Tuesday, December 13 · 5:30pm - 11:30pm
Linen Building | 1402 W. Grove St. 
Cost: FREE!!

Join us as we wrap up this year’s Care2Share effort! Twenty Treasure Valley families will have a brighter Christmas because of your generosity - and we plan to celebrate!

Vinyl Preservation Society and The Naughties will provide musical entertainment as we wrap all the donated gifts and share some good cheer.

Show up, wrap up, drink up (in that order).

Idaho Cab Co. has offered to provide free rides for all wrappers.

Monday, December 19 - Wednesday, December 21 · 8:00pm
Visual Arts Collective | 775 Fulton St. 
Cost: $8 - $10

Sex… Lies… Santa…? Disenchanted with the usual sugar-coated holiday entertainment? Tired of the same old, traditional shows that push enough good cheer and uplifting, seasonal sweetness to send most of the Treasure Valley to the hospital in a diabetic seizure? This December, Daisy’s Madhouse offers audiences a hysterical alternative with Jeff Goode’s acerbic play, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues.

Friday, December 9 · 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Trey McIntyre Project HQ | 775 Fulton St. 
Cost: FREE

36 Artists present their distinct portrayals of Trey McIntyre Project. Come meet the artists, meet the dancers, and be among the first to browse and purchase these exciting new works!

This year’s projects from new and returning artists range from gold leaf sculptures to candy portraits, to bicycle bags, to a chandelier, and much much more! A perfect chance to find something one-of-a-kind for the holidays.

Saturday, December 3 · 6:30pm - 1:00am
The Showroom @ The Empire Building | 201 N. 10th St.
Cost: $5 donation

Annual fundraiser will feature live local music, marked by countdowns at the top of the hour every hour. Live bands as well as DJs will be performing a one-of-a-kind party! Silent auction items from local businesses and artists, including MUNNYS from The Record Exchange (on display now at Record Exchange).

Rad Live Music Lineup:
Finn Riggins
Le Fleur
Atomic Mama
Storie Grubb & The Holy Wars
Bonefish Sam & His Orchestra
Run on Sentence

Friday, December 2 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Neurolux | 111 N. 11th St.
Cost: $10 | 21+

Coming straight out of Springfield, MO., Ha Ha Tonka specialize in disarming and effortless anthems that owe as much to high and lonesome Ozarks mountain music as chugging college rock.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY) is an indie pop band from Springfield, Missouri. Their first full-length album Broom, independently released in 2005, received good reviews from and they are now signed with Polyvinyl Record Co.. The band’s name refers to Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia (1990–1999). -Wikipedia

Friday, December 15 · 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Visual Arts Collective | 3638 Osage St.
Cost: FREE

Porter Jensen, the two year old son of Mandy Riley and Nels Jensen has been diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer. The good news is that we’re expecting a full recovery, but the bad news is that the treatment is insanely expensive.

We’re throwing a fundraiser at the Visual Arts Collective on Dec. 15th featuring live music by some of Boise best musicians and a fine art auction that will feature work by a veritable who’s who in the Boise art scene.

Auction will run from 6:30 to 10pm, but the party could go all night.

This is a great chance to hang out with some fantastic people, buy some incredible art, hear some great live music! All while supporting 3 of the best people you could ever hope to know

Music lineup: Dan Costello, Hillfolk Noir, and Bill Coffey, Sean Hatton and Dave Manion

Friday, November 11 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Neurolux | 111 N. 11th St. (yep, seriously)
Cost: $8-$10

This Friday, at the 11th second and the 11th minute after the 11th hour, the date and time will form a 12-digit palindrome. It will be 11:11:11 on 11/11/11. We have had, since 2000, 10 such sextuplet moments, from one minute past one on January 1, 2001, to 10:10:10, on October 10 last year. This Friday’s alignment, however, is the only one to consist entirely of a single digit, and — assuming we don’t suddenly switch to a calendar with 22 months — will be the only moment of its kind for 100 years.

For the cynics it’s an inevitable and unremarkable coincidence, if not a wilfully manufactured oddity. After all, the date written in full is actually 11/11/2011. Which is considerably less striking. For the superstitious though, it’s a moment to be cherished; Indian newspapers have reported a sharp spike in social event bookings for the day, and film-maker Darren Lynn Bousman has used the date as inspiration for 11/11/11, a horror story about a monster that enters our world at 11:11, through the 11th gate of Heaven. Making a feature film or a life-long commitment to another human being could be called an over-reaction to a long line of ones. Still, we needn’t be horseshoe-clutching fortune hunters to at least acknowledge the moment. It shouldn’t be hard to keep track of either — 11:11:11 falls just moments after the two minutes’ silence remembering the armistice. This year, why not add another 11 seconds of silent contemplation, not, this time, for the war dead, but for this charmingly meaningless quirk of the Gregorian calendar? After all, the odds are that we won’t live to see its like again. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2011

Friday, November 11 · 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Payette Brewery | 111 West 33rd Street
Cost: FREE!

BYP offers a fun, purely social event with no agenda other than meeting other young professionals. These events offer drink specials to BYP members and take place at a different location every other month. These events are free to BYP members and guests. BYP members receive a wristband, which allows them to receive drink specials. Food will be provided by Idaho BBQ Company.

Food can be purchased and brought into Payette Brewing Co.

See you there!