Thur Dec 22 & Fri Dec 23 at
11:30am – 2pm – 4:30pm
Annual canned food drive.
Bring a can of pet food or people food for free entry to Frank Capra’s 1946 Classic
Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal favorite – it was also James Stewart’s favorite of all his feature films.
It was actually a box-office flop at the time of its release, and only became the Christmas movie classic in the 1970s due to repeated television showings at Christmas-time when its copyright protection slipped and it fell into the public domain in 1974 and TV stations could air it for free. [Republic Pictures restored its copyright claim to the film in 1993, with exclusive video rights to it. Currently, it can be shown only on the NBC-TV network, and its distribution rights belong to Paramount Pictures.]
The film’s screenplay (credited as being written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Capra himself, with additional scenes by Jo Swerling) was based on “The Greatest Gift,” an original short story first written on a Christmas card by Philip Van Doren Stern. Uncredited for their work on the script were Dorothy Parker, Dalton Trumbo, and Clifford Odets.
It is actually a dark, bittersweet post-war tale of a savings-and-loan manager who struggles against a greedy banker and his own self-doubting nature in a small town. Earnest do-gooder George Bailey (James Stewart) recognizes his life as wonderful and truly rich, even in its humdrum and bleak nature, only after suffering many hardships, mishaps and fateful trials (including compromised dreams of youth to leave the town and seek fame and fortune, other sacrifices, dismay, losses and the threat of financial ruin, and suicide). He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).
The story turns Dickensian (similar to A Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit’s point-of-view rather than from Scrooge’s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town’s evil tycoon) would be like without him. It’s a frightening, nightmarish, noirish view of the world (at Christmas-time) that brings him back from self-destruction. He returns to the idyllic, small-town world that he left, with renewed faith and confidence in life itself. Hence, the film’s title: It’s a Wonderful Life.
The plot of the film was copied in the rags-to-riches fantasy storyline (also with a guardian angel played by Michael Caine) of Disney’s Mr. Destiny (1990), starring James Belushi, and in Brett Ratner’s The Family Man (2000) with Nicolas Cage. The famous “Pottersville” alternate reality scenes were also referenced in Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future Part II (1989), in which the small town of Hill Valley was transformed into a Las Vegas-like Babylon in 1985, with young Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) in the role of George Bailey.
The picture earned five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (James Stewart in his first film in almost six years), Best Director (Capra), Best Sound Recording and Best Film Editing, but won no Oscars. (It was eclipsed by William Wyler’s award-winning The Best Years of Our Lives.)
Wednesday, Jan 18th at 8pm
Idaho Live presents two Tour De Fat headliners, with special guest Diego’s Umbrella, crossing paths in Boise while on separate tours for one amazing high-energy co-headlining circus show!
$1 from every ticket sold, plus proceeds from a raffle and bar sales, will be donated to Boise Bicycle Project.
Tickets are $22 advance, $25 day of show. Advance tickets are available at The Record Exchange, The Boise Co-op, The Egyptian Theatre box office, and www.egyptiantheatre.net
ABOUT MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND:
The MarchFourth Marching Band has evolved into a high-energy, eclectic and mobile unit of good times, taking a Fellini-esque mix of Mardi Gras mayhem, afro beat, Mexican hustle, sultry samba, big band, and gypsy folk to the streets and parks, and the club and festival scene–anywhere people seek liberation through booty-shaking beats, driving bass, and high-flying horn arrangements. Accompanied by their surrealist troupe of stilt-dancers, fire-spinners, and costumed beauties, they are a new love-party paradigm.
According to bassist, and one of the group’s founding members, John Averill, MarchFourth is “something entirely different. Musically, we’re not influenced by marching bands at all. I really think of us more as an alternative big band that happens to be able to march.”
MarchFourth Marching Band got its name from the date of their first show: March 4, 2003. It began when a handful of artists and musicians in Portland, Oregon decided to put together a marching band for a Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras party on March 4th, originally performing a 7-song set of tunes that included covers of Rebirth Brass Band, Fela Kuti, and Fleetwood Mac. The night was a smashing success and encouraged the group to book more shows. Opening for the Youngblood Brass Band and playing with Pink Martini cemented the group that first year: they played a total of 34 shows in their first ten months. By 2007 the band was becoming better known in Portland and beyond. They expanded their 4th anniversary party to include a family matinee and an adult evening show at the Crystal Ballroom and sold out both shows. It was time to take the show on the road. They bought a 1984 MCI coach on eBay, then converted it to fit about 28 people comfortably with convertible bunk-beds, wi-fi, kitchen and roof rack. Members of the band did all the bus customization. They haven’t stopped touring since.
“Wild, fun and excitable, this is the music I want playing at my wake, the band I want preceding
the hearse to my grave.” – LivePDX.com
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ABOUT THE PIMPS OF JOYTIME: Over the course of the past four years, the Pimps of Joytime have evolved into a road tested and audience approved groove machine. The have excited crowds at over 100 club dates and festivals in 2010 and this year’s ongoing “All The Way Live” tour far exceeds the volume of previous years. Amazingly, their stage performance improves each night as the electricity between the band members rises to new heights. This fluidity is not something you can manufacture, it is an authentic and exciting collaboration that is the Pimps of Joytime. With the “All The Way Live” tour, The Pimps are offering their fans and music lovers alike a chance to experience the electrifying rhythms that lace up the most recent album, Janxta Funk, (June 21 – Wonderwheel Recordings).
Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, The Pimps of Joyitme are paving their own unique path in the world. WHat do you do when there isn’t a phrase to describe your sound? You coin a new one of course! JANXTA FUNK, as Brian J describes it, “is a style that’s part gangsta, part janky.” JAnxta Funk ranges from LAtin inspired rythms to deep funky grooves and hot dance beats laced with soulful melody and harmonies. Those who have experienced a Pimps show agree that you have to see the band live to truly understand their unique combination of musical elements, including afrobeat, rock, hip-hop, and electronica.
“The Pimps can’t be pigeonholed into a genre — it’s all soulful, but one song might segue from an Afrobeat groove to an electronic club beat with sitar. It’s all pretty damn funky, and it’s impossible to hear it and sit still.” – Charleston City Paper (Stratton Lawrence)
“The funkiest band at Outside Lands was easily the Pimps of Joytime.”- Guitar World
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Enjoy an exciting evening with Sir Ken Robinson, an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and education. It’s the first event in a dynamic new series called THE ED SESSIONS, featuring some of the most inspired voices in 21st Century Education.
With every state in the union questioning its system for education and training, thousands of citizens are newly engaged in the process. How can passion and interest be translated into lasting progress for Idaho? THE ED SESSIONS elevate the education dialogue with fresh inspiration, facts and discovery about “what could be.” The goal? Preparing every Idahoan to meet the extraordinary challenges of living and working in the 21st Century.
Tuesday, September 27th
THE ED SESSIONS:
Be there to shape the future…
THE ED SESSIONS presents SIR KEN ROBINSON
(SOLD OUT – some seats available 15 min. before show)
On Tuesday, September 27SESSION ONE: SIR KEN ROBINSON
BRING ON THE LEARNING REVOLUTION
Best-selling author Ken Robinson brings a message of transformation. The videos of Robinson’s famous 2006 and 2010 talks at the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.
His book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin/Viking 2009) is a New York Times best seller and has been translated into twenty-one languages. His latest book is a 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Capstone/Wiley).
Sir Ken Robinson works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture.
Robinson was honored with the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, the LEGO Prize for international achievement in education, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he was named as one of TIME/FORTUNE/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts.
Ken Robinson’s fresh ideas and wry wit promise to delight the crowd and leave us with new ways of thinking about our human potential.
The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation’s ID21 initiative seeks to bring new understanding of what every Idahoan will need to succeed and prosper in the 21st Century. Community partners include Treasure Valley YMCA, Junior Achievement, Lee Pesky Learning Center, Idaho Community Foundation, The Cabin and Idaho Business Coalition for Education Excellence and KTVB.
To learn more, please visit
www.theEDsessions.org
Everybody dreams of being a rock star, very few get past the beginning…
Zane McGinley and Clay Allen form a rock band and struggles to keep the group together before they go on their first tour to play the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, California.
Unlike any other rock documentary, this film takes place as the action surrounds the key players. The movie opens on the ground floor of the band’s existence and takes you on the adventure into the unknown world of the music business.
Red Dame Production and Design presents
a Michael D. Gough film
Dying Famous the Movie will premier at The Historical Egyptian Theatre in Boise, Idaho
Saturday Oct 15, 2011
Doors open at 7pm / Introduction & film begins at 8pm.
Tickets are $10 each and a $0.25 cents per order fee.
After Party at HUMPIN HANNAH’S! Dying Famous (the band) will play followed by The Rocci Johnson Band. Keep your tix for a no cover!
Dying Famous Sponsor Reel (Please view for live details!)
Sponsorship Reel Opportunities:
All tickets for placements are $10.00 & REEL will be ‘looped’
For Bands and Musicians:
- 10 tix at $100.00 =
15 second still ad &
a full song played on sound track with name credit
- 25 tix at $250.00 =
Music video played in full & a
15 second still ad
For Artist, Sculptures, Hair Designers, Local Small Businesses:
- 10 tix at $100.00 =
15 second still ad
- 25 tix at $250.00 =
****Display at event &
15 second still ad
For Film Makers:
- 15 tix at $150.00 =
Preview of your film OR a 3min short!
Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities:
Option One:
Purchase of 10 tix at $100.00 =
Still 30 second ad on looped Sponsor Reel.
Option Two:
Purchase of 50 tickets at $500.00 =
Placement on all posters advertising event, booth space at Premiere to sell or advertise your Business, & a 30 second ad on looped Sponsor Reel.
To purchase Sponsorship Reel tickets and further info contact:
Zane McGinley at 353-3378 or dyingfamous@gmail.com
or destiny@egyptiantheatre.net
ALL Purchased tickets may be resold to re-coup costs of Sponsorship Reel placement at a cost no greater then $10.00 per ticket.
Deadline to purchase for Sponsorship Reel placement is Oct 1st
ALL pictures, music and video will be by design and choice of of purchaser:
AUDIO FILES NEED TO BE .WAV OR .AIF, OR ON CD
VIDEO FILES NEED TO BE .AIV OR .MOV (HD OR SD FILES ECCEPTED)
PICTUE FILES NEED TO BE HIGH RES JPEG, PNG OR PSD FILES
“Best Of i48” Screening and Awards Ceremony at The Egyptian Theatre on Sunday, June 12 7pm, doors at 6pm
