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Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk The scourge of springing forward ...............................................................4 The Week in Review News of the day—one day at a time .............................................6 Briefs Symphony gets buzzed, ads target Tester, daylight saving bill .............................6 Etc. Lessons from Trump’s Nasty Guy.............................................................................7 News No special protections for Montana’s LGBT crime victims ...................................8 News Board of Missoula returns to its roots...................................................................9 Opinion In Billings, an armed vigilante drives a hard bargain at Penney’s..................10 Feature The truth behind the headlines of child sexual abuse ....................................14

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Arts Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival: Saxophonist Brad Leali on “sitting in”..................18 Music The alt-country orbit of the Old 97’s..................................................................19 Books Hits and misses in The Aikido Katana ..............................................................20 Film Netflix wins with I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore ...........................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 Brokeass Gourmet Soft pretzels with IPA cheese sauce..............................................23 Happiest Hour Rev. Nat’s Hard Cider ..........................................................................25 8 Days a Week Working for the weekend.....................................................................26 Agenda Jailed for their Words documentary ................................................................33 Mountain High Montana FWP talks climate change ....................................................34

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STREET TALK

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by Alex Sakariassen and Derek Brouwer

Asked Monday afternoon at the Dram Shop Do you think Montana should get rid of daylight saving time, as the legislature has recently proposed?

Follow-up: We just jumped ahead an hour this weekend.

What would you have done with that extra hour?

Aaron McCown: Yes, Montana should get rid of daylight savings time because I lived in Arizona, which does not observe daylight savings time, and it didn’t make any difference. Catching those z’s: I would have slept in because I had to work and I had to work really early. Instead I had to work really, really early.

Will Windham: Yeah, cause it seems like an old-school thing. My recollection is it was crafted for farmers for their harvests, and a bulk of those folks aren’t farmers anymore. Another vote for winks: I probably would have slept longer, caught up on my sleep.

Kristen Hoffman: I would say yes, just for the convenience. I don’t see a significant reason to keep it at this point. Seriously, are these yawns contagious?

I would have slept in.

Hannah Beyl: That’s hard. Arizona doesn’t have daylight savings time, and they’re doing okay. Yup, they totally are: I would have gone to sleep. Sleep is my favorite thing.

Victoria Dahlhoff: I know that in the fall, I’m so thankful for daylight savings. But getting up for work this morning was so painful. If you’d asked me in the fall, I would have said, “It’s great!” Finally, something other than sleep: I would have gone to the gym this morning.

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KettleHouse Correction The article titled “County to get zoning overhaul” (March 9) mischaracterized the zoning status of the KettleHouse Amphitheater. The article incorrectly asserted that the KettleHouse Amphitheater did not have the authority to operate under the current zoning regulation.

Logjam Presents, the owner of the KettleHouse Amphitheater improvements and operator of the venue, has been working closely with the Missoula County Zoning Department since November, 2016.

The KettleHouse Amphitheater has presented iterations of the architectural drawings to Missoula County throughout the design process.

The zoning regulation that existed prior to March 9, 2017, allowed for the KettleHouse Amphitheater to conduct events with a limited infrastructure (as the Big Sky Brewery has done for over 10 years). Infrastructure such as permanent concession areas and permanent bathrooms were not permitted under the zoning regulation that existed prior to the passage of the March 9 zoning changes. Missoula County Zoning Department and the KettleHouse Amphitheater had reached an agreement that if the zoning changes were not passed on March 9, 2017, the KettleHouse Amphitheater could proceed with the limited infrastructure design concept. At no time was a show booked, or were tickets sold, without an understanding between Missoula County Zoning Department and the KettleHouse Amphitheater.

The KettleHouse Amphitheater postponed submitting for its final building permit in anticipation of the passage of the March 9 zoning changes. That said, the KettleHouse Amphitheater had obtained the required permits and approvals to complete its mass excavation, rough grading and other retaining wall work. The KettleHouse Amphitheater was proceeding with construction in a manner that would allow it to complete the venue with either the full infrastructure or limited infrastructure, depending on the outcome of the March 9 zoning meeting.

On March 9, the Missoula County Commissioners approved several zoning changes. These changes allow for the KettleHouse Amphitheater to proceed with the more robust design concept that includes a more permanent infrastructure. The KettleHouse Amphitheater intends to submit for a full building permit on March 13.

Overall, the KettleHouse Amphitheater has collaborated with the Missoula County Zoning Department, Missoula County Health Department, Missoula County Building Department, the Conservation District, not-for-profit organizations such as the

Blackfoot Challenge and the Clark Fork Coalition, and other regulatory bodies to obtain all entitlements and support required to design, develop and construct a world class venue. We take issue with the characterization in the March 9 article that we proceeded without the required zoning to conduct shows in the new venue. While the limited infrastructure design would have been less ideal and detracted from the artist and concert goer experience, it would have been sufficient for our first year of operations. We delayed our final building plan submittal to utilize the zoning changes and have the opportunity to construct a more robust venue.

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No to Gorsuch As the co-founder of a Missoula-based technology company, Gatherboard, which licenses calendar software for communities

“Much has been made of Gorsuch’s employer-friendly record, but it appears that he’s only for giant corporations, not regular business people and entrepreneurs.” across the West, I was disappointed to see the Montana Chamber of Commerce’s recent endorsement of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Judge Neil Gorsuch’s record certainly does not represent the best interests of my business. I encourage Sens. Daines and Tester to take a hard look at Gorsuch’s record.

Like many small business owners, I’m wary of being forced to sign binding arbitration agreements imposed by giant companies in order to conduct business. Most Montana businesses I’m familiar with don’t even use such binding arbitration agreements. However, the trend, which Gorsuch apparently supports, is toward forcing individuals to go to arbitration

rather than before a court, to resolve disputes with massive corporations.

In Ragab v. Howard, entrepreneur Sami Ragab filed a lawsuit against an investment bank and capital financing company for misrepresentation and violating consumer credit repair laws that helped him obtain startup capital. The companies demanded arbitration, but there were six different and irreconcilable agreements about arbitration, and the court recognized there had never been a “meeting of the minds”—a basic principle of contract law. Judge Gorsuch dissented, arguing for a “workaround” so the companies could impose arbitration on Ragab.

Much has been made of Gorsuch’s employer-friendly record, but it appears that he’s only for giant corporations, not regular business people and entrepreneurs. It’s telling that he supported Hobby Lobby in citing the company’s “sincerely held religious beliefs” as an excuse for denying women employees birth control insurance. Montanans do not believe corporations are people, and we expect our senators to support justices that don’t either.

Molly Bradford Missoula

Getting up to PACE The Montana Legislature is considering an important bill to benefit homeowners and businesses interested in improving energy efficiency and lowering power bills.

Introduced by Sen. Chas Vincent, R-Libby, and supported by Governor Steve Bullock, SB 330 authorizes Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and would empower local government programs that support energy efficiency, clean energy and water conservation projects. PACE is voluntary and would allow property owners to pick local contractors for improvements and pay through long-term, low interest loans linked to energy savings. Repayment would be coordinated through city or county property assessors much in the same way sidewalk and sewer upgrades are repaid over the long term. By lowering up-front and long-term expenses, PACE will save property owners money on power bills, conserve energy and water, and put local contractors to work. SB 330 authorizes the PACE program without costing the state any money, and participation is determined at the local level by city or county officials. Thirtythree states have already authorized PACE programs and more are in the process.

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, March 8 Police arrest Donald Eugene Olsen, 42, after a hit-and-run crash in a stolen truck.

Court documents say Olsen told arresting officers that he could only remember “I love tacos.” He’s charged with DUI, theft and traffic violations.

Thursday, March 9 Local Standing Rock pipeline protesters set up camp on the Missoula County Courthouse lawn, kicking off a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Friday, March 10 A man wearing an inflatable T-rex costume strolls around downtown Missoula during the relatively warm evening. #KeepMissoulaCretacious.

Electioneering

Outside groups target Tester Over the past month, three conservative organizations have dropped big money on ads aimed at Sen. Jon Tester. The message is to pressure him into supporting U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, but with Tester up for reelection next year, there’s an added subtext that’s hard to ignore—the 2018 campaign season.

The first of the ads to hit Montana televisions in February came courtesy of the Judicial Crisis Network, a Virginia-based political nonprofit that, according to its website, is dedicated to “strengthening liberty and justice in America.” The spot had all the hallmarks of a campaign season attack—flashy graphics, pixelated footage, accusations about “creating gridlock” and “threatening to obstruct” Gorsuch’s confirmation. JCN dropped $350,000 on the ad buy, part of a $10 million nationwide campaign that has targeted other Democratic senators up for reelection in 2018. The nonprofit Concerned Veterans for Amer-

ica also launched a cross-country initiative complete with Tester ad this week.

“Jon knows the Supreme Court is too important to play politics with, which is why he is concerned with the hundreds of thousands of dollars coming from dark money special interests flooding Montana’s airwaves,” says Tester spokesman Luke Jackson. “With his [Sunlight for Unaccountable Non-profits] Act, Jon’s working to shine a little light on these dark money groups.”

Tester has also found himself in the crosshairs of the Stop Hillary PAC, which rebranded itself as the Committee to Defend the President in January. The political action committee blanketed Montana with an ad in late February encouraging Tester’s constituents to call their senator and urge a “yes” vote on Gorsuch. According to FEC filings, the Committee to Defend the President is also spending big on ad production and voter contact in Wisconsin, where Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin will be campaigning to keep her seat next year.

The PAC’s $200,000 buy in Montana differs from the

other two in-state ads in a big way: Montana House Speaker Austin Knudsen, R-Culbertson, was tapped as narrator. In the ad, Knudsen says he knows what it’s like to “fight against Washington’s war on the West,” and credits Sen. Steve Daines for backing Gorsuch. “But Senator Tester,” Knudsen continues, “what’s he waiting for?”

Knudsen did not respond to a request for comment about his appearance in the ad.

Tester has made clear numerous times why he has yet to come out strongly on Gorsuch. He’s expressed concerns about the nominee’s stances on various issues including physician-assisted death, but promised to give him “a fair shake” after the two met on Feb. 6. That undecidedness is echoed by other vulnerable Democratic senators, even as liberal groups vow primary challenges against any who vote in Gorsuch’s favor. Confirmation hearings begin March 20, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pressing for a full vote ahead of the Senate’s Easter recess.

Alex Sakariassen

Saturday, March 11 The Montana Libertarian Party chooses Mark Wicks as its candidate for the special election to fill Ryan Zinke’s seat in Congress.

Wicks, a rancher from Inverness (pop. 55), says he’s in favor of expanding health care for veterans and eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.

Sunday, March 12 The USGS records a 3.8 magnitude earthquake near Deer Lodge shortly after 9 p.m.

A state official in Clancy tweets that his house shook, his doors rattled and “it very briefly sound like a train nearby.”

Monday, March 13 Judge Karen Townsend rules that the city of Missoula only needs to pay about $4 million to compensate Mountain Water’s attorneys fees in the ongoing condemnation case.

Mountain Water sought $8 million.

Tuesday, March 14 Five On Black is the scene of an elaborate “promposal” when four Hellgate High School teen boys take four girls out to lunch.

The boys remove their shirts to reveal that each has a big letter painted on their chest, spelling P-R-O-M.

They’re some of the rudest people I’ve ever — I hate to say it, but I’m just going to be bold — they’re some of the most self-centered people navigating on highways, or on county roads I’ve ever seen. They won’t move over. You can honk at them; they think they own the highway.”

—Montana Senate President Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, March 13, on bicyclists

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[news] Empire of the sun

Playing God with time Those opposing daylight saving time kept a sunny mood during a recent legislative committee hearing as they sought to advance a bill that would make summer nights darker. Sponsor Ryan Osmundson, R-Buffalo, called it a “sunshine bill with an implied sunset.� Nicole Rolf, representing the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, ended her testimony by passing around a “meme� comparing coffee cups sizes before and after clock hour hands move forward each March (the “after� panel showed a bucket). “Thank you for your time,� she concluded, “pun intended.�

And there was George Harris, testifying as a citizen. He first offered a practical argument in favor of standard time, which would shift an hour of sunlight back to the morning for eight months of the year, on the basis that it would be safer for early-morning runners like himself and schoolchildren waiting for the bus. Then he turned metaphysical, comparing daylight saving time to playing God. “God knew what he was doing when he set the time, and I don’t think we know more than him,�

Harris said.

Debating daylight saving is a tradition as reliable as the clock-setting ritual itself. Nonetheless, those debates have typically gone nowhere in the Montana Legislature. But last month, Osmundson’s bill, Senate Bill 206, sailed through the senate unanimously out of committee and then by a 36-14 floor vote.

As if jolted awake by an early alarm, defenders of daylight saving time packed the House State Administration committee room on March 13 to persuade lawmakers that becoming the third state to abandon the time shift would be no joking matter. They called it a bill with trivial benefits but that would hurt everything from after-school sports to summer tourism to the Spring Creek Mine, where hundreds of miners drive across state lines each day for work.

Adam Clinch, a Helena math teacher, noted that under Standard Time, nautical twilight would begin at 3:01 a.m. on the summer solstice. “Besides a handful of marathon runners, I don’t know why we Montanans need daylight at three in the morning,� he said.

Absent from the debate was discussion of daylight saving’s original intent when it was introduced during World War I: to conserve energy. Research on the question is scant and mixed, though a U.S. De-

partment of Energy report estimated that the threeweek extension of daylight saving time in 2007 saved half a percent of daily energy consumption. Northwestern Energy hasn’t testified on the Montana bill, and spokesperson Butch Larcombe says the company has not studied whether it might lead to more energy use or profits here.

Osmundson, who represents a rural district of farmers and ranchers, said his constituents were on his mind when he introduced the bill. “Their schedules,� he said, “are more dictated by the sun than the clock.� He then complained of daylight saving as a federal diktat, arguing that setting Montanans’ schedule “should be up to us.�

Derek Brouwer

Sounds like fun

Symphony gets buzzed Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Festival Overture� had just concluded, and the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale would next perform the concert’s main attraction: Mozart’s “Great Mass in C Minor.� First, though, was intermission.

The crowd that had filed into the Dennison Theatre on March 11 for a swishy night out enjoyed the Easter overture that opened the show with sober ears. Most concertgoers hadn’t seemed to notice the trio of caterers serving KettleHouse beers, Coors Light, wine and champagne at the far end of the foyer.

Cold Smoke isn’t exactly part of Missoula’s symphonygoing tradition.

But Executive Director John Driscoll, in his introductory remarks, reminded concertgoers that they’d have a “full 20-minute intermission� during which they could, for the first time at a Missoula symphony event, purchase alcohol in the lobby—in other words, get buzzed.

Whether moved by Driscoll’s plug or what the program notes described as the “explosive climax� of Rimsky’s piece, the audience discovered the alcohol stand as they waited for Mozart’s Great Mass to begin. A line snaked across the foyer. Silver-haired friends used staircases as seats upon which to sip their wine. Ambient

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75 million Estimated age, in years, of Magnuviator ovimonsensis, a lizard species recently identified from fossils found near Choteau. The name translates to “Great traveler from Egg Mountain.� chit-chat crescendoed. “There’s usually conversation,� one Symphony volunteer observed, “but not this much.�

Serving alcohol is the latest way the symphony is trying to create an inviting experience for a wider swath of local residents, says Missoula Symphony Association President Ed Wetherbee. Though the median age of Missoula symphony audiences has dropped over the last decade, Wetherbee says the performances still tend to attract a more “mature� and older audience.

Wetherbee thinks the music can appeal to younger people as well. “We and other symphonies are trying to demonstrate that while this isn’t what you listened to growing up, this is good stuff and it’s worth a try,� he says.

Alcohol doesn’t have much to do with Mozart, but organizers hope it can help make going to the Symphony about more than the music alone. “The symphony is not stuffy, it’s not stodgy, but it is an event. It should be a special evening, a night out,� Driscoll says.

The local symphony isn’t being iconoclastic in offering alcohol at its concerts; many do. Despite organizers’ “past overtures� to Dennison Theatre management about serving alcohol at the symphony’s events, working through logistical challenges took time, Driscoll says.

With Dennison Theatre management now on board, audiences are free to drink Eddy Out from their seats.

Usually, the brief pauses between symphonic movements are filled only with throat-clearing. On Saturday, a new sound pierced the silence between the fourth and fifth movements of Mozart’s Great Mass: the metallic clack of a beer can touching the concrete floor.

Derek Brouwer

ETC. During an interview last May, Donald Trump called Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold a “nasty guy.� The then-candidate had boasted publicly of donating $1 million to veterans groups as part of a TV fundraising stunt.

Months later, Fahrenthold still couldn’t find any evidence of that donation, and Trump’s team wasn’t offering details. Trump finally cut a check after the Post and others published stories about it. When Fahrenthold asked Trump if he’d done so because of the media’s questioning, Trump started calling him names.

It’s stories like these that make a “nasty guy� into a journalistic superhero. That’s the metaphor University of Montana School of Journalism Dean Larry Abramson invoked when he teased Fahrenthold’s Monday night lecture on campus: “Look, up in the sky! @Fahrenthold coming to save Missoula from misinformation,� he tweeted.

Journalists flocked from as far as Billings and Great Falls to listen to Fahrenthold’s stories from the campaign trail. But the standing-room audience in the University Center ballroom included more than just journalists. Fahrenthold has become a minor celebrity for his dogged investigations of Trump over the last year. (His Twitter following, for one, has swelled from 4,000 to over 330,000.)

Fahrenthold broke the “pussy tape� story, but his most impressive work involved searching for answers about Trump’s history of charitable giving. He discovered virtually no evidence that the candidate has donated anything since 2009, while confirming that our current president did use his foundation’s money to purchase two self-portraits.

That Fahrenthold’s investigations didn’t sink Trump’s candidacy says something significant about journalism, the American electorate, or both.

During a Q&A, one journalism student asked Fahrenthold how to counter the public’s “crisis of belief� toward fact-based reporting. Someone else asked, in effect, if he thought democracy was doomed. The question produced the evening’s most uncomfortable, and salient, moment. “There’s a guy in power that a lot of people don’t like,� Fahrenthold replied, “but there’s nothing that’s changed about us or about how our system works that’s different now than it was on Nov. 8.� “You, sir, are ridiculous!� a man yelled from the back of the room. “Thank you, sir,� Fahrenthold said.

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Hate crimes No special protections for Montana’s LGBT crime victims

by Kate Whittle

The weekend of Feb. 11, a gay couple called police and said they’d been attacked outside a bar on Ryman Street by two strangers who shouted homophobic epithets. After putting out a request for tips from the public, the Missoula Police Department later cited Wade Turner, 37, and Steven Niebel, 33, with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct.

The citation simply notes that besides yelling slurs, the men struck the victims, “causing injury.”

Turner and Niebel were never booked into jail, according to MPD Public Information Officer Travis Welsh. Both men entered not guilty pleas and are set to appear in Municipal Court in April. If they’re convicted, they could face a $500 fine and up to six months in county jail.

By the police and victims’ account, the Feb. 11 attack qualifies as a crime motivated by bias. But Turner and Niebel won’t face enhanced penalties, as other bias-motivated crimes do, because Montana state law does not protect sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Missoula’s nondiscrimination ordinance only protects people from prejudice in housing and employment.

City Attorney Jim Nugent says the police working the Feb. 11 assault case conferred with the Missoula County Attorney’s Office to be sure that a misdemeanor was the appropriate citation for Turner and Niebel. Montana code defines hate crimes as offenses motivated by the victim’s creed, religion, color, national origin or involvement in civil rights activities. Those offenses can earn an extra two to 10 years in prison time on top of existing assault penalties.

At the Montana Human Rights Network, Co-Director Rachel Carroll Rivas says the February incident serves as an important reminder of why civil rights

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groups have long pushed for an update to Montana’s hate crime law. More than 30 states include sexual orientation in their hate crime statutes.

“Hate crime laws exist because those types of bias crimes perpetuate fear amongst that targeted group,” Carroll

“Hate crime laws exist because those types of bias crimes perpetuate fear amongst that targeted group,” Rachel Carroll Rivas says. “They’re meant to not only target individuals, but instill fear in LGBT people for being out.”

Rivas says. “They’re meant to not only target individuals, but instill fear in LGBT people for being out.”

The Montana Legislature has repeatedly shot down attempts to change state hate crime laws, including a bill proposed by state Sen. Carol Juneau in

2007. Efforts to enact complementary non-discrimination laws have also failed.

HB 417 died this year in the Montana House following a partisan vote with all but one Republican opposing.

Opponents to non-discrimination laws often cite religious freedom and the right to express disagreement with LGBT people’s lifestyles. In 2007, a representative for Concerned Women for America testified against hate-crime legislation by saying, “We live in a world where even the Bible is being deemed hate literature.”

In 2015, the state Board of Crime Control identified 14 bias-motivated crimes in the state including three targeting LGBT people. But Carroll Rivas isn’t sure that state measures are telling the whole story. Last December, MHRN launched a new state hate incident reporting form online, where people are encouraged to report hate incidents of any kind. Carroll Rivas says eventually, they hope to gather enough information to take back to the legislature and continue to push for enhanced hate crime statutes. She’d like to see enhanced penalties include some kind of “restorative justice” requirement, rather than prison time, to offer homophobes the opportunity to be re-educated about how their actions affect others.

“While we may have victories in the courts in terms of rights to marry, we still have major gaps when it comes to hate crime legislation and statewide nondiscrimination policy,” Carroll Rivas says.

“In our state, we may be able to get married, but you can still get fired from your job, kicked out of your house and assaulted for being an LGBT person—without recourse.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Skate or die Board of Missoula returns to its roots

by Erika Fredrickson

Board of Missoula opened in 1989 in a space on Main Street where owners Zack Spannagel and Dan Gavere peddled skateboard and snowboard equipment to the town’s small alternative sports scene. Missoula was just starting to experience a new wave of underground culture: Rockin Rudy’s carried the latest cassettes from Seattle hardcore and early grunge bands, punk shows were popping up in newly designated holein-the-wall venues and, in 1991, the Indy

down cardboard, got him lunch. He would give me $5 here or there, but I mostly worked for skateboards and snowboards.”

With the exception of one year—between 1994 and 1995 when he moved to Washington—Bacon continued to work at Board of Missoula even as its owners came and went, working his way up the ranks. The shop went through phases of selling other equipment, including hacky sacks, rollerblades and kayaks, but always

photo by Amy Donovan

Chris Bacon started working at Board of Missoula in 1993 and bought the iconic shop earlier this month.

published its first issues of alternative arts and news. Board of Missoula served as a social space for young misfits and artists, especially those bewitched by the boarding lifestyle.

And now, after 13 years under the Edge of the World brand, Board of Missoula is back, rechristened by the longtime stalwart of the store, Chris Bacon.

In 1993, Bacon was a 17-year-old skateboarder living on his own and trying to finish his senior year in high school when Spannagel asked him if he wanted to come work at the shop. Board of Missoula had since relocated to the corner of Fifth Street and Higgins on the block where it is today and Spannagel—a mentor to many of the skaters and snowboarders in town—needed a little help.

“My jaw dropped because it was totally what I wanted to do,” Bacon says. “I broke

it was known best for skateboards and snowboards.

In 2003, Jake Barrow bought the shop and renamed it Edge of the World after his family’s skate and snowboarding business in North Carolina. For early supporters of Board of Missoula, like Bacon, the name change was a tough pill to swallow, but the shop continued to thrive.

“For him, that name was home, so it made sense,” Bacon says.

Two years ago, Bacon became a part owner of Edge of the World and started selling boards under the Board of Missoula moniker (BOMB), and early this year, on March 1, he bought the shop from Barrow and turned it back to Board of Missoula.

On a recent Friday afternoon, Bacon walks the short distance from the shop— where a temporary sign reading Board of

Missoula waves in the wind like a pirate flag—to the Southside KettleHouse. He’s just gotten off a phone call with Wright Hollingsworth, a former Board of Missoula owner who called from the Netherlands to congratulate him on his new ownership.

And on the street and in the tap room, a few acquaintances stop him to offer their regards, too.

“I’ve had so much support and enthusiasm for the name coming back,” he says.

“It’s the shop I grew up with and so I have tons of love for that name. But I also think it’s a great name. It makes sense. Tourists always seem to want something with the name of the town in it. “ Barrow plans to continue running a whitewater rafting business in North Carolina—something he’s been doing part time for the last several years—and pursue a new career in aviation. He says changing the name back to Board of Missoula is appropriate as Bacon takes on the leadership role.

“My hope is that the community will continue to support Chris,” he says. “There are dying skateboard and snowboard shops all over the country that don’t have a community like this one.”

Over the past two decades, skateboarding and snowboarding have gone from being punk sports with a bad rap to welcomed mainstream hobbies. The Montana Skatepark Association, which sprung from Board of Missoula (Bacon is the president) has helped establish skateparks all over the state. Last year, the shop weathered a huge loss when Spannagel died of pancreatitis. For Bacon, bringing the shop’s name back to its roots is partly a tribute to him. It’s also a tribute to the community that nurtured him.

“I lived in 57 different homes growing up before I bought my first home in Missoula,” he says. “I moved here and fell in love with this community and, with Board of Missoula, I felt like I was a part of something. And now I feel like I’ve been able to give back and will continue to give back to this community. And that’s pretty awesome.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Sure shot In Billings, an armed vigilante drives hard bargain at Penney’s

by Dan Brooks

Like flood insurance or a home defibrillator kit, a handgun is one of those products you buy hoping never to use.

Rifles are for hunting. Shotguns are for shooting trap and, if you insist, skeet.

But a handgun is pretty much exclusively for shooting people. Even if you just enjoy going down to the firing range and squeezing off a few rounds, the targets are shaped like men.

I mention this because a Billings resident suffered the handgun owner’s worst nightmare last month, when he was forced to use his weapon in self defense. Former Marine James Newman opened fire on a Buick fleeing the parking lot of Rimrock Mall after he attempted to make a citizen’s arrest for shoplifting. I quote the Billings Gazette’s description of video from the event: “The video starts on Newman standing behind a vehicle in the Rimrock Mall parking lot, confronting two suspected shoplifters as they sit in their vehicle. Boxed into a parking space but wanting to escape, the suspect yells to Newman from the driver’s seat. Newman responds with a warning. ‘If you hit me now, I will [expletive] open fire,’ he yells back. He’s legally and openly carrying a handgun.”

The police questioned Newman and then released him at the scene. The Gazette makes it clear who the criminals were in this altercation, not only specifying that he was “legally and openly” carrying his gun but also referring to the people he shot at as suspects. It is unclear whether they were suspected by the police or only by the public-spirited citizen who brought his gun to the mall and subsequently opened fire while trying to arrest his fellow citizens for shoplifting.

The important thing is that he survived. One shudders to imagine what might have happened had Newman not been carrying his gun. Probably, the people he attempted to detain for shoplifting would have backed over him, turned wide to also kill whoever was videotaping the event—whether to

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hide their identities or for the pure joy of killing, we cannot know—and then slewed across the gore into traffic, continuing their spree of shoplifting and murder. All this carnage was prevented, thanks to Newman’s lawful use of his gun for self-defense.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying he acted entirely without fault. He did fire several shots across a mall parking

“If only all private citizens had the courage to hold one another at gunpoint for committing misdemeanors, including but not limited to loitering and public intoxication, America might finally feel free.” lot and into traffic. That was risky, but fortunately Newman is a trained and responsible gun owner. As such, he did not shoot any bystanders while deploying deadly force in his capacity as a private citizen enforcing misdemeanor statutes.

But while his commitment to order is as impeccable as his judgment, I must find fault with his marksmanship. If only Newman had been a little more accurate, he might have shot one of the suspects in the back of the head—thus

saving the state a costly manhunt, to say nothing of the expenses of their trial and eventual execution for shoplifting.

One imagines the pride he would have felt after the coroner arrived, the bodies were carted away, and the merchandise cleaned and returned to JC Penney.

Hindsight is 20/20, though, and we cannot expect Newman to do everything right. He is only a private citizen and not a trained police officer. Asking him to enforce the law with perfect accuracy is too much. In moments like these, when people are looking for someone to blame, it’s important to remember that Newman is just one of Montana’s many responsible gun owners—an ordinary man who happened to legally and openly carry his handgun to the mall on the same day he happened to see someone he needed to arrest, as a citizen, for committing a crime.

This country needs more citizens like Newman. Violent crime—which does not include shoplifting, but probably should—has reached its lowest level in 50 years. I bet we could get it down to zero if we all strapped handguns to our waists and went out into the streets to arrest one another. A utopian peace would spread across the land. If only all private citizens had the courage to hold one another at gunpoint for committing misdemeanors, including but not limited to loitering and public intoxication, America might finally feel free.

Until then, all we can do is remember the brave example of James Newman and arrange our gun laws accordingly. After all, isn’t protecting the right to bear arms a little bit like loss prevention at JC Penney? You can’t just leave it to the authorities. Every citizen must take it into his—or her, but generally his—own hands. And probably some people will have to get killed along the way.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and private administration of the death penalty at combatblog.net.

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EXPLOITING VILLAINS – In February, two teams of South Korean researchers announced cancer-fighting breakthroughs—by taking lessons from how two of medicine’s most vexing, destructive organisms (diarrheacausing salmonella bacteria and the rabies virus) can access often-unconquerable cancer cells. In journal articles, biologist Jung-joon Min of Chonnam National University described how his team “weaponized” a cancer-fighting invader cell with salmonella to stir up more-robust immune responses, and nanoparticle expert Yu Seok Youn’s Sungkyunkwan University team coated immunizing cells with the rabies protein (since the rabies virus is remarkably successful at invading healthy cells) to reach brain tumors.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – Michigan is an “open carry” state, and any adult not otherwise disqualified under state law may “pack heat” in public except in a few designated zones. In February, an overly earnest Second Amendment fan, James Baker, 24 (accompanied by pal Brandon Vreeland, 40), believed the law was an invitation to walk into the Dearborn police station in full body armor and ski mask, with a semi-automatic pistol and a sawed-off rifle and have Vreeland photograph officers’ reactions. (Yes, both were arrested.)

Wells Fargo Bank famously admitted last year that employees (pressured by a company incentive program) had fraudulently opened new accounts for about 2 million existing customers by forging their signatures. In an early lawsuit by a victim of the fraud (who had seven fraudulent accounts opened), the bank argued (and a court agreed!) that the lawsuit had to be handled by arbitration instead of a court of law because the customer had, in the original Wells Fargo contract (that dense, fine-print one he actually signed), agreed to arbitration for “all” disputes. A February Wells Fargo statement to Consumerist.com claimed that customers’ forgoing legal rights was actually for their own benefit, in that “arbitration” is faster and less expensive.

NEWS THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE – Ex-Colombo family mobster and accused hitman “Tommy Shots” Gioeli, 64, recently filed a federal court lawsuit over a 2013 injury at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City. He fell and broke a kneecap while playing ping-pong (allegedly because of water on the floor), awaiting sentencing for conspiracy to commit murder. The New York Post also noted that the “portly” Gioeli, who was later sentenced to 18 years, was quite a sight at trial, carrying his “man purse” each day.

THE JOB OF THE RESEARCHER – A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “bioacoustic research” team recently reported recording and listening to about 2 million underwater sounds made over a four-month period by various species of dolphins (“whistles,” echolocation “clicks” and “burst pulses”) and can, they believe, distinguish the sounds to match them to a particular dolphin species (among the five most prevalent)—with 84 percent accuracy. The team built a computer algorithm to also make estimating dolphin populations much easier.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS – Compelling Explanations: (1) Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey, justifying his proposed bill to require a woman seeking an abortion to first identify the father, told a reporter in February that the father’s permission is crucial because, after all, the woman is basically a “host” who “invited that (fetus) in.” (2) After the North Dakota House of Representatives voted yet again in January to retain the state’s Sunday-closing “blue laws,” Rep. Bernie Satrom explained to a reporter: “Spending time with your wife, your husband, making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed” is better than going shopping.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – In a first-person profile for the Chicago Tribune in February, marketing consultant Peter Bender, 28, recalled how he worked to maximize his knowledge of the products of company client Hanes—and not just the flagship Hanes underwear but its Playtex and Maidenform brands.

In an “empathy” exercise, Bender wore bras for three days (a sports bra, an underwire and a lacy one)— fitted at size 34A (or “less than A,” he said). “These things are difficult,” he wrote on a company blog. “The lacy one,” especially, was “itchy.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE – “Fecal transplants” (replacing a sick person’s gut bacteria with those of a healthier one) are now almost routine treatments for patients with violent abdominal attacks of C. diff bacteria, but University of California researcher Chris Callewaert says a similar concept also works for people with particularly stinky armpits. Testing identical twins (one odoriferous, the other not), the researcher, controlling for diet and other variables, “cured” the smelly one by swabbing his pit daily with the sweat of the better-smelling twin. The Callewaert team told a recent conference that they were working on a more “general” brew of bacteria that might help out anyone with sour armpits.

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A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (MAY 2013) – Caribou Baby, a Brooklyn, New York, “eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store,” hosted gatherings at which parents exchanged tips on “elimination communication”—the weaning of infants without benefit of diapers. Parents watch for cues, such as a certain “cry or grimace” that supposedly signals the need to hoist the tot onto a potty. The little darlings’ public appearances sometimes call for diapers, but can also be dealt with behind a tree, they say. Said one shocked parent, “I have absolutely been at parties and witnessed people putting their baby over the sink.” (Update: The maternity store is now called Wild Was Mama, and “elimination communication” meetings are not mentioned.)

Thanks this week to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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ne weekend morning last May, I ordered a cup of coffee and sat down at a table to wait for my interviewees to arrive at the coffee shop. Yolanda Mah walked in, accompanied by a tall, chestnut-haired woman I’ll call Jessica, which isn’t her real name. They both smiled and Yolanda hugged me.

Yolanda had reached out to the Independent saying she needed to talk to someone about her ex-boyfriend, whom I’ll call Jeff—also not his real name. Jeff had been arrested by Missoula police and charged with raping children. One of those children, now a teen, was Jeff ’s and Jessica’s daughter. The Independent is disguising Jeff ’s and Jessica’s real names to preserve the victim’s privacy.

Over the next hour and a half, Yolanda and Jessica told me what it was like to find out that someone you know and trust has been molesting children.

And they were furious with how Jeff ’s case had been handled by the justice system. Yolanda—mother to a child by another man—told me that while she dated Jeff, she came to suspect he was a pedophile, and reported him to police more than six months before he was arrested.

Yolanda had seen recent headlines about

other cases in which convicted child molesters received short or deferred sentences. Jeff initially pleaded not guilty, but by the time I met them, the women had both been told by the county attorney’s office to expect a change of plea.

Yolanda was afraid that the prosecutor’s office was going to allow Jeff to make a plea deal instead of going to trial. Jessica said she wanted to see Jeff go to prison for the rest of his life for what he did to their child, who is identified as “Jane Doe 2” in court documents.

Both women had questions, and they wanted me to help them find answers.

Why wasn’t Jeff arrested sooner? Was Jeff going to be allowed to go free? Who could be held responsible for this child’s suffering, and her mother’s?

“Why? Why, why, why, why?” Yolanda asked.

Ever since, I have been seeking some understanding of why Jeff ’s case played out the way it did, trying to find answers to the questions that haunt Jessica and Yolanda. I didn’t find any tidy answers or obvious solutions. But the story of this crime can illuminate how such devastating abuse can take place in everyday circumstances, how hard it is to secure satisfying convictions for even the most heinous

acts, and how an almost impossible compassion may be the only helpful response to tragedy.

WHY WASN’T HE ARRESTED SOONER? Yolanda, an outgoing social worker and single mom, met Jeff on a dating website. He told her he was a single dad.

They sometimes exchanged flirtatious, explicit texts late at night. Transcripts of the texts were later entered into the court record of a custody hearing for Jessica’s daughter, Jane.

In his text messages from the summer of 2015, Jeff cajoled Yolanda to share “taboo” fantasies.

“How about you tell me something dirty nasty taboo?”

He explained that he liked to watch incest porn. He described fantasies of their children walking in on them while having sex. He asked Yolanda to describe erotic scenes including little girls.

“Oh. I don’t find that sexy at all love and it is hard for me to even say that,” Yolanda responded.

“I know but its just dirty talk [sic]. Not ever going to happen. Just a thought that could if we were not the way we r. K

like… I mean if we weren’t moral parents,” he writes.

The text transcripts show Yolanda trying to steer the conversation away from Jeff ’s incest fantasies, but he keeps circling back to them.

“I know that stuff turns you on but I am really uncomfortable with that shit. It is just so fucked up to me,” Yolanda responded.

Yolanda told me that she kept talking to Jeff, trying to see if he would confess to a crime. His texts grew increasingly graphic, describing Jane and other young girls in sexual situations with him. He texted about a fantasy of 10-year-old girls at a birthday party sleepover seducing him.

Yolanda, whose job requires her to report suspicions of abuse, says she had no qualms about breaking up with Jeff and taking her concerns to Child and Family Services and the police in September 2015. She felt sure that the texts were enough to get him arrested.

But she struggled with how to reach out to Jane’s mom.

“I didn’t know what to do, because I was like, this will tear these fucking lives apart,” Yolanda says. She recounts this chronology during our second meeting, months after the first, around Christmas time. “O Holy Night” plays from overhead

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE by Kate Whittle

Before Yolanda came to her with the texts, Jessica says, she was desperately trying to understand what was causing her daughter’s symptoms. Jane had not, at that point, told her mother about the abuse.

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speakers. Beside her, Jessica sips a latte.

An energetic, talkative woman in her late 20s, she wears carefully applied shimmery eyeshadow. She smiles at Yolanda.

“And I say, thank you for ruining our lives, because it had to happen,” Jessica says. Then, to me: “I wouldn’t have my kid right now. Before I met Yolanda, I started to take [Jane] to therapy. I was like, my kid is going to kill herself, and I don’t know what’s going on.”

Jessica began dating Jeff when they were both teens. He got her pregnant when she was 16 and they broke up. She raised their daughter, Jane, alone until the girl was 2 years old. Suddenly, she says, Jeff reappeared in their lives, wanting to be a father. He signed an agreement that he would pay child support and help take care of Jane. ( Jeff has at least one other child with another woman, who has previously filed demands for child support and custody, according to court records.)

Looking back, Jessica suspects that Jeff probably started abusing the girl soon after he came back into their lives. In elementary school, Jane exhibited major depressive and suicidal behavior, and threw tantrums in grocery stores and Walmart.

She also showed physical symptoms of emotional trauma, including headaches, stomach aches and insomnia.

Before Yolanda came to her with the texts, Jessica says, she was desperately trying to understand what was causing her daughter’s symptoms. Jane had not, at that point, told her mother about the abuse.

“We were seriously driving around Kalispell to get her to a pediatric neurologist just because she’s getting all these migraines,” Jessica says. “Every sign was there. I’m treating it, I’m trying to get it taken care of, and I’m kind of mad at the medical world for not being, like, ‘Hey, we’ve seen this before.’”

While Jessica grappled with the revelation, Yolanda tried to get the attention of the authorities. Armed with the text messages, Yolanda thought she had clear-cut evidence for Jeff ’s proclivities. She says she repeatedly called the Missoula Police Department and Child and Family Services in September 2015 with her concerns. She remembers sitting in her car in a parking lot, dialing the CFS hotline every morning before she went into work. “Apparently when I reported 50 million times, they didn’t care,” Yolanda says. “Nobody called me back. Not one phone call back from them.”

Yolanda isn’t the first person to encounter little help from Montana Child and Family Services. Across the state, CFS agencies report being inundated, primarily with cases related to parental methamphetamine or heroin abuse. CFS is overseen by the state Department of Public Health and Human Services. In an

emailed statement, DPHHS spokesman Jon Ebelt says calls to CFS go through an “intake specialist” who determines if follow-up is warranted. In 2016, the CFS hotline answered 35,226 calls, resulting in 9,154 investigations.

According to state statistics, only 30 percent of child abuse investigation paperwork was completed in a timely manner in 2015. That’s down from 80 percent in 2010. A state report released in December 2016 found that from 2015 to 2016, 14 Montana children died within a year of abuse reports being filed. Representatives from the governor-appointed Protect Mon-

fantasies and ordered a follow-up investigation by police. Jessica took Jane to the First Step Children’s Advocacy Center, which conducts interviews of sexual assault victims in conjunction with the Missoula Police Department, among other services.

A detective was present for the interview, according to court documents. Jessica says she wasn’t allowed to be in the room.

At that time, Jane didn’t disclose anything about her father’s behavior. No charges were brought. Jessica says she was enormously frustrated by the inaction.

She and Yolanda still don’t understand why Jeff wasn’t arrested in 2015, or why

“Really, we either need a video, which sadly we see sometimes, that establishes that yes, this happened, or we need the kid to be able to say it happened,” Marks says. “People being suspicious and having concerns—there being red flags—gets you to an investigation, the kid going into First Step, maybe the suspect being brought in and questioned about it. But it doesn’t get you to a point that you can prosecute.”

Moreover, Marks says, it’s not always a slam-dunk even if the child later does open up and decide to disclose the abuse.

“And then you get a defense attorney who’s, like, ‘Well, the first time the kid said

to her bedroom in the basement. Jeff disappeared from the party for a little while.

According to court records, the little girl came back upstairs later that night and told her mother that Jeff had followed her into her bedroom and forced her to perform oral sex. The mother called 9-1-1. Police arrested Jeff.

Investigators brought Jane into First Step for another interview. With the knowledge that her dad had been charged with assaulting another child, she told detectives that her father had sexually abused her for as long as she could remember.

Jessica says she was sitting at home watching TV with Jane when her daughter turned and said she needed to talk. “Everything came out,” Jessica says.

tana Kids Commission have told several media outlets that there’s a “very wide, systemic problem” with CFS’ effectiveness.

In a December 2015 custody hearing, Jessica asked a judge to bar Jeff from unsupervised contact with Jane. She submitted transcripts of Yolanda’s text messages and included lengthy written testimony expressing her fears about Jeff ’s behavior. In response, the court granted the order and limited Jeff ’s access to the girl, though he and his parents were allowed to spend six hours with her on Christmas Day 2015. The judge expressed concern about Jeff ’s text

the text messages weren’t enough to generate charges. Throughout the process, Jessica says, she struggled to understand what was happening, even though she frequently kept in touch with the city-county Crime Victim Advocate Program. “I had to constantly call them and be, like, do you have any information?” Jessica says.

I asked Missoula County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Jason Marks why the texts weren’t enough to arrest Jeff. Marks says that without incriminating testimony from the victim, his office had no probable cause to press charges.

nothing was going on, and there’s been this custody fight or intervening circumstance, so we think Mom’s putting her up to it,’” Marks says. “So it makes for a more challenging case.”

THE PATH TO ARREST AND A PLEA DEAL The texts alone didn’t amount to probable cause. But then one night in 2016 Jeff was drinking at a woman’s home in Missoula with some friends. The woman’s grade-school-age daughter went

She finally told Jessica, too. Jessica says she was sitting at home watching TV with Jane when her daughter turned and said she needed to talk. “Everything came out,” Jessica says. Jessica learned that when Jeff previously had unsupervised custody of Jane during the daytime, he had molested her in grocery store and Walmart bathrooms.

The county attorney’s office charged Jeff with two felony counts: one of rape, for the event reported by the other victim’s mother, and one of incest, for the abuse alleged by his daughter.

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Jessica and Yolanda both wanted to see Jeff put on trial and sent to prison for the rest of his life. But Yolanda was worried. She thought about those headlines in which convicted pedophiles received short prison sentences. In 2013, for instance, a petition circulated demanding the recall of a Billings judge who sentenced a 47-year-old teacher to a month in jail for raping a 14-year-old student (though the sentence was later overturned and lengthened by another judge to 15 years with five suspended). In May 2016, a former Missoula County Youth Court officer received a six-year deferred sentence—less than the mandatory minimum punishment—for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. In Oct. 2016, a Glendive man convicted of raping his 12year-old daughter received a deferred sentence, prompting a dozen constituents to write Gov. Steve Bullock asking for intervention. Bullock responded that he was horrified by the case, but couldn’t do anything.

When the county attorney’s office announced that Jeff had entered a guilty plea as part of an agreement with prosecutors, Yolanda feared a similarly unsatisfying result. She and Jessica were upset when Marks told them he thought a plea deal would offer a better chance of conviction than a trial. The proposed sentence offered the possibility of parole in 10 years, though it would be months before the sentencing hearing made it official.

Yolanda texted me when the plea deal was reported in summer 2016, furious at the news.

“There is such little support for [Jessica] and her daughter and other victims like her, and so little justice done to the perpetrators, that it is easy to give up,” Yolanda wrote. “The process is long, and [Jessica] has given so much time and energy for barely an acknowledgement that her daughter’s father committed incest.”

Marks says he knows that victims and the public often want to see the harshest possible penalty for men who rape children. Jessica told me that she wanted Jeff to be publicly humiliated for what he did. When news of the plea deal was published in the Missoulian, it prompted outrage from others as well. One commenter demanded that Jeff receive the maximum prison sentence before speculating that Jeff must be related to the judge or prosecutor. Such comments don’t escape Marks’ notice. But in the absence of physical evidence, sexual assault prosecutions usually rely on testimony from the victim to prove their case. And Marks says that testifying at a trial in front of their abuser and strangers isn’t always the best thing for a traumatized child.

Prosecutors can ask adult victims to de-

cide for themselves if they want to testify.

Children—especially younger children— often aren’t able to make that call. Marks won’t disclose how he decided that Jane shouldn’t be asked to testify, but he does say that, in general, he takes the advice of parents and therapists and performs his own assessment of the situation when deciding whether to put children on the witness stand.

And even if prosecutors secure a conviction, the judge is the sole authority who can hand down the sentence. There’s no guarantee what a judge might decide to do.

DETERMINING PRISON SENTENCES FOR PEDOPHILES Montana’s sexual assault statutes give judges wide leeway for rape charges in-

serted that it was based on psychological evaluations of the offender indicating that he posed little risk of re-offending and had been punished enough by his own conscience.

The outcome frustrated the state prosecutors who worked on the case, but Manley’s decision is understandable if you ask Andy Hudak, a Whitefish-based therapist and lobbyist for the Montana Sex Of-

Jessica took Jane to the First Step Children’s Advocacy Center, which conducts interviews of sexual assault victims in conjunction with the Missoula Police Department, among other services. A detective was present for the interview, according to court documents, but Jessica says she wasn’t allowed to be in the room.

In any case, there’s no guarantee a jury will believe the victim. In Jeff ’s case, Marks says that without testimony in front of a jury, the text-message evidence and First Step interviews alone wouldn’t have been strong enough to convict him on the incest charge.

“If a jury comes back with a not guilty [verdict], they’re left with—they told the truth about this terrible thing that happened to them, and no one believed them,” Marks says. “So there’s a lot of countervailing pressures against ‘damn the torpedos, take the case to trial.’”

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volving minors, from a four-year prison term to a life sentence. Judges can opt to defer sentences, too.

In Missoula, former Youth Court officer Vayeeleng Moua was convicted last May of raping a 13-year-old girl. Prosecutors asked for a 20-year sentence with 15 years deferred. Lake County District Court Judge James Manley instead handed down a six-year deferred sentence, and a requirement for communitybased treatment. Manley said the sentence was “the most unique and difficult decision I’ve had to make,” and as-

fenders Treatment Association. I called Hudak to see if he could shed light on how judges make sentencing decisions.

It’s true, Hudak says, that some judges make uninformed decisions based on personal bias. But other judges sometimes hand down short sentences based on recommendations drawn from the offender’s psychosexual evaluation, which the public doesn’t have access to.

Hudak—who discloses that he is a victim of sexual abuse himself—says that lengthy prison sentences are not always the best way to deal with sex offenders.

He emphasizes that he shares with victims and citizens the same protectiveness toward children and disgust at molestation, but he also thinks that gut instinct isn’t necessarily the best source of smart public policy.

“I’m all for spending a million dollars to lock up a high-risk guy to protect the community. Yeah. We’re for that. But not for a guy who’s low risk, who does not represent a danger to people’s children,” Hudak says.

Hudak recommends that judges assign punishment based on the convict’s risk of reoffense. In the 1980s and ’90s, the psychiatric community developed several criteria based on evaluations of incarcerated sex offenders. A 2006 study by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada examined findings from 29,450 sex offenders: 13.7 percent committed a new offense—lower than the recidivism rate for the general prison population. Child molesters, even those who commit incest, reoffend at even lower rates of 7-8 percent, according to the Canadian study.

Jeff ’s psychosexual evaluation is sealed, so it’s unclear what conclusions investigators drew about his background and motivations and risk of recidivism.

Some studies have shown that sex offenders in general are likely to come from troubled backgrounds. A 2014 study in Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, which examined 679 convicted sex offenders, found that male sex offenders are three times more likely to have experienced child sexual abuse than men in the general population. Sex offenders also reported experiencing significantly more emotional neglect, physical abuse and verbal abuse than average.

Hudak says that doesn’t mean offenders shouldn’t be held accountable, but it does blur the line between “good and evil” that so often delineates the public discourse about such crimes.

“There’s a division the world looks at between offenders and victims,” Hudak says. “When you’re around long enough you see that frame break down constantly.

When I do sex offender treatment, I also do victim treatment. A lot of [abuse] is born of emotional, physical abuse that isn’t processed well. The average sex offender is also a victim of abuse.”

Hudak says that kind of input from a psychiatrist might prompt judges to offer some compassion. In the Moua case, for instance, Judge Manley said he sided with the recommendations of the defense and the psychosexual analysis to treat Moua not in prison but in his community, where he’ll be supervised under the state’s sex offender registration program.

PRISON SENTENCES DON’T STOP CYCLES OF ABUSE No matter how long an offender goes to prison for, the trauma left behind doesn’t go away. In Hudak’s experience, therapeutic intervention is vital for ensuring that child sexual abuse victims go on to lead better lives. A wealth of studies, including several published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, shows that cognitive-behavioral therapy and other treatments can successfully reduce the symptoms of PTSD and harmful behaviors in traumatized children.

Hudak says it can be tough to convince kids to disclose molestation if they’re afraid that they’ll be responsible for sending their family member to prison. In early February, Hudak spoke out against House Bill 133, a proposed state bill that would institute a mandatory 25-year minimum sentence for anyone convicted of raping a child under the age of 12. (The measure didn’t make it out of committee.) Hudak says that such bills mean well, but that a 25-year mandatory sentence places an unreasonable burden on a child who’s told that her testimony could send her dad or uncle away for the rest of his life.

“Often [victims] hate the offense but love the offender,” Hudak says. “But then if they tell, Dad goes away for 25 years. …

Then we’re back in the 1950s and ’60s when nobody came forward.”

Child sexual abuse rates are slowly going down. Today, one in five girls and one in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse, according to the Crimes Against Children Research Center. That’s lower than when Hudak first started practicing in the 1970s, when the numbers were one in four girls and one in six boys.

While the offender goes into treatment on his own, Hudak says, the remaining family members can find emotional healing if they are willing to communicate and work through issues together. He’s most concerned about families in which the trauma of molestation is compounded by other dysfunctions, including alcohol abuse, lack of communication and poverty.

“We’ve served justice. The guy’s gone away for 10 years or 15 years,” Hudak says.

“But those of us who work with those families, we deal with what happens afterward.”

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SENTENCING? In a Missoula County Courtroom, on a sunny day in 2016, Jeff sat quietly, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, awaiting his sentencing. Jeff ’s lawyer stood, his hands in his pockets, seemingly wanting to keep his distance from his client. Jeff had already

pleaded guilty to charges of incest and rape.

“The mom wants to read a statement,” said another lawyer, representing Jessica.

Jessica stepped up to the witness stand and unfolded a piece of paper. Her hands shook as she read her statement, describing how she had learned that Jeff had groomed and sexually abused her daughter since she was a toddler. Jessica wept as she read, and the judge handed her a box of tissues. Jeff ’s parents sat in a row by themselves, observing the proceedings stone-faced. Across the aisle, a court-appointed victims’ advocate kept her arm around Jane.

The judge expressed regret that he couldn’t impose a harsher penalty before delivering the agreed-upon sentence: 50 years in total, with 30 years suspended, and eligibility for parole in 10 years. The hearing took about half an hour. When it was over, the judge went to lunch. I went back to my office.

But the story wasn’t—and isn’t—over for Jessica and Jane.

The sentencing was enormously difficult for Jessica, the last straw in a long series of struggles. She’d been attending the University of Montana and working full time, but she went broke trying to take care of her children (she has a second child by another father), handle Jane’s medical needs and pay attorneys fees. Even after

Jeff was restricted from access to his daughter and charged with incest in spring 2016, he still legally retained parental rights to Jane, and Jessica had to seek a court order to remove those rights before sentencing.

She got evicted in spring 2015, when I first met her, and eventually lost her job.

She tells me she’s called the YWCA, the Salvation Army, WORD and the Crime Victim’s Advocate Program looking for help getting back on her feet. She says none of them could offer any help—there were waiting lists, or stipulations she couldn’t meet, or she didn’t qualify for their particular type of assistance. Jessica talks quickly, in disjointed sentences, when she gets upset.

“So from the CVA, I was in there, and I was like, ‘We’re getting evicted, this is going on, I’m about to lose my job, I had to drop out of school, is there anything you can help me with?” Jessica remembers.

“She was like, ‘Here’s a $10 gas card.’”

Jessica acknowledges she has an “alky problem,” too. A few weeks after the sentencing, she was arrested on Highway 93 for felony drunken driving. Her children, including Jane, were in the car. Jessica served jail time, during which family members took in the kids.

The last time I met with Jessica, in December, she was living at the Poverello

Center. She doesn’t think Jane is going to therapy regularly, but she thinks she has little power over the situation. In February she messaged me: “My life is a mess right now.”

Yolanda is trying to move on, though she says she’s often reminded of Jeff when she sees the kind of delivery van he used to drive. She says that even though Jeff will be in jail for at least 10 years, she’s frustrated that the legal system hasn’t offered any help for Jessica and Jane—Jeff ’s sentence didn’t include any restitution—and that the nonprofit system isn’t equipped to help them in the aftermath of the crime, either.

“It’s like nobody cares. It’s like just all forgotten because there’s so many [child abuse] cases to keep up with, the problem just cycles over and over,” Yolanda says.

It’s unclear what the future holds for Jane, but Jessica does say she’s more optimistic about her daughter now that they can talk about what happened. She sees Jane befriending other kids who grew up with tough family situations. Jessica says she tries to keep their relationship as open and honest and possible.

“She says, ‘Mom, you cannot imagine the things I have seen. I can handle the truth,” Jessica says. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • March 16–March 23, 2017 [17]

[arts]

Sitting in Saxophonist Brad Leali on the art of learning—and teaching—jazz

by Sarah Aswell

B

rad Leali started taking saxophone lessons at the age of 10 when his mother took him to the mall to see a teacher named Willie Hill.

Leali was interested in music, and jazz in particular, but the lessons didn’t go well.

After two years, Hill refused to teach Leali because he wasn’t putting in the effort to practice.

It was only a few years later, when he was 13, that Leali’s mom started taking him to local Denver music venues instead of the mall. There, he found a learning environment that worked for him. During informal lessons, local jazz legends like Billy Tolles would allow Leali to listen to them play their music and also to occasionally “sit in,” playing along with the group and learning as he went.

“The way Billy Tolles would teach me was if I didn’t know the tune, he would just give me this dirty look,” Leali says. “I would know to stop playing and go home and learn the melody. That was how you learned on the bandstand.”

Decades later, Leali is one of the leading jazz saxophonists in the country, lauded by the likes of The New York Times and the London Review. He’s already had a long, storied career and even won a couple of Grammys to boot. He’s played with the Harry Connick, Jr. Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra and the One O’Clock Lab Band. His gospel/blues sound has filled some of the most famous jazz haunts in the country, including the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Iridium and Birdland.

This week, he visits Missoula for the 37th annual Buddy DeFranco Festival where he’ll play Thursday, March 16, and Friday, March 17, at the Dennison Theatre along with five other guest musicians.

He’ll also be teaching a master class at the University of Montana.

Leali says he could easily lead a comfortable life just performing, but his passion for jazz sax requires more than touring. In 2005, he earned his master’s degree in music from Rutgers University and then he began to teach. Currently, he balances a professorship at the University of North Texas with performing on Lyle Lovett’s Large Band tours.

photo courtesy Brad Leali

Brad Leali, one of the leading jazz saxophonists in the country, plays Missoula’s Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival.

“I love to play, to teach, to share, to learn,” Leali says. “I was making my living playing in New York, but after a certain point, I thought, ‘I could just continue to play for the rest of my life, but is it enough for me? Would it be satisfying to me?’ No. I still play and travel and tour, but I have to teach, too.”

Leali isn’t married to a teaching philosophy–even though he himself withered during his traditional mall lessons and thrived “sitting in” on the bandstand.

In fact, his experiences learning jazz are exactly what make him the kind of jazz teacher he is today. He says it’s about finding your own voice.

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Leali knew what his voice should be from a young age. He grew up with a grandfather who was a Baptist preacher, and his style reflects a life that revolves around church: gospel, blues and soul.

But holding onto and developing his voice was difficult in New York, when the urge to copy popular styles was overwhelming. At first, Leali tried to sound like Kenny Garrett, a famed jazz saxophonist at the height of his career.

“I was at a jam session and wrote a tune, and the trumpet player, said, Ah, man, another ugly alto player. He was talking about the way I was playing my tune. It hurt my feelings, but it was an a-

ha moment. Garrett is a beautiful player, but me trying to be like him sounded ugly. I needed to be myself and play from my heart. From that day on, I wrote the music that I liked to write, that represented me. If people dig it, cool. But I have to be true to myself.”

As a teacher, Leali knows that he can pass on everything he’s learned about finding one’s voice–and in a way that is a bit less painful than hearing it from a gruff trumpet player. While theory and technique are critical, voice is what creates the art.

“I had a senior who had wonderful talent, but he just didn’t have a sound that connected,” he says. “I kept working

with him and it finally happened. This year, he won every contest that he entered, and one thing that the judges commented on was the beauty of his tone. It made me feel so good that it finally clicked. I loved to see him discover his voice after a lot of practice.”

Voice, of course, isn’t static. If Leali has learned anything, it’s that the simple act of living life can change your voice, and that’s not a bad thing. He says that while you start with your own sound–the foundational sound of your jazz personality–it will fine-tune itself over the years and decades, affected by everything from the people you play with, to the music you listen to, to the people you love. The key to forming your voice in the best way possible? Being vulnerable and not being afraid to make mistakes, Leali says.

Even Leali’s voice is still forming, and much of it is because of the time that he spends teaching and playing with his students.

“I don’t see it as teaching,” he says.

“It’s sharing information every day. The more information I share, the more they share with me, and the better musicians we are. I have some extremely gifted students that inspire me. We play together, I go see their gigs, we sit in. I didn’t realize that until I started teaching: The students are very smart. They spark love and curiosity.”

For Leali, jazz is all about sitting in: playing together, learning together, even making mistakes together. It’s about learning history and technique, and learning about yourself. In the end, playing jazz— and teaching jazz—is a continuous cycle.

“Teaching jazz lets me give something back,” he says. “I want to take the music places, inspire people, and teach others about it. Teaching lets me keep the circle going and keep the passion going.

I can give to others so that they can continue to give.”

Brad Leali performs Thu., March 16, and Fri., March 17, in Dennison Theatre at 7:30 PM nightly along with five other guests musicians. $25/$10 for students/$15 for seniors. arts@missoulanews.com

[music]

Insurgent giants On the Old 97’s alt-country orbit

by Ednor Therriault

The Old 97’s were part of the first wave of No Depression bands.

The Old 97’s are on a roll, one that started in 1994. While they rode in on the mid-1990s No Depression wave of insurgent country bands, they’ve outlasted most of their peers, repelled a generation of musical trends and survived their lead singer’s solo career—typically the death knell of any successful band. And they did it on their own musical terms.

The big-fisted Texans are fluent in the vocabulary of country and western, but those instincts always serve at the pleasure of rock ’n’ roll.

Twenty-three years down the road, singer Rhett Miller’s songs are as entertaining as ever with their literate wordplay and twisted humor to craft tales of love gone weird. Most Messed Up, from 2014, was a Molotov cocktail of an album, a foul-mouthed fireball of songs about drugs, booze, sex and the giddy celebration of all three. “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive,” for instance, is an autobiographical epic of the trials and triumphs of a hard-rocking band that’s been burning down stages “from Memphis to Mars” for over two decades.

Most Messed Up was a bracing slap in the puss, a reminder that not only are these Dallas boys still around, but they still pack a ferocious punch. Ken Bethea’s Wild West guitars and the rollicking drums of Philip Peeples are front and center in a noisy, exhilarating, high-octane mix.

The new album, Graveyard Whistling, is a slightly more subtle affair. Well, the way a double martini is more subtle than a Mason jar of ’shine. More of the songs inhabit the mid-tempo shuffle that is the band’s stock-in-trade. Oohs and aahs provide some smooth texture, and steel guitar adds a little sweet ’n’ sour twang on songs like “All Who Wander,” one of Miller’s prettier compositions. His voice, like his band’s sound, is utterly free of artifice or affectation.

The album was recorded at the same little Texas studio where they recorded their major label debut, Too Far to Care, 20 years ago. They have a few more lines around their eyes, more gray in the hair and families to raise and mortgages to pay, but their sound has come full circle nearly unchanged, though their attitudes are more defiant than ever. “Jesus loves you more than I do/Just because he doesn’t know you,” sings Miller on “Jesus Loves You.” It’s a perfect companion to the album’s centerpiece, “Good With God,” which features guest singer Brandi Carlile. As God, Carlile sings, “You’re pretty thick so I’ll tell you twice/Many a man has paid the price.” If the power and menace of her delivery can bring a shiver to this atheist, imagine the effect it would have on someone like Greg Gianforte.

According to my moth-eaten memory, it was around 2001 when my band opened for the Old 97’s at UM’s Copper Commons. Before the show a couple of us went “backstage” (a folding table and some chairs behind the portable stage) and chatted with the band. Bassist Murry Hammond patiently listened to our fanboy fawning as we raved about his harmonies with Miller. I compared their chemistry to that of Buck Owens and Don Rich, whose legendary Bakersfield sides influenced pretty much every roots rock musician who came after them. I suggested to Hammond and Miller that they should travel around the country and charge people money to give harmony lessons. They exchanged a look, and I’ll never forget Miller’s reply: “That’s kind of what we’re doing, isn’t it?”

The Old 97’s play the Top Hat Mon., March 20.

Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8 PM. $25/$22 advance. arts@missoulanews.com

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[books]

Doubled edged Hits and misses in The Aikido Katana

by Chris La Tray

The title of Daniel Linden’s new book, The hints about how much of a badass he is, but ultiAikido Katana, evokes a particular kind of action mately he does nothing to advance or participate in story. After all, “Aikido” is a martial art and “katana” the story.

Female characters are so invisible as to essentially is a Samurai sword, so the combination of words stir up—at least for me—reminiscences of Saturday be nonexistent. We meet an ex-lover of Parker’s who is mornings watching poorly dubbed karate and kung around only long enough to be knocked unconscious fu movies. And, given the book’s focus on characters in the fight that ends in the sword theft. Parker’s current that are either martial arts warriors or mysterious love interest pops in here and there to either deliver inex-military/government agent types, I was expect- formation or have sex with him. Beyond that, and a ing—and hoping for—fists flying, bodies being surly waitress or two, that’s essentially it for the ladies.

As the first-person narrator, tossed about and maybe some Parker tends to monologue a bit, and pitched fire battles. it has the effect of an author expressAnd there is some action in The ing his views via his character. In one Aikido Katana, but not at first. The scene, an Asian-American federal story opens at a conference in Washagent play-acts at being gay so that he ington, D.C., where we meet the will be underestimated, and then acprotagonist, an aikido master named cuses Parker of being homophobic.

Sensei Parker who runs a training Parker responds with, “Look, Paul, school in Florida. Though Linden twenty years ago I would have told sets the stage for Parker to square off you how I really feel, but today you against the Japanese mafia, the book can’t speak freely anymore. Sometakes some time to get there. It isn’t times I feel like I’m living in old Rusuntil 80 pages in that Parker, in the sia where you can be outed by a KGB parking garage of a swanky hotel, is agent for merely disliking the Prenearly killed while attempting to premier. I know what I feel, but can no vent the theft of a sword meant for longer express myself because mireturn to a Japanese dignitary. nority groups have usurped my civil Parker’s close friend is slain during The Aikido Katana

by Daniel Linden right to freedom of speech. If that’s a the bloody melee and this encounter Paperback problem this interview is over.” sets the stage for how the rest of the 302 pages, $15.95 Linden, who like his character book plays out. Parker, who is also a private investigator on the side, gets caught up in is an aikido expert and teacher, divides his time bethe complex investigation that follows, where certain tween Florida and Maine, and has a background asclues dead end, and bodies turn up to complicate sisting law enforcement. The ninth book in a series, Katana stands fairly well on its own, though referthe trail.

Katana is less action story and more of a straight- ences to previous books—particularly one set in up mystery that leans toward police procedurals. It France where Parker recovers a stolen Japanese paintconsists mostly of a series of scenes featuring men sit- ing—are confusing.

I did enjoy several things about The Aikido Katana. ting around discussing details of the case over various meals and alcoholic beverages. It delves into the way I liked all the posturing and bickering among members in which different law enforcement agencies hand ju- of the aikido community at the conference in D.C. as they risdiction back and forth and it includes a couple of jockeyed for status, if only because I enjoy seeing the field trips to notable D.C. locations (the Smithsonian, childishness of white tough guys on full display. I also for example). It also features cameos from real-world liked the quartet of septuagenarian ex-federal agents folks like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Sen. Parker works with when he arrives in Missoula because of the barbs and good-natured jabs they take at each John McCain.

Readers interested in the details of police proce- other. I enjoyed reading scenes set in Bayern Brewing dure will find certain passages satisfying, but for the and the Oxford. Most important, Linden knows how to average reader, it can be dull. Lengthy exposition tell a story and knows his subjects inside and out. Those often comes in the form of dialogue, and only a few advantages carry the book, despite the weaknesses in characters develop beyond just a name and a back- character development. For an audience who prefers ground paragraph. There is a large cast here, too, and their heroes tear-free and sweating testosterone, Sensei in some cases it is hard to keep track of who is doing Parker should give them what they’re looking for. what. For example, one lead character, Robert “Opie” Taylor, gets a background flashback and there are arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Original thrills Netflix wins with I Don’t Feel at Home

by Molly Laich

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Melanie Lynskey stars in I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore.

As it turns out, there’s a super exciting, awardwinning comedy-thriller hiding out in plain sight on your Netflix queue. I first saw I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore earlier this year when it premiered on the opening night of Sundance. This was my first time at the festival and I had no idea what I was doing. I wandered up to the press line like a child and told a lady with a clipboard that I wanted inside to see the movie. “Are you going to write something about the film?” she asked. “Absolutely,” I said—an exaggeration, in fact, on a vague guess. I didn’t know anything about the film except that Melanie Lynskey was in it, an actress I’ve loved ever since Reese Witherspoon said to her in Sweet Home Alabama, “You have a baby! In a bar!”

After much hemming and hawing, they let me inside, and there I was face to face with Lynskey, plus the film’s other star, Elijah Wood, and first-time writer/director Macon Blair (whom I should have recognized as the lead actor from the revenge saga Blue Ruin, but didn’t).

I should have sauntered up to the stars and recorded an interview with one of them on my iPhone the way all the other press people were doing.

I realize that now. Instead, I camped out in a corner and started chomping on an apple. A woman with a British accent wearing a headset came up to me and said, “Excuse me. Could you not do that?”

I didn’t know the film would drive the packed auditorium wild with excitement, and that this tiny little Netflix picture from a new filmmaker would go on to win the festival’s Grand Jury Prize—whose previous winners include Birth of A Nation (2016), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and Whiplash (2014).

The film’s surprise win portends the changing face of film and how it’s distributed. Amazon pictures just won a couple of Academy Awards, and did you

hear that Netflix has overtaken Paramount to distribute Martin Scorsese’s upcoming $100 million movie?

Again, my fears abound that streaming media will destroy the cinematic experience as we know it, but changes like these are inevitable, and what’s the use of fighting it?

Now how about this movie? I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore opens on our hapless protagonist Ruth (Lynskey) as she drinks beer in her backyard and stares up at an unforgiving sky. Her life as a nurse in Virginia gets the shakeup when her house is burglarized. They’ve taken her laptop, her grandmother’s silverware and, most depressingly, her Clonazepam. What follows is a bizarre, over-the-top adventure, not so much to retrieve the items as to seek a kind of retribution for a world that Ruth can’t help but notice is teeming with assholes. She gets help along the way from her strange neighbor, Tony ( Wood), who has a dog named Kevin and a gift for throwing ninja stars.

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a film with a madcap plot that carries you through to a surprisingly violent crescendo. The movie works primarily because of the warmth and humanity that Lynskey and Wood bring to their characters. I can particularly relate with a woman in her mid- to late 30s who has a bit of a beer belly, still wears hoodies and lives alone in a home that may or may not have renters insurance.

One warning: The genuinely riveting third act might make this a poor contender for your next “Netflix and Chill” evening. Unless you’re like me, and by “Netflix and Chill” you just intend to innocently hang out and watch a movie.

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is currently streaming on Netflix. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK BEAUTY AND THE BEAST A tale as old as time, an intelligent woman falls in love with an angry, well-dressed French water buffalo in a haunted castle. Rated PG. Stars Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Emma Thompson. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex.

KEDI Hundreds of thousands of stray cats prowl the streets of Istanbul. This is the story of seven of them. Not Rated. Directed by Ceyda Torun. Playing at the Roxy.

NOW PLAYING 13TH Slavery might have been eradicated with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, but a new series of horrors within the criminal justice and prison systems continue a tradition of oppression. Not Rated.

Directed by Ava DuVernay. Screening for free Mon., March 20 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

BEFORE I FALL A teenager finds herself reliving the day of her death again and again. A teenager finds herself reliving the day of her death again and again. A teenager finds herself reliving the day of her death again and again.

Rated PG-13. Stars Zoey Deutch, Elena Kampouris and Diego Boneta. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

DEMOLITION MAN (1993) Sgt. John Spartan awakes from cryogenic storage to find he’s living in a pacifist utopia with no guns, no toilet paper and no way to stop a psychopathic criminal running wild in the streets of San Angeles.

Rated R. Stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock. Playing Wed., March 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

“This is my favorite book. I really relate to the character of Christian Grey.” Beauty and the Beast opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and Pharaohplex. their daughter’s interracial relationship. That and their neighborhood has a sinister history of young black men disappearing. Rated R. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams and Stephen Root star in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THE GREAT WALL The only thing stopping an army of alien monsters from invading medieval China is Matt Damon.

Wait, really? Rated PG-13. Also stars Willem Dafoe and Jing Tian. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

HIDDEN FIGURES You think you’re underappreciated at work? These African-American women did the calculations that put John Glenn in orbit while they worked at a segregated facility. Rated PG. Stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

DRIVE (2011) He loves electronic music that sounds like it’s from the ‘80s, driving dangerously and his beautiful next-door neighbor. This silent wheelman has it all, until it all falls apart. Rated R. Stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and a sweet scorpion jacket. Playing at the Roxy Sat., March 18 at 8 PM.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 A retired super-assassin is dragged back into the life of international crime in this sequel to the coolest action movie of the last decade. I just hope no one messes with his puppy. Rated R. Stars Keanu Reeves, Ruby Rose and a thousand head shots. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

GET OUT Chris is pretty worried about visiting his girlfriend’s parents due to his uncertainty about how they’ll react to

KONG: SKULL ISLAND Life for everybody’s favorite giant ape used to be simple until the U.S. Army started sending helicop-

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ters full of soldiers and documentarians to buzz his vacation home. Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Hiddleston, John Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) British Officer T.E. Lawrence becomes the leader of an Arabic rebellion against the Turks in one of the greatest achievements in the history of film. Rated PG. Stars Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif and Alec Guinness. Playing Sun., March 19 at 1 PM at the Roxy.

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. . . tie in! Gotham’s caped crusader goes toe to toe with the Joker in the world of Lego. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

LION Twenty five years after getting lost on a train and being taken thousands of miles away from his family, a man seeks out his lost home with the help of Google Earth. Rated PG-13. Stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman. Playing at the Pharaohplex.

LOGAN He’s the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice. In the near future, Marvel Comics’ resident berserker has to pull himself up by his bootstraps to protect a young girl with very familiar

claws. Rated R. Stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

NERUDA A good detective always catches their quarry. Even if their target is a Nobel prize-winning poet, on the run from a fascist government that wants him silenced. Rated R. Stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro and Michael Silva. Playing at the Roxy through March 16.

PATERSON I think that I shall never see a film as lovely as one about a bus driver with a secret journal full of poetry. Rated R. Stars Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani and Helen-Jean Arthur. Playing at the Roxy.

THE SHACK Spiraling into a deep depression following his daughter’s murder, a man sets off on a quest to find God. Literally, I mean. He’s going to find God in Octavia Spencer’s garage. Rated PG-13. Also stars Sam Worthington, Alice Braga and Aviv Alush. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

At press time Missoula AMC 12 does not have a full schedule of films available. Please visit their website for up-to-date listings.

[dish]

Soft pretzels with IPA cheese sauce

by Gabi Moskowitz I’m not interested in diving too deeply into politics here. Not because I’m shy about them, but because I’m guessing you’re here because you’re hoping to briefly think about something other than what’s going on in the news.

Of course, it’s not as easy as simply changing the subject. Sure, I could tell you about what’s new with me, how married life is going so far, about the books I have coming out this year, and the new season of Young & Hungry. But not only does that feel incredibly tone-deaf and insensitive, it’s also not really reflective of how I feel on the inside right now.

Lately, I have been granting myself little breaks from worrying about absolutely everything. Cooking, of course, is an excellent stabilizer, and gives me an opportunity to nourish the souls and bodies at my dinner table with wholesome, satisfying food. My recently acquired running habit has become my favorite way to spend an hour not thinking about anything other than putting one step in front of the other and not getting hit by a car.

When things get really bad, I’ll treat myself to a half-hour episode of Sex and the City, where the worst thing I have to deal with is the utter lie that man-child Big could ever be an acceptable boyfriend for Carrie (don’t even get me started on their eventual marriage in the movie versions).

Until then, I’m making soft pretzels with decidedly decadent, gooey IPA cheese sauce for dipping. It starts with my favorite staple: pizza dough.

Dig in. Forget your cares for a few minutes.

Then get back to the very important job of standing up for what you believe in.

Serves 8-10 Ingredients flour 2 pounds store-bought or homemade pizza dough 1 tablespoon baking soda 2 tablespoons sea salt or coarse kosher salt 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, divided 1 ⁄4 cup milk 1 ⁄2 cup IPA 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese

BROKEASS GOURMET

“PROST!”

1 tablespoon spicy brown or dijon mustard (optional) regular salt, to taste ground black pepper, to taste Directions Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lightly grease (or line with parchment paper or a silpat) 1 large or 2 medium baking sheets.

Set a large pot of water on the stove and whisk in the baking soda. Bring water to a light boil.

On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out into 20 10-inch ropes and fold each rope into a pretzel shape.

Drop each piece of dough into the water, boil for 10-15 seconds each, until they float, and then transfer to the prepared baking sheet(s).

Use a pastry brush to lightly brush the tops of the pretzels with the 4 tablespoons of melted butter.

Sprinkle with the coarse salt.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until pretzels are golden brown.

While the pretzels bake, make the cheese sauce.

Place the remaining tablespoon of butter in a medium pot on the stove over medium heat.

Add a tablespoon of flour and whisk until a sticky dough forms.

Add the milk and beer, continuing to whisk until a smooth and creamy sauce forms.

Stir in the cheese, whisking constantly to avoid lumps.

Add the mustard, if using, plus the salt and pepper to taste, and whisk until incorporated.

Continue cooking for about 5 minutes, whisking occasionally.

To serve, transfer the finished, warm pretzels to a serving plate and serve with the hot cheese sauce for dipping.

BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor in chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough: 100 Delicious Unexpected Recipes.

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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358

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. $-$$

BERNICE'S IS GOING MODERATELY MAD IN MARCH!! Every day: Yes! Every day, Bernice's will feature a new item to try. "Boosting creativity is just part of the fun!" say owners Christine & Marco Littig. Savory Scone, Bees Knees, Lemon Pecan Bread, Moroccan Chicken Salad, Monkey Bread, Vegetarian Chili and more. Stop by and try something new. In addition, 2-4-1 espresso beverages! What?

Yep! And Bernice's uses only Kalispell Kreamery Organic milk in their espresso. So, go MAD yourself!

Buy a treat & 2-4-1 espresso, then share with a friend. xoxo bernice. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a timehonored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$

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. $-$$

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. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store!

Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking.

Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot.

All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces!

Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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Rev. Nat’s Hard Cider

HAPPIEST HOUR

photo by Derek Brouwer

What is it? It’s hard cider, obviously. Better questions: Who is this Reverend Nat guy, and why is a minister brewing the devil’s juice?

Who’s Rev. Nat? Nat West, a real guy from Portland, Oregon. He’s lanky with a long beard.

I know this because West was floating between tables March 13 at the Dram Shop. West came over to everyone who had a flight of his six exotic ciders, spreading the good word about his strange brews with the fervor of an evangelist.

Is he ordained? He claims to be, but I didn’t do a full check. West says he got his license to officiate weddings around the same time he started brewing hard cider at home.

His friends turned the irony into a nickname, and eventually West turned it into a brand.

Rev. Nat operates a taproom in a former Portland warehouse and has been distributing bottles of the stuff for the past five years.

Why was he here? Two weeks ago, Rev. Nat’s bottles arrived in Montana. Rev. Nat is preaching his gospel of the “apple’s deepest purpose” during a tour across the state.

What’s his gospel? Rev. Nat’s ciders are weird (his word). After I ask what makes them weird, he pops the top off a 16.9 oz. bottle of

Wooden Hellfire 18-hour Boiled Fire Cider. The fire cider is only available to people who join his small-batch “Tent Show” club, but Nat’s just pouring this one to make a point. It tastes syrupy and a bit like whiskey and not much like cider.

West achieves this by boiling apple juice for the already-indicated duration, then fermenting it for six months before aging it in bourbon barrels for a year. “Does beer taste like bread?” he asks me. “Does wine taste like grapes? Why does cider have to taste like apples?”

Doesn’t he know we have our own local cider? Yes. West went to cider school with Western Cider founder Michael Billingsley.

He sees Western Cider as introducing cider to the region and shaping the local palette. West needs them to be successful, he says, if his peach- and mandarin-infused ciders have a prayer of selling in the local market. “I’ve got no hope of pawning off weird ciders unless there’s a basic understanding of cider here,” he says.

Where to find it: Find 16.9-oz. single bottles of Revival Hard Apple, Sacrilege Sour Cherry and New Moon Mandarin at Worden’s or the Good Food Store. Bottles cost $5.99$6.99. Nat’s cider will be at the Dram Shop until the kegs kick.

—Derek Brouwer

Try our new lunch sushi bento box.

It’s vegetarian!

406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

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THU | 3/23 | 10 PM | TOP HAT Grant Farm plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

TUE | 8 PM | TOP HAT Dead Man Winter plays the Top Hat Tue., March 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15

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SAT | 2 PM | DENNISON Four women come to share more than ever imagined in Menopause: The Musical at the Dennison Theatre Sat., March 18. 2 PM. $30-$50

WED | 7:30 PM | MUSIC RECITAL HALL Grammy nominees New York Polyphony performs at the UM Music Recital Hall Wed., March 22. 7:30 PM. $30.

SAT | 8 PM | WILMA Yonder Mountain String Band plays the Wilma Sat., March 18. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance.

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Thursday Looking to get a shiny new bell for your fixed-gear bike, you hipster? The Bike Exchange let’s you swap your unwanted bike accessories with other bicyclists at Greenough Park. 10 AM–12 PM. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.

nightlife Women Bike Missoula member Ethel MacDonald presents the talk “Biking in the Philippines” at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

Basses Covered plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests.

725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. The monthly Northside Potluck at Strensrud brings musicians and artists together to celebrate our community.

BYOB and bring some cash to feed the musicians.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival returns for two days of indulging in your inner Lisa Simpson. Visit umt.edu/music for a full schedule of events. $25/$40 for both nights. (See Spotlight) The Top Hat’s St. Patrick’s Day Party features the music of Shakewell and Urban Ghost. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.continues at MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $25.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

I’m not going to make up my mind about this band until I see it play. Spokane’s Withheld Judgement plays the VFW. 9 PM. $5.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small.

No, no, no. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s.

9 PM. Free.

Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

Local Yokel plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

The Top Hat’s St. Patrick’s Day Party features the music of Urban Ghost, above, and Shakewell. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.

You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library in the board room from noon–2 PM Fridays. No registration required, just show up!

The Women in Black and Veterans For Peace stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

See crickets fed to big fuzzy spiders at the tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.

nightlife Travis Yost plays Ten Spoon Winery. 6 PM– 8 PM. Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.

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Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day with the high-energy Irish music of the Craciers at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Get drunk on laughter before you head out on the town with Zootown Improv at the Badlander. 7 PM. Free.

Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building.

The Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival returns for two days of indulging in your inner Lisa Simpson. Visit umt.edu/music for a full schedule of events. $25/$40 for both nights. (See Spotlight)

Over the River and Through the Woods continues at MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $25.

The Skurfs, War Pony & the Pool Boys, Ancient Forest, Rotgut Whines and Tyson Ger-

hardt Hirsch celebrate St. Paddy’s Day at the VFW. 8 PM. $2.

The Top Hat’s St. Patrick’s Day Party features the music of Shakewell and Urban Ghost. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.

Do you think anyone is going to recognize my John Mikl Thor costume? The Dark Horse hosts a rock star costume party featuring the music of Blessiddoom, Dysfunktynal Kaos and Chaos II Clarity. 9 PM. $5.

Dad? Dakota Poorman plays Sunrise Saloon’s St. Patrick’s Day Party. 9 PM. Free.

Get shamrocked with Swamp Ritual, Cannon, The Conversion and Drift at Monk’s. 9 PM. $3. 21-plus.

The Tomcats play the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

MudSlide Charley plays the first night of its Get Lucky Blues Weekend at Charlie B’s.

People named Charlie get in for free. So does everyone else, but especially people named Charlie. 10 PM. Free.

Spotlight

UPCOMING

all that jazz

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When asked to define jazz, music leg- music across the United States and Euend Louis Armstrong said, “If you have to rope. She also served as the director of ask what jazz is, you'll never know.” With the Jazzmobile project, which places proits focus on improvisation and rhythm, fessional jazz musicians in schools across jazz, at least according to Mr. Armstrong, the United States and Canada to motivate isn't something that can be explained and inspire young musicians.

Maybe Satchmo was right and jazz without experiencing it. And if you're going to experience it, why not experience it from some of the most talented jazz All That Jazz musicians in the counWHAT: The Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival try?

Now in its 37th WHEN: Thu., March 16 and Fri., March 17 at 7:30 PM year, the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival WHERE: The Dennison Theatre returns to the Dennison Theatre for two HOW MUCH: $25 or $40 for both days days of music. Among MORE INFO: umt.edu/music the 2017 guest artists making their way to Missoula–including Nate Kimball, Jim Sisko, Brad Leali and can't really be explained. But it doesn't Chris Smith–is Canadian-born, Chicago- need to be explained to be enjoyed. Jazz based bassist Ashley Summers. She has is for everyone, and everyone can be for lead her own series of ensembles over the jazz. last decade, showcasing her original — Charley Macorn

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Sunday People Who Stutter is a casual group of folks who get together the third Sunday of each month to just hang out and exchange stories and info. With Tricia Opstad, MS, CCC-SLP and Trevor Monsos. Liquid Planet Grille, 1025 Arthur St., 1:30–3:30 PM. Free.

Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.

Hear the story of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company’s journey from early camps to the logging headquarters it became with a free talk at St. Ann Catholic Church. 2 PM.

You’ll be bright-eyed and bushytailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Get your fresh produce and farmdirect goodies when Stage 112 hosts the Missoula Valley Winter Market from 9 AM–1 PM. The Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s open house gives you the inside scoop on a career in photography. 9:30 AM–3:30 PM. Free.

Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM. So “mono” means one, and “print” means print. Create monoprints at a free family workshop at Missoula Art Museum every Saturday. 11 AM–12:30 PM. Four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra sale, come to share more than ever imagined in this toe-tapping musical tribute to aging in Menopause: The Musical at the Dennison Theatre.

This is why I buy my bras online.

2 PM. $30-$50 The Northern Rockies Heritage Center at Fort Missoula hosts the Montana Conversations program “A Jesuit Window in Western Montana Life in the 1840s and ‘50s” with Sally Thompson. 2 PM. Free.

nightlife Now that’s a name Missoulians can get behind! Bill LaCroix plays Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 Pm. Free.

The Loose String Band plays Draught Works. That’s pretty tight.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Malarky plays a combination of Irish tunes and country music at Blacksmith Brewing. I don’t believe it! 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Musician and double consonant enthusiast Jeff Carroll plays Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Is it this one or that one way over there? Yonder Mountain String Band plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance.

A Night in Oz, the 12th Annual Black and White Ball, celebrates diversity and a dozen years of recognizing basic human and civil rights. There’s no place like the Holiday Inn Downtown.

There’s no place like the Holiday Inn Downtown. $40/$60 couples.

Dress in the costumes of your ancestors and join the Folklore Society’s Heritage Dance at Union Hall. I’ll be there dressed like Jack Kevorkian. That’s what they mean, right? Dance workshop at 7:30 PM, festivities at 8. $9/$6 members.

It’s the dance, not the chip dip.

Salsa 406 returns with Latin music and dancing at the Dark Horse every third Saturday of the month. 8:30 PM. Free.

In case yesterday’s holiday wasn’t enough for you, Monk’s keeps the shamrocks and shenanigans going with DJ LROCK. 9 PM. Free.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. $5.

Tessub and Keegan Bowen kick off the release of their new albums with an audiovisual performance at the Roxy from the two electronic performers. 9 PM. $5.

Clarke & the Himselfs find themselves at the VFW. 9 PM. $5.

Dolce Canto presents It Takes a Village, a choral concert celebrating the innocence and joy of youth and the challenges of parenthood. UM Music Recital Hall.

7:30 PM. $18.

Round 2 of Mudslide Charley’s Get Lucky Weekend Blues Party continues at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

Over the River and Through the Woods continues at MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $25.

Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs play the Yonder Mountain String Band After Party at the Top Hat. 11 PM. Free.

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The Mendelssohn Club’s male chorus presents its 72nd Annual Spring Concert at the Music Recital Hall. 3 PM. $15.

nightlife Over the River and Through the Woods continues at the MCT

Every Sunday, Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Old Sap plays Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up.

No cover.

Please let it be an episode of M.A.N.T.I.S. Please let it be an episode of M.A.N.T.I.S. Spin the wheel, watch some mystery science fiction and enjoy donuts by Tandem donuts at Wheel of Sci-Fi at the Roxy. 7 PM. $8.

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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Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs play the Yonder Mountain String Band After Party at the Top Hat. 11 PM. Free.

Center for the Performing Arts.

6:30 PM. $25

Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Greenough Park. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. At the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.

nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing.

Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations

and subtle wit from Mayor Engen.

Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

Cash for Junkers plays the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org.

That apostrophe is going to be the death of me. Old 97’s plays the Top Hat. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8 PM. $25/$22 advance.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

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Tuesday The Missoula League of Women Voters hosts a free screening of the film Jailed for their Words: When Freedom Died in Wartime America at their brown bag lunch at Missoula Public Library. 12 PM.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.

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Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

Missoula Farmers’ Market holds its 2017 Vendors Meeting at Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room. 5:30 PM–7 PM. Call 406-274-3042 for more info.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander, 7 PM–10 PM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.

So what’s your story? Tell Us Something returns to the Wilma for a night of storytelling. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $10/$8 advance.

Trampled by Turtles frontman Dave Simonette brings his new project Dead Man Winter to the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15.

Learn all about creative composition at a free lecture by Sarah Ehlen at Rocky Mountain School of Photography. 7 PM. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: How many future presidents of the United States were among the signers of the Declaration of Independence? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

Live your rock star dreams with Open Mic Music with Cheree at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Wednesday NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.

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How will our warming climate impact fisheries and the fly fishing industry? Find out in an open forum at the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks office. 3201 Spurgin. 6:30 PM. Free.

At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20.

Free. All ages.

Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: 2.

Drink a beer and learn about Montana’s Community Land Trust at Kettlehouse North’s Community Unite Night. 5 PM–8 PM.

Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy returns for its monthly showcase and open mic at the Roxy.

This month, future mayor of Bozeman and frozen banana salesman Tim Miller headlines.

7:30 PM. Free with concession purchase.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.

Wesley and the Revolving play Blacksmith Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Grammy nominees New York Polyphony, a four-voice a cappella group, performs at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $30.

Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.

Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. This week raise funds to provide a local Missoulian with a service dog.

Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30– 10:30 PM. No cover.

nightlife Bet it’s pretty hard to play a guitar with paws. Crazy Dog Band plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM.

date, time, venue and cost. You can submit your events online at missoulanews.com. Let me know if anyone finds a missing a dollar bill. It has a picture of George Washington on the front.

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. All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no,no. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

Ghost Carrot Records residency at the VFW continues with Codependents, Milkyway and Rude Max. 9 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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There’s karaoke today! Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

Grant Farm plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

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Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon.

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THURSDAY MARCH 16

drop-in. Call 406-721-0033 for more info.

The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.

The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is you should really tell all of your friends because it is an open, supportive space for all women to talk about their experiences. Room 225 at the University Center. 6 PM–7:30 PM.

FRIDAY MARCH 17 The Women in Black and Veterans For Peace stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

MONDAY MARCH 20 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. The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM– 4 PM. Free for veterans.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

TUESDAY MARCH 21

In 1918, a wine and brandy salesman in Red Lodge was sentenced to 7 to 20 years in Montana State Prison for saying that President Wilson's wartime food regulations were a “big joke.” A farmer from Rosebud County was given 8 to 16 years for complaining about soldiers getting free taxi rides in Miles City. Just stating that the U.S. had no business being in World War I was enough to get several people thrown in prison. These are the stories of the 79 men and women charged and convicted under the dangerous and unconstitutional Montana Sedition Act. Collectively these Montanans served over 65 years in prison for no other reason than they vocally complained about the government.

This shocking and troubling time in Montana history is the subject of the new documentary Jailed For Their Words: The Montana Sedition Act of 1918. This engaging film tells the tale of the Montanans jailed during World War I for criticizing the American war effort. Produced and directed in Montana by filmmaker Gita Saedi Kiely and narrated by Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons, Jailed For Their Words shows a world not too different from our own, and serves as a warning about the future.

—Charley Macorn Jailed For Their Words shows at Missoula Public Library's Large Meeting Room Tues., March 21, at 12 PM.

The Missoula League of Women Voters hosts a free screening of the film Jailed for their Words: When Freedom Died in Wartime America at their brown bag lunch event at Missoula Public Library. 12 PM. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Tuesday at the Learning Center at Red Willow from 12:10 PM–12:50 PM. $40 for four classes or $12

Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 7287682 for more information.

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 22 Greet the day every Wednesday with Yoga for Wellness at the Learning Center at Red Willow. 10 AM–11 AM. $40 for four classes or $12 drop-in.

Call 406-721-0033 for more info.

Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.

NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, support Trust Montana. 5 PM–8 PM. Drink a beer and learn about Montana’s Community Land Trust at Kettlehouse North’s Community Unite Night. 5 PM–8 PM.

THURSDAY MARCH 23 Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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long with rapidly thinning ice caps, increased storm activity and the eventual extinction of the human race, it turns out climate change is super bad news if you like to fish. As polar ice sheets melt into the ocean, the acidity of the waters spike, making it increasingly more difficult for ocean life to survive. Coral reefs, for example, are having a harder time calcifying their shells, which means they might very well be on their way out. The impact of this would be devastating. Coastal populations that rely on fishing to survive are facing huge decreases in their fish intake, and because fishing provides essential nutrition to over 3 billion people, the continued change to Earth’s climate poses a serious threat.

And this threat doesn’t just impact commercial fish-

ing, but recreational fishing as well.

A joint report by Montana Trout Unlimited and the Natural Resources Defense Council, cited by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks states that climate change is “the single greatest threat to the survival of trout in America's interior West.” Montana FWP hosts a public forum to discuss climate’s impact on fisheries and both commercial and recreational fishing.

—Charley Macorn Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks hosts an open forum at their office at 3201 Spurgin Wed., March 22 at 6:30 PM. Free.

THURSDAY MARCH 16

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Looking to get a shiny new bell for your fixed-gear bike, you hipster? The Bike Exchange let’s you swap your unwanted bike accessories with other bicyclists at Greenough Park. 10 AM–12 PM.

“Their “T Th heir vvoices o oices b blend lend d into a rich, riich,, natural naturraal sound so that’s that’’s larger larrgger morre complex comp than the sum of its parts. and more parts.””

Women Bike Missoula member Ethel MacDonald presents “Biking in the Philippines” at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

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FRIDAY MARCH 17 Be at one with nature with an unguided meditation meet up at the base of Blue Mountain Recreation Area. Bring an exercise mat and warm clothes. 9 AM–10 AM. See crickets fed to big fuzzy spiders at the tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.

MONDAY MARCH 20 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Greenough Park. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 22 How will our warming climate impact fisheries and the fly fishing industry? Find out in an open forum at the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks office. 3201 Spurgin. 6:30 PM. Free.

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By Amy Alkon HYDE AND SEEK I feel that my boyfriend brings out my best self: loving, sweet, productive. In my failed marriage, my ex seemed to bring out my worst self: unstable, selfish, lazy. It’s almost as if I’m a different person with my boyfriend. But how different can I be?

—In A Better Plac Okay, so you sometimes daydreamed about your naked ex and the things you’d like to do to him—like painting him all over with maple syrup and throwing him into a pit of starving fire ants.

To understand what’s different with your current boyfriend, consider that the relationship is an environment—one that influences your behavior just like a physical environment.

(Alaska in January calls for a snowsuit, not a bikini and your rainbow unicorn water wings.)

There’s a term for the sort of relationship dynamics that bring out your best self—the “Michelangelo phenomenon”—coined by social psychologist Caryl Rusbult and her colleagues. The name was inspired by the Italian Renaissance ar tist Michelangelo’s belief that there’s an ideal figure hidden within each block of stone and that it’s the sculptor’s job to chip away the pieces around it until it’s revealed.

They find that in a relationship, two things foster your bringing out the best in each other. One is that your partner “affirms” your values—meaning that your par tner is aligned (enough) with what you care most about. (This doesn’t mean they want exactly what you do; they just need to respect you for going for it.) Second, they engage in behaviors that encourage you to move toward your “ideal self.” This might mean urging you to acquire new skills or, at a cocktail party, asking you about the dog-walking drone you invented while you’re standing next to that trustafarian with the tech-funding hobby.

Rusbult and her colleagues observe that when individuals in a relationship improve and grow—especially through their par tner’s encouragement—it makes for a better relationship and happier partners. Conversely, when their partner is unhelpfully critical, controlling and at odds with who they are and what they want, the relationship suffers, as do those in it. Ultimately, if you say “I barely recognize who I am with this person,” it should be a good thing— not one that leads to TV news clips of your bewildered neighbor : “We’re all

just shocked. She seemed so nice, so normal. I guess she just ... snapped.”

A RUSE IS A RUSE IS A RUSE A year ago, the woman who pet-sits for me began inviting herself over for dinner. We started going out about three times a week. I always paid for dinner. She never introduced me to her friends, wouldn’t let me pick her up at her apartment and wouldn’t let me touch her. Even a genial “thank you” touch on the arm got a grim response. Her reason: She didn’t want a relationship. I kept hoping this would change. Recently, I went on Facebook and saw that she’s been in a relationship with another man. Her response? “Well, I’m not sleeping with him, so I can see whomever I want.” After a long, demoralizing year, I ended things. Did I do right by getting out?

—Not A Game Player Having regular dinners with somebody doesn’t mean you’re dating. I have dinner with my TV several nights a week, but that doesn’t mean I should get “Samsung forever!” tattooed on my special place.

Consciously or subconsciously, this woman deceived you into thinking a relationship was possible—but she had help. Yours. To understand how you got tripped up, let’s take a look at self-deception—through an evolutionary lens. Evolutionary researchers William von Hippel and Robert Trivers describe self-deception as a “failure to tell the self the whole truth” by excluding the parts that go poorly with our goals and our preferred view of ourselves.We do this through “information-processing biases that give priority to welcome over unwelcome information”—or, in plain English: What we ignore the hell out of can’t hurt us.

Seems crazy, huh—that we would have evolved to have a faulty view of reality? However, von Hippel and Trivers contend that the ability to self-deceive evolved to help us be better at deceiving others—keeping us from giving off the cues. As Trivers explains in “The Folly of Fools”: “We hide reality from our conscious minds the better to hide it from onlookers.”

Knowing that we do this can help us remember to ask the right questions— the ego-gnawing kind—and drag the facts upstairs to consciousness and give them a long look. Nice as it is to glimpse the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel,” it’s wise to make sure it isn’t just the one on the tip of the colonoscope.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Accounting Assistant Large manufacturer specializes in designing and producing commercial aquatics equipment is in need of an Accounting Assistant. If you are outgoing, adaptable and like to work in a fast-paced, changing and growing environment with strong work ethics, we want you! This is a temp-to-hire position. Upon satisfactory completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, the Company offers an excellent compensation and benefits package. $12.00$14.00 /DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39198 Cabela’s PT Footwear Sales Outfitter. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273531 GFS Deli Cook Prepare fresh entrees and salads, prepare deli menu items following specifications, follow seasonal recipes and maintain a clean working environment. Part time position available.

Pay starts at $9.84 per hour and increases to $10.23 after six months. Benefits include paid va-

cation, paid holidays, 20 percent discount, 401K, Employee Assistance Program. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10272145 HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE Paid training with U.S. Navy. Good pay, medical/dental, vacation, great career. HS grads ages17-34. Call Mon-Fri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil HIGH-TECH CAREER with U.S. Navy. Elite tech training w/great pay, benefits, vacation, $$ for school. HS grads ages 17-34.

Call Mon-Fri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil Imagination Station is looking for a fun loving, energetic, afternoon pre-school/child-care aid. Deliver resume to 721 N. 4th Street W 59802 Laboratory Technician Join a leading provider in consulting, engineering, and technical services throughout Montana and worldwide.This is a diverse company, including individuals with expertise in science, research, engineering, construction, and information technology. Coursework or a degree in Construction Management

EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.

Trinity Technology Group seeks professional & career oriented individuals for

or similar is preferred. M-F, 8:005:00, $17.00/hr, DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39135 Laundry Production In busy commercial laundry. Duties include sorting soiled and clean laundry, filling washers and dryers, folding, pressing and packaging. Attention to detail is a must! Fast paced and physically demanding job. Will be bending, stooping, kneeling and lifting continually throughout the day. Lifting requirements 50-60lb. $11/hour. Full time, long term. Monday-Friday. Pay raise and generous benefits after successful completion of probationary period! Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39108 Lochsa Lodge Line cook to prepare menu items and assist other kitchen staff in making sure the guests have a great experience.

Days/Shifts: Work week and shifts will vary, approximately 35 hours per week. Must be available weekends. Affordable housing is available if desired. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273351 NAVY RESERVE HIRING in all fields. Serve part-time. Paid training & potential sign-on bonus.

Great benefits. $ for school. Call Mon-Fri (800) 887-0952, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil NAVY RESERVE Serve parttime. No military exp needed. Paid training & potential sign-on bonus.

Great benefits. Retirement. Call Mon-Fri (800) 887-0952, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033 Night Shift Watchman Thompson Falls lumber company is looking for Night Shift Watchman.

Primary job duties include: overseeing evening security at the

front gate, routine walk-throughs, light maintenance, and other assigned weekly tasks. Must have the ability to lift 50lbs. Making rounds will require walking for 30-45 minutes at least 4-5 times a shift. Will work 7 -12 hour days and then have seven days off. 5pm-5am.

Upon satisfactory completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, the Company offers a comprehensive benefit package. Pre-employment screening required. $11.00/hr DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39311 THE NAVY IS HIRING Topnotch training, medical/dental, 30 days’ vacation/yr, $$ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil Warehouse Worker/Order Picker Family owned and operated distributor is looking to add to their night warehouse team.

Primarily involves selection of orders from various pick zones. May also include staging and loading of orders for shipping. Swing shift, Sunday 12noon-9pm & MondayThursday 3pm-12midnight.

Roughly 40-45 hours per week. $11.00/hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39323

PROFESSIONAL Drafter Manufacturer specializing in design and production of commercial aquatics equipment.

Full-time Solidworks Drafter with extensive knowledge of software, design properties and strong communication skills. Will assist engineering with design and development of new and improvement of existing products. Must be proficient in product specifications and design;AS in Drafting or 4 years experience drafting in a manufacturing environment. Strong proficiency in Solidworks and MS Office Suite. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID#39295

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EMPLOYMENT Customer Service Representatives (Teller) are the face of our company and represent First Security Bank in the community.The role of the Customer Service Representative is to be welcoming, build rapport and provide outstanding service while performing account transactions. Experience providing excellent customer service is required. A high school degree or GED is required. Cash handling experience is preferred.

Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are essential elements of the job. Position is part-time, 26 hours/week (generally 11-4, M-TH and 11-5, F) + some Saturdays (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.).

Position is located in our Downtown Branch. Starting rate of pay is $12/hour with increase to $12.50/hour after six months.

Applicants must be available to work shifts between 6:30 a.m. 6:15 p.m.., M-F. Application deadline is 5:00 p.m., Friday, 3/17/17.

Finalists for this position must be able to successfully pass a credit and background check. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273274

SKILLED LABOR Fire & Water Mitigation Starts at $11-15 hour depending on experience with possibility of overtime pay and increases based on merit. Previous restoration or related experience will be taken in to account. Please visit our website, www.servpromissoula.com for additional information. Full job

description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273730 Seasonal Equipment Operator City of Missoula is seeking a fulltime SEASONAL EQUIPMENT OPERATOR. High School graduation or equivalent and two years of experience in operating street maintenance and construction equipment. Must have or be able to obtain a Montana Commercial Driver’s License within 30 calendar days of initial hire date. Will perform a wide variety of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled street construction and maintenance work. Duties may require occasional lifting or moving objects weighing 50 lbs. Work is seasonal (6 months), full-time and pay is $21.56/hr. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10273404

TRAINING Enrollment Scientist The RIVER Institute is looking for a dynamic individual with a passion for helping elicit positive change in the lives of our nation’s veterans.

RIVER is a mission-driven organization that offers full-year individualized academic programs for veterans.We focus on training veterans for highly desirable careers and providing them with the tools they need to lead extraordinary lives. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10269442

HEALTH CAREERS CNA Home health CNAs assist individuals with bathing, getting dressed, exercise, cooking, as well as provide companionship and transportation to medical appointments, shopping, etc., and many others tasks essential to maintaining a high quality of life for our members. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10272471 RN Case Manager Provide skilled home health nursing and case management for clients in their residences throughout the greater Missoula region. Plan and implement care, as well as instruct and evaluate patient and family. Responsible for coordinating services of other disciplines. Part-time up to full-time, approximately 2440 hours/week. Requirements include Montana RN license, valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, auto insurance, reliable internet access, general competence with computers, software.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10272781 Providence is calling a Radiologic Technologist (Imaging Services Dept,Variable Shift,0.8 FTE) to St. Patrick Hospital in MissoulaWe offer a full comprehensive range of benefits - see our website for details http://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/rewards-benefits/. About us, Providence Health & Services is the third largest not-for-profit

health system in the United States.

Providence employs more than 76,000 caregivers (employees) across a five-state area; AK,WA,MT,OR,and CA. Our facilities include 34 hospitals,475 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing and other health and educational services.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The more unselfish and compassionate you are in the coming weeks, the more likely it is you will get exactly what you need. Here are four ways that can be true: 1. If you’re kind to people, they will want to be kind to you in return. 2. Taking good care of others will bolster their ability to take good care of you. 3. If you’re less obsessed with I-me-mine, you will magically dissolve psychic blocks that have prevented certain folks from giving you all they are inclined to give you. 4. Attending to others’ healing will teach you valuable lessons in how to heal yourself—and how to get the healing you yearn for from others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope you will consider buying yourself some early birthday presents. The celebration is weeks away, but you need some prodding, instigative energy now. It’s crucial that you bring a dose of the starting-fresh spirit into the ripening projects you’re working on. Your mood might get overly cautious and serious unless you infuse it with the spunk of an excited beginner.

Of course only you know what gifts would provide you with the best impetus, but here are suggestions to stimulate your imagination: a young cactus; a jack-in-the-box; a rock with the word “sprout” written on it; a decorated marble egg; a fox mask; a Photoshopped image of you flying through the air like a superhero.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many Geminis verbalize profusely and acrobatically.They enjoy turning their thoughts into speech, and love to keep social situations lively with the power of their agile tongues. Aquarians and Sagittarians may rival your tribe for the title of The Zodiac’s Best Bullshitters, but I think you’re in the top spot. Having heaped that praise on you, however, I must note that your words don’t always have as much influence as they have entertainment value.You sometimes impress people more than you impact them. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, that could change. I suspect your fluency will carry a lot of clout. Your communication skills could sway the course of local history.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your world is more spacious than it has been in a long time. Congrats!

I love the way you have been pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and into the wilder frontier.

For your next trick, here’s my suggestion: Anticipate the parts of you that may be inclined to close down again when you don’t feel as brave and free as you do now. Then gently clamp open those very parts.

If you calm your fears before they break out, maybe they won’t break out at all.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I like rowdy, extravagant longing as much as anyone. I enjoy being possessed by a heedless greed for too much of everything that feels rapturous: delectable food, mysterious sex, engrossing information, liberating intoxication and surprising conversations that keep me guessing and improvising for hours. But I am also a devotee of simple, sweet longing ... pure, watchful, patient longing ... open-hearted longing that brims with innocence and curiosity and is driven as much by the urge to bless as to be blessed. That’s the kind I recommend you explore and experiment with in the coming days.

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know that forbidden fruit you’ve had your eyes on? Maybe it isn’t so forbidden any more. It could even be evolving toward a state where it will be both freely available c VIRGO and downright healthy for you to pluck. But there’s also a possibility that it’s simply a little less risky than it was before. And it may never become a fully viable option. So here’s my advice: Don’t grab and bite into that forbidden fruit yet. Keep monitoring the situation. Be especially attentive to the following questions: Do you crave the forbidden fruit because it would help you flee a dilemma you haven’t mustered the courage to escape from? Or because it would truly be good for you to partake of the forbidden fruit?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I expect you will get more than your usual share of both sweetness and tartness in the coming days. Sometimes one or the other will be the predominant mode, but on occasion they will converge to deliver a complex brew of WOW!-meets-WTF! Imagine chunks of sour apples in your vanilla fudge ripple ice cream. Given this state of affairs, there’s no good reason for you to be blandly kind or boringly polite. Use a saucy attitude to convey your thoughtfulness. Be as provocative as you are tender.

Don’t just be nice—be impishly and subversively nice.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I want to gather your darkness in my hands, to cup it like water and e SCORPIO drink.” So says Jane Hirshfield in her poem “To Drink.” I bet she was addressing a Scorpio. Does any

other sign of the zodiac possess a sweet darkness that’s as delicious and gratifying as yours? Yes, it’s true that you also harbor an unappetizing pocket of darkness, just like everyone else. But that sweet kind— the ambrosial, enigmatic, exhilarating stuff—is not only safe to imbibe, but can also be downright healing. In the coming days, I hope you’ll share it generously with worthy recipients.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):Saturn has been in your sign steadily since September 2015, and will continue to be there until December 2017. Some traditional astrologers might say you are in a phase of downsizing and self-restraint. They’d encourage you to be extra strict and serious and dutiful. To them, the ringed planet is an exacting task-master. There are some grains of truth in this perspective, but I like to emphasize a different tack. I say that if you cooperate with the rigors of Saturn, you’ll be inspired to become more focused and decisive and disciplined as you shed any flighty or reckless tendencies you might have. Yes, Saturn can be adversarial if you ignore its commands to be faithful to your best dreams.

But if you respond gamely, it will be your staunch ally.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Born in the African nation of Burkina Faso, Malidoma Somé is a teacher who writes books and offers workshops to Westerners interested in the spiritual traditions of his tribe. In his native Dagaare language, his first name means “he who befriends the stranger/enemy.” I propose that we make you an honorary “Malidoma” for the next three weeks. It will be a favorable time to forge connections, broker truces and initiate collaborations with influences you have previously considered foreign or alien.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): EVERY relationship has problems. No exceptions. In the beginning, all may be calm and bright, but eventually cracks will appear. Here’s the corollary to that rule: EVERY partner is imperfect. Regardless of how cool, kind, attractive or smart they may seem in the early stages, they will eventually unveil their unique flaws and troubles. Does this mean that all togetherness is doomed? That it’s forever impossible to create satisfying unions? The answer is HELL, NO!—especially if you keep the following principles in mind: Choose a partner whose problems are: 1. interesting; 2. tolerable; 3. useful in prodding you to grow; 4. all of the above.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like some free healing that’s in alignment with cosmic rhythms? Try this experiment. Imagine that you’re planning to write your autobiography. Create an outline that has six chapters. Each of the first three chapters will be about a past experience that helped make you who you are. In each of the last three chapters, you will describe a desirable event that you want to create in the future. I also encourage you to come up with a boisterous title for your tale. Don’t settle for My Life So Far or The Story of My Journey. Make it idiosyncratic and colorful, perhaps even outlandish, like Piscean author Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP17-36 Dept. 3 Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of DELORYSE CONNER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be mailed to First Interstate Bank, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Dirk A. Williams, Crowley Fleck PLLP, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

Dated this 17th day of February, 2017. First Interstate Bank Personal Representative of the Estate of Deloryse Conner, Deceased. /s/ Brett Weber, Vic President and Regional Trust Manager CROWLEY FLECK PLLP Attorneys for the Personal Representative By: /s/ Dirk A. Williams Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-12 Dept.

No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Kelcey Jeanne Crocker, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Kelcey Jeanne Crocker to Kelcey Jeanne Sgrenci.The hearing will be on 3/29/2017 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 2/22/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-156 Dept.

No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Niki Alis Johnson, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Niki Alis Johnson to Niki Alis Norway.

The hearing will be on 3/29/2017 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 2/22/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-39

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELSIE M. FISTER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 81, 255, 284, 333, 381, 513, & 568. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday March 27, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday March 30, 2017 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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 TIMOTHY J. FISTER, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

CLARK FORK STORAGE

The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 2254/Nora Harris/$301/ladder 501/Belinda Ankney/$443/furniture SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT

www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, April 12, 2017 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”.

Cash or certified funds.

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 46, 141. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 3/20/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 3/23/17 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale.

Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.

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JONESIN’ CROSSWORDS

PUBLIC NOTICES

By Matt Jones this 22nd day of February, 2017 /s/ Timothy J. Fister, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq.

“Change of Key�–you’ll have to pick another one.

ACROSS

1 Actor John of the "Harold and Kumar" movies 4 Boxer's blows 8 Equipped for 14 Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" 15 Math class calculation 16 Situated 17 Protestant denom. founded in Philadelphia 18 Genre for bands like Wilco and Uncle Tupelo, in the wrong key?

20 Chess side 22 Bluish duck 23 Places for MDs and RNs 24 "Get Shorty" sequel 26 Hall of Famer Carew 28 "___ Boot" (1981 war film) 29 "You too?" a la Caesar 30 Villainous 33 "Why am ___? What does it all mean?"

35 Screw-shaped pasta 37 MTV cartoon with the show-within-ashow "Sick, Sad World" 38 Metallica hit, in the wrong key?

42 Looks at lewdly 43 Relate a story about 44 Go no further 45 Cookie with a Peeps-flavored 2017 variety 46 Brats 50 "The Star-Spangled Banner" lyricist 51 "Neither snow, ___ rain ..."

53 Catch cunningly 55 "___ for Alibi" (Sue Grafton mystery) 56 Unwell 59 "The Jetsons" pet 60 "Runaway" singer, in the wrong key?

64 Meal starter?

65 "That makes sense" 66 "Eso ___" (Paul Anka hit) 67 Fuss 68 City where Canada's parliament meets 69 2.0 grades 70 Man cave, really

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1 Early Tarzan actor Buster 2 "To be or not to be" soliloquist 3 Way shorter than 2-Down, say 4 The King of Pop, in tabloids 5 Aesthetic pursuit 6 "Doin' the Pigeon" singer 7 Toyotathon, e.g.

8 Olympic speed skater ___ Anton Ohno 9 "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" singer Cantrell 10 Office PC hookup 11 Outer skin layer 12 Homes for some lizards 13 Like an epic voyage 19 "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" singer Belinda 21 College catalog listings 25 "Dallas Buyers Club" actor Jared 27 "I ___ such thing!"

31 Melbourne is its capital 32 Comic book line artist 34 Got cranky 36 Jimmy who works with Lois Lane 38 Mixed-breed dog that sounds like a bird 39 Upper limit for a jungle gym, maybe 40 Lingerie item similar to a romper 41 Antiseptic gel source 47 Character in "The Wind in the Willows" 48 Victory celebration 49 Exactly correct 52 Ice Cube's real first name 54 Small iPods 57 "Closing Bell" network 58 ACL's location 61 Free ad, briefly 62 Fasten fabric 63 Verb suffix?

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP17-42 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUSTINE G. KUSCHEL, 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 RICHARD HUGHES KUSCHEL, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2017 /s/ Richard Hughes Kuschel, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-17-164 Dept.

No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE OF ADULT In the Matter of the Name Change of STEPHEN LAWRENCE PENROD, II, Petitioner. TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from STEPHEN LAWRENCE PENROD, II, to OSCAR KRISTIAN GREY, and the petition will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 4th day of April, 2017 at 3:00 p.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse for the Fourth Judicial District. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Maria

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Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Case No. DP-17-22 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLAYTON E. DEVOE, 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 of first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to George C. DeVoe, attorney for the Personal Representatives, of the estate of Clayton E. DeVoe, at 310 North Higgins, Missoula, Montana, 59802 or filed with the clerk of the above named Court. DATED this 1st day of March, 2017. /s/ George C. DeVoe, Attorney Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE

NO. DP-17-40 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID B. TAWNEY, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to CHARLES E. EISEMAN, JR., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806-4747, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21 day of February, 2017. /s/ CHARLES E. EISEMAN, JR. c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Case No. DP17-34 NOTICE TO CREDI-

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TORS In the Matter of the Estate of GERALD M. ASHMORE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this no-

tice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Cheryl Diane Ashmore, c/o Tipp Coburn Schandelson, P.C., the Personal Representative, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 28th day of February, 2017. /s/ Cheryl Diane Ashmore, Personal Representative.

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LAND FOR SALE NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

[C10] Missoula Independent • March 16–March 23, 2017

“You gotta love where you live!”

I

bring 25 years of real estate experience, knowledge of financing, honesty and integrity to my business to help buyers and sellers make sound decisions for their future.

My career in real estate is a lifestyle for me, rather than a job that I go to everyday. I balance my life with my love of the outdoors that includes hiking, canoeing, camping, backpacking and skiing. Here in Montana we love the seasons and utilize them to the fullest. We are truly lucky to live in a beautiful place and an amazing town!

My motto for my clients is “You gotta love where you live!” And Missoula offers all the requirements to love where you live.

For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

www.rochelleglasgow.com

Rochelle Glasgow Office: 406.728.8270 Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MARYLAND•

Maryland is a 5-year-old female Boxer mix. She is a very stoic lady that understands several commands. Maryland definitely lacks a silly bone and listens to commands with a regal, authoritative attitude. This girl takes life seriously, and if she doesn't think you're serious, she'll give you the cold shoulder.

Maryland would do best as an only pet.

829-WOOF

875 Wyoming

BODIE•Bodie is a 2-year-old male Pit Bull. He

is a very loving and playful boy. Bodie loves to go for walks and play in the yard. His favorite toys are stuffed animals and tennis balls. Bodie would love a home with a fenced yard, or someone who can take him on long walks daily. Bodie just wants to be loved.

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd 3510 S Reserve

ALFREDO• Alfredo is a 3-5-year-old male orange Tabby. He is the life of any party and most alluring entertainer you could ever hope for. Alfredo does not know what it means to be ignored, and he will go to no end to make sure he receives his much deserved affection.

Alfredo loves to play, and everything becomes a toy.

CYPRESS• Cypress is a 2-5-year-old male black cat. He is an outgoing and playful young guy with a very sweet and cuddly disposition.

One moment he'll be chasing feathers, climbing in the toy bin, hunting for the catnip stash, and digging in the food bin. The next moment, he'll be snuggled up in your lap, purring his contentment, and rubbing his head against you.

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.

DORA• Dora is an 8-year-old female brown Tabby/Tortie. Dora has a neurological condition that causes her to walk a bit wobbly. Other than that, she is healthy and happy. Dora, nicknamed DUI, will live a long, healthy life, however uncoordinated she may be. Because of this condition, she does need to be an indoor only cat. Dora is very loving, is quick to purr when she's getting affection, and loves to play.

ABERDEEN• Aberdeen is a 2-year-old female Pit Bull mix. She is a very sweet and submissive gal. She has an easy smile and is eager to please. Aberdeen loves belly rubs and head pats. She doesn't seem to know what toys are, so a family that can help her discover the fun of a tennis ball or tug toy would be a wish come true!

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 LUCKY• Lucky is a solid chunk of love! This

squat, handsome man is loyal, active, and eager!

He thinks he’s a lap dog, and is happiest when he’s with his people! Lucky would love an adult family who could take him on lots of adventures!

Lucky has gotten along with smaller dogs, but he needs a home without cats. Is today your Lucky day? Call 406.549.3934.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

NANETTE• Beautiful Nanette is an older lady who would happily sit in your lap or by your side whenever you come home. She's a loving girl is quite the looker! This senior lady will give you all the love you need & more! Need another reason to stop by the Humane Society? Sat. March 4, 8am-12pm, at the shelter we’re having a garage sale benefitting Montana pets! See you there!

KATIE PENNY• This cattle dog cross LOVES to be around her people. She greets visitors with a big wagging tail and will jump up when asked or sit nicely for treats! Katie Penny is 3-years-old, a great age to continue learning about the world without the puppy phase! Katie is picky about her dog friends, so she’d love a family who could be patient with introductions. http://myhswm.org.

FURBY• This rare British Short Hair gal is a total lap cat. Beautiful, sweet, and itching to find a cozy lap to purr upon, Furby is ready to find her forever home! She has lived with other cats, and her adoption fee is reduced to help her find her forever home! Visit http://myhswm.org for more info!

ANNABELLE• Annabelle is a unique-looking Plott Hound who is personable, friendly, and an easy-going girl. Annabelle loves to be active, enjoys dog friends, and is working on her manners! Annabelle would prefer a home without cats. Stop in this Saturday to the Humane Society garage sale, March 4 from 8am-12pm, then stay to fall in love with Annabelle!

CINNAMON• Cinnamon is a young, 8month-old torti who is looking for a quiet home where she can rule the roost! This sweetie can be a bit skittish at first, but once she trusts you (canned food helps!), this beauty is all purrs!

Thinking of sugar and spice and everything nice?

Visit Cinnamon at the Humane Society Wed-Fri, 1-6pm, or Sat-Sun, 12pm-5pm!

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missoulanews.com • March 16–March 23, 2017 [C11]

REAL ESTATE

NHN STONE STREET

121 Tahoe Drive • $254,000 Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath on large lot. Lots of natural light, fireplace, partially finished basement & single garage.

Call Anne or Tony Today About The Uptown Flats

Modern 1 bed, 1 bath condos at 801 N. Orange St. within walking distance to Downtown, St. Pat's Hospital, Clark Fork River & Northside Kettlehouse.

[C12] Missoula Independent • March 16–March 23, 2017

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

Properties2000.com

Amazing 2.52 acre parcel in Orchard Homes! This flat parcel has great views, frontage on an irrigation fed pond, and city sewer is close. If you're needing a little more room for gardens, animals, a shop, or all the above, come take a look. $174,900

Call Matt at 360-9023 for more information