Editor’s notice: This story was initially revealed on Nov. 8, 2022. It has been up to date with details about Hamilton’s upcoming Rexburg present.
REXBURG – Comic Ryan Hamilton nonetheless has lots to snicker about, regardless of being hospitalized final 12 months after being hit by a bus in Salt Lake Metropolis.
The 46-year-old Ashton man will probably be acting at Brigham Younger College-Idaho this Friday, his second cease in japanese Idaho since November.
Hamilton suffered 10 damaged ribs, a damaged arm and a punctured lung following an accident in January 2022. A number of weeks later, his dad died after battling his personal well being points.
Regardless of the hardships, Hamilton was again on the highway simply three months later whereas persevering with bodily remedy.
Greater than a 12 months later, he nonetheless has some scars. In a dialog with EastIdahoNews.com in November, Hamilton mentioned he’s on the mend and “doing fairly effectively,” all issues thought-about.
“I’m capable of do every little thing that I used to do. I’m nonetheless engaged on bodily remedy stuff, however I’m capable of journey to the reveals. (I’ve) made a number of progress. It was fairly severe, however I’m doing okay. I’ve discovered so much,” Hamilton says, laughing it off.
Hamilton has gotten a number of assist from followers and fellow Idahoans this previous 12 months and he’s trying ahead to telling native crowds about his accident in his typical humorous means. His Idaho Falls reveals on Nov. 25 and 26 will function all new materials, most of which is able to concentrate on his current accidents.
“I’ve by no means had one thing that I needed to speak about and I needed to speak about this, so it’s going to occupy a number of the present,” he says.
Sporting a beard and sporting a black polo shirt and baseball cap in his New York Metropolis house, Hamilton recalled with fondness his upbringing in japanese Idaho after enduring a troublesome 12 months.
Hamilton describes his childhood as being “a bit of completely different” than what’s typical for a child rising up in Ashton.
“My mom’s facet of the household is from Ashton (many) years again. Been there a very long time. However we had been one of many solely households that weren’t farming households,” he says.
His dad was from southern California, and his grandfather owned a normal selection retailer in Ashton for a very long time.
Hamilton remembers being interested in comedy from an early age, and had aspirations to be a humor columnist for the native newspaper.
“We might learn the Sunday paper and there was a humor column that was syndicated. Dave Barry was his title and I simply cherished it. I assumed, ‘This man has the best job on the earth.’ We didn’t actually have a college newspaper on the time so I referred to as the county paper and requested if I may write a column. They mentioned, ‘Yeah.’ So I began writing a column within the newspaper,” Hamilton remembers.
That ultimately led to a job as a sports activities reporter at Native Information 8 in Idaho Falls, the place Hamilton integrated jokes into the nightly sportscast.
Later, as a university pupil at then Ricks Faculty in Rexburg, he hosted a comedy-themed radio present.
“The primary time I ever did standup comedy was for the radio station at what was then Craigo’s Pizza in Rexburg,” says Hamilton.
However he by no means actually considered comedy as a profession till years later. Hamilton was laid off from a public relations job he’d gotten after school. He began doing comedy gigs extra often in Utah whereas searching for a job. With none employment prospects, he determined to spend a 12 months specializing in his comedy chops.
“I moved to Seattle,” says Hamilton. “I simply needed to see what it was prefer to get on stage each evening. I used to be in a contest and I gained the business evening. It was a weeks lengthy competitors, however there was one evening when individuals from L.A. got here who had been from studios. They had been trying to symbolize comedians. I gained that evening after they had been judges and that solidified to me to maintain going.”
After years of auditioning, he ultimately obtained his huge break and started showing on discuss reveals. He’s gained many buddies in present enterprise over time, together with Jerry Seinfeld, and wrote a sketch for Amy Schumer to carry out on the Oscars final 12 months.
Hamilton’s Idaho roots are a central theme of his Netflix comedy particular “Pleased Face,” which got here out in 2017. And Hamilton hinted there could possibly be one other particular coming within the close to future.
“I want to promote one thing someday quickly. We’ll see. It has been some time. I really feel like I’m able to put one thing out. We’ll maintain you posted, however hopefully quickly,” he says.
In the meantime, Hamilton is having fun with sharing with audiences points of his life they haven’t heard earlier than. Returning to a stage in japanese Idaho after such a turbulent 12 months could possibly be simply what the physician ordered.
“I’m actually having fun with this materials and I’m listening to from lots of people that it’s actually good. It’s a bit of extra private than something I’ve finished prior to now as a result of it felt prefer it wanted to be,” he says.
Hamilton’s Rexburg efficiency is going on on March 10 contained in the BYU-Idaho Heart. It should begin at 7:30 p.m.
WATCH OUR INTERVIEW WITH HAMILTON IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.
IDAHO COUNTY, Idaho – A multi-car accident on Highway 95 has shut down two lanes near Tuchbreiter.
According to the Idaho County Sheriff’s Office, the crash, which involved multiple cars, occurred Friday night. Both lanes remain closed.
It is unclear when the lanes will reopen, but Idaho 511 is advising drivers to seek alternative routes.
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Yessi Puerto Vallarta has been a family-run restaurant for over 25 years | Kaitlyn Hart, EastIdahoNews.com
IDAHO FALLS — For over 25 years, a local Mexican restaurant has been serving authentic family recipes to east Idaho.
Maria Hernandez, the manager of Yessi Puerto Vallarta, says her family has been in the food business for decades, serving homemade Mexican dishes that have been passed down for generations.
“We got started from a friend in the family that used to have restaurants in the Washington area, and we decided to try our luck and start a business with the family,” says Hernandez. “It’s always been a family restaurant, and we’ve been in the area for, oh wow, over 25 years now.”
EastIdahoNews.com was lucky enough to try some of their most popular dishes, starting with the Pollo a la Crema.
This dish consists of sliced chicken, a cream sauce with mushrooms and onions, a side of rice and beans and tortillas.
“This has been a very popular item on the menu,” says Hernandez. “It is a really good dish.”
Next, we tried Hernandez’s favorite dish on the menu, the Chile Rellenos.
The Chile Rellenos are stuffed green peppers with cheese, battered with an egg and smothered with white cheese and red sauce. On the side is a chimichanga with sour cream, guacamole, rice and beans.
“This would have to be, I’d say, a very very popular meal as well,” says Hernandez. “Everybody comes in here and says ‘I’m here for the Chile Rellenos; I know they’re good.’”
Lastly, we tried a personal favorite: street tacos. The types available are steak, spicy or marinated pork with or without pineapple, carne asada, grilled chicken, or chorizo.
“We cook the meat every time people order a taco,” says Hernandez. “They come with the cilantro and onion, and some slices of lime. The pineapple pork and the carne asada are very, very popular. Our chorizo is also homemade, so it’s really popular.”
Everything we tried was absolutely delicious, so we highly recommend trying Yessi Puerto Vallarta the next time you’re going out to eat!
You can find them at 2668 East Sunnyside Road. They are open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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An Idaho photographer is showcasing hundreds of vintage neon signs that once shone brightly outside popular Idaho landmarks, businesses, and more.
Neon signs were a popular addition to the outside of businesses between 1920 and 1950 – but by the 1960s, businesses steered away from them due to cost.
“I wanted to capture what still remained of all the vintage neon that I had grown up seeing around Boise, many of which were already disappearing at a rapid rate during the 80’s and 90’s,” Photographer Jess Jackson said. “Since the sign industry was already moving away from neon and into bland, generic looking, backlit LED stuff, I wanted to preserve what was left through my photography, before our last examples of the “golden era” of neon disappeared as well.”
From 2006-2012, Jackson took hundreds of photos of neon signs when he drove throughout the state for his job.
“Instead of sitting around in hotel rooms during my off-time, I decided to start looking for neon signs to photograph as a way to pass the evenings since I usually traveled alone,” he said. “That led into exploring some of the smaller, more remote towns and photographing what neon they still had.”
After five years, Jackson had built a large collection of photographs, and he decided to organize the neon sign pictures into the shape of Idaho – called Signs of Idaho.
“The signs I’ve featured are unique in the sense that there are no copies of them,” he said. “You’ll only find the Torch Lounge sign in Boise, the Turf Club in Twin Falls, Buddy’s in Pocatello, or the Corner Club in Moscow,” he said. “Those are local icons that people have attached their own personal memories to and that’s what I think makes them unique and special.”
While several of the signs in the photograph align with the location where they were taken, many do not.
“A lot of areas in Idaho don’t have any neon signs left, where some parts of the state, like Pocatello, Twin Falls, or Boise still have relatively large collections,” Jackson said. “It just became impossible to put these all in their exact location and still maintain the shape of Idaho, which was the primary objective.”
The individual photographs featured in Signs of Idaho can be found on Jackson’s Flickr page.
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