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News
Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Where do you call home? ........................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs A 2018 ballot initiative, a property tax revolt, and a Tingle-y new podcast...................6 Etc. A president, a coach and an athletics director walk into a theater... .................................7 News Affordable housing: How Bozeman screwed the pooch.................................................8 News Bidding farewell to Rainbow Family founding elder Chuck Mills ................................10 Opinion Dan Brooks: UM’s Seth Bodnar suffers academic culture shock ............................11 Feature Embracing home in Missoula’s in-between................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts MudSlide Charley’s latest album showcases a band with resilience....................20 Music UM offers progressive pleasure with The Vibrator Play ...................................21 Music Shovels and Rope, Kyle Boone, Gunn-Truscinski Duo .....................................22 Film Prognosticating the winners at the 2018 Oscars .................................................23 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................24 BrokeAss Gourmet You got your cauliflower in my brown-butter pumpkin ............25 Happiest Hour Three Years In Barrels: The China Cat Sour Story ............................27 8 Days a Week But some weeks we’d swear it was 10 ..................................................28 Agenda Have beard, will help Make-A-Wish ................................................................33 Mountain High Curl like an Olympian at Glacier Ice Rink ........................................34
Exclusives
News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42
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STREET TALK
By Alex Sakariassen
If you had to describe your neighborhood in three words, what would they be? How long have you lived in your current neighborhood? And what’s the longest you’ve lived in one place as an adult?
Sarah FitzGerald: Walkable. It’s not one word, but lots of dogs. And probably chill. Nomadic tendencies: One month, and a year and a half.
Claire Foley: I would also say walkable. Charming. And there are a lot of good gardens. Is that an even 18 months? My answer is the same for both: a year and a half.
Chris Milner: Quiet. Peaceful. Awesome. Slightly more sedentary: A year and a half, and three years.
Artless dodger
Seldom-seen Sen. Daines first introduced S2206 in Washington, D.C., proposing release of Montana Wilderness Study Areas, and is now trying to backfill an illusion of local public involvement with after-the-fact, selective meetings, artlessly dodging a large segment of local constituents (“Opposition mounts to Sen. Daines’ wilderness study area bill,” Feb. 6). Daines is a top-down D.C. politician hiding from people back home. Among those Daines selected to be correctly informed about the schedule of his rigged public meetings are Bitterroot Backcountry Cyclists and the Backcountry Sled [snowmobile] Patriots, who are working to reverse WSA protections through litigation. They would smash the pie to get a piece. If WSAs are released, prevailing Roadless Rule and Forest Plan regulations would allow both logging and roadbuilding in much of the former WSA acreage. This would doom the “backcountry” these groups purportedly love. When is enough pie not enough? I consider myself an American patriot. I love and work to protect democracy and our “motherland,” not just figuratively but the land itself that sustains us. Wilderness is the gold standard of land protection; its protection embodies respect and humility as does true democracy. Daines is betraying both democracy and wilderness; release Daines, not WSAs. Larry Campbell Darby
a doubt, he is one of the most hard-working and civic-minded people I know. Josh has deep roots in Missoula County. After growing up in North Dakota, he moved here at 18 to attend the University of Montana. He later served in the Peace Corps, and earned graduate degrees in agricultural extension and in ecological horticulture. Then, 25 years ago, he returned to Mis-
“Wilderness is the gold standard of land protection; its protection embodies respect and humility as does true democracy. Daines is betraying both democracy and wilderness; release Daines, not WSAs.”
Usual suspects
Ryan James: Does it count as two words if it’s hyphenated? Quiet, school-adjacent and boring. But boring in a good way. New kid on the block: We’ve been there since December, so two months. And two and a half years.
Daines’ bill seems to have three main groups of proponents: government-hating libertarians, resource extraction companies and anyone to whom “wilderness” means a place to go tearing around on ATVs and snowmobiles. Brad Craig facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Digging Slotnick Natalie Hamel: Surrounds the porch. She’ll crack 13 months in time: Eight months. And the longest I’ve lived in one place is one year.
I enthusiastically support Josh Slotnick, who is running as a Democrat for the Board of Missoula County Commissioners. Josh has been my friend, farmer and colleague for nearly 20 years. Without
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soula, started an organic farm with his wife, raised three children and became an educator. Josh is probably best known in the community as the head, heart and hands behind the much-loved PEAS farm. Josh cares deeply about this place and the people who live here. Now, he wants to contribute in a new way, as an elected official. You can learn more at: josh4commissioner.com. As a commissioner, he will bring a strong record of collaboration and a can-do spirit that we clearly need in politics today. Never afraid
of hard work, Josh will dig in and get things done. Please join me in supporting Slotnick for county commissioner. Neva Hassanein Missoula
Voting for Josh
In the 35 years that I’ve been privileged to live in Missoula County, I have been delighted to see how our community embraced regrowing our local food economy and protecting our farmland. One of the people who worked to make this happen is Josh Slotnick, who is running for county commissioner. Josh is a philosopher and farmer, a thinker and a doer, who has been nourishing Missoula body and soul for many years. He was one of the founders of Garden City Harvest and helped protect two urban farms for the long term: the PEAS farm and the River Road farm. These farms provide food, education and inspiration to folks of all ages. But Josh realizes that Missoula County faces many tough problems: affordable housing, farmland protection, growth pains. And local government must involve all its citizens in taking action to find the best solutions. Josh is a good listener and invites all viewpoints. He’s a visionary who sees Missoula’s many possible futures, and an inspiring team builder and leader who can help us work for a future in which our kids will feel as lucky to live in Missoula County as I do. Vote for Josh! Vicki Watson Missoula
Buzz off, Brooks
I can’t remember a time when I witnessed a violent gun. The author (“Brooks: If you see something, saw something,” Feb. 21) likes the term gun violence and mistakenly blames the amount of firearms in hands of overwhelmingly law abiding and sane Americans for horrific events. Chuck Haynes facebook.com/missoulaindependent Correction: The By The Numbers entry in the Feb. 22 issue incorrectly identified the Olympic event in which Whitefish skier Maggie Voisin placed fourth. Voisin competed in ski slopestyle. The Indy regrets the error.
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, February 21 Hundreds of Missoula high school students stage a walkout and march to protest gun violence in response to the recent school shooting in Florida.
Thursday, February 22 A Philipsburg student is arrested and later charged with felony intimidation and three counts of assault for allegedly making threats referencing a school shooting. Big Sky High School holds a perimeter lock-in due to a similar threat.
Friday, February 23 Graffiti threats are found in bathrooms at Sentinel and Loyola Sacred Heart high schools. Both are investigated and considered “low-level threats.”
Saturday, February 24 More than 400 runners brave snowy conditions to run the Snow Joke half marathon in Seeley Lake. Layne Ryerson of Helena and Annie Hill of Kalispell win the overall titles.
Tax hikes
Property owners sue
During last fall’s election season uproar about skyrocketing property valuations in Missoula County, attorney Quentin Rhoades convened a group of property owners at the Broadway Inn, which is owned by Walt Muralt, owner of Muralt’s Travel Plaza. Muralt told the assembled crowd of more than 50 people that his property taxes had gone up by $20,000 in 2017, eliciting gasps and similar stories from property owners whose taxes had more than doubled. At the event, Rhoades suggested they could band together and sue the Department of Revenue over the skyrocketing property assessments in Missoula County, and over the next few months he kept them updated in a Facebook group where they had organized as the Missoula Area Taxpayers Action Group. In late January, Rhoades filed a class action against the Montana DOR in Missoula County District Court on behalf of 11 commercial property owners in Missoula County. According to the suit, all of the plaintiffs saw their valuations double, at minimum, between 2016 and 2017, with one plaintiff ’s valuation, on nine acres of vacant land in Clinton, increasing from $303,481 to $839,770. Rhoades says valuation methods are supposed to be consistent across the state and that the discov-
ery process may reveal that Missoula County was not consistent with valuation methods in the rest of Montana, or even consistent from block to block. “There are people who have neighbors across the street whose values went down when theirs went up 200 percent,” he says. “We’re asking the court to say this is not constitutional.…The commercial property taxpayers have not been treated fairly.” The DOR told the Indy in November that some commercial properties with big jumps in valuation had been severely undervalued before. “It was determined some commercial properties in Missoula County have been under-appraised for a number of years and the values represented by this reappraisal reflect the market value of those properties based upon recent sales transactions that have occurred in the area,” DOR Missoula County manager Leslie Snyder wrote in an email. The issue so dominated the last election that John Engen pledged during his victory speech to be attentive to the concerns of his most vocal opponents, some of whom are plaintiffs in this class action. Rhoades himself filed complaints against the mayor’s campaign with the Commissioner of Political Practices. Last week, Engen announced the formation of a Property Tax Working Group. A notable absence was Councilperson Jesse Ramos, who is a member of the
Missoula Area Taxpayers Action Group, says Rhoades. “Jesse, he ran on lower taxes and government responsibility,” Rhoades says. “The mayor said a pretty firm and terse no [to Ramos], so I think that makes you understand the working group is about alternate sources of revenue, not any sort of control on the spending,” Rhoades says. “I think that the mayor doesn’t care about property taxes,” Ramos says. City Communications Director Ginny Merriam writes on behalf of the mayor’s office: “As Mayor Engen told Mr. Ramos in an e-mail, he invited three experienced Council members in positions of leadership to participate in the advisory working group as a courtesy….Eight other Council members were not invited, as well.” Another class action against the DOR, this one on behalf of four plaintiffs, was filed in Missoula County on Jan. 24 by Helena attorney Michael Green. Rhoades says there’s a chance the two suits could be consolidated going forward. Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Uplifting erotica
Tinglers get a podcast
A year ago, the Indy introduced readers to Montana’s rising star in the gay niche erotica ebook scene, Chuck Tingle (“How Chuck Tingle turned
Sunday, February 25 The final day of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival includes a sold-out third showing of director Kimberly Reed’s Dark Money at the Missoula Community Theatre.
Monday, February 26 AMC Dine-In Southgate 9 theater opens at the Southgate Mall. The new movie theater allows patrons to order food and drinks, including craft beer, from their seats.
Tuesday, February 27 Governor Steve Bullock declares a state of emergency on the Blackfoot, Fort Belknap and Northern Cheyenne reservations as well as in Glacier and Golden Valley counties due to extreme cold and blizzard conditions.
I’m a Diamond frequent flyer on @Delta and @NRA Lifetime Member. I’m looking for a new airline.” —U.S. Sen. Steve Daines in a Feb. 24 tweet linking to a news story about Delta Air Lines’ announcement that it will cease offering discounted airfare rates to members of the National Rifle Association.
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[news] monster erotica into performance art,” Feb. 9, 2017). Tingle is the pen name of a writer who claims to live in Billings and sells short works of satirical, topical erotica called Tinglers on Amazon for $2.99 each. He became an unlikely internet hero in 2016 when he punked a bunch of Gamergate trolls, weaponizing his art to “prove love is real.” He’s continued to build his cult following since, with recent Tinglers “Taken Hotly By My Handsome Physically Manifested Hot Take,” “Slammed In The Butt By My Handsome Laundry Detergent Pod,” and “Sentient Fort Pauls Manofort Is Charged In The Butt While Tromp’s Foreign Policy Advisor Georgie Papadop Admits He Lied About Hiding Inside.” For his latest act, Tingle is romping into the podcast world with the forthcoming launch of his series “Pounded in the Butt by My Own Podcast.” The series is produced by indie podcast studio Night Vale Presents, publishers of the long-running podcast “Welcome to Night Vale.” Tingle first teased the show in an online message on Valentine’s Day in which he acknowledged the foray into audio was a big step for an author who has closely guarded his identity — what he calls his “privacy as a doctor.” While Tingle will serve as the series’ host, the bulk of each episode consists of guests performing his Tinglers aloud. Guests for season one include musician Dane Terry reading “Bigfoot Pirates Haunt My Balls” and actress Mara Wilson reading “Butt Wars: Rogue Buns.” The Indy contacted Tingle by email recently about the new project, publishing absurdist erotica in the age of Trump, and his dream celebrity guests. A transcript of the Q&A, conducted in Tingle’s idiosyncratic writing style, is available online at missoulanews.com. Tingle suggests his fans try listening to the podcast while working out or driving. “Maybe if you want to get hard with your car but haven’t had a chance to horse around yet you could listen to a Tingler and then talk about it together and see how it made you feel,” he says. The first season of “Pounded in the Butt by My Own Podcast” will be released on March 14. Derek Brouwer
Hardrock life
Initiative targets mines
Richard Liebert can rattle off at least half a dozen reasons why he wants to see greater accountability for mining companies when it comes to water quality. He’s a taxpayer, a cattle rancher, a conservationist, an Eagle Scout, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. Mostly, though, he just doesn’t want to see Montanans get ripped off. “Too many times the public gets stiffed,” he says. “[Mine companies] do the project, the clean-up doesn’t get done and taxpayers end up getting screwed over it. And in the process our clean water’s compromised as well.” On Feb. 21, a consortium of conservation organizations, fishing shop owners and ranchers, including Liebert, filed a citizen initiative with the Secretary of State’s office seeking to address that very issue. The initiative, proposed for the November ballot, would require mining companies to offer stronger evidence that new hardrock mines won’t permanently pollute nearby ground and surface water. David Brooks, executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited, refers to the effort as a “common sense, simple and easy reform.” “This is just about the permitting process,” Brooks says. “It just allows the [Department of Environmental Quality] to deny a permit if that permit lacks clear and convincing evidence that a mine will not create permanent water pollution and need permanent treatment of water.” Concerns over the long-term impacts of hardrock mining on streams and rivers have come into sharp focus in recent years, particularly where the Smith River is concerned. The Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthworks — two of the non-
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profits behind the new initiative — have been central in the opposition to the Black Butte Copper Project, a proposed copper mine along one of the Smith’s main tributaries. But as Liebert suggests, the initiative takes aim at another major issue: the cost to the public of abandoned mines like Zortman-Landusky, where the state continues to spend more than $1 million annually on water treatment. Hardrock mining watchdogs have taken their concerns to the ballot before in Montana, with considerable success. In 1998, an initiative to prohibit new cyanide leach mining statewide passed with 52 percent of the vote. When an industry-backed measure to reverse that ban appeared on the ballot six years later, 58 percent of voters rejected it. Brooks anticipates pushback from the mining industry this year, too. However, past victories at the polls have him convinced the general public grasps the underlying issues. “Montanans understand the importance of clean water and protecting their own wellbeing from risky mining practices that contaminate water,” he says. “This is a small step in that same direction.” The initiative is now under review by the state’s Legislative Services Division. If approved, it will go out for signature gathering later this spring. Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Under stage lights at the Wilma, University of Montana President Seth Bodnar could not have sounded more disingenuous. “I don’t want to have any tomatoes thrown at me when I say this, but the point of our athletics programs, it’s not to win games,” he said Feb. 26 before an audience of a couple hundred who came for a panel on sexual assault and UM athletics. A few chairs over from Bodnar sat Griz football coach Bobby Hauck, who was called back to Missoula last fall because his predecessor’s 21-14 overall record, and 7-4 record last year, wasn’t good enough. Also on stage was Athletic Director Kent Haslam, who fired coach Bob Stitt and rehired Hauck, despite Hauck’s track record of player misconduct and media outbursts, because he wanted more wins. “We need to be winning conference championships,” Haslam said Nov. 20, the day he fired Stitt. “We need to be going to the playoffs. Those are things that are critical to us as an athletic department.” In theory, “Tackling Sexism,” as the event organized by progressive activist group Missoula Rises was titled, offered the public a chance to hear UM leaders answer hard questions about sexual assault and prove how much progress the university has made on the issue. Hauck was only there for the participation points, even reminding the crowd that the panel was not a university-sanctioned event. Asked by co-moderator Erin Erickson how he sets the tone for his team, Hauck recited from a notepad a list of sexual-assault awareness activities, including a cupcake sale. Asked what he considers “locker room talk,” Hauck said it wasn’t productive to deal in hypotheticals. Asked then what he would do if he heard a player make a demeaning comment about women, Hauck did say he’d “tell them to stop.” Panelist Lisa Davey, who started a petition last fall urging UM not to rehire Hauck, explained how Hauck’s first stint as head coach created the toxic culture that led to sexual assaults and public shame (example: player “initiation parties”). But Hauck, seated next to Davey, didn’t bother to respond, saying he’d learned to let people “take their shots.” Bodnar, Haslam and Hauck offered little candor Monday night. But their questioning did reveal one disappointing insight: The men running UM still don’t get it.
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Housing lesson How Bozeman screwed the pooch on affordability by Eric Dietrich
Take a Montana college town. Good beer, a decent economy, beautiful scenery. A quality of life that attracts new residents in droves. A housing crunch as the influx pushes up home prices, trapping even middle-income wage earners in rentals. A mounting sense of public frustration — enough that a Santa Febased consultant is brought in to assess the community’s options.
He might as well have been standing in Bozeman three years ago, when he walked through a similar document before a sparser crowd in that college town’s city hall. There, the median home price was $287,000 in 2014, up $80,000 since 2011. “You have a lot of folks who are renting right now who should be able to buy a house,” he said then.
west Montana Building Industry Association representatives stepped up to the city commission podium to rail against one of Werwath’s key recommendations: an inclusionary zoning policy that would have mandated accessible prices for some homes and condos in new housing projects. A stick-it-to-the-developers mandate might sound good to Bozeman’s
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Three years ago, Bozeman hired the same consultant now being tapped in Missoula to help its city leaders figure out how to control housing costs. The ill-fated effort has produced just nine below-market-price homes so far.
The year? 2015. The city? Bozeman. Not that things look so different in Missoula, circa 2018. That same Santa Fe housing consultant, Daniel Werwath, filled a Holiday Inn ballroom here Jan. 30 as he presented a study commissioned by the Missoula Organization of Realtors. With median home prices at $268,000 and climbing, Werwath told attendees, Missoula is at a turning point. “You’re on the cusp of a bad situation,” he said, “but it hasn’t totally gone over the waterfall yet.”
Left unmentioned in the Missoula ballroom this year? How little progress Bozeman has made in addressing its gentrification woes. Bozeman’s main housing push, the effort that came out of its Werwath report, has produced a grand total of nine below-market-price houses in three years. That could provide a look into Missoula’s future. Over the divide, housing politics curdled even before Werwath finished his 2015 presentation. South-
growth-weary public, builders said, but it would actually crimp the city’s home supply by making it harder to profitably build new housing. A better approach, the industry reps said, would be to offer regulatory incentives, like permitting home construction on smaller lots. They could build plenty of modestly priced homes and condos, builders testified, if the city would just make construction cheaper by easing red tape. Werwath disagreed. “I don’t think that [even] if you completely deregu-
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lated Bozeman, that you would be getting affordable home prices,” he told the city commission. “I don’t think there’s enough juice there.” But Bozeman’s leaders offered a compromise anyway, telling the industry they’d hold off on the affordability mandate if builders could take select incentives and produce enough low-priced homes. The initial goal, which then-planning director Wendy Thomas described as modest: 14 homes in 10 months, with at least four sold for $219,000 or less. It didn’t happen. By mid-2017 the incentives program had produced only nine homes, all built by a single company and none hitting the city’s more aggressive price targets. Thomas, the affordability project’s key in-house proponent, quit in mid2016 and moved to Florida, where she now runs a “Department of Doing” in Gainesville intended to make that city more responsive to its citizens. With the Bozeman project shuffled among staffers after Thomas’ departure, city government didn’t keep the paperwork that was supposed to verify sale prices. Because Montana law keeps real estate sale prices private, that meant the city didn’t actually have any guarantee that the “affordable” houses met the city’s targets. Then-Mayor Carson Taylor blamed the effort’s failure on the building industry, complaining that it “only gets excited about this when there’s a deadline about to come.” Builders blamed city government, saying the incentives hadn’t been plump enough to make modestly priced construction worth their while. In the meantime, median home prices were up to $398,000, out of reach for most families making less than $68,000 a year. “It just bought the builders time,” says Werwath, who now says Bozeman’s compromise program was “just so clearly a situation where it wasn’t going to work.” Bozeman pivoted back to the affordability mandate last summer, but the would-be silver bullet appears to have jammed in the barrel. For starters, when city staff went to dust off the legal language that would implement the mandate, written as part of the compromise package in 2015, they realized it would inadvertently
place an effective ban on new condo developments. So, as a stop-gap measure, the city has exempted condominiums — currently the de facto starter home supply for many Bozeman buyers — from the mandate. Additionally, most of the other housing developments proposed in Bozeman in the last six months have been small enough to duck the mandate’s 10-unit threshold, says current planning director Marty Matsen, though one major subdivision developer has four homes on the way priced below $200,000, and a nonprofit housing developer is working on a few more. A new city housing director tasked with overhauling the effort started work Feb. 20. Werwath thinks Bozeman’s housing market may have passed the point of no return. “It was running away two, three years ago, and then they didn’t do anything for a couple
“You’re on the cusp of a bad situation, but it hasn’t totally gone over the waterfall yet.”
years,” he says. “It was already sort of too late when they started looking at this.” In Missoula, meanwhile, Werwath’s new study — commissioned by Realtors, rather than city government, at a cost of $25,000 — touts collaboration as the city’s best hope for keeping its housing stock accessible. The study details a lengthy list of ways the city and county could promote affordability by relaxing regulations and suggests using tax dollars to create a housing trust fund. Werwath doesn’t recommend an inclusionary zoning mandate because, he says, Missoula’s housing sector is “sophisticated” enough that it makes
more sense to look at other options first. “There are just better methods to put energy into,” he says. The Garden City does have its advantages. While staff turnover has dogged the administration of Bozeman’s affordability program, the city of Missoula has had a dedicated housing director, former Poverello Center director Eran Pehan, since 2016. And Missoula does have active “production builders” putting $230,000 homes on the market, according to Werwath, thus hitting price points that Bozeman struggled to accomplish with its incentives program. Missoula’s political dynamics may be more amenable to effective action on housing, as well. While a number of Werwath’s recommendations for Missoula involve better coordination between city and county governments — for instance, developing a joint annexation policy to help determine where new housing will be built — that sort of collaboration has been a challenge for the Bozeman area, where a conservative county commission routinely butts heads with more progressive city leaders. At the Realtor-organized event last month, Missoula County Commissioner Jean Curtiss, a Democrat, was onstage. Additionally, a single nonprofit in Bozeman, HRDC of District IX, handles everything from low-income housing development to a seasonal homeless shelter and a homebuyer education program. Missoula, in contrast, has several major agencies in the housing space, including the Missoula Housing Authority and Homeword. The number of stakeholders certainly gives Missoula more capacity to tackle its problem. But add Realtors, bankers and builders to the mix, and it also means an awful lot of cooks in the kitchen. While Bozeman’s housing push ended up adversarial, Werwath says he’s optimistic about Missoula’s prospects for getting government, private industry and housing nonprofits working in sync well enough to make substantial progress. “It’s really a hard thing to do,” he says, “and it takes everyone from every sector pulling in the same direction.” editor@missoulanews.com
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Rainbow’s end Rainbow Gathering founder, Missoula activist Chuck Mills dies by Susan Elizabeth Shepard
There are a lot of stories about Charles Homer Mills, aka Chuck Windsong, a Missoula resident who died last month in his Northside home at the age of 78. Mills was one of the founders of the Rainbow Gathering and is credited with finding the site for the group’s first large meeting in 1972. Last week, a man named Llama, speaking as a representative for Mills’ family, told the Indy about Mills’ founding myth. “Chuck had a vision of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ traveling through Colorado, and he sees a bar with a sign with the wagon wheel he saw in his vision,” Llama says. “He walks in and meets a guy who owns land near there, a private landowner, and the land is by Strawberry Lake.” That original camp of an estimated 20,000 people marked the beginnings of the Rainbow Gathering. Mills, who was born in Butte, served in the Navy from 1956 to 1965, according to fellow Rainbow founder Barry Adams. Mills and Adams met in 1969 in northern Washington, where antiwar activists would help conscientious objectors cross the border into Canada, and after discovering their shared Montana roots, became fast friends. Mills’ Missoula roots were deep. He moved into a house on the Northside and was an early part of the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, the Missoula Food Bank, the Northside Community Gardens and an early volunteer at the Poverello Center. He leaves behind a large biological family, including grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (Mills’ family declined through an intermediary to provide the names of surviving family members, citing privacy concerns.) The Rainbow Family has been targeted by law enforcement and federal agencies, and instances of violent crimes during gatherings, concerns about damage to public lands and ac-
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cusations of appropriation of Native culture have been a prominent part of media coverage of the Gathering in recent years. In 2015, the Missoula Police Department labeled the Rainbow Family as an extremist threat in an application for a Homeland Security grant to pay for a surveillance van. Protests from the Family and the Missoula community resulted in the application’s withdrawal. Llama says the original Rainbow Family was composed of serious polit-
Rock. We sent food, money, people.” Mills taught by example, he says. “He would build a huge kitchen at Gatherings. He just showed up and made it happen. He didn’t bark orders; he was a teacher. We’re all feeling it now that he left. He was some kind of beaming light that made it happen.” Adams, a prominent Missoula progressive activist, wrote in a Facebook message to the Indy that “Chuck was/is all Montana and a true American who loved the Earth and
photo by Mike Gerrity
Rainbow Family members at the 2013 Rainbow Gathering on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Chuck Mills is credited with finding the location for the first Gathering in 1972.
ical activists who were motivated by the Kent State shootings, and Mills was concerned that recent gatherings were moving away from those origins. “Rainbow Family was a loose social movement trying to organize religions to pray for world peace. It is an alternate form of society built on respect for each other,” he says. “I think some form will continue, but will it be Chuck’s vision for love and peace, or just some drugged-out party? And I say that with a heavy heart.” Mills remained engaged in activism into his final years, Llama says. “Chuck was adamant about Standing
Earth peoples and wanted peace.” A public service is planned for Friday, March 2, at 2 p.m. at the Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery. In accordance with Mills’ wishes, “Taps” will be played, but no shots will be fired. “Letting [people] know he is/was a veteran into peace is a good thing,” Adams wrote. Afterward, a celebration will be held at the American Legion Hall on Ronan Street from 4 to 9 p.m. Friends and family are sharing memories at facebook.com/groups/ chuckwindsong. sshepard@missoulanews.com
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Rookie mistake Seth Bodnar suffers academic culture shock by Dan Brooks
Last week, after faculty leaders at the University of Montana found discrepancies in the curriculum vitae of new UM President Seth Bodnar, Clayton Christian wrote it off as a difference in customs between academia and the business world. Despite this sliver of evidence to the contrary, our commissioner of higher education continues to believe that business is the career that qualifies you to do everyone else’s job. Bodnar’s resumé, which described his teaching experience at West Point, listed him as an assistant professor of economics at the military academy from 2009 to 2011. In fact he was not promoted to assistant professor until his last year; from 2009 until January 2011, he was an instructor—a lower position in the university system. Similarly, the CV Bodnar submitted to the search committee last year described him as “president” and “chief digital officer” of certain divisions at GE from July 2015 to August 2017, when in fact he did not attain those titles until 2016, the same year those divisions were created. These discrepancies are not egregious. It’s not as though Bodnar claimed to work somewhere he didn’t, or listed on his CV positions that he never held. His resumé did make it look like he started in the jobs to which he was eventually promoted, though, and in the case of his teaching career at West Point, it claimed he was an assistant professor for about three times as long as he actually was. But both Bodnar and Commissioner Christian insist it’s all a matter of differing conventions in the academic and business worlds. “I recognize that in building my resumé in a business-sector style to be as succinct as possible, I did not utilize certain conventions that are typically used in an academically-oriented CV,” Bodnar wrote in an email to UM faculty leaders. Christian echoed this explanation in his own email to the Indy’s Derek Brouwer, writing that “there were no discrepancies as you stated, [sic] his resume was written in a style different than the typical academic CV.” That comma in Christian’s statement should actually be a semicolon; a comma needs a conjunction to join two independ-
ent clauses. Also, the proper usage is “different from,” not “different than.” Christian can be forgiven for not remembering these rules of written English, though, because he’s from the business world. Our commissioner of higher education owns a title company and made his name in real estate, not academia, after taking 10 years to earn his bachelor’s degree in business from UM.
“Why business experience better qualifies a person to oversee education than education experience is one of those enduring mysteries, but it’s true. Ask any businessperson.” Previously, the job of commissioner had required a doctorate, but the board of regents removed that requirement in 2011— shortly before they canceled a national search and hired Christian, who was at that time a regent himself. The people of Montana wanted a commissioner who knew what it was like to do business in the state, the regents said. Why business experience better qualifies a person to oversee education than education experience is one of those enduring mysteries, but it’s true. Ask any businessperson.
Christian and the regents asked a lot of businesspeople before they hired Bodnar, who is the first UM president without a doctorate since Robert Pantzer got the job in 1966. Bodnar has never taught at a public university. He hasn’t even attended one; he earned his undergraduate degree at West Point and his two master’s degrees at Oxford. Those are excellent schools, but they are run by the U.S. military and a conclave of wizards, respectively. It’s hard to think of two institutions that could differ more from a public research university like the University of Montana, but Christian and the regents presented Bodnar’s lack of experience as a strength rather than a weakness. He was supposed to bring a fresh perspective to UM at a moment when it was struggling. This resumé kerfuffle reminds us that sometimes, never doing a thing results in not knowing how to do it. I’m willing to accept the explanation that Bodnar put together his CV wrong because he doesn’t know how academic curricula vitae are supposed to work, not because he was trying to fool people. But am I also to accept that the university president who doesn’t know how to write an academic resumé does know how to reverse a multi-year trend in declining enrollment? Bodnar’s resumé is not a big deal. An example of a big deal would be hiring a UM president with no doctorate and less teaching experience than many grad students. When Christian and the regents did that, they spun it by claiming that Bodnar’s military and business experience would make him better than conventional candidates. Maybe that’s true. Maybe all our struggling state university needs is a fresh perspective. Maybe, though, a person who has never done anything like this before is likely to make the kind of mistakes that people with experience do not. Let’s hope this resumé mistake is the last time Bodnar’s fresh perspective translates to not knowing what everyone else in academia already does. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.
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IRONY – A North Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm celebrated Valentine’s Day in an unconventional way: Wilson & Haubert, PLLC hosted a contest to win a free divorce (a $985 value). “Are you ready to call it quits?” the firm’s Facebook post asked. “Do you know someone that is?” Firm co-founder Brandon Haubert told WIS-TV that the firm had received more than 40 entries in the first day it was offered. EWWWWW! – About a week after an 11-year-old boy scraped his elbow while playing in a tidal pool on a California beach, pediatricians treating him for the resulting abscess removed a small, hard object and were surprised to discover a live checkered periwinkle marine snail, according to United Press International. Dr. Albert Khait and his colleagues at Loma Linda University wrote in BMJ Case Reports that a snail’s egg had apparently become embedded in the boy’s skin when he scraped it. The mollusk later hatched inside the abscess. Dr. Khait said the boy took the snail home as a pet, but it did not survive living outside its former home. BLIMEY! – Michelle Myers of Buckeye, Arizona, suffers from blinding headaches, but it’s what happens afterward that until recently had doctors stumped. Myers, who has never been out of the United States, has awakened from her headaches three times in the last seven years with a different foreign accent. The first time it was Irish; the second was Australian, and both lasted only about a week. But Myers’ most recent event, which was two years ago, left her with a British accent that she still has. Doctors have diagnosed her with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare condition that usually accompanies a neurological event such as a stroke. Myers told ABC-15 that the loss of her normal accent makes her sad: “I feel like a different person. Everybody only sees or hears Mary Poppins.” NEW WORLD ORDER – A new golf course at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Oregon, will take “the golf experience ... to a new level” in 2018, owner Scott Campbell announced in early February to the website Golf WRX. This summer, golfers will be offered goat caddies to carry clubs, drinks, balls and tees on the resort’s short seven-hole challenge course, McVeigh’s Gauntlet. “We’ve been developing an unprecedented caddie training program with our head caddie, Bruce LeGoat,” Campbell went on, adding that the professionally trained American Range goats will “work for peanuts.” (Rim shot.) UPDATE – News of the Weird reported in September on the giant “fatberg” lodged in the sewer system beneath the streets of London. The huge glob of oil, fat, diapers and baby wipes was finally blasted out after nine weeks of work. On Feb. 8, the Museum of London put on display a shoebox-sized chunk of the fatberg, the consistency of which is described by curator Vyki Sparkes as being something like Parmesan cheese crossed with moon rock. “It’s disgusting and fascinating,” she told the Associated Press. The mini-fatberg is enclosed within three nested transparent boxes to protect visitors from potentially deadly bacteria, the terrible smell — and the tiny flies that swarm around it. The museum is also selling fatberg fudge and T-shirts in conjunction with the exhibit, which continues until July 1. MAIL CALL – The Federal Agency for Environmental Protection in Mexico is investigating a Feb. 7 attempt to express-mail a Bengal tiger cub from Jalisco to Queretaro, reported WDBJTV. The cub had been sedated and packed into a plastic container; a dog sniffing for contraband detected it. Wildlife agents said the cub was underweight and dehydrated but otherwise healthy, and its papers were in order. However, because mailing it was considered mistreatment, it was relocated to a wildlife protection center. WHY NOT? – Terran Woolley of Hutchinson, Kansas, got a bright idea after he read the bylaws and requirements to become the state’s governor. “I was reading some stories about the young teenagers that were entering the governor’s race ... and I thought, ‘I wonder if ... Angus could run,’” Woolley explained to KWCH-TV. Angus is Woolley’s wirehaired vizsla, a four-legged, furry friend of the people who Woolley said would promise soft couches and a “completely antisquirrel agenda” if elected. Alas, on Feb. 12, the Kansas secretary of state’s office dashed Angus’ dreams when it declared that despite the fact that there are no specific restrictions against a dog being governor, Angus would be unable to carry out the responsibilities of the office. LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Kenneth R. Shutes Jr. of New Richmond, Wisconsin, bolted from a midnight traffic stop on Feb. 6, but he didn’t make it far before having to call 911 for help. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported that Shutes got stuck in a frozen swamp in rural Star Prairie and, after about an hour, became unable to walk as temperatures dipped to minus 8 degrees. Fire and rescue workers removed Shutes from the wooded area, and he was later charged in St. Croix County Circuit Court for failing to obey an officer, marijuana possession and obstructing an officer. Shutes told a deputy he “needed an incident like this because he was making poor decisions in his life.” Partially Located on National Forest Lands Photo © GlacierWorld.com
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Incident 1: August 2017 s I sat in my yard enjoying the late afternoon sun and a predinner beer, I saw him walking diagonally across Johnson Street and into my yard — a twenty-something white guy with a buzz cut and an anger problem. He cut across the corner of my lot, not noticing me, though I sat 12 feet away in the shade of our giant maple tree. He was too busy yelling into his phone. Don’t talk to me like that. Don’t fucking talk to me like that! Though our is house is on a street used as an unofficial bypass for two traffic-choked thru-ways, it is a quiet neighborhood, generally speaking. It’s a neighborhood people drive through, or around, without much noticing as they traverse town, from the Westside to the South Hills, or from the University District to the big box stores on Reserve Street. It’s a neighborhood filled with kids, families, elderly folks, young couples, single people — pretty much anyone you might see at the Food Farm or Westside Lanes. But I’m a writer with a healthy imagination, and I don’t have people in my life who talk like the angry guy on the phone, so I chalked the situation up to me being sensitive, until the six cop cars descended on my block, five or 10 minutes after the man passed by. The first one pulled up next to my house. The other pulled into my driveway, behind my van. A third pulled into the alley, and three more split off to circle the block. I thought to point out the direction the man had taken, but no one asked. I thought to check on my kids, but they were safe in the house. As I stood there in my yard, beer in hand, watching the show, my ex-husband pulled up, fresh off the road from Los Angeles, where he lives. Each August he takes the kids for a two-week stretch and I leave town for a much-needed vacation from a year spent solo-parenting. “Hey,” he said, and gave me a hug. “Hey,” I said. “Check out all the cop cars. I think they’re looking for this angry dude who just walked by.” We watched until the scene died down, then went inside to see the kids. In the morning, I drove off in my van to spend a week on the Pacific coast, and another in Portland with friends. I got back to Missoula just after the eclipse, and days before the start of the new school year, to find my neighborhood, my city and much of my state choked by smoke. My friend Sarah said to me soon after, “So, crazy times in your hood, huh?” Sarah lives up the Rattlesnake, a neighborhood I’d coveted years ago, but couldn’t afford.
the angry guy and the cop cars were harbingers of things to come in our pocket of town between here and there.
I asked what she meant, and she filled me in: A couple of blocks away, in a house so close we can see it from the corner of my lot, a man and a woman had killed another man and woman, cut up their bodies and put them in bins of chemicals in an attempt to dissolve the corpses. A roommate had tipped off the cops, and they’d been caught at the house, a couple of weeks before, right around the time the angry guy walked through my yard.
n the summer of 2011, I moved back to Missoula after a decade-long absence. I’m no native. I first moved here from the Midwest in the fall of 1993 to go to college, and I never left. Yes, I am one of those people, the lifelong transplants who, depending on how you look at it, either make or ruin this town. Re-
at me as he grabbed his bag. I thought, He looks just like Huey Lewis. The shuttle driver for the Holiday Inn laughed and assured me the man looked like Huey Lewis because he was Huey Lewis. But I was distracted: In the few minutes between exiting the terminal and boarding the shuttle, I felt a tingling on the top of my head that reminded me of an Emily Dickinson line about poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
I looked up the mugshots of the man and woman who’d been arrested. The guy I had seen certainly looked like one of the alleged murderers — Augustus Standingrock — though I don’t know for sure. Maybe it was a coincidence. Maybe the man who crossed my yard was just an angry guy who resembled Standingrock, and those six cops cars showed up to solve some other crime in the hood that I never saw in the news. Either way,
gardless, we are a large part of the population, the part that was not born to this place, but chooses it, out of love. I recall clearly my physical reaction to seeing Missoula for the first time. I was 17 and visiting colleges out West. I’d never, until that day, been farther west than Chicago. I stood around the baggage claim in Missoula’s small airport, admiring the cowboy boots on the man standing next to me. I looked up and he smiled
I looked up at what I then thought of as mountains, but now call by name — the North Hills, Mount Jumbo, Mount Sentinel — and I knew I’d found it, found home, a word I’d never attached to Indiana, the state where I was born. I moved to Missoula the next fall, met my husband (a native) during our college years, and lived in town until 2000, the year we moved away for graduate school. We spent a decade mostly in
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Texas, had two kids, and talked often about making our way back to Missoula. For years I thought the only way back would come through good fortune. Instead it came from the opposite. My employer in Texas closed its doors in 2008, when I was weeks pregnant with my second child. Starting in 2010, we endured what I jokingly called our “homeless year,” though we were never truly homeless. We strung together a series of house-sitting gigs and months-long visits with family while we scrambled for work.
ever. My kids would turn 2 and 5 over the summer, and my son would start kindergarten in the fall. Most everything we owned fit in our Saturn wagon. By fall, their father and I would divorce, and he would leave the state for good — a twist I did not see coming. I thought I knew Missoula pretty well when I moved back, and I found that the areas I’d frequented comforted me with their same-ness. I knew the University District, of course, and I’d lived in a tiny pyramid house on the Northside for five
some call Felony Flats. It’s bordered by Russell and Reserve to the east and west, and Third and 14th to the north and south. Some call it the Southside, or Franklin to the Fort, though both labels feel too broad, too generic. You could call it Missoula’s affordable housing neighborhood, though the gap between wages and housing costs in Missoula renders even the least expensive housing unaffordable for many. As a newly single mother with two young kids and a limited income, this
Meanwhile, I viewed dozens of houses. None of them were quite right. But the moment I walked into that house — our house — all three of us experienced that same magic I’d felt when I first set eyes on the Missoula valley 20 years earlier. In January of 2013, I signed the papers, got the keys and moved into our 1,200-square-foot 1940s bungalow. We owned so little that our voices and footsteps echoed off the walls even after we’d unpacked. Still, we felt rich. This was it. We’d found home.
Incident 2: September 2017
By spring of 2011, we returned to Missoula to stay with one of my favorite people, my kids’ step-grandfather and my former stepfather-in-law, whom we all call Sully. Sully had just bought a duplex out by Reserve and Third, and he let us use his two spare rooms until we found a place of our own. After being gone for nearly 11 years, I discovered I loved Missoula more than
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years. I’d hiked up the Rattlesnake, and I’d visited my then-husband’s relatives in the South Hills. I’d found my way to the mall on occasion, and farther, to Lolo, and the mountains south and west of there. But this area where Sully lived, near the Good Food Store, was a stretch of town I’d not much considered. In 2013, I bought a house in the heart of this area, which a friend told me
was the only neighborhood I could afford. Our lease on a rental near the university had ended in August of 2012, so the kids and I surfed — not quite homeless, but without a home of our own — for months while I house-hunted. We stayed in a single-wide trailer near Westside Lanes for two months with a kindhearted friend. Then we stayed with Sully near Third and Reserve again.
I recall listening to the come and go of traffic on Johnson that night because I could not sleep. The valley had finally cleared of smoke from the record-breaking wildfires, so I could open the windows again. I’m not prone to insomnia, but over the previous month, my brain had begun kicking into overdrive when I closed my eyes, and I lay awake in the dark of my upstairs bedroom with too many things on my mind. My first book — a memoir about cars, due out the next summer — was in final edits on my virtual desktop. I had started a stressful freelance writing gig that I hoped might pay the bills through winter. Our basement was in a state of partial remodel, and I had no idea how I might afford to finish it. In the meantime, I’d been watching the chaotic and painful decline of my mother, who had turned 64 the week before. In August, she’d landed herself in a nursing home due to brain injuries from her longtime alcoholism. These thoughts ran on repeat like a filmstrip flickering between sleep and me. Around 11 p.m., I heard a car accelerating. Then, a second later, a crash, or a jumbled series of crashes. I jolted out of bed and to the window. I felt sure someone had run into my van parked on Johnson, but when I looked out I saw only the usual dark of our neighborhood at night. I threw on clothes and shoes and bolted outside, where others were starting to gather. Someone said a motorcycle had crashed in the alley, behind what I’ve come to think of as Lucy’s house, so named after the white pit bull who spends much of her time tethered to a tree in the backyard. But I didn’t hear Lucy. I didn’t hear much of anything. No sirens. No distress calls. My cousin had died in a motorcycle crash a few years before, and I know enough about them to think twice before approaching such a scene. There are certain things you can’t un-see. Someone yelled toward the alley, Are you OK? Someone yelled back, No!
But otherwise the scene was eerily calm. At one point, someone in the alley requested towels. I called 911 to be sure the event had been reported. All this unfolded in minutes. The ambulances arrived first, then the police cars. They worked quietly, without an apparent sense of emergency. I knew then that someone had likely died. Soon, the section of Johnson between the neighbors’ house and mine was sealed off as a crime scene, the police tape stretching from Lucy’s fence to ours. I heard the police say it had been not a motorcycle but a car that had run through my neighbor’s yard and come to rest in the alley, but I couldn’t see it. I couldn’t see how that had happened, even when I went back to my upstairs window and tried to piece the event together from my elevated view. I wouldn’t fully understand until I saw a recap on the television news and read a report in the next day’s newspaper. Once I understood, the logistics
been outside on the trampoline with their light-up hula hoops, as they often were on warm nights at that hour. And that the neighbor’s dog, Lucy, had not been in the yard, sleeping where she often slept, directly in the path of destruction. In fact, I had not seen Lucy in weeks. She was gone, had been gone. I don’t know if she died or ran away or went to a new home, but I was relieved, at least, to know that she never met that runaway car. For five years, I’d watched Lucy pace in her yard as I wrote a book about cars. Had I somehow drawn that rogue vehicle toward me, in the night, my anxiety a cosmic magnet for automotive chaos? These thoughts, I know, are illogical, the result of a monotonous writing life and an active imagination. But still.
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hortly after moving in, we named our house Headquarters. The kids and I have a habit of naming things. Our white van is named Trooper (short for Clone Trooper). Our couch is Jeffrey.
trol — not a choice I liked, but the only choice I could think of. The dog disappeared before animal control showed up, and I ushered the kids quickly inside. Once I’d set up a desk for myself upstairs, on the side of my bedroom facing Johnson, I saw where the dog lived, directly across the street. I work from home, mostly, and spent long stretches staring into space, searching for words. I’d end up watching Lucy, as her family called her, lying in the shade of a tree in her backyard. Lucy got loose more than once. She threatened aggression in a way not uncommon for an unsocialized, understimulated dog. The kids quickly learned to stay inside when we spotted Lucy on the run, and run she did — no one could catch her. At night, I’d often hear her crying from her backyard. One night not long after we met Lucy, I left the kids with a sitter so I could go out for a rare evening with friends. The sitter was also one of their daycare
He apologized again, hands up still, and backed out the door. The sitter and I nervous-laughed until I realized she wasn’t laughing anymore. Me? I couldn’t stop. My adrenaline come-down was manic. Finally, I called the police, worried that the man was either dangerous, or might waltz into another house in the middle of the night and get himself shot. In hindsight, we’re incredibly lucky that it wasn’t Augustus Standingrock who walked through our door that night. I later learned that, the July before his murder arrest, Standingrock had been arrested for a break-in and stabbing on Montana Street, where the kids and I had stayed in my friends’ trailer. That spring, the snow thawed, revealing a yard bursting with beauty and complexity. The house had gone on the market just before Thanksgiving, and I’d never had a chance to see the yard without snow. There were beds of irises and daffodils with sage, lavender and native grasses scattered throughout. There was
“It’s a neighborhood in a state of transition, on a hinge swinging rapidly from what it was to what it — to what we — will become.” floored me — the mad velocity of the car, and the miracle that the damage had not been worse. A couple of guys had been joyriding when the 20-year-old driver accelerated far beyond what’s reasonable as they headed into the intersection at Johnson and Mount. He turned left onto Johnson and continued to accelerate, losing control and crashing into the neighbor’s yard. (This brings to mind what I didn’t hear as I lay in bed that night: brakes. The driver didn’t even brake.) The car hit the neighbor’s chain-link fence, plowed through their 20-foot flagpole, and through the slim space between their parked car and house, taking a chunk out of the rear bedroom where their daughter slept, through the trampoline and the shed at the rear of the property, coming to rest, finally, in the alley. The driver died at the scene, and the passenger, who’d had the good sense to wear his seat belt, was conscious and relatively unharmed. Later that night, as police lights continued to flash through my bedroom window, two thoughts came to me: How lucky it was that the teenage kids had not
Our dishwasher is Michael. Our Christmas tree this year they named Margaret. Perhaps it’s a habit born to compensate for our lack of traditional ties. My family lives 1,800 miles away, in Indiana. The kids’ dad lives in California. Some of his family lives in town, but our connections to others are tenuous. Nontraditional. We’re transplants. In some odd way, the naming of things helps us grow roots. Just after we moved in, we pulled up to Headquarters and, as I began to open the car door, I noticed a white pit bull slinking around our yard. She looked young and scared and sketchy. I chose to ignore her and turned my back to open the rear door and unbuckle my 3-yearold from her child seat. As I turned, the dog advanced. I felt it, the way I once felt the presence of a mountain lion before I saw it, feasting on a fresh kill in the saddle of Mt. Sentinel. I yelled at the dog, which lunged within two feet of me, aiming for a nip. She backed away but remained between us and the house. I got back in the car and tuned in the “Pea Green Boat” for the kids, who were fascinated and frightened by the pacing white dog. After 10 minutes of thinking, I called Animal Con-
teachers, and when I got home, she called her boyfriend to come pick her up. We chatted for a bit as we waited. After 10 minutes or so, the front door opened, and a man the sitter’s age stepped inside. He didn’t look like her type, what with the dreadlocks wrapped up in a tapestry wound like a turban on his head. Come on in, I said, and he did. The sitter had her back to the door. She turned around and smiled at the man, then turned back to me and finished what she’d been saying before he entered. Something was off. Nice meeting your boyfriend, I said. The smile fell from her face. That’s not my boyfriend, she said. Adrenaline rushed through me, standing every hair on my body on end. I nodded. I kept calm. The man looked at me, raised his palms waist-high toward the ceiling. I’m sorry, he said. This looked like a house where I would be welcome. His eyes were dilated. Perhaps the camper van had looked to him like a beacon on a cold night. My kids are here, sleeping, I said. You’ll have to go.
a crabapple tree as tall as the house, so remarkable in full bloom that strangers pull over to snap photos. I was no gardener, and raising a 3-year-old and a 6year-old left little time for hobbies, but I would learn. In spring we built a fence out of cedar, as if those hundreds of three-foot planks could keep the kids safe, and the Lucys and intruders of the world out. I set the kids up with buckets and shovels and a blanket to sit on while I went about the work of learning how to distinguish a weed from a flower.
Incident 3: December 2017
On a pre-Christmas December day while I was working at my desk, looking out on not only Lucy’s yard but Mount Sentinel, Mount Jumbo, even Pattee Canyon, my computer spit out a notification that I’d been tagged in a social media post. This always induces in me a mild sense of panic, as if I’ve done something wrong. In this case, I was in the clear, but the news was grim. My neighbor, whose house I can see from my own, tagged me in an article about the discovery of a box of bones at
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a house just one street over and one block down from my own. The box held rocks, teeth, part of a jaw bone and other bone fragments. Though the news didn’t break until December, the bones had been found Sept. 27 by people cleaning out a vacated rental. That’s just 10 days after that car crashed through my neighbor’s yard. The bones, the article said, were believed to be those of three children, ranging in age from 2 to 10.
I tried not to let fear grab hold, but I couldn’t shake that eye-of-the-storm feeling I used to get as a kid in the Midwest during tornado season, when the air would go still and the light would turn an unnatural shade of yellow and I knew, on instinct, there was a funnel cloud on the horizon. Soon another article came out reporting speculation that the bones might belong to three boys who went missing
remember we had just received a plastic card from the state of Michigan that looked like a credit card, but everyone knew it was a food stamps card. My daughter had the stomach flu, and I stripped her down to her diaper in a McDonald’s bathroom after she’d thrown up all over herself and her car seat. I cleaned up my child and we continued south across Michigan just as, perhaps, those boys were preparing for their
Because it involved children — children roughly my own kids’ ages, and the ages of all of their friends — this news hit closest to home, figuratively speaking. If I’m being literal, the car crash was closest to us (across the street, to the east), the shed where the bones were found comes in second (a block and a half northwest), and the double murder the farthest (two and a half blocks south). Which puts Headquarters in the middle of an incredibly tight trifecta of dark happenings.
in Michigan on Nov. 26, 2010, the day after Thanksgiving. I thought back to where my family had been then. It was our not-quitehomeless year, and I’d taken a temporary job teaching creative writing at my old high school in northern Michigan. The pay had been low but the school offered housing and health insurance. The kids were 1 and 4, and we’d spent Thanksgiving Eve driving across Michigan to spend the holiday with my parents in Indiana. I
last Thanksgiving before being carried away for good, only for our paths to converge again years later, in Missoula, Montana.
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y father is a Jungian social worker who instilled in me a disbelief in the notion of coincidence. I have a habit of seeing patterns and trying to read these patterns like tea leaves. I’m no psychologist, but I know enough to know that our interpretations of synchronistic
events do not reveal truths about God or the universe or the nature of reality so much as they reveal who we are. Our character. Our world view. The psychic weight of those three events occurring within a 10-week span still leads me to ask, What does it mean? To have found our home in the middle of some Bermuda Triangle of deadly events? I have no idea. But I do know that I feel the opposite of misfortune. I could not afford our house at current market value. We are incredibly lucky to have snagged it during a slow time of year for real estate (the holidays), and before the market bounced back from the Great Recession. When we moved into Headquarters, I promised my son he could finish the school year at the school where he’d already begun kindergarten. It was a large school with a good reputation where he seemed to fly under the radar because he was quiet and the work came easily to him. We’d been warned that the school he’d switch to in the fall, the school two blocks from our house, was “rough and tumble.” A Title I school, which means it receives federal funding to support a low-income student body. The next fall, I walked my son to the new school each day, cup of coffee in hand, and I met him when the bell rang in the afternoon to walk him home. By the end of the first week, the principal was waving goodbye, addressing him by name. Not because he’d been in trouble. Not because he’d been exceptionally good. Because he was one of her students. Because she knew them all by name. My daughter eventually began kindergarten at the same school. Over the years we’ve made friends there. Because it is a Title I school, breakfast and lunch are free to all. The kids don’t have to identify themselves as “free lunch” kids. The food is there for everyone, equally, in this neighborhood where some kids might not otherwise have a decent meal. In summer, the school opens its doors for free lunch so that kids on break can count on at least a few meals a week, no matter the state of their home pantry. When I think about this simple kindness — free food for growing kids, my kids’ friends, kids I know by name — I get choked up. Last year, the city voted to support the construction of a new building for my kids’ elementary school, which had just turned 100 years old. Over the summer, while the old school was being demolished, the nearby Quaker church hosted the free lunch program. This fall, my son moved on to middle school and my daughter walked into an amazing
new building where the gym no longer doubles as a cafeteria. Construction in our neighborhood has been hopping since the market bounced back, which sparked another nickname for our area: the Infill Neighborhood — one of the last locations in Missoula with lots large enough and houses cheap enough that developers can buy a ‘40s bungalow, bulldoze it and throw up a 16-unit, three-story multiplex in a matter of months. Our family has grown, too. January marked our fifth anniversary at Headquarters. We now have one dog, two guinea pigs and three fish — all carefully named, though we have moved beyond the names of cars and appliances and pets to learn the names of many of our neighbors and most of the kids who run down the street. Often, my kids run with them. The knowledge of the need in our neighborhood, paired with the growing familiarity, binds me to this place where good things are happening. It’s a place where bad things have happened, too. It’s a neighborhood in a state of transition, on a hinge swinging rapidly from what it was to what it — to what we — will become.
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ast week, as I prepared the kids for school on a gray February morning, I heard on the radio that the bones of
those children, found in the nearby shed last fall, are likely more than 100 years old. They do not belong to those boys from Michigan. Does this change anything about the fear that crept up my spine when that story broke? Yes, and no. A hundred years between those bones and my children feels safer, but it’s an illusion. Every victim, every offender, is somebody’s child, and the thought of those children whose names we’ll likely never know is now on that list of things that keep me up at night. That list has, unfortunately, grown longer in recent months. The tragedies in my neighborhood foreshadowed a winter of small-scale personal difficulties. My mother’s brutal decline continues. I still have a memoir making its way into the world that is very much about my family, which my family will soon read. My basement remains a paused work-inprogress. And, after the car wreck, but before the discovery of the bones, I met someone for whom I felt that rare kind of natural and immediate love I’d felt back in 1992, when I stepped out of the airport and first laid eyes on this valley. I pushed all my chips in. I gambled on love. Not far into the new year, that connection severed, completely, and without warning. The sudden loss, paired with the other happenings in my
life and community, not to mention the long gray of a northern winter, triggered in me a state of shock and confusion. What does it all mean? I wondered. I have no idea. The loss also reminded me what fear can do to us. It can make us isolate, clam up, build walls to protect ourselves. It reminded me what hurt can do to us, too. An old and animal part of me wanted to blame, to wallow, to ask why. But I know enough to know that’s no remedy for suffering. I thought back to the state of my life in 2011, when I returned to Missoula homeless, broke and abandoned. And five years later, I’ve built this quiet, steady writing life with the kids and Headquarters. What I learned from that particular stretch of hardship is that destruction leads to construction. Rebuilding. In these in-between pockets, growth happens. I decided to handle my hurt by lighting a candle instead of brooding in the darkness. I started reading like mad — to this day, my favorite cure for the blues — and I latched on to this mantra from the writer Elizabeth Gilbert: You have no idea how strong my love is. The ‘90s punk rocker in me who moved to Missoula in army pants and a flannel shirt would be so embarrassed. She is so embarrassed.
But in this mantra is something wild and powerful that satisfies an instinct injury can trigger: to come out with fists flailing, to strike back at what hurt us. Only it’s a far more radical act, in a way, to throw your heart at the world instead of turning your back on it. I say those words out loud every morning, in an attempt to throw back into this city the very thing I sensed the first time I visited — the love that runs here clear and unstoppable as the rivers. I whisper them when I’m hiking. I think them when I’m running. Sometimes I say them randomly, while driving across town, to banish self-pity, fear or other hopeless thoughts. I have no idea who I’m saying this to, exactly. I am saying it to myself, I suppose. I’m saying it to my neighbors, to my kids, to my mother, to Lucy, to my midnight intruder, to everyone grazed by the recent tragedies. I’m saying it to the man who bruised my heart in January and told me recently that he will be moving into the neighborhood. I’m saying it to you. Let the words be both a balm on your wounds and a call to action. Say them with me: You have no idea how strong my love is. You have no idea. editor@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
Changing lanes MudSlide Charley’s latest album showcases a band with resilience by Ednor Therriault
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ourteen years is a long time to — well, it’s a long time to maintain anything. But to hold a local band together for that long? Between the wacko personalities and self-important puffery rampant among working musicians and the shrinking opportunities to play live in front of a crowd, the cards are stacked against such longevity for a local crew. But MudSlide Charley has endured. They may not be in a class by themselves, but it doesn’t take very long to call roll. Born in 2004, this blues love-child of Missoula music veterans just keeps on chooglin’. A few musicians have come and gone, but the band seems to have coalesced — the current lineup has been in place for at least 10 years now, with one significant exception. Lee Rizzo came onboard about a year ago, replacing lead singer Emi Kodama, who was MudSlide Charley’s first female member. “A friend told me that their singer would soon be leaving,” Rizzo says, “so I dropped off a note at Bernice’s.” In typical Missoula fashion, Rizzo already knew bandleader and singer/guitarist Marco Littig, having worked for him and his wife Christine, erstwhile owners of the popular bakery. “Timing is everything,” Rizzo says, laughing. As for the change in personnel, Littig loves the influence Rizzo has brought to the band. Where Kodama took their sound in a more R&B and Stax direction, he says, they can’t help but take on a bit of a different flavor with Rizzo’s arrival. “The greatest thing about this band is that it has evolved.” Words and Bones, their new album, bears him out. A few songs break new ground for MudSlide Charley, departing from the greasy gutbucket blues that have always turned Littig’s musical crank. He’s a student of the genre, and the stories from the mid-20th century “great migration” of rural blacks from the south to the job-rich cities like Detroit and Cincinnati inform his compositions. “We’re still suffering from our inability to deal with racism,” he says. “There’s a constant reframing of the narrative.” Littig’s own sense of place
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MudSlide Charley celebrates the release of Words and Bones on Fri., March 2.
also affects the band, which he sees as an established part of the local milieu. They played through the summer as a four-piece after Kodama left to care for her newborn. “We kept playing for the community,” he says. “We played these shitty little bar gigs.” Indeed, you’d be hard-pressed to find more tie-dyed-in-the-wool Missoulians than this groovy bunch. Drummer Roger Moquin plays with a handful of bands and typically travels to local gigs on a bike, pulling his nested drums on a trailer. Bassist Tahj Kjelland has a following as a rapper, and has released several hip-hop and spoken-word albums under the name Tahjbo. Phil Hamilton is a multi-instrumentalist with a long Missoula résumé that stretches back at
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least 25 years to his days banging drums for the Moonlighters, the legendary R&B band that held court every Friday night at the Union Club since forever. Recently, the harmonica and sax-man has taken the plunge into the intimidating waters of songwriting, contributing six songs to Words and Bones. Littig wrote three of the album’s 13 songs, and Rizzo penned two. The band recorded 16 songs at Black National Recordings, where Chris Baumann tracked them live over three sessions. Thirteen tunes made the final cut. “This is our most diverse album,” Littig says. “Multiple voices in a band is huge.” Speaking of huge voices, Rizzo’s vocal chops are on full display on
“Death Letter Blues,” a Son House song recorded live during a Union Club show. Her raw passion and burnished growl are almost frightening, but perfect for the bare-knuckled blues classic. “That song,” she says about her off-the-chain performance, “it’s hard not to go there.” Their originals are mostly solid blues exercises, celebrating the southern blues and soul with obvious affection. Hamilton’s riffs reveal a deep knowledge of the genre’s varied styles, from New Orleans second-line rhythms to the electric stomp of Chicago blues. A couple of the songs, though, like Littig’s “Love Machine” and Rizzo’s “Birdie,” veer sharply away from the blues idiom into Americana, or mellow
pop. Between the band’s natural evolution and the influence of Rizzo, who also plays guitar and washboard, Words and Bones hints at a new direction while still showcasing the strengths of a straight-up Delta blues band. A listen through MudSlide Charley’s four releases makes the progression obvious. The rough and ready shambling of a hungry blues outfit captured live on their 2008 debut has taken quite a twist in the last 10 years to become a mature, confident blues machine that isn’t afraid to take a few detours. MudSlide Charley plays an album release show at the Union Club Fri., March 2, at 9 PM. arts@missoulanews.com
[music]
Come alive Shovels and Rope’s dark hopefulness I tend to like my music either loud, fast and furious or dark, slow and mournful. But when a band can make an album with a mix of those elements — sometimes within one song — I’m all in. On their 2016 album, Little Seeds, Shovels and Rope accomplish this feat, combining sizzling garage rock with Americana storytelling. They included another thing I love: some boot scootin’ country stylings. But all the stylings aren’t hollow. The husband-wife duo, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, offer the unshakeable sense that the music they play is super personal. The album begins with the snarky, sneering “I Know,� directed at a derivative musician, but the album gets much deeper by the third track, “St. Anne’s Parade,� where they sing, “And I’m up too damn early in the morning/watch-
ing the world around me come alive/and I need more fingers to count the ones I love/this life may be too good to survive.� The rest of the album expands from the personal (dead loved ones) to the historical (Civil War), but what’s nestled in almost all these songs is a celebratory tone, a frenetic hope that feels pained and wonderful. Also, noteworthy: Shovels and Rope dominate their live shows, the two musicians switching instruments and taking up the stage with their big, beautiful voices. Seeing them live is what made me go back and listen more closely to their records. (Erika Fredrickson) Shovels and Rope play the Wilma Fri., March 2, at 8 PM. $25 - $35.
Kyle Boone, The Waffles LP Kyle Boone’s sparse use of vocals on his new album made it a great soundtrack for my weekend. His bass guitar bolstered me as I braved the polar vortex driving to the movie theater (only spun out once), and his stripped-down Radiohead-esque beats kept me company while I worked. It’s simple, easy to listen to and easier to relegate as a background jam — exactly the kind of mix I want to hear playing in the background at the Union Club when I’m downing a pitcher with my buddies. Boone’s sound shifts between soft rock and a funkier synth-style groove, like in tracks “Lava Lamp Swank� and “Funk in a Box.� He also changes tone briefly to pull off a nice, sub-
tle-but-edgy acoustic bluegrass sound in his second track, “Things That Were,� which caught my attention: I latched onto the Lil’ Smokies vibe that prompted a few re-listens before I got through album. The instrumentals on The Waffles LP aren’t complex and they remain mellow throughout, which makes me wonder what Boone sounds like with a band backing him (he currently tours as part of Breakfast for Dinner). Each track is a tasty exploration of funk-rock fusion. (Micah Drew) Kyle Boone plays as Breakfast for Dinner at the Badlander Mon., March 2, at 9:30 PM, as part of KGBA’s Endofthon. $5.
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Gunn’s website name checks some iconic underground guitar guys as influences, including Robbie Basho and Sandy Bull, and a kind of traditional North African music called Gnawa, which, when I read it, sounded a little over the top. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked that that places him in company with some obscure shredders who helped expand lots of minds beyond traditional folk music. Gunn has the ability to create a musical base and add small touches that, on Bay Head, give these instrumental tunes an instant vocabulary. (Josh Vanek)
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Electric feel UM’s vibrator play offers progressive pleasures by Sarah Aswell
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The latest production by UM’s School of Theatre & Dance explores the early history of the vibrator.
After the last of many female orgasms sounded through the Masquer Theatre and the house lights came up, an elderly couple seated behind me began to gather their things. “Well, that was different,” the woman said to the man, and, after a pause, they both laughed gleefully. We had just watched In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), written by MacArthur Fellowship recipient Sarah Ruhl and produced by the University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance. As the title parenthetically prepares you for, the play is about the invention of vibrators and the effect the invention has on one man’s medical practice and the people (mostly women) around him. It takes place in the 1880s, at the dawn of the age of electricity, a solid 40 years before women could vote and 80 years before the sexual revolution. A self-described feminist and female-orgasm haver who often writes about sex, I assumed I was unshakably prepared for whatever Ruhl had in store, even after spotting the warning on the playbill that I was about to witness adult themes and nudity. But as the first minutes of the play unfolded, I realized I was about to confront some of my remaining deep-seated discomforts about female sexuality and desire. In the first scene, Sabrina Daldry is ushered first into the doctor’s living room and then into the adjoining medical office, suffering from “hysteria” — a feminine disease that can, the doctor explained, be treated with his new electric vibrator in just a few minutes. Daldry then removes most of her seemingly dozens of layers of 1880s clothing (a huge percentage of this play is dedicated to the theme of dressing and undressing), gets on the examination table and experiences her first orgasm. It is confusing, awakening and overwhelming for her, while for the audience, it’s surprisingly shocking, awkward and, thanks to Ruhl’s extremely sharp writing, filled with humanity and humor. Under either poor direction or acting, the story could be disastrous, embarrassing and even
regressive. But director John Kenneth DeBoer and a talented cast of seven give the play the thoughtfulness and playfulness it needs and deserves (with standouts Anne Sacry playing the doctor’s wife, Catherine Givings, and Kamlin Cox playing a male hysteric artist, Leo Irving). As the characters navigate issues of sex, attraction, femaleness, gender roles, anxiety, loneliness, motherhood and, literally, electricity, we see how far we have come today — and yet how some issues cling to us in present times almost unchanged. We see their ignorance of sex and sexuality and the female body, but also our own blind spots: If we were truly comfortable with the play’s subjects, why is it so shocking each time a woman in the play removes her corset and spreads her legs? In the Next Room is also performed in the round, with a central stage. The effect isn’t just that the two rooms of the story take on a special, distinct dichotomy, it’s also that you watch other audience members watching the play. At one point, as Leo Irving is being treated for his male hysteria via anal vibrator, I caught one woman watching me watch the play, both of us experiencing the mix of delight and discomfort that the play trades so heavily in. It brings an almost voyeuristic feeling to it, of observing and being observed, along with the feeling that while the audience knows so much more than the characters, we, too, still consider sex toy talk — and women’s pleasure — taboo. Yep: The play sure is different. It’s also emotional, smart, funny, heartbreaking and daring. I left feeling both more understanding and more understood. Like the very best plays, it challenges you while making your heart grow just a little bit bigger. In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) continues at the Masquer Theatre Thu., March 1, and Fri., March 2, at 7:30 PM and Sat., March 3, and Sun., March 4, at 2 PM. $16. arts@missoulanews.com
[film]
Envelope, please Predicting the Oscar winners by Molly Laich
The Oscars are back for the 90th time, this Sunday on ABC at 6:30 p.m. Mountain time, and we all totally care. My enthusiasm is at an all-time low for this list of nominees, which managed to omit many of my favorite films (where is Good Time! Mother!! The Killing of a Sacred Deer! Detroit!). Still, the competitive spirit is strong, and these Oscar ballots aren’t going to fill themselves out, so let’s take a look at this year’s horses: BEST PICTURE NOMINEES Call Me by Your Name; Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; Get Out; Lady Bird; Phantom Thread; Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri; The Post; The Shape of Water It’s a dead heat between Three Billboards, which I loved (despite an unforgivable comma in the title), and The Shape of Water, a rated-R romance for babies. The once reliable Best Picture race has been all over the map the last two years. Many are predicting that Three Billboards will Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. pull out from behind. This was a tough one to call, but I’m going with: The Shape of Water own special way. Janney’s been winning everything. A win for her here will represent the underBEST ACTRESS represented I, Tonya. Will win: Allison Janney Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water; Frances McDormand, Three Billboards; Margot Robbie, I, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Tonya; Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird; Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project; Woody The Post Harrelson, Three Billboards; Richard Jenkins, The There’s a lot of talent in this category, but the Shape of Water; Christopher Plummer, All the mob has spoken, and the mob likes anger. She’s Money in the World; Sam Rockwell, Three Billswept every major award thus far, but who knows, boards maybe Saoirse Ronan will come out of nowhere The heavy favorite here is Sam Rockwell, and to represent Lady Bird? Will win: Frances Mc- it will be great when I’m wrong and he wins, but I have to stick my neck out somewhere. Since this Dor mand will be Dafoe’s third nomination (with no wins), since the critics loved The Florida Project and it’s BEST ACTOR Timothee Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name; not nominated anywhere else, I’m going to take Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread; Daniel Kalu- my chances and say: Willem Dafoe uya, Get Out; Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour; Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. BEST DIRECTOR It’s basically a lifetime achievement award for Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water; Oldman, one of the best actors we have, but who Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk; Jordan Peele, Get among us has seen this boring, somber biopic? Out; Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird; Paul Thomas AnNot me! Will win: Gar y Oldman derson, Phantom Thread Sweeping the other awards this year makes the category a lock for the fish monster master. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Mary J. Blige, Mudbound; Allison Janney, I, Historically, whoever wins best director wins best Tonya; Leslie Manville, Phantom Thread; Laurie picture, but that rule hasn’t held up the last sevMetcalf, Lady Bird; Octavia Spencer, The Shape eral years. Martin McDonagh wasn’t even nominated, and Three Billboards still has a fighting of Water If ever there’s a surprise in the acting wins, chance. It’s a world gone mad. Will win: we usually see it in the supporting categories. Guiller mo del Toro Here it’s between Allison Janney and Laurie Metcalf, both of whom play cranky mothers in their arts@missoulanews.com
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[film]
OPENING THIS WEEK
Rated R. Featuring an insurance company that becomes a pirate ship, organ repo-men and vomiting, vomiting, vomiting. Playing at the Roxy Sat., March 3 at 8 PM.
DEATH WISH Time to spin the wheel of pointless remakes! The director of Hostel teams up with Bruce Willis to update the 1974 Charles Bronson rape-revenge flick that spawned four dreadful sequels. Just what everyone has been waiting for! Rated R. Also stars Vincent D’Onofrio and Elizabeth Shue. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.
OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS This year’s lineup of animated short films features Kobe Bryant, a garden party, a fairy tale by Roald Dahl and more. Playing Thu., March 1, Fri., March 2 and Mon., March 5 at 4:15 PM at the Roxy.
RED SPARROW She’s trained for years to be a deadly and sexy assassin. But will she give it all up for hunky Joel Edgerton? It’s kind of embarrassing that 20th Century Fox made a Black Widow movie before Marvel did. Rated R. Also stars Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremy Irons. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.
OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS A The first block of short documentaries includes films about racism in America, two 90-year-olds tying the knot and art versus depression. Playing Sun., March 4 at 2:15 PM and Wed., March 7 at 4:15 PM at the Roxy. OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS B The second block of short documentaries going for the gold includes films about the opioid crisis and a restaurant staffed by former inmates. Playing Sun., March 4 at 4:45 PM and Thu., March 8 at 4:15 PM at the Roxy.
NOW PLAYING THE 15:17 TO PARIS Clint Eastwood’s new film recounts the true story of the 2015 Thalys train attack, and the three Americans who put themselves in danger to save the lives of strangers. Rated PG-13. Stars several people playing themselves, as well as Tony Hale and Jaleel White. Wait, you’re telling me Urkel is in this movie? Is Eastwood okay? Has he been yelling at empty chairs again? Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Southgate 9. ANNIHILATION It’s already killed soldiers and explorers. Now a team of biologists, anthropologists and zoologists trek into a death zone to find out what’s behind all the murder. As it’s from the writer of 28 Days Later, Dredd and Ex Machina, I’m guess it’s nothing good. Rated R. Stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Oscar Isaac. Playing at the AMC 12. BLACK PANTHER After making 10 movies starring white guys named Chris, Marvel Studios finally gives the king of Wakanda his own feature film. Black Panther must prevent a Shakespearian coup from kicking off a new world war. Rated PG-13. Stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME A Jewish-American boy living in northern Italy falls head-over-heels in love with a bookish and musical grad student. You’ll never look at peaches the same way again. Rated R. Stars Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg. Playing at the Roxy. COFFY (1973) Working in a hospital, Coffy has seen the impact of drugs up close, but when her sister gets hooked on heroin, this nurse goes on a killing rampage to clean up the streets. Rated R. Featuring Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw and a screenplay by blaxploitation legend Jack Hill. Playing Fri., March 2 at 9 PM at the Roxy. EARLY MAN Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park returns to the stop motion animation well with this story of prehistoric peoples battling against the oncoming Bronze Age. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston and Richard Ayoade. Playing at the AMC 12.
“You! Hey, you there! Did you ask for this movie?” Bruce Willis stars in Death Wish, opening at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. EVERY DAY A shy 16-year-old girl falls in love with “A”, a wandering soul that possesses a different body every morning, living an entirely different life every day. Sounds like someone needs an old priest and a young priest. Rated PG-13. Stars Angourie Rice, Debby Ryan and Lucas Jade Zumann. Playing at the AMC 12. FIFTY SHADES FREED Ana and Christian Grey explore new levels of masochism, which are nothing compared to the levels exhibited by fans of this franchise. Rated R. Stars Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson and that unmistakeable hankerin’ for a spankin’. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12. FRUITVALE STATION (2013) Before making Black Panther and Creed, director Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan first teamed up to tell the true story of an unarmed man who was shot in the back by an Oakland transit cop. Rated R. Also starring Melonie Diaz and Octavia Spencer. Playing Thu., March 1 at 7 PM at the Roxy. FULL METAL JACKET (1987) Stanley Kubrick’s bloody and foul-mouth meditation on the Vietnam War follows a smart-aleck private as he endures basic training, American propaganda and a drill sergeant who knows nothing about Montana. Rated R. Stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey and Vincent D’Onofrio. Playing Fri., March 2 at 7 PM at the Roxy. GAME NIGHT A competitive couple’s weekly board game get-together becomes the scene of a real-life murder mystery. Was it Colonel Mustard? I never trusted that guy. Rated R. Stars Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams and Billy Magnussen. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. GET OUT (2017) Chris is 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
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black men disappearing. Rated R. Jordan Peele directs Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams and Stephen Root in my pick for 2017’s Best Picture. Playing Sun., March 4 at 2 PM at the Roxy. THE GREATEST SHOWMAN P.T. Barnum might be best known for coining the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute,” but the life of the famed circus founder still has a few surprises up its sleeve. Rated PG. Stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya. Showing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. HOSTILES Unrelated to Eli Roth’s series of torture films which are spelled differently anyway, an army captain is tasked with transporting a dying Cheyenne war chief from New Mexico to Montana. You had me at Montana. Rated R. Stars Christian Bale, Wes Studi and Ben Foster. Playing at the Pharaohplex. I, TONYA Did you know figure skater Tonya Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition? Of course not. We all remember her from the wildest scandal in sports history instead. Rated R. Stars Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan and Allison Janney. Playing at the Roxy. MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (2012) Director Ava DuVernay made a splash with this indie hit about a bright medical student who sets aside her dream when her husband is incarcerated. Rated R. Stars Emayatzy Corinealdi, Omari Hardwick and Edwina Findley. Playing Thu., March 8 at 7 PM at the Roxy. MOLLY’S GAME She was on top of the world until she was arrested by a squad of armed FBI agents. Her crime? Running an illegal poker game for the richest and most influential people in the country. Rated R. Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Michael Cera star in Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut. Playing at the Pharaohplex. MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983) The legendary sketch troupe addresses the biggest questions of existence in their final film together.
OSCAR-NOMINATED LIVE ACTION SHORTS This year’s group of live action short film nominees includes films about school shootings, sign language, Emmett Till and more. Playing Fri., March 2 at 6:15 PM and Sat., March 3 and Tues., March 6 at 4:15 PM at the Roxy. PADDINGTON (2014) A London family is surprised to find that inviting a talking bear into their home causes more trouble than they expected. Rated PG. Stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally “The Shape of Water” Hawkins and Julie Walters. Playing Sat., March 3 at 2 PM. PETER RABBIT Beatrix Potter’s beloved bunny makes the hop from children’s books to the big screen as a fasttalking, twerking jerk who throws all-night ragers in Mr. McGregor’s house. Rated PG. Featuring James Corden, Sam Neill and the realization that no one at Sony knows how to read. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharoahplex. THE SHAPE OF WATER Did you ever watch Creature from the Black Lagoon and think to yourself, dang, I wanna have sex with that? Guillermo del Toro did, apparently. Rated R. Stars Sally “Paddington” Hawkins, Doug Jones (not that one) and Michael “Pottersville” Shannon. Playing at the Roxy. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Months after her daughter’s unsolved murder, a mom erected three signs to make sure the cops heard her. Burma-Shave. Rated R. Stars Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Playing at the Pharaohplex. THREE COLORS: BLUE (1993) Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors Trilogy started with this devastating exploration of grief and liberation that defined the 1990’s art house cinema boom. Not Rated. Stars Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irène Jacob. Playing Mon., March 5 at 7 PM at the Roxy. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Get up-todate listings and film times at theroxytheater.org, amctheatres.com and pharaohplex.com to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.
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Pumpkin cauliflower gratin by Gabi Moskowitz
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Recently, I read a recipe for a lightened-up mac and cheese, where half of the pasta had been replaced by cauliflower. I was intrigued. I’m not eating a ton of pasta these days, so I figured I’d give it a go using 100 percent cauliflower. And why not try it with my trusty brown-butter pumpkin combo? My Brown-Butter Pumpkin Mac and Cheese is probably my most-searched recipe. I invented it a whopping five years ago, when I was looking for a way to lighten up some mac and cheese (read: eat mac and cheese more often), and so I added some canned pureed pumpkin to a cheese sauce. The resulting mac was creamy and cheesy, but the addition of pumpkin meant I needed significantly less cheese to make enough sauce to coat my pasta. It also added some much-appreciated fiber, along with its rich, nutty flavor, which gorgeously complemented the cheese. I started by roasting a whole cauliflower with half an onion. Next, I browned some unsalted butter, just until it got nutty and really good-smelling. I whisked in some pumpkin, milk and sharp cheddar cheese, plus salt, pepper and a touch of nutmeg to make the sauce. Then I stirred the roasted cauliflower right into the pot (all hail the multi-purpose Dutch oven!) and topped the whole thing with a little more cheese. Into the oven it went, and the result was astonishing. I mean. Oof. Just, wow. I’m not going to lie to you and tell you it tasted like mac and cheese, because this dish is delicious and worth making in its own right. That said, if you’re hankering for mac and cheese but, like me, you’re keeping half an eye on your carb intake, this cheesy baked casserole will most definitely conquer that craving. Serves 6 Ingredients 1 medium head cauliflower, cut into small florets 1/2 medium onion, sliced 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil salt 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 of a 15-ounce can of pureed pumpkin 1 cup plus a few big pinches of shredded sharp cheddar cheese (about 1/2 of an 8-ounce block) 1 cup milk (preferably whole) pinch nutmeg black pepper parsley, chopped (for optional topping) Directions Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Spread the cauliflower and onion on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, and toss well to coat. Salt lightly. Roast the cauliflower and onion for 20-22 minutes, or until lightly browned and tender. While the cauliflower and onion roast, melt the butter in a large oven-proof pot (a Dutch oven works well) over medium-high heat. Cook the butter just until it turns brown and gives off a slightly nutty smell. Add the pumpkin, cheese and milk and whisk well until a creamy sauce forms (it may separate a bit, this is fine). Season with the nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste. Remove the roasted cauliflower and onion from the oven and leave the oven on. Add the cauliflower and onion to the sauce the pot. Stir well to coat. Top the cauliflower-cheese mixture with the reserved pinches of cheddar. Bake for 25-27 minutes, until bubbly and browned on top. Top with chopped parsley, if desired, and serve immediately. BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor in chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough: 100 Delicious Unexpected Recipes.
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“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com
Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 A Missoula gem since 1978, serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm. Daily menu includes scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice’s is also known for scrumptuous desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, specialty cakes and the best coffe in town. Treat yourself to a bag of Bernice’s signature blend . . . locally roasted with love. Open 6am - 8pm daily. Find us out on FaceBook, Instagram or visit our website at www.bernicesbakerymt.com. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar & Grill is the place to relax and unwind while enjoying our New Feature Menu. Great selection of Montana Brews on tap! Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour every day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials changing daily. Thursday Trivia from 7:30-9:30. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Chameleon Mobile Kitchen 1616 S 3rd St W (through May) 8340 Hwy 200 E (June-Sept) 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, bowls and pasta. We also offer daily specials, seasonal drinks, and house-baked goods. We are fully equipped and self-contained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pick-up. Online menu available on Google Maps. Mon-Thurs 11:30 am - 9 pm. FriSat 11:30 am - 11 pm. $-$$ 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 microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$
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[dish] Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ 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. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce,
Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
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Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 • tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: Sour beer, aged for three years! Yep! Three years! Sours tend to be a “love ‘em or hate ‘em” style of beer, and the exclamation points should indicate on which side the writer of this column falls. KettleHouse has been releasing sour beers on occasion for a while now, with the latest, called the China Cat Sour, introduced via a launch party on Feb. 24.
tastes nothing like Double Haul IPA, which is true. The China Cat has a wonderful oak flavor that I’d describe as sharp but that KettleHouse’s brew team calls smooth. Either way, it’s good. The fresh peaches give the tart beer a subtle fruitiness that I didn’t find to be overpowering, but which the brewmasters describe as “fruit intense.” Clearly I don’t know what I’m talking about. But trust me, it’s good.
How it’s made: This is a drinking column, not a brewing how-to, so we’ll stick to the basics. Step one: Get some whiskey barrels from Dry Fly Distilling in Spokane. Step two: Fill the barrels with Double Haul IPA. Step three: Add wild yeast, bacteria and fresh peaches. Step four: Wait three years. Or something like that.
Where to find it: The China Cat Sour is available for a limited time in hand-numbered 750 mL bottles for $15, or 9 oz. drafts for $4.50. Northside location only, 313 N 1st St. W. —Derek Brouwer
What it tastes like: The bartender is quick to point out that the resulting beer
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WED | 8 PM The Dead South plays Monk’s Wed., March 7. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20.
TUE | 8:30 PM Mr. Carmack plays the Top Hat Tue., March 6. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $18/$15 advance.
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FRI | 9:30 PM Talib Kweli plays the Top Hat Fri., March 2. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Sold Out.
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THU | 7:30 PM Dance in Concert spotlights cutting edge choreography Thu., March 8 at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 student. photo by Amy Donovan
SUN | 7 PM Jessica Eve plays Draught Works Sun., March 4. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.
Tom Catmull plays a solo show at Draught Works from 5 PM–8 PM. Free.
BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.
Artist Claire Dawn Meyer’s new exhibit Trauma Drama opens at the University Center Gallery with an artist’s reception from 4 PM–6 PM. Free.
The Golden Rose is the place to be for a tasting of seven American whiskeys. 5 PM–8 PM. $25.
Author Jeff Birkby talks about his book Images of America: Montana’s Hot Springs at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM.
The Gallery of Visual Arts hosts an opening reception for Tyler Brumfield’s Lit and Brock Mickelsen’s Agency Panic: A Reckoning of Place. 5 PM–7 PM. Free and open to the public.
nightlife Bitter Root Brewing hosts the Americana of John Schiever from 6 PM– 8:30 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at
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Stephen Glueckert, Curator Emeritus for the Missoula Art Museum, gives a public presentation on 20 lesser-known artists and educators who worked in Montana between 1810–1945. Lolo Community Center. 7 PM. Free.
Don’t be hysterical. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play continues at the Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16. All those late nights watching game show 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. Mix a glass of red with the bluesy jazz of Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.
Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ TRex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Stand-up Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free.
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First Friday Radius Gallery’s Montana Found features over 100 pieces of art from 28 different artists. All artwork incorporates at least one physical object found in Montana. 5 PM–8 PM. Missoula Bicycle Works hosts a collection of vintage bikes while raising funds for MTB Missoula. 5 PM–8 PM. Chris Pumphry and Laura Lundquist provide the tunes for the paintings of artist AliciaKay at Lake Missoula Tea Company. 5 PM–8 PM.
Shovels and Rope play the Wilma Fri., March 2. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25–$35. Small Hand Brand, a new group of local artists, hosts a kickoff party at the Golden Rose with merchandise giveaways and free beer. 5 PM–9 PM. Free.
nightlife Well this is a troubling shopping list. Shovels and Rope play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25–$35. Don’t be hysterical. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play continues at the Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16. The Institute of Health and Humanities presents a performance reading of Taylor Mac’s Hir, a play about family, gender and everything in between. Upstairs Union Club. Doors at 7, show at 7:30. $5 suggested donation. Sunraiser, Rooster Sauce, Partygoers and Breakfast for Dinner
Helena-based, Hungarian-born artist Joseph Baráz premieres his new work, Totem and Stelae, at Missoula Art Museum. 5 PM–8 PM.
provide the tunes at KBGA College Radio’s Endofthon Party at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30 PM. $5.
Betty’s Divine hosts an opening reception for Strange and Natural Things by the appropriately named Art Noobly. 5 PM–8 PM.
Missoula’s disc-jockey dreamteam of Mark Myriad, Kris Moon and Hotpantz come together for a night of discotheque dancing at the VFW. 9 PM. $2.
Teresa Garland Warner unveils National Parks and Landscapes, a collection of landscape oil paintings, at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. 5 PM–8 PM.
Ja-Ton the DJ spins Monk’s First Friday party. 9 PM. Free.
Gallery 709 hosts Homestead Fever, the 8x10 contact prints of early Montana homesteads by Lee Silliman. 5 PM–8:30 PM.
MudSlide Charley celebrates the release of its new album Words & Bones with a musical party at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Brooklyn-based MC Talib Kweli plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Hope you got your tickets, because this one is sold out. Loosen up your tie and catch Blue Collar at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.
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Clyde Coffee hosts Noise Fields, a mixed-media celebration of the tension between nature and technology by Jay Bruns. 5 PM–8 PM.
Betty’s Divine hosts a First Friday reception for Strange and Natural Things by Art Noobly. 5 PM–8 PM. tween Spruce and Pine. 5 PM–9 PM.
ine Beard, displays at Bernice’s Bakery. 5 PM–8 PM.
KBGA hosts an evening of apocalyptic art as part of its Radiothon pledge week. The Public House. 4 PM–7 PM.
The Clay Studio of Missoula showcases work by over 30 local artists. 5:30 PM–9 PM.
E3 Convergence Gallery hosts Native American craftwork by retired art teacher Katrina Ruhmland. 5 PM–9 PM.
My kid could paint that! La Stella Blu displays reproductions of famous masterpieces, all painted by students from Sussex School. 5 PM–8 PM.
Ben Skiba’s Adjacent Conversations opens in FrontierSpace be-
Index of the Heart, the watercolors and marker originals of Max-
Jeweler Cassie Taylor displays her work at Bathing Beauties Beads. 5 PM–8 PM. Engel & Volkers Western Frontier hosts the art of Scott Woodall and the jewelry of Sue Savage. 5 PM–8 PM.
Sunday
Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.
The Sons of Norway host a Scandinavian breakfast featuring pancakes, ham and beverages. 9 AM. $7.
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Saturday
Rosin up your bow and see the Montana Fiddlers at the Sunrise Saloon. 1 PM. Free.
Don’t be hysterical. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play continues at the Masquer Theatre. 2 PM. $16.
Don’t be hysterical. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play continues at the Masquer Theatre. 2 PM. $16.
This band is a thousand times better than that Crazy Frog. Crazy Dog plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Happy Jessica Eve, everyone! Jessica Eve plays Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.
One day I want to be that rich. Cashew Money plays Imagine Nation from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM.
Attention all muggles! The Missoula Ministry of Magic presents Metamorphmagi, a drag show fundraiser to support students attending the upcoming Granger Leadership Academy in Tuscon. University Center Theater. 7 PM. $5.
The Institute of Health and Humanities presents a performance reading of Taylor Mac’s Hir, a play about family, gender and everything in-between. Upstairs Union Club. Doors at 7, show at 7:30. $5 suggested donation. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
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Seattle’s La Fonda plays Monk’s Sat., March 3. 8 PM. $10. New Old Future and Easter Island. Doors at 8 PM. $10.
The College of Visual and Performing Arts honors the artistic journey of director and producer Casey Kriley at the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $30.
Want to go from sweeping the kitchen to sweeping the ice? Missoula Curling Club hosts a workshop on the fascinating sport of curling. Glacier Ice Rink. 9 PM. Free.
Seattle dream pop collective La Fonda plays Monk’s with local support from Tiny Plastic Stars,
DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the
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David Horgan and Beth Lo perform original jazz at Rumor Restaurant from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Monday
nightlife The Infamous Stringdusters play the Wilma. Ryan Adams called them the “Star Wars of bluegrass.” Who can argue with that? Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20–$27.
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Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free. Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club while I’ve got a herd of cattle to brand. Typical. 9:30 PM. Free. Dodgy Mountain Men host a musical rendezvous at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. Free.
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.
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. David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk
Wine Bar from 8 PM–11 PM. Free. Motown on Mondays puts the s-ou-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.
snow day
Linda Gow is dead. Someone get to the bottom of this gruesome ideal for psychological realism,” shot her in the cold of night in the affair. Morris says, “but there’s an extra In the Snow is a new original filter for theater.” At a certain level, rural northern town she called home. Two social workers, the only play by Missoula playwright Kate Morris explains, we all know suspects, are now in the we’re watching a play, custody of police detective so why not lean into that? WHAT: In the Snow Cora Lee. Detective Lee Every performance of In the Snow is potentially must unravel this twisted WHEN: Wed., March 7–Sun., March 11, Thu., different, due to the intercase, and find Gow’s March 15–Sun March 18 at 7:30 PM. actions between Detecyoung son, now missing WHERE: The Roxy tive Lee and the audience and injured after this that shape the play. Lee shocking crime. FortuHOW MUCH: $20 asks the audience to nately, she isn’t alone in judge someone whom her work, as she has a MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org they’ve never met (and, panel of minds to draw deep down, know is just upon. But in this play, the panel isn’t made up of actors, it’s Morris, directed by Kendra Potter an actor playing a part). In The the audience itself who will help and produced by BetweenTheLines Snow doesn’t break the fourth wall. It shatters it. solve the case, answering ques- Theatre. –Charley Macorn “Film and television are so tions from the detective so she can
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Tuesday Unlace your sneakers and put your clothes on backwards. Highlander Beer hosts 90s Night from 4 PM-8 PM. Get a discount on your first beer when you come in costume. Free. The Iron Griz takes you on an international winetasting, featuring unexpected wines from unexpected places. 5 PM-7 PM. $12. Missoula Food Bank’s Learning Kitchen hosts a cooking class on that takeout favorite, Kung Pow Chicken. 5:30 PM. Free. Do you grow or make something delicious? Come to the vendor meeting for the upcoming Missoula Farmers’ Market season to learn everything you need to know about becoming a vendor. Missoula Public Library. 6 PM–8 PM. The Rivers Will Run Lecture Series continues with Scott Bosse and The Past, Present and Future of Legislation for Wild Rivers in Gallagher Business Building Room 123. 7 PM. Free and open to the public.
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Wednesday nightlife The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia Night at Thomas Meagher Bar lets you show off that superior intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free.
Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for the Defying Gravity. 5 PM– 8 PM.
So is there a Mrs. Carmack? Mr. Carmack plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $18/$15 advance.
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Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What anchorman signed off for the last time from CBS Evening News on today’s date in 1981? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Get an introduction to beer with a certified Cicerone at Beer 101 at Highlander Beer. Learn styles, ingredients, history and more. 6:30 PM. $5.
This next song is about drinking a LaCroix in your Subaru with your dog. Missoula Music Showcase features local singers and songwriters each week at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
Awesome Possums play Great Burn Brewing at 6 PM. Free.
Larry Aumiller, the subject of Jeff Fair’s new book In Wild Trust, shares his stories and photos from his time at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary in Alaska. Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia ques-
tions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Walter Cronkite. A mysterious death, two social workers and a nightmarish wolf come together for the world premiere of In the Snow, a new play by Missoula playwright Kate Morris for BetweenTheLines Theatre. The Roxy. 7:30 PM. $12. (See Spotlight.) My DJ name is RNDM LTTRS. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM. Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Support the Make-a-Wish Foundation with a Beard Competition at Highlander Beer. 5:30 PM. Free. Visit montanabeardies.com for more information and donation links. Michelle Cardinal confronts the homeless crisis with Caring is Good for Business as part of the Gilkey Executive Lecture Series. Gallagher Business Building Room 106. 5:30 PM. Free and open to the public. Didn’t we have enough of this over the summer? Michael Shaw and the Wildfires play a scorching night of music at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Celebrate International Women’s Day with an evening of women-fronted bands and artists including Keema & the Keepsakes, Arrowleaf, Courtney Blazon and more at Free Cycles. 6 PM. $5 suggested donation. 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. The Five Valleys Audubon Advanced Birding Workshops continue. This week learn about Owls from Matt Larson. FWP Regional Office. $15. RSVP at bwsgenea@gmail.com.
Keema & the Keepsakes celebrate International Women’s Day with a party at Free Cycles Thu., March 8 at 6 PM. $5. at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
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Dance in Concert, a dance showcase directed by UM dance professor Karen Kaufmann, spotlights cutting-edge choreography. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 student.
BetweenTheLines’ production of Missoula playwright Kate Morris’s In the Snow continues at the Roxy Theater. 7:30 PM. $20.
All those late nights watching game show reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place
Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated
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Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. A disappointing punchline.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Travelers’s Rest State Parks annual benefit auction raises funds for kids and family programing. University Center Ballroom. 5:30 PM. $75.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
You’re not imagining it, this generation is the most bearded in nearly a century. While trends in men’s beards, mustaches and sideburns have waned and waxed through the years (no pun intended), facial hair has been on an incredible upswing over the last decade. Some sociologists suspect this has something to do with the beginnings of the global financial disaster in 2007, while others theorize that it simply comes down to rejecting the previous generation’s views on facial hair. Whatever the cause, the bearded among us have an opportunity to show off their facial hair while raising money for a great cause.
Highlander Beer hosts a month-long beard competition, where funds raised by community votes on who has the best beard go to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Any and all facial hair is welcome, but expect the competition to be tough. Throughout the month, people will pledge money online for their favorite beard, with all the money going to help children with terminal illnesses experience the joys of childhood. The voting leads up to a Beard Party at the end of the month. —Charley Macorn Montana Beardies Competition Signup Drive is Thurs., March 8. Runs from 5 PM–8 PM at Highlander Beer. Free.
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Working out isn’t just about you, you know. Orangetheory Fitness hosts a special 90-minute workout that raises funds for ALS research. 1:30 PM–5 PM. $25 donation.
MONDAY, MARCH 5 Half of all sales at Noodles & Company between 4 PM and 9 PM will go to support Operation Smile.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 The Missoula Chamber of Commerce Educa-
tion Series continues with a training on how to prevent sexual harassment. 9 AM. $25/$10 members. The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is smash the patriarchy. Discuss topics regarding sexism at University Center. 5 PM–7:30 PM.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Support the Make-a-Wish Foundation with a Beard Competition at Highlander Beer. 5 PM. Free. Visit montanabeardies.com for more information and donation links. Michelle Cardinal presents Caring is Good for Business to confront the homeless crisis as part of the Gilkey Executive Lecture Series. Gallagher Business Building Room 106. 5:30 PM. Free and open to the public.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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Mountain High he Olympics are over and our (my) fascination with most winter sports abides until 2022. And I know I said last week was my last Olympic-themed spectator event. Except for the fact that curling exists. Every four years, more than any other Olympic event, curling mesmerizes, amazes and confuses viewers the world over. Articles are written (Physicists Still Don’t Know What Puts the Curl in Curling, The New Yorker), memes abound and stones slide across ice. Did you know that curling has been an Olympic sport since 1924? Or that almost every granite stone comes from a single island off the coast of Scotland? Or that in Canada it’s the second most popular sport after hockey? Okay, you probably could have guessed the last one. The U.S. team made history by winning the
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1 The Women in Wilderness conversation series highlights the inspiring women working in the wild and public lands. University Center Room 333. 6 PM. Free. The Five Valleys Audubon hold an advanced Birding Workshop from 7 PM–9:30 PM. This week learn all about shorebirds with Jim Brown. FWP Regional Offices. $15.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Missoula Bicycle Works hosts a collection of vintage bikes while raising funds for MTB Missoula. 5 PM–8 PM.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Blackfoot River Outfitters hosts its annual fly fishing gear swap and open house. 9 AM–4 PM. Snowmazing is back! Board of Missoula hosts a day of snowboard demos, slopestyle events and banked slalom at Montana Snowbowl. 9:30 AM–4 PM. $15 entry fee.
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country’s first gold medal in a close match against No. 1-ranked Sweden. Earlier in the games, scandal broke out when a Russian curler tested positive for a banned substance and (along with his teammate and wife) was stripped of his bronze medal. In Missoula, as is common with most curling clubs, the drug of choice is beer. Although, local curler Lee Banville told the Missoulian that “historically it has done little to improve performance.” Learn history, rules, etiquette and scoring so when you watch the Olympics in four years, you can do more than yell “SWEEEEEEP.” The Missoula Curling Club hosts the Learn to Curl workshop at the Glacier Ice Rink on Sat., March 3, at 9 PM. Free.
Grizzly Hackle Fly shop turns 30 with a customer apprecation day featuring food and giveaways. 10 AM–4 PM. Free.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 The Rivers Will Run Lecture Series continues with Scott Bosse and The Past, Present and Future of Legislation for Wild Rivers in Gallagher Business Building Room 123. 7 PM. Free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 Larry Aumiller, the subject of Jeff Fair’s new book In Wild Trust, shares his stories and photos from his time at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary in Alaska. Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8 The Five Valleys Audubon Advanced Birding Workshops continue. This week learn about Owls from Matt Larson. FWP Regional Office. $15. RSVP at bwsgenea@gmail.com.
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Administrative/Bookkeeping Assistant. Environmental remediation company to hire a long-term Administrative/Bookkeeping Assistant. Will reconcile the company books. create invoices, and accounts receivable/payable. Please visit our website at lcstaffing.com and refer to #41261 for a full job description. Carpenter Helper Local construction company recruiting for Carpenter Helpers. Will work on residential remodels including demolition, framing, siding, and finish work. Please visit our website at lcstaffing.com and refer to #41289 for a full job description. Designer Assistant Local lumber company to hire a long-term Designer Assistant.Will support the three designers in the office and showroom to welcome customers and contribute to the designer’s needs. Please visit our website at lcstaffing.com and refer to #41263
for a full job description. Earn $300-$1000 per month working part-time! The Missoulian is looking for reliable individuals to deliver the daily newspaper in the Missoula, Bitterroot and Flathead areas. For individual route details go to: missoulian.com/carrier If you’re looking for extra income, are an early riser and enjoy working independently, you can make money and be done before most people get going with their day. If this sounds like you, please submit your inquiry form today at missoulian.com/carrier or call 406-5230494. You must have a valid driver’s license and proof of car insurance. This is an independent contractor business opportunity. Human Resource Manager Manufacturing company to hire a Human Resource Manager.Will be responsible for recruiting and retaining employees, managing employment onboarding, and employee payroll. Please visit our website at lcstaffing.com and refer to #41283 for a full job description.
Landscaping Laborer LC Staffing Missoula is now hiring for seasonal Landscaping Laborers. Will work with fertilizer, weed control, and general lawn
maintenance. Please visit our website at lcstaffing.com and refer to #41288 for a full job description.
Looking for two people to help clean an office building Thursday evenings and occasionally in various homes. Must like to clean and care about details. Must
pass a background check. Call Melody 240-4501.
The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our advertising sales team. Customer service experience and strong organizational skills are required. Sales experience preferred, but we’re happy to train someone who brings a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm. We offer a competitive comp and benefit package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment. Send resume to: tleblanc@misssoulanews.com or Toni LeBlanc, P.O. Box 8275 Missoula, MT 59807
Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com
EMPLOYMENT
DR. STRANGERLOVE
I’m a 33-year-old woman. Though I don’t want a boyfriend right now, I have a strong sex drive and don’t want to go without sex. I’ve tried the hookup apps, but besides finding sleeping with strangers sexually unsatisfying, I’m always a little surprised at how emotionally empty I end up feeling. (It’s not like I want any of these guys to be a boyfriend.)
—Hungry It’s possible for a woman to have an orgasm from hookup sex — just as it’s possible to spot a white rhino grazing on a roadway median in suburban Detroit. The reality is, hookups tend to work best if you are a man or a trailer. Research by sociologist Elizabeth A. Armstrong and her colleagues finds that for women, hookup sex is particularly problematic in the orgasm-dispensing department. In first-time hookups, women they surveyed reported orgasms only 11 percent of the time — compared with 67 percent of the time from sex in a relationship. However, the more times a woman had slept with her current hookup partner the more likely she was to finish with screams of ecstasy — and not the ones that stand in for “You ’bout done yet?” As for why you feel crappy after your latest Captain Hookup shinnies down the drainpipe, I’ve written before about how female emotions seem to have evolved to act as an alarm system against deficient male “investment.” They push women to crave emotional connection after sex — even when they went into it wanting nothing more than a little sexercise with some himbo. Pop the hood on the brain and you’ll see support for this notion. An analysis of findings from 24 brain imaging studies led psychiatrist Timm Poeppl and his colleagues to conclude that “sexual stimulation seems to activate key regions for emotional attachment and pair bonding more consistently in women than in men.” So, it isn’t exactly bizarre that you, as a woman, find hooking up with a stranger about as emotionally and sexually satisfying as a fist bump. This doesn’t mean you have to rush a boyfriend into your life to have sex.You can eliminate some of the problems of hookup sex by finding a regular sex-quaintance — ideally, a guy friend who’s sweet and attractive but who falls steeply short of the qualifications you have for a romantic partner. (That way, you’ll be less likely to let any “activated” brain regions vault you into a relationship.) This is somebody you can gradually show around your body and train in the magic trick it
takes for you to have an orgasm — as opposed to some single-serving Romeo who approaches your body like a burglar in a pitch-black china shop. And, finally, having at least friendly affection for somebody you sleep with should mean that sex leaves you feeling, if not loved, well, less like a rental car somebody just dropped off. “Note to person checking in this vehicle: Makes weird noises when cornering.”
CHAMPAGNE AND SUFFERING
I’m a 30-year-old gay guy. I was laid off, and I’m freelancing crazy hours to try to pay my rent and bills. My best friend’s birthday was this past weekend, and I did what I could timewise (and put a modest gift on my credit card), but he’s totally bent out of shape because he feels like I neglected him. He equates the attention you pay to his birthday with how much you care, which is so ridiculous.
—Feeling Bad What kind of friend are you that you couldn’t, say, sell a kidney on the black market and buy the guy a proper gift? Yes, it seems you prioritized frivolities such as paying rent and keeping the lights on without needing to rig a treadmill for your dog to chase a piece of bacon on a string. Of course, putting your financial survival first doesn’t mean you’re a bad friend. The, uh, brat of honor probably just sees it that way because of what psychologists call “attribution bias.”This describes how we tend to be charitable in explaining our own errors and failings — excusing them as situational (the result of something that’s happened to us) — while attributing others’ to the sort of people they are (compassionless, birthday-hating monsters). Have a sit-down with your friend and explain that you care deeply about him. (Review your history of showing this.) Emphasize that it was a lack of time and funding, not a lack of feeling, that kept you from, say, renting a sufficiently mansionesque bouncy house or hiring David Blaine to make balloon animals on his special day. Apply compassion. Recognize that there’s probably some woundyplace in him that makes him this way, basically expecting his birthday to be treated like some major national holiday. Okay, maybe the guy’s first name is Martin. Chances are, the two that follow aren’t “Luther” and “King.”
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date is Open Until Filled. CSKT IS A TRIBAL MEMBER PREFERENCE EMPLOYER
ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT The successful applicant must possess five years experience with the RPMS computer system, FI computer system, fax machine and scanning. Some College coursework in Health Services, Public Health, Business Administration, Human Resources, or other relevant field preferred.Training and or on the job experience related to medical coding and medical procedures preferred. Experience in implementing CHS/ program policies and procedures. Demonstrated successful experience in reading, interpreting program guidance, contracts, and regulations and implementing those regulations at the local level.Ability to successfully pass civil and criminal background check for persons working with children and vulnerable adults. Ability to communicate with vendors and patients in a compassionate understanding manner. Professional communication skills and a valid current State of Montana driver’s license.All applicants must submit a Tribal application and copy of academic transcript/training certificate, proof of enrollment in a federally recognized Tribe if other than CSKT and if claiming veteran’s preference, a copy of DD214 must be submitted. The successful applicant, if not already employed by the Tribes must pass a pre-hire drug test and serve a mandatory six (6) months probationary period. Salary is $14.06 to $16.33. To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. #1043.Tribal applications are also available online at cskt.org. Closing date will be Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. CSKT IS A TRIBAL MEMBER PREFERENCE
MEDICAL CLINICIAN ONE OR MORE POSITIONS-CLINIC TO BE DETERMINED TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT The successful applicant must possess a specialized knowledge of the concepts, principals and practices of Family Medicine obtained through the successful completed course of study in F.N.P. The incumbent must have a through working knowledge of the major primary care field of internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology and pediatrics, in order to treat a majority of patients. Board of nursing certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Must be currently licensed (and in good standing) to practice as a Nurse Practitioner in the United States and Montana. Current ACLS certification is required. Skill intact and diplomacy while working in stressful situations. Ability to work with people from a variety of backgrounds and traditional native cultures.Ability to participate in activities and functions required which assures compliance with AAHC or other accreditation organization standards. All applicants must submit a Tribal application and copy of academic transcript/training certificate, proof of enrollment in a federally recognized Tribe if other than CSKT and if claiming veteran’s preference, a copy of DD214 must be submitted.The successful applicant, if not already employed by the Tribes must pass a pre-hire drug test and serve a mandatory six (6) months probationary period. Position is exempt and salary is negotiable.To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. #1043. Tribal applications are also available online at cskt.org. Position is Open Until Filled. CSKT IS A TRIBAL MEMBER PREFERENCE EMPLOYER
CARE COORDINATOR TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT The successful applicant must possess Post-secondary education in mental health related field or 2 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience in grant funded activities including fulfilling objectives and completing progress reports and financial reports. Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse license from the State of Montana or other state. Graduate from an accredited Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, with two years of nursing experience, with at least one (1) year of ambulatory care nursing experience preferred. OR Currently enrolled in a BSN program. Five (5) years of nursing experience, with at least one (1) year of ambulatory care nursing experience preferred. Basic Life Support certification. Advanced Cardiac Life Support preferred. Certification in Care Coordination preferred, required within three (3) years of employment. Must maintain proper licensure/certification and registration; if required. Must possess a valid driver’s license. All applicants must submit a Tribal application and copy of academic transcript/training certificate, completed supplemental background questionnaire(contact the CSKT Personnel Department), copy of driver’s license, proof of enrollment in a federally recognized Tribe if other than CSKT and if claiming veteran’s preference, a copy of DD214 must be submitted.The successful applicant, if not already employed by the Tribes must pass a pre-hire drug test and serve a mandatory six (6) months probationary period. Exempt position - salary is negotiable. To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. #1043. Tribal applications are also available online at csktribes.org. Closing
MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT The successful applicant must possess a Master’s degree in Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Social Work, Guidance and Counseling, or related field. Must be currently licensed by the state of Montana as a licensed professional coun-
selor (LCPC) OR licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) or eligible to become licensed within an agreed amount of time.Two (2) years of clinical experience in working in a clinical setting with patients who are experiencing mental health problems. It is essential that the incumbent have experience working as a therapist in a clinical setting, providing treatment and has experience and knowledge of psychological theories, principles, and practices in the clinical treatment field in the area of counseling, individual and group psychotherapy, evaluation, testing, and assessment, psychological consultation, crisis intervention and community mental health prevention and development. Must be able to pass a background check in accordance with Public Law-101-630. Must have a valid Driver’s License. All applicants must submit a Tribal application, completed background supplemental questionnaire, copy of academic transcript, copy of LPC or LCSW licensure, and proof of enrollment from a federally recognized Tribe if other than CSKT and if claiming veteran’s preference, copy of DD214 must be submitted with the Tribal application. This is not a Testing Designated Position (TDP) within the definition of the CSKT Drug Testing policy. The successful applicant, if not already employed by the Tribes must pass a pre-hire drug test, pass a background investigation and serve a mandatory six (6) month probationary period. Salary range is negotiable. To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. #1043. Tribal applications are also available online at csktribes.org.The closing date for this position will be Open Until Filled. CSKT IS A TRIBAL MEMBER PREFERENCE EMPLOYER
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-1235 Dept. No.: 2 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Aaron Michael Duffy, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Aaron Michael Duffy to Aaron Michael Hampf. The hearing will be on 30/06/2018 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date January 23, 2018 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-18-32 Dept. No.: 4 Karen S. Townsend Order Setting Hearing In the Matter of the Name Change of Jane Goffe McIntosh,
Petitioner. This Court orders Name Change Hearing. The hearing on the Petition for Name Change filed in this case is set for: 03/06/2018 at 3:00 p.m. at the Missoula County Courthouse. Date 1/24/2018 By /s/ Karen S. Townsend, District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY CAUSE NO. DP-18-31 DEPT. NO. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHNNY SYVERSON, 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 ei-
ther be mailed to Lacee Syverson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Eric Rasmusson, Bulman Law Associates, PLLC, P.O. Box 8202, Missoula, MT 59807-8202 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 5 day of February, 2018. /s/ Eric Rasmussan BULMAN LAW ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. P.O. BOX 8202 Missoula, MT 59807-8202 (406)721-7744 Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-18-110 Dept. No.: 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Natalie Sneed, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Natalie Ann Sneed to Natalie Ann Razey. The hearing will be on 03/13/2018 at 3:00
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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 Glenda D. Kinney, 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 20 day of February, 2018. /s/ Glenda D. Kinney, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 20 day of February, 2018. /s/ Glenda D. Kinney, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 20 day of February, 2018. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate Case No. DP-18-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of PATRICIA L. BEWICK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that John F. Bewick, Jr. has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city.Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying ... or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago ... or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you ... or transform your relationship with an old wound ... or all of the above. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Committee to Fanatically Promote Taurus’s Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps — to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment and abundant slack. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one can be somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation? Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the grey area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Along the way they may encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines and wild boars. These natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning out to be as I expected it would be for you? Have you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and turn your focus to them. Make sure you make full use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t find intimacy — you can’t find home — when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks,Virgo.You will have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and candid and unshielded.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak.Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The state of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns — places where people once lived, but then abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these places. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on the old evidence. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you consider doing comparable research into your own lost and halfforgotten history. You can generate vigorous psychic energy by communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you used to be will clarify your future.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s not quite a revolution that’s in the works. But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting story lines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the Productive Paradox Phase of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2.You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.” 5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you make appointments in the coming months, you could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP 2018. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Probate No. DP-18-54 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORMAN SCHWEIZER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that RICHARD SHIMER 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 RICHARD SHIMER, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 327 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16 day of February, 2018. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-18-11 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEONARD ZAWADA, 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 The Western Montana Chapter, 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 7th day of February, 2018 at Missoula, Montana. Western Montana Chapter /s/ Melissa Stiegler Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie Sirrs, Esq. PO Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Tina Zawada, Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-18-53 Dept. No.: 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ELVIRA S. BERG, 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 TRACENE ELIZABETH BERG, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 15th day of February, 2018. /s/ Tracene Elizabeth Berg, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Notice is given that a public sale will be held on April 12, 2018 at 11:25 a.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802 for the foreclosure of the security interest by public sale of a 1984 Broa mobile home, Montana Title number: K773839. GEISZLER STEELE, PC 619 SW Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, MT 59803 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by LINDY M. LAUDER, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER IS/ARE: Grantor: The Victor E. & Merle D. Cabreros Trust (the “Grantor”) Original Trustee: Insured Titles, LLC Successor Trustee: Lindy M. Lauder, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: Stockman Bank of Montana (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: The Victor E. & Merle D. Cabreros Trust dated March 9, 2003 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 25 of 44 Ranch, Phases 1 and 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 2552 Snaffle Bit Way, Missoula, Montana 59808. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust dated November 21, 2016, and recorded November 23, 2016, as Document No. 201621435, Book 971 of Micro Records, Page 263, records of Missoula County, Montana; and Substitution of Trustee dated January 2, 2018, and recorded
January 4, 2018, under Document No. 201800258, Book 991, Page 464, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $1,229.03 due under the Promissory Note dated November 21, 2016, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the October 2017 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF JANUARY 9, 2018 ARE: Principal: $187,304.61 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 4.75% per annum. As of January 9, 2018 the interest balance is $1,842.87 and interest accrues at the rate of $24.3752 per day. Late fees: $500.00 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: June 13, 2018 Time: 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place:Crowley Fleck, 305 S. 4th St. E., Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated this 9th day of January, 2018. /s/ Lindy M. Lauder LINDY M. LAUDER Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ) :ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on January 9, 2018, by Lindy M. Lauder, as Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Lolo, Montana My commission expires: 01/09/2021 File No.: 087501000429 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on May 17, 2018, 11:00 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 the East one-half of Lot 28 of Dinsmore’s Orchard Homes Addition No. 4, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Less a part of said East one-half of Lot 28, according to Certificate of Survey NO. 19 and more particularly described as follows: A Parcel of land within the Southeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of section 19, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana, Commencing at the Southwest corner of section 19, thence South 88°58’15”E., 1611.94 feet; thence North 00°11’14”W., 660.34 feet to the Northeast corner of Lot 28, Dinsmore’s Orchard Home Addition NO. 4 and the true point of beginning; thence S.
00°11’14”E., 416.45 feet along the East line of Lot 28; thence N. 88°58’40”W., 161.25 feet to the North South Mid-Line of Lot 28; thence North 00°11’32”W., 416.40 feet along the said Mid-Line to a point on the North Line on Lot 28; thence South 88°59’34” East 161.29 feet to the Northeast corner of Lot 28 and the true point of beginning. Being the same premises as conveyed in Deed from Kevin P. Murphy Recorded 04/08/2008 in Document Number 200807724, Book 816, Page 0900 in said County and State. Commonly known as: 3030 South 7th Street West, Missoula, MT 59804. More commonly known as 3030 South 7th Street West, Missoula, MT 59804. William A. Hall, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., as
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Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Home Savings of America, a Federal Savings Association, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on November 1, 2010, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on November 18, 2010 as Instrument No. 201022731, in Book 869, at Page 624, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Bank of America, N.A. Assignment Dated: October 5, 2012 Assignment Recorded: October 15, 2012 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201220126, in Book 902, at Page 3, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on December 6, 2017 as Instrument No. 201724212, in Book 990, at Page 270, 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 July 1, 2017, 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 $181,974.24, interest in the sum of $4,909.52, escrow advances of $2,075.60, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,576.53 for a total amount owing of $190,535.89, 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 sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, except-
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ing 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 will be canceled. 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 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 21st day of February, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 50833 March 1, 8, 15, 2018
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 KOTA•
Kota is a 2 year old male American Bulldog mix. This big, goofy boy has a lot of love to give and is always searching for affection! He enjoys chasing tennis balls, but hasn't quite figured out the idea of retrieving them. He is very treat motivated and knows how to sit, lay down, and search for all the stray bits of kibble. Kota is hoping to find himself in a fun-loving and active family.
MATTEO• Matteo is a 3 year old male longhaired Orange Tabby cat. He is a sweet and snuggly young man who is quick to purr and wants nothing more than to be snuggled. Matteo would like a home that will help keep him brushed out to prevent matts from building up. Matteo has a very sweet disposition that would love to be loved.
MISSY•Missy is a 8 year old female brown tabby and white cat. She is a very sweet and affectionate lady. Missy will talk to you when you come to greet her, and she'll follow you around waiting for more attention. She's a funny little girl who can be quite affectionate and demanding, but immediately lets you know when your attention is not wanted.
GYPSY• Gypsy is a 4 year old female German Shepherd. This sweet girl has spent her younger years in a travelling band of fortune tellers, but now she's ready to settle down and grow some roots. Gyspy loves people all of all ages, but could use a bit of advice in the way of manners. She is really hoping her future holds a family where she won't have to share any attention with other pets.
HOBBS• Hobbs is a 5 year old male black and white short-haired tuxedo cat. He is a bit shy upon first greeting him. Once he's gotten used to you, Hobbs is a very sweet boy who loves recieving attention. This classy boy is always ready for the most sophisticated occasion with his very handsome tuxedo markings and his distinguished white mustache.
2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd 3510 S Reserve
829-WOOF
875 Wyoming
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ADELINE• Adeline is a 1 year old female Boxer mix. She is a very reserved lady who will not immediately shower you with affection. She prefers to get to know you, first. Adeline can be a bit timid in new situations and would do best with some socialization and desensitization training. Once she trusts you, Adeline will depend on you to be her constant in new situations and will be forever grateful for that support.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 PRINCESS• Princess is a very sweet girl that would prefer to be the center of your attention. She wants to be the apple of your eye with no competition! She is a princess indeed! She is a little nervous around new people at first, but when she warms up, she will love you forever. Princess' adoption fee is waived through our Seniors for Seniors program for people 60 and up and pets 7 and up! BLUE MOON• Blue Moon is a handsome man with lots of energy! He loves to go go go and would like to go to an active household. He is friendly with new visitors and some dogs. If you are looking for an adventure pup to be by your side, come visit Blue Moon! LUCY• Lucy is a very sweet girl that is becoming more and more brave every day! She loves other dogs and spending time with people that are calm and willing to give her a few minutes to warm up. She is looking for a family with another dog who is very social with people. This sweetheart is already spayed and vaccinated and ready to go to her forever home today.
1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD
Garry Kerr Dept. of Anthropology University of Montana
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232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN
SEDWICK• Sedwick is a very handsome man that loves to nuzzle up with people. His long hair and piercing gold eyes along with his loud purrs will steal your heart. He has been a wonderful office cat here at the shelter and enjoys lounging on a desk. Just as long as you’re taking breaks to give him some belly rubs!
TIBBS• Tibbs LOVES to play! He has been so active and goofy here at the shelter. Once you start playing with him, you won’t be able to stop— he won’t let you! Tibbs is very social and enjoys greeting new people with head nuzzles and loud purrs.
Missoula 406-626-1500 william@rideglaw.com
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RAPUNZEL• Rapunzel has been patiently waiting atop her tower for the perfect person to come adopt her. This long haired princess takes a little bit of time to open up to people, but with a bit of love and patience, she is a sweetheart! She spends her time in the HSWM office staring out the window waiting for her true love and watching the birds. missoulanews.com • March 1–March 8, 2018 [43]
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 KOTA•
Kota is a 2 year old male American Bulldog mix. This big, goofy boy has a lot of love to give and is always searching for affection! He enjoys chasing tennis balls, but hasn't quite figured out the idea of retrieving them. He is very treat motivated and knows how to sit, lay down, and search for all the stray bits of kibble. Kota is hoping to find himself in a fun-loving and active family.
MATTEO• Matteo is a 3 year old male longhaired Orange Tabby cat. He is a sweet and snuggly young man who is quick to purr and wants nothing more than to be snuggled. Matteo would like a home that will help keep him brushed out to prevent matts from building up. Matteo has a very sweet disposition that would love to be loved.
MISSY•Missy is a 8 year old female brown tabby and white cat. She is a very sweet and affectionate lady. Missy will talk to you when you come to greet her, and she'll follow you around waiting for more attention. She's a funny little girl who can be quite affectionate and demanding, but immediately lets you know when your attention is not wanted.
GYPSY• Gypsy is a 4 year old female German Shepherd. This sweet girl has spent her younger years in a travelling band of fortune tellers, but now she's ready to settle down and grow some roots. Gyspy loves people all of all ages, but could use a bit of advice in the way of manners. She is really hoping her future holds a family where she won't have to share any attention with other pets.
HOBBS• Hobbs is a 5 year old male black and white short-haired tuxedo cat. He is a bit shy upon first greeting him. Once he's gotten used to you, Hobbs is a very sweet boy who loves recieving attention. This classy boy is always ready for the most sophisticated occasion with his very handsome tuxedo markings and his distinguished white mustache.
2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd 3510 S Reserve
829-WOOF
875 Wyoming
Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MontanaSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays
Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at
www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543
Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.
ADELINE• Adeline is a 1 year old female Boxer mix. She is a very reserved lady who will not immediately shower you with affection. She prefers to get to know you, first. Adeline can be a bit timid in new situations and would do best with some socialization and desensitization training. Once she trusts you, Adeline will depend on you to be her constant in new situations and will be forever grateful for that support.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 PRINCESS• Princess is a very sweet girl that would prefer to be the center of your attention. She wants to be the apple of your eye with no competition! She is a princess indeed! She is a little nervous around new people at first, but when she warms up, she will love you forever. Princess' adoption fee is waived through our Seniors for Seniors program for people 60 and up and pets 7 and up! BLUE MOON• Blue Moon is a handsome man with lots of energy! He loves to go go go and would like to go to an active household. He is friendly with new visitors and some dogs. If you are looking for an adventure pup to be by your side, come visit Blue Moon! LUCY• Lucy is a very sweet girl that is becoming more and more brave every day! She loves other dogs and spending time with people that are calm and willing to give her a few minutes to warm up. She is looking for a family with another dog who is very social with people. This sweetheart is already spayed and vaccinated and ready to go to her forever home today.
1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD
Garry Kerr Dept. of Anthropology University of Montana
BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual
232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN
SEDWICK• Sedwick is a very handsome man that loves to nuzzle up with people. His long hair and piercing gold eyes along with his loud purrs will steal your heart. He has been a wonderful office cat here at the shelter and enjoys lounging on a desk. Just as long as you’re taking breaks to give him some belly rubs!
TIBBS• Tibbs LOVES to play! He has been so active and goofy here at the shelter. Once you start playing with him, you won’t be able to stop— he won’t let you! Tibbs is very social and enjoys greeting new people with head nuzzles and loud purrs.
Missoula 406-626-1500 william@rideglaw.com
1450 W. Broadway St. • 406-728-0022
RAPUNZEL• Rapunzel has been patiently waiting atop her tower for the perfect person to come adopt her. This long haired princess takes a little bit of time to open up to people, but with a bit of love and patience, she is a sweetheart! She spends her time in the HSWM office staring out the window waiting for her true love and watching the birds. missoulanews.com • March 1–March 8, 2018 [45]