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News
Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk True confessions edition..........................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Pioneering the Clark Fork, betting on Bolt d’Oro, and bear necessities .......................6 Etc. Happy graduation.................................................................................................................6 News BASE looks for a little help from its friends .....................................................................8 News Tracking phone charity scams to political super PACS ....................................................9 Dan Brooks Creative writing is more than a numbers game......................................................10 Writers on the Range A century on, discrimination still plagues the Forest Service ...........11 Feature Missoula Confessions: The Indy’s fifth annual Comix Issue.....................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Maiah Wynne joins the Portland Cello Project on tour .......................................22 Music Marshall Dorothy Granger, Cannon, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers .............23 Books Gary Lundy’s path down the rabbit hole of experimental poetry ...................24 Film Pete shines in its unmerciful lack of sentiment ...................................................25 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................26 BrokeAss Gourmet Poached eggs with roasted asparagus .................................................27 Happiest Hour A winning list of brews ......................................................................29 8 Days a Week No hell, but plenty of high water..............................................................30 Agenda Lolo Watershed Group’s tree-planting party .............................................................37 Mountain High Learn how to lighten your backpacking load ...................................38
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News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................39 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................40 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................42 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................45 This Modern World.....................................................................................................46
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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STREET TALK
by Micah Drew
The theme of this year’s Comix Issue is “Missoula Confessions.” Who do you tell your deepest, darkest secrets to? Do you have an unpopular opinion about Missoula you’d like to confess? [Editor’s note: Indy staff begs to differ in the strongest possible terms with these scandalous opinions about valued Indy advertisers and friends. Except for that bit about Chacos. Those definitely aren’t winter wear. Buy a damn boot.]
Kyle Boe: [Indy reporter] Alex Sakariassen, actually. Bite your tongue: Rockin’ Rudy’s is not that great. It’s just garbage and incense.
Kathryn Kelly: My dad. He told me that even if I killed someone, I could tell him. Nobody goes anymore, it’s too popular: I fucking hate the farmer’s market. It’s just so busy it’s turned into a zoo. Saturday strolls downtown used to be nice, and now it’s just chaos.
Nate Christiansen: Well, I talk to my girlfriend the most. Low-hanging fruit: The cherries here suck. Door County [Wisconsin] cherries are so much better.
Kate Perkins: I talk to my best friend back in Washington. What’s with the sandals: The first thing that came to mind was how much people wear Chacos in Missoula. In winter people will wear them to business meetings, and I wonder if they’ve actually worn them outside in the woods. I guess that’s unpopular.
Joe Fairchild: My wife. There’s a few: Oh, I don’t know. Big Dipper is overrated. Or KettleHouse. Or both.
Asked Tuesday afternoon at the Dram Shop
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Record straight
Montanans want their public servants to get things done. That’s just what Representative Kimberly Dudik has done throughout her service to House District 94 (“With the June 5 primary approaching, these are the candidates and contests to watch,” April 26). Kimberly has been a champion for children, working across the aisle to pass laws that protect kids who are in the most precarious situations imaginable. She has been a reliable ally for public lands, earning her a perfect score from Montana Conservation Voters. In fact, she is the only candidate for HD 94 that MCV endorses. Kimberly sponsored a bill that holds the new owner of Smurfit-Stone accountable for back taxes, which in turn helps public schools in Frenchtown. In short, Kimberly Dudik is a proven champion for her constituents, and Missoula is lucky to have her. It is unfortunate that her primary opponent has taken to unfair character attacks. A public statement made on her opponent’s website alleges that Rep. Dudik supported coal trains (SB 140). This is blatantly false. That bill funds infrastructure for Colstrip and makes it easier to transition to green energy, while supporting workers left behind by the closing of the coal-powered plant. That’s why eight Missoula Democrats supported the bill, including me. It has been an honor to serve with Kimberly Dudik, and I strongly support her reelection. Nate McConnell Missoula
my opinion. Will we ever know the total cost including the legal fees? Tom Hightower facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Hold your breath
So, who is the chump expecting the Trumpster to suddenly give a shit about wildlife (“Trump’s border plans will hit wildlife hard,” April 25)? Seriously? Jodie Eric Hagen facebook.com/missoulaindependent
“Our schools shape individual and community life in profound ways and serve as a point of unification for families, neighbors, professionals and even adversaries.”
Dr. Feelbad
Tester was right to save the Veterans Administration from this so-called doctor (“Brooks: It’s not what they stand for. It’s whom,” May 2). No more hiding in his cushy job. William Chiapparelli facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Many more species will be affected in addition to those listed in your headline. Alexia Cochrane facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Water worlds
So, thumbs down?
At least they get to vote on it (“On water condemnation, Monterey looks to Missoula,” April 26). Missoulians should have been allowed the same chance, in
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Great review (“Hostiles: The other white guilt,” Jan. 25). Perfectly captures my thoughts and feelings throughout. After sitting through this
garbage, I felt I needed to look online to see if I was perhaps missing the point, and after reading pages of glowing reviews, I felt as if I certainly was. This was until MaryAnn Johanson came along with her excellent exposition on a film that felt to me like a cashed-up tourism board overpaid a talented filmmaker to capture beautiful shots of midwest landscape, then had a 7th grade writing contest to figure out a simplistic plot and a cast of no-one-cares stereotype characters to meander about for two hours under the pretext of trying to half-heartedly discuss ideas and issues that are not even properly framed. 2/5 for the movie. 5/5 for a great review. Sean Tabner London, UK
For the kids
As a father watching my kids grow up through our Missoula County Public Schools, I am reminded of the critical growth I experienced in my own public school district as a child. With both parents, a grandfather, an aunt, an uncle and a sister all professional teachers, my respect for and value of educators cannot be overstated. Our schools shape individual and community life in profound ways and serve as a point of unification for families, neighbors, professionals and even adversaries. In support of this transformative part of my life and our collective lives as Missoulians, I am grateful to be turning to the leadership of Nancy de Pastino to be our advocate and ambassador for public education in the Montana House of Representatives. Nancy’s passion for our children’s school readiness and our school systems’ financial capacity to serve them is met with a skillset and tenacity to deliver new results. Nancy’s representation will elevate the dialogue about public education and embolden its worthiness both on the dockets in Helena and in visible, strategic action realized in our kids’ schools in Missoula. It is with confidence and solidarity that I anticipate hearing her voice from her new stage in 2019. Nick Roberts Clinton
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, May 2 Lucky’s Market opens in the Southgate Mall. Instead of a ribbon cutting, the celebration kicks off with a bacon-cutting ceremony.
Thursday, May 3 A Missoula man is rescued and treated for hypothermia after he jumps into the Clark Fork in a failed attempt to save his dog.
Friday, May 4 A preliminary study by the National Ski Areas Association announces that while skier and snowboarder visitation to the Rocky Mountain region was down about 5 percent last winter, Whitefish Mountain Resort and Bridger Bowl set visitation records.
Saturday, May 5 Montana-trained Bolt d’Oro finishes 12th in the 144th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Justify, the pre-race favorite, wins the Run for the Roses in just over two minutes.
Sunday, May 6 A Troy Downing campaign rally in Billings is canceled after former national security adviser Michael Flynn canceled his supporting appearance due to a family emergency.
River city
Accessing the Clark Fork
Once the Clark Fork is no longer at its current (as of press time) and dangerous 40-year-flood stage, Missoulians will head to the river to tube, swim, fish, boat or surf during the hot summer days. Many will drive to access sites just outside of Missoula. Many others won’t bother leaving town, leading to the dual problems of choked official river-access points and mistreated unofficial ones. Christine Oschell, Region 2 river recreation manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says that FWP, the county, city, Clark Fork Coalition and Five Valleys Land Trust have begun meeting to talk about the possibilities for in-town river access. “The urban river is different, and we need to recognize that, and we want to get out ahead of issues, because we don’t see use decreasing,” Oschell says. Oschell says problems with “pioneered” sites — i.e., unofficial access points — include erosion. “They’re usually a trail that goes straight down the bank, and ideally it wouldn’t be that way, because it can erode away that bank pretty easily once people start using it a lot.” That, plus a lack of trash cans and bathrooms, means that evidence of human use piles up, leaving it to organizations including Five Valleys and the
Clark Fork Coalition to orchestrate cleanups. “We think that if we had access sites that had more infrastructure and were more obvious that we would get a lot more compliance, too,” Oschell says. Six years ago, the Missoulian reported on the city’s efforts to transform the West Broadway Island, which is technically a peninsula, into an accessible public beach. That property is part of the city’s conservation lands, according to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s Chris Behan. “There is a plan that is currently under floodplain permit review to further reduce weed species and introduce native grasses, shrubs, and trees that are more appropriate in a riparian area,” Behan writes in an email. That plan includes adding a trail along the irrigation ditch that runs parallel to the island and potentially replacing the Burton Street foot-access bridge and adding another pedestrian bridge to access the island. It is unique in being the only sand beach area in the city, but since it’s intended to be conservation land instead of parkland, Behan writes, it wouldn’t have a lot of formal improvements. On a recent sunny day, before the river rose, one sunbather ventured onto the island to read while reclining on his backpack. Lounging by the river at an attractive, uncrowded spot in downtown is a natural impulse, and the as-yet-unnamed coalition of local governments, state agencies and non-
profits wants to make sure that impulse can find harmonious expression, Oschell says. “If you’re from out of town and you show up to Missoula and you see the messaging that comes out of the office of tourism showing you people recreating on the river that runs right through Missoula, when you get here it would be nice if it was obvious, if there was a system of access points.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Horse play
Betting on Bolt d’Oro
When the horses entered in the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby were announced on the televisions at Katie O’Keefe’s Casino on Saturday, the loudest cheer wasn’t for the favorite. Instead, Montana pride prevailed and Bolt d’Oro, a horse owned and trained by Columbia Falls developer Mick Ruis, pulled in the most vocal support. With 8-1 odds, Bolt d’Oro entered the race as one of the top contenders — only three horses offered better odds before post time. “A lot of people were [betting on Bolt d’Oro], just because they believed in the story,” said manager Taylor Alonzo. Katie O’Keefe’s operates the live horse-race
Monday, May 7 A squirrel gets stuck in a window well at the Indy office. Heroic staff efforts save the animal, but a squirrel (the same one?) ends up in the same window well again on Tuesday, suggesting that our work is more riveting to watch than previously thought.
Tuesday, May 8 Montana Tech of the University of Montana selects a new name. Pending approval by the Board of Regents, the school will be rebranded as Montana Technological University. This is the third name change in the school’s history.
I feel like a Michael Cohen situation having to sign an NDA.”
—Missoula City Councilmember Jesse Ramos during a May 7 Council meeting, after the city told Ramos he’d have to sign a nondisclosure agreement before reviewing line-item invoices for the city’s Mountain Water legal bills. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, paid porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.
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[news] simulcast for off-track betting in Montana, with five locations across the state allowing patrons to bet on races. Alonzo estimates that more than 700 people placed bets in the Missoula location on Derby Day. “Everyone likes to have a dollar on the nose of a pony when it comes to the Kentucky Derby,” said Rockin’ Rudy’s owner Bruce Micklus, who bet on Bolt d’Oro. “People that only bet once or twice a year are down here, and it’s kinda like a party.” By post time, the two main rooms at Katie O’Keefe’s were crammed with people waiting to watch the race. When the infamous trumpet sounded, betting slips littered the tables, fingers clutched cold beers and the entire room turned as one to face the nearest TV. The Run for the Roses is called the most exciting two minutes in sport, and it certainly was on Saturday. Bolt d’Oro started off well and ran in the third position for most of the race, prompting yells from across the bar. But in the homestretch, not even Triple Crown-winning jockey Victor Espinoza could keep him from fading to a 12th-place finish. There were still plenty of winners, however. A $2 bet on the favorite and winner, Justify, paid out $7.80. A $1 trifecta paid out $141.40. And those few who correctly bet on the superfecta (1st through 4th) received a nearly $20,000 payday. “At our location alone, we did around $65,000 in wagering on Saturday,” Alonzo said. “It’s definitely big, and it’s growing. It seems that every year it gets more and more popular.” Between the five Montana locations, about $220,000 was wagered on Derby Day. Montanans might not have a local horse to bet on for the next stage of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. A column in the San Diego Tribune quotes Ruis saying that he might be looking for a different race that won’t pit Bolt d’Oro against Justify again. Micah Drew
Bear necessities
Working group reconvenes
The grizzlies are close. Over the past few years, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Jamie
Jonkel has seen plenty of signs around the fringes of Missoula. Several collared bears have made “little forays” through the North Hills, he says, including Ethyl, the grizzly sow whose 3-year, 2,800-mile trek through Montana and Idaho made headlines in 2014. More recently, Jonkel was able to verify a grizzly mortality from 2017 up Johnson Creek near Bonner. When the first grizzly to visit Missoula proper finally arrives, Jonkel is confident it will be in the Rattlesnake. “We really don’t know how many bears there are in the Rattlesnake, but we do know there are at least a few residents,” he says, adding that it’s “probably just a matter of time before we get a resident female that sets up shop right on the edges of Missoula and starts having young.” That eventuality was enough of a kick in the pants this winter to prompt Missoula City Councilmember Bryan von Lossberg to reconvene an informal coalition that’s been hibernating for a decade. The socalled bear buffer zone working group, whose original ranks included Jonkel, was instrumental throughout the 2000s in crafting a bear-specific waste ordinance passed in 2010. Now the group is back, as Jonkel puts it, to tie up some “loose ends.” Members of the group’s latest iteration include Jonkel, Defenders of Wildlife representative Erin Edge, Republic Services waste disposal and several Missoula residents. Over the past few months, they’ve succeeded in cutting the per-quarter rental cost for Republic’s bear-resistant garbage cans in half. Member Beth Judy, who also sits on the board of the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group, says the cost reduction was accomplished via to the availability of 200 used Bearsaver trash carts Republic recently pulled from service in Red Lodge. Republic
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has so far distributed 40 of the carts to Rattlesnake residents. Judy is hopeful the initiative will help solve one of the biggest problems she sees in the Rattlesnake when it comes to bears: participation. The 2010 ordinance requires residents to keep garbage cans indoors until the morning of pickup, but Judy notes that many residents still leave them out overnight or even all week long. Enforcement has waxed and waned, she adds, depending on Animal Control’s resources. Anyone who’s lived in the Rattlesnake for more than a couple of years, even on her stretch of Vine Street near I-90, has a black bear story. “We should be worrying about each other,” Judy says, “because if one person on a block does the wrong thing and attracts bears, they’re putting everybody at risk, especially young people and old people.” Jonkel seems more optimistic about the progress residents in Missoula’s more bear-prone areas have made. Compared to 15 years ago, he says, it’s “night and day.” Still, as the bigger bruins get closer, he acknowledges there’s still work to be done. “We did some of the heavy lifting in the first group,” Jonkel says. “I’m looking at this next one as kind of doing the finesses … getting it just right.” Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Friends and family are in town to watch loved ones receive their degrees from the University of Montana on May 12, and this year’s message to graduates from every smartass relative is, “You’re getting out just in time, kid!” Good one, uncle Robbie. You must read the papers. Are those burgers grilled yet? Actually, Robbie doesn’t read the papers. If he did — last Sunday’s Missoulian, for instance — he’d know that UM is brimming with the fresh energy of its new leader, Seth Bodnar, who is working 15 1/2 hour days to get UM back on track. But Robbie is a knucklehead who gets his news on Twitter, where, last week, the academic lynch mob got wind of Bodnar’s “Strategy for Distinction.” “This proposal suggests gutting programs will somehow magically increase UM's ‘distinctiveness’ and thereby ameliorate falling enrollments, but the suspiciously round number of 50 faculty eliminated betrays that the only real goal of this proposal is to … eliminate 50 faculty,” tweeted Nick Kapur. Unimpressed, Kapur went on to call President Bodnar a “nobody” who was previously a “middle manager at floundering GE.” Kapur is a historian at Rutgers University who got his Ph.D from Harvard and has a forthcoming book about Japan. Whatever. Uncle Robbie and Nick Kapur have it backwards. First off, they’re forgetting that the class of 2018 has endured three different university presidents, cheered for the Griz under three different football coaches, and answered 3,000 questions from friends back home about that Missoula book that came out when they were freshmen. If anything, these graduates deserve our pity. They’ve survived four years of UM’s metaphorical and actual winter, only to be pushed out just as UM is poised to become great again. Just look at this list of new offerings for fall 2018, obtained exclusively by the Indy: AA in soft skills, BS in startup ecology, innovative leadership certificate, minor in gig economics, the Passion Science Laboratory affiliated with the Department of Psychology, MFA in creative programming, ECON419 Cryptofinance, the School of Content Provision (formerly Media Arts), and an MBA in disruption studies. But here’s the good news, class of 2018. It’s not too late! That slip of paper you receive at commencement isn’t a diploma. It’s your acceptance letter to the new and improved University of Montana of Distinction. Congrats, and welcome back!
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All hands on BASE All-abilities center turns to crowdfunding to survive by Derek Brouwer
Thursdays are the busiest days of the week at BASE, the all-abilities community center in the Warehouse Mall. Games of all types — board, card, video — start at 2 p.m., fueled by free quesadillas, before the floor gets turned over at 6 p.m. to improv workshops hosted by Missoula Homegrown Comedy. One group is chatting around folding tables and another is gripping video-game controllers near a TV when Devin Armstrong wheels in. Armstrong, 25, has been coming “faithfully” each Thursday since BASE opened three years ago. Sometimes he plays the fighting video game Tekken. Other times he’ll DJ the afternoon music. Mostly, he just likes to shoot the breeze. “The biggest thing that this provides is a sense of community, and also I consider this kind of like a family, to be honest,” Armstrong says between sips of orange soda. Armstrong has cerebral palsy, so every few minutes Olivia Kincaid walks over to help him take a drink. Around Kincaid’s neck dangles a blue ribbon that she won that morning playing bocce at the Five Valleys Area Special Olympics spring games. BASE takes its name from the childhood game of tag, where players can find respite by touching a designated safe zone. It started as a center for young people with disabilities transitioning from high school environments into adulthood, but the target audience quickly expanded to include people of all ages and abilities. “Ultimately, if your goal is to be part of the larger community, then you have to invite that community in,” says Michael Beers, the youth transitions coordinator for Summit Independent Living, which operates BASE. But the space that Beers and others have fostered may soon disappear. BASE was created with $25,000 in annual funding from a youth transitions program of the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services — money that has disappeared this year as part of statewide budget cuts. And Summit, which has been chipping in additional funds for rent, staff
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and programming, is dealing with cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates. Executive Director Mike Mayer says the organization can’t afford to fill the gap. Now the BASE team is turning to crowdfunding in an attempt to keep the doors open. They’re aiming to raise $50,000 through Indiegogo by July, when the current two-year lease for the space expires. Beers says the fundraising
shops at the center that bring together BASE participants and other local comics. Homegrown Comedy trades practice space for volunteer time, which strengthens the relationship. Comedy and other performance arts have flourished at BASE because they tend to be equalizers, Beers says. “Performing is nerve-wracking. It doesn’t matter that you’re in a wheel-
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BASE, an all-abilities center on the Westside where people with and without disabilities do yoga, perform improv comedy, make art and play games, is trying to crowdfund $50,000 to stay open.
target would allow BASE to continue to provide programming in its current location. In the campaign’s first few weeks, it’s raised about $3,000. The BASE space is warm and inviting, with couches against an exposed brick wall at one end, a kitchen on the other and a long, well-worn whiteboard along the main wall. The room is shaped like a wedge, which adds to the cozy feel. Between 40 and 60 people come through BASE each week, Beers says, for programming that includes all-abilities dance classes, yoga classes and art groups. The space is also open for use by local nonprofits. But its closest connection to broader Missoula comes from the role BASE plays in the the city’s burgeoning comedy scene. Homegrown Comedy founder John Howard is also on Summit’s staff as BASE coordinator, and each week he and Beers, also a comic, host BASEment Improv work-
chair and I own a business, because we’re both freaked out.” BASE peer advocate Jason Billehus remembers the first time he took the stage at the former Crystal Theatre after practicing stand-up at BASE. When he saw the audience staring at him as he walked onstage, he says, he didn’t panic. “I was like, this is so cool.” Like Billehus, Armstrong says he’s more confident because of the relationships he’s made through BASE. Armstrong says BASE is where he feels “truly independent,” a place where he’s been able to create a social life that he can extend beyond its walls. “They’ve all taught me that I can socialize outside of this space,” he says. “God forbid, if it does go away, I would now have the tools to not freak out, to not go into depression.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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On the line Phone ‘charity’ scams track to super PACs by Alex Sakariassen
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox independent expenditures, but are it’s raised so far on operating expenses. put the perpetrators of what he called a barred from contributing to or coordi- For example, FABA has spent $5 million “scam fundraising call” on alert in Janu- nating with candidates or political par- on fundraising services, much of it paid ary: They called the wrong guy. Fox’s ties. They’re required to report all to various telemarketing firms nationwarning, issued via Twitter, came after fundraising and expense activity to the wide. Such operations-heavy outfits have attracted FEC attention before: In 2016, he answered a call from someone solic- Federal Election Commission. FEC records filed over the past year two FEC commissioners wrote a letter iting donations for an organization called Americans for Police and Trooper shed considerable light on the activity urging their colleagues to “attack” soSafety. Fox ended the tweet by stating of these super PACs. Heroes United — called scam PACs, which they argued were that an investigation had been opened. which also solicits contributions under injuring donor efforts to support candi“When Tim first got this call, it was- the names Volunteer Firefighters Associ- dates by spending little to none of the donations received on political activity. n’t apparent to him based off of The Indy called several tolltheir conversation that this was a free numbers listed on FABA and [political action committee],” Heroes United literature last week. Montana Department of Justice Two led to automated voicemail spokesman Eric Sell says, adding boxes with the same voice and that the call was masked with a message, including an option to be 406 area code. “To Tim, it placed on a no-call list. Another led sounded like a very fishy charity to a busy signal. Zachary Bass, or something like that.” listed as treasurer for Heroes Turns out Americans for Police United and another super PAC, the and Trooper Safety is a super PAC, Community Health Council/Breast a fact that Fox’s staff was unaware Cancer Health Council, did not reof until a call from Politico steered spond to an email seeking comthem to Federal Election Commisment. A FABA representative did sion filings last week. And the respond by email, but declined to group isn’t the only super PAC comment beyond stating that the that’s targeted Montana residents organization will be making its first in recent months. According to sevexpenditures in the 2018 election eral pieces of literature obtained by cycle, and that expenditures supthe Independent, at least two other For a Better America, a registered super organizations have reached out to PAC, solicited donations from Montanans porting candidates “from both parMontanans since last September last fall under the name Police Officers Sup- ties” this fall would “speak for themselves.” seeking political contributions port Alliance. Sell confirms that the Monunder the guise of charity. During the calls, recipients were ation and Association of Police & First tana Office of Consumer Protection is inasked about their willingness to donate Responders — has raised nearly $1.6 vestigating the call Fox received on to the Police Officers Support Alliance million in unitemized individual contri- behalf of Americans for Police and and the Volunteer Firefighters Associa- butions, or contributions below $200. Trooper Safety, and that the DOJ has tion. However, literature sent in re- The group has raised just $20,820 in been contacted by several recipients of sponse to contributions reveals that itemized contributions, which require similar calls. Investigators were already these groups are projects of the For a disclosure of individual donor names. able to get the number that dialed Fox Better America (FABA) and Heroes FABA reports $43,952 in itemized con- “turned off,” Sell adds, meaning it won’t United PACs, respectively. The mailers tributions and nearly $5.6 million in be able to call Montanans again. But state that donations are “not deductible unitemized contributions. For Ameri- that’s not likely to stop the solicitations. “It’s really hard to track these peoas charitable contributions” and will be cans for Police and Trooper Safety, the breakdown is $1,565 itemized to $1.6 ple down,” Sell says. “They’ll use a used to support political candidates. [voice over internet protocol] number As super PACs, these organizations million unitemized. None of these super PACs have re- and you turn it off, and they’ll just go are allowed to raise unlimited amounts of cash from individuals and corpora- ported any independent expenditures and buy five more.” tions. Super PACs can use that money to since they were founded last year. Rather, support or oppose candidates through each has spent a majority of the money asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
Loss leader Creative writing is more than just a numbers game by Dan Brooks
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One of the stated goals of the Strategy for Distinction — the plan to strengthen the University of Montana and secure its future by cutting its operating budget — is to create “agile, lifelong learners.” For those of you who do not speak business, this phrase means “people who can change jobs every three years.” I have mastered that skill, first at a series of weird and volatile day jobs and now, for almost 10 years, as an unkempt and nervous professional writer. And I owe it all to the creative writing program at the University of Montana. The future of that program is now in doubt. President Seth Bodnar’s strategy calls for the Department of English to cut the equivalent of six full-time positions — nearly a third of the department. Ironically, this plan was announced the same day that UM creative writing alumnus Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Ten full-time professors used to teach fiction, nonfiction and poetry at UM. Next year, the program is looking at one full-time nonfiction professor who will direct the program, one fulltime professor of poetry and one halftime fiction professor. That fiction professor is Kevin Canty, who canceled half of the sabbatical he had planned for next year so that someone would be around to teach workshops. He told me that as he and other longtime faculty near retirement, cuts by attrition threaten to kill the whole program. “We all get to find out how Ruth Bader Ginsburg feels,” Canty said. He believes that Bodnar’s numbers-based approach has failed to recognize the value of the creative writing program. The Strategy for Distinction quantifies each program in terms of students taught per dollar spent. Creative writing drags down the numbers for the whole English department, because classes are small and taught by professors whose professional accomplishments translate to higher merit-based pay. After years of attrition, only the most senior profes-
sors remain, which further skews the metric. On paper, creative writing is one of the more expensive programs at UM. It is also one of the most valuable. I graduated from UM in 2006 with a master’s degree in fiction. Five members of my class went on to become professional writers. Four of us live in Missoula, where our work with national publishers brings hundreds of thousands of dollars into the local economy.
“Anybody can run the numbers. It does not take a leader to look at a list arranged by dollars per student and draw a line. It takes a leader to see what the metric does not.” Two more of my classmates opened the Burns St. Bistro, a valuable employer of Missoula’s weirdo population. Other UM creative writing grads founded Submittable, a Missoula-based web services company with more than 10,000 customers. In addition to supporting the local economy, the program has shaped Montana’s brand identity. The phrases “big sky country” and “last best place” both emerged from UM creative writing. I have framed the value of one of our university’s oldest and most prestigious programs in these terms because Bodnar is a businessman. If he doubts
creative writing’s worth as a revenue stream, he should not ignore its value as a loss leader. Student-for-student, other programs might be cheaper. But I can think of none that has done as much to attract students to UM, raise the university’s national profile and shape the identities of Missoula and Montana. If our new university president wants distinction, he will find it in creative writing. He will also find a vocal community of alumni who love the program and, frankly, know its value better than he does. Creative writing graduates publish. We move from UM to national platforms. We are best-selling authors who write for prominent newspapers and magazines. This community of successful alumni is an asset Bodnar can maintain for very little, just by preserving a program that has existed for nearly a century. Or he can squander it on a short-term budget crisis. Imagine you inherited a plot of land in a place unknown to you, bequeathed by a distant relative you didn’t know you had. The property is unfamiliar, but the terms of your inheritance call on you to secure it for future generations. Near its center is a hundred-year-old tree. Is your first move to cut that tree down? Or do you consider that it has stood so long for a reason, and that the people who came before might have seen some value in it that you do not yet recognize? Anybody can run the numbers. It does not take a leader to look at a list arranged by dollars per student and draw a line. It takes a leader to see what the metric does not. A leader has the vision to look past short-term costs and see long-term value. A leader acts to preserve an institution’s assets, rather than mortgaging them for cash flow. If President Bodnar wants to distinguish the University of Montana and himself, he should be that leader. He should re-invest in creative writing, a distinction rooted in this community for a hundred years. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.
[opinion]
Far from ‘there’ A century on, discrimination still plagues the Forest Service by James G. Lewis
The third applicant was “no gentleman,” the U.S. Forest Service ranger wrote to his boss, but would still make a first-class fire lookout on the remote Klamath National Forest. He thought little of the first applicant’s abilities, and the second had poor eyesight, though that didn’t prevent him from frequently violating the local game laws. Yet the third candidate was so unusual, ranger M.H. McCarthy cautioned, “I hope your heart is strong enough to stand the shock.” For the shocking third applicant was a woman, Hallie Morse Daggett, though McCarthy added that she “is absolutely devoid of the timidity which is ordinarily associated with her sex.” McCarthy told his supervisor not to worry about being overrun by female applicants in the future “since we can hardly expect these positions to ever become very popular with the Fair Sex.” What is telling in light of recent news about the systemic problem of discrimination throughout the Forest Service is that this was written 105 years ago. Women — and minorities, too — have long struggled to be accepted as equals in the Forest Service, an agency traditionally led by white males at all management levels. Thirteen years ago, I wrote The Greatest Good and The Forest Service: A Centennial History, which included a chapter about what women working in the Forest Service had achieved and what obstacles they continued to face in the agency. If I were writing that chapter today, what I then called “New Faces, Changing Values” would now be titled “New Faces, Same Old Values.” It seems that all that has changed is the names of those involved in incidents, and not the misogynistic behavior. There have always been notable exceptions, of course, women who made their way with the help of their male colleagues, as in the cases of the first female smokejumper, Deanne Shulman, and of Geraldine Bergen Larson, the first female forest supervisor.
Too often, though, it’s been like what their contemporary Gene Bernardi, a research sociologist in the California region, encountered in 1973. When a hiring manager preferred to wait for a male applicant to be available rather than hire her, she complained, garnering compensation but not the job. Fed up, she and other women then filed a class-action lawsuit in California over sexual discrimina-
“It seems that all that has changed is the names of those involved in incidents, and not the misogynistic behavior.” tion. In the end, after years of litigation and negotiation, the Forest Service consented to hire more women and minorities in the region. Fifty years before that agreement in California, a group of Forest Service female employees met with agency leaders, including Chief William Greeley, to discuss how the agency could "make working conditions pleasant" for women. In 1924, they told leaders how to do so in no uncertain terms. According to the meeting minutes, a “Miss Peyton” observed: “The first summer after I came to the Service a group of freshly-graduated students arrived from one of the forest schools, painfully young, immature looking, and inexperienced, to such an extent indeed, as to cause quite a number of facetious remarks at their expense, one young forester going so far as to remark that they looked too young
to be out without their mothers. That's the way their fellow workers viewed them and gibed them. Then suddenly something else caught and held my attention. The heads of the Service evidently saw those boys from some different angle. The Service didn’t see mere boys. It saw potentialities. It was not looking at the present. It visioned the future.” In other words, don’t denigrate new employees for their lack of experience. Let them work to gain experience and judge them on ability. Asking that women be afforded the same treatment, she went on: “Their history might in fact be written to a large extent in four words: No responsibilities, no experience. And the result? … What has happened to them might easily be indicated in three fateful words: Unused faculties atrophy. Think of it — (they’re) retrograding instead of developing! … Now, reverse the picture, and thereby get a glimpse of these same women as an army of well-developed trained workers. How great the gain!” Ten years after Gene Bernardi filed suit, a Forest Service employee noted, “Given the Forest Service’s traditional values, it’s a big step to open up the organization to women and minorities. It’ll take time, but we’re getting there.” Today, 35 years later, after Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke resigned amid charges of sexual misconduct, and with the agency’s employment practices once again deservedly under scrutiny, the agency appears far from “there.” It’s time to heed the advice offered nearly a century ago by Miss Peyton: Look at people for their potentialities, not their gender or skin color. Vision this future. James G. Lewis is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is staff historian at the Forest History Society ( foresthistory.org ), in Durham, North Carolina.
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IRONY – At Pennsylvania State University, the Outing Club, founded in 1920, provided students with outdoor recreation opportunities such as hiking and camping. But no more. Penn State has announced that after this semester, the university will no longer allow the club to organize student-led trips because it is too dangerous out in the wilderness, according to the offices of Student Affairs and Risk Management. Two other outdoorsy clubs, the Nittany Grotto Caving Club and the Nittany Divers Scuba Club, have also been restricted from club activities outdoors. Michael Lacey, president of the Caving Club, told the Centre Daily Times: “Penn State’s just been clamping down really hard on the nature of activities” since the Jerry Sandusky scandal. University spokesperson Lisa Powers said Penn State will offer school-sponsored outdoors trips, but students noted the cost will be much higher. UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – In a perhaps unintentional bid for the worst criminal disguise of 2018, Kerry Hammond Jr., 22, broke into a GameStop store in St. Marys, Georgia, at 1:19 a.m. on April 13, where he was captured on camera wearing a clear plastic wrapper (of the sort that holds bundles of bottled water) over his head. Even with the plastic “mask,” WJXT reported, Hammond’s face is clearly visible in surveillance video, and St. Marys police quickly identified him and captured him on April 17. Hammond already had two active felony warrants for his arrest for burglary and second-degree criminal damage to property. TECHNO-WEIRD – In Tokyo, women who have qualms about living alone may soon have a new security option. “Man on the Curtain” is a prototype smartphone app that connects to a projector and throws a moving shadow of a man onto a closed window curtain. The shadow man can be doing any of several different activities, such as boxing, karate, vacuuming, playing guitar or getting dressed. Keiichi Nakamura, advertising manager of Leopalace21 Corp., an apartment management company where the idea originated, told Reuters that eventually his company would like to “commercialize it once we add variety, such as releasing a new video every day.” FUN-SUCKERS – In Oslo, according to Reuters, tradition calls for recent high school graduates to participate in “Russ,” a several-weeks-long party that includes drinking, nudity and public sex, sometimes resulting in fatal car crashes. So this year, the Public Roads Administration issued a statement on April 18 headlined “No to sex on roundabouts,” warning that students should refrain from running naked and having sex on bridges and roundabouts, because such behavior gives drivers “too much of a surprise.” Terje Moe Gustavsen, head of the administration, said: “Everyone understands that being in and around roundabouts is a traffic hazard. It may not be so dangerous for someone to be without clothes on the bridge, but drivers can ... completely forget that they are driving.” BRIGHT IDEAS – Resorting to a low-tech but possibly offensive strategy, Largo, Florida, detectives visited a dead man at Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home in Clearwater and attempted to use his finger to unlock his smartphone. Linus F. Phillip, 30, was shot and killed by Largo police March 23 after he tried to drive away from an officer wanting to search him. As part of their investigation, police said they needed to access and preserve data on Phillip’s phone. Legal experts generally agreed the detectives had not broken any laws, but Phillip’s girlfriend, Victoria Armstrong, 28, was less forgiving: “Nobody even calling us ... to let us know detectives were coming there at all is very disturbing,” she told the Tampa Bay Times. “I’m very skeptical of all funeral homes now.” United Press International reports that in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the mayor has employed a clever way to keep his finger on the pulse of the city. When he goes out, he wears a fake beard so he’ll blend in and not be recognized as the capital city’s leader. Mayor Albek Ibraimov told Fergana, a Russian news agency: “I dress in old clothes ... take off my tie and I go and look, and see how things actually are.” INEXPLICABLE – On April 23, police officers in Warren, Michigan, responded to a home for a welfare check on 68-year-old George Curtis, whose relatives had become concerned because they hadn’t heard from him. Curtis was, indeed, dead — in fact, WJBK-TV reported, he had been deceased for months, maybe even a year. Also in the home: his girlfriend, who had continued living there with his decaying body, which was laid out in a bed. Police transported the unnamed woman to a hospital for a mental evaluation and are awaiting a report on cause of death from the medical examiner. BAD ATTITUDE – Timothy Hill, 67, of Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, having installed a laser jammer in his Range Rover, thought he was outsmarting law enforcement speed cameras. In fact, he was so sure of his scheme that he repeatedly raised his middle finger to the cameras — sometimes casually, sometimes aggressively — as he passed. What he didn’t realize was that the laser jammer, rather than hiding his identity, was only blocking police from determining his speed, so when they tracked him down, he was charged not with speeding, but with perverting the course of justice. “If you want to attract our attention, repeatedly gesturing at police camera vans with your middle finger while you’re driving a distinctive car fitted with a laser jammer is an excellent way to do it,” Traffic Constable Andrew Forth told Metro News. Hill pleaded guilty on April 23, and was sentenced to eight months in jail and prohibited from driving for a year. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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ive years. That’s how long it’s been since the Indy launched its annual Comix Issue, a celebration of Missoula’s thriving community of artists and illustrators. The brainchild of former Indy editor Skylar Browning and local comic artist (and frequent Indy contributor) Josh Quick, the issue quickly took root, and at this point it’s fair to say it’s reached maturity. That’s reflected in this year’s rich slate of contributions, organized around the theme of “Missoula Confessions.” We’ve all got some. And in the following pages, some of Missoula’s most vibrant artists share theirs. So many, in fact, that we could only squeeze a portion of them into the print issue. So this year, for the first time, we’re also going to publish the runners-up — pretty much every submission we received — in an online gallery at missoulanews.com. So if these confessions aren’t enough to sate your voyeuristic curiosity, go online to see more. And on Friday, May 11, we’re hosting a party for the artists and their fans at Shakespeare & Co. bookstore from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The original art reproduced in this issue will be on display, and the artists will be present to chat about their work, admire each others’, and maybe, if you ask nicely, hear your own confessions. But be careful what you choose to reveal. It just may end up framed on your neighbor’s wall.
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[arts]
Winging her way Former Missoula multi-instrumentalist Maiah Wynne joins the Portland Cello Project on tour by Erika Fredrickson
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n the phone, Maiah Wynne has an extremely unassuming demeanor. The Portland-based musician talks about how much she loved going to high school in Missoula and speaks of her gratitude for venues, including Break Espresso, where she first honed her craft. She’s young, just 21, and still surprised at the opportunities she’s gotten in the last few years. But when you see her perform her song “Fearless Girl,” a #MeToo-era tribute that she sings in a strong, lucid voice while tackling keyboard, electronic drum kit and a bucket bass drum, it’s obvious why she’s a rising star. Wynne recently won second place at Seattle’s Sound Off contest — a battle of the bands for musicians 21 and under held at the Museum of Pop Culture — which helped her land a spot on KEXP, a public radio station that has a reputation for showcasing the best independent music in the country. “I performed there the same day as St. Vincent,” she says. “I was super excited about that.” That experience garnered her slots this summer at Upstream Music Fest, Timber Musica Festival and Northwest Folklife. In Portland, where she’s lived since moving from Missoula a year and a half ago, she’s also created a buzz. The Portland Cello Project, a collective that has collaborated with artists including the Dandy Warhols, Mirah, and Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, asked Wynne to join them as a featured musician on their latest tour, which hits the Wilma Sunday, May 13. Wynne’s first performance was in 2013 at the Break, when she was a junior at Loyola Sacred Heart. She wore a pair of butterfly wings she’d purchased at Carlo’s One Night Stand, which, she says, made her feel more confident. For a few years, she did the coffeeshop and contest circuit in Missoula, winning the Zoo Music Awards in 2015 in the 18-andunder category and, the following year, the Badlander’s Top of the Mic competition. “I guess I’ve done a lot of these kinds of contests, but they’ve been really
Maiah Wynne made her debut at Missoula’s Break Espresso, and this week she returns to town with the Portland Cello Project to play the Wilma.
great for opening some doors for me,” she says. Wynne also appeared in a few Montana-made films, mostly in supporting roles. That put her on the radar of the Montana Film Office, which asked her to perform at its 2016 event at Sundance. “I went there and the show was super packed, with a line backed up around the corner,” she says. “It was a surreal experience.” That same year, she moved to Butte — “I was intrigued by the place and I had a lot of friends there,” she says — and started performing at venues around town. One of her most striking videos is of her performance inside the tunnel next to the Berkeley Pit. The tunnel glows like a hallway inside the Millennium Falcon. Wynne, wearing a purple dress and black boots, strums a gorgeous Bohemian Honey electric soprano
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ukulele (the body of which is made from a Bohemian motor oil can) and sings Radiohead’s “Creep.” Who hasn’t seen that song covered a million times? But Wynne’s take on it is pretty-but-raw in a way I’ve never heard before. Wynne also wrote an original song for the Montana-made film The Ballad of Lefty Brown, starring Bill Pullman, which we wrote about when Pullman toured it through Missoula in late January. It’s the title track for the soundtrack and it plays, in full, during the closing credits. In some ways, it echoes the film’s plot about a sidekick who seeks out his friend’s murderer in the unforgiving landscape of the old west. Wynne’s song is dark and unforgiving, too, but beyond the context of the film, it feels like it could mean a multitude of things: “There ain’t no light, there ain’t no sunshine today. I’m gonna stand my ground
/ and I’m gonna hunt him down / find the man who tortures me / the man who holds my dreams.” Since her first show, Wynne has picked up a total of 25 instruments. And she’s continued to put herself into the world with a steady, humble confidence. She messaged the Portland Cello Project via Instagram almost a year ago. She’d seen them play at the Top Hat and decided on a whim to find out what it would take to play with them. Douglas Jenkins, who does musical arrangements for PCP, got back to her a couple of months ago to invite her on the road aftering checking out her work. “It’s been incredible to play with them,” she says. “I get chills at the rehearsals.” Wynne will play guitar and keyboards, possibly dulcimer. She’ll also break out the Bohemian Honey ukulele for an original song she wrote called
“Save You.” Wynne and the PCP will be joined by another guest collaborator, trumpeter Farnell Newton. Additionally, Missoula cellist Bethany Joyce, who can be heard on several of Wynne’s Missoulaera recordings, was asked by the PCP to perform alongside her at the Wilma show. Wynne may or may not wear her butterfly wings for the Missoula show. She’s fond of them, and in some ways, they’ve become a signature look. But at this point in her rising career, she doesn’t need lucky charms to hold her up. “I wear them when it feels right to wear them,” she says. “Sometimes they seem a little big or extravagant for a show. They’re very beat up now.” The Portland Cello Project plays the Wilma Sun., May 15, at 8 PM. $25. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music] Marshall Dorothy Granger, Small Deaths “Yr Shadow,” the first song on Small Deaths, reminds me of Nina Persson and Nathan Larson’s “The Bluest Eyes in Texas” off the Boys Don’t Cry soundtrack. It’s got a similarly shimmery, dusky, openchord feel that runs like an undercurrent through the album. It serves to soften the country-folk edges of the songs, the way nighttime — the darkness itself — sometimes seems to transform a bustling big-city boardwalk into a hushed murmur. And it’s appropriate for Small Deaths to evoke a film, considering that Missoula musician Marshall Dorothy Granger is also a filmmaker. He showcases his cinematic sensibilities by tucking color, texture and other concrete details into nearly every line of the five tracks. In “Carsick,” he sings, “Pieces of glass in our living room / Red brick says I’m not like
you.” And, for an example of a contemporary visual: “Hands shaking in the night, cut the dark with touch screen light.” Small Deaths features some of Missoula’s biggest talents: Singer/violinist Jenny Fawcett and multi-instrumentalist Lukas Phelan, both of Shahs; singer/accordionist Hermina Jean Harold, formerly of Butter (whose album Removable Beast feels of the same species as Small Deaths); and Jesse Hadden, who provides lap steel on “Carsick.” Granger plays guitar with effective emotion. He is a strong songwriter in the vein of Bright Eyes, but more experimental. Some songs include electronic noise and samples that are fairly cacophonic. Somehow it adds tension without disrupting the album’s delicious dreaminess. (Erika Fredrickson)
Cannon, Cannon In 2012, I wrote about Missoula band Tidal Horn’s newest album at the time and, more specifically, its album art featuring an illustration of a yeti taking a big bite out of a mountain goat. That imagery captured the band’s epic, over-the-top stonerrock appeal. Tidal Horn guitarist/singer Sam Kaley started the band Cannon in 2016 with bassist Jordan Swede Demander and drummer Lucas Wild Barrey, and their recent eponymous release carries over a lot of the same elements (even though Cannon’s album cover is a cool, but subdued woodcut-style cannon etched in black and white). The songs include heavy, galloping
power-chord rock broken up by not-too-gratuitous, but still gnarly, squealing guitar solos and several psychedelic breakdowns. It’s hard to tell what they’re singing about, though with titles such as “Tarantula Hawk” and “Blind Acid King,” you kind of get the idea. Kaley’s hypnotic vocals serve as a satisfying contrast to the loud, expansive soundscape. Some songs feel like they bleed into others, but there’s always enough variation to suck you in. The final track, a cover of “For the Love of Ivy,” written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Kid Congo Powers, is brilliantly executed in all its burn-itdown, garage-rock glory. (Erika Fredrickson)
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Years Last year’s Sidelong introduced Sarah Shook and the Disarmers with a batch of spot-on country music pushing quirky, menacing songs that showed a trace of vulnerability while simultaneously presenting a damaged character you’d screw with at your own peril. Years comes at the same subjects of sin and loss from several angles. “Every day you tell me I’m a drunkard, and every night you lie awake and stew / I never claimed to be anything other, darling, ’cause the bottle never lets me down the way you do,” Shook sings in her unrepentant oddball twang, as the vulnerability is giving way to acceptance and resolve. “I’m gonna learn me my lesson and move
on / I’m gonna keep on a-lovin’ till the love is gone,” she sings on “Lesson,” a message to her ex-partner that she hopes he or she will also be able to get on with their life after their relationship augered from all the drinking and fighting. The band is razor sharp, bringing a barely restrained punk energy to a lot of their playing, but they also are smart enough to keep it tight and respect the conventions of traditional country. Pedal steel always shows up right when you need it, and they jump from straight-up hillbilly to Bottle Rockets-style alt-country that stomps hard. This could be the album that puts them over the top. (Ednor Therriault)
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Jazz sensibility Gary Lundy’s path down the rabbit hole of experimental poetry by Chris La Tray
It’s possible to visit Butterfly Herbs in downtown Missoula for years without realizing there is a coffee shop tucked way in the back. This was the case for poet Gary Lundy. He didn’t discover the place until some of his friends started working there, despite years of regular visits to the front of the shop from his then-home in Dillon. Now, every day around 10 a.m., Lundy arrives through the back entrance, orders coffee and a scone, and warmly greets a majority of the other assorted regulars. For the next couple of hours, he hunkers down over a notebook or computer, working away, easily recognizable by his white hair streaked with bright colors (currently purple). Butterfly is the epicenter for a particular community of artists working in practically every medium, and within those confines Lundy is well known and beloved. In the greater circle of Missoula’s literary community, though, his name isn’t as familiar, despite an impressive body of work. He publishes regularly in online journals around the country, as well as internationally. He has also published five chapbooks and two full length books of poetry via small independent presses. Lundy’s latest book is called each room echoes absence edited by poet Craig Czury and released last month via FootHills Publishing. It is the first in the North Carolina press’ third series of books dedicated to Montana poets. At the urging of long-time friend and Missoula poet Mark Gibbons, Lundy submitted his book, which consists of poems written in 2015 for his friend Pansy, after her death. “I did it as a goof,” Lundy says. “I’m not exactly someone you look at and say, ‘Now there’s a Montana guy who drives a big truck,’ and all that. This work was something I was really proud of, but I didn’t expect anything to come of it. Then three days after I sent it, Craig Czury wrote back and said, ‘We gotta have this.’ I immediately went to the bathroom and splashed water on my face to make sure I was awake.” The style of Lundy’s work is fragmentary, almost stream of consciousness, and experimental in its use of language. “I’m more interested and intrigued — and I guess this probably comes out of a kind of jazz sensibility — in just letting the poem do what it wants to,” he says. “I hear fragments and I write them down, then let them go wherever they go. I don’t sit down, say, to write a love poem.” Lundy was raised in the Denver suburb of Englewood, Colorado. He started writing poetry as a teenager in high school. “I was informed peripherally by the Beats, and of course by folk music, and the Vietnam War,” Lundy says. “I had a friend — Linda Anderson, who is still a dear friend of mine — who was the editor of the newspaper
photo by Chris La Tray
Butterfly Herbs regular and poet Gary Lundy recently released his book each room echoes absence.
there. She published a couple of my poems. One was something like, ‘Ain’t got no friends, don’t want none, fuck it, walkin’ down the road with my hands in my pockets feelin’ baaaaad!’ I was so proud of it.” Lundy says his high school experience was pleasant but also unpleasant because of the Vietnam War, and a “not exactly conservative” outlook already had him at odds with much of the world around him. At 18, he moved into an apartment on his own. He went to school and “flunked out” before enlisting in the United States Navy, where he served two tours in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972. Returning from the war, Lundy went back to school, where he ultimately received his Ph.D. in Twentieth Century American Poetry from Binghamton University in New York state. He taught on the East Coast for several years before he moved west to Montana. He taught at the University of Montana Western in Dillon for 20 years, retiring in 2011 and moving to Missoula in June of 2013.
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One particular encounter early in his teaching career affected Lundy deeply. In the mid-’80s while at SUNY Oswego, New York, he had the opportunity to meet and spend time with the Quebecois feminist poet Nicole Brussard during a writing festival featuring Canadian writers. At the time, he had no idea who she was, but he enjoyed her company and the long talks they had. She was reading from Lovhers, a book she had just released. After they parted ways at the festival, Lundy picked up the book and began reading it. “I understand where the readers who struggle with [my work] come from,” Lundy says. “I could not read Lovhers. It challenged everything that I had been taught about poetic language.” Brussard’s work introduced Lundy to a different kind of poetry. It challenged the ideas of poetic form, and how the page interacts with the reader. Not to mention Brussard’s assumptions about gender. It
took six or eight months, Lundy says, but then one day something clicked and he couldn’t put it down. After that, he began discovering other experimental writers, particularly women, and never looked back. “That book changed my writing career,” Lundy says. Lundy says he likes to challenge his readers as a necessary part of the practice of producing and sharing art, particularly when he feels he has finished his part of the process. The work needs interaction and involvement with others to complete the cycle. “The work is only complete,” Lundy says, “when you [the reader] read it with what your experience is bringing to bear on it. Until then, it’s just stuck on my computer. Until then, I’m just an orphanage for all this fucking writing.” arts@missoulanews.com
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Horse tale Pete shines in its unmerciful lack of sentiment by Molly Laich
Charlie Plummer stars in Lean on Pete.
On the outside, Lean on Pete looks like a folksy family drama about an adolescent boy and his love for a horse. That’s not an inaccurate description, per se; it just belies the story’s darkest undercurrents. Beware a placid movie trailer that cascades into a montage of characters smiling. More often than not, this is the studio trying to obscure from you what might otherwise be a prohibitively sad story. If I had bought the saccharine pitch about a boy and his horse I’d have steered clear, but lucky for us I am hardwired to sniff out doom. Wait a minute, I said. Why is this horse movie rated R? I suspected that the picture held sordid secrets, and I was not disappointed. Lean on Pete comes to us from writer and director Andrew Haigh, based on Willy Vlautin’s 2010 novel. Haigh’s previous work includes the critically acclaimed 45 Years (unseen by me, but this one also looks like a bummer). Charlie Plummer stars as Charley, a good looking, 15-year-old white kid who used to live in Spokane, but has since moved with his screw-up father (Travis Fimmel) to Oregon where they live in filth and squalor. We are a far piece from the Portland I know, replete with food trucks and massage therapists. Along the city’s rural outskirts, Charley comes across a horse track and gets that glassy-eyed look you find in a character who’s just been confronted with his destiny. Before long, Charley’s mixed up with Del (Steve Buscemi), a man who used to like horses but has since been hardened by the ins and outs of the cutthroat business of competitive racing. Charley starts to work for Del and his pretty, kind jockey friend Bonnie (Chloe Sevigny). She warns him, “Don’t get attached to the horses. They’re not pets.” But the movie isn’t called, Don’t Lean on
Pete. Of course Charley will befriend the titular horse, see himself in all the ways the animal has been put upon, used and discarded by adults, and a tender and complicated friendship will ensue. Pete wins races until his foot gives out and he quits winning. From there, it’s time to be shipped off to the glue factory in Mexico. Unless… If all this sounds like a familiar enough trope to you, you’re not wrong so much as missing the point. Here I am forced to evoke the words of my unwitting mentor Roger Ebert when he said, “It’s not what it’s about, but how it’s about what it’s about.” Charley’s story moves me precisely because we are shown it with such a vicious, plain and almost unbearable lack of sentiment. In a movie such as this, you would expect Pete to work his charm on us. Give us something cute or extraordinary to hang our sympathies on: Have the horse nuzzle Charley with a knowing tenderness at just the right moment, or maybe he knows simple math with the stomping of his foot or can talk sort of? At the end of the day, Pete is just a regular, degular horse, and any value Charley (or we, the audience) place on him is merely a projection of our pitiful hope. Finally, I admire the picture for its linear, elegant and unmerciful unfolding of events. We watch how Charley’s luck turns from good to bad to worse and maybe back again. ( You’ll get no promises from me.) At its heart, this is a story about wounded people stuck in unhappy lives and all the many and terrible ways they try and fail and try again to make do. Lean on Pete opens at the Roxy Fri., May 11. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] The courier delivering the Southgate 9’s listings got trapped in a window well while trying to rescue a squirrel. Visit amctheatres.com for updated listings.
OPENING THIS WEEK
BREAKING IN The good news, your father has a state-of-the-art home security system that’s neigh-impenetrable. The bad news, your kids are trapped inside it with four desperate criminals and you’re stuck on the outside. Rated PG-13. Stars Gabrielle Union, Ajiona Alexus and Billy Burke. Playing at the AMC 12. FINAL PORTRAIT Sometimes you find your best friend at school or at work. Sometimes, though, you find your best friend when an eccentric and world-renowned artist asks you to be the subject for a new painting. Rated R. Stars Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer and Clemence Poesy. Playing at the Roxy. LEAN ON PETE A horse is a horse, of course, unless, of course, that horse is past its prime and scheduled to be turned into dog food. Then he’s your best friend in need of a daring and heartbreaking escape. Rated R. Stars Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi and Steve Zahn. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) LIFE OF THE PARTY After a sudden and unexpected divorce, a middle-aged mom heads back to college, where she ends up in the same classes as her daughter. Rated PG-13. Stars Melissa McCarthy, Molly Jordan and Gillian Jacobs, who I think is supposed to be playing 21 in this movie. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
NOW PLAYING THE AVENGERS (2012) And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes were united against a common threat! Six years later and I’m still waiting for my Great Lakes Avengers movie. Rated. PG-13. Stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and America’s fascination with shawarma. Playing Sun., May 13 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy. 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. Oh snap! Rated PG-13. Stars a bunch of dudes named Chris, Benedict Cumberbatch’s ridiculous American accent and not Jeremy Renner. Playing at the AMC 12, the Pharaohplex and the Southgate 9. BAD SAMARITAN Burglary and theft are his bread and butter, but when he discovers a woman chained to the wall in a house he’s breaking into, this crook finds himself in the sights of a deranged killer. Rated R. Stars Robert Sheehan, David Tennant and Carlito Olivero. Playing at the AMC 12. BLOCKERS These parents will stop at nothing from preventing their daughters from having sex on prom night. One of the parents is played by John Cena, so there’s like a 50percent 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. BORG VS. MCENROE Look, he’s a great tennis player, but I just don’t think John McEnroe has the technology to defeat the un-
Is she a member of the Avengers? I can't keep all these characters straight. Melissa McCarthy and Debby Ryan star in Life of the Party, opening at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. stoppable might of the Borg Collective. Oh wait. This is probably about his famous rivalry with tennis star Björn Borg, and not a new Star Trek film, isn’t it? Rated R. Stars Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf and Tuva Novotny Playing at the Roxy. BOW WOW FILM FEST Check out short films by Missoula filmmakers all about our four-legged friends. Playing Thu., May 17 at 7 PM at the Roxy. 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 Pharaohplex. 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? This joke was a lot funnier when The Miracle Season was still playing. Rated PG-13. Stars Kate Mara, Jason Clark and Jim Gaffigan. Playing at the Pharaohplex. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2014) I am Groot. Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper. Playing at the Roxy Wed., May 16 at 8 PM and Sun., May 20 at 2:30 PM. GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988) Two siblings are forced to flee for their lives after being separated from their parents during an American firebombing that destroys everything they’ve ever known. Not Rated, but not for kids you don’t want to traumatize. Recently deceased legendary director Isao Takahata is on top of his game with this, one of the greatest animated films ever made. Playing Fri., May 11 at 7 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 lost boy back to his quarantined best friend. Get
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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. JACOB’S LADDER (1990) A Vietnam vet returning home finds himself plagued by flashbacks and hallucinations of twisted creatures and horrible monsters. At least, he hopes they’re hallucinations. Rated R. Stars Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña and Matt Craven. Playing Sat., May 12 at 9 PM at the Roxy. LADY BIRD (2017) Rehearsing the school play, applying to colleges and throwing yourself out of a moving vehicle to get out a talk with your mother. Adolescence never changes, does it? Rated R. Stars Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Lucas Hedges. Playing Sun., May 13 at 7 PM at the Roxy. Bring your mom. M*A*S*H (1970) Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be. Things like a group of Army surgeons trying to stay sane against the horrors of war. Those are some pretty specific visions. Rated R. Stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duval and Gary Burghoff. Playing Thu., May 17 at 7 PM at the Roxy. OVERBOARD If we’re at the point where we’re remaking Overboard, a movie about a mistreated employee gaslighting their amnesiac boss into marrying them, I think we’ve finally run out of movies to remake. The genders of the leads are switched to make everything less creepy, so there’s that. Rated PG-13. Stars Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris and Eva Longoria. Playing at the AMC 12. 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 Southgate 9 and the AMC 12. SHREK (2001) Seventeen years ago, we met a green ogre, his talking donkey and the magical world they inhabit. All of these years later and we still can’t get Smash Mouth out of
our heads. Rated PG. Featuring a plot that critiques Disney’s corporate culture of exploiting public domain fairy tales that’s undercut by the all the Shrek sequels, spinoffs and Broadway plays that do the exact same thing. Playing Sat., May 12 at 2 PM at the Roxy. 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 Pharaohplex and the Southgate 9. STUDENT NIGHT AT THE ROXY See short documentaries about sustainable energy, South Africa’s green economy, Free Cycles and more by five Montana student filmmakers. Playing Fri., May 11 at 5 PM. Free. THE FEARLESS FREAKS (2005) Before you catch the Flaming Lips in concert next month, follow the evolution of the Oklahoma-born alt rock band in this all-access documentary. Not Rated. Directed by Bradley Beesley. Playing Thu., May 17 at 9 PM at the Roxy. TULLY Stressed to her limit raising three young children, a mother’s friendship with her new nanny helps her come to terms with motherhood. Rated R. Starring Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis, and featuring a screenplay by Diablo Cody. Playing at the AMC 12. 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. I’m celebrating Mother’s Day with a double feature of Psycho and Friday the 13th.
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Poached eggs with roasted asparagus by Gabi Moskowitz
BROKEASS GOURMET
Poached eggs are one of my brunch-time favorites, but it can be really tricky to get them just right, which is why I was so excited when I found WikiHow’s “How to poach an egg” link. Thanks to WikiHow, my somewhat unsuccessful egg-poaching career took a turn for the better. Fresh, in-season asparagus melds perfectly with rich, runny poached eggs, creating a kind of impromptu hollandaise-like sauce as you eat it. I like to add red chili flakes for spice, but feel free to forgo them if you’re not a fan. Note: This dish does require a bit of patience and careful timing, so make it for someone deserving of your efforts. Serves 2 INGREDIENTS 1 bunch (30-40 stalks) fresh asparagus, tough ends removed 2 shallots, peeled and sliced into thin rings 2 tbsp olive oil salt and pepper 4 fresh eggs 1 tomato, cored and chopped pinch red pepper flakes
DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spread asparagus on a baking sheet. Spread shallots in one corner of the sheet, away from the asparagus. Drizzle both generously with olive oil. Sprinkle the asparagus with salt and pepper. Roast in oven for 18-20 minutes, checking periodically to make sure shallots don’t get too dark (if they begin to brown, remove from baking sheet using tongs and set on a plate). About 5 minutes before the asparagus and shallots are finished roasting, poach the eggs. This can be tricky, so follow the directions at http://www.wikihow.com/Poach-an-Egg. Divide the roasted asparagus between 2 plates and top each pile with 2 poached eggs. Top the eggs with roasted shallots and fresh tomato. Sprinkle a pinch of red pepper flakes over each plate for color and spice. 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. $-$$
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Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Chameleon Mobile Kitchen 1616 S 3rd St W (through May) 8340 Hwy 200 E (June-Sept) 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, bowls and pasta. We also offer daily specials, seasonal drinks, and house-baked goods. We are fully equipped and self-contained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pick-up. Online menu available on Google
Maps. Open Tues - Thurs 11:30 am - 10 pm, Fri & Sat 11:30 am - midnight, closed Sunday and Monday. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-toorder sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ 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 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ 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. $-$$
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[dish] Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Mo’ Dogs 617 S. Higgins Ave. 926-1094 mo-dogs.com Mo’ Dogs – Missoula’s premier Gourmet Sausage and Specialty Hot Dog Restaurant. From our Old Fashioned Frank to our tropical “Aloha” or traditional “Chicago” we have something for everyone. Our sauces, slaws and all-meat Angus Chili are house-made daily. Missoula Family owned and operated – we look forward to seeing you! $-$$ 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? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reserva-
tions, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
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Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
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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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The skinny: Oh, Missoula. You still know how to throw a kegger. Caras Park was awash in craft beer last Saturday — sometimes literally — as hundreds flocked to the 26th annual Garden City BrewFest. What a beer-crazed lot of primates we are, enduring the harsh jabs of strange elbows all in the name of honey weizen, black gose and Northwest IPA. Even Sen. Jon Tester charged into the fray, showing he’s as big a fan of taps as he is of playing “Taps.” And when the party ended, 11 brews left with honors bestowed by judges from the local homebrew club Zoo City Zymurgists. Here’s a look at the hometown winners, and one from farther afield, all worth tasting. Merliner Weisse: A hazy golden beer beneath a head of fluffy white foam, this speciality from Big Sky Brewing won Best Belgian/Sour. It’s crisp and wheaty, with a subtle sourness. You can still get it in the taproom while supplies last, at 5417 Trumpeter Way. Lemon Meringue Sour: Draught Works released this summery brew in its taproom on May 3 and just two days later, judges named it the Best Fruit Beer at BrewFest. The
Lemon Meringue Sour is less, well, sour than its seasonal sister, the Blood Orange Gose. But it hits many of the same notes — light, zesty, refreshing — with an added lemony kick. Consider it a don’t-miss deck beer at 915 Toole Ave. Rupture Fresh Ground Ale: OK, this one ain’t local, but it was one of the brews that wowed the Indy’s panel of beer-tasting experts in our recent BrewFest issue feature. Rupture wowed the BrewFest judges too, winning the Best American Ale category and claiming a runner-up spot for Best of Show. It’s from Odell Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it’s currently on tap at the Dram Shop, 229 E. Front St. Americano Coffee Mild: Finally, we get to the top of the heap: the Best of Show at BrewFest. That distinction went to the coffee-infused mild ale from Missoula Brewing Company. It also won Best Brown/Porter/Stout. So if you’re looking for a darker, maltier session beer in the coming weeks, head to 200 International Dr. and give it a try. —Alex Sakariassen
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Chris Young plays the Adams Center Wed., May 16. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $37–$57.
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Undying Avarice plays the VFW with Walking Corpse Syndrome and In Rapture Sat., May 12. 9 PM. $5.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Carla Green Jazz provides the soundtrack at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Lochwood unlocks a night of bluegrass at Bitter Root Brewing. 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 Student coders, filmmakers and artists present the School of Media Arts Spring Expo at the Roxy. 7 PM. Free.
Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $20– $25.
nightlife Worst Feelings play Western Cider. 8 PM–11 PM. Free. 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. Get the Led out! Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15. Hambone and the Headliners headline a night of music at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.
Look out! The Dodgeball Spring Fling tournament lets you live out your gym class fantasies. Missoula Indoor Sports Arena. $75/team of 4–8. Register at missoulaindoor.com 7 PM–10 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.
I want to be Ursula when I grow up. Disney’s The Little Mermaid continues at the MCT Center for the
Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
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Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso plays the Top Hat Thu., May 10. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15
Downtown Dance Collective hosts a weekend of dance at Tango Missoula Spring 2018. The weekend features five milongas, three technique classes and plenty of other opportunities to dance your heart out. Visit tangomissoula.com for a full schedule and registration. $15/class or $115 for the whole weekend. The Third Annual Ceramics Invitational at Radius Gallery creatures over 50 functional and sculptural clay artworks from some of the best local and regional artists. An opening reception welcomes the pieces from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.
nightlife Enjoy a glass of made-in-Montana wine and the live music of Andrea Harsell at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Masquerade, Phoenix Marshall, Syren and Carpool, band formed during the ZACC’s Rock Camp, perform original songs at the Top Hat. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Gladys Friday plays the Union Club Fri., May 11, at 9:30 PM. Free.
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Thwip! Celebrate Missoula’s most creative comic artists as we showcase their takes on Missoula Con-
fessions from the Indy’s 5th Annual Comix Issue. Shakespeare & Co. Swing by between 6 PM– 8:30 PM. Free. 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. The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Eagles Club for your dancing pleasure. 8 PM. Free. The microphone at the ZACC Below is ready for your comedy, music, poetry and more. Email kate@zootownarts.org to snag your spot. 8 PM–10 PM. Free. Dead Hipster’s I Love the ‘90s Dance Party takes you back to a time when the Unabomber captured Montana’s heart and imagination. The Badlander. 9 PM. $3. Oh yeah? Well do they know all the President’s middle names, huh? Smart Alex plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. TGIGF! Gladys Friday plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.
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Saturday Downtown Dance Collective hosts a weekend of dance at Tango Missoula Spring 2018. The weekend features five milongas, three technique classes and plenty of other opportunities to dance your heart out. Visit tangomissoula.com for a full schedule and registration. $15/class or $115 for the whole weekend.
The Dana Gallery hosts an open house for the oil paintings of artist and dermatologist Robert Korenberg. 12 PM–5 PM.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Designated Wild and Scenic Rivers Act on the Lochsa River with a 20-mile float through Idaho big waters with Zoo Town Surfers. 8 AM–5 PM. $75. Visit zootownsurfers.com for more info and registration.
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.
Do you know your farmer? Missoula Farmers Market features hot coffee, sweet treats and fresh, locally grown veggies. Circle Square by the XXXX. 8 AM– 12:30 PM. Free. Stock up on farm-direct food every Saturday at the Clark Fork Market. Vendors from across Western Montana converge in the Riverside Parking Lot next to Caras Park. 8 AM–1 PM. 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. Celebrating its 20th year, the Missoula People’s Market features an amazing assortment of artists, crafts and community. W. Pine and Higgins. 9 AM. Free. Take a family-friendly bike ride from Market on Front to a nearby park with Kidical Mass. 9:30 AM. Free. Congratulations. Sorry about all those student loans you have to pay back now. The University of Montana’s 2018 Commencement ceremonies start with professional schools at 9:30 AM followed by Missoula College and Humanities and Sciences at 2:30 PM. Free. Get your weekend started with a round of disc golf at Granite Peak Folf Course. 10 AM. Free. Visit lolohotsprings.com for more info and registration.
Be at peace, be aware of your breathing, be at Joan Zen Band at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Oh yeah? Well do they know all the President’s middle names, huh? Smart Alex plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.
Join Missoula Historic Preservation Commission on an Architectural Bike Tour of buildings created by architect A.J. Gibson. Meet at Missoula County Courthouse at 1 PM. Free. The Loose String Band plays Highlander Beer Taphouse Sat., May 12. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.
nightlife One last thing to tie up. The Loose String Band plays Highlander Beer Taphouse. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
I know that feeling all too well. Rotgut Whines celebrate the release of its new album with a special show at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. Free.
Jami Kidd and George Regan provide the soundtrack at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. They’re way better than Groucho Greens. The horn-driven rhythms of Zeppo Blues provide the soundtrack at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Basses Covered uncovers a night of music at Great Burn Brewing from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. They said it was a weather balloon! A weather balloon! The Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. 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. Arts & Above’s Kate Jordan and Bruno Augusto present the new dance performance Simplify at MASC Studio. 7:30 PM. $15. Save $5 when you arrive via sustainable transportation. The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Eagles Club for your dancing pleasure. 8 PM. Free. Thank goodness, my scalp has been so itchy and flakey lately. The Selsun Blues play Monk’s. 9 PM. $2
Your mother puts up with so much from you. Show mom how much you care at Western Cider’s Mother’s Day popup shop. 12 PM–6 PM.
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.
You don’t have to be a vegan to attend the Missoula Vegan Potluck, but it sure helps. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. 12 PM–3 PM. Free, but bring a vegan dish.
Walking Corpse Syndrome, In Rapture and Undying Avarice play the VFW. 9 PM. $5. These are all Magic: The Gathering cards, right?
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Show mom just how much you care with a Mother’s Day Brunch at Western Cider. Spots are filling fast. Email jessica@westerncider.com to RSVP. 10 AM–12 PM. David Horgan, Beth Lo and Chuck Florence provide the soundtrack at Bayern Brewery from 10 AM–2 PM. Free. The Highlander Beer Taphouse hosts the most Missoula event imaginable. Buzzed Yoga lets you practise your flow while enjoying cold beer. Bring photo identification and $10 every Sunday this summer. 11 AM. Give your mother what she really wants, a trip to the Sunrise Saloon to enjoy the music of 5 Valleys Accordion Club. 1 PM–4 PM. $5.
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. Kate Jordan and Bruno Augusto’s dance performance Simplify continues at MASC Studio. 2 PM. $15. Save $5 when you arrive via sustainable transportation.
nightlife Bob Mislevic provides the soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. 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. The Ed Norton Big Band plays a special Mother’s Day show at Montana Winery. 6 PM. $9. 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.
Con Brio vigorously plays the Top Hat Sun., May 13. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 advance. This is the only PCP that I’m allowed to endorse in the paper. Portland Cello Project plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25.
Spotlight BetweenTheLines Theatre has produced fairly bloody and edgy seasons — all compelling plays, including Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Stupid Fucking Bird and Missoula playwright Kate Morris’ nightmarish tale In the Snow. The company’s upcoming show, 4000 Miles, isn’t prickly and harrowing in the same way as the other plays are, but it still deals with big themes: the grieving process, ageism and the Chinese-American experience, among other things. It’s the story of 21-year-old Leo, played by the company’s artistic director, Mason Wagner, who moves in with his 91-year-old grandmother, played by Ann Peacock. They both suffer from losing people, and that shared experience, despite their age difference, both bonds and unnerves them. Nathan Snow, who deftly played the unraveling narrator in Stupid Fucking Bird, directs the show. He and Wagner have a history with it: When they were both in theater school together at the University of Montana they performed one of the monologues from the play — Wagner acting, Snow directing. The play, by Amy Herzog, won a Pulitzer in 2012 and has sharp character development and a life-on-stage quality in the tradition of Anton Chekhov. “It’s about grief,” Snow says, “but it’s still humorous and light. It never settles too deeply in the sorrow. It’s a little easier to enjoy with a beer.” —Erika Fredrickson
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Psychedelic band Con Brio vigorously plays the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 advance. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday”
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Downtown Dance Collective hosts a weekend of dance at Tango Missoula Spring 2018. The weekend features five milongas, three technique classes and plenty of other opportunities to dance your heart out. Visit tangomissoula.com for a full schedule and registration. $15/class or $115 for the whole weekend.
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. 12 PM–8 PM. 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.
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Hannah Dahl, left, and Mason Wagner star in 4000 Miles. WHAT: 4000 Miles WHO: BetweenTheLines Theatre WHERE: Roxy Theater WHEN: Tue., May 15, through Sat., May 20, at 7:30 PM nightly, plus 2 PM Sun. matinee HOW MUCH: $20/$16 seniors/$14 students MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org
Cash for Junkers provides the soundtrack at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. 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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Tuesday 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. Join the REI Outdoor School for a bike maintenance class at the Highlander Taphouse every Tuesday this summer. It’s a demonstration class, so no need to bring your bike. 6 PM. RSVP at rei.com. Author, producer and professor Dorothy Marcic reads from her new book With One Shot at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.
nightlife 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. After suffering a major loss on a cross-country bike trip, 21-yearold Leo seeks solace from his feisty grandmother. Catch a special preview of BetweenTheLines Theatre’s production of Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $12. (See Spotlight.) Hip hop artist Prof plays the Top
Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $23/$20 advance. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What Pulizer Prize-winning film critic penned the famously bad Beyond the Valley of the Dolls? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. This next song is about drinking a LaCroix in your Subaru with your dog. Missoula Music Showcase features local singers and songwriters each week at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
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The Glitch Mob play the Wilma Wed., May 16. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25. 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. John Floridis provides the tunes at Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Join fellow writers and artists every Wednesday for Poetry Salon at Fact and Fiction. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free. The slam is back! Poetry Slam brings verbal prowess and lyrical acrobatics to E3 Convergence Gallery. 7 PM. Email e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com to sign up.
nightlife This sounds like a job for Batman! The Glitch Mob play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25. The ZACC invites you to round 2 of Makin’ Art with a ‘90s twist. Sip on beverages from Western Cider while working on 90s-themed coloring book pictures of Barney, Full House, Baywatch, Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and more. $5. 7 PM. All proceeds benefit the ZACC. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Roger Ebert
After suffering a major loss on a cross-country bike trip, 21-yearold Leo seeks solace from his feisty grandmother. BetweenTheLines Theatre’s production of Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles opens at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20. Chris Young brings his Losing Sleep tour to the Adams Center. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $37–$57. Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.
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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.
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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!
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It’s kind of a tragedy that Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H has been overshadowed by the long-running sitcom of the same name that followed it. It's one of the greatest and most financially successful counter-culture films ever produced. But my generation, raised under the soft glow of reruns in the 1990s, knows that Hawkeye Pierce and Frank Burns are played by Alan Alda and Larry Linville, not Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall. We probably know even less about the book that started the whole mess. Even without the legacy of the sitcom (to say nothing of Trapper John, M.D., After M*A*S*H and the not-made-up Radar O’Reilly spin-off, W*A*L*T*E*R) the film remains one of the greatest films ever made about the Vietnam War. It just happens to take place in Korea, during the Korean War. Anyone not seeing an allegory for the Vietnam War while watching M*A*S*H during its original release in 1970, a full five years before the fall of Saigon, wasn’t paying attention. The allegory is so thick that the studio had to demand that the opening credits included text that identified the setting as South Korea, to prevent people from confusing what they were seeing on the big screen from what they were
seeing on the evening news every night. M*A*S*H is also the first R-rated movie to use the word “fuck.” If that doesn’t cement its status as counter-culture royalty, I don’t know what does. And just like real war, and unlike the sitcom it spawned, it doesn't have a laugh track. —Charley Macorn WHAT: M*A*S*H (1970) WHERE: The Roxy WHEN: Thu., May 17 at 7 PM HOW MUCH: $8
Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.
nightlife Show your pride at Queers & Beers, a monthly gathering of Missoula’s LGBTQ+ community at Imagine Nation Brewing. DJ Jessi Jaymes spins the gayest hits. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.
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.
John Floridis plays Bitter Root Brewing from 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
Portland bluegrass heroes Cascade Crescendo play the Top Hat Thu., May 17. 8 PM. Free.
BetweenTheLines Theatre’s production of Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles continues at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20.
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!
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Edwin Johnson plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
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 SatSun 12-5pm!
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Portland bluegrass heroes Cascade Crescendo play the Top Hat. 8 PM. Free. My DJ name comes from a 1980s cartoon you’ve never heard of. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of
Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. How high's the river, Momma?
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FRIDAY, MAY 11 Learn about the plight of the last wild buffalo herd, and the efforts to defend them at a special Wild Buffalo Defense Fundraiser at Free Cycles. Food, music and more. 6:30 PM–10:30 PM.
SATURDAY, MAY 12 You don't have to be a vegan to attend the Missoula Vegan Potluck, but it sure helps. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. 12 PM–3 PM. Free, but bring a vegan dish. With more than a million acres of the state turning into ash and smoke, the Montanans that lived through the Lost Summer of 2017 aren't likely to forget it. The giant plumes of smoke, the acrid, choking air and the loss of our beloved summer recreation will be felt for years to come. Aside from the human impact, the environmental fallout of last year's devastating fire season is still being seen in rural areas. And these impacts could have dire consequences. The vegetation destroyed by the Lolo Creek Fire, which burned over 54,000 acres between July and October, helped hold down the soil, and its absence is projected to have significant and negative impact on the water quality around the Lolo Area.
The Lolo Watershed Group is seeking volunteers to help a private landowner plant 3,000 trees to rehab swaths of Montana burned in the Lolo Peak fire last year. These new trees will help keep water safe by keeping soil in place, and decrease the risk of flooding. The Lolo Creek Planting Event takes place over the next two weekends. No planting experience is necessary, and all ages are welcome to donate their time. —Charley Macorn Lolo Watershed Group’s Lolo Creek Planting Event runs Saturday and Sunday, May 12, 13, 19 and 20 from 9 AM– 5 PM. Email abby@lolowatershed.org for more info and registration. Free.
Volunteers are needed to help private landowners plant 3,000 trees to rehab areas scorched by the Lolo Peak fire last year. No experience necessary. 9 AM–5 PM. Email abby@lolowatershed.org for more info and registration.
SUNDAY, MAY 13 Volunteers are needed to help private landowners plant 3,000 trees to rehab areas scorched by the
Lolo Peak fire last year. No experience necessary. 9 AM–5 PM. Email abby@lolowatershed.org for more info and registration.
TUESDAY, MAY 15 The MCT Center for the Performing Arts hosts a free screening of the 2017 documentary Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. The famed journalist traveled the country to talk to scientists, psychologists, activists and families about the complex issue of gender. 6 PM.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 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 Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation. 5 PM–8 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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Mountain High For many people, backpacking brings to mind images of large, overstuffed, exterior framed packs with cookware and sleeping pads strapped to the outside, but it doesn’t have to be like that. Ultralight backpacking isn’t something reserved for only the most hardcore of PCT thruhikers. It can be a great way to get out of town for a weekend and make the trail a little more appealing. I recently used up my annual REI dividend and splurged on a new backpack with this goal in mind. I opted for a frameless 40-liter pack (traditional backpacks are typically around 50-65 liters) for when I want to travel light and fast through the mountains. A smaller pack is only the first way to lighten the load. The other major items that can cut
weight include your shelter, sleeping bag, and pad. While there are a million blogs and advice columns online that can tell you exactly why a bandana is versatile enough to make it on your packing list, it can be nice to have a local expert weigh in. The Trailhead will be hosting an event along with Osprey Packs and Summit Sales to give you just the right amount of insight needed to lighten your load without disregarding safety or comfort. There will also be a silent auction to benefit the Montana Wilderness Association. —Micah Drew The Trailhead will host How to Lightweight Backpack on Tue., May 15 at 7 PM. Free.
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THURSDAY, MAY 10 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's traveling conservation exhibit of some of the largest bull elk from across North America. See the exhibit through Sat., May 12. Punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to Kiwanis Park. 6 PM. $3.
SATURDAY, MAY 12 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Designated Wild and Scenic Rivers Act on the Lochsa River with a 20-mile float through Idaho big waters with Zoo Town Surfers. 8 AM–5 PM. $75. Visit zootownsurfers.com for more info and registration. Learn about Glacial Lake Missoula with a tour of major geologic features related to ice age floods with Montana Natural History Center. 9 AM–6 PM. $20/$15 members. Take a family-friendly bike ride from Market on Front to a nearby park with Kidical Mass. 9:30 AM. Free.
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Join Missoula Historic Preservation Commission on an Architectural Bike Tour of buildings created by architect A.J. Gibson. Meet at Missoula County Courthouse at 1 PM. Free.
SUNDAY, MAY 13 Why spend Mother's Day in bed eating burned toast when you can compete in a 5K run? 8:30 AM. $40. Visit runsignup.com for more info and registration.
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I hate to be trite, but my wife and I are experiencing “lesbian bed death.” We’ve been happily married for three years. I’m not sure why we’re not having sex. Sure, we’re both busy, but it’s more a question of just not ever feeling the urge. I know sex is important for a relationship, and I’m worried. Is there a way to reboot our sex life?
—Bedfriends It’s understandably depressing if the only time there’s heavy breathing in the bedroom is when you’re re-enacting WrestleMania XXV — that is, trying to get the duvet cover on. This doesn’t mean you should buy into the lesbo-bashing notion of “lesbian bed death” — the myth that lesbian relationships, in particular, are where sex goes to die.The term traces back to a finding from social psychologist Phillip Blumstein and sociologist Pepper Schwartz, published in their 1983 book American Couples: Money,Work, Sex. Blumstein and Schwartz, reviewing results from their survey of 12,000 American couples, announced that lesbians in relationships “have sex less frequently by far than any other type of couple.” This single survey led to decades of sneering about lesbian relationships as the province of hot hand-holding. However, psychologist Suzanne Iasenza notes that a bunch of subsequent studies found that lesbians tend to be more sexually assertive and sexually satisfied than straight ladies — as well as less orgasm-challenged. (Helps when you know your way around the ladyparts without needing a two-hour lecture and a female anatomy PowerPoint.) The reality is, so-called lesbian bed death actually happens to heterosexual women — once they get into relationships. In other words, the real issue is not being a lesbian but being a woman in a long-term partnership — and the assumption that male sexual response, driven by spontaneously occurring lust, should be considered the norm for women. Sex researcher Rosemary Basson, M.D., finds that when a relationship is brand-new or when women are apart from their partners for days or weeks, they’re likely to experience the “spontaneous sexual hunger” that men tend to have. However, once a relationship has been going for a while, women’s sexual desire becomes “responsive.” It isn’t gone. It’s “triggerable” — which is to say it’s hibernating until somebody wakes it up with a little makey-outey. This, however, brings us to another problem. Chances are, a reason that straight couples might have more sex is that men — driven by that spontaneous lust — are more likely to initiate.You and
your wife need to initiate — and maybe even schedule sex dates so initiating doesn’t become yet another thing that falls off your to-do list. Eventually, when you light a bunch of candles to set the mood, your wife’s response should be something a little more erotic than “You gotta be kidding me. Another squirrel fried on the power line?”
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I’m addicted to my phone — Twitter, Instagram, news, texts, you name it. My girlfriend feels disrespected and unheard when I look at it while she’s talking, but I can’t seem to stop. Please help me out before I lose the woman I love!
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—Addicted If your smartphone were actually smart, it would ping you to listen to your girlfriend before she’s your ex-girlfriend trash-talking you in a bar. Instead, smartphones and apps turn us into lab rats ferociously hitting the touch screen for another hit of techno-crack.They do this through what psychologists call “intermittent reinforcement” — “rewards” that come randomly and unpredictably. Checking your phone sometimes “rewards” you with a new message or newsbit — sometimes (or even often), but not always.When “rewards” come regularly and reliably — like when a rat pushes a bar and gets a food pellet every time — the rat chills out and only presses when, say, his stomach rings the dinner bell. Unpredictable rewards, on the other hand — only sometimes getting a hit — drive the rats to pump the bar incessantly, sometimes even till the little fellers go claws up. However, there is hope for you — and your relationship — thanks to research on habit formation (by psychologist Phillippa Lally, among others). Repeatedly behaving differently when your girlfriend’s talking to you — by turning your phone totally off and, if possible, relocating it to another room — can eventually change your default behavior from robotically checking your phone to attentiveness to those important to you. In time, you might expand your attentiveness into other areas of your life. A good test for whether it’s okay to be all up in your phone is swapping in its low-tech counterpart. For example, when the highway patrolman strides over and taps on your car window, is that really the best time to pick up that Stephen King novel and read the end of chapter four?
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Breakfast Buffet Attendant. LC Staffing Missoula is working with a local hotel to hire 2 long-term Breakfast Buffet Attendants. This position will prepare and serve fresh and inviting breakfast to the guests. This position will also provide a shuttle service to and from the airport. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31711. Driver. LC Staffing Missoula is working with a local service company to hire a long-term, part-time Driver. The Driver will use a company vehicle to drop off mailers and pick up as needed. This position is great for a consistent parttime opportunity! For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31705. Earn $300-$1000 per month working part-time! The Missoulian is looking for reliable individuals to deliver the daily newspaper in the Missoula, Bitterroot and Flathead areas. For individual route details go to: missoulian.com/carrier If you’re looking for extra income, are an early riser and enjoy working independently, you can make money and be done before most people get going with their day. If this sounds like you, please submit your inquiry form today at missoulian.com/carrier or call 406-523-0494. You must have a valid driver’s license and proof of car insurance. This is an independent contractor business opportunity.
PROFESSIONAL Northwest Community Health Center (NWCHC) is looking to add a full time Financial Officer to manage and provide oversight in all aspects of finance operations. Full job posting at http://northwestchc.org/jobs/. To apply please submit resume and/or public sector applications at http://northwestchc.org/jobs/. The Fort Belknap Indian Community, in Fort Belknap Montana, is seeking applications for the position of Chief Finance Officer (CFO). BS in accounting is required, MBA and/or CPA proffered and 10+years in progressively responsible financial leadership roles. For further information or a full
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned 20th century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be single-minded about doing what you love. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s possible you could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less daring associates, who in my opinion would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos. So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life. Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.” Luckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few fragments of paradise are gathering in your vicinity. It’ll be like a big happy reunion of tiny miracles all coalescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity. Will you be ready to deal with this much radiance? Will you be receptive to so much relaxing freedom? I hope and pray you won’t make a cowardly retreat into the trendy cynicism that so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in that case, paradise might remain invisible.) Here’s my judicious advice: Be insistent on pleasure! Be voracious for joy! Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths!
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, your friends and allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do.They crave more of your attention, more of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you will give more love to yourself. They will be excited and they will feel blessed if you express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, bright soul. They will draw inspiration from your efforts to push harder and stronger to fulfill your purpose here on Planet Earth.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the advantages you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn — also known as Father Time — is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined to provide more dispensations in the future.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night hangs on a wall in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He created it in 1889 while living in a French asylum. Around that same time, 129 years ago, a sheepherder in Wyoming created a sourdough starter that is still fresh today. A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and uses it to make pancakes. In the coming weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it! Your future dreams demand it! And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”
PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-18-103 Dept. 2 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of RITA M. BISOM, 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Christopher J. Hall, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Jeffrey R. Kuchel, Crowley Fleck PLLP, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. Dated this 17th day of April, 2018. /s/ Christopher Hall, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rita Bisom, Deceased MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DR-17-911 Department No. 3 Summons for Publication IN RE THE DISSOLUTION OF: Casey Larson, Petitioner, and Joseph Larson, Respondent. 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. This action if brought to obtain a Dissolution With Parenting Plan. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this
action: N/A. DATED this 9th day of April., 2018. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Ruth Winzel Deputy Clerk Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-18-173 Dept. No.: 3 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of Terri Nazarita Goldhammer, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Terri Nazartia Goldhammer to Nazarita T. Goldhammer. The hearing will be on 05/17/2018 at 10:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: April 10,2018. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-18-402 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing In the Matter of the Name Change of Jonathan Eastwood, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jonathan Michael Eastwood to Juniper Rose
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgynous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken back, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious. Bumtastic. Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled. “You mean like in a metaphorical way?” I asked. “You mean Sagittarians should somehow cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said. “Sagittarians should be elegantly wellgrounded. Flaunt their exquisite foundation. Get to the bottom of things with flair. Be sexy badasses as they focus on the basics.” “OK!” I said.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to discuss in elegant detail the semi-secret things that are rarely or never talked about. It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations that have been suffering from half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand on behalf of compassionate candor. And as you go about these holy tasks, be entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has authorized you to be a winsome agent of change.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali shows three clocks that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith EtheringtonSmith speculated that he was inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth. She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the attention coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip #1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about the people who express their interest in you.Tip #2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached.Tip #3: Just because you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly blend your energies with them. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 3374/Logan Grover/$151/case 4482/Andrea Hopkin/$184/trunk 244/Terassa Blata/$269/panels SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT
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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP 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 for-
ever 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 aboveentitled 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. 1 Cause No.
DP-18-59 Hon. Leslie Halligan Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOANNA MARIE CAMERON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to
Ralph Lattanzio, Personal Representative, by certified mail, return receipt requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of May, 2018. SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 4th day of May, 2018.
/s/ Ralph Lattanzio, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 4th day of May, 2018. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-18-74 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE OF CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF KELLY SAMUEL HAGAN, De-
ceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Arkelle Hagan, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o REEP, BELL, LAIRD & JASPER, P.C., P.O. Box 16960,
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 12th day of April, 2018. REEP BELL LAIRD SIMPSON & JASPER, P.C.. /s/ Richard A. Reep, Attorneys for Personal Representative Notice is hereby given that Missoula County has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for procuring engineering services for the design and construction oversight of two replacement stream crossing structures. The first is the Main Street crossing over Mill Creek in Frenchtown, MT, and the second is the Bible Lane crossing over Petty Creek near Alberton, MT. Missoula County received a
Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP) grant in the amount of $500,000 from the Montana Legislature for these bridge replacement projects. Responses will be received at the Missoula County Public Works Department, Attention: Erik Dickson, County Engineer, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 4:00 PM on May 11th, 2018. A copy of the full Request for Qualifications may be obtained at the above address, by calling the Public Works Department at (406) 258-3772 or by email request to edickson@missoulacounty.us. All requirements and scoring criteria are detailed in the Request for Qualifications. The award will be made to the con-
sultant whose qualifications are deemed most advantageous to Missoula County, all factors considered. Responses shall be sealed and marked “Statement of Qualifications for TSEP Bridges”. /s/ Erik K. Dickson, P.E., County Engineer STATE OF MONTANA )):ss COUNTY OF MISSOULA) LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Public Auction, pursuant to MCA Section 70-6-411. At 9:00 am on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 1300 Defoe St, Missoula, MT 59802, Plum Property Management, LLC will auction to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent, due more than 90 days, for the following
units: #01, #05, #12, #22, #23, #33, #37. The amount due for each unit is as follows: #01($595.33), #05($370), #12($295), #22($155), #23($165), #33($370), #37($205); amounts due are accruing additional monthly rent and costs associated with public sale. Units contain miscellaneous household contents. Units may be viewed by appointment only. Contact Plum Property Management for appointment (406) 541-7586. Unit may be redeemed by owner before sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted as payment. Winning bidder must remove contents of unit from unit no later than 5:00 pm on the date of the sale.
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complex, balcony or deck, A/C, coinop laundry, storage & off street parking. W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
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DUPLEXES 1 bed. 1 bath, Great location Downtown, $595, Large bedroom, A/C, walk-In closet, coin-op laundry, carport & off street parking. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 524 S. 5th St. East “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, 2 blocks to U, W/D, DW, all utilities paid $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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REAL ESTATE HOMES 2000 SQFT home on almost ½ acres on Ladyslipper Lane. 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths. Open floor plan & cathedral ceilings. Minutes from downtown. Only $230,000! Just listed and under contract, taking back up offers. Call Joy Earls! 406-531-9811 4 bedroom 3 bath Home for sale by Lolo Peak Brewery. $429,000. No listing agents. Will work with buyer’s agents. 531-8204 See on Craigslist or at 10748sugarpineplace.com
Clark Fork River Frontage with 2 building sites!! Montana Dream! 24 acres, Sandy Beach & Launch Site. Older home on property. $1.25 million. Let’s go fishing. Call Joy Earls! 406-5319811
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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Family Home in Excellent location, close to schools & shopping. 1924 sq ft, 4 bd, 2 ba, w/full finished basement. Completely remodeled, security system, etc. $299,999. Call 5493805 FSBO, Price Reduced, Open House 5/6, 11-4. Ranch Style, 4 bd, 2 bath. $295,000. 549-3805
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23595 E. MULLAN RD., FRENCHTOWN
OPEN FLOOR PLAN & CATHEDRAL CEILINGS. 4 BEDROOMS, 2 ½ BATHS 2000 SQFT ON ALMOST ½ ACRE. ONLY $230,000! CALL SOONER!
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
Energy-efficient, Timber Frame, 3 bed 2.5 bath on 41+ acres. End of Road Privacy.
$264,900
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9578 LADYSLIPPER LANE
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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. Permitted & approved septic in place & ready for a mobile home. MLS#21707610 Call Vickie Amundson at 544-0799 for more information
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