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News
Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Obsolete technologies edition ................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Seeking higher ground, Two Billboards in Missoula, and gatekeeping in Polson ........6 Etc. Margot Kidder’s best role.....................................................................................................6 News FOSTA fears close Missoula-based XoticSpot...................................................................8 Opinion A clerk’s goodbye to Crazy Mike’s...............................................................................9 Dan Brooks The owner class is the best class...............................................................................10 Writers on the Range The imminent extinction of Selkirk caribou ......................................11 Feature The rescued recording that embodied Missoula punk .............................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts The Nłʔay Indigenous Film Fest focuses on trauma and resilience.....................18 Music Algiers, Pedro the Lion, Al Scorch .....................................................................19 Books American Wolf gives O-Six the spotlight ..........................................................20 Film Book Club insults everyone.................................................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet So these zucchini fries are actually baked, but still.............................23 Happiest Hour Lemonade, Lucky’s-style ....................................................................25 8 Days a Week The 24th is especially packed. You can stay home the others. ................26 Agenda Endangered species film festival at the Roxy.............................................................33 Mountain High Women’s Navigation with Map & Compass Class .............................34
Exclusives
News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42
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STREET TALK
by Derek Brouwer
Crazy Mike’s, Missoula’s last video rental store, is closing at the end of the month. When’s the last time you rented a physical copy of a movie, and what was it? What’s the oldest piece of obsolete technology you have lying around the house?
Sean Payne: I’ve never personally done that. I grew up on digital stuff. Sounds modern to me: I have a really old flat-screen TV.
Kathleen O’Brien; It was probably six months ago. I rented some really crappy comedy from a Redbox. Is it old if it’s digital? The most out-of-date thing I have is probably an early 2000s digital camera.
Cole Werdin: I think it was The Shape of Water. I got it at a Redbox. Dual threat: I have this TV that’s as wide as it is deep, and it has a VHS and DVD player built in. It’s got the VHS version of Jurassic Park stuck in it.
Wendy Moon: I think it was Avatar at Hollywood Video on Russell Street. I think that’s the last one I rented. I remember being in Hollywood Video. Oh, no, I remember now. It was South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut. Are those for sale? We’ve got an old Sony stereo with a cassette player. I still have cassettes to go in it — tons of ’80s music. Asked Tuesday at the Southside KettleHouse
[4] Missoula Independent • May 17–May 24, 2018
Who’s stepping up?
When do we decide that shortsighted businessmen like Seth Bodnar just aren’t capable of making good decisions (“Brooks: Creative writing is more than just a numbers game,” May 9)? When do we decide that we have to be the ones to guide important institutions like the university? Sometimes I think these things happen because we let them happen by not stepping up to do the boring work like this, letting people like Bodnar run important things into the ground. Max Robertson facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Think of the kids
It was with disbelief, dismay and sadness that I read of the shutting down of the Foster Grandparent and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in a number of nearby Montana counties (Missoula, it seems, has been spared). Of course, funding and budget cuts are the cause (very complicated). Here is a classic case of cutting off the nose to spite the face (or is it shooting themselves in the foot?). The schools, students, classes and teachers can use all the help they can get. I have worked in the Missoula County Public Schools as a substitute and seen the large classes and so many students needing attention. The teachers cannot possibly give each one the individual help that is needed. Along comes free (RSVP) or cheap labor (the Foster Grandparent stipend is $2.65/hour) to the aid of all concerned. Where else can you get help for that little pay? What a bargain for the schools. Doesn’t sound too “fiscally responsible” to cut what amounts to an almost-free gift. The administration actually saves money. The benefits to the children from this freely given assistance are tutoring and improvement in reading and math, personal attention and caring, if not love and affection. Having us older volunteers also exposes students to more of a cross-section of the real-life population. When I volunteer as an RSVP tutor in the elementary schools in Missoula, I find that meeting, working with and being with the kids is a joy. They are responsive to learning, friendly, enthusiastic and fun. So it’s a reciprocal situation; a 3-way win-win-win. Barbara Ross Missoula
No decency
When I saw Russ Fagg’s recent TV ad about immigration, I was nothing short of disgusted. There is a place for a reasonable debate over immigration
saying anything
sioners to endorse the bills before the general public became aware took advantage of the fun-house mirror state of “representative” democracy in Montana and Ravalli County. Politicians are simply representing their own venal interests or ideology, leaving the interests of large constituencies completely unrepresented. Fifty-seven percent of poll respondents, Republicans and Democrats, want WSAs “to continue to be protected.” This clear majority is being ignored by politicians, and it is not represented by members of the Ravalli County Collaborative, all of whom either voiced support for WSA release or for “collaboration” on what remains protected and what gets sacrificed to motorized/industrialized development. Only 24 percent of Montanans polled “said they wanted a more case-by-case review of how the areas should be used.” Splitting the baby in half is not a reasonable approach to babies and some other issues, even when using a collaborative process. Arguing that the Bitterroot has more than its share of wilderness is like arguing we have more than our share of natural beauty or clean water. Do we want to collaborate away those blessings? Larry Campbell Darby
to get elected.”
Mother’s way
policy, however, the overt racism and bigotry showcased in Fagg’s ad was horrifying. This former judge should be ashamed of himself. Doesn’t Russ Fagg know that our kids watch TV? Of course he does, but Fagg must think it’s appropriate for young children to be exposed to racist bigotry. Public service is something we should hope our children aspire to. Unfortunately, Fagg thinks public service is about lies, fear and saying anything to get elected. Fagg doesn’t
“Public service is something we should hope our children aspire to. Unfortunately, Russ Fagg thinks public service is about lies, fear and
have my support, because he has failed to show the integrity necessary to be a senator from Montana. Amy Hauschild Billings
Support for WSAs
A poll released by the University of Montana regarding Montanans’ views of Wilderness Study Area protections reveals much, not only about the subject matter but also about politics, both statewide and in Ravalli County. Poll results showing overwhelming citizen support for keeping WSAs protected as they are should not be surprising to anyone but the most ideologically blinded. Public testimony at the Ravalli County Commissioners meetings regarding their ill-advised letter supporting WSA-release bills demonstrated even greater local support for WSAs. The fact that Sen. Daines and Rep. Gianforte complain the poll was rigged, (i.e., a “push poll”) is laughable given the degree to which they pushed falsely manufactured “local support” for their unpopular bills. Their stealth blitz to get county commis-
When I was young, whenever my family had financial problems on the ranch, my mother would say she wanted to be rich enough to be a Republican, as if being a Republican was a goal in life, not an ideology. Of course, it was a joke, a gentle irony. My mother would never have corrupted her soul by voting Republican. But she pretended she might to make a point: Being rich made you think differently about fairness and justice. You didn’t have to care. Compassion, kindness and generosity all cost money, and the thing I remember about my mother is she was ready to pay for them because sharing was worth more to her than keeping. If my mother were alive today, she would surely be pointing out that Republicans today, from Trump nationally to Gianforte here in Montana, are all rich enough to be Republicans. It would not be a compliment. This coming primary, I will be voting for Kathleen Williams to run against Greg Gianforte in the general election because she reminds me of my mother. Kathleen cares about what happens to people who aren’t rich. Wade Sikorski Baker
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[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday May 9 Michael Gordon is charged with multiple felonies after firing a shotgun outside his Missoula home and allegedly threatening to kill his father. Gordon previously shot and killed a man outside a Missoula strip club in 2014, for which he was not charged.
Thursday May 10 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke appears before a Senate appropriations subcommittee to introduce his department’s budget request for fiscal year 2019: $11.9 billion, a $1.6 billion decrease from the previous year.
Friday May 11 American Legion Baseball’s Missoula Mavericks spend practice time filling sandbags to help curb flood damage. They are joined by area high school athletes.
Saturday May 12 The University of Montana’s class of 2018 graduates. Visiting family members temporarily occupy all parking spaces, restaurant seats and trail space, forcing native Missoulians indoors for the weekend.
Sunday May 13
Advertising
Two Billboards in Missoula
Two billboards addressing the sex lives of Missoulians stand side by side at Brooks and Bow Street. One is for an adult store that sells sex toys; the other is for an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center (CPC) offering free pregnancy and STI tests. Adam & Eve’s billboard reads, “Approachable as the Girl Next Door,” and Care Net’s says “When Your Swipe Right Goes Wrong.” Which one is funny and which one is offensive? “They don’t like the word ‘girl,’” says Dave Hanson, who owns Montana’s four Adam & Eve stores. “They want another word in there other than ‘girl.’” Last month, the Missoulian published a letter to the editor taking issue with the billboard: “...it uses an image of and the word ‘girl’ on an advertisement for an adult products store; it is sexist; it encourages predatory behaviors.” Hanson says he’s heard from “under a dozen” people, all of whom say they’re from the Missoula area, who don’t approve. Meanwhile, its neighbor billboard is generating amused responses on social and traditional media. The “Swipe Right” billboards are on display in Missoula and in Billings, where a crisis pregnancy center called LaVie is running them. The two centers share marketing costs, says Care Net direc-
tor Jennifier Bartlett. Pictures of both cities’ billboards have been the subject of Reddit posts, tweets and Facebook statuses that find the “Right/Wrong” slogan clever. A Billings TV station broadcast a story on the LaVie billboard’s reception that quoted a man saying that they were misleading, since he’d never known online dating to lead to sex. Chuckles aside, crisis pregnancy centers remain a central part of the agenda for anti-abortion forces, a fact detailed in a 2013 report from NARAL-MT that focused on how CPCs gave patients medically inaccurate information about abortion. Republican Senate candidate Russ Fagg uses his tenure on the board of LaVie in campaign ads to establish his pro-life bona fides. Rep. Greg Gianforte’s Family Foundation has made them a focus of its giving. In 2016, the most recent year for which information is available, the Gianforte Family Foundation gave $242,425 to CPCs, including $10,000 each to Care Net and LaVie. It also gave $100,000 to Hope Pregnancy Ministries, the Kalispell CPC whose executive director bought a building that housed All Families Healthcare and then evicted the clinic, which provided abortions. A year later, All Families was forced to close after being vandalized by Zachary Klundt, the son of a Hope Pregnancy Ministries board member.
Bartlett says the slogan was the brainchild of Care Net’s client service director, Jennifer Hungerford. “She thought it up one night right before going to bed,” Bartlett says. The clinic has gotten a lot of new business from the billboards, she says. “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback regarding it.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Gatekeeping
Dam refutes FERC
On April 11, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rebuffed a request by Polson-based Energy Keepers Inc. to extend the timeline of a twophase repair project at the Se̓liš Ksanka Qĺispe̓ ispe dam. The first phase of that project, which calls for rehabbing six of the 14 spillway gates that allow water to pass into the lower Flathead River, was set for completion by May 2023. Energy Keepers asked to push that date to May 2024 after extreme cold halted the work this February. Citing a spillway gate malfunction in 2008 — when the dam was still owned by PPL Montana — FERC wrote, “This malfunction could prevent the spillway gates from being operable during a significant flow event and could potentially lead to catastrophic consequences.”
Actor and activist Margot Kidder, best known for playing Lois Lane in 1978’s Superman and leading roles in Sisters and The Amityville Horror, dies in her Livingston home at age 69.
Monday May 14 The Clark Fork is temporarily closed west of Missoula after flood currents knock down power lines. Until further notice, floating, swimming and other recreational activities are prohibited from the Reserve Street bridge to Kona Bridge.
Tuesday May 15 Billings police officer Paul Lamantia resigns after being disciplined for having sex on city property while on duty. Lamantia is one of three officers reprimanded for similar infractions, and the first to have his name revealed.
Many media outlets have portrayed me in an extremely negative way, and perhaps rightfully so. However, I was an excellent officer before this and during all of this, I have continued to do my job and duties effectively and efficiently.”
—Matt Edwards, one of three Billings police officers disciplined for having sex with a city employee on city property and/or on duty, in a statement released May 15 to KULR8 after a judge ruled that their names must be released to the public.
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[news] Brian Lipscomb, CEO of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes-owned Energy Keepers, is quick to counter that characterization. He describes Se̓liš Ksanka Qĺispe̓ as a “low-hazard” dam that, unlike most others in the Columbia River Basin, isn’t holding back an entire reservoir. The spill gates, Lipscomb adds, are also designed to handle higher volumes than what typically flows through the lower Flathead. With runoff projected to increase significantly over the next week, he estimates there’s currently 25,000 cubic feet per second exiting the gates, all 14 of which are open and operational. Asked about FERC’s language, Lipscomb speculates that the agency is perhaps taking a more forceful approach in the wake of the February 2017 failure of California’s Oroville Dam. The crisis, triggered by significant damage to the dam’s concrete spillway, prompted the evacuation of 180,000 downstream residents. A subsequent review by the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley partly attributed the incident to FERC’s approval of “‘inappropriate’ standards, guidelines, procedures and processes,” adding that Oroville had been “regulated to failure.” The Indy reached out to the FERC official listed on the letter to Energy Keepers for clarification about “catastrophic consequences.” The official referred us to the agency’s D.C. media office, which did not respond to a request for comment by press time. FERC records indicate that two gate malfunctions occurred at the Polson facility, in 2015 and 2016, but no deficiencies were found during a safety inspection conducted in May 2017. Lipscomb remains optimistic about the project. One spill gate has already been repaired, he says, and the company will be responding to FERC within a week to continue discussing the schedule for rehabbing the rest. He adds that the gates aren’t the only improvement Energy Keepers has committed to since acquiring Se̓liš Ksanka Qĺispe̓ in 2015. “Over the course of the next five to 10 years, we will have the entire facility rehabilitated,” Lipscomb says. “Not only all of the moving infrastructure on the inside, but the electrical interconnection out to the grid.” He puts the overall cost of those rehabilitations at around $30 million. Alex Sakariassen
Rising waters
Homeless wade through
T.J. and Ryan point to the high-water marks from a small mound 50 yards west of the Reserve Street bridge. T.J. notes sandbags stacked on the opposite riverbank. Ryan gestures toward graffiti on the bridge piers he says was hidden by the rushing Clark Fork. Then they point to matted grass a few feet from Ryan’s tent. “I seriously thought this whole thing was a goner, dude,” T.J. says. T.J. and Ryan were two of nine people evacuated from the campsite as the river rose toward its highest recorded level in 100 years. More than 60 residences in the Orchard Homes area were ordered to evacuate, while the Reserve Street encampment, the largest unsanctioned gathering place for Missoula’s “shelter-resistant” homeless population, became an island, prompting a mid-morning May 10 rescue and evacuation by sheriff ’s deputies and city fire personnel. Five days later, the water has receded several feet, but evacuation orders are still taped to bridge railings, because the river is expected to rise again. Even so, several people have already returned, including T.J. and Ryan. Ryan, 40, says he came back several hours after deputies escorted them out. Sitting shirtless in the shade of his tent, he offers a reporter a can of Coke and explains why. “It was nice of those guys,” he says repeatedly, but he doesn’t have anywhere else to go. Ryan says he moved to Missoula last summer with a girlfriend, who subsequently left. He’s been camping near the bridge with his cat since. The Poverello Center is a good place to eat and shower, he says, but he doesn’t feel comfortable sleeping there. The Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office arranged to transport evacuees to the Pov, according to public information officer Brenda Bassett. Only one or two ended up staying there, homeless outreach team co-
BY THE NUMBERS
$393,086.10 Money spent by Gov. Steve Bullock’s Big Sky Values PAC since its establishment last July. Of that, $3,462.15 was paid to Montana native Matt McKenna, a former Bill Clinton adviser who fielded media inquiries about Bullock’s April trip to Iowa. McKenna’s Silicon Valley PR firm merged with political consultancy The Messina Group, led by UM grad and Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, in January. ordinators Sam Hilliard and Will Gardner say. The rest went their own ways. T.J., 40, says he waded through waist-high water to help others retrieve their belongings during the evacuation. KPAX aired a clip of him carrying his mountain bike, a red Schwinn he calls his “baby,” through a small river channel. He then escorted a woman to a relative’s house before going elsewhere to finish a repair job on a car. Hilliard and Gardner, who deliver socks and food to the encampment each week, estimate about 20 people were living there before the floodwaters rose. The area partially floods each spring, but “none of us were really prepared for how high it got this year,” Hilliard says. Emergency responders’ priority in the May 10 rescue operation was an older man whose campsite at the far end of the encampment had been cut off from the rest, MFD Battalion Chief Rick Pechta says. The same night, firefighters returned to rescue the same man, who had tried to return to his campsite in a rubber raft he purchased that afternoon. Those who know the man weren’t surprised. He keeps a generator, among other valuables, at his camp. “He has a lot invested in it,” Ryan says. Derek Brouwer
ETC. When Superman actor and Livingston resident Margot Kidder died on Sunday, the loss was felt across Montana. Kidder had made her home there after her daughter, Maggie McGuane, married Livingston resident and author Walter Kirn (the two later divorced). Famously arrested outside the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, Kidder campaigned for Bernie Sanders and traveled to Standing Rock in recent years. But the reason she’ll be so deeply missed isn’t because she supported causes — it’s because she supported the people around her. “She was a tremendously open person who encouraged everyone she met to speak up for what they believed in, whether or not she agreed with them,” says former Livingston Current publisher Reilly Neill. “That energy would just really propel all sorts of ideas in this community, and beyond of course.” Kidder feared no one and could charm anyone, Neill says. When Neill decided to run for the state Legislature in 2013, she got cornered in the bathroom at an event by an unfriendly Park County Democratic Party representative telling her that if she continued her independent campaign, she’d regret it. She credits Kidder’s formidable support and insistence on running interference — which resulted in Neill eventually running as a Democrat — with her eventual victory. “In life, you have very few people who give you 100 percent confidence and defend you to everyone,” Reilly says. Jamee Greer, communications manager for the Western States Center in Portland, met Kidder while working at Forward Montana, which Kidder supported financially and personally. Greer says Kidder wouldn’t hesitate to speak up with her opinions, and served as a role model on a personal level. “Growing up in Montana, I had, like a lot of folks, heard the story about her struggle with her own mental health,” Greer says. “Seeing someone be so open about their personal struggle helped me.” While that struggle is mentioned in most stories about Kidder’s life, it’s her presence that Greer will remember. “I think that people have three reads of her. They either think of Superman, her struggles with mental health and addiction, or her intense political action,” Greer says. “The first thing I think about is her incredible vulnerability and honesty.”
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XoticSpot out FOSTA fears close Missoula-based stripper network by Susan Elizabeth Shepard
As a DJ at Fred’s Lounge (and later under existing laws.) “Going to court because I’m not — and they ask for an at the Fox Club), Jeff Falgout noted a and fighting the government is a pretty ID to prove your account is real.” Facebook’s algorithm can also poneed: Dancers wanted a way to keep in lengthy and expensive process, and touch with regular customers while pro- we’re just not in a position to do it,” Fal- tentially reveal dancers’ personal profiles to customers, creating a privacy tecting their own privacy. Or, in Fal- gout says. In addition to hosting profiles for concern. “There’s some people you gout’s words, “How do we provide a vehicle for dancers to safely and securely about 4,000 dancers, XoticSpot also op- don’t care, whatever, but to have somebuild up their regular clientele … with- erated a number of club websites in body that’s actually being a creep or crossing the line, it’s easier to out personal information that say, ‘Come find me on this they can be tracked with?” His website,’ because you cannot answer? Build them a social find out where I am other than network, XoticSpot (see: at this club,” Emilee says. “Facebook for strippers?” Feb FOSTA passed over11, 2016). For almost nine whelmingly in the Senate, years, starting in August 2009, with Ron Wyden (D, Oregon) XoticSpot.com helped dancers the sole no vote. Proponents make money by posting their of the bill said it would make schedules, syncing them with sex trafficking more difficult, club websites, and charging but opponents claim that forccustomers for texting, photos ing sex ads further underand videos. ground endangers sex As of June 1, that all stops, workers and trafficking vicFalgout says, because of the tims. Falgout says FOSTA will passage of FOSTA, the Fight do the same to workers in the Online Sex Trafficking Act. legal sectors of the sex indusFOSTA was intended to target try. “If you’re doing this as a online escort-advertising sites, business and trying to earn a but the act’s language includes living off being a dancer, obviall prostitution, not just trafously you don’t want to use ficking. “So if someone does your real information. You anything, or something haphave stage names for a reapens that’s not legal, all of a photo by Susan Elizabeth Shepard son,” Falgout says. “They have sudden we’re responsible for The Fox Club’s website is hosted by Missoula-based it,” Falgout says. That’s not a XoticSpot, which plans to close its business in June. the right to do their job and they’re doing it willingly and risk he and his business partner were willing to take on. “It’s kind of Oregon, Wyoming, Texas and South legally. Obviously, out here … they a scary thing, because it has nothing to Carolina, along with the websites of have to jump through a lot of hoops.” do with what we’re doing, and it’s some- both of Missoula’s strip clubs, Fred’s Clubs in Missoula require that dancers thing that we legitimately can’t control,” Lounge and the Fox Club. One Fox purchase a city business license and get Club dancer, who goes by the stage an independent contractor exemption he says. His reasoning echoes that given for name Emilee, says that she made certificate from the state. Falgout plans to leave Missoula and the closure of Craigslist’s personal ads money using XoticSpot both by drawing customers to the club and by selling move back to California, where he’s in March. When the owners of Backpage, the photos through the site. “I think from, or Oregon, where he’s lived beadvertising site that was one of FOSTA’s XoticSpot is ideal. It’s one of the best tween stints in Montana. While there’s main targets, were arrested and pleaded ideas I’ve ever heard of as far as that nothing the company can do for dancer guilty to money-laundering charges in world goes,” she says. It was an anony- or customer profiles, he says, clubs will April, Falgout says, it was a wakeup call mous alternative to social media, she have the option of purchasing their that websites could be prosecuted for says. Emilee used to maintain a profes- websites so they can be migrated to their users’ actions. (The Backpage ar- sional profile on Facebook, but it was other web-hosting services. rests took place before FOSTA was in ef- deleted when someone reported it as fect, and the charges were brought fake. “I couldn’t prove I was ‘Emilee’ — sshepard@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
A clerk’s goodbye Missoula’s last video store calls it a day by Margaret Grayson
In March, my TV decided to reject the internet. It wasn’t necessarily the TV’s fault — it could easily have been the streaming box or the Wi-Fi we “borrow” from our neighbors. Whatever it was, Netflix and Hulu, my usual comforts, were suddenly unavailable on a screen larger than my laptop. That’s how I found myself in Crazy Mike’s Video two months ago, desperate for another season of Broad City to binge with my roommates, and that’s how I saw the Help Wanted sign. A week later, I was hired. Alas, it wasn’t meant to last. In early May, I waltzed into work and learned that the store would be closing its doors after more than 22 years in business. The Albertson’s next door had bought out the lease so the grocery store can expand. Missoula’s last video-rental store received 30 days’ notice at the end of April, and the owner decided not to move. The following Tuesday, a woman called the store and I answered. “I live south of Lolo, and I just learned you guys rent movies!” she exclaimed. “I’m afraid I have some bad news for you,” I said. Everything in the store is for sale. Not just DVDs, but posters and printers and mop buckets. Some people come in and buy hundreds of dollars in movies. Others just want a few favorites. James Heidlebaugh, the manager, hands out slips of paper with a handwritten URL for a GoFundMe page called Save Crazy Mike’s Video! Heidlebaugh and another employee are hoping to raise money to re-open. (At press time the campaign had raised $1,115 toward a $20,000 goal, of which $10 came from me.) But the plan is still embryonic, and so for now we’re treating the closing as if it’s the end. So many people have offered their condolences to the employees, and thanked us for the years they’ve been coming here. Fred Rezvani, an Iranian refugee who came to the U.S. in 1982, opened the first American Crazy Mike’s branch in Washington in 1989. Crazy Mike him-
self was a video-store owner in Vancouver, Canada, who sold his store and its name to a relative of Fred’s, who started the chain. At the peak of the business, Fred oversaw 27 stores. After the Missoula store closes, the last one will be in Hamilton. Sadie Oliver started working at the Crazy Mike’s on Reserve Street eight years
and intention in watching movies, they’re often grateful they did. “Beneath the hipster veneer, people give a shit about stories,” she says. When I got the job, I had my doubts about the continuing relevance of a brick-and-mortar video store. But working at Crazy Mike’s for these past few months has changed my opinion. So many people of all ages still leave home
photo by Kate Whittle
Crazy Mike’s is liquidating its inventory before closing at the end of May after 22 years in business.
ago, when she was 17, and moved to the current store after the Reserve location closed several years ago. She says some of her earliest memories are from visiting Crazy Mike’s, where she first developed her love for movies. When she was 7, there was a several-month streak where all she wanted to rent was Russell Crowe’s Gladiator, prompting her dad to ask, “Why can’t you just rent something wholesome?” “I’ve always enjoyed the immediate intimacy that comes with talking about someone’s favorite movie,” Sadie says. “It’s amazing how many people will come into a movie store and it’s their version of going to a bar and talking to a bartender.” Sadie, who also works at the Roxy Theater, says once people invest time
to rent movies at a shop, and the experience matters to them. In a world where online streaming dominates movie and TV consumption, this is among the last places where choosing a movie is an activity, not just a click. This is what we have left that we can touch. The other night, a woman came in, stood in the doorway and said, “I promise I’m not going to cry.” The promise was quickly broken, and she laughed through tears as she told me she knew it was silly, but she loved bringing her kids here. A man browsing halfway across the store looked up. Within minutes, he was tearing up as well. editor@missoulanews.com
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Owning it I bought a house. It changed my mind. by Dan Brooks
I try not to write about personal news in this column, both for reasons of journalistic craft and because that’s how creditors find you. On rare occasions, however, I must put these interests aside and consider the reader. Today is one such occasion. I am pleased to report that I closed on a house Monday. I am now a homeowner, and you should be advised that my opinions on local issues have changed accordingly. For example, regular readers may remember that I have historically favored increased funding for schools and roads. No longer. As of approximately 10 a.m. Monday, the education of children is best left to their parents, and drivers who operate on city roads do so at their own risk. I have studied these issues and concluded that both school privatization and potholes from whose depths can be heard the splashing of eyeless fishes are matters of individual freedom, i.e., lower property taxes. By the same token, I have rethought my position on parks and trails. Yes, these amenities increase quality of life and provide valuable communal spaces for Missoula residents. But at the same time, no: Those people should stay in their yards. Providing green spaces and paths to get to them only encourages dependence on government, i.e., property taxes. Missoulians who wish to host barbecues but lack the foresight to own homes can lower their hibachis into the pothole at Broadway and Ryman, if they can find a rope. The reader should also be advised that I have changed my position on nonwage income. Previously, I was shocked to learn that 41 percent of the income generated in Missoula County last year came from rents, investments and inheritances. In my haste, I opined that it would be a bad thing if our housing market became disconnected from the work economy. After researching certain landmark works of economic science and the brochure that came with my loan, however, I have concluded that the
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jobless rich should come to Missoula in droves. At first they should just rent — ideally on weekends via Airbnb — but they should consider buying in eight to 10 years. As a homeowner, I will of course resent these people. I previously believed that renters stimulated the economy and introduced to Missoula fresh personalities and perspectives, i.e., sexual partners. Now, though, I realize they are
“Both school privatization and potholes from whose depths can be heard the splashing of eyeless fishes are matters of individual freedom, i.e., lower property taxes.” parking on the street in front of my house. I used to think everyone had the right to park on the street, but it turns out that this practice, which I now call “squat parking,” also fosters dependency on the government. In order to increase personal freedom, the city should issue permits for street parking or, better yet, charge on a per-minute basis. The proceeds should be used to fund a property-tax rebate. The sidewalks should be destroyed. They encourage house gawking. This project has actually been underway for quite some time, but now I support it.
Not all city services are bad, of course. I’m not some misanthrope who resents every instance of cooperation, i.e., a libertarian. For example, the city should own the water company. It was a great idea to buy that, despite what I said earlier, and shifting the cost of this infrastructure investment to renters via rate increases is actually the only fair way to do it. Thirty years from now, when we have paid off the city’s debt along with any other fixed-rate mortgages we happen to have contracted today, we’ll be glad we did. Finally, the reader should be advised that I have changed my position on the University of Montana. I previously supported UM’s academic and cultural programs, which brought to Missoula a vibrant mix of young people, accomplished professionals and worldrenowned scholars. Now I hate that, on the grounds that it attracts bicycles. I am for the Griz, however, who attract Airbnb renters. These changes in my positions may jar you, but I assure you they are grounded in sound political and socioeconomic theory. Ask anyone who has read Milton Friedman or owns a house and they will tell you that government should be run like a business. So should the university. The town, too, should be run like a business, i.e., for the enrichment of those who own it. Now that I own a piece of Missoula, I realize that our generosity is only harming those who don’t. If we truly want to help our fellow citizens who do not own homes, i.e., serfs, we should work to lower property taxes so we don’t have to raise their rent. If we fail in this critical project, we will only pass the costs of our failure on to them. In the meantime, I shall prepare next week’s column, in which I will discuss which real estate developers make the best candidates for City Council. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks. Please do not try to find his house.
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With a whimper Extinction appears imminent for Selkirk caribou We have a lot of GREAT bikes marked down 20% or more
by Ben Long
To steal a line from the poet T.S. Eliot: This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper. Worse yet, extinction comes without even a whimper, only a click and a yawn. The end of the line seems imminent for the last caribou of the Lower 48. Woodland caribou once roamed the forested northern tier from Maine to Michigan to Washington state, as they had for centuries. One herd has struggled for decades along the border of Washington, Idaho and British Columbia, in the Selkirk Mountain Range. Although I have seen the distinctive footprints of these caribou, I never caught up with any of them on the hoof. Now my chances may soon be over. Biologists recently completed their winter survey of these animals and found only three individuals in the Selkirks. This is down from nearly 50 a decade ago. All three caribou are female. You don’t need a degree in biology to know how this story ends. Even if those animals happen to be pregnant, the outlook is grim, said biologist Bart George, who works for the Kalispel Tribe of Indians. “We are all in mourning,” George told me. The southern population of mountain caribou in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington and Idaho is in a tailspin. The Selkirks are one of perhaps 15 mountain ranges that face similar problems, though some are not quite as dire. I’ve been writing about these caribou for 30 years and reading about them my entire life. In my business — conservation and journalism — I write about extinction frequently. But it’s usually an abstract concept, something that could happen in the future, or has already happened in the past. This is happening now, on our watch. Mountain caribou are uniquely adapted to life in snowy mountains. They thrive so well in harsh winter climates that they migrate up the mountains in the winter, surviving on certain
types of lichen that hang from low tree branches. It’s a precarious way to make a living, though, and it doesn’t take much to impact their survival. Caribou get killed by cars and poachers and cougars and wolves. But these are tiny nicks in the population compared to the slashing wounds of the large-scale clear-cut logging that has swept over British Columbia, Idaho and Washington since the 1960s. I don’t in-
“I believe that people have a right to log trees, but also a responsibility not to push our fellow beings into oblivion.”
tend to point fingers; I print words on pulp, live in a wooden house and have friends and neighbors who make a living cutting and milling trees. But clear-cuts are killing the caribou. It’s just a fact. I believe that people have a right to log trees, but also a responsibility not to push our fellow beings into oblivion. That was the idea behind the Endangered Species Act. Extinction can be a natural process, but not when it’s driven by human greed and consumption. The Endangered Species Act is sometimes described as the “emergency room” of conservation. Unfortunately, critical
care appears to be coming too little and too late for our caribou. I could tell you all about how humanity’s fate is tied to our natural world, how healthy forests are crucial for clean water and “ecosystem services.” But forget all that. I’ll just say this: Caribou have a right to be here, and our nation is poorer without them. Extinction doesn’t always come about with a meteor strike from outer space. It’s usually a slower process — a trickle of bad news that comes gradually to a stop. A few decades ago, there were about 50 caribou in the Selkirks; now, there are maybe three. Today, there are fewer than 100 bighorn sheep left in the Teton Range near Jackson Hole. There are about 75 resident orcas in Puget Sound off Seattle. When population numbers get this low, conservation gets expensive, and the odds of survival grow increasingly long. The Endangered Species Act is important, but the way out of this cycle is to not end up relying on it so heavily in the first place — to keep the land and water and wildlife healthy enough to not need the emergency room. For that, we need to acknowledge that wildlife habitat has a value, whether we are weighing it against cheap oil and a policy of “energy dominance,” or the growth of another foothills subdivision, or just the price of a two-by-four at the lumberyard. Only a tiny handful of U.S. news outlets have even mentioned the crisis of the Selkirk caribou. I guess extinction in our time cannot compete against the latest tweetstorm from Hollywood or Washington, D.C. There is only a whimper, or maybe a few tears. I want to believe that America can do better than that. For the sake of our grandchildren, I hope I am right.
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Ben Long is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is senior program director for Resource Media in Kalispell, Montana.
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BOLD – In the tony Denver suburb of Castle Rock, Colorado, the motto might be “If the house is rockin’, DO come knockin’!” Residents on Avery Way are in a tizzy about the Thunderstorm Play Palace, a 7,500-square-foot home where, neighbors told KDVR-TV, the owner invites swinging couples and singles to gather for wild sex parties. Invitees must make a “donation” ($70 for couples and single men, $20 for single women), and the parties include drinks, snacks and potluck dishes. “One had four crockpots,” said a neighbor, “showing up like they’re going to a Bunko party or something.” On the invitation, guests were asked to bring their own condoms and show respect for the “new furniture.” The host is a married father of three who feels harassed by the neighborhood, but he counters that he’s taken steps to be discreet, including installing soundproofing and making sure “there are no open areas.” But neighbors claim they hear “disturbing sounds” coming from the house. “You can hear people doing what they’re doing,” one resident told reporters. Castle Rock Police say the man is not breaking the law because he’s only taking donations, and the activities are contained to his home. DO NOT CLIMB! – The Black Panther isn’t feeling the love in South Korea lately. The Walt Disney Co. sent two statues of the superhero to Busan to celebrate Marvel Studios’ filming along Korea’s southern coast. But on March 17, according to the Korea Herald, a 32-year-old drunk man was arrested after he vandalized the statue in the Gwangbok-ro shopping district, and on April 21, the statue near Gwangalli Beach was toppled and part of its head broken off. An official from the Korea Film Council thought someone had probably tried to climb the statue, despite numerous off-limits signs. OOPS! – Police officers in the German town of Neustadt were called April 25 to an apartment building after reports of screaming led neighbors to suspect domestic violence, the Daily Mail reported. Instead, they found a couple receiving instruction in the Japanese art of Shibari erotic bondage from the apartment’s tenant. (“Shibari” translates as “the beauty of tight binding.”) In a statement titled “Fifty Shades of Neustadt,” police reported the couple were “well and in a good mood,” even asking the officers if they’d like to join in, but they had to decline. In the seaside village of Lytham St Annes, England, Douglas Cholmondley Travis, an 88-year-old member of the local Neighborhood Watch, was on patrol Oct. 10, 2017, when he and an 87-yearold watch colleague noticed a van turning into Lytham Park Cemetery. Regarding the vehicle as suspicious, they began taking pictures of it until Antony James, driver of the van, there only to visit family graves, grew angry and stopped, according to Metro News. James got out of his van to confront Travis, causing a panic, according to defense attorney Robert Castle, that resulted in James being knocked down by the Neighborhood Watch vehicle and Travis charged for reckless driving and assault. “This is all terribly sad,” Castle told Blackpool Magistrates Court in late April, as his client is “one of the eyes and ears of the police.” Travis was fined 40 pounds plus court costs. LOOK-ALIKES – Dolores Leis, 64, of Nanton in Galicia, Spain, is a modest wife and potato farmer. But thanks to the internet, she has found fame as “Trump’s Galician sister.” The Associated Press reports that a journalist researching farming posted a photo of Leis at her farm on Instagram, and the striking resemblance between her and the U.S. president caught the attention of the web. “I say that it must be because of the color of the hair,” Leis told La Voz de Galicia on April 24. She added that she’s not overwhelmed by the sudden attention because, unlike her doppelganger, she doesn’t use a mobile phone and isn’t much interested in online chatter. “I look at everything that my daughters show me, but it never stung my curiosity to have (a phone),” she said. MISGUIDED – Greyhound Bus passengers were frustrated on April 19 after their trip to New York was delayed by mechanical trouble and navigational challenges. The ride started in Cleveland, where the scheduled departure time was 2:30 a.m., passengers told WEWS-TV, but the bus didn’t leave until 6 a.m. After crossing into Pennsylvania, the bus turned around, and the driver explained he was returning to Cleveland because of mechanical difficulties. However, the driver missed Cleveland and drove all the way to Toledo before realizing the mistake and heading back to Cleveland. “We were on this bus for seven hours just going in a circle,” said passenger Morgan Staley. BATHING NEWS – Evelyn Washington, 29, broke then crawled through a window in a Monroe, Louisiana, home on April 17, then settled into a warm bath with a bag of Cheetos and a large plate of food within reach on the toilet lid. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that when the homeowner returned from work around 5 p.m., she called police, who removed Washington to the Ouachita Correctional Center, where she told them “an unknown male told her to break into the victims’ residence.” On April 4, a homeowner in the Longton area of Stoke-on-Trent, England, returned home to discover a man bathing in his tub and enjoying a cup of Oxo (broth), according to the BBC. When police arrived, the 36-year-old naked man tried to flee but was caught and arrested. The homeowner complained: “He ate me crisps, had five rounds of corned beef and sauce, ate a jar of pickles, had two ice creams and a can of Coke.” Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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he history of Missoula’s music scene is packed with intriguing characters, legendary shows and bands that went on to great success while others imploded or simply fizzled into obscurity. Perhaps one day someone will write the book, but it won’t be complete without a chapter on the small but intense punk rock faction that elbowed its way against the mainstream at the dawn of the 1980s. Somewhere between the dominance of shit-kicking Aber Day bands like Live Wire Choir and the Lost Highway Band and the sleek synth-pop of local skinny-tie heroes the Time and the Heartbeats, punk rock gained a foothold in Missoula. It was never a very big scene even at its high point, with maybe two dozen hardcore punks forming bands and attending each other’s shows. One of those bands, Who Killed Society, recorded a set of brief, jagged songs in a home studio in 1981. Over the course of three afternoons, a then-recent Hellgate High School graduate named Steve Albini captured the brooding energy of the raw young trio. Yes, that Steve Albini. Of the 1,500 albums the legendary producer/engineer has worked on for bands including Nirvana, the Stooges, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, the Who Killed Society sessions were among his very first. The sevensong cassette that they produced is one of the few surviving artifacts of a short but potent era in local music, and it’s about to get a digital polish and official release.
Who Killed Society
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photo courtesy Randy Pepprock
In the 37 years since that initial recording, Missoula’s first punks have dispersed and gone on to make their mark in all kinds of creative endeavors, from a gross-out act in a circus sideshow to one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Missoula’s initial punk explosion may have been short and messy, but like a bottle rocket aimed through a kitchen window, its impact can’t be ignored.
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lenty of veterans of punk’s second Missoula wave, which crested at the turn of the millennium and revolved around the legendary (and now defunct) Jay’s Upstairs club, are still kicking around town. That era and its bands are well-documented. The story of Missoula’s first hardcore heyday, though, is not widely known. In order to chase down the details surrounding the Who Killed Society recording, the obvious place to start was with Randy Pepprock, guitarist and songwriter for WKS. He lives in the tiny Bitterroot Valley hamlet of Connor, and agreed to meet on a recent Sunday for a chat in a local diner. He suggested we invite Jeff Ament, a friend and fellow veteran of that original punk rock milieu. When I walk into the crowded eatery at the appointed time, Randy and Jeff are already seated at a table near the window, getting reacquainted. I grab a chair, making a mental note to add “punctual musician” to my collection of oxymorons. As I sit down, they’re tossing names around, recalling a few of their fellow punk rockers from back in the day. “Joel, who was in Silkworm,” says Ament, part-time Missoula resident and the bass player for Pearl Jam. “He was at all those early shows. He was just a little kid. Chris Badgley with his mohawk ’fro…” “Hawaii Bruce,” says Pepprock. “The Scherer sisters, Matt Crowley…” “Matt ‘The Tube,’” Ament laughs. “We were on tour with them for two months. I never actually drank the stuff that went into his stomach, but a few of my bandmates did.” Matt the Tube was a performer with the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, Pepprock explains. His claim to fame was inserting a 7-foot tube down his throat and squeezing a pump to siphon a variety of liquids into his stomach. Then he would invite audience members to come onstage and drink the repulsive slurry he vomited up into a beer pitcher. As I stifle a retch, Pepprock snaps his menu shut and says cheerily to the waitress, “I’ll have bacon and eggs, scrambled, with whole wheat toast, please.”
Ament orders a cheddar cheese omelet and wheat toast. I wave off breakfast, having suddenly lost my appetite. “Uh, just coffee.”
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o me it’s a document of such a cool time,” says Ament of the WKS EP, Before Everything Got Broken, which is scheduled for release May 15. “I don’t really have a lot of pictures from that time, so whenever you can have any kind of document from that time, it brings back stuff.” In 1981, Ament was a freshman at UM, having come to Missoula from his hometown of Big Sandy. One afternoon he was in his dorm room, spinning a Black Flag album at low volume. “Just testing the waters,” he says. “I’m in Jesse Hall, and this guy pokes his head in and says, ‘Oh, hi, I’m from L.A. and I just saw Black Flag two months ago.’ I was, like, whaaat?” The guy’s name was Jon Donahue. A punk rock bond was forged, and the two started hanging out, listening to the Ramones, Sex Pistols and other bands. Eventually they picked up a guitar and bass and started playing along to the records. “We would just drink tequila and play along to the Ramones’ It’s Alive,” Ament says. An encounter with Pepprock’s band provided them with an unexpected opportunity. “We saw that they were playing a show at the Top Hat. We were cranked! We drank a couple Foster’s lagers, got our punk clothes on and went down. We were skankin’ and doing our thing.” When the band completed its set Ament asked Pepprock if he and Donahue could “borrow the drummer” and play a few songs. “Then afterwards [Pepprock] says, ‘Hey, if you guys can get a drummer you can play with us next month.’ So I owe Randy a lot for opening that door.”
Soon afterward, Ament would quit school and form Deranged Diction, his first Missoula band.
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ho Killed Society was one of the more popular Missoula punk bands at the time, but their recording was never officially released. Pepprock’s last copy of the cassette sat in a drawer for years, unplayable because the tape had broken. The band had produced only a few copies, which have been drifting around since. One of the tapes found its way into the hands of Dave Martens, who documents the history of Montana music through his Lost Sounds Montana project. Actually, “found its way” is too polite a phrase to describe how Martens obtained the tape. Once he learned of its existence, he pestered a contemporary of Pepprock’s to mail him a copy. “I got the tape after sending, I don’t know, 50 emails to Shawn Swagerty,” he says. Swagerty, who now hosts a radio show in Portland, among other things, was writing for the Kaimin at the time, and provided a good bit of coverage for Missoula’s nascent punk scene. After having the tape transferred to digital format by Rick Kuschel in Missoula, Martens was at a skateboard jam in Big Sandy last summer, where he ran into Ament. Martens asked if he could include some material from Deranged Diction in a compilation he was working on. “He said yes,” Martens says, “then I also mentioned the Who Killed Society stuff. I just thought he’d be interested. I didn’t think he would release it.” Ament says he’d periodically dug through his milk crates of unmarked cassettes over the years, looking for his copy of the WKS tape. He had no idea that Martens had a copy, let alone had it converted from analog to digital wav files.
posters courtesy Dave Martens, thefreerange.net, and Tom Kipp
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“I’d been talking to Dave about lots of stuff, and he says, ‘Man, I just got a copy of the Who Killed Society thing,’ and I was, like, what? I was freaking out. He immediately sent me a download of it, and I burned a CD. Then I sort of drove around with it in my car for a couple days, and I said we gotta put this out. So I reached out to Randy.”
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ho Killed Society was far from the first punk band to play in Missoula. According to those who were there, that honor almost certainly goes to Just Ducky. The band was short-lived and featured an ever-changing roster, but its one constant member was Steve Albini. Pepprock was the band’s guitarist until he was sacked just before their first gig because, he says, he wasn’t good enough. In the WKS EP’s liner notes he actually thanks Albini for kicking him out “so I could start my own band.” Just Ducky played a variety of rock, from hardcore originals to surf tunes to covers of heavier songs by the Who and Alice Cooper. As far as Missoula’s emerging punk scene was concerned, Just Ducky was the progenitor. They slashed through shows with outrageous antics like smashing a TV onstage. They didn’t care who they pissed off, which was mostly other bands. “It was like a war,” Pepprock says of the friction between the upstart punks and the more established mainstream bands. “Where there was a Battle of the Bands, it was like a real battle of the bands.”
“I got punched carrying a bass cabinet out of the Carousel,” Ament adds. “This dude just came up and punched me in the face really hard. And I was holding this bass cabinet so I couldn’t fight back.” Punks typically sported mohawks and wore leather jackets, ripped jeans and Converse or Vans sneakers. The codified attire helped them feel like they belonged to something, even while they were rejecting pretty much everything else. But it also made them highly visible
punk gear, Ament and his buddies had food and insults hurled their way by patrons and other musicians. “They loved to call us ‘Devo,’” he says with a bemused grin. Physical violence was not uncommon, although Swagerty recalls times when the punks would bring it upon themselves. “Randy and Wally [Erickson, WKS drummer] would get pretty looped out with the clown oil. The band would play ‘Boom Boom’ by Pat Travers, and they would expect everybody to yell, ‘Out go
crawled out of a garbage can. Steve Albini … he had a guitar effects box taped to his leg with gaffer tape and he was playing a big old Peavey bass. And John Rose was doing the singing.” Joe Cregg was on drums, and it’s likely that Heather Gonsior was playing keyboards The band wasted no time in pissing all over the decorum usually shown the venerated Wilma, which was at the time primarily a movie theater, but also hosted the occasional city band concert or symphony. “They immediately blew
“It was like a war. Where there was a Battle of the Bands, it was like a real battle of the bands.” targets of derision from their musical rivals, or just civilians who were uncomfortable with their presence and threatened by their aggressive music. Ament has vivid memories of the enmity between the punks and all the other bands in town, and how the punks had each others’ backs. “There wasn’t really a whole ton of judgment within our little scene, so you’re mostly just really supporting each other. It really was us against them, because everybody else hated us.” He recalls going out to the Trading Post to see the Time, a well-loved pop band that featured brothers Erik and Wylie Gustafson. Easily identified in their
the lights!’ and Randy and Wally would yell, ‘Fuck you, pricks!’” One of the most egregious incidents involved Just Ducky, which played last on the bill at an infamous Battle of the Bands held at the Wilma in 1980. Pepprock recalls the lineup of bands, which was pretty typical. “Back then it was, like, you’d have a couple of country-western bands, a bluegrass band, a couple of bad heavy metal bands doing covers.” Swagerty remembers the show, which he covered for the Kaimin. “All the usual bands came out and played. Just Ducky was last, and they were awful. The guitarist, Dan Walseth,
an amp,” Swagerty says, “so they borrowed an amp from Erik Gustafson of the Time, and they immediately turned it up to 10 and blew that one out, too. It was just total outrage. I guess they got into trouble with the owners of the Wilma because Dan Walseth smashed a guitar onstage, and you weren’t supposed to mess with that stage.” Dave McIntosh, co-owner of Electronic Sound and Percussion in Missoula, was running the sound for the show. “They were reluctant to put on the show there,” he says of the Wilma’s management at the time. “Bob Ranstrom was the general manager. If he’d been there when
photo by Amy Huddleston, courtesy Dave Martens
Jeff Ament, Wayne Erickson and Bruce Fairweather (left to right) at a Missoula party circa 1982.
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that guitar got smashed on the stage, he would have lost it.” Missoula music veteran Chip Whitson saw it all from the audience. At the time he was just a wide-eyed 15-year-old with big rock ’n’ roll dreams, but Whitson would become a mainstay of Missoula music through the ’80s and ’90s, playing in bands like the Coup’rs, the Furys, the Small Town Deputies and Top Jimmy. Currently living in Coeur d’Alene, he recalls how he’d never seen anything like Just Ducky. “I remember the stage curtain parting slightly in the middle, before they were introduced, and a band member mooned the crowd with his bare ass. Talk about a collective gasp. Then the curtain opened and Just Ducky tore through about four hyperspeed songs, ending with the breaking of a guitar a la Pete Townshend. It made me sad because I was still hoping to get my first electric, and this guy just broke one.”
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epprock, after getting booted from Just Ducky, redoubled his efforts on guitar and began writing songs. He formed the Details, which included Sabina Miller on bass, Wally Erickson on drums and Dave Peterman on lead guitar. Most working bands at the time used a booking agency, and Pepprock was told that the band would have to learn some popular radio tunes if they were going to get gigs. They learned a few new wave and punk hits by bands like the Cars and the Ramones, trying to meet the agency in the middle. The De-
photo by Amy Huddleston, courtesy Dave Martens
Sabina Miller and Randy Pepprock.
as I know, he never had any schooling or education on recording, he just started twisting knobs.”
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o how does the music hold up, almost 40 years down the line? “I’m happy with it,” says Pepprock. “I hadn’t heard it for 20 years. I’m not embarrassed. We were young men, so it’s kind of teenage writing. Lyrically, I’m older, I have a more mature way of writing, I guess I’d write it a little different. There are a couple of bum notes. We did it pretty quickly, like, ‘OK, we did it four times, that’s enough.’ But I’m happy with it.” “Say One Thing,” opens the set with lo-fi menace, the weird slapback of the room making Erickson’s snare sound like a gunshot in a convenience store. Echoes of U2, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols emerge in a song that’s not even two minutes long. The ensuing six songs race by, drenched in anger and attitude, but are surprisingly sophisticated for a trio of misfits who’d never seen the inside of a recording studio, using dynamics and guitar hooks like old pros. Pepprock’s cheeky British accent only adds to the contemporary punk flavor. Corroded guitar tones, pick drags, propulsive
drums and sneering vocals combine to create a punk statement that demands attention. It’s honest. It’s authentic. The songs are now older than a whole generation of hardcore fans, but they blast out of the speakers like a vintage bombshell. “It’s pretty visceral,” Ament says. “It comes through. Even the
way that Wally is playing the drums, you can hear that angst.”
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lthough punk never really went away in Missoula, and would see a resurgence in the late-’80s onward, the original scene began to splinter almost as soon as it hit its stride. Albini moved to Chicago and eventually formed Big
Black, his entrée into the big leagues. Ament formed Deranged Diction and quit college in his sophomore year to follow Pepprock to Seattle, where he would go on to play in Green River and Mother Love Bone, eventually putting together a little combo called Pearl Jam. Other veterans of Missoula’s first punk wave include Joel Phelps, Tim Midyett, Andy Cohen and Ben Koostra, who went on to form Silkworm, which found some national success. The aforementioned Matt Crowley performed at Lollapalooza with the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, thrilling crowds with his repugnant feats of gastric hydrology. Locally, Chris Badgley, the mohawked young punk who had a band called Nuclear Youth, recently ran for City Council. Like Joe Cregg and many other “survivors” of Missoula’s original punk scene, he still calls the Garden City home. In the interviews conducted for this story, a common observation was that everyone from that early-’80s hardcore scene thought Randy Pepprock was “the real deal.” He had the look, he had the attitude and he delivered the goods. After leaving Missoula in 1982, he served as kind of an expatriate godfather in Seattle, letting other Missoula transplants (including Ament) sleep on his floor or helping them find jobs. Who Killed Society morphed into Circle 7, which recorded an album at Triangle
Matt “The Tube” Crowley and Eddie Vedder (in hat) performing with the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow.
Studios in Seattle. (Pepprock hates the album, which he says was ruined by a glossy production.) He left Seattle just before grunge exploded there, shooting for a recording career in Los Angeles. After a stint painting movie sets for a couple of years, he returned to Western Montana, eventually settling in Connor, where he has raised two daughters and runs a thriving business creating miniature buildings and diorama kits used in model train layouts. Over the years, he’s mounted a couple of rock bands, including Shangri-La Speedway, which featured Dave Bond and Tim Bierman, who’s now the president of the Pearl Jam fan club. His most recent band, Letters to Luci, released one album, in 2014, which featured some bass tracks by his buddy Ament. Nowadays, like most of us 50somethings who worry less about raging against the machine and more about rising property taxes, Pepprock is thicker in the middle, gray on top, and has trouble reading a menu without his glasses. But one thing he hasn’t lost is his firm grip on the punk ethos. “People will follow the winner, the leader who’s great all the time, but I like to follow the underdog, the guy who’s going in the out door, knocking stuff over. A lot of times it’s crap — doesn’t mean it’s good. But sometimes there’s a little spark, and the guy’s not trying to follow, he’s trying to do his own thing. It might be crappy, but it might be great.” editor@missoulanews.com
photographer unknown, courtesy Randy Pepprock
photographer unknown, courtesy Randy Pepprock
tails played exactly one gig, at the 44 Bar in St. Ignatius. “I’m thinking there’s going to be a stage and lights,” Pepprock says, “and we get there and it’s, like, ‘OK, we’ll move the candy machine in the corner.’ We played one set and the owner said, ‘We’re gonna pay you, but you’re gonna have to go. You’re driving everyone out.’” Peterman left the band after that, and the remaining trio became Who Killed Society. They played around Missoula at places like the Forum and the Top Hat and began to gain a following. When Pepprock decided to record a few of his songs for posterity, he recruited Albini, who recalls that he was probably visiting Missoula after moving to Chicago after graduation. The band rehearsed at their rented house on Ernest Street, but memories are hazy on the location of the recording sessions. “It was in the home studio of somebody who worked at a local music shop,” Albini says. “The studio was certainly not worse than a lot of places I’ve worked since. It was semi-professional, but everything worked.” Pepprock recalls Albini taking the master tapes to a local studio for mixing, and how the seasoned soundman was appalled at Albini’s greenhorn approach. “I remember something about Steve going, ‘What happens if we do this?’ [mimes turning a big control knob] and Jay was totally mortified, like, ‘It’ll be totally distorted! You can’t do that!’ So Steve said, ‘Well, let’s try this and this and this!’ Even then, he was, like, ‘Let’s just see what happens.’ As far
Randy Pepprock onstage in 1981.
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[arts]
Open storytelling The Nłʔay Indigenous Film Fest focuses on trauma and resilience by by Erika Fredrickson
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van MacDonald recalls that his family was one of the first on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning to get a satellite dish. He’d wake up in the middle of the night and sneak out of his bed to watch the Independent Film Channel and Sundance. At 8 or 9, he saw Blue Velvet and, a few years later, Pulp Fiction. Watching these kinds of outrageous movies was a way to escape, he says, but a lot of his favorite films were those he could easily relate to. “I still remember watching Todd Solondz movies like Welcome to the Dollhouse,” he says. “It was so weird. Those different stories are what I always searched for — the ones I’d never heard before, but with characters that reminded me of me.” MacDonald, who now works as a therapist at the Missoula Urban Indian Health Center, has taken his early love of movies and helped turn it into an event. He is one of the founders and organizers of the Nłʔay Indigenous Film Festival, which features Native American-made films about what it means to be an American Indian in 2018 in the context of historical trauma and cultural resilience. The festival is run through MUIHC, which is a branch of Indian Health Services, and it fits directly with the center’s mission: to offer health services and community support to Native Americans living in an urban setting, while keeping them connected to their cultures. In particular, MUIHC provides behavioral, mental health and chemical dependency services, and recently hired on a primary care provider. “These services are tailored for them,” MacDonald says. “A lot of the clients talk about how it’s a safe space for them to discuss things like historical trauma. And they’re not told to ‘get over it’ or ‘let’s not talk about that.’” The festival’s goal is the opposite, MacDonald says. It started last year when the MUIHC staff, including MacDonald, executive director LeeAnn Bruised Head and mental health provider and wellness specialist Lida Running Crane, started discussing how to bridge the gap between the issues they work on at the center and the general public.
Before the Streets headlines the Nłʔay Indigenous Film Festival.
“We still find that when we go to agency meetings or meet with coalition groups, people aren’t 100 percent certain about what we do at the center,” MacDonald says. MacDonald’s sister, Ivy MacDonald, is a filmmaker who was recently awarded a fellowship to attend the Seattle International Film Festival. Last year, the siblings screened When They Were Here, a 22-minute documentary they made about the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. That issue has gotten some national attention via this year’s women’s marches, but MacDonald says it’s still something that a lot of nonnatives know little about. At the film festival, he says, the audience was able to ask questions and discuss the film. “It focused on sexual violence and there was a scene that showed that,” MacDonald says. “We had a discussion on the importance of showcasing stories like that, even though they’re kind of dark, [and] they can be triggering for some people. Our audience talked about understanding that it’s not just there to
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be a plot point, it is a reality for a lot of indigenous women. A lot of the non-natives in the community were saying, ‘We had no idea it was such a big epidemic or crisis,’ and a lot of times, it was our native audience members who were answering the questions.” The discussions and films at the festival address historical trauma, displacement and assimilation, but also resilience. MacDonald says it’s important that present-day trauma stemming from colonization is fully aired, but that also the strength of so many Native American people, including local artists, activists and educators, is highlighted. This year, the center got a grant from Humanities Montana, which has helped it curate and plan for two days of screenings and special events. “It’s a placebased festival,” MacDonald says, “This is Bitterroot Salish Kootenai land, and the name, Nłʔay, means ‘Place of the Little Bull Trout.’” There will be food, music and art, with a special appearance by artist Corwin Clairmont from the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation through a partnership with the Missoula Art Museum. Films include stories about Navajo mathematicians, sacred tobacco, tribal justice and a history of Native Americans in rock music, and a lot of the films end with panels and Q&As. “I come from a really academic background so whenever I present to people, it’s at a conference or a workshop,” MacDonald says. “But to reach the audience I want to reach, it’s not going to be through a conference or an academic journal, it’s going to be through something easily digestible, like film.” The headlining film is the 2016 award-winning Canadian drama Before the Streets, directed by Chloé Leriche, which is set in Northern Quebec among the Atikamekw people and tells the story of a man dealing with the consequences of a crime he committed. “She really gets to that resiliency piece we’re looking for,” MacDonald says. “It’s a dark film that ends on resilience.”
MacDonald says part of his approach to the festival is to look for films that create awareness and inspire advocacy, but that also offer great storytelling — the kind he was drawn to when he was a kid. To him, film is one way to change the conversation. “You think about Black Panther and Wonder Woman and they’re some of the highest grossing movies,” MacDonald says. “Or award-winning movies like Moonlight or Call Me By Your Name. It’s not even that they’re newer stories, they’re just different stories that are finally being told that people are paying attention to. They are stories people want to hear. And we’re trying to get caught up in that wave somehow.” The Nłʔay Indigenous Film Festival runs Fri., May 18 – Sat., May 19 at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. $5 a day or bring canned goods to donate. Visit muihc.org for a full schedule. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music] Algiers, The Underside of Power Algiers plays post-punk gospel featuring raw, cutting lyrics that speak directly to racism in this country — the ways in which white people created the system and how almost everyone continues to uphold it. The band’s last album, 2017’s The Underside of Power, begins with “Walk Like a Panther,” which starts with a sample from a Black Panther scene in the 1980s documentary TV series Eyes on the Prize before frontman Franklin James Fisher belts out, “We won’t be led to slaughter / This is self-genocide / It’s the hand of the people that’s getting tenser now /And when we rise up / Woo! I feel it coming down.” I love Algiers for so many reasons: They combine gospel, noise, Motown, rock and hooks in a way that’s catchy enough to get you moving but never feels close to easy listening. In a 2015 Noisey article about the band, writer Zachary Lipez re-
ferred to bassist Ryan Mahan’s tendency to answer questions like he’s speaking from “Nation of Ulysses liner notes, a combination of the high academy and high cool.” And now I can’t stop thinking about how Algiers also has a certain NOU or Gang of Four offrail weirdness in their approach, without sounding like either band. Algiers plays Ten Spoon Winery — a venue usually saved for mellower, more mainstream fare. Fisher’s voice is beautiful and powerful, and the energy and cacophony of the songs give the band a revolutionary edge that’s going to seem wildly at odds in the early evening vineyard setting — but oh so cool, too. (Erika Fredrickson) Algiers plays Ten Spoon Winery Thu., May 24, at 6 PM, along with openers Fantasy Suite and Cairns. Free to get in.
Pedro the Lion Pedro the Lion is back for the first time in more than a decade, although technically the band never really went anywhere. The moniker for David Bazan’s indie rock/slowcore projects from 1995 to 2005, which involved a large rotating cast of backup band members, Pedro the Lion “broke up” when Bazan decided to perform under his own name and “got back together” in late 2017 when he decided to use it again. What made Bazan revive his old band name (along with two new members, Perfume Genius drummer Sean Lane and Silver Torches guitarist Erik Walters) has a lot to do with personal change: He retired the name shortly after the Christian crossover singer lost his faith and is picking it up
again to revisit and reflect upon his old catalog. Bazan plans to release a new Pedro album, Phoenix, in the future, but so far, the current tour encompasses old favorites played through the lens of a more mature and perhaps even more emo-sounding musician. For example, the band is tackling 20-year-old Pedro songs from little-known EPs, like the track “Nothing,” which in its new incarnation sounds a little deeper and harsher and world-weary than the original recording. Mostly, though, Bazan is reaching back to the simpler songs of his youth after a long journey away from them. (Sarah Aswell) Pedro the Lion plays the Top Hat Thu., May 24. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9 PM. $20.
Al Scorch, Circle Round the Signs Chicago’s Al Scorch makes music the way you make soup by taking a bunch of random leftovers from your fridge and putting it into the broth. Only Al Scorch has some really cool shit in his fridge. Using ostensibly traditional string band instruments, he creates a mixture of folk, punk, rock, zydeco, even twisted klezmer. It’s a stirring, dynamic caterwaul that’s a perfect match for his literate, socially conscious lyrics. On his most recent album, Circle Round the Signs, he whips a bluegrass arrangement into a breakneck frenzy on “Pennsylvania Turnpike.” In a strident, bold tenor not unlike that of local rabble rouser Travis Yost, he sings about being “close in love as we were then to the Alabama/Florida line.” “Want One” sounds like a frenzied confession to
an addiction counselor: “That tiny little bottle feels big, empty and hollow. When I get to the bottom I am incomplete. There was this one time where I was so high that I thought I had died and passed out in the street.” Scorch is that rare kind of artist who can put together a gripping song in a wide variety of styles. The best song on the album might be “Lonesome Low,” which reminds us of the darker corners of the American existence. Scorch’s music is honest without being pedantic, and the propulsive rhythms and textured arrangements keep things moving along. It’s a satisfying stew that demands extra helpings. (Ednor Therriault) Missoula Community Radio presents Al Scorch & Friends at the Union Hall Ballroom Fri., May 18, at 7 PM. $5.
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[books]
Love story American Wolf gives O-Six the spotlight by Sarah Gilman
On Dec. 8, 2012, the New York Times ran a story and their watchers. Chief among them is McIntyre, a titled “‘Famous’ wolf is killed outside Yellowstone.” full-time employee in Yellowstone’s biology departA radio-collared female, beloved by park wolf-watch- ment who is so enamored with the canines that he ers, had been shot in Wyoming’s first legal hunt after braves blizzards and backburners romantic relationthe federal government lifted Endangered Species Act ships to keep an eye on the packs, tallying over 85,000 wolf sightings in the park over the course of his career. protections for gray wolves in the state. The second is between O-Six and her alpha male, Until then, the wolves that had begun to flourish in the Northern Rockies were abstractions to most 755. It is impossible to read about the animals’ lives people. We tend to think of wild animals as collectives, — the uncle who keeps careful eye on the shyest pup playing their role in ecosystems or on the fringes of in the litter; a green afternoon spent romping for the human communities. Here, though, was an individual apparent joy of it; the heartrending moment when with a known history and a recognizable cream-and- O-Six’s pack gathers to stand vigil over her body after she’s shot — and not be convinced that gray face. She gave her species the wolves have complex emotional and weight of identity, and her killing raised intellectual lives. an outcry from around the country. O-Six’s story becomes the It’s because beyond the brief promontory from which to glimpse a news of her death was a life, as sinwhole society of wolves. There is the gular in its details, perhaps, as each alpha wolf, and instead of killing the of our own. American Wolf, Nate pups of her in-pack rival, raises them Blakeslee’s second nonfiction book, alongside her own. There is a pack that is an engrossing, cinematic account learns to specialize in bison — wolves of that life — and through it, the no heavier than a man bringing down sweeping tale of wolves’ return to a a creature the size of a hatchback — more tolerant and far less wild West. Scientists called the famous wolf American Wolf: A True then fractures into a gang of marauding 832F. Wolf-watchers knew her as O-Six, Story of Survival and wolf-killers after losing its alphas. Theirs is a society, at once alien for the year of her birth. She stole their Obsession in the West Nate Blakeslee and unsettlingly familiar, that paralleled hearts in 2010, when she single-handHardcover, Crown and occasionally touched our own for edly took down the alpha female of an320 pages, $28 thousands of years, before increasingly other wolf pack, securing some of the park’s best territory for her own, and then, in the next settled agricultural and urban cultures routed it from beat, hurled herself in solitary chase after a bull elk. their midst. Once, Blakeslee writes, wolves were the Relying on thousands of pages of field notes most widespread large land mammals on Earth. Now, and direct observations from veteran wolf-watchers humans are, and wolves live in pockets outside the Laurie Lyman and Rick McIntyre, Blakeslee paints vast, mostly unpeopled wilds of places like Alaska and O-Six as an initially improbable protagonist. She northern Canada only by our grace and will. Like Barry Lopez’s foundational 1978 Of Wolves spends her first three years roving alone, vulnerable to attacks by her own kind. When she finally starts and Men and much of the rest of the Canis lupus a pack in her middle age, it’s with a pair of much canon, American Wolf attempts to show us a creature younger brothers that some watchers nickname that Western civilization has long vilified and only re“Dumb and Dumber” for their bumbling early at- cently come to admire. Blakeslee’s timing couldn’t be better. From their cradle in the Northern Rockies, tempts at hunting and terror of empty blacktop. Yet O-Six becomes a benevolent matriarch and wolves have returned to Washington, Oregon and attentive mother. Larger than most females, she is California, and occasionally trickle into Utah and Colalso an especially skilled hunter — taking down orado. In New Mexico and Arizona, another reintroprey on her own, rare for a species that relies on duced population clings to life. Now that we have opened up a tenuous place for wolves again, we need cooperative hunting. As Blakeslee follows O-Six’s ascension, Ameri- to reacquaint ourselves with the ones that run among can Wolf becomes a pair of love stories, braided to- us. American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obgether with the surprisingly relatable tale of O-Six’s session in the West can help us see: Who are they? eventual killer, a reasonable man who embodies What have we forgotten about them? the anti-wolf animus of rural Westerners unwilling to share either the land where they struggle to raise Sarah Gilman is a contributor to Writers on the livestock, or the elk they also hunt. Range, the opinion service of High Country News. The first of these love stories is between the wolves She writes in Oregon.
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[film]
Sexual lows Book Club insults everyone involved by Molly Laich
Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen star in Book Club.
In Book Club, we are given a brainless, toothless, sexually inhibited and largely unfunny comedy centered around fan fiction inspired by a series of YA books and movies about vampires. American culture is rich indeed. The picture stars four old-ish but still remarkably put-together, successful women who have for many years maintained a friendship bolstered by their monthly book club. The women are Diane (Diane Keaton), a recent widow with two cartoonishly overbearing daughters; Vivian ( Jane Fonda), your classic “Sex-and-the-City” Samantha character — oversexed and inexplicably terrified of feelings; Sharon (Candice Bergen), a frigid, divorced federal judge who hasn’t had sex in 18 years; and Carol (Mary Steenburgen), happily married except that her husband is barely conscious and hates sex. These women are in for a pretty big life shakeup, thanks to Vivian’s outrageous suggestion that the group starts reading the purple, lurid prose from Fifty Shades of Grey. My heavens, I never, oh my, etcetera. If you’re picturing a montage of each woman turning pages excitedly in various locations with their mouths agape, that’s accurate. Before long, each finds herself on a different movie trajectory of sexual awakening. Diane is torn between storybook sexual advances from a rich pilot (Andy Garcia) and her shrill, terrible daughters in Arizona (Alicia Silverstone and Katie Aselton), who spend the entire picture with a mirror under their mother’s nostrils, practically begging her to just die already. (Not literally: that would be a funny gag and this movie has none.) Will she finally stand up to her daughters and allow herself to be happy? Carol has a plastic figure, owns her own hotel and spends the whole movie shunning the advances of an old flame (Don Johnson) for no reason. I’m aware the conventions of the genre are replete with fake problems, but this one’s particularly obscene.
Sharon’s obsessed with her ex-husband (Ed Begley Jr.), who we see on social media in inexcusably terrible PhotoShopped photos with his young, beautiful fiancée in Maui or some other made-up place. Seriously, why are these comedies featuring great aging actors centered around Metamucil jokes always so lazily rendered? It’s insulting to its target demographic, as if they’re too old and dumb to care whether art catered to them is good or not. Anyway, Sharon starts dating Richard Dreyfuss through Bumble. Carol’s issues with her husband are the most plausible of the lot, but no less boring: Her husband (Craig T. Nelson) seems to have lost all will to live since retiring; their intimacy is gone and they don’t know how to communicate with one another. Will this plotline culminate in a dance number? I saw Book Club at an advance screening on Mother’s Day with enthusiastic promoters who brought a fun photo booth and flowers for everyone (I narrowly dodged being handed a carnation — I’m a cranky film critic, I hate flowers!). The people who were not me seemed to enjoy the movie a lot, which is designed to soothe an already tame audience with fantasies of a rich life in their golden years. It’s fine to like a movie, and I feel a little bad tearing this one down so viciously, but it’s my duty to warn you against a story so clichéd and lazy that it may actually make you stupider. I actually kind of like the Fifty Shades movies (in a detached, elitist way) and thus had hopes that Book Club might have some fun with BDSM. Show me Murphy Brown tied to something! But no; they’re blushing all the way through this PG-13, fully-buttoned slog. Unless you really like double entendres, I would stay away. Book Club opens at the Southgate 9 Fri., May 18. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film]
OPENING THIS WEEK
BOOK CLUB A group of lifelong friends, played by Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, rediscover the romance in their lives after reading Fifty Shades of Grey. This can't be a real movie, can it? Rated PG-13. Also stars other people that should have known better. Playing at the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. (See Film) DEADPOOL 2 The sequel to the highest grossing R-rated film of all time brings Marvel's merc with a mouth into a collision course with Cable, a cyborg from the future who isn't played by Dolph Lundgren, as was promised in the last movie. This is completely unacceptable. I want to talk to your supervisor. Rated R. Stars Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin and Ricky Baker. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. LET THE SUNSHINE IN (UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR) The director of Chocolat brings us the story of a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love. Too bad all the men in her life are married, jerks or dealing with their own demons. Not Rated. Stars Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois and the monster that ate Gérard Depardieu. Playing at the Roxy. SHOW DOGS A rough-and-tumble police Rottweiler and his human handler go undercover at a snooty dog show to nab some panda-nappers. You wouldn't think someone would want to make Miss Congeniality meets Turner & Hooch, but here we are. Rated PG. Stars Will Arnett, Ludacris and Shaquille O'Neal. Playing at the AMC Pharaohplex
NOW PLAYING 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. 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. 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 and the Southgate 9. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (1991) Stephen Hawking's incredible life, and the dynamic theories he championed, come to life in this powerful documentary. Rated G. Directed by Errol Morris. Playing Sun., May 20 at 7 PM at the Roxy. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016) Marvel's star-spangled Avenger finds himself on the wrong side of the government after a terrorist attack is blamed squarely on his amnesiac best friend. It's
I still cannot believe that a movie featuring Domino, Shatterstar and Zeitgest is about to make flippity-billion dollars at the box office. Deadpool 2 opens at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. strange my uncle calls this movie Captain America: The War of Northern Aggression, right? Rated PG13. Stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. and William Hurt. Playing Wed., May 23 at 8 PM and Sun., May 27 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy. 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. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2014) I am Groot. Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper. Playing at the Roxy Sun., May 20 at 2:30 PM. GREASE (1978) Follow the bouncing ball as you sing along with your favorite songs from this nostalgic tour of high school in the 1950s. Playing Sat., May 19 at 4 PM and 7 PM at the Roxy. HARDCORE (1979) After the disappearance of his daughter, a worried father finds her in the last place he would expect. This is the movie where George C. Scott yells “Turn it off! Turn it off!” Rated R. Also stars Peter Boyle and Season Hubley. Playing Fri., May 18 at 9 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 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. LABYRINTH (1986) The loneliest LARPER in town accidentally wishes her baby half-brother away, and has to travel through a
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world of ugly Muppets to save him from the clutches of the Goblin King. Rated PG. Starring Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie and his tight, tight pants. Playing Sat., May 19 at 9 PM 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. LIFE OF THE PARTY After a sudden and unexpected divorce, a middleaged mom heads back to college, where she ends up in the same classes as her daughter. Rated PG13. 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, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. 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. RBG Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. Follow her journey in this mindful documentary. Rated PG. Directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. Playing Thu., May 24 at 7 PM at the Roxy. THE SANDLOT (1933) The friends you make playing pickup baseball will stick with you FOR-EV-ER. Rated PG. Stars Tom Guiry, Denis Leary and Karen Allen. Playing Sat., May 19 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 Southgate 9. 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.
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 still fuming over the plot to Book Club.
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Parmesan zucchini fries by Gabi Moskowitz
BROKEASS GOURMET
Crispy, salty French fries seem to be de rigueur in late-night diners, but to tell the truth, I can take or leave regular French fries (sweet potato fries are different — I pretty much always take those, but they’re hard to find in most diners). That said, I’ll take a plate of zucchini fries any day. Crispy, battered, fried zucchini, with little pots of creamy ranch or spicy marinara for dipping. Yes, please. So, when a friend gave me a zucchini the size of my forearm from her garden, I knew a big batch of these was in order. But since I don’t love deep-frying (which is both unhealthy and hugely inconvenient), I made my zucchini fries simply and healthfully in the oven. Serve these as an appetizer with dips, or even as a side dish alongside fish or chicken. Serves 4 INGREDIENTS 2/3 cup flour 1 tsp each salt and pepper 2 eggs 1 cup panko or plain bread crumbs 2/3 cup grated (not shredded) Parmesan, plus a few extra pinches for sprinkling 2 medium or one very large zucchini(s), ends removed, cut into pieces the size of French fries DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper (or grease lightly with
olive oil). Arrange the oven racks so they are in the middle and middle-lower part of the oven. Beat the eggs with 2 tbsp water and set aside. Place the flour in a shallow bowl (a pie dish works nicely), stir in the salt and pepper and set aside. Combine the panko or bread crumbs with the Parmesan in a shallow dish (like the aforementioned pie dish) and stir well to combine. Arrange the ingredients in a line in this order: flour mixture, egg mixture, bread crumb-Parmesan mixture. To assemble the fries, dredge a piece of zucchini in the flour, shaking off excess. Then dip it into the egg mixture, letting the excess drip away. Finally, dip it into the bread crumb-Parmesan mixture, shaking off excess. Place the coated zucchini fry on one of the parchment-covered pans, and repeat with the remaining zucchini and coatings. Bake the fries for 12 to 13 minutes, then switch them between the oven racks and bake for another 6 to 7 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes, then serve the fries warm with tomato sauce or a creamy ranch-style dressing for dipping. 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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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-
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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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What you’re drinking: Lucky’s housemade strawberry lemonade. In front of the store’s juice bar there’s a cold case filled with crushed ice holding bottled smoothies, juices and fruit-infused waters. On this particular sunny day, the strawberry lemonade was especially appealing. Isn’t lemonade for children? You’re thinking of super-sweet lemonade, the kind that has as much sugar as will dissolve in the water. This lemonade tastes like lemons and strawberries, with just enough sugar to put it on the right side of tart. Jacqueline Ranne, who works in Lucky’s produce department, says its low sugar content (which is relative with lemonade — there’s still
about a cup per quart) is a feature, “so that you are tasting the ingredients and not the sugar,” she says. Why you’re drinking it now: The sun won’t set before 9 p.m. for three months and it’s going to be summer soon. It’s time to glory in the rich variety of summer beverages. Where to get it: Lucky’s Market at Southgate Mall. —Susan Elizabeth Shepard Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. 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. What do you have in a cinnamon whiskey? Sample classic American whiskeys from across the country at a tasting at the Golden Rose. $25 for full tasting/$15 for three. 5 PM–8 PM.
nightlife John Floridis plays Bitter Root Brewing from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Adrian Teacher & the Subs play the ZACC Below Fri., May 18 at 7:30 PM. $5.
Edwin Johnson plays Draught Works. 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 BetweenTheLines Theatre’s production of Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles continues at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20. Portland bluegrass heroes Cascade Crescendo play the Top Hat. 8 PM. Free. My DJ name is better than yours. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
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Friday 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. The Second Annual Indigenous Film Festival highlights positive messages about identity and connection to culture. See films from Native filmmakers from across the country. Visit muihc.org for a full schedule of events. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 5 PM–10
PM. $5 or a non-perishable food item. Pick up flowers, herbs, vegetables, hanging baskets and more at the 9th Annual Plant Sale. Proceeds from this event go to benefit Fort Missoula Regional Park. The Village Senior Residence. 2 PM–6 PM. Author John Clayton reads from Wonderlandscape, his new book about the history of Yellowstone. Fact & Fiction. 5:30 PM– 7:30 PM. (See Spotlight)
Spotlight Yellowstone National Park has been a popular tourist destination for more than a hundred years. And why wouldn't it be? Not only is it the United States’ first national park, it's the first national park in the world. Measuring nearly 3,500 square miles and composed of lakes, canyons and mountain ranges in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, it's brought people from around the world since Ulysses S. Grant established it in 1872. With it's beautiful vistas, iconic geysers and majestic herds of elk, bison and other wildlife, it's no wonder that the first white explorers in the area called the area “Wonderland.” As the American National Park system enters its second century (and before Ryan Zinke sells it off to the Russians in exchange for a new fly-rod
nightlife Enjoy some made-in-Montana wine with the tunes of Edwin Johnson at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Travis Yost provides the tunes at Montana Distillery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Karl Tyler Chevrolet hosts Ronald McDonald House Charities’s Red Shoe Ball, featuring fun and dancing for the whole family. Head to rsbfamilyedition.auction-bid.org to get your tickets. $30 for
park place he'll never use) take a look back at the history of America's premiere park with Wonderlandscape, a new book by author John Clayton. By examining how the park influenced the artists, naturalists, entrepreneurs and pop-culture icons that visited it, the book shows how the values of their respective eras reinterpreted and redefined Yellowstone. —Charley Macorn WHAT: Wonderlandscape reading WHO: John Clayton WHERE: Fact & Fiction WHEN: Fri., May 18, 5:30 PM
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adults/$10 for kiddos. 6:30 PM– 9 PM. Chicago’s punk rock banjo master Al Scorch plays the Union Hall with local support from Wailing Jennings. 7 PM. $5. BetweenTheLines Theatre’s production of Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles continues at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20. Vancouver, BC rockers Adrian Teacher & the Subs play the ZACC Below with local support from Wrinkles and Panther Car. 7:30 PM. $5.
This month’s I’ll House You features guest DJs John August and channel5karate and resident DJ Hotpantz on the decks. The Badlander. 9 PM. Free. This city ain’t big enough for the both of us. ShoDown plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9 PM. Free. Cash for Junkers provides the tunes at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. 20 Grand’s funky grooves provide the soundtrack at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. Free.
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre plays the Top Hat Sat., May 19. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance. 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. 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. 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. The Second Annual Indigenous Film Festival spotlights work from Native filmmakers from across the country. Visit muihc.org for a full schedule of events. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 9 AM–10 PM. $5 or a non-perishable food item. 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. The world famous rugby tournament returns for its 42nd year. Maggotfest 2018 features 48 teams battling it out on the pitch at Fort Missoula. Visit maggots.org for a full schedule of events. 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. Celebrate Western Cider’s first birthday with a party featuring food, the music of the Idle Ranch Hands and Michael Shaw Bluegrass and, of course, cider. 12 PM–10 PM. Free. Cartographer Amelia Hagen-Dillon hosts a map and compass class for women who want to learn how to read topographic maps, and make the most of your time exploring. Greenough Park Pavilion. 12 PM–4 PM. $30/$15 kiddos.
Imagine Nation celebrates its third birthday with a party featuring food trucks, beer and the music of the Salamanders and Canta Brasil. All proceeds benefit Families First Children’s Museum. 12 PM–8 PM. Poet Lisa Kundrat reads from her new chapbook Speak, Cairn at Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM–2 PM. Give back to Missoula at Community Clean-up Day at Hellgate Lions Park. Painting and ground cleanup plus drinks, food and more. 1 PM–5 PM. Bring a pair of work gloves. Artist Corwin Clairmont talks about his latest body of work, Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project, at a gallery talk at Missoula Art Museum. 2 PM–3 PM. Free.
fully they had their Basses Covered. Sip on wine and enjoy live music at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Miles continues at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20.
Travelers’ Rest State Park celebrates the ribbon cutting of its new Crossroads Plaza with a party featuring a free, outdoor screening of The Princess Bride. 6 PM–11 PM. Free, but donations appreciated.
The kings and queens of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana deck themselves out in gold for a summer kick off party at the Badlander. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $5.
Kevin Van Dort plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. The Brian Jonestown Massacre plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance.
Free Cycles hosts the live music of Chicago’s Stephen James Band, Provo’s TV Screens and local heroes Talus Orion for a night of music. 6 PM–10 PM. $5. All proceeds go to support local veterans charities.
Missoula’s honky tonk emperor Bob Wire plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Outlaw Kart Racing returns to the Big Sky Kartway. Racers tear across a 1/7th mile dirt track. Gates at 5:30 PM, races at 7. 9200 Cartage Rd. $8.
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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. Loosen up your tie and catch Blue Collar at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club while my herd is starving to death. Typical. 9:30 PM. Free.
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Sunday The world famous rugby tournament returns for its 42nd year. Maggotfest 2018 features 48 teams battling it out on the pitch at Fort Missoula. Visit maggots.org for a full schedule of events.
Yoga lets you practise your flow while enjoying cold beer. Bring photo identification and $10 every Sunday this summer. 11 AM.
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every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Ryan James provides the Americana soundtrack at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. BetweenTheLines Theatre’s production of Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles continues at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20.
I prefer Wizard Wave or Barbarian Wave myself. Rogue Wave plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $16. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
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Monday 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. Missoula Mayhem takes you on a 14-mile bike ramble on mixed terrain. Meet at 5:30 PM at the Caras Park Pavilion.
nightlife 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. Caroline Keys, Jeff Turman and Gibson Hartwell provide a night of music at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Author Peter Stark reads from Young Washington, his new book about a flailing young solider who would go on to lead America to independence. Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Ghost Carrot Records hosts a night of experimental, psychwave and performance art at the Union Hall Ballroom. Blood Club, JJ Offline, Tomb Toad and more perform. 7:30 PM. $5. 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. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.
Rogue Wave plays the Top Hat Sun., May 20. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $16.
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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. Bare Bait Dance’s on-going company class is open to all intermediate and advance contemporary modern dancers. Bust a move at the PARTV Center. 5:30 PM. $10. Email info@barebaitdance.org for more info.
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. Maxim Loskutoff reads from his new book Come West and See at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM.
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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. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW.
8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What profession did the Watergate burglars give at their arraignment? 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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Wednesday Enjoy a hot beverage after a bike ride with Coffee Outside MSLA. Bring your mug to Brennan’s Wave from 7:15 AM– 8:15 AM every Wednesday. Free. Visit pedalmissoula.org for more info. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week quaff a brew for Missoula Community School. 5 PM–8 PM. The ACLU of Montana and the Missoula Urban Indian Heath Center host a evening of open dialogue about discrimination and advocacy within the American Indian Community. Payne Family Native American Center. 5:30 PM. Free.
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As a teenager I purchased exactly three CDs; License to Ill by the Beastie Boys, the audiobook Star Trek: Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin and the soundtrack to the 1978 motion picture Grease. I was a bit of a rebel, if you couldn't tell. And while those first two discs got a lot of play and taught me a lot — namely to honor those who fought and died for my right to party, and that licensed fiction is nonsense — it was that third album I wore out. Sure I was a listening to a 20-year-old album that was, itself, an idealized and nostalgic look back another 20 years. But who cares? It's not like I had a lot of other music to listen to. I had all the lyrics down and would sing along into my mother's hairbrush, completely oblivious to some of the grosser subtext in that soundtrack. The Missoula Community Chorus hosts a special singalong screening of the 1978 mu-
vides the soundtrack at Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. 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: Anti-Communists Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Showcase/Open Mic brings seasoned stand-up comedians and bright-eyed newbies to the Roxy Theater. This month’s headliner is the New York-bound Zack Jarvis. 7:30 PM. Concessions purchase for admission. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover. Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free.
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sical complete with bouncing subtitles. Unleash your inner Pink Lady for “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee” show everyone you were “Born to Hand Jive” and see how deftly you can skip over the troubling parts of “Greased Lightnin’” and “Summer Nights” with a crowd of movie-goers. —Charley Macorn WHAT: Grease singalong WHERE: The Roxy Theater WHEN: Sat., May 19 at 5 PM and 7 PM. HOW MUCH: $8 MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.
Crazy Dog howls out originals and covers at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Singer-songwriter Travis Yost proves the soundtrack at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.
Draught Works hosts the live music of Jordan Lane from 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.
Heavy soul masters Algiers play Ten Spoon Winery with local support from Cairns and Fantasy Suite at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 6 PM–9 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
nightlife Pale People celebrate three years as a band with an evening of piano rock at Free Cycles. 7 PM. Free. Joyce Hocker reads from her memoir The Trail to Tincup at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM. Oh my. Pedro the Lion plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance.
My DJ name is better than yours. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM.
videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
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Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ TRex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music
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Agenda FRIDAY, MAY 18 Give back to Missoula at Community Clean-up Day at Hellgate Lions Park. Painting, ground cleanup plus drinks, food and more. 1 PM–5 PM. Bring a pair of work gloves. Karl Tyler Chevrolet hosts Ronald McDonald House Charities's Red Shoe Ball, featuring fun and dancing for the whole family. Head to rsbfamilyedition.auction-bid.org to get your tickets. $30 for adults/$10 for kiddos. 6:30 PM–9 PM.
I bet that if the animal kingdom knew how badly we humans were running everything, they’d be pretty darned pissed. Nearly 500 species of animals have gone extinct over the last five centuries, with another 10,000 poised to join them. It should be noted that all of these deaths are pretty much the fault of humans. No wonder that giraffe keeps giving me the stink eye. In honor of Endangered Species Day, the International Wildlife Film Festival presents four handpicked selections from this year’s most popular films from around the globe for an evening of animal action. First up is The Firefox Guardian, the tale of a Nepalese woman stepping up to change the un-
fortunate fate of the red pandas in her community forest. The Mystery of the Gnaraloo Sea Turtles follows scientists tracking sea turtles on their topsecret journeys through the sea. Zan: Japan’s Last Dugong is about exactly what it sounds like. Finally, Megeti: Africa’s Lost Wolf takes you to the highlands of Africa for a visit with the world’s last Ethiopian wolves. —Charley Macorn The Endangered Species Film Festival plays at the Roxy Theater Fri., May 19 at 6 PM. $8.
on Black go to support AniMeals' Critical Care program. Raise a Grateful Glass at Western Cider. A dollar from every glass sold will go to North Missoula Community Development Corporation. 12 PM–9 PM.
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The Endangered Species Coalition hosts a screening of wildlife films about rare and endangered species at the Roxy. 6 PM–9 PM. $5.
The ACLU of Montana and the Missoula Urban Indian Heath Center host a evening of open dialogue about discrimination and advocacy within the American Indian Community. Payne Family Native American Center. 5:30 PM. Free.
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Pick up flowers, herbs, vegetables, hanging baskets and more at the 9th Annual Plant Sale. Proceeds from this event go to benefit Fort Missoula Regional Park. The Village Senior Residence. 2 PM–6 PM.
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Become a monthly donor to Planned Parenthood of Montana and get a free beer at Imagine Nation Brewing. 4 PM–8 PM. Enjoy a beer while helping local kids. Great Burn Brewing donates 50 cents from every glass sold to 4Missoula to donate at-risk and low-income kids in Western Montana. 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 Do you know how to reliably read a map? I’m not entirely convinced that I do even after spending many afternoons poring over the Montana Wilderness area maps that hang on my apartment walls. I’ve thus far managed to survive my backcountry excursions, but that’s mostly due to some solid pre-adventure route planning. My “lost in Bob with nothing but a map in hand” abilities are still subpar. At some point, I will need to consult an expert and truly learn the art of navigation. Enter cartographer Amelia Hagen-Dillon. She will be teaching an all-women’s hands-on orienteering course. If you want to feel more empowered when you’re in the backcountry, this is the place to be. The course will teach participants how to read topographic maps, and use them in tandem with a compass. You’ll learn to triangulate
The Women’s Navigating with Map & Compass Class will meet at the Greenough Park Pavilion on Sat., May 19 from 12 PM to 4 PM. $30 for adults, $15 for kids 16 and younger.
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Punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Bring your exercise mat to Bonner Park. 6 PM–7 PM. $3.
Missoula Mayhem takes you on a 14-mile bike ramble on mixed terrain. Meet at 5:30 PM at the Caras Park Pavilion.
FRIDAY, MAY 18 Cartographer Amelia Hagen-Dillon hosts a map and compass class for women who want to learn how to read topographic maps, and make the most of your time exploring. Greenough Park Pavilion. 12 PM–4 PM. $30/$15 kiddos. Run Wild Missoula hosts a screening of Common Ground, a documentary about a weeklong journey from Bozeman to Red Lodge through 250 miles of the largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free, but RSVP at runwildmissoula.org.
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TUESDAY, MAY 22 Join Missoula Parks and Recreation and the Garden City Flyers for a free round of disc golf at Marilyn Park. 4 PM–6 PM. Yoga in the Parks lets you greet the sun, under the sun. This week bring your exercise mat to Greenough Park. 6 PM–7 PM. $3.
THURSDAY, MAY 24 Punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Bring your exercise mat to Greenough Park. 6 PM–7 PM. $3.
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I recently had my addiction recovery memoir published. I’m very honest and vulnerable in it, and readers feel super connected to me because of it. Most just briefly thank me for how it changed their life, etc. However, a few have really latched on to me via social media. I respond to their first message, and then they write back with pretty much a whole novel and message me constantly. I don’t want to be mean, but this is time-consuming and draining.
—Unprepared Not to worry ... that fan won’t be stalking you forever — that is, if you’ll just sign the medical release she’s had drawn up for the two of you to get surgically conjoined. In writing your book, you probably wanted to help others get the monkey off their back — not point them to the open space on yours so they could line up to take its place. The interaction these fans have with you is a “parasocial” relationship, a psych term describing a strong one-sided emotional bond a person develops with a fictional character, celebrity or media figure. These people aren’t crazy; they know, for example, that Jimmy Kimmel isn’t their actual “bro.” But we’re driven by psychological adaptations that are sometimes poorly matched with our modern world, as they evolved to solve mating and survival problems in an ancestral (huntergatherer) environment. Though it still pays for us to try to get close to high-status people — so we might learn the ropes, get status by association and get some trickle-down benefits — the adaptation pushing us to do this evolved when we gathered around fires, not flat-screens. This makes our poor little Stone Age minds ill-equipped to differentiate between people we know and people we know from books, movies and TV. Psychologist David C. Giles and others who study parasocial relationships were used to these interactions remaining one-sided, as until recently, it was challenging to even find a celeb’s agent’s mailing address to send them a letter (which might only be seen by some assistant to their agent’s assistant). However, as you’ve experienced, that’s changed thanks to social media, which is to say, Beyonce’s on Twitter. But the fact that you can be reached doesn’t mean you owe anyone your time. As soon as you see someone trying to hop the fence from fan to friend, write something brief but kind, such as: “It means a lot to me that you connected with my book. However, I’m swamped with writing
deadlines, so I can’t carry on an email exchange, much as I’d like to. Hope you understand!” This message establishes a boundary, but without violating your fan’s dignity. Dignity, explains international conflict resolution specialist Donna Hicks, is an “internal state of peace” a person feels when they’re treated as if they have value and their feelings matter. Preserving a person’s dignity can actually make the difference between their hating you and their accepting your need to have a life — beyond waiting around to respond to their next 8,000-word email on their dating history, their medication allergies and their special relationship with cheese.
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I’m a single woman in my mid30s, and I can’t cook. I’m also not interested in learning. My parents are old school, and this worries them.They keep telling me that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Is that really still true?
—Takeout Queen A man does not stay with a mean woman simply because she makes a mean pot roast:“Yeah, bro, I was all ready to leave her, but then my stomach chained itself to the kitchen table.” However, what really matters for a lot of men is that you’re loving as you pry the plastic lid off their dinner. Being loving is not just a state of mind; it is something you do — a habit of being responsive to what marriage researcher John Gottman calls “bids” from your partner for your attention, affection or support. Being responsive involves listening to and engaging with your partner, even in the mundane little moments of life. So when your man grumbles that his hairline is retreating like the Germans at Kursk, you say something sweet or even funny back — as opposed to treating his remark like background noise or snarling something about being late to work. Sure, some men will find it a deal breaker that you don’t cook — same as some will find it a deal breaker if you aren’t up for raising children or llamas. But even a cursory familiarity with male anatomy suggests there are a number of ways to a man’s heart, from the obvious — a surgical saw through the sternum — to a more indirect but far more popular route: showing him you can tie a cherry stem into a knot with your tongue.
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 job description please contact the FBIC Human Resources Staff at (406) 3532205 or mail applications to: Fort Belknap Indian Community. Attn: Human Resources. 656 Agency Main St. Harlem, MT 59526. Position will close Friday, May 18, 2018 @ 5:00 PM.
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HVAC Technician. LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with an HVAC company to hire long-term Technicians. The Technician will keep people warm in the winter and cool in the summer by installing machines and duct to keep comfortable air flow. This position offers entry-level positions as well as high starting pay with experience. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #30933. Nuverra is hiring for CDL Class A Truck Drivers. Drivers can earn a $1500 sign on bonus. To apply call (701) 842-3618, or go online to www.nuverra.com/careers. Nuverra environmental solutions is an equal opportunity employer.
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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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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-119 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NETTIE L. BROWN, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Reprsentative 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 either be mailed to GEORGE E. BROWN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requeste, at 2687 Palmer St., Ste. D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.
DATED this 8th day of May, 2018. /s/ George E. Brown, Personal Representative Montana Elder Law, Inc. /s/ Stefan Kolis, Attorney for Personal Representative Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-18-425 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Nancy Wittmier, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Nancy Ann Wittmier to Nancie Ann Wittmier. The hearing will be on 05/22/2018 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: April 12, 2018. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Emily Hensen, Deputy Clerk of Court
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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.”
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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Personal Representative 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
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