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News
Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk You were born to rock, sure, but with what band? ......................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Landlords in charge, legalizing needles, and transparency at UM .......................6 Etc. Would you like beer with that? .................................................................................7 News Show us the money: Why the city won’t release its Mountain Water legal bill .....8 News A new ski guide pulls back the backcountry curtain.............................................9 Opinion Tap the retirement crowd? Montana Tavern Association says nay..................10 Opinion Public lands generate energy. Why would you want to waste it?...................11 Feature Did Mark Anderlik overplay labor’s hand on the Riverfront Triangle?............14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Rock Lotto V: Ending it all in 1986 ........................................................................18 Music New records from MASS FM, Blind Pilot, and Esmé Patterson ..........................19 Books In search of the good life with Mark Sundeen...................................................20 Film I Am Not Your Negro brings James Baldwin back .................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 Resistance Kitchen The ramen of climate change is real ............................................23 Happiest Hour 7th annual Winter Brewfest.................................................................25 8 Days a Week Steve Daines didn’t show up for any of them......................................26 Agenda The first rule of Feminist Fight Club just got broken ......................................33 Mountain High High Telluride to Moab—on a bike ....................................................34
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News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
[voices] by Kate Whittle and Derek Brouwer
Asked Friday, Feb. 17, at Draught Works Missoula Rock Lotto brings together local musicians for a oneoff 1986-themed show on Feb. 25. (Check out pg. 18 for more deets.) What’s your favorite local band or artist? Follow-up: If you could be a member in any ’80s band, which would it be?
Hunter Dow: We’re actually going to see the Kitchen Dwellers tonight at the Top Hat. They’re from Bozeman, but they play here a lot. Everybody wants: Tears for Fears. I would probably play the keyboard.
Left a bad taste, huh?
Let stinking dogs lie
Over the line
I love the Independent and look forward to reading it every week. I always turn first to the food column and this week was horrified and disgusted to find Andrea Grimes’ Resistance Kitchen (“Whoops it’s soup,” Feb. 9). With a mouth like a sewer and an abysmally poor writing style Andrea proceeded to desecrate the very idea of a food column. Was she drunk when she wrote this? I don’t know if this is indicative of what passes for writing in the Bay Area, but I am accustomed to a much higher caliber of prose from our local authors. Please don’t carry her column again. Pattie Fialcowitz Dixon
Trump lies and blusters constantly to guard his exquisitely thin skin. It’s like your dog rolling in smelly stuff—he’s been told it’s bad, but he just can’t help himself. Real leaders have self discipline—Tester was wise not to take the baits Trump offered to Democratic senators (“Here’s what happened during Sen. Tester’s luncheon with President Trump last week,” missoulanews.com, Feb. 15). The election margin debate is a clear loser for Trump, and Warren is plenty capable of defending herself from slurs. Don’t jump into that stinky pile with Trump—that’s his turf!
I’ve read many an article in the Independent over the years that I have found belligerently antagonistic toward the Christian community here in Missoula and at large. I have never taken offense by it because I understand that the Independent is a paper with a view that caters to the Missoula populace, which, as we know, is widely liberal and increasingly secular. After reading your article about Teen Challenge, I’ve decided not to hold my tongue. I have personally seen the Teen Challenge ministry change women’s lives from despair and addiction to freedom and hope. Teen Challenge has given countless women the skills, attitudes, opportunity and environment that they needed to make a new start. You chose to place the focus of your article about this noble charity on one or two negative experiences someone had—someone for whom Teen Challenge was obviously not the right fit. But who are you to demean and bully the hundreds of struggling women and children for whom this was exactly the right fit? Who are you to malign another soul’s search for meaning and spirituality in their lives? It isn’t a “homophobic statement” by some TV personality that ruffles your feathers, it’s Christianity in general. While you make conjectures about homophobia, you practice Christophobia. I’ll finish with this: Christians do not fear or hate gay people. It simply plagues secular people that God calls homosexuality a sin. Christians also understand what the “Free Thinkers” at the Independent are selectively ignorant of: As far as sin is concerned we are on equal ground, and every last one of us, gay, straight and everything in between, needs Christ, and needs to be redeemed from sin. You don’t have to like it, but that is who we are, and we aren’t going away, nor will we evolve to be more comfortably compatible with your preferences and subjective worldview. Our faith is our identity. So go ahead, continue to practice your hypocrisy with smug selfcongratulatory pseudo-moralism. It’s nothing new. We’ve been living alongside you for 2,000 years—we know how to take it on the chin. We may not seem sophisticated to you from your ivory tower, but what you can’t perceive from that is height is the peace that passeth understanding, in our lives and on our deathbeds. Patricia Pardee posted at missoulanews.com
One sane senator Jordan Smith: Oh, let’s see. I’m in so many bands, I feel like I can’t say anything. I’m in Shakewell, I can’t say them. Has anybody said Three Eared Dog? Raspberry beret: Prince and the Revolution. Well, they started in the ’70s, but they put out a lot in the ’80s.
Julie Walsh: I’m dating a member of Shakewell, so most of my band energy goes into seeing them, and they’re great. Psycho killer: Talking Heads. I’d be, like, the people dancing on the side.
Nicole Thelen: The Letter B. They’re kind of rock, folksy influence. Every rose: Poison. I’d play the guitar, with the V, and the hair, and the leggings, and the off-shoulder tops, and the [air guitar motions] neh-nehneh-neh-neh.
Sarah Boggs: I love Dan Dubuque. He’s super talented. We saw him at Silver Cloud last summer and he played on a side stage. He was playing, like, Daft Punk on the slide guitar. All I wanna do: Heart.
[4] Missoula Independent • February 23–March 2, 2017
If “Jon thinks what President Trump called Sen. Warren is offensive,” and if “Jon takes the integrity of our elections very seriously,” then Jon needs to speak up (“Here’s what happened during Sen. Tester’s luncheon with President Trump last week,” missoulanews.com, Feb. 15). This is not the time for silence. We need our one sane senator to speak the f**k up! Suzanne Siegel posted at missoulanews.com
Worked for her Adult and Teen Challenge changed my life (“Lawsuit opens a window on faith-based addiction treatment,” Feb. 9). I learned to not be lazy. I learned to turn to Christ for strength, to be the best mother, wife and woman I can be. They have taught and given me the tools to handle any difficulty and struggle that could come my way, no matter how big it is. They have shown me that I am not alone and that I am always loved and always was loved by God, even when I was at my worst. They taught me to turn my sorrow to joy. Life is not all peaches and ice cream, but I have the skills I need to overcome the hard times. That is because a group of people didn’t give up on me. They give their time willingly to help a bunch of lost, hurt, angry people. You sign up for Teen Challenge voluntarily, and if you read the information before you say yes, it tells you exactly how the program works. Sure there are flaws, but what program or even workplace doesn’t have flaws? They learn from them and build a better program or business. That’s just how life rolls. There are always going to be situations that you will be made aware of that you didn’t know were happening, and Adult and Teen Challenge is committed to taking care of any problems that arise. Jamie Lee Stotts Wilson posted at missoulanews.com
“Who are you to demean and bully the hundreds of struggling women and children for whom this was exactly the right fit? Who are you to malign another soul’s search for meaning and spirituality in their lives?” We need Sen. Tester to stay on-target with the real issues regarding Trump: forcing release of the president’s taxes, uncovering the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia and revealing the full extent of foreign interference in our elections. U.S. leaders, Democratic and Republican, must demand immediate, bipartisan and transparent investigations of all these issues. Self discipline and leadership are not shown only by withholding from unwise actions. You also have to do the right thing when that thing is needed, even if it’s difficult. Tester must actively lead Congress to start a real inquiry into Trump’s campaign now. Just let dogs like Trump lie in their own stink. David Morris posted at missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • February 23–March 2, 2017 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, Feb. 15 Airbnb releases stats showing that 11,600 people used the service during visits to Missoula last year, spending an estimated $1.3 million. Bozeman led the state in Airbnb stays with 77,000 visitors.
Thursday, Feb. 16 Mayor John Engen delivers the keynote address for Shine A Light on Mental Health Week at the University of Montana. He recounts his struggle with depression and alcohol abuse, and says close friends held an intervention for him last year before flying him to a rehab center in Oregon.
Friday, Feb. 17 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls for a voice vote to approve Rep. Ryan Zinke’s nomination for Secretary of the Interior. Senate Democrats object and the vote is delayed until March, when Congress returns from the Presidents Day holiday.
War on drugs
Legalizing syringe exchanges The Montana state code isn’t friendly to syringe exchange programs. The state’s only public syringe exchange, Missoula’s Open Aid Alliance, operates in a legal “gray area,” according to Executive Director Christa Weathers. Under state paraphernalia laws, her nonprofit could be suspected of drug distribution simply because it keeps clean needles and other sterile injection equipment on site. “We’ve worked in cooperation with local law enforcement,” Weathers says. “But if someone wanted to shut down this operation, absolutely they could.” SB 228, proposed by state Sen. Duane Ankney, R-Colstrip, would exempt syringe exchanges from paraphernalia laws. Ankney says that when he introduced the bill at a Feb. 17 Public Health Committee hearing, some legislators were new to the concept of “harm reduction.” Or, as he put it, “They look at you
like you’re a bastard calf. It ain’t something that comes into your life often if you’re from, say, Wibaux, or Colstrip, for that matter.” Nonetheless, syringe exchanges make sense to Ankney as a way to prevent drug users from contracting bloodborne diseases. “Contracting AIDS or hepatitis C is expensive, and that cost falls on the taxpayer,” he says. “Even if you’re a stone-cold conservative, it makes sense to prevent that.” Weathers says she’s been in contact with a county health agency elsewhere in the state that wants to launch a syringe exchange if the law passes. She sees exchanges as a vital gateway to services like housing assistance, STD testing, counseling and addiction treatment. In its first two years of operation, from 2013 to 2015, the exchange distributed 80,000 needles to hundreds of clients throughout western Montana. “Research shows that people associated with syringe exchanges are 5 to 7 times more likely to enter addiction treatment at some point, Weathers says.
“We’re trying to reduce harm and keep people safe until they’re ready to make a change.” Another harm-reduction bill supported by Weathers is already poised to become law. The Help Save Lives from Overdose Act, HB 333, authorizes public agencies and private citizens to carry naloxone, an opioid antagonist that helps prevent death by overdose. HB 333 passed the House on unanimous vote on Feb. 20 and will be transmitted to the Senate. Kate Whittle
Profiles in courage
Peeking into the cabinet In the basement. That’s where Carol Bellin found the University of Montana’s 16 highest-ranking officials when she walked into their closed-door conversation in Main Hall last December. The administrators assumed the 63-year-old nontraditional student was lost. Then-president Royce Engstrom
Saturday, Feb. 18 Police respond to reports of shots fired at the Central Park garage on the corner of Main and Ryman. Officers find a man with a nonlethal gunshot wound to the head. No suspects have been identified.
Sunday, Feb. 19 Karla Gray, the first female chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court, dies of cancer at age 69. After her retirement from the court in 2008, Gray continued to advocate for child welfare, criminal justice reform and abolition of the death penalty.
Monday, Feb. 20 The Billings Gazette runs a breaking news banner alerting readers that KettleHouse Cold Smoke is now available for purchase in Yellowstone County. Eastern Montana may not agree with Missoula’s politics, but they sure do like Missoula’s beer.
Tuesday, Feb. 21
You’re right, I’m not an obstetrician, I’m an orthopedic surgeon. I couldn’t become an obstetrician/gynecologist because I was blushing too much during my rotations.” —Sen. Albert Olszewski, R-Kalispell, during a Feb. 20 committee hearing for a bill he introduced that would ban abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Sen. Steve Daines cancels a scheduled address before the Montana Legislature in Helena. Regardless, a few hundred Planned Parenthood supporters gather outside the Capitol for a scheduled protest of Daines’ effort to defund the nonprofit.
[6] Missoula Independent • February 23–March 2, 2017
[news] leaned over, and Bellin told him she was looking for the weekly meeting of his cabinet team. Engstrom confirmed she was in the right place. “I sat down. They continued on with their meeting, but everyone felt kind of uncomfortable,� she says. “So I just showed up [again] the next week.� Just like that, Bellin had cracked the door to some of the highest-level discussions on campus. The cabinet includes UM’s slate of vice presidents and unit directors, who meet regularly to advise the president. The attendees’ combined annual salaries appear to exceed $2 million. Though the group takes no formal votes, its importance to campus decision-making was underscored last year when Engstrom expanded its membership to “help ensure that all good ideas are brought to the table� as he prepared to cut jobs. Since that point, Bellin and another local citizen-activist, Ross Best, pushed to make the meetings accessible to the public, too. No one had ever been denied entry to a cabinet meeting, but without any public notice, no one knew when and where to show up or what topics were being discussed. UM’s chief legal counsel, Lucy France, told Best in a March 2016 letter that cabinet gatherings are not “open meetings� because they don’t involve policy deliberations or decisions. Bellin saw Engstrom’s ouster as a chance to make those deliberations more transparent. She’d had success doing so with Missoula County Public Schools more than a decade ago, when she similarly waltzed into a superintendent’s cabinet meeting (those meetings are now open and announced). Incoming UM president Sheila Stearns, entering a campus on the cusp of more contentious budget-cutting decisions, was receptive to Bellin’s entreaties. Since January, meeting details (UH 004, Wednesdays at 9 a.m.) and agendas have been posted online, and each meeting has included time for public comment. Bellin says that attending has given her valuable insight into how the university operates. Enrollment has been an agenda topic every week, and Bellin says she’s been able to listen as administrators discuss concerns ranging from whether UM will be able to earn its share of state performance funding to issues about who on campus can access student records. “There’s no question ... that policy decisions are being formulated,� she says. The underlying issue isn’t fully resolved, however. UM and state officials continue to argue that Montana’s public notice requirements don’t apply to cabinet meetings. Describing the cabinet as an “informative chatting
group,� Stearns says she’s still evaluating how to go forward. One idea is to post agendas only when specific policy decisions are being discussed instead of every week. But she says she intends to err on the side of openness. “If you’re going to be debating policy, you absolutely need to be posting meetings, and we will,� she says. In order to hold Stearns to her word, Bellin says, she’s going to need some help. This semester she has class on Wednesday mornings. Derek Brouwer
Land of lords
Renters face changes When members of Montana’s House of Representatives were asked Jan. 31 to signal whether they owned rental property, the results generated chuckles from the floor. At least a quarter of the representatives present raised their hands. The question came as a matter of disclosure in consideration of House Bill 231, which would define a person’s presence in an unoccupied residence without a valid lease as an act of criminal trespass. The 2017 session has featured several debates in recent weeks over changes to Montana’s 1977 Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The issues run the gamut from preventing tenants from replacing locks to revising how long a renter’s guest can stay before requiring notice to a landlord. Most of the House measures are sponsored by Rep. Peggy Webb, R-Billings. Those in the Senate are sponsored by Webb’s husband, Sen. Roger Webb. The Webbs disclosed property rental interests in Billings, Roundup and Reed Point in their 2016 campaign filings. John Sinrud, western vice president of the Montana Landlords Association, says the proposed alterations address numerous problems that have cropped up for landlords across the state in recent years, specifically “judicial imbalance� and lack of enforcement. “We’ve had several cases in the state where law enforcement would not remove trespassers,� Sinrud says. “They say that those individuals are tenants and therefore they have to be removed through judicial eviction.� Critics in Montana’s college towns have pushed
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back, arguing that the bills threaten to erode tenant protections established by the 1977 law. Rep. Nate McConnell, D-Missoula, says the slate of bills would “turn landlord-tenant law on its head,� and believes that one bill, which would assign criminal liability to tenants who fail to inform landlords of health or safety issues, could be unconstitutional. The most contentious change advanced so far would have shortened the length of absence requiring landlord notification from seven days to 24 hours. Rep. Webb has since amended the change to five days. “These are scary laws, and every tenant should pay attention to who is voting for these bills,� McConnell says. Mary O’Malley, director of the ASUM Off-Campus Renter Center, was particularly alarmed by an earlier attempt by Sen. Webb— since amended—to repeal a tenant’s right to “reasonably� deny landlord access. O’Malley says she spoke with two University of Montana students last fall who had tried unsuccessfully to delay inspections. One had possibly contracted hepatitis A, and the other had undergone chemotherapy the day prior. O’Malley doesn’t condemn every renter-related bill that’s come up. A proposal to allow email notifications between landlords and tenants would be beneficial for both parties, she says. O’Malley and others are now talking with Sinrud about strengthening tenant protections. Those discussions could lead to a more comprehensive review after the session, Sinrud says. O’Malley agrees. “If there are places we can work together, I’m more than happy to do that, because there are places we can change our landlord tenant [act] to be better for everybody.� Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Missoula’s beer-soaked prayers were answered Feb. 17 when Southgate Mall announced that natural foods grocer Lucky’s will be the mall’s next major tenant, setting up shop in the old Sears by 2018. The Denver-based chain offers a gimmick that will undoubtedly appeal to local boozehounds: “sip ‘n stroll,� whereby customers can buy $2-$3 glasses of beer or wine to “enhance their shopping experience� while they peruse the artisanal toilet paper and free-range sweet potatoes. Lucky’s will be preceded at the mall by the new Ovation 9 theater, which plans to offer craft booze accompaniments to the latest blockbusters. The booze business is bustling elsewhere in town as well. Western Cider plans to open this spring on California Street, and the owners of Bridge Pizza are drafting preliminary plans to remodel the former Crystal Theater into Gild Brewing, which would become Missoula’s 11th taproom. Oprah may have once given everybody in her audience a car, but here in Missoula, the city motto might as well be: You get a craft beer! You get a craft beer! Everybody gets a craft beer! We can only hope that the “business+craft beer� model continues to spread like wildfire. Craft beer at the laundromat! Craft beer at the record store! Craft beer at the dentist! Craft beer at the methadone clinic! Hell, stop by the Indy office and we’ll pour you a pint, too! (Just kidding. As if we’d share.) For real, though, Missoula has some catching up to do. A quick internet search shows used-book stores, barber shops, clothing exchanges and high-end boutiques around the country trying to sell the perfect shoppingunder-the-influence experience pioneered by tipsy Amazon browsers and uptown Butte. Soon, perhaps, the only places we won’t be drinking craft beer are AA meetings. We think that the Founding Fathers, who were legendary boozehounds, would highly approve of this new phase in late-stage capitalism. No more will any of our banal human activities need to take place without the benefit of a slight buzz, a rousing discussion of hops varietals and an incipient headache. So far, the gleaming promise of the 21st century has not yet delivered unto us jet packs, citywide wireless internet or, god forbid, affordable health care. But at least we’re moving closer to the utopia we’ve always dreamed of: universal craft beer coverage.
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Show us the money City declines to release Mountain Water legal bills by Kate Whittle
With the city’s legal bill for the Moun- tions to Scott Stearns of Boone-Karlberg. The city’s attorney-client privilege tain Water condemnation nearing $7 mil- Stearns responded via email that he’s out argument doesn’t hold water with Mike lion, the city of Missoula continues to of the office and unavailable to provide Meloy, a Helena-based attorney and refuse to provide a detailed receipt for its comment until early March. Freedom of Information Act expert who attorneys’ fees. In response to a formal reThe city does release Mountain Water- is retained by the Montana FOI Hotline quest from the Independent, Communi- related legal billing statements every few for journalists. In his opinion, the legal cations Director Ginny Merriam says the weeks when Missoula City Council votes bills clearly fall under the public’s right city’s attorneys argue that they can legally to approve the expenditures, but those to know. justify withholding the information. statements contain no detailed informa“The attorney-client privilege belongs “We’ve had this request from an- tion about how the money is spent, nor to the client, not the attorney,” Meloy says in an email. “Nothing prevents the other news organization a while client from disclosing communiago, and our city attorney, Jim cations from the attorney…and in Nugent, says that the invoices are this case, the Constitution mancovered by confidential attorneydates disclosure.” client privilege because they would reveal legal strategy to opMeloy says he doubts the inponents,” Merriam wrote in an voices would expose much legal emailed statement. strategy in any case. In his experience, attorneys’ invoices are typically Contacted directly, Nugent vague, with line items detailing the additionally justifies the refusal by number of hours that an attorney or citing public meeting law, which staffer spent drafting memos, deposallows elected officials to close ing witnesses and writing briefs. public meetings when they’re discussing litigation strategies. He Republican State Rep. Adam says he expects the invoices to reHertz served on Missoula City main private as long as the MounCouncil in 2014, when the city tain Water takeover remains initiated the Mountain Water emunfinalized. The city is still awaitinent domain proceeding. He ing completion of the condemnawas the sole council member to tion and City Council approval of vocally oppose the takeover, and photo by Chad Harder a financing package. According to continued to oppose the cona Feb. 21 ruling by District Judge The city’s attorneys fees in the Mountain Water demnation throughout his term, Leslie Halligan, the city is ex- case total close to $7 million. Missoula City Attor- which ended in 2015. Hertz says ney Jim Nugent says the invoices detailing those pected to pay $88.6 million for the expenditures are privileged. council members, who must vote utility, which includes $22 million to approve the expenditures owed to developers who invested in ex- how much of each invoice is paid out to every two weeks, don’t typically see detending the water system. the three firms hired to represent the city tailed legal bills explaining the expenses. “As long as our retained attorneys or to any retained experts. The city did He recalls seeing only bills with tallies of have concerns that detailed examination disclose in court proceedings in mid-2016 hours worked by the attorneys. of the billings could disclose city strategy that its local counsel, Boone-Karlberg, “There was never lot of detail proand could have a detrimental effect on bills at about $250 an hour, and that Seat- vided to City Council, and never a process city litigation strategy, the City asserts the tle-based firm Perkins-Coie bills at about for choosing the law firms that were choprivileges previously identified herein,” $700 hourly. Datsopoulos, MacDonald & sen, as far as I know,” Hertz says. “They Nugent writes. Lind is also listed among the city’s re- were chosen by the mayor. So I think Missoula marked legal victories in tained counsel in some of the Mountain those invoices should very much be public records.” 2015 and 2016 when a district court judge Water documents. When the city first began condemnaand then the Montana Supreme Court Under eminent domain law, the agreed that it’s in the public interest for the city is also obligated to pay for the op- tion, Mayor John Engen told the press that city to own and operate its water system. posing side’s fees. In July 2016, coun- the city’s attorneys estimated the lawsuit Asked for specification regarding remain- sel for Mountain Water and the Carlyle would cost $400,000. ing hurdles that require protection of the Group told the courts their fees were city’s legal strategy, Nugent referred ques- about $7 million. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Saving secret stashes A new backcountry guidebook targets protection by Alex Sakariassen
Devout skiers often find it difficult to shake the image of certain white squiggles on certain distant peaks. For Jeff Schmerker, that squiggle was a chute on the eastern flank of Lindy Peak, which looms behind the foothills of the Mission Range between Seeley Lake and Condon. As far as he knew, no one had skied it before. He scoured maps, called rangers, even zoomed in on the background of a photo a friend had taken at the waterfall above Holland Lake. Finally, one June morning, Schmerker just went for it. “There’s a point when you come over this crest and you can see Beanhole Lake and it’s totally iced up,” Schmerker recalls. “There was a little bit of blue water on top of it because it’s melting in the spring, and I was like, ‘I’m so happy I found it.’” From now on, getting directions to Lindy Peak—and dozens of other white squiggles throughout western Montana—won’t require quite as much research. In early January, Schmerker published an ebook through Amazon titled Western Montana Backcountry Ski Guide, documenting nearly 120 powder stashes from the Yaak to the Pintlar Mountains. He first hatched the idea in 2013, after a post on his personal travel blog about backcountry destinations around Missoula prompted a flood of emails from outof-state visitors requesting more information. Schmerker could relate. He’d developed a passion for skiing during childhood trips to Colorado, and first heeded the call of the backcountry as a college sophomore in Utah. When he and his wife, Laura, moved to Missoula in 2009, Schmerker saw plenty of opportunity in the surrounding mountains. Without any skiing acquaintances or readily available reference material, however, it wasn’t always clear how to get there. “It was a lot of trial and error,” he says. “A lot of long days with not really good payback. Lots of soul-searching bushwhacks, a lot of calling Laura from the side of the mountain saying, ‘I’m not going to get home until after dark because I’ve misjudged the exit.’” The lion’s share of Schmerker’s guidebook is ripped straight from the former newspaper reporter’s notes. Schmerker, who spends his weekdays writing marketing ma-
terial for hotel chains, mortgage brokers and other clients, hopes the book will serve as a resource for local or visiting skiers who, like him, need a little help finding terrain beyond the popular backcountry slopes of Lolo Pass. He also confesses a secondary motivation, one that touches on the broader debate facing public lands here in Montana and across the West. “If you don’t know a place, you can’t advocate for it,” Schmerker says. “And in many
going to come down is a place where snowmobilers are going now, where they’re high-marking. That’s going to push [the snowmobilers] farther up into places where backcountry skiers are now.” Schmerker also has concerns about the long-term viability of year-round access to Lockwood Point, situated on the easternmost edge of Wishard Ridge about nine miles past Bonner. Lockwood lies on former Plum Creek land purchased by the Nature
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Missoula skier Jeff Schmerker, who recently published a guide to backcountry skiing in western Montana, is pictured here in his native environment.
cases, very specific locations need advocates. … I want people to get out and enjoy these spots, but then to also realize that they’re able to do that by the grace of a congressional act which can be reversed or rescinded.” Schmerker is on the board of Montana Backcountry Alliance, a statewide organization dedicated to advocating humanpowered winter recreation—particularly as it pertains to U.S. Forest Service policy and ski area expansions. Asked if any of the destinations featured in his book are under threat, Schmerker immediately mentions the St. Regis Basin and Lookout Pass Ski Area’s planned expansion, which is currently working its way through the environmental review process. “There’s going to be a lot of slackcountry [that’s backcountry accessible from a resort] skiers in St. Regis,” Schmerker says of the likely impacts of the expansion’s first phase. “A lot of where the slackcountry is
Conservancy in 2015, and skiers and snowmobilers currently access the point via a TNC-built trailhead just off Highway 200. However, that access crosses several private inholdings. Right now, Schmerker says, landowners are OK with recreationists passing through. “But if someone was to gate off their square—which they would have the right to—I think that would effectively end mid-winter skiing up there.” Schmerker is sensitive to the fact that, however well intentioned, his guidebook exposes some little-known powder stashes. That said, it’s not like a guidebook to New York City bars. “You still have to go climb the mountain, which here is not always that simple,” Schmerker says. “The other thing is, I really don’t think we’re in a time when you can afford to have places that no one knows about.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Drinking age Montana Tavern Association: No alcohol licenses for old men by Dan Brooks
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Former Missoula city councilman Adam Hertz has gone to Helena to represent our district in the statehouse, but he knows the importance of old friends. He made a lot of them last week by introducing HB 430, a bill to allow certain retirement homes to apply for liquor licenses. Hertz’s proposal would let “continuing care retirement communities”—homes with central dining rooms that operate seven days a week—serve drinks. This is great news for anyone who got 86’ed from Red’s after the Grizzlies won the conference championship against the Nevada Pinkertons in 1922. It’s also good for residents of retirement communities whose impaired mobility keeps them from traveling to liquor stores or bars, but who would still like to impair their mobility a little further. Taking the long view, it is also probably good for anyone who plans to live. Sooner or later, if we drive carefully, we will all wish retirement homes served booze. And yet Rep. Hertz’s bill has managed to attract opponents. Speaking to Freddy Monares of the UM Legislative News Service, lobbyist John Iverson worried the plan might jeopardize older Montanans’ health. “There is a very good chance that a lot of these people are on pharmacologicals that are going to be negatively impacted by alcohol,” he warned. Iverson works for the Montana Tavern Association, so he has to reach for these kinds of arguments. Still, he stretches considerably here. It’s true that a lot of senior citizens take medicines that don’t mix with alcohol, but so do a lot of people under retirement age. We generally trust them to obey their doctors’ instructions. It seems unfair to apply a higher standard to older drinkers—unnecessary, even, since they have proven their knack for not killing themselves. But we should forgive Iverson for staking out this tenuous position, since his employer may be the most fearsome power in Montana politics. Perhaps the National Guard could defeat the Tavern
Association, but it would have to put down a mutiny first. The tireless lobbying of the Tavern Association is why brewery taprooms close at 8. Those drink tickets are its handiwork, and by its vigilance Montana upholds its peculiar system of state-licensed liquor stores. It is an industry group unwaveringly and
“If you own one of two liquor licenses in town, you’re a millionaire. If you own one of a thousand, you’re a bartender. Also the town is probably on fire, but that’s beside the point.”
somewhat counterintuitively devoted to making it hard for people to sell alcohol. People who aren’t already selling alcohol, at least. The members of the Montana Tavern Association own liquor licenses already. Any new license necessarily diminishes the value of its investment. The iron law of economics is that everybody wants to get drunk all the time. If you own one of two liquor licenses in town, you’re a millionaire. If you own one of a thousand, you’re a bartender. Also the town is probably on fire, but that’s beside the point.
The point is that the MTA is not a tavern business association but a tavern owners association. Although it is an industry group, the goal of its lobbying is not to expand the industry. It’s to keep its share as profitable as possible. This phenomenon, by which established concerns use licensure and regulation to advance their own interests, is called regulatory capture. Regulatory capture is a boring concept, but I encourage the reader to remember how much fun we had joking about old people earlier, because it’s important. It’s why Montana has developed a byzantine system of laws to govern microbreweries, and it’s why poor Mr. Iverson has to travel to Helena to deny senior citizens a nightly belt of scotch. Because the liquor license system creates a barrier to entry for anyone who would compete with its bars, the Tavern Association mans that rampart consistently— even when that requires its members to act like what the economist George Stigler called “dicks.” There is no easy solution to regulatory capture. You can’t just let people sell liquor without a license, or the only industries that survive will be liquor sales and auto repair. The solution to regulatory capture is often individual conscience: Lawmakers need to resist the entreaties—and money— of lobbyists, and executives need to appoint stewards of the public trust rather than servants of industry. That’s easier said than done. I applaud Rep. Hertz, though, for taking a step in the right direction. Hopefully, his colleagues in the legislature will follow him. Letting people get loaded in their retirement homes won’t hurt the tavern owners too badly. It will probably be good for them, insofar as it will imply some hypothetical limit on the vast power of their association. And it will make life better for old people, who have put up with our nonsense long enough. Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and the Pinkertons’ controversial use of the forward pass at combatblog.net.
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Waste not Conserving energy from public lands should be a no-brainer by Steve Bonowski
Waste is not conservative. That is why conservative presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan made fighting waste a priority. Both presidents believed that conservation was essential to keeping America strong. That’s why any true conservative should support efforts to prevent the kind of waste that costs taxpayers a bundle. The Bureau of Land Management recently took a great step in that direction with its Methane and Waste Prevention Rule, which requires oil and gas companies to be responsible and capture the natural gas they extract from our public lands. Unfortunately, though, on Feb. 3 the House of Representatives voted to repeal the rule with most Republicans in agreement. Eleven Republicans voted against the repeal, three Democrats voted for it. Now the issue has moved to the Senate. The BLM, which oversees oil and gas development on nearly 250 million acres of public lands, went through a lengthy rulemaking process before it issued its methanecapture rule, reviewing thousands of public comments and holding listening sessions across the country. Last November, the agency published the result of all that work: a new set of guidelines, known as the Methane and Waste Prevention Rule, to make sure that when oil and gas are produced on our public lands, companies are using best practices to minimize the waste of natural gas. President Theodore Roosevelt surely would have approved. As he told Congress in 1907, “To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.” Unfortunately, special interests and
lobbyists are calling the shots on this issue, and too many supposedly “conservative” members of Congress want the new guidelines repealed. The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s chief lobbying arm, has doubled down on efforts to eliminate the BLM’s wasted-gas rule, declaring shortly after the election that overturning it was a top priority. API has spent more than $13 million on
“Even as the industry spends $300 million a year lobbying our elected officials, it is wasting $300 million of our shared natural resources.” lobbying over the last two years and, according to the New York Times, the energy industry spends about $300 million a year lobbying Congress, deploying an army of lobbyists— three for each member. They are using money to paper over the fact that the methane waste rule would save an estimated $300 million worth of natural gas that, until now, has been wasted from public lands every year. That’s right: Even as
the industry spends $300 million a year lobbying our elected officials, it is wasting $300 million of our shared natural resources. Anyone who shares an American ethic of stewardship can recognize that the BLM’s rule makes sense. All told, taxpayers could gain as much as $800 million in royalties over 10 years—but only if the rule is left intact by the conservatives in the Senate, who should not even be considering overturning it. In seeking to gut the rule, Republicans are using the Congressional Review Act as their scalpel. As the Washington Post has noted, using the act is “wholly legitimate”— but the devil lies in the details. Once the Congressional Review Act is used to negate the BLM’s regulations, the agency would be prohibited from ever creating a similar rule again. In the BLM’s case, how would the agency ever be able update its antiquated rules on the matter? In the West, where most public-lands drilling occurs, the idea of preventing waste is popular. A recent survey found that 81 percent of Western voters, including a whopping 84 percent of Republicans, want to keep the wasted-gas rule in place. Minimizing waste from our natural resources is one of the few issues that people across ideologies can agree on. But whom will our Republican friends in the Senate listen to when it comes to a vote? Will they listen to the high-paid industry lobbyists, or will they listen to their constituents and continue the conservative tradition of fighting waste? Steve Bonowski is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a Coloradobased board member of Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship, a national nonprofit organization.
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WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME – An Abbotsford, British Columbia, burglar was successful in his Feb. 7 break-in at a home, but his getaway was thwarted by a snowfall that blocked him in on a roadway. He eventually decided to ask a passerby for help—and inadvertently picked out a man (of the city’s 140,000 residents) whose house he had just broken into (and who recognized him from reviewing his home’s security camera footage). The victim called police, who arrested the man (and reported that it was the second residential break-in that night in which the snowfall had foiled a burglar’s getaway.) EVERYDAY HAZARDS – In Portland, Oregon, in January, Ashley Glawe, 17, a committed “goth” character with tattoos, piercings and earlobe holes (“gauges”) was, she said, “hanging out” with Bart, her pet python, when he climbed into one of the lobes. She couldn’t get him out, nor could firefighters, but with lubrication, hospital emergency workers did (thus avoiding an inevitable split lobe if Bart had kept squeezing his way through). Iraqi forces taking over an ISIS base in Mosul in January reported finding papers from at least 14 Islamic State “fighters” who had tried to claim “health” problems, asking commanders to please excuse them from real combat (and martyrdom). One (a Belgian man) actually brought a note from a doctor back home attesting to his “back pain.” Five of the 14 were initiated by volunteers from France, a country that endures a perhaps-deserved national reputation for battle-avoidance. GOVERNMENT ACTION – Legislators in Iowa and Florida recently advanced bills giving women who receive legal abortions up to 10 years (or longer, in Iowa) to sue the doctor if the abortion winds up causing them “emotional distress.” (Doctors in all states are already liable, of course, for actual “negligence” in their practice.) In the Iowa version (which the Des Moines Register reported would likely face amendments), even a signed consent form by the patient would not immunize the doctor (but might mitigate the amount of damages awarded). GREAT ART! – German art collector Rik Reinking paid the equivalent of about $138,000 in 2008 for a resplendent, complex drawing by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, but it was one created in ink on the skin of (the still-alive) tattoo parlor manager Tim Steiner—to be delivered only upon Steiner’s death, when his skin will be displayed in Reinking’s collection. (The deal also requires that, in the meantime, Steiner personally showcase his back at galleries three times a year, and BBC News recently caught his latest appearance.) MORE THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT – Higher Math: The first robots to have survived journeys close to the “core” of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan (which melted down in a 2011 earthquake) returned a reading of 530 “sieverts” per hour. (Some scientists label just 4 sieverts an hour fatal to half the people exposed to it.) Since the robots stopped short of the actual nuclear fuel, and since they only visited one of the three cores, the true danger of Fukushima remains unknown. (On a more optimistic note, scientists in February said they have developed a computer chip that would survive on the surface of Venus for 21 days, eclipsing the old record of two hours—long enough to send back meaningful data, including the temperature. The current estimated temperature is 878 degrees Fahrenheit.) PRIESTS GONE BAD – Prominent Tallahassee, Florida, pastor O. Jermaine Simmons, a community leader who ministers to the homeless and downtrodden, was rescued by police on Jan. 17, naked and hiding behind a fence after making a run for it when the husband of his mistress found the two in bed. The husband, screaming, “I’m gonna kill him,” ran for his handgun, and the mistress summoned police, but by Jan. 30, all involved had declined to press charges. Simmons, married with a son, is highly regarded for good deeds such as running a “cold night” shelter.
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The decidedly uncelibate Catholic priest Don Andrea Contin, 48, of Padua, Italy, was accused by three women in December of having as many as 30 different lovers over the years, organizing “orgies” on church property, visiting a “swingers’” resort in France several times, making pornographic home videos of his trysts, “encouraging” one woman to have sex with a horse and “always” carrying a briefcase full of vibrators, sex toys and bondage equipment. Contin has not yet been charged with a crime but, said a Catholic official, is “finished” as a priest. (Bonus: The boxes for his home videos were labeled by the names of Popes.)
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y every measure, the Riverfront Triangle project is audacious. There’s the $150 million price tag (the largest planned investment ever in a Montana city), the footprint (four city blocks), the jobs (500) and the “innovative” public-private agreement that has no precedent in the state. It’s saying something, then, that the deal’s most audacious figure isn’t actually a party to it. Mark Anderlik is a union man, president of the Missoula Area Central Labor Council. He works in the Union Hall downtown behind a big, L-shaped desk that’s solid and sort of shabby, colored a sickly yellow-brown. Most everything in Anderlik’s office is that color except the metal filing cabinets, which are gray, like Anderlik’s hair, which is stretched over his scalp into a ponytail. His uniform includes jeans and a blue plaid button-up.
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The night before, a major unionization vote at the South Carolina Boeing plant had failed. Anderlik blames the company and state politicians, who publicly opposed the effort. They should have stayed out of it, he says. “Just shut the fuck up and let the workers exercise their rights.” Anderlik has spent 16 years trying “to break the grip of low-wage work” in Missoula, which he sees as the city’s biggest problem. He’s not wrong. Household earnings have been virtually stagnant for 25 years, while the cost of housing has increased faster than in almost any other metro area in the country, as economists from the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research recently told city officials. Anderlik believes unions could help provide a solution, if only the deck weren’t so stacked against them. Organizing in Missoula has been an uphill fight, particularly in the service sector. If you haven’t heard of Unite Here!, the union for which Anderlik is a regional executive officer, that might be because it counts only 250 members statewide. He says he’s tried to organize hotel workers
in Missoula, only to have operators quash the employees’ efforts. But if management has made work difficult for Anderlik, he’s also been known to make it difficult on himself. Last summer, the MACLC settled a human rights complaint filed by its own political organizer, who claimed Anderlik had created a hostile work environment. Resolution of the case was delayed after Anderlik showed up alone to represent the labor council at a settlement hearing, the Indy reported at the time. He hadn’t told his board of directors or, apparently, their attorney what was going on. There’s a sense, outside of his coalition, that Anderlik overplayed his hand on the Riverfront Triangle development. For those willing to throw punches at the powerful, a certain brashness comes with the territory. The trick is knowing how to make those punches land.
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hen city officials and businesspeople look at Hotel Fox Partners’ plan for a hotel, conference center and commercial and residential complex along the
riverfront, they see the transformation of a decrepit former landfill into a shining economic engine that will reshape downtown. Anderlik sees a potential menace: a massive, taxpayer-subsidized instrument of wage slavery that caters to the business class while making Missoula even less livable for the nearly 40 percent of residents who work in service industries. Yes, “slavery” and “servitude” are Anderlik’s words for the working conditions of hospitality employees in Montana—at least those whose bosses cross him. And right now, with respect to the Riverfront Triangle, Anderlik feels crossed. The project achieved a major milestone earlier this month when the Missoula City Council signed off on its main phase. Under the terms of the master development agreement, the city will sell Hotel Fox Partners the land for its hotel for $2.3 million and commit up to $15.3 million in public financing to purchase the conference center and parking garage once they’re built. Anderlik and his coalition wanted city leaders to condition the deal on a requirement that Hotel Fox Partners sign a “labor
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peace agreement”—essentially, a separate contract between the developer and Unite Here! that would set ground rules for future unionization efforts in exchange for the union’s pledge not to disrupt hotel operations. His argument purports to be a practical one: The city’s financial stake in the project could be threatened by future labor disputes between employees and the hotel, so the city ought to require the developers to keep the peace. Such an agreement would have ensured that the eventual hotel managers do what Boeing officials in South Carolina didn’t: Shut up and let Unite Here! do its work. In other words, it would give Anderlik a fighting chance to turn the Riverfront Triangle into the beachhead for organized labor he’s long sought, so he could finally gain ground on Missoula’s affordability problem. No agreement, and Anderlik would crack open the union playbook. City Council wasn’t down with Anderlik’s demand. They rejected his proposal unanimously, even as each councilmember and Mayor John Engen spoke up in support of the union cause. In response, Anderlik is balling his fists. “We’re going to have a big fight on our hands,” he says. “That fight is going to affect the city’s finances.” But can he really make the city or Hotel Fox Partners flinch?
The idea is that when enough community groups band together, they gain the clout to negotiate directly with developers for public benefits that city officials either can’t legally require or can’t be relied upon to require—anything from affordable housing commitments to
minority hiring targets to setting aside space for daycare. The promises are typically bundled into legally binding contracts called community benefits agreements, or CBAs. Armed with the coalition’s public support, private developers are then in a better position to get
the tax relief or land deal they need from the city government. Janet Fiero, of the Sierra Club, describes the process as “doing good things up front.” Such coalitions are necessary, proponents argue, in part because developers have tended to outmaneuver local
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nderlik says his coalition wasn’t looking for a confrontation. Under the banner of the Missoula Community Benefits Coalition, they’ve been trying to shape the Riverfront Triangle project for five years, ever since Hotel Fox Partners was given exclusive development rights to the city-owned portion of the land. In addition to Anderlik’s labor groups, coalition members include the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Bike Walk Alliance of Missoula and the Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation. The alliance, Anderlik says, was born out of a recognition that environmental, transportation, housing and labor issues all interact to shape Missoulians’ quality of life. Rather than oppose the then-fledgling Riverfront project, the coalition sought to negotiate with the developers during the project’s planning phase to advocate for elements that would benefit the wider community, not just business. That strategy reflects an approach to community organizing that, while new to Montana, has taken root in cities around the country during the last 15 years, particularly with respect to large, public-private urban development deals like the Riverfront Triangle.
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Missoula Mayor John Engen pushed for a deal with Hotel Fox Partners that creates a city-owned conference center along the Clark Fork. The center is expected to yield economic benefits equivalent to a monthly Missoula Marathon, while a management arrangement will “minimize risk” to city coffers.
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governments when making deals involving public resources. “You wouldn’t actually see so many campaigns for private community benefits agreements if cities did a better job of negotiating themselves,” says Julian Gross, a senior fellow at PolicyLink, an Oakland, California-based social and economic justice research group. Gross has negotiated some 20 CBAs on behalf of cities and coalitions nationwide. Members of the Missoula coalition agree. They point to the redevelopment
“This is a once-in-50-year project for Missoula,” Anderlik says, “and it’s an opportunity lost—that’s for damn sure—if we’re not able to get the most out of these agreements.”
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otel Fox Partners made it clear from the outset that they weren’t willing to sign any agreements, coalition leaders say, but last fall, the developers agreed to meet with them. The two sides reviewed the coalition’s list of requests over a series
developer that is part of the Hotel Fox team, calls Anderlik’s labor peace agreement “an exceptional ask.” She says the terms included in the Unite Here! template circulated by Anderlik would almost certainly lead future hotel staff to unionize—a decision she thinks should be left to the employees. “It’s not up to us to make that decision,” she says. Stonewalled by the developer, the coalition tried to get one of the most progressive city councils in memory to include the labor peace agreement
says that the coalition did a poor job in making its case for what struck him as a “blunt instrument.” “At this point,” Kemmis says, “I’m not convinced that the specific proposal for what’s called a labor peace agreement is the only or the best way to accomplish the objectives of the coalition.” Engen tried to “mediate” with Anderlik at the last minute, but both say they walked away feeling only more frustrated. Then, as council was about to vote on the master development agreement, Engen
photo by Celia Talbot Tobin
From left: Mark Anderlik, of the Missoula Area Central Labor Council; Janet Fiero, of the Montana chapter of the Sierra Club; and John Wolverton, of the Missoula Bike Walk Alliance. The coalition of labor, environmental and transportation groups has been trying to shape the public-private Riverfront Triangle development to benefit the broader Missoula community. They’ve come to loggerheads with city officials and the developer over their push for a labor peace agreement.
in progress at the Old Sawmill District and the purchase of the Osprey stadium as examples of the community getting the short end of the stick. Developers win city officials’ support by “dangling the carrots” of jobs and an increased tax base, says John Wolverton of the Bike Walk Alliance, “but I think sometimes what we gain out of that is not worth some of the detrimental effects that can come out of development.” The stakes are particularly high at the Riverfront Triangle, they say, in that the development will go a long way toward determining whether Missoula’s city center becomes a place where average people can afford to both live and work.
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of seven two-hour meetings. Many of the coalition’s proposals were relatively modest: for instance, a request for employee locker rooms in the hotel facilities for employees who bike to work. Some ideas, like a proposal to capture and reuse greywater, were determined to be unfeasible, and others amounted to assurances that the developers would adhere to existing law. Everyone described the meetings as “constructive,” and agreed to follow up throughout the process. But the conversation came to a halt when the topic turned to labor issues. Robin O’Day, vice president of communications for Farran Realty Partners, the local
requirement in its own dealmaking with the developers. Such requests are fairly common, says PolicyLink’s Gross. “It’s certainly within the government’s power in this kind of project.” In this case, however, Anderlik’s demand was met with universal skepticism by city leaders. Missoula Redevelopment Agency board member Daniel Kemmis says his discomfort with the coalition’s request is despite his sympathy for the importance of a living wage. Kemmis, a former Missoula mayor and Montana Speaker of the House, says public involvement is crucial to addressing affordability. But he also
delivered a speech recounting his parents’ union ties and his own belief in the value of organized labor. He also mentioned that he had recently inquired about wages at Missoula’s DoubleTree by Hilton (a hotel Anderlik claims to have tried and failed to organize). The owner reported to Engen that the average wage was in line with the city’s living wage standard for municipal employees, which would put it around $12/hr. That’s significantly higher than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported median wage for housekeepers in Montana ($9.78/hr), service workers ($10.48/hr) or food preparers ($9.28/hr).
A single adult working full-time in Missoula would need to earn $10.30/hr in order to make basic expenses, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s living wage calculator. For a family of three, each parent would need to earn $12.40/hr.
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t’s not as though the city hasn’t left its mark on the Riverfront proposal. MRA Assistant Director Chris Behan is downright giddy as he points out each aspect of the site plan on the conceptual renderings kept in the agency’s conference room. City officials have been trying to redevelop the site for decades, as evidenced by
pitch a more ambitious venture. After the city and the developers commissioned a feasibility study, they agreed to pursue a conference center that’s roughly three times as large as the initial proposal, and will be the largest space of its kind between Spokane and Billings. The agreement approved this month calls for the city to purchase the conference center using tax-increment bonds, then contract with Hotel Fox Partners to operate it. That way, the 29,000-square-foot facility will generate tax revenue while shielding the city’s general fund from any operating deficits. The developers’ plan also features condos and rental units, including an unspecified amount of “workforce housing”
employees are represented by Unite Here!. A few of the markers are red, which means the facility is the target of a labor dispute and should be boycotted. There’s only one marker between Washington and Minnesota. It’s in Butte, and it’s red. The Quality Inn and Suites is Unite Here’s only unionized hotel in the state, and it also happens to be the subject of a years-long boycott campaign. The dispute stems from Anderlik’s belief that the hotel’s former and current owners conspired to bust the union before the business changed hands in 2011 (the owners were later dinged for unfair labor practices by the National Labor Relations Board). Anderlik still gets riled up when he talks about the hotel.
Community benefits coalitions rely on credibility for their power, and an escalation of rhetoric isn’t likely to win Anderlik’s group much favor in city circles. “What does the coalition bring in terms of leverage here?” Engen says. “If it’s the threat of pickets, that may not be the best place to start in terms of cooperation. “The question here is, does the developer feel in any way it needs the blessing of the community benefits coalition to move forward, and does the City Council or the mayor believe that’s a stamp of approval it needs for a project to move forward? Today, based on what I know, my answer to that generally is going to be no,” Engen says. “I think the coalition is
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The seven-acre wedge of land east of Orange Street, which has languished for decades, will soon be the site of a $150 million mixed-use development. Mark Anderlik, of the Missoula Area Central Labor Council, believes the development could exacerbate the low wages and high housing costs that have long plagued Missoula workers.
an eight page, single-spaced “background paper” Behan produced to explain the history. The mayor says it’s been an office joke that Behan wouldn’t be allowed to retire until a deal for the Triangle was signed. Behan says the original 2011 request for proposals process was specifically designed so the city could find a flexible partner rather than a developer with a predetermined project. He believes the city found that developer in Hotel Fox Partners. “I don’t want to just build up all these guys,” he says, “but so far they’ve chosen well.” MRA was pleased with the initial concept for a riverfront hotel and small conference center, but Engen stepped in to
to be built in later phases of construction, though the city’s master agreement does not require it. “There’s an amount of faith you have to have, or these projects aren’t going to happen,” Behan says. Likewise, Engen is enthusiastic about the deal. “It extends our riverfront and the public spaces around that riverfront, it’s a job creator, it’s a property tax driver, it cleans up blight,” he says. “There’s just a lot to be had here.”
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pen the mobile app Fair Hotel, and hundreds of green pinpoints across a map of North America show hotels where
“They want slaves, basically,” he says. “There’s no other way to put it.” If it becomes necessary, Anderlik says, he’s prepared to call in national organizers to orchestrate a boycott of the eventual Hotel Fox. Boycotts, picket lines and vague statements about legal action are among the tools Anderlik is threatening to deploy if labor issues continue to be sidelined as the Triangle project progresses. City officials have said that more opportunities to shape the project lie ahead, but Anderlik isn’t optimistic. By approving the land deal, the city has already played its strongest hand, he says—and signaled where its priorities lie.
made up of good people who want to do good things and have good values, but I got elected to do a job here, and so I’ve got to do it.” Anderlik also has a job to do. He says the city’s action on the Riverfront only underscores why his coalition’s work is necessary. “When we get hard down into class issues in this city, the progressives on council and the mayor disappear,” he says. If current city leaders can’t appreciate the urgency of working Missoulians’ plight, Anderlik says, he’ll come at them with everything he’s got. “People are desperate,” he says. “These are desperate times.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
Last Lotto The annual mix-and-match-band fundraiser says goodbye with a tribute to 1986 by Erika Fredrickson
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n a recent Friday night, Jason McMackin stood on a chair at the Ole Beck VFW bar surrounded by people knocking back beers, listening to him speak. “If both your guitarists quit,” McMackin yelled, “I don’t care. You don’t have a singer? Don’t care. But let me know if you need a drummer. You have to have a drummer. I’m old-fashioned that way.” The crowd laughed and McMackin pulled out a stack of folders as everyone quieted down. He’s a tall, long-haired, bearded, Viking-esque guy with a booming voice and a reputation for organizing elaborate events. Most prominently, he’s know for this particular evening’s order of business: Rock Lotto. Rock Lotto is an annual fundraiser held in February as an antidote to the dreary season. It involves a lottery wherein musicians are randomly placed into bands with whom they’ll learn two or three songs based on a theme (last year’s theme was Led Zeppelin; the year before was femalefronted bands). In the past, the bands have been given two months to practice before they had to play one big show together for one night only. This year—the fifth and final Rock Lotto—is different. Bands get only one week to learn their songs, which means there’s no time to waste. “First up,” McMackin yells. “Beastie Boys: License to Ill.” As he calls out each album—Janet Jackson’s Control, Prince’s Parade, among them—he lists off the names of lotto participants to let them know which band they’ll be in. They find each other in the crowd. Many of them know one another, but some don’t, and they take a few moments for introductions before finishing up their beers and heading out into the night to get a jump on practice. One of the charms of Rock Lotto, from an audience perspective, is getting to see how the Frankenstein’s monsterstyle bands will hold up on stage. This year, as in others, the musicians are a mix of stalwarts—like critically acclaimed Fitz and the Tantrums drummer John Wicks— and newbies. Some bands flail and some bands kill it, but the best moments are when a band does something no one expects. During last year’s Led Zeppelin
lotto, one of the groups pulled off a badass version of “Kashmir,” followed by a cover of Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again.” Singer Kateena Bell, an unknown in the music scene, belted out a more snarling version than David Coverdale has ever done, and electric violinist Bill Saylor threw in a solo. Was it something you’d want to go hear on a normal Saturday night? Never. But Rock Lotto is the kind of night where bad songs get one night to be good, and nobody’s too jaded to sing along. “It was smart and crafty and amazing,” McMackin says. “Because Whitesnake is a fucking Led Zeppelin tribute band. And I was not expecting in my life to enjoy a Whitesnake song again.” This year, McMackin decided to have bands cover songs from albums that came out in the year 1986. Besides the Beastie Boys, Janet Jackson and Prince, he chose Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.; Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet; Madonna’s True Blue; Metallica’s Master of Puppets; Peter Gabriel’s
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So; The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead; and the Top Gun soundtrack. It turns out that for a supposedly random lottery, there are some suspiciously interesting band configurations. Hermina Harold and Gibson Hartwell, musicians who often play in the country and Americana vein, ended up with Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., for instance. For the task of playing something off Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet, Bob Marshall, Chris Bacon, Shane Hickey and Doug Smith—all members of former longtime band Volumen—were put in a band together. (Volumen bassist Bryan Hickey didn’t sign up.) “I don’t know how this happened,” McMackin says coyly. The year 1986 is definitely not random. McMackin was trying to think of good years for music. “I thought of 1967 and traditional good years of music, like 1977, and then I stumbled on 1986 and was like, ‘Holy shit,’” McMackin says. “It was a funny time where I think everything was good but especially the pop music. If you went
roller skating in 1986 you have to agree the music was dope. Hardcore was good, too. And in country music, it was tipping over from Alabama into country again, like Dwight and Randy Travis. And so, in 1986, although there wasn’t a movement, something was up. And the list of albums for Rock Lotto—there isn’t a garbage album on there, whether you like them or not.” Besides the challenge of learning to play two songs in one week, the bands have also been given a “secret song” to learn and some Oblique Strategies cards. Oblique Strategies were designed by musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt as a way to help artists think more creatively. A card might say: “Think about the radio” or “What if you were French” or “The door is closed, not open,” and the band would have to apply one of those ideas to a song in whatever manner it chooses. “I just wanted to add another element to Rock Lotto, especially if you’re going to have only a week,” McMackin says. “You’re going to need all the help you can get. You
need a practice space, you need people who can play and you need something to get you there—and that something is Brian Eno. If Brian Eno can get David Bowie there, he can get you there.” Rock Lotto V marks the last year for the fundraiser, because, McMackin says, he’s ready to move on to new projects. For the finale, he’s hoping to raise $30,000 for the Zootown Arts Community Center—and, as usual, make it an entertaining night in the process. “Seeing people take a song and ruin it?” he says. “Awesome. Or make it sound way better than I imagined? Awesome. What’s cool about this one week practice is the heat and the pressure of seven days is going to turn out amazing art or a complete disaster, both of which are fun to watch, and thus making it a win-win for the audience.” Rock Lotto V takes place at the Palace Sat., Feb. 25, at 8 PM. $10. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
In character Personality prevails on MASS FM’s Punknique MASS FM’s Doug Smith is a singer who can get away with using words like “beseeched” in his rockand-roll lyrics without sounding like a douchebag. Maybe it’s because he walks the line between drama and comedy so well, his tongue-in-cheek style sly enough that he always seems to have the upper hand. Is he chiding or flirting, pining or pulling away? Somehow it seems like all of the above. On Punknique, the band matches Smith’s coy approach with heavy chords, space jams, pop hooks and audacious guitar solos. Smith and keyboardist Chris Bacon hail most famously from long-time, now-defunct Missoula band Volumen, and the Volumen sound is undeniably present here, especially on theatrical tracks like “Dark Cloud.” Some songs also faintly evoke the Living End and Urge Overkill and, on “Dizzyness is Spreading,” the Knack, but
overall MASS FM doesn’t come off as derivative. There are a lot of rich textures on Punknique: melodic switchbacks, Bacon’s sci-fi synth tricks, drummer J. Ryan “Dreamer” Weingardt’s galloping build-ups and Smith’s crisp solos, which morph into fuzz and then dissolve, like smoke, into nothing. It’s a tightly manicured but still spirited album, which should come as no surprise. Bassist Christopher Baumann is a stellar producer who has recorded several solid local albums like this one through his studio, Black National Recordings. These are songs that satisfy a basic rock itch and also include enough flourishes to give the collection a hell of a lot of personality. (Erika Fredrickson) MASS FM plays an album-release show at the Palace Fri., Feb. 24, at 9 PM, along with Canon, Shot Stereo and Thee Captain. Free.
Blind Pilot, And Then Like Lions All weekend I tried to listen to Blind Pilot’s third album And Then Like Lions: in the car, while I worked, while I walked my dog. Like all of the albums I review, I wanted to pinpoint the highlights and the lowlights, jot down some good lyrics, examine all the layers. But with Blind Pilot, something weird was happening. Each time I pressed play, my mind would almost immediately wander. Within one track, I’d lose my concentration. Within three, it felt like music you hear when shopping for jeans at the mall: pleasant background sounds washing over me, but not demanding my attention. A few times, I didn’t even notice when the music stopped. Don’t get me wrong, frontman Israel Nebeker is
undoubtedly talented, and the Portland indie folk band has gathered a national following for that reason. The songs are carefully written, highly polished, tightly produced. In fact, the band sounds like it could easily play the soundtrack to a network television drama, right after the John Mayer song. And maybe that’s the problem. The gentle, familiar, unobjectionable sounds (with lyrics to match) don’t demand attention and certainly don’t offer offense, experimentation or a single jagged edge. There’s nothing not to like about Blind Pilot, except that there’s also not much there to like. (Sarah Aswell) Blind Pilot plays the Wilma on Mon., Feb. 27. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20/$18 advance.
Esmé Patterson, We Were Wild Esmé Patterson has full command of every indie-rock vocal ejaculation possible. Throughout her second solo album, We Were Wild, she emits everything from enthusiastic hoots, hollers and yips to shimmering oohs and aahs, her clear, strong voice the centerpiece of an otherwise pretty standard backing band. This is Patterson’s first effort since splitting with her main project, Paper Birds, in 2014, after almost a decade together. Permanently leaving her old group, which centered on pleasant indie-pop harmonization with two other women (one of whom was her sister), seems central in creating her new solo career, as is
made obvious by the opening song’s chorus: “No one wants to feel/Something that don’t feel right.” Her newfound independence is also obvious from the album as a whole, in which you can almost sense Patterson searching through genres and characters and moods for the next thing. Whether Patterson lands on a more punkish rock and roll sound or a more folky-country sensibility remains to be seen, but for now it’s easy to enjoy this delightful, if not cohesive, collection of songs. (Sarah Aswell) Esmé Patterson plays the Top Hat with Lucero Fri., Feb. 24, at 8 PM. 18+. $25/$22 advance.
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[books]
Back to the well Mark Sundeen looks for a better way to live by Brad Tyer
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Mark Sundeen, as his books attest, is a seeker. whole host of ills (like disconnection from community, His novel Car Camping chased enlightenment dependence on institutional injustice and the commodthrough travel and came up with comedy. The Mak- ification of fulfillment). Racism, sexism, addiction, aping of Toro was a meta (and also pretty comic) quest, petite for destruction—all, in Berry’s scheme, are part identified right there in the subtitle, for the authorial and parcel of the country’s tilt away from Jeffersonian “acclaim he deserves.” The Man Who Quit Money pro- farmdom and toward rootless cosmopolitanism. That map steers Sundeen toward the landed. First jected his seeking onto another seeker, Daniel Suelo, a man refusing the shackles of currency in an attempt in Missouri, where an idealistic young car-foregoing couple scrapes together enough cash to start the latest to create a better way to live in the world. With The Unsettlers, he’s zoomed out from the in a long American line of intentional communities in micro of Suelo’s search and into the encompassing flyover country, where water is plentiful, land is cheap, and building codes are lax. Then in big-picture: What might it mean, and Detroit, where an urban farming how might it work, to live well? movement has established itself in the It’s a timeless question, and it’s ruins of a gutted industrial poweralso a zeitgeisty one. Why do Trump house. And finally in Montana, where supporters want to make America Sundeen, a former Missoula resident, great again? Because they don’t think turns away from such upstarts to see America is very great right now. Why if anyone has managed to make a are progressives always complaining good life—with all its deprivations about everything? Because progresand difficult choices—last. He finds sivism is built on the belief that thethat sustained integrity in—spoiler way-things-are can always be alert—Victor, where Steve Elliot and improved on. Either way, whichever Luci Brieger have spent the last 30ideology gives the search shape, it’s plus years building their good life at self-improvement that we’re ultimately Lifeline Farm. after, and America, from Gatsby to If Sundeen’s subjects’ attempts to Oprah, has never been short of selfThe Unsettlers: In Search of the live in harmony with land connects improvement strategies. And maybe that’s because Amer- Good Life in Today’s America them, so does the fact that they are, or Mark Sundeen become, couples. The good life in icans are so often disappointed. Riverhead Books Sundeen’s sights is clearly built for, if Baked into the idea that the good life $26, 324 pages not by, two. This choice of paired charrequires a search is the premise that the life we’re already living—right here and right now— acters has the happy effect of making each of Sundeen’s isn’t it. (Also baked into any quest to “live well” is the vignettes also a love story of sorts, which provides him privilege implied by the phrase’s second word—a priv- a nice prism through which to view his own coming to ilege Sundeen does well to acknowledge and navigate). terms with marriage, after what he presents as a thorSundeen blessedly skips the rhetorical bother of oughly bachelorized life beforehand. It’s probably not giving too much away to note that building a case or even identifying a cause for the nagging imperfectness of the world, but he convincingly Sundeen eventually decides that the life of ethical denial sketches the shadows thrown on human satisfaction by and honest toil that drives his characters isn’t really for the numbing bombardments of what we’re probably him, as much as he’s intellectually attracted to the idea. safe in oversimplifying as late-stage capitalism: discon- Sundeen’s searching ultimately leads him not back to nection from community, dependence on institutional the land, but to a reaffirmation of his own “practice,” which is research and writing—the acts of creation that injustice and the commodification of fulfillment. Ostensibly incited by the compromises and op- brought us this book. There’s even a nice little love story portunities of a new marriage, and armed with a of his own tucked away in the realization. And good skeptic’s suspicion that he might harbor room for thing he recognizes it, too. This fallen world has quite some self-improvement of his own, Sundeen hits the enough wannabe farmers, and long may they thrive. road in search of anyone who looks like they might But it’s frankly hard to imagine the bunch of carrots, however lovingly husbanded, that would be more nourhave figured it all out. His thematic roadmap, as his title suggests, is Wen- ishing than the body of work Sundeen is building. Mark Sundeen reads from The Unsettlers at dell Berry’s 1978 classic The Unsettling of America. That book made Berry’s agriculture-centric case that the Shakespeare & Co. Mon., Feb. 27, at 7 PM. growing cultural distance in America between livelihood and land accompanies and probably causes a btyer@missoulanews.com
[film]
Civil rights redux I Am Not Your Negro brings James Baldwin back by Molly Laich
Pictured: The usual white people who show up at these things.
There’s something undeniably confrontational about director Raoul Peck’s Academy Award-nominated documentary. The title—I Am Not Your Negro— splattered across the film’s poster in bold white letters feels at once like a lecture and a provocation, and it’s aimed directly at us. If you’re anything like me, 2016 has left you beaten and tired. Come February, we’re fatigued by bad vibes and hardly in the mood to be scolded. I mention this at the start because I want you to power through that feeling, lest you miss out on this late addition to my list of 2016’s very best films. Legendary American author James Baldwin has the main writing credit for the film, which initially struck me as bizarre, since he’s been dead since 1987, and he’s not Tupac—I mean, this isn’t some lost screenplay unearthed from the vaults. In fact, the film’s narration is drawn from a proposal for an unfinished book, Remember This House, along with archived conversations with Baldwin, images from the civil rights movement and—of particular interest to me—racially charged clips from American cinema that influenced and informed Baldwin’s worldview. Layered over these images, Baldwin’s prose feels more meditative and poetic than factual. Samuel L. Jackson provides the narration, but you wouldn’t know that if you weren’t told. Jackson’s voiceover is a perfect match for Baldwin’s actual speech as captured in the film’s archival clips—it’s an invisible, flawless and mesmerizing performance. Baldwin intended his book to explore his relationship with three major figures in the civil rights movement: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., each of whom was assassinated in the 1960s. Keep those assassinations in mind when you
consider a conversation in the film between Baldwin and an old white scholar on The Dick Cavett Show in 1973. The scholar tells Baldwin that he’s too fixated on race, that black people have accomplished a lot since slavery and there are more significant ways to categorize people. It’s the same kind of arguments made by proponents of “All Lives Matter” today, and just as wrongheaded. Baldwin reminds him, with enviable eloquence and grace, that when his very life as a black man is threatened daily because of the color of his skin, we don’t get to point to a few people of color in politics and professional sports as a justification to brush off racism. Some of the film’s most powerful and uncomfortable moments come from images of white people in the 1950s unashamedly rallying against desegregation and other civil rights issues. These aren’t the protests of some fringe white supremacists rallying around their right to paint a swastika on a birthday cake. They are our parents and grandparents, fighting a painfully mainstream cause under the cloak of Christian values. It’s more than humiliating to witness—and it’s still happening. I Am Not Your Negro is a rare and special film that evokes Baldwin’s work at a pivotal time, for a generation that may have otherwise overlooked it. We are forced to confront some unpleasant truths about the shameful history of race relations in American history, sure. But more than that, I left the theater cocooned in a feeling of invigoration and warmth that can only come from great art. I Am Not Your Negro opens at the Roxy Fri., Feb. 24. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] Cheung and Lai Chin. Playing Mon., Feb. 27 at 7 PM at the Roxy.
OPENING THIS WEEK COLLIDE (AUTOBAHN) Backpacking through Europe gives you lots of opportunities to see the world, eat local foods and drive the getaway car for a ring of drug smugglers. Rated PG-13. Stars Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones and Anthony Hopkins. Playing at the Carmike 12.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 A retired super-assassin is dragged back into the life of international crime in this sequel to the coolest action movie of the last decade. I just hope no one messes with his puppy. Rated R. Stars Keanu Reeves, Ruby Rose and a thousand head shots. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
GET OUT Chris is pretty worried about visiting his girlfriend’s parents due to his uncertainty about how they’ll react to their daughter’s interracial relationship. That and their neighborhood has a sinister history of young black men disappearing. Rated R. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams and Stephen Root star in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut.
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. . . tie in! Gotham’s caped crusader goes toe to toe with the Joker in the world of Lego. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. LION Twenty five years after getting lost on a train and being taken thousands of miles away from his family, a man seeks out his lost home with the help of Google Earth. Rated PG-13. Stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman. Playing at the Roxy.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Author James Baldwin left behind 30 pages of manuscript about the deaths of his close friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr when he died. Now filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book Baldwin never finished on screen. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film)
MOONLIGHT Set against the backdrop of the War on Drugs, a young man comes to terms with himself, his community and his sexuality. Rated R. Stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Janelle Monáe. Playing Wed., Feb. 26 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy.
ROCK DOG Instead of being the next village guard for a group of fun-loving sheep, this wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff heads to the big city to become a rock star. Rated PG. Stars the voices talent of Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard and J.K. Simmons. Playing at the Carmike 12. Someone just remembered how much student loan debt they have. Get Out opens at the Carmike 12.
NOW PLAYING 20TH CENTURY WOMEN Some moms raise their kids by themselves. Some moms have a partner. This mom enlists a freespirit punk artist and the girl next door to help with her son’s upbringing. Rated R. Stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Alia Shawkat. Playing at the Roxy. Thu., Feb. 23, at 5:30 PM. A CURE FOR WELLNESS Maybe it’s wiser to take a personal day than to fly to the Swiss Alps to retrieve your CEO from a mysterious wellness center with some pretty horrific treatments. Rated R. Stars Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.
FIFTY SHADES DARKER America’s love affair with rich creeps with spanking fetishes continues. Rated R. Stars Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Hugh Dancy. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. FIST FIGHT You’d think being a mild-mannered high school English teacher would excuse you from having to fight a fire axe wielding teacher from across the hall after class. This is probably Betsy Devos’ fault somehow. Rated R. Stars Charlie Day, Ice Cube and Kumail Nanjiani. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. THE GREAT WALL The only thing stopping an army of alien monsters from invading medieval China is Matt Damon.
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Wait, really? Rated PG-13. Also stars Willem Dafoe and Jing Tian. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. HIDDEN FIGURES You think you’re underappreciated at work? These African-American women did the calculations that put John Glenn in orbit while they worked at a segregated facility. Rated PG. Stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Playing at the Carmike 12.
NETWORK Threatening to kill yourself on the air is certainly one way to improve the evening news’s stagnant ratings. Rated R. Stars Peter Finch, William Holden and Faye Dunaway. Playing Thu., Feb. 23 at 7 PM at the Roxy. SHOWGIRLS Everyone has a dream. Elizabeth Berkley wanted to be taken seriously as an actress and not just the star of Saved By the Bell, so she starred in this twohour, French-backed erotica drama about stripping. Rated NC-17 Oh boy. Also stars Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon. Playing Sat., Feb. 25 at 8 PM at the Roxy. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (FA YEUNG NIN WA) In 1962 Hong Kong, a journalist wonders if its okay to cheat on his wife if she cheated on him first. He probably shouldn’t be getting advice from the beautiful and scorned woman going through the same thing. Rated PG. Stars Tony Leung, Maggie
Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. John Wick 2 sure knew how to overly complicated a pretty simple story, huh?
[dish]
The ramen of climate change is real by Ruth Gilgenbach
RESISTANCE KITCHEN
I live in Princeton, New Jersey, but hail from Texas. I actually live closer to Trenton than Princeton, but they’re pretty close to each other, and I get approving looks when I say I live in Princeton. This is my fourth winter here, and I still haven’t quite gotten used to the weather. Our current president tweeted that climate change is a scam perpetrated by the Chinese, and then he denied ever saying that. He’s called global warming—and I quote—bullshit. He wants to be able to use hair spray, OK? I’m from Texas, so I can appreciate Aqua Net. I get it. I also got a blistering sunburn in Australia a couple years ago, so maybe take it easy on the ozone layer. I’m not a climate scientist, but other people—climate scientists, namely—are. And you can yell “FAKE NEWS” all you want, but that doesn’t change the fact that the last three years have each beaten the previous record for the warmest year ever, and we’re about 2 degrees warmer (Fahrenheit, because AMERICA) than at the end of the 19th century. Yesterday, it was 60 degrees. In the middle of February. In Princeton/Trenton, New Jersey. As I walked to pick up my lunchtime sushi, I shed my jacket and enjoyed the nice day. Forecasters were warning about a storm today—forecasting up to 10 inches of snow. The Eastern Seaboard battened down its hatches. Today, it snowed, plus all the other winter garbage: ice, rain, icy rain. By late morning, the snow stopped, with a modest total of 4 inches in my area, though other places got much more. While my husband heads out to start shoveling, I make lunch. We only have one shovel, after all. A few months ago, we made a big batch of tonkotsu broth. We use J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s recipe at Serious Eats,
which you should too, because it’s great. The CliffsNotes version is to boil the hell out of some pork trotters (that’s feet), plus whatever chicken parts you have lying around, plus some ginger and onion and garlic. It’s delicious and you should make some, and then you should freeze some of it because if you try to eat all of it before it goes bad, you will never want ramen again. (This probably isn’t true. But you won’t want it immediately.) When you get hit by a semi-unexpected snowstorm, thaw the broth. Fix whatever ramen toppings you like or, more accurately, whatever you might happen to have on hand after a snow day is sprung on you after it was 60 degrees yesterday. I roasted some pasttheir-prime brussels sprouts and browned some pulled pork (also dug out from the freezer) into carnitas. I poached an egg. If you’re doing this right, you should make some proper ajitsuke tamago because they’re the greatest thing in the history of ever, but if you’re realizing that you need to make a warm post-shoveling meal, just poach an egg. Top with Sriracha if you’re a hipster, or the cool, artisanal version of Sriracha if you’re better than hipsters. Drink with the beer that you bought hoping that the Falcons would win the Super Bowl because you went to college in Atlanta. As I write this, it is midafternoon. The snow from this morning’s storm is halfway melted. Climate change is real. Resistance Kitchen is a blog about food, rage and politics at resistancekitchen.tumblr.com. This is a guest post from Ruth Gilgenbach, a Texpat living in New Jersey, where she does economics and knits things.
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Bernice's is committed to keepin' Missoula sweet and there is no better time to share our treasures than Valentines. Tempt her with a cream puff. Hold her hand and share a Red Velvet Heart Cake. Show the office how much you love 'em and get 'em a dozen roses. Rose cupcakes that is! Mini and full size. The infamous handfrosted conversation heart sugar cookie awaits a personalized message from you, or choose one of our pre-written delights. So much to choose from. What better way to say I Love You than to stop by Bernice's and buy Missoula's signature sweet treats for your sweetheart. xoxo bernice. www.bernicesbakerymt.com. p.s. Ordering ahead is always appreciated. $-$$
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a timehonored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 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. $
Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$
Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ 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. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese 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? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ 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. $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
7th annual Winter Brewfest
HAPPIEST HOUR
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
What you’re doing: Once a year, people in Missoula try to prove their love for beer by drinking it outside in the dead of winter. Winter Brewfest, sponsored by the Missoula Downtown Association, showcases brews from across the state, and this year promises a lineup of 45 beers representing 27 breweries. You can’t try them all (or can you?), but drinkers should expect to sip on standard favorites, seasonals and oddball one-offs. Speaking of oddball, there are a few Brewfest beers with names that worry and/or intrigue me— which means they’ll be the first ones I try.
outside of town. The peaty, earthy scotch ale has apparently become a popular choice for brewery patrons.
Veiled Philosopher Double Black IPA: This IPA from Imagine Nation Brewing sounds vaguely like a spell you cast during your weekly tabletop role-playing game. Owner Robert Rivers says it’s the most complex beer the brewery makes—a balance of dark malts and citrus and tropical hops. As it turns out, the name is a reference to Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos. “Everybody’s in for a revolution these days,” Rivers says.
Jazz Hands Simcoe IPA: What happens when a bunch of brewers sit around a campfire, presumably drinking beer, and considering what to call their newest brew? Jazz Hands happens. The West Coast-style specialty IPA from Great Burn Brewing is made with Chinook and Simcoe hops. “It dances on your tongue,” says Great Burn co-owner Michael Howard.
McGinnis Mist Scotch Ale: Although it would be the perfect name for a sassy private investigator, this beer from Libby’s Cabinet Mountain Brewing is named after a meadow
Paramour Cherry Chocolate Stout: Do you want a beer or do you want dessert? Seems like the folks at Meadowlark Brewing in Sidney aren’t making you choose. The Paramour is made with Belgian bittersweet chocolate and dark sweet cherry concentrate, making it taste a lot like chocolate-covered cherries. “Almost to the point where you question if it’s a beer,” says owner Travis Peterson.
How to go: At Caras Park Fri., Feb. 24, from 5 to 9 PM. $15 will get you one 7-ounce commemorative glass to add to your collection and three beer tokens. Additional tokens are two for $3. —Erika Fredrickson
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SAT | 8 PM | WILMA Spend an evening with Dawes at the Wilma Sat., Feb. 25. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $28/$25 advance.
FRI | 8:30 PM | TOP HAT Memphis country-punk band Lucero plays the Top Hat Fri., Feb. 24. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30 PM. $25/$22 advance.
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WED | 9 PM | MONK’S P.O.S. performs at Monk’s Wed., March 1. 18-plus. 9 PM. $20/$15 advance.
FRI | 8 PM | WILMA Railroad Earth pulls into the station at the Wilma Fri., Feb. 24. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $28/$25 advance.
SAT | 9 PM | MONK’S Crywolf performs at Monk's Sat., Feb. 25 at 9 PM. I mean it this time. $13
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Thursday Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.
All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
Attention all cinephiles! The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule and tickets.
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The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
I don’t think Shareef is going to like this very much either. Stomp the Catbox plays at Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.
nightlife I thought his name was Hunnicutt. Huckleberry Mash plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. I couldn’t even bike from Orange Street Food Farm to campus without throwing up! Learn how four Missoula women, all with day jobs and busy lives, decide to train, prepare and ride their bikes from Telluride, CO to Moab, UT. Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Dr. Darrell A. Jackson highlights the journey that lead him to becoming a neurobiologist with a free talk at Mansfield Library. If he’s anything like Doc Brown, it’s because he fell off a toilet. 6 PM. Tom Catmull blurs the line between
World traveler and raconteur Jerry Joseph brings the Jackmormons for a night of globetrotting music at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, shows at 9. $10. country, pop and rock at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.
Western historian Annie Gilbert Coleman explores how recreational consumption has goofed up mountain landscapes both visually and politically at a free lecture at Gallagher Business Building room 106. 7 PM.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. Poetry Slam at E3 Convergence Gallery puts the best local poets against each other. Email e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com to register. 7 PM. Free.
A trio of half siblings warily come together when their dad’s current girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital in Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.
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the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.
Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Nearly every damn MC in Missoula assembles for a hip-hop extravaganza at the Palace. Doors at 9 PM. Free. Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free. Faster Rabbit’s VFW Residency continues with Florida’s Ron Dunbar, L.A.’s Vanessa Rochelle and local heroes Critical Failure. 10 PM. Free.
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World traveler and raconteur Jerry Joseph brings the Jackmormons for a night of globetrotting music at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, shows at 9. $10.
Attention all cinephiles! The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule and tickets. MT Baby Dance hosts a sample of their new parent/baby dance class at the Children’s Museum. 11 AM. Free with admission to the museum. I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my work week by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission. Shake off the winter blues and have some brews at the 7th annual Winter Brewfest. $15 gets you admission, a commerative glass and three beer tokens. Caras Park. 4 PM–9 PM.
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Winner of the 2017 MerriamFrontier Award, Anna Blackburn reads her poetry in the Theta Rho Room of Mansfield Library. 5 PM. Free. The Highlander taproom at Missoula Brewing welcomes back the great music of Great Fallsian Jeff Carroll. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Great Fallsian? Great Fallsier? Great Fallsois? I really like Virginia Woolf’s novel about this band. Ovando plays at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. The Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays great jazz no matter what rank you are. Ten Spoon Winery. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music at 6. Free. Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at
All aboard! Next stop Proxima Centauri! Railroad Earth pulls into station at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $28/$25 advance. Revolution Cage Combat returns to the Adams Center for a night of fights. Why don’t you come over here and say that? 7 PM. Charge over to griztix.com for tickets. $18. A trio of half siblings warily come together when their dad’s current girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital in Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students. The Mystery of Edwin Drood comes to life with a stage production of Charles Dickens’ great unfinished work. With over 350
possible endings even Inspector Bucket couldn’t get a handle on this one. The Hamilton Playhouse. 8 PM. $15. Baby, don’t you want Lucero to play in Missoula? Good news! The Memphis country-punks play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30 PM. $25/$22 advance. Mass FM celebrate the release of its new album Punknique with Cannon, Shot Stero and Thee Captain at the Palace. 9 PM. Free. Idle Ranch Hands take a break from loafing in the corral to play music at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Chairea, Ethan Uhl, Grant Atticus and Mido Skip unite to confuse my computer’s spellchecker and play music at the VFW. And my spellchecker just exploded. 10 PM. $3.
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Saturday Got cabin fever? Get out and about with Five Valleys Audubon to view raptors and other wintering birds in the Mission Valley. Meet at 7:45 AM in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot or at the Cenex station on the south side of Ronan at 9 AM. Bring a lunch for this all-day trip. You’ll be bright-eyed and bushytailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Take your LOTR fandom to the next level. MUD instructor Mark Vander Meer teaches you the basics to blacksmithing. Learn how to light the forge, heat your irons and shape molten metal. Missoula Urban Demonstration Project. 9 AM–4 PM. $20. Get your fresh produce and farmdirect goodies when Stage 112 hosts the Missoula Valley Winter Market from 9 AM–1 PM. I saw Jurassic Park, I know how this is going to turn out. Work with a live raptor to create an expressive monotype print. Missoula Art Museum. 10 AM–1 PM. $50. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org to register. Wait, what do you mean ‘not that kinda raptor?’ Attention all cinephiles! Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule and tickets. It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. Create art worthy of hanging on your fridge with a free class at the Learning Center at Red Willow. 10 AM–12 PM. Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Winter Storytelling at Travelers’ Rest State Park celebrates the Salish tradition of sharing stories during the long, dark winter every Saturday in January and February. This week Montana Public Radio’s Chérie Newman hosts. 11 AM. $5.
Don’t you have any idea how cold that’s going to be? The 38th Annual Snow Joke Marathon at Seeley Lake lets you hoof it through the cold for bragging rights. $35. The Montana Natural History Center presents activities for kids every Saturday. Free with admission to Center. 2 PM.
nightlife Aran Buzzas plays Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. That was a M*A*S*H joke two days ago. I don’t know if that was clear or not. Huckleberry Mash plays Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Blacksmith Brewing Co. has got you musically covered when Basses Covered plays at 6 PM. Free. Join Downtown Dance Collective for an evening of waltzing, chocolate and wine. The dress is casually elegant, darlings. Leave the perfume at home, but do bring $10 to get in. 7 PM–10 PM. Spend an evening with Dawes at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $28/$25 advance. A trio of half siblings warily come together when their dad’s current girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital in Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.
I know I’ve been telling you that Crywolf is performing at Monk’s for weeks now. But this time I mean it. Honestly. 9 PM. 18-plus. $13. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. $5. Blue Collar plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. Reach a higher plain of consciousness when the Joan Zen Band plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Mudslide Charley, spelled in the best and most correct way, plays the Top Hat Lounge. 10 PM. Free. Get your groove on and enjoy a night with the Malt Liquor Shitz, Deep Downeys, Halley’s Return and Heterophobe at the VFW. 10 PM. Bring a couple bucks to help feed the musicians.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood comes to life with a stage production of Charles Dickens’ great unfinished work. With over 350 possible endings even Inspector Bucket couldn’t get a handle on this one. The Hamilton Playhouse. 8 PM. $15. Here come the warm jets! Ten bands put together only eight days ago cover the deep discography of Brian Eno at Rock Lotto V at the Palace. $10. 8 PM.
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Sunday Attention all cinephiles! Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule and tickets. Yoga is one of the most beneficial complimentary therapies for neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts Therapteutic Yoga for Neurological Health every Sunday. $40 for four classes. Prereq screening required. Call 406-721-0033 for more info. Grab your snowshoes and meet a Master Naturalist for a snowshoe hike in the Bitterroot. Did you see how that’s capitalized? That’s how you know they’re important. Meet at the Bass Creek trail head. 1 PM–4 PM. Free. RSVP at montananaturalist.org. Dance away the winter blues with the Five Valley Accordion Dance and Jam at the Rustic Hut. 1 PM–4 PM. $5. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
nightlife Every Sunday, Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination, the perfect excuse to indulge your inner Lisa Simpson. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Listen to the sounds of old Eire every 2nd and 4th Sunday at the Highlander taproom at Missoula Brewing Company. Some of Missoula’s best celtic folk musicians assemble to jam from 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Talk about a mouthful. Garden City Harvest’s annual supper celebrating good food close to home in the midst of winter returns. Wintergreens offers a hearty meal sourced almost
completely from GCH and Missoula Valley farm and a live pie and cake auction with famed auctioneer Mayor John Engen. 5 PM–8:30 PM. Governor’s Room at Florence Hotel. $30. The John Floridis Trio plays at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. The Keep Moving Forward documentary team hosts a meet up at the VFW following the film’s world premiere. What are you going to do, not go to an after party with filmmakers? Meet the crew and enjoy refreshments. 6 PM–8 PM. $10. The fourth Sunday of the month is all about them goofs at the VFW. Come perform up to seven minutes of stand-up comedy, or just come to watch other local performers and have some laughs. Sign-up at 7 PM, open mic starts at 8 PM. Free. 21plus. Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-2732297 to sign up. No cover. Montana native son and trumpeter extraordinaire Allen Vizzutti performs at the UM Music building with a program of classical standards and original compositions. 7:30 PM. $30. Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Montana native and trumpeter extraordinaire Allen Vizzutti performs at the UM Music building Sun., Feb. 26 at 7:30 PM. $30.
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Spotlight WHAT: Blacksmithing Workshop
Missoula Urban Demonstration Project inheaven. I feel the answer is not a matter of structor Mark Vander Meer of Watershed Con- WHO: Mark Vander Meer of the MUD Project steel being strong, it is the will of the person sulting teaches a class on the basics of who uses it that gives it it's strength. It is not blacksmithing: how to light the forge, heat your WHERE: Vander Meer's forge at 902 Stoddard St. the tools, no matter their composition, but irons and shape molten metal. There is, however, WHEN: Sat., Feb. 25 from 9 AM–12 PM and 1 PM–4 PM. the person forging them. Steel becomes one thing he cannot teach, but only because the brittle. Flesh grows weak. The will is inanswer is one that must learn for yourself. Black- HOW MUCH: $20/$10 for MUD members. domitable. It is not the tools, but the smiths have been asking themselves this question MORE INFO: mudproject.org craftsperson that uses them. But, then since before the oceans drank Atlantis. What again, I am basing my whole spiritual life makes steel so strong? What is the Riddle of Steel? impossible to get a moment of peace and quiet there on an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. What do I know? As a staunch, lifelong worshipper of Crom, the among a thousand generations of partying vikings. grim and gloomy gray god of the mound, I was Learn the answer to the Riddle of Steel for yourSome believe steel is strong due to human's mastaught that upon our deaths Crom asks us for the an- tery of fire and water, using both in congress to forge self at MUD's workshop. Space is limited, so make swer. If we answer incorrectly we are cast out of Val- something stronger than the sum of the parts. This is sure to RSVP ASAP. halla forever, which, honestly is fine with me as it's the kind of answer that gets you booted from party—Charley Macorn
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get up!
Spotlight When I was in my early twenties, my two roommates and I, having spent the better part of the year blistering our fingers and dulling our vision playing the video game Rock Band, decided to start an actual band. Our bassist worked at a deli at the time, and because he had access to free stickers, buttons and hats, we named ourselves Deli Style. It seemed like a very cost-effective way to name a band. We fell apart after about a month. The thing that did us in was our inability to manage any kind of consistent schedule for three people who all lived together. In hindsight, that was pretty pathetic. This is the main reason I'm al-
with Portland theatricality, MarchFourth is less of a band and WHERE: The Top Hat Lounge more of an experiWHEN: Wed., March 1. Doors at 8:30 PM, ence. Acrobats wrap show at 9. themselves around dancers on stilts while HOW MUCH: $22.50/$19.40 advance a brightly colored, garishly dressed horn MORE INFO: tophatlounge.com section wails and a guy wearing a drum ways so impressed by any band that kit like a shirt pounds out a powerful can wrangle practice and hit the beat. With so many performers dedroad as a cohesive group. That icated to creating an electric and being said, holy crap it blows my one-of-a-kind show, MarchFourth mind that MarchFourth has over 20 draws you in, grabs on tight and members and have been performing gets you up on the dance floor. for over 13 years. —Charley Macorn Mixing New Orleans swagger WHAT: MarchFourth with Pimps of Joytime
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Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Mt. Sentinel. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5. Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM. Shake off your Monday blues at the Dram Shop with $3 drinks every Monday. 12 PM–9 PM. Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25. The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.
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Monday Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM. Author Mark Sundeen reads from his new book The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. (See Books.) The Captain Wilson Conspiracy play jazz for everyone at the Red Bird Wine Bar, no matter your rank. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Visit openway.org. This is not a helicopter I want to be in. Portland’s indie-folk sextet Blind Pilot lands at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20/$18 advance.
It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit. 12–8 PM.
nightlife Caffee Dolce donates 15 percent of their sales between 5 PM and 9 PM to the Montana Natural History Center. Is there anything gelato can’t do? The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Seventy-five cents from every pint sold at Tamarack Brewing Co. between 6 PM and 9 PM will go to benefit the Community Food & Agriculture Coalition.
What happens when you mix after hours access to the Insectarium and local beer? Generally the beginning of a horror movie. Hopefully that doesn’t happen! George Stanley gives you the lowdown on trilobites while you enjoy a local beer at Missoula Insectarium. 6:30 PM. $5. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. $10/ $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information. Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7–9 PM.
Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander, 7 PM–10 PM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com. The Shining Mountains Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association host wildlife biologists Russell Talmo and Kylie Paul’s presentation on the wildest critters. Missoula Public Library. 7 PM. Free. Learn the two-step and more at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What musician composed the Windows ‘95 start up sound? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
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Wednesday Lil’ Bugs Early Childhood Program is a chance for bug lovers and their parents to learn about insects. Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium. First and third Wednesday of every month, 12:15–1:15 PM. Visit missoulabutterflyhouse.org.
nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages. Hear all about the thrilling exploits of returned Peace Corps members at a free talk in room 330 of the University Center. I bet at least one of them has their own decoder ring. 5 PM. Musical storyteller Chris Timmons performs at Blacksmith Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Singer/songwriter Sean Kavanaugh provides the soundtrack at Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam in-
vites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.
Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. 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.
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.
Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover.
Author Jon Waterman recounts his five-month paddle down 1,450 miles of the Colorado River with a free lecture at the Roxy. 6 PM. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Brian Eno. Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy
Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.
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Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water continues at Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library at 7 PM. A trio of half siblings warily come together when their dad’s current
girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital in Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.
MarchFourth and Pimps of Joytime host a special circus-funk part at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22.50/$19.50 advance. P.O.S. performs at Monk’s. 18plus. 9 PM. $20/$15 advance. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.
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Thursday Aaron Broxterman provides the tunes at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.
David Hiltner, the founder and executive director of Red Lodge Clay Center, gets in the hot seat at Radius Gallery’s 10 Questions forum. 1 PM. Free.
Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
Hushed Notion, an exhibition of artist Paige Ward’s exploration of feminine identity in ceramics and mixed media opens with a reception in the University Center Gallery. 4PM–6 PM. Free.
Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.
nightlife The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is you should really tell all of your friends because it is an open, supportive space for all women to talk about their experiences. University Center. 6 PM–7:30 PM.
Knock knock? Who’s there? Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. 10 PM. Free.
Matt Cosca plays at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Bare Bait Dance collaborates with local visual artists to present an evening of original dance works in celebration of its 6th season in Missoula. The Public House. 6 PM–9 PM. $25 suggested donation. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.
Singer-songwriter Martin Sexton plays at the Top Hat Lounge Thu., March 2. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $29/$25 advance. A trio of half siblings warily come together when their dad’s current girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital in Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.
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Singer-songwriter Martin Sexton plays at the Top Hat Lounge. These things are less fun to write when the band doesn’t have a crazy name I can make fun of. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $29/$25 advance.
All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoula news.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigsky press.com. The weather's so bad I saw a couple putting a Subaru decal on their kayak.
Agenda Welcome to Feminist Fight Club. The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is: you should invite your friends. The second rule of Feminist Fight Club is: all women are welcome. Third rule. . .you know, I might have missed the point here. After all, these fight clubs inspired by the writings of author Jessica Bennet are different from the ones immortalized in Chuck Palahniuk’s ode to violence and homoerotic tension. Her fight clubs don't have any fighting, nor do they have any men. Instead women get together, share the frustrations of sexist jobs and trade tips for how to tackle them. Since Bennet published her book (which is hilariously and appropriately 21 percent more expensive for men) feminist fight clubs have popped up across the world, including Missoula. Feminist Fight Club meets Thursdays at the University Center to support Missoula's diverse population of women, smash the patriarchy and strengthen the connections of spirit, poise and determination in a safe space to be yourself. The inaugural meeting features raffle prizes, snacks,
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
as well as networking with other woman in our local community. Talk about it all you want. —Charley Macorn Feminist Fight Club meets Thurdsays in the University Center from 6 PM–7:30 PM. Register online to attend at bit.ly/2ljTx53.
in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. Caffee Dolce donates 15 percent of their sales between 5 PM and 9 PM to the Montana Natural History Center. Is there anything gelato can’t do?
Dr. Darrell A. Jackson highlights the journey that lead him to becoming a neurobiologist with a free talk at Mansfield Library. If he’s anything like Doc Brown, it’s because he fell off a toilet. 6 PM.
The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.
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Seventy-five cents from every pint sold at Tamarack Brewing Company between 6 PM and 9 PM will go to benefit the Community Food & Agriculture Coalition.
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 Living from 2-4 PM. Call 7281630.
Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com for more information.
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NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.
Yoga is one of the most beneficial complimentary therapies for neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts Therapteutic Yoga for Neurological Health every Sunday. $40 for four classes. Prereq screening required. Call 406-7210033 for more info.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 27 Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.
Hear all about the thrilling exploits of returned Peace Corps members at a free talk in room 330 of the University Center. I bet at least one of them has their own decoder ring. 5 PM. Learn the ins and outs of farm planning with a series of workshops Wednesdays at the Missoula County Extension Building. This week learn how to manage risks on the farm. $15. Visit farmlinkmontana.org for more info and registration.
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM– 4 PM. Free for veterans.
Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM.
Find out how the Garden City grows at the Missoula City Council meeting. 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM.
THURSDAY MARCH 2
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS
The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.
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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It takes approximately two hours and 45 minutes to drive from Telluride, Colorado, to Moab, Utah by car. This is roughly the same amount time it takes to drive from Missoula to Great Falls. Now, as someone who has driven multiple times between the Garden and the Electric cities, I can tell you that you feel each and every minute of that trip. I have not, however, biked anywhere near that distance. My brain cannot even process that, and I live in the most bike-friendly city in the state. But four local Missoula women, all of whom have days jobs, responsibilities and lives decided they were going to bike all the way from Telluride to Moab.
It took them seven days, at an elevation gain of 18,963 feet, wearing roughly 25 pounds of gear apiece, but Amy Berglund, Jennifer Errett, Elizabeth Ries-Simpson and Amy Sacry completed this monumental task. Now, after I assume sleeping for six months, these bicycling maniacs recount the ups, downs and in-betweens of their epic week-long cross-state journey. –Charley Macorn Telluride to Moab by Bike starts at 6 PM Thu., Feb. 23 at Imagine Nation Brewing. Free.
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 Western historian Annie Gilbert Coleman explores how recreational consumption has goofed up mountain landscapes both visually and politically at a free lecture at Gallagher Business Building room 106. 7 PM.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my work week by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 Got cabin fever? Get out and about with Five Valleys Audubon to view raptors and other wintering birds in the Mission Valley. Meet at 7:45 AM in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot or at the Cenex station on the south side of Ronan at 9 AM. Dress warmly and bring a lunch for this all-day trip. 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 Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Winter Storytelling at Travelers’ Rest State Park celebrates the Salish tradition of sharing stories during the long, dark winter every Saturday in
January and February. This week Montana Public Radio’s Chérie Newman hosts. 11 AM. $5. Don’t you have any idea how cold that’s going to be? The 38th Annual Snow Joke Marathon at Seeley Lake lets you hoof it through the cold for bragging rights. $35. The Montana Natural History Center presents activities for kids every Saturday. Free with admission to Center. 2 PM.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26 Grab your snowshoes and meet a Master Naturalist for a snowshoe hike in the Bitterroot. Did you see how that’s capitalized? That’s how you know they’re important. Meet at the Bass Creek trail head. 1 PM–4 PM. Free. RSVP at montananaturalist.org.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 27 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Mt. Sentinel. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28 The Shining Mountains Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association host wildlife biologists Russell Talmo and Kylie Paul’s presentation on the wildest critters found this side of the divide. Missoula Public Library. 7 PM. Free.
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By Amy Alkon SAVINGS AND ALONE I’m a 28-year-old guy in a corporate job. I’m out there trying to meet women and date (or hook up), but I’m not doing so well. In college, I was able to hook up and get girlfriends pretty easily, and I haven’t put on 100 pounds or anything. I’ve noticed that three of my male co-workers (at my same level at work) are getting lots of girls. All three are in major debt from buying clothes and leasing cars they really can’t afford. Is being on the road to bankruptcy really what it takes to impress the ladies? —Living Within My Means Candlelight all over your apartment is really romantic—unless you’re using it because they’ve cut your power off again. When women finally start looking to settle down and make a life with a man, the last thing they want is some credit-cardsurfing spenditarian who gets his exercise running from collection agents. However, despite this, women can also be like blue jays on shiny objects—especially shiny objects with, say, Audi emblems—and men’s “mate competition” through spendyspend-spending reflects that. Research on men and women ages 18 to 45 by evolutionary social psychologist Daniel Kruger found that men who had run up credit card debt were more likely to have multiple sex partners than their more sensibly spending bros. (Women’s debt level didn’t have any meaningful effect on their sexual body count.) Again—rather obviously—women aren’t all “I’m looking for a man who’ll eventually have to crowdfund our children’s dental bills.” However, looking at Kruger’s findings, another evolutionary psychologist, Glenn Geher, speculates that men’s overspending “may act as a false signal of wealth, and although it is a false signal” (of the ability to provide resources for a woman and any children) “sometimes this deception is effective.” As for why that might be, just as a guy doesn’t get to ask a woman whether her genes or steel-belted Spanx are the force behind her supermodel abs, a woman won’t be poring over a guy’s credit report at the bar. She’ll just paw admiringly at the cashmere hoodie he took out two loans and sold his twin brother into slavery to buy. This isn’t to say you need to go into the red to get girls. It’s ultimately a bad strategy for any guy who wants more than a string of flings. However, what would probably lead more women to give you a chance are the first-glance trappings of success—beautiful shoes, designer eyeglass frames, that fab cashmere sweater and maybe a really nice soft leather jacket.
The thing is, you can get these items simply by shopping shrewdly—like at endof-year sales or on eBay. They’ll surely cost more than the duds you’d otherwise buy, but consider them investments to get you in the door. Remember, even women who want a boyfriend who’s fiscally responsible are likely to be impressed by that sweater that took four years combing a Mongolian goat to make. And let’s say some woman’s just looking for a hookup. It’s all good; she won’t know you long enough to discover that although you do drive a brand-new “alternative-fuel” vehicle, it isn’t a Tesla; it’s a Schwinn.
MAN OVERBORED I love my girlfriend and try to be good to her. However, her folks came to visit, and she thinks I was rude because I seemed uninterested and was on my phone the whole time. I told her that I think her parents are boring. I was just being honest. She got really mad. Am I supposed to lie about being entertained by her parents? —The Boyfriend There comes an age when other children’s parents shouldn’t have to hire monkeys and birthday clowns. Twenty-some years ago, in the hospital maternity ward, your girlfriend’s mom and dad heard the wonderful news—and it wasn’t, “It’s an iPhone!” So, when her folks are visiting, there’s a reasonable expectation that, yes, you would redirect your attention from “Words With Friends” to words with parents. Surely, this is not news to you—or really anyone whose brain has not been relocated to a jar. So you might ask yourself whether this ignore-athon of yours reflects some subconscious desire to sabotage your way out of the relationship. If that’s not the case, consider something the late German social psychologist Erich Fromm pointed out: “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.” In other words, loving someone is something you do. Tragically, this acting lovingly business may sometimes require you to put your entertainment needs second—even if the only way to survive the crushing tedium of being with your girlfriend’s folks is to spend the evening secretly pacing the floater in your right eye.
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[C2] Missoula Independent • February 23–March 2, 2017
Bartenders Frenchtown employer needs part-time BARTENDERS. Mix and serves drinks for bar, restaurant and casino. Preparation of simple bar food is sometimes necessary. Cash-handling experience and knowledge of casinos is necessary. Shifts are nights and weekends. Must be able to work weekends. $8.15 + tips. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10263722
Breakfast Attendant MUST have valid driver’s license due to the occasional need to drive airport guest shuttle. Drug testing is required. Will prepare items for the breakfast bar, ensure that food is available and keep the area clean. Must have excellent organizational skills. Specific work days will be discussed at the interview. $9.00-$9.50/hr depending on experience, paid vacation and Aflac offered. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10266025
EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.
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Dry Cleaner Busy full time position pressing clothing for a locally owned Missoula Business. $11/hour. Be a detail oriented, multitasker. Be able to differentiate colors. Sort articles to be cleaned by fabric type, color and cleaning technique. Load clothing into laundry and dry-cleaning machines. Iron or press articles, fabrics, and furs. Training will be provided. Fast paced environment with daily goals. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28035 General Labor Positions LC Staffing, Montana’s largest independently owned staffing firm, is seeking candidates for a variety of manufacturing, assembly and general labor job opportunities. Our experienced recruiters will take the time to understand what you want from a job, and will go the extra mile to match you with a desirable assignment that meets your needs. We are looking for candidates to fill a wide range of labor assignments. Qualifying employees who work through LC Staffing are eligible for competitive benefits, including vacation pay, holiday pay, direct deposit and even a 401(k). Here are a few of our hot jobs available now: Warehouse Worker, Dry Cleaner, HVAC, Production Control, Maintenance Worker.
Ready to find a great seasonal laborer job? Browse LC Staffing’s job board or contact a recruiter to register with us today! Apply online at www.lcstaffing.com. It’s simple and free! Green Waste Inspector High school education and 2 years in retail sales, equipment operation and facility maintenance. Must have a current Montana driver’s license. Provide customer service, receive green waste drop off, inspect loads to insure compliance, direct traffic; load compost, operate hand and power tools; receive cash, checks and credit/debit cards and maintain sales records. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10266752 Handyman Duties include landscaping, janitorial work, light carpentry, snow removal and various other duties. Skilled at using carpentry tools, lawn mowers, cleaning and ability to drive a manual transmission. Must have high school diploma or equivalent, current driver’s license and clean driving record. Employer conducts random drug testing. Work days and hours vary Monday - Sunday; part-time and full-time available. Wage is DOE with review after 30 days. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10258718
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Environmental Scientist Herrera Environmental Consultants provides engineering and environmental services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies and private clients throughout the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, and internationally. Position will support our sustainable development practice area on solid waste and mine waste projects. Will require work in the field up to 100% of the time. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10266157 Secretary/Administrative Assistant Needed to be a Customer Care Rep in our company a in well-organized and timely manner. Experience not required. $860 per week for a start, send your CV/Resume to aliciaje92@yahoo.com or call:(406) 234-2197
SKILLED LABOR Industrial Electrician Looking for a motivated and skilled electrician who can install, repair and maintain electrical systems. Maintain and repair electrical systems at a Seeley Lake lumber mill. Industrial and PLC experience preferred. Good reading comprehension, outstanding work ethic, ability to troubleshoot existing electrical systems, ability to perform physically demanding tasks.. $17-$25 depending on experience. Em-
ployee and family medical and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation and holidays. Pre-employment drug screen required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10266084
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Temporary Baker Outstanding opportunity for the right person with professional baking experience. If you are interested in a temporary position, UM Bakery is hiring a full-time, temporary baker to begin work on March 6th and work until mid-May. Rate of pay DOE. Please contact Deb Hill at (406) 243-5160 for details.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): My astrological radar suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool. Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where nothing is as it seems, you can hear howling in the distance and you barely recognize yourself? That might be weird. What do you think? Is it worth the gamble? If so, full speed ahead. If not, I suggest a course correction. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Someone on Reddit.com asked readers to respond to the question, “What is the most liberating thought you’ve ever had?” Among the replies were the following six: 1. “If new evidence presents itself, it’s okay to change my beliefs.” 2. “I get to choose who’s in my life and who isn’t.” 3. “I am not my history.” 4. “You can’t change something that has already happened, so stop worrying about it.” 5. “I am not, nor will I ever be, conventionally beautiful.” 6. “I don’t have to respond to people when they say stupid s--- to me.” I hope these testimonies inspire you to come up with several of your own,Taurus. It’s a perfect time to formulate liberating intentions. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It has been a while since I told you that I love you. So I’m doing it now. I LOVE YOU. More than you could ever imagine. And that’s why I continue to offer these horoscopes to you free of charge, with no strings attached.That’s why I work so hard to be a playful therapist and an edgy mentor for you.That’s why I am so tenacious in my efforts to serve you as a feminist father figure and a kindly devil’s advocate and a sacred cheerleader. Again, I don’t expect anything in return from you. But if you would like to express your appreciation, you could do so by offering a similar type of wellcrafted care to people in your own sphere. Now would be an excellent time to give such gifts.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like the word ‘bewilderment’ because it has both ‘be’ and ‘wild’ in it,” says poet Peter Gizzi. I propose that you go even further, Cancerian: Express a fondness for the actual experience of bewilderment as well as the word. In fact, be willing to not just tolerate, but actually embrace the fuzzy blessings of bewilderment. In the coming weeks, that’s your ticket to being wild in the healthiest (and wealthiest) ways. As you wander innocently through the perplexing mysteries that make themselves available, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you familiar with psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow? It’s the unflattering or uncomfortable part of you that you would prefer to ignore or suppress. It’s the source of behavior about which you later say, “I wasn’t acting like myself.” Jungians say that the shadow hounds you and wounds you to the degree that you refuse to deal with it. But if you negotiate with it, it leads you to beautiful surprises. It prods you to uncover riches you’ve hidden from yourself. I mention this, Leo, because any shadow work you do in the coming weeks could generate rather spectacular breakthroughs. (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You could make a vow like this: “Between now and April 15, I will be relentless in getting my needs met. I will harbor a steely resolve to call on every ploy necessary to c VIRGO ensure that my deepest requirements are not just gratified, but satiated to the max. I will be a dogged
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and ferocious seeker of absolute fulfillment.” If you want to swear an oath like that, Virgo, I understand. But I hope you will try a softer approach—more like the following: “Between now and April 15, I will be imaginative and ingenious in getting my needs met. I will have fun calling on every trick necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are playfully addressed. I will be a sweet seeker of unpredictable fulfillment.”
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How would Buddha ask for a raise or promotion? How would Jesus tinker with his career plans as he took into consideration large-scale shifts in the economy? How would Confucius try to infuse new approaches and ideas into the status quo of his work environment? Ruminate deeply on these matters, dear Libra. Your yearning to be more satisfyingly employed may soon be rewarded—especially if you infuse your ambitions with holy insight. How would Joan of Arc break through the glass ceiling? How would Harriet Tubman deal with the inefficiencies caused by excess testosterone? How would Hildegard of Bingen seek more emotional richness on the job? (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect you would benefit from acquiring a new bedroom name, e SCORPIO my dear. But should I be the one to give it to you? I’m not sure. Maybe you could invite a practical
dreamer you adore to provide you with this crazy sweet new moniker. If there is no such person to do the job (although given the current astrological omens, I bet there is), I’ll offer the following array of amorous aliases for you to choose from: Wild Face ... Kiss Genius ... Thrill Witch ... Freaky Nectar ... Boink Master ... Lust Moxie ... Pearly Thunder ... Peach Licker ... Painkiller ... Silky Bliss ... Slippery Diver ... Swoon Craver.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Soon I’ll be off on my first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my housesitters. Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I’m confident that by the time I return, raccoons won’t be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snailmail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts. (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The near future will be mutable, whimsical and fluky. It’ll be g CAPRICORN serendipitous, mercurial and extemporaneous. You should expect happy accidents and lucky breaks. Your ability to improvise will be quite valuable. Do you believe in lucky numbers? Even if you don’t, yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.” The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled. (P.S.: I suspect that an as-yet-undiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Treat your body like a sublime temple, please. And regard your imagination as a treasured sanctuary. Be very choosy about what you allow to enter in to both of those holy places. This strategy is always a wise idea, of course, but it’s especially so now, when you are extra sensitive to the influences you absorb. It’s crucial that you express maximum discernment as you determine which foods, drinks, drugs, images, sounds and ideas are likely to foster your maximum well-being— and which aren’t. Be a masterful caretaker of your health and sanity.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What would your best mother do in a situation like this? Please note that I’m not asking, “What would your mother do?” I’m not suggesting you call on the counsel of your actual mother. When I use the term “your best mother,” I’m referring to the archetype of your perfect mother. Imagine a wise older woman who understands you telepathically, loves you unconditionally and wants you to live your life according to your own inner necessity, not hers or anyone else’s. Visualize her. Call on her. Seek her blessings.
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PUBLIC NOTICES INVITATION TO BID NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS: Sealed bids will be hand-delivered to North-Missoula Community Development Corporation (NMCDC) at 1500 Burns Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 or received by the United States Postal Service office (address bids to NMCDC, 1500 Burns Street, Missoula, Montana 59802) by Thursday, March 2, at 1:00 p.m. for the Pre-Deconstruction Asbestos and Lead-Based Paint Abatement Project at Lee Gordon Place, 503 East Front Street, Missoula, Montana. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud after they have been received. STATE STATUTE COMPLIANCE: Each bidder shall comply with all fair labor practices and state statutes. This project is publicly-funded and therefore includes State of Montana and Federal contract requirements. ADA/EEO: Alternative accessible formats of this notice are available upon request. Request accommodation or additional information from Mr. Jon Pederson, NewFields, 700 SW Higgins Avenue Suite 108, Missoula, Montana 59803. Email contact at jpederson@newfields.com. BID SECURITY: Each bid shall be accompanied
by Bid Security in the amount of not less than TEN PERCENT (10%) of the total amount of the bid. PERFORMANCE BOND: Successful bidders shall, upon signature of the contract, furnish an approved Performance Bond in the amount of ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) of the contract. DRAWINGS & SPECIFICATIONS: Drawings and Specifications may be examined without charge at the office of NMCDC at 1500 Burns Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, or online via the major Montana Plan Exchanges (montanabid.com). Printed versions of these materials are also available upon written request from NewFields. A non-refundable fee of $75 is required for each printed plan set. PRE-BID WALK-THRU: A MANDATORY pre-bid walk-thru meeting will be conducted on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Special requests to access the facility and view work areas should be submitted to NMCDC prior to Monday, February 20, 2017. WITHDRAWAL OF BIDS: No Bidder may withdraw his Bid for at least NINETY (90) days after the scheduled time for receipt of bids, except as noted in the
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-19 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, 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 GEORGE MORSE AKA GEORGE W. MORSE, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-28 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EVERETT VERNON TANDE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All person having claims against the said 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 David Alan Tande, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. Dated this 3rd day of February, 2017. /s/ David Alan Tande, Personal Repre-
sentative By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-33 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUANITA J. WATTERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All person having claims against the said 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 Kelly A. Hale, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. Dated this 10th day of February, 2017. /s/ Kelly A. Hale, Personal Representative By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP-16-242 Dept. No.: 2
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CAROL LEE HEIDEMANN, 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 (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 RITA ELEANOR HEIDEMANN, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 24th day of January, 2017. /s/ Rita Eleanor Heidemann, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP-16-257 Dept. No.: 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL CHARLES FELLOWS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Steven Fellows has been appointed Personal Representative
of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to STEVEN BRADLEY FELLOWS, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Clifford B. Irwin, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 1 day of February, 2017. /s/ Clifford B. Irwin MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-2 Dept. No.: 2 In the Matter of the Name Change of Jenna Lynn Ruff, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jenna Lynn Ruff to Jacob Lynn Troy Ruff. The hearing will be on 03/07/2017 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 1/24/17 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
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PUBLIC NOTICES COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-17-26 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EDDIE SCHWAB, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Ivy K. Seifert, 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 3rd day of February, 2017, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Ivy K. Seifert, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Ivy K. Seifert, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-17-1
Hon. John W. Larson Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WOODROW W. COWART, 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 Dustin W. Cowart, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of January, 2017. /s/ Dustin W. Cowart, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the
State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 3 day of January, 2017. /s/ Dustin W. Cowart, Personal Representative Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of January, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires September 24, 2019 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on April 3, 2017, 09:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: A tract of land located in a portion of Lot 30 of Dinsmore’s Orchard Homes No. 4, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the South line of Lot 30, of said Dinsmore’s Orchard Homes No. 4, which point bears
East a distance of 182.00 feet from the Southwest corner of said Lot 30; thence North a distance of 190.00 feet; thence East a distance of 80 feet; thence South a distance of 190 feet; thence West along the South line of said Lot 30, a distance of 80 feet to the point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 346 of Micro at Page 705. Parcel ID 712400 More commonly known as 3130 South 7th Street, Missoula, MT 59804. Jonathan W. Burt and Christine K. Burt, as
Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB., its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on December 27, 2007, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on January 4, 2008 as Entry No. 200800249, in Book 811, at Page 482, of Official Records.
The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignor: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB., its successors and assigns Assignee: BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Assignment Dated: March 10, 2011 Assignment Recorded: March 14, 2011 Assignment Recording Information: as Entry No. 201104521, in Book 875 at Page 136 Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pur-
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suant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on November 21, 2016 as Entry No. 201621275, in Book 971, at Page 103, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning March 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $226,988.80, interest in the sum of $7,665.53, escrow advances of $1,720.50, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $45,908.76, for a total amount owing of $282,283.59, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The
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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, has
the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale
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will be cancelled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and
ACCESS STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on March 16th, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. A silent auction will be held Saturday, March 16th 2017. at 7648 Thornton Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. 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.
the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 23rd day of November, 2016. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 46437
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units146, 373, 435, 466, 681 & 711. 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 February 27, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Tuesday February 28, 2017 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.
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650 South Avenue East. 3 bed/1 bath, blocks to U, W/D hookups, double garage, fenced yard $1400. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611
1324 S. 2nd Street West “B”. 3 bed/2 bath, central location, single garage, W/D. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1918 Scott St. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, Northside, coinops, off-street parking. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2205 ½ South Avenue West. 3 bed/1 ¾ bath, all utilities included. $1225. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1001 Medicine Man Cluster. Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $950,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 15 Carriage Way. 4 bed, 3 bath on two levels in Rattlesnake. Fenced backyard & double garage. $450,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home. $270,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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2550 Latigo. 4 bed, 3 bath with gas fireplace, jetted tub and 2 car garage. $369,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 801 N Orange Street #303, Missoula, MT 59802 MLS #21605224 $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com Pinnacle Townhomes. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage on Charlo Street. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MARYLAND•
Maryland is a 5-year-old female Boxer mix. She is a very stoic lady that understands several commands. Maryland definitely lacks a silly bone and listens to commands with a regal, authoritative attitude. This girl takes life seriously, and if she doesn't think you're serious, she'll give you the cold shoulder. Maryland would do best as an only pet.
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Pit Bull. He is an excited and eager dog that would love to be given a job to earn his much deserved affection. Cameron loves to play tug, and will put any toy to the test of his very persistent jaws. He would do best with an active and experienced dog owner, and would prefer only female dog buddies.
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ALFREDO• Alfredo is a 3-5-year-old male orange Tabby. He is the life of any party and most alluring entertainer you could ever hope for. Alfredo will go to no end to make sure he receives his much deserved affection. Alfredo loves to play, and everything becomes a toy. He is also very food motivated and might be a willing participant to learn tricks in order to receive treats! CYPRESS• Cypress is a 2-5-year-old male black cat. He is an outgoing and playful young guy with a very sweet and cuddly disposition. One moment he'll be chasing feathers, climbing in the toy bin, hunting for the catnip stash, and digging in the food bin. The next moment, he'll be snuggled up in your lap and rubbing his head against you. Cypress knows that he is the ultimate cure for a lonely heart.
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DAISY• Daisy is a 3-year-old female black and white cat. She is a special little girl with a sweet little sqeak for a meow. Daisy is partially blind and deaf, but that doesn't stop her from seeking out the most cozy lap to lay in. She does need to be an inside only cat due to her imparement. Daisy has a spit fire personality and isn't afraid to let you know exactly what she does and does not like.
ABERDEEN• Aberdeen is a 2-year-old female Pit Bull mix. She is a very sweet and submissive gal. She has an easy smile and is eager to please. Aberdeen loves belly rubs and head pats. She doesn't seem to know what toys are, so a family that can help her discover the fun of a tennis ball or tug toy would be a wish come true!
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 LEXUS• Lexus purrs like a luxury car! This
gorgeous Calico is easygoing. If you have a lap, she'll find a way to nap on it! Lexus is 8-yearsold and part of our Senior for Senior program which reduces her adoption fee to help her find her forever home! Lexus would prefer to be the only cat, so she can shower you with all her love! Call today! 406.549.3934
JOSEPH• Sweet-face Joseph is a friendly 2.5-year-old cat who loves being next to you or in your lap! Joseph enjoys telling you about his day, purring, and exploring. He is wary around other cats, and might prefer to be the only cat in the house, though he may warm up in time! This young gentleman’s adoption fee is only $14 this month, thanks to Suburu! www.myhwsm.org
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LUCKY• Someone will be very lucky bringing Lucky into their family! This handsome young man is incredibly sweet and eager to please. He would love an adult family who could offer consistency and positive training to help him become a wonderful canine citizen! Lucky enjoys smaller dog friends, long walks, and his people! Thanks to Suburu, his adoption fee for is only $14 this month! 406.549.3934.
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SUNSHINE• Did someone say FETCH? Sunshine is a beautiful yellow lab with oodles of fun energy who loves people and tennis balls! She is 7-years-old and knows lots of behaviors already like ‘sit,’ ‘stay,’ and ‘down.’ If you’re looking for a loyal friend, come by the shelter Wednesday-Friday between 1pm-6pm, or Saturday-Sunday from 12pm-5pm to meet Sunshine! PENNY• Spunky, sweet, and all hound, Penny is an older Bluetick Coonhound with lots of love to give. She takes daily medications with food to manage some health issues, but she is as enthusiastic as ever! Penny is looking for a home without other pets or children where she can take short hikes and long naps! To help find her perfect home, we’re waiving her adoption fee! Learn more: www.Myhswm.org missoulanews.com • February 23–March 2, 2017 [C11]
REAL ESTATE
HOMES For Sale 2- 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $35,000 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663
LAND FOR SALE NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@ sgmail.com
NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tungstenholdings.com. (406)293-3714
COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com
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home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $300,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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