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News
Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Close calls and bucket-list triage .............................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Dinging Matt Bell, another Testy suit, and Colstrip’s transition funds ..........................6 Etc. The end of the barbershop dog?..........................................................................................7 News The county’s bitcoin backlash...........................................................................................8 Dan Brooks Border control never worked. And nothing’s changed. ........................................10 Writers on the Range We can coexist with bears. We need to...............................................11 Feature How to survive summer in Missoula ..........................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Turning a family secret into a story of empathy...................................................18 Music high on you., Arrowleaf, Hot Snakes.................................................................19 Music The crowd-pleasing evolution of the Flaming Lips...........................................20 Film Solo serves up a solid origin story.......................................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 The Market Report A tale of two markets ...........................................................................23 Happiest Hour Bud Light Orange at the Press Box....................................................25 8 Days a Week And every one a stunner ...........................................................................26 Agenda The Brain Injury Alliance’s First Friday mask show ..................................................33 Mountain High The local scoop on Global Running Day ..........................................34
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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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[voices]
STREET TALK
by Michael Siebert
This week’s cover story offers cautionary tales and advice for how to survive a Montana summer. What’s the closest you’ve ever been to dying? If you knew you were dying, and could only complete one item on your bucket list, what would it be?
Meg Reeves: Probably drowning. I guess as a kid, in the ocean. Oh, that kind: Squirrel suit. The suits that have wings, kind of. Parachuting with no parachute.
Matt Moore: Might have been in over my head, surfing in Hawaii. Avoid sugar-free: I just want a nice handful of Haribo gummy bears.
Develop DeSmet
Last week, I received an email from my daughter’s school that included the line, “due to the large number of students in our school...” This reminded me just how full the Missoula schools are. As we are considering building affordable family housing as part of the 10-year plan to end homelessness, we must consider where the children will go to school. Very few schools in Missoula can absorb the children from a new housing district. Many of the potential areas for housing are not within walking distance of a school. But one area is ideal for this housing. The DeSmet School District has land that is perfectly suited for the building of a neighborhood. DeSmet School itself is a high-quality school with room for more students. Building a residential neighborhood in the DeSmet School District would require far less cost in the areas of busing and school building additions than other areas. Due to the need for affordable housing for our families and the ideal situation in the DeSmet area, I encourage county commissioners Jean Curtiss, Cola Rowley and David Strohmaier to implement the zoning amendment to the Missoula Development Park allowing residential development in this area. Magdalen Marmon Missoula
Not a fan
Brad Sailer: I’m a wildland firefighter. Down in Colorado, I was fighting this fire … We almost didn’t get out of there. Localized entirely within your kitchen? See the Northern Lights.
That’s a stupid idea with a band-aid solution (“Bonner property owners make $135K TIF request to quiet bitcoin noise,” May 22). Mining magic ponzi coins is in no way good for the ecology. It needs to go. Corey Rhyne facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Not a fan club
How about just shut it down and let these charlatans waste natural resources somewhere else. Crystal Koosman facebook.com/missoulaindependent
People talking
Greg DeLong: I’ve never come close to dying. I’m 57 years old. I’m very healthy. A swanky farewell: I’d go to Paris. See the Palace of Versailles and the Hall of Mirrors.
Asked Sunday afternoon at Caras Park.
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I think both are excellent marketing (“Two billboards in Missoula, Montana,” May 17). Memorable and interesting. Maybe not the exact reaction Adam and Eve was hoping for, but still causing a lot of publicity. I think people shouldn’t take everything so literally, and remember the historical context of statements like the one used on the billboard. Don’t make mountains out of molehills. Shandi V. Jarecki facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Coal man
A few weeks ago, Sen. Daines voted in confirmation for Andrew Wheeler as deputy director of the EPA. Wheeler is a known coal lobbyist. There are multiple Montana associations who believe that it is best for Montana to diverge from coal as a resource. I question Daines voting in a man who is a coal lobbyist. It is
“Maybe not the exact reaction Adam and Eve was hoping for, but still causing a lot of publicity. I think people shouldn’t take everything so literally, and remember the historical context of statements like the one used on the billboard. Don’t make mountains out of molehills.” questionable whether Andrew Wheeler will be the best deputy director of the EPA for Montana. Katie Conrad Missoula
Got stopped, huh?
Motorcycle police are unnecessary and not possibly cost effective. The dollar amount generated by motorcycle police cannot possibly justify their presence. Their only purpose is to generate revenue and what they bring to the city in citation money can not possibly cover the salary and bike cost of their position. If it does, then far too many are being cited over simple, petty and most often overlooked violations in an
attempt to justify their position. Besides an added presence for 4 to 7 months a year, weather permitting, the motorcycle police are unjustified and generally a nuisance and annoyance on the general public. No motorcycle police individuals actually serve or protect the city and its citizens. All they do is create a feeling of uneasiness and distrust. Not a great way to build trust between the community and PD in these already tense times. Kline Vorhes Missoula
Dumping grounds
Gov. Steve Bullock and his party have been considered very environmentally conscious, but it seems they are forging a new direction. North Dakota is not currently allowing the disposal of Bakken oilfield radioactive or hazardous garbage. But the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is moving briskly to welcome a veritable torrent of those toxic materials to a site near a Sidney subdivision and rural school. Imagine having your home on a scenic plateau overlooking the Yellowstone valley, and being told you will soon live less than a half-mile downwind from a dump for hundreds of thousands of tons of North Dakota’s radioactive/hazardous garbage. The DEQ says it is revising regulations related to these wastes and may have something by the end of 2018. But that doesn’t help our community right now, as the agency is finalizing the permit process for a Sidney toxic dump. And how does the DEQ reply when repeatedly asked, “Will you be allowing the dumping of any radioactive or hazardous waste materials at this site?” With an entirely straight face, they answer, “No.” “What?” you ask. “How can they say that?” When that is the stated purpose of this dump. An internet search reveals that the term “radioactive waste” is used only for nuclear power or weapons plants, not the radioactive/hazardous refuse from oil production. Word games. I had thought I was talking with the Montana DEQ, but it must be the Montana Department of Obfuscation (sometimes concerned with environmental quality). Eastern Montana desperately needs support from other Montanans to reverse this dangerous trend. This time, it’s eastern Montana that is bucking these not-so-“environmental” bureaucrats — next time it could be your community they target. John Mercer Sidney
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday May 23 Missoula’s Logjam Presents announces plans to build a new concert venue in Bozeman. Logjam’s Nick Checota tells the Missoulian an additional tour stop in Montana could draw bigger acts to both cities.
Thursday May 24 An EPA emergency response manager flies to Missoula to test Clark Fork water near the Smurfit-Stone site. Missoula County requested the tests after abnormal water coloration prompted concerns about the integrity of the site’s protective berm. Test results are not yet available.
Friday May 25 Tiffanie Pierce, who was charged with homicide earlier this year after two bodies were discovered in her Strand Avenue home, seeks a separate trial for a charge of attempted homicide that occurred a month beforehand. Judge James Wheelis has yet to issue a decision.
Saturday May 26 A Denton-area farmer shoots an unidentified wolf-like creature, making national news. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say they suspect the animal is a wolfdog hybrid, but further testing is required.
Post-coal
Colstrip’s cash cows
In late May, the city of Colstrip accepted the latest financial-aid offer extended by one of the utilities that owns the nearby coal-fired power plant. Spokanebased Avista Corp. had earlier this year pledged $4.5 million to help the community transition as the plant gradually goes dark in coming years. Colstrip’s approval of the deal comes roughly six months after Puget Sound Energy, another part-owner of the plant, made a similar commitment of $10 million. Both Avista and PSE made the funding promises as part of broader legal proceedings. With PSE, the $10 million was negotiated into a settlement agreement in the company’s energy rate case before the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. Avista’s pledge came about as part of a settlement with the city of Colstrip that allowed Avista to move forward with its sale to the Canadian utility Hydro One. For critics of the coal-fired plant — including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council — those non-Colstrip-specific processes presented an opportunity to apply pressure on behalf of the Colstrip community. “Any time we get a venue that presents us a place where we can get a legally binding commitment from these utilities to pony up money, we’re
going to go for it,” says Mike Scott, senior organizing coordinator with the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Montana. “Legally binding agreements are the only thing that are going to guarantee that community gets money for retraining and money to deal with the lost tax revenue.” In December, Gov. Steve Bullock and Attorney General Tim Fox formed the Colstrip Community Impact Advisory Group to draft rules for how the community spends its PSE funds, half of which are set to be deposited in an escrow account by the end of this year. Barb Wagner, chief economist at the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, says the group has met several times already and should have a plan for the PSE funds by this fall, at which point it will have to be approved by Colstrip’s City Council and Rosebud County’s board of commissioners. Last month, the state also finalized contracts with the Dawson, Miles City and Chief Dull Knife community colleges, as well as the AFL-CIO of Montana, to begin retraining workers from Colstrip and other communities impacted by coal’s decline. That retraining is being funded by a $4.6 million federal grant awarded to Montana last year. “I would say our partners are in the early stages of doing their outreach,” Wagner says. “I know they have identified individuals already, but I don’t think anyone has actually started training yet.” As for the other four owner utilities at Colstrip,
including NorthWestern Energy, Scott says the Sierra Club will continue looking for opportunities to secure legally binding commitments for transition funding. He didn’t want to tip the organization’s hand, but did allude to NorthWestern’s upcoming rate case this fall. “There are going to be multiple places where NorthWestern can choose to do the right thing on this,” he says. Alex Sakariassen
Testy Fest
Lawsuits pile up
The legal troubles keep mounting for Testy Fest owner Matt Powers in the weeks after Powers announced he is discontinuing the annual festival in Clinton. A third lawsuit on behalf of a victim of last year’s fatal car wreck was filed May 22 in Missoula County District Court, even as Rock Creek Lodge, which produced the event, hasn’t responded to the two earlier cases and now faces a default judgment. Powers didn’t responded to an email request for comment. In announcing Testy Fest’s cancellation in April to the Missoulian, Powers was quoted as saying, “At the end of the day I have to be able to hold my head up and be proud of how I make my living.” Two people were killed and seven injured in
Sunday May 27 Ryan Zinke meets with the executive board of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes to hear their request for assistance fighting meth addiction, which leaders say local law enforcement cannot adequately handle.
Monday May 28 The 32nd annual MisCon, Missoula’s science fiction, fantasy and horror convention, draws to a close after four days of panels, workshops and role playing having hosted guest speakers including fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and voice actor Rosearik Rikki Simons.
Tuesday May 29 Tickets for a Fact & Fiction reading by author David Sedaris sell out in 20 minutes at $28 a pop, with buyers waiting in line outside the bookstore as early as 5 a.m. The reading takes place June 23 at 7 p.m.
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[news] the Aug. 5 wreck that precipitated Testy Fest’s demise. The crash occurred when a festival shuttle operated by Pub Crawlers of Montana, LLC, rolled into a median along I-90. One of the passengers, James Bayford, was charged with two counts of negligent homicide and six counts of criminal endangerment for allegedly yanking the steering wheel while the shuttle, a modified 1997 Jeep Wrangler, was in motion. He has pleaded not guilty and faces a July trial. The most recent case was filed by the mother of Donny John Barlow, a 36-year-old passenger who was ejected from the Jeep and pronounced dead on the scene. The civil suit accuses Pub Crawlers, shuttle driver Carolyn Dunbar, Rock Creek Entertainment, and Bayford of negligence, and Bayford and Rock Creek of actual malice — for over-serving Bayford, in Rock Creek’s case. The complaint claims that Rock Creek Lodge staff convinced the driver, Dunbar, to let Bayford in the shuttle despite Bayford’s “unpredictable behavior” and the Jeep being over capacity. It alleges that Bayford sat on the passenger floorboard, without a seatbelt or seat. Pub Crawlers declined to comment. Bayford had been ejected from the festival earlier in the evening, and his blood-alcohol content after the crash was recorded at .209, more than twice the legal limit. He attended Testy Fest less than two weeks after receiving a deferred sentence for two counts of assault on a minor. A few days after the Missoulian reported that Testy Fest will be discontinued, a second suit against Powers, Rock Creek, Pub Crawlers and Bayford was filed by crash survivor Brandi Dalton. The complaint states that Dalton suffered severe injuries and “has been prevented and will continue to be unable to participate in her normal life activities.” Dalton is seeking punitive damages against Rock Creek and Bayford. Meanwhile, a judge entered a default judgment against Rock Creek and Bayford on May 1 after the parties failed to respond to an October suit filed by the estate of Vanessa Anderson, the other deceased victim. A hearing to set damages has yet to be scheduled. Powers’ Rock Creek Lodge, where Testy Fest was held, also appears shuttered. The phone line is disconnected, and in recent weeks its website was taken down. Derek Brouwer
The unendorsed
Bell gets dinged
Matt Bell, who has positioned himself as a “Bernie Democrat” primary challenger to the left of HD 94 Representative Kim Dudik, sent out mailers last week that said he was endorsed by Montana Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood of Montana, MEA/MFT and NORML of Montana. One problem: MEA/MFT did not endorse anyone in this race, and MCV and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana actually endorsed Dudik (at press time, NORML had not responded to a phone call seeking to confirm their endorsement of Bell). One of the leaflets ended up in the mailbox of Dudik’s campaign treasurer, Cliff Larsen. “He was startled when he saw it, because it’s full of blatant lies and claims by my opponent to have endorsements that in fact I have and he was denied,” Dudik says. The endorsement claims were a case of sending a rough draft to the printer, says Bell, who is a teacher at Willard and a union rep for MEA/MFT. “I started on it before I actually had the interview process with those organizations, and I figured that if the outcome came that I didn’t get an endorsement that I would just change the language to maybe ‘supports those organizations’ instead of ‘is endorsed by,’” Bell says. “And I made a mental note of that, and when the time came to do it, I just failed to do it.” Bell says he’s sent an apology email to Dudik, the organizations whose endorsements he erroneously claimed and Democratic party leadership, but hasn’t heard back. He says he’s looking into printing corrected mailers. In addition to the endorsement errors, the mailer lists a number of claims about Dudik’s voting record and activities that Bell is unable to source or substantiate. One such is an allegation that Dudik voted to keep coal trains running through Missoula (which appears to refer to bills regarding Colstrip’s closure). An-
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Ducklings rescued from a Missoula storm drain by firefighters May 26 after a resident noticed their worried mother huddled over the drain. Missoula photographer Mark Payton documented the event on Facebook. other is “Voted against local food (HB 352),” which refers to a failed bill introduced by Republican Greg Hertz that would have allowed for the sale of prepared foods directly from home kitchens with no licensing, inspection or regulation, and which was opposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Dudik told the Indy that the mailing might have violated MCA 13-35-402, which requires candidates to supply opponents with copies of any campaign materials that will be circulated within 10 days of an election. Bell says the mailers went out last Friday, which would have been before that window. Asked by the Indy Tuesday afternoon whether the listing of false endorsements on campaign material is a violation of campaign practice law, Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff Mangan said it is not. While Montana does have a fair campaign practices code on the books, candidates are bound to that code only on a voluntary basis. “There isn’t a specific statute that says there’s a violation if someone states a mistruth,” Mangan said, before clarifying that the statement does not extend to mistruths about a candidate’s voting record. Mangan later called the Indy back to say a formal complaint had been filed against Bell, and that he could not comment further on the case. Bell says he’s hoping to make things right. “It’s been incredibly embarrassing and awkward, and I feel very badly for possibly misleading people in this whole process.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard and Alex Sakariassen
ETC. In 2000, Kalispell barber Ed Dutton was fined $500 by the state Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists for having his Springer Spaniel Coco in the shop. At the time, a state administrative rule banned animals from barbershops and salons. But Dutton fought back and found a powerful ally in then-Gov. Judy Martz, who appointed him to the board. The dog lovers prevailed, and the ban was overturned in 2001. Soon, if the board has its way, dogs will once again be banned (along with fish and all other animals) from Montana barbershops and salons. Up for adoption is a rule change that would allow only service animals. That’s bad news for Compass Barbershop on South Higgins Ave., the domain of social media superstar Otis, a 100-pound hound/lab mix who appears frequently on the shop’s Instagram account. Otis’s human is Shannon Smallwood, coowner of Compass. Smallwood rescued Otis in Alaska seven years ago, moved to Missoula just over two years ago, and opened Compass at the end of last June. “He’s eight and he’s probably the best dog ever,” Smallwood says. “He’s really good. He’s really mellow and he likes to lay in the shop.” And the customers like Otis, too. “If I don’t bring him, everyone’s like, ‘Where’s Otis? Where’s the dog? I thought there was going to be a dog here,’ and everyone’s super-disappointed,” Smallwood says. Smallwood says she hasn’t seen any communication from the board about the impending rule change, and that it seems like overreach to ban dogs from salons and barbershops. Dennis Clark, the board’s interim executive officer, wrote in an email to the Indy that penalties for violating the rule, if it’s adopted, will be determined by a screening panel that hears complaints. So it’s not clear what kind of fine a violation might result in. The board will hold a public hearing in Helena at 10 a.m. on June 4 to discuss adopting the proposed rule change. This is the first whiff of dog opposition Smallwood has sniffed in Missoula. “It’s probably the most dogfriendly town I’ve ever been to,” she says. “Honestly. There are dogs everywhere.”
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Bitcoin backlash After snubbing TIF request, county proposes moratorium on new cryptocurrency mines by Derek Brouwer
Bonner mill site developer Steve Nelson stormed out of the conference room. “Un-fucking-believable,” he could be heard muttering to himself. For nearly a year, Nelson fielded complaints from area residents whose lives have been disrupted by the nonstop roar produced by the bitcoin mine, Project Spokane, leasing his property. He worked with the company to propose and test a $135,000 solution to the noise that would entail installing 424 new fan blades. And he figured the tax increment generated by the mill site could pay for it, as an “improvement of facilities or equipment for reducing … pollution,” per state law governing use of tax-increment funds. But members of the Missoula Development Authority board didn’t just deny his request at their May 23 meeting. They delivered a stinging rebuke of Nelson and his partner, Mike Boehme, saying the men more typically celebrated as economic saviors for revitalizing the former Stimson mill site had in fact brought a “monster” to town. “You’re not good citizens,” said longtime board member Jim Valeo. “Let’s lay the cards on the table. You’re offensive citizens. … You didn’t do your homework to see what could happen here, and now this is the result. And as far as I’m concerned, this is not a taxpayer responsibility. This is your responsibility. I just hope you guys are willing to be man enough to step up and take that responsibility.” Valeo called the TIF request “absurd.” The meeting suggested a stunning shift in attitude toward an emerging industry that was initially welcomed by local economic development officials, and was offered a $416,000 grant (later declined) to expand. It may be just the beginning of a bitcoin backlash. Citing environmental and safety concerns, county officials are proposing emergency zoning rules that would halt
photo by Amy Donovan
A proposed county moratorium on cryptocurrency mining could bar Project Spokane from expanding operations in Bonner for up to a year.
all new cryptocurrency mining in the county for up to one year. The rules wouldn’t require Project Spokane to shut down, but they would create a new zoning district that prohibits cryptocurrency mining as a primary or accessory use in unincorporated areas. The rules would also add bitcoin to a list of prohibited home occupations, a category that includes restaurants or pet-boarding businesses. That means no one could hook up a new mining server — whether a teenager in his parents’ basement or a commercial operator in a vast warehouse — outside city limits. County commissioners have scheduled the proposal for a June 14 public hearing. Project Spokane, which has talked of doubling or even quadrupling the size of its 20 MW mine, wouldn’t be able to ex-
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pand operations at the Bonner mill site under the moratorium. The proposal isn’t intended to target Project Spokane specifically, county planner Jennie Dixon says, though complaints raised in Bonner prompted commissioners to ask county staff to examine the issue last month. Commissioner Dave Strohmaier told MDA members at their recent meeting that he had “grave concerns” about the industry in general. Strohmaier later directed the Indy’s interview request to county staff. County planners say they are aware of only one other commercial cryptocurrency mine in the county, located next to Interstate 90 near the Reserve Street exit. In February, the department approved permits for four shipping containers “to be hooked up to power for storage of electronics,” county property records in-
dicate. Only one container is currently located at the property, owned by Alpine Canine operator Brian Daigle. Daigle did not return a call for comment. As the price of bitcoin spiked late last year and the Chinese government began showing its bitcoin miners the door over concerns about cryptocurrency, parts of the pacific Northwest as far east as Montana have become attractive mining locations due to the region’s cool climate and access to cheap energy. State and local governments have given varied receptions to the influx of opportunists and entrepreneurs in a poorly understood industry. Wyoming state lawmakers recently passed a series of bills designed to attract companies that specialize in blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrency. But some locali-
ties in Washington state, the epicenter of U.S. cryptocurrency mining, have started to pump the brakes. A handful of municipalities have imposed temporary mining restrictions, citing fire hazards and pressure on the power grid, which could disrupt service to public utility customers. In Wenatchee, the county public utility district is cracking down on dozens of “scoundrels” who are violating the utility’s moratorium on mining operations, according to a PUD commissioner there. In one recent instance, the utility found an uninhabited apartment filled with mining equipment after noticing its energy usage increase by a factor of 20, according to the Wenatchee World. Dixon says cryptocurrency mining is “new territory” for the county, and a moratorium would give county officials more time to understand the “true impacts” of the emerging industry and identify ways to address them before miners rush into the area. Through their research, she says, staff found “valid concerns that we need to be getting out in front of.” They’ve identified five “current and potential impacts” that underlie the proposed moratorium: • Noise pollution • Greenhouse gas emissions tied to cryptocurrency mining’s large energy consumption • Strain on electric distribution systems that could also affect rates for other utility customers • Fire hazards • Volume of electronic waste and associated health and environmental risks of improper disposal Currently, cryptocurrency mining is essentially unregulated by state and local laws. Since Project Spokane’s operation became public in mid-2017, other industrial-scale mines have located in Butte and Anaconda. In the Flathead valley, the Flathead Electric Cooperative board voted in February to impose a six-month moratorium on new cryptocurrency mining customers.
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The co-op was serving about 3.8 MW of mining demand by the time the board voted, according to Energy Services Supervisor Don Newton. It had received requests for service as high as 300 MW, which is almost equal to the co-op’s entire peak winter power load of 364 MW. Newton says the utility is concerned about the high costs associated with infrastructure upgrades needed to supply electricity to the mines, coupled with a fear of “stranded costs” should the miners close up shop, as has happened to public utilities in Washington.
Northwestern provides only transmission services to existing Montana commercial mines. Montana law allows large power users to purchase electricity on the open market. Project Spokane uses hydroelectric power, while the new CryptoWatt mine in Butte gets its electricity from Colstrip. Northwestern declined to comment on the emergency zoning proposal, but Larcombe says the company isn’t aware of customers mining cryptocurrency from their homes or offices and therefore adding pressure to the grid, as the county moratorium proposal contemplates.
Stivers, who did not return a call for comment. Project Spokane’s new parent company, Hyperblock Technologies, touts the facility’s 80 MW expansion capacity in its investor materials. The company’s ambitions to expand have already been hampered by its noise problem, which has taken nearly a year to address. In seeking TIF money, Stivers told the MDA that the company would commit to installing the more expensive fan configurations in conjunction with future expansions. Some MDA members questioned why the miners couldn’t afford to re-
“You’re not good citizens,” said longtime board member Jim Valeo. “Let’s lay the cards on the table. You’re offensive citizens. ... You didn’t do your homework to see what could happen here, and now this is the result.” “Chelan [Washington] PUD have had these miners come in, lease a building, punch holes in the wall for fans, basically gut the interior, and then they’re gone within a year or two,” he says. “Then all of this infrastructure the co-op paid for is sitting idle.” Northwestern Energy, as a regulated utility obliged to serve all potential customers, couldn’t impose a similar moratorium, spokesperson Butch Larcombe says. But Northwestern also requires new customers to pay in advance for infrastructure upgrades required to serve them. The policy, in addition to a drop in bitcoin’s exchange rate, may be tempering the bitcoin rush in places like Missoula County, as miners balk at the up-front costs. “One developer proposing multiple sites has apparently moved on after complaining about our policy and approach,” Larcombe says.
Nelson, of Bonner Property Development, says the regulations strike him as an unnecessary “knee-jerk” reaction that could stifle development at the mill. Nelson learned about and made personal investments in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology when Project Spokane approached him in 2016. He says misconceptions about the industry appear to be fueling skepticism toward his tenants. During the MDA meeting, for instance, one board member wondered whether the fans would be an unwise investment, since bitcoin has a finite supply and eventually won’t be mineable. (The last bitcoin won’t be mined until 2140, and, if the currency is still in use, miners will still be needed to verify future transactions.) It’s unclear if a moratorium would alter Project Spokane’s plans. Site manager Jason Vaughan directed questions to another company representative, Dan
place the existing blades themselves. Board member Ben Fitch-Fleischmann converted the TIF request into bitcoin (roughly 18, he said), suggesting the amount seemed like “small money” to the company. After the meeting, Nelson says, he and Project Spokane decided to order the 394 new fan blades anyway, to be installed “as soon as possible.” The parties are still figuring out who will cover the cost, he says, but they want to be good neighbors. Once the fans are installed and reduce the noise nuisance, Nelson plans to return to the MDA to ask for the TIF reimbursement again, noting that this month’s request was denied on a narrow vote of 4-4. (A majority is required.) “I didn’t necessarily take it as a disapproval,” he says. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Immigration fail Border control never worked. And nothing’s changed. by Dan Brooks
Last week in Havre, a U.S. Border Patrol agent detained two women at a gas station after he overhead them speaking Spanish. According to the Washington Post, Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez — both born in the United States — exchanged a few words as they waited in line to buy eggs and milk. The agent asked to see their identification and subsequently detained them in the parking lot for about a half-hour. Suda recorded the incident on her cellphone. The video captures the agent’s explanation of why he stopped them: “Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here.” I bet a lot of people in Havre actually have heard of speaking Spanish. Millions of Americans do it, not just in El Paso and central California, where Suda and Hernandez are from, but in classrooms and homes across the country. You might argue that speaking more than one language is actually good. As a society, we might not want that kind of knowledge to become probable cause. Here we are, though. President Trump ran on immigration policy and, 46 percent of the vote later, he has a mandate. As such, he has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop more undocumented immigrants all along the border, including but presumably not limited to Hi-Line gas stations. This ambition to control the borders — and through them the demographics of the United States — is not new. Americans have tried to legislate away foreigners since the Alien Friends Act, which gave President John Adams the authority to deport non-citizens. His supporters argued this power was necessary to protect against spies from France, which was the MS-13 of the day. Students of history might better remember the Alien Friends Act as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The sedition part made it illegal to criticize the government in a newspaper. This
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measure seems insane today, but consider that the United States had operated under the Constitution for only nine years at that point. When the government tries to control immigration, it gets bigger. It has to. A bigger government brushes up against more of us in our daily lives — at the gas station, for example. This is particularly true in matters of enforcement. In order to catch more undocumented immi-
“I draw the reader’s attention to an argument that might appeal to Spanish professors and great-again hat-wearers alike: Trying to control what kind of people get into America never works.” grants, ICE necessarily has to stop and question more American citizens. There’s a whole rest of a column to be written about whether that is American or even legal. Instead, I draw the reader’s attention to an argument that might appeal to Spanish professors and great-again hat-wearers alike: Trying to control what kind of people get into America never works. It did not work in 1798, when backlash against the Alien and Sedition Acts swept Adams from power and then, 16 years later, a bunch of British people got in and burned the capitol. The American
Party also failed to stop immigrants from wrecking the country when it warned in 1855 that immigrants from Ireland and Germany were undermining democratic values. They still got in. We similarly failed to stop waves of dangerous foreigners from flooding the country in the 1920s, when southern Europeans displaced by World War I flocked to American cities. That’s why the whole industrial economy succumbed to communism and, in some places, anarchism. I’m not saying it’s wrong to try to stop people from other countries from living in the United States. I do say that, but it’s more important to say that it has never been done. No matter how badly historical Americans wanted to keep immigrants out of the United States — and at times, they wanted it pretty badly — they never made it work. They didn’t have our technology, though. Law enforcement agencies didn’t share digital data in 1923. They didn’t even have radios to help enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act, to say nothing of drones. I bet that with enough drones, agents, surveillance, data sharing, tax dollars and random stops, we could keep more illegal immigrants out of the United States. Maybe we could even stop all of them. Wouldn’t that be great? We would all be Americans forever, exactly like we are now, plus the aforementioned drones/cops/surveillance network. Adams would have done it, too, if he could. He just couldn’t figure out how. If there’s one lesson to be learned from history, it’s that the people who came before us were stupid. I bet we have the resources and the know-how to do what our ancestors never could. Either that or we’ll spend billions to hassle ladies who speak Spanish at the gas station. I prefer to bet on success, though. Surely, President Trump can succeed where the founding fathers failed. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.
[opinion]
Acceptable risk We can coexist with bears. And we need to. by Matt Barnes
We can all agree that the recent incident in western Colorado, when a black bear bit a 5-year-old child and the bear was killed in response, was unfortunate and might have been even more tragic. But I’m a biologist who studies bears, and I want to encourage us to pause and take a wider perspective, one that reduces fear and also allows wild creatures like bears to continue to survive in our midst. Here’s what happened: A bear searching for food wandered into a human community near Grand Junction. A child went outside at night and was bitten and seized by the bear. The mother awoke and screamed at the bear, which dropped the child and fled. The child was badly injured but survived. Wildlife officials from Colorado Parks and Wildlife pursued the bear and killed it. Most of us feel sad for both the child, who was hurt and terrified, and the bear, which was killed, but to blame the bear, the family or the wildlife officials is hardly a helpful response. I would have done the same as any of the people involved. When I was just 5 years old, I wandered into the woods alone and sometimes into danger, but I survived. As a bear conservationist, I’ve chased more bears than I can count out of campgrounds and parking lots, and I can say that, yes, the mother probably saved her daughter’s life by screaming at the bear. Black bears will almost always run away from a human they perceive as aggressive. I’ve relocated bears that got food from human sources, but unfortunately, they usually return to the same site where they first got into trouble. Once, I had to kill a bear that became aggressive toward people after it had gotten food from them. It is rare to find a documented event, but black bears have stalked and killed people. That’s not what happened in Colorado. The recent case fits the more common profile of a human (particularly a very small one) and a bear
surprising each other at close range. The bear, in all likelihood, simply reacted out of instinct. Since 2010, in all of North America, there have been only nine fatal black bear attacks, and only three of them occurred south of the Canadian border. In the same time period, there were 11 attacks involving grizzly bears, seven of which were south of the border in Montana and northwestern Wyoming. In al-
“We seek out wildness, beauty and connection to the more-thanhuman world. But when we do that, we are also choosing to accept nature’s risks.”
most every case where the bear could be found and identified, the animal was killed. Killing a bear involved in an attack — even if the attack isn’t fatal or can’t be proven to be predatory — is standard practice among wildlife management agencies. It’s not an act of justice; we call it risk management. Bear biologists do not like to kill bears, but we’re almost unanimous that it needs to happen in some cases. Most of those cases are preventable. Bears are opportunistic omnivores;
their life is all about looking for an easy meal. Ideally, that’s out in the wild, but as our communities sprawl into the wilderness, they start to look like a smorgasbord of fruit trees, bird feeders, pet-food bowls, grain bins and trash cans. Especially when wild foods are in short supply, such as in a drought year, bears are attracted to us. We need to look at the bigger picture. These days, there are a lot of us living in bear country, and some of us are even raising fruit trees or backyard chickens. As our communities continue to entice bears, most of us are oblivious to our own involvement. When we leave a dog dish outside, we forget what that means to any wild animal that smells it. We need to think about how we can coexist with wildlife that passes in the night. The larger issue is a philosophical one. Why do we choose to live in the West, especially in the foothills or mountains? We seek out wildness, beauty and connection to the morethan-human world. But when we do that, we are also choosing to accept nature’s risks — including the unlikely but possible dangers posed by carnivorous animals. Personally, I feel much more alive when I know I share the landscape with bears or mountain lions, even recognizing that there is a possibility, however remote, that I might die in an encounter with one. Meanwhile, I know I need to do my part to live responsibly, and in community, with the wild world that surrounds us all. Matt Barnes is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He works as a research associate specializing in bears with the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, living in his mobile office between western Colorado and western Montana. He is also an Aldo and Estella Leopold Resident with the Leopold Writing Program in Tres Piedras, New Mexico.
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THE NAKED TRUTH – Letitia Chai, Cornell University class of 2018, arrived at her “Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life” class on May 2 ready to present a trial run of her senior thesis wearing a button-down shirt and cutoff denim shorts. Professor Rebekah Maggor was displeased, however, and asked Chai, “Is that really what you would wear?” She referred specifically to Chai’s “too short” shorts and told Chai that her clothing choices would distract “men’s attention” from the content of her presentation. Chai left the room, but soon returned wearing just her bra and panties and delivered the entirety of her presentation. On May 5, she returned to the classroom to officially present her thesis and stripped down again, with more than two dozen others in the room joining her in bras and panties or boxers. Chai posted on Facebook about the incidents, telling the Cornell Daily Sun she wanted to raise awareness about this “huge societal issue.” TRY THE DECAF – In Hudson, Florida, Brandon Donald McCray, 47, came unglued on May 1 after discovering two of his socks missing. When suspicion fell on his roommate, Frank Smith, 53, McCray attacked him with a sword, according to WTVT. The attack continued as McCray also struck and injured two women living at the home. Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies said Smith nearly lost several fingers trying to defend himself. Deputies arrested McCray at a neighbor’s house on charges of attempted homicide and battery. CLICHE COMES TO LIFE – Dimitri the Husky can thank a Good Samaritan for reporting that someone was abusing a dog in Lantana, Florida, on May 10. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s officers arrived at the apartment home of Patrick Shurod Campbell, 27, where two roommates said Campbell “beat the hell” out of Dimitri, the Palm Beach Post reported. Officers found the 2-year-old dog locked in a dark closet, shaking and submissive, with a bloody ear. Campbell told police he had bitten the dog to “establish dominance.” Campbell was charged with aggravated animal cruelty; Dimitri was turned over to Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control for treatment and re-homing. IT’S GOOD TO BE A MILLENNIAL – As finals were ramping up at the University of Utah at the end of April, one student’s class project went viral: Senior Nemo Miller created a stand-alone closet, placed in the J. Willard Marriott Library, where stressed-out students could go for a good cry. KSL TV reported The Cry Closet (#cryclosetuofu) caught on quickly; even with a suggested 10-minute limit, @Gemini tweeted, “I stayed 11 mins but feel so much better thank you to whoever built this. Can we add a box of tissues please?” Miller filled the closet with stuffed animals and soft materials. “I think everyone just needs a safe space sometimes,” she said, “even if it’s in a very public place.” MAKE ART GREAT AGAIN! – A French museum dedicated to the work of painter Etienne Terrus announced April 27 that more than half of its collection from the 19th-century artist are forgeries. The Terrus museum in Elne, where Terrus was born, gathered a group of experts to inspect the works after a visiting art historian noticed some of the paintings depict buildings that were not constructed until after Terrus’ death. In all, 82 paintings were determined to be fake. BBC News reported that the town’s mayor, Yves Barniol, called the situation “a disaster” and apologized to museum visitors. HIGH ON THE HOG – On Yaji Mountain in China, hog farmers are experimenting with high-rise hog breeding facilities that house 1,000 head of sows per floor. Xu Jiajing, manager of Guangxi Yangxiang Co. Ltd., told Reuters the “hog hotels” save “energy and resources. The land area is not that much, but you can raise a lot of pigs.” The buildings range from seven floors to 13, with elevators to move people and pigs, and air circulation and waste management systems designed to reduce the risk of spreading disease. ARMED AND CLUMSY – Fort Dodge, Iowa, may not exactly be the Wild West, but tell that to Balew, the pit bull-lab mix belonging to 51-year-old Richard Remme. As Remme and Balew roughhoused at home on May 9, Balew bounded back up onto the couch, where, according to the Messenger, he managed to shoot his owner in the leg. “I carry in a belly band, under my bib overalls,” Remme told the newspaper. “And apparently he bumped the safety one time, and when he bounded back over one of his toes went right down into the trigger guard,” he explained. Remme didn’t realize he’d been shot until his pant leg started to turn purple. Balew, however, “thought he was in trouble for doing something wrong,” Remme said. He “laid down beside me and cried.” PEOPLE WITH ISSUES – Police in Loerrach, Germany, responded May 14 to complaints about a domestic disturbance after a neighbor reported a loud confrontation that had been going on for some time. But when they arrived, they found a 22-year-old man arguing with his girlfriend’s parrot, according to Metro News. The parrot had been barking like a dog, and the man became annoyed with it. No charges were filed. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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ast week, a Billings man was out on the Smith River in a drift boat with a friend for a latespring float. This time of year — and especially this year — the Smith is running faster and higher than normal, and it’s cold with spring snowmelt. When their boat hit a rock and capsized, he got stuck underneath it. His friend tried to save him, but in water that cold, with no protective gear, the body starts to struggle pretty quickly. The friend got out, but the man drowned: the first life claimed by Montana rivers in the 2018 summer recreating season. “Life vests were available but not in use,” the Great Falls Tribune reported in a story about the accident. Similar stories are sadly familiar this time of year: Someone died outdoors, and neglected to take a fairly basic security precaution that might have saved his or her life. It’s understandable that people forgo the life jacket: The sheer odds of being seriously injured or killed in Montana while engaged in summer recreational activities are pretty low. There are usually fewer than 20 recreational and outdoor fatalities in the state annually, according to mortality records from the Centers for Disease Control. But everything is relative. While the totals are low, Montana has one of the highest per capita drowning rates in the nation, and is one of the places you’re most likely to be involved in an animal attack. Still, getting hurt or killed in a car accident on the way to recreate is much more likely, and maybe that’s why a highway accident doesn’t impress itself on the public consciousness the way that a fall off a cliff, a drowning in whitewater or a fatal bear mauling do. A car wreck is tragically mundane, not tragically unusual. Stories about narrow escapes from, or death by, misadventure in nature exert a strong pull. Look at the prolific Death in series of books, about people meeting their ends in national parks: Death in Glacier National Park, Death in Yellowstone, Death in Yosemite, Death in the Grand Canyon and Death in Big Bend. One of the masterworks of wilderness disaster literature is Missoula-based writer Peter Stark’s Last Breath, about what happens leading up to the fatal moment in a number of adventure scenarios, including hyperthermia, drowning, falling, avalanche, malaria and dehydration. Rich with clinical details, each chapter deals with a specific calamity through composites of real incidents. Reading Last Breath feels like watching an elegant and educational snuff film. Its descriptions of how the body fights against and eventually succumbs to extreme circumstances are viscerally compelling. The scenarios in Last Breath include
adventures on Nepal’s Annapurna massif, in the Sahara desert and on China’s Yangtze River, but no matter how exotic the setting, Mother Nature’s basic toolkit remains the same. Gravity, water and temperature can go a long way toward turning a scramble down a streambank into a fatality. Most recreational deaths are just that mundane. Others are obviously shocking, like a mountain biker’s collision with a grizzly bear or a BASE jumper’s failed landing. There isn’t a lot of exhilaration in complete safety. That’s why we head out down rivers and up mountains in the first place, and a big part of why so many people decide they can forgo money to live here, or, if they already have a lot of money, make their part-time homes here. Not coincidentally, Montana is home to a significant population of people who know how to mitigate recreational risks and what to do when things go wrong. They want you to wear lifejackets, travel with friends and leave word about when you can be expected back. Because low odds don’t matter when they come up for you. Read about some of the ways people have perished while recreating (see “No Good Way to Die,” page 16) and you’ll see, in retrospect, the decision points where some of these tragedies might have been avoided. And listen to some of the outdoors professionals below, who will give you the basics of staying safer without missing out on a moment of summer fun.
FIRST AID
Aerie Backcountry Medicine teaches classes from introductory first aid to semester-long wilderness medicine training. Students are taken into scenarios where instructors will act out medical emergencies, just to add that in-situ stress. “How do you manage that initial chaos when an accident happens? What we have found is that when people have a fundamental understanding of what to do with the basics, then they’re able to act. They are able to do something that starts the process to help solve the problem,” says Joe Blattner, Aerie’s management director and a wilderness medicine instructor at the University of Montana. Even just a short first-aid class from the school of your choice will give you valuable skills. Blattner says that in the summer, the most common traumatic injuries are musculoskeletal. “Rolled or sprained ankles, injured shoulders. Some of those components we see often because people are out there exerting themselves, carrying a lot of weight in a backpack, trying out new boots.” Heat-related emergencies and dehydration are also common summertime issues. People
tend to underestimate how much water they need to take with them, or overestimate how frequently they’ll come across drinking-water sources. Also: “Make sure you’re not traveling alone. Go with someone else — go with a group of people. That tends to help in case there is some type of injury or a minor fall or something major, so that information can be passed back to first responders,” Blattner says. “Staying within one’s skill set, and to stay within one’s physical ability would be big factors that we look at when we talk about preventing accidents.” The most basic advice he’d pass along? Take a proper first aid kit and know how to use it. Look at the weather forecast and plan for unintended overstays: Take an extra layer, and extra food and water. There’s no telling when a sprained ankle or worse could leave you outside the range of help for a while, and extra warmth or calories could increase your chances of staying whole until help comes along.
bit of daylight is much better than operating in complete darkness. We absolutely can, we do often. I’d say a vast majority of what we do is at night in the dark. But the more daylight we have, the better it is.” Toward that end, Blattner emphasizes that cost of mobilizing Missoula Search and Rescue is zero to rescuees. “People don’t need to worry, ‘How much is this going to cost?’” he says. “Call us.” Over the last year, Missoula search and rescue crews have been called out on 18 missions, says Missoula County Sheriff ’s Department Sergeant Jeremiah
Petersen. He says the fact that it’s a free service surprises visitors from states and counties that bill for rescue services. “In my experience, that’s one of the first questions we get asked, ‘Are we going to get a bill?’” Petersen says. Especially if they see a helicopter was involved. And if it was an air-ambulance service, then yes, they’ll get a bill. But the Flathead-based Two Bear Air search copters are completely funded by private philanthropy. There have been discussions about whether people should get billed, Petersen
SEARCH AND RESCUE
In his other hat, the one he wears as the chief of Missoula Search and Rescue, Blattner strongly encourages recreationists to leave word of their plans, anticipated time of return, where they’re parking, their planned route, and what they’re wearing and carrying with someone who can call for help if they’re not back when expected. “We’re going to be looking for people that are wearing a certain color, whether that’s ground searchers or air resources,” Blattner says. “We’re also wanting to know how prepared are people? Do they have food and water? Do they have clothing that might be able to keep them warm in case colder weather moves in?” Missoula Search and Rescue is one of the county’s two search and rescue forces, along with Seeley-Swan Search and Rescue. The 30-person all-volunteer Missoula crew is dispatched through the sheriff ’s office, and collaborates with area agencies to form a plan of action to find people who’ve been lost or stranded. The earlier in the day they get called into action, Blattner says, the better. “Once daylight is no longer available, that increases the urgency in either the lost individual, if they can call in themselves, or it increases the urgency with the reporting party, the reliable friend or family member who’s calling in for them,” Blattner says. “The fact that we are able to start to plan and organize and mobilize our resources in a little
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says. “There’s been talk at times. People make some pretty poor decisions and it puts people at risk,” he says. “But the mentality here has always been we don’t want people to delay calling for help [because] they believe they could be charged or be liable. Call 911 and get help.” None of which, of course, may apply if you negligently set a raging forest fire while you’re lost. Search and Rescue crews in the water always wear helmets and lifejackets, Blattner says, and he strongly urges recreationists to wear them as well. “Helmets and lifejackets save lives,” he says. “One of the main reasons is not because people tend to get into problems or
emergencies in the middle of the river, but the slip-and-fall hazard right next to the river. A slip and fall there can certainly cause a head injury, and that head injury could temporarily knock someone out. And we’re worried about someone’s inability then to manage their own wellbeing, because now you’re introducing a water problem into the situation.” And while you’re strapping on the personal floatation device, maybe put down the beer. “I do know that people like to enjoy a beer or a beverage while they’re out on the water,” Blattner says. “My recommendation would be, hold that until later, hold that until you’re off the water. Con-
sumption of alcohol impairs people’s ability to make sound decisions. It increases one’s susceptibility to hypothermia and a whole host of things. We encourage people, whether they’re on a raft or a tube, to enjoy their beverage after they’re done recreating.”
HIKING
Mary Cochenour runs her backpacking-support business, Hiker Midnight, out of Helena. Cochenour, who is also an attorney, spent time working as a U.S. Forest Service backcountry ranger in Nevada’s Desolation Wilderness. She writes in an email that “Lightning, early
season stream crossings, early season snow travel, and getting lost are some of the most common backpacking safety hazards.” If lightning is a possibility, she recommends that hikers tackle high passes early in the day before storm clouds roll in. Hikers caught in a storm should head for low ground, avoid tall trees, and if the storm is very close, get into the lightning position to stay as low to the ground as possible. “Lightning position is to sit or squat with only your feet touching the ground and your body curled up in a ball with your arms wrapped around your legs,” she writes. Cochenour recommends practicing
how to use a map and compass in a familiar place before trying to use those skills on a backpacking trip. Then, once out in the field, be careful in the early part of the season with water crossings and snowfields. Take extra care to make sure you’re not about to drop through a snow bridge. “When I was a ranger, more people were evacuated by helicopter after they post-holed through the snow and broke their leg,” she writes. Cochenour specializes in planning trips for women and says that women and men, of course, face the same environmental hazards. “Sketchy human encounters can be problematic for both genders as well, but this is a concern that
No Good Way to Die The grim reaper wears many guises
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he National Park Service says that falling and drowning account for the vast majority of recreational fatalities in the parks, but those are two basic themes with a lot of variations. The variety of fatal recreational incidents in the region show that when it comes to survival, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of simply paying attention. Here are some of the ways a pleasant day outdoors has turned deadly, by category.
recent grizzly-attack fatality occurred when a mountain biker was killed by a grizzly bear after colliding with it in the summer of 2016. Far more common are bear-human interactions from which the human walks away, but the bear, if found, is euthanized. As bad as meetings between bears and
ist a year, be it a rafter, kayaker or floater. There have already been drownings on the Smith River and on Rock Creek this year. The American Whitewater Association tracks river rafting and kayaking fatalities and their contributing factors, including the use (or not) of personal flotation devices and water
Jumping into shallow water: In 2016, a 26-year-old Browning man jumped from the top of Running Eagle Falls in Glacier Park and landed feet-first in the shallow pool below. An investigation determined his death to be accidental, ruling out foul play and suicide.
ANIMALS
Cougar attack: In mid-May, two young Seattleites were mountain biking near North Bend, Washington, when the men were attacked by a cougar. One of the men escaped to the nearby highway, and when officials returned to the attack site, the cougar had killed the other man and was standing over his body. It was the first fatal cougar attack in Washington state in 94 years. In Montana, it’s been 29 years since the last fatal cougar attack, when a young boy was attacked and killed in his backyard. In 1998, a hiking child was attacked, and a camp counselor fought off the cougar. In 2007, a hunter outside of Kalispell was attacked by a cougar. Cougar conflicts are less common than bear conflicts in Montana, but the large cats have been spotted in town, most notably within sight of the Rattlesnake School. Bear attack: Bear attacks loom large in the imagination, despite their relative rarity, because they’re terrifying reminders of our true position on the food chain. And Montana state and national parks are second only to Alaska parks for number of fatal bear attacks since 1900, at 18. Montana’s most
unbuckle your backpack’s hip belt, use poles if you have them for balance, and look for the stream’s widest point, where they tend to be shallower with a milder current. “Never tie into any kind of rope or wrap it around your hand as you cross,” she says. “Ropes and strong currents can lead to disaster.”
people can go for people, they overwhelmingly end worse for the bear. Montana backpacking coach Mary Cochenour says, “Most folks who are just getting into backpacking are very concerned about animals, particularly grizzly bears and cougars.” But not all threats have claws: “One animal that can be very dangerous that new backpackers don’t often think about is moose. They are huge and can trample a person to death.”
WATER
River running: Montana rivers tend to claim the life of at least one river recreation-
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conditions. Due to this year’s flooding, which will move debris and reroute familiar channels, expect Missoula-area rivers to be even more dangerous than usual. Crossing creeks: A man from Georgia drowned after trying to cross Rock Creek last June when he fell and was swept away. Even water that seems shallow can have a powerful current and can quickly overcome people attempting to cross on foot, especially early in summer when the water is still frigid with snowmelt. Cochenour says earlyseason stream crossings are especially hazardous, and that it’s best to keep walking and look for a calmer crossing. Wear shoes,
Rolling a vehicle into water: In midMay, six men in a Suburban tumbled into the Selway River on their way to check bear bait while on a trip guided by a Darby outfitter. Two men escaped. The other four had not been found as of press time, though the vehicle was recovered a week after the incident. Backcountry roads like the one the men were driving on are often still snowand-debris covered into early summer. Jumping off bridges: A UM student drowned in the Clark Fork after jumping off the Madison Street bridge in 2012. His body was found in Alberton Gorge two months later. He had been swimming with a friend. Kayaking: On Sunday, a Park County Search and Rescue volunteer of 20 years drowned while kayaking on Rock Creek near Red Lodge when he was trapped by a tree that had fallen across the water. Last July, another kayaker died in the same creek
is on women backpackers’ minds,” she writes. “It’s always been my theory that the deeper you go into the wilderness, the safer you are. Sketchy people who want to do bad things to other people are usually too lazy to hike miles over mountain passes to do their bad acts.” Being aware of your surroundings, including other people, is the most important precaution to take, she says. “Are there friendly people around? If you get a bad vibe from someone, seek out the friendly people and ask to hike with them.” And don’t underestimate the importance of attitude. “Confidence, even when it’s feigned, gives the appearance that you would fight the attacker off.”
SURVIVING THE GRIZ
In Bozeman, there’s a self-defense class that isn’t about fending off human attackers. It’s the two-day “Surviving the Griz” class, taught at TACTICMT, a selfdefense and firearms-instruction school founded in 2009 by former Navy Seal Chris Forrest. A couple of years ago, some area bowhunters came to TACTIC and requested a class tailored toward bear attacks, says Nick Costas, director of operations. They could have taught the class without a live grizzly bear, but that isn’t TACTIC’s style. Forrest decided the class would be more effective with a live bear in the
curriculum, and went to Animals of Montana, a business that provides animals for television and film shoots (and that was found guilty of violating federal laws against trafficking in endangered species, had a trainer killed by a bear in an incident that was ruled an accidental death, and is currently appealing Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ 2015 filing to revoke its license). “They have a grizzly bear that’s about 850 pounds named Adam,” Costas says. Students spend their first morning in class learning about bear behavior. “You’re 5 feet from a bear and there’s a little wire of a hot fence there, and it’s pretty crazy to have that big an animal right in front of you,” Costas says.
With the image of an actual grizzly fresh in their minds, students then practice using bear spray (though not on Adam). “We’ll have them spray on an attack target that moves 21 feet in 1.5 seconds. It’s supposed to simulate a bear attack,” Costas says. Students figure out that deploying bear spray from a water-bottle pouch or even a hip holster might not go as smoothly as it needs to. “We do things under stress, and you find out [that] whatever you think was going to work, if it didn’t work” That something else can be a firearm, and handgun training is a large part of TACTIC’s bear class. Costas says
GRAVITY
Falling while hiking: In mid-May, a Polson High School senior slipped and fell into a creek while hiking at Mud Lake and was swept over Mud Lake Falls. Many hiking falls are the result of slips on slick or loose ground. Falling into hot springs: Two summers ago, a young man from Portland slipped and fell into the Norris Geyser Basin at Yellowstone after leaving the walkway that visitors are instructed to stay on. He was wearing flip-flops, which have been associated with other fatal slip-and-falls. “No significant human remains were left to recover,” the Billings Gazette reported, a blunt statement of the horrifying dissolution that happens to a human body in the acidic, superhot geysers of Yellowstone. There have been 22 confirmed hot-spring deaths in Yellowstone during the park’s history. Falling while drunk: In 2015, a man slipped and fell off a cliff along the West Fork
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ing photographs and fell 30 feet down Lower McDonald Creek Falls, then died from her injuries a day later. There is a strong stigma attached to selfie-related deaths. Last May, a man died after falling off a cliff at Washington’s Palouse Falls State Park while trying to take a selfie, according to Spokanearea news outlets. His family disputed the reports and demanded corrections.
after getting knocked out on a rock when he capsized. Fallen logs can form deadly strainers that trap and submerge kayakers, and cold, fast water can make capsizing treacherous. Helmets and personal floatation devices help, but it’s important to know how to avoid obstacles in the water.
Falling while climbing: Last summer, a Bozeman teenager fell 2,000 feet to his death while climbing in the Beartooth Mountains. Climbers have died in Hyalite and Blodgett canyons in the last five years, as well.
one class graduate had an encounter that ended with the man shooting a grizzly bear, but ultimately each student needed to figure out how to respond based on his or her own values and circumstances. “People ask, ‘What if you’re in a tent and you hear a bear?’ It depends on your mindset and how you are as a person. There are the people that are gonna lay there and they’re going to play dead. There are other people that are like, ‘I’m very comfortable with my firearm and I’m going to get out of this tent.’ It really depends on the skills you have and how comfortable you are.”
OTHER PEOPLE
of the Yaak River while climbing an unmaintained trail wearing sandals. The Lincoln County sheriff told the papers that alcohol appeared to be a factor. Some historians who have studied the early Montana territorial governor and Missoula bar namesake Thomas Meagher maintain that he fell off a steamboat and drowned in the Missouri River in 1967 because he was intoxicated. BASE jumping: BASE jumping is prohibited in national parks, but that makes it all the more appealing for practitioners of this dangerous and adrenaline-filled pursuit. In 2014, an Idaho man who was living in Missoula at the time died during an apparent BASE-jumping attempt in Glacier National Park. His body was found near Mount Siyeh wearing a parachute that had opened.
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
Electrocution while fishing: In 2016, a man fishing Dry Fork Creek near Great Falls was electrocuted when his fishing rod touched a low-hanging power line. Rods made of carbon composites are extra-light
and flexible, but they are also excellent conductors of electricity. The danger of serious injury or death to sport fishermen is widespread enough to have been the subject of multiple academic studies, and fishermen are cautioned to mind low-hanging lines near streams and rivers. Photography: National park staffers have blamed “doing it for the ’gram” for an increase in reckless behavior by visitors, particularly in several cases when Yellowstone visitors taking bison selfies were attacked. Several years ago, the Forest Service found it necessary to issue a warning about the dangers of bear selfies. So far, though, the most dangerous photos have been those of scenery. Last year, an Idaho man died after falling into the Yaak River while taking photographs, and a Corvallis man fell to his death while taking photos next to Going-tothe-Sun-Road. He’d pulled over to get a picture of Haystack Creek, was wearing flip-flops, and lost his footing, falling into the creek and getting swept into a culvert and over a cliff. In 2014, a woman slipped and fell into Glacier’s McDonald Creek while tak-
Murdered by spouse: In 2013, Jordan Graham pushed her husband of eight days off a cliff in Glacier National Park, then told authorities she’d last seen him driving off with friends. Ultimately confessing, she said that she’d pushed Cody Johnson in the heat of an argument. Montana courts didn’t accept that argument, and Graham is currently serving a 30-year sentence for second-degree murder. Shot by a friend after drunken mushroom hunt: In July of 1992, authorities came across a station wagon in a ditch containing three men who had been out in the woods hunting mushrooms. The two men in front, in the driver’s and passenger’s seats, were dead from gunshots to the head. A third man, James Egelhoff, was in the back, screaming. He tried to plead that he had been incapacitated by extreme drunkenness. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Montana Supreme Court found Egelhoff’s intoxication defense valid and overturned his district court conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed and upheld the district court’s sentence 5–4.
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Behind the photographs Amie Moonshine Shea turns a family secret into a story of empathy by Erika Fredrickson
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t first blush, Amie Moonshine Shea’s documentary film installation, A Different Kind of Divorce, seems like a mostly visual and fairly innocuous representation of her childhood growing up in Cut Bank. The installation is set up like a living room, complete with 1970s and 1980s decor and happy-looking family photos carefully displayed on tables. There’s a rotary phone and a coffee table, and a few oddities: In one room, five old televisions, some stacked on each other, play five different home movies — footage of a wedding, children playing in the backyard, a mother holding a baby — and, in another corner, a wedding gown hangs on a dress form. The objects in Shea’s living room pull you in, but the real drama of this installation happens when you walk into the middle of the space and listen. Recorded voices come from every direction. One of the voices is Shea’s, the others are interviews she recorded with her mother, father, sister and brother. Sometimes the voices overlap, competing for your attention. Sometimes they’re spliced together in what seems like a unified narrative. As you listen, the story of a small-town family with a secret begins to emerge. In the simplest terms, A Different Kind of Divorce documents the experience of Shea’s family when her father came out as gay. But in a deeper sense, it’s about perception. It’s about piecing together clues and making sense of a reality when you’re a kid and don’t even know the words for what you’re feeling. It’s about how, even within a single family, people experience the same event differently. “My intent is that each person gets to tell their story in their own way,” Shea says. “So it’s not just me saying, ‘This is how my mom felt. This is what my dad felt. This is what my brother and sister felt.’ You literally get to hear them speak.” Shea has been working on variations of the project for several years, but in a way she’s been developing it her whole life. As a child, there were clues that the
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Amie Moonshine Shea’s MFA thesis installation is an exploration of a family secret through props and film.
image her family put forward — the happy one in the photographs — was not the reality. “My dad came out to me in 2004, but I suspected before that,” she says. “It’s been a long, complicated process. It’s not like, ‘Oh, this is the day dad came out and that’s how it happened.’ It was like, I noticed this was off and then I discovered another thing and then that made other things make sense.” The situation was difficult because it was a secret, and Shea, even at a young age, felt the gravity of it even if she didn’t fully understand it. Her father’s job was on the line. The family’s acceptance in the community was at stake. Furthermore, she was living in a small town where there was no model for what her family was going through. “When I was growing up, I didn’t have a social reference for it,” Shea says. “I knew about people coming out as gay, but not somebody’s parent. I kind of felt like a freak in high school when I told my
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friends, ‘I think my dad is gay.’ They’re like, ‘Oh, you’re crazy.’ But to be from a small town in Montana and have a gay father, I was crazy. Because that didn’t exist to us back then.” Shea graduated from high school in 2002 and moved to San Diego for college, where she says she hoped she’d meet other people who could relate to her experience. “I knew I wasn’t the only one out there,” she says, “but it was like, ‘How do you find those people?’” She finally met a couple of young people whose parents had also come out as gay, and in 2012 they started the Gay Dad Project. They shared stories through a blog, providing a space for others to talk about their experiences. When Shea entered the University of Montana’s media arts MFA program, she began digging into her past, piecing together timelines and conversations that she eventually compiled for the installation. A major component of A Different
Kind of Divorce is the experimental film Shea projects inside the room. It includes old footage of her parents’ wedding, as well as footage she shot for the film. One part shows Shea in a wedding dress plunging into a pool, and though she says she doesn’t know why she felt the need to film that, she knew it felt right. When she was a child, Shea says, her intuition told her to bottle up the truth. A Different Kind of Divorce is about going with her gut in order to discover the truth. “This is literally me trying to make sense of it,” she says. “For so long, I didn’t have words for these things. The layers get piled on and then stuffed down, so you don’t talk about it and you’re scared. Everything depends on keeping it that way. So then when you start peeling back the layers and unboxing it all, you have to find the words. And the emotion is overwhelming.” Shea says her family has been supportive of the project, especially her fa-
ther. She’s never seen her parents happier, she says. “I was really angry at my parents for a while, especially when I was younger,” she says. “I thought, if my dad knew he was gay, why did he get married? I thought: You made this big mess and now I’m stuck in it and I don’t want anything to do with it. As a kid, you form memories and you understand things based on your experience, and so to have to go back and visit some really unhappy memories and experiences, that was really tough. But because I’ve done that, I have a whole new perspective on it. I hope people can come see this installation and just see a family, like most families, trying to do its best.” A Different Kind of Divorce opens at Imagine Nation Brewing Fri., June 1, with a reception from 5 to 8 PM. Also available for viewing Sat. and Sun. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music] high on you., Feeling I have a lot of thoughts about the breed of Instagram creative that has risen to relative stardom in recent years, and those thoughts range from “Is this vapid and inauthentic?” to “How do I do this for money?” But I like that Missoula has a music scene that continually surprises me, and I like that social media, where you can share just about anything with just about everyone, has provided a new platform for the surprising. Enter Reid Graham, the Missoula-based millennial behind high on you., which just put out an EP titled Feeling. There’s a lot about high on you. that screams modern internet culture, from the punctuation to the Spotify bio that simply reads, “tryna create a feeling.” The EP consists of four sloweddown electro-pop songs that sound like what would happen if you took an EDM track and phys-
ically stretched it out and left it in the sun to dry. But it would be wrong to assume just anyone can do it. Graham largely gets the delicate timing and balance that’s necessary for mixing piano notes with distorted voices and sounds. If he’s a little heavy-handed at points, we can forgive him. He makes up for it on the two songs featuring Chloe Gendrow, Missoula’s resident student-by-day, popartist-by-night, who sounds like Lorde and grounds these songs in a way they definitely needed. In the end, I felt about Feeling the way I feel about most electronic music, which is that when you’re hanging out talking on a summer night, sometimes you just want some ambient sound and a few “young forever” lyrics. Maybe the true internet culture was inside us all along. (Margaret Grayson)
Arrowleaf, Not Myself, But No One Else At least in terms of lyrical content, the new three-song EP by Arrowleaf tackles the kind of amorous yearning that ties a person in knots and makes them feel out of control. On “Waiting,” vocalist Sarah Marker sings about losing someone “down the road” and waiting for them to come home. But it’s the lyrics of “Knots” and “Rock Bottom” that really find the pulse of how desperate longing can turn a person inside-out. And yet the music itself is as sonically mellow as smooth jazz, and Marker, who wrote the songs, delivers the vocals with a breeziness that belies the lyrical angst. That contrast works mostly because of the technical prowess of the musicians. Besides singing duties, Marker, whom listeners might recognize from
the band Mendelssohn, plays keys and trumpet. She’s backed by a band — bassist Brady Schwertfeger, guitarist Jim Frazer Riach and drummer Jon Filkins — that provides off-beat tempos and other unpredictable phrasings you usually don’t find in indie rock. Marker has a nice voice, which she showcases best on “Knots,” where she sings about unraveling and snags, spun webs and labyrinths. Despite the evocative imagery, there’s little tension in these songs. I’d prefer more edge, but as a soft-rock album, Not Myself, But No One Else holds up. (Erika Fredrickson) Arrowleaf hosts a listening party at Montgomery Distillery Fri., June 1, and a release show at Free Cycles Fri., June 15.
Hot Snakes, Jericho Sirens Lots of ink was spilled about San Diego’s rock scene in the late ’80s and early ’90s, with mentions of the “San Diego sound” and much speculation about its potential as “the next Seattle.” For lots of reasons, San Diego never experienced the majorlabel feeding frenzy that defined Seattle, but a few bands did benefit from the hype. Before they were Hot Snakes, San Diego musicians and high-school buddies John “Swami” Reis and Rick Froberg started the bands Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu and Rocket from the Crypt, during which time they had opportunities with major labels. Hot Snakes, which formed in 1999, is a continuation of the musicians’ steeped rock history. Until Jericho Sirens,
the band hadn’t released an album since 2004. There’s something great about two people who continue to play together for more than four decades. Hot Snakes doesn’t depart much from their earlier bands — if anything, it’s a little more standard rockand-roll than its forebears. Still, Jericho Sirens is intense, with big, paranoid, hammered guitar, Gar Wood’s steady bass and amazing drumming from Mario Rubalcaba and Jason Kourkonis. A big part of what I like about Hot Snakes, though, is Froberg’s singing and lyrics. “Death Doula” and “Why Don’t It Sink In,” in particular, highlight a bone-simple sentiment, something that has always made the band’s songs feel timeless. ( Josh Vanek)
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Have the Flaming Lips ever played Missoula? Wayne Coyne isn’t sure. “It’s hard to remember the difference sometimes between playing and staying,” he says. “But that used to be the route. We’d head west from Minneapolis or something, trying to get to Seattle, back when highways were so slow. And we would always stop in Bozeman or Missoula. In Bozeman there was a [booker] who called himself Joe: ‘Joe Montana.’” Indeed, the Setlist.FM website lists four Flaming Lips shows in Bozeman between 1986 and 1988, which probably isn’t right (one allegedly took place at Theatre at the Brick, which not only holds a lot more people than were likely into “Jesus Shootin’ Heroin,” but also didn’t yet The Flaming Lips return to Missoula for the first time since exist). An informal survey of local at least the late 1980s. music fans suggests the band did Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah. Are play here during that same era. But that still means Missoula hasn’t seen the you singing our song or are you just being a freak?” At this show, we’ll also likely get the newly reFlaming Lips as they exist today: the experimental rock-band-slash-circus-act that has been at it since leased single (if a YouTube video makes it a single) 1999’s The Soft Bulletin and 2001’s Yoshimi Vs. The “The Captain,” an outtake from The Soft Bulletin, Pink Robots. Or even the Flaming Lips as they’ve which Coyne says the current multi-drummer band been since 1991, when drummer-turned-multi-in- can handle (using both samples and live instrustrumentalist Steven Drozd first joined founding ments) in a way the 1999 band couldn’t. Truth is, at this point I could even live without members Coyne and Michael Ivins, and the band got signed to Warner Bros. Amazingly, they remain “Yoshimi...” and “Do You Realize??” And I don’t really on Warner Bros., and their output for the label has need to see Wayne in the giant hamster ball again either. But there’s always going to be one fan at a been curated into the brand new Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, which is available as both a single album and a show who’s never heard those songs or seen that showmanship, and in Missoula, that will be almost 52-track, odds-and-sodsy triple version. As a Flaming Lips fan of a certain age who also every fan who hasn’t seen them elsewhere. Fortuspent a lot of years in Texas, I’ve seen the Okla- nately, Coyne, who when it comes to crowd-pleashoma band almost too many times. The best-of re- ing makes Hugh Jackman look like a shoegazer, minds me that my dream set would include both a never gets tired of playing the hits. “Instead of thinking, oh well I don’t want to play lot more new stuff and a lot more old stuff. Of course, there are stalwart songs I’m happy to hear this song, it’s such a great relief to know if we play every time, including “Race for the Prize,” “She [a certain song], everybody in the fucking place goes Don’t Use Jelly” (it holds up!) and, believe it or not, crazy,” Coyne says. “If we play it really well, half of “The Yeah Yeah Song.” That one, originally a them will cry. And if we play it absolutely, really, reDubya-era quasi protest tune, always delivers live, ally great, we’ll cry. It’s like when one person vomits. more because of its rip-roaring chorus than the title When someone is peaking in an emotional context sound effect, which even Coyne concedes is “such like that, it drives you, and heightens the whole experience. That feeling doesn’t get old.” a dorky, cliched little sound.” The Flaming Lips play KettleHouse AmBut, he adds: “You’d be surprised. It’s not the emotional blammo that some of the other songs phitheater Mon., June 4, at 8 PM. $34.50– are, but I’ll run into people where that would be $49.50. the only song that they know. I'll be standing in line at the bank and the dude behind me is going arts@missoulanews.com
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A helping of Han Solo is a solid and unnecessary Star Wars story by Molly Laich
Alden Ehrenreich stars as Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
It’s been five long months since our last Star Wars-inspired space adventure. Holy Lord, how did we survive from January to April without the dumb knowledge of how Han got his last name? The mind reels. Whether we needed it or not, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a pretty good movie that definitely exists, and here I am with the honor and privilege of talking about it with you. Alden Ehrenreich stars as Han, whom we meet about a decade before he joins up with Luke and Leia in episode IV. The galaxy is a dismal place, corrupted by the ruling hand of the Empire and replete with slave labor, corruption and tyranny in every direction. Han’s bringing home loot to an underground commune for a terrible sun-hating slug monster. He’s got a girlfriend named Qi’ra (Game of Thrones’ dragon lady, Emilia Clarke), and the two of them have big plans to pocket a vial of space fuel to sell in order to buy a ship and escape to freedom. Right away we are faced with the inevitable problem (or opportunity, depending on your outlook) of prequels. We are like gods in the theater in that we already know Han’s destiny: He will escape the planet of Corellia, meet Chewbacca, reluctantly join the resistance, get into many adventures, have a child with Leia, the child will betray him on a bridge and he’ll die a hero. So who then is this non-Leia trollop, how will the movie get rid of her, why does she have a different accent if they grew up on the same planet together, and are we supposed to like her in the meantime? The short answer to these and other questions is: Don’t worry about it. The picture’s second half follows Han through a series of desperate situations that pair him with a thieving couple, played by Woody Harrelson and Westworld’s Thandie Newton, plus a many-armed
pilot voiced by Jon Favreau. All of them are indentured servants to the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn, led by a sleazy, stripe-faced man named Dryden (Paul Bettany). Basically, all of Solo’s adventures are motivated by digging choiceless characters out of debt, accrued as the result of an unfair, exploitative and racist universe wherein failure is tantamount to death. And did I mention the constant threat of genocide and human trafficking? Is this not the stuff of nightmares? Solo’s dark and murky landscape looks like Ridley Scott’s rare foray into PG-13 (it’s not; family filmmaker Ron Howard directs). Are these movies even for kids, or are they tailored to grown-up fanboys with their trigger fingers at the ready to complain about plot particulars on movie message boards, is what I’m getting at. We know that Han will meet Chewbacca ( Joonas Suotamo) for the first time (a disappointing meet-cute) and also Lando Calrissian (played by Donald Glover in an almost too-precise Billy Dee Williams impression). These expected reprises are accompanied by an inspired new robot character voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and here’s a clue about her fate (skip to the next sentence if you hate spoilers): Anybody tasked with flying a ship during Han’s origin story better watch out. Han is the consummate reluctant hero. His accumulation of woes creep us ever closer to his destiny as a brave pilot in the resistance. Too much winking to the main franchise? Not enough? Let’s face it: Fans will bellyache either way. However harmless and arguably unnecessary, Solo is a solid and weirdly dark space adventure in its own right. Solo continues at AMC 12 and Southgate 9. arts@missoulanews.com
The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is hosting its fourth annual un-conference. A day of workshops, conversations and possibilities. Saturday, June 9 8:30a-5p University Congregational Church 405 University Ave. Light lunch, reception follows
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OPENING THIS WEEK ADRIFT Two free spirits steer their love boat right into the path of a devastating hurricane. Sounds like a better option than spending two weeks alone on a boat with your significant other. Rated PG-13. Stars Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin. Playing at the Pharaohplex. OCEAN’S 8 Danny Ocean’s estranged sister attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City’s star-studded annual Met Gala, and she’s doing it with a 73 percent smaller crew than her brother. Suck it, George Clooney. Rated PG-13. Stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Rihanna. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. THE RIDER After getting his head kicked in by a horse, a once promising rodeo star has to reexamine his identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. Is the horse still loose? What if it wants revenge? Rated R. Stars Brady, Lily and Tim Jandreau. Playing at the Roxy. UPGRADE The creator of the Saw series returns with this story of a man left paralyzed following a mugging who gets outfitted with an experimental computer chip that turns him into a revenge machine. Rated R. Stars Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel and Harrison Gilbertson. Playing at the AMC 12.
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.
“I can’t believe we all forgot to bring our earbuds.” Ocean’s 8 opens at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. promised in the last movie. This is completely unacceptable. I want to speak to your supervisor. Rated R. Stars Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin and Ricky Baker. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. The Endless Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. I bet they’d have better luck if they just stayed home and looked for closure beneath the sink, behind the Comet. Not rated. Stars Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead and Callie Hernandez. Playing Thu., May 31 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
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.
ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) Martial arts experts and Vietnam vets team up to take down a narcotics ring at a kung fu tournament on a deadly island. If you’re going to see one kung fu film, make it this one. Rated R. Stars Bruce Lee, Jim “Black Belt Jones” Kelly and John “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors” Saxon. Playing Thu., June 7 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
DEAD MAN (1995) Jim Jarmusch turns the America West into an existential wasteland full of violence, prejudice and Iggy Pop wearing a dress. Rated R. Featuring Johnny Depp when that still meant something, Crispin Glover and a improvised score by Neil Young. The 4k restoration of this surreal classic plays Fri., June 1, Sat., June 2 and Sun., June 3 at 8 PM 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.
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
THE MATRIX (1999) I’d summarize this sci-fi action classic, but, as we all know, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. See what I did there? Rated R. Stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
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and Carrie-Anne Moss. Playing Wed., June 6 at 8 PM and Sun., June 10 at 2:30 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 Pharaohplex. POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD Follow the personal journey of Pope Francis from his days as a motorcycle-riding priest to head of the Catholic Church in this life-spanning documentary. Not Rated. Directed by freaking Wim Wenders. Playing at the Roxy. 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. RAMPAGE That arcade game you used to eat all your quarters hits the big screen in this touching story about a giant wolf, lizard and ape doing the Monster Mash all over Chicago. Rated PG-13. Stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Breanne Hill. Playing at 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 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 12 and the Pharaohplex SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we got a Star Wars movie every three years. Now we’re getting at least two a year, including this prequel about a young Han Solo pulling off a heist. Rated PG-13. Star Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover and Emilia Clarke. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. (See Film) SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (2017) It took six movies, three directors and almost 18 years, but Marvel’s sensational web-slinger got a film that finally captured what we love about our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Holland, Zendaya and Michael Keaton. Playing Sun., June 3 at 2 PM at the Roxy.
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 joke, but I’m absolutely going to see Upgrade.
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A tale of two markets by Ari LeVaux
THE MARKET REPORT
Once upon a time, there was only one farmers market in Missoula. It could be found at the north end of Higgins by the XXXX, where the current Missoula Farmers Market remains. In its early days, the market was crowded and bountiful, but limited by rules that prohibited the sale of anything that wasn’t a raw plant. Pickles were banned. Meat was banned. One longtime vendor of vegetables was prevented from selling sheep skins from her own sheep. Farmers who conducted transactions before or after market hours were punished. It was inevitable that a competing market like the Clark Fork Market would emerge. CFM began as a venue for local ranchers and livestock producers to sell their products, and quickly earned the nickname “Meat Market.” But the market’s free-tobe-you-and-me policy quickly attracted food trucks, smoothie stands, face painting and freaks. A new scene was born, while another was left behind, and the dregs of the Missoula Farmers Market — “The Boring Market,” as my kids call it — became the backwater that it currently is. In an effort to keep apace, meat is now allowed, provided by the hyperlocal Oxbow Cattle Co., purveyor of world-class beef. There are other value-added farm products as well, like Tucker Farm sheep cheese, which is exceptional (ask for the chocolate ricotta). But these updates didn’t bring the hordes back, as the momentum had already shifted to the parking lot beneath the Higgins Avenue bridge — “The Fun Market,” as my kids call it. Despite its relative paucity of offerings at the Missoula Farmers Market, there are some important reasons to go, especially if it’s before heading to the
Clark Fork Market to elbow your way to whatever else you need. The lack of crowds is refreshing. The aisles are empty enough that you can browse or schmooze in peace, without fear of being run over by some socialite looking for a donut before his hike. Meandering through the sleepy market, you can momentarily believe that Missoula still is a small, undiscovered mountain town. And while many vendors set up stands at both markets, many smaller operations don’t. Many niche goods are only available here, such as the aforementioned Oxbow, for example, or Lifeline Produce. This coming Saturday there will an Eritrean coffee roasting ceremony at the Missoula Market’s Soft Landing booth. (Soft Landing is a local nonprofit dedicated to supporting refugees in Missoula). Raw Eritrean beans will be roasted and prepared the Eritrean way, which apparently includes ginger. And if you haven’t put in your tomatoes yet, there’s a compelling reason to hit the Boring Market: Ploughshare Farm, of Moiese, has the most impressive and diverse assortment of tomato starts you will find at either market. Though my wife has demanded that I stop bringing plants home from market, I was smitten by a Garden Peach slicer and matching Sunpeach cherry tomato. And then we proceeded to hit the Fun Market, where we loaded up on spinach, romaine, cucumbers, and more good times. The Market Report is a periodic account of the previous week’s farmers markets in Missoula. Send tips and story ideas to editor@missoulanews.com.
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[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 A Missoula gem since 1978, now serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm. Featured items: scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice’s is known for its scrumptious desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, and cakes. Gluten-free and vegan options available. A must-have for the coffee lover in your life? A bag of Bernice’s signature blend locally roasted with love. Check us out on Facebook, Instagram or visit our website at www.bernicesbakerymt.com. $-$$
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Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 46 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
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Chameleon Mobile Kitchen Bonner @ 8340 Hwy 200 (old Milltown Market) Wednesdays - Fridays Seeley @ 3102 Hwy 83 (Boy Scout Rd) Saturdays & Sundays 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, bowls and pasta. We also offer daily specials, seasonal drinks, and house-baked goods. We are fully equipped and self-contained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pick-up. Online
menu available on Google Maps. Open Tues Thurs 11:30 am - 10 pm, Fri & Sat 11:30 am midnight, closed Sunday and Monday. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-toorder sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:303pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$
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[dish] Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Mo’ Dogs 617 S. Higgins Ave. 926-1094 mo-dogs.com Mo’ Dogs – Missoula’s premier Gourmet Sausage and Specialty Hot Dog Restaurant. From our Old Fashioned Frank to our tropical “Aloha” or traditional “Chicago” we have something for everyone. Our sauces, slaws and all-meat Angus Chili are house-made daily. Missoula Family owned and operated – we look forward to seeing you! $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reserva-
tions, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
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Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
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Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s! Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: A Bud Light Orange is a Bud Light brewed with orange peels. It comes in a 12 oz. bottle. Seriously? Microbrews aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Sometimes, the only thing that hits the spot is an inexpensive, ice-cold domestic beer. How’s it taste? Imagine an Orange Fanta combined with a regular Bud Light and you’ve basically tasted a Bud Light Orange. That sounds worse than it is. In fact, BLO is fairly analogous to a Stiegl Radler Grapefruit, but more sugary. When to drink it: It’s easy to rag on Bud Light and its fruity siblings (looking at you, Bud
Light Lime). But Bud Light Orange has many practical applications. Surprisingly refreshing, a bottle of this stuff pairs well with uncomfortable family barbecues, or nights when you’re forced to go downtown even though you have to work the next morning. It has a 4.2 percent alcohol content, making BLO the preferred beverage of moderate drinkers who also enjoy orange soda nationwide. Where to get it: The Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., sells it for $3.75 per bottle. —Michael Siebert 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 The Five Valley Kennel Club Show puts man’s best friend to task with competitions in obedience, conformation and rallying. Missoula Fairgrounds. 10 AM. Visit fivevalleykennelclub.org for more info and registration for your pupper. Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.
nightlife Look at all those double consonants! Revelators frontman Russ Nassett plays a solo show at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Stop; hammer time. Try your hand at the German game Nailschlagen, where you try to drive a nail flat with one swing of a hammer. Winner receives a golden hammer and a free beer. Highlander Beer Taphouse. 6 PM–7 PM.
Arizona’s Something Like Seduction shakes up rock and reggae at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. BASE Missoula hosts a silent auction to offset statewide budget cuts. Food, drink, music by Red Onion Purple and comedy by Michael Beers and John Howard. 6 PM–8 PM. $10 suggested donation. Music legend Bon Iver plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors
at 6:30 PM, show at 8. Hope you’ve got your tickets, because this one is sold out. 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 Joyce Hocker reads from her memoir The Trail to Tincup at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM–9 PM. Closet Goth, the self-described
“most attractive band in Arizona post-punk,” plays the ZACC Below with Emma Lee Toyoda, Cloud Form and Wrinkles. 8 PM. $5. 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 7 PM. Dusk provides the soundtrack at the Sunrise Saloon at 8:30 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. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. The Five Valley Kennel Club Show puts man’s best friend to task with competitions in obedience, conformation and rallying. Missoula Fairgrounds. 10 AM. Visit fivevalleykennelclub.org for more info and registration for your pupper. More than 21 artists working in a wide range of mediums open up their studios to visitors during the 10th annual Artists Along the Bitterroot Studio Tour. 10 AM–6 PM. For a map and more information visit artistsalongthebitterrroot.com. Imagine Nation Brewing hosts A Different Kind of Divorce, an experimental documentary film installation by Amie Shea about one family’s experience coming out of the closet. Runs through Sun., June 3. Free. Rotgut Whines provides the tunes outside of Ecology Project International at 6 PM.
nightlife The IO Society hosts an evening of experimental music and unconventional entertainment from Rashid Abdel Ghafur. Ceretana Studios. 6 PM–9 PM. Free. Pinegrass brings its bluegrass variety show to Family Friendly Fri-
The Hankers play the Sunrise Saloon Fri., June 1 at 9:30 PM. Free. day at the Top Hat. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. E3 Gallery hosts its final event. VonCommon Art Collective’s PromCommon Art Show features work by dozens of artists, live music
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and a masquerade ball. Thanks for everything, E3! We’ll miss you! 6 PM–11 PM. Dodgy Mountain Men and Innasci play the Old Post’s Summer Music Series. 6:30 PM. Free.
Free Cycles kicks off June with a concert featuring Zepeda, The Semi-Precious Stones, Emzee & Silas and the Stephen James Band. 7 PM–10:30 PM. Free. Southern rock rebels The Hankers
play the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. Magpies, Sasha Bell Band and Tiny Plastic Stars play the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.
First Friday E3 Gallery hosts its final event! The PromCommon Art Show features work by dozens of artists, live music and a masquerade ball. Thanks for everything, E3! We’ll miss you! 6 PM–11 PM.
orful collages of April Werle. 5 PM–8 PM. Bathing Beauties Beads hosts Oro Y Plata Metalworks, the jewlery of Jessica Hilley. 5 PM–8 PM.
Transcend, an exhibition by Portland artist Rae Senarighi shows the bravery of transgender people. Frame of Mind. 5 PM–8 PM.
Secret Corners, the mulitmedia art installation by Zoë and Lukas Phelan, opens at Le Petit Outre with a special musical performance by Worst Feelings. 5 PM–9:30 PM. Ecology Protection International hosts a family-friendly celebration of art and music from 5 PM to 8 PM.
Engel & Volkers Western Frontier hosts the artowrk of Jamie Swartz and Montana Bark Vases while raising funds for Watson Children’s Shelter. 5 PM–8 PM.
Bitterroot artists Melody Laakso displays her watercolor prints at Meadowsweet Herbs. 5 PM–8 PM.
Downtown Dance Collective hosts the paintings of Tricia Opstad. 6 PM–8 PM. The Cool Art Club hosts a First Friday popup shop at Compass Barbershop. 5 PM– 8:30 PM.
The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center displays photos of volunteers building houses for Habitat for Humanity. 5 PM–8 PM.
Judith Wright’s Into the Light opens at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. 5 PM–8 PM.
Habitat, Adrienne Langer’s mixed media exploration of the interconnectivity of animals, plants and humans opens at Bernice’s Bakery. 5 PM–8 PM. Friends Along the Trail, an exhibit of sculpted concrete faces by Barbara Liss, opens with a reception at The Artists’ Shop. 5 PM–8 PM. One Eleven Boutique and Art Space hosts the art quilts of Missoula artist Teresa Cooper Jacobs. 111 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. Stoney Sasser’s Scapes, encompassing mindscapes, landscapes and escapes opens at La Stella Blu. 5 PM–8 PM. Ranger Rick pops by the National Wildlife Foundation to give tips on wildlife friendly gardening. 5 PM–6 PM. Radius Gallery hosts its third annual ceramics show and new works by Hadley Ferguson. 4 PM–8 PM.
FrontierSpace hosts The Shape of My Sorrow by artists Monique Bleitz. Alley between Spruce and Pine. 5 PM–9 PM. Artists explore Elvis Presley’s iconic life at SALTMINE 2018 at Gallery 709, 5 PM–9 PM. Listen to Arrowleaf’s debut EP Not Myself, But No One Else at Montgomery Distillery while enjoying the postcard photography of Kayla McCormick and Jon Filkins. 5 PM–8 PM. Delicious! Artist Grace Krakow displays her new collection of prints, Toothpaste & Orange Juice, at Hunter Bay Coffee. 5 PM–8 PM. See the works of one of the greats at Missoula Art Museum. John Baldessari: Interference Effects, Selections form the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foun-
dation opens with a reception from 5 PM to 8 PM. Gallery 709 inside Montana Art and Framing presents SALTMINE 2018: Elvis is in the Building. Multiple artists present their own take on the Elvis Presley’s iconic life. 5 PM– 9 PM. The Clay Studio of Missoula celebrates 20 years of art with a retrospective exhibit featuring over three dozen of its favorite artists. 5:30 PM–9 PM. Lake Missoula Tea Company hosts the col-
Rockscapes, Larry Blackwood’s abstract photographs of rock forms opens with a reception at 4 Ravens Gallery. 5 PM–8 PM. Brain Injury Alliance Montana hosts a new exhibit of masks created by Montana brain injury survivors, caregivers and healthcare professionals. The Public House. 5 PM–8 PM. The Clyde Coffee Employee Art Show features the paintings, drawings, poetry and more of Clyde’s awesome staff. 5 PM–8 PM. Home ReSource hosts its inaugural art opening with the work of Tyler Brumfield. 5 PM– 8 PM.
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The Woodpile plays Great Burn Brewing Sat., June 2 at 6 PM. Free. Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.
Celebrating its 20th year, the Missoula People’s Market features an amazing assortment of artists, crafts and community. W. Pine and Higgins. 9 AM. Free.
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.
Nothing scary about this. The Missoula Doll, Toy, Teddy Bear and Miniature Show features big brands and handmade items. Ruby’s Inn & Convention Center. 10 AM–4 PM. $5.
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.
The Five Valley Kennel Club Show puts man’s best friend to task with competitions in obedience, conformation and rallying. Missoula Fairgrounds. 10 AM. Visit fivevalleykennelclub.org for more info
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and registration for your pupper.
stallation by Amie Shea about one family’s experience coming out of the closet. Runs through Sun., June 3. Free.
Get your weekend started with a round of disc golf at Granite Peak Folf Course. 10 AM. Free. Visit lolohotsprings.com for more info and registration.
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More than 21 artists working in a wide range of mediums open up their studios to visitors during the 10th annual Artists Along the Bitterroot Studio Tour. 10 AM–6 PM. For a map and more information visit artistsalongthebitterrroot.com.
The Woodpile, Laramie’s band of indie folk troubadours, plays Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM. Free.
Imagine Nation Brewing hosts A Different Kind of Divorce, an experimental documentary film in-
Singer-songwriter Jeff Carroll dives deep into a pool of Americana and bluegrass at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.
Blistered Earth, the ultimate tribute to Metallica, plays the Dark Horse Bar. I think the ultimate tribute to
Metallica is pretending St. Anger never happened. 9 PM. $5. 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. Southern rock rebels The Hankers play the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. I thought Pacific Rim taught us that only two people can be Drift Compatible. Band of Drifters plays the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.
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Sunday The sixth annual MT Alpha Skills Clinic takes you on a bike ride on Marshall Mountain. 9 AM–4 PM. Visit mtaplhacycling.org for more info and registration. $50. The Five Valley Kennel Club Show puts man’s best friend to task with competitions in obedience, conformation and rallying. Missoula Fairgrounds. 10 AM. Visit fivevalleykennelclub.org for more info and registration for your pupper.
the Bitterroot Studio Tour. 10 AM–6 PM. For a map and more information visit artistsalongthebitterrroot.com. The Highlander Beer Taphouse hosts the most Missoula event imaginable. Buzzed Yoga lets you practice your flow while enjoying cold beer. Bring photo identification and $10 every Sunday this summer. 11 AM.
More than 21 artists working in a wide range of mediums open up their studios to visitors during the 10th annual Artists Along
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soula Winery and Event Center. 1 PM–4 PM. $25. Imagine Nation Brewing hosts A Different Kind of Divorce, an experimental documentary film installation by Amie Shea about one family’s experience coming out of the closet. Runs through Sun., June 3. Free. Sunday Brunch at Draught Works Brewery finally gives you that excuse you've been looking for to drink before noon. Devour food from Burns St. Bistro while sipping on a beer mimosa. 10 AM–2 PM.
nightlife Sean Burress provides the summertime tunes at Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. 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. Veterans for Peace meets the first Monday of every month at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 4 PM.
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. Do you realize the Flaming Lips play the KettleHouse Amphitheater tonight? Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $49.50/$34.50 advance. Larry Hirshberg celebrates his 60th birthday with a performance at Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM– 10 PM. Free. Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight
train to the Union Club for the inaugural Rocky Mountain Regional Karaoke Competition. 8 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. Motown on Mondays puts the s-ou-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
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Tuesday Erving Goffman, the influential sociologist and brother of Twin Peaks actress Frances Bay, famously theorized that the way we present ourselves to the world is an ongoing juggling act. We put on “masks,” influenced by the places, people and circumstances we find ourselves in. We're constantly switching between these different masks. You wear a different mask at work than you do around your friends. The mask you wear when on a first date is different than the one you wear when you find out E3 Convergence Gallery is closing. After five years, the non-profit art space is closing its doors. But before it takes its place in Missoula's history, the gallery hosts its last ever event, Prom Common's Masquerade Ball. Hosted by VonCommon Art Collective and inspired by Goffman's work on masks and self, the masquerade features a group art show of work by more than 20 artists including Courtney Blazon, lady pajama and Jessie Smith with the live music of The Organism, Rooster Sauce, DJ Coachaine and Kashya Boretsky. In the case of Prom Common, whatever mask you put on — be it physical or psychological — is right for the party. —Charley Macorn WHAT: Prom Common: Masquerade 2018 WHO: VonCommon Art Collective WHERE: E3 Convergence Gallery WHEN: Fri., June 1. 5 PM–10 PM. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: voncommonstudios.com
Every Tuesday is Walk With a Doc Day at Grizzly Peak. A health professional discusses their speciality while walking with the group. 9 AM–10 AM. Free. Join the REI Outdoor School for a bike maintenance class at the Highlander Taphouse every Tuesday this summer. It’s a demonstration class, so no need to bring your bike. 6 PM. RSVP at rei.com. Poet Elaine Shea reads from her new book about Alaska’s culture, people and splendor. Fact & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.
nightlife The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia Night at Thomas Meagher Bar lets you show off that superior intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free. I didn’t know Jim Brown and Lee Marvin could carry a tune. Dirty Dozen Brass Band plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30
Dirty Dozen Brass Band plays the Top Hat Tue., June 5. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30 PM. $18/$16 advance. PM. $18/$16 advance. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: Elvis scandalized television audiences with his wild hip movements on today’s date in 1956. What song
was he debuting? 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. Out to Lunch features the live music of local favorites plus a variety of food and drink from over 20 venders in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. This week, kick off the summer with the old school r&b of Zeppo Blues. 11:30 AM–2 PM. Free.
nightlife 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 Free Cycles. 5 PM–8 PM. Barenaked Ladies play Big Sky Brewing Company Wed., June 6 at 7 PM. $45–$68.
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: “Hound Dog.” Missoula-based author Rick Bass reads from his new book, The Traveling Feast. Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. It’s been. . .a while since Barenaked Ladies played Missoula. Catch the group at Big Sky Brewing Co. 7 PM. $45–$68. Mile-a-minute rapper Twisted Insane plays Monk’s. 8 PM. $20. 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. Hawthorne Heights plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Unseen Missoula takes you on historical guided walking tours through the Garden City’s past. Head to missouladowntown.com to register. 5:30 PM–7:30 PM. $10.
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, good food and a beer garden at Caras Park. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. Start the season off with the Americana of Trego. Visit missouladowntown.com for more information. Reggae rockers Slightly Stoopid play the KettleHouse Amphitheater, anger our copy editor. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $39.50/$32.50 advance. The Captain Wilson Conspiracy is nothing more than a lie perpetuated by lovers of jazz! Read the rest of the manifesto at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Musical dynamo Andrea Harsell plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Take the first step to learning the steps at Downtown Dance Collective’s Summer of Dance. The Beginning Salsa Workshop introduces you to the rhythm, timing and technique. 6 PM–7:30 PM. $15. 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 Marc Anderson, better known as the musician, poet and artist Urban Monk, hosts an evening of dharma songs at Har Shalom. 7
Slightly Stoopid plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater Thu., June 7. Doors at 5:30 PM, show PM–8:30 PM. Free, but donations appreciated.
evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM.
lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
This should kick off the first week of summer nicely. Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers play Ogren Park at Allegiance Field. 7:30 PM. $67.50.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard play a blizzard of psychedelic rock at Monk’s. 9 PM. $20/$18 advance plus $5 if you’re between 18 and 20.
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Standup Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free.
Tyler Barham presents a special night of music at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. Free. My DJ name is better than yours. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an
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Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated
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Agenda Would it surprise you to learn that Montana has one of the highest rates of brain injury related death in the nation? It sure surprised me. We flip-flop between the second and third place for brain injuries every year. In addition, on average, every day will see 33 Montanans sustain a brain injury and live. That's where Brain Injury Alliance of Montana comes in. For over 30 years, this affiliation of healthcare professionals, family members and brain injury survivors has worked to raise awareness for Montana's tragic rates of brain injuries while providing support and education throughout the state. This First Friday, the BIAMT hosts the Unmasking Brain Injuries Roadshow, an art exhibition at MASC Studio featuring a series of masks created by brain injury survivors, their family members and caregivers. Each mask, appropriately, puts a face on brain injury, tracking the individual’s personal journey with brain injuries. The masks will travel throughout the state following this exhibit where they'll be displayed in court houses, malls and other buildings in Montana. John Bigart, Executive Director of BIAMT, is excited about the reach of this project ““There’s a story behind every mask and behind every mask there’s a person that’s been touched by a brain injury,” he says. “Our
THURSDAY, MAY 31 Meet Humphrey Scholars and learn about human rights, law and finance in Senegal, Georgia and Niger at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 5:30 PM–7 PM. Free. BASE Missoula hosts a silent auction to offset statewide budget cuts. Food, drink, music by Red Onion Purple and comedy by Michael Beers and John Howard. 6 PM–8 PM. $10 suggested donation.
MONDAY, JUNE 4 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. goal is to share with the community and the state to raise awareness of brain injuries, the importance of wearing a helmet and prevention.” —Charley Macorn Brain Injury Alliance of Montana's Masks at MASC runs from 5 PM to 8 PM at MASC Studio. Free.
Veterans for Peace meets the first Monday of
every month at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 4 PM.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5 Raise a Grateful Glass at Western Cider. A dollar from every drink sold goes to support the Montana Conservation Corps. 12 PM–9 PM. Half of all food purchases at Five on Black go to support Opportunity Resources. 3 PM–8 PM.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 A full 20 percent of HuHot's sales go to support CASA of Missoula. 11 AM–9 PM. 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 Free Cycles. 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 These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 SNOOPY• Snoopy is an 8 year old male Pit Bull. He is a very mellow love bug and an expert at giving sad puppy eyes to get all the love and attention you have to offer. Snoopy is good with kids and most dogs, but needs a cat-free home. He was surrendered to our shelter because his previous owner's landlord had a no bully-breed policy. Snoopy has a friendly, lazy personality. KIAH• Kiah is an 8 year old female longhaired Brown Tabby. She is the most loving cat you'll ever meet. Kiah will talk to you as soon as you walk into the room and loves to cuddle. She reaches up to hug you waiting for your affection. Kiah is on a prescription diet to help prevent urinary crystals. If you can help her meet that medical need, she would make the perfect snuggle buddy.
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I began running competitively in elementary school when I realized that I did not have the hand-eye coordination, or patience, to play any other sport kids my age were doing. When I started running for the Griz, I was training most days a week, most weeks a year, for a full five years. Even though I’m now retired from the track scene, you can be sure I’ll be running on June 6. The first Wednesday in June is designated as Global Running Day, meaning you too, should get out and sprint, run or jog for at least a lap around the block! Last year, 2.5 million people in 177 different countries pledged to run 9.2 million miles on Global Running Day, including nearly 700,000 kids. The goal this year is for a million kids to
make a pledge to get out and run. You can sign up and pledge to run online, at globalrunningday.com and receive a custom “race” bib. Locally, Run Wild Missoula will be hosting 3-, 4-, 5- and 8-mile runs around town, complete with beer and pizza afterwards. It’s a great way to celebrate fitness and the local running community. RWM asks that you RSVP on Facebook or on their website to ensure there will be enough pizza and beer for everyone. —Micah Drew Run Wild Missoula will host a Global Running Day run on Wed., June 6 at 304 N. Higgins Ave starting at 6 PM. Free.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 NEO• There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path - Neo loves to both know and walk the path! This sweet gentleman may take some time to warm up, but once he does he is a great companion! He enjoys playing with other dogs and we're told is friendly with older kids. Neo has got the gift and is waiting for something...or someone! KELLY• Time to sit back and relax with Miss Kelly. This lovely lady is ready for a cat nap with you! Naps on the couch and enjoying the comfort of a quiet home are a few of her favorite things! Come by during our open hours and find out why she's one of ours! Kelly's adoption fee is waived through our Seniors for Seniors program for people 60 and up and pets 7 and up!
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Spend an afternoon birding at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden and learn how to record your sightings. 4 PM–6 PM. Free
MONDAY, JUNE 4
Punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Take your exercise mat and $3 to McLeod Park. 6 PM–7 PM.
Take a hike through the Missoula Valley at the Waterworks Hill Hike. 9:15 AM–11 AM. Free.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2
Trail running isn't just for weirdos anymore. Hit the trail with four weeks of classes at UM Campus Recreation. 12 PM. $20. Visit campusrec.umt.edu for more info.
Join botanist and author Peter Lesica for an investigation into our local grasses at Naturalist Field Day. Montana Natural History Center. 9 AM–4 PM. Sold out.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 3 MT Alpha Cycling hosts its sixth annual skills
TUESDAY, JUNE 5 Greet the sun under the sun at Yoga in the Parks. This week take your mat and $3 to Silver Park. 6 PM–7 PM.
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Administrative Assistant. LC Staffing Missoula is working with an environmental remediation company to recruit for a long-term Administrative/Bookkeeping Assistant. The Administrative/Bookkeeper Assistant will be reconciling the company books, creating invoices, and there will be small projects assigned as needed. This position will be supporting the Accountant with accounts payable/accounts receivable, daily cash register/balance, and answering phones and filing. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31809
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. Experienced Metal Stud Drywall Hangers & tapers for large job in Mis-
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I’m a 33-year-old woman, and I’ve always been thin. I lost about 12 pounds after a tough breakup. I’m working on getting back to a healthier weight. However, people keep making cutting remarks about how thin I look. Yesterday a friend said, “You’re so skinny it’s gross!” I’d noticed that she’d gained quite a bit of weight, but I didn’t say anything ... because that would be rude! She made other digs about my weight, and upon hugging me goodbye, she said, “Eww, is that your shoulder bone?!” What’s with this double standard? There’d be hell to pay if I said the slightest thing about anyone’s weight gain.
—Tempted To Lash Back It is more taboo than ever to make cracks about a woman’s weight — that is, unless she doesn’t have a whole lot of it. Then it’s open season: “Wow, what happened to you? Forget where the supermarket is?” However, it probably is not “people” but “people who are female” who are thin-shaming you. Welcome to female intrasexual competition —competition between women — which is covert and sneaky (and thus poisonous) in a way male-on-male competition is not. Men, who evolved to be the warriors and protectors of the species, tend to be openly aggressive. A guy will give another guy a beatdown or publicly dis him: “Yeah, bro, sure you can get a chick to go home with you — if you’ve got five grand for a sex robot.” Psychologist Tracy Vaillancourt explains that women seem to have evolved to avoid physical confrontations (and in-your-face verbal attacks that can lead to them), which jeopardize a woman’s ability to have children or fulfill her function as an infant’s principal caregiver and meal provider. Women instead engage in “indirect aggression” to “reduce the mate value of a rival,” like by “disparaging the competitor’s appearance ... or using derisive body and facial gestures to make the rival feel badly about herself and thus less willing to compete.” (Yeah, that’s right. It seems Mean Girls was a documentary.) The tricky thing about these indirect attacks is the plausible deniability they confer. Call a woman out for thin-shaming you and she’s likely to duck behind “I’m just worried about your health!” So instead, simply tell her that remarks about your weight hurt your feelings. Speaking up like this says that you aren’t likely to let any future digs slide, yet you remain on moral high ground — instead of giving back in kind: “Wow, looks like you’ve been exercising a lot. Do you do the backstroke in frosting?”
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I’m a married gay man, and I hate my in-laws.They were disgustingly abusive to my husband when he was a child.They’re in failing health now, and it’s important to him to visit them a couple of times a year. How do I get through these mandatory trips?
—Dreading It It’s probably tempting to buy his family the sort of classic furniture you think they deserve. Unfortunately, they only ship that model of chair to prisons with a death row. There is actually opportunity within this biannual awfulness you two have to go through. In the movies, people show their love through grand gestures: “We’ll always have Paris!” In real life, according to psychologist John Gottman’s research, the strongest, happiest relationships are made up of constant mundane little loving interactions: “You were so sweet to me in Costco.” Gottman finds that the key determinant in whether a relationship succeeds or fails is the ability to trust one’s partner.This means not just trusting that they won’t cheat but trusting that they’ll continually make you and your needs a priority, on a moment-by-moment basis. For example, as Gottman puts it: “Can I trust you to be there and listen to me when I’m upset? ... To choose me over your mother, over your friends? ... To help with things in the house? To really be involved with our children?” So, though you can’t undo the past, when you’re on one of these visits, you can shift your focus from hating your in-laws to showing your love for your husband. Listen. Tell him, “I know this is really hard for you.” Hug him. Rub his feet. Once you’re out of the in-law inferno, you might discuss trying to make a habit of this sort of thing — really being present for each other in the numerous “unimportant” moments of life. This will keep you from being one of those couples frantically trying to plug gaping holes in their relationship with extravagant gestures.Typically, these are ultimately futile — too little, too late — and tend to not come off as planned. For example, if you’re having 150 doves released over you as you renew your vows, you’d better see that they’re all wearing tiny gold lame diapers.
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Painter. LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a small painting company to hire a long-term Painter. The Painter will cover floors and furniture with drop cloths and tarps to protect surfaces, remove fixtures such as pictures, doorknobs, or electric switch covers, fill holes and cracks with putty, plaster, or other compounds. This person will prepare surfaces by scraping, wire brushing, or sanding to a smooth finish, apply paint or other finishes, using hand brushes, and rollers as well as sweep and general clean-up of job sites after work is completed. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31757 Work with Local Food! WMGC seeks seasonal warehouse and delivery staff www.wmgcoop.com/jobs
PROFESSIONAL Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association, a small, family-oriented facility in Ekalaka, MT, is searching for full-time RNs. Sign-on bonus, competitive wages, benefits, and continuing ed. reimbursement available. Call (406) 775-8739, or go online to dahlmemorial.com to download an application and mail to: Melissa Lovec, P.O. Box 46, Ekalaka, MT 59324. EOE 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/.
www.nuverra.com/careers. Nuverra environmental solutions is an equal opportunity employer. Stebleton Trucking Hiring Class A CDL Truck Drivers in Bakken Oil Field. Sidney, MT based, free housing provided, hauling frac sand, competitive wages. Contact Doug Stebleton, (310) 4978000. Warehouse Worker. LC Staffing Missoula is working with an industrial supply company to hire Warehouse Workers. The Warehouse Worker will build shelves, move items, and reorganize the warehouse. Warehouse items may include electrical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration and other heavy industrial items. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31305
HEALTH Human Resource Coordinator/Recruiter. LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a management service company to recruit a Human Resource Coordinator/Recruiter. The Recruiter will develop a proactive recruiting program, counsel employees and develop careers while ensuring legal compliance in all recruitment activities. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31687
SALES Sales Representative. LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a local Mon-
tana artist to hire a long-term Sales Representatives. The Sales Representatives will prospect for leads and generate new sales leads at local shops, galleries, gift shops, and more. This opportunity is a 40-hour per week, full-time position. This position starts at $12.10 per hour with opportunities of commission structure and bonuses. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31566
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Full Time Mailroom Inserter FT & PT positions, all shifts The Missoulian is accepting applications for newspaper inserters at our production facility. There are full and part-time positions available for evening shifts. The schedule varies and may include weekends and holidays. Duties include preparing newspapers for delivery by carrier and by mail, inserting supplements, and machine operation. Many positions qualify for our full benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement plan. Our benefits, among the best in the area, include a $300 signing bonus, 401(k) plan, medical, dental, vision and short-term and long-term disability; vacation and sick leave; flexible spending account plan and more. We are a drug-free workplace and all applicants must pass a postoffer drug screen prior to commencing employment. Apply at www.missoulian.com/workhere
SKILLED LABOR Heat & Frost Insulators Apprenticeship Opportunity. Earn while you learn to become a Journeyman Mechanical Insulator. Applications must be picked up in person at 2110 N. Fancher Rd. Spokane Valley, WA 99212 or 3919 E. Main. Spokane, WA 99202 or requested by telephone from the Apprenticeship Coordinator at (509) 315-9864 by June 27th 2018. You must be 18 years of age, have a high school diploma or equivalent, valid driver’s license, copy of birth certificate, and be able to pass a drug screen. Local Union #82 is committed to equal employment opportunities and encourages all minorities and females to apply. Looking for an Experienced Equipment Operator/Project Manager Possible Signing Bonus Company Pickup Salary $45-$125k + Bonus. Location: Phillips County, MT and within a 300 mile radius. Possible relocation expenses (moving is not required depending on distance). Requirements: Must be able to maintain, mobilize (CDL Required), operate equipment, bid jobs, project manage and represent our company in a positive manner in order to be at or near the top pay. Bonuses are based off performance and there is no limit. Please email resume to: mtcivil406@gmail.com 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
EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): A critic described Leonardo da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa as “the most visited, most written about, most sung about, most parodied work of art in the world.” It hasn’t been sold recently, but is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.Today it’s kept in the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris, where it’s viewed by millions of art-lovers. But for years after its creator’s death, it enjoyed little fanfare while hanging in the bathroom of the French King Francois. I’d love to see a similar evolution in your own efforts, Aries: a rise from humble placement and modest appreciation to a more interesting fate and greater approval.The astrological omens suggest that you have more power than usual to make this happen in the coming weeks and months. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): These days, many films use CGI (computer generated imagery).The technology is sophisticated and efficient. But in the early days of its use, producing such realistic fantasies was painstaking and time-intensive. For example, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park featured four minutes of CGI that required a year to create. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will summon equivalent levels of old-school tenacity and persistence and attention to detail as you devote yourself to a valuable task that you love.Your passion needs an infusion of discipline. Don’t be shy about grunting. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On February 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev had an appointment with a local cheese-making company to provide his expert consultation. But he never made it. A blast of inspiration overtook him soon after he awoke, and he stayed home to tend to the blessed intrusion. He spent that day as well as the next two perfecting his vision of the periodic table of the elements, which he had researched and thought about for a long time. Science was forever transformed by Mendeleyev’s breakthrough. I doubt your epiphanies in the coming weeks will have a similar power to remake the whole world, Gemini. But they could very well remake your world. When they arrive, honor them. Feed them. Give them enough room to show you everything they’ve got. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ninety-five percent of your fears have little or no objective validity. Some are delusions generated by the neurotic parts of your imagination. Others are delusions you’ve absorbed from the neurotic spew of other people’s imaginations. What I’ve just told you is both bad news and good news. On the one hand, it’s a damn shame you feel so much irrational and unfounded anxiety. On the other hand, hearing my assertion that so much of it is irrational and unfounded might mobilize you to free yourself from its grip. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to wage a campaign to do just that. June can and should be Fighting for Your Freedom from Fear Month.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Everyone has a unique fate that’s interesting enough to write a book about. Each of us has at least one epic story to tell that would make people cry and laugh and adjust their thoughts about the meaning of life. What would your saga be like? Think about what’s unfolding right now, because I bet that would be a ripe place to start your meditations.The core themes of your destiny are currently on vivid display, with new plot twists taking your drama in novel directions. Want to get started? Compose the first two sentences of your memoir.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Oracle: I find myself in the weird position of trying to decide between doing the good thing and doing the right thing. If I opt to emphasize sympathy and kindness, I may look like an eager-toplease wimp with shaky principles. But if I push hard for justice and truth, I may seem rude and insensitive. Why is it so challenging to have integrity? – Vexed Libra.” Dear Libra: My advice is to avoid the all-or-nothing approach. Be willing to be half-good and half-right. Sometimes the highest forms of integrity require you to accept imperfect solutions. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have waited long enough to retaliate against your adversaries. It’s high time to stop simmering with frustration and resentment. Take direct action! I suggest you arrange to have a box of elephant poop shipped to their addresses.You can order it here: tinyurl.com/ElephantManure. JUST KIDDING! I misled you with the preceding statements. It would in fact be a mistake for you to express such vulgar revenge. Here’s the truth: Now is an excellent time to seek retribution against those who have opposed you, but the best ways to do that would be by proving them wrong, surpassing their accomplishments and totally forgiving them.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Marketing experts say that motivating a person to say yes to a big question is more likely if you first build momentum by asking them smaller questions to which it’s easy to say yes. I encourage you to adopt this slant for your own purposes in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to extend invitations and make requests that you’ve been waiting for the right moment to risk. People whom you need on your side will, I suspect, be more receptive than usual — and with good reasons — but you may still have to be smoothly strategic in your approach.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was a kid attending elementary schools in the American Midwest, recess was a core part of my educational experience. For 45 minutes each day, we were excused from our studies so we could indulge in free-form play — outdoors, if the weather was nice, or else in the gymnasium. But in recent years, schools in the U.S. have shrunk the time allotted for recess. Many schools have eliminated it altogether. Don’t they understand this is harmful to the social, emotional and physical health of their students? In any case, Aquarius, I hope you move in the opposite direction during the coming weeks. You need more than your usual quota of time away from the grind. More fun and games, please! More messing around and merriment! More recess!
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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSEN, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2018-949LT SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION JOLLES PROPERTIES, Plaintiff, v. SHAYLIN ARLINT, et al., Defendant. TO: Shaylin Arlint 707 SW Higgins Ave., #121 Missoula, MT 59803 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 10th day of May, 2018. By: /s/ Hon. Marie A. Andersen
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-46 Dept. No. 1 - Leslie Halligan. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOUGLAS G. ROBERT, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.Claims must either be mailed to NANCY LOUISE ROBERT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer St., Ste. D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 21st day of May, 2018. Nancy Louise Robert, Personal Representative Montana Elder Law, Inc. Stefan Kolis, Attorney for Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. 2 Cause No. DP18-114 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps III Presiding. IN RE THE ESTATE OF KELLY F. HANSEN, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Personal Representative Chantal Hansen-Fuller, certified mail, return receipt requested, 3212 Bowdish Road, Spokane Valley, WA 99206 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of May, 2018. /s/ Chantal Hansen-Fuller Personal Representative.
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 Reprsen-
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP receipt requested, at c/o Adrienne D. Maxwell, Crowley Fleck PLLP, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 17th day of May, 2018 /s/ David Small Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Lanetta Small, Deceased. /s/ Jamie Small Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Lanetta Small, Deceased. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY SUMMONS CIVIL NUMBER: DV-16-1141 HONORABLE: ( U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,, Plaintiff, v. THE HEIRS OF JOSEPH E. STETKA; THE HEIRS OF JOANNE STETKA; ASCENSIONPOINT RECOVERY SERVICES, LLC AND UNKNOWN PERSONS IN POSSESSION OR CLAIMING RIGHT TO POSSESSION and Does 1-10, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA, TO DEFENDNATS; THE HEIRS OF JOSEPH E. STETKA, THE
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OF REGGIE WAYNE NEIDIGH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CONNIE NEIDIGH has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CONNIE NEIDIGH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 327 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 14 day of May, 2018. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-18-132 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM BRADLEY TILTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Barbara S. Tilton, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP on TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2018 at 9:00 AM in the Family Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Cherokee County Courthouse, 125 East Floyd Baker Boulevard, Gaffney, South Carolina. Attorneys and parties should have the following available at the hearing: 1. A list of issues to be tried showing any issues that have been agreed upon. 2. A list of witnesses with the length of time YOU expect to examine each witness. It is very important that you attend this pre-trial hearing! At this hearing, SCDSS will request the court to determine if you are eligible for court-appointed counsel for the upcoming Termination of Parental Rights hearing and set a day certain for the final hearing. May 15, 2018 Gaffney, South Carolina /s/ Travis S Greene, SC Bar No.: 75769, Attorney for Plaintiff, South Carolina Department of Social Services, 1434 North Limestone Street, Post Office Box 1369, Gaffney, South Carolina 29342, Telephone: (864) 649-8231, Facsimile: (864) 487-2512, Email: travis.greene@dss.sc.gov STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHEROKEE South
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100 Garnet Sprawling Family Ranch Home 5 bed (2 non conforming) 3+1/2 bath 3 car garage. A short jaunt to Kettlehouse Amphitheater. MLS #21806122 $389,000
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3229 N. Frontage Rd. Garrison $114,900
Wonderful 4.6 acres with Clark River Frontage. Electric, well & septic. Great getaway close to Missoula!
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Real Estate With Real Experience
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