Anybody know anything about the Grove hotel being for sale. Maybe that is what happens when you book REO and Styx next door!!!!

Sometimes you get an e-mail that sez it all. . . Here is one!

Hi all:

I am a good friend of Lori B!’s and just wanted you all to know that my new band is playing at Shaker’s, Sept 7th @ 9pm. �The address is 199 N 8th, Boise. ��We play 70’s to present Rock & Roll and a little dance funk in for fun.

Hope to see you there. �Some I know are saying…WHO THE HECK ARE YOU? �Some, I don’t know, most I do. �You’ll remember once you see me.

Thanks for the support and hope to see ya out there!

Bon

The old Peter Shotz restaurant location in the historic Idanha building will soon be sporting an Indian food restaurant. Understand this is a family affair and early indications sound good. Hope this works out, apparently the family who are going to run the new venture are quite nice.
Good Luck to them.

The simplest of dishes can be the hardest for a restaurant. When eating a red pepper stuffed with a dilled goat cheese or a guava granita desert, can you tell if it is great or not? Me, haven�t had many goat cheese stuffed peppers!!

Spaghetti we all know. So when you order spaghetti it better be good. Gino�s in downtown Boise has spaghetti and meatballs on the lunch menu. Personally I love meatballs. So when my plate arrived I was expecting it to be at least OK. Hard to screw up a meatball, red sauce and pasta, right? Well many Italian restaurants can, especially the chains by the mall. They over work the recipe. Adding odd spices or heaping the sauce over weird pasta shapes. Guess they do this so their spaghetti looks different from the plate down the street. Gino? No! This is the SPAGHETTI and MEAT BALLS , a Marinara Sauce that is bold and smooth, al dente� spaghetti pasta and big lightly spiced Meat Balls.

If you want lots of pasta and a couple of golf ball sized meatballs go drive down MIlwaukee. Pull over at the first tan stuccoed building with a red roof. You may have to wait with everyone else and enjoy less than medium service but hey it�s the same meal you can get anywhere right?

Me ? I�ll be at Gino�s

Here is a portion of a letter/review that Nancy McIntosh sent to bbs members Saturday morning. Says it all!!

Wow, awesome, oh my gosh….raves, raves, raves for Jerry Hardy and J.P. Productions first night of the two day event “Caldwell Blues in the Park.”� All I can say people is that�if you missed the Friday night blowout at Creekside Grill and Music of the Vine you’ll be hearing from those that went what a FANTASTIC time it was!� Joe Craig Jones was a treat and our own Ken Harris joined him for a set on accordion.� What glorious fun!� What a charming man Eddie is…still a magnet for the women and blows that sax and harmonica like nobody’s business!� His son, Eddie “Van” Shaw proves that talent is in the genes folks!� He is hot, hot, hot and the universe will be hearing more from this man!�

A big tip of the hat to Mike Bunell of the Record Exchange for the wonderful job of picking music for Alive after Five. Went to see the �Waybackers� this Wednesday. Perfect example, these guys kick it. Not sure what to call them, not many rockers have a fiddle, not many country bands rock this hard. Hope the DBA folks are smart enough to keep this up!

A new pizzeria well soon show up next to Egyptian theater on the Capitol side. Apparently the easterners are friends of Italian restauranteur Gino(review soon) and are looking forward to showing Boiseians a great New York Pizza.

If you haven�t seen the Georgia O� Keeffe exhibit at the art museum, please do yourself a favor and go. Not only are the paintings beyond belief, the photography of her lover, Stieglitz and his student Todd Webb are also remarkable.

Congratulations to Jerry Hardy on the success of the Caldwell Blues in The Park. It is darn hard to make a music fest happen and Caldwell is thriving and expanding to two days. Wow!
Friday night looks like fun, Eddie Shaw was a huge success at the old Blues Bouquet. See you there.