The Eagle original, open since 2020 — one Crave until next fall.
The Rundowntoday in 40 seconds
- 01Nov. 3: $20 a car for 20 years, all of it Canyon County roads.
- 0290% showers Saturday night, quarter to half inch, over trick-or-treat.
- 03Crave's $19 Wagyu burger is in Eagle now; the Meridian Crave opens next fall.
- 04Boise Phil plays Jaws and Harry Potter themes Saturday; 18 and under free.
- 05Star's free trunk-or-treat moves to Riverhouse Pasture, 3–5 p.m. Saturday, no sign-up.
Today's Edition
An orchestra plays the Jaws theme at 2 p.m. Saturday, and everyone 18 and under gets in free — Arts & Culture has where and when, indoors, which matters once you check The Forecast. The showers peak Saturday evening and night, right on the costumes.
The Table prices out the Eagle Crave, from a $15 dip to $37 short ribs, while its Meridian sibling waits on next fall. Local Hustle reads the $20-a-car question on Canyon County's Nov. 3 ballot. And Family Budget sends you to Star, where the trunk-or-treat moves to a new field Saturday afternoon.
An orchestra plays the Jaws theme at 2 p.m. Saturday, and kids get in free.
— The Editor
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LOCAL HUSTLE
Twenty dollars a car, every year through 2046
Canyon County drivers decide Nov. 3 on a vehicle registration fee for local roads.
Twenty dollars a year on every passenger vehicle registered in Canyon County, running Jan. 1, 2027 through Dec. 31, 2046. Motorcycles pay $19. That is the question on the Nov. 3 ballot, stacked on top of the state fees drivers already pay.
The fee is estimated at about $4.4 million a year, and all of it stays in Canyon County for local roads, bridges and safe routes to schools. Now set it next to the figure the cities and highway districts put on the table: a $49 million annual shortfall. If both numbers hold, $20 a car covers about a tenth of that gap.
A majority of the county's 13 highway agencies asked for this one. The 13 are the cities of Nampa, Caldwell, Middleton, Star, Greenleaf, Wilder, Notus, Parma and Melba, plus four highway districts. By default the money splits 30 percent to the cities by population and 70 percent to the highway districts, unless every one of them signs a written 50/50 deal, which the ordinance says they are working toward. Trailers, boats, UTVs, ATVs and farm implements are exempt. A simple majority passes it.
Ada County drivers get their own registration-fee question the same day, on whether to extend ACHD's existing $24, $36 or $40 fee by vehicle age. One more line from the ordinance: the Canyon County rate cannot rise, and the 20-year term cannot be extended, without another public vote.
Twenty dollars a car covers about a tenth of a $49 million road gap.
Source · Canyon County ordinance
THE FORECAST
62° / 42°
Halloween goes wet, right on the costumes
MOOD OF THE SKY: UNSETTLED.
The National Weather Service wrote a costume suggestion into its forecast discussion this morning, and that tells you where the weekend is pointed. Frost burns off before 9, we climb to a high near 62, and Friday mostly holds — a 30 percent shot at showers after 5 p.m. Saturday the sky starts clearing its throat: 40 percent and a high near 59. Then Saturday night it lets go. A 90 percent chance of showers, a quarter to half inch possible, a closed low dragging Pacific moisture straight across southwest Idaho.
The forecasters' own advice, verbatim: “The day shift made a good argument for a Mary Poppins costume, as an umbrella would make a good addition to any costume for evening festivities.” The sky has opinions. This one brought an umbrella.
Heading to Albertsons Stadium for the 8 p.m. Blue After Dark game against Texas State? Plan for rain and the rulebook both. Lots open at noon, gates at 6. Costumes are welcome, but any mask comes off at the security checkpoints, and the clear-bag policy holds, so candy riding in a non-clear container gets checked and swapped into one of theirs. At halftime, Kellen Moore's 11-foot bronze statue is unveiled on the field, and the quarterback who went 50-3 on The Blue raises the Blue Chaos flag.
Sunday the showers are likely mainly before noon, under a high near 53. Behind them a cold front muscles in Sunday afternoon and evening, with west to northwest gusts of 20 to 40 mph across the windy parts of the Snake River Plain. The clocks fall back an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. Monday: sunny, high near 56.
TODAY
62° / 42°
UNSETTLED
TONIGHT
42°
Mostly Cloudy
TOMORROW
62°F
Chance Rain
Source · NWS Boise
THE TABLE
THE TABLE
A second Crave is coming; eat at the Eagle one now
Meridian gets an 8,539-square-foot Crave across from Scheels next fall. Until then, there's one.
A second Crave lands across from Scheels next fall. The short ribs are in Eagle now.
Idaho's first Scheels opened in April 2024 with a Ferris wheel spinning inside the store, and now a restaurant wants the block across the street. MorHood, LLC asked the City of Meridian to consider an 8,539-square-foot bar and restaurant in Ten Mile Crossing. After BoiseDev broke the story, the owners confirmed what it is: a second Crave Kitchen & Bar, slated to open next fall, about 100 jobs, a layout that echoes Eagle's — big bar, dining room, private room, enclosed patio. No relation to Crave Delivery, which once ran a few hundred feet away and no longer operates in the valley.
That's a year out. The Crave you can actually eat this weekend is the Eagle original, open since 2020, Executive Chef Micah Waltz's name on the menu.
“Opening in Meridian gives us an opportunity to introduce some new ideas and menu offerings while staying true to what makes Crave special,” managing partner Derek Hood said in a news release reported by BoiseDev.
What to Order • If you're undecided: the Double Stack Crave Burger, $19 — Snake River Farms Wagyu patties, house-made bun, white American, black pepper mayo, fries. That's the one that tells you what the kitchen can do. • If you want the full experience: The Rock, $27 — thin-sliced Snake River Farms Wagyu flat iron, soy miso butter, brandy peppercorn sauce, bourbon salt. • If you already know what you want: the Whiskey-Braised Short Ribs, $37 — a 10-hour braise over spaghetti squash with horseradish gremolata.
Start with the Spinach & Artichoke Dip, $15: feta and gruyere, house crackers.
Bring a group that wants to sit a while. Just know 20 percent gratuity lands on parties of eight or more.
📍 Crave Kitchen & Bar, Eagle 💰 $15 dip to $37 short ribs ★ Best value: the $19 burger
That $27 flat iron is billed as an interactive cooking experience, which is a menu's way of saying you're on the kitchen crew tonight. Dinner and a chore, in the best way.
— The Table: Skip the one-year wait — the short ribs are already on the table in Eagle.
Source · BoiseDev
ARTS & CULTURE
An orchestra plays
Jaws on Halloween afternoon
The Boise Phil brings the spooky canon indoors Saturday — and kids get in free.
The theme from Jaws, scored for a full orchestra, lands at 2 in the afternoon on Halloween. That's Boise Philharmonsters: A Spooky Symphony at Centennial High School, and the program leans on the heavy hitters — Ride of the Valkyries, Danse Macabre, Night on Bald Mountain, with music from Jaws and Harry Potter worked in. One hour of the music that scores most Octobers.
Costumes at 1:45, downbeat at 2
The costume contest runs 1:45 to 2, then the concert goes 2 to 3. Adults pay $15; everyone 18 and under gets in free, so a family of four walks in for thirty bucks. The city lists the whole window as noon to 3 across the auditorium and parking lot; the concert hour is the part to plan around.
Indoors, which matters this weekend
The concert is in the Centennial auditorium, and that's the part worth holding onto. Saturday daytime carries a 40 percent chance of showers, and the heavier rain shows up that evening. A matinee under a roof beats most of what Halloween is offering this year, and you're out the door before the sky opens up.
The Boise Philharmonic runs this as one of the City of Boise's Cultural Ambassadors. Centennial High School, 12402 W. McMillan Rd. Costume contest 1:45, concert at 2. Fifteen dollars for adults, free for 18 and under. Taking the kids Saturday? Reply with the costume — I want to know how many little Jaws show up.
An hour of every spooky theme you know, played live, before the rain even starts.
Source · City of Boise
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> Star's trunk-or-treat moves to a new field Saturday
Star's Trunk-or-Treat has a new address this year: the Riverhouse Pasture at 960 S. Main St., Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. The city's calendar lists trunk-or-treating and candy, a costume contest, bounce houses, kids' activities and food trucks, with no registration required for families. You show up in costume and you're in.
On the budget, this one's about as clean as they come. The city lists no admission charge, so call it $0 at the gate, and no family sign-up; the costume and the drive are what it runs you. The only spending the city actually lists is the food trucks, and those prices aren't published — so tuck a little cash in a pocket for the 4:30 hungries. The bounce houses aren't listed as free either, so hold off on promising the kids anything the city hasn't.
The thing to plan around is the sky. NWS puts Saturday daytime at a 40 percent chance of showers, high near 59, with the heavier rain holding off until evening. Your 3-to-5 window sits mostly ahead of the worst of it. Still, a thin rain layer under the costume beats a soggy drive home.
The city says this event pulls well over 1,000 people a year, so plan on a crowd. No admission, no registration, 3 to 5 p.m. at 960 S. Main St. For families with young kids, that's an easy, cheap Saturday afternoon.
/* The city says well over 1,000 people come every year. This year they meet in a new field. */
Source · City of Star
More this weekendthe rest of the list, one line each
- FRI 6:30 p.m.Candlelight string quartet, Halloween classics
- FRI-SUN 10:00 a.m.75th Bogus Basin Ski Swap; Sunday entry free with two cans for the Boise Rescue Mission
- FRI 7:00 p.m.Fright Nights at the Old Idaho Penitentiary; last admission 9 p.m.
- SAT 9:00 p.m.The Rocky Horror Picture Show film screening
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