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Bitner’s fat cab, Banh Chung, lasagna, reuben sandwich challenge and Judgment Day…

What’s for dinner:

• Behind the Menu: Au Pair: Bitner’s Fat Cab and an “Eye of Rib Eye”.
• Mundovore: Celebrate Lunar New Year Vietnamese Style with Banh Chung.
• Northwest Food News: Food, Up Close and Personal.
• Doin’ it all, Idaho Style: AMY & REE: Lasagna (week 5).
• Boise Foodie Guild: The “Reuben Sandwich” Challenge!
• Eat Boise: French Toast with Homemade Bread.
• The Coffee Guy: Part coffeehouse, part gift shop, part art gallery, part hangout: Flying M.
• Chadder’s seeks success in burger-chain world. “Where’s the beef?” yelled an old lady on the television screen located in a typical suburban household somewhere during the 1980s. Since then, Dave Thomas of the popular Wendy’s franchise has become a household name. Dave Thomas did it, and now Boise gets to experience the beginning stages of a little guy making it in the big burger chain world.
• Introducing Kuna Melba News Business of the Month: Peregrine Restaurant in Kuna.

Happy hour specials:

• Beer & Whiskey Brothers: Judgement Day!
• Indian Creek Winery: Valentine’s Weekend FUN FUN FUN!
• Orr: Black IPAs are a full-blown trend. Black is back. Have you noticed the large assortment of black beers, particularly black IPAs, that are showing up on the shelves of your favorite beer store or tavern?
• Idaho Brewing: A Great Brew Session.
• Treasure Valley Food and Wine Blog: Wine tasting with the Idaho Conservation League and Cinder.
• Caldwell may consider Sunday liquor sales. Bar owners in county seat say they are losing customers to other cities. At least two Caldwell bar owners want to approach the city to see if they can sell liquor-by-the-drink on Sundays — and some officials say they will look into lifting the ban on the sales if approached by businesspeople.
• Mad Men…and Martinis. If you visit the Modern Hotel and Bar in Boise on First Thursday for the next few months, you may feel as if you’ve stepped back in time…or at least onto a television soundstage. The women are in form-fitting vintage dresses. The men are sporting pencil-thin neckties…and there’s the occasional lipstick on the collar. Boise State Radio’s George Prentice visits the Modern for a preview of “Mad Men and Martinis.”

You know what is awesome? It seems like each week we have access to a growing number of outstanding beers in the Boise area. That is awesome.

Brewforia has been on a hot streak lately, they’ve got Hell or High Water Watermelon Wheat, Brew Free or Die IPA and Monk’s Blood Belgian Strong Dark Ale all from 21st Amendment Brewery and the bonus is that they are all in cans. Also in are some Southern Tier Choklat, Krampus and Jahva, some new vintages from Pike Brewing and 3767 Belgian IPA from Midnight Sun that you have to try, it is outstanding. They also just got in 2 cases of Stone Cali-Belgique which is one of my new favorite beers, but you might want to get some quick, it’s moving very quickly.

Click below for an update from Beerguy Matt at the Boise Co-op.

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Addicted to the internet, Grainey’s, Harvard, embarrassing, Alice Housel and Super Bowl highlights…

• Pax, Amor, et Lepos in Iocando: Too Dependent on the Internet? Me?!?? So my coworker and I are watching a TV show on DVD tonight and got into a dispute over the identity over a guest star. I said it was so-and-so, he said it couldn’t be–so-and-so wouldn’t take a small job like that, and wasn’t that short. I countered with the evidence that the guy hadn’t had a job in years, so he wasn’t likely to be picky, and yeah, he was a shrimp. So, naturally I went off to imdb.com to settle the argument before my friend made a bigger fool of himself (sure, I had to grant the possibility that I was wrong, but come on…)

• boiSee.com: Graineys-No Live Music?
• Cool, Calm & Collected…: Anniversary #3.
• The Mega Frontier: The truth comes out: Harvard wrecked the economy.
• AnchorMommy: Embarrassing. Just so embarrassing.
• FameFifteen: Spotlight Video on Alice Housel.
• Boise Arts: Roundup.
• Boise Record Exchange: In Store Player for the Week Ending February 7th.
• Fort Boise: Super Bowl highlights.
• Idaho Gardener: Gardening 365, Day 38.
• Inspired Designer: Karim Rashid | Flooring.
• lili von shtupp: I’m Smitten.
• OBNUG: Boise State’s numerical roster: What Bronco player will wear No. 1 next year?
• Rob’s Idaho Perspective: Bird Nerds.
• The Justice Gambit: More Problems for US and the Underclass We’ve Built.
• the Trespasser’s Pilgrimage: Epic Fights Need Epic Warcries.
• Boise Daily Photo: Medical Building Table Rock View.
• Boise Style: Built for Kilts . . .
• In The World…: Happy ‘Murph’Day, Buddy!
• 200 Books: The Chestnut King.
• Avimor Birding Blog: Idaho Birder: Brian Cooper.
• Caffeinated Marketing: Social Media Etiquette.

I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one, but I was less than thrilled by this year’s Super Bowl ads, it didn’t seem like there were any that stood out from the pack. I don’t think I ever got past a subtle laugh — now the game, that is a completely different story, one of the better Super Bowls I’ve seen in some time.

What were your favorite ads? Any that you thought were complete duds?

Let’s just say the clues are out there.

F-35’s, who lobbies, clean energy, irrational pessimism, tapping the reserves and Sarah…

Media:

• Kevin Richert: Otter: F-35 is ‘one of Idaho’s biggest economic development stories in years’.
• NewWest Boise: Clean Energy Entrepreneurs Gather to Learn How to Cash In.
• Ridenbaugh Press: Who lobbies.
• Eye On Boise: Allred faults Otter for ‘irrational pessimism’.
• Idaho Statesman editorial: Luna’s smart idea — tap reserve dollars to help Idaho school kids. That will mean fewer dollars to help early elementary students pick up reading. Fewer dollars to help all students improve their math skills. These are among state schools Superintendent Tom Luna’s favorite programs – initiatives that are improving student performance.
• Delegation responds to Lunas fund plan. Legislature 2010: Lawmakers offer both support, concern about proposal to draw money from reserves for schools. Legislators who represent Canyon County have differing views on Idaho Superintendent Tom Luna’s proposal to siphon more than $52 million from state endowment fund reserves to soften a financial blow to Idaho’s K-12 education budget next year.
• Idaho’s Legislative Democrats hone a new strategy. As the leader of the tiny Democratic delegation in the Idaho Senate, Kate Kelly has learned to navigate the body’s elaborate rules for any edge she can find to help advance the party’s agenda.

Blogs:

• Notes From The Floor: The Empty Room.
• Fort Boise: Free market principles.
• The MountainGoat Report: The Palin Plan: Simple As That.
• idaho18: Week Four Recap: Its all about jobs.
• 43rd State Blues: Sarah does the hand jive.
• Boise Guardian: Governments Fight Each Other With PR Efforts.
• Idaho Reporter: Otter’s editorial stumps for F-35.
• Idaho Speaks: The Boise missionaries in Haiti.
• Left Side of the Moon: And What the Hell, Sarah?
• The Johnson Post: Hidden in Plain Sight.

Latest Idahoans in Haiti updates, Michael Hoffman, Jacksons, kidnapping and Idaho Power…

• Idahoans Haitian lawyer dismissed. Detainees: Allegations of bribe for missionaries’ release arise; attorney denies claim. The Haitian lawyer for 10 U.S. Baptists – most from Idaho – charged with child kidnapping tried to bribe the missionaries’ way out of jail and has been fired, the attorney who hired him said Saturday night.
• Somber Sunday: An anxious pastor encourages congregation to keep praying for 10 detainees in Haiti. If not for their strong faith, the stress of the past week might have been too much to bear for the congregation of the Central Valley Baptist Church.
• Idahoans in Haiti: ‘We fear for our lives’. The plea from the detainees came Saturday even as the Times of London reported a possible deal for the release of nine of them negotiated by former President Bill Clinton. Here’s what we know about the American detainees and how the situation become so confused.
• Silsby ‘lying,’ detainees say. Eight of the 10 Americans detained in Haiti are turning on their one-time leader, according to a report Saturday from NBC Nightly News.
• Why Haiti is so upset with the American detainees. In fall 2008, a pastor traveled through the barren countryside of Haiti asking parents to give him their children. He promised an education and a better life at an orphanage he said was bankrolled by Americans.
• Local benefit aims to put focus back on relief in Haiti. While much news coverage is on the ten Americans who’ve been charged with kidnapping in the earthquake-torn country, two Boiseans held a benefit to raise money for food, water and medical treatment in Haiti.
• Church doesn’t react to note from jailed Idahoans.

• Michael Hoffman brings latest film to Boise. Boise-based filmmaker Michael Hoffman brings his latest film to Boise to benefit the community.
• Jacksons Food Stores buys Shell stores in Washington. Jacksons Food Stores, based in Meridian, has purchased 53 Puget Sound-area service stations and convenience stores along with the rights to provide fuel to 42 others in Western Washington.
• Police: 3 teens kidnapped 12-year-old boy earlier this week. Nampa Police says on Monday, authorities received a call of a missing 12-year-old boy who had not returned home from school. Officers began a search of the area and at 6:55 p.m. the boy was located.
• Report: Taliban threatens to execute Hailey soldier. Stars and Stripes is reporting that the militants are demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, who was tried and convicted in New York of 2 counts of attempted murder.
• Idaho Power plans more generation from wind. Idaho Power’s new plan for meeting anticipated customer energy needs for the next two decades shows the utility’s energy portfolio will grow increasingly diverse with a heightened emphasis on renewable sources. Idaho Power filed its integrated resource plan for 2009 with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission in December.
• Bus driver Olympic-bound. Middleton resident Albert Wilson, a motor coach operator for Boise-Winnemucca Stages/Northwestern Trailways, is one of six Treasure Valley bus drivers who are bound for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Police find man distributing racist fliers at BSU. Police say they found the person on campus making more copies of the literature and say it seemed he was going to hand them out. Officials say they don’t believe he’s from Boise or a student at BSU.
• Couples killer pleads guilty. Murderer Pete Kimball Roberts pleaded guilty Friday in 3rd District Court to two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing deaths of Bob and Idella Young of Nampa. Roberts and his attorney reached a plea agreement that withdraws the death penalty and drops two counts of first-degree kidnapping.
• Murders nosedive in Canyon County. When it comes to murder, Canyon County no longer takes the lead over its more populous neighbor. Canyon law enforcement leaders say an intense focus on gang-busting is a big factor in reducing the county’s body count. But so is luck.
• Goats Shot. A Caldwell family is wondering if they are safe tonight, after someone shot and killed their goats