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by Erika Fredrickson
Asked Tuesday afternoon at Flipper’s. Two different articles in this week’s issue remember David Bowie, who died on Jan. 10. What’s your lasting memory of the influential artist? Followup: Who’s been the most influential artist to you over the years?
Angel Juarez: My favorite memory of David Bowie is that he did what he wanted and dressed how he wanted before it was cool to do—and that was amazing. Under no pressure: Freddie Mercury of Queen. He also did what he wanted. They both made me want to be who I wanted to be without being afraid.
James Timesamillion: My top memory of David Bowie has to be when he waved his big-ass dick in those tight pants at Jennifer Connelly’s face in Labyrinth. That was hysterical, and that movie brought my wife and several other young girls into puberty early. Hot Dog!: John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. They made me want to be better people.
It seems strange Gov. Steve Bullock could have gone lots of other places, but he went to Colstrip. Beneath massive smokestacks that have dumped more carbon into our atmosphere than any but a dozen other power plants in the nation, he announced the names of the people he’s asking to come up with a plan to reduce Montana’s carbon emissions. Montana is home to many successful renewable energy projects, like the Judith Gap wind farm, and going to any of them might have better suggested an economically vibrant future. Instead, sadly, he chose to make his announcement at Colstrip, which uses obsolete and bankrupt technology. And he complained about how unfair he thought it was that Montana would have to reduce emissions so much. That says a lot. The balance of power selected for the committee says more. Of the 27 people he named, at least 17 had ties to fossil fuels or utilities. It seems strange, doesn’t it? Why would Bullock ask people who created the problem to fix it? The Clean Power Plan could be a chance to open up a new paradigm, actually solving the problem Colstrip created with renewable energy technology, but Bullock went out of the way to make sure the balance of power is held by advocates of the old paradigm, who will surely try to end on terms favorable to Colstrip. Colstrip can’t fix the problem; it is the problem. Wade Sikorski Baker
Enough suffering Tim Price: I think of Labyrinth. But as far as his music goes, I didn’t care for it. Straight outta...: NWA. I grew up in California and their music was reflective of the community they came from.
Keir Murphy: I like the story about how he doesn’t remember recording the whole album Low. I loved that album, it’s my favorite. La La Love You: The Pixies and the punk band NoMeansNo. And David Bowie is up there, too. He had the style.
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On Dec. 30, 2000, my son was murdered by a drug dealer. The pain of that tragedy has diminished little for my family even 15 years later. I’ve learned that when you’re victimized by a crime like this, you’re a victim for life. The criminal who murdered my son was sentenced to over 100 years in prison. And even though we know he will be there for a long time, we also know that this case will likely never end. For years, we’ve watched and participated in the court process, and will continue to be involved as the years move forward. He will eventually be up for parole, and we know that those parole hearings will dredge up all the pain of that loss all over again. No family should have to go through what mine went through. But crime is a difficult fact of life, even as our law enforcement has become better and better at preventing crime. When it does happen, we need to make sure that the victims receive the help and respect that they deserve.
This is why I’m a supporter of Marsy’s Law for Montana, a proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure that victims of crime are treated as well as individuals accused or convicted of crime (see “Pushing for Marsy’s Law,” Dec. 31). Marsy’s Law would give victims of crime in Montana the right to be notified of proceedings occurring in their case and the right to be heard at those proceedings. It would also provide the right to protection from harassment and the right to be notified of changes in an offender’s custodial status, among others. The rights afforded by Marsy’s Law are simple and straightforward. It doesn’t diminish the rights of defendants in any way—rather it elevates the status of victims
“Of the 27 people he named, at least 17 had ties to fossil fuels or utilities.”
so that courts consider both the victim and the defendant when making decisions. I’m forever grateful to the prosecutor who handled my son’s murder case. He acted with professionalism and showed real compassion to my family. He did an excellent job, but even with his attentiveness to detail my family was still left out of a few critical developments in the case. For instance, we were never notified of an important hearing regarding victim restitution and subsequently not given an opportunity to be heard by the court. I bring this up because I believe these are the types of oversights Marsy’s Law will help to address. With Marsy’s Law, we would have been afforded a remedy for that hearing that we were left out of. Law enforcement and prosecutors in Montana do an incredible job. I’ve seen them comfort and console families who’ve been victimized and take the time to help crime victims through the difficult criminal justice process. But Marsy’s Law will ensure victims’ rights are respected every time, consistently. As a constitutional amendment, Marsy’s Law needs to be passed by the voters in next year’s general election. To qualify for the ballot, we need to collect about 50,000 signa-
tures from Montana voters. Marsy’s Law for Montana signature gatherers are in the field in cities across Montana right now—if you encounter one in your community, please take a moment to add your name to help us get on the ballot. Victims of crime suffer enough—we can do more to ensure that they don’t endure further pain and frustration in the criminal justice system. Join me in supporting Marsy’s Law for Montana. Rep. Tom Berry Roundup
Bag the plastic bags Every time I shop for produce, guilt arises as I tear a petroleum-based plastic bag from the dispenser, knowing where it will eventually wind up. To be clear, I’m not interested in getting into the politics of landfill monopolies and for now would simply like to focus on the end-use of disposable plastics. This letter is directed at all of our local grocery stores and produce suppliers. It seems trivial not to supply customers with plant-based, biodegradable (recyclable and compostable) plastic bags for each consumer’s transportation and storage needs. If it’s a matter of cost, then to me it’s obvious our morals should be called into question, despite understanding that, when it comes down to it, money talks. Well, so do people and their concerns for the world we’re living in. The impact we have societally is tremendous and there’s no denying it, despite our auspicious ability to pretend we can ignore this reality. The request is simple: Provide plantbased plastics to your devoted customers. Grocery providers are the backbone of each community and a vital aspect of our interdependence as a modern species developing a modern world in tune with nature. Here’s the meaning behind this request: The bottom line is not profit, it’s people, like our children and the future we’re cultivating for them. It’s the planet and the resources we’re protecting and conserving. It’s the purpose and the justification to uphold our integrity as an evolving species. This one change does not solve every problem or unique challenge humanity is facing today. But tomorrow, it’s one less. I urge you to make the right choice because the cost is truly too great to ignore. Our aim should be focused on becoming a zero-waste community. The time is now. I’m not here to name names, but you know who you are. Thayne Ulschmid Missoula
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WEEK IN REVIEW
Wednesday, Jan. 6
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Missoula city officials announce the retirement of longtime Parking Commission Director Anne Guest. Since 1993, Guest’s overseen projects including the Bank Street parking garage and the recent switch to digital parking meters.
Thursday, Jan. 7 Missoula residents are warned of a Stage II air pollution alert, the first time such an alert has been issued in winter since 2013. Officials recommend that sensitive groups avoid outdoor exposure while the inversion continues.
Friday, Jan. 8 At a press conference, Mayor John Engen announces the city is withdrawing its appeal of the Mountain Water valuation, canceling a scheduled jury trial. He expresses hopes that Carlyle might sit down and negotiate a fair transaction for the utility.
Saturday, Jan. 9 The Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament marks its second day of slick ice and fierce competition among creatively named amateur teams. The BAMFs, Pony Bar, Soft Dump in the Corner and Shinny Dippers go on to win their respective A, B, co-rec and women’s divisions.
Sunday, Jan. 10 The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival announces selections for its 11th annual event, scheduled for Feb. 19-28 in downtown Missoula. Films include the feature-length Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things and five-minute short The Shepherd of Missoula.
Monday, Jan. 11 In another Mountain Water development, Canada-based Liberty Utilities announces it has purchased Mountain Water’s parent company from the Carlyle Group without the permission of the Montana Public Service Commission. Mayor Engen states in a press release the companies have “thumbed their noses” at state authorities.
Tuesday. Jan. 12 Yellowstone National Park announces its highest visitation year on record, with more than 4 million visits. Park officials note it also led to a strain on park resources, and rangers are looking at ways to provide additional programs and keep facilities clean.
Eric Burns manages to get the puck in the goal before leaping over it and another player during a game Jan. 9 at the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament. Forty-eight teams from the U.S. and Canada competed in the sixth annual weekend event.
Politics
Getting to know Cooney It’s entirely plausible that Steve Bullock might not be governor today if not for Mike Cooney. Back in 1996, Bullock was fresh out of law school in New York and eager to get back to Montana. Cooney, serving as secretary of state in Helena at the time, happened to be on the lookout for a chief legal counsel. As Cooney tells it, Bullock’s name came up and he made the call. “Who would have known that phone call would possibly have led to the governor sitting in the office today?” Cooney says. Twenty years later, their roles have reversed. Bullock officially named Cooney as lieutenant governor Dec. 30, replacing Angela McLean in the wake of a widely publicized spat over her frustrations with the position. Cooney says he didn’t follow McLean’s controversial exit very closely and that when Bullock called him a week before Christmas, he thought the governor just wanted advice on potential successors.
“When I came over to meet him, that’s what I was expecting,” Cooney says. “Then when he sat me down, he just said, ‘I want you to consider this. I’d like to throw your name into the mix.’” The two had maintained a friendship after Bullock’s single year as Cooney’s legal counsel and would get together occasionally to chat. They even found themselves on the campaign trail together in 2000, when Cooney was running for governor and Bullock for attorney general. “We weren’t out having beers every weekend or anything like that,” Cooney says, “but I’ve always felt that we’ve had a good relationship.” Cooney’s decision to accept Bullock’s appointment as lieutenant governor wasn’t without deliberation, however. Weeks before his first meeting with the governor, Cooney’s wife DeeAnn was appointed by Bullock to replace retiring District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock, who happened to be overseeing the state’s lawsuit against Rep. Art Wittich. The Republican legislator is accused of violating campaign practice laws and has denounced the case against him as a conspiracy by Bullock and Commis-
sioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl to remove him from office. Cooney says he realized the sensitivity of the situation and subsequently discussed it with Bullock. “I felt that was at least a discussion we needed to have because I didn’t want any of this to be a distraction,” he continues. “I wanted this to be all discussed and worked out and understood so there would be no surprises.” Cooney’s appointment was greeted as a strong choice by Democrats, due in large part to his decades of experience in state politics. But he acknowledges his detractors—namely the Montana Republican Party, which referred to him as a “career bureaucrat picked behind closed-doors.” The criticism has done little to dampen Cooney’s enthusiasm or his sense of humor. “I think one of the things somebody sent me was a response saying I was just another old white guy, and then another one said I was really boring,” he says. “I’ll plead guilty to both.” Alex Sakariassen
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[news] Health care
Medicaid enrollment surges In the few months since Montana’s Medicaid expansion program began, dozens of signup events have been hosted in communities around the state. At a recent gathering hosted by Imagine Nation Brewing, the brewery owners themselves realized they qualified for the assistance. “I did personally sign up for a plan, because in our first year of business we had almost no income to report,” says Robert Rivers, who opened Imagine Nation last spring with his wife, Fernanda Krum. He says the process would have been bewildering but he was helped by insurance navigators from Planned Parenthood of Montana. “If it weren’t for Medicaid expansion and the help of people like Planned Parenthood to help with the system, I think we’d be without health insurance right now,” Rivers says. Rivers and Krum are among the 20,000 Montanans who have so far taken advantage of Medicaid expansion since enrollment started in November. The Montana State Legislature approved the Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership Act in April, making an estimated 70,000 Montanans eligible for Medicaid for the first time. The federally funded program is intended to target people like Rivers and Krum, who might be self-employed or work in industries that don’t typically offer health care, says Jess Rhoades, policy director for the Department of Public Health and Human Services. The HELP Act’s fiscal note estimated that 45,000 people would join within the first four years. In just the first few months since enrollment began in November, it’s already nearly halfway there. About 30 states have passed Medicaid expansion. Rhoades says Montana’s system is different in several ways, including that it emphasizes “personal responsibility” by offering job training opportunities and requiring premiums and copays. Planned Parenthood of Montana was one of the most vocal supporters of Medicaid expansion and currently offers free, one-on-one health insurance enrollment assistance. Planned Parenthood Outreach Coordinator Christopher Coburn says from a personal standpoint, he had concerns about whether the copays and premiums would be a barrier to low-income people trying to use the program. “But I think what we’re seeing is that those copays and coinsurance and premiums are low enough that peo-
ple can afford them, which is the most important thing,” Coburn says. The system might be frustrating to figure out at times, he says, but it’s ultimately worth the hassle. “Especially in the past, we had to tell people that they fell in the gap, that they make too much to get tax credits for insurance but they’re not poor enough to get Medicaid,” Coburn says. “So it’s been a really powerful thing to see people who’ve never had access to insurance before.” Planned Parenthood hosts ongoing insurance enrollment assistance, including a special event on Jan. 25 hosted by Imagine Nation Brewing. Kate Whittle
Recreation
City debates bounce houses At Missoula-based Jack and Jill’s Jumpers, owner Eric Clairmont rents his bright blue, red and yellow bounce houses for birthdays, church events and backyard parties throughout the summer. Clairmont is one of the smaller bounce house operators in town, with just two units, but he says it still brings in about $8,000 to help make ends meet between his other seasonal jobs. That income could be more, if not for a Missoula Parks and Recreation rule that bans bounce houses on city land. Clairmont estimates he turned down at least six customers last year who wanted to use one of his units in a local park. “With my prices, that’s around $1,000 to $2,000 that I’m losing,” he says, “and that’s just for my little business.” The bounce house restriction came to light at a Jan. 4 Missoula City Council meeting in a discussion about annual parks fees. Parks and Rec Manager Shirley Kinsey says bounce houses currently pose too many potential problems. “You inflate a bounce house and it’s got four walls that enclose the kids, and they bounce in there and bounce into each other,” Kinsey says. Parks and Rec does allow inflatable obstacle courses as long as the structures are open, she adds. The Montana Municipal Interlocal Authority advises that communities either limit the use of inflatable play equipment or outright ban it from city property. Bounce
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Percent of Montanans recently polled by Colorado College who oppose a state takeover of federal lands. The issue flared up again as militia members led by Ammon Bundy continue to occupy a wildlife refuge in Oregon.
Angela McLean hasn’t wanted to talk about the way she was treated by Gov. Steve Bullock and his staff before her surprise departure from the position of lieutenant governor on Nov. 30. But Montanans may have McLean to thank for bringing any context to the issue at all. With officials unwilling to cast stones, reporters have relied on a trail of contentious emails to piece together hints of strife within the governor’s office. The resulting picture is incomplete, but the public wouldn’t know the half of it had McLean not taken a peculiar step. As tensions boiled over in October, she appears to have forwarded a series of private emails between her, Bullock and his staff to her government account, where curious reporters soon found them. Those messages, which the Indy recently received in a public records request, reveal the following: She informed the governor on Oct. 2 that his budget director, Dan Villa, told McLean he would no longer work with her. Bullock’s communications director, Dave Parker, asked McLean to—in her words—“imagine a workplace” where she was stripped of her policy initiatives. McLean told Bullock in the same Oct. 2 email that she would remain in her post as lieutenant governor until Dec. 31, 2016, regardless of whether or not he selected her as his reelection running mate. Politics is an ugly sport, but these emails show that whatever disagreements developed between Bullock and his appointee clearly affected their ability to work together and, therefore, handle the public’s business. They also show that McLean, a first-generation college graduate, was eager to embrace her duty as a public servant and Bullock’s partner. “It has been my honor since day one to help you be the most successful governor in Montana’s history,” she wrote. Despite requests, Bullock apparently never told McLean if her name would appear on the 2016 ticket. But McLean got the hint—plenty of them. In October alone, Bullock’s staff locked her out of her official Twitter account, scrutinized the length of her public remarks, chided her for scheduling appointments and excluded her from meetings. Near the end, according to the emails, Montana’s governor and lieutenant governor went a month and a half without speaking. There’s a schoolyard term for how the governor’s office appeared to treat the former Anaconda teacher: Bullying. McLean might not want to say it, but her emails speak volumes.
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house injuries have made national headlines in recent years, including a 2014 incident in Colorado when strong gusts of wind sent a house tumbling across a field with two young children inside. Fractures and sprains are commonly reported bounce house injuries, according to a 2012 study in the Pediatrics journal. Bounce houses remain prohibited in city parks for now, but newly elected Ward 4 Councilwoman Gwen Jones says a committee will take up the issue again soon. She thinks it’s appropriate to allow bounce houses as long as they’re adequately insured. “It’s not a huge issue, but I think it will get worked out in the next few months,” Jones says. At Polson-based Jump 4 Joy, owner James Niblack is hoping to dominate the bounce house market in western Montana. He’s currently seeking to purchase three more units to add to the two he already has, including a giant inflatable waterslide. Niblack says he’s opted to play it safe by taking out a $1 million insurance policy, with an annual premium of about $2,000. “Yeah, it’s quite expensive,” he says. “But I would rather save my butt versus not.” He says in the past, customers who wanted to rent a bounce house to use on city property ended up finding the permitting procedure too onerous and opted to find a private venue instead. He was unaware of Missoula’s current restriction on bounce houses, but adds that Jump 4 Joy always monitors its houses closely and sometimes has parents sign additional waivers. “We break up all the kids into groups, so if there’s little kids, they go for a while, and then the bigger kids go. I’m very strict on the number of kids inside the house,” Niblack says. “I think if you’re responsible you’re not going to have any injuries.” Kate Whittle
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The Marshall Woods Restoration Project could enter its next phase any week now. One goal of the project is to thin tree stands in the Rattlesnake to improve resilience to mountain pine beetles—an agency tactic that’s being questioned by some scientists studying the species.
The insect equation How pine beetles factor into the Marshall Woods project by Alex Sakariassen
A final decision from the Lolo National Forest regarding its proposed Marshall Woods Restoration Project could come any week now. Tami Paulsen with the U.S. Forest Service says all that remains is for the Fish and Wildlife Service to issue a letter of concurrence and the much-debated forest treatment up the Rattlesnake can finally enter the next phase. “It’s just kind of tied up in process,” Paulsen continues. “We were shooting for this month, but we’re completely in waiting mode right now.” The apparent imminence of that decision has done little to squelch ongoing criticism over aspects of the Marshall Woods plan. While a controversial proposal to commercially log portions of the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area was dropped last year, several locals continue to question what they perceive as a lack of details regarding the Forest Service’s intended approach within the Rattlesnake’s main stem. “It’s basically, ‘Are they going to significantly enhance their ability to treat stands further up the NRA?’” says Jake Kreilick, restoration coordinator for the nonprofit WildWest Institute and a member of the Lolo Restoration Committee. “That’s our concern is that they’re going to really change the thinning standards that will allow larger trees and, in their view, more fuel reduction to take place.” Commercial logging wasn’t the only concept in the Forest Service’s original plan to spark reproach. The draft decision published by the agency last August attracted more than 200 comments, including numerous citations of scientific literature purportedly challenging what Lolo officials had
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pitched. Among these was mention of a study released in 2014 from University of Montana entomologist Diana Six—widely hailed as one of the world’s foremost experts on mountain pine beetles, a species responsible for sweeping pine tree mortalities across the western United States. Addressing the pine beetle problem may not be the primary focus of the Marshall Wood project, but silviculturist Sheryl Gunn, a primary author of the plan, says improving resilience to the insect is one driver in the push to thin portions of the Rattlesnake. According to Gunn’s data, between 10 and 30 percent of the larger diameter ponderosa pine in the analysis area were affected by pine beetles as recently as 2011. Those figures may not be particularly alarming, she says, but the agency was concerned enough to treat roughly 1,000 ponderosa in the Rattlesnake’s main stem with the insecticide carbaryl in recent years. The effort was merely a “Band-Aid,” Gunn adds, meant to protect the trees just long enough for the Marshall Woods project to clear the review process. Without the commercial logging component, she argues the Rattlesnake won’t be as resilient as initially planned. “Our intent was to reduce the bark beetle hazard for resilience in the main corridor as well,” Gunn says, “but the project doesn’t go quite far enough to achieve that particular objective.” Resilience is a word that comes up often in the discussion of forest management, from localized initiatives like Marshall Woods to the halls of the U.S. Capitol. According to the 2014 beetle study coauthored by Six, members of Congress introduced 55 bills between
2001 and 2013 containing provisions to increase timber harvests in response to bark beetle infestations. This approach is mentioned several times in the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 as well, a bill cosponsored by Rep. Ryan Zinke and supported by Sen. Steve Daines. Yet Six has repeatedly challenged the current thinking on beetles, most recently in an interview with the Yale publication Environment 360 posted online earlier this month. “Our past management practices do not incorporate genetics for the most part, and they certainly do not include adaptation,” Six told Environment 360. “Typically, they focus on resistance, which is trying to force a forest to stay in a particular state. And that’s just not going to work—you can’t force a forest to stay a certain way. Eventually, it will tip.” Six has spoken at length about the unproven efficacy of thinning forests to decrease beetle susceptibility and is actively investigating whether tree genetics hold answers to beetle resistance and drought tolerance. And while beetles aren’t the sticking point among Marshall Woods critics, Kreilick says Six’s statements do serve as a counterpoint to some of the assertions in the proposal—and corroborate feelings he and others have had for years. “At least Diana is putting up some information that is going to cause people to take a step back and not just swallow the hook whole,” he says. “She’s providing some balance here, and those of us in the environmental movement, we need to step up and talk about this more.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Bed ridden New student apartments in works as dorm occupancy dips by Derek Brouwer
Enrollment at the University of Montana since enrollment began to decline in 2011. style housing communities across the counis down, but Jim McLeod isn’t worried about Residence Life is a self-funding entity, so try. McLeod points to a comparable project a shortage of students for the housing com- empty beds make it more difficult to afford in Bozeman built last year that also targets plex he’s about to put up. The 488-bed, five- maintenance and capital improvements students. Like the Missoula project, the Stastory building on East Front Street should while keeping services strong and paying off dium View apartments in Bozeman feature an array of amenities—everything from poker have plenty of perks to entice its target mar- existing bond debts. “We have to do what we can to maintain tables to hot tubs—blended with mostly fourket: a cyber lounge, a fitness center, a parking garage, study rooms, grilling stations and a our occupancy because we have to pay the bedroom units, community manager Emily Green says. location near Kiwanis Park that’s halfway be- mortgage,” Schoonover says. The complex filled its 499 beds quickly Schoonover’s department has retween campus and downtown. “We just think students are going to sponded by using incentives to encourage ahead of the fall 2015 semester, primarily sophomores to stay on campus. Those who with students who had lived on campus the choose to live here,” he says. prior academic year, Green Missoula’s first private says. Stadium View leases to instudent housing project dividual tenants, rather than by sounds lavish, but it isn’t the unit, at rates averaging quite a spare-no-expense $610-$630 a month. endeavor, with its developExactly how the Front ers making a few trade-offs. Street complex might affect UM “We elected not to do the Residence Life and the broader pool,” McLeod notes. Missoula rental market remains On campus, it’s a differto be seen. McLeod says Farran ent story, where Residence Realty Partners and Lambros Life officials are dealing with Developers are scheduled to a novel problem: empty break ground next month and beds and a drop in revenue hope to begin leasing units for that is making it increasingly the fall 2017 semester, at which difficult to keep pace with point UM’s fluid enrollment sitthe changing expectations uation could again change. of millennial students. Forphoto courtesy of Dowling Studio Architects get pools—Residence Life Besides, bringing more Director Sandy Schoonover Two years ago, UM allowed sophomores to live in university- student housing to Missoula’s just wishes she could afford owned Lewis and Clark Village apartments as demand for cam- often tight rental market has to install laundry facilities pus housing relaxed. A new private complex on Front Street will been a goal of university and infuse nearly 500 more apartment-style beds into the Missoula and study lounges in a resi- student housing market. city officials. UM President dence hall that has neither. Royce Engstrom signed a The parallel situations illustrate how en- sign up for housing early can now lock in the memorandum of understanding with Misrollment trends, cultural shifts and new de- prior year’s rate, avoiding the 5 percent an- soula Mayor John Engen in December 2012 velopment are converging to reshape nual hikes slated through 2017. And two with the specific goal of breaking ground years ago, sophomores in good standing on 1,000 units. At the time, UM had 14,900 Missoula’s student housing market. Normally, a private apartment complex were allowed to apply for spots in the uni- students. Three years later, the number wouldn’t compete with traditional dorms. versity’s furnished apartments known as is 13,000. Freshmen are required to live on campus, Lewis and Clark Village. Whether or not the new construction The latter change, she says, helps ease strains Residence Life depends in part on the and residence halls are accustomed to squeezing overflow students into spare students’ transition from dorm life to inde- price point, Schoonover says, which hasn’t lounges each fall. Increasingly, however, UM pendent living and is an attractive option that been announced. For now, she isn’t too woris looking for ways to keep more upperclass- has helped keep UM’s apartment-style hous- ried and says students deserve choices in men in campus housing as freshmen enroll- ing full. Spare space in the residence halls, where to live. too, has enabled more students to take doument declines. “It would seem to me that there are This year, Schoonover says 400 of the ble rooms as singles, which offers a some- more than enough students to go around,” 2,400 beds in UM’s nine residence halls are what similar feel. she says. Student interest in private spaces and inempty, 325 more than last year. At 83 percent occupancy, it’s the university’s lowest level dependent living has driven a surge in suitedbrouwer@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • January 14–January 21, 2016 [9]
[opinion]
Words fail them Zinke, Daines defy logic when speaking about Obama’s gun plan by Dan Brooks
Last week, President Obama announced plans to take “executive action” on gun violence—to use his control over agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to reduce the number of Americans shot and killed each year. Two of Montana’s men in Washington, Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Ryan Zinke, responded immediately. “President Obama is jeopardizing the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans with his latest efforts to undermine the Second Amendment,” Daines said in a public statement. “It is a gross abuse of executive authority for the President to unilaterally move forward his ineffective, anti-gun agenda with the stroke of his pen. As Montana’s voice in the United States Senate, I will continue to fight against President Obama’s endless assault on Montanans’ Second Amendment rights.” It was kind of a screed. But it was positively tepid next to the words of Commander Zinke, who declared that the president’s actions were “no surprise given his tyrannical record.” “I challenge this president to stand up and face the biggest threat to America’s safety: radical Islamic terrorism,” he wrote. “Rather than allow terrorists to come to our shores and kill our neighbors, President Obama must fight back and destroy ISIS at their base. Rather than drop pamphlets warning ISIS to flee before we strike, America must strike with resolve and destroy the threat.” The astute reader might recognize this policy as remarkably similar to Commander Zinke’s position on global warming. Last month, when the president attended the Paris climate summit, Zinke complained that Obama “doesn’t understand the threat of radical Islamic terrorism … and he is willing to do anything to avoid confronting ISIS head-on.” Both Daines’ and Zinke’s statements were striking in their reliance on boilerplate—ready phrases that allowed them to talk about the president’s gun control plans without actually saying anything. Daines warned the president was jeopardizing con-
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stitutional rights by undermining the Second Amendment—a perfect tautology whose redundancy was balanced by his odd insistence that the president was abusing his authority with an ineffective agenda. Drunk on power that doesn’t work, Obama attacks the Constitution by undermining it. But Daines is Michel Eyquem de frigging Montaigne compared to Zinke, who warned that the president’s plans were “putting our nation at risk” and “should worry every American who values their
“They assume we either don’t know what Obama actually proposes to do or don’t care what words mean.”
rights and liberties.” And what does this assault on liberty, this threat to the very nation and the rights of those who live in it, propose to do? It pretty much breaks down into three parts: 1. Require background checks for firearm sales at gun shows. 2. Invest in mental health care and make mental health information available to the background check system. 3. Sponsor research in gun safety technology. That’s it. The president’s unconstitutional tyranny does not involve changing any existing laws, nor does it keep anyone from buying any gun he could legally buy before. I agree it fails to stop ISIS, but the Stamp Act it ain’t. My concern with Daines’ and Zinke’s response to the president’s very tepid plan
is not that they oppose gun control. What bothers me about these statements from our Republican delegates to Congress is that they assume we either don’t know what Obama actually proposes to do or don’t care what words mean. If Commander Zinke calls background checks at gun shows an “unconstitutional gun grab,” what would he say about a plan that actually involved confiscating guns? If Daines thinks adding mental health information to the background check system is a “gross abuse of executive authority,” what does he think of blanket surveillance by the NSA? Statements like that reduce public discourse to a war of repetition. They wave the Constitution like a red flag and assume angry Montanans will charge at whatever is behind it, and they cheapen the lines of communication between voter and representative. Between them, these two have cried tyranny so many times I worry they will run out of words if anything actually tyrannical happens. Their public statements seem to recognize no space between gross abuses of federal authority and doing nothing. Besides accusing the president of subverting the Constitution, nothing is what Daines and Zinke seem to do best. Since taking office, Daines has sponsored exactly no bills that became U.S. law and cosponsored one. Zinke has sponsored zero pieces of successful legislation and cosponsored three. Our elected leaders are not substantially influencing the course of legislation in Washington, D.C., nor are they meaningfully contributing to public discourse. They are throwing the word “tyranny” around and, in the case of Commander Zinke, reminding us that ISIS is bad. Except for their six-figure salaries, they are not functionally different from Facebook commenters. Anyone in the world can shout that the president is a tyrant. If Sen. Daines and Rep. Zinke can’t do anything more than talk, they might at least take care to speak sensibly. Dumb and noisy are too easily replaced. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the French Renaissance at combatblog.net.
[opinion]
Bear necessities Yellowstone grizzlies still need federal protection by Roger Hayden
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has indicated that it plans to remove the iconic Yellowstone grizzly bear from the protection of the Endangered Species Act early this year. The federal agency’s plan is irresponsible and premature because grizzlies are struggling to adjust to declining food sources, even as they face an uncertain future caused by climate change. Respected non-government scientists say the jury is still out on the consequences of the bears losing important food sources such as whitebark pine seeds and cutthroat trout. Government scientists, however, insist the animals are resilient and will adapt. Just how many grizzlies we’re talking about continues to be a matter of debate. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee that monitors the bears recently estimated the Yellowstone population at 714. But once the 59 known mortalities for 2015 are subtracted, that leaves a population of only 655 animals, down 14 percent from the 2014 population of 757. Since 2002, the Yellowstone population has remained essentially flat. But if it continues to decline at its most recent rate, the bear population will drop close to 500, the point at which the animals could once again need federal protections. That is why it makes sense to protect them now, at least until there’s more certainty about their survival. Grizzlies are difficult to count, and the methods the government uses are arcane, highly inaccurate and not totally transparent. Because we are unsure about the size of the population—a number that is key to a delisting decision—why don’t we find a better way to count? DNA hair analysis is a more accurate method that has been used to count small populations in Canada. The downside is that it is a costly, labor-intensive method that would likely take at least two years to complete. Given that political pressure to delist grizzlies is so intense in Montana, Wyoming and
Idaho, it is very unlikely that bears will be counted using this method. Grizzlies were first listed as endangered in 1975. The world the bears live in has changed dramatically since then. Warming temperatures have created conditions in which insects and disease have infested and killed most of the whitebark pine in the bears’ habitat.
“Grizzlies are difficult to count, and the methods the government uses are arcane, highly inaccurate and not totally transparent.”
The bears’ second major food source used to be cutthroat trout, but the fish began declining in the early 1990s after somebody illegally introduced lake trout to Yellowstone Lake. The large fish preys on the smaller cutthroat, which used to spawn in tributaries to the lake where grizzlies could catch and eat the fish. The lake trout is a deep-water fish that is out of the grizzlies’ reach. The remaining major food sources are army cutworm moths, on which 45 percent of Yellowstone female grizzlies feed, and meat. Bears can consume elk or other prey, but they have to wander in order to find it, and the search takes them farther from their core habitat and into areas where they face a greater like-
lihood of conflict with humans. More than 80 percent of grizzly deaths result from interaction with humans, primarily through vehicle collisions, hunter encounters or livestock depredation. This rise in conflicts and subsequent mortalities, combined with a population that has grown little since 2002, has created an unsustainable trend, according to grizzly scientists outside the federal government. Scientists like David Mattson, who worked for the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee for many years, warn we haven’t yet seen the full impacts of the recent decline in grizzly food sources. It may take more than 10 years before we have a definitive answer. Given these changes to the grizzlies’ world, the population, in fact, may have entered a period of decline, Mattson contends. The three states that will have jurisdiction over grizzlies after delisting have already announced they would allow sport hunting of the bears. Considering the many challenges the bears already face, this undoubtedly would accelerate their drift back to the brink. Grizzlies are one of the slowest-reproducing mammals in North America. If conditions are right, a female gives birth every three years. Because of this slow reproductive rate, negative habitat changes that affect the overall population are difficult to immediately detect. There is a substantial lag time. Given this level of uncertainty in an environment that is changing—and changing mostly in ways that don’t favor the grizzly—why rush to delist? We’ve worked hard for 40 years to bring the bear population up to recovered numbers. This is no time to risk losing all we’ve gained in the face of threats we don’t fully understand.
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Roger Hayden is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the managing director of the nonprofit Wyoming Wildlife Advocates in Jackson, Wyo.
missoulanews.com • January 14–January 21, 2016 [11]
[offbeat]
these are the good old days.
HARD TIMES FOR SCIENCE – A tractor-trailer driver with a load of bottled water tried to make it over a historic bridge in Paoli, Indiana, on Christmas Day, with the obvious outcome when 35 tons of water starts across a limit-6-tons span. The driver told police she saw the 6-ton sign but did not know how that “translated” to pounds. Among the activists denouncing a proposed solar-panel farm at a December Woodland (North Carolina) Town Council meeting were a husband and wife certain that vegetation near the panels would die because the panels would (the husband said) “suck up all the energy from the sun.” His wife (described as a “retired science teacher”) explained that the solar panels prevent “photosynthesis” (and also, of course, cause cancer). The council voted a moratorium on the panels.
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In December, Carlos Aguilera, 27, became the most recent brain surgery patient to assist doctors by remaining conscious during the 12-hour operation—and playing his saxophone to help assure surgeons that their removal of a tumor was not affecting his speech, hearing or movement. The operation, at Spain’s Malaga Regional Hospital, was supposedly Europe’s first, but News of the Weird has reported two in the United States, including on a guitar-strumming man in 2013 at UCLA Medical Center. LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – (1) Nurse’s aide Candace McCray, 36, is the most recent theft suspect to have worn some of the purloined jewelry when meeting police detectives investigating the theft. An assisted-living resident in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, had described her missing gems, and McCray was questioned as someone with access to the woman’s room. (2) Joshua Jording, 26, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, became the most recent burglary suspect caught on surveillance video during the crime wearing a shirt with his name on it (which was later found in Jording’s home, along with a stash from the Dec. 2 burglary). MORE CORE FAILINGS OF CARJACKERS – (1) Albert Luna, 19, was arrested in Coachella, California, in December and charged with swiping the keys while a Federal Express driver was unloading a package. The driver reported that Luna later walked away when he could not figure out how to drive the truck. (Bonus: The arrest report noted that during the entire episode, Luna was naked.) (2) Kyle Blair, 25, was arrested in Surrey, British Columbia, in November when he approached a car at an intersection and attempted to pull the driver out. For one thing, the two men in the car were later described as “big, burly” guys, but more important, they were plainclothes police officers on a stakeout. Syrian refugees (mostly, Muslims) may pose a humanitarian and political crisis for Germany, but the Virginia Care company of Recklinghausen, Germany, said they are good for its business: sales of fake hymens, for women to convince Muslim grooms to believe they were wedding-night virgins. The non-chaste Virginia Care buyer inserts a packet of two membranes (about $54) that will burst by penetrative sex, releasing blood coloring. (The “blood” is available either in “original” dark brownish red, which parents are said to expect, or “advanced” brighter red, thought to be more satisfying to husbands.) A News of the Weird Classic (November 2011) – Enterprising reporters get stories by earning the trust of their sources, which Simon Eroro of the Post-Courier (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) obviously did. At a banquet in November (2011), the News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch’s empire) awarded Eroro its “Scoop of the Year” honor for reporting on militant tribal fighters of the Free West Papua movement—a scoop he had to earn by (to prove his sincerity) undergoing a ritual circumcision, with bamboo sticks. (Some of the rebels still wear penis gourds whose size varies with the status of the wearer.) Thanks this week to Rey Barry and Mark Lillicrap, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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photo courtesy of Rick Barrows
FEEDING
HOW THE FUTURE OF SEAFOOD IS BEING DEVELOPED IN MONTANA, MORE THAN 600 MILES FROM THE NEAREST OCEAN by Ben Goldfarb n a capacious warehouse northeast of downtown Bozeman, a lanky scientist named Rick Barrows leans over a blue tank teeming with rainbow trout. The fish thrash expectantly at the arrival of human visitors, and Barrows smiles behind his scrub-brush mustache. “You go to the poultry nutrition conference, and there are 4,000 people there,” he says wryly. “You go to the U.S. fish nutrition conference, and there are 30.” Rick Barrows is a U.S. Department of Agriculture fish nutritionist—an esoteric occupation, true, but a vital one. Here at the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, a century-old federal facility tucked into a
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patchwork of ranchlands, Barrows is changing how the world produces its seafood. Aquaculture is the fastest-growing form of food production in the world, at around 8 percent per year; the World Bank projects that two-thirds of our fish will come from farms by 2030. From a sustainability standpoint, that might be good news. Because they’re cold-blooded and water-dwelling, fish don’t have to heat their bodies or support their own weight. That means they can devote calories to packing on muscle, making them a more efficient source of protein than fourlegged livestock.
“Aquaculture is most likely to meet the growing demand for animal products with the least demand on ecosystems,” one Conservation International official told The Guardian in 2011. But aquaculture carries plenty of ecological baggage. Perhaps its greatest irony is that growing fish on farms has traditionally required extracting other fish from the sea. Well over half the global harvest of socalled forage fish—the small silver creatures, like sardines, menhaden and anchovies, that form the bedrock of marine ecosystems—gets ground into fishmeal and fish oil to feed bigger farmed species, like salmon.
The West is hardly immune to the repercussions. Pacific sardines have experienced a nearly decade-long collapse, starving brown pelicans and California sea lions and prompting federal managers to close the fishery in July 2015. While sardine stocks are notoriously prone to natural boom-bust cycles, fishing pressure appears to have exacerbated this crash. To avert ecological harm—and defray rising costs—fish farmers have lately begun reducing the proportion of fishmeal in aquaculture feed, replacing ground-up sardines and anchovies with soybeans and corn. The challenge is that many delectable fish, such as salmon and
trout, are carnivores, ill-adapted to subsisting on vegetable matter. Thanks in large part to Rick Barrows, however, some companies are already raising carnivorous fish on all-plant diets. For over two decades, Barrows has been developing vegetarian feeds for species such as salmon, cobia, walleye and, most of all, trout. “We consider rainbow trout the white rat of the aquaculture world: They grow fast and they’re inexpensive to obtain,” Barrows says as his fish churn the surface. “We use trout to develop basic dietary knowledge that we apply to other species.” The future of seafood, in other words, is being developed with the help of freshwater fish, 600 miles from the nearest ocean.
rich in minerals, like iron and selenium, and amino acids, like lysine, that plants lack. Excluding just one crucial constituent can be disastrous. Without zinc, for instance, trout develop cataracts. Moreover, soy and other crops are packed with socalled anti-nutrients, defense compounds that cause inflammation in fish’s small intestines. And even if you assemble all the right components, it’s worthless if the fish can’t actually digest it. Carnivorous fish lack the enzymes to break down the cellular walls of most microalgae, though Barrows can overcome that by supplementing feeds with the proper enzymes. To create a well-balanced feed, Barrows’ team tests as many as 50 ingredients each year, blending and tweaking like a
mixologist. Most concoctions begin with soy, though not all; some manufacturers prefer to keep their feeds free of genetically modified organisms, and it’s hard to find non-GMO soy. Corn, algae, even black-fly larvae find their way into Barrows’ creations. He also supplements some feeds with trimmings from an Oregon fish-processing plant, waste that would otherwise be discarded. Barrows has developed vegetarian diets for nine species altogether, including tricky marine carnivores like white seabass and yellowtail. Still, obstacles remain. Vegetarian feeds generally cost more, though the gap has narrowed in recent years as fishmeal’s price has climbed. And plant-based feeds aren’t always ecologically pure.
“The question I would ask is, are you cutting down rainforest in Brazil to grow the soybeans?” says Geoff Shester, California program director for the marine conservation group Oceana. While Oceana supports the aquaculture industry’s move toward plant-based feed, it argues that sustainably harvested forage fish, fed to humans instead of animals, is the best solution to the piscivore’s dilemma. As Shester puts it: “We prefer foodwebs to feedlots.” The Technology Center’s most exciting feeds, therefore, may be the ones that repurpose agricultural waste. One product incorporates pistachios discarded by farmers—“nuts that are too big, too small, too green, too light,” Barrows explains.
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rom one perspective, farming carnivorous fish doesn’t make much sense. The planet is swimming with herbivores and omnivores that require less proteindense meals. Tilapia, which flourishes on a chickenfeed-like corn diet, is the country’s fourth most-eaten form of seafood, though its popularity hasn’t come without environmental consequences, such as pollution and ecosystem invasions. But carnivores have a crucial physiological advantage over their plant-eating counterparts. “It’s hard to catch your meal if you’re a carnivore—you have to chase after it,” says Mike Rust, aquaculture science coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As an evolutionary consequence, carnivores “have machinery designed to get every last nutrient out of what they eat.” From a sustainability standpoint, that digestive efficiency is a major advantage. The trick, then, isn’t to turn carnivores into herbivores—it’s to make plant foods behave like fishmeal. Barrows leads me to another vast room in the USDA complex, this one packed with an obstacle course of humming equipment, a maze of ovens and chutes and glowing green lights. A rich vegetative aroma, reminiscent of a brewery, wafts in the close air while food pellets crunch underfoot. This is where the alchemy happens, where Barrows and his team transform vegetation into something with a nutritional profile that approximates meat. “This is a smaller version of what the food production industry uses,” says Jason Frost, a technician with the drooping mustache of a 19th century saloonkeeper. “Cat food, dog food, all kinds of cereals.” Indeed, the fragrant brown nuggets that fill one row of garbage cans would look perfectly at home floating in a bowl of milk. But converting vegetation into viable aquaculture feed is not easy. Fishmeal is
photo courtesy of Steve Ausmus, Agriculture Research Service
Rick Barrows uses a vacuum coater to infuse flax oil into pellets of rainbow trout feed containing a vitamin formula that he and his colleagues developed.
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Working with a company called Adaptive Bioresources, Barrows has figured out how to process the pistachios into meal that’s high in nutritious omega-3s and contains around 55 percent protein, allowing it to supplant fishmeal. According to John Hamilton, the company’s owner, pistachioraised salmon and trout are already entering the market. Pistachio trees are wildly profitable, and California’s farmers have ramped up their planting, despite drought.
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hile Barrows fiddles with their food, his collaborators in Idaho are refining the other side of the equation: the fish themselves. Back in 2000, Ron Hardy, director of the University of Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute, began breeding a trout that’s better at processing plant-based diets. It was a long process: Rainbow trout take two years to reach sexual maturity, and the first three generations that Hardy raised couldn’t grow as
gie-fed trout taste less fishy. (Hardy, who developed a taste for potent flavors while teaching in Thailand, finds this mystifying. “People in the U.S. would rather eat bland fish that they can gussy up with sauce and seasoning,” he says, incredulous.) A few critical questions remain unanswered: Why are these seventh-generation trout so proficient at turning plants into muscle? Are they more metabolically efficient? More tolerant of anti-nutrients? One
gobble down a third of the world’s fishmeal and fish oil, meaning that improvements in aquaculture can only achieve so much. And as Oceana’s Shester points out, the aquaculture industry’s recent efficiency gains haven’t kept up with the world’s growing demand. We’re getting better at raising fish, but we’re also raising more of them. Barrows’ feeds may not save the seas by themselves, but they could help alleviate the pressure on the world’s precious
photo courtesy of Steve Ausmus, Agriculture Research Service
Barrows, right, captures trout from 6-foot-diameter tanks in his Montana facility for technician Jason Frost to weigh and measure. These trout were fed fishmeal-free, plant-based feed.
“As the price for waste almonds comes down, we’ll be looking at those, too,” Hamilton says. Though these discarded pistachios could someday impact U.S. salmon farming, they’ll never be abundant enough to affect, say, Chile’s farms. Still, they’re a reminder that creativity offers big dividends. Barrows and another company, Montana Microbial, have made similar use of unwanted malting barley, a key ingredient in beer. Brewers generally desire barley with a low protein content, in the 11 to 13 percent range—any higher and the beer turns cloudy. In dry years, however, the crop often exceeds that threshold, creating a product that’s substandard for beer, but suitable for fish. The brewer’s loss is the fish farmer’s gain.
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quickly on Barrows’ soy-based meal as their fishmeal-eating cousins could. But by around 2008—generation four—the soy-munching trout families began catching up. These days, Hardy is studying his seventh generation, and some of the soy-eaters have taken a slight lead. Hardy’s fish reach 2 pounds in just nine months, twice as fast as when the research began. Just as important, they retain the nutritional benefits of conventional fish. At least for rainbow trout, then, the grand dream of efficiently raising a plant-fed piscine crop has already been achieved. And these fish of the future are already infiltrating the supply chain. At some Idaho trout farms, a quarter of the crop is composed of Hardy’s trout. An added bonus, for finicky American consumers, is that veg-
intriguing clue is that plant-selected trout avoid gut inflammation, a condition that can impede growth, perhaps because trout bred for plant consumption have different microbial communities living in their guts. Just as fecal transplants have been used to help humans suffering from intestinal disorders like Crohn’s disease, Hardy speculates that researchers might eventually develop probiotics from the microbiomes of soy-fed trout that could help other fish better digest plant-based feed. Back in Bozeman, Barrows guides me down a narrow hallway, one wall checkered with plastic bags bursting with feed— black feeds made of soldier fly larvae, green algae feeds, yellow corn feeds, brown soy feeds and so on. To be sure, these myriad stocks aren’t panaceas: Poultry and pigs
forage fish stocks. The Bozeman Fish Technology Center’s colorful food wall is proof of possibility, a mosaic ode to dietary diversity and experimentation. The old truism that fish farming requires wild fish is no longer true—or at least it doesn’t have to be. “Aquaculture’s biggest strength is its biggest weakness,” Barrows muses. “With poultry, you’ve only got chickens and turkeys. But there are over 200 species of fish being cultured around the world— you’ve got guys working on trout, catfish, cobia and so on. That dilutes the research somewhat. But it also makes for a very exciting environment.” This story originally appeared in High Country News (hcn.org ).
missoulanews.com • January 14–January 21, 2016 [17]
[arts]
Human touch From waffles to Hillary, Steve Muhs gets at the heart of having fun and breaking rules by Erika Fredrickson
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teve Muhs’ portfolio of artwork includes a collage of air conditioners and another of frozen burritos. Yet another is solely made up of Hillary Clinton faces. He cuts the images out of magazines and pastes them to the paper, sometimes cramming them into a corner of the page, other times filling the white space entirely. Besides the compositions, he has drawings made with blue pen—an image of a shampoo bottle, for instance—and a series of colorful abstract shapes created with his computer. Muhs often incorporates a title or phrase that feels like a clue. One computer drawing is called “The Authorities” and depicts a small orange square inside
But hanging out with Muhs on a recent Friday afternoon, it dawned on me that while all of those labels fit fine, the answer to what it all means is much more simple. The 55-year-old artist wears Carhartts and grins through a wild silver beard. When I ask him, “Why the collage of Hillary Clinton?” I expect an answer that speaks to the current political landscape. Instead, Muhs laughs with uncynical glee and shrugs his shoulders. “It’s funny,” he says. “I like Hillary. And I just thought it was a funny thing to do.” Muhs spends his time between Darby and Wolf Point, where his wife teaches at a school. He some-
Muhs’ raw style belies his traditional training. He got his undergraduate degree at Western Montana University in Dillon. He spent one year at the Cleveland Art Institute before dropping out “for a bunch of different reasons.” Afterward, he got a master’s in art from Eastern Illinois University. Though his explanation for why he likes making art comes down to simple pleasure, he is keenly aware of art traditions and the contemporary art world. He might not like academia, but he seems to understands it rather well, and he’s clearly an independent learner. His heroes are conceptual poets like Kenneth Goldsmith and Gary Sullivan, whose early “Flarf ”
thought, ‘What the heck is this stuff?’ And that’s when it happened. That’s when I became an artist.” Muhs finds himself on the outside. His work mostly shows at coffee shops and small-town galleries, like Aunt Dofe’s Hall of Recent Memories in Willow Creek, Mont., but he’s been in the mainstream spotlight a few times, too—once at the Seattle Center and also, in 2010, at the Missoula Art Museum for a solo exhibit, I Have a Coffee Table. In a statement about Muhs’ work, former MAM curator Steve Glueckert wrote: “Muhs is an educated and formally trained artist who has taken an idealistic approach to aesthetics. He … eschews traditional standards of
Steve Muhs’ new works at Clyde Coffee include pen drawings, paintings and collage that challenge traditional art.
a large green square with lines coming off the side like the object is in motion. Another is titled “The Theatre of Cruelty: A Melodrama in One Act,” and features a cutout picture of a person dressed as a tiger. His paintings, currently on display at Missoula’s Clyde Coffee, include renderings of wild animals, plus a watercolor of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and a poem that is made up of only the word “zero” repeated down the page. And here’s where it becomes tempting to talk about Muhs in some high-minded, art criticism way. What does it all mean? If there’s no meaning, then how do we categorize his work? He definitely could be called art brut, part of the anti-fine art movement named by Jean Dubuffet and that includes graffiti artists, children and other raw expressionists. Or perhaps he could be shoehorned into Dadaism because of his avant-garde expression through found objects.
times makes furniture and he and his son are working on building a printmaking studio, but mostly Muhs makes mountains of art. Some of it is entirely based on what makes him laugh, like Hillary and the burrito compositions. “One thing I discovered is vinyl siding,” he says. “Vinyl siding is interesting. They have fake wood vinyl siding and fake stone and fake brick, and you can put it on the inside or outside of your house. That’s pretty weird, isn’t it? I think it’s really weird. So I like to use that.” But there’s also a genuinely serious adoration that Muhs has for the offbeat pieces he constructs. Flipping through his folder of art, he stops at a photograph he took of one of his sculptures—uncooked macaroni glued to cardboard and the entire thing painted gold. He smiles at it with the kind of warmth a person does with a picture of their grandchild. “I love it a lot,” he says. “I do.”
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poems used random Internet searches and found phrases as material. He likes the Minimalists. One of his pieces—white paint on newspaper—was inspired by Julian Schnabel’s white-on-white paintings. He has a series consisting of colors and shapes, which is a nod to Robert Motherwell’s “Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive.” “Most regular art I can’t stand,” Muhs admits. “All the classical stuff–I don’t like it, man. It’s like, ‘So what? Whoop de doo.’” His compositions are, he admits, making fun of formal composition taught in schools. In fact, the more Muhs talks about his inspirations, the clearer it is that his art is winking at hidden meanings and engaging rebelliously with the conventional art world. “I didn’t study art until I went to Cleveland and somebody took me to the museum there,” he says. “It was abstract art, sculpture mostly. It blew my mind. I
beauty in favor of what he believes to be a more authentic and human approach to art-making. Underlying his raw drawings is a sophisticated and savvy sense of humor.” It’s so easy to see that combination of sophistication and wit when you spend enough time with Muhs and his work. And it’s easy to start entertaining the absurd, too. What if Rodin’s “The Thinker” was thinking about Eggo Waffles, as one of Muhs’ collages suggests? He might be an outsider in the fine art world, but his ideas have a charm and inclusiveness that wouldn’t be out of place on a Twitter feed. “I don’t really like being called an outsider,” he says. “I don’t understand that. I guess I don’t know I’m breaking rules. I’m just doing what I want to do.” Steve Muhs’ exhibit continues at Clyde Coffee through January. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
Ramble on Voodoo Horseshoes work their magic on Nation Psychedelic jams are not my favorite thing, but somehow I always end up appreciating the experimental witchery of Voodoo Horseshoes. I think it’s because their lyrical imagery is so evocative and because they pull off a balance between being goofy and making a point about society and politics. Rambling Nation is the local band’s best album so far with songs that touch on everything from chupacabras to politics, social media and redneck nation. The title track feels like an updated and countrified homage to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” where they sing, “Bird flu, mad cow, layoffs in little towns,/ oil’s gone—need some more—mantra of the modern war./ Click on the icon
made from a dot com,/ no more face-to-face, lost it all in cyberspace.” There are moments when synth vocals and surplus guitar soloing overwhelm the album, but the addition of banjo, organ and thunderstorm effects are delightful. There’s a novelty, “Dr. Demento Show” tone on Rambling Nation, but with styles that echo Frank Zappa, They Might Be Giants and Ween—plus a tinge of cowboy swagger—the band isn’t so alien or so jammy that they lose themselves in a psychedelic haze. (Erika Fredrickson) Voodoo Horseshoes play an album release show at the Top Hat Sat., Jan. 16, at 10 PM, with Baby Tyger. Free.
Blackalicious, Imani Vol, 1 Blackalicious combines two elements not currently fashionable in hiphop: analog drum sounds and fast rapping. Gift of Gab’s rhymes are dense, even claustrophobic. He seems to contort his ideas into bars rather than speaking conversationally over them. On Imani Vol, 1, tracks like “On Fire Tonight” evaporate his lyrics under the heat of his cadence, leaving only rhythms. It’s a style that demands considerable skill but offers fewer immediate rewards than, say, repeating Pablo Escobar’s name over and over. Fortunately, these frantic rhymes are undergirded by head-bobbing, vaguely old-school beats from producer Chief Xcel. The analog drum loops are the most striking, but it’s the bass lines that hold
them together. At their best, as on “Escape,” these beats ground Gift of Gab’s lyrics and force them into a heavy groove reminiscent of Gang Starr. In those moments, Blackalicious feels controlled and fierce, a righteous fury rather than a sprawling notebook. Blackalicious lacks the omnidirectional aggression that fans of contemporary hip-hop might find essential to the genre now. This is not music to psych yourself up for the gym. But it will get the party started, provided your guests can put aside cynical ideas of what rap ought to sound like. (Dan Brooks) Blackalicious play the Top Hat Tue., Jan. 19, at 9 PM, along with Mac Marler and Tonsofun. $18/$16 advance.
David Bowie, Blackstar If David Bowie had to die, it’s pretty cool he died two days after releasing his 25th album. The Bowie corpus spans an impressive portion of rock ’n roll history. Now that it is accompanied by the Bowie corpse, Blackstar is almost impossible to evaluate. What do you say about Picasso’s last paintings? Not blue enough? Faces still crooked? At a certain point, the artist dwarfs the work. Blackstar is late-career work, no question. The sleazy grooves of Bowie’s best rock are long gone, and even the disco has fallen away. What remains are the drum machines, genre-mixing rhythms and moody atmospherics that have dominated his work since Outside. This is the epic, experimental Bowie—
the soprano saxophone solo Bowie— and if the experiments seem less thrilling in his dotage, it is because he has made so many strange things familiar over the years. Blackstar is probably not the most interesting rock album of 2016. But the sad yet auspicious fact of his death makes it maybe the most fascinating. Was this last album a benediction? “Something happened on the day he died,” the title track goes. “Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside./ Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried,/ ‘I’m a blackstar. I’m a blackstar.’” Whatever that means, it’s not a prophecy. No one will take his place, and probably we will not hear a cry so brave again. (Dan Brooks)
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[poetry]
Art of floating Harrison’s twilight musings make powerful poems by Chris La Tray
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When I told a friend I was reviewing the newest their woodland outings, then he speaks of becoming collection from Jim Harrison, she said, “Damn, he’s a “log sitter” as a profession, since he was so often prolific.” It’s true. His latest book of poetry, Dead moved to rest. One senses a twinkle in his eye as he Man’s Float, comes on the heels of last year’s novel, lists the requirements of becoming a log sitter, and The Big Seven, and just before the release of another its benefits. He imagines buying a small ranch, which collection of novellas, The Ancient Minstrel. It’s a he would call “The Log Ranch.” Then he closes the pace going back several years, with a book arriving poem with, “I’d truck in thirty-three logs and arrange every year or two. In the opening lines to the title them on the property like the Stations of the Cross. poem, Harrison alludes to this: “Dr. Guevara said that This could soothe me during my limited time in the twenty-first century, which I’m hollow-eyed/ and exhas been very coarse indeed. hausted from writing too Especially after Zilpha died.” much./ I should take a break This century has gotten but I don’t know how.” no easier for Harrison. Last A “dead man’s float” is a October, his wife of 55 years, tactic swimmers use to battle Linda King Harrison, died fatigue when pressed to suddenly—in a matter of their limits. In his poem, weeks—from a rare lung disHarrison tries a writer’s verease. I never met the woman, sion, just to “keep afloat” but I mourned her loss. As I while relentlessly pushing move deeper into unfamiliar on. There is a sadness there. territory in my own life, that There is a sadness to a maof middle age, I relate more jority of these poems. to Harrison’s work than to Harrison turned 78 in any other writer’s. I’ve lost December. Most of the nearly immediate family to the rav100 poems in Dead Man’s ages of time, which I’d never Float are reflections on aging, faced before. Dear pets who his health problems and his have accompanied me most view of the world now that he of my adult life are passing knows he doesn’t have to away. I often find I’d rather plan for a future. Dogs bound Dead Man’s Float stand for hours with the throughout and birds appear Jim Harrison wind on my face than see on many pages. That’s not unhardcover, Copper Canyon Press how many miles I can pile usual for Harrison’s work, but 156 pages, $23 into one day. I feel the pains there is more a sense of twilight about his musings this time. How couldn’t there Harrison writes of, and many freshly realized pleasbe? He has lived a long, hard life, yet his ability to find ures, as actual sensations, not just imaginings. When I read the last few poems of this book and so much beauty in the world is a testament to his comclosed the cover I sat back in my chair and looked mitment to his art, and to living. “Notes on the Sacred Art of Log Sitting” deals around. The sun was shining brighter than it had for with Harrison’s recovery from a back surgery that will days. I could see through my window several house hopefully return his ability to walk. The prose poem finches at the feeder hanging from the branches of opens with, “To give the surgeon a better view of my the tree out front. My dog slept on her cushion, backinterior carcass I was slashed from neck to tailbone. to-back with a bitter old cat. They used to be mortal Recovery was slow and the chief neurologist told me, enemies, but both now find themselves too old to expend the energy for animosity. Reflections like these ‘you can walk your way out of this.’” The second stanza refers to his dog, and is just seem the soul of what Jim Harrison writes about, at the same line repeated multiple times: “I want to least to me. Few enough are the books I decide to walk in the morning with Zilpha again. I want to walk keep beyond a culling or two. Barring fire or flood, in the morning with Zilpha again. I want to walk in Dead Man’s Float will be in my library for the rest of the morning with Zilpha again. I want to walk in the my life. If it’s the last poetry collection we get from morning with Zilpha again. I want to walk in the Harrison—and I hope it isn’t—it is as fine an example of his efforts as any. morning with Zilpha again. Amen.” He writes from there about how as he recovered he learned he could not keep up with the dog on arts@missoulanews.com
[dance]
Bare bones Solo/Solo embraces the vulnerable act of solitude by Melissa Mylchreest
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Bare Bait Dance’s Joy French is featured in the company’s new production Solo/Solo.
It was my junior year of college, and I was backstage at a modern dance show awaiting the music that would cue my entrance. I was performing the solo opening of a longer, larger ensemble piece, and I was ready, physically and mentally. Just then, a friend leaned over and casually whispered that the guy I had a desperate crush on just happened to be sitting in the middle of the front row. “And he likes you,” she added. Then my music started. “In contemporary modern dance,” says Joy French, founder and artistic director of Bare Bait Dance, “the trend is to choreograph ensembles so that the eye bounces around the space, that not all dancers get equal focus at all times. With a solo, there’s nowhere to bounce the eye to. A solo is inherently more vulnerable, because every single moment of that performance has to be so powerful and compelling that the audience never loses focus.” I made it through my solo by the miracle of muscle memory, that astonishing phenomenon that governs your limbs even when your mind departs for elsewhere. But, needless to say, I keenly felt that pressure and scrutiny French mentions, and how what’s at stake is very different with a solo than an ensemble performance. This specific, solitary focus is the subject of Solo/Solo, Bare Bait’s first show of 2016. In a loose round-robin, some of Missoula’s most highly regarded choreographers have created 10-minute solos, each of which is performed either by one of their fellow choreographers or by a local professional dancer. It’s a veritable who’s who of Missoula dance talent, with a lineup that includes French, Amy Ragsdale, Heather Adams, Nicole Bradley Browning, Jes Mullette, Ashley Griffith, Laurel Sears and Allison Herther. “We have one dancer in her 20s, and all the rest of us are in our 30s or older, which is noteworthy,” French says. “It’s been really fascinating to work with each other and see how we’ve utilized the skills and the wisdom of the body as we get older, and how the stories we’re able to tell are different than those we could tell at 20 or 22.”
While all of the choreographers are fairly entrenched in the contemporary modern dance tradition, the pieces are strikingly different. Some are continuous, while others are divided into discrete sections. Some are more abstract, while others are narrative, bordering on dance theater. In a few instances, choreographers created a kind of duet between dancer and another element. French created a piece for Ragsdale, the former artistic director of Headwaters Dance Company, around a monologue about Ragsdale’s years spent in Cairo. In the performance, Ragsdale’s movements respond to her own voice played back. Bradley Browning, the head of the University of Montana’s dance program, created a piece for French that is centered on a single garment. “In Nicole’s piece I have this crazy, enormous skirt on, which becomes this beast that’s connected to me and that I have to negotiate,” French says. Adams, founder and director of Downtown Dance Collective, paired her dancer with a live violinist in a structured improvisation, allowing the two performers to create a dialogue. In many ways, it makes sense that this group of choreographers would create this type of show: Having worked together in so many different relationships before—as students and teachers, company directors and performers, colleagues and collaborators—these intimate, dynamic partnerships seem fitting. And ultimately, that’s the goal of any well-choreographed solo: To establish that same sense of intimacy and dialogue between the dancer and each member of the audience. Certainly this dynamic is what made my own distracted, impassioned performance so terrifying—and thrilling—all those years ago. Bare Bait Dance presents Solo/Solo at UM’s Open Space Theatre in the PAR/TV Center Thu., Jan. 14, and Fri., Jan. 15, at 8 PM; Sat., Jan. 16, at 2 PM and 8 PM; and Sun., Jan. 17, at 6 PM. $14/$12 advance. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film]
Women in love Forbidden romance comes gloriously to life in Carol by Scott Renshaw
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Movies have told love stories as long as there have been movies, but occasionally it takes a movie like Todd Haynes’ Carol to remind you how hard it is to show people falling in love. That moment is particularly complicated in Carol, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s pseudonymously published 1952 novel The Price of Salt. And that’s because the two people falling in love, circa the winter of 1952–1953, are both women. Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is a young shopgirl working at the toy counter of a New York department store. Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett) is a married mother recently separated from her husband, Harge (Kyle Chandler). They meet-cute over a Christmas present purchased for Carol’s daughter. They meet again when Therese returns to Carol the gloves she left behind in the store, and Carol buys her lunch as a thank you. But then there’s the sequence in which Carol picks Therese up in her car and drives her back to her house in New Jersey for a visit. As Carter Burwell’s remarkable score pulses and swells, Haynes transforms the drive into a swirl of images: the lights inside a tunnel, Carol’s gloved hands on the steering wheel, a glimpse of her fur coat. It’s a perfect impressionistic snapshot of that crazy moment when the thing you might not have dared think was possible suddenly becomes possible. As perfectly as Haynes pitches that sequence, it’s only part of one of the most magnificently directed features in recent years. Haynes finds a brilliant visual motif by repeatedly shooting his main characters through glass—the windows of cars, motel offices, diners—separating them from the world as they look longingly at the things they want but expect they can never have. He also pinches Therese into corners and edges of his frame, echoing the ways in which she seems constrained.
That idea carries beyond the “love that dare not speak its name” relationship between Therese and Carol. As heartbreakingly lovely as that romance is while it unfolds, it’s also part of a bigger picture in Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay about the limitations facing every woman of this time. Therese’s pursuit of a career as a photographer seems to rely on the help of a man who wants to hit on her. Carol’s hope for a clean break from Harge is complicated by his possessive sense of her as his property. Even the most minor female characters in Carol exist as faces of frustration. Yet for all that thematic subtext, Carol is still a love story, and it resonates most thanks to the performances that bring it to life. Mara is the true revelation, bringing a watchfulness and passivity to Therese’s early scenes—with her boyfriend ( Jake Lacy), and at that first lunch where she follows Carol by placing an identical order—that convey her sense that she doesn’t really have choices of her own. And while Blanchett’s screen performances can often seem arch, that approach generally works for a character like Carol who has lived most of her life in a kind of public performance of “normalcy.” Carol risks turning into finger-wagging at those repressive 1950s, as the plot shifts to a custody battle between Carol and Harge based on a “morality clause,” as well as topics like therapy attempting to “cure” homosexuality. These obstacles, though, set up some of Carol’s most powerful scenes, building to a resolution that’s genuinely in doubt almost until the film’s final moment. Haynes nails that moment, too, pulling his focus in a way that puts these two women at long last in the center of their own world. From that dreamy first moment of falling in love, Carol evolves into the real-world power of being in love. Carol opens at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 15. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] nasty spanning four generations. Stars Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.
OPENING THIS WEEK 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Director Michael Bay reportedly shows massive restraint on the flying cars and moon-sized fireballs in this based-on-true-events account of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.
RAISING ARIZONA The Coen Brothers Retrospective continues with Raising Arizona, the story of a couple who resort to stealing a baby because her insides were a rocky place where his seed could find no purchase. Stars Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 14, 7 PM.
THE BIG SLEEP Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in this week’s Essential Cinema, The Big Sleep. L.A. detective Philip Marlowe spews tough-guy dialogue like a Tommy gun in this film noir classic of murder, blackmail and deception. Showing at the Roxy Sun., Jan. 17, 7:15 PM. CAROL Todd Haynes directs this Golden Globe-nominated love story of an aspiring photographer who falls for an older woman. Stars Cate Blanchett and Mara Rooney. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 15–Thu., Jan. 21. For showtimes visit theroxytheater.org. (See Film.) CHICAGO SINGALONG Squeeze into your best flapper getup and come belt out your favorite tunes from Chicago at the Chicago Singalong. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 16, 5:30 PM. HANK PATTERSON AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CUTTYRAINBROWN! Join fly fisherman Hank Patterson as he combs the waters of Idaho and Montana on a quest to be the first human to hook the mythical CuttyRainBrown trout. Along the way Hank deals with hijinks galore. At the Wilma Sat., Jan. 16. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $12 at thewilma.com. JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE While the decades-long wrangling over the Janis Joplin biopic continues, this epistolary documentary narrated by Cat Power is here to fill in some blanks on one of rock’s greatest legends. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 15–Thu., Jan. 21. For showtimes visit theroxytheater.org. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES Opera’s leading dramatic soprano Nina Stemme sings the title role of the proud princess of ancient China, whose riddles doom every suitor who seeks her hand. Conducted by Paolo Carignani. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 16, 11 AM.
THE REVENANT After being brutally mauled by a bear, a fur trader struggles to survive in the 1820s wilderness with only his wits and less than one bar of cell service. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Rated R, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.
“For the hundredth time, it’s Ice Cube, not Ice Tray.” Ride Along 2, starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, opens Fri., Jan. 15, at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. MILLER’S CROSSING The Coen Brothers Retrospective continues with Miller’s Crossing. Gabriel Byrne plays Tom Regan, advisor to a prohibition-era crime boss in this neonoir classic. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 21, 7 PM. NORM OF THE NORTH Animated story of the titular polar bear displaced from his Arctic home. Norm picks up three lemming pals on his way to NYC and learns that he has become a corporate shill. Featuring the voices of Heather Graham, Rob Schneider and Ken Jeong. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. RIDE ALONG 2 Ice Cube’s scowl and Kevin Hart’s mouth team up in this raunchy buddy cop comedy which takes the “Brothers in Law” to Miami. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. SHAUN OF THE DEAD Movie Cult continues with Shaun of the Dead, the outrageously hilarious 2004 zombie comedy. Yes, zombie comedy. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 16, 10 PM.
NOW PLAYING THE BIG SHORT Four outsiders who see the looming bust of the housing bubble decide to take on the big banks.
Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike. DADDY’S HOME Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg play stepdad and biological dad, competing for the children’s affections. Rated PG-13, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. THE FOREST After entering a creepy Japanese suicide forest and being warned not to stray from the path, an American woman in search of her missing sister strays from the path. Not good. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike. THE HATEFUL EIGHT Quentin Tarantino’s latest concerns an Old West bounty hunter and his prisoner getting caught in a blizzard and finding refuge in a cabin full of typically unhinged Tarantino characters. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. JAMES WHITE A 20-something New Yorker struggles to deal with his self-destructive behavior in the face of heavy family changes. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 14, at 5:15 and 7:15 PM. JOY David O. Russell reassembles the team from Silver Linings Playbook for this epic about a family dy-
SISTERS Two sisters decide to have one last house party before...oh, does it matter? It’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, y’all! Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. SPOTLIGHT Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton star in the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the child molestation scandal within the Catholic Church. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy through Thu., Jan. 14. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Han Solo, Luke, Leia and Chewy are back as J.J. Abrams hefts the yoke of the mighty Star Wars franchise, picking up where 1983’s Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi left off. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, and pretty much every theater everywhere. TV NITE The Roxy presents TV Nite. Every Monday they’ll show retro TV shows and classic commercials. Mon., Jan. 18 at 7 PM. Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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[dish]
The holy grail of cookware by Gabi Moskowitz When I think about how much I have to get done over the next few months, I want to cry. And also scream with glee because it’s fun and exciting stuff. And also hide under the covers and refuse to come out, both because reality is overwhelming and because it is freezing in my apartment. Of course, I’m going to rally. I’m going to get it all done. I might have to do it wearing three sweaters and consuming enough caffeine to wake up a small village, but it’ll happen. When I am deep in work, there’s this annoying thing that happens around 5:30 p.m. I realize I have absolutely no plan for dinner. I haven’t shopped. I haven’t prepped. I certainly haven’t preheated the oven. And the amount of work that I know will go into getting dinner for two on the table feels like more than I can bear. But if I’m honest, I know it doesn’t have to be that hard. After all, I have a cast iron pan, the holy grail of cookware, the simplest and yet most useful of any pan I’ve ever owned. Cooking with it is not only a great way to get extra iron into your diet (truly—it seeps into the food and is very good for you), it also produces gorgeously browned, crisped food. If you don’t own a cast iron pan, I recommend getting one immediately. When you get it, keep it clean, but don’t wash it down with soap. Oil it lightly before storing. Use it often, but treat it gently. Love it and it will love you back. Oh, and make this chicken. Especially when you feel overwhelmed by deadlines, pressure and the world at large. Because at the end of the day (literally and figuratively), there is nothing better than a dinner that takes just minutes of hands-on effort, is healthy, and tastes like it was made with love. I make this dish with sweet potatoes (because if you know me, you know I love a sweet potato), but it would also be great with regular potatoes, cubed, or peeled butternut squash, or even chunks of eggplant.
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BROKEASS GOURMET Ingredients extra virgin olive oil 2 medium sweet potatoes, scrubbed and cut into 1-inch pieces (leave the peel on) ½ medium onion, cut into 1-inch pieces 6-8 whole cloves garlic 2 whole chicken legs 1 teaspoon each of salt and pepper 6-8 cherry peppers, halved (optional) chopped parsley, for garnish (optional) (Recipe serves 2) Directions Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Lightly coat a 12-inch cast iron skillet (or another heavy-bottomed, oven-proof frying pan) with olive oil. In a mixing bowl, combine the sweet potatoes, onion and garlic cloves. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of olive oil and mix well to coat. Place the chicken legs skin-side-up on the oiled pan. Arrange the vegetables around the chicken, making sure the chicken is mostly exposed. Top the vegetables with the halved cherry peppers, if using. Sprinkle the chicken and vegetables with the salt and pepper. Bake for 45-50 minutes, until the chicken skin is golden brown and crispy. Let rest for 2-3 minutes, then serve hot. BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.
[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Nothing says Bernice's like the cold, grey month of January. Come in, sit quietly, or share a table with friends in our warm and cozy dining room. Enjoy a cup of joe, a slice of cake, or a breakfast pastry as the sun beams in through our large glass windows. Want a healthy lunch? Come by in the afternoon and try a salad sampler or Bernice's own Garlic Hummus Sandwich on our Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Bless you all in 2016! xoxo bernice. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads &
sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 43 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. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. 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. $-$$
El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm $-$$
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The Ziggy Stardust
HAPPIEST HOUR Raise a toast: With the passing of David Bowie announced on Jan. 11, it seemed fitting to find a drink in the legendary artist’s name. A few versions of the Ziggy Stardust are floating around on the Internet, but we opted to try the one that features the sparkle and kick of Goldschläger cinnamon schnapps.
good,” Thompson says. It’s a fittingly unusual beverage for commemorating the kaleidoscopic array of vibrant styles and sounds in Bowie’s lifetime of creative output. Diamond dogs rule: If Goldschläger isn’t your style, try another cocktail associated with Bowie. The Diamond Dog features 1½ ounces each of Campari, vermouth, lime juice and orange juice.
How it’s made: Al’s & photo by Kate Whittle Vic’s bartender Seth Thompson whipped up this version of the Ziggy: Where to find it: Ask a friendly barCombine 2 ounces of gin, ½ ounce of crème de cassis and ½ ounce Goldschläger in a tender to mix up the Ziggy at Al’s & Vic’s, 119 shaker with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass, W. Alder Street, or any other watering hole that keeps cinnamon schnapps on hand and and top with a dash of orange bitters. “Life on Mars” on the jukebox. —Kate Whittle Jamming good: Thompson was initially a little skeptical of the Ziggy’s disparate ingreHappiest Hour celebrates western Mondients. But the red currant liqueur blends with gin and Goldschläger for a drink that’s sweet, tana watering holes. To recommend a bar, tart, floral and spicy, all at once. “I was sur- bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, prised when I tasted it that the drink tastes email editor@missoulanews.com.
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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 $-$$ The Iron Griz 515 South Ave. E. 728-5106 irongriz.com Located at the base of Mt. Sentinel in the UM Golf Course Clubhouse, the Iron Griz proudly serves delicious, affordable, local foods. Montana food producers, partnering with the UM Farm to College Program, supply our kitchen with the freshest, highest quality meats, produce, locally brewed beer and wines. Open Wed. - Sat. noon - 9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ 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 weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ 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? $-$$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $
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. $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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January 14–January 21, 2016
Hey, the drone is here with our new strings! Gipsy Moon bring their groovy string band show to the Top Hat Fri., Jan. 15 at 10 PM. Free show.
THURSDAYJAN14 Philip Glasshole continue their residency at the VFW with guests Byrgeau Noil from Denver. Also, Avant Garde Alliance and Pillow Fort. 10 PM, $5. Get off the sidelines and learn how to impact the democratic process. Montana Human Rights Network, Planned Parenthood of Montana and other civic-minded organizations host the Alliance for Justice Workshop. Montana Association of Counties, 2715 Skyway Dr., Helena. 8:30 AM–4 PM. Visit action.lcv.org/ to register. Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Missoula chapter hosts an informal support group and meeting every Thursday at the Providence Center, 902 N. Orange St., Room 109. 10 AM-noon. Email namimissoula@gmail.com to learn more.
Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners, led by Harriet Alterowitz and Marina Zaleski, including basic poses and breath work. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 45:15 PM. $45 for six weeks or $10 drop-in.
The Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Ronald McDonald House, 3003 Fort Missoula Road. 1 PM. Call Cindy Cone at 7288283 or Ann Houston at 543-8939 for more info. Free.
Express your opinion about what Missoula needs most at a Community Needs Assessment meeting. The Missoula City-County Dept. of Grants and Community Programs hosts at the Missoula Public Library, 4–5:30 PM. Free, all are welcome.
Adults with mental illness can get friendly support at NAMI Connection, every Thursday at the NAMI office in St. Paul Church, 202 Brooks St., Room 210. 1:30-3 PM. Find the “NAMI” sign on the courtyard door. Email namimissoula @gmail.com for info.
Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Thursday at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Drop-ins welcome. Call 360-1521. As part of the VIBE events, JRPC presents The Art of Welcome: From Stranger to Neighbor, a
panel discussion on the fears, concerns and experiences of being an outsider. The Silver Theatre, 2023 S. Higgins. 5:30 PM. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free. The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers instruction in dance and drum traditions from nations including Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets every Thursday, 6–7 PM. $5 donation requested. The Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets to discuss the book Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation. West Meeting Room. 6–7:30 PM. Free.
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[calendar] The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins Bridge from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/ calendar to learn more.
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Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent from 2-4 PM. Call 728-1630.
When you’re tackling a subject as provocative and divisive as the Civil War, as Ridley Scott does with the new PBS series “Mercy Street,” verisimilitude is everything. Fortunately, University of Montana history professor Anya Jabour is there to tame the devil in the details.
Enjoy music by Malarkey at a winter wine tasting. Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery Tasting room open 4–9 PM, music starts at 6. Free, except for the wine.
nightlife Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. This week it’s Brent Jameson from Jameson and the Sordid Seeds. 6 PM. No cover.
WHAT: Sneak Peek and Reception for “Mercy Street” WHO: Anya Jabour
Get your Gaelic on at the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.
WHEN: Sat., Jan. 16, at 2 PM WHERE: UC Theatre
Basses Covered play bouncy folk and other cool stuff at Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St. 6 PM. Free.
HOW MUCH: Free “Mercy Street,” which follows the lives of two nurses on opposing sides of the war, is the first American drama to air on PBS in 10 years. The network is hoping to cash in on the success of “Downton Abbey,” another period drama which is in its sixth, and final, season.
Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building.
Initially Jabour, author of Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South, was tapped as a script reviewer. After a surprise call from a show representative, she traveled to Virginia to spend five weeks on the set, working with the cast and 100 extras to make sure their movements, behavior and interactions with others were historically accurate. Social rules at the time were strict and largely status-related. Party etiquette, table manners, posture, speech— it all had style and form, and Jabour’s exhaustive studies of women’s history helped her get these things right. Things like gloves on women of the elite class, for instance.
Solo/Solo showcases eight choreographer/ dancers creating six new dance works for Bare Bait Dance Co. UM’s PAR/TV Center. 8 PM. $12–$14. (See Dance.)
nightlife Part country, part folk, part blues, all TomCat. Tom Catmull plays Draught Works Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Marty Essen shares a slideshow and reads from Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades and Puerto Rico. Chapter One Bookstore, Hamilton, 6 PM. Free. Britchy play original acoustic Americana that will have you tapping your boot while you sip at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Try a new approach this year at Make the Impossible Possible. Class includes nutritional advice, blood spotting test, goal support and more. Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center, 111 N. Higgins. 6 PM, $25. For info call 542-2888.
Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 6-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.
While dancing, gloves on. While eating or drinking, gloves off. While arm wrestling, well, maybe that will come up in season two. In a heavyweight drama series on PBS, the authenticity of the production is paramount. Jabour was one of eight script consultants, each with a different area of expertise, who worked to make sure “Mercy Street” nails the details. And if they don’t, they’ll hear about it. When it was discovered that the Gibson guitar Michael J. Fox played in the iconic Back to Solo/Solo showcases eight choreographer/ dancers creating six new dance works for Bare Bait Dance Co. UM’s PAR/TV Center. 8 PM. $12– $14. (See Dance.) Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover. Off in the Woods blend elements of roots rock, reggae and funk. Top Hat Lounge, 10 PM. Free.
FRIDAYJAN15 Just drop the mic now. A full night of hip-hop awaits with MT Souls, Mac Marler, Traff the Wiz, Graveyard Project and DJ Tonality at the Palace. 9 PM. Free.
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the Future invention-of-rock-and-roll scene in 1955 wasn’t introduced until 1958, guitar fanatics took to the Web with so much indignation you’d think Johnny Cash had been accused of wearing white.
Band in Motion bring their broad pallet of music to Cowboy Troy’s in Victor. 8 PM–midnight. Country Boogie Boys tear it up at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
Thanks to Jabour’s extensive knowledge and passion for the subject, it’s a safe bet that “Mercy Street” will give us an accurate look at the mores and customs of our society as the show paints a detailed picture of a difficult time in our country’s history.
Check out the sweet country sounds of Shodown at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover.
—Ednor Therriault
Gipsy Moon play their inspiring, soulful string band compositions at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
Join internationally renowned artists and experts in foreign relations for The Art of Diplomacy, a Mansfield Conference that interweaves world-class discussions and performances to explore the impact of the arts and cultural exchanges on international relations. UM’s UC ballroom, 8:30 AM–6 PM. Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email mansfield.center@umontana.edu. Try a new approach this year at Make the Impossible Possible. Class includes nutritional advice, blood spotting test, goal support and more. Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center, 111 N. Higgins. 10 AM. $25, call 542-2888. You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library from noon-2 PM Fridays.
If you’ve not experienced Russ Nasset and the Revelators at the Union Club on a Friday night, well, just turn in your Real Missoulian card right now. 9:30 PM. No cover.
SATURDAYJAN16 That big washtub onstage ain’t for rinsing out your undies. Big Sky Revival show you how raucous country was played a century ago. Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7–11 PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more. Dance up a storm at the Missoula Folklore Society’s Contra dance every first, third and fifth (it happens) Saturday through May. Union Hall, 8–11 PM. Get more info at missoulafolk.org. You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s
[calendar] Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave., and you can grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Get musical while finding your flow when Brian Baty leads a live music Vinyasa yoga class, which features music by Nathan Zavalney, every Sat. from 9:30–10:45 AM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10/$8 students drop-in. Visit yogainmissoula.com. Here’s the perfect chance for you to own an Abe Coley original painting and help a Missoula institution in the process. Abe will have “a couple hundred” of his paintings on display at his place, 619 Pattee Canyon Dr. Pay any price and he’ll donate 75% of the take to Free Cycles Missoula. 10 AM–6 PM. Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W. A beginning birder field trip teaches basic skills such as use of binoculars and field guides, key field marks and much more. Minimal walking is involved. This two-hour field trip is sponsored by Bitterroot Audubon, Five Valleys Audubon and Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Meet unarmed at the Metcalf NWR headquarters at 10 AM. Free. Not all who wander are lost. But for those who are, it’s good to know how to use your GPS. Learn this and more at the GPS Navigation Class at REI Missoula, 10:30 AM. $50/$30 members. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger
Betcha never heard anyone whistle “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Brent Jameson of Jameson and the Sordid Seeds plays Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat Fri., Jan. 15, at 6 PM.
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[calendar] and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities who are interested in contact improvisation. Every Sunday, 3:15–5 PM. Downtown Dance Collective. $5. Intrigued by the unique American art of Square Dance? Now’s your chance to dive in with beginner Square Dance lessons. Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Hwy. 12, 5:30 PM. For info, call 273-0652.
nightlife Solo/Solo showcases eight choreographer/ dancers creating six new dance works for Bare Bait Dance Co. UM’s PAR/TV Center. 6 PM. $12– $14. (See Dance.) Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers scintillating prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up. No cover. Mark the Sabbath with some Black Sabbath or whatever else twangs your heartstrings at Sunday Funday evening karaoke at the Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., featuring $1 domestic drafts and wells. Free. Here’s your one-way ticket out of Squaresville. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.
MONDAYJAN18 Musical jack-of-all-trades John Sporman does his tuneful thing at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7– 10 PM. Free. But if I stand up straight, I’ll spill my drink! Basses Covered play the Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St. Fri., Jan. 15, 6–8 PM. Free.
plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
Get a glimpse of the new PBS series “Mercy Street” at a Sneak Peek and Reception at UM’s UC Theatre. Sat., Jan. 16, 2 PM. (See Spotlight.)
406 play country music that’ll have you dancing no matter what area code you’re from. Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM. No cover.
Little ones can feel the rhythm at Kids’ Vibrations, a 45-minute educational blast with local musicians and Tangled Tones educators on the third Saturday of every month through the school year. Missoula Senior Center, 705 Higgins Ave. 11– 11:45 AM. Donations appreciated.
Solo/Solo showcases eight choreographer/ dancers creating six new dance works for Bare Bait Dance Co. UM’s PAR/TV Center. 2 PM and 8 PM. $12–$14. (See Dance.)
Voodoo Horseshoes unleash their spankin’ new album at a CD release party, with pals Baby Tyger getting the party started. At the Top Hat, 10 PM. Free. (See Music.)
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The Winter Storytelling series continues with Louie Adams sharing Salish stories of the Bitterrroot Valley. Travelers’ Rest State Park, 11 AM. $5/free for members of TRPHA.
Loose String Band play deceptively tight music at Draught Works Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free.
Party down, electronic style with Portland’s Love Cop. Also, Eat Strike and Raybabies at the VFW. 10 PM. $5, 18 and over.
The Craicers play traditional Irish music at Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.
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Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.
Smokestack and the Foothill Fury play looselimbed country and folk at Bitter Root Brewing. 6– 8 PM. Free.
String quartet Brooklyn Rider bring classical music into the 21st century with an fun and entertaining show at the Top Hat. Dinner seating at 5:30 PM, concert at 7:30. $10–$40 at tophatlounge.com.
Ready to learn how to whale on that djembe? Master drummer Dr. Bob Sherrick gives a hand drumming class at the Imagine Health gather room, 305 1st Ave. W., Columbia Falls. 12:30–2 PM. $5–$10 sliding scale. If you need a drum, email Marti at martik@centurylink.com. Cap off Missoula’s first-ever VIBE week with a Gala Finale at the Wilma. Doors at noon, event begins at 1 PM. $25–$100 at thewilma.com. Missoula Art Museum members can attend an orientation and tour, where the history of MAM will be discussed. Interact and exchange ideas and opinions with artists, teachers and others who shape and influence the art world. At the MAM, 1–2 PM. Free.
Kick up your heels at the Folklore Society Dance. Missoula Senior Center, 6–10 PM. Country Boogie Boys tear it up at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover. The Jack Saloon and Grill presents live music on Saturdays. Pull up a log at 7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM. Free. Did they add “Montana” to their name to avoid a lawsuit from a certain chrome lighter company? Ask ‘em yourself when Zeppo Montana play R&B and soul at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Sweet jazz and smooth crooning fill the air when the Kimberlee Carlson Trio play Draught Works Brewery. 5–7 PM. Free. Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session on Sunday mornings. Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you dance like nobody is watching. Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM–noon, $5. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more for the whole family at 11 AM on Sat.
The Community Dispute Resolution Center offers Mediation Training for communication, personal growth and empathy for professionals. At UM’s Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences. For more info call Skip Hegman at 493-7543. Celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at these community-wide events: Rally at Caras Park, 5 PM. March across Higgins St. bridge, 5:40 PM. Community celebration at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., 6 PM. Community dinner at St. Paul’s, 7:30 PM. Also, Missoula Fresh Markets will be collecting donations of toiletries all day. Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon–8 PM. Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness, a gentle class led by Rasa O’Neill, with an emphasis on mindfulness. Beginners are welcome, but previous experience is helpful. Meets at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon-1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 dropin. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org. Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25. The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 4-7 PM. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Call 210-8792 to set up a time and routine that’s best for you, or just drop in any day to observe a class. $60 for four classes.
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nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5– 7 PM. Free, all ages. Surviving Menopause and Perimenopause features Dr. Jamison Starbuck explaining what happens and how to be healthy during this transitional time. Every Mon. through Feb. 8 at Women’s Health Club and Fitness Center, 6–7 PM. $50. For more info visit thewomensclub.com. Need a little inspiration to kick off your training routine for the Missoula Marathon this July? Olympian Jeff Galloway will be signing books and shaking hands at Runner’s Edge, 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. Shake, rattle ‘n’ roll at the Beginner/Intermediate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer MeyerVaughan on Mondays at Downtown Dance Collective, 7:30-9 PM. Yoga pants allowed, regular rates apply. Rock the mic when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.
The Badlander’s latest weekly event is Blues Monday, with a rotating cast of local blues musicians hosted by Black Mountain Moan. 9 PM, no cover.
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from noon-1 PM. $35 for four classes, or $10 dropin. Visit redwillowlearning.org. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.
Insects and beer—sounds like a picnic on the river, but it’s Bugs and Brew, the Missoula Insectarium’s evening lecture series featuring tasty local beers. This month Alex Gaffke speaks about the northern tamarisk beetle and its role as a biological control agent. 218 E. Front St. Doors at 6:30 PM, lecture at 7:10. $5 includes two drink tickets.
It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.
You’ll be seeing stars at Bingo on Broadway, with cash prizes, $3 Sam Adams pints and food specials. Broadway Inn, 1609 W. Broadway St. 8 PM. $6 buy-in.
Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 7287682 for more information.
The Community Dispute Resolution Center offers Mediation Training for communication, personal growth and empathy for professionals. At UM’s Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences. For more info call Skip Hegman at 493-7543. Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays. The ongoing Weekly Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly lunch-hour class to help de-stress and reengage. Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays
Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.
Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40. Students must have doctor’s okay. The Friends and Families Matter support group invites anyone who’s coping with an incarcerated loved one to an informal session on Tuesdays from 5:15-6:30 PM. 1610 S. Third St. W., Ste. 210. Visit pfrmt.org for more info.
nightlife Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an
all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/ MontanaDir tGirls. Various locations, 6 PM. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM. All ages. The Craicers and Friends wield the blarney stone of music with their traditional Irish tunes at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM. Home Health and Hospice offers volunteer training every Tue. and Thu. through Feb. 11. 6–8 PM, 3301 Great Northern Ave. Ste. 202. Free. For more info call 369-5863. The Missoula Freestyle Team hosts a fundraiser at Kettlehouse Southside, 602 Myrtle St. Hang out with other winter sports lovers and win some cool raffle items. Portion of every beer sold goes to the team. 6:30–10 PM. Free. Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons, featuring styles including the waltz, cha-cha, swing and more. Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–8:30 PM, and Wednesdays at a TBA location. Bring a partner who can two step on Tuesdays, but the group is open on Wednesdays. Call 381-1392 for more info. $5. You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What is David Bowie’s real name? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.
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[calendar] Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.
THURSDAYJAN21 Height Keech, Gavin Riley Smoke Machine, Chris Sand and Codependents bring a wide variety of indie rock to Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $7 for 18–20/$5 for 21 and over.
Blackalicious, aka Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel, charge the Top Hat with positive rap. With Mac Marler and MT Souls. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 adv. at tophatlounge.com. (See Music.) Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials. The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.
The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon-1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.
Open Mic Night at Stage 112 gives you a chance to show your stuff on a real mic on a real stage in front of a real audience. Also $2 tallboy cans of real courage. 112 Pattee St., 9 PM.
Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.
Local funnyman John Howard hosts HomeGrown Comedy, featuring a bevy of local comics performing live onstage. At the Roxy, 7:30 PM. 18 and over.
Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners, led by Harriet Alterowitz and Marina Zaleski, including basic poses and breath work. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4-5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks or $10 drop-in.
Penny: Money Matters for Montana Women is a free one-day workshop. UM’s Gallagher Building, 7 AM–4:45 PM. For more info visit csimt.gov/penny.
Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.
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Is your toddler a budding Nikola Tesla in pull-ups? Find out at Science Sprouts: Early Childhood Program at SpectrUM Discovery Area, 218 E. Front St. Kids 2-5 participate in playful science experiments and crafts. Free with paid museum admission, 11 AM–noon every Wednesday. Get in touch with healing arts at the Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors workshop, every third Wednesday of the month at Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. Noon-1:30 PM. Free. Call 549-5329 for info. Learn more about the care and feeding of the athletic body at running guru Jeff Galloway’s lecture Myths and Sciences of Sports Nutrition. Good Food Store, noon–1 PM. Free. People First, a group where people with developmental disabilities can do community service activities, Wednesday at Summit Independent, 700 S.W. Higgins. Ave., #101, 4-5PM. A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday. 4:30 PM, but I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free, all ages. Dena Saedi presents the Yoga for Chronic Pain class at the Learning Center at Red Willow. From 5-6 PM. Prerequisite one-on-one screening with Dena required. To schedule an appointment, call 721-0033.
nightlife Join the Sustainable Business Council folks for an evening of great beer and learn about their five-year plan to move Missoula toward zero waste. Kettlehouse Northside Taproom, 5–8 PM. Free. Start your marathon training on the right foot (sorry) at Jeff Galloway’s Running School. DoubleTree Hotel, 5:30–8:30 PM. $99/$49 for Galloway Training participants. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.
Home Health and Hospice offers volunteer training every Tue. and Thu. through Feb. 11. 6–8 PM, 3301 Great Northern Ave. Ste. 202. 6–8 PM. Free. For more info call 369-5863. This painting by Abe Coley is not titled “Cold Thermometer at the Vet.” Coley is putting a massive stack of his paintings up for sale—you name the price—to raise funds to help Free Cycles buy their property. 619 Pattee Canyon Dr. Sat., Jan. 16, 10 AM–6 PM. This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets— share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6– 8 PM. Free. John Floridis makes a whole lot of music for just one guy. Blacksmith Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free. (Trivia answer: David Jones.) Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” via the assistance of Mexican food and beer when “Poncho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays from 6–9:30 PM. Call 7412361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free. Find help with food issues at the Overeaters Anonymous meetings on the third floor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Brooks St., Wednesdays. Newbies can come at 6:30 PM, and the regular meeting begins at 7 PM. Free. Call 543-5509 for info. B-29, you’re doing fine, I-30, dirty gertie, N31, get up and run, G-32, buckle my shoe, O33, come in for tea. What’s that spell? Yell it with me: BINGO! Every week at the Lucky Strike bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Runs 6:30-9:30 PM, followed by karaoke with whiskey specials. (Bingo Lingo not necessarily included.) Science sneaks its way into your brain at Secret Science: Naturalist Trivia Night at the Montana Natural History Center. 7–9 PM, BYOB. $4 sugg. donation, free for members. (See Mountain High.) Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia
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questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop? Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, Dad, when the Top Hat hosts a local band every Wednesday for Jazz Night. Tonight it’s the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quartet. 7 PM, no cover, all ages.
nightlife The Milner Brothers put their sibling stamp on some acoustic folk at Bitter Root Brewing. 6–8 PM. Free. Local Yokel is back and they’ll be stompin’ and hollerin’ at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. Queer youth tell their stories and shine a light on their difficult social landscape in Put This on the {Map}, a 35-minute documentary. Blue Mountain Clinic, 610 N. California St., 6:30 PM. (See Agenda.)
It’s one of the best ways to get around in winter. Learn Showshoeing Basics at REI Missoula, 7 PM. Free.
The Drowsy Chaperone, starring Robert Harsch and a cast of other Missoula favorites, portrays a man’s favorite album coming to life onstage as a 1920s musical. Runs through Sun., Jan. 31 at the MCT Center for Performing Arts. For tickets and showtimes, visit MCTinc.org.
It’s all downhill from here. Missoula Alpine Race League runs every Wed. at 7 PM through Mar. 2 at Snowbowl. For info and signup sheets, email missoulaalpinerace@gmail.com.
The Bitterroot Trout Unlimited meeting features a presentation by Zack Porter from the Montana Wilderness Assoc. Hamilton Elks Lodge, 7 PM. Free and open to the public.
Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.
Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.
Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at karaoke with Cheree at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W., with drink specials, and $50 to the best singer. 8:3010:30 PM. No cover.
Clear Grain play undiluted country at Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. No cover.
You can tell who the karaoke ringers are— they don’t need no stinkin’ monitor. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special.
Mr. Calendar Guy wants to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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ou might have caught the bizarre photo that was circulating on social media last week of the mountain lion killed in Idaho that had a set of teeth growing out the top of its head. Hoax? Taxidermist’s practical joke? Nope. It’s rare, but it happens. One theory is that the teeth are remnants of a conjoined twin that was absorbed by the cat in the womb. Another possibility, while more rare, is that the lion had a taratoma tumor, which is composed of tissue that can produced teeth and hair. Whatever it was, it’s an example of the crazy things that can be found in the flora and fauna of the Northwest. At Secret Science:
Naturalist Trivia Night, trivia buffs flaunt their knowledge of nature while sipping a beverage and gaining knowledge from others in the process. Hey, if you’re going to do some learning, why not have some fun in the process? It’s an evening of trivia you can really sink your teeth into. —Ednor Therriault Secret Science: Naturalist Trivia Night is at the Montana Natural History Center Wed., Jan. 20, 7–9 PM. BYOB. $4 suggested donation, free for members.
photo by Joe Weston
SATURDAY JANUARY 16 A beginning birder field trip teaches basic skills such as use of binoculars and field guides, key field marks and much more. Minimal walking is involved. This two-hour field trip is sponsored by Bitterroot Audubon, Five Valleys Audubon, and Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Meet unarmed at the Metcalf NWR headquarters at 10 AM. Free. Not all who wander are lost. But for those who are, it’s good to know how to use your GPS. Learn this and more at the GPS Navigation Class at REI Missoula, 10:30 AM. $50/$30 members.
TUESDAY JANUARY 19 Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. Various locations, 6 PM. The Missoula Freestyle Team hosts a fundraiser at Kettlehouse Southside, 602 Myrtle St. Hang out with other winter sports lovers and win some cool raffle items. Portion of every beer sold goes to the team. 6:30–10 PM. Free. Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear,
ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20 Learn more about the care and feeding of the athletic body at running guru Jeff Galloway’s lecture Myths and Sciences of Sports Nutrition. Good Food Store, noon–1 PM. Free. Start your marathon training on the right foot (sorry) at Jeff Galloway’s Running School. DoubleTree Hotel, 5:30–8:30 PM. $99/$49 for Galloway Training participants. It’s one of the best ways to get around in winter. Learn Showshoeing Basics at REI Missoula, 7 PM. Free. It’s all downhill from here. Missoula Alpine Race League runs every Wed. at 7 PM through Mar. 2 at Snowbowl. For info and signup sheets, email missoulaalpinerace@gmail.com.
THURSDAY JANUARY 21 The Bitterroot Trout Unlimited meeting features a presentation by Zack Porter from the Montana Wilderness Assoc. Hamilton Elks Lodge, 7 PM. Free and open to the public.
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It’s 2016, and we’ve broken down societal barriers to the point where we’ve had an openly gay congressman, a couple of gay pro athletes have come out and the entertainment world is full of openly gay performers. In many ways, the LGBTQ community is making headway towards acceptance in the mainstream world. But down in the trenches, where young people are still searching for their place on the gender spectrum, it’s tougher than ever. Put This On the {Map}, a 35-minute documentary by Megan Kennedy and Sid Jordan Peterson, contains a powerful message for schools, communities and parents that there is still a lot of work to be done. The film features 26 King County, Wash., young people sharing their stories of the challenges faced by queer youth. The suburban kids interviewed in the 2011 film have endured all kinds of bullying, shaming, rejection and abuse from their peers, families and teachers, which makes them the real experts on how institutional leaders can shift their thinking and methods to allow space for queer youth to thrive. Put This On the {Map} has won several awards, and hundreds of copies of the doc have been distributed to schools as a training tool for adults who have so
much influence over these kids’ lives. The hope is that the intimate, honest stories about the struggles of queer youth to gain acknowledgment will spur people to action. The future is here in some ways, but in others we still have a long way to go. —Ednor Therriault Put This On the {Map} screens at Blue Mountain Clinic Thu., Jan. 21, at 6:30 PM. A discussion will follow.
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Express your opinion about what Missoula needs most at a Community Needs Assessment meeting. The Missoula City-County Dept. of Grants and Community Programs hosts at the Missoula Public Library, 4–5:30 PM. Free, all are welcome.
Celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at these community-wide events: Rally at Caras Park, 5 PM. March across Higgins St. bridge, 5:40 PM. Community celebration at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., 6 PM. Community dinner at St. Paul’s, 7:30 PM. Also, Missoula Fresh Markets will be collecting donations of toiletries all day.
As part of the VIBE events, JRPC presents The Art of Welcome: From Stranger to Neighbor, a panel discussion on the fears, concerns and experiences of being an outsider. The Silver Theatre, 2023 S. Higgins. 5:30 PM. The Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets to discuss the book Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation. West Meeting Room. 6–7:30 PM. Free.
FRIDAY JANUARY 15 Join internationally renowned artists and experts in foreign relations for The Art of Diplomacy, a Mansfield Conference that interweaves world-class discussions and performances to explore the impact of the arts and cultural exchanges on international relations. UM’s UC ballroom, 8:30 AM–6 PM. Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email mansfield.center@umontana.edu.
SATURDAY JANUARY 16 Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W.
Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon– 8 PM. Surviving Menapause and Perimenopause features Dr. Jamison Starbuck explaining what happens and how to be healthy during this transitional time. Every Wed. through Feb. 8 at Women’s Health Club and Fitness Center, 6–7 PM. $50. For more info visit thewomensclub.com.
TUESDAY JANUARY 19 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday at the Missoula Public Library, 2 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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THE PLATONIC PLAGUE
My girlfriend’s “best friend” is a straight guy. I trust that she THINKS he’s just her friend. However, as a guy, I know that if he could hit it, he would. FYI, I’m not really a jealous or insecure person, and my guy friends complain about this same scenario, so this can’t just be my stuff. —Annoyed There’s a saying, “A true friend accepts who you are and helps you become who you can be”—for example, a person who’s naked in her true friend’s bed, feeling really guilty about cheating on her boyfriend. Sorry to be less-than-reassuring, but you and your guy friends are right: For many men, the friend zone is a holding area where they wait to Mr. Sneaky backmassage their way into the sexfriend zone. In a study of 88 opposite-sex friendships by evolutionary psychologist April Bleske-Rechek, men were more attracted to their female friend than vice versa and more likely to assume she also had the hots for them—a belief bearing little correspondence to how the woman actually felt. Women, on the other hand, tended to assume their male friend had only platonic intentions. And sure, some male friends are just looking out for their female friends—but others do it in the way a hungry lion looks out for the limping gazelle. Bleske-Rechek’s findings align with research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss suggesting that we evolved to make protective mistakes in perception—erring in favor of whatever assumption would be least costly to our mating and survival interests. Men tend to overestimate women’s attraction to them because they lose more by missing a possible mating opportunity than by making asses of themselves hitting on a woman who isn’t interested (and, in fact, would eat a live pigeon to avoid having sex with them). Women, however, tend to underestimate men’s interest, because they have a lot to lose from believing a cad will stick around to be a dad. You aren’t without options here, though it’s probably best to refrain from dusting off the old flintlock and challenging the guy to a duel at dawn. Showing jealousy suggests you have reason to feel threatened (like maybe he really is all that). Instead, simply be the better deal. Consistently show your girlfriend that you’ve got what women evolved to prioritize in men—a willingness to invest time, energy, and resources—like by really lis-
tening when she talks instead of uhhuhing her while blowing up alien invaders on your phone. Do this stuff not because you’re afraid of losing her (which stinks of desperation) but because you haven’t forgotten that you love her. And as a show of how secure you are, maybe even encourage her to hang with him—that is, whenever she’s all “Golly, it’s been months since I spent the better part of an hour at the mall trying to decide between two slightly different vanilla-scented candles.”
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Say you like camping. A woman who likes you claims she likes camping, too, perhaps believing that she could like camping—not quite connecting it with everything she absolutely hates, like peeing in a hole and bugs that don’t come in pink resin with a matching choker. Of course, women aren’t the only ones who claim to be a little more woodsy or literate or ... sportif ... than they actually are. However, men tend to lie to get sex, while women tend to lie to get love. But because women evolved to be the nurturers and peacekeepers of the species, they are probably more likely to say yes or okay to stuff they’re not very yes or okay with. (Some confuse being a pleaser with being kind and giving in healthy ways.) Men, on the other hand, evolved to be the competitors of our species and are more comfortable with conflict—starting in infancy, when they’re beating up the kid in the next crib. What’s essential to figure out is whether the lie is a little “I like what you like!” stretchy or part of a disturbing pattern—suggesting she’s either a pathological liar or a gaping void looking to use love as Spackle. Expect hyperbole at the start, and ask probing questions to see whether a woman is truly into sports— beyond challenging some other woman to a cage fight over the last pair of DKNY ankle booties in a 9 and a half narrow.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurus writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories. Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you want more money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford them? Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals. On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form—maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP15-232 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOSEPH MARTIN DENMAN, DECEDENT. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michelle M. Denman, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 28th day of December, 2015 ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Michael O’Brien I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 19th day of November, 2015. /s/ Michelle M. Denman, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-242 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOAN F. LEFLER, 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 David R. Lefler, 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 correct. DATED this 15th day of December, 2015, at Port Orchard, Washington. /s/ David R. Lefler BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Dean A. Stensland, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for David R. Lefler, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-15-247 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD L. STEVENS, 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 Elmer P. Bender, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of December, 2015. /s/ Elmer P. Bender, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ Craig Mungas on behalf of R. Nick Jones, Attorneys for Elmer P. Bender, Personal Representative NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE December 29, 2015 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Street Missoula, MT 59802 Occupant 1286 Boy Scout Road Seeley Lake, MT 59868 Kimberley Kahle 4595 Zintek Place Missoula, MT 59808 Richard E & Royle C Taylor P.O. Box 300 Seeley Lake, MT 59868 Richard E & Royle C Taylor P.O. Box 2138 Pocatello, ID 83206 State of Montana DNRC 1401 27th Avenue Missoula, MT 59804 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice hereby given: Please take notice that a property tax lien exists on the following described property in which you may have an interest. TAX ID #:722703 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: S04,
MNAXLP T16 N, R15 W, ACRES 1.533 IMPROVEMENTS ON STATE LAND LOT 15 SEELEY LAKE DEVELOPMENT STATE LEASE # 3062240 The property tax lien exists because property taxes were not paid on the property. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1st, 2012. Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 12th, 2012. By, law, you have a 36-month redemption period, beginning on the date of the Treasurer’s tax sale, during which you may pay ALL delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and county costs to stop the issuance of a tax deed. The period ended for your property ended on December 29, 2015. If the taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid as required by Law to the County Treasurer on or before February 29, 2016, the County Treasurer may then issue a tax deed to the county by order of the County Commissioners. The amount of delinquent taxes, penalty, interest, and cost owing as of this notice as follows: Tax Year: 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014 Tax Amount: $602.88 Penalty: $10.52 Interest: $114.86 Total Amount: $728.26 Other Costs of Title Search, certified mailing, assignments & publications: $460.50 Total $1188.76 For the property tax lien liquidated, the total amount listed above must be made by February 29, 2016. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid on or before February 29, 2016 a tax deed will be issued on the following day, March 1, 2016. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/10/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200808297 Bk: 817 Pg: 0074, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Robert D. Hughes was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 136, 161, 181, 479, 525, & 613. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, January 25, 2016 All auction units will only be shown each day at 3:00 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 2 of Elms Addition No. 1, to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201209706 Bk: 894 Pg: 783, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 6, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $264,825.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $214,379.36, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On
the Front Steps, City of Missoula on March 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. HUGHES, ROBERT D. (TS# 7023.110954) 1002.273828File No.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
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The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to RentA-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Amount/Description of Property: 3326/Donald Lewis/$412/Washer/Dryer. 4140 Jamison Bates/$550/Furniture. 6254/Kelli Parsons/$370/Car Top Carrier. SALE LOCATION: Gardner's Auction Service, 4810 Highway 93 South, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 @ 5:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to highest bidder. Sold "AS IS", "WHERE IS". Cash or certified funds
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/08/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803260; Book 813 Page 355, mortgage records of MISSOULA Couty, Montanaa in which Teri S Lerch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 24, 82, 117, 119, 162, 181, 207, 248, 254. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 1/18/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 1/21/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
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PUBLIC NOTICES Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 in Shelby Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana according to the Official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due there-
after. As of November 13, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $147,186.20. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $140,644.24, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on March 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding
MNAXLP at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwest-
trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Lerch, Teri A. (TS# 7023.114820) 1002.284162-File No.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/27/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200730982, Bk. 809, Pg. 883, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James Leonard Sampson, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 15 of Hurt First Addition, a
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platted subdivison in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 18, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $196,363.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $155,194.37, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on April 7, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. SAMPSON, JAMES LEONARD (TS# 7023.102943) 1002.230681-File No.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/19/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200404701 Bk: 726 Pg: 1403, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Lisa M. Koetter and Michael E. Koetter, wife and husband was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 2A2 of Certificate of Survey No. 5518, a Tract of Land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Together with a 45’ Private Access and Utility Easement across Tract 2B as disclosed on Certificate of Survey No. 5201. Now Known As: Tract 2B of Certificate of Survey No. 6376, a Tract of Land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 18, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $161,526.26. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $149,495.79, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on April 7, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the
sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. KOETTER, LISA M. and MICHAEL E. (TS# 7023.112908) 1002.279240-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND, BEING A PART OF THE SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4 OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, OF THE PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIPE DRIVEN ON THE SECTION LINE 400.0 FEET S. 89°00` E. OF THE 1/16 SECTION CORNER AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4, AND RUNNING FROM THE SAID POINT OF BEGINNING: N. 51°30` W. ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY FENCE, PARALLEL WITH AND 50 FEET NE OF THE CENTER LINE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK HIGHWAY AS CONSTRUCTED AND TRAVELED, FOR A DISTANCE OF 292.0 FEET TO THE IRON PIPE AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 OF LOLOVIEW ACRES; THENCE N. 28°24` E., FOR A DISTANCE OF 296.5 FEET TO THE IRON PIPE AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 1: THENCE CONTINUE THE
PUBLIC NOTICES SAME COURSE FOR A FURTHER DISTANCE OF 247.4 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE ON THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4; THENCE S. 89°00` E. ALONG THE 1/64 SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 247.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE ABOUT 2 FEET HIGH, DRIVE-IN THE INTERMITTENT CHANNEL OF AN OLD CREEK BED; THENCE S. 1°00` W. ALONG THE 1/64 SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 660.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE; THENCE N. 89°00` W. ALONG THE SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 266.0 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 678 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 171 Terri Lynn A. Van Ostrand and BRUCE A. VAN OSTRAND, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby and Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Phh Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on January 13, 2006, and recorded on January 18, 2006 as Book 767 Page 1119 Document No. 200601289. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation dba PHH Mortgage Services . First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,202.50, beginning May 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 3, 2015 is $162,121.59 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% totaling $4,277.42, late charges in the amount of $240.44, escrow advances of $114.70 and other fees and expenses advanced of $104.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.76 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale
and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 15, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 15 day of October, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 PHH vs Ostrand 100283-1
MNAXLP Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 3 AND 4 IN BLOCK 62 OF DALY`S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BEVERLY S HAYS and PATRICK E HAYS, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Heritage Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 29, 2004, and recorded on March 30, 2004 as Book 728 Page 1530 Document No. 200408340. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $864.72, beginning April 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 2, 2015 is $120,813.29 principal, interest at the rate of 5.62500% totaling $3,982.79, escrow advances of $-225.67, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.62
per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 24, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the
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1 Muppet with an orange nose 5 Certain physical measurement, for short 8 "___ first you don't succeed ..." 12 Short, shrill sound 13 ___ fro 15 "___ arigato, Mr. Roboto" 16 Poultry herb 17 Nomadic mob 18 Class with graphs, for short 19 2015 superhero film reboot with 9% Rotten Tomatoes score 22 Iggy Azalea/Britney Spears collaboration, listed on Entertainment Weekly's Worst Singles of 2015 23 "Mission: Impossible" character Hunt 25 "Full," at a theater 26 Hatha and bikram, for two 29 Weather map lines 31 Get hold of again 32 Feline tooth 33 President who's thanked a lot? 37 College in New Rochelle, New York 38 "Oh, yeah!" 39 Santa-tracking defense gp. 40 Paper wounds 41 Canadian vocal tics that aren't as commonplace as Americans think 42 Doesn't say outright 44 Little ___ ("Languages for Kids" learning series) 45 Short-lived Rainn Wilson cop show, listed on Yahoo's Worst TV Shows of 2015 47 Change places with one's wrestling teammate 50 ___ of Sauron 51 Seafood selections 55 Power shake need 57 Rooster's morning perch 59 Choir 60 Mix it up (var.) 61 2015 Adam Sandler movie that got an epic ten-minute review/rant from "MovieBob Reviews" on YouTube 62 Much-maligned 2015 reality show which put contestant couples in the titular enclosure (later to be interviewed by therapists)
DOWN 1 Some CDs 2 Nissan electric car 3 Cones of non-silence? 4 Cattle site 5 Gives a leg up to 6 Sacrificial figure 7 Part of Roy G. Biv 8 Visionary 9 Market research panel 10 Love, in Xochimilco 11 Massive quantity 13 "Yeah, about ___ ..." 14 Prefix meaning "one-tenth" 20 It's designed to stay up all night 21 "Punky Brewster" star Soleil Moon ___ 23 Trinket in "The Hunger Games" 24 Totally destroy 27 "___ a stinker?" (Bugs Bunny catchphrase) 28 Back twinge 30 Hedgehog of Sega fame 31 "M*A*S*H" character 34 Nutsoid 35 Like craft shows 36 High degree 42 "Messiah" composer 43 In the future 45 Go nuts with a whole season, e.g. 46 "Fantastic" character in a Roald Dahl novel 47 1/16 of a cup, briefly 48 Et ___ (and others) 49 Baby boomer followers 52 Get from ___ (make progress) 53 Doofus 54 Glasses, in comic book ads 56 Hosp. locations 58 Cries of surprise
PUBLIC NOTICES successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 14, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of October, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is
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subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 US Bank National Associationvs BEVERLY S HAYSPATRICK E HAYS 100227-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 24, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 36 OF ROSSIGNOL ORCHARD TRACTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. THERESA J PRICE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title, as Trustee to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 21, 2008, and recorded on November 10, 2008 as Book 829 Page 185 under Document No. 200825198. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association
MNAXLP (“Fannie Mae”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $767.17, beginning March 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 23, 2015 is $122,933.20 principal, interest at the rate of 5.37500% totaling $4,252.75, late charges in the amount of $191.80, escrow advances of $1,853.45, and other fees and expenses advanced of $421.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured
by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and ex-
penses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 14, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of October, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Seterus vs PRICE 100360-1
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 For the month of January, Animal Control is having a Chubby Cat adoption promotion. For every pound of cat 1 year and older, adopters can take $1 off the adoption price. Have you been looking for a New Year's Resolution buddy? Here are some of the shelter's current Heavy Weights!
RUDY•
Rudy is a 5-year-old male black cat. He is one fat cat. When he came to the shelter a month ago, he weighed in at a full 20.5 lbs . His New Year's Resolution is to get in shape, and has already lost a full pound! His goal is to be able to walk across the room without dragging his belly. If you're looking for a weight-loss buddy to help with your own New Year’s resolution, Rudy might just be the cat for you!
DAVOS•Davos is a 3-5 year-old male longhaired black cat. He is a very social guy who enjoys other cats and people very much. Davos may be a heavyweight at 12 lbs, but most of that added weight is just fur. He needs no weight-loss resolution this year. Instead, Davos is hoping to make 2016 a year to remember by finding a loving forever home. SASSY•Sassy is a 7-9 year-old female Calico cat, and her name fits her personality. She is a very sweet cat with a great deal of sass. Sassy is declawed, which means she will need an inside-only home. Beyond that, she would like an owner who can help her trim down and fit into her itty-bitty, teenie-weenie yellow polka dot bikini. Her New Year's resolution is to make that happen by this summer.
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KIRK•Kirk is a 3-4 year-old male brown tabby cat. He was transfered to Animal Control from an over-crowded shelter. Kirk is a handsome boy who aims to please. He is playful and personable, loving to hang out with both people and cats. At 15 pounds, Kirk is the size of a small dog but doesn't really have a lot of extra weight to lose. His New Year's resolution is to find a home that will love him forever.
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JERSEY•Jersey is 5-7 year-old female buff cat. She is a rather shy girl that would love a quiet, child-free home. She's a little stressed at the shelter so her cranky side shows more often than we believe it would in a home environment. Jersey tips the scales at 10 lbs, but weight loss is not this year's resolution. She's looking for an owner who will help her come out of her shell.
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JANE• Jane is a 4-6 year-old female brown tabby cat. At 16 lbs, she is one of our largest cats at the shelter. She is so large, it is hard for her to keep herself groomed, and although she doesn't much enjoy it, will need an owner who can help her with the regular maintenance of brushing. One of her more admirable qualities is that you always know where you stand with her.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 JASMINE• Jasmine is a cute, young lady that is very eager to please. She knows a handful of tricks that she would love to have the opportunity to show you. Jasmine is quiet and responsive and will be a great companion for you!
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SPARK• When she arrived at just 2 ½ weeks old, Spark earned her name for her spunky personality. We have learned that this sweet little lady, now about 6 months old, has a rare condition referred to as Osteogenesis imperfecta. After several broken bones due to poor bone density, a treatMissoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store ment plan including medication to increase her www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 mobility and maintain her intestinal integrity has South Russell • North Reserve made it possible for Spark to walk.
ZEUS•Zeus is a smart young man who is ready for his furrever home! He is looking for an active, adult home that will give him lots of exercise and continue the great training he is receiving from volunteers. This fast learner is active and friendly. If you are looking for a hiking buddy who is eager to please, come meet Zeus today!
LYDIA•If you are looking for a hound dog, Lydia is the gal for you. She would like to find someone who will appreciate all her houndliness and take her on new adventures. Lydia is one of the sweetest dogs around and is looking forward to meeting you today.
CHEGO• Looking for a lap-warmer on these cold Montana days? Chego was recently transferred to us from another facility and is looking for her furrever home. Her favorite activity is lounging in the Lay-Z-Boy. Friendly, social and even a bit vocal, Chego enjoys hanging out with children and other cats. If you are looking for a snuggly lap cat to keep your lap and heart warm, Chego may be the cat for you!
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FLETCHER• Fletcher is a lovely kitty who is looking for a home where he can be a comfortable indoor cat. Hunting, sleeping, playing with toys and being held are some of his favorite activities. Fletcher would love a home where he is the only cat and can be the king of the castle, preferably without canine siblings. If you are looking for an affectionate, curious snuggler, come meet Fletcher today! missoulanews.com • January 14–January 21, 2016 [C9]
RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $595, 4 plex off Mount, bright lower level, coin-op laundry, storage & offstreet parking. W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, 62+ Community, 2 Weeks FREE w/6 Month lease, $695, remodeled, DW, elevator, free basic cable, on street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333 108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, completely remodeled, DW, W/D, urban chic design in downtown Missoula. $1100 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #3. 1 bed/1.5 bath, near U, coin-ops, carport, storage, pet? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
REAL ESTATE off-street parking. W/S/G paid, NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 3 bedroom, 2 bath, $1050, near Southgate Mall, DW, W/D hookups, A/C, storage & off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 3712 W. Central #3. 2 bed/1 bath, Target Range, W/D hookups, storage, shared yard, pet? $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 62+ Community 2+ bed, 2 bath, $750/mo includes heat, basic TV, garage available $50/mo. NO SMOKING/PETS. 549-8095 Studio, 1 bath, $550, quiet cul-desac near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333
MOBILE HOMES
1502 Ernest Ave. #3. 1 bed/1bath, W/D hook-ups, storage, central location. $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $460/month. 273-6034
2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895, off 3rd Street, new 6 Plex, w/d hookups, patio, A/C, storage &
Lolo, nice park. Lot for single wide 16x80. Water, sewer and garbage paid. No dogs. $280/mo. 406-273-6034
1012 Charlo. 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hook-ups, shared yard, storage $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1706 Scott St. “B” 1 bed/1 bath, Northside, lower unit, shared yard, all utilities paid, pet? $700 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2412 Gilbert. 2 bed/1 bath, Rattlesnake, new flooring & fresh paint, single garage, W/D. $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 321 W. Spruce St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, recently remodeled upper unit, near downtown with deck overlooking the back yard. $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 524 S. 5th St. E. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, 2 blocks to U, W/D, all utilities included. $1000 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES 1 bedroom, 1 bath House, $700, near Higgins & South, private yard area/parking in alley. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
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1535 Liberty Lane, Suites 117B & 110C. Professional office space with common area on corner of Russell & Broadway. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
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212 ½ S. 5th Street East. 1 bed/1 bath, newly remodeled, close to U and downtown. $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, South Hills home. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 442 Kensington. Totally remodeled 1 bed, 1.5 bath with fenced yard, patio, deck & garage. $239,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981. If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM
Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wheelchair accessible, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $299,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com
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MHA Management manages 7 properties throughout Missoula. All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.
HOMES FOR SALE
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mons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $158,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com
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Condo for Sale-901 Rodgers St 2BR/1.5 bath, 2 level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Carpet throughout, laminate flooring in LR. Close to downtown, bike to UM, bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op),carport pkg & storage unit. Great investment opportunity, must see. $89,900 view at forsalebyowner.com Listing ID: 24027866 or 406.214.7519
We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
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Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor @gmail.com
2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Tina Ave Condo. $139,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Com-
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tiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
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COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
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For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $145,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski,
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1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
1329 BRIDGECOURT $183,000 3 bed 2 bath located in quiet neighborhood featuring a south-facing backyard, hand-laid brick patio, pergola & beautiful landscaping perfect for entertaining.
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