>

Idaho Anti-Meth Ads Involve Sister Whoring, Parent Robbing and Scabs... Lots of Scabs (VIDEOS)

​When Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu isn't making Oscar-nominated movies like Babel and Amores perros, he apparently is getting his kicks making terrifying anti-methamphetamine TV ads for the state of Idaho.

Union Busting Heads West: Idaho Strips Teacher Bargaining Rights

​The scourge of the evil teacher hordes is finally being crushed thanks to the efforts of rich, white men. In Idaho, where teacher salaries average $45,000 per year and put the greedy educators marginally over the poverty line, the state legislature is finally stepping in and derailing the gra ... More >>

Sen. Joe Zarelli's Doomed Anti-Union Bill Is Shameless Kabuki Theatre

​With Democratic control of Washington's House, Senate, and governor's mansion, there's never been a chance that the kind of brazen union-busting bills advanced in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Idaho, Alaska, and elsewhere could ever get far. That, however, doesn't mean that state Sen. Joe Zarell ... More >>

Idaho Lawmakers Want to Eliminate Punishments for Killing Wolves, Enforce Punishments for Talking About Wolves

​Over in Idaho, state lawmakers are looking to cut down on the amount of work state employees have to do. Awesome! Particularly, they don't want anyone on a state payroll to do anything related to wolves--and for some that means anything.

Huge Hamburger Trophy Stolen from Idaho T.G.I. Friday's

​In some heavily postered Idaho State University dorm room, a group of drunk college kids are likely still laughing hysterically at the ridiculous burger trophy they just stole from the T.G.I. Friday's in Ammon.

Tea Party Patriots Want Idaho's Uber-Christian Take on the Constitution Taught to Kids Nationwide

​Constitution Week may be four months away, but it's never too early to try and hone the indoctrination message that the nationwide event will hammer into America's children. First out of the gate are the Tea Party Patriots. The Georgia-based conservative group doesn't want just any Constituti ... More >>

Idaho House of Snakes Still for Sale After Ruining Previous Owners' Lives

​At some point during the home-buying process, Rexburg, Idaho couple Ben and Amber Sessions dropped their guard. They forgot the to do the all-important colony-of-reptiles sweep around the property.

Idaho Will Replace its Expensive Lunch Ladies with Cheap Children

​Employing prisoners to do menial tasks like stamping license plates or picking up trash on the freeway has always been one of the great industrial coups of the American penal system. The Idaho Legislature is seemingly borrowing a page from the prison warden's playbook and has passed a law a ... More >>

"Suspicious" Idaho Man Wanted for Photographing Kids Is Actually Just Grandpa Taking Pics of Grandson

​Pocatello, Idaho, police would like the residents of their town to know that the creepy, "suspicious" old man driving around in a brown van and taking pictures of kids at the park is, perhaps, not so creepy and suspicious after all.

Idaho Internet Speed Is Slowest in Nation (Partially Because of Bears)

​Bears. If they're not eating people or stealing their picnic baskets, they're apparently slowing down their Internet. In no state is the latter phenomenon more prevalent than our neighbor to the east, Idaho.

5 Boise Bands (Other Than Built to Spill) You Need to Hear Right Now

The author, Eric Gilbert, seen here at the Sunset with his Boise-based band Finn Riggins.​Guest Column By Eric Gilbert, the singer and keyboardist for Boise band Finn Riggins. The band plays the Vera Project at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, with Atomic Mama. Boise, Idaho, is not usually th ... More >>

Boise's Finest (No That's Not a Punch Line)

Five bands from Idaho's capital you need to hear right now.

Local Sightings Film Festival

Notable nonfiction includes true crime and mobile gardens.