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Love shining a positive light on the local music ("Harmonic Convergence") and art ("Where ART Thou?") scene here in the Wood River Valley via those two recurring SunValleyOnline.com columns of mine, as well as occasional looks at the mass media(the "MEDIA WATCH" and "AFTER THE FACT" columns) Please feel free to e-mail ( lovesbiking2001@yahoo.com ) and/or call me (725-4056) directly if you know of any local/Wood River Valley artists and/or musicians whom you think are deserving of some media attention here. I'm always verrry open to new suggestions and leads. Thanks!! --John Pluntze 12/2009 |
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RE: Well put
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Particularly given its rather limited writing and production staff, I think "The Weekly Sun" does a mostly-terrific job every week of highlighting the many unabashedly POSITIVE things happening in the Valley -- with Jon Krane's weekly "Student Spotlight" column and those Karen Bossick-written features among my very faves there ... as well as those "Raves" and "Thank You Notes" classifieds they run every week. I really think that if more newspapers around the country (and around the world as well) weren't so single-mindedly and stupidly fixated on regularly hyping the WORST, most NEGATIVE things that are happpening in any given day, they wouldn't be seeing their readership rapidly dwindling away, the way so many news publications are right now (and probably deservedly so)...
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Their Voices are amazing!!
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Having seen them perform at the Wood River High School's Performing Arts Theatre just last night -- in front of an almost completely packed audience, too -- I think the voices of the Middle School's music students are definitely worth cheering about (in addition to all their many stellar other accomplishments); they and also the music students at Wood River High SERIOUSLY rock!!!!! :)
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RE: Nice try, John, but no dice
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I have to confess, Jeanine, that I was equal parts baffled and disappointed that there wasn't ANY mention whatsoever of last night's (Wednesday) terrific final concert at Wood River High School in either the Express or The Sun yesterday. And I also whole-heartedly agree with you that that Express article on Carole King is easily one the most instantly-forgettable and needlessly-long articles that I've ever read in that newspaper (dating all the way back to 1991, when I first moved here!! (LOL) :-(
However ... since last night's concert at the high school was almost completely full (in spite of that "very lame" coverage you spoke of yesterday), I don't think you should be too, too upset with either newspaper at this point. Living, as we do, in the age of Twitter, Facebook, etc, etc, people actually can -- and frequently do, obviously -- spread the word about various Valley-wide events (and elsewhere) at warp speed these days, so I'm not exactly convinced that the success of ANY event ANYWHERE in this Valley EVER is primarily, let alone solely, at the mercy of what's printed (or not printed) in a particular newspaper about it. Judging by what I see and hear from the scores of teens and pre-teens I've happily tutored here in the Wood River Valley over the years (again, dating all the way back to 1991), I think it's verrry safe to say that newspapers, by and large, are becoming increasingly irrelevant in more and more people's lives. Whether it's the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Miami-Herald, the Idaho Statesman,... read more |
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Thanks, Jeanine -- but ....
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Thanks so much, Jeanine (and also "RaftingGirl" here as well) for those wonderfully-supportive comments you posted. However Jeanine, as far as "THE WEEKLY SUN" goes, anyway, had I not seen that wonderful, eye-catching photo by the Sun's Karen Bossick -- of the Colla Voce choir students -- in last week's issue, I might very well have missed last week's concerts at the Liberty Theatre, anyway (and perhaps also the ones this week, at the high school's Performing Art Theatre), so I, for one, definitely owe "The Weekly Sun" a great deal of gratitude in that regard.
Having worked for various publications when I lived in Los Angeles (back in the 1980s), I know firsthand how truly daunting and exhausting it can be sometimes to try to cover ALL the many events that are happening in a given area in any given week -- a fact that may at least partly explain why there wasn't more coverage by either the Sun or the Express regarding those six remaining concerts. One of the many verrry cool and terrific things for me about SunValleyOnline.com is that I'm NOT restricted by space, per se (as opposed to printed publications, which are), which is why I can write considerably lengthier articles about various Valley-wide events that I care deeply about ... with these six end-of-year Middle School and High School concerts being yet another inspiring example of that. Really hope that you get to see those students in action (if you haven't already), because they definitely are worthy of a lengthy article!!! :) |
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Soooooo MANY Names!!!! (LOL)
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WOW -- I had nooo idea exactly what I was in for (i.e., just how MANY student names I'd have to list!! (LOL) when I recently asked for a list of "all" the various Wood River Middle and High School students who are involved in some way in those end-of-year concerts that take place at the high school's Performing Arts Theatre ... concerts that I think are always a really terrific way to start off the Summer music season here in the Wood River Valley, and concerts that arguably have as much to do with my wanting to continue writing this "Harmonic Convergence" column as anything I see/hear in the Wood River Valley in any given year.
But obviously EVERY ONE of those concerts -- and also the ones that took place recently at the Liberty Theatre, last week -- are the result of A LOT of work on the part of those extremely dedicated, talented and fearless High School and Middle School students and, as such, I have to say that it was a genuine honor to be able to list each of their names in this SVO "Harmonic Convergence" music column this afternoon. I wish I had even 1/100th of their courage and talent... :) --John Pluntze |
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RE: See/Hear CakeFaceJane Today at Ketchum Town Square (5:30)!! :)
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If you missed that terrific debut performance on Saturday by the new CAKEFACEJANE band ( http://www.CakeFaceJane.com ), their next public performance is Thursday, July 12th. See their website for more info.
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Awesome response/thanks!!
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profuse thanks to everyone who attended at least one of those three recent, verrry popular concerts at the Liberty Theatre that featured students from the COLLA VOCE and B-TONES choirs; really hope the Wood River Middle and High School music students receive a similarly-terrific response to their concerts at the high school's Performing Arts Theare -- tonight, and also on Tuesday and Wednesday as well....
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See/Hear CakeFaceJane Today at Ketchum Town Square (5:30)!! :)
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I neglected to mention in my "Harmonic Convergence" music column yesterday that that new CakeFaceJane band ( http://www.CakeFaceJane.com ) I mentioned in passing -- the one that's comprised of members of the extremely popular Cow Says Mooo band (including Danae Commons and Henno Heitur -- will make its public debut today (Saturday) in the Ketchum Town Square, right after today's "Ketchum Wide Open" golf tournament concludes, with music slated to start at approximately 5:30.
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Last night's show was Innnnn-credible!!! :)
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Well, the first of three live, free, standing room-only performances at the Liberty Theatre last night -- featuring the verrry talented and dedicated choir students from the Wood River Middle and High Schools -- definitely did not disappoint, with standouts for me including "Pure Imagination", "Jump", "Blackbird", "September", "My Strongest Suit", "Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie", "California Dreamin' and especially those two extremely powerful and poignant numbers the ladies adroitly performed from the award-winning Broadway musical, "Spring Awakening".
It was a really awesome musical experience for those of us who saw it - and also similarly awesome to see so many of us eagerly jumping to our feet more than once to give these music students much-deserved standing ovations. Can't wait to see 'em in action again next week, at the high school's new Performing Arts Theater!!!! :) |
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The Wood RIver Middle and High School Musicians, SIngers Are Really Amazing!!!
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I fervently hope that people here in the Wood River Valley attend at least one of those three stellar, free, very popular concerts that'll be held at Hailey's Liberty Theater, tomorrow evening (as well as on Friday and Saturday evening; each at 7 p.m.) ... and/or one of the three (free) concerts) that'll be held next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening at the Hailey high school's large and lavish new theater.
Next Monday's and Tuesday's concerts will feature the Wood River High School and Middle School orchestras, while next Wednesday's concert will be more geared around the Middle and High School choirs. These two musical events are always extremely entertaining, and always proof-positive that this Valley has a seemingly endless array of fiercely dedicated and talented singers and musicians.... :) |
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"2012 Fave Films" Listing Without a Doubt.... :)
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I know we have a way to go before another "Fave Films" list (for 2012) will be posted here -- but having just rented/watched for the first time 2011's "Young Adult" film, I have to say THAT would be on my "Top 10 Fave Films" list in ANY given year without a doubt!! Charlize Theron (who's NEVER been better in a movie) may not exactly be portraying the most sympathetic/empathetic character on the planet -- anymore than George Clooney was in director Jason Reitman's previous film, "Up In the Air" (Reitman's other terrific films are "Thank You For Smoking", and "Juno") -- but Theron and the other A++++ actors in this often VERY dark/black comedy (which include Patrick Wilson, Jill Eikenberry, Elizabeth Reaser, and "King Of Queens" co-star, Patton Oswalt (whose stellar work in this movie is a world away from ANYTHING I've seen him do on TV, or in other movies he's likewise co-starred in) are so uniformly superb, not to mention the writing by Diablo Cody (Oscar winner for "Juno"), that I, for one, found her to be a verrry endearing and wonderful character to spend time with ... even if she unabashedly IS something of a lost (and sometimes extremely selfish/self-centered) soul.
Definitely not a film that everyone will "enjoy", per se, but just as definitely a film that deserves high, high marks for what it takes on/deals with, where deeply-flawed individuals are concerned. |
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RE: 'Salmon Fishing' Definitely a BIG-Screen Movie....
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I'm really elated that sooooo many people here in the Wood River Valley have evidently enjoyed that wonderful "SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN" movie so much that it will start its FOURTH hugely-popular week at the Magic Lantern here in Ketchum this coming Friday. It's really a movie to rally around -- which is obviously what's happening here in the Wood River Valley, anyway!! :)
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Papa Hemi's Hideaway Lives On -- In Twin Falls....
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What a genuine treat it was to recently visit/have lunch at that wonderful, new Cucina Gemelli restaurant that former Papa Hemi's Hideaway owners Lynn Sheehan and Matt Van Der Noot have opened in Twin Falls. Just hope the next time I'm there on a Friday, it's in the EVENING -- so I can both have dinner there, and also see/hear that (I'm sure) stellar live jazz music they have there every Friday evening, from 7-10 p.m.
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Awesome idea!!
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Great idea, Lara; hope it only furthers to the success of your consignment shops!! :)
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'Salmon Fishing' Definitely a BIG-Screen Movie....
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I saw "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" last night at the Magic Lantern with a few friends of mine, and I think it's very safe to say that that romantic-comedy-melodrama would be on my "Top 10 Fave Films" list in ANY given film year. And it's definitely a movie you should see on the BIG screen, too (since it was filmed at some gorgeous locations in both Scotland and Morocco). It features some of the very best acting work I've ever seen from Ewan McGregor ("Moulin Rouge"), Emily Blunt ("Charlie Wilson's War", "The Devil Wears Prada") and Kristin Scott Thomas ("The English Patient"), and also some of the very best directing work I've seen yet from Sweden-born Lasse Hallstrom ("My Life As a Dog", "The Cider House Rules", "Chocolat", "Dear John", "The Hoax").
An absolute gem of a movie -- and one to genuinely treasure... :) |
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See "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence" in "Winter's Bone", "Burning Plain"...
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Fans of Jennifer Lawrence -- and I guess now that her new film, "The Hunger Games", has already made more than $200 million at the box office just in the U.S. alone!! -- would do well to rent the superb, poignant and extremely powerful 2010 drama, "WINTER'S BONE", that also stars Lawrence; both she and the movie are really amazing. Same can said also for 2008's "THE BURNING PLAIN" (starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger and Jennifer Lawrence) ... another cinematic gem that sadly didn't get much attention initially at the box office, but hopefully will now that Lawrence is a full-fledged star (and deservedly so).
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Lots of great YouTube footage of The Runaways!!
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I neglected to mention in that "Fave Films Of 2011" article I wrote here a few weeks back that there's a lot of really terrific footage of The Runaways in-concert ... including some surprisingly good footage of them performing in Japan in the mid-1970s, a country that very wisely and cannily appreciated Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and the other members of that shamefully underrated rock band longgggg before any of those "professional" music critics at publications such as "Rolling Stone" and "The New York Times" ever did.
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RE: About 'The Tree of Life'...
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By the way, special effects master Douglas Trumbull ("2001: A Space Odyssey", "Star Wars", "Brainstorm","Close Encounters" "Silent Running", "Blade Runner", etc) was lured back to Hollywood after a nearly 30-year absence from there to create those jaw-droppingly incredible special effects for the "comic sequence" in Terrence Malick's "Tree Of Life"...
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Skip Movies This Weekend, In Favor Of Second City (In Hailey)??
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Hey, going to the movies is often very fun -- I love going to them more often than not -- but please make time this weekend to also see that verrry funny and inventive Second City Troupe that's performing both tonight and also on Saturday night, at Hailey's Liberty Theatre, at 7 p.m. ( see http://www.companyoffools.org or call 578-9122 for more info). Hilarious stand-outs for me last night included the "2 Drunk Gals In a Taxi", "The Sweat Pants" and the "Absti-Dance" skits. There wasn't a single movie I saw last year (including "Bridesmaids" and Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris") that made me laugh HALF as hard as I did last night, watching the Second City Touring Company!!! :)
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Re: "'Fave Films Of 2011'
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I no sooner woke up this morning than I noticed several glaring omissions in my "Top 10 Fave Films Of 2011" list that I wrote/posted yesterday afternoon (most notably "Hugo" and "Hanna") -- two films that I think would be on my "Top 10 Faves" list in ANY given film year. (One of the verrry cool things about this extremely user-friendly SVO website is that you can go back and tweak/change your fave films list after you post it!! (LOL)
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About 'The Tree of Life'...
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I'm almost certain that the most hotly-contested film on my "Fave Films Of 2011" list is undoubtedly going to be what was easily the most hotly-debated and talked-about movie of 2011 as well: Terrence Malick's "The Tree Of Life". As with Malick's two previous films ("The Thin Red Line" and "The New World"), some viewers could barely sit through with it even just ONCE, while others (such as myself) saw it TWICE (and, truth be told, I'll probably eventually buy it on DVD, because I own all of Malick's other mesmerizing movies and I never cease to be equal parts amazed and dazzled by his extremely visual -- and often extremely audacious, too -- storytelling style). But even for viewers who WEREN'T baffled (as I was) by that incredibly audacious (and jaw-droppingly beautiful ) "cosmic" sequence that occurs about 25 minutes into the movie, you should really go to http://www.youtube.com and then type into its search engine there the words: "Father Barron Comments On Terence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life'"
The video's only about 10 minutes long, but it may go a long, long way toward making you understand -- and yes, maybe even APPRECIATE as well -- what Terrence Malick was at least TRYING to successfully address in that incredibly audacious "cosmic" sequence ... a sequence that was easily the most unforgettable one of any I saw at the movies in 2011. (By the way, there are clips of that "cosmic" sequence from "The Tree of Life" posted on YouTube, as well as a number of other interesting "Tree"-related videos). --John Pluntze |
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Gorgeous trees!!!
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Those trees at night are really spectacular!!! :)
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City-Manager/Council-Manager article
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There's a very timely -- and very inspired -- article about the City-Manager/Council-Manager form of govt. posted now at http://www.theblaze.com
"Beck Discovers Story Of One Town's Declaration Of Independence" ... an article that serves as a radiant and powerful example of what citizens CAN, indeed, accomplish when they're less-than-happy with their current form of city government. |
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Great City-Manager article at TheBlaze.com
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There's a verrrry timely -- and verrrry inspiring -- article about the City-Manager/Council-Manager form of govt. that was posted just yesterday at http://www.theblaze.com :"Beck Discovers Story Of One Town's Declaration Of Independence" ...
an article that talks about how understandably disgusted, disenfranchised and disillusioned citizens in Vernon, New Jersey more or less TOOK BACK their scandal-plagued town. Verrrry cool and radiant example of what people can do.... :) |
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Boise Weekly article by former Mt. Express staffer: Michael Ames
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By the way, that terrific article in this week's (Nov. 2-8) issue of the Boise Weekly ( http://www.boiseweekly.com ) about the upcoming Nov. 8th election for the proposed City-Manager switchover ("Ketchum Voters Will Decide On Power Shift") was written by Michael Ames, a former writer for the "Idaho Mt. Express" newspaper ... the irony of which is soooo NOT lost on me!!! (LOL)
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Randy Hall's flip-flop stance on City-Manager form of govt. for Ketchum
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It certainly seems more than a little odd, if not downright suspect, to me at this point that after enthusiastically broaching the notion back in 2009 of Ketchum switching over to a City-Manager form of government some in the near future, Randy Hall is now so unceasingly OPPOSED to that very same notion ... almost like -- ohhhhh, I dunno -- certain interests more or less TOLD him he better switch his stance, OR ELSE???
If you type in "City-Manager form of government" into your respective search engine, you will find a few examples where a City-Manager form of govt. arguably DIDN'T serve its citizens all that well. And ironically, one of the most glaring examples occurred right here in Idaho -- in McCall, a city which is currently dealing with a litany of fiscal problems. However, the very same crowd that seems to be staunchly AGAINST the Nov. 8th vote on this proposed City-Manager switchover -- the "If We Build Them (i.e., new, large, mostly-posh hotels), They (i.e., tourists) Will Come In Record Numbers" proponents -- evidently hasn't typed into their respective search engine something like "New Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa Not Attracting Tourists" ... yet another glaring example (one of many I can point to) where building posh, expensive new hotels in resort areas has NOT proven to be a success for either the developers or the residents at all. Maybe Ketchum should finally build a YOUTH HOSTEL first, and see how that does, before continuing down the primrose path of new hotels being its primary, if not sole, "salvation" going forward... |
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Heavily-Biased Campaigning???
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It was extremely gratifying to see in yesterday's (Wednesday) "Mt. Express" issue quite a few letters from Ketchum voters SUPPORTING the upcoming proposed switchover to a city-manager form of govt. here in Ketchum -- particularly since there mysteriously are so few signs around town publicly supporting the propossal, even though if you talk one-on-one with Ketchum voters, there obviously IS a lot of support for this obviously very controversial switchover. Personally, I think any campaign that's predicated on highly questionable (and deliberately nebulous)fear-mongering slogans such as "ALL Risk/NO Reward" is one that's bound to raise more than a few red flags in voters' mind ... and probably deservedly so.
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Mama Inez Really Rocks (again) --- in Ketchum!!!
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Sooooo awesome to have Mama Inez up and running once again -- and in KETCHUM, no less (which arguably was always theeeee best city for it)!! Everything I've had there so far (the tacos, nachos and especially those monster-sized "Deluxe" burritos) has been superb, as has the customer service!!! also, greatly appreciate those wonderful Buy 10/get 1 Free" punch cards of yours, too -- a terrific way to inspire repeat business that far too few businesses here in the Valley ever seem to want to bother with/offer their patrons.
Just hope people in Ketchum and elsewhere wisely rally behind this wonderful new incarnation of Mama Inez because it really rocks!! :) By the way, the Mama Inez phone number is: 726-0125 and the website is: http://www.mamainez.us And they're on Facebook, too.... :) --John |
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Terrific look at medical world of today...
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Thanks, Dave, for these terrific articles on the world medical insurance, and also U.S. politics as it pertains to the world of medical insurance, and also doctors. Ditto that "Marcus Welby, RIP" article you wrote for SVO back in May. Must-reading -- particularly for anyone terminally naive enough to think that the insanely-expensive "Obama-care" plan will prove to be a win-win for Americans ... which is most certainly won't be.
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Why are regular patrons ignored by businesses so often????
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I'm still more than a little skeptical about what sort of noticeable short- or long-term success this "Access Sun Valley" card will ultimately have here, but it DOES make me wonder again why so FEW business in the Wood River Valley (and elsewhere, too, for that matter) DO reward customers who regularly patronize their establishment (s)!! Other than South Valley Pizza's punch card (where you get a free pizza after buying ten of them), and the free lunch special you get at any of the Atkinsons' (after you've bought ten of those), I can't think of another Valley-based business offhand that does reward its regular shoppers with either some kind of much-appreciated (and deserved) freebie, or else something that's at least SUBSTANTIALLY discounted there. Seems to me that ENCOURAGING further patronage at businesses that we DO regularly shop at by offering the very sort of freebies or discounts I mentioned a second ago might be a really great way for many more people in the Valley to regularly RALLY AROUND local businesses here.
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"Islands in the Stream" is the best movie of Hemingway's work so far...
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The 1977 film version of Hemingway's unfinished novel, "Islands in the Stream" (starring George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Claire Bloom and Hart Bochner) is by far and away THE BEST film adaptation of any of Hemingway's works (the runnerup on that score is the film version of "The Killers", starring Burt Lancaster)
Adapted superbly by Ketchum's own Denne Bart Petitclerc and directed by Franklin J. Shaffner ("Patton", "Planet Of the Apes", "The Boys From Brazil"), this gorgeous-looking film for many years was only available sadly in a horribly CROPPED and WASHED-OUT VHS tape version. But the widescreen DVD of "Islands in the Stream" does considerable justice to the movie's often jaw-dropping visuals, although to be fair this film should arguably ONLY be seen on the BIG screen. Verrry powerful, poignant and otherwise unforgettable, "Islands in the Stream" is definitely a case where the movie is CONSIDERABLY BETTER than the book!! --John Pluntze writestuffidaho@gmail.com |
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Verrry cool photo, James; thanks for posting it!!!
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Big congrats, guys!!!!
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Awesome work, guys!!!!! :)
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TOAST of the towns...
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I feel more than a little stupid that it's taken me THIS long to finally get around to writing something substantial about the Wood River Valley-based band, TOAST (a genuinely wonderful high-energy and verrrrry inspired band I've been hearing verrrry good things about for more than a year now, but one that I only just heard myself for the first time quite recently -- at the Moose Girls Cafe, last Friday).
Much like Cow Says Mooo and FourStroke Bus, TOAST is an instantly-likable band you only want the best for, and I really hope that people here in the Valley turn out in droves to see 'em this weekend -- either at Hailey's Powerhouse bike shop & eatery (tonight, 8-10 p.m.), or at Ketchum's Moose Girls Cafe on Sunday (7-9:30 p.m.) --John |
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'Great' Photo Taken At Soldier Mountain
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That "great" photo someone e-mailed me about today that is featured in THIS (2010) SVO article about the Wood River Ability Program was taken several winters ago at Soldier Mountain (in Fairfield) -- and it was a verrrrry cool and otherwise unforgetable experience for us volunteeers during the many disabled-veterans races there that week... :)
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Re:Thanks Marc Mast, Dana DuGan, Heidi Albrecht, SVASP....
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A couple people have asked me this morning about the aforementioned raffle at The Wicked Spud; usually takes place about halfway thru the concert, around 8 p.m. or so....
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Re: Thanks Marc Mast, Heidi Albrecht, Dana DuGan, SVASP...
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Tonight's two fundraising recipients ARE, indeed W.R.A.P. and the S.V.A.S.P. -- and the band IS Up a Creek. An article published last month in the Express incorrectly stated that it was to be the SVASP and another Valley-based organization (and not WRAP), as well as another locally-based band ... which is NOT the case; WRAP (along with the SVASP) IS the recipient of tonight's fundraising efforts...
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Thanks Marc Mast, Heidi Albrecht, Dana DuGan, SVASP...
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I'm seldom, if ever, MORE honored and thrilled that I'm in a position to let people know about some of the many wayyyyy cool and inspiring things that are always happening here in the Wood River Valley than when I get a chance to write about events like this one. Even writing it at 4:15 in the morning today was fun -- but that's a radiant testament to Marc Mast, Dana DuGan, Heidi Albrecht and the people there SVASP (not to me)... :)
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Fundraiser Wednesday for Marc Mast's Veterans-Oriented Wood River Abiliity Program At Wicked Spud, 6-9:30 p.m.
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The Wednesday (July 6th) "Back Alley Party" concert at Hailey's The Wicked Spud from 6 to 9:30 p.m., courtesy of "BAP" organizers Dana DuGan and Heidi Glyph -- featuring local rock band, Up a Creek ( http://www.upacreekmusic.com ) -- will benefit Marc Mast's veterans-oriented Wood River Ability Program ( http://www.woodriverabilityprogram.org ), as well as Sun Valley Adaptive Sports ( http://www.svasp.org ).
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Thanks Dayle Fowler, Will Caldwell for "Jazz In the Park" series at Ketchum's Rotary Park
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Tonight's "Jazz In the Park" concert (from 6 to 8 p.m., at Ketchum's Rotary Park) featuring the legendary Yve Evans is bound to be a somewhat somber affair -- at least initially, anyway -- since its longtime (and much-beloved) sponsor, Dayle Fowler, was killed this past Tuesday in a four-car accident on Highway 93, near Jerome.
But what a genuinely wonderful, radiant and lasting testament that superb, free jazz-music series is TO Fowler's memory -- and also to local artist, musician and longtime Wood River Valley resident Will Caldwell ( http://www.willcaldwell.com ) who's been adroitly organizing and booking the many various jazz performers there since the Rotary Park series' inception (Caldwell books all the musical acts for the Tuesday "Ketch'em Alive!" concerts, and for those Thursday Ketchum "Town Square Tunes" concerts as well). |
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Best Of Luck Tonight, All-Nite Diner...
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I had one of the verrrrry best musical experiences of any band I saw at the Ketchum Town Square LAST summer -- when All-Nite Diner (featuring Hedi Hogan, Craig Meyers, Jason Vontver Ned Wheeler and Brad Pearson) totally slayed them audience there -- and I strongly suspect that tonight's Thursday All-Nite Diner concert there (from 6 to 8:15 or so) will likewise leave extremely grateful listeners wanting A LOT more of the (stellar) same from them ... and understandably so!!! :)
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Thanks Will Caldwell...
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Big thanks to local musician and artist Will Caldwell for organizing yet another summer's "Ketch'em Alive" concert series held every Tuesday evening frm 7 to 9 p.m. (at Ketchum's Forest Service Park) -- as well as those similarly-terrific Thursday evening Ketchum Town Square (free) concerts across from Atkinsons', from 6 to 8:15 or so. The Valley's extremely fortunate to have you in its midst, mister... :)
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Cow Says Mooo Sooo Doesn't Milk the Applause
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Big thanks to Cow Says Mooo for playing for an extra half-hour last night during the Ketchum Town Square/"Ketchum Town Tunes" concert there across from Giacobbi Square -- and also that terrific guest drummer, Dan Olbum, who sat in with the group for much of the evening. REALLY AWESOME show you guys put on!!!!
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Wood River, Middle School Music Students Rock!!/'Glee' Finale Tonight at 7
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If you weren't able to see any of those truly amazing and inspiring music students from Hailey's Wood River High and Middle Schools last week -- during one of those three standing room-only concerts there at the Liberty Theatre -- really try to make time this Wednesday to see them at Hailey's Community Campus, because they are something truly incredible to listen to ... EVERY BIT as passionate and committed to their music as any of those tremendously-talented kids on "Glee" are (which, btw, begins its two-part, Manhattan-based season finale tonight on FOX, at 7 p.m.)
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Why This article?!?!
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OOOOOO-kay, so why out of hundreds of articles I've happily written for SVO since 2009 has THIS one gone "viral?!?!?! (LOL) Not COMPLAINING -- not at all -- just a wee bit bafled is all... :D
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NEW 'Glee' Episode Finally Tonight (Tuesday) 7- 8 p.m.!! :D
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"GleeK" alert: NEW episode of "Glee" TONIGHT (Tuesday) -- FINALLY!!! -- from 7-8 p.m., on FOX (channel 6) ... the first of three or four in a row, I think, too. If you miss it, however, you can always watch it on http://www.fox.com or at http://www.hulio.com .... :)
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Lindy Stark & Co. REALLY ROCKED The (Brick) House!!!!
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I had nooo idea when I wrote this music column a few weeks back that it would end up being the very last one to include music being offered at Bellevue's The BrickHouse. Much like another greatly-missed/now-shuddered Valley venue that often happily featured terrific music as well as terrific food (Papa Hemi's Hideaway, in Ketchum), The BrickHouse quickly became a genuine "cheeleader" of sorts for a myriad of bands and individual musicians during its all-too-short 13-month life ... everyone from Sheryll Mae Grace, Good-Ju-Ju (Julie Konton & Sylvia Green) and The Branches, to the Kim Stocking Band, The Swamp Cats (a seriously kick-ass cool blues band out of Twin Falls that both Stark and BrickHouse co-owner Tom Nickel are understandably big fans of), and Cow Says Mooo (the last band I saw at The BrickHouse and easily one of my very faves anywhere here!!).
A bigggggg, big loss for the Valley -- not only in terms of the genuinely wonderful memories it gave people, but also for the myriad of often verrrry-talented musicians it periodically employed. Lindy & everyone else there REALLY ROCKED the (Brick) House.... :) --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Thanks Lara/The Dollhouse!!
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Thanks Lara for being so unceasingly conscientious where your customers are concerned... :)
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Congrats Cow Says Mooo!!!!
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Bigggg congrats to the superb Valley-based band, COW SAYS MOOO ( http://www.facebook.com/cowsaysmooo ),for stepping wayyyyyy OUTSIDE their "comfort zone" and writing a bunch of terrific new/original songs to compliment those superb cover tunes ("Angel From Montgomery," "Hard Sun", etc) they're justly famous for here. If you three WRITE songs even one-tenth as powerful as your PERFORM them, we're in for a real treat tonight at The BrickHouse!!!!
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All Nite Diner At Warm Springs Lodge Sat.& Sun 2-5
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As a late addendum to Friday's music column, the terrific Wood River Valley-based band, All Nite Diner (Heidi Hogan, Craig Meyers, Jason Vontver, Ned Wheeler, Brad Pearson) is performing today (Saturday) and also on Sunday at Warm Springs Lodge (622-6361,from 2-5 or so each day.
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Trumpeter Lew Soloff Rocks!!
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Really hope people this week make an effort to see the great,Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Lew Soloff at SV Resort's Duchin Room (622-2145) because he really is a "musical lengend" and we're verrry fortunate to have him here (until Sunday)
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Paul Tillotson at Duchin Room Tues-Sat
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Hey, in my haste yesterday to get my Friday SVO music column written/posted EARLY, I neglected to actually mention that the great Lew Soloff will be playing alongside the great Paul Tillotson at Sun Valley Resort's DUCHIN ROOM (622-2145) next Tues thru Sat., 4:30-8:30 p.m.
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Amazing bass player from Boston, Marty Ballou, TONIGHT (Sat.) at Duchin Room, 4:30-8:30!/Last night
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Hey, if you haven't had a chance yet to see/hear in-person that amazing bass player from Boston, Marty Ballou, that Paul Tillotson brought in to jam with him and rest of his seriously kick-ass jazz trio all this past week, Ballou's last night jammin' with them is TONIGHT (Saturday) from 4:30-8:30 p.m. in thr Duchin Room.
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Swamp Cats=Great Chicago Blues
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If you missed that seriously awesome Chicago-style blues band over the summer (during one of theiur numerous gigs at Bellevue's The BrickHouse), be sure to catch 'em tonight at The Silver Dollar. Hard to find that kind of AUTHENTIC blues music even in BIG CITIES these days!!!
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Thanks, Fletcher Brock!!!
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Thanks Fletcher for whatever part you played in bringing that terrific Matt Flinner trio back to the Valley again; you TOTALLY ROCK, mister!!!
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Salem band Is great!!!
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If you missed Salem when that band was here a couple-three years ago, during the 48 Straight weekend, they're definitely worth seeing tonight!!!
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Congrats to Dollhouse owner Lara Spencer & KSKI Program Director Jamie Canfield on their marriage!!!!
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Bigggg congrats to Dollhouse consignment shop owner LARA SPENCER and KSKI Program Director JAMIE CANFIELD on their recent marriage; you guy seriously rock in my book ... and you always will!!!! :)
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Check out Reverend Deadeye & the No Man Gospel Band Saturday
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Some really terrific music samples of Reverend Deadeye & the No Man Gospel Band posted at the website listed above!!!
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Last MOLLY VENTER (& Jason Vontver) concert at RIver Run tomorrow (Jan. 2nd), 2-5 p.m.
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Tomorrow (Sunday, Jan. 2nd), from 2-5 p.m. at River Run Lodge, marks the final concert featuring that award-winning folk singer-songwriter-guitarist (and ex-Ketchum resident) Molly Venter
( http://www.myspace.com/mollyventer ) before she heads back to her home in Austin, Texas for a couple of solo gigs there. Then in January, Venter begins an extensive West Coast tour with her fellow Red Molly trio bandmates Abbie Gardner and Laurie MacAllister ( http://www.redmolly.com / http://www.twitter.com/redmollyband / http://www.youtube.com/redmollyband ), before then heading to Florida with them in February for various gigs in that part of the country. Local acclaimed drummer Jason Vontver (who often performs with Craig Meyers' All Nite Diner band here in the Wood River Valley) will be performing alongside Venter tomorrow afternoon at River Run Lodge. --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Tonight's 'Talking Heads' Concert at Whiskey's Cancelled
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Sorry -- but I just got word that tonight's previously-announced Talking Heads tribute group (This Must Be the Band) WON'T be appearing at Whiskey's afterall.
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The Talking Heads at Whiskey's Tonight ...
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... or a verrrry cool and fun intrepretation of them, anyway -- courtesy of This Must Be the Band
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JAW-DROPPING b&w photo!!!!/Woody Allen's "Manhattan"???
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Incredibly glorious, sumptuous b&w imagery!!!!!! Reminds me ALOT of Gordon Willis' jaw-droppingly beautiful b&w cinematography in 1979's Woody Allen classic, "Manhattan"!!!!!!!!!!
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Phenom MOLLY VENTER at River Run 2-5 p.m. Fri., Sat. and Sun.!!!!
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Hey, because the details of it were arranged verrrry last-minute, there's probably not going to be any other WRITTEN articles, anyway, about that superb singer-songwriter-guitarist (and ex-(Ketchum resident) Molly Venter ( http://www.myspace.com/mollyventer / http://www.redmolly.com / http://www.youtube.com/redmollyband ) performing at the River Run Lodge from 2-5 p.m. tomorrow (Friday), as well as on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, so can you please help spread the word about those upcoming three 3-hour concerts there however you can, and as soon as you can? Thanks!!! :)
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James Bourret's Mountain Images Gallery now above Ketchum's Cellar Pub, on SV Road
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Since I wrote this "WAT?" column on James Bourret's verrrry cool and inspiring art gallery earlier this year, he has since relocated it (as of about two weeks ago); it's now above the Cellar Pub on Sun Valley Road, in Ketchum. Phone: 725-5801
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Three Chances To See Ethan Tucker/Whiskeys One-Year Anniv. Bash Sat.!!!!!
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WOW -- talk about an embarrassment of (musical riches, having THREE chances to see that amazing blues-reggae sensation, Ethan Tucker ... tonight (at 10 p.m., at The Roosevelt), tomorrow evening (at Bellevue's The BrickHouse, at 8 p,.m.) and next Wednesday (the 22nd, at Ketchum's Sego restaurant, also at 8 p.m.).
Also, there's THREE days of similarly-terrific music happening at Whiskey's as part of their one-year anniversary to celebrate their new building there on Main Steet -- tonight (the '80s/'90s rock-classics cover band, HOODWINK), tomorrow night (Pop Cult Kids), and Monday night (with Jerry Joseph and Wally Ingram) ... with music starting around 10 p.m. there all three nights. Verrrrrry cool, that.... --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Sharon Isbin and George Marsh Are Really Great!!!!
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For those of us who were lucky enough to see Sharon Isbin ( http://sharonisbin.com/ http://www.myspace.com/sharonisbinclassicalguitarist / http://www.last.fm/music/Sharon+Isbin ) when she performed here some ten years ago, her concert this coming Saturday night at Ketchum's Presbyterian Church Of the Big Wood is verrry exciting music news, indeed -- as is the retun of that incredible Delta blus player George Marsh (also on Saturday) at Bellevue's The BrickHouse bar & restaurant.
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Best Of Luck, James, on New Location!!!
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Glad you found a bigger and better space for your Ketchum gallery, James; your art works are REALLY GREAT!!
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Musician Ethan Tucker Returning To Ketchum On 17th, 18th and 22nd
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Fans of that extremely talented, Twin Falls-based reggae-blues musician, Ethan Tucker ( http://www.myspace.com/etuckermusic ), will be returning to Ketchum for three concerts celebrating the release of his latest album ("Lost Between!") later this month -- on Dec. 17th (at The Roosevelt Tavern), Dec. 18th (at The BrickHouse), and on Dec. 22nd at Ketchum's Sego restaurant.
He'll also have a concert in Twin Falls on Dec. 29th (at the Anchor Bistro & Bar), before embarking for gigs in Seattle, Tacoma, and in Hamilton, Montana. --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Rick Kessler's Son Is Amazing Poetry Slammer/See 'Gringo Choir' at Liberty Fri or Sat!!
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While I didn't mention it in today's music column (but ONLY because it wasn't MUSIC-oriented in nature), I was lucky enough to see Rick Kessler's son, Max, this past Spring when he performed a one-night-only solo poetry slam reading at his dad' Magic Lantern Cinemas.
I had nooo idea at all what to expect that night -- but it was easily one of the most riveting, moving and genuinely unforgetable theatrical events/experiences I've ever seen. A number of us who saw Kessler there that night were STILL talking about his amazing one-man show two weeks after we'd seen it, we were all soooooo blown away by his incredible energy, diversity, creativity and acting ability. Now Max Kessler, together with the rest of his award-winning "Gringo Choir" poetry slam group (Carlos Williams, Carrie Rudzinski, and Steve Subrizi), will be performing tonight and Saturday night at The Liberty Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, and $10 for students age 18 and under. Contact Company Of Fools ( http://www.companyoffools.org /578-9122 ) for more info. If the the other members of "The Gringo Choir" are even a TENTH as talented as Kessler is -- and I have no reason to believe that they aren't -- it's definitely going to be another truly amazing theatrical event this weekend!!! --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Good Ju-Ju Is Definitely Worth the Trip To Bellevue Thursday night!!!
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Well, if you were lucky enough this past summer to see one of the Wood River Valley's newest (but also, already, one of its most beloved) musical groups -- GOOD JU-JU -- then you don't probably need any coaxing about going to Bellevue's TheBrickHouse tomorrow (Thursday) night, where they'll be performing from 7:30-10 p.m or so.
But for those of you who maybe DIDN'T see them at Ketch'em Alive or Papa Hemi's Hideaway or KB's or The Wicked Spud or at the Thousand Springs Music Festival (near Twin Falls) over this past summer, you really might wanna make the extra effort on Thursday night to see these three verrrrry talented gals (Julia Konton, Sylvia Green and Julia Abrams) in Bellevue, because they REALLY ARE something quite special. (And the food there at The BrickHouse is pretty awesome, too!!!!!) I'm just saying.... : ) --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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FourStroke Bus' Lisa & Wade Will Be Greatly Missed...
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Not sure exactly what the future has in store for the terrific Valley-based band, FourStroke Bus ( http://www.fourstrokebus.com ), but in any case the upcoming departure (to Georgia) of its two extremely-talented lead singers-guitarists (and co-creators), Lisa and Wade Port, is certainly cause for at least some degree sadness for those of us who've grown verrrry fond of their amazing music during the past six years here in the Wood River Valley.
But I certainly DO understand their family-driven desire to return to Georgia, and I really hope this new exciting chapter of their lives meets with similar success and accolades. You guys SERIOUSLY ROCK... :) --John Pluntze |
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Student Singers Are Amazing!!!!!!!
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One of my verrrry favorite music memories from earlier this year -- and I've had ALOT of them!! -- was when I went to see the various extremely-talented student choirs from Hailey's Wood River High School and Middle School perform at the Liberty Theatre at one of their three standing room-only concerts they gave there last Spring ... and if the music those students perform tonight at the Community Campus is even half as electric and eclectic as the stuff I heard last spring was, it'll be an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING night of music for sure!!!
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Online samples music samples are great!!!
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The online samples of her music I've found are really great; bet she'll really rock the house here!!!
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November 11, 2010
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Very heartfelt
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Verrrry heartfelt and wonderful article, Dave; thanks for sharing your wonderful memories of your late pet with us... : )
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November 09, 2010
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Thanks Rico for the musician info/correction...
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Hi, Rico!!! Very sorry about the confusiuon regarding your musician-friend, Wes Walsworth!! I just now corrected my column and included a link to some of Walsworth's terrific music -- not Wes Walls'. Hope you get a great turnout there at The Silver Dollar tomorrow night!!!
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October 29, 2010
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Bigggg congrats to FourStroke Bus!!!
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WOW -- what awesome news about FourStroke Bus ( http://www.fourstrokebus.com ) coming out with their very first album!! Can't wait to hear it -- especially that incredibly beautiful, powerful and verrrry poignant song that Lisa Port wrote ("It's Your Life"). You guys are AMAZING!!!!!! See ya tonight in Elkhorn...
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October 22, 2010
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Tessa Bradley poster signing Saturday 12-3 at Chateau Drug...
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Although it's not exactly MUSIC-oriented in nature, I meant to mention in today's SVO music column that England-born, Hailey-based artist Tessa Bradley -- whom I verrry happily profiled in one of my "Where ART Thou?" columns last year for SunValleyOnline.com -- will be signing copies of her poster for this year's Wagon Days (and also hopefully selling the ORIGINAL painting that was selected for this year's September event) at Ketchum's Chateau Drug in Giacobbi Square, from noon-3 tomorrow/Saturday.
Call Tessa Bradley at 481-2207 for more info. --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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October 08, 2010
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Very cool moose video/Pioneer Saloon or Bigwood Bread co-workers of Molly Venter's???
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Be sure to check out that verrrry cool and fun Alaska moose video the Red Molly ( http://www.redmolly.com ) trio recently posted at:
http://www.youtube.com/redmollyband Hey, btw: Does anyone have any fond, interesting anecdotes, reminiscences, etc, of working with Molly Venter back in 2003, 2004, 2005 (when Venter was employed at the Pioneer Saloon and Bigwood Bread -- the two places here in town where she first began singing)??? Thought it might make for some entertaining entries in the "Comments" section if any of you out there DO... --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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October 06, 2010
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Voting reminder: Please do so before midnight TONIGHT (Sunday)
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Just as a reminder, for those of you who are fans of Wood River Valley singer-songwriter-guitarist Sheryll Mae Grace ( http://www.myspace.com/sheryllmaegrace / http://www.myspace.com/musicbyfreehand ), the voting block for that terrific new YOBISING song contest entry of hers ("In the Morning") ends at midnight tonight (Sunday), so please vote for her -- if you haven't already -- so she can advance to another round in the Yobi.TV contest semi-finals next week.
Got to: http://yobi.tv/yobising/semifinalists/view/452 to hear Grace's superb new song, and also to vote for her. Thanks!!! --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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October 03, 2010
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Sorry about that, Up a Creek....
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I DID actually change the original version of today's Friday music article to "Valley-based" Up a Creek band -- but not, I guess, before you saw the ORIGINAL version that I posted early verrry early this morning. Sorry about that...
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October 01, 2010
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TWO great rock bands at Whiskey's this weekend!!!
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Well, whatever else you do or don't see this weekend in the way of wayyyy cool music, I really hope that our many live music lovers here see AT LEAST ONE of those two terrific rock bands that are playing this weekend at Whiskey's: FourStroke Bus ( http://www.fourstrokebus.com ) tonight ... and Finn Riggins ( http://www.myspace.com/finnriggins ) on Saturday night -- two bands that seriously rock the house whenever they play.
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October 01, 2010
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Please vote for Sheryll Mae Grace again before Sunday midnight
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Please vote again for out terrific local singing & songwriting sensation, Sheryll Mae Grace, before this coming Sunday at midnight so she can advance to another round in the semi-finals:
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September 29, 2010
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Coooool Molly Venter/Red Molly music video!!
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What a seriously cool treat to see Molly Venter, along with her two fellow Red Molly ( http://www.redmolly.com ) band members, happily performing that Venter classic, "Happier Now," which many of us here over the years, of course, have seen Venter perform as a SOLO artist.
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September 29, 2010
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Bill Sims = Truly Extraordinary Blues Music!!!
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Hey, whatever other music you seek out this weekend -- and obviously there is A LOT to seek out -- be sure to check out that absolutely incredible blues legends, Bill Sims, Jr. ( http://billsimsjr.com / http://www.myspace.com/billsimsr ), who completely slayed audiences here last year when he performed at Whiskey's and then, a few months later, at The Boiler Room (when he was part of that two-day blues-music concert series that Paul Tillotson was gracious and generous enough to put together. To have musicians the calliber of Sims -- and also Lew Soloff, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Mike Merritt, and James Wormworth -- is a real, real coup for us here!!!
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September 24, 2010
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Texas fiddler Alisa Milner REALLY IS amazing!!!!!!!!
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For those of you who weren't fortunate enough to see Ian McFeron and Alisa Milner SERIOUSLY rockin' the house there at the SV Brewery back in January -- or even if you WERE -- tonight (Thursday) will probably be your LAST chance to see 'em anywhere in the Wood River Valley for awhile, since the band will be ensconced in a verrry busy cross-country U.S. tour until much later in the year, before they finally return to Seattle again.
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September 23, 2010
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GREAT idea!!!
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GREAT idea, guys; hope the block party is big success!!!
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September 23, 2010
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Larry & His Flask Are GREAT!!
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I saw Larry & His Flask last year at the SV Brewery and they are AMAZING; talk about a seriously high-energy band!!!
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September 20, 2010
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Free Caitlin Canty song downloads at Fanbridge.com!!!
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For those of you who fell in love with Caitlin Canty's unabashedly beautiful, heartfelt and othewise very inspiring Molly Venter-like ( http://www.myspace.com/mollyventer ) music when she performed at Ketchum's Sego restaurant recently, she is currently offering a number of free song downloads at her http://caitlincanty.fanbridge.com/ site. There are also some currently posted at her http://www.caitlincanty.com site.
The e-mail she sent me the other day indicates that Caitlin is verrrry excited about the prospect of returning to the Wood River Valley next summer -- and for a much longer stay, too!! -- so hopefully those of you here who didn't see her at Sego last week will have at least SEVERAL chances to hear her sing here next year. Fingers crossed... --Jon Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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September 16, 2010
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Please vote for Sheryll Mae Grace before Monday!!!
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I really hope that SVO readers out there who enjoy Sheryll Mae Grace's incredibly heartfelt and wonderful music WILL take a few minutes some time between now and Sunday night and vote for her in the current YOBISING song contest. At 24 years or age, Grace ALREADY writes at an emotional, psychological and spiritual level that most singers can't even come close to even when they're in their 40s or 50s:
http://yobi.tv/yobising/contestant/10513/sheryllmaegrace/in- --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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September 14, 2010
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Check Out Caitlin Canty Online Before Tonight's Sego Concert!!
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Caitlin Canty ( http://myspace.com/caitlincantymusic ) really has some terrifc stuff posted online; can't wait to see her and the other musicians she's coming here with performing at Sego tonight, from 7-10 p.m. or so!!
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September 09, 2010
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Rachel Corrie/Bali Szabo Letter Longgg Overdue!!
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I was re-reading this afternoon some of those articles from solomonia.com and elsewhere that I cited in that rebuttal letter-to-the-editor I recently sent to both SunValleyOnline.com and also the "Idaho Mt. Express" newspaper, regarding that verrry shallow and self-serving 9/1/'10 letter-to-the-editor Hailey's Bali Szabo wrote that was published in last week's "Express."
Never ceases to amaze and amuse me in equal measure how thinly-veiled Israel-hating Jews such as Szabo can simultaneously hide behind our Freedom Of Speech Constitutional amendment and then spend countless paragraphs arrogantly and short-sightedly attacking both Israel and, by extension, the United States as well (since we give Israel billions in aid every year -- much of it for military procurements of one sort or another -- in a very real sense ANYTHING that happens there in Israel, including the death of 23-year-old International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie in 2003, is, indeed, blood on AMERICA's hands, too). Sooooo nice that Bali Szabo gets to enjoy all the many, many freedoms of this country even while he -- and also his verrrrry kindred spirit/partner-in-crime, Don Liebich (who paid the travel expenses for Rachel Corrie's parents to come to the Wood River Valley so they could attend those two highly-controversial productions of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" at the nexStage Theatre, back in July -- is sooo busy accusing... (read more) anyone who dared protest those very same nexStage productions as being part of a" well-oiled Jewish PR hit squad." I honestly wanted to take a shower right after.... read more |
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Wolf Killings Are Needed!!!
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Let me preface what I'm about to say by saying first off that I've never been a hunter, nor do I have any desire to be (mainly because it seems to involve A LOT of sitting in one place and having to be quiet for a verrry long time -- two things I've never been particularly fond of, or otherwise good at AT ALL!!!!!! (LOL)
I eagerly attended a number of those very heated/contentious wolf-reintroduction meetings in the Wood River Valley back when I lived here in the early 1990s (at least one of which took place at Sun Valley's Limelight Room and involved two captivity-born wolves being escorted down the aisles and up to the front of the room there so we could all see for ourselves how "docile" and "non-threatening" wolves are (yeahhh, tell that to the young female teacher who was mauled to death by wolves earlier this summer in Alaska!!!) The current number of wolves in Idaho is easily DOUBLE the most optimistic projection that was ever made at any of those meetings in the early to mid-1990s about just how many wolves would, indeed, breed in the wild if they were allowed to do so. NONE of the so-called wolf "experts" -- either ones at those numerous early 1990s meetings I attended about proposed wolf-reintroduction in Idaho or elsewhere (which, btw, I was staunchly and vocally FOR back in those days; several of my 1991-'94-era "Mt. Express" letters on that very controversial subject are still posted at their website) -- have ever even once apologized or otherwise admitted they were wrong for having guesstimated such a laughably-low number of wolves that would eventually breed in.... read more |
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Cow Says Mooo, Ethan Tucker AND Sheryll Mae Grace All At the Very Same Location!!!!!!
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WOW---Sheryll Mae Grace ( http://www.myspace.com/sheryllmaegrace and http://www.myspace.com/musicbyfreehand ), Ethan Tucker ( http://www.myspace.com/etuckermusic ) AND Cow Says Mooo http://www.facebook.com/cowsaysmooo and http://www.myspace.com/cowsaysmooo ) -- not to mention Toast, Old Death Whisper/The Damphools and The Unbroken Chains bands, too -- ALL at the VERY SAME location; talk about an avid music lover's dream come true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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September 07, 2010
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'Mooo Heads' Unite Tonight (At The Roosevelt)!!!
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Hey, tonight at The Roosevelt will mark the very first time that one of the very best bands we currently have here in the Wood River Valley right now -- Cow Says Mooo ( http://www.facebook.com/cowsaysmooo http://www.myspace.com/cowsaysmooo ) -- will be performing there, starting around 9:45/10 p.m.-ish, and the turnout they (Danae Commons, Henno Heitur and Aquila Kashino) get there tonight may have A LOT to do with any future gigs they get offered at The Roosevelt this coming Fall and Winter, so it'd be really great if their many self-described "Mooo Head" (avid) fans out there who regularly and eagerly turn out to see them at venues asuch as Lefty's, Papa Hemi's Hideaway and Zenergy likewise come out to support them at The Roosevelt tonight as well.
I know tonight's going to be another verrry busy one for music, but these three are DEFINITELY worth making time for!!! --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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September 03, 2010
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Former Prince band member Gayle Chapman is amazing/see tonight at Zenergy!!
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Those verrry popular Zenergy outdoor-poolside concerts last summer offered a lot of really terrific music (Molly Venter, Steve Eaton Cow Says Mooo, FourStroke Bus, Hickory Blue, etc), but arguably the performer who surprised and wowed the people there the most -- and had them STILL talking in very positive terms weeks AFTER her concert there -- was Boise blues-jazz great (and former Prince band member), Gayle Chapman, whose unabashedly smoky and sultry Bonnie Raitt-like voice obviously thrilled and delighted the very large audience who graciously turned out to see her at Zenergy during her three-hour gig there.
Hopefully Chapman's much-discussed musical "lighting in a bottle" will repeatedly strike again at Zenergy tonight... : ) --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Read "15 Century War: Islam's Violent Heritage" (2002)
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Whether you do or don't agree with FOX News' "Red Eye" host Greg Gutfeld -- who recently broached the notion of building a gay bar in lower Manhattan right next to the proposed "Park 51 Mosque" there in lower Manhattan, near where the World Trade Center towers once stood -- I really hope SVO readers take the time to read Morgan Norval's 2002 non-fiction bestseller, "The Fifteen Century War: Islam's Violent Heriage" ... a book whose irrefutable importance arguably grows more and more with each passing year, and one, I think, it's verrry safe to say VERY FEW members of the press (either in this country or abroad) have ever bothered to read, but one that remains for me one of the very best when it comes radiantly exposing the inherent hypocritical and often completely contradictory notion of just what constitutes Islamic "tolerance" on ANY front!!!
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September 01, 2010
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Finn Riggins at Fresshies Tonight!!!
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Given their often very busy touring schedule -- and also given the fact they're VERY in-demand right there in the Boise area, too (which is where they live) -- tonight's Monday concert at Fresshies featuring that incredibly inventive, high-energy Finn Riggins band ( http://www.finnriggins.com and http://www.myspace.com/finnriggins ) may be one of your last chances to see those three verrry talented musicians (Eric Gilbert, Cameron Bouiss and Lisa Simpson) perform here in the Wood River Valley for awhile, so try to stop by sometime during their gig tonight and check 'em out.
That extremely crowded three-hour concert they gave at The Wicked Spud last Wednesday was just crazy-good!!!!!! --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Fave "Glee" moments from season 1????
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Having happily interviewed scores of people here in the Wood River Valley of ALL ages, backgrounds, preferences, etc, for that three-part series I wrote earlier this year for SunValleyOnline.com about FOX's hit musical-comedy series, "Glee," I thought it might be rather interesting and fun to have SVO readers here who ARE avid fans of that hugely-successful, award-winning TV series chime in with their own favorite moment or moments from season 1 (before season 2 begins its run in mid-September).
There are A LOT of fave moments for me: Finn Hudson's widowed mother (superbly potrayed by Romy Rosemont) tearfully telling her son (played by Cory Monteith) why she needs to have a man in her life again (after being alone for so long, after her husband was killed in Operation Desert Storm) ... and also why their rather stark house needs to become a "home" again; that incredibly moving and beautiful duet between Tony Award-winning "Wicked"/"Rent" actress Idina Menzel (where was HER much-deserved Emmy Award nomination ths year, btw?!?!?!?) and Lea Michele -- singing "I Dreamed A Dream" -- after Michele finally learns that Menzel really is her long-lost biological mother, afterall; that seriously kick-ass rendition that Matthew Morrison and guest star Neil Patrick Harris did of Aerosmith's "Dream On" (I say this as someone who HAS actually seen Aerosmith perform that song LIVE, and STILL thinks that the "Glee" version is absolutely terrific!!!); Jane Lynch's spot-on, superb, shot-for-shot replicated "Vogue" video sequence (for those of us who grew up primarily in the 1980s and '90s --.... read more |
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See Good Ju-Ju and/or The Branches Tonight (Tues.)!!!!!
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Depending on whether you're in the South and/or North Valley tonight, I can't recommend enough those two new amazing musical groups that have been quietly but steadily taking the Wood River Valley by storm here all this summer: THE BRANCHES (who'll be the Ketch'em Alive opening act here tonight, from 7-7:30 or so) ... and GOOD JU-JU (who'll be playing at The Brickhouse in Bellevue tonight, from 8-11 p.m.)
They are absolutely worth making time for!!!!!! Btw, the Wood River Valley's own Ariel Hansen did a terrific article about THE BRANCHES in the 7/30/'10 issue of the Times-News. Go to http://www.magicvalley.com and then type "The Branches" into the Times-News search engine there to read her article, and also to hear a brief music sample of them in action during one of their rehearsals in Hailey, back in July. --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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Ethan Tucker AND Voice of Reason at Apple's today (Saturday)!!
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I called Apple's yesterday and found out that that terrific reggae-blues musician who's played here numerous times in the Valley -- and ALWAYS to verrry appreciative audiences -- Ethan Tucker ( http://www.myspace.com/etuckermusic ) will ALSO be playing here today (Saturday), so the current music lineup at Apple's in Warm Springs today is:
Voice of Reason: 4:30-6:30 or so and then... Ethan Tucker 6:45-9 or so. Sorry I didn't learn about it sooner, but better late than NEVER, right??? --John Pluntze WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com |
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