Ruckus July 21, 2023

Multi-sensory exploration

RACHEL HERGETT

For the Chronicle

On a recent tour of the new Tinworks Art exhibition, curator Melissa Ragain invited people to picture a landscape painting. In the European tradition, these idyllic scenes probably have a mountain and a pond and possibly a deer or two. But what if we take mountains out of the equation?

For many people, Ragain

explained, “The plains are not a landscape. They’re hostile and they’re empty and they’re scary.”

“Invisible Prairie” leans into the idea that these spaces can be rich and full of life — if one is willing to take a closer look. The exhibition features works by A.K. Burns, Abby Flanagan, Suzanne Kite, Tracy Linder, Julie Ann Nagle, Layli Long Soldier, Laurel Sparks and Jeff Rice in a variety of mediums.

It runs through Oct. 14 at Tinworks, with a variety of accompanying artistic, educational, and community programs.

“It’s such an exciting way to learn about a new place and a sense of place,” said Jenny Moore, Tinworks Art’s new director, who moved to Bozeman from far-west Texas two weeks before the opening. In curation, Ragain was inspired in part by Nancy Holt’s 1972 installation

“Missoula Ranch Locators: Vision Encompassed,” in which the artist installed steel pipes as viewfinders, directing how people interact with portions of the landscape.

“What that work was about was trying to orient herself in a space that had no visible landmarks and feelings were unmoored,” Ragain said.

“Invisible Prairie” visitors are first greeted with a mostly blank wall sporting

the exhibition title and an explanatory blurb. Like the prairie, it doesn’t give much away at first glance.

“The eight artists in this show counter the idea of the prairie as an empty place,” the text reads. “They forgo traditional landscapes, instead depicting the Plains as an environment rich in sensory experiences and cultural heritage.”

RACHEL HERGETT, FOR THE CHRONICLE

A close-up of Julie Ann Nagle’s “Fallow Field” reveals some of the details in phosphorescent paint. The piece is part of “Invisible Prairie,” an exhibition on display through Oct. 14 at Tinworks Art in Bozeman.

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“Futurama: Season 11”

Landing on a new network with its first new season in a decade, this animated sci-fi comedy from Matt Groening and David X. Cohen (both of “The Simpsons”) has reunited its voice cast for 10 new episodes. The new season sees developments in the epic love story of Fry and Leela, the mysterious contents of Nibbler’s litter box, the secret history of evil Robot Santa, and the whereabouts of Kif and Amy’s tadpoles. Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche and David Herman voice star.

“The Hardy Boys: Season 3”

The third and final season of this family mystery drama makes its streaming debut. In the new season, sleuthing brothers Frank (Rohan Campbell) and Joe (Alexander Elliot) find themselves on the hunt for a third powerful relic — the same one their great-grandfather was after — after receiving a set of mysterious, posthumous instructions from their grandmother. But the race is on in their most dangerous and unpredictable case yet, as the brothers and their friends aren’t the only ones looking for it.

“The Croods: Family Tree: Season 7”

The Croods and the Bettermans return with more misadventures on the farm as Grug’s (Kiff VandenHeuvel) over indulgence in Phil’s (Matthew Waterson) experimental hair growth formula has hair raising consequences, and Dawn (Kelly Marie Tran) wrestles with critiquing her mother’s beloved beetball recipe. But when Eep (Ally Dixon) finds herself competing in an Alphafight (a tournament where animals fight to determine the dominant species) she must choose between making her kooky family proud or disrupting the balance of the croodimal kingdom forever!

“This Fool: Season 2”

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8 ___-Magnon

37 Gourmet restaurant offering

41 Once-revived, twicecanceled sitcom

43 ___-Man

45 Light greenish-blue

46 Eye part

47 Med. drama sites

48 Wind dir.

49 Ticket info

50 Fifth-century date

DOWN

1 Boise’s state: Abbr.

2 ___ salad

3 Ship part

4 Encloses firmly

5 Former “Glee” star Iqbal

6 Yuletide

7 Part of NCAA

8 “The Resident” and “The Enemy Within” actor Morris

9 “Diff’rent Strokes” and “The Facts of Life” star Charlotte

13 Ergo

16 Zen paradox

18 Mentalist Geller

21 Literally, “injured”

22 Terminal info

23 “The King and I” co-star

24 Common fertilizer compound

25 Police procedural set in the Big Apple

30 ___ Gay (W.W. II plane)

31 “Cheers” star Shelley

32 City in northern Italy

33 Hockey great Bobby

35 Hoist again, as a sail

36 Like some agreements

38 Movie star Kate

39 Crude group

40 Guardian’s charge

41 Took place

42 They average 100

44 Procedural that starred Marg Helgenberger, for short

BY JAY BOBBIN

Q: With “Tough as Nails” now in its fifth season, where did the idea for the reality competition come from?

A: The inspiration for “Tough As Nails” comes from my grandfather. When I was in high school, I used to go over to my grandparents’ place. My parents were overseas at the time. Both my grandmother and my grandfather never got a chance at a high school education, but they were two very bright people … actually the brightest in their class when they were in middle school. And I always admired how both of them were able to be such contributors to the community.

I got to spend so much time with my grandfather, learning how to use tools. I always looked up to him, and it always irked me that some people somehow look down on people who maybe didn’t get a chance at an education, but who still have these incredible life skills.

Q: What are your main rules for “Tough as Nails” contestants?

A: That’s where you can get men and women competing against each other, people who are young, people who are old, tall, short. How many times have all of us judged somebody by the way they look, and we misjudge them? The idea that you never judge a book by its cover is really a big part of what “Tough As Nails”

all about.

Phil Keoghan OF TOUGH AS NAILS ON CBS

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In this Blumhouse horror thriller, Sam (Jolene Purdy), a gas station clerk, receives a misdialed call from Emily (Midori Francis), who is running from her murderous ex-boyfriend in the woods. Having lost her glasses in her escape, Emily must rely on Sam’s eyes using the video call in order to survive. From director Yoko Okumura, the film also stars Michael Patrick Lane, Missi Pyle, Brett Baker and Nicholas X. Parsons.

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Based on Paul G. Tremblay’s 2018 novel “The Cabin at the End of the World,” this psychological horror film from M. Night Shyamalan follows a young girl and her parents who are taken hostage by four armed strangers while vacationing at a remote cabin. Their captors demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse and, with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

“Movie: Hardball”

Conor (Keanu Reeves) is a ticket scalper, gambler and, now, Little League coach for a rag-tag team of kids in one of the toughest part of Chicago. He’s no role model, but his buddy Jimmy (Michael McGlone) won’t help him pay off his gambling debts unless Conor coaches Jimmy’s corporately sponsored team. Surprising even himself, Conor becomes attached to his players — and to their attractive schoolteacher (Diane Lane) — and drawn into their tough and sometimes tragic lives.

“Good Omens: Season 2”

This fantasy comedy series, based on the 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, returns with its second season. Diving into storylines that go beyond the original source material, Season 2 illuminates the uncanny friendship between Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), a fussy angel and rare book dealer, and the fast-living demon Crowley (David Tennant). Aziraphale and Crowley are getting back to easy living amongst mortals in London’s Soho, until the archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm) turns up unexpectedly with no memory of who he is or how he got there, presenting the duo with a surprising new mystery to solve.

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BY CAROLINE COLLACUTT

Pastry pros: Season 7 of ‘Great British Baking Show: The Professionals’ hits Netflix

Arriving just as the next season of this pro baking competition airs “across the pond,” Season 7 of “The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals” will be available to stream as of Wednesday, July 26, on Netflix.

The series, a spinoff of “The Great British Baking Show” (which itself is the North American moniker for the British-born series, there simply called “Bake Off”), invites 12 pairs of accomplished pastry chefs – patissiers – from across the United Kingdom to compete for glory, whipping up delicious and delectable treats for expert judges – including chef patissier Benoît Blin and executive pastry chef Cherish Finden – as they square off to see who truly is the best of the best.

This iteration of the beloved franchise turns up the heat, ditching the infamous “Bake Off” tent for a professional-grade kitchen in the heart of a spectacular English manor home, inviting professional patissiers to face a series of increasingly difficult challenges – some well-known to avid watchers of the competition, like the miniature challenge, in which the teams must create three different types of edible miniatures, uniform in appearance, and the Showpiece Challenge, in which chefs must reinvent a popular British dessert and present it as a

fine dining experience. These top-notch patissiers race through challenges, summoning all the baking expertise and precision they can muster in order to impress the highly-critical judges and avoid elimination.

Eventually, the competition will be narrowed down to three teams, all of whom face off in the final episode, which sees a duo of difficult pastry-based challenges: first making finger-licking finger tarts, then constructing a banquet of desserts themed after a “Day at the Races.” In the end, those who manage it best will be awarded the “silver platter” and win the champion title.

Last season, the city of Cardiff, England, took its second consecutive “Professionals” win, as chefs Michael Coggan and Andrew Minto from Gin & Bake took the platter, following Laurian Veaudor and Thibault Courtoisier from the Cocorico Patisserie – also in Cardiff – during Season 5. As Cardiff sits out this season, a new town must take its place, and teams from London, Cheshire, Birmingham and beyond are each vying for a win.

To see whose desserts take the cake, dig into Season 7 of “The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals,” streaming Wednesday, July 26, on Netflix.

Stacey Solomon from “The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals”

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1. LAX arrival

4. Slammer

8. Encyc. volume, perhaps

11. “__ Maria”

12. “Deal __ __ Deal”

13. Silent assent

14. Campfire favorites

17. Antonio or Francisco

18. Objective

19. Landing place

21. Trepidation

24. Prefix for due or do

25. “Let It __”; Beatles song

26. Columbia’s place: abbr.

27. Suffix for bright or light

28. Place for a palm

30. European capital city

32. Tic-tac-toe win

34. Embargo

35. Campfire favorites

41. Ooh and __; express delight

42. __ mater

43. Reverent wonder

44. Simple reply 45. Barks snappishly

46. Barbie’s beau DOWN

1. Traffic tie-up

2. Perón or Mendes

3. Rudely brief

4. Biblical book

5. Limb

6. __ __ funk; moody

7. Actress Glaudini

8. Folklore creature

9. In what way?

10. Driver’s lic. & Soc. Sec. card

15. Actress Susan

16. Rescue vessel

19. Shove

20. Peruvian Indian

22. Fratricide victim

23. City near Lake Tahoe

29. Webster & Wyle

31. Person not to be trusted

33. Agreeable reply

34. Undergarments

35. Wray of “King Kong”

36. Charlotte __

37. St. Augustine’s place: abbr.

38. Sports official

39. Emerson’s monogram

40. Cruz or Feinstein: abbr.

Bozeman Art Museum reception and Opening of Plein Air Montana Exhibit

Bozeman Art Museum Proudly Presents

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BY JAY BOBBIN

Hurt and Turner bring the “Body Heat”

Sometimes referred to as a “Double Indemnity” remake, “Body Heat” really isn’t that, though the two melodramas do have themes in common. Being shown by Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, July 29, writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 1981 film did much to shore up William Hurt’s screen stardom, with the actor playing a likable Florida lawyer of highly questionable ethics.

“You’re not too smart … I like that in a man,” he’s told by the seductive socialite (Kathleen Turner, also in a career-building role) who sways him into conspiring to kill her wealthy husband (Richard Crenna). Knowingly packed with twists and turns, the modern film noir boasts great supporting turns by actors including Mickey Rourke, Ted Danson and daytime-serial alum Kim Zimmer, and the evocative score by longtime James Bond composer John Barry is fabulous. Kudos, too, to the cinematography by Richard H. Kline ... which makes you feel the sweat that’s evident on so many people in the picture.

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Kathleen Turner and William Hurt in “Body Heat”

Facing the wall is Nagle’s “A Seed to Eat the World,” a kaleidoscope filled with objects such as a coyote jawbone, bees and even baby teeth that speak to the richness of the landscape and its inhabitants. The artist routinely switches out the objects, so there is often something new to discover. While Nagle often works in sculptural forms, her contributions to “Invisible Prairie” also include largescale paintings. Viewers are given blacklight flashlights to highlight phosphorescent paint and bring out details — mainly insects and flowers hiding among the grasses.

In the next room, Oglála Lakota artist Kite, who uses only her last name for her artwork, showcases the star knowledge and graphic language of the Lakota and other peoples through embroidered hides and rock pictographs. Her piece “Iron Road,” in collaboration with Corey Stover and Becky Red Bow, uses these pictographs to tell the story of Elizabeth Iron Road, Kite’s great-great grandmother who escaped the Wounded Knee Massacre on foot. It is accompanied by a video that both tells the story and helps the viewer “read” the stones on the floor.

Kite will debut a new piece at the close of “Invisible Prairie” on Oct. 14, which intentionally coincides with the date of the next solar eclipse. The piece interprets a similar graphic myth as a musical score, with players starting on the outskirts and working their way toward the center in time with the eclipse.

New York artist Sparks is the great, great granddaughter of Julius Lehrkind, who opened a brewery in Bozeman in 1895. Her installation, “Settler Séance” digs into her genealogy,

interpreting individual family members from four generations who lived in or frequented the nearby Lehrkind Mansion as mixedmedia pieces.

Other explorations of the prairie include a 13-minute video of the 2017 total solar eclipse, filmed in Nebraska. Burns used 16mm film to capture the event on a medium that is naturally reactive to light. Burns’ other work uses found objects and mirrored glass to reflect both inner and outer worlds.

Inside the Tinworks space dotted with light from Chris Fraser’s “Asterisms,” created in 2019, Linder’s phonetically titled “/weTHer/,” invokes both “weather” and “whether.” The piece uses 300 found bovine ribs in a 64-foot sculpture mimicking “swirls of wind, whirling clouds, and lightning strikes on the prairie,” according to the Tinworks website. It also speaks to the loss of grasslands, to the skeletons of the prairie environment she once knew due to drought and other factors.

Outside, Long Soldier’s “Day Poems: Sun Mirrors” explore language in both written and visible forms and Flanagan’s “tracts” and other works look at materials from specific sites, namely the Fort Logan Blockhouse and Tinworks itself.

“Invisible Prairie” especially digs into senses beyond vision in an installation by Rice.

“Hidden Soundscapes” invites people to step into another world.

“It’s so compelling,” Moore said.

Grasses and other plants hanging from the ceiling bring the scent of the prairie to the nose, while recordings that Rice captured in plains environments for the Acoustic Atlas sound archive — sandhill cranes, a bison herd, a wildfire and a rainstorm among them

raCHEl HErGETT, FOr THE CHrONiClE

ABOVE: d ifferent iterations of abby Flanagan’s “tract” works made of polycarbonate filled with placebased materials are displayed at Tinworks a rt in Bozeman. RIGHT: Jeff r ice, left, and exhibit curator Melissa r again discuss r ice’s “Hidden Soundscapes,” an audio work highlighting sounds of the plains

— ring in the ears through multiple speakers.

“There’s just so many elements to this 30 minute mix,” Rice said over the barking of prairie dogs from the speakers. “Every one of these recordings has a different story to it. I could talk for hours about it, but maybe it’s good to just listen.”

“Invisible Prairie” is on display at Tinworks Art, 719 N. Ida Ave. in Bozeman, through Oct. 14. The exhibition is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free.

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit www.tinworksart.org.

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Questions:

BY ROBERTO JOZEF

Pete Alonso hopes to keep Mets season alive

The Battle of New York resumes this week, as the New York Mets head to Yankee Stadium to take on the Yankees in a midsummer matchup airing July 25 on TBS and YES.

With both teams boasting payrolls among the largest in Major League Baseball, the Yankees seemingly have more to show for it than the Mets this season, despite this season’s Subway Series being tied 1-1. The Yankees started the month sitting at well over .500, and even an injury to star slugger Aaron Judge hasn’t derailed their season’s trajectory.

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Tour de France

Answers:

1) What color jersey does the leading cyclist of the race traditionally wear?

2) Who was the first American male cyclist to win the Men’s Tour de France?

3) The 2022 Tour de France Femmes winner goes down in history as the event’s inaugural champion - who is she?

4) The leading climber in the Mountains leg of the race wears what color jersey?

5) Which French cyclist won the Men’s Tour de France five times during his racing career?

6) The 1954 Tour de France made history by being the first race to not start in France - where did the race begin?

7) Which female American cyclist won the 1984 Tour de France Féminin?

8) Which polarizing cycling icon won seven consecutive Tour de France titles before being stripped from the record books?

9) Name the famous avenue that marks the finish line of the Tour de France.

9) Champs-Elysées

8) Lance Armstrong (7-time Tour de France winner 1999-2005)

7) Marianne Martin

6) Netherlands (the 1954 race started from Amsterdam)

5) Bernard Hinault (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 & 1985)

4) Red & White Polka dot

3) Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)

(1986, in addition to winning titles in 1989 and 1990)

2) Greg LeMond

1) Yellow

For the Mets, it’s been a season plagued by injuries and inconsistencies, making it difficult to stay out of the bottom half — a stark difference from the 2022 season. But if there is a glimmer of hope for the Mets, it’s former National League Rookie of the Year Pete Alonso.

Alonso has been one of the most consistent players not only for the Mets, but in the entire major leagues. This season, the Mets first baseman is one of the league’s top players in terms of home runs and leads his team in RBIs, proving that 2022 was no fluke. Despite missing 10 games with a sprained wrist and struggling in his early return from the IL, Alonso was selected to his third all-star team, having already won back-to-back Home Run Derby competitions in 2019 and 2021 (the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

“I thought that the derby wasn’t necessarily the biggest priority when I was coming back from the wrist,” Alonso said earlier this month upon learning of his third career all-star selection. “It was trying to come back and be as productive as I can for my team. If I’m able to play a game, I’m definitely going to be able to take batting practice. So for me the biggest concern was getting back to the team. The derby for me is a happy bonus.”

Look for Alonso and the Mets to bring big energy against fellow all-star slugger Judge and the rival Yankees this week. Catch all the action live Tuesday, July 25 on TBS and YES.

Full Name: Peter

Morgan Alonso

Birthdate: Dec. 7, 1994

Birthplace: Tampa, Florida

Height/weight: 6-3/245 pounds

Honors and

All-MLB First Team (2019), NL Rookie of the Year (2019), MLB home run leader (2019), NL RBI leader (2022)