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Vol. 20, No. 34 • August 20–August 27, 2009

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Scope: All-ages Total Fest welcomes record 50 bands Ochenski: Schweitzer reenters the health care debate Up Front: Kim Williams Trail expansion comes to a head

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Vol. 20, No. 34 • August 20–August 27, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

Scope: All-ages Total Fest welcomes record 50 bands Ochenski: Schweitzer reenters the health care debate Up Front: Kim Williams Trail expansion comes to a head

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nside Cover Story Starbucks changed the name and branding of some of its coffee shops to promote a more neighborly feel. Barnes & Noble launched a new campaign that claims “All bookselling is local.” Walmart now hangs bright green banners over its produce aisles that simply say “Local.”

Cover illustration by Kou Moua This new variation on corporate greenwashing—localwashing—aims to co-opt the “Buy Local” message—or at least muddle the term so much that it no longer has meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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News

Letters Letter v. letter, health care and Huey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 The Week in Review Wet weather, fire danger and Obama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Briefs Planting seeds, biofuels boost and trail links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Etc. Good grizzly gunned down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Up Front A first-hand account of Obama’s visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Up Front Kim Williams Trail expansion comes to a head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Ochenski Schweitzer reenters the health care debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Writers on the Range Natural gas is not going to save the world . . . . . . . . . . .11 Agenda Make a difference with…toilet paper? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Arts & Entertainment

Flash in the Pan The perfect match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 8 Days a Week Wait, Costco’s not local? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Mountain High Touting the Tour de Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Scope All-ages Total Fest VIII prepares for record 50 bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Noise Japanther, The Pine Hill Haints, The Hail Seizures and This Runs on Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Film District 9 distills the best of classic sci-fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Film Local short explores dark absurdism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Exclusives Street Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 In Other News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Independent Personals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 The Advice Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Free Will Astrolog y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Crossword Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

PUBLISHER Matt Gibson GENERAL MANAGER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Peter Kearns PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Ira Sather-Olson STAFF REPORTERS Jesse Froehling, Matthew Frank, Alex Sakariassen COPY EDITORS Samantha Dwyer, David Merrill EDITORIAL INTERN Megan Gyermek ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jenn Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Carolyn Bartlett, Steven Kirst, Chris Melton, Hannah Smith, Scott Woodall CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MANAGER Miriam Mick CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, George Ochenski, Nick Davis, Andy Smetanka, Jay Stevens, Jennifer Savage, Caitlin Copple, Chris LaTray, Ednor Therriault, Jessie McQuillan, Brad Tyer, Katie Kane, Cathrine L. Walters, Anne Medley

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STREET TALK Asked Tuesday afternoon around Southgate Mall.

Q:

by Alex Sakariassen

This week the Indy explores how big box stores are piggybacking onto the “buy local” trend.

When you’re out shopping, how important is it to you to buy local?

Follow-up: Of Missoula’s independently owned stores, which do you most support?

Courtney Blakely: It’s very important. I want to support our community here. I work for the community and I want it to be the best it can be. No vegetarian: I mostly shop in downtown stores, but Diamond Bar Meats. I support them a lot. I get all my meat there.

Nick Haverhals: It’s not terribly important. I think even if you don’t buy local you’re still buying from a store that employs people here. Also, cost is kind of a driving force. Loves his pets: Go Fetch!, just because it’s a nice store. We go to the farmers’ market a lot of weekends, too.

Sarah Hopkins: I think shopping local is way important. I usually shop downtown for clothes and whatever, and my family goes down to the farmers’ markets all the time. We definitely think shopping local is important. Fashionista: I go to Betty’s Divine and Miss Zula’s the most. They have cute clothes and the atmosphere is friendly and informal.

I see that Annie Bukacek wrote a letter to the editor arguing that health care reform is unnecessary and the government should stay out of health care (see Letters, Aug. 13, 2009). This is rather surprising since this is the same Annie Bukacek who has written numerous letters to Kalispell’s Daily Inter Lake arguing that the government should decide reproductive health choices for women.

She is extremely anti-choice and wishes the government to decide whether a woman can have an abortion.

She also wishes to have the government have much more intrusion into religion. She has decided that the United States is a Christian nation and the government should reflect her decision.

One can read all of Bukacek’s letters, which she has helpfully put on her website, www.hosannahealthcare.com.

Then, one can make up his or her own mind about Bukacek’s dedication to less government intrusion into one’s personal life.

She also writes that she is a “passionate patient advocate.” Strangely, though, on her website she has sections about the founding fathers’ views on religion and government, quotes about the founding fathers, purchasing her weight loss book, her letters to the editor, but nothing about patient rights or advocacy. She lists 22 letters about abortion, four about denying evolution and none about patient advocacy. Although she is an M.D., Bukacek does not have privileges at either the Kalispell or Whitefish hospitals. She did start her own church, though.

There isn’t enough space to list all the inaccurate statements about health care reform she wrote in her letter. To her, it’s all about defeating the “liberal” Democratic agenda. If you doubt me, read the letter on her website titled, “A vote for the Democratic Party is a vote against our Nation.”

Richard Buley Missoula

Cost of doing business

Kelley Taylor: I think it’s fresher if you buy local. You usually get better quality. Grocery dash: Safeway is what I’m closest to, so I run there a lot. The Good Food Store is great, so I try to get there whenever I can.

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I have been self-employed for 36 years. Early in my career, I bought health insurance, but as the costs went up and the coverage went down I decided to not gamble my money on the chance that I would get sick enough for it to be a good investment of my limited personal health maintenance funds. Now I choose to go without insurance so that I can afford to go to the dentist and the

doctor. I don’t make enough money to pay insurance premiums and still pay for the deductibles and the things not covered. I get by on my income by being a smart consumer, and health insurance is a bad deal. I need health care not health insurance.

All the concern about the high cost of universal coverage is not well thought out. A healthy population will be good for business and the economy in general.

Our country will be better and stronger if we as individuals don’t have the uncertainty and stress that is so common when dealing with insurance and illness in our present system.

For-profit health insurance as the only option for the working person is offensive

not knowing if there would be anything to return to.

It’s a case in point that illustrates the importance of preparation before the fires begin burning. There is a lot of work that can be done to thin the forest, reduce the threat of wildfire and help protect our homes and communities from harm. Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act is a tremendous opportunity to get some of that good work started around Seeley Lake and many other forest communities. Let’s get a handle on the overstocked forest problem before the next big fire season by supporting and passing this bill.

Roger Marshall Chairman, Fuels Mitigation Task Force Seeley Lake

Getting along

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I get by on

my income by being a smart

consumer, and health insurance

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is a bad deal.

to me. Surely there are enough economic opportunities in our great nation to pursue profitability without preying on the health concerns of the populace. I hope the reform Sen. Max Baucus promotes includes single-payer or at least a public option. Without that it’s just stirring the pot with no improvement.

John Bakula Missoula

Fiery support Although we have been fortunate so far this year, the summer fire months can sometimes feel like a dangerous game of Russian roulette. We never know when or where the next big forest fire may spring up and endanger our homes and communities.

Those of us who live near Seeley Lake remember all too well the summer of 2007 when the Jocko Lakes fire burned through 18,000 acres of forest in one day alone and became the number one priority forest fire in the nation. With flames within a mile of town, many residents of Seeley Lake were forced to grab their belongings and evacuate their homes,

With all the negative hearsay people have been spreading about Huey Lewis (see “Deep cut,” June 18, 2009), I have decided to say a few positive things that I know to be fact. Huey is a nice, down-toearth person who no one would label as a “celebrity” if they didn’t know otherwise. He treats people with respect if they so deserve and he has been very generous to many people in this valley. How do I know this to be fact? I know Huey personally. Come on, everyone, there is enough negativity going around. Unless we know all the facts, let’s be nice.

Autumn Evanoff Hamilton

Lucky to have him Huey Lewis is a property owner who deserves privacy and respect. Huey has invested his own money into a beautiful piece of real estate that most people are hard-pressed to find in today’s market.

When Huey purchased the property, Mitchell Slough was represented as a private waterway and, in turn, was improved for the benefit of the fish and wildlife, not public access. What a wonderful person to care enough about the local wildlife (or lack thereof ) and attempt to improve it.

Huey is and will always be a wonderful friend, neighbor and asset to the Bitterroot Valley. Criticizing Huey’s actions to his own private property is unnecessary, so let us simply thank him for the habitat he has created for the fish and wildlife. We all should be so lucky to have someone like Huey living next door to us.

Robert and JoyceAnne Jodsaas Stevensville

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence. Letters to the editor must include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number for confirmation, though we’ll publish only your name and city. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication. Preference is given to letters addressing the contents of the Independent. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and clarity. Send correspondence to: Letters to the Editor, Missoula Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or via e-mail: editor@missoulanews.com.

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Montana forests provide clean water, public access, hunting and fishing and familywage jobs. That’s why Montanans from all walks of life rallied around innovative new stewardship practices that reflect these values. And why Senator Jon Tester has introduced the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. The bill is backed by Montana Wilderness Association, Trout Unlimited and others, as well as Montana-based local sawmills. See how it will work in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Blackfoot-Clearwater and the Yaak at MontanaForests.org.

Sponsored by Montana business owners, loggers, sportsmen and conservationists

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, August 12

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VIEWFINDER

News Quirks

by Anne Medley

The Griz football team opens fall camp in preparation for its Sept. 5 season-opener. The team returns 13 starters (seven offense, six defense) from a 2008 squad that went 14-2 and lost 24-7 to the Richmond Spiders in the NCAA Division I Championship game.

• Thursday, August 13 Montana Sen. Max Baucus makes an hour-long stop at the Western Montana Fair in Missoula and sets the record straight on what he calls “misinformation going around about our health care reform efforts.” He says reform won’t increase the budget deficit by “one thin dime” and that “not a single illegal alien is going to be covered.”

• Friday, August 14 At President Barack Obama’s appearance in Belgrade, he quips: “I’m thrilled to have a chance to spend some time with the folks in this beautiful state. After all, here in Montana you’ve got bears and moose and elk. In Washington you just have mostly bull.”

• Saturday, August 15 Despite wet weather and cold temperatures, attendance is up during the Western Montana Fair— including 6,542 people today—according to Fair Manager Scott Meader. He attributes the high numbers to popular events like the Montana Stampede Rodeo and Bitterroot Motors Bull-O-Rama.

• Sunday, August 16 The Arizona Diamondbacks sign 18-year-old Bobby Borchering, the team’s top pick in the 2009 Major League draft. Borchering, a switch-hitting outfielder who hit .494 this spring with Bishop Verot High School in Florida, will start his career this week with the Missoula Osprey.

• Monday, August 17 After unseasonable cold and wet weekend weather, officials with the Missoula County Fire Protection Association downgrade the region’s fire danger to “Low” and re-open general burning the following morning.

• Tuesday, August 18 Tom Schmidt of Missoula claims a 2009 Ford Lariat F-150 from the Montana Lottery headquarters in Helena. Schmidt is the state’s first winner of the BIG Montana Truck raffle game, but it’s not his first lottery win. In May, Schmidt won $20,000 playing Montana Cash.

Trash from the final night of the Western Montana Fair, which ended August 16, litters the ground beneath the arena bleachers. Fair Manager Scott Meader reported overall attendance was up this year despite unseasonably cold and rainy weather.

Biofuels

Local lab cleans up Cellulosic ethanol is still a long way from the station pump, but a $300,000 grant recently awarded to a Missoula laboratory by the National Science Foundation could speed up development of a more sustainable alternative to grain-based fuels.

Dozens of companies nationwide have devoted considerable time and money the last few years developing a process to turn biomass like woodchips or crop waste into cellulosebased ethanol fuel. Put simply, they hope to use the corncob instead of the kernel. But technological limits, among other hurdles, have kept cellulosic ethanol from any commercial breakthroughs.

“You can make a tremendous amount of ethanol from biomass,” says Jim Sturdevant, director of South Dakota-based POET’s cellulosic ethanol project. “Once the technology is there.”

Enter Michael Ceballos and his work at the University of Montana’s Native American Research Laboratory. While that $300,000 grant

is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions POET has spent since 2001, Ceballos believes he can develop the answer people like Sturdevant are searching for.

“Once the technology is proven in that it can actually result in increases in efficiency that make bioethanol competitive with petroleumbased fossil fuels, then we start looking at specific processes and ask, ‘Whose process can we make more efficient today?’” Ceballos says.

POET plans to start producing cellulosic ethanol at its pilot plant by next year, and Montana Microbial Products in Butte officially opened a demonstration facility in August 2008.

But Sturdevant says commercial availability is years off, a significant setback considering the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act’s production mandate of 250 million gallons by 2011.

Ceballos’ method, discovered during his time with NASA’s Ames Research Center, looks to increase both fuel yields and the types of biomass that can be used. His prototype tests have already doubled the efficiency of cellulosic ethanol production, and he’s confident those numbers will drastically improve over the coming years.

“Within five years, unless someone comes up with something better, I think this is a technology that’s going to be widely used across the country,” Ceballos says.

Alex Sakariassen

Recreation

Montana trail linked up It can take a long time to reach the end of the line.

After the Milwaukee Railroad went bankrupt for the third time, its railroad grade west of St. Regis was sold in 1982 to Idaho timber magnate John Edwards, whose estate sold parcels of it in 2001 to Drummond contract logger Jim Davis, who then, beginning in 2007, sold parcels to Five Valleys Land Trust (FVLT), which, just three weeks ago, conveyed the last of them to the U.S. Forest Service.

The transaction completes the agency’s long-envisioned acquisition of about 30 miles of trail that links to Idaho’s Route of the Hiawatha, together creating a nearly continuous 45-mile trail between St. Regis and Pearson, Idaho.

“These wouldn’t be public lands without

Better to burn out than rust out. ~ Neil Young

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Five Valleys stepping in,” says Beth Kennedy of the Superior Ranger District.

When Davis offered the old railroad up for sale, the Forest Service couldn’t immediately buy it because of its “general geologic pace in getting things done,” as Kennedy puts it. FVLT stepped in—as it’s done in the past to purchase parcels on Mt. Jumbo and along the Alberton Gorge—to provide bridge funding until public funding became available.

“We think it’s a worthy project,” says FVLT’s Greg Tollefson.

The Missoula-based organization put up $195,000 before being reimbursed by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Recreational Trails Program and the U.S. Forest Service’s Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The question of how the trail will be managed, though, remains unanswered.

“It will be some kind of trail, but how it will be utilized as a trail, we don’t know that yet,” says Superior District Ranger Sharon Sweeney. “There are lots of ways that it could go, because there are a lot of strong feelings.

Some people want it one way, some people want it another way.”

Sweeney says the Forest Service’s proposed action, to be based on input from various stakeholders, should be out early next year.

“All of a sudden,” says Tollefson, “there’s this piece of ground that has been secured for the public and there are different opinions on exactly how it should be managed…I think it’s a tremendous luxury to be able to argue about something that is going to benefit lots of people one way or another.”

Matthew Frank

Wildflowers

Budding business Millions of hairy golden aster, clarkia and cushion buckwheat seeds recently arrived at Missoula Parks and Recreation’s office, native seeds to be planted this fall over Missoula’s acres of weed-infested open space.

“Some of these plants are very good competitors for a lot of the weeds we’re trying to manage,” says Missoula Conservation Lands Manager Morgan Valliant. “You just can’t find the seeds for the species anywhere, and so this is our opportunity to actually get this seed.”

The opportunity comes thanks to the upstart wildflower seed company Native Ideals,

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the first of its kind in the state and one of only a handful in the Northern Rockies. The company, founded two years ago by Bryce Christiaens and Rebecca Shoemaker, grows 20 native forbs on seven acres in Arlee for ecological restoration and water-wise landscaping.

“What we try to do,” says Christiaens, “is gear ourselves toward some of the more uniquely western Montana species that people really associate with when they

go hiking on the ‘M’ trail or the North Hills or somewhere like that. We have a lot of people who say, ‘Oh yeah, I love that flower,’ and that draws them into being interested in other species we’re carrying, as well.”

Christiaens, 29, who holds a philosophy degree from the University of Montana, created Native Ideals Seed Company after combating Missoula’s invasive weed problem for seven years.

“Invasive species,” he says, “they’re still definitely a major threat to our native plant communities. But you go in and you treat for a certain invasive species and then if these [native seeds] aren’t available to reestablish your native plant community, then it just gets reinvaded.

This was part of the puzzle, it seemed, that wasn’t being fulfilled.”

Beyond working with the city to reseed its open space, Native Ideals sells to the Good Food Store, Caras Nursery, The Green Light and Sam’s Spade Garden Tools & Wares in Hamilton. And three weeks ago, Christiaens and Shoemaker set up shop at the Saturday morning Clark Fork River Market.

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“From my end,” says Valliant, “I love working with local businesses that are geared toward helping with local restoration projects. It seems like we’ve had a lot more springing up here recently. It’s always better to buy local, I think.”

Matthew Frank

Urban foragers beware Larry Evans says they’re cropping up by the hundreds along Missoula’s boulevards.

Agaricus californicus looks just like several other edible mushrooms—bulbous, white, pink gills—but Evans warns it’s no morel.

“People have brought me bags so far,” Evans says. “Yesterday a guy brought in a shopping bag full of the things and asked, ‘Can I eat these?’ It broke my heart to tell him no, but it would have broken his stomach if I’d said yes.”

If eaten, the toxic fungi will give pickers the mother of all stomachaches, Evans says. The species isn’t uncommon in Missoula this time of year–Evans typically sees a few dozen around town in August–but record rainfall and cooler temperatures opened the floodgates. In all his years in Missoula, Evans hasn’t seen anything like it.

“I’ve never seen a season like this in August,” Evans says. “Back in the ’70s, this is what September was like.”

Missoula Urban Forester Ben Carson says he isn’t yet aware of a significant increase in mushroom numbers around town. Sandy Perrin of the Missoula County Extension Office’s plant clinic says she hasn’t noticed an unusual number of calls concerning mushrooms over the summer, either, but she did receive half a dozen calls on Tuesday. She couldn’t speak to the edibility of any local mushrooms she’s seen.

Evans notes an increase in other mushroom species, as well, again something he credits to an abnormally wet August. Fairy ring mushrooms might smell like a swimming pool, but “they’re good to eat,” Evans says. If pickers simply exercise caution, this month offers a bumper crop for hungry urbanites.

“It’s really not common,” he says, “for people to pick mushrooms in August.”

Alex Sakariassen

Minutes it took officials at Bozeman City Hall to hand out over 300 tickets to President Barack Obama’s Friday appearance at Gallatin Airfield in Belgrade.

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Mushrooms

On the surface, the story seems straightforward: Two rangers shot and killed a grizzly in Glacier National Park Monday evening as the bear approached a campground. One of the sow’s two yearling cubs also died after being shot with a tranquilizer. The other cub was successfully sedated and set for transfer to the Bronx Zoo. The official press release from the National Park Service (NPS) classified the adult’s death, stating she was “humanely-killed.” Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright called the yearling’s death “very unfortunate.” Considering the adult had a history of interacting with campers, and no zoos were interested in taking the old sow, Cartwright says park personnel had no choice but to kill her. Seems reasonable enough.

But the details, as always, prove more complicated.

The 17-year-old sow, known as the Oldman Lake Bear, received her name because she frequented the campground of the same name. That campground, located on the east side of the park’s backcountry, happens to be prime huckleberry terrain. Despite the sow’s history in the area, she’s never been aggressive with humans. The park appeared to successfully haze her in both 2004 and 2006—she hadn’t been seen the last two summers—but this season she reemerged in and around the campground. She still hadn’t harmed a human, but Glacier personnel recorded three instances wherein the bear “repeatedly and purposefully approached humans in a non-defensive situation.” That wandering led to her death.

NPS has gone out of its way to explain and justify the killings, but advocates think the park made a huge mistake. Doug Peacock, author of Grizzy Years and The Essential Grizzly, pleaded in a letter to Cartwright to reconsider. “This could be a poor grizzly food year for east side bears…Please cut her some slack, close the campground for a few weeks and see.” The WildernessSportsman blog took things a little further, calling the incident a “Minority Report style killing,” in reference to the Steven Spielberg film where police hunt down criminals before they break the law. There are also reports that numerous park personnel objected to Cartwright’s decision, but were afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.

“This was a poorly considered decision,” Peacock told the Indy after hearing the fatal news. “Bear management in the park is a huge problem. Their plan is so out-dated to deal with the dynamic climate changes we’re seeing everywhere grizzlies live. No bears are expendable at this point. I mean, why not just close the area?”

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Traffic ahead slows, then stops. The two-lane road into Belgrade turns into Montana’s worst traffic jam. It’s not because of any wreck—just the crowds headed to President Barack Obama’s Aug. 14 town hall meeting, the hordes of protesters, and the hapless people who were just driving the road trying to get to somewhere else. It takes me a half-hour to drive the last mile or so, and I’m thinking, Obama is losing hundreds of votes in this traffic jam.

The town hall is billed as a dialog about Obama’s effort to reform health care and health insurance in this country. It’s being held on the fringe of the Gallatin Field Airport, in a hangar—basically a big room where the entrances can be secured.

Outside, there are hundreds of protesters. They’ve been awarded stubbly fields of mowed tallgrass, along the roads near—but not too near—the hangar.

Some of the anti-reform protesters arrive in a bus that’s emblazoned with a big orange hand and lettering that says, “Hands Off My Health Care.” It’s part of a national campaign run by a group calling itself Americans for Prosperity, which also advocates for tax cuts and the tobacco industry, with financial support from ExxonMobile and right-wing foundations. Others hold signs warning that Obama’s reform will destroy health care, or against the government in general.

Still others are here to support the president, or hold signs pushing for a singlepayer option, imagining the creation of U.S. government-run health insurance covering all people.

As I walk from the grass to the hangar, the security gets tighter and tighter. Marine Corps helicopters are parked on the tarmac and flying overhead. Up on the roof of the hangar itself, snipers. All that is necessary, but it puts Montana’s legendary informality and low-hassle lifestyle through the grinder.

At the door to the hangar, more guards use metal detectors to screen everyone for weapons. Inside, the room fills with people—maybe 1,300 in all, sitting on folding chairs or standing. The whole room’s dress code tends toward jeans, and some wear T-shirts or sweatshirts, cowboy hats or baseball caps.

A couple of leading Montana Democrats—Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Sen. Jon Tester—give brief speeches to warm up the audience. The governor gets lots of applause by telling the audience, “It’s a great day for Montana!” and says he hopes that Obama will see “the majesty of God at work” in Montana, especially the famous Old Faithful geyser eruptions in Yellowstone National Park,

stretching geography a bit, since the geyser is actually located a few miles into Wyoming.

Before Obama appears on stage, Montana’s most controversial Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus, takes the podium. He’s chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which is hashing out the Senate’s positions on reform—and he’s refusing to create a single-payer health insurance plan. Many grumble about Baucus’ stance, saying he’s sold out regular Montanans to the interests of the health care corporations that donate millions to his election campaigns.

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Baucus tries to continue the warmup by giving his own fiery speech, but he mentions only modest reforms—mostly just to make it harder for insurance companies to deny people coverage. He gets some applause anyway, kind of just for showing up.

Then a regular Montanan takes the podium: Katie Gibson talks of how she’s battled cancer and related medical problems for years—along with battling her insurance company over whether it would cover her bills. She’s a living example carefully selected to support Baucus’ position. And at the end of her speech, she introduces the person we’ve all come to see.

After a standing ovation, Obama delivers his brief remarks fluidly, as usual. Then he strips off his suit jacket and, in a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up on his forearms, he takes a handheld microphone and begins answering questions posed by people in the audience.

In the dialog, Obama talks about the “scare tactics” used by his most cynical opponents and cable-television talk shows, such as the claim that he would create “death panels” to choke off medical care for elderly people. It’s a claim so crazy that denying it also sounds crazy.

“Because we’re getting close [to some

reforms],” Obama says, “the fight is getting fierce.”

Obama makes like he’s also here to prop up Baucus—doing Democratic Party politics as well as health-care reform. He keeps referring to Baucus by first name, as many Montanans do, only favorably.

Obama seems to disagree with Baucus on some points, though. The president brings it up while responding to Carol Wilder, a Montanan recently laid off with two kids on government-run Medicaid. She asks what Obama sees in the different health insurance systems in Canada and Europe, where governments provide popular versions of singlepayer? Obama says he wants “a uniquely American solution” that should include something along the lines of a nationwide health insurance “exchange”— some new marketplace where millions of people could band together to buy insurance. Forming such a large group of customers, he says, they would have better leverage and efficiencies of scale, so rates would be lower. If Baucus wants that too, Baucus hasn’t played it up.

Obama also tells the audience that he’d like to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to help pay for reform—something else Baucus doesn’t mention.

Pundits think Baucus and Obama are battling behind the scenes, and maybe they’re cutting a deal to create some kind of “exchange” rather than single-payer.

Obama responds to several skeptics saying, “That’s a legitimate question.”

Obama keeps using one of his own down-home words—“folks”—to refer to just about anyone. He completely abandons his Harvard and Columbia degrees to intentionally misuse the language for a moment—“got to be careful of them cable network shows.” He points to another woman who’s wearing a cowboy hat and says, “If I’m in Montana, I’ve got to call on someone with a cowboy hat.”

Several times he laughs in such a way that I think his laughter must be genuine. He appears to be enjoying himself.

Finally, after 45 minutes of answering questions, Obama winds down the dialog, gets another standing ovation, then steps down from the stage to mingle with some of the crowd. As I walk out with everyone else, many of us are talking about the feeling of being in the room together. And we’re noticing, the snipers are still up on the roof, just in case.

Ray Ring is the senior editor of High Country News (hcn.org) and based in Bozeman. editor@missoulanews.com

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Alternate route Kim Williams Trail expansion comes to a head

by Jesse Froehling

Missoula city officials have dreamed for years of connecting the Kim Williams Trail to the confluence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers past Bonner. Now, a judge may decide whether the city can compel developers to make that dream a reality.

The city’s desire stems from a lack of alternative routes to and from the eastern parts of Missoula. As it stands now, bicyclists must fight high-volume traffic on Highway 200 and Interstate 90 to reach downtown from East Missoula and

vide more information on why, exactly, the riverfront trail is necessary to the project—and why Brugh should be responsible for it.

City Attorney Jim Nugent first called Peter Nielsen, an environmental health supervisor with the Missoula City-County Health Department who has worked for the past 15 years to extend the Kim Williams Trail. Nielsen explained that an easement and riverfront path would make the extension more desirable—a vital component to a route he expects to be in

sion regulations,” Nugent answered.

To explain the regulations, Nugent called Tim Worley, a planner with the Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), to testify. Worley pointed to a provision mandating that all trails should be continuous and provide access to services, including open space.

Jackie Corday, open space program manager for Missoula Parks and Recreation, then testified that when Brugh’s application passed her desk, it included a conservation easement along

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A case in Missoula District Court will decide whether developer Bob Brugh will have to help the city extend the popular Kim Williams Trail to Bonner.

Bonner. An extension of the trail would bypass those roadways and provide a scenic path along the river.

City Council thought it found the solution to the problem with its Nov. 26, 2007, approval of developer Bob Brugh’s application for the Clark Fork Terrace No. 2 subdivision. Brugh’s company, Neighborhoods by Design, proposed 33 homes on 47.38 acres east of Deer Creek Road along the Clark Fork River near East Missoula.

As a condition of approval, the city proposed a trail running along Deer Creek Road to the east. That trail would connect with the abandoned Old Milwaukee railroad line and, the city hoped, eventually extend to the Kim Williams Trail, linking the popular Missoula path with Bonner.

Brugh agreed to the council’s stipulation, but balked at a second condition of approval—an easement along the river to build a second trail. Brugh then sued the city, in part, to remove the additional condition.

On Tuesday, Missoula District Judge Ed McLean held an evidentiary hearing to decide whether the city has the authority to force Brugh to create an easement.

McLean put the burden on the city to pro-

heavy use. As proof, Nielsen pointed to traffic figures that project the subdivision will add more than one car per minute to local roadways, making an alternative commute to services in Missoula all the more necessary. He also said children living in the subdivision would likely attend the Bonner School, and to drive to the facility parents would need to backtrack to East Missoula, then back up the river—a circuitous 5-mile drive. With a pedestrian bridge the city hopes to build, children could walk or bike just 1.4 miles to school.

“It is, in fact, the subdivision that creates the need [for a trail],” Nielsen said.

But on cross examination, Alan McCormick, the attorney for Neighborhoods by Design, had Nielsen explain that the roads in the subdivision, bordered by sidewalks, already led to the trail on Deer Creek Road, which eventually leads to the abandoned Old Milwaukee Line. McCormick’s point: the subdivision provides sufficient nonmotorized access out of the neighborhood without the easement.

During Nielsen’s testimony, McLean asked why the city didn’t use the power of eminent domain to just build the riverfront trail itself.

“Because it’s part of the city’s subdivi-

the river. Recognizing that conservation easements generally preclude public access, Corday asked Brugh to leave space for a public trail, which Brugh allegedly supported. Brugh didn’t return a call seeking comment.

“I don’t think there’s a person in this room who isn’t a fan of the city’s riverfront trail system,” McLean told the courtroom.

“But the issue of this case is not whether the trail can be built. It’s whether the city has the authoritative power [to take the easement].”

In addition to the riverfront trail issue, Brugh is also arguing against other conditions attached to the city’s approval of his development. One states that if the city isn’t able to buy the Old Milwaukee line from Burlington Northern, the council wants to use Brugh’s property to extend the Kim Williams Trail with an additional easement. Also, the subdivision has slated nine acres that “resemble” public space.

The city wants the space to actually be open to the public.

McLean didn’t rule on the case Tuesday. McCormick said he thinks a decision will come in the next three to six months. jfroehling@missoulanews.com

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Thousands of Montanans watched, listened to or read about President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care reform in Montana last week. The president shared the stage with Montana’s senators and did his best to embrace Sen. Max Baucus’ efforts to develop “bipartisan” health reform legislation. But it was Gov. Brian Schweitzer who took the podium to resoundingly endorse a Canadian-style, universal health care system—returning to the populist roots of the issue that brought him into politics.

Those who haven’t been in Montana for at least a decade probably won’t recall the political emergence of Schweitzer, when he decided to take on incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns in the 2000 elections. Schweitzer blew into public awareness like a tornado, ripping Burns for being in thrall to corporate interests that were trashing the environment and failing to meet the real needs of Montana’s citizens.

One of the primary issues Schweitzer concentrated on was the radical difference in cost for prescription drugs in Canada versus the United States. To illustrate his commitment to the issue, Schweitzer organized bus tours of senior citizens to go to Canada and buy the prescription drugs they needed.

Given Schweitzer’s showmanship, the prescription drug protests were a huge success and brought him enormous support for actually concentrating on the needs of Montana’s citizens instead of the desires of the D.C. lobbyists he claimed were controlling Burns.

Riding that wave of populism—and the very realistic need for affordable prescription drugs—Schweitzer came within a hair’s breadth of defeating Burns.

The race, by all measures, was amazing considering only months before he was a political unknown—and pulling down an incumbent senator with a massive D.C. special-interest war chest is almost an impossible task.

As we all know, Schweitzer never stopped campaigning after his initial run and became governor in 2004—in large part building on the populism of his senatorial bid and promising Montanans a “New Day” when he took office.

Unfortunately, being the governor of Montana is a lot different role than being a U.S. Senator, and Schweitzer’s focus soon left prescription drugs and national health care issues behind.

Instead, he turned to other issues, such as energy, which have largely consumed him and haven’t brought nearly the support his earlier populist stands generated.

But suddenly last week, the old Brian Schweitzer returned to the stage with his signature issue and ripped loose in the presence of two formidable national politicians with health care positions considerably different than his.

The governor let fly with a resounding endorsement of the Canadian health system, telling the crowd to roaring applause that the most popular Canadian of all time in a recent nationwide poll was Tommy Douglas, the man

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responsible for Canada’s universal health care system, which has been in place since 1962.

Baucus, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is a key player in the health care debate since any reform measure must pass his committee’s scrutiny. Unfortunately, Baucus has not followed Schweitzer’s earlier populist stands on health care, preferring to protect the status quo of insurance and pharmaceutical domination of the American health care system at the expense of true health care reform.

Likewise, Obama has retreated an enormous distance from his initial promises on reforming health care in the United States and, echoing Baucus’ pledge to devise a “uniquely American” system, has fallen into the same trap as Baucus. Namely, no one can figure out what either one is talking about these days, what their “plans” are, or how they can reform health care by leaving the most egregious parts of the system—the for-profit health insurance and drug industries—intact.

Even worse, the vernacular of both Baucus and Obama has left any consideration of universal health care far behind as they attempt to morph the issue into health insurance reform rather than health care reform—two very different things.

As those following the issue know, Obama is now catching enormous heat nationwide for his withdrawal this week from insisting on a “public option” to openly compete with the health insurance industry, saying it’s merely “a sliver” in health care reform. Whichever D.C. “strategists” are coaching Baucus and Obama ought to be shown to the door—the back door—because they are now left with positions that defy comprehensible definition.

In the meantime, both Max and Obama have alienated the progressive base that helped elect them while doing nothing to mollify the boiling anger of those who oppose “government run” health care. In effect, they have satisfied no one, angered many and left themselves in the untenable position of trying to sell an amorphous “plan” many oppose and, since it’s basically gutted, no one is willing to fight for.

If there is a lesson here, it’s that Democrats win—and win big—when they stick to basic populist positions that people can understand and that they believe will bring them the changes they need and have long waited for. Fighting for the people is something we can understand. Universal health care is something we can understand. A singlepayer system that takes care of all citizens, regardless of their ability to pay, is something we can understand and support. In fact, we’d go to the mat for them if they had the guts to stand up for us.

But they’re not. They’ve fallen prey to prevarication, evasion and, sadly, the same old reluctance to take on the corporate powers that be, preferring to sacrifice the health of the nation’s citizens to the well-being of corporate coffers.

In contrast, the message from Montana’s governor was straightforward and undeniably on target: Why reinvent the wheel when we have an example of universal health care that has worked for a half-century for our neighbors to the north? It’s refreshing to see Schweitzer on his game again— and kudos to him for returning to his populist roots.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Dose of reality Natural gas is not going to save the world

by Randy Udall

Some 15 million Americans believe the moon landings were faked. Millions more are convinced that the sun revolves around the earth, which is approximately 6,000 years old.

Reason and science have their fans, but many Americans find faith more appealing. The National Academy of Sciences has decreed the evidence for climate change unmistakable, but that won’t stop Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican, from declaring it a hoax.

He’s not alone.

“I don’t think the human effect is significant,” says Harrison “Moon Rock” Schmitt, the last astronaut to (allegedly) explore the lunar surface. What then explains those melting glaciers? Global warming skeptics have many crackpot theories. My favorite came from a housewife in Arkansas, who insists that daylight savings is to blame: “It’s that extra hour of sunlight.”

Against this backdrop it’s a miracle that the House recently passed a climate change bill. The legislation—1,500 pages of bratwurst—may not pass the Senate, but it’s worth asking what might happen if the nation ever got serious about reducing greenhouse gases.

In July, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, addressed hundreds of natural gas executives at a conference in Denver. A year ago Ritter was in the midst of a bruising battle with the industry, as he championed new standards for drilling and wildlife protection. Now, facing a tough re-election challenge, he struck a conciliatory note.

“Natural gas is a vital part of the new energy economy—not a bridge fuel, not a transition fuel, but a mission-critical fuel,” the governor proclaimed. “We can’t begin to address climate change in a meaningful way without using more natural gas.”

In recent months, clean-energy advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Colorado Sen. Tim Wirth have echoed similar sentiments. “Climate disruption is

real,” Wirth told the Denver conference.

“The gas industry must play a major role in saving the world.”

Wirth and Ritter are right. The big question is what to do about coal. Each day, 10,000 hopper cars heaped with coal—enough to fill a train 110 miles long—trundle out of the Rockies, bound for power plants as distant as Florida. Of course, we burn our share of coal here at home, too. Throughout the Intermountain West, coal provides about

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75 percent of the electricity. Gov. Ritter has called for a 20 percent reduction in electric-sector greenhouse emissions by 2020. This is a tall order, in no small part because the state may add 1 million people by then.

Population is rarely broached in climate discussions, which is unfortunate because growth is a big deal. Reducing emissions while people are increasing is like running down an up escalator. To hit Ritter’s target, all growth in demand would need to be met through conservation and a multibillion dollar investment in carbon-free wind, solar or nuclear energy. Simultaneously, you’d have to retire nearly one-half of Colorado’s coal plants and somehow replace their output.

Could conservation fill the entire gap? Getting energy-saving to happen on

such a large scale in such a short time would be difficult. The inconvenient truth is that the typical household uses 10 percent more electricity than it did a decade ago.

The politics of fuel switching are difficult, because it would raise electric rates and because coal’s markup rivals that of Fiji Water. Each year, the nation’s utilities spin $40 billion worth of coal into $160 billion of electricity. Although the average coal plant is nearly 40 years old, there’s no incentive to retire it, even though it produces three times more carbon dioxide than a modern gas turbine.

Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain gas industry is suffering through its worst year in recent history. Commodity prices have cratered, and not a single coal bed methane well was drilled in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin in June, welcome news to local environmental groups.

For the next year or two, the nation is likely to remain awash in gas. But if the whole nation were to embrace fuel switching, as it may need to do to reduce emissions quickly, the glut would disappear and much more gas would be needed. Gas reserves aren’t the issue, due to the discovery of large new sources of shale gas. But to displace large amounts of coal, natural gas drilling would need to resume the frantic, helter-skelter pace of recent years.

It’s a heartbreaking dilemma: The gas industry has not been gentle on Western landscapes, but climate change could be worse. So pick your poison. To displace coal with gas, we’d need to complete 30,000 to 40,000 new wells a year for decades to come. If that’s our only strategy for averting climate disaster, we might need to put somebody like Sarah Palin in charge of drilling.

Randy Udall is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes about energy in Carbondale, Colorado.

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“We know there’s an increased need for everything at the food bank and, even with seniors, we’re seeing an increased need in all areas,” says Colleen Baldwin, volunteer services program manager at Missoula Aging Services (MAS).

In the spirit of cooperation, as well as in response to President Barack Obama’s “United We Stand” public service campaign, MAS and the Missoula Food Bank (along with other food banks in the Bitterroot and Flathead) have banded together for “The Big Rollout,” a multi-week toilet

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THURSDAY AUGUST 27 Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. The hospice utilizes health care professionals and trained volunteers to provide care. Call Lois at 642-3010.

If you live in the Bitterroot and have a garden, it might have been poisoned by an herbicide called tordon. Find out more when the Hamilton Farmers’ Market and Sustainable Living Systems holds a public meeting on the matter at 7 PM at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. Free. Call 961-0004.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police charged Brent Nathan Frick, 26, with stealing a safe containing $69,000 in gold coins from a home in Coopersburg, Pa., after a witness who knew Frick saw him bust open the safe in a nearby parking lot. Allentown’s Morning Call reported the witness noticed some of the papers in the safe had another person’s name and notified police. State troopers found four more stolen safes in Frick’s motel room.

Four thieves broke into 16 boats at a marina in Cambridgeshire, England, and made off with luxury electronics items, two electric generators, a large amount of alcohol and a captain’s cap. The Daily Times attributed a quick arrest to their attempting their getaway in a flat-bottomed punt boat with a top speed of 3 mph. Police on the riverbank used night-vision goggles to locate the pole-pushing pirates, aged 26 to 17.

PHONE TAG - Orlando hotel guest Lisa Kantorski answered the phone and told her husband Mark, a deputy sheriff, it was the desk clerk informing them of a gas leak in their room. Relaying the caller’s instructions, she told her husband to smash the window with a toilet tank, break the mirror on the wall, use a lamp to bash in the wall to reach the trapped man on the other side and throw the mattress out the second-floor window. The Orlando Sentinel reported the Kantorskis were about to jump to safety when Hilton Garden Inn manager Samir Patel knocked on their door in response to a noise complaint. He informed them there was no gas leak and pegged the damage at $5,000.

“When I broke the window, I got suspicious,” Mark explained. “It didn’t seem right, but Lisa was panicking, so I continued.”

The Sentinel noted this was another in a rash of phone pranks across the country. Among the others: A caller posing as a sprinkler-company employee persuaded an Arkansas motel worker to cause more than $50,000 in damage as part of a “test” of the motel’s emergency alarms.

An employee of a Nebraska Hampton Inn believed a caller who said to pull the fire alarm, then called back and said the only way to silence the alarm was to break the lobby windows. The employee sought help from a nearby trucker, who drove his rig through the front door.

PLOT LINES - An unidentified driver was seriously injured after he lost control of his sport utility vehicle in front of the police station in Penn Hills, Pa., and sheared a utility pole that was cemented into the ground. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that when repair crews arrived to restore power, a hose burst on one of the trucks, spilling automotive fluid onto the roadway. A hazardousmaterials team was called to clean up the spill, but a worker using a jackhammer ruptured a water line near the pole. Another crew had to be dispatched to repair the water line, prompting police Chief Howard Burton to announce the road would be closed most of the day.

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After his arrest for hitting a car in Lockport, N.Y., Nicholas Sparks, 25, admitted he’d been talking and texting on his cell phone at the same time while driving a flatbed truck with two motorcycles on the bed and two other vehicles in tow. Niagara County Chief Deputy Steven Preisch told the Buffalo News that after the collision, the flatbed went through a yard and sideswiped a house, which was then hit by one the towed vehicles. The truck continued through a privacy fence and came to a stop in a swimming pool. Homeowner Brad Kanel said cleanup took more than five hours, but the hardest part was finding a truck big enough to pull the flatbed out of the pool.

STATING THE OBVIOUS - Police responding to a call of a person with a knife at a beauty pageant on Chicago’s West Side, arrested Leroy Tinch, 28, one of the contestants, who the Chicago SunTimes said resembles a woman and appears to have breast implants and a tattoo of paw prints on his chest. Police Lt. John Franklin said Tinch used a trophy to beat pageant judge Sebastian Latta, 37, shattering his jaw in three places. “Apparently, I must have voted for the wrong person,” Latta told a responding officer.

Leslie Edward Smith, 62, called 911 in Raleigh, N.C., to report having “shot this girl who’s been living in my house. She won’t get out, so I shot her.” According to a transcript provided to the Raleigh News & Observer, Smith told the dispatcher he had put down the gun and that the victim was seriously wounded, probably dead.

“Is she beyond help?” the dispatcher asked.

“She should be,” Smith answered. “I shot her point blank in the chest.”

After he declined the dispatcher’s request to perform CPR, the dispatcher insisted, “You got to try to help her.”

“I don’t want to help her. She’s dead.”

When the dispatcher again urged Smith try to revive the victim, Smith muttered, “This is ridiculous.

I just shot her.”

FAST FOOD FOLLIES - North Korea’s first fast-food restaurant opened in June, serving hamburgers (described as “minced meat and bread,” topped with fermented spicy cabbage), French fries, waffles and draft beer. The newspaper Choson Sinbo added that the Samtaesong restaurant in Pyongyang plans to add hot dogs and croissants to the menu and expand to other locations.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the burgers cost $1.70, almost half the daily income of an average North Korean. Since natural disasters and mismanagement devastated its economy in the 1990s and caused widespread famine, North Korea has relied on foreign handouts to feed its hunger-stricken 24 million people.

An employee at a McDonald’s restaurant in Aurora, Colo., said that two Denver police officers were waiting for their drive-through order when one of them, Officer Derrick Curtis Saunders, 29, grew impatient and drew his weapon. According to the allegation reported by the Denver Post after his arrest, Saunders pointed the pistol at the worker to speed up his order.

PARTY POOPER - Authorities investigating a power surge in Lincoln, Neb., that prevented the launch of the state’s new $2.9 million driver’s license system blamed helium-filled Mylar balloons striking a power line. The surge knocked out the connection between the state’s mainframe computer and computers at Department of Motor Vehicles satellite offices, preventing licenses from being issued for three days. “Someone who was having a good time and decided to let some balloons go was the cause,” Lincoln Electric System official Russ Reno said, telling the Omaha World-Herald such balloons are hazardous to power lines and cause computers to shut down briefly and restart.

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SBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself “the world’s local bank.” Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, “Local flavor since 1956.” The International Council of Shopping Centers, a global consortium of mall owners and developers, is pouring millions of dollars into television ads urging people to “Shop Local”—at their nearest mall.

Even Walmart is getting in on the act, hanging bright green banners over its produce aisles that simply say “Local.”

This new variation on corporate greenwashing—localwashing—is, like the buy-local movement itself, most advanced in the context of food. Hellmann’s, the

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mayonnaise brand owned by the processed-food giant Unilever, is test-driving a new “Eat Real, Eat Local” initiative in Canada. The ad campaign seems aimed partly at enhancing the brand by simply associating Hellmann’s with local food.

But it also makes the claim that Hellmann’s is local, because most of its ingredients come from North America.

It’s not the only industrial food company muscling in on local. FritoLay’s new television commercials use farmers as pitchmen to position the company’s potato chips as local food, while Foster Farms, one of the largest producers of poultry products in the country, is labeling packages of chicken and turkey “locally grown.”

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Noble, the world’s top seller of books, has launched a video blog site under the banner, “All bookselling is local.” The site, which features “local book news” and recommendations from employees of stores in such evocative-sounding locales as Surprise, Ariz., and Wauwatosa, Wisc., seems designed to disguise what Barnes & Noble is—a highly centralized corporation where decisions about what books to stock and feature are made by a handful of buyers—and to present the chain instead as a collection of independent-minded booksellers.

Across the country, shopping malls, chambers of commerce and economic development agencies also are appropriating the phrase “buy local” to urge consumers to patronize nearby malls and box stores. In March, leaders of a

new Buy Local campaign in Fresno, Calif., assembled in front of the Fashion Fair Mall for a kickoff press conference.

Flanked by storefronts bearing brand names like Anthropologie and The Cheesecake Factory, officials from the Economic Development Corporation of Fresno County explained that choosing to “buy local” helps the region’s economy. For anyone confused by this display, the campaign and its media partners, including Comcast and the McClatchy-owned Fresno Bee, followed the press conference with more than $250,000 worth of radio, TV and print ads that spelled it out: “Just so you know, buying local means any store in your community: mom-and-pop stores, national chains, big box stores—you name it.”

“Food is one of the biggest gateways, but we’re seeing this idea of ‘local’ spread across other categories and sectors,” says Michelle Barry, senior vice president of the Hartman Group. A report published by Hartman last year noted, “There is a belief that you can only be local if you are a small and authentic brand. This isn’t necessarily true; big brands can use the notion of local to their advantage as well.” Barry explains: “Big companies have to be much more creative in how they articulate local…It’s a different way of thinking about local that is not quite as literal.”

ne way corporations can be “local” is to stock a token amount of locally grown produce, as Walmart has done in some of its supercenters. The chain’s local food offerings are usually limited to a few of the main commodity crops of that particular state—peaches in Georgia or potatoes in Maine—and sit amid a sea of industrial food and other goods shipped from the far side of the planet.

This modest gesture has won Walmart glowing coverage in numerous daily newspapers, few of which have asked the salient question: Does Walmart, which now captures more than one of every five dollars Americans spend on

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HSBC calls itself “the world’s local bank,” which belies the intent of the local movement, a campaign to urge consumers to buy locally produced goods and support independent businesses in their hometowns.

n one way, all of this corporate localwashing is good news for local economy advocates: It represents the best empirical evidence yet that the grassroots movement for locally produced goods and independently owned businesses is having a measurable impact on the choices people make.

“Think of the millions of dollars these big companies spend on research and focus groups. They wouldn’t be doing this on a hunch,” says Dan Cullen of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), a trade group that represents some 1,700 independent bookstores and last year launched IndieBound, an initiative that helps locally owned businesses communicate their independence and community roots.

In city after city, independent businesses are organizing and creating the beginnings of what could become a powerful counterweight to the bigbusiness lobbies that have long dominated public policy. Local business alliances—like New Orleans’ own Stay Local!, the Metro Independent Business Alliance in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Arizona Local First in Phoenix—have now formed in more than 130 cities, counting some 30,000 businesses as members. Through grassroots “buy local” and “local first” campaigns, these alliances are calling on people to choose independent businesses and local products more often and making the case that doing so is critical to rebuilding middle-class prosperity and providing an alternative to corporate uniformity.

Signs that consumer preferences are trending local abound. Locally grown food has soared in popularity.

The United States is now home to 4,385 active farmers’ markets, one out of every three of which was started since 2000. Food co-ops and neighborhood greengrocers are on the rise.

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Data from several metropolitan regions show that houses located within walking distance of small neighborhood stores have held value better than those isolated in the suburbs where the nearest gallon of milk requires a drive to Target.

A growing number of independent businesses are trumpeting their local ownership and community roots and reporting a surge in customer traffic as a result. In April, even as Virgin Megastores prepared to shutter its last U.S. music emporium, independent music stores across the country celebrated the second annual Record Store Day. A simultaneous event among local music retailers featuring in-store concerts and exclusive releases, the event drew hundreds of thousands of music fans into stores, was one of the top search terms on Google and triggered a 16-point upswing in album sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Surveys and anecdotal reports from business owners suggest that these initiatives are in fact changing spending patterns. A survey of 1,100 independent retailers conducted in January by the Institute for Local SelfReliance (where I work) found that, amid the worst economic downturn since the Depression, buy-local sentiment is giving local businesses an edge over their chain competitors. While the Commerce Department reported overall retail sales plunged almost 10 percent over the holidays, the survey found independent retailers in cities with buy-local campaigns saw sales drop an average of just 3 percent from the previous year.

None of this has slipped the notice of corporate executives and the consumer research firms that advise them.

Several of these firms have begun to track the localization trend. In its annual consumer survey, the New York-based

branding firm BBMG found that the number of people reporting locally produced products are “very important” to them jumped from 26 to 32 percent in the last year. “It’s not just a small cadre of consumers anymore,” founding partner Mitch Baranowski says.

Missoula campaign faces similar challenges The Missoula Sustainable Business Council (SBC) launched its first major campaign last year— a grassroots effort dubbed “Think Local, Buy Local” aimed at “preserving the unique character of our community” and maintaining “the special history and culture of Missoula.” After recruiting more than 250 nonprofits and businesses—including the Independent—and hosting events like May’s Localfest at Caras Park, SBC Director Genevieve King calls the initiative a huge success.

“One of the reasons Missoula has been able to withstand the recession as well as we have is precisely because of how much we are now supporting our independent, locally owned businesses,” says King. “I have no doubt that we’ve helped raise awareness in the community.”

But SBC faces the same challenges of localwashing as larger markets. King says big box stores have approached the group about membership—she declines to name names—and the group’s taken steps to keep the campaign honest. Specifically, SBC notes that a business must follow three criteria: It must be registered as a domestic entity with the state of Montana; more than 50 percent of the business owners or members must be Montana residents; and the business must have “substantial control over its choice of name, purchasing, operating and marketing decisions.”

Even so, SBC allows businesses that don’t follow its own criteria into the campaign. On the group’s website, under the “Think Local, Buy Local” banner, both the Patagonia Outlet in Dillon (a national outdoor clothing and gear company) and ValPak of Missoula (a local branch of the national direct marketing firm) are listed alongside Posh Chocolat and Vital Homeopathic Center. King explains that Patagonia and ValPak are “affiliate members” who support the initiative but will not be “actively promoted” in the campaign. As for their grouping alongside other local businesses on the website? “That’s something that must have been lost when we switched our servers and got a whole new design,” she says. “They shouldn’t be listed on there.”

The inclusion of Patagonia and ValPak, even as affiliate members, speaks to the fine line being walked in any buy local campaign. King says she understands the concern of protecting the definition of a local business, but doesn’t see the message getting muddled in Missoula.

“It depends on the way that it’s done,” she says. “It depends if there’s a true, genuine effort by the company to contribute to the community, and that it’s not just a marketing ploy…If a company can demonstrate that they donate a certain percentage of profit that goes back toward the community, or if they say they’ve made the decision to utilize local banks and local services or products, then I think there are ways it can work.

“Do I think certain companies are looking to jump on now? Absolutely,” she continues. “Now that the recession is hitting corporations a lot harder, they want to sing a different tune. But anyone who’s jumping on at this point, it’s definitely a ploy. We just know they’re not serious about it.”

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groceries, create more and better opportunities for local farmers than the grocers it replaces?

Walmart, like other chains, has learned that, with consumers increasingly motivated to support companies they perceive act responsibly, tossing around the word “local” is a far less expensive way to convey civic virtue than the alternatives. “Local is one of the lower-hanging fruits in terms of sustainability,”

caught Dan Cullen’s eye was a CVS pharmacy commercial that begins in a Main Street bookshop, following the owner around as she tends to her customers. The bookshop then transforms into a CVS. The bookshop owner is now the customer. The feel is still very much Main Street. “Suddenly the kind of unique, enjoyable, grassroots bookstore experience morphs into a CVS experience,” says Cullen. “There’s a

called 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. All of the signage and product labels bear the new name. The Starbucks corporate logo is nowhere to be seen.

“We’re continuing our commitment to delivering specialty coffee excellence while refreshing our store design approach with amplified focus on local relevance…,” explained Starbucks spokeswoman Anna Kim-Williams in an i n t e r v i e w w i t h t h e S e a t t l e Po s t

Alliance’s “Go Local” ads, except they feature both independents and chains.

Spokane’s Buy Local program, started by the local chamber, is open to any business in town, including box stores. Log on to the Buy Local website created by the chamber in Chapel Hill, N.C., and you will find Walmart among the listings.

When billboards proclaiming “Buy Local Orlando” first appeared in Orlando, Fla., Julie Norris, a cafe owner who last

“For many consumers, these things are not being called into question much.

They say, ‘Hey, it’s my local Walmart or my local Frito-Lay truck.’ It depends where you are on the continuum and how you define local, which is a term that is really up for grabs.”

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Barry explains. “It’s easier for companies to do than to improve how their employees are treated or adopt a specific sustainability practice around their carbon footprint, for example.”

Rather than making direct claims using the word “local,” some companies push marketing messages that work by association. One example that

Potemkin facade that a lot of chains are trying to put up because consumers now want something other than a cookie-cutter experience.”

In another example, Starbucks recently decided to un-brand three of its Seattle locations. The first of these conversions, which reopened last month after extensive remodeling, is

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Walmart stocks a token amount of locally grown foods in some of its supercenters and displays ambiguous “Local” signs in its produce department.

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Intelligencer. “Ultimately, we hope customers will feel an enhanced sense of community and a deeper connection to our coffee heritage.”

Still another corporate strategy is to redefine the term “local” to mean not locally owned or locally produced—but just nearby. “With the term ‘local’ being so nebulous, it seems ripe for manipulation,” notes Mintel, another consumer research firm that counsels companies on how to “craft marketing messages that appeal to locally conscious consumers” and how to avoid “charges of ‘localwashing.’” The key, Mintel says, is for companies to decide what they mean by local and to disclose that clearly so as not to be accused of trying to misappropriate the term.

Corporate-oriented buy-local campaigns that define “local” as the nearest Lowe’s or Gap outlet are now being rolled out in cities nationwide. Some represent desperate bids by shopping malls to survive the recession and fend off online competition. Others are the work of chambers of commerce trying to remain relevant. Still others are the half-baked plans of municipal officials casting about for some way to stop the steep drop in sales tax revenue. And many of these campaigns are modeled directly on grassroots initiatives.

“They copy our language and tactics,” says Michelle Long, executive director of Sustainable Connections, a 7-year-old coalition of 600 independent businesses in northwest Washington state that runs a very visible, and according to market research, very successful “local first” program. “I get calls from chambers and other groups who say, ‘We want to do what you are doing.’ It took me a while to realize that what they had in mind was not what we do. Once I realized, I started asking them: ‘What do you mean by local?’”

In northern California, the Arcata Chamber of Commerce is producing “Shop Local” ads that look similar to the Humboldt County Independent Business

year co-founded Ourlando, an initiative to support indie businesses, was excited to see the concept getting such visibility.

But she soon realized the city-funded program—which provides member businesses with a “Buy Local” decal, seminars at the Disney Entrepreneur Center and a listing on its website—was open to any business in Orlando. “We sat down with the city and said, ‘What you guys are doing is a real disservice to the local business movement,’” Norris says. When she complained publicly, city officials accused Ourlando of being “exclusive” by not allowing chains.

The city did agree to remove from its press materials and website a reference to a study that found that for every $100 spent locally, $45 stays in the community. The problem was that the study, conducted by the firm Civic Economics, found that to be true only if the money was spent at a locally owned business. Shop at a chain store, the analysis found, and only $13 of that $100 spent stays in the community.

The Economic Development Corporation (EDC) of Fresno County (Calif.) also appropriated the $45-stayslocal statistic when it kicked off its Buy Local campaign at the Fashion Fair Mall.

The figure was repeated on a television news story without any clarification that it did not apply to the types of chains visible in the background. Like the Orlando initiative, the Fresno campaign aims to boost sales tax revenue by deterring online and out-of-town shopping.

It goes out of its way in every radio and TV spot to make sure people know that “local” means national chains and box stores. “Buy Local” stickers and posters are now visible on malls and chains throughout the Central Valley.

“For someone to say you are not local if you are a big box, I say baloney.

They invested here,” explained Steve Geil, CEO of the EDC. “I would prefer that the county’s resources were not being spent promoting Walmart and Home Depot,”

says Scott Miller, owner of Gazebo Gardens, a plant nursery founded in 1922. “We have a great history of being involved in community events and donating to local causes. Our plants are grown locally. We believe that our kind of business is more valuable to a community than any big chain.”

When the city of Santa Fe, N.M., decided to launch a campaign encouraging people to shop locally, the Santa Fe Alliance, a coalition of more than 500 locally owned businesses that has been running a buy-local initiative for several years, signed on. At the March kickoff, Alliance director Vicki Pozzebon emphasized the economic impact of shopping at a locally owned business versus a chain. “After that, the city asked me not to push the $45 vs. $13, but just say ‘local,’” Pozzebon says. Kate Noble, a city staffer who runs the program, says the city’s message is shopping at Walmart is fine, as long as it’s not walmart.com.

Pozzebon says, “It has only diluted our message and confused people.”

an corporations succeed in co-opting “local”—or at least muddling the term so much it no longer has meaning? The Hartman Group’s Barry thinks that’s possible. “For many consumers, these things are not being called into question much. They say, ‘Hey, it’s my

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local Walmart or my local Frito-Lay truck.’

It depends where you are on the continuum and how you define local, which is a term that is really up for grabs.”

Milchen is less concerned about what he calls faux-local campaigns in cities where there is already a strong local business organization. “It’s more of an educational opportunity than a problem, so long as they respond to it,” he says. But in places where local enterprises are not organized, he fears these corporate campaigns may succeed in permanently defining “local” for their own benefit. Michelle Long of Sustainable Connections shares that concern: “That’s my fear. People are going to do diluted versions and hold the space so that real campaigns don’t get started.”

Localwashing has prompted local business advocates to reconsider their language. Many are now using the word “independent” rather than “local.”

Controlling language is critical, says Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, which is pushing for tighter regulation of the word “organic,” as well as rules governing terms like natural, sustainable and local. “We’ve been fighting so long without the help of federal regulators that some people have forgotten that tool.”

But perhaps localwashing will ultimately make corporations even more suspect and further the case for shifting

our economy more in the direction of small-scale, local and independent. “I think the fact that the chains are trying to play the local card, in a way makes it easier for us,” says the ABA’s Cullen. “I think people are going to recognize that these aren’t authentic and that’s going to make the real thing all the more powerful.”

Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the New Rules Project (www.newrules.org ) and the author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses. editor@missoulanews.com

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the $$–$$$...$15 and over Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list makes Ciao Mambo a hit for any occasion. Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house.

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Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 All of our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch and dinner. $$$

Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks • 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous.

Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly,

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The Mustard Seed Asian Café Located outside Southgate Mall Paxson St. Entrance • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Take out & delivery available. $$–$$$.

Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes. Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient Pick-Up window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings

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The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 406.830.3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m.

Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Located in the HUB of the LOOP! Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions.

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The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials.

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Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery, the ultimate ice cream experience! Our smooth and creamy ice cream is made fresh daily using our secret recipe. Come in for our weekday specials. Get $5 off ice cream cakes with your business card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ eMpanadas 728-2030 www.empanadalady.com eMpanadas are back! Indulge in your favorites at the Clark Fork River Market this Saturday, 8am to 1pm and at Downtown Tonight, Caras Park, Thursdays, June-August 5:30-8:30pm. Baked to perfection with fresh, local ingredients, 10 exquisite varieties of Argentine-style empanadas await you: Carne de búfalo, lamb, pollo, humita, and more. $ Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors - Russian teacakes, pizzelles, baci di dama, as well as cupcakes, scones, specialty breads, with new specialties added daily. Get bread fresh from the oven between 3 & 5PM. Open M-F 7AM to 6:30PM, Sat 7AM-4PM. We're just around the corner from Bamboo Chopsticks. Stop in today. $ Junga Juice 1132 SW Higgins In Russell Square 830-3231 Junga Juice offers premium fruit and vegetable smoothies, juices and espresso drinks and an adventure that will

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by Ari LeVaux

A perfect match It’s a well-worn American story: ketchup meets burger. But this version is better. The stars of the show are beyond homemade, they’re dirtmade, from the ground up: handmade ketchup from homegrown tomatoes, served on ground beef raised by good friends. It’s a story about the potential of simple pleasures carefully crafted, and how the history layered into food adds complexity and flavor, creating a terroir to rival the finest wine. It’s a drama you could reenact at home with a little legwork, and if enough people did, we could put McDonalds out of business.

It starts with my new quarter beef.

In cattle country, the semantic dichotomy between “cow,” the animal, and “beef,” the food, doesn’t exist.

“Five hundred dollars is a lot of money for a quarter beef,” said the butcher, when I went to pick it up.

“There’s a woman down the road who will sell you a whole beef for $1,000.”

“Raised on what?” I asked.

“Grain,” he said.

He knew my beef was grass-fed, yet failed to see the value at $4 per pound, cut and wrapped. Grass-fed definitely means something to me, and this beef was more than just grass-fed, it was finished on spring grass. Slaughtered in July, several months earlier than normal, it spent its final days munching on the tender, vital shoots that filled the valley with a lime-green glow. This cow had a name, Wendell, and came from a farm that mostly sells vegetables but raises a few beefs for personal consumption, and selling to friends if there’s extra. I became one such friend by chatting with them at the farmers’ market while buying veggies.

The health benefits of grass-fed beef are widely known and I won’t repeat all of them here, but suffice it to say it’s a different animal, literally, than grain-fed meat, and nutritionally much closer to wild game.

A deer and elk hunter for years, I thought I had no use for beef, and had boasted as much to a hunter friend. “As long as I’ve got wild game in

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many tomatoes as I wanted. I brought home about 100 pounds and proceeded to make gallons of salsa, tomato sauce and ratatouille. It wasn’t until a year’s worth of these needs were met that I hit on the obvious solution to my burgermeat problem.

Here’s my ketchup recipe, modified slightly from my food preservation bible, Stocking Up (Rodale Press).

For 5 quarts of sliced tomatoes—about 30 medium-sized fruits—slice 2 large onions and liquefy the tomatoes and onions together in a food processor. Simmer the mixture for about 30 minutes, then push it through a food sieve or food mill.

Return to the pot—ideally a thick-bottomed pot to avoid hot spots and scalding—and simmer slowly, stirring often. In a different pot, simmer 3 cups of vinegar with a 6-inch stick of cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of cloves, and a head of minced garlic. After 30 minutes, kill the heat under the vinegar.

When the tomato and onion mixture has almost reached the consistency of ketchup, pour the vinegar mixture through a strainer to filter out the Photo by Ari LeVaux spices, and into the pot. Add a tableWendell is now in packages marked “rib steak,” spoon of paprika and at least a dash of cayenne “t-bone,” “tenderloin,” “bottom round” and “stew pepper—more if you want your ketchup spicy. The meat,” in addition to the sirloin that had so charmed vinegar will dilute the ketchup slightly; continue to me. There are also 65 packages of hamburger, which simmer until it’s thick. Then ladle it into clean, sterat first was an unexpected buzz-kill. When I butcher ile, pint-sized canning jars. Screw on clean, sterile my deer and elk I grind very little of it, and what I do lids, and process for 10 minutes in a water bath. grind gets turned into summer sausage and The flavor of this bright-red paste practically bratwurst. Much of the tough meat that most people jumps out of the jars, and all of a sudden my grind—those sinewy chunks full of tendons and car- mountain of burger meat looks more like a moletilage—has some of the best flavor, and I’m happy to hill. Served plain with my ketchup, the burgers cook these off-cuts slowly, until the connective tis- tell a tale of two farms whose paths cross in my sue melts. My mountain of burger meat left me won- kitchen. The green grass of springtime, chewed dering if this quarter beef was a mistake, but I’m and re-chewed and processed through four stomhappy to report that it wasn’t. I solved my burger achs into beef that’s kneaded with garlic and parsdilemma with a gallon of homemade ketchup. ley from my kitchen garden, meets the sunAnother farmer friend, for whom I do odd drenched fruit of summer. It’s simple, it’s local, jobs on occasion, offered to let me harvest as and it’s perfect.

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I hear that you’re not supposed to use olive oil when frying. Why is that, and what should I be using? I’m vegan, so you can hold the bacon grease—I know how you operate.

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The frying-with-oil issue is a matter of the relative smoke points of various oils, i.e. the temperature at which different oils start to smoke.

Scientists have discovered a growing number of molecules, carcinogenic and otherwise toxic, that form when food is cooked at high heat. Heterocyclic amines, for example, are very

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the freezer, I’ll never reach for bovine,” I said. A week later at my farmer friends’ house for dinner, I ate a grilled sirloin steak that made me eat those words. Beef has a rich juiciness that sets it apart from other meats, and I wanted some in my protein portfolio. Though I have every intention of filling the freezer with wild ungulate next season, I bought a share of next year’s beef.

Wendell dropped peacefully with a bullet between his eyes on July 16, without having the faintest inkling what was coming. His body hung for 10 days before being cut and wrapped.

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Generally when oil smokes, such bad molecules are created. Olive oil has a low smoke point relative to other oils, but as long as the oil isn’t smoking, it’s fine for frying. If your olive oil does begin to smoke, toss the oil, rinse the pan and start again. Low-temperature frying, or steaming, allows more of the nutrients in your food to survive the cooking process and make their way into your body.

If you’re determined to fry high, safflower and grape seed oils are my two favorites. Both have high smoke points, great flavor and are good for you. Canola oil is overrated and should be avoided. It’s not a naturally clean oil, and looks like tar before it’s filtered. While the filtering helps, I prefer to use oil that starts clean.

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Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. The hospice utilizes health care professionals and trained volunteers to provide care. Call Lois at 642-3010.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Make something functional out of clay, be it a cup or water pipe (or maybe just skip the pipe) during The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Open Instructed class which runs today through Oct. every Thu. from 1–4 PM. All classes occur at the Clay Studio headquarters, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/eight week session. Call 543-0509.

If your toddler’s movement seems kind of, well, stale, bring them to Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 3:15 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Kids learn how them movin’ pictures was formed—movies, that is—when the SpectrUM Discovery Area, Room 166 in UM’s Skaggs Building, presents Motion Pictures from 3:30–7 PM. $3.50/free under 4. Call 2434828 or visit spectrum.umt.edu.

Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5–7:30 PM.

nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, nu metal—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise

The members of Elephant Revival reveal the charms of group bath-time. See the Coloradobased alternative folk group when they play Fri., Aug. 21, at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free.

Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

It’ll be a literacy raising good time when the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., presents Dads’ Night, a reading program from 5:30–7 PM for dads and their kids that features story time, interactive games, art projects and even dinner. Free. RSVP 541-PLAY. After the revolution, we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10/hour. Call 541-7171.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

Locavores and staunch local music fans unite for a night of fresh local food and live music by Tom Catmull and the Clerics, as well as Tractor Jack and the Muddy Spuds during

the annual Garden City Harvest Farm Party at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive at 6 PM. $15/person, kids under 10 free. Call 523-3663.

Don’t expect any distorted guitars when The Acousticals play the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM, but be prepared for some Montucky bluegrass to tickle your ears. Free. Call 363-7468.

Understanding, compassion and unity collide with spiritual leanings during the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club, which meets in the west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St., at 6 PM. Free. This week centers on the book The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra. Call 363-1670.

Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 21, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367

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Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

Missoula Art Museum’s celebration of art and martinis, Artini, turns four this month and in celebration hosts Artini: Mastering Somersaults, where you can expect food, choice adult beverages, birthday cake, gallery talks, as well as music by all-girl group Butter, at 7 PM. Free. Call 728-0447 or visit www.missoulaartmuseum.org.

Join local photojournalist Anne Medley for a fundraiser to help her, and future educators, head to the Democratic Republic of Congo to teach college-level journalism courses to native Congolese. Head over to the third floor foyer of the UM Journalism School’s Don Anderson Hall from 7–9 PM for the benefit, which includes presentations. Refreshments provided, donations requested. E-mail anne.medley@gmail.com.

If you’re a resident of Lake County, now’s your chance to spot severe weather in your area for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during a weather spotter training session at Polson High School, 111 Fourth Ave. E. in Polson, at 7 PM. Free. Call Trent Smith at 329-4840 or e-mail trent.smith@noaa.gov.

Spend the night realizing how absurd Montana’s 1918 sedition law was during a book discussion at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library where you’ll dissect my old college professor Clem Work’s book Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West. Free.

The real hip-hop is over here: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:30 PM during Hip-Hop Class. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Come see the results of the Missoula Children’s Theatre Performing Arts Camp, a two-week camp for kids grades 8–12 up in the Flathead, during a musical variety performance by campers at Thirty Candles: A Celebration of Three Decades at 8 PM in the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $15. Call 728-1911 or visit www.mctinc.org.

The show runs through Aug. 22.

Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463.

Bowling and karaoke go together like vegans and meat during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Start down the path that ends in a Las Vegas dressing room every Thu. at 8:30 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main

Austin’s When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth prove that sprinklers cure constant tour-induced hangovers. Catch them when they play the Badlander Tue., Aug. 25 at 9 PM with Milwaukee’s IfIHadAHiFi, Arrested Adolescence and Thug Nasties. $5.

St., presents Show Girl 101. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

Get your fix of improvised music with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Things are bound to get a little jammy when jamtronica one-man band J. Wail cranks the delay up at Whitefish’s Craggy Range, 10 Central Ave., at 9 PM. Cost TBA. Call 862-7550.

An evening filled with the underground sounds of El Zombi Gato, Red Obelisk, Valsalva Menuver, Filth Mattress, Jiggywatts, Blank Its and Attitude Problem awaits you at the first night of Total Fest VIII, Missoula’s beloved three-day independent music fest which starts tonight at 9:30 PM at the Badlander. $38/three day pass, $15/night.

Check wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com. (See Scope in this issue.)

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes.

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Folk tunes with lyrics about caterpillar fungus (among others) commands your attention when Andrea Harsell plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cost TBA.

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Today’s the deadline to submit a photo about local food, farms and community for The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition’s Capturing Missoula Foodshed: Calendar Photo Contest. Send off your submission to farm2school@missoulacfac.org and be sure to visit www.missoulacfac.org.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Nova Express

by William S. Burroughs. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Invigorate that spine of yours during a Classical Pilates Mat Class taught by Alison

Laundrie every Fri. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 11 AM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

nightlife Experience auditory serenity and dance your ass off to a plethora of electronic music genres while exploring workshops on tai chi, yoga and more at Synergy 2.0, a three day music fest that starts at 1 PM and runs until 1 PM on Sun. at Buffalo Bridge Ranch outside of Polson, Buffalo Bridge Road North. $55 three-day pass/ $45 two-day pass/$50 advance threeday pass/$40 advance two-day pass. Visit www.synergymusicfestival.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Get your buzz on just after work with a varied selection of vino when The Loft, 119 W. Main St., presents a weekly wine tasting every Fri. at 5:15 PM. $10.

Enjoy a laugh at the romantic foibles of Proteus and Valentine during Montana Shakespeare in the Park’s rendition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, which is slated for a 6 PM performance at the St. Ignatius Amphitheater in St. Ignatius. Free. Call 994-1220.

Big screen adaptations of graphic novels become excellent fodder for flirtation when the Missoula Public Library presents The Watchmen during this month’s installment of its Cheap Date movie night at 7 PM. Free.

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It’s time for dinner, drinks and some jazz at 7 PM with pianist Joey Calderazzo, all in the cozy setting of DalyJazz, a house at 240 Daly Ave. that hosts monthly jazz shows for crowds of 50 people or less. $25 includes dinner and drinks before the show. E-mail dalyjazz@gmail.com for reservations. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Get mauled by a clever and deft songwriting cat whilst eating steak when Tom Catmull plays the Keep Restaurant, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, at 7 PM. Free.

Lose yourself in a trance of new age vibes and polyphonic beats via African drums when the Drum Brothers play a show at the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Hwy. in Hamilton, at 7:30 PM. $15/$12 advance at Chapter One Books and the Music Box in Hamilton, or www.griztix.com, Free/under age 12. Call 726-4445.

The hits of Broadway duo Kander & Ebb grace Whitefish when the Alpine Theatre Project presents The World Goes ‘Round at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM each night until Aug. 23. $37/$30 adults, $16/students, $12/child under 12. Call 862-SHOW or visit www.alpinetheatreproject.org.

Lewis and Clark’s ghosts will thank you for caring when you head to Traveler’s Rest State Park, half a mile west of Lolo on U.S. Hwy. 12, for Tools & Textiles, a celebration kicking off with a performance by Rob Quist at 8 PM, followed on Aug. 22–23 with various presentations/workshops on historical tools and textiles between 10 AM–4 PM each day. $2 adults/ free for kids. Some workshops have fees. Call 273-4253 or visit www.travelersrest.org.

The spice is always right during Hot Salsa Nights at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 8 PM with dance lessons at 8:30 PM. $7. Call 549-0542.

Although a Google search can’t confirm that Ben DeMarco is a “successful stand up comedian,” even though he’s billed as such, the former UM student plans to tickle your ribs with a joke or five when he performs at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 8 PM. $10. Call Ian LaPlace at 412-913-5305.

A second night of underground music from bands like Black Elk, Drunk Horse, Vile Blue Shades, Rooster Sauce, Electric Dandelion and Rvivr awaits you at tonight’s installment of Total Fest VIII, Missoula’s beloved three day independent music fest which starts tonight at 8 PM at the Badlander and the Palace. $38/three day pass, $15/night.

Check wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com. (See Scope in this issue.)

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Lee Jackson might just channel the ghost of Jacko when he plays a set of country pop at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. N., at 8 PM. Donations requested. Call 1-888305-3106.

Twinge, tweak and twang your way over to see Richie Reinholdt and the Country Kings, who play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 S. Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Explore Butte’s raucous history as a mining town from the roaring 1920s through the dirty 1930s when Butte descendant Tom Satterly leads a history reenactment program at Beavertail Hill State Park, 26 miles east of Missoula off the Beavertail Hill Exit, at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-5533.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free.

Be thankful that the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free.

If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.

It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hip-hop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678.

Feel free to shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327.

When the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., turns over the sound system to a live DJ every Fri. at 9 PM, all you’ve got to remember is to turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90.

Free. Call 370-3200.

Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” backwards and forwards like the star that you aspire to be when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

I’m not entirely sure what you’ll get yourself into when Hyway 200 plays the High Spirits Club & Casino in Florence, 5341 U.S. Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM, but I’m guessing it’ll be along the lines of rock or country. Free.

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Sultry vocals complement perky blues riffs when Zeppo MT takes the stage of the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Liven things up in your love life, or just take comfort in watching the cosmos, during public observing night at the Blue Mountain Observatory where you’ll get to gander at nearby planets, stars and nebulae at an estimated observing time of 9:45 PM. Free. Call 243-5179 before you go and get directions by clicking over to www.physics.umt.edu/bluemountain.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Serene folk from an outer dimension will wash over your ears when Colorado’s Elephant Revival jumps to the stage of the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–noon as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. And if it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Pick the brains of area doctors, healers and community organizations about their views on the health care debate (or, just find out what services they provide) during a community health fair at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, at the corner of Bedford and Third streets, from 9 AM–12:30 PM. Free. Call 961-0004.

Exercise your liberal commie pinko right to be green (you know I’m joking, right?) during the Green Eco Show, a green fair that features sustainable food, clothes and home furnishings, a fashion show, music by Justin A Hailey and more from 9 AM–5 PM Aug. 22–23 at the Western Montana Fairgrounds commercial building. $2. Visit www.greenecoshow.com.

Show your little one the importance of physical activity during SoccerTots, an eight week class at the SHEC Community Center, 1919 North Ave., that runs until Aug. 29 and teaches your kid simple motor and physical skills through soccer. Classes start at 9:10 AM and

vary in the time they start, depending on age. $80/$72 for siblings, plus a $20 annual registration fee. Call 207-1963 or visit www.soccertots.net/locations/info.asp?id=150.

That lovable mascot Monte will be celebrating with the working poor when he hands out prizes to people using their food stamp cards, as well as the vendors that approve those cards, from 10–11 AM at this week’s installment of the Missoula Farmers’ Market as part of a SNAP–EBT Food Stamp/Vendor appreciation day. Free.

Hear how vigilante justice was executed in Montucky’s days of yore when Carol Buchanan signs copies of her historical fiction novel God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 10:30 AM. Free. Call 721-2881.

Those suffering from long-term illness or loss can find solace through Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life Workshops which this week features the program Simple Writing, Creative Phrases with Amy Kalil and Lori Mitchell, at the lower level of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. Free, but registration and donations are appreciated. Call 549-5329 or visit www.livingartofmontana.org.

Fairy tales and parades mix merrily during the first annual Fairy Tale Festival, where your kiddo dresses up as their favorite fairy tale character and then participates in a parade around Caras Park and the surrounding area at 11 AM. Registration is at 10 AM at A Carousel for Missoula and pre-registration is encouraged. Free. Call 549-8382.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick it to your core during a Core-Kicking Pilates Class with Alison Laundrie every Sat. at the Sunflower Montessori School, 1703 S. Fifth St. W., at 11 AM. $10, includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247.

Kids learn about speedin’ cars when UM’s SpectrUM Discovery Area, Room 166 in UM’s Skaggs Building, presents an All Day Derby Fest, where your little one starts engineering his or her own car and then races it for prizes at 2 PM, from 11 AM–4:30 PM. $3.50/free under 4. Call 243-4828 or visit spectrum.umt.edu.

Learn how to live and recreate in bear country, and most importantly, not get mauled, during the Missoula Bear Fair at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Rd., from 11 AM–3 PM. Free. Call 531-6001.

Squeeze the dirty jam out between your toes and head to the Hemp Hoe Down, an Americana/bluegrass/jam band fest at Lolo Hot Springs which features two stages of music from the likes of Jessica Kilroy, Elephant Revival, Sugarcane String Band, Andrea Harsell, Voodoo Horseshoes and more starting at noon and running until 3:30 AM. $28/advance at Ear Candy, Rockin Rudy’s and www.griztix.com. Call 214-1273 or visit www.earthboundproductions.org.

Get your dose of artistic culture in 20 minutes during a tour of the Missoula Art Museum’s latest exhibition by Anne Appleby titled Here We Are at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447.

Grab your dusty vinyl or those CDs you haven’t listened to in ages and head down to the Total Fest Record Swap where you can trade your wares with others from noon–1:30 PM at the Big Dipper parking lot, 631 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Music during the swap courtesy of Hail Seizures, Tyson Ballew and Why I Must Be Careful.

Flush the emotional, mental and physical sludge from your system when a healer named Ambujam leads a group healing ses-

sion at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W., from 1–3:30 PM. $40. Call 8802467 to register.

Learn how to save those seeds of your ‘tweed plants—just kidding—but seriously, get guidance on saving seeds of your fruits, flowers and veggies when Yvonne Sorovacu leads The Basics of Seed Saving at the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, 629 Phillips St., from 1–3 PM. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513.

The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM in Liquid Planet’s conference room. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

It’ll be one helluva throwdown during the Stumptown Summer Hoedown which features music by the Tony Furtado Trio, Leftover Biscuits, Wise River Mercantile, Old Slouch Hat and DJ Adobe Juan , as well as food, beer and kids’ activities from 2–10 PM at the Whitefish Armory Softball Fields, off Armory Road. $20/person, Free/12 and under.

Presale tickets at Second Street Pizza in Whitefish. E-mail clayton.cream@gmail.com.

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Once his fingers grace the black and ivory keys, jazz pianist Joey Calderazzo creates lustrous harmonies perfect for a dimly lit, swanky jazz club in the heart of New York City.

As I imagine myself in this intimate club, I envision my girlfriend and I sipping glasses of wine, dressed to the nines and basking in a cool, relaxed environment.

But this, of course, is my imagination and, in reality, I won’t have to travel to the Big Apple to see Calderazzo in action since he’ll be playing two shows this week at DalyJazz, a local concert series set in an environ much like a small club: the living room of jazz fanatic Bruce Anderson.

“In this setting musicians feel inspired, relaxed, edgy and play their hearts out,” says Anderson, who organizes the series with local jazz singer Eden Atwood.

WHO: Joey Calderazzo WHAT: DalyJazz Concert WHERE: 240 Daly Ave. WHEN: Fri., Aug. 21 and Sat., Aug. 22 HOW MUCH: $25, reserve tickets by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com

You should, then, expect nothing less than an intimately stellar solo show from Calderazzo when he slides up to the grand piano on Friday and Saturday. At least that’s Anderson’s feeling, since he considers Calderazzo to be one of the best jazz pianists in the world.

That’s probably not a stretch. The New York native has hammered the keys since age 7, released at least eight solo albums, appeared on numerous collaborative efforts and is a standing member of the Branford Marsalis Quartet. He knows his way around a row of 88.

This is a chance to catch the composer in a cozy setting, away from the confines of a posh club but with an ambiance all the same.

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Summer in Missoula is probably the best time to travel around on a bike, but if you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to make your own recycled bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Saturdays at 2:30 PM. Call 800-809-0112.

Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can join facilitator Chris Poloynis every Sat. at 3 PM, when Spartans Honour, an outdoor PTSD support group, meets at Greenough Park’s southernmost footbridge. Free. Call 327-7834.

It’s time to celebrate the fact that construction on Arlee’s main drag is almost complete with a community party at 4 PM in Arlee, featuring music by Odyssey and the Dirty Corner Band, as well as cowboy

poetry, street dancing, food and more. Free. Call Paul at 370-3076.

nightlife Remnants of jazz and “earthy vocals” with bebop tendencies coat your cochlea and ease microbrews down your throat when Donna Smith plays the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Magic, plots of murder and more await you when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents The Tempest at Charlo’s Palmer Park at 6 PM. Free. Call 994-1220.

If you missed it last night, it’s time again for dinner, drinks and some jazz at 7 PM with pianist Joey Calderazzo, all in the cozy setting of DalyJazz, a house at 240 Daly Ave. that hosts monthly jazz

shows for crowds of 50 people or less. $25/includes dinner and drinks before the show. E-mail dalyjazz@gmail.com for reservations. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

In this down economy, even the arts are struggling, so help the Bitterroot Performing Arts Council produce top-notch orchestral concerts and the like by consuming food, beverages and dancing to the hot sounds of Salsa Loca during Save the Date, Save the Series! a benefit to support the BPAC from 7–11 PM at Hamilton’s Saint Francis Center, 411 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. $25/person. Call 3637946 or visit www.bartc.org.

See what happens when the world goes mad and everything becomes absurd during the short film Adam

Photo courtesy of Ken Smith

Even after 30 years, Bob Weir still trips out mid-set. Catch the Grateful Dead vet when he plays with his band RatDog Wed., Aug. 26, at the Wilma Theatre at 8:30 PM. $35 plus fees/$31.50 advance plus fees, at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketweb.com.

Funn, written by local filmmakers Brad Wilson and Josh Wagner, at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins, at 7 and 11 PM. $2, with live music between shows. (See Film in this issue.)

Dance for peace with North Korea and Iran, or dance for a single-payer health care system, whatever you do, get down with your inner spirit when Dances of Universal Peace meets at the First Christian Church in Hamilton, 328 Fairgrounds Road, at 7:30 PM. $3 donation. Visit www.peaceworksdancena.com.

Your body thanks you and your mind wanders into mystical territories when the bros of the Drum Brothers play Silter’s Park Riverbend Stage in Bigfork at 7:30 PM. $15/$12 advance at Books West in Kalispell and Art Fusion in Bigfork.

Free/under age 12. Call 726-4445.

Variety is indeed the spice of life, and of vocal music, especially when variety vocalist Matt Fletcher belts out tunes at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. N., at 8 PM. Donations requested. Call 1-888305-3106.

Don’t tweak out or freak out, but do squeak your sneakers all over the dancefloor when you witness the country stylings of Richie Reinholdt and the Country Kings, who play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 S. Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. It’ll be your last night to catch the underground sounds of bands like Japanther, Helms Alee, Git Some, This Runs on Blood, Wartime Blues and more during tonight’s final installment of Total Fest VIII, Missoula’s beloved three day inde-

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pendent music fest which starts tonight at 8:30 PM at the Badlander and Palace Lounge. $38/three day pass, $15/night. Check wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com. (See Scope in this issue.)

Be sure to shed a tear for John Hughes when the sun sets at 8:34 PM, and then go ahead and find yourself a prime spot on the field of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave., when the Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents Sixteen Candles. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 or visit www.missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.

If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American.

Free.

Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free.

T h e F r e n c h t o w n C l u b , 15 15 5 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free.

Call 370-3200.

Have one too many drinks and you just might start singing pop tunes backwards during Bassackwards Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every other Sat. at 9 PM. Free.

Pull out those pumps and get ready to get crunk when you head over to the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., for Sexy In My Heels Ladies’ Night at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Call 549-0542.

You can bet there won’t be an excise tax to pay when Hyway 200 plays what I’m guessing will be rock and/or country at the High Spirts Club & Casino in Florence, 5341 U.S. Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free.

Soak up some suds and minor chord changes when Polson’s The Full Moon Prophets rocks some blues and R&B at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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Sunday brunch at 10 AM with jazz from Three of a Kind is classy so don’t just roll out of bed and head into the Blue Canyon Kitchen & Tavern, located in the Hilton Garden Inn at 3720 N. Reserve Street.

If you’ve never thought to set foot in Philipsburg then maybe you’ll have an excuse to change during Art & Jazz on Broadway, a celebration in downtown Philipsburg from 11 AM–5 PM that features music from Eden Atwood, Mike Bader Band and Montana Lite Jazz, as well as art displays, kids activities, beer/wine/ cheese tastings and more. Free.

Call 859-0165 or e-mail hitchinpost@blackfoot.net.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “PBR is my medicine!” Free. Call 543-7154.

nightlife Have a laugh and bask in the woes of love during Montana Shakespeare in the Parks rendition of the Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Hwy. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 994-1220.

Tap your toes to the sounds of several African drums being hit at once, and ruminate with a new age spirit, when the Drum Brothers bring a show to the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Dr., at 6:30 PM. $15/$12 advance at GrizTix outlets, Free/under age 12. Call 726-4445.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry.

See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs at 9 PM with a live jazz band at 10. Free.

The weekend isn’t over until you wrap it up with Jam Night at the Finish Line, 153 Meridian Road in Kalispell, where Landslide hosts at 8 PM. Free. Call 257-0248.

Hear ye, hear ye: AmVets Club offers a new spin on karaoke night, and it’s known as “Jheryoake.” Delve into the mystery at 9 PM, when happy hour gets the crowd loose until 10.

Free.

It’ll be a night of hot ‘n hip indietronic (indie rock plus electronic blips and glitches) when San Francisco’s Boy in Static plays the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $5. Modality opens.

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I’m guessing there won’t be any controversies (or seniors protesting) when the Missoula Senior Center celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a lunch buffet and entertainment from 11:30 AM–12:30 PM. $6/person, or a diner club plus $1 is accepted. Call 543-7154 to register.

Two sessions of the popular World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class take place at the Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. every Mon.: At 4:30 PM, kids aged 5–7 can get their grooves on, and a class for those 8 and above begins at 5:15. $30 per month/drum rental: $15 per month. RSVP 396-3352 or visit tangledtones.com.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Swing keeps you cool during the hot month of August every Mon. this month when Cathy Clark leads a West Coast Swing class at 7 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 West Main St. $28/all four classes or $7/class. Call 360-8763.

The tunes will always be free, but you’ll have to shell out for the beer and wine, so suck it up and go see David Horgan & Beth Lo when they play the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste 100, at 7 PM. Free.

At Be Here Now Sangha you can learn the basics of meditation every

Mon. night at 7:30 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated.

Experience momentum, balance, and timing tuned with a strong drummerdancer connection every Mon. at 7:30 PM with West African Sabar dance class at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W., across from Hawthorne Elementary. $10.

Call 721-3854 and drum up directions at terangaarts.googlepages.com.

Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

An array of electronic DJs and styles await your booty during the Palace Lounge’s Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week. Tonight’s installment features live hip-hop and electronic from KnownV, Custom Holmes and DJ Mikee Sev. Free.

Their MySpace page says The Intelligence is thrash/pop, but they seem to veer more on the edge of noisey lo-fi garage and indie. See what I mean when the dudes play the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Opening support from Infernal Machine.

Bring a bicycle with a big hook in it to Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM, and see if you can troll for cars from the bar while you watch the show. Free.

nightlife If you devote 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday or Wednesday nights to silent meditation, political drinking or other non-kid-friendly endeavors, the Parenting Place offers free child care and dinner at 1644 S. Eighth St. Call 728-KIDS to reserve a spot.

Learn to mix and match your bellydance styles during Beginner World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for as many classes as you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

What reason have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers Free Pool at 6 PM? Free. Call 273-9992.

Children aged 11–17 mix their dance moves when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Dance Combo every Mon. at 6 PM. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Highway 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8. First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

You’ll probably want to take out those metallic studs when you head to Gothic Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/per month for each class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo at 7 PM. Free.

Make your impassioned point in whatever rented costume most fits the bill when the Missoula City Council meets—as they do the first four Mondays of every month, holidays excluded—at 7 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6080.

There’s a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441 Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207.

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15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladies’ Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close.

Free. Call 370-3200.

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Get your fresh fruits and veggies from local farmers in the Flathead while listening to the innovative sounds of cellist Lee Zimmerman during the Whitefish Downtown Farmers’ Market, at Depot Park on the north end of Central Avenue, from 5–7:30 PM. Free. Call 862-2043.

While Missoula Aging Services is a sprightly 25 years of age, their Meals on Wheels program serves a more mature crowd, and you can too: Deliver hot meals to seniors as often as you’d like—and cash in on the sweet mileage reimbursement—from Mon.–Fri. between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM. Call 728-7682.

Work those limbs into a fury during an Ashtanga Yoga Class with Evan Lovely at Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway, from 10:30 AM–noon. $6. Bring water, mat and a towel. Call 544-1271.

You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free.

Call 543-3955.

Let that PBJ sandwich slide down your throat along with the soothing sounds of Lori Conner and Eric Keeling, who play Legion Park in Hamilton, 220 South Second St., during Tuesdays at 12, which starts at noon. Free.

Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Tue. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free. Call 721-2665.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Bluegrass at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Beginners can try, but those more experienced might catch on quicker during Intermediate World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Tue. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Tue. at 6 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets in room 109 at the Providence Center, 902 N. Orange St. Free. Call 327-7834.

A single bracelet does not jingle: Unity Dance and Drum’s all-levels West African Dance Class meets every Tue. evening at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10/class or $35/four classes. Call 549-7933.

Are you feeling lonelier than normal? Remedy that when Singles of Missoula, a group for singles age 45 and over, meets Tue. at 6:30 PM at the bicycle trail head behind Conlin’s Furniture, 1600 North Ave. W., for a bike ride.

Free. Call Cletius at 541-2333.

nightlife Find the outlet for that excess energy when Gillian Kessler takes you through the flow of it all during World Rhythm Yoga Class every Tue. at 5 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club,

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

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Burp, howl, strum a guitar or beatbox and then record the results into a PC or Mac during a digital recording workshop at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., from 6:30–8:30 PM. $35/class. Call Lila C l e m i n s h a w a t 529 - 26 01 o r e - m a i l lcleminshaw@bresnan.net.

Stop playing games with yourself—Game Night featuring “mostly Scrabble” takes place at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave. 6:45 PM. Free.

You never know what you’ll find—except for probably a bunch of womyn—at Womyn’s Night at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

It’s a spicy good time when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Heather Adams presents beginning salsa dance lessons at a new time of 7 PM, followed by intermediate/advanced at 8, every Tue. at the Badlander. $7/per class per person.

Toe taps, hand claps and finger snaps take over your body when country rockers Rob Quist and Great Northern play Kalispell’s Picnic in the Park Concert Series in Depot Park, Center and Main streets, at 7 PM. Free. Call 758-7717.

Your mind skips into the Forest of Arden when When in Rome Productions Inc. presents their take on Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM, through Aug. 29. $8/$14 couples. E-mail romemissoula@gmail.com or visit weartmissoula.blogspot.com.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What is Inuvik? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

Whitefish musicians trade their skills for free drinks as the Great Northern Bar hosts Open Mic Night, which begins at 8 PM with an acoustic jam circle, heads into an electric set at 9:30 and features fine hosting by members of the Canyon Creek Ramblers. Free. Call 862-2816.

You’ve practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 273-9992 to reserve your spot.

It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real every Tue. at 8 PM, when HipHop Class puts the “back” back in “back in the day.” Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Donny Osmond, and get buy-one-get-one-free drink tickets, during an open mic night every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St., from 8–11 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

Punk rock from Houston, aka the land of purple drank (a cocktail of soda pop, codeine and promethazine), hits Zootown when O Pioneers!!! plays the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St., at 8 PM. $5, all ages. The Anchor, Jinx Removing and Goddamnnitboyhowdy open.

Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30–11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Be your own American Idol during “Jheryoake”—that’s karaoke with Jerry Reeb—every Tue. at 9 PM with Happy Hour until 10 at the AmVets Club. Free.

Milwaukee proves it exports more than just hipster approved lager beer when the indie/noise

rock stylings of IfIHadAHiFi pummels your ears at the Badlander at 9 PM with support from Austin’s When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth. $5. Arrested Adolescence and Thug Nasties open.

Expect a night of exuberant storytelling and gut busting breakbeats when Rhymesayers Records’ Eyedea and Abilities graces the Palace Lounge at 9 PM with special guest Kristoff Krane. $8. Local support from Acher, Slopstar, Tonsofun and Linkletter.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some classics too, during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue., Wed., Thu. and Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

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Morning Melodies, a free, fun-filled, familyfriendly music event tailored to preschoolers, occurs every Wed. at Montana Coffee Traders in downtown Whitefish at 10 AM. Free.

Your weekly lunch date with almost everyone comes at 11 AM at Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by the always spicy Salsa Loca. Free. Call 543-4238.

Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Wed. at noon. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Shirk your responsibilities for a laugh at high society when the Missoula Public Library screens the The Man Who Came to Dinner at 2 PM. Free. Call 721-2665.

nightlife Dudes and duderinos, it’s your time to shine all day with drink specials this and every Wed. when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Men’s Day. Free. Call 370-3200.

Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center. Free. Call 728-9117.

Gillian Kessler asks only that you embrace your inner diva as she fuses slick Brazilian moves with modern techniques for her AfroBrazilian Dance Class, which takes place every Wed. at 6 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Blue Argon plays “eclectic blues, R&B, and jazz featuring Colleen Cunningham, Steve Sellars and Jim Clayborn” every Wed. at 6 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Learn to bump and grind, shimmy and shake and strut your stuff like a pro every Wed. evening at 6 PM during a Burlesque Dance Class at the Red Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. Call Kelli Neumeyer at 531-2482.

With the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group’s Watershed Wednesdays, you’ll learn about native plants/wildlife and participate in restoration activities from 6–8:30 PM. Meet at the Bugbee Nature Area, off of Missoula Avenue in the lower Rattlesnake. Call Andrew at 531-2527.

Find out the difference between regular pilates and pilates from the Big Apple when Alison Laundrie leads a New York Style Pilates class every Wed. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 6:30 PM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

Well it’s official, the Calendar Playa is now your go-to-guy at the Indy for all outdoors and arts related events. I’m excited, and ready to serve.

On that note, we’ve got much ground to cover for all you conservationists, hikers, bicyclists and star gazing junkies, so let’s jump to it.

This weekend your stewardship skills come in handy during a trip to Moose Mountain in the Bitterroots that starts Friday as part of the Great Burn Study Group and National Forest Foundation’s ongoing summer trips to monitor weeds, wildlife, trail conditions, signs and more. If you’ve got the gusto, contact Beverly Dupree at 2409901 or e-mail thegreatburn@yahoo.com.

If that doesn’t float your nature-loving boat, consider another option to hang out in the Bitterroots and lend a hand during a conservation backpacking trip from Nez Perce Pass to the Peyton Rock Area, which runs Friday through Sunday, as part of the Wilderness Institute’s ongoing work in the Sapphire and Blue Joint Wilderness Study Areas.

The trip takes you from Nez Perce Pass to Castle Rock and Bare Cone, with splendoriffic views of the Bitterroot Mountain range. But you won’t just be hiking; you’ll also monitor weeds, recreation impacts and wilderness character, and inventory campsites. Also be prepared to shove lots of facts into that cranium of yours when you learn about invasive species, native plants, monitoring methods and more.

Call 243-5361 or e-mail wi@cfc.umt.edu.

If you’d rather be yanking stuff from the earth than monitoring it, I’ll happily suggest you take another option to keep Gaia clean during a two-day knapweed pulling project at McCabe Point in the Monture Creek Drainage north of Ovando in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The ripping and jerking runs from Aug. 27–28, and you’re asked to register for this project one week ahead of time, so hurry and call 387-3808 or visit www.bmwf.org.

Still, if you’re a little weak in the arms, I’d consider a half-day, moderately strenuous 4-mile hike up Munson Creek in the Thompson River linkage on Wed., Aug. 26,

Hey, I know what you’re thinking and I can understand if headstrong hiking makes you want to puke more than jump for joy. For that reason, I’ve got two events for all ya’ll who like to obsessively pedal around.

The first is the Second Annual Montana Backcountry Bicycle Festival in Lima, 60 miles south of Dillon on Interstate 15, from Aug. 22–23. Join others at this soirée, where world-class backcountry biking in the Lima Peaks/Garfield Mountain areas mixes with camping, food and fun in what’s billed as a non-aggro race fest, aimed at bringing together positive, laid-back cyclists for a weekend of two-wheel merriment. Details and pricing are still in the works so visit www.montanamountainbikealliance.com or call Bret George at 546-4537.

Those of you wanting to be closer to home to pedal, brake and navigate nearby wildlands ought to check out a ride with the Montana Dirt Girls up Mount Jumbo on Aug. 25, at 6 PM. Plan to ride the Sidewinder trail and then perhaps up the ante a bit with a ride through the Three Larch trail and down Woods Gulch. Free, but this is a female-oriented cycling group, so no dudes allowed! E-mail Julie at jhuck@adventurecycling.org.

I also empathize if you’re feeling a bit lazy this week.

Maybe it’s the constant fluctuations in weather, or maybe work is zapping away your energy. In that case, a series of star gazing events awaits you. The heavenly extravaganza takes you up to the Blue Mountain Observatory on Fri., Aug. 21, where you get your chance to be a cheap date, and to witness the splendor of nearby planets, stars and nebulous clouds at an estimated observing time of 9:45 PM. Free. Visit www.physics.umt.edu/bluemountain/ for directions and call 243-5179 before you go.

And wait, we’ve just gotten a last minute transmission from Photo by Alex Sakariassen Tour de Hunter, a group that raises money for whitewater for the hardcore as you join the Rocky Mountaineers for a hik- kayak safety and education. They’ll be in town this week—exact details ing and climbing trip up Grey Wolf Peak in the Mission unknown—but check out tourdehunter.weebly.com or e-mail Mountains on Sun., Aug. 23. You’ll exert yourself with crew leader TourDeHunter@hotmail.com for the lowdown.

Forest Dean as you ascend up to Riddell Lakes, and then swoop Finally, on Sat., Aug. 22, you can make up any lost time with your through a saddle to the Scenic Lakes basin. After conquering the basin kid during a star gazing party outside the Montana Natural you’ll gain a ridge and will have to negotiate a steep notch. This 14- History Center, 120 Hickory St., from 8:30–11 PM. Join other parmile journey is considered a class 4 and class 5 trip, which means it’s ents and kids for this free event, where you’ll be guided through the a mixture of easy climbing with technical climbing, so a rope, protec- constellations and more with the help of experts. Call 273-4253. tion and a belay are a must. Also take note of this required equipment: Well, space is short and time is of the essence, so go forth reada tribal recreation permit, ice ax, harness and helmet. Make sure you’re er, explore thine forests, no matter work, nor play. also in good shape, have familiarity with this type of climbing and then calendar@missoulanews.com call Forest Dean at 240-7612 or e-mail mtnear1@gmail.com. where you’ll join the American Wildlands for a bout of hiking and light conservation work in the form of documenting wildlife signs, habitat conditions and obstacles to wildlife movement and more. Plan to meet at 10 AM at the Munson Creek Trailhead, near mile-marker 63 on Highway 200, just west of Plains.

RSVP with Kim Davitt at 728-2087 or e-mail kdavitt@wildlands.org.

After you’ve busted your butt for conservation purposes, I think play is in store in the form of a hiking trip. But be warned, this is only

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Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center. 7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964.

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 7 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

Grab that tutu and slap on some ballet shoes every Wed. at 7:30 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Beginning Ballet. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Release that mid and late week stress during Tai Chi Chuan classes every Wed. at 7:30 PM and every Sat. at 10 AM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $10/class. Call Chris at 728-0918.

The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Lyrical Class every Wed. at 8:30 PM. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

You’re likely to see tracers of freakish rhythm guitar lines swirl around your psychedelic head when Bob Weir & RatDog play the Wilma Theatre at 8:30 PM. $35 plus fees/$31.50

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advance plus fees, at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketweb.com.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: Inuvik is a crater located on Mars and is also a town in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

See if being under the influence of PBR helps you swerve your way to victory during eight rounds of pop-culture trivia at Death by Quiz at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Sweden’s Enforcer revitalizes classic 1980s thrash metal (complete with Rob Halfordesque vocals) and pleads with you heshers out there to dress like it’s 1986 when they play the Palace at 9 PM with Toronto, Ontario’s Cauldron. $5. Opening support from Helliana.

Fight for the right to belt out a semi-coherent version of The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free. Call 543-8001.

Alt-folk and Americana darlings Wartime Blues are likely to butter up hipsters and folk junkies alike when they play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cost TBA.

SPOTLIGHT mountain beats

I want to be just like you!

I’ve never been to Burning Man, but I’ve heard plenty about it.

Friends who’ve attended rave about the radical art and electronic music at the festival and describe the experience as transformational, mind-blowing and surreal.

I’d love to go someday, but if you’re like me and you don’t have the cash or time to head off for a week of transcendental and auditory bliss, let me suggest an alternative: Synergy 2.0, a three-day music festival near the Mission Mountains that supplies several flavors of electronic music interlocked with live art installations, as well as workshops on yoga, tai chi and hoop dancing.

I see it as Montana’s own spin on the concept of Burning Man, minus a gifting economy and the fact that you’ll be around hundreds of fellow Montanans and not 50,000 people from around the world.

Tap • Pre-Ballet Ballet • Pointe Hip-Hop • Pilates Jazz

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As for the revelry, it kicks off Friday at 1 PM when DJs, producers and bands from as near as Missoula and as far as Los Angeles spark up their laptops, turntables and amps to keep you electrified late into the night. Among the 22 artists is David Starfire, pictured above, a producer who fuses bass-heavy breakbeats with samples of Middle Eastern instruments. Other shades of dance music are on tap, too, including dubstep, downtempo, house, techno and psytrance. Those less digitally inclined can also sample organic musical wares with sets from the likes of Reverend Slanky and cellist Lee Zimmerman.

—Ira Sather-Olson

WHAT: Synergy 2.0 Music Festival WHERE: Buffalo Bridge Ranch in Polson

Classes begin August 31st

Ballet Arts Academy 1620 Rodgers • 549-3081 Open House • Thursday, August 27th • 5-8pm at the studio

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WHEN: Fri., Aug. 21 at 1 PM–Sun. Aug. 23 HOW MUCH: $55 three-day pass/$45 two-day pass/ $50 advance three-day pass/$40 advance two-day pass MORE INFO: www.synergymusicfestival.com

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Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. The hospice utilizes health care professionals and trained volunteers to provide care. Call Lois at 642-3010.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Make something functional out of clay, be it a cup or water pipe (or maybe just skip the pipe) during The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Open Instructed class which runs today through Oct. every Thu. from 1–4 PM. All classes occur at the Clay Studio headquarters, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/8 week session.

Call 543-0509.

If your toddler’s movement seems kind of, well, stale, bring them to Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 3:15 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5–7:30 PM.

nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, nu metal—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Tutus and ballet shoes probably aren’t required to hit up an open house at the Missoula Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St., from 5:30–8 PM, but maybe they should be.

Free. Call 549-3081.

It’s time for dinner and a show with hundreds of your fellow friends during this week’s installment of Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities and music from ShoDown and starts at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 543-4238.

After the revolution, we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10/hour. Call 541-7171.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

Delicate strings will be plucked and plenty of pale ales will be drunk when singer/songwriter John Floridis plays the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring

it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

What would Socrates think about the birther movement? Or a single-payer health care system? I’m not really sure either, but maybe you’ll find some insight into those matters during Socrates Cafe at the Missoula Public Library at 7 PM. Free.

If you live in the Bitterroot and have a garden, it might have been poisoned by an herbicide called tordon. Find out more when the Hamilton Farmers’ Market and Sustainable Living Systems holds a public meeting on the matter at 7 PM at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. Free.

Call 961-0004.

The real hip-hop is over here: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:30 PM during Hip-Hop Class. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Your mind skips into the Forest of Arden when When in Rome Productions Inc. presents their take on Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM, through Aug. 29. $8/$14 couples. E-mail romemissoula@gmail.com or visit weartmissoula.blogspot.com.

Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463.

Although information on her is scant (may I suggest a MySpace music page?), Kira Means probably means well when she plays a set at Sean Kelly’s at 8 PM. Cover TBA. Bowling and karaoke go together like vegans and meat during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Start down the path that ends in a Las Vegas dressing room every Thu. at 8:30 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Show Girl 101. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

Get your fix of improvised music with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electonic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $2.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, which brings metal DJs and bands to the Palace Lounge at 9 PM every Thu. Free.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

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It’s official folks, the Calendar Playa is here to stay. It’s good to be part of the team here at the ol’ Indy and I look forward to serving you, dear reader, within the months and years to come. Hopefully y’all can find something this week to appease your entertainment needs. I, for one, am extremely stoked for Total Fest, so perhaps I’ll see some of you out and about.

Until then, please Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 21, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Three days to glory All-ages Total Fest VIII prepares for record 50 bands

by Erika Fredrickson

Now in its eighth year as Missoula’s only threeday indie rock festival, Total Fest has reached a point of maturity. Odd to say about an event known for some of the most entertainingly immature stage antics imaginable—Johnny No Moniker of Fleshies, for example, crawling around in his underwear—but true nonetheless. Over the years, the festival has grown from five bands to 20, to 42 and, this year, 50. Wäntage USA label owner and Total Fest founder Josh Vanek has wrangled the event each year, with heavy help from dedicated volunteers.

This year, the event is completely all-ages—no exceptions—due to sponsorships and fundraising that allowed Total Fest organizers to hire extra staff.

beat up the crowd last year—musically speaking— with their psychedelic, angular smackdown. That band sucks you in like a dangerous heroin addiction—they make you sweat and sway without any self-control. And how could they not? With a group consisting of eight permanent players, two alternates and one dancer it’s a party no matter which way you spin it.

And a-one and a-two Then again, less is more. This year includes a plethora of bands comprised of merely one or two members. The Limbs is John Mazzucco, a one-man band out of Denver, Colo., who sings and plays, among other things, a drum set and electric guitar. He’s a veteran of Total Fest known for his sometimes

notes, “Wearing a heavy Link Wray/Trashmen influence on your sleeve is a commonplace theme, but remember, these were the days before Pulp Fiction, and every fratboy wasn’t yet familiar with that spooky, pioneering work.” This is probably a one-time-only reunion of a band that helped give Jay’s its singular reputation, so it’s not to be missed.

If you want to get another history lesson, El Zombi Gato also includes drummer Moore, as well as various members from 1990s Jay’s bands like Sasshole, Cicada and Five in the Face. Blowing into town from Portland, another old face includes Leaders guitarist Kelly Gately, who played in oldschool Missoula band Honky Sausage, as well as the infamous and explosive dirty rock group Fireballs of Freedom.

S’cream n’ swap

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Helms Alee

If you can’t booty shake, at least you can ice cream shake. Live bands and music swapping at the Big Dipper always serve as a refreshing recess for an otherwise full-throttle event. Bring your CDs, vinyl, cassettes, 8-tracks and any other recorded items down to the ice cream parking lot for a little barter action on Saturday. The folk-punk wilds of Hail Seizures and cynically wistful riffs of Tyson Ballew supply the afternoon soundtrack along with the stripped-down, evil-scientist jazz distortion of Why I Must Be Careful. John Niekrasz of Why I Must Be Careful is a mathematical genius on drums, so if you missed his other band, Poor School, of Friday night’s line-up, don’t miss him here.

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In addition, the festival crew (or crüe, as they call themselves) includes younger members just out of high school to help add some age diversity when picking which bands out of the hundreds of submissions will fill the event’s nightly slots.

As usual, Total Fest brings back festival favorites, as well as new, buzzworthy groups from places all across the country, including Seattle, Salt Lake City, Brooklyn and Huntsville, Ala. And, with the addition of two hip-hop/rap groups for the first time ever, the festival shows that it’s not a one-track pony. With an even bigger line-up than ever, we offer a guide to old favorites, one- and two-person acts, old-school mustsees and other delicacies.

Favorite things Veteran Total Fest bands that you shouldn’t miss include The Bugs, whose smart-ass, footstomping ditties become the best brainworm you’d ever ask for, as well as the Pine Hill Haints, whose ghostly melodies saunter through dark alley anthems. Another band always worth noting: Japanther. The first time they played Total Fest they yelled into a microphone made from a phone and tossed out bouncy, xylophone-sounding melodies that seemed both pretty and startlingly cool. Last but not least, Vile Blue Shades

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muddy, sometimes funky, always devilish tunes. LKN is Portland, Ore.’s Lauren K. Newman, and though she’s a one-woman project when recording, guest musicians often back her up live. Newman pretty much shreds on guitar with math rock genius and butt-rock delivery, and when she plays drums— which she will with another T-fest band, Palo Verde—she’s a feverish demon.

On the local front, guitarist Cindy Laundrie (Saved For this Dark Dawn, Spanker) and drummer Jen Tachovsky (Sasshole) serve up a platter of glaring attitude and never-too-pretty garage rock. And, finally, the hip-hop duo Jiggwatts includes former Missoulian Jimi Nassett (James Two) and Locke.

They do a smashing sampling of “Angel in a Centerfold.”

Total Fest kicks off Thursday, Aug. 20, with music at the Badlander at 9:30 p.m. On Friday and Saturday, music starts at 8 p.m. in both the Badlander and the Palace, with bands playing the Saturday record swap starting at noon. All access passes cost $38. Admission each night runs $15.

Thu., Aug. 20 Badlander: El Zombi Gato, Red Obelisk, Valsalva Menuver, Filth Mattress, Jiggywatts, Blank Its and Attitude Problem.

Fri., Aug. 21 Badlander: Rooster Sauce, Razz m’ Tazz, Vera, Taco Cat, The Bugs, The Blind Shake, Rebreather, Black Elk, Leaders, Drunk Horse and Vile Blue Shades.

Palace: Reptile Dysfunction, LKN/Palo Verde, Electric Dandelion, Poor School, Birds Mile Home, RVIVR, Pretty Boy Thorson, Lamborghiniz and Underground Railroad to Candyland.

Sat., Aug. 22 Flashback to the ’90s In the mid-1990s, a band called Thee Hedons began haunting the stage of Missoula’s former punk rock venue, Jay’s Upstairs. The trio of guitarist Josh May, bassist Greg Twigg and drummer Scott Moore unleashed surf-soaked garage rock as menacing as it was catchy. Sexy instrumentals like “WingNut” mixed with songs like “Two Beer Queer” and “Male Itch” marked them as a band with a new sound—at least for Montana. As Vanek

Big Dipper: Hail Seizures, Tyson Ballew, Why I Must Be Careful.

Badlander: Socks & Sandals, Wartime Blues, Limbs, Pine Hill Haints, Thee Hedons, Rad Touch, Lozen, Wildildlife, Helms Alee and Japanther.

Palace: Goddamitboyhowdy, Glassell Park #3, Damage Done, Atomic Bride, Git Some, Sandrider, Le Force, The Coloffs and This Runs on Blood. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Japanther can be a challenging band, with its high-art ambitions and punk-rock disdain. Every album offers danceable synth-fuzz-punk tracks that are so packed with pop-culture references and obscure humor they can cause unprepared listeners to feel victimized by vengeful hipsters with oversized brains.

The secret of loving Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt is to approach the album with an ingenuous attitude. It takes guts, but without hurling yourself into

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Few albums greet listeners with a song featuring the musical saw. Then again, few bands sound like the Pine Hill Haints.

This Alabama quintet has perfected a package of punk-rock energy hidden behind hillbilly instrumentation and old-timey storytelling. To Win or to Lose features the aforementioned saw, accordion, washboard and buckets, and spins dark yarns about a host of depressingly down-on-their-luck types—and yet it’s mostly a buoyant, barn-raisin’ effort.

Disparate examples abound: Double-beat barroom brawl tracks like “Never Cry” come up alongside curveballs like “Bordello Blackwidow,” a calypso ditty that sounds like a redneck version of “Sweet

The Hail Seizures Fucked Up Zoo self-released

The Hail Seizures’ gypsy punk owes an obvious debt to Gogol Bordello, and also to the Pogues, both bands that borrow from distinct musical and cultural traditions to find their distinct sounds. In the case of the Hail Seizures, I suspect that the mostly acoustic lineup is a result of chance and experiment and reflects DIY self-reliance (freedom even from electricity) rather than tradition.

On Fucked Up Zoo, unusual instruments, including a toy piano, add a fortuitous dose of dis-

This Runs on Blood This Runs on Blood self-released

This Runs on Blood mixes dingy waves of low frequency riffs with cacophonous howls and screams. It’s a fiercely addictive combination, reminiscent of the San Francisco sludge metal duo Black Cobra but with the driving immediacy of Seattle punk-metallers Zeke. And, as with both those bands, this Flagstaff, Ariz. trio keeps it short and to the point, with an eponymous seven track EP clocking in at a swift 22 minutes.

At least these boys make use of their time.

Guitarist Johnny Casebeer and drummer Greg Casebeer deftly unleash a grinding assault of bleak

the heart of Japanther’s cultural onslaught like a virgin into a volcano, you can’t really enjoy it. Hold back, and you’ll always be looking over your shoulder and wondering whether you totally get the joke.

So my advice is: Feel free to like it.

Feel free to dig on co-producer Penny Rimbaud’s spoken-word pomp on “Africa Seems So Far Away” and “Thee Indigene.” Feel free to believe his words or find them overblown and silly. Also feel free to skip these two 10-minute dramafests and just rock out on the actual songs, which—as usual—are short, noisy, catchy, sweet, and clever.

Feel free to listen and laugh at hipsters along with the band, and don’t worry whether or not they are actually laughing at you. Laugh at yourself. Shake it. (Ali Gadbow) Japanther plays Total Fest Sat., Aug. 22, at 1 AM at the Badlander. and Dandy” by Toots and the Maytals, and the loitering reggae beat of “Scar.” Then there’s the 90-second cover of “Je Passe Devant Ta Porte,” complete with an earnest attempt at French lyrics and a creaky accordion.

Frontman Jamie Barrier deserves the bulk of the praise for making this mix stick together from track to track. His garbled delivery conveys a certain yearning that never seems forced or hackneyed. And his extended “yeehaw” on a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “The Ranger’s Command” sounds just as sincere as his Ramones-like “whoa-oh-ohs” on “Charley Horse.” Why not, right? Everything seems to be fair game for the Haints. (Skylar Browning) The Pine Hill Haints play Total Fest Sat., Aug. 22, at 10 PM at the Badlander

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Fucked Up Zoo has some great songs, but the Hail Seizures have yet to find that perfect balance between musicality and lyrical complexity that can propel a political tune beyond current events reporting and into the realm of art. (Ali Gadbow) The Hail Seizures play Total Fest Sat., Aug. 22, at noon at the Big Dipper record swap. and sludgy instrumentals.

Singer Josh Williams’ hellbent screams evoke the Germ’s Darby Crash but with an added texture, like a throat full of broken glass. And though you can’t tell what he’s singing about, his galvanic crowing flawlessly complements the dirge-y soundscapes.

If This Runs on Blood sounds anything like their album when they play live, I expect the crowd will be furiously rocking their heads and pumping their fists in unison to the aggressive sea of sound. Bring the ear plugs. (Ira Sather-Olson) This Runs on Blood play Total Fest Sat., Aug. 22, at 12:30 AM at the Palace.

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District 9 distills the best of classic sci-fi

by Andy Smetanka

King Kong was a huge letdown, or rather just District 9 is full of things that remind one pleasantly too much of everything. Too many SFX diversions of other movies, not all of them space operas. Parts (that valley of giant bugs, sheesh!), too much frantic of it recall Robocop, Aliens and even Black Hawk action, too much stuff flying at you for two hours. Down, and there’s a consistent streak of black Like binging on plastic-wrapped American cheese humor that hovers somewhere between Peter slices for two hours. On the other hand, the shoe- Jackson and Paul Verhoeven (whose Starship horned supersaturation of this completely unneces- Troopers is clearly an influence). Somehow, District sary remake made it very easy and comfortable to 9 manages to distill the best parts of its sci-fi forget all about Peter Jackson for a couple of years.

Not anymore. Jackson’s name is writ large across District 9, a supercharged sci-fi action thriller that does everything right that Kong did wrong, but only as executive producer. The director is named Neill Blomfeld, a Jackson protégé, and to judge from this mainstream breakthrough every bit as talented as he is lucky. District 9 is a terrific space opera—not quite great enough to be a science fiction classic, but incredibly entertaining all the same.

Dig this premise: An enorWorst wake-up call ever. mous alien spaceship comes to a halt over Johannesburg, of all places. Nothing happens for, like, half a year. antecedents while remaining wholly original and Intrepid earthling investigators finally drill their way surprising throughout. into it and find a vast, starving crew of bipedal aliens The SFX are good but used judiciously, in stark inside. In the liberal paradise of the future (though contrast to the Jacksonian extravagances of King that’s a bit of a puzzle, as scattered clues hint at a Kong. The aliens aren’t particularly novel or fascinatdate of 1982, and the whole movie is framed by a ing, which might be the whole idea: They’re notable documentary device that has experts discussing for their credible ordinariness and human-like weakevents some time after they took place), humanity’s nesses. The acting is great, particularly Sharlto first priority is to grant the full complement of Copley as Van De Merwe, energizing the hapless human rights to the bewildered space visitors, who action hero with equal parts jitters, pathos and haveturn out to be far more adept at crime and anarchic a-go recklessness. Amazingly, it’s his first acting role. violence than, for example, healing geraniums with The docudrama framing device, while acceptmagical glowing fingers or inspiring Cold War pow- able, ultimately detracts from the urgency of the ers to disarm. Seemingly by choice, the aliens (called movie. Far more effective are additional film ele“prawns” for their seafood appearance, move into ments like security-camera footage, which lend Johannesburg’s sprawling slums and proceed to District 9 a ready believability even when the documultiply, quite at home in the trash and squalor. For mentary device disappears entirely. For all the CGI some reason, they’re crazy about canned cat food. whiz-bangery, District 9 owes more to the ’70s traEnter Wikus Van De Merwe, the bumbling gov- dition of grimy, cynical science fiction like Alien, ernment functionary tasked with canvassing the titu- with shabby spaceships and pessimistic characters, lar District 9 township to sign the aliens up for relo- and the urban anomie of Robocop. Filmed in actual cation to a special camp some 200 miles away—one Johannesburg slums with the current occupants still of many unmistakable echoes of apartheid ringing in residence, the movie’s real-life trash and squalor throughout the movie (Blomkamp, a naturalized make it that much harder to achieve a comfortable Canadian, was born in South Africa). Van De Merwe escapist distance. is a nicely flawed action hero: nervous, naïve, obliviIf there’s a downside to District 9, it’s that the ous to danger and intensely idealistic, all qualities last third devolves into standard shootout fare, albeit which set him at odds with the brutal work of, essen- done well and with enough explosions and splashtially, clearing a ghetto. The aliens of District 9 are ing gore to satisfy the most listless genre fan. The nicely flawed, too. A couple of them are smarter and third-act drag undermines the ending somewhat, all more sensitive than the rest, but for the most part the more so for the 11th-hour reappearance of the they’re a thuggish rabble, prone to sudden violent framing device, like a snake trying to get back into an already shed skin. But these are minor quibbles. outbursts and general mayhem.

Naturally, the relocation campaign does not pro- District 9 is top-shelf summer action fare, and direcceed as smoothly as expected. When Van De Merwe tor Blomkamp, barely 30 years old, a name to watch accidentally doses himself with a powerful mutagen for in our own future.

District 9 continues at the Carmike 10. cooked up bathtub-gin style by the smartest alien, he undergoes the most disgusting metamorphosis since arts@missoulanews.com Jeff Goldblum’s in The Fly. Speaking of echoes,

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In a 1960 “Twilight Zone” episode called “Eye of create a culture shock that renders the world alien. the Beholder,” a doctor and several nurses wheel a “Everyone in his office was on cell phones havwoman into a post-op hospital room. The woman’s ing [separate conversations],” he says. “At that time face is bandaged and we’re told that she’s under- cell phones were still kind of a novelty for him. And gone several surgeries to look normal. After a cli- so this idea popped into his head: ‘Has the world mactic buildup, the medical staff removes her band- gone crazy around me?’” ages and reveals that she is, in fact, a perfect blond Inspired by the anecdote, Wagner encouraged beauty. But the staff is clearWilson to make the experily disappointed; the operaence into a film. The two tion has failed, her face co-wrote the script, Wagner shows “no change—no took on production responchange at all.” As the docsibilities, Wilson directed, tors and nurses remove and Aesang handled the their medical masks to cinematography. reveal their own pig-nosed, “Because I’m a pretty deformed faces, the punch shy person I wanted to line completely unveils experiment with myself and itself. Beauty is in the eye of be the producer,” says the beholder, after all, and Wagner. “The most interestin this society the norm has ing part for me was going been flip-flopped from what out, talking to people, we expected. doing the casting, keeping Local filmmakers Josh everybody organized. It’s Wagner, Brad Wilson and Jon something I’m not used to Aesang play with a similar and it really pushed my idea in their new short film boundaries.”

Adam Funn. Their topsyWagner says nearly turvy story—filmed entirely everybody the trio in Missoula with local approached was willing to actors—offers up a classic Andy Shirtliff stars in Adam Funn, a help. They got permission to dark comedy made by local filmmakers scenario: If you woke up one Josh Wagner, Brad Wilson and Jon f i l m a s c e n e a t B r e a k morning and the entire world Aesang.

Espresso—albeit at the had gone mad around you, ungodly hour of 4 a.m., would you question everyone else’s sanity, or your before the shop opened. Wagner’s contract position own? It recreates the eeriness of a “Twilight Zone” for a company called CTG in the Rose Park building episode and combines it with unending, nonsensical also paid off when the owners allowed the crew to contradictions akin to that of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in use the building’s stairs and offices for various Wonderland (and not the benign Disney version). scenes, including a lively cop chase, which they shot In the film, an everyday guy named Adam for 14 hours straight. One actor, Nathan Carter, got (played by local actor Andy Shirtliff ) wakes up one the filmmakers late-night use of Butterfly Herbs as a day to find that nothing makes sense. Strange people long-time employee there. The Missoula sheriff ’s in party hats now haunt his favorite coffee shop. A department and Hellgate High School also provided receptionist at the office where he’s applying for a help with filming locations and props. And local temp job says, “May you help me?” In what could be band Volumen lent their touring van to the film to a tribute to that “Eye of the Beholder” episode, peo- serve as what it was originally, an ambulance. ple at the bus station shrink away from Adam in horAs for casting, Wagner says that they handpicked ror and disgust despite the fact that he’s perfectly a couple of actors, but did a casting call for the rest. shaven, showered and dressed to the nines. His day “When we did casting I started realizing this was escalates from bewildering silliness to pure horror as kind of a blessed project,” says Wagner. “We had this new world he’s woken up to begins to turn on about 20 people try out and we had a principal cast him. And when people start asking him with high- of about 15. In almost every case, someone would pitched concern, “Where’s your fish?!,” it’s as alarm- come in the door, read some lines and just nail it. ing as it is humorous.

For 14 of those roles there was the perfect actor and Wagner (well-known in the local art community the rest we used for extras.” for writing the sci-fi/western comic book tale Fiction The 25-minute film has taken more than two Clemens, as well as a fantastical 2004 novel, The years to make. “The crew didn’t get paid,” explains Adventures of the Imagination of Periphery Stowe) Wagner, “and when you’re getting free work, you says the story behind Adam Funn is best described as can’t be picky about deadlines.” But in the end, he “absurdist dark comedy” and was inspired by an expe- says, because locations, actors and props all came rience that Wilson had when he was living in Seattle. together, it turned out exactly as they wanted it, and “After being raised in Hamilton—isolated, shel- for just under $500. tered—Brad discovered the wild world of the big In a world gone mad, serendipity is sweet. city,” says Wagner. “And on one particular day he Adam Funn screens at the Crystal Theatre went to work and everything everybody said sound- Sat., Aug. 22, at 7 PM and 11 PM, with live music ed ridiculous.” between shows. $2.

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Scope Noise Film Movie Shorts Advice Astrology OPENING THIS WEEK ADORATION Teen angst, daddy issues and allegations of terrorist bombings dominate a film about one teen's search to find out how his parents died. Screens at the Wilma Theatre nightly at 9 with no show on Wed. and Sun. matinee at 3.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Brad Pitt aims to kick some serious Nazi ass with his Jewish war buddies in this latest offering from Quentin Tarantino. Screens in 35 mm at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4:10, 7:20 and 10:30. Also shows at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Additionally screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12, 1, 3:15, 4:30, 6:30, 8 and 9:45 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

POST GRAD Bitter college graduates unite! This comedy about post-college job rejections and moving back to mom and dad's place should find warm welcome with many in Zootown, no? Screens at the Village 6 at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10.

SHORTS A little boy has a psychedelic experience when a rock hits him in the head, and spaceships, crocodile armies and giant boogers follow. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10.

Also shows at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:15, 4:25, 6:55 and 9:10 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 Denzel Washington and John Travolta go head-tohead in a danceoff. Not really, but they do battle each other for control of a NYC subway system in what seems like a forgetful film. Screens at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 and 9.

TYSON You either love making fun of Mike Tyson or you just hate him. See if that changes in a documentary that illustrates his life story. Screens at the Wilma Theatre nightly at 7 with Sun. matinees at 1 and no show Wed. X-GAMES 3-D Extreme sports junkies are likely to get aroused, not in a dirty way mind you, in this behind the scenes 3-D look at the X-Games.

Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10. Also showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamlton at 7 and 9 with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Additionally showing at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7 and 9:15 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

NOW PLAYING 500 DAYS OF SUMMER See what happens when a lovestruck sap woos Zooey Deschanel while holding onto the notion that love cures all. Screens at the Village 6 at 1, 4, 7 and 9:20. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:50 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

AWAY WE GO This romantic comedy, based on a screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, explores the lives of a couple about to have their first child and documents their cross country search for the perfect home. Screens at the Wilma Theatre nightly at 7, with Sun. matinees at 1.

BANDSLAM Those crazy-yet-tame filmmakers at Disney present a gushy teen flick about fledgling teen rockers and their quest to kick some serious butt at an upcoming battle of the bands tournament.

Screens at the Village 6 at 9:45. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 9:15.

G-FORCE Guinea pigs take up spy work from the United States government in order to take down a billionaire bent on world takeover in this 3-D kids’ comedy. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1 and 4:30. Shows at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:45 and 9 with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA Blatant militarism gets championed as Dennis Quaid and Marlon Wayans, along with other members of G.I. JOE work to crush a corrupt Scottish arms dealer named Destro and his esoteric Cobra organization. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45. Also shows at the Village 6 at 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45. Also screens at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton nightly at 6:50 and 9:10 PM with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9:10. Additionally screening at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 and 9:30 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Shows at the Showboat Cinema in Polson at 4, 7 and 9:15.

THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD Revel in your fantasy of living the single, bad-boy life as you watch Jeremy Piven and his onscreen buds save a local car dealership through drinking, trips to strip clubs and falling in love. Screens at the Village 6 at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:25, 2:35, 4:45, 7:25 and 9:40 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

THE HANGOVER Brad Pitt sometimes struggles with parenting six Four gents on a Las Vegas bachelor party children. Inglourious Basterds opens Friday at the expedition scramble to answer the morningCarmike 10. after question, "What happened?" and get the groom back to L.A. in time for some DISTRICT 9 nuptials. Sick lyrical cameo by Mike Tyson.

Peter Jackson produces a film about refugee Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:15, 4 and 7:10. aliens controlled by a multi-national corporation HARRY POTTER AND that cares only about making profits. But the aliens THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ain't gonna take it. Screens at the Carmike 10 at Ding! Round six! All your faves are back, every1:45, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:45. Also screens at the thing's more dangerous and hormonal–especially Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10, with Hermione–and somewhere someone's getting all Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 with no Sun. show at steamed up about witchcraft's glorification in the 9. Additionally screens at the Stadium 14 in mainstream media. Shows at the Carmike 10 at 1, Kalispell at 1, 3:55, 7:05 and 9:40 with Fri. and 4:15, 7:30 and Fri. and Sat. at 10:45. Also showSat. shows at midnight. Also screens at the ing at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:55, 4:20 Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7, 9:15 with Fri., Sat. and 7:45 with Fri. and Sat. showings at midnight.

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FOOD, INC. This animated children's comedy, the third installYou'll probably want to become a locavore when ment in the series, follows Manny and his friends you watch this startling documentary about our as they navigate life through adult-oriented topics nation's food industry. Screens at the Wilma like falling in love, starting a family and going Theatre nightly at 7, with Sun. matinee at 1. extinct. Voiceovers include cameos by Queen FUNNY PEOPLE Latifah and Denis Leary. Screens at the Carmike Judd Apatow's newest flick that flopped follows a 10 at 1:30 and 4:30. Shows at the Stadium 14 in comedian who has a near-death experience and Kalispell in 2D at 12:20, 2:30, 4:40 and 7. features acting from Jason Schwartzman, Adam JULIE & JULIA Sandler and the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA. Screens at Food freaks take note of this adaptation of two memoirs in a story that revolves around cooking, the Carmike 10 at 7 and 10.

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The last of the summer fishing is at hand so you'd better get out and enjoy it! The days of fatties rising to hoppers are numbered. The current warm trend we're experiencing should keep you fishing the big bugs effectively for awhile yet. The hot days are also producing good evening caddis activity that's lasting right up until dark. Morning hatches of tricos have also been getting the fish looking up as have the mid morning PMDs. Hitting the water early and late is still your best bet on this river right now, but in another couple of weeks, things will shift radically to the middle of the day.

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Additional screenings at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with a Fri., Sat. and Sun. show at 1:45.

A PERFECT GETAWAY Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich head to Hawaii for some honeymoon fun, but their plans get spoiled when they run into hikers who warn them of a recent murder. Screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 9:20 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. PONYO The Little Mermaid gets a Japanese makeover in this animated kids movie about a goldfish named Ponyo, who for some reason wants to join modern civilization. Screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:30.

THE PROPOSAL Sandra Bullock is Ryan Reynolds’ ball-busting boss whose response to possible deportation–she’s Canadian, okay?–is to order the hapless chap to marry her. Then they have to play it off in front of his folks. Anybody see the train coming at us through the tunnel? Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4, 7 and 9:40. Also screens at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 6:50 and 9.

THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE Your heart strings are bound to be tugged in this flick about a time traveling man and the woman who tries desperately to keep him grounded.

Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:15, 4:15, 7 and 9:30. Also screens at the Pharoahplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:10, 3:45, 7:10 and 9:35. Additionally screens at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with Fri., Sat. and Sun. shows at 1:30 THE UGLY TRUTH Katherine Heigl’s reality is turned upside down when her coworker dishes out the "ugly truth" about men and women. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 7:20 and 10.

It's fishing well these days on the surface although you'll be wading through LOTS of smaller fish for the occasional fattie. If you want some consistency with better sized fish, your best bet by far is going subsurface with tandem nymph rigs. While this type of fishing doesn't have the same kind of allure

as, "taking fish on THE dry", the fact that you're a fish slut and will do whatever it takes when nobody's looking kind of negates your tweed speak. Just buck up and do it, you'll catch bigger fish and your ribs won't be sore the next day from all that sighing when dryfly drift go unanswered or molested by dinks. Medium to smaller, leggy attractor junk like chewtoys and carnage hoppers will do fine on top as will more refined mayfly stuff like a purple haze in a 14. Towards evening, the caddis will pop and provide GOOD dryfly action for bigger fish. Subsurface it'll be golden stones and red San Juans. If not, stop into the shop and complain to Angus.

Clark Fork

This is definitely one to hit early and late to maximize your success. Midday follies have been very hit and miss with some pods eating here and there but by and large, you'll be coaxing 'em up. If you are on the Clark today, mix it up with your search-

ing patterns trying to incorporate both ends of the spectrum. A golden stone or similar attractor with a parachute adams or cripple pattern off the back will let the fish decide. Tandem nymph rigs in various positions in the water column should also be on your mind. The tricos and spruce moths (particularly on the lower river) have been making for some fun fishing. Skating a big white dry through shallower mid river riffles will be a good tactic for the heat of the day doldrums. There are enough spruce moths out and about when the fish'll chase.

Rock Creek

But that the dread of crappy fishing, The undiscovered bugs from whose bourn No fishies doth returns, puzzles the will, And makes you silly fishers bear those ills we have Than to flyflyfish with others that we know not of? Thus scary things do make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale and dropped backcast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their drag producing currents turn awry, and lose the name

of action. Need I say more? Of course it's fishing you dork. Top and bottom. Go see.

Missouri

Sunny and calm will do good things for your trico prospects in the morning, but not so much the midday surface action after about 11. You will still be able to get it done on top with PMDs, hoppers, ants and the like, but in the bright conditions, you'll do considerably better underneath. Orange, gray or pink scuds along with palaminos, rs2s, beerheads, lightning bugs, etc will all be effective under an indicator. Look for pods of risers in the back channels and foamies and feed them smaller cripples or swing tiny soft hackles over their heads to make 'em pay. The streamer action has been so-so in the last day or two and will probably tail off a bit more today. As the daytime temps heat up, look for a return of the evening dryfly madness with caddis and spinners. Today's flow below Holter is 4750 cfs.

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Buddy Language I have such a crush on my coworker that I actually have to bite down on my lips to keep them from quivering while we talk. Although he seems to enjoy talking with me, he hasn’t expressed any interest. I’ve tried avoiding him and denying my feelings, but I just start obsessing— thinking he’s shy, or we don’t talk enough, or I get too nervous and he doesn’t see the real me. Or, maybe he’s shallow, and I’m not pretty enough, blah, blah, blah. Now, he’s moving to a different company, and I feel like I’m losing out. I’ve been on this for a year, and I’m too scared to say “I like you. Do you like me?”

—Stuck How amazing that the guy doesn’t seem to know how you feel when you’ve been sending signals for an entire year—telling him you’re as hot for him as you are for the elderly receptionist and the paunchy Polish janitor with the exposed butt crack. Yes, who knew, “Take me right here and now on this desk!” can also be phrased “Bye, Mr. Raszewski, have a great weekend!”

Although you’re utterly overwhelmed by the prospect of rejection, you seem to think it’s easy for guys, that they just say to themselves, “Oh, look! It’s human and wearing a bra. I think I’ll ask it out!”

Unless you’re stunning—in which case, all you have to do is exist in a guy’s eyeline—you need to let him know you’re open for business; specifically, his. But, you don’t just march up and blurt out “I like you. Do you like me?”—which is about as alluring as “Drop by some afternoon so I can give you genital herpes.”

Asking a guy out is another lousy idea. Men will tell you they’re fine with it—just as they’re subconsciously knocking you from an 8 to a 3.6 for doing it. Because sex is more costly for a woman—potentially leading to nine months of pregnancy, then a kid to drag around—women evolved to be the choosier sex and men evolved to value choosy women, and to apply to be chosen. This isn’t to say all the work should be left to men. It’s your job to flirt with a guy, signaling that if he asked you out, you wouldn’t scream “Rape!”, fall on the floor laughing, or report him to Human Resources and have him demoted to crossing guard.

Instead of spending a year chewing on your lip, you could’ve spent a week or two smiling at the guy, making eye contact and looking away, playing with your hair, toying with objects around you,

and touching his arm (female flirting moves recognized across cultures). Then it would’ve been his turn, perhaps to drop mention that he, too, is looking for a boyfriend.

If only you’d signaled your interest, even inaction on his part would’ve been progress—telling you to move on. Then again, maybe he would’ve asked you out, and maybe you would’ve found he’s mean to the waitress and twirls his nose hair at the table. Yes, for all you know, you don’t even like the guy—the real guy, not the one you’ve turned into a rock star in your head. While you could finally give flirting with him a whirl, with the way you’ve built him up, your best bet is probably meeting new guys and practicing your body language—those little pronunciation tricks that make the difference between “Ask me out” and “Ask me if I’m often constipated.”

While You Weren’t Sleeping Before I moved in with my longdistance boyfriend, his thrashing around in his sleep was an occasional issue. Now, I’m exhausted daily. I suggested I sleep in the guest room, but he sees that as a foreboding sign.

—Eyebags Some people count sheep; your boyfriend chases them around the barn trying to wrestle them to the ground. While there are mattresses with individual “sleep numbers,” you two could use one divided down the middle by one of those Plexiglas windows they have at the bank. What does it mean when a couple can’t be unconscious together? Perhaps that one of them has a serious medical issue—something a doctor should check out. Other than that, not a whole lot. Unfortunately, your boyfriend seems to be equating your need to avoid falling asleep behind the wheel with all that negative stuff you see on TV about the guy being deported to the couch. You can put a futon on the floor or sleep in another room and crawl into bed with him in the morning, then thrash around together while awake. The guy just needs to face the facts: He sleeps like a baby…great white shark trying to break into Jacques Cousteau’s sharkproof cage.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you weren’t listened to very attentively as a child.

Perhaps you were dressed in clothes you didn’t like, hugged only three times a year, and fed food you were allergic to. I suppose it’s even possible that your parents were psychotic drug dealers who kept you chained to a radiator in their squalid basement. If that’s the case, Aries, I would understand if you had an urge to devote the next three decades to bewailing your bitter past and scheming up ways to wreak revenge on the cruel world. But if you have ever been curious about whether there might be better ways to allocate your time and energy, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have it in your power to overcome your toughest memories and set out on a course to become almost as secure as if those bad things had never happened.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s say you’re listening to your favorite band on a stereo system. There is a place between the two speakers where you will hear the two streams of music blend perfectly, exactly as the sound engineer intended. This place is called the sweet spot. If you play tennis or baseball, you know about another version of the term “sweet spot.” It’s the area on the racquet or the bat where you get best results when striking the ball. According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, this will be your ruling metaphor for the next three weeks. You have arrived at your very own sweet spot—the embodiment of all that is melodious, graceful, delicious, aromatic, and effective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Squirrels often bury the nuts they find, intending to come back and retrieve their bounty at a later time. The only trouble is, they sometimes forget where their hiding places are, and the nuts go uneaten. This, at least, is the story told by children’s book writer Beatrice Potter, and I regard her as an authority on such matters. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because you’re entering a phase when it will be wise for you to track down and accumulate extra reserves of a prime resource. As you do, make sure you remember all the pertinent details that will allow you to fully access them when you need them in the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For better or worse, you are at least temporarily becoming more psychic. It could be a blessing, or it might be a bit of a burden. You may really enjoy having an enhanced ability to tune in to what people are thinking and feeling, and it could prove eminently useful. Knowing what’s really on everyone’s mind might give you a significant edge as you work to turn grand fantasies into well-grounded realities. But it also might tax your empathy or tempt you to ignore boundaries that should be upheld. I hope that by informing you of this situation, I have made it far more likely that your higher sensitivity will be a gift instead of a glitch

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your strategies are very close to working. The results you’ve generated so far are almost useful, bordering on successful, and on the brink of being beautiful. My question now is: You won’t stop here, will you? You’ve already garnered a measure of recognition. You’ve gotten a taste of victory over your old bugaboos. Will you be satisfied with these partial breakthroughs, or will you fight and kick and scratch to strip away the almosts and ascend to utter triumph?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): No more rotten dessert, Virgo. No more silky danger or juicy poison. No more worthless treasures or empty successes or idiotic brilliance. Soon all those crazy-making experiences will be gone, blasted, dead. By this time next week, the bad influences that were trying to pass themselves off as good influences will have fallen away in response to your courageous drive for authenticity. You will be primed to restore your innocence and play in places where purity is the rule, not the exception. Already, the wisdom of your wild heart is regenerating, giving you the strength to overthrow the sour, life-hating influences that were threatening to smother your spirit.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An epic treasure hunt will soon begin. Are you ready for it? I don’t think you are. To get yourself in shape to perform at a high level, I suggest that you open your mind wider than you ever have before. The clues that will be most helpful won’t resemble any clues you’ve ever valued in the past, and they’ll be arriving from unforeseen sources. I’ll give you a hint about what to look for in the early going of the quest for the magic boon: What circumstance in your life has a certain metaphorical similarity to a speakeasy during the time when alcohol sales were illegal in America?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s not a favorable moment to get your honey’s name tattooed on your forearm. Maybe in November, but not now. On the other hand, it’s an excellent time to determine whether your lover is willing to have your name tattooed on his or her forearm. In the coming weeks, I also encourage you to figure out which of your allies would give you half of their fudge brownie and which wouldn’t; which authority figures would be inclined to give you precisely what you want rather than see you walk out of their lives; and which of your associates are too jealous of you to be truly helpful. Be cagey about how you apply the tests, Scorpio.

See if you can subtly gauge where everyone stands in relationship to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’d like to discuss The Game. Do you know what I mean? I’m talking about The Unnamed Game. The Uber-Game that is so vast and all-encompassing that it’s virtually a secret. What if you discovered that one of the seemingly sacrosanct rules of The Game was really just a local ordinance, and no longer applied if you played in a different arena or at a higher level? And what if I said that in this different arena or higher level, new allies are poised to introduce you to loopholes and shortcuts you never imagined existed?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I think you’ve been lurking and slinking long enough, Capricorn.

For now, you’ve learned all you need to know about wrestling with camouflage and subterfuge.

You’ve done all you could to clean up the crooked places and bring integrity to the twisted stories.

Now it’s high time for you to come out and play—to exit the claustrophobic maze and make a break for wide-open spaces. Some cautionary advice: To keep from getting pinched by trick endings, make sure all sales are final and all goodbyes are complete.

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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking full-time Employee Communication Specialist for Missoula business. Duties include development, editing, & distribution of communication materials, supports a variety of online (email, web, broadcast) print (articles, newsletters, brochures, & flyers) and face-to-face communication events. Bachelor’s degree in communication, English, business management or equivalent experience preferred. Must have strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite and the Adobe Creative suite of products. Pay is dependent on previous experience. #2976097 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Adventure Cycling Association, a national nonprofit based in Missoula, seeks a skilled graphic designer passionate about working with people, and bicycling, to design and produce complex multi-page publications and graphics for print and web implementation. High-level knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and QuarkXpress required as well as working knowledge of Mac OS X. 40 hrs/week with great benefits package. Submit cover letter and resume to Adventure Cycling, c/o Sheila Snyder, P.O. Box 8308, Missoula, MT 59807 or ssnyder@adventurecycling.org.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Technically, this would be an excellent time to shuck all your responsibilities and plunge into a week-long bacchanalia, complete with rowdy feasting and delirious dancing and lunatic laughter and erotic abandon and mind-altering emotions.

Realistically, though, while such an interlude might do wonders for your relationship with yourself, it could dampen your relationships with people who rely on you. Unless of course you could coax them into joining you on your binge.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Did you ever notice that some people seem to be addicted to falling in love over and over again? While they may truly have a natural propensity to exult in the beauty of a great variety of their fellow humans, I also suspect that their addiction serves as an excuse for them to fall in love with themselves over and over again. At least in part, each new romantic partner is a pawn in their strategy for coming back home to themselves. Here’s what I’m inclined to ask these people: Why not simply eliminate the middleman or middlewoman? I’m not necessarily implying that you’ll benefit from this advice right now, Pisces. But then why did a soft, lulling voice in my head just suggest that I tell it to you?

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Three days to glory All-ages Total Fest VIII prepares for record 50 bands

by Erika Fredrickson

Now in its eighth year as Missoula’s only threeday indie rock festival, Total Fest has reached a point of maturity. Odd to say about an event known for some of the most entertainingly immature stage antics imaginable—Johnny No Moniker of Fleshies, for example, crawling around in his underwear—but true nonetheless. Over the years, the festival has grown from five bands to 20, to 42 and, this year, 50. Wäntage USA label owner and Total Fest founder Josh Vanek has wrangled the event each year, with heavy help from dedicated volunteers.

This year, the event is completely all-ages—no exceptions—due to sponsorships and fundraising that allowed Total Fest organizers to hire extra staff.

beat up the crowd last year—musically speaking— with their psychedelic, angular smackdown. That band sucks you in like a dangerous heroin addiction—they make you sweat and sway without any self-control. And how could they not? With a group consisting of eight permanent players, two alternates and one dancer it’s a party no matter which way you spin it.

And a-one and a-two Then again, less is more. This year includes a plethora of bands comprised of merely one or two members. The Limbs is John Mazzucco, a one-man band out of Denver, Colo., who sings and plays, among other things, a drum set and electric guitar. He’s a veteran of Total Fest known for his sometimes

notes, “Wearing a heavy Link Wray/Trashmen influence on your sleeve is a commonplace theme, but remember, these were the days before Pulp Fiction, and every fratboy wasn’t yet familiar with that spooky, pioneering work.” This is probably a one-time-only reunion of a band that helped give Jay’s its singular reputation, so it’s not to be missed.

If you want to get another history lesson, El Zombi Gato also includes drummer Moore, as well as various members from 1990s Jay’s bands like Sasshole, Cicada and Five in the Face. Blowing into town from Portland, another old face includes Leaders guitarist Kelly Gately, who played in oldschool Missoula band Honky Sausage, as well as the infamous and explosive dirty rock group Fireballs of Freedom.

S’cream n’ swap

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If you can’t booty shake, at least you can ice cream shake. Live bands and music swapping at the Big Dipper always serve as a refreshing recess for an otherwise full-throttle event. Bring your CDs, vinyl, cassettes, 8-tracks and any other recorded items down to the ice cream parking lot for a little barter action on Saturday. The folk-punk wilds of Hail Seizures and cynically wistful riffs of Tyson Ballew supply the afternoon soundtrack along with the stripped-down, evil-scientist jazz distortion of Why I Must Be Careful. John Niekrasz of Why I Must Be Careful is a mathematical genius on drums, so if you missed his other band, Poor School, of Friday night’s line-up, don’t miss him here.

The Total line-up

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In addition, the festival crew (or crüe, as they call themselves) includes younger members just out of high school to help add some age diversity when picking which bands out of the hundreds of submissions will fill the event’s nightly slots.

As usual, Total Fest brings back festival favorites, as well as new, buzzworthy groups from places all across the country, including Seattle, Salt Lake City, Brooklyn and Huntsville, Ala. And, with the addition of two hip-hop/rap groups for the first time ever, the festival shows that it’s not a one-track pony. With an even bigger line-up than ever, we offer a guide to old favorites, one- and two-person acts, old-school mustsees and other delicacies.

Favorite things Veteran Total Fest bands that you shouldn’t miss include The Bugs, whose smart-ass, footstomping ditties become the best brainworm you’d ever ask for, as well as the Pine Hill Haints, whose ghostly melodies saunter through dark alley anthems. Another band always worth noting: Japanther. The first time they played Total Fest they yelled into a microphone made from a phone and tossed out bouncy, xylophone-sounding melodies that seemed both pretty and startlingly cool. Last but not least, Vile Blue Shades

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muddy, sometimes funky, always devilish tunes. LKN is Portland, Ore.’s Lauren K. Newman, and though she’s a one-woman project when recording, guest musicians often back her up live. Newman pretty much shreds on guitar with math rock genius and butt-rock delivery, and when she plays drums— which she will with another T-fest band, Palo Verde—she’s a feverish demon.

On the local front, guitarist Cindy Laundrie (Saved For this Dark Dawn, Spanker) and drummer Jen Tachovsky (Sasshole) serve up a platter of glaring attitude and never-too-pretty garage rock. And, finally, the hip-hop duo Jiggwatts includes former Missoulian Jimi Nassett (James Two) and Locke.

They do a smashing sampling of “Angel in a Centerfold.”

Total Fest kicks off Thursday, Aug. 20, with music at the Badlander at 9:30 p.m. On Friday and Saturday, music starts at 8 p.m. in both the Badlander and the Palace, with bands playing the Saturday record swap starting at noon. All access passes cost $38. Admission each night runs $15.

Thu., Aug. 20 Badlander: El Zombi Gato, Red Obelisk, Valsalva Menuver, Filth Mattress, Jiggywatts, Blank Its and Attitude Problem.

Fri., Aug. 21 Badlander: Rooster Sauce, Razz m’ Tazz, Vera, Taco Cat, The Bugs, The Blind Shake, Rebreather, Black Elk, Leaders, Drunk Horse and Vile Blue Shades.

Palace: Reptile Dysfunction, LKN/Palo Verde, Electric Dandelion, Poor School, Birds Mile Home, RVIVR, Pretty Boy Thorson, Lamborghiniz and Underground Railroad to Candyland.

Sat., Aug. 22 Flashback to the ’90s In the mid-1990s, a band called Thee Hedons began haunting the stage of Missoula’s former punk rock venue, Jay’s Upstairs. The trio of guitarist Josh May, bassist Greg Twigg and drummer Scott Moore unleashed surf-soaked garage rock as menacing as it was catchy. Sexy instrumentals like “WingNut” mixed with songs like “Two Beer Queer” and “Male Itch” marked them as a band with a new sound—at least for Montana. As Vanek

Big Dipper: Hail Seizures, Tyson Ballew, Why I Must Be Careful.

Badlander: Socks & Sandals, Wartime Blues, Limbs, Pine Hill Haints, Thee Hedons, Rad Touch, Lozen, Wildildlife, Helms Alee and Japanther.

Palace: Goddamitboyhowdy, Glassell Park #3, Damage Done, Atomic Bride, Git Some, Sandrider, Le Force, The Coloffs and This Runs on Blood. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

PUBLIC NOTICES The Missoula County Information Services Department has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a consultant to prepare a document management and imaging business requirements analysis. Any firm interested in responding to the RFQ is invited to do so by 5:00PM, Wednesday, September 16, 2009.

Qualification statements will be reviewed and evaluated by Friday, September 25th, 2009. Missoula County Commissioners will select a firm at a public hearing on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 1:30PM in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. All questions related to the project should be directed to Anne Hughes, Missoula County Special Projects at 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406)258-3160, ahughes@co.missoula.mt.us.

Interested firms may obtain the complete project description and RFQ on Missoula County’s website: www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Anne Hughes.

Firms should submit one (1) original statement, four (4) copies, and one (1) electronic copy on CD. The electronic copy must be either MS Office or Adobe Acrobat. Qualification statements must be sealed and marked “Qualification Statement for Document Management and Imaging Business Requirements Analysis” and submitted to: Anne Hughes, Special Projects, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all statements.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER HEREBY NOTIFIES TAXPAYERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY THAT PERSONAL PROPERTY OF 2009 TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON AUGUST 31, 2009.

UNLESS TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT AND WILL DRAW INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID AND 2% WILL BE ADDED TO THE DELINQUENCY TAXES AS A PENALTY MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-07-381 Dept. No. 4 SUMMONS. PAUL NEAL COOLEY, Plaintiff, v.

LARUE THOMAS, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 19th day of June, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-09-918 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Peter Rosinsky, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Peter Rosinsky to Peter Crago. The hearing will be on 9/9/09 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 7/30/09. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Karen Johnson, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-132 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BEVERLY JOYCE FELTON a/k/a B. JOYCE FELTON, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Daphne J. Felker and Darby J. Sharp have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 27th day of July, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, CHRISTIAN SAMSON & JONES, PLLC MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY

Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-09-719 NOTICE OF HEARING FOR PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN RE THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ALGIS TOMAS CAPLENAS. ALGIS TOMAS CAPLENAS, Petitioner. NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a hearing on the Petition of Algis Tomas Caplenas for a change of name to Tommy Algis Caplenas will be held in the District Courthouse of Missoula County on the 27th day of August, 2009 at the hour of 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard.

DATED this 23rd day of July, 2009. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Donna M. Duffy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-09-139 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN COMTE KING, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael R. King, Personal Representative, at 1063 Breckenridge Street, Helena, MT 59601 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of August, 2009. /s/ Michael R. King, Personal Representative NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST. Deed of Trust: Dated November 8, 2007 Grantors: Stephen G. Steadele and Dawn R. Steadele 9916 Butler Creek Road, Missoula, Montana 59808 Original Trustee: Title Services, Inc. P.O. Box 8223, Missoula,, Montana 59807. Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula, P.O. Box 4506, Missoula, Montana 59806. Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807- (-8957 Date and Place of Recordation: November 8, 2007, Book 808, Page 1035, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 1st day of December, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 5858, located in the Southeast One-Quarter of Section 17, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantors, and all of their successors and assigns, to pay at maturity on August 10, 2008 all principal provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of One Hundred Seventy-two Thousand Ninety-nine and 31/100ths Dollars ($172,099.31); together with accruing interest; and late charges in the amount of Fifty Dollars ($50.00); reconveyance fee in the amount of Forty-seven Dollars ($47.00); and a contractor advance in the amount of One Thousand Fifty-three and 05/100ths Dollars ($1,053.05) to protect the property.. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is One Hundred Seventy-two Thousand Ninety-nine and 31/100ths Dollars ($172,099.31) in principal, plus interest thereon at the rate of Eight and One-quarter Percent (8.25%) from and after the 10th day of August 2008 through June 23, 2009, in the amount of Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Fifteen and 71/100ths Dollars ($12,315.71), plus late charges and all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.. DATED this 6th day of July, 2009. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley. Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee. Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807- (8957. STATE OF MONTANA :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 6th day of July, 2009, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee . /s/ Roxie Hausauer , Notary Public for the State of Montana.

Printed name: Roxie Hausauer NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, MT My commission expires: 1/6/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731369, BK 809, Pg 1270, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kelly D. Price and Beverly B. Price, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Montana Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 14 of East Missoula Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County Montana, according to the official plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure

JONESIN’ timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 15, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $177,125.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $171,073.22, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.04824) 1002.126366-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/07/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200805582, Bk 815, Pg 0157, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Micah Campbell McGhee and Kenneth Delos McGhee, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Assurity Financial Services, LLC was Beneficiary and United General Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded United General Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Certificate of Survey No. 93, located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 23, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 18, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $154,974.76. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $147,025.73, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender

of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.19874) 1002.126552-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/29/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200526881, Book 762, Page 127, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael Temple was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for WMC Mortgage Corp. was Beneficiary and Mark E. Noennig was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Mark E. Noennig as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 of Lolo View Heights No. 5, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200905528 B: 835 P: 362, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SABR 2006-WM1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $187,819.01.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $174,311.47, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s

Missoula County Government

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owning delinquent storage rent for the following units: 82, 93, 179, 182, 224, 236, 241, 428, 495, 633, 523. and 508. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods including office furniture, desks, baby strollers, car storage carrier, office phone system, boxes & boxes of old rare book collections, file cabinets, TV & stereos. These units may be viewed starting Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, Aug 27, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

RESOLUTION NUMBER 2009 - 103 Inte A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO rsta te 9 AMEND THE ZONING DISTRICT 0 S TA N D A R D S F O R P R O P E RT Y DESCRIBED AS RESERVE B MISSOULA AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PA R K / PA R C E L B , C O S # 5 1 7 6 , LOCATED IN CANYON CREEK VILLAGE, IN THE NE _ OF SECTION 1, T13N, R20W, P.M.M., LESS C A N Y O N E A S T, P H A S E 3 , Ex A N D M O R E PA R T I C U L A R LY pre ssw DESCRIBED BY A BEARINGS AND ay DISTANCES DESCRIPTION ON FILE AT THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND GRANTS OF THE CANYON CREEK PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ZONING DISTRICT (SEE MAP F).

WHEREAS, 76-2-201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76-113, as amended; and, WHEREAS, 76-2-202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District standards on July 25, 2001 as recorded in Resolution Number 2001-070; and, WHEREAS, an amendment to the standards of Subdistrict No. 3 of the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District to revise the total number of allowed dwelling units in that subdistrict has been reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board as required by 76-2-204 M.C.A.; and, WHEREAS, a public hearing was duly advertised and opened by the County Commissioners of Missoula County on August 5, 2009, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding such proposed zoning district revisions as required by 76-2-205 M.C.A. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County has adopted a Resolution of Intent to amend the zoning district standards of the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District, and will receive written protest from persons owning real property within the entire district who are opposed to the amendments for a period of thirty (30) days after the date of this Notice of Intent to rezone.

FURTHER, copies of the regulations for the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District are available for inspection at the Office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/04/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200403351, Bk 726, Pg 53, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Robert Peschel was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 3 of Bitterroot Homes Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America National Association as Successor

by Merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust 2004-1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2009,

the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $179,735.18. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $172,449.65, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05029) 1002.127274-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/25/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200510019, Bk 751, Pg 950, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Valerie L. Rayevich was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encum-

bers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12 in Block 8 of Linda Vista Seventh Supplement - Phase 6, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the holders of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005WF2. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $224,304.48. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $217,789.77, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default

occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.05026) 1002.127342-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701583 Book 790, Page 1121, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Shawn Diehl, married Deanna Diehl was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and American Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded American Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 28, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract 20A2B of Certificate of Survey No. 3013. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200810524 Book 818, Page 900, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $222,327.07. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $219,675.89, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale pro-

ceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.17301) 1002.108095-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/04/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200600386, Bk 767, Pg 216, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Terry Koski and Marisu Koski, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 41 of Pleasant View Homes-Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all

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deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

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monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 30, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $204,748.77. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $198,507.65, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 9, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05172) 1002.127955-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 09-0112456 Title Order No. 090557413 The following legally described trust property to be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale. Notice is

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hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 12/16/2009, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Mt.. Recontrust Company, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which Cris Boller as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/10/2006 and recorded 04/14/2006, in Document No. 200608371 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 772 at Page Number 1620 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: Tract 7A-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 4266, located in the East One-Half of Section 10, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M. Missoula County, Montana. Property Address: 20500 Spotted Fawn Rd, Huson, MT 59846. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. Together with any default in the payment of recurring obligations as they become due. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $241,119.40 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 04/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums

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PUBLIC NOTICES incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

Dated: 8/19/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3211337 08/20/2009, 08/27/2009, 09/03/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 13, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 33 in Block 2 of El Mar Estates Phase IV, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Brett Huston and Stacey Huston, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated November 9, 2005 and Recorded November 21, 2005 in Book 764, Page 930, under Document No. 200530946. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Trust 2006-1.

Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,367.69, beginning March 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 26, 2009 is $133,076.40

principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $15,628.20, late charges in the amount of $932.23, escrow advances of $3,319.27, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,291.88, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 5, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF

NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On June 5, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3218974 08/13/2009, 08/20/2009, 08/27/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 19, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 8, 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 11 OF BECKS HOME ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. A.P.N.: 1441308 George S. Garr, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Deborah H. Bishop, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 2, 2007 and recorded November 6, 2007 as document number 200729203, in Bk-808, Pg-840.. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,084.47, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 13, 2009 is $178,747.37 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $5,973.12, late charges in the amount of $132.06, escrow advances of $758.35, and other fees and expenses advanced of $24.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $45.31 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property

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and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 9, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On June 9, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3223489 08/20/2009, 08/27/2009, 09/03/2009

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6403 Marias St., Msla • $305,000 • MLS# 901329 Well maintained 4 bed / 3 bath home offers vaulted ceilings, gas fireplace, central vacuum, central air conditioning, plus plenty of storage space throughout. The yard is fenced on three sides and includes underground sprinklers, landscaping and deck.

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Newer Polson area home on 4 lake view acres w/ apple orchard $429,000 41276 Gala View, Polson Soothing views to Flathead Lake from this 3 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bath home on 4 acres. Landscaped with small cherry orchard. Home is exceptionally well built. Master suite boasts garden tub, oversized shower, and dressing room.

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REAL ESTATE 5 Bedroom Home • 1 Bedroom Apartment

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