The $6 well, Fri & Sat only this weekend — the kitchen's still a ghost.
The Rundowntoday in 40 seconds
- 01Benefit show flagged low; the $49.15 ticket feeds the WCA.
- 02Friday afternoon wind, then Saturday drops 20-plus degrees behind the front.
- 03Cheap bar reopens the Gas Lantern corner — no kitchen, free games.
- 04Fourth Costco opens Nov. 5 on the Kuna line; signals already up.
- 05Eagle gives away 1,500 pumpkins Saturday; arrive early or miss the pick.
Today's Edition
Eighty-six today, sixty-two Saturday. The Forecast has the hour the warm weekend turns — a Friday-night cold front, then a dry, cooler Saturday with rain waiting until after dark. Plan around it.
Arts & Culture carries the Saturday ticket to watch: Iron & Wine at Treefort Music Hall, a benefit the venue has already flagged low. Family Budget priced a free one — Eagle's Harvest Fest, 1,500 pumpkins while they last. The Table found a $6 well drink at a corner bar that was set to open this week.
Eighty-six today, sixty-two Saturday, and the rain waits until after dark.
— The Editor
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ARTS & CULTURE
Iron & Wine plays a benefit Saturday, and tickets are moving
A $49.15 ticket for the Women's and Children's Alliance, all ages, with the flag set to low.
Treefort Music Hall at 722 W. Broad St. was built out of an old Office Depot and opened on March 19, 2023. On Saturday night it hosts Sam Beam's Iron & Wine as “94.9 The River Presents Concert for Cause.” Doors at 7, show at 8, all ages. The money is the reason the night exists: what it raises goes to the Women's and Children's Alliance, which works on safety, healing and freedom from domestic abuse and sexual assault. The WCA page puts it plainly — “Money raised will be donated to the WCA.”
The benefit ticket runs $49.15 on the WCA event page, and that buys more than a set. A silent auction runs through the night, and a short live auction comes between sets. Opening is Ken Pomeroy, a Cherokee singer-songwriter whose album Cruel Joke came out last year on Rounder. Beam's own bio on the venue page offers the night's thesis in three words — “I'm obsessed with duets,” he says — which is a promising thing to hear from a man about to share a stage.
The venue homepage marks the show “LOW” and the show page runs a “TICKETS MOVING FAST!” banner. The WCA says the same: “Get tickets now before they sell out!” It wasn't sold out as of Thursday, but a benefit on a Saturday with a flagged inventory is not a walk-up bet. Buy through the venue's Dice link or the WCA page, and do it before you talk yourself into waiting.
Iron & Wine, Treefort Music Hall, 722 W. Broad St., Saturday, Oct. 10. Doors 7, show 8, all ages, $49.15 to the WCA. If Saturday's full, the hall runs Peelingflesh on Friday and Glaive on Sunday, both all ages, doors early. But this is the one with the auction and the cause attached.
A benefit, a Saturday, and a ticket flag already set to low — that's not a walk-up bet.
Source · Treefort Music Hall / WCA
THE FORECAST
86° / 55°
Two warm days, a night front, then a dry cool Saturday
MOOD OF THE SKY: GENEROUS. The ridge is about to hand back twenty degrees, but not before it buys us two more summer-warm days. Today runs sunny to a high near 86, a southeast breeze fading to calm, and tonight holds clear near 55. Friday stays bright at 85, 10 to 20 degrees above normal and, as the NWS puts it, “generally a few degrees shy of record highs.”
Friday afternoon is where the sky changes its mind. Wind builds ahead of an upper trough: gusts 15 to 25 mph down in the valley, 25 to 35 in the higher terrain to the southwest. The morning is the window for the patio umbrella and any yard project left half-open, because the afternoon comes in with the push. The front crosses Friday night. Saturday arrives 20 to 25 degrees cooler at 62, breezy from the northwest, with snow levels dropping to 6,000 to 8,000 feet in the west-central mountains.
Saturday's daytime stays dry. The wet part waits for dark. A 20 percent shower chance Saturday night under a low near 40, then 59 Sunday with a 20 percent chance after noon and 40 percent after dark. The NWS message reads “Much cooler, with showers, Saturday through Wednesday.” Lows in the farm valleys slide into the 30s, so the tender plants want a cover by Sunday night. Up in the Foothills, Ridge to Rivers calls conditions good but warns that “rogue” shovel work on the trails is “almost never done correctly.” Sunday: 59 and showery after dark.
TODAY
86° / 55°
GENEROUS
TONIGHT
55°F
Clear
TOMORROW
85°F
Sunny
Source · NWS Boise
THE TABLE
THE TABLE
A $6 well drink and a free pool table on the old TableRock corner
Capitol Corner Bar takes the Gas Lantern room at Fulton and Capitol — no kitchen, Wednesday through Saturday.
A six-dollar well and a free pool table in the old TableRock building.
The well drink runs $6, which Carissa Crosswhite told BoiseDev is "at one of the lowest costs in Boise" — and the pool table, foosball and darts cost nothing to play. That's Capitol Corner Bar, 701 W. Fulton St., in the room Gas Lantern Drinking Company left after its final night on May 30. BoiseDev reported it was set to open Wednesday; if it kept that date, this weekend means Friday and Saturday, 3 to 11 p.m. Happy hour takes a dollar off wells, drafts and house wines, 4 to 6 daily.
The building carries its own ghosts. TableRock Brewpub and Grill ran here 23 years before closing in May 2014, and Chris and Tove Nelson, the team behind TableRock, still own the building. Crosswhite pitched it to BoiseDev as cheap and close, a 10-minute walk from Boise State. "We want to be your local neighborhood watering hole," she told BoiseDev. "Some place close that college kids can actually afford."
No food comes out of this place — plan dinner elsewhere and walk over for the drink and the game. Gas Lantern's interior mostly stays put. "Gas Lantern did an absolutely beautiful job, so all of that is going to stay," Crosswhite told BoiseDev.
What to Order
• If you're undecided: the $6 well — the whole reason the door's open, by the manager's own math. • If you want the full experience: land in the 4-to-6 window, pull a draft off one of the four rotating taps at a dollar off, and claim the free pool table before the room fills. • If you already know what you want: one of the 8 wines on tap, happy-hour priced before 6.
Bring: college kids counting dollars, and anyone who's missed a cheap, close-in room.
📍 701 W. Fulton St., Boise 🕒 Wed–Sat, 3–11 p.m. (closed Sun–Tue) 💰 Well drinks $6; happy hour 4–6 daily, $1 off ★ Best value: the $6 well, or anything a dollar cheaper before 6
The bar is looking into firing up the old TableRock popcorn machine again — the one from the original TableRock, back in the building it came from.
— Nina's Table: a $6 seat downtown, pool cue included.
Source · BoiseDev
LOCAL HUSTLE
The valley's fourth Costco has a date,
and the traffic lights are already up
Nov. 5 at Meridian and Lake Hazel, just north of the Kuna line — 200,342 square feet and a 16-pump station.
The two new traffic signals standing at Meridian Road and Lake Hazel are for a store that isn't open yet. Costco has homed in on Nov. 5 for the Treasure Valley's fourth warehouse, per details it added to its website Monday and reported by the Idaho Statesman; KIVI says the ribbon-cutting is set for 8:30 a.m. It sits at the southeast corner of Meridian Road — State Highway 69 — and Lake Hazel, on a 24-acre site just north of the Kuna city line. Brighton is widening the road along the frontage while you wait.
The building runs 200,342 square feet, with a 16-pump gas station and about 900 parking stalls. About 26,000 of those square feet are a delivery operation shoppers never walk into, which leaves roughly 174,000 of shopping floor. The whole building is bigger than the Boise store, about 165,000 square feet, and the existing Meridian store, about 152,000. Permits filed with Meridian in 2025 put the project near $32 million.
The Kuna shopper doing the math
Jen Halladay drives 10 miles each way to the Boise Costco right now. The new one lands a lot closer to home. “It'll be nice...more convenient definitely,” she told KIVI. She's clear-eyed about the trade, too. “Not a fan of that, but that's what happens with growth,” she told KIVI about the added traffic. “You just have to deal with it and time it so you don't have to be in it.”
Her math is the south end's math. ITD projects traffic on five miles of SH-69 up 55 percent over 25 years, and the Costco is the first store in Brighton's 800-acre Pinnacle development, with seven more commercial buildings, houses and apartments planned on roughly 130 acres around it. We told you in September that Brighton's Ibaia application asks Meridian to annex 584-plus acres on the city's north side. The same developer is building at both ends of Meridian, and on the south end Costco goes first.
So: Nov. 5, an 8:30 a.m. ribbon, on the edge of a Kuna that's about to feel a lot less far from everything. The signals are already up at an empty building.
Two new traffic lights already stand at an empty building.
Source · Idaho Statesman / KIVI
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> 1,500 free pumpkins in Eagle Saturday, and a Liberty Bell passing through
Fifteen hundred free pumpkins land in Eagle on Saturday, and the city is flat-out telling parents to show up early if they want their kid to get a good one. Eagle Harvest Fest runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in and around Heritage Park at 185 E. State St., and the whole thing costs a family nothing. The pumpkin is free. The decorating is free. The catch is a kind one — 1,500 go while they last, and the city's own wording is "be sure to get there early so they can pick the cream of the crop and have a smashing good time!" For a tired parent, that means the morning is the visit.
What fills the rest of the day
After the pumpkin's done, the Eagle Public Library sets up kids' crafts, blacksmiths run live demos, and there's fiddle and live music, shopping and food vendors, and fall photo spots. Admission holds at $0. Food vendor prices aren't published, so budget something for lunch.
The bell that makes this year different
The Idaho Liberty Bell stops in Eagle on a statewide tour before it heads back to the Capitol steps. It's one of 55 full-size replicas the Paccard Foundry of France cast in 1950 for the U.S. Treasury's Savings Bonds drive; Idaho's arrived May 28, 1950, and sat on the Capitol steps from 1951 until this year's restoration. It was restored this year, and the tour is carrying it to all 44 Idaho counties, and the state says each stop offers a chance to ring it. Treasurer Julie Ellsworth told the Idaho Capital Sun, "Idaho is taking history on the road."
One note on clothes: Saturday runs about 20 degrees cooler than Friday and breezy, though dry in daylight, so layer the kids and let The Forecast handle the rest. For $0, 10 to 4, this suits families with kids who like a craft table and a little history, and it's worth the Eagle drive if you go early enough to land a pumpkin.
Going? Reply with the one word your kid painted on their pumpkin — we want to see the range.
/* A 1950 Liberty Bell, parked between a blacksmith and 1,500 free pumpkins. */
Source · City of Eagle
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