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HOW BODNAR’S BUSINESS-SPEAK OBSCURES UM’S TRUE CHALLENGE AMERICAN IDIOT AND THE CONUNDRUM OF NOSTALGIC ANGST

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Stop by between 11am and 3pm this Saturday, April 28, and help us celebrate nearly 50 years serving Western Montana.

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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Protest in song and action .......................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Defending ordinances, selling condemnation, and targeting brown trout...................6 Etc. The Testy Fest calls it a day. .................................................................................................6 News Rape survivor Brenda Tracy sets expectations at UM ......................................................8 News An unconvincing curriculum, or: Where have all the novels gone? ...............................9 Dan Brooks: How Bodnar’s business-speak obscures UM’s true challenge.............................10 Writers on the Range: The collateral damage of Trump’s border wall.................................11 Feature The primaries are coming! Here are the races to watch............................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts American Idiot and the conundrum of nostalgic angst.......................................18 Music Josh T. Pearson, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Les Filles de Illighadad ..................19 Books Where There’s Smoke greenwashes the drug war ............................................20 Film You Were Never Really Here: killer by day, doting son by night .........................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Israeli couscous salad ..........................................................................23 Happiest Hour Missoula Brewing Company’s Original Pilsner .................................25 8 Days a Week You’re getting warmer... ............................................................................26 Agenda Missoula Gives to its plentitude of nonprofits ..........................................................33 Mountain High The Riverbank Run, plus an option for masochists ..........................34

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News of the Weird ......................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42

GENERAL MANAGER Matt Gibson EDITOR Brad Tyer ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer STAFF REPORTER & MANAGING EDITOR FOR SPECIAL SECTIONS Susan Elizabeth Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERN Micah Drew ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer SALES MANAGER Toni Leblanc ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Declan Lawson MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Declan Lawson CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Hunter Pauli, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson, Melissa Stephenson

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NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL

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STREET TALK

by Derek Brouwer

The University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance is performing the musical adaptation of Green Day’s American Idiot album. What protest song sticks in your mind?

Have you ever protested anything, and if so, what was it?

Butter Beehemoth: “Killing in the Name,”

by Rage Against the Machine. It’s kind of aggressive, and I think as far as protesting goes, inciting cultural change requires a little bit of aggression, as long as it’s channeled into creative, nonviolent outlets. Strumming in the name of: I haven’t really protested anything, but I’ve attended the peace marches and rallies in town and played music.

Steaming tray of…

Right on, Dan. (“Brooks: The high cost of preventing a free lunch,” April 18).

Above all, we have to take care of the children. By turning these unpaid lunch bills over to a collection agency, the credit rating of these children later in life will be negatively affected — just because they needed to eat. It really is bullshit.

Richard Brodowy facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Taste the tax

I’m a conservative, but in this situation it seems the best thing to do financially, morally, and in every way, is just provide free lunch and get the revenue for it through taxation.

Leslie Herbert facebook.com/missoulaindependent

A nickel here...

We raise money for everything in Missoula, why not let us contribute to the feeding of our children?

Hollyk Ondrasek facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Tatiana Weed: “Holiday” by Green Day. It’s really upbeat and has a flavor to it that means a whole bunch to the crowd it pertains to. She swears Weed is her real name: I was definitely yes on I182 in 2016. It wasn’t a protest as much as supporting. In a way I was protesting, but I had a strong feeling about how it helps people.

Little help?

Andrew Brown: I don’t listen to much protest music. The only protest song I can think of is “Fuck Tha Police” by N.W.A. Keep it cool: I’m pro-snow, which is similar to promoting knowledge of the environmental crisis, based around snow sports. “I Am Pro Snow” is part of the Climate Reality Project.

Andrew Plant: “( You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” by the Beastie Boys. I guess that’s a protest song, or maybe a hate song. Fighting for: I protest for mental health, all shapes and sizes, whether it’s instability or finding happiness. That’s my thing.

Asked Tuesday afternoon at Caras Park

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People need financial counseling for sure, but what a wonderful thing to save people from homelessness! (“How a fundraising campaign spared Missoula mobile homes from the auction block,” April 19). Heroes, for setting it up and donating! Let’s start donations for next year.

Rose Wilkinson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

All the money’s gone

There isn’t any amount of “financial counseling” or “budgeting” that will help these folks. The money simply isn’t there to “budget.” The majority of these folks struggle for mere survival. It’s a daily struggle to keep the heat going and food on their table — there simply isn’t anything left over to “save” or “budget.” To take their homes from them is reprehensible.

Sherri Leonard facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Please, do go on

I’m sorry, but am I reading that correctly?! People have their homes taken

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away for owing $180?! Honestly, I’d best just stop my comment right here.

Louise McMillin facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Wrong way

What is the cost to keep all those new empty buildings going? (“UM launches a ‘strategy for distinction,’” April 19). [The strategy is] mostly cuts. Keep cutting the arts and humanities, and see if you can compete with online STEM col-

“Keep cutting the arts and humanities, and see if you can compete with online STEM colleges. And millennials are not as hooked on the sportsball, it seems.

People in the system warned about this, but exponential growth was all that was planned for.” leges. And millennials are not as hooked on the sportsball, it seems. People in the system warned about this, but exponential growth was all that was planned for.

Jon Thomas facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Josh for commish

I write in support of Josh Slotnick, the Democratic candidate for the Missoula County Board of Commissioners.

Josh has been my mentor since I worked at his family farm in 2011, then as a teaching assistant and employee at the PEAS Farm. He continues to mentor my work

as a beginning farmer, and professionally in Missoula’s nonprofit sector. Josh models how to build community for longterm sustainable growth. I experience first-hand his ability to listen respectfully to divergent viewpoints, resulting in constructive and forward-thinking action.

Josh is well practiced at weaving individuals’ needs into the fabric of the high quality of life we experience in Missoula.

When we worked together at the PEAS farm, Josh taught me how reaching across sectors in the community could help build healthy large-scale systems. What stands out from that time is that the basis for building a healthy community meant slowing down enough to truly listen. Josh embodies this lesson, learning the needs of those coming from different economic and social backgrounds. He embodies collaboration every day as he shares his time and skills to make change in support of long-lasting community health.

Ellie Costello Missoula

Collaborative Connie

In Missoula, we’re fortunate to have a wealth of community leaders. The downside is that sometimes we are forced to make tough choices, as in the current race for House District 91. What sets Connie Keogh apart is that she knows how to work on the other side of the aisle. The reality is that Republicans will likely control the Legislature, and committees will be stacked in conservatives’ favor. Democrats will need to work skillfully to make progress on issues we care about as a community. While Connie has lived in Missoula for several years, she grew up on a small ranch in eastern Montana where her family raised cattle for three generations. That’s a background that conservatives can understand, and maybe there’s enough common ground to find solutions on issues that are important to both small towns and larger cities. I know we can count on Connie Keogh to stand up for us on the House floor. But I also know we can count on her to work every day in committee to make progress where possible. That’s why Connie Keogh has my support for HD 91.

Denver Henderson Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, April 18 The American Lung Association releases the 2018 State of the Air report. Missoula ties as cleanest city in the nation for ozone, but receives an “F” grade in particulate pollution, ranking as the 12th-most polluted city for short-term particulate pollution.

Thursday, April 19 The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office announces a $10,000 reward for information leading to a suspect in the March murder of Missoulian Susan Woods. Woods was found unconscious on Coal Mine Road and died two weeks later in the hospital.

Friday, April 20 Helena native Carly Smiedala shatters a 31year-old school record during a track meet in California. The Griz sophomore ran the 800-meter race in 2:06.22, which ranks her 32nd in the nation.

Saturday, April 21 The 50th annual Kyiyo Pow Wow Celebration wraps up at the Adams Center. The two-day event celebrates dancing, singing and narrative traditions from several Native American tribes.

Background checks

This town, or Everytown?

Proponents of Missoula’s legal effort to defend its gun background check ordinance see a local government reclaiming its constitutional powers from a state government that’s been bought off by a powerful gun lobby.

But to Montana Shooting Sports Association President Gary Marbut, the lawsuit only confirms what he’s long believed: that local reformers are just carrying water for anti-gun activists in New York City who’ve identified Montana as their latest battleground.

On April 11, city leaders held a press conference to announce that they’d filed a legal challenge to a 2017 order by Attorney General Tim Fox that struck down the ordinance. Fox had argued that the ordinance mandating background checks on private gun sales violates a state “preemption” law that prohibits cities from enacting restrictions on gun ownership.

Anticipating criticism of a costly legal battle, Mayor John Engen and City Council President Bryan von Lossberg emphasized that the city had found a way to fight on a budget. Fees for local counsel Boone Karlberg would be capped at $25,000, while an attorney for gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety would provide pro bono support.

Everytown is a nonprofit founded in 2014 and financed primarily by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has poured millions into the group in an effort to counter the political power of the National Rifle Association.

The addition of Everytown as co-counsel on the Missoula case formalized a relationship that Marbut believes has existed quietly since the ordinance’s inception in 2015. Marbut points to emails he obtained through a public records request showing communication between von Lossberg and an Everytown attorney indicating that Everytown reviewed a draft ordinance before it was presented publicly and anticipated that it would lead to litigation.

“We don’t need the same kind of culture here that they need in New York City,” Marbut says.

“They’re welcome to what they have, but they ought to leave us alone.”

Von Lossberg says the ordinance language had many influences, including exemptions carved out in response to opponents’ concerns. He says Everytown’s ability to join as co-counsel was a factor in the timing of the city’s legal challenge, but that “this business about out-of-state [influence] is a distraction from the core policy debate.”

State preemption laws are largely the product of a national lobbying campaign by the NRA that began in the 1980s. In recent years, Everytown has begun

spending money in Montana, including $148,000 in lobbying over the last two state legislative sessions — far more than the NRA and MSSA combined.

The Missoula chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which approached von Lossberg with the idea for the ordinance, was founded in 2013 and is now affiliated with Everytown. Missoula Moms Demand activist Heidi Kendall says the idea for the ordinance grew “organically” from collective frustration at the unwillingness of state and national lawmakers to act.

“I don’t think we were like sitting ducks here, and someone was taking advantage of us,” Kendall says. “There was a lot of passion behind the idea.”

Derek Brouwer

Selling water condemnation

Monterey looks to Missoula

Voters on California’s Monterey Peninsula are well on their way to a November vote that would start a process similar to Missoula’s Mountain Water takeover. A group called Public Water Now has collected more than 11,000 signatures to put an initiative on the ballot that would require the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to undertake a feasibility study of a potential purchase of the water system from its private owner, California

Sunday, April 22 HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver runs a segment about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Oliver describes Zinke as an “oil-friendly, coin-commissioning, non-Bin Laden-killing weirdo who throws Second Ladies around and is not a f****** geologist.”

Monday, April 23 The owner of Rock Creek Lodge announces that after 35 years of operation the Testicle Festival in over. Last year’s festival was associated with two deaths, and increased liability concerns reportedly led to the decision.

Tuesday, April 24 The Forest Service’s Missoula Ranger District continues prescribed burns around Missoula. Today’s burn occurs near Ninemile, while smoke from yesterday’s burn on Blue Mountain was visible from town.

After careful consideration and meeting with the staff, I have decided to pursue other opportunities.”

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[news] American Water (Cal Am). If the study finds that a public takeover would be “financially feasible and in the public interest,” the district would use eminent domain to purchase the system, a prospect that the private utility opposes.

Both Public Water Now and Cal Am are making their cases using Missoula as an example: City of Missoula Water is viewed in Monterey as either a successful, forward-thinking utility acquisition or a costly and burdensome mistake, depending on who’s talking. Either way, they’re talking about Missoula.

Last June, Public Water Now brought Mayor John Engen and Chief Administrative Officer Dale Bickell to Monterey, along with Boone Karlberg’s Natasha Prinzing Jones and Seattle attorney Harry H. Schneider Jr., to talk about the Mountain Water process for an audience of interested citizens. During the trip, Engen was able to catch up with an old friend, Erik Cushman — the Indy’s founding publisher, and now publisher of the Monterey County Weekly. Cushman tells the Indy that in Monterey, water has been a critical issue for years. According to a 2017 study by Food & Water Watch, the Monterey Peninsula has the most expensive water in the country.

“People quit watering lawns, cut down consumption, put in ultra-low-flow devices, and in return their bill has gone up,” says Cushman. While he doesn’t think that public ownership will lower the cost of water, Cushman says that the atmosphere has changed significantly since a similar ballot initiative failed in 2014, in part because of a 2016 clean-water, anti-fracking initiative that passed with 56 percent of the vote. “The timing is good, people are energized, there’s a track record of people fighting against big industry,” he says.

Cal Am’s publicity program, Monterey Water Works, has made an issue of the fact that Missoulians wound up paying much more than anticipated to acquire the utility and pay accompanying legal bills.

That’s a fair point, Cushman says, if not a convincing argument. “I think that’s a cautionary tale, that ultimately the costs were substantially higher than what they anticipated, or what they told people. Thirty years from now I think it will be a great investment.”

Cal Am is as strongly opposed to the prospect as Mountain Water’s parent companies were, and

with the added step of a vote, has had a far more public response than Mountain Water did. Earlier in April, Public Water Now filed a complaint with California’s Fair Political Practices Commission alleging that the utility misused voter lists, failed to file as a campaign committee and didn’t properly disclose its hiring of a firm that deployed “blockers,” or contractors who inserted themselves bodily between potential petition signers and Public Water Now activists collecting signatures for the ballot initiative.

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Fisheries

Kootenai kill order

Tim Linehan sells the Kootenai River on its rainbow trout. They may not all be 18-inchers like on the Missouri, he says, but pound-for-pound they’re some of the strongest, most spirited rainbows in Montana. So Linehan, owner of the Libbybased Linehan Outfitting Company, was none too happy this spring to hear that an angler had caught a brown trout on the river above Kootenai Falls.

“It has the potential to change my business,” Linehan says. “It would change the dynamic by which I do business, because people know and love the Kootenai for hardfighting rainbows.”

In response to that brown — the first ever reported above Kootenai Falls — the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission on May 19 approved a kill order on all brown trout caught between the falls and Libby Dam. The commission also directed anglers to report any browns they catch, so the agency can determine the extent of the population above the falls.

The primary reason for the order is the prospect of non-native browns establishing themselves on that stretch of river and out-competing and preying on existing rainbow and bull trout populations.

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Linehan says that’s a “pretty big if,” but he plans to follow the new rule.

Dave Blackburn, who studied aquatic ecology in college and has owned and operated Kootenai Angler in Libby for more than 30 years, is adamant that he won’t. Killing a fish — even under state orders — goes against his entire philosophy (he’s a catch-and-release guy). Native fish are great, he says, and he actively promotes the Kootenai’s population of native rainbows. But he likens FWP’s reaction to a single brown trout to the tale of Chicken Little.

“The sky is not falling,” Blackburn says.

“Brown trout are not going to destroy the Kootenai River as we know it today.” Blackburn adds that the biggest issue facing the river right now is the potential for increased selenium levels resulting from coal mining over the border in Canada.

As for how a brown got that far upstream in the first place, Linehan says there’s a slim chance it made it up the falls. FWP has recorded one tagged bull trout accomplishing that feat before. But the prevailing theory, Linehan adds, is that the brown was dumped there. Anglers will now have to “wait and see” if FWP’s solution works, and trust that the kill order won’t backfire. FWP notes that it’s possible fishermen might inadvertently kill bull trout, mistaking them for browns, since the species can look similar.

“For now,” Linehan says, “we’re just going to have to hope people educate themselves and don’t make that mistake.”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Rock Creek Lodge, near Clinton, looks deserted this week, as if the hordes of last August’s Testy Fest revelers were raptured at the end of the 35th festival, leaving the grounds untouched since. Somebody must have cleaned up, but the Jim Beam-sponsored “Welcome to Testy Fest 2017” sign is still strung on a wire fence. Ducttaped to the doors to the bar is a simple “Closed for Winter” message on printer paper.

But the festival is gone for good. Lodge owner and festival organizer Matt Powers told the Missoulian on Monday that last year’s ball-worshiping romp was the last. “At the end of the day I have to be able to hold my head up and be proud of how I make my living,” he told the paper.

It was a remarkable statement from the owner of one of the smuttiest events ever conjured, billed last year as the “party you will never forget or never remember” and which featured wet T-shirt, wet undies, big balls, ball eating, Undie 500, Itty Bitty Titty, and Mr. Fun Buns contests.

Powers didn’t appear to be referencing testicle consumption when talking about his sense of shame. All that glorious debauchery has also produced a body count. Remember the woman who stabbed two people with a butterfly knife after flashing her breasts. And the drunken man who took a lodge-owned truck for a joyride the wrong way on I-90, killing himself and an 8-year-old boy.

The festival began offering shuttles, but those ended up becoming weapons, too. Last year a celebrant who was ejected from the festival climbed into a shuttle and allegedly yanked the steering wheel. Two people died, and now Powers faces a civil suit over the festival’s culpability in the death of one of those shuttle riders.

As of this writing, the lodge had yet to respond to the months-old suit, prompting the plaintiffs to request a default judgment.

Testy Fest never faced the concerted protests that have come to pressure, say, Missoula’s Festival of the Dead. While the Festival of the Dead honored death, rather than facilitating it, it’s been criticized as not being white Missoulians’ to own. Testy Fest, on the other hand, became a tourist draw and a cultural export. But it’s more appropriately imagined as our cultural genitalia: good for a chuckle, but best kept in one’s pants.

Robin Gray

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Setting expectations Rape survivor Brenda Tracy speaks to UM athletes

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Since 2014, when she decided to the Expectation pledge, wearing self and Tracy to his Twitter account after speak out about being sexually as- shoelaces in the purple and teal colors he met her on Monday, thanking her for saulted in 1998 by a group of men that of the program’s ribbon logo and, on visiting.

“There’s times where we have situincluded Oregon State football players, the UM campus, fundraising for UM’s ations where decisions are made, Brenda Tracy has told her story again Student Advocacy Resource Center.

Set the Expectation emphasizes wounds are opened, people are hurt, it and again in front of collegiate athletic departments. On Monday, April 23, consent and bystander intervention. becomes a divisive issue,” Tracy says Tracy spent the day meeting with Uni- “You may see that your football player when asked about the divided community reaction to Hauck’s rehirversity of Montana coaches, ing. “We’ve seen it with some administrators, President Seth of the former Baylor coaches Bodnar and student athletes being hired at different to speak about her personal places.” She didn’t mince experience and her prescripwords about her disappointtions for how student athletes ment when the University of can prevent sexual assault.

Houston hired former Baylor “I understand that this is a assistant coach Kendal Briles men’s issue, and if we’re going in the wake of a major sexual to talk about that 98 percent of assault scandal that resulted in all sexual violence is carried Baylor’s head coach (Briles’ faout by men, they’re the ones ther, Art), president and athperpetrating these crimes, it’s letic director all being fired or easy to just say, ‘Well, they’re resigning. “There’s nothing the problem,’” Tracy says. “And that shows me that anyone they are, but you can’t talk [from the Baylor coaching about them as a problem if staff] deserves that second you’re not also willing to talk chance,” she told the Washingabout them as the solution. ton Post.

And I find that approaching Tracy returned to Housmen as a solution versus apton last month, though, beproaching men as a problem is cause the Houston program is a totally different outcome.” willing to work with her and That outcome is an enphoto courtesy Brenda Tracy hear her criticisms. She says gaged audience, making stuBrenda Tracy asks athletes to pledge action to stop that sometimes, after visiting a dents feel called to action sexual violence. school with a troubled history, rather than lectured. UM Assistant Athletic Director Jean Gee says that friend walked off with a girl and she was she’ll get questions about a program’s approach is what impressed her when drunk but you're not saying anything. sincerity. “People ask of me, ‘They’re she saw Tracy speaking at Big Sky Con- There is this culture of silence that is just using you for PR. How do you feel happening,” Tracy says. “They need to about that?’” she says. “I say it doesn’t ference events last year.

“What I love about Brenda’s ap- say something. They need to hold each really matter why I’m here. The fact is proach is it’s not about ‘Don’t do this’ other accountable. I mean, how many that I’m here. I’m going to stand in front and ‘Don’t do that,’ it’s about what can men knew about Harvey Weinstein? So of a couple hundred athletes tonight we do as student athletes and athletic many of them. They are part of the prob- and I’m planting seeds and hoping that departments to raise awareness around lem, too. The silence is complicit for some of them grow.”

Tracy says Montana strikes her as a this issue?” Gee says. “So what can our sure.”

Gee says that Tracy had been program willing to grow. “Some promale student athletes do about being booked to visit campus before Bobby grams are receptive, some programs good bystanders…?”

Part of Tracy’s approach is her Set Hauck’s rehiring as head coach was con- aren’t. This one is a receptive program.” the Expectation program, which asks sidered. “I thought it was pretty impor- And if it should disappoint her expectacollege and high school athletes to sign tant for her to come to our campus tions, expect to hear about it. a pledge. During basketball season, Big regardless” of who the head coach is, Sky teams dedicated games to the Set Gee says. Hauck posted a photo of himsshepard@missoulanews.com

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Goodbye Gatsby English teachers incensed over curriculum debate

by Alex Sakariassen

“It’s not about a fear that there’s By the second act of Shakespeare’s a pair of meetings in late February, Hamlet, the title character has become when they were told by the district’s been something done wrong in the past unhinged. A conversation with his fa- Teaching and Learning Department that at all,” Guest says. “It’s just our next ther’s ghost terrifies him so much that the first year of EngageNY would be im- level of improvement and constantly he appears before Ophelia pale-faced plemented on a voluntary basis, and looking for ways to better ourselves.”

The MCPS Board of Trustees will reand disarrayed, “his doublet all un- that some leeway would be allowed for braced; No hat upon his head.” Sentinel discretionary teaching material. The cur- view the district’s presentation on the High School English teacher Sarah Pohl riculum wouldn’t apply to Advanced curriculum change on May 8.

Distaste for the EngageNY approach sometimes asks her students to draw Placement classes. Pohl says there’s portraits of Hamlet before and after his been no student-performance data pre- starts with the limitations it places on teacher autonomy and creativity and paranormal encounter. The exercise sented to justify the change.

“It seems like at [teachers] union quickly spirals outward. Reinicke says highlights character development, she says, and helps the students connect meetings, whether it’s elementary teach- the limited discretion offered to teachers under the curriculum isn’t adwith the material. equate to accommodate grammar “If it’s not engaging, they skills, vocabulary and state-constiwon’t do it,” she says. “You pull in tution-mandated Indian Education the fun, you pull in the creativity, For All requirements, let alone peryou try to be a little bit edgy, try to sonalized touches like Pohl’s Hammeet them where they are.” let-drawing exercise. Nor, Reinicke But Pohl finds herself at odds continues, would the curriculum with the direction Missoula County allow the flexibility to revisit lesPublic Schools administrators want sons as needed. to take English Language Arts cur“Part of good teaching is to be riculum. And she’s not alone. More able to reteach things if students than a dozen parents and teachers don’t get it. And if there’s no time submitted public comment to to reteach because you’re on a MCPS this month criticizing a proscript, you just proceed whether posal to adopt district-wide a high kids are proficient or not,” school English curriculum develphoto by Alex Sakariassen Reinicke says. oped by the New York State EduPohl is perhaps most incensed cation Department. Those Missoula County Public School administrators are floating an English curriculum comments pan the curriculum, change that some teachers say threatens by the dearth of novels in the EngageNY curriculum, under which known as EngageNY, as “rigid,” their autonomy.

English students aren’t required to “canned” and “depersonalized.”

EngageNY’s English curriculum di- ers or science teachers or math teachers, read a full book until junior year. By the vides each year of high school into four the people most appalled by this time they graduate, they’ll have read just modules, each with its own objectives process are the most expert and the three. Gone is The Great Gatsby, Pohl and reading materials. The modules are most engaged teachers that I know,” notes, along with Tim O’Brien’s The subdivided to the lesson level, with each says Sentinel art teacher Tim Nielson. Things They Carried, Elie Wiesel’s Holodesigned to span a single class period. “This is my 23rd year teaching, and I’ve caust memoir Night, and the dystopian EngageNY’s curriculum is designed to never seen a controversy like this classics 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Abandoning such keystone texts, Pohl says, is align with the Common Core education around curriculum.”

Teaching and Learning Director a disservice to public education. standards that Montana’s Board of Pub“What we want to hear is that this lic Education adopted in November Elise Guest is aware of the concerns, but isn’t convinced they reflect the opinions program is so incredibly effective for 2011.

In a meeting with the Indy last of all teachers in the district. In fact, she getting students excited about learning week, Pohl, Reinicke and two other Sen- says, it was a task force composed of ed- … that this program makes kids better tinel teachers shared concerns about the ucators from across MCPS that zeroed thinkers and writers and readers,” Pohl recommended change. According to in on EngageNY in the first place. The says. “Nothing has been able to substanPohl, MCPS English Language Arts staff goal was to establish a curriculum that tiate that.” were informed of the district’s intention would be consistent from classroom to to standardize the English curriculum at classroom. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Strategy for obfuscation Bodnar’s business-speak obscures UM’s true challenge

by Dan Brooks

The University of Montana released its “Strategy for Distinction” last week.

SPOILER ALERT: The strategy is cuts.

The 20-page draft report recommends big cuts to faculty and staff — including the elimination of whole departments — that are the product of two years of planning by no fewer than three committees, councils and task forces. It’s a lot to digest, but two features of this document strike the reader right away.

The first is a punishing wave of business-speak. Here’s UM President Seth Bodnar addressing the unsuspecting reader on page one: “We must set a course that builds on our strengths, ensures our distinction, and provides the resources necessary to sustain quality.

As stewards of the University of Montana, we must deliberately design our path forward, creating a strategy for distinction that enhances key areas of strength and future opportunity.”

I agree that UM’s path forward should be something we “deliberately design.” Whatever we do for the university, we should do it on purpose. We should also “ensure our distinction” and continue UM’s long tradition of being a different school from other schools. As we set a course to sustain quality, the areas of strength and opportunity that we enhance should be, in all cases, key.

When so many words say so little, you know the author is trying to avoid something. This brings us to the second feature of Bodnar’s report. The truth that this uniform paste of corporate buzzwords refuses to admit is that the Strategy for Distinction is not a plan to “celebrate another 125 years of excellent service to students.” It is a plan to make the University of Montana cost less.

That’s weird, because I thought we had an enrollment problem. Since 2010, total enrollment has dropped by 30 percent, and the trend shows no sign of reversing. Enrollment dropped again this year, even after at least two administrations declared attracting more students their No. 1 priority. The Strategy for Distinction gives the lie to that claim. I

don’t know what would attract more students to UM, but offering fewer classes, abandoning whole majors and reducing the number of teachers and administrators available to give students what they’re paying for probably won’t.

Come to the University of Montana!

We’ve eliminated the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, just for you.

Enrollment is not the problem that the Strategy for Distinction seeks to

“The Strategy for Distinction is not a plan to ‘celebrate another 125 years of excellent service to students.’ It is a plan to make the University of Montana cost less.” solve. That’s not why the Board of Regents hired a corporate reorganization artist with no experience in university administration. We can blame the university’s $10 million budget shortfall on falling enrollment, but UM is only in crisis because the regents — and by extension the state legislature and the voters who elected them — don’t want to spend any more money on our flagship university than we already do.

In fact, they want to spend less.

Lower enrollment has forced UM to cut costs because the university is funded on a per-student basis. If we wanted, we

could raise the university’s per-student funding and keep everything the way it is. If we were really concerned about enrollment, we could even spend more money as an investment in attracting new students, and make a plan to recoup the expense through increased volume over the next decade. If that sounds too expensive, we could just make up the $10 million shortfall with special funding.

That’s what we do for the athletic department. A 2015 analysis by economist and state Sen. Dick Barrett found that public funding subsidizes UM athletics to the tune of about $8.6 million a year.

That’s 86 percent of the money the university is trying to save by cutting academics and administration, right there. I am not saying we should disband the football team and plough the money back into the College of the Humanities. I am saying we could avoid most of the painful cuts the Strategy for Distinction describes if we cared about the University of Montana as much as we care about the Griz.

To do that, though, we would have to admit that UM’s budget crisis is a problem of our own making. We would have to stop calling these cuts our response to the enrollment crisis and instead call them what they are: the continuation of a three-decade plan to shift the cost of public education onto students. In 1992, the state of Montana paid 78 percent of the cost of educating each student in our public university system. Today, it pays 39 percent.

Maybe enrollment is down because we’ve been asking students to pay more for the same education. Last week, President Bodnar announced UM’s plan to ask them to pay the same for much less. It’s dishonest to call that a Strategy for Distinction, but we shouldn’t blame Bodnar for that. We didn’t hire him to increase enrollment or strengthen the University of Montana. We hired him to do our dirty work, and to tell us it’s necessary every step of the way. So far he’s doing a fine job.

Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.

[opinion]

Collateral damage Trump’s border plans will hit wildlife hard

by Ron Pulliam and Gary Paul Nabhan

Have you ever crossed a national boundary and realized that wildlife had crossed the very same line? We’ve frequently seen the evidence of such crossings, as both of us have lived and worked close to the international boundary with Mexico for much of the last four decades. From endangered pronghorn antelope to lesser long-nosed bats, rufous hummingbirds and monarch butterflies, itinerant species that routinely cross the border have thrilled us with their stunning presence.

These creatures and many others have long traveled migration routes that span hundreds or even thousands of miles. They deserve not only our respect, but also our assistance in guaranteeing their safe passage.

But their safe passage is not assured these days, because of the recent deployment of National Guard troops and talk of a trumped-up wall at the border.

We recognize that public rancor and political debate are resetting the fate of both human “Dreamers” — those young people who are not yet citizens — and migrating wildlife. Our sympathies are with the Dreamers, and we also know that border security can be achieved without further impact on border wildlife.

Recently, some Westerners were surprised to learn of one conservation initiative that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was wise enough to support: the restoration of some trans-boundary wildlife corridors. Zinke has expressed interest in partnerships that protect migratory corridors for the large game animals of the Northern Plains of the United States and Canada.

Zinke should also consider the wild animals that migrate across our southern border, and how the proposed Trump wall and the National Guardsmen now being placed there are sure to harm this wildlife. Where we work in Arizona, unimpeded corridors are critical to maintaining viable populations of

several of the federally listed mammals that Zinke is charged to protect.

If the Trump wall is ever built, it will unnecessarily fragment transboundary wildlife corridors in ways that will profoundly affect pronghorn, bison and two deer species. It would also put at further risk jaguars, Mexican wolves, black bears and ocelots. Even if the wall is not built, we are concerned about the 338 members of the National Guard

“If the Trump wall is ever built, it will unnecessarily fragment trans-boundary wildlife corridors in ways that will profoundly affect pronghorn,

relating to species and environments unique to the Borderlands. As a result, they are more likely to break laws than to uphold them.

There are effective means to curtail human traffic across the border that do not disrupt wildlife movements. Most residents along the border know this.

Zinke is already concerned about safe passage for certain wildlife species, mainly the big game animals that American hunters love to pursue. But bi-national restoration of wildlife corridors on both sides of the United States-Mexico line would sustain even more wildlife and also support much-needed livelihoods.

That’s why our nonprofit, Borderlands Restoration Network, has begun creating dozens of “green jobs” in these communities. By collaborating with ranchers and others, we are generating livelihoods and fostering strong collaborative efforts, both of which can provide positive deterrents to chaos at the border.

If Zinke’s goals are to benefit wildlife and restore the economy of the rural West, he would do well to learn more about the many success stories in southern Arizona. Wildlife migrations require true collaboration with our neighboring nations, both north and south. We invite Zinke to join us in this important effort.

bison and two deer species.” who are being deployed to the ArizonaMexico border. That’s nearly one soldier for every mile of our state’s southern line.

Unlike the Border Patrol, the National Guard is not given an in-depth orientation about issues relating to the Endangered Species Act, the Lacey Act or the American Antiquities Act. The result is that the National Guard is illequipped to take on any sensitive issues

The writers are contributors to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ).

Ron Pulliam has served as president of the Ecological Society of America and as director of the Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey. Gary Paul Nabhan has served under both Republican and Democratic presidents on the National Park System Advisory Board, and has lived and worked in three border parks. They are both among the founders of the Borderlands Restoration Network, and live within 20 miles of the Mexican border.

missoulanews.com • April 26–May 3, 2018 [11]

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LANDLORD WOES – On Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a home rental agreement took an Xrated turn when Leah Bassett, artist and longtime resident of Aquinnah, unknowingly leased her home to an employee of Mile High Distribution Inc., a pornography production company. In September 2014, the Boston Globe reported, Joshua Spafford approached Bassett about renting her home from October through May 2015. In March 2015, Spafford informed Bassett he had left the house because he was fired, prompting Bassett to ask her parents to stop by and check it out.

They were “shocked by the deplorable state of condition in which they found their daughter’s personal residence,” according to court documents. As “circumstances evolved,” Bassett began reviewing internet sites maintained by Mile High, which “publicly boasted about their porn shoots on chic and tony Martha’s Vineyard.” Bassett filed suit in late March in U.S. District Court, alleging the sites featured photos showing her home, artwork and furnishings, “utilizing nearly every room of her home” including scenes on top of her dining room table, sofas and in her laundry room.

Defense lawyer Stephen A. Roach said the suit “arose out of a basic landlord-tenant dispute.”

COMPELLING EXPLANATION – Fort Pierce, Florida, police pulled over a car on March 21 after observing it swerving down the roadway. As they approached, they smelled marijuana, and during the ensuing search, passenger Kennecia Posey, 26, was shocked — shocked! — when police found two bags in her purse: one containing marijuana, the other cocaine. WPLG TV reported that Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, but told officers: “I don’t know anything about any cocaine. It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.” Posey was charged with felony possession of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENT – On March 20, the U.S. Marine Corps fired Navy Cpt. Loften Thornton, serving as a chaplain for the Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans, after Thornton was captured on video having sex with a woman on the street in front of the Crown & Anchor Pub, according to USA Today. Marine Reserve spokesman Lt. Col. Ted Wong said only that Thornton had been fired for “loss of trust and confidence.” According to the Navy’s strategic plan for religious ministry, chaplains “provide a source of comfort and refuge” to service members, which Thornton had apparently extended to members of the general public.

DANGEROUS FOOD – Some people don’t like ham. When Beverly Burrough Harrison, 62, received a gift of ham from her family on Feb. 12, she waited until they left, then set it on fire and threw it in a trash can at the Bomar Inn in Athens, Alabama, where she was living. As smoke filled the room, AL.com reported, Harrison took her dog and left without alerting anyone to the fire. As a result, she was spared from being a victim of the ham bomb that blew out the front wall of the room when a can of butane fuel was ignited. Harrison was held at the Limestone County Jail on a felony arson charge and could face life in prison if convicted.

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DISAPPOINTING – Organizers of the Big Cheese Festival in Brighton, England, on March 3 were forced to offer refunds to patrons after the event failed on several levels: 1. The festival ran out of cheese. 2. The promised “craft” beer was Bud Light and Stella Artois. 3. The wet weather prompted some to call the event #BigMudFestival and prevented some cheese-mongers and entertainment acts from making it to the site. “Sadly, due to this, a few compromises had to be made,” festival organizers said. The BBC reported the festival has offered half-price tickets to next year’s event for anyone who bought a ticket this year.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – Jonathan Rivera, 25, of Hartford, Connecticut, dutifully appeared in Hartford Superior Court March 7 to answer charges of stealing a car on Feb. 17. While he waited his turn, the Hartford Courant reported, parking authority agents outside the courthouse spotted a 2014 Subaru Legacy with license plates that had been reported as stolen. The car itself had also been stolen from Newington, Connecticut. Police waited for the driver to return and arrested Rivera as he started to drive away in the Subaru. He was charged with second-degree larceny and taking a car without the owner’s permission.

Phoenix mom Sharron Dobbins, 40, was determined to get her two teenage sons out of bed for Easter services on April 1. When one of them sassed her back, she grabbed a Taser. “I said, ‘Get up! It’s Jesus’ Day!’” she told KNXV TV. Dobbins said she “sparked” the weapon just to make noise, but the 16-yearold called police, who found two small bumps on the boy’s leg and arrested Dobbins for child abuse.

Dobbins told KNXV, “I did not tase my son ... all I was trying to do is tell my kids to put God first.”

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WHAT’S AT STAKE? With the June 5 primary approaching, these are the candidates and contests to watch.

MISSOULA COUNTY COMMISSIONER

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ncumbent Jean Curtiss is running for a fourth six-year term as Missoula County Commissioner. After 18 years, she wants to continue her work, she says.

“Probably, to me, the biggest challenge facing the county is all the cutbacks from [the Department of] Health and Human Services,” Curtiss says. “I think economic development and health and human services are the two most important things. Fitting in with all of that is attainable housing.”

Curtiss says she still has an appetite for the scope of these challenges and

many more that face the county, from wildfire protection to environmental cleanup to attracting industry.

“One of the reasons I love this job is there’s so many things, there’s just soup to nuts, what you get to work on. The things you can work on where you can see that your efforts made a difference, that the county’s efforts made a difference, that’s what makes it all worthwhile in the end.”

Since winning her first election in 2000, Curtiss has been involved in Missoula-changing initiatives including Superfund cleanups and the formation of

Josh Slotnick

Jean Curtiss

[14] Missoula Independent • April 26–May 3, 2018

the Missoula Economic Partnership. A conversation about her current priorities jumps from early childhood development to jail diversion to the county fairgrounds. How does she feel about a primary race that may present more of a contest than she’s seen before?

“I have a record of being successful at making a difference for people in Missoula County, and I hope people continue to look at that and see I still have the passion and the energy to continue.”

Her challenger is first-time candidate Josh Slotnick, best known to Missoulians for his work in agriculture. Slotnick cofounded Garden City Harvest and the PEAS program in the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies program, and his wife, Kim Murchison, runs their

family farm, Clark Fork Organics. Slotnick says he had been thinking about running for the past two years and anticipated that Curtiss would retire at the end of her third term. When the county commission voted last year 2-1 to approve the Spurgin Ranch Subdivision, which included farmland that Slotnick says is of the highest agricultural quality, he saw it as not just a loss of irreplaceable agricultural land, but as a precedent that bodes poorly for the future of the county.

“There will be no other piece of ground that is of as high quality that comes before the commissioners to be subdivided. This was the best of the best,” he says. “And if they could say, ‘No, screw it, concrete, houses, that’s the best thing we’re going to do here,’ it’s done.

There’s not going to be any more ag-land preservation. Because no other piece of land will match the quality this piece of property had. And it just doesn’t have to be that way.”

Curtiss, perhaps anticipating Slotnick’s angle, provided the Indy a spreadsheet of nine subdivisions approved by the county since the commissioners declined to adopt regulations for ag-land protection in 2016. Of the nine, the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition of Missoula County, which shares Slotnick’s concern for ag-land preservation, requested denial of two: Spurgin Ranch and B&M Zoo. Curtiss’ notes say that Montana would need a statewide fund, and not just county regulations, to ensure that landowners receive a fair price for their land if they’re prevented from selling to developers.

As the challenger, it falls to Slotnick to show voters how he differs from the incumbent, and his call for the county to codify ag-land protections is a major point of distinction from Curtiss. He also lives outside the city limits, in the Target Range area, where he can get an earful from county residents who often feel underrepresented in local government. Curtiss lives in the city, like the majority of Missoula County residents. And while Curtiss considers actively attracting business to the area an important part of her work, Slotnick says that economic growth is driven in large part by in-migration.

“People choose to live here. That’s the engine of our growth. So if we want to continue this prosperity, we need to continue to be a highly desirable place to live,” he says. “And we don’t need to fall over backwards to encourage bitcoin factories in terms of economic development. What we need to do is maintain our beautiful landscape and access to public land and our vibrant culture.”

Slotnick does, though, have at least one thing in common with Curtiss: an endorsement from Mayor John Engen, which Curtiss has had in the past, but which Engen pledged to Slotnick at an April 6 fundraiser for his campaign at the Roxy Theater. In response to the Indy’s request for comment, Engen wrote in an email that he’d intended to remain neutral in the race, as he told the Missoulian in early April. “But Josh stood in front of a small crowd at the Roxy and spoke about community values and constituent service in a way that inspired me,” Engen wrote. “I think Jean and I have done our best to support each other despite some disagreements and I appreciate her hard work. But at this point, I want more from county government. For me, the status quo isn’t enough.”

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF “Bitter” is the district court’s description of the 2014 primary race between then-Undersheriff Josh Clark and nowSheriff T.J. McDermott.

political beliefs. The Montana Human Rights Bureau eventually ruled against Clark in a case a hearing officer declared was “tremendously close.”

T.J. McDermott

The rematch is just as nasty. Clark is picking up right where he left off four years ago: attacking his rival’s integrity and fitness for office.

Clark has promised to use his latest campaign against McDermott to offer a “voter education series,” which so far seems to mean airing the office’s dirty laundry. In his first missive of this spring’s primary, Clark published a lengthy Facebook post accusing McDermott of covering up an excessive-force investigation into a deputy’s treatment of a handcuffed suspect. Details of the controversy were later revealed by the Missoulian. The deputy, Douglas Hartsell, was being investigated after fellow deputies complained about his actions during the November incident, the paper reported. The situation came to light this month only after Hartsell left the department due to an unrelated medical issue, the Missoulian reported. Hartsell had resigned from the department once before, after being charged with DUI in 2005, but McDermott rehired him in 2016.

McDermott beat Clark easily in the 2014 primary, but the battle never really ended. Clark went on to run a write-in campaign in the general election, only to lose again. Once sheriff, McDermott reassigned the undersheriff to patrol. Clark retired and filed a human-rights complaint alleging that McDermott had retaliated against him on the basis of his

Clark has since asked a judge in Missoula County District Court to review the ruling. The case is ongoing.

McDermott, seeking his second term, has received high-profile endorsements, including the mayor’s. As for accomplishments, McDermott can point to adoption of the city-county jail diversion

plan he helped champion. Clark, meanwhile, pledges to bring greater transparency to the department and to crack down on deputies who breach the public trust.

Clark hammered McDermott over the Hartsell investigation at a recent candidate forum in Seeley Lake. Hartsell and his father attended the event, the Missoulian reported, leading to a confrontation outside the event between Hartsell’s father and Clark. Clark alleges that Hartsell’s father threatened “to take us out back and show us old-west justice” before another deputy intervened.

“As a student of history, I cannot help but be reminded of the early years of the Gestapo, when they would go into beer halls and beat anyone that showed political opposition to their cause,” Clark wrote in his account of the incident posted to his campaign website. “Is this what we have become in Missoula County?”

Even if McDermott fends off Clark for a third time, his path to re-election won’t be cleared. Another Sheriff ’s office deputy, Travis Wafstet, is challenging McDermott as an independent. He, too, is making pointed criticisms of McDermott’s leadership, including the department’s purchase of a supercharger for a patrol vehicle that a captain then used to tow his personal boat.

“Way to tell the truth Travis!” Clark wrote on his own campaign Facebook page. “Keep up the good work.”

Derek Brouwer

Josh Clark

missoulanews.com • April 26–May 3, 2018 [15]

HOUSE DISTRICT 89 In late February, two-term state Rep. Nate McConnell got a promotion. Fellow Democrat Cynthia Wolken had announced her resignation from Senate District 48 just six weeks earlier, to take a job as deputy director for the Montana Department of Corrections. Missoula County commissioners unanimously chose McConnell to fill Wolken’s shoes and, a month later, chose Dave Severson to pinch-hit for McConnell.

Dirk Williams

Those dominoes are done falling, but their impact will resonate into the 2018 midterm elections. With McConnell now running to retain SD 48, and Severson having been appointed to office after

the filing deadline, House District 89 is a race without an incumbent. And the field of Democrats vying for a chance to carry their party’s flag into the general election is robust and diverse.

After an unsuccessful bid for a City Council seat in Ward 3 last year, Jon Van Dyke has shifted his sights to the state house. His work with the Zootown Arts Community Center and his position as general manager of Missoula’s KFGM community radio station make Van Dyke a pretty recognizable personality around town. A stint with the Montana Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee in 2014 also gives him an air of familiarity with common Democratic issues, namely infrastructure and education. He’s also expressed an interest in lands conservation and the state of Montana’s healthcare budget.

Also in the running is former City Council member Patrick Weasel Head, a retired college educator and administrator who was appointed to the Ward 4 seat vacated by Caitlin Copple in 2015. He lost that seat in a municipal election later that year, but those eight months in office are still enough to make him the most politically experienced candidate in the HD 89 Democratic primary. Weasel Head

was also the council’s first Native American member and co-sponsored the resolution that turned Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples Day. His campaign thus far has focused mostly on issues of equality and fairness, and he’s drawn support from Rep. Shane Morigeau, D-

be nearly as competitive. Three of the four Democrats running for HD 91 started campaigning a year ago, yielding a diverse field in which key party endorsements are split between two apparent frontrunners.

Connie Keogh, a retired teacher, won the backing of the district’s state senator, Sue Malek, as well as county commissioner Dave Strohmeier and City Council members Gwen Jones and Heather Harp. Keogh cites her career teaching elementary and special education and involvement with Montana conservation organizations as contributing to her political ambitions. K–12 funding and environmental issues are among Keogh’s top priorities, but her platform is wide-ranging, and includes improved access to abortions for rural and low-income women, raising taxes on the wealthy to restore funding for health-care services and policies that promote renewable-energy development.

Mayor John Engen tops the list of

supporters backing Nancy de Pastino. De Pastino’s platform hits many of the same notes as Keogh’s, but de Pastino stands out on gun control. She’s spent the last

college-age stint with Montana Legislative Services in the early 1980s, Williams has largely operated outside the political world until now. As a candidate, he’s made public lands, public education, job creation and an equitable tax system the key points of his campaign. He’s also noted that, given how crowded this primary is, every vote will count.

Katie Sullivan

Jon Van Dyke

Missoula. In January, Van Dyke even withdrew his candidacy and backed Weasel Head in a Facebook post, but rescinded that endorsement and re-entered the race later the same day.

Several other local Democratic leaders including Mayor John Engen have thrown their weight behind Katie Sullivan, a Missoula attorney specializing in

trademark, patent and copyright law. Sullivan’s campaign website lists a host of positions on issues ranging from healthcare access and education to entrepreneurship and net neutrality. The process of lawmaking isn’t entirely foreign to Sullivan; she helped McConnell craft the Montana Biometric Information Privacy Act, which would have required private companies to gain consent from individuals before acquiring biometric data like fingerprints and photos. The bill got hung up in the House Judiciary Committee last year, but Sullivan has made it part of her campaign. She also has an endorsement from McConnell.

Rounding out the Democratic primary ticket in HD 89 is Crowley Fleck attorney Dirk Williams. Save for a brief

Patrick Weasel Head

Williams isn’t wrong. While the HD 89 race has been fairly quiet to this point — and is likely to remain civil throughout — expect the volume to get turned up to at least eight as the June 5 showdown creeps closer.

Alex Sakariassen

HOUSE DISTRICT 91 Bryce Bennett didn’t face a generalelection opponent in 2016, when he won his fourth and final term to the reliably blue House District 91, representing the

Connie Keogh

Rattlesnake, parts of downtown Missoula and the university district. Whoever prevails in this spring’s crowded Democratic primary will face a Republican, Aldo Sardot, in the fall, but that race isn’t likely to

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Nancy de Pastino

several years pushing gun reform, including the city’s background-check ordinance, as founder of the Missoula chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. And she is owning her

activism as she runs for the state legislature, going so far as to call out her party’s congressional candidates for failing to express support for expanded background checks at a Missoula forum. It’s not surprising then that de Pastino has also won the endorsement of fellow progressive Missoula activist Erin Erickson, founder of Missoula Rises.

Eric Love, a CrossFit coach originally from Maine, hasn’t launched a public-facing campaign. But flanking Keogh and de Pastino to the left is Alex Gray, a Great Falls native and enrolled member of the Little Shell tribe. Gray, who holds an associate degree in business, advertises his working class background — he’s worked in grocery stores, gas stations, construction sites and group homes — and his recent experience working as a word processor and committee secretary during the last three state legislative sessions. Gray supports legalized recreational marijuana, single-payer health care and tribal sovereignty. His

platform also includes specific environmental causes, such as building more animal-crossing bridges over highways and lining and covering canals. Gray may be

Alex Gray

a longshot, but at least he’s secured an endorsement from Helena Mayor Wilmot Collins, who knows something about election-night upsets.

Derek Brouwer

HOUSE DISTRICT 92 In early April, Seeley Lake retiree Larry Dunham took aim at Rep. Mike Hopkins on Facebook, claiming that the freshman Republican wasn’t working out well for rural constituents in House Dis-

Mike Hopkins

trict 92. Dunham built his thesis around three facts: Hopkins grew up in Missoula, attended the University of Montana and still lives in the city. Dunham then pivoted to an assurance that he, a “Conservative

Constitutionalist Republican,” would serve with ears open to the district.

Though nowhere near as nasty as the current grudge match for sheriff, the Republican primary in House District 92 this year does have an unmistakably similar sequel vibe. Hopkins rose to the top of a three-way primary that included Dunham in 2016, and managed to squeak into office just 98 votes ahead of Democrat Addrien Marx in that year’s general election.

During his first term in office, Hopkins sat on the House Appropriations Committee, an important yet dreary gig that will undoubtedly saddle his campaign with questions about the deep budget cuts enacted by the Legislature in 2017. He sponsored a suite of bills relating to tax relief, municipal gun laws, education and veterans. Only two made it to committee, both measures touching on emergency care for veterans, and both died there. In the wake of UM’s controversy over an event featuring right-wing provocateur Mike Adams, Hopkins vowed

to carry legislation revising free-speech laws at universities if re-elected. He’s also criticized the city of Missoula’s decision to litigate a local ordinance expanding background checks on firearm sales, stat-

“I was surprised that another Democrat would want to challenge me, especially when they had filed in another district before, and then instead of changing to challenge a sitting Republican and maybe gain a seat for the Democrats, they chose to challenge me,” Dudik says. “There’s three other male Republi-

cans they could have challenged, but instead they chose to challenge a female Democrat. I just found it interesting.”

Bell says he changed districts because he discovered that HD 91, where he initially filed, already had a slate of progressive candidates, whereas HD 94, in his view, needed a more leftist voice.

“From what I’ve heard, the current representative in 94 considers herself a moderate Democrat,” Bell says. “It’s my intention to be a little less than moderate, [to be] more progressive, and give people that option.”

Dudik does say she’s found bipartisan camaraderie to be rewarding, but she also says that her record is a progressive one. It’s also been productive, as she’s gathered a number of successful bills under her belt, over the last two sessions in particular.

A self-described “Bernie Democrat,” Bell became galvanized by protests at Standing Rock, which he attended in September 2016. “A number of things happened at that place [that] I thought could eventually happen here in Montana, and I want to be a voice in that struggle as much as I can be,” Bell says.

One of the record number of Native American candidates running for office in this election, Bell says he’s committed to renewable energy. He’s also been an

Larry Dunham

ing that legislators will change state law if necessary to clarify that cities have no authority to pass such ordinances.

Also in the running in HD 92 is newcomer Derek “DJ” Smith. A Sentinel High

School grad, Smith now works as a Realtor in town and has advocated for the industry through the Montana Association of Realtors’ Government Affairs Committee. His campaign platform is extensive, from protecting public lands and rural Montana to fighting for attainable housing and against tax increases on the middle class. Smith also notes the devastation wrought on the state’s mental health community by last year’s budget cuts, and vows to fight for adequate funding.

Dunham, a Bozeman native and former banker who returned to Montana in 2007, has meanwhile focused much of his campaign on pushing back against tax increases at the state level. He proposes that any that do pass should come with a sunset clause. He’s been critical of Wilderness Study Areas, and touts coal, oil, timber and tourism as sources of income that Montana needs to promote.

Dunham has served on the Seeley Lake Community Council and currently sits on Missoula County’s Election Advisory Committee.

Dunham appears to be back for blood, leveling repeated attacks against his past and present rival. With Smith in the mix, Hopkins’ hopes for a second term rest in his ability to repeat past suc-

Derek Smith

cess. For Dunham, success would mean an upbeat third installment in his HD 92 trilogy — he primaried then-incumbent Doc Moore in 2014, and lost.

Alex Sakariassen

HOUSE DISTRICT 94 Kimberly Dudik wasn’t expecting a primary challenge as she headed toward her fourth and final race to keep her termlimited HD 94 seat. But then Willard Alternative High School teacher Matt Bell, who had originally filed to run in HD 91, chose to change districts and challenge Dudik for the Democratic nomination.

Kimberly Dudik

Matt Bell

active teachers union representative, serving as building representative, high school representative at large for the Missoula Education Association and directorat-large for the MEA-MFT state board of directors.

In the press release announcing his run, Bell wrote, “...I was keenly aware that my representative was the only Missoula Democrat who voted for coal trucks to continue to travel through our community.” Asked what vote he referred to, Bell said that he had been thinking about SB 140, the bill that passed during the last

session that allows funds from the Coal Tax Trust Fund to be loaned for Colstrip infrastructure maintenance.

One way or another, this could be Dudik’s last statehouse campaign. She’s considering her options for 2020. Would she like to follow in the footsteps of one of her bipartisan collaborators, Attorney General Tim Fox? “I think that that would be a great job. I think that it’s kind of the same things that I’ve been doing in the legislature, but it’s more of a way to do it statewide.”

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

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[arts]

On holiday American Idiot and the conundrum of nostalgic angst

by Erika Fredrickson

I

saw Green Day above the Union Club in 1991, the year the band released 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Those pop-punk songs (an anthology of early tracks) captured a general disregard for adulthood and decorum that I related to, even if they were mostly vapid love songs about checking out cute girls in the library. Green Day wasn’t really edgy so much as they embodied the fun, carefree, middle-finger-flipping attitude I sometimes needed to balance out darker, more serious bands I liked, including the Nation of Ulysses and Fugazi (both of whom also played Missoula around the same time).

And at the Green Day show there was a lot of joyful letting loose: sweaty “slam dancing” and smiling kids ecstatic for a momentary escape.

I missed out on Green Day’s 1994 breakout album, Dookie, mostly because I’d moved onto other music (weird bands from K Records and hardcore from Dischord Records, and probably some embarrassing stuff I’ve blocked from my memory). But I did see them play that year at Woodstock 1994, and they did a good job of embracing the same boisterous pop-punk angst as before — though it felt a little glossy, like punk wrapped in pretty packaging.

That’s how American Idiot feels, too. The play, based on the band’s 2004 punk-rock opera album of the same name, is basically Hair for the 1990s. It follows a crew of suburban punks, disgruntled with society, who navigate the big city (and the Army), make some bad choices and learn from the consequences. The University of Montana’s School of Theatre & Dance opened its production of American Idiot last week.

It’s directed by Pamyla Stiehl and stars Diego Kjelland as Johnny, whose restless

life sends him off on a journey to find himself in “the city.” Kjelland, a UM freshman, is a talented performer and musician (we recently wrote about his local musical pedigree) and he nails the hyperactive, Billie Joe Armstrong-style angst with ease. Most everyone pulls off their roles well in this production, though Curen Feliciani as Will — the guy who stays in suburbia after his girlfriend, Heather, gets pregnant — stands out as one of the most believable and empathetic characters.

The production features a lot of other great elements. The big screen at the back of the stage introduces the audience to

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the politics and culture of the time with snippets from “The Jerry Springer Show” and news about the Iraq war and even an old soundbite from Donald Trump about running for office. The ensemble cast also provides some entertaining song-anddance numbers, especially picking up the pace with “Holiday,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Favorite Son,” in which Jake Bender steals the first half of the show as a sunglasses-wearing mirage humping the stage. The super-talented Josh Farmer Band, which is perched above the stage and plays the show’s live score, gives the often incoherent story some thrilling consistency.

Tiny Town with a bunch of white supremacists trying to beat up the punks. Later, we’d get a (bitchin’) Camaro scene down at the shore, a lot of ranting (“Stuart”) and a “Punk Rock Girl” finale.

I would definitely watch a musical based on the music of Gang Green, who can make songs about drinking beer sound like grand adventures (as in the song “Bartender,” where they order beers “two by land, two by sea!”). Obviously every performance could be sponsored by Budweiser.

Indy calendar editor Charley Macorn suggests a GG Allin musical called Stop the World! GG Allin Wants to Get Off. Let your imagination run with that one.

Despite its political subplots (war) and the lessons about drug abuse, American Idiot feels like it’s missing some overarching point. The play is abrasive by nature, but when it tries to pull the audience in, it loses its edge. It’s also hard to know what to learn from the story, aside from the vague notion we hear in one of the final songs, the commercial earworm “Good Riddance,” in which Johnny sings about havillustration by Lauren Tyler Norby ing “the time of your life” no The problem with American Idiot is matter which fork in the road you take. that it’s meant to be a snapshot of a time And if that’s the central theme of Ameriand subculture, but the music and story- can Idiot, then maybe it all makes sense. line don’t quite have the depth or nu- There are a lot of effective political bands ance to execute anything meaningful. in the world, but Green Day — like so Angst in the form of a musical feels many pop-punk bands that started undercanned. And the female roles (played ground in the late 1980s and 1990s — with solid effort by the actors) are still was at its most authentic and rebellious sidenotes to the main punk heroes (two when it served as an escape from reality, of them don’t even have names, they’re not an accommodation. just known as “Whatshername” and “ExUM School of Theatre & Dance’s traordinary Girl”).

American Idiot continues at the MonWhat if we turned some other fa- tana Theatre Thu., April 26 – Sat., vorite anti-establishment bands into mu- April 28. sicals? The Dead Milkmen opera (we could call it Plum Dumb) would start in efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music] Josh T. Pearson, The Straight Hits!

On paper, the lyrics from Josh T. Pearson’s The Straight Hits evoke, at times, 1980s buttrock or some terrible rap album parody. There are mentions of “baby doll,” “kitten” and “devil woman,” and there’s a lot of sass about not getting knocked down, about “gettin’ all fired up,” about “stealin’ your jobs, your woman, your fans and your team.”

Whatever that means. Somehow the Denton, Texas, native wraps all his strange word choices into an often tender, raucous album. His vocals are a blend of Roy Orbison and Nicholas Cage as Sailor Ripley singing Elvis’ “Love Me” to Laura Dern in Wild at Heart.

According to his press release, Pearson created the songs with “five pillars” in mind — mostly rules such as that the lyrics must run 16 lines or less.

Every song title has to have the word “straight” in it, too, so there’s “Straight to the Top!” and “Straight

Laced Come Undone” and even a cover of Austin singer-songwriter Jonathan Terrell’s “Damn Straight.”

That’s just one element that makes the album entertaining.

Pearson is known best for his band Lift to Experience, which earned three recording sessions with John Peel over the years, and his vocals and guitar playing prove why. Still, The Straight Hits! can seem a little disoriented. “Straight at Me” comes off as caricature (plus, how do we interpret lines like “be my Indian princess”?). But then there’s “Whiskey Straight Love,” where Pearson sings, “I got messed up / it turned out alright” and he pulls you into a space so simple and authentic it hurts. (Erika Fredrickson) Josh T. Pearson opens for Erika Wennerstrom at the Top Hat Sun., April 29, at 8 PM. $15/$12 advance.

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise, How To: Friend, Love, Freefall The only reason you might scoff at the band name is if you heard “Rainbow Kitten Surprise” before you heard Rainbow Kitten Surprise.

RKS seamlessly blends genres, shifting between indie rock and an earthy folk with pop-like peaks.

There’s also an occasional southern twang that hints at North Carolina roots and gives its sound another distinctive layer.

The real treasure of this album is in the vocals.

Lead singer Sam Melo’s voice has a soft crooning nature that most often comes out as an effortless falsetto. Melo has talent for stream-of-consciousness quasi-rap that when unleashed, reveals the vibrant, albeit sometimes grim, lyricism that Rainbow

Kitten Surprise has become known for. In “Hide,” Melo packs the heavy emotional struggle of coming-out into just three minutes.

“It’s Called: Freefall” begins with the groovy rhyme: “Called to the Devil and the Devil did come / I said to the Devil, ‘Devil do you like drums? / Do you like cigarettes, dominoes, rum?’” My favorite track, “When it Lands” starts slow before Melo launches into high-speed wordplay and a snare drum punching after each line.

If there’s a fault in Rainbow Kitten Surprise, it lies only within the band’s name. Everything else is poetry. (Micah Drew) Rainbow Kitten Surprise plays the Wilma Tue., May 1, at 9 PM, with CAAMP. Sold out.

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Les Filles de Illighadad, Eghass Malan (Sahel Sounds) Tende or Tuareg folk blues is the kind of music that, if you asked the 20-year-old me what I’d be listening to 23 years later, probably wouldn’t have been on the list.

But there’s something crucial going on musically in north Africa, and specifically in the Sahel scrubland of Niger and Mali, and I now find myself with a pretty decent handful of artists and labels I follow. Heck, Missoula’s second Traveler’s Rest festival this summer will feature the kings of the genre when Tinariwen stop in to play.

Les Filles de Illighadad are from a village in deep rural Niger, where they live communally, and make some sublimely beautiful and direct music. It features simultaneously piercing and subdued lead guitar that

does simple variations on a single theme and sets a great trance-like vibe that scaffolds each piece. Les Filles de Illighadad is led by guitarist Fatou Seidi Ghali and singer Alamnou Akrouni. The fact that they’re women makes them stand out. According to , Ghali is one of only two known female Tuareg guitarists in Niger. Tuareg societal norms hold that generally, playing guitar is for men. What struck me most when I first heard Tende (via Tinariwen) was how much it reminded me of spare Delta blues.

The rhythms and ululating and flourishes are thoroughly Tuareg, but it’s overall a relatable sound. An armchair ethnomusicologist can’t help but be woken up to this music and my instincts tell me to listen to more of it. (Josh Vanek)

missoulanews.com • April 26–May 3, 2018 [19]

[books]

Political smoke New anthology greenwashes the drug war

by Hunter Pauli

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While the mountainous cloud forests looming nia fish and game cop relating his experience almost between Redwood Coast and the Sacramento Valley getting shot raiding a cartel trespass grow.

Getting into a gunbattle in 2012 over illegal marhave been prime marijuana country since the ’70s, when the logging industry tanked and barely regu- ijuana seems like a lousy way to go, but writer John lated medical cannabis hit California in the ’90s, the Nores details the raid with the same tactical profesEmerald Triangle found its billion dollar industry. sionalism and hope in a lost cause Dolchstoßlegende The cartels have been trashing the forests ever since. you’d find in unabashedly pro-war Vietnam memoirs.

The North Coast’s massive, rural electoral bor- In fact, Nores wrote just such a memoir about “the ders have long been connected by narrow tendrils dangerous special operations missions conducted to densely populated, urban (liberal) enclaves, by the allied agency Marijuana Eradication Team,” tiwhich we’d call gerrymandering if this was Texas tled War in the Woods, which was praised by the and benefitted Republicans. After redistricting in Clinton-era drug czar responsible for buying anti-pot 2011, a Sacramento tendril was swapped for a rewrites in “Beverly Hills, 90210” scripts.

Amos Irwin of Law Enforcement Against ProMarin County one, and Bay Area Democrat Jared Huffman was easily elected 350 miles south of his hibition thankfully obliterates Nores’ Thin Blue Line power fantasy in the followpoor district’s northern border. ing chapter, explaining that raids Huffman has highlighted himare counterproductive and cartels self as The Guy in Washington conturned to public trespass grows cerned with the environmental only because civil asset forfeiture effects of the Drug War, and he’s a laws made operations on private natural choice to write the introland risker for them (and lucrative duction to Where There’s Smoke: for law enforcement).

The Environmental Science, Public While the threat posed by the Policy, and Politics of Marijuana, cartels to the environment and unedited by Char Miller and published lucky hikers is dramatic, it’s the last by the University Press of Kansas. A and least thrilling chapters of the natural choice, but not a good book that offer the most important choice, considering Huffman’s sininsights for Montanans. In compargular legislative achievement in the Where There’s Smoke ing the political history of medical Drug War was to increase prison Edited by Char Miller and recreational marijuana in Colsentences for growing marijuana.

While it’s fine to explore mar- hardback, University Press orado, Oregon, Washington, D.C., of Kansas and California, obvious parallels ijuana from an environmental per256 pages, $29.95 with Montana’s medical rollerspective, if your solution to coaster appear. Wondering when marijuana pollution is that more people need to be imprisoned, and for longer, Montana will legalize recreational marijuana? The you’re incompetent, heartless or completely out of authors suggest it’s a matter of having enough local touch. If America could incarcerate itself out of money (from profitable medical dispensaries) to attract national organizations specializing in campaigndrug use, it would have happened by now.

Raiding illegal grows in military gunships and ing and writing legislation that promises enough arresting undocumented cartel slaves on felony regulation and taxation to woo business-minded pollution charges (for doing a fraction of what fos- conservatives away from puritanical colleagues. For sil fuel, agribusiness and pharmaceutical compa- Montana, that means not soon, but soonish.

Legal markets leave room for blackmarketeers nies legally get away with) is absurd and ineffective.

A heroic ride-along on such a bust is exactly how to operate when legislators get greedy with taxaMiller allows Huffman to introduce this collection, tion, and nine states legalized marijuana not to end but luckily most of the anthology’s other writers the Drug War, but to open the drug market to venare professional scholars more critical of the state’s ture capitalists and government budgets. Where There’s Smoke comes at the dawn of legal recrefailures in the Drug War. The book is split into three comprehensive sec- ational marijuana in California, but suggests nations exploring the environmental fallout, criminal tional forests will remain at risk to trespass grow justice problems and legalization battles of marijuana pollution so long as the federal government conin America. Being comprehensive means including tinues to fight an unwinnable war. moralistic rubes, and several authors fail like Huffman to critique their anti-drug schemes, such as a Califorarts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Elegant violence Killer by day, doting son by night

by Molly Laich

Joaquin Phoenix stars in You Were Never Really Here.

Some people are so tortured by their past and listless about their future that they don’t care if they live or die. These people are fearless, and thus, they are useful tools for the dispassion of hired violence.

The protagonist in writer and director Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is that kind of man. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Joe, a former combat veteran and FBI agent who now works as a hired gun for powerful, mysterious people. Soft spoken, lumbering and heavily bearded, Joe crushes skulls in the daytime, then returns to his childhood home in New York City, where he lives with his elderly mother.

I first saw You Were Never Really Here in January at Sundance, a few months after its premiere at Cannes, where it won Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Phoenix. The screening began with a lofty speech from festival directors, followed by a brief introduction of Ramsay and Jonathan Ames, who authored the book the film is based on; you may remember Ames as the inspiration for HBO’s Bored to Death. And then, get this: The festival director bullied a super reluctant Joaquin Phoenix onto the stage, still clad in the same full beard and stringy hair. (Is it for another role or is this just his preferred look?) He waved to the crowd, sat back down peevishly and did not return at the end of the picture for the obligatory Q&A to follow. Anyway, if ever you were curious what goes on at these swanky, mysterious film festivals, there’s a tiny, anticlimactic taste.

Hired-gun pictures tend to rely on familiar scaffolding to hang their story on, and this film is no different. We follow Joe at the tail end of his last job with unsettling loose ends — someone may have said something he shouldn’t have and might probably get killed, but file that away for later. Most pressingly, an important state senator’s tween

daughter has been kidnapped for sex trafficking, and Joe is tasked with apprehending the girl and probably violently hurting those responsible. The story features lots of moving parts, competing agendas and some truly elegant, bone-chilling and brief explosions of violence. We have crooked police officers, collateral damage and underground brothels catering to wealthy monsters. All of this serves as a muted background to what Ramsay wants us to see: a devastating character study of a man riddled with PTSD and his withering struggle for absolution. Consider an early scene where Joe comes home to his mother as she watches Psycho on the television. You might not guess that this doting son is the same man who hours earlier beat men to a pulp with a hardware store hammer. The contradictions exist to bug us, and they should, because all of us are crawling with them.

Joe rescues the kidnapped daughter, Nina (played by Ekaterina Samsonov with a spooky silence that implies a sinister near-past), and from there, they enter a tender and binding contract that motivates Joe to keep living — at least until the sordid work is complete.

You Were Never Here has an upsetting, dreamlike quality that lulls you through its 129 minutes and holds you on the edge of a precipice that never fully delivers. It’s a good picture (bolstered primarily by style and cutting performances) that ultimately disappointed me in its failure to be great.

As is often the case, I recommend you let the story wash over you without an agenda. And when you’re done with that, go see every other film by Ramsay to get a taste of what you’re missing.

You Were Never Really Here opens Fri., April 27, at the Roxy. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] A QUIET PLACE A family must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. I said A FAMILY MUST NAVIGATE THEIR LIVES IN SILENCE AFTER MYSTERIOUS CREATURES THAT HUNT BY SOUND THREATEN THEIR SURVIVAL. Rated PG-13. Stars John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. Shhhhhhhhhh! Playing at the Pharaohplex, the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.

The World War I biplane that delivers the Southgate 9’s updated showtimes was shot down behind No Man’s Land. Check amctheatres.com for scheduling.

OPENING THIS WEEK

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR After 10 years and 18 movies, Marvel Studios' greatest heroes finally band together to battle the approaching threat of Thanos, a purple spaceman with maybe ten minutes of screen time in the MCU before this. Rated PG-13. Stars a bunch of dudes named Chris, Benedict Cumberbatch's ridiculous American accent and maybe Jeremy Renner. Playing at the AMC 12, the Pharaohplex and the Southgate 9.

RAMPAGE The arcade game that devoured your quarters 30 years ago hits the big screen as a giant ape, lizard and wolf battle it out for the fate of humanity. All that plus Dwayne Johnson playing a scientist. Sure. Rated PG-13. Also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Breanne Hill. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.

LOVE AFTER LOVE Following the death of their father, two adult sons deal with their mother dating again about as poorly as they can. Rated R. Stars Andie MacDowell, Chris O'Dowd and James Adomian. Playing at the Roxy.

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE This traumatized veteran is here to track down missing girls and beat up creeps with a hammer, and it looks like he's all out of missing girls. Rated R. Stars Joaquin Phoenix and Ekaterina Samsonov. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film)

NOW PLAYING THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES (2016) On top of everything else climate change has been ruining forever, apparently American national security and global stability are also soon to be melted away.

Not Rated. Jared P. Scott directs this eye-opening documentary. Playing Sun., April 29 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

BLACK PANTHER Marvel Studios finally gives the king of Wakanda his own feature film. Black Panther must prevent a Shakespearean-style coup from kicking off a new world war. Rated. PG-13. Stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong'o. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

BLOCKERS These parents will stop at nothing to prevent their daughters from having sex on prom night. One of the parents is played by John Cena, so there's like a 50-percent chance someone's getting an Attitude Adjustment. Rated R. Also stars Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz. Playing at the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.

BLUMHOUSE'S TRUTH OR DARE Is it a good sign when a successful horror production company starts slapping its name on film titles? Probably not, but neither is the Black Hole Sun level of special effects present in the trailer for this flick about a group of teens playing a deadly game of truth or dare. Rated PG-13. Stars Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey and Malcolm in Middle's Gary Anthony Williams. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.

CHAPPAQUIDDICK The scandal following a car accident and the death of a young woman lands on Senator Ted Kennedy's doorsteps. I wonder how this will impact the high school's volleyball team? Rated PG-13. Stars Kate Mara, Jason Clark and Jim Gaffigan. Playing at the AMC 12.

Are these supposed to be the Avengers? Where's Triathlon? Where’s Moon Knight? Where’s Emma Peel? Avengers: Infinity War premieres at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex.

FLUSHED AWAY (2006) He's a pampered rodent, she's an underground scavenger. Together they've got to escape the sewer before an evil toad exterminates them. Not bad for a first date. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Ian McKellen. Playing Sat., April 28 and Sun., April 29 at 2 PM at the Roxy.

GEMINI (2017) A personal assistant finds herself in hot water after a heinous crime against her Hollywood starlet boss points the fingers of accusation her way. Rated R. Stars Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz and John Cho. Playing Fri., April 27 and Sat., April 28 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE Based on the most-played contemporary Christian song of all time, this film follows a young musician who deals with the death of his father by writing the most-played contemporary Christian song of all time.

We've got a real Ouroboros situation here. Rated PG. Stars J. Michael Finley, Dennis Quaid and Cloris Leachman. Playing at the Southgate 9.

I FEEL PRETTY After falling off an exercise bike and hitting her head, an average woman believes a magic spell has made her drop-dead gorgeous, and uses this new found confidence to achieve all of her dreams.

See, ladies, it's not the glass ceiling, the wage gap, gender roles or systemic sexism keeping us down, it's a lack of head injuries. Rated PG-13. Stars Amy Schumer, Emily Ratajkowski and Michelle Williams.

Playing at the Pharaohplex, the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.

IRON MAN (2008) Ten years ago, Marvel Studios changed filmmaking forever with this risky movie about an industrialist inventor who has a literal change of heart in a warzone. Rated PG-13. Stars Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard before he was replaced by Don Cheadle. Playing Wed., May 2 at 7 PM and Sun., May 6 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy.

ISLE OF DOGS Wes Anderson returns to the stop motion animation well with this story of a pack of mongrel dogs, living on a garbage dump outside of Japan, who guide a

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lost boy back to his quarantined best friend. Get ready to see a lot of crying puppets. Rated PG-13.

Stars the voices of bunch of men, and disappointingly few women. Playing at the Roxy and the Pharaohplex.

LA LA LAND (2017) Hey girl, I know I'm just a regular degular jazz musician with abs that are shredded like lettuce, but I won't get in the way of you becoming a star because I respect your creative process. Rated PG-13. Features Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and the unyielding memory of last year's Oscars' snafu. Playing Thu., April 26 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

LOGAN: NOIR (2017) He's the best at what he does, and what he does ain't pretty. In the near future, the X-Men's resident berserker has to care for an ailing Professor X and a young girl with very familiar claws. Rated R. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Stephen Merchant star in this special black and white presentation of the critically acclaimed tearjerker comic book adventure Sat., April 28 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

MANTRA–SOUNDS INTO SILENCE Chanting isn't just for college radio anymore. Track the history, expansion and effect of chanting in this mindful documentary. Not Rated. Directed by Georgia Wyss. Playing Sun., April 29 at 5 PM at the Roxy.

MIRACLE SEASON After a car crash kills their captain, a high school volleyball team wonders if they have what it takes to go all the way to state without their anchor. Wait a second, do you think this is the same car accident from Chappaquidick? Rated PG. Also stars William Hurt, Tiera Skovbye, and Danika Yarosh. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OLDBOY (2005) For the love of god, if you've been kidnapped and locked away from the world for 15 years, taking your vengeance should be higher on your list of priorities than starting a new relationship. Rated R. Features the greatest fight scene in cinema history, a man eating a live octopus and the beauty of Korean cinema. Playing Thu., May 3 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

READY PLAYER ONE If we've learned one thing from Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, it's that jamming a movie full of pop culture references and character cameos is a surefire way to be remembered forever. Steven Spielberg adapts Ernest Cline's novel about cyberpunk rebellion with a screenplay from the guy who wrote XMen: The Last Stand. Rated PG-13. Stars Nostalgia, Performative Nerdery and The Iron Giant with a gun for some stupid reason. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex.

SUPER TROOPERS 2 Broken Lizard dusts off their breakthrough hit for a sequel 17 years in the making. The eponymous Super Troopers are called upon to set up a new Highway Patrol station when an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada. Rated R. Stars Steve Lemme, Brian Cox and Jim Gaffigan.

Playing at the Southgate 9.

THE VIOLENT YEARS (1956) When he wasn't making movies about graverobbers from outer space, or trying on his girlfriend's sweaters, legendarily bad film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. turned out this short exploitation film about the danger of delinquent teenagers. Won't somebody think of the children? Not Rated. Stars a bunch of people who really needed a paycheck. Playing Fri., April 27 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) In Sophia Coppola’s directorial debut, five men who watched a family of religious sisters kill themselves when they were kids still yearn to understand what happened all those years ago. Rated R. Stars Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and Giovanni Ribisi. Playing Sun., April 29 at 7:15 PM at the Roxy.

THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE (2013) Climate change is here, so what exactly are we going to do about it? This documentary features activists and leaders finding a way to battle back. Not Rated.

Directed by John Ankele and Anne Macksoud. Playing Fri. April 27 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

A WRINKLE IN TIME Based on the classic book of the same name, a trio of children band together with astral travelers to save Chris Pine from a universe-spanning evil. Rated PG. Also stars Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. Playing at the AMC 12.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your trip to the local cinema? Get up-todate listings and film times at theroxytheater.org, amctheatres.com and pharaohplex.com to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

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Israeli couscous salad

by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

This easy salad is my go-to meal for potlucks.

It’s vegetarian, hearty, inexpensive and satisfying.

Plus, it keeps after being assembled for up to 24 hours, making it a great make-ahead dish. Israeli couscous is different from regular couscous — the balls of semolina are larger, chewier and denser.

Serves 6-8 INGREDIENTS 1 9-oz. package Israeli couscous extra virgin olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, chopped 1 pint cherry tomatoes, stems removed 1 large handful fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped 4 oz. crumbled feta juice of 1 lemon salt and freshly ground black pepper

DIRECTIONS Cook couscous in salted water according to directions.

While couscous cooks, heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and cook onion and garlic until translucent and very fragrant, stirring occasionally.

Once couscous is done cooking, rinse it under cool water and then drain.

To assemble salad, toss cooled couscous with onion-garlic mixture, tomatoes, parsley, crumbled feta, lemon juice, 2 tbsp olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.

Serve immediately or refrigerate (up to 24 hours) until ready to serve.

BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor in chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough: 100 Delicious Unexpected Recipes.

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[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 A Missoula gem since 1978, now serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm.

Featured items: scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice’s is known for its scrumptious desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, and cakes. Gluten-free and vegan options available. A must-have for the coffee lover in your life? A bag of Bernice’s signature blend locally roasted with love. Check us out on Facebook, Instagram or visit our website at www.bernicesbakerymt.com. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus.

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

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COFFEE ICE CREAMS

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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

2230 McDonald Ave, Missoula, MT 59801 Sunday–Thursday 2–9PM Friday & Saturday 12–9PM

GREATBURNBREWING.COM

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” 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. $

Chameleon Mobile Kitchen 1616 S 3rd St W (through May) 8340 Hwy 200 E (June-Sept) 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces

and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, bowls and pasta. We also offer daily specials, seasonal drinks, and housebaked goods. We are fully equipped and selfcontained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pickup. Online menu available on Google Maps.

Open Tues - Thurs 11:30 am - 10 pm, Fri & Sat 11:30 am - midnight, closed Sunday and Monday. $-$$

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available.

Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store!

Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 97:30. $-$$$

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com 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.

MC/V $-$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas.

Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:303pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails.

Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available.

Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended.

Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few.

For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$

Missoula Brewing Company’s Original Pilsner

HAPPIEST HOUR

Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically

by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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photo by Derek Brouwer

What you’re drinking: A traditional German pilsner modeled on the original recipe for Highlander’s signature beer, first brewed in 1910.

Why you’re drinking it: It’s baseball season! If your fantasy team is off to as red-hot a start as mine is (cheers, Patrick Corbin), then you’re itching to celebrate with a ballpark-staple pilsner. You don’t care about my fantasy team, of course, but students of Missoula and baseball history will know that the Highlander name pays homage to the New York club that would later become the Yankees. Note, too, that Missoula Brewing Company announced the release of its throwback pilsner on the eve of Major League Baseball’s March 29 opening day. Coincidence? I think not.

What it tastes like: This observation

isn’t technically a tasting note, but the beer has a gorgeous gold color topped by a thick layer of foam. As far as pilsners go, it’s crisp and flavorful with an excellent balance between the hops and imported malt. Compared to contemporary domestic offerings, this one tastes nostalgic, a little bit like holding my dad’s old baseball cards.

The details: The Original Pilsner, (5.6 percent ABV, 30 IBUs) will be on tap for the next several months at Missoula Brewing Company, 200 International Drive. A pint costs $5.

—Derek Brouwer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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SAT | 9 PM

Indonesian grindcore band AK//47 plays the Dark Horse Sat., April 28 at 9 PM. $5.

FRI | 10 PM

Helena’s Sunday Scaries plays the VFW Fri., April 27 at 10 PM. Free.

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SAT | 10 PM

Phutureprimitive plays the Top Hat Sat., April 28. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $15.

FRI | 5 PM

Complimentary Colors play #WomenCrush Music at Imagine Nation Fri., April 27 at 5 PM. Free.

THU | 8:30 PM

John Craigie plays the Top Hat Thu., May 3. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30 PM. $15. photo courtesy Keith Berson

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Thursday

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Friday Watch UM’s Woodsman Team compete against colleges from across the West at Missoula ProAm’s Forestry Days at Fort Missoula 8 AM. Free.

The State of Montana Arboretum on UM’s campus celebrates Arbor Day the only way anyone knows how, by planting a tree! A party and a tour of campus trees follows. 11 AM–2 PM. Missoula Eagles hosts the 13th Annual Hands Across the Border Silent Auction. All funds will go to Meals on Wheels, Watson Children’s Shelter and Hands Across the Border Club. 4 PM–7 PM. Imagine Nation hosts the inaugural #WomenCrush Music showcase. Natantha Walker, Heather Lingle, Complimentary Colors and Lee Rizzo perform. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. (See Spotlight) Dr. Bradley Layton signs his new latest book Zero Waste in the Last Best Place at Buttercup Market and Cafe. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Poet Geogre Venn reads from his new collection Lichen Songs at Fact & Fiction. 5:30 PM. Free.

nightlife David Horgan and Beth Lo lay down the jazz soundtrack at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Aran Buzzas provides the tunes at Highlander Taphouse from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Tango Practica at Downtown Dance Collective lets you bust a move in a friendly, welcoming environment. 6 PM–7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Support CutBank literary magazine with the inaugural End of the World Fundraising Blowout. Live music from American Falcon, Writ Large and more. Free Cycles. 6 PM–10 PM. Free, but bring some cash for a donation.

Artist Lana Zellner discusses her new book Eight Coins’ Tattoo Tarot at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

Take a drive down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Arthur Ave.) to catch Green Day’s punk rock opera American Idiot at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. $20/$16 students.

Listen, who hasn’t fallen in love with someone they’ve saved from a shipwreck? MCT takes you under the sea at the opening of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

7:30 PM. $20–$25.

Great Gatsby parties are the toga parties of our generation.

Reignite the jazz age with a Gatsby Party at the Dell Brown Room in Turner Hall. 8 PM–10 PM. Careful driving home.

They’re making a run for it!

County Line plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

Missoula-made funk powerhouse Shakewell plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10:15. $5.

You’re not going to be able to meet Jerry O’Connell here, unfortunately. The Tomcats play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Go Hibiki and Perfect Blue are joined by Helena’s Sunday Scaries for a tour of rock genres at the VFW. 10 PM.

The Caravan of GLAM melds drag with burlesque at Monk’s Thu., April 26 at 8 PM. $10.

Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

Photojournalist Blair Hopkins reads from her new book All in a Day’s (Sex) Work at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

Imagine Nation hosts a portrait exhibit and live storytelling centered around pain, healing and life at Ouch Ouch That Hurt(s). 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

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UM Intramural Sports hosts a two day Quidditch Tournament on the Oval. Visit imleagues.com to register your house. 5 PM–8 PM. Remember, witches get snitches.

Free.

Lunafest, the fundraising film festival dedicated to promoting awareness about women’s issues, returns to the Wilma for an evening of short films. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $18/$15 advance.

Zeenath Khan shares her tea experiences from her time in Pakistan at Lake Missoula Tea Company’s Monthly Tea Tasting. 6 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM

Take a drive down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Arthur Ave.) to catch Green Day’s punk rock opera American Idiot at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. $20/$16 students.

The Caravan of GLAM is joined by the Cigarette Girls for a night of drag, burlesque and dance at Monk’s. 8 PM. $10.

My DJ name comes from a 1980s cartoon you’ve never heard of.

Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music.

Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander.

9 PM. Free.

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Disney’s The Little Mermaid opens at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Fri., April 27 at 7:30 PM. $20–$25.

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Saturday Kiwanis Club of Missoula hosts its 29th Annual Pancake Breakfast at St. Anthony Parish. Funds raised at this event go to support a free basketball program for local youth.

6:30 AM–1 PM. $5.

Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

Do you have unneeded medication that you need to dispose of?

Bring it to the Prescription Drug Take-Back event at the clock tower in Southgate Mall. 10 AM–2 PM. Looking to trade in your trusty steed for a newer cruiser, or just in the market for a new ride? The

Fourth Annual Missoula Bike Swap lets you get back on the road. Free Cycles. 10 AM–4 PM. The Charles M. Russell High School Chamber Orchestra perform works from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. UM Music Recital Hall. 12 PM–2 PM. Free.

Poet Derek Hann reads from his new chapbook The Blessings of Life.

Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM. Free.

for the Performing Arts. 2 PM. $20–$25.

Missoula Psych Fest 2018 doesn’t feature bands and visual artists from across the West performing at the Union Ballroom. Psych! Got you. Spirit Award, Weep Wave and more perform. 3:30 PM. $15/$13 advance.

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See new spring styles from 10 downtown boutiques at the 3rd Annual Spring Fashion Show at Zootown Brew. 2 PM. Free.

Didn’t we have enough of this over the summer? Michael Shaw and the Wildfires play a scorching night of music at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

I just realized that crab is named after Bach. Disney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center

Ocelot Wizard conjures up an evening of music at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Travis Yost shows Ten Spoon Vineyard a thing or two. 6 PM–8 PM.

The Bop a Dips are joined by 406 for a night of music at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

Play like a kid again at Fort Missoula Regional Park’s Throwback Game Night. Oversized Jenga, cardboard castles and more. 6 PM–10 PM. $5.

Who’s that writing? Russ Nasset & The Revelators open the seventh seal of music at the Union Club.

9:30 PM. Free.

Seriously, what a great house. TopHouse provides the tunes at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Take a drive down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Arthur Ave.) to catch Green Day’s punk rock opera American Idiot at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. $20/$16 students.

I want to be Ursula when I grow up. Disney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $20–$25.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

Indonesian grindcore band AK//47 is joined by Iron Cemetery, Jolly Jane and Oakland’s Violent Opposition at the Dark Horse. 9 PM. $5.

Phantastic! Phutureprimitive plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $15.

Weep Wave play Missoula Psych Fest starting Sat., April 28 at 3:30 PM. Union Ballroom. $15/$13 advance.

Spotlight Draught Works and the Dram Shop are teaming up for the annual Beer Geek Cage Match Trivia Showdown. Teams of four battle it out across the whole spectrum of beer knowledge. Questions and challenges based around beer history, style identification, tasting and pop culture will lead to the crowning of the greatest beer geek in Missoula. And while the Garden City has churned out a startling amount of beer nerds over the years (thanks, liberal arts college), the Indy wants to make sure you're prepared to compete.

What does IPA stand for? a. India Pale Ale b. Irish Pilsner Amber c. Illinois Pabst Anchor

IPA IQ One of the earliest surviving beer recipes is written in a 3,900-yearold poem honoring what patron goddess of brewing? a. Thor b. Bacchus c. Ninkasi WHAT: Beer Geek Cage Match Trivia Showdown WHERE: The Dram Shop WHEN: Tue., May 1 at 6:30 PM

How much beer did the average American drink yearly in the 1830s? a. 27 pints b. 27 gallons c. 27 quarts Which US President was the first to build his own brewery? a. George Washington b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson c. Jimmy Carter —Charley Macorn

(answers a, c, c, b, a)

HOW MUCH: Free

How much beer does standard brewer’s barrel contain? a. 41 gallons b. 21 gallons c. 31 gallons

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Sunday

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Monday

Looking to trade in your trusty steed for a newer cruiser, or just in the market for a new ride? The Fourth Annual Missoula Bike Swap lets you get back on the road. Free Cycles. 10 AM–4 PM. The Missoula Unplug and Play kickoff event features fun activities in the fresh air of McCormick Park. 1 PM–4 PM. Free.

Celebrate the University District Neighborhood with live music and family-friendly activities with the annual Spring Block Party.

400 block of University Ave. 1 PM–5 PM. Free.

Whatsername? Green Day’s punk rock opera American Idiot closes its run at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 2 PM. $20/$16 students.

I just realized that crab is named after Bach. Disney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

2 PM. $20–$25.

Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river

every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing.

5 PM–8 PM.

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Big Sky Mudflaps plays Bitter Root Brewery.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

I can’t even get my brother to call me back, but the Frederico Brothers play Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Have you ever tried combing your hair with a fork? It’s awful. Disney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 6:30 PM. $20–$25.

Heartless Bastards’ songwriter Erika Wennerstrom plays a solo show at the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18/$15 advance. Josh T. Pearson opens. (See Music.)

Phantom of the Cirque, the UM Circus Club’s Spring Showcase, displays the culmination of a year of hard work. Schreiber Gym. 8 PM. $5.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. This week raise a glass for MSO International School. 12 PM–8 PM. Doug Funnie was really into this band in college. The Beet Tops play Western Cider from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Missoula Rises Community Conversations discusses the surge of popular movements and how they’re reshaping local, state and national political systems. Missoula Public Library. 6:30 PM. Free.

nightlife Trio Canta plays Brazilian jazz at Red

Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

The annual Jazz Arrangers Concert features arrangements by UM students and a performance by composer and trombonist Eric Richards. UM School of Music. 7:30 PM. $11/$5 student.

Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train to the Union Club for the inaugural Rocky Mountain Regional Karaoke Competition.

8 PM. Free.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21plus.

Motown on Mondays puts the s-o-u-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander.

9 PM. Free.

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Sunday Brunch at the Brewery kicks off the season with cocktails, beer mimosas and the best foods to eat between meals.

Draught Works. 10 AM–2 PM.

Thanks again, Missoula, for voting me #1 General Contractor for 2017.

Check out our Facebook page to see what we’re up to now.

Rainbow Kitten Surprise plays the Wilma Tue., May 1. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Sold Out. Every Tuesday is Walk With a Doc Day at Grizzly Peak. A health professional discusses their speciality while walking with the group. 9 AM–10 AM. Free.

Children’s book author Andrew Weiner reads from his new book about fly fishing, Down by the River. Fact & Fiction. 6 PM. Free.

Mpower Voices Presents Under the Sea, a cabaret show featuring song, dance and jokes, all from the world of mermaids, carp and sharks. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 6 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations, you dumb dolphin.

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IPA stands for intelligence points actualized.

The Dram Shop and Draught Works team up for the Beer Geek Cage Match Trivia Showdown. Bring your team of four to battle for beer knowledge supremacy. The Dram Shop. 6:30 PM signup. Free. (See Spotlight)

The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia Night at Thomas Meagher Bar lets you show off that superior intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free.

You’ll never guess what I have in this sack. Rainbow Kitten Surprise plays the Wilma. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Better have your tickets, because this one is sold out. (See Music.)

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What baseball legend hit his first home run on this date in 1951? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

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Wednesday Enjoy a hot beverage after a bike ride with Coffee Outside MSLA. Bring your mug to Brennan’s Wave from 7:15 AM–8:15 AM every Wednesday. Free. Visit pedalmissoula.org for more info.

Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room.

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week quaff a brew for MSO International School. 5 PM–8 PM. Join fellow writers and artists every Wednesday for Poetry Salon at Fact and Fiction. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

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pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Mickey Mantle

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I want to be Ursula when I grow up. Disney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $20–$25.

In early 2017, singer-songwriter Ashely Kervabon decided she was going to find a way to strengthen Portland, Oregon's community of women in the music industry. Her first songwriter showcase, featuring an all female lineup, had a small turnout, but the positive feedback, as well as a burgeoning community of musicians and fans, pushed her to keep going. Now, just over a year later, Kervabon's brainchild, #WomenCrush Music, has spread to over a dozen cities, with chapters popping up in places including Chicago, Austin and New Orleans. Now the Garden City joins this lineup with a showcase of some of Missoula's best singers and songwriters.

Missoula's inaugural #WomenCrush Music Showcase features the dream pop resonance of Natantha Walker, the indie country of Heather Lingle, Mudslide Charley member Lee Rizzo and alt-folk duo Complimentary Colors. Camille Rose Perry, one half of Complimentary Colors, was instrumental in bringing #WomenCrush to Missoula. The Montanaborn musician was part of the original community that grew out of Kervabon's early Portland shows. She knew that her home state would be a great addition to showcase the Big Sky State's fantastically talented women.

—Charley Macorn

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander.

9:30 PM. No cover.

Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free.

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ney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $20–$25.

Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

The UM School of Theatre & Dance presents an evening of experimental and intimate dance at Dance New Works. Open Space in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9.

Climate Smart’s monthly conversation lets you be the change you want to see in the world. This month learn about the intersections of climate change and agriculture.

Imagine Nation. 5 PM–6:30 PM.

Singer-songwriter John Craigie, dubbed “the lovechild of John Prine and Mitch Hedberg” by The Stranger, plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30. $15.

Last Best Print Fest comes to a end for another year with a closing reception for the work of master printmaker James Todd. Radius Gallery. 5 PM–7 PM. The Davidson Honors College hosts the inaugural Dinner and Dialogue to promote community building and lifelong learning.

Experts in the fields of wine, telemedicine, horror movies, natural disasters and more create some pretty darn memorable dinner conversations. 5:30 PM. Sold out.

nightlife Singer-sonwriter Dan Martin plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

WHAT: #WomenCrush Music WHERE: Imagine Nation Brewing WHEN: Fri., April 27. 5 PM–8 PM. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: womencrushmusic.com

My DJ name comes from a 1980s cartoon you’ve never heard of. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM. Dusk provides the soundtrack at the Sunrise Saloon at 8:30 PM. Free.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Yabba plays a special “loud performance” at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Standup Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free.

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Trio Noir meets pinot noir when Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Camas Magazine’s annual fundraiser, Prairie Songs, returns for its eighth year.

Readings by Richard Manning and David James Duncan, music and more. Western Cider. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. $10.

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The UM School of Theatre & Dance present Dance New Works Thu., May 3 at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9.

Agenda THURSDAY, APRIL 26 St. Patrick Hospital's Providence Center hosts a low-cost helmet sale for bikes, snowboarding, horseriding and more. 2 PM–5 PM.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Missoula Eagles hosts the 13th Annual Hands Across the Border Silent Auction. All funds will go to Meals on Wheels, Watson Children's Shelter and Hands Across the Border Club. 4 PM–7 PM.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 Kiwanis Club of Missoula hosts its 29th annual Pancake Breakfast at St. Anthony Parish. Funds raised at this event go to support a free basketball program for local youth. 6:30 AM–1 PM. $5.

Missoula has long been recognized as a bustling hub of nonprofit activity. I used to assume this meant everyone in the city just looked really busy, but didn't actually earn any money. As I was recently corrected, however, it just means that Missoula serves as the home for a startling number of nonprofit organizations. Currently there are over 1,200 501(c)3 organizations that call Missoula home. That's roughly one nonprofit for every 60 people. Clearly that same spirit of altruism that would create such a fertile garden of giving in our city means we're more likely to reach out to help those in need. So even if you don't run a nonprofit (and statically, you probably do), you can still support these great organizations through the fundraising of Missoula Gives.

Missoula Gives, a two-day fundraising event sponsored by the Missoula Community Foundation, makes it easier than ever to donate to the organizations that give the Garden City its shine.

Over 150 local organizations have registered for fundraising, including the Roxy Theater, Soft Landing Missoula, the ZACC, Families First Children's Museum and more. Several of the organizations will be holding special fundraising events to coincide with Missoula Gives.

—Charley Macorn Missoula Gives runs through Thu., May 3 and Fri., May 4. Visit missoulagives.org for more info and opportunities to donate.

Help reopen access to the Bitterroot River by picking up trash at cleanup work day. RSVP by emailing ryan@fvlt.org.

Got a bunch of prescription medications you need to get rid of? Missoula County will take them with no questions asked at the clock tower in Southgate Mall. 10 AM–2 PM. The Time is Now, an interfaith call to action for climate justice, meets at University Congregational

Church for a day of workshops and film screenings. 9 AM–5 PM. Free.

MONDAY, APRIL 30 Grab a bite and make a difference. Twenty percent of all food and drink sales at the Thomas Meagher Bar will be donated to the Missoula Downtown Foundation. 6 PM–10 PM. Missoula Rises Community Conversations discusses the surge of popular movements and how they're reshaping local, state and national political systems. Missoula Public Library. 6:30 PM. Free.

THURSDAY, MAY 3 Donate to your favorite local nonprofits and organizations during the annual Missoula Gives campaign. Visit missoulagives.org for more info and a list of organizations.

The Highlander Taphouse supports the work of Mothers' Milk Bank of Montana with a fundraiser from 4 PM–7 PM. Climate Smart's monthly conversation lets you be the change you want to see in the world. This month learn about the intersections of climate change and agriculture. Imagine Nation. 5 PM– 6:30 PM.

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Mountain High When I was a freshman at the University of Montana, one of the most important aspects of student life was the proximity of my dorm to the Food Zoo. Thankfully, I lived in Knowles, the dorm directly across the main path from the Zoo, which made getting breakfast a quick jaunt.

Except on the day of the Riverbank Run. Missoula’s oldest footrace stretches directly down University Avenue onto campus, right between the dorm and the Zoo. So many people take part in this event that it took a good 10 minutes for a break big enough to dash across the path to occur.

Now that I live 45 feet off campus, I can sit on my porch and drink my morning coffee while still being able to cheer on runners in front of my house.

Other than the route, there is another part of

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Are you ready for fall hunting season? Is your bow? Sportman's Warehouse offers free tune ups for your bows from 1 PM–6 PM. Free.

The Missoula Unplug and Play kick off event features fun activities in the fresh air of McCormick Park. 1 PM–4 PM. Free.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

The 4th Annual Missoula Bike Swap lets you trade in your trusty steed for a new cruiser.

Free Cycles. 10 AM–4 PM.

Watch UM's Woodsman Team compete against colleges from across the West at Missoula Pro-Am's Forestry Days at Fort Missoula 8 AM. Free.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 Drop off your bike for the 4th annual Missoula Bike Swap at Free Cycles. Drop of your bike anytime between 10 AM and 3:30 PM in anticipation for tomorrow's sale.

The 9th Annual Montana Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife Banquet features raffles, live auctions and a roast pig. 4 PM–8 PM. $25.

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—Alone You were never going to be the guy for those women who pictured themselves spending lazy summer afternoons in Martha’s Vineyard (as opposed to Martha’s Laundromat).

However, your having a middlin’-bucks job instead of a megabucks one probably wasn’t the root of your mate retention issues.

It turns out that there’s more to mate value than money and a “high-end” job. In fact, evolutionary psychologist David Buss did a massive cross-cultural survey looking at what men and women want in a partner, and kindness topped the list for each. (Yes, kindness — which was pretty much your job description.) Intelligence was another list-topper.

What wasn’t on the lists at all? A partner who’s a pushover — always available, never any pesky boundaries. Accordingly, you mention psychologist Rober t Cialdini, whose “scarcity principle” I’ve referenced. Basically, we value — and want — what is out of reach and seems hard to get, not what seems hard to get rid of.

That “hard” truth might seem like reason for you to keep looking back with despair.

However, within it is actually a message of hope — an action plan. The reality is, you’re in a better position than ever to land and keep a woman.

As I often explain, there are sex differences in what men and women prioritize in a partner, with men valuing looks far more than women do. (Youth and beauty are evolution’s version of a billboard adver tising health and fertility.) This means that women’s mate value is higher when they’re, say, in their early 20s. And that’s why 22-year-old guys

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Meanwhile, a 22-year-old guy is essentially gum under the tire of a 32-year-old guy’s Mercedes. Because women prioritize status and resources in a male partner, men’s mate value tends to increase as they get older and more accomplished. Cruelly, women’s mate value declines with age. On a more positive note, what also tends to go is the notion some younger women have that massive character flaws can be outweighed by a massive mansion. Women with a thing for bad boys may likewise come to see the excitement in a man who pays the bills the boring way — through online banking instead of online identity theft.

In shor t, there are plenty of women who’d want a guy like you — providing you mend your ways. Going back to that “scarcity principle,” what needs to become scarce is your willingness to be a convenient option instead of a priority. Though this has been your default state — for decades — it doesn’t have to remain that way. As I explain in my new “science-help” book Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence, “your feelings are not the boss of you.

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As for the practical steps to becoming the new bold you: Figure out what seems fair and right, and then say “no” to everything outside that box. (Generosity is good. Generosity that knows no bounds is a lust’s executioner.) Assert yourself even when you’re scared to do it. Sure, you’ll feel uncomfortable, especially the first few times. However, you should slowly begin to do better with the ladies — and maybe even find love, despite it being clear that the only fur you’d ever get a woman would come with the rest of the hamster or the cat.

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THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appears or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-18-109 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of CLARY J. CORY Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nancy V. Storer has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months from the date the notice was first published or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Nancy Storer c/o Matrium Law Group, PLLC, 317 East Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 18th day of April, 2018. Matrium Law Group, PLLC /s/ Julie D. Goodkind, Esq. Attorneys for Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-18-107 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOUGLAS BERYL ROARK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LAURICE FRITZ, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 6 day of April, 2018 /s/ Laurice Fritz, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well.This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oftchosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series.

But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better. When the program completes its thirtieth season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your self-mastery? I suspect you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Hollywood film industry relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only one of the ten top-grossing movies — Interstellar — was not a sequel, remake, reboot or episode in a franchise. In the coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like Interstellar than like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, XMen: Days of Future Past and the six other top-ten rehashes of 2014. Be original!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the land we now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror.

In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction. Now is an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You sometimes get superstitious when life is going well.You worry about growing overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news — at least for historians, tourists and hikers — is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has re-emerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope the next seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try the following strategies. 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time when you first met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2. Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved.

3. Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4. Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-104 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CLIFFORD A. FREY, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that C. Fredrick Frey 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 (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to C. Fredrick Frey, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 9th day of April, 2018. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Case No. DV-18-253 In the Matter of the Name Change of Logan Williams, Petitioner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for change of name from Logan Williams to Logan Nelson, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 23 day of May, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse, in courtroom number 1. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 20 day of March, 2018. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Emily Hensen, Deputy Clerk of Court (SEAL) MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DP-18-80 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF

JAMES RAYMOND HERZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Randy J. Herz, C/O Tipp Coburn Schandelson, PC, return receipt requested, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 29th day of September, 2017. /s/ Randy J. Herz, Personal Representative TIPP COBURN SCHANDELSON, PC /s/ Raymond P. Tipp, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 4 PROBATE NO. DP-17-216 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS B. SPARROW, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MARTA A. TIMMONS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., 321 W. Broadway St., Ste. 300, Missoula, MT 598024142 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 5 day of April, 2018. /s/ Marta A. Timmons, Personal Representative c/o Worden Thane P.C. 321 West Broadway St., Ste. 300 Missoula, Montana 59802-4142 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Esq. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on September 20, 2018,

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now is one of the rare times when you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits.Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist.

In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession:Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting you in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you afford to hire someone to do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money and making sweet nonsense. Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it’s a favorable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage.

If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.

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11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: A Tract of land located in the South one-half of Section 4, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 3690.

Together with a non exclusive easement for the purpose of ingress and egress from the above described premises to the public road. More commonly known as 27785 Isaac Road, aka 27785 Isaac Creek Road, Huson, MT 59846. Michael F. Manthey, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, its successors and assigns ,

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Bank of America, N.A. Assignment Dated: July 27, 2015 Assignment Recorded: August 3, 2015 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201513819, in Book 948, at Page 502, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on November 14, 2017 as Instrument No. 201723001, in Book 989, at Page 459, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning April 1, 2017, 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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing

on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $61,392.53, interest in the sum of $5,968.49, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,807.97 for a total amount owing of $69,168.99, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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 Ben-

eficiary, 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, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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

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be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Dated this 18th day of April, 2018.

Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 50825 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2018, at 11:00 AM 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 6 of WILDROSE, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 19 of Plats at Page 53. Wesley B Swalling, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mountain West Bank, N.A., corporation, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated on July 15, 2009, and recorded on July 16, 2009 as Book 843 Page 1243 Document No. 200917601. The beneficial interest is currently held by Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is currently the Trustee.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2017, 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 March 1, 2018 is $126,524.45 principal, interest totaling $3163.14, escrow advances of $1102.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $327.10, plus accruing interest, 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP 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: March 7, 2018 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 7th day of March, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary

Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2024 SunTrust Mortgage Inc. vs WESLEY B SWALLING 100304-4

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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, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. 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

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Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com [40] Missoula Independent • April 26–May 3, 2018

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REAL ESTATE HOMES 5 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath overlooking the East Bitterroot Hills on Ridgeway Dr. 25 Foot ceilings grace the spectacular Great Room. Steam room, gas fireplace, and renovations. Price drop.

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Just listed and under contract. Taking back up offers. Wilma Condominiums #6-3. View of the river, enjoy Downtown Missoula. Fully furnished. All you need is your toothbrush! Just $235,000. Call Joy Earls! 406-5319811

THINKING OF SELLING?? JOY EARLS REAL ESTATE IS THE KEY!! We provide: Full Market Analysis, Staging and Complete Sales Plan. “WE’RE INDEPENDENT LIKE YOU!” Call Joy Earls! 406-531-9811

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630 Black Bear Lane, Georgetown Lake. This waterfront 3bd/2bth 2278 sqft home with private boat dock is unique. Located on Rainbow Point, this home has easy year round access.

Minutes from Discovery Ski hill, Phillipsburg, and Pinlter Wilderness area. This is a deal! $875,000. Offered by Tracy Napier, Remax Premier 406-490-0338 www.georgetownlakehomes.com MLS 315864

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bring 28 years of real estate experience, knowledge of financing, honesty and integrity to my business to help buyers and sellers make sound decisions for their future.

My career in real estate is a lifestyle for me, rather than a job that I go to everyday. I balance my life with my love of the outdoors that includes hiking, canoeing, camping, backpacking and skiing.

Here in Montana we love the seasons and utilize them to the fullest. We are truly lucky to live in a beautiful place and an amazing town! My motto for my clients is “You gotta love where you live!”

And Missoula offers all the requirements to love where you live.

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Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com missoulanews.com • April 26–May 3, 2018 [41]

REAL ESTATE PRICE DROP!

JUST LISTED

NEW LISTING

MONTANA DREAM!

UNDER CONTRACT 204 RIDGEWAY DR., LOLO

WILMA CONDOMINIUMS 6-3

43 TROUTHAVEN DR., ROCK CREEK

23595 E. MULLAN RD., FRENCHTOWN

25-FOOT CATHEDRAL CEILINGS 5 BEDS 3 BATHS 3,248 SQFT 7,405 SQFT LOT $284,900

VIEW OF RIVER....FULLY FURNISHED! JUST BRING YOUR TOOTHBRUSH ENJOY DOWNTOWN MISSOULA! $235,000

HUNTING, FISHING, HIKING YOUR OWN RETREAT. 39,204 SQFT LOT ONLY $68,000

CLARK FORK RIVER FRONTAGE 2 BUILDING SITES ON GRASSY KNOLL 24 ACRES... TREES, SANDY BEACH $1,250,000

801 N. Orange St.

3229 N. Frontage Rd. Garrison $114,900

Wonderful 4.6 acres with Clark River Frontage. Electric, well & septic installed. Great getaway close to Missoula!

18740 E. Mullan, Clinton

$264,900

Unit #104 in The Uptown Flats.

1 bed, 1 bath Upscale Condo. Close to Downtown. South facing with lots of natural sunlight $162,000

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Charming 2 bedroom, 1 bath home on 1.37 acres. 4 car garage & large barn. Apple tree, 2 plum trees & underground sprinklers.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 KOTA•

Kota is a 2 year old male American Bulldog mix. This big, goofy boy has a lot of love to give and is always searching for affection! He enjoys chasing tennis balls, but hasn't quite figured out the idea of retrieving them. He is very treat motivated and knows how to sit, lay down, and search for all the stray bits of kibble. Kota is hoping to find himself in a fun-loving and active family.

GYPSY• Gypsy is a 4 year old female German Shepherd. This sweet girl has spent her younger years in a travelling band of fortune tellers, but now she's ready to settle down and grow some roots. Gyspy loves people all of all ages, but could use a bit of advice in the way of manners. She is really hoping her future holds a family where she won't have to share any attention with other pets.

BEAR• Bear is a 7 year old male Chocolate Lab. This big goofball loves to play and gets along well with other dogs. Fetch is his favorite game, and his attention cannot be broken when he sees a tennis ball. Bear is a very tolerant dog, allowing some rather poor play manners to go unchecked from his playmates. This loveable Lab would do best in a home that has room to move.

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630 S. Higgins 728-0777

208 East Main 728-7980

HOBBS• Hobbs is a 5 year old male black and white Tuxedo cat. He is a bit shy upon first greeting him. Once he's gotten used to you, Hobbs is a very sweet boy who loves receiving attention. Hobbs would prefer a quiet home. This classy boy is always ready for the most sophisticated occasion with his very handsome tuxedo markings and his distinguished white mustache.

MISSY•Missy has beginning stages of kidney disease and needs a home that is familiar with providing for this health issue. Outside of her kidneys, Missy is a healthy and happy cat that is projected to live a long life, making her our shelter's Wonder Woman! Her adoption fee has been sponsored, and we are searching for an adopter that is able to give her a prescription kidney support diet for life

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Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.

ERWIN• Erwin is a 8 year old male black cat. This handsome and distinguished house panther is an older man who loves the company of people. Like his hero, The Black Panther, Erwin believes himself to be the protector of his kingdom. His Highness has enhanced, superhero abilities in lounging and cuddles. He'd prefer to live in a kingdom with only human subjects.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 KIKI• Kiki is an indoor kitty who loves to chatter at the outdoor world! You might find her saying hello to the birds and squirrels at the window or chasing around one of her favorite toys!

Come meet this beloved girl during our open hours, Wed-Fri 1-6pm and Sat-Sun 12-5pm!

CRICKET• A big beautiful woman with a big beautiful heart! Cricket is a sweet cat that loves to snooze and lounge around with her people. She comes from a quiet home, and is friendly with kids, and new people. Cricket would like to be the only cat in your life and have all of your attention! Come visit Cricket during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

1450 W. Broadway St. • 406-728-0022

HERA• Hera, the queen of gods, is the per-

fect name for this mighty cat. Regal, glorious and loving, Hera is looking for someone's home to take reign of. She loves attention, but on her own terms. She will be a majestic, amazing cat in your home. Come meet this lovely lady during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

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232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

MAUSER• Mauser is an active man whose favorite activities include anything where he can fetch a stick! Not only is he a big bundle of love, but he is one smart cookie too! Come meet this handsome man Wed-Fri 1-6pm and Sat-Sun 125pm!

MAX AND REX• Max and Rex are a tiny pair with a big personality! These two love to snuggle up with their person and play with toys!

Max prefers stuffed animals and Rex is all about anything that squeeks! They are used to an active household and love to go for walks, fetch, and Max is even up for a swim! Come meet this adorable couple during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

Missoula 406-626-1500 william@rideglaw.com

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JAKE• This boy is one active lovebug! Jake's looking for someone to show him the ropes and give him a gentle introduction to the rest of the world! His favorite thing is to play with other dogs - and even played with a ferret in his previous home! He is quite the snuggler and can't wait to get out and exercise! Come meet this handsome guy during our open hours, Wed-Fri 1-6pm and Sat-Sun 12-5pm! missoulanews.com • April 26–May 3, 2018 [43]