zzzdon'tuseMichael Deeds
DEEDS: If Van Halen actually rocks, there is hope for us all
It’s been tough to rally up much enthusiasm for the new Van Halen album, “A Different Kind of Truth,” which arrives Feb. 7.
zzzdon'tuseMichael Deeds
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: Road trip! Rock out at Whiskey Jacques’ in Ketchum
KETCHUM It’s Friday night at Whiskey Jacques’, and a local, bespectacled man has just armed himself with an acoustic guitar on stage in front of the buzzing crowd.
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: New event center plans concert Revolution
Before he traded his backstage pass for a less-glamorous detour as a land developer, promoter Creston Thornton, the public face of Bravo Entertainment and The Big Easy Concert House, had spent a decade revolutionizing the Treasure Valley music scene.
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: TV news: In space, no one can hear you scream
If you’re still scratching your head about KTRV Channel 12’s decision to dump local news programming last month, you might want to eyeball the November 2011 sweeps ratings.
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MICHAEL DEEDS
New pub, The Taphouse, to open in Downtown Boise
There’s no such thing as too much beer. That’s the philosophy behind The Taphouse, a 44-tap brewpub planning to open in February in the former Lobby space at 760 W. Main St.
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: Looking back at Boise in ‘11 and forward to ‘12
There was no overarching entertainment trend in the Treasure Valley this year. (Guiltily penny pinching while spending your hard-earned dough on fun?) So instead of manufacturing trends, let’s just take a scatterbrained look backward and forward at the stuff that stood out:
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: Treefort, SXSW are good signs for Boise music
Like setting out milk and cookies for Santa, ragging on Boise’s music scene is a beloved, longstanding tradition among local fans and musicians.
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: Local musicians deliver second Christmas CD
If you’re looking for an inexpensive gift that is charitable, cool and useful, you can’t beat the local-music compilation CD “IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java.”
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: 100 greatest guitarists! The list we love to hate
Rolling Stone has to be feeling pretty good about life right now.
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: Boise State’s blue turf shows up in hip-hop song
F ile this under the category of Just When You Thought Things Couldn’t Get More Depressing For Boise State
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MICHAEL DEEDS
Deeds: After ASCAP dust-up, music stops at TableRock for now
After an ASCAP representative visited TableRock Brewpub last week, concerned local musicians are firing emails back and forth like Judas Priest guitarists exchanging hot licks.




