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The Vitals
What's actually happening outside
☀️Weather
56° / 35°F
clear and cold tonight, about 35 · Friday 59 with increasing clouds · Saturday 66 with an afternoon southeast breeze · dry all weekend
🌅Daylight
7:26 AM / 5:30 PM
standard time since Nov. 1 · sunset now lands before 5:30
🥾Foothills Trails
No new report
Ridge to Rivers' last weekend report was Oct. 23 · a dry weekend ahead · stay off any trail that's still muddy
🍂Cottonwoods
No new report
Ridge to Rivers' latest color note has leaves turning on upper trails and along waterways · nothing newer posted
❄️First Frost
35°F tonight
chilly, calm nights with patchy fog possible in sheltered spots · warmer nights by next week
🌬️Air Quality
AQI 30
light winds and possible overnight valley inversions through Saturday (NWS)
ⓘA dry, mild weekend: 59 Friday, 66 Saturday with an afternoon breeze, 65 Sunday. Tonight drops to about 35 with possible fog in low spots, and next week warms toward record highs by Wednesday.
What each one means
- Weather clear and cold tonight, about 35 · Friday 59 with increasing clouds · Saturday 66 with an afternoon southeast breeze · dry all weekend
- Daylight standard time since Nov. 1 · sunset now lands before 5:30
- Foothills Trails Ridge to Rivers' last weekend report was Oct. 23 · a dry weekend ahead · stay off any trail that's still muddy
- Cottonwoods Ridge to Rivers' latest color note has leaves turning on upper trails and along waterways · nothing newer posted
- First Frost chilly, calm nights with patchy fog possible in sheltered spots · warmer nights by next week
- Air Quality light winds and possible overnight valley inversions through Saturday (NWS)
The Rundowntoday in 40 seconds
- 01A market that moved six times in six years finally lands.
- 02Dry weekend holds, then the valley flirts with record highs Wednesday.
- 03A $5 breakfast buys the hangar too — beat the noon cutoff.
- 04A 1950s housewife's world that turns uneasy, with a $5 cake-or-peep token.
- 05Three Steelheads games off for ice, no makeup dates yet.
Today's Edition
Idaho Central Arena stays shut Friday and Saturday after three Steelheads games got pushed for ice conditions — Local Hustle has what ticket holders should do. The Forecast is the one to check before you book the morning: dry all weekend, then a run at Veterans Day records.
The Table points you to the Boise Farmers Market's first Winter Market Saturday at the Idaho Botanical Garden — the same garden where we sent families for the Scarecrow Stroll last month, now its permanent home. Family Budget has a $5 veterans breakfast in Nampa, and Arts & Culture opens a 1950s housewife's world in Garden City.
One door downtown stays shut this weekend; another opens for good at the Botanical Garden.
— The Editor
Cover illustration
THE TABLE
The farmers market finally has an address that sticks
The Winter Market opens Saturday at its new permanent home.
Six winters, six addresses — the Boise Farmers Market has spent that long chasing a place to stand still. Saturday it stops moving. The Winter Market opens 9 to 1 at the Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Rd., and the market calls the Garden its permanent home now, after a run of temporary winter spots it counts at six locations in six years.
The market says it has moved or significantly adapted four times in 13 years, and that each move was costly. Starting in 2027 the Garden carries an April-through-December season. The Shoreline Drive summer run wrapped in October.
What the vendors carry, per the market: local seasonal vegetables and fruit, locally raised meats, breads and pastries, honey, jams and sauces, fresh-roasted coffee and ready-to-eat food. Parking, for once, isn't the fight. More than 800 designated spots sit in the Old Penitentiary Historic District, and a renovated 144-spot Parking Garden lands you 5 to 20 yards from the vendors. The market still nudges you toward walking, biking or transit.
What to buy, roughly:
• If you're undecided: a cup of the fresh-roasted coffee and a pastry, then walk a lap before you commit to anything heavier.
• If you want the full morning: start at the ready-to-eat food, then load up on seasonal vegetables and a locally raised cut for Sunday dinner.
• If you already know: honey, jams and sauces — the shelf-stable haul that pays back the drive.
The Garden went in back in 1984 on old prison grounds beside the Old Idaho Penitentiary, on land leased from the state. Saturday morning runs dry, so there's no weather excuse.
Bring: anyone who likes a slow Saturday morning and a reusable bag, kids included.
📍 Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise 🕒 Saturdays 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Nov. 7 through Dec. 19 💰 No admission fee listed ★ Best value: the 144-spot Parking Garden, closest to the vendors
A market that spent six winters on the move finally settles on old prison grounds, next door to the one address in Boise built so nobody could leave.
— The Table: six winters, six addresses — the seventh is the one you can finally put in your calendar.
Six winters, six addresses. The seventh is meant to stick.
Source · Boise Farmers Market
THE FORECAST
56° / 35°
Dry all weekend, then a run at Veterans Day records
MOOD OF THE SKY: SETTLED. A ridge builds overhead and takes the fight out of the sky — three dry days, cool mornings, nothing out there to reroute a plan.
Tonight runs clear and cold, down around 35 with the wind light and variable. Friday brings in more clouds and a high near 59, the air barely bothering to move. Watch for patchy fog early both mornings in the sheltered basins, where the ground sits low and still and the ridge pins it in place. Sunset lands at 5:29 Friday, so the afternoon errand window closes fast now.
Saturday is the warm one and the breezy one. Mostly cloudy, then it opens up gradually sunny to a high near 66, and a south-southeast wind gets going in the afternoon with gusts as high as 20. Saturday night eases to 43. Sunday comes up partly sunny and 65. A weak front slides past Sunday and keeps its showers north of the valley, so southwest Idaho stays dry through it.
Then the week leans warm. Monday holds at 64, and the numbers climb from there. Come Wednesday — Veterans Day — the NWS has us mostly sunny and 68 in the lower valleys, roughly 15 degrees above normal, close enough that a few spots around the Treasure Valley could flirt with daily record highs. We're on standard time now, mind you, so the light goes early. The sky has opinions, and this week its opinion is: warm. Wednesday: 68 and mostly sunny.
TODAY
56° / 35°
SETTLED
TONIGHT
35°F
Clear
TOMORROW
59°F
Sunny
Source · NWS Boise
FAMILY BUDGET
FAMILY BUDGET
Five dollars gets breakfast and the whole museum
The Warhawk's veterans breakfast lands the weekend before Veterans Day.
General admission starts at noon, so the early table gets the most museum.
Five dollars a person covers a pancake, sausage, egg and hash brown breakfast plus entry to the Warhawk Air Museum, and kids 5 and under eat free with a paying adult. Two adults and two little ones come to $10. Two adults and two bigger kids, $20. That is a family of four fed and inside the museum for $20 or less.
The breakfast runs Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon, at the Warhawk Air Museum, 201 Municipal Drive, Nampa. The $5 deal only holds during those hours. General admission kicks in the moment breakfast ends at noon, so the earlier you roll in, the more museum time your five bucks buys. This is the museum's veterans breakfast, now in its 23rd year, held the weekend before Veterans Day on Wednesday, Nov. 11.
The museum says the event is for everyone, honoring veterans and paying tribute 'to those who answered the call.' That means the family at the next table might include someone worth thanking, which is a different Saturday than a drive-through.
Five dollars a head, free for the under-5s, Saturday 8 to noon in Nampa, airplanes included — arrive near 8 and you get the full four-hour window, and call 208-465-6446 if you need to check anything first. Been before? Reply with one word: worth it, or not.
Source · Warhawk Air Museum
ARTS & CULTURE
A 1950s housewife,
sweeter and darker up close
Sugar May's “Bad Woman” opens this weekend in Garden City.
Sugar May builds a 1950s world out of found objects, cast resin and comics — a red bathroom, symbols of domesticity that look cozy and turn uneasy when you get close. “BAD WOMAN” opens at Surel's Place, 212 E. 33rd St. in Garden City, and the venue describes the work as examining femininity, consumer culture and power through mixed-media assemblage and sculpture.
How you get in
Ticketed nights are Friday and Saturday, 8 to 10 p.m., at $10 timed entry, free for members. Your ticket time is your arrival time, and the exhibition stays open until 10. It's 18 and over. Six ticketed nights run through Nov. 21.
The peep show, plainly
During ticketed hours there's live performance by Sugar May and burlesque performers curated by Femme Von Follies. The red bathroom expands into a “red light district” with a peep-show entrance; a $5 token opens a window for a one-minute private viewing — or you can trade the token for a piece of cake instead.
Nobody's seen the finished show yet, so this isn't a review. But a 1950s housewife's world that turns on you is a sharper idea than most gallery nights offer, and the timed-entry setup means no crush at the door. If the ticketed nights aren't your speed, there's a free gallery afternoon with no live performance on Sunday, Nov. 15, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with an art talk at 2 — the quiet way in. Tickets this weekend are $10, 8 to 10 p.m., over 18 only.
A $5 token buys one minute at the peep window — or a slice of cake.
Source · Surel's Place
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> The arena doors stay shut all weekend
The reason the Steelheads gave for scrapping a whole weekend of hockey was two words long: ice conditions. The team announced Wednesday that its three home games against the Rapid City Rush — Nov. 4, 6 and 7 at Idaho Central Arena — are off, and declined to say more when Idaho News 6 asked for details. For a downtown weekend, it means the arena on Capitol Boulevard sits dark Friday and Saturday night.
What to do with your ticket
Individual tickets for those dates get honored at the rescheduled games. Can't make the new date? Take a refund or a credit toward another game. Season ticket holders will hear from their ticket executive. The catch is in the scheduling: zero makeup dates have been announced so far.
Who came down anyway
Fans who came down Wednesday found postponement signs where the security check usually stands, per Idaho News 6's reporting. Abigail Brenneck had come early. “We've been here since two to beat the traffic, and then we were just hanging around getting some food to pass some time,” she told Idaho News 6. Lex Maples was there for a first hockey game: “It's my first hockey game, so I was excited. I just wish I got a notification.” Scott Sweet bought tickets months ago for friends visiting from outside the U.S., who leave the country before any makeup date is likely.
Chaney Kirkmire, whose parents have held season tickets since 1997, told Idaho News 6 she can't remember another postponement for ice conditions, and added that “at the end of the day, the health and well-being of players and officials matters more than me attending a hockey game.” The arena opened that same year, and the Steelheads have played there every season since. So if your Friday plan was 233 S. Capitol Blvd., hold on to the ticket and watch for the new date.
/* The doors stayed shut Wednesday. They stay shut Friday and Saturday too. */
Source · Idaho Steelheads / Idaho News 6
More this weekendthe rest of the list, one line each
- FRI 6:30 p.m.Women's Basketball: Boise State vs. Portland State
- FRI 7:00 p.m.Eilen Jewell, Jontavious Willis, Tater Patch and The Country Club
- SAT 4:00 p.m.Boise State football at Colorado State on USA Network
- FRI-SAT 5:00 p.m.Holiday Makers Market (formerly Craft & Chocolate Affaire); Fri 5-9 p.m., Sat 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
📋 The Ledgerwhat we're watching — and when it moves, you'll read it here
- ●BSU Pac-12 transition — at Colorado State, Sat. Nov. 7, 4 p.m. MT, USA Sports; Oregon State at home, Nov. 14 (watching since 6/23) · Δ updated 11/3
- ●Robinson Rd. rail overpass, Nampa - $42.98M federal award — Grant agreement, design milestones and public engagement (nampa.info/robinsonoverpass); construction start… (watching since 11/3) · new to the ledger
- ●Braeburn Creek subdivision, Nampa - Toll Brothers, 487 homes — Nampa City Council decision from Nov. 2 (minutes / coverage); development agreement terms (watching since 11/3) · Δ updated 11/3
- ●Union Block, 710–722 W. Idaho St. — RFQ closes October 15; contractor selection; the who-pays ruling; the 9th Circuit appeal (watching since 6/23) · Δ updated 11/1
- ●Adler Industrial and 31 acres of state endowment land near Micron — State Land Board, Oct. 20; then the lease auction (watching since 9/1) · Δ updated 11/1