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IS IT REALLY OK TO FILL THE STATE’S COFFERS WITH THE CASH OF POOR COUGHERS? FLORIDIS CELEBRATES 25 A LIFE CONSUMED: SAVORING GRILLING THE WAY TOWARD A YEARS OF MUSICIAN’S SPOTLIGHT BOOKS JIM HARRISON’S LAST MEALS FOOD MORE PERFECT UNION CLUB ARTS JOHN
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Voices The readers write.....................................................................................................4 Street Talk Talking funny....................................................................................................4 Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time .................................................6 Briefs The city’s monumental fight, taking a tuition hike, and debunking Trump’ ..........6 Etc. The real point of the Legislature’s pointless anti-choice bills .....................................7 News Tobin Shearer on life after watchlisting.....................................................................8 News Councilwoman Ruth Swaney weighs her options ....................................................9 Opinion From coughers to coffers: the ethics of the state’s proposed cig tax increase ......10 Opinion D.C. may not get the lead out, but hunters can do it for themselves................11 Feature For Missoula’s tight-knit comedy scene, punch lines are just part of the payoff .....14
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Arts John Floridis celebrates 25 years of Musician’s Spotlight .........................................18 Art Photographer Brian Christianson captures Missoula’s epic winter............................19 Books Savoring Jim Harrison’s last meals ........................................................................20 Film Before I Fall: Like Groundhog Day without the funny.............................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................22 Starters..............................................................................................................................23 Happiest Hour .................................................................................................................25 8 Days a Week .................................................................................................................26 Agenda Forward Montana’s Rockstar Hall of Fame party ................................................33 Mountain High The Backcountry Rendezvous................................................................34
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Asked Sunday afternoon at Imagine Nation Brewing. Who is your favorite stand-up comedian? Follow-up: What gives you the butterflies?
Toffer Lehnherr: I’m trying to think of a Netflix special I left on for more than 10 minutes. What’s her name? Ali Wong? We’re new parents, and she talks a lot about being pregnant. Nerves of steel: I don’t know, I may have weeded the butterflies out of my life at this point.
Keep your money “Campaigns were conducted by simply the opening of a barrel, and sowing the state from one end to the other with corporation money, the largest barrel winning in the end. This extravagant campaigning prevented the election of any but the wealthy or those supported by special interests." That’s E.H. McDowell in the February 1910 Terry Tribune. My vote is not for sale. Rob Quist is the man I want to represent me in Congress. Carole Mackin posted at missoulanews.com
So, more money?
Holly Gumz: Joe Rogan. He tells a great story about a whorehouse in Arkansas. Hospital heartburn: I’m a nurse, and during your nursing clinicals it can be really nerve-racking because you want to come across as a competent person. Like, don’t worry, I know how to insert a catheter, I got this.
Any political seat in the United States will cost big money to buy. Name recognition is essential because the public is uninformed and just blackens the circle beside the name they have seen on TV or on billboards without knowing what the candidate thinks about a given issue. Jan Cochran posted at facebook.com/ missoulaindependent
Go Green Teagan Martin: Jim Gaffigan. He’s hilarious. I feel like a lot of people lowball it and just talk about their sex lives, but he includes everything, makes fun of our lives as Americans. Disquieting dates: I would say first dates. Those are the worst. I can really crash and burn hard. In the first couple minutes.
Brady Baughman: Amy Poehler’s not a stand-up comedian, but she’s a comedian and she’s my favorite of all time. Social anxieties: A lot of things give me the butterflies. Interviewing for anything, really. You get nervous, start turning red. Or running into someone you haven’t seen in a while.
Steve Glueckert: Conan O’Brien. He’s pretty far out there sometimes, and I like that he makes fun of politics, and himself too. Auto unease: At one time it was public speaking. But that doesn’t bother me anymore. Now what gives me the butterflies—and this is because I was in a car accident—is when you’re driving close to a cliff.
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Nearly everyone I know expresses Green values when they speak about what they want and need for their families and communities (“Could the special congressional election give Montana’s Green Party a foot in the door?” March 30). Most people know the reason we don’t get what we want is due to the influence of wealthy and corporate donors. The Green Party is the only party that does not take dollars from corporations or PACS. The Green Party works for health care for all, ranked-choice voting so we don’t have to choose the lesser evil, elimination of the crushing student debt that is ruining the lives of our young people, and the Green New Deal to bring good-paying jobs to all of us who just want to be able to work and support our families without destroying the planet we’d like our grandchildren to be able to survive on. There is a way forward and it makes sense. Cheryl Wolfe posted at missoulanews.com
Quist for all Voting for Rob Quist for Montana’s representative in Washington is without a doubt the most important vote we are going to be able to make until 2020! (“No experience necessary,” March 30). The Koch brothers cartel is pouring millions of dollars into Montana and delivering scathing nega-
tive advertising against Rob. Greg Gianforte isn’t the right guy to fight for Montana in the House. He would be just one of the boy’s rubber-stamping the Republican agenda, kow-towing to Grover Norquist and his Republican puppets, all joining Trump and his gang of Kleptocrats ripping off the American taxpayers. Rob Quist is the only guy running who respects all Montanans, and we need a fresh voice to stand up for all of us, not just a few of us! Dennis Petrak posted at missoulanews.com
Nobody better? I don’t mind that Quist is an “outsider,” but I do have issues with him being fiscally irresponsible, particularly his lack of payment to a contractor that did work on his property. Didn’t pay taxes, didn’t pay his bills, stiffed workers? Sounds like a country-
how the human body shuts down. No treatment would prevent the inevitable, and she did not want to prolong the process. My mom and I both believe that individuals should have the right to choose what course of treatment to seek if they are diagnosed with a terminal illness. People have choices in their health care in all phases of life and in death. Decisions and discussions about what to do should be between the person and their faith, their family and their physician. Two separate attempts were made this legislative session to criminalize doctors who provide prescriptions for medical aid in dying, and both failed, as did other attempts in 2011, 2013 and 2015. The majority of Montanans feel they should be able to die in accordance with their personal values and beliefs, and the government should not be involved in that choice. Kristen Wood Missoula
Seeding control “Yeah, I’ll vote for Quist to keep Greg Gianforte out of office, but as Democrats, is this really the best we can do?”
western version of Trump. Yeah, I’ll vote for Quist to keep Greg Gianforte out of office, but as Democrats, is this really the best we can do? Lynne Marie Duncan posted at facebook.com/
Life & the good death Having been a physical therapist for forty years, I have personally seen how much trauma, pain and suffering the human body can endure and overcome. The human body is incredible at recovering and healing from injury. There is a limit, however, to what the human body can endure during the dying process. My mother’s death in 2014 gave me firsthand insight into
Senate Bill 155 is an egregious overreach by out-of-state groups to take local control from Montanans. This bill would change Montana seed laws and take power from the hands of our local officials, which is where it has been for decades, and where it should stay. The language of SB 155 can be found in several other state Legislatures right now, all developed by a pay-to-play group funded by Monsanto, Dow and the Koch brothers. Montanans aren’t about to be duped by a few billionaires. (Or are we?) The billionaires pushing this bill are trying to centralize all of the power in areas of the government that are inaccessible to regular people and farmers like me. Right now we are seeing more and more how hard it is to accomplish anything at the federal and state levels, but I know my local officials because they are my neighbors. I prefer to work with them on local issues, rather than with strangers who don’t understand how we work out here in Olive, Montana. So why is our Legislature taking away local control of what is grown in our communities? Power and money. While they are trying to say that they are saving local producers from mythical groups that want to prevent you from using specific seeds, what about the other side, where the state is trying to force us all to use certain seeds that contaminate everyone else’s fields? Tell Gov. Bullock to veto SB 155. Walter Archer Olive
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, March 29 The Montana Department of Revenue advises that if your income tax refund seems to be delayed, it might be due to “fraud prevention efforts.” The department says it has denied 56 fraudulent returns so far this year.
Thursday, March 30 The Montana Senate passes SB 354, which raises taxes on cigarettes and e-cigarettes by $1.50 a pack. Medical groups support the tax, saying they hope it will save lives by deterring people from smoking (see pg. 10).
Friday, March 31 The Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings announces plans to file for bankruptcy as a result of a settlement with 72 victims of sexual abuse by priests. The diocese adds that most of the priests who’ve been “credibly accused” are retired or dead.
Saturday, April 1 A Missoula woman posts a Facebook photo of the bruised face of her sleeping infant, who was bitten by a toddler at the Busy Hands drop-in childcare center. Missoula police respond that they’re investigating.
Sunday, April 2
Taking a tuition hike
UM may not feel brunt of cuts As noon bells chimed, the chorus of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” carried across the University of Montana Oval, where five tents were clustered April 4 for the start of a two-day “occupy” protest against budget cuts to higher education. Flyers for the event urged students to resist a “23 percent tuition increase,” which student speaker Curtis Schiwal told a crowd would worsen the desperation felt by young people already “forced to choose between books for class, food, and work and rent.” “We speak out, we are making our voices heard, and we are taking relatively extreme action because this is an extreme crisis, and many people’s futures and lives are at stake here, which demands from us a proper response—a response that shows anger, because we have a right to be upset,” he said. The 23 percent tuition hike cited by protesters refers to the most extreme fallout from a since-discarded funding proposal at the Montana Legislature. The latest figures are less dire. The state budget approved separately by the House and Senate would cut $4.7 million in taxpayer support, or 2.43 percent, from Montana universities for each of the next two years, and could theoretically lead to a tuition increase of 18 percent. That proposal nonetheless evoked similar concern from Missoula state Sen. Cynthia Wolken, who a week earlier told the Missoulian
Missoula Mayor John Engen kicks off his 2017 re-election campaign with a private party at Caffe Dolce. Engen first announced his intention to run last fall in a public statement that also disclosed his then-recent stint in alcohol rehab.
it represents “the death spiral that everybody is afraid of.” But the officials responsible for setting tuition— members of the state Board of Regents—have shown no willingness to backfill such a large budget hole with tuition alone. Vice-chair Fran Albrecht, of Missoula, says she’s willing to consider a “modest” tuition hike that would maintain the university system’s focus on affordability and accessibility. The high figures quoted in the media and feared by activists, she says, “would be well outside” what she considers a modest increase. Nor is UM expecting that the Legislature’s proposed funding cuts will translate into equivalent pain felt by its programs and services. Instead, President Sheila Stearns announced Monday that UM budget planners, on the advice of state higher education officials, are assembling next year’s $143.5 million budget under the assumption that the university will receive just as much taxpayer money as it did last year—even if the Legislature follows through on its 2.43 percent cut. UM faculty representatives have at times this spring referred to that prospect as a deal struck between Stearns and the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education, but Stearns describes it as a signal that’s “a little stronger than a hint” that the regents will move to shield UM from funding cuts when the board allocates state funding next month. Such action could spare UM some $1.3 million in cuts in 2018. How the board might accomplish that—whether
shifting money from other campuses, deferring the cuts, or something else—the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education won’t say. Albrecht says the regents intend to look at each campus’ particular situation when distributing state funds “to ensure all campuses are stable.” Derek Brouwer
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Trump’s park numbers bunk? Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took President Donald Trump up on an intriguing offer this week: the donation of his first presidential paycheck—$78,333—to help offset the National Park Service’s $12 billion deferred maintenance backlog. Zinke commended Trump on his dedication to “our veterans, our public lands, and keeping his promises.” Denver-based nonprofit Center for Western Priorities quickly denounced the publicity stunt as, well, a “publicity stunt,” saying Zinke and Trump should be embarrassed to crow over such a piddly contribution. It was the second time in as many weeks that CWP chastised Trump in relation to the backlog. On March 20, the organization claimed the president’s proposed budget would fund long-overdue projects in parks only at the expense of other conservation programs. “When President Trump’s skinny budget came out, we saw that he was basically proposing to raid the Land and Water Conservation Fund … and divert that money to the backlog,” says CWP media director Aaron Weiss.
Monday, April 3 Gov. Steve Bullock visits the Roxy Theater to announce a $168,000 grant that will help pay for restoration of the historic venue’s facade, including a new ticket booth and Art Decostyle neon marquee. The Roxy hashtags the event #ReDeco.
Tuesday, April 4 The Montana Legislature bids farewell to “Senior Director of Libations” David Ricci, aka the guy who runs the Capitol’s snack bar. Mr. Ricci says he’s been accepted to law school.
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[news] Deferred maintenance is a serious issue in Montana. Yellowstone’s backlog totals more than $631 million. At Glacier, the figure is nearly $180 million. Maintenance for roads, trails, and water and sewer systems is at stake. In Glacier, restoration of the aging Many Glacier Hotel carries a cost of $15 million. CWP argues that the $12 billion figure floated by Trump and other politicians is inflated, due in part to the inclusion of projects under the purview of private concessionaires. The Center for American Progress, which released an in-depth report on the backlog in February, states that $389 million of those maintenance needs are specific to concessionaire-operated facilities. The group’s data identifies $18.6 million of Glacier’s deferred maintenance as private. In Yellowstone, it’s $68 million. “That list of deferred maintenance projects could really be this Trojan horse for the Trump administration to give away hundreds of millions in what should be taxpayer dollars to hotel corporations, to resort owners, to food service companies,” says CAP spokesperson Nicole Gentile. Tim Harvey, a retired parks official now consulting for the National Parks Conservation Association, counters that the issue isn’t that clear cut. While concessionaires may be operating facilities like Many Glacier, he says, those buildings are owned by American taxpayers. Even if a concessionaire’s contract includes maintenance stipulations, those work orders must be reported to the Park Service, which is why they show up in the backlog. In some cases, Harvey adds, requiring a contractor to swallow $15 million in maintenance would be unfeasible. “Really, if you tried to put that on the concessionaire, nobody would bid on it.” Gentile stresses that it isn’t CAP’s position that parks shouldn’t receive the funding they need, only that Congress should look hard at how it invests public dollars. And that when politicians use the backlog’s enormity to justify cuts to other conservation efforts—well, that’s inexcusable. “Anti-conservation members of Congress are saying we can’t take care of public lands because we have this big backlog,” Gentile says, “and that’s not the case.” Alex Sakariassen
Monumental fight
City cuts into gravestone biz The small offices of Garden City Monument Services are lined with headstones. Blank granite slabs ring
the showroom. In the storage room next door, stack of plaques etched with the names of the recently deceased lean against the wall like dominos. And in the small shop next to that, half-finished monuments await the sandblaster. But it’s a binder full of photos and thank-you notes that makes owner Bob Jordan smile with pride. He pages through the pictures of his public projects— war memorials, fundraising tiles, bricks on the UM oval—with the same quiet reminiscence of someone leafing through a photo album of a lost loved one. Jordan pulls out the binder, he says, to prove that he hasn’t worked in the gravestone business for 40-plus years just to make a buck, that he cares about his work and his community. The binder also puts a point on the affront he feels as the city prepares to begin selling and engraving headstones at the municipally run Missoula City Cemetery, a decision Jordan equates to Missoula starting a rival, taxpayer-subsidized business. “That’s really an unfair advantage that they’re using,” he says. The city cemetery recently purchased a plotter and sent staff on a two-day training retreat so the department can begin selling gravestones and inscription services directly to cemetery clients later this year, according to city documents. Plans to offer monument cleaning and a requirement that gravestones be set by cemetery staff—not local monument businesses—are also in the works. The changes prompted Jordan and the owner of another Missoula company that offers monument services, Garden City Funeral and Crematory, to hire an attorney earlier this year. That attorney sent the city a cease and desist letter threatening legal action if the cemetery doesn’t abandon its plan. Jordan doesn’t think it’s legal for the city to compete with private businesses like his. “If they can pull this off, what’s to stop them from
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As of Tuesday afternoon, three anti-abortion bills were advancing in the state Legislature. SB 329 proposes banning abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. SB 282 says physicians should be required to save a fetus if it has a “50 percent survival rate” outside the womb. HB 595 seeks to define “personhood” as beginning at conception, which would effectively criminalize some forms of birth control. None of these bills include exceptions for the health and safety of pregnant women or victims of rape or incest. The 2017 crop of anti-choice bills is extreme and unconstitutional, according to members of the Montana Reproductive Rights Coalition. One way or another, these bills are also likely to fail. Pro-choice Gov. Steve Bullock is expected to veto any anti-choice measure that lands on his desk. Reproductive rights advocates also believe that the state constitution’s strict right-toprivacy clause serves as a strong legal defense against government overreach into women’s bodily autonomy. And yet attacks on abortion— especially personhood amendments like HB 595—crop up in the state Legislature almost every session. “They’ve tried to pass that bill several times, and it’s failed every single time,” points out Laura Terrill, vice president of external affairs at Planned Parenthood of Montana. “It’s a phenomenal waste of time.” But even when attacks on abortion aren’t successful, they still serve a useful purpose for Republicans: maintaining the loyalty of pro-life voters. Abortion is a powerful wedge issue, and pro-lifers are more likely to be single-issue voters than people with pro-choice values, according to Gallup. And yet despite the ever-present anti-abortion rhetoric, most Americans stop short of agreeing that abortion should be banned. A 2016 Gallup poll found that even though nearly half of Americans find abortion “morally wrong,” the vast majority—79 percent—still believe abortion should be legal to some extent. Nik Griffith, interim executive director of NARAL Montana, says such polls illustrate why pro-choice voters can’t afford to be passive. Most Americans support their position. Silence could let a minority dominate the debate. And attacks on reproductive rights aren’t likely to end anytime soon, especially with antichoice Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch approaching the bench. “If we’re talking about how emboldened antichoice people are, pro-choice people need to be very vocal as well,” Griffith says.
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starting their own flower shop?” he says. Jordan and Garden City Funeral and Crematory owner Rick Evans both say the issue is the culmination of troubles they’ve run into since Ron Regan took over as city cemetery director a few years ago. Evans says Regan has been a stickler about gravestone regulations in particular. Staff from both companies have had to file down granite edges after Regan rejected monuments they’d already set for being 1/8” too wide (Jordan puts the nitpicking at 1/16”). Regan didn’t return a call for comment, and city communications director Ginny Merriam says officials have been instructed not to discuss the issue outside of public meetings because of the threatened litigation. In March letters to the monument companies and the Missoula Chamber of Commerce, however, city attorney Jim Nugent wrote that the city cemetery’s plan amounts to “persevering in the service industry.” The cemetery expects to generate $4,000–$5,000 in annual revenue through the service, he wrote. That amount isn’t enough to put Jordan or Evans out of business, but they think monument making at Missoula’s largest cemetery is bound to grow over time. Jordan’s business will still retain one advantage, though. Before making their choice, each of the cemetery’s potential customers will drive by a billboard of sorts for Jordan’s work: He engraved the cemetery’s sign. Derek Brouwer
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Challenge unaccepted Tobin Shearer talks about life after watchlisting by Alex Sakariassen
Late last year, University of Montana professor Tobin Miller Shearer made a splash with his story about being put on an academic watchlist for his teachings on African American history. In that piece, published in the Dec. 16, 2016, Indy, he challenged members of the conservative group that targeted him to meet with him in person, over beers. We recently followed up with Shearer to find out what happened. The interview has been lightly edited and condensed.
my background, and that was our point of connection. From there we went on to discuss things like our current president, the state of public affairs, and one of our biggest points of agreement was that he thought a watchlist was a really bad idea. He thought issues of free speech were so important that we should not be curtailing that through the kind of activity taken by Turning Point. You were nervous going into that meeting. How did you get past the feeling of having a target on your back?
surprised. My experience with those who don’t agree with me on key political issues like the ones we’ve been talking about led me to a place where I was not anticipating the kind of civil discourse we were able to have at that moment. When you were having this conversation at the bar, were you reminded of any moments in history that you’ve taught or studied? TS: If I was channeling anyone then, I would have to say it was a couple by the name of Rosemary and Vincent Harding. They were close associates of Coretta and Martin King in Atlanta. They were there the whole time, as in the case of ’62 in Albany, working behind the scenes, building bridges, making connections, opening up space for what would happen next. That’s the kind of work I was hoping the kind of conversation I was inviting with the Turning Point people could model.
What happened with the challenge you issued to Turning Point USA? Tobin Shearer: It was a disappointment. I’d genuinely been looking forward to the possibility of sitting down and having a beer with folks from Turning Point, to just hear their life story and how they came to the point of feeling it was appropriate to put me and others on this watchlist. Turning Point knew of the challenge because people—as in myself—sought them out and made sure their Having had a few months photo by Amy Donovan leadership got the link to the arto digest things, how do you feel ticle. In December, UM professor Tobin Miller Shearer issued a now about sharing your story? The only direct contact I re- challenge to the conservative group that put him on an TS: I am much more of a ceived was from a student who academic watchlist. No one from the group would agree public persona than I had been to meet with him in person. was a member of the Turning before being put on the watchlist. Point chapter in Bozeman at the I was in the TSA line in the Missoula airport, TS: Being aware of that, being aware MSU campus. They said to a third party, and the TSA agent identified me as the au“Hey, I’d be willing to meet with him.” That of the state we live in—one in which there thor of this article. That’s pretty freaky, when third party put me in contact with this stu- are a lot of armed individuals, many of you’ve got a TSA agent who knows who you dent. I said, “Great, let’s find a time.” Then them who have taken very belligerent are. When I’m walking around town it’s hapstances on issues of race—I did not want to he just shut down. No response, nothing. pened several times. When I was in Washinggo into this conversation from a naive perton, D.C., three weeks ago doing some work Someone did take you up on your chalspective. So what I did was invite some for the National Endowment for the Humanlenge, though. How did that come about? friends to join me in the bar incognito. ities, twice I was stopped by people from TS: He approached me via Facebook, They would simply be there, wouldn’t idenMontana who had recognized me from that having read the article, and said, “I’m not tify themselves, but if it turned out that the article. That’s a little bit unsettling. I don’t with Turning Point but I share a lot of their individual I was meeting with was going to know quite what to do with that. perspectives. I’ll take you up on the offer. physically threaten me, they would be preLet’s have a beer.” It was at his courageous pared to get me to safety. initiative that we agreed on common place, Read the full interview at misYou talked about this individual hav- soulanews.com. Shearer has also writcommon time. … When we got there and began to talk, I just asked him, “How did you ing the courage to reach out to you. Were ten an essay on his post-watchlist come to believe what you believe?” He told you surprised at all to see that exhibited by experience at tobinmillershearer. me about his background, told me about his someone on the other side? blogspot.com. TS: Boy, to be absolutely honest, I am girlfriend, told me about his family, and then he returned the question. I shared some of embarrassed to admit that I was pleasantly asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Fork in the road Appointee Ruth Swaney considers a council run by Kate Whittle
Interim Missoula City Councilwoman city’s divestment from Wells Fargo in sup- munity of some of that greater history.” Swaney says she’s also trying to figure Ruth Swaney seems conflicted. On one port of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest hand, she could run to keep the seat she and the Standing Rock Sioux. City Council out how to connect with voters in Ward 2, was appointed to fill in January, in hopes of unanimously agreed on April 3 to pull $2.6 who last elected Wells, a staunch conservausing the position to advocate for women million from its accounts with Wells Fargo. tive. Wells was criticized by other council Swaney says she felt especially proud members for his lack of participation in and indigenous people. “It’s one thing to have allies and people of her work on council when one woman committee meetings. Swaney says that if she speak for you, and it’s something com- in particular showed up to a committee decides to run, she’ll be reaching out to pletely different to be the one that’s the meeting to testify in support of the Standing constituents. “It would be interesting to visit with the Rock protests. voice,” she says. “She said that it was her first time ever people that did vote for him and see if they But on the other hand, Swaney loves her work for the University of Montana’s being involved at all and her first time mak- felt like he did do a good job representing Native American Natural Resource Program, ing any kind of a public comment,” Swaney what they believed in,” she says. But before Swaney decides whether where she advises and mentors Native stu- recalls. “That’s something that is exciting, dents. She says that’s made it difficult for or makes me feel good about the job, that she can commit the time and energy to a her to decide whether to dedicate her time to running a council campaign. Swaney moved from North Dakota to Missoula in 2007 to earn a master’s in organismal biology and a doctorate in forestry and conservation science from UM. Three years ago she led a group that approached City Council seeking a proclamation promoting awareness of murdered and missing indigenous women. She photo by Amy Donovan says that’s when she realized she might have Missoula City Council appointed Ruth Swaney to serve Ward 2 until voters select a replacethe chops for politics. ment in November. Swaney says she’s torn on whether a future in politics or her career in She also acknowledges education would offer better opportunities to help indigenous people. the example of Native politicians including former Superintendent the issues that you’re pushing forward are council run, she’s waiting on the results of grant applications for projects at her UM of Public Instruction and congressional can- reaching people like her.” She says she’s also working with the job. Whether she stays in politics or not, she didate Denise Juneau, who’s a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation to city’s Parks and Recreation department to says, she has a pretty good idea of what pilot a Native place-names project, by which drives her. which Swaney also belongs. “I definitely have things that I’m pas“We both grew up in the same commu- parks and other city features might be given nity,” Swaney says. “It was so inspiring to indigenous names. Swaney, who has three sionate about, whether that’s Indian educachildren, says place names are simple ges- tion, women’s issues, tribal languages and see the campaign that she ran.” When Ward 2 Councilman Harlan Wells tures that go a long way toward uplifting culture. Those are the things that hopefully will guide my career path and other things announced in late 2016 that he’d be depart- Native people. “It’s important for my children and that I do in my life. And whether that’s poling mid-term to take a job with the state, Swaney decided to throw her hat in the other Native children in this community to itics or not?” She shrugs. ring. Since then, she’s teamed up with say, ‘Yeah, I belong here.’ And part of it is kwhittle@missoulanews.com Councilwoman Heidi West to push for the it’s important to remind people in our com-
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Is it cool to fill the state’s coffers from the pockets of the poor? by Dan Brooks
Normally this column is aimed squarely at schoolchildren, but I’m going to ask you kids to stop reading right now. Go play Minecraft or look through the browser history on a computer at your local library. Don’t go outside, but whatever else you do, put down this newspaper immediately. Adults, I have a confession to make. I was once a smoker. It was over a decade ago, and it didn’t last very long, but I used to smoke a pack of Lucky Strike lights a day. I’m not proud of it. Smoking is the one sin in the Bible that Jesus explicitly tells us not to forgive. But for a few years there, I couldn’t go more than a couple of hours without a cigarette. During this time, my teeth looked like Chiclets, and my clothes smelled like I pulled them out of a tailpipe. I was extremely cool. I was also poor. That might have just been a coincidence, although both my smoking and my poverty coincided with my employment at a nonprofit theater for the performing arts. Whatever the cause, I fit the correlation. According to the Centers for Disease Control, Americans living below the poverty level are much more likely to smoke. In 2015, approximately 15 percent of adults smoked nationwide. For adults above the poverty level, that number was 14 percent; below the poverty level, it was 26 percent. A Gallup poll conducted in 2008 found that the rate of smoking decreases as income increases. Thirty-four percent of American adults making between $6,000 and $12,000 a year smoked cigarettes, compared with only 13 percent of those making $120,000 or more. The CDC has also found that tobacco use is highest among people with GEDs—nearly five times higher than it is among college graduates. I mention this because the Montana Legislature is currently considering a bill to raise taxes on tobacco products. Senate Bill 354, sponsored by Democrat Mary Caferro of Helena, would almost double the tax on
cigarettes, from $1.70 to $3.20 a pack. It would also increase existing taxes on cigars and chewing tobacco, as well as introduce a new tax on the liquids used in e-cigarettes. Caferro described this proposed increase as “a tax you never have to pay,” since cigarettes are a choice item, and not a healthy choice at that. She’s not wrong. But
“Let’s not pretend that taxing cigarettes is an ethically neutral act. We can say we’re taxing smokers, but we are operatively taxing poor people.” let’s not pretend that taxing cigarettes is an ethically neutral act. We can say we’re taxing smokers, but we are operatively taxing poor people. That’s regressive. But what if it encourages smokers to quit? From a certain perspective, a cigarette tax that falls disproportionately on poor people and the less educated might actually help, if it encouraged them to cut down. But although people of lower incomes are generally more
sensitive to changes in the price of other products, demand for cigarettes is relatively inelastic. A 2004 study published in the American Journal of Public Health found “elasticity of demand for cigarettes is approximately -0.3 to -0.5,” meaning that when the price of cigarettes increases by 100 percent, demand only goes down between 30 and 50 percent. Cigarette taxes encourage people to smoke less, but they still increase the amount of money those people hand over to the government. In Montana, cigarettes average $6.14 a pack. On the low end of our -0.3 to -0.5 elasticity range, a pack-a-day smoker who finds that SB 354 has raised the cost of his habit by 28 percent will smoke 30 fewer packs a year but pay $570 more in taxes. If it didn’t work that way, SB 354 wouldn’t increase revenue. Demographics suggest that what money the state would make from the tax will come disproportionately from poor and less-educated Montanans. They should probably quit smoking, and a lot of them probably want to. But a substantial number of them won’t, maybe because they can’t. We think of excise taxes on cigarettes as a “sin tax.” There’s an element of judgment in that, as there probably should be. Cigarettes are bad, both by the standards of modern medicine and by the standards of drugs. But there are ethical implications on our side of the cigarette tax, too, and we shouldn’t ignore them. If we’re going to refill the general fund with money pried from those who are struggling most, who have the least education and bring home the least pay, we shouldn’t pretend it’s for their own good. There are habits worse than smoking, and hypocrisy is probably among them. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and various ways we might tax others at combatblog.net.
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Get the lead out Zinke didn’t, but hunters can still choose to protect wildlife by Bette Korber
When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rode Tonto, a handsome bay roan horse, through the busy streets of Washington, D.C., into work his first day on the job, he was making a statement: Zinke is a Westerner, a Montanan, a sportsman. But beautiful Tonto was an unwitting accomplice to a nefarious deed. Zinke’s very first act on the job was to break trust with the wild lands of the West that he has sworn to protect, by repealing an order that blocked the use of lead ammunition in national parks, federal wildlife refuges and other public land managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The order he revoked had been put in place during the last days of the Obama administration and was a step in the right direction toward protecting hunters and their families from unintended exposure to toxic lead in their meat. The problem with lead bullets is that they fragment, leaving microscopic traces in animals that have been shot. Lead is extremely toxic, and residual lead from bullets is a serious issue for endangered condors, other birds and animals—and very likely for people. Venison donated to food banks by hunters frequently contains lead, and people who eat wild game have more lead in their blood. While we know with certainty that lead is toxic and that microscopic residual lead from shattered bullets can be found in hunted meat, studies are just beginning to explore at what point the levels of residual lead in game pose a human health risk. Still, even very low levels of lead can harm children and developing fetuses, and no level is considered safe, so a better-safe-than-sorry attitude seems like good horse sense. Hunters are proud of their sport and consider the meat they obtain to be much healthier than the store-bought kind. Maybe so, but these folks need to rethink the use of lead bullets if they plan to feed their kids elk burgers.
In the wild, birds are particularly sensitive to lead toxicity, and when they feed on gut piles left behind by hunters who use lead bullets, it can kill them. Lead poisoning is the leading cause of death among California condors, which were very near extinction with only 22 left in the world in 1987. All were captured for a breeding program, and their descendants have been re-released into the wild in the Grand Canyon, Utah and Big Sur.
“Even very low levels of lead can harm children and developing fetuses, and no level is considered safe, so a bettersafe-than-sorry attitude seems like good horse sense.” Their numbers are growing, but the survival of the species remains precarious. As the big scavengers widen their range, what takes place on the land becomes important throughout the West, not just near release sites. A condor named N8, known as Nate, flew into Los Alamos, New Mexico, last year, near my home. The whole town hoped he was house shopping. These birds are a wonder, with up to a 10-foot wingspan. Condors can reach speeds of 55 miles per hour in flight and
soar 15,000 feet above the Earth. They can live for up to 60 years and they mate for life. These highly intelligent birds are an integral part of Mother Nature’s cleanup crew. They deserve to survive. But with the continued use of lead bullets for hunting, they may not make it. Residual lead is also a frequent cause of death for bald eagles. My hunting friends all share a love for the wild and are thrilled whenever they look up to see an eagle soaring overhead. Not one of them would want to inadvertently kill one of these majestic birds. Copper bullets—a good alternative to lead—do not fragment like lead. It is true that they are more expensive, but friends who hunt, and who have switched to copper, tell me the change was no problem, the cost difference really minor, and the switch didn’t impact ballistics. One New Mexican hunter raised an interesting concern: Animals that have been shot but survived can carry an old bullet in their bodies. Hunters typically cut out their own bullet around the fresh wound, but could undiscovered bullets increase the risk of lead contamination? In California, using lead bullets for hunting is illegal. But as Zinke demonstrated, there will be few if any regulations coming from the current administration to protect hunters and their families, let alone wildlife. Still, hunters can make their own informed choices. Most hunters I’ve spoken with say they simply weren’t aware of this issue, but after they read up on it, most opted for safer ammunition. It’s a simple choice that’s good for the wild and good for people. Bette Korber is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). She writes in New Mexico.
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LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES – The church-state “wall” leaks badly in Spindale, North Carolina, according to former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship (reported in February by the Associated Press). Two state prosecutors (one a relative of the church’s founder, in nearby Burke and Rutherford counties, allegedly coached Fellowship members and leaders how to neutralize government investigations into church “abuse”—coaching that would violate state law and attorney ethical standards. Fellowship officials have been accused of beating “misbehaving” congregants, including children, in order to repel their demons. (Among the Fellowship’s edicts revealed in the AP report: all dating, marriages and procreation subject to approval; no wedding-night intimacy beyond a “godly” cheek kiss; subsequent marital sex limited to 30 minutes, no foreplay, lights off, missionary position.) Babies born on the Indonesian island of Bali are still today treated regally under an obscure Hindu tradition, according to a February New York Times report, and must not be allowed to touch the earth for 105 days (in some areas, 210). (Carrying the infant in a bucket and setting that on the ground is apparently acceptable.) Each birth is actually a re-birth, they say, with ancestors returning as their own descendants. Accidentally touching the ground does not condemn the baby, but may leave questions about negative influences. Catholic priest Juan Carlos Martinez, 40, apologized shortly after realizing, as he said, he had gone “too far” in celebrating March’s Carnival in a town in the Galicia area of Spain—that he acted inappropriately in dressing as Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, reclining on a red satin sheet on a parade float carrying men dressed as classic Playboy “Bunnies.” Despite apparent public support for Father Martinez, his Archbishop asked him to attend a “spiritual retreat” to reflect on his behavior.
THE BEDROOM OF TOMORROW - In March, vibrator customers were awarded up to $10,000 each in their class-action “invasion of privacy” lawsuit against the company Standard Innovation, whose We-Vibe model’s smartphone app collected intimate data (vibrator temperature and motor intensity) that could be associated with particular customers—and which were easily hackable, and controllable, by anyone nearby with a Bluetooth connection. The Illinois federal court limited the award to $199 for anyone who bought the vibrator but did not activate the app. The company British Condoms is now accepting pre-orders for the iCon Smart Condom, with an app that can track, among other data, a man’s “thrust velocity,” calories expended “per session” and skin temperature, as well as do tests for chlamydia and syphilis. Projected price is about $75, but the tech news site CNet reported in March that no money will be collected until the product is ready to ship.
PERSPECTIVE – The U.S. House of Representatives, demonstrating particular concern for military veterans, enhanced vets’ civil rights in March by removing a source of delay in gun purchases. A 2007 law had required all federal agencies to enter any mentally-ill clients into the National Instant Criminal Background Check database for gun purchases, but the new bill exempts veterans (including, per VA estimates, 19,000 schizophrenics and 15,000 with “severe” post-traumatic stress syndrome). An average of a dozen veterans a day in recent times have committed suicide with guns. EYEWITNESS NEWS – On the morning of March 20 in Winter Park, Florida, Charles Howard, standing outside his home being interviewed live by a WFTV reporter, denied he had committed a crime in a widely reported series of voicemail messages to a U.S. congressman, containing threats to “wrap a rope around your neck and hang you from a lamp post.” He boasted that “proof” of his having done nothing wrong was that if he had, he would have already been arrested. “Three minutes later,” according to the reporter, agents drove up and arrested Howard. PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US – Hey, How About a Little “Remorse”: (1) Royce Atkins, 23, told the judge in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in March that he was so sorry he did not stop his car in 2015 and help that 9-year-old boy he had just hit and killed. However, Atkins had earlier been jailhouse-recorded viciously trash-talking the boy’s family for “reacting like they’re the victims. What about my family? My family is the victim, too.” (Atkins got a four-year sentence.) (2) In February, in a Wayne County, Michigan, court during sentencing for a DUI driver who had killed a man and severely injured his fiancee, Judge Qiana Lillard kicked the driver’s mother out of the courtroom for laughing at the victim’s sister who was tearfully addressing the judge. Lillard sentenced the mother to 93 days for contempt, but later reduced it to one day. THE ARISTOCRATS! Among the facts revealed in the ongoing criminal proceedings against U.S. Navy officials and defense contractor Leonard (“Fat Leonard”) Francis, who is charged with arranging kickbacks: In 2007, Francis staged a party for the officials at the Shangri-La Hotel in the Philippines during which (according to an indictment unsealed in March) “historical memorabilia related to General Douglas MacArthur were used by the participants in sexual acts.”
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he Union Club crowd was tuned up. It was only 9:30 p.m. on a Thursday, but it felt like Saturday night at closing time: Patrons chased shots of Fireball—the special—with swigs from PBR tallboys. They leaned into their tables, yelling over each other as pool balls clacked and the speakers blasted “Vicious.” Most of them had arrived hours earlier to celebrate Lou Reed’s 75th birthday, and when that was over they stayed and kept drinking. Caught up in the clamor, they seemed to barely notice when a group of comedians began to set up on the dim stage at the side of the room. Even when the lights came up and Krysta Campbell, emcee for HomeGrown Comedy, greeted the room with her usual boisterous, sharp-witted charm, and even as the comics filed one by one to the microphone for their five-minute sets, the crowd’s indifference was palpable. “I knew when I walked in that night that it was going to get out of hand,”
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HomeGrown Comedy founder John Howard said later. “I could sense it. Besides doing comedy to nobody, there’s nothing worse than doing comedy in front of a large, obnoxious bar crowd.” When it was his turn, Howard took the stage and started a bit about how he had just had a baby, recounting the messiness of birth and the roller-coaster ride of the first few weeks. Halfway through his set, the audience was still unruly, and someone started heckling him. Howard abandoned his jokes. “You guys are so much fun,” he said with honeyed sarcasm. “It’s like, at this table, this guy’s talking.” He pointed to someone near the stage. “Let’s just hang out with him for a moment. How are you doing, sir? You like to sit in the front and say dumb shit at a comedy show? That’s nice. OK, you can shut the fuck up now, that’s also good.” From the back of the bar someone yelled, “Fuck you, dude!”
“Thank you!” Howard replied cheerfully as other audience members began heckling him. “I can do this all night.” The crowd felt a little like a stirred-up hornet’s nest, but the chatter finally died down and Howard eased back into his set, working some solid laughs out of the room before stepping off the stage. Campbell returned to the mic with the bravado of a ringmaster and announced, “John Howard, everyone!” Then she smirked: “Giving birth is so hard for men.” The audience laughed again. People at the bar rotated to face the stage, and a few pool players took a break to move up closer. By the time the last comic took the stage the room’s mood had turned. They were finally listening.
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t’s been six years since Howard started HomeGrown Comedy open mic night at the Union Club, and during that time
Missoula’s comedy scene has blown up. Open mics have emerged at venues all across town, and comics now have opportunities to perform at showcases and competitions on a regular basis. Out of that scene, a community has formed. More than 30 standup comics consistently showcase their jokes on Missoula stages. On weekends, more established comics tour together in small groups to venues across the state. In bigger cities, those venues tend to be filled with more comics, waiting their turn, but shows in Missoula are populated with non-comics waiting to be entertained. Comics have to learn to communicate in real time, with a real audience, face to face. It’s a level of engagement and a degree of risk that doesn’t happen—and can’t happen—on social media and the other virtual spaces where we so often perform our interaction with the world anymore.
Talking to people alone from a stage is hard. Even if a comic has painstakingly prepared, tiny differences in delivery and word choice can make or break the relationship with the audience. Good comics know how to read the room, interact with the crowd, adjust the punchline, and even then, they still might fail to connect. They still might bomb. The precariousness of standup comes with extra risk in a time when public discourse of any sort is so wrapped around the axle of political correctness. The very term is divisive, of course. People use it all the time to excuse their own refusal of common decency, and it’s also true that
phin blasts going through your body. And immediately, once you get off stage, you have the urge to do it again.”
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ichael Beers is holding court at a corner table in the back of the Union Club just a week after the alreadyinfamous open mic. It’s “Posse Night,” an informal gathering of comedians that’s been taking place every Thursday night for the past 8 years. “Let it be said that the official historians are not with us,” Beers says, “but, to my knowledge, as a long-time student of Posse Night—”
describes symptoms: vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac defects, tracheoesophageal fistula, renal anomalies and limb abnormalities. The condition’s most prominent display for Beers is an underdeveloped right arm and a swagger. He often uses his arm as a punchline, but where he really connects is in allowing an audience that might be uncomfortable around people who are different, or who might worry about laughing at anything to do with a disability, to see him and hear him and interact with him normally, without the artificial distance that difference can impose. He’s funny, so laughter is the bridge.
John Howard started Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy in 2011 as an open mic at the Union Club. It's since expanded to competitions and showcases around Missoula.
progressive terminology and a quickly evolving language can create landmines for the unfamiliar. Starting comics who’ve been told by their friends that they’re funny as hell show up all the time at open mics and quickly learn that they’re not so funny after all. There’s a combative element to comedy, and it often hinges on the difference between pushing the audience away and pulling it in. Lou Reed night at the Union Club was an extreme version of the perpetual struggle between comic and audience. So: “Why get up in front of a room full of people to potentially crash, burn, and embarrass yourself?” Howard asks. “I think it comes down to the payoff, knowing that your time and work are connecting with people on a greater level. It’s knowing that by making the audience laugh, they are connecting with you, and you are connecting with them. When you’re on a roll with a set and you have the audience rolling, there is a feeling of small endor-
The table erupts into laughter. “Am I Jane Goodall?” Beers says. “No.” “You know our habits and our diets,” says comedian Charley Macorn. “I know the mating rituals,” Beers says. And everyone laughs again. Posse Night was started by John Howard, Krysta Campbell and some other comics a couple of years before HomeGrown existed, when they were all part of an improv and sketch comedy group called Todd Lankton and the Family Band. Now Posse Night serves as a standing date for local and touring stand-up comics, a rendezvous where they can dissect the events of the week in comedy over drinks and, inevitably, make each other laugh. Beers is one of the most established and popular comics in Missoula. He started doing stand-up in 2001, while he was still in high school, on Monday nights at the now-defunct rock club Jay’s Upstairs. His comedy is self-deprecating, but it’s also bold. Beers was born with a condition called VACTERL—an acronym that
you afterward,” Jarvis says. “When somebody heckles you and you know who they are and they stick around after the show, you go up to them.” Which is what he did. He greeted his old friends and then turned to one of the hecklers. “What the fuck was your problem?” Jarvis asked the guy. The flustered heckler told Jarvis he just didn’t think the set was funny. Then he apologized. “You can be as shitty as you want to be online,” Jarvis says. “But when you see them face to face, you realize they’re a person. And that’s what happened with him. At the same time, when I was on
Matthew Kettelhake, who has been doing stand-up since HomeGrown Comedy's start, performs with his signature autoharp at a recent competition at the Public House.
A lot of the Posse Night comedians had performed at the open mic on Lou Reed night, and they spend some time trying to understand what happened. “I walked in and knew the night was going to go one of two ways,” says Zack Jarvis. “Mike told me if you do a bit at the Union and it does OK, it’s going to do good anywhere else. If you do a bit that does great, you’re going to kill anywhere else. And if you do a bit that kills here, you’re just going to annihilate wherever you go. If you can get this audience to all pay attention and all be laughing, you made it. This is trial by fire.” Jarvis, who grew up in Great Falls, tells a story about returning to his hometown to do a show. Two men started heckling in the middle of his set, and when he looked to see who they were, he saw they were sitting with some old friends of his who were clearly embarrassed by the situation. “When you do a good set, an audience member might come up and talk to
stage I was really mad at this fucking guy, but when I got off stage, the fact that he was so flustered made me stop. It was like, OK, I don’t know what happened. Maybe the night got away from you, maybe you’re drunk like I am, but let me impart some wisdom to you for the next time you come to a comedy show.’”
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he role of the audience in any given show can be huge, but comedy is a two-way street. Comedy has a long tradition of stirring up trouble, and stand-up tracks back to a fundamental aspect of ancient Greek rhetoric, parrhesia, which translates roughly as “free speech,” but encompasses a more complex meaning: speaking candidly and asking forgiveness for doing so. Philosophers and playwrights regularly deployed parrhesia, but sometimes there were consequences. Socrates was sentenced to death for his candor. From 18th century music halls to Sarah Silverman and Louis C.K., comedy’s
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core concept of prodding sacred cows and pushing the boundaries of acceptable speech remains deeply ingrained. Standup comics take risks in rooms full of strangers. What they present as funny, and how they present it, can lay bare not just society’s foibles and imperfections, but their own. And those imperfections can run the gamut from merely cringeworthy to flat-out offensive. If you attend even one Missoula open mic, you’re likely to watch at least one comic, often a newbie, try to turn a taboo topic into a joke—and fail miserably. An open mic can start to mimic the comments on a Facebook thread. One new comic recently stood up at an open mic and told a series of jokes about sexual assault, doubling down on the crassness even as the audience responded with hostility. A week later, the same guy came back and told jokes about people with disabilities. At some point, Howard started yelling at him, and the audience chanted until he left the stage. Afterward, comedian Aaron Juhl spent almost all five minutes of his set roasting the guy. Which is notable, if not funny, because Juhl has been known to offend audiences—and fellow comedians—as well. John Howard has sent him post-show Facebook messages encouraging him to rethink his use of the N word. Several comedians have called him to task for perceived racism and misogyny. Under other circumstances Juhl might have chosen to disregard the criticism, but he’d registered the reaction of the audience and he knew the material wasn’t working. Just as important, he’d become a part of the tight-knit community of comedians, and the idea of alienating his friends didn’t sit right with him.
“I realized, ‘Most of these people are not impressed with my mastery of the N word, so just talk about something else,’” he says. “There’s a million things to talk about. It’s hard, because you grow up watching Chris Rock and George Carlin and they don’t give a shit. The idea of the word is funny to me, but especially if you enjoy black people’s company and have no mean things to say about them as a race, it’s very fucked up still.”
nounced that it had been a year since he’d used “the N word.” (This time he didn’t actually say it.) Among more established Missoula comics, Juhl’s comedy can be considered problematic. Put it on social media and it could cause a pile-on. But there’s a sense in the Missoula comedy scene that there’s leeway for comics to make mistakes. But that’s not to say there are no rules. For instance, the Curry Comedy series, an an-
in comedy, there are two defenses for it, and they always come from the same people. The first is that comedy needs to be this free, open, sacred cow art form in order to be a vehicle for critique of the status quo. The second argument is, ‘Chill out, it’s just a joke.’ First of all, those are mutually exclusive thoughts, you dummy, so which is it? Second, if it’s this art form that needs to be free so that it can criticize the status quo, why would it then partici-
“I knew when I walked in that night that it was going to get out of hand. I could sense it. Besides doing comedy to nobody, there’s nothing worse than doing comedy in front of a large, obnoxious bar crowd.” Juhl grew up in Butte and later attended a multiracial school outside of Baltimore where the N word was tossed around by everyone, he says. Special care with such language wasn’t common among his coworkers in the military, either. He certainly doesn’t see himself as sexist or racist. The jokes he tells use politically incorrect language, but at the heart of his comedy are critiques of cultural genocide, war and Donald Trump. Like a lot of comics riding the bleeding edge of cultural sensitivity, sometimes he pulls it off and sometimes he doesn’t. A few weeks ago, at a standup show at the Roxy, Juhl took the stage and an-
nual showcase hosted by Ethan Sky, imposes a sort of no-try list on comics: rape, domestic abuse, racism, homophobia, child abuse and disabilities. “People usually don’t need the disclaimer,” he says. “But it’s better safe than sorry. We want to make people laugh, not feel uncomfortable.” Kyle Kulseth, a comedian who used to run a comedy show at the VFW called No Pads No Blazers, says he also asks comedians to steer clear of racism, sexism and homophobic comments. “I tell them, ‘There’s places that will put up with that—this isn’t one of them,’” he says. “If you see that kind of material
Missoula comedy shows feature regular stand-up headliners and hosts including, from left, Clinton Lawson, John Howard, Sarah Aswell, Gilmore McLean, Michael Beers and Kyle Kulseth.
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pate in the attitudes of the status quo? And if it’s just a joke, fine. But it’s a lazy, crappy joke. Get off the stage. Do better comedy.” Sarah Aswell (who often writes for the Indy) has become one of the most highly regarded comics on the scene. She started doing comedy last October on a dare and found it addictive. She’s called out comics who tell sexist jokes on stage, but she’s also empathetic with the challenges of the format. “Stand-up comedy is one of the few arts you perfect in front of a live audience,” Aswell says. “You don’t usually paint in front of an audience and have people yell at you, ‘That sucks!’ But, in
comedy, you make mistakes in front of people. Bombing is how you get better. Offending people is sometimes how you get better, because you get publicly shamed.” She’s been there, too. At one of her first open mics, Aswell told a joke about the movie Silence of the Lambs, how after watching it she never wanted to help a disabled person again because they might be a serial killer. A man in the front started yelling at her and Aswell saw that he had a disability. They talked after the show. “When I wrote the joke I wasn’t thinking about him,” she says. “But now I do.” The man still shows up to open mics, Aswell says, and they still talk. “We don’t censor anyone as an artist— that’s dumb,” Beers says. “But over and over again we go over a chart, and everyone has heard the chart: You can say whatever you want, including the words you shouldn’t say, but the more offensive you are, the more clever you have to be. And when you’re offensive and not clever, that’s when you’re going to get called out. With Aaron Juhl, there have been times when I was like, ‘Ooh. I would not have done that.’ But he is without a doubt one of the most respectful human beings I have ever run into. Can I use the wrong word but start other people talking—and do it in a funny way? Maybe there’s value in that.”
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harley Macorn’s introduction to comedy was rocky. Macorn, who is the Indy’s calendar editor, identifies as gender non-binary and prefers the pronoun “they.” Macorn’s comedy often incorporates issues of gender identity. In Missoula, it’s not hard to find a receptive audience
Sarah Aswell performs at Revival Comedy, a new monthly open mic at the Badlander. “Standup comedy is one of the few arts you perfect in front of a live audience,” she says.
for progressive ideas about gender. But take that act on the road to small-town Montana and things can get out of hand. In one of their first experiences doing standup, Macorn was put on a bill for a Lolo comedy night. Partway through the set, Macorn could hear someone in the back yelling “Faggot.” Macorn ignored the heckler and carried on, only to find out later from other patrons that the heckler had been even more explicitly derogatory. “That was rough,” Macorn says. “That was the moment I realized I had to be prepared for when people don’t like me.” Several months later, at another show outside Missoula, Macorn heard someone call out “Faggot” again. Macorn paused, cocked their head, squinted into the crowd and yelled back, “Is that you, Dad?” The crowd erupted in laughter. It was a tactic that helped unify the audience on Macorn’s side—and left the heckler to decide how big a crowd he was willing to try to bully. The self-deprecating approach has helped Macorn do two things: deflect the heckling, and keep the crowd thinking about gender identity and sexual orientation. And while Macorn is frequently very funny, comedy isn’t always exclusively about laughs. For instance: Macorn recently bombed with a set about gender identity in Great Falls. Afterward, the show’s host admitted that the audience probably wasn’t quite ready for the material. “But it’s really important,” he told Macorn, “that Great Falls sees you and hears you.”
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n 2012, Clinton Lawson got slapped with a DUI and ended up in the Missoula County jail. He was deeply ashamed,
“Posse Night” is an informal gathering of comedians that’s been taking place at the Union Club every Thursday night for the past 8 years. The group dissects the events of the week in comedy over drinks and, inevitably, makes each other laugh.
he says, and he spent the next 24 hours in lockup writing about what happened. Even though he’d never done stand-up before, he wrote about the experience in the form of comedic bits. “It’s kind of the sad clown story,” he says. “But I had a need to do something with the experience, and not just have it wasted or have it be a bad memory.” He wrote his set with a tiny pencil on his cellmate’s petition for dental care. When 24 hours was up, he put on his street clothes, pocketed his writing and got a ride to the Union Club. It was Thursday night open mic.
“I got up on stage,” he says, “and I did this set about going to jail. It was about being pulled over while trying to go to McDonald’s, trying to get a sandwich, and how the cop was anti-sandwich. Weird stuff. It was my first show, but it worked. Taking that experience and getting people to laugh at it made it less—I don’t know. I just needed to share it with the community.” Lawson has been part of the scene ever since, often headlining shows. His comedy is smart and absurdist, and for the most part he doesn’t look to antagonize the crowd. The truth is, comics want the
audience on their side. They need them there. And a lot of comics have learned that there’s a sweet spot where humor and empathy meet. “For me, it kind of gets beyond the material, where you’re having a conversation with people,” Lawson says. “There’s a warmth, like you’re sitting around a table and you just break the table down with laughter. I stay away from [antagonizing] because that’s going to interfere with my goal.” Lawson knows his Missoula audiences well. At a recent show at the Roxy, he told a joke about how he’d read an ar-
ticle saying that milk is racist. You could feel the tension in the room as some people—especially those unfamiliar with Lawson’s act—braced for the worst. “Milk with the cream on top is the most racist,” he said. “But cheese—cheese isn’t racist. It’s progressive! And hot dogs, well, they don’t know any better.” The audience dissolved into laughter. Kyle McAfee has a similar style. His comedy probes at boundaries, but for the most part he’s a sympathetic character for a liberal audience in a largely college-educated town. During one set at Missoula’s newest open mic comedy night, Revival Comedy at the Badlander, he talked about his 2-year-old daughter not being able to make up her mind. “Just like women,” he said, hamming it up. Then he waited a few uncomfortable beats before saying, simply, “Sexism.” Just like that, he’d won the audience back. “I love the chaos of it,” Lawson says. “I embrace it. I love the rawness of the interactions. Like, somebody says something and they get screamed at, maybe somebody starts crying, a really drunk person comes in. It’s just a traveling carnival, especially at the open mics.” It’s a chaos that makes comedy nights feel more like a community of people learning how to talk to each other in an unmediated, human way. “It almost should be in the marketing for an open mic,” Lawson says. “Two people are going to make you feel that you can do comedy because they’re so terrible, somebody is going to say something racist, and we’re going to have a weird, charged interaction. Because that’s part of having the bigger conversation. It’s messy.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
A fan’s notes John Floridis celebrates 25 years of Musician’s Spotlight by Ednor Therriault
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usician’s Spotlight has been on the air for 25 years, long enough to survive several evolutionary jumps in recording technology. Host John Floridis cringes when he recalls the hassle of the early years, working with fellow folk musician Brian Kopper. “When Brian and I took over in 1997, we were editing quarter-inch tape with razor blades. We’d slice off bits of tape and save them on a shelf in case we had to use them later. Then, oh my god, we moved to MiniDiscs and it had that magical button that said ‘undo.’” While the editing process continues to evolve, one thing that remains constant is the diversity of musicians Floridis invites to the show. From Alison Krauss to Derek Trucks to Brandi Carlile to B.B. King, musicians of virtually every style and level of fame have submitted to Floridis’ microphone. Over the course of a staggering 650 episodes, dozens of local artists have also been featured. For Floridis, a popular Missoula musician with his own career, it never gets old. “I love to talk shop,” he says, acknowledging the impassioned conversations that quickly spin off into geekery when one musician (ahem) interviews another. “Over the years I’ve worked to try and find the story of the artist. The trick is to bring the artist in and let them get comfortable without geeking out too much.” Still, talking guitar gear and technique can be pure catnip. Sometimes he just runs with it. “John Butler comes to mind. He does this hybridization between acoustic and electric guitars.” Floridis begins to describe Butler’s complex rig, which combines a Marshall stack amplifier with an acoustic guitar with special pickups, then catches himself. Not all music fans are necessarily musicians, he reminds himself. “I have to think about who’s listening to this, who the average listener is. I don’t always want to be looking over a musician’s shoulder, trying to figure out what they’re doing.” Some of the best shows, he says, were the ones where he was pulled into unfamiliar territory and came away with a new understanding of a little slice of the musical universe. “When the Refugee All Stars came through town, I’d never heard much about them, but the music held up. They were actual refugees! They’d formed this band in
photo by Amy Donovan
John Floridis became the host of Montana Public Radio’s Musician’s Spotlight in 1997 and has conducted several hundred on-air interviews with musicians including Brandi Carlile, B.B. King and Alison Krauss.
refugee camps in Sierra Leone.” He wrangled an interview with a member of the group, and was unprepared for the horrors the man shared. “I’d sit across from this guy and he’d tell me about being tortured. That was something, to look someone right in the eye and tell them about that.” He pauses, obviously still haunted by the episode. “To get somebody who can bring a cultural experience to the table, that’s a great thing. It’s like going to another place.” One show he’s particularly proud of featured his interview with Daryl Jones, the bassist who replaced Bill Wyman in the Rolling Stones in 1993. When the Stones played a Missoula concert in 2006, the members stayed at the Resort at Paws Up. Seeking to connect with Jones to talk about the bassist’s non-Stones stints with the likes of Sting and Miles Davis, Floridis circumvented the red tape by reaching out through Jones’ website, and was granted access to the Stones’ inner sanctum.
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“Security was intense,” he says. “They had people walking around with German Shepherds.” The resulting segment was about Jones, not the Stones. “Daryl was fascinating. It was the essence of a lot of what we’re looking for.” He later received a message from Jones that said, “I think we got away with one.” “So that was cool.” Floridis and I talked on a recent afternoon about 10 weeks after he’d undergone heart surgery to repair a faulty valve, a condition called severe aortic stenosis. If left untreated, he said with a shrug, “it’s 100 percent fatal.” His recovery is going great, he assured me, and he’s already easing back into his busy performance schedule. Several musicians have connected with him to offer support or to share their stories. “When [Bozeman jazz singer] Jeni Fleming found out what I was going through, she said, ‘I can relate. I just had a heart attack.’”
But neither Fleming nor Floridis can hold a health-scare candle to singer-songwriter Vince Bell, who appeared on Musician’s Spotlight in the late ’90s. Floridis had booked him for a show at the Mammyth Bakery and persuaded him to sit for an interview afterwards. “He was in a car accident and literally died. He was resuscitated, but he was gone long enough that word got out that he’d died.” Bad news travels fast, and it took awhile for the news of his survival to catch up. “He was able to read his own obituary.” As Musician’s Spotlight celebrates 25 years on Montana Public Radio, Floridis doesn’t see himself slowing down anytime soon. “I’d be hard pressed to think of a time when I wasn’t having fun. I always shoot for the highest common denominator. I think you can say that about public radio listeners in general—they’re always looking for something deeper.” Like any good interviewer, he’s also always digging for the moment when an
artist reveals some gem that sparkles on a human level, not just a musical one. His 2004 tour bus interview with B.B. King is a great example, he says, and one of the show’s high-water marks. “B.B. brought a sense of place to his music. He was telling me about home, and how he’s still close to friends and family there. When he said that it’s not segregated anymore, and he feels more comfortable going home, that was one of those moments.” The late blues legend couldn’t have been a nicer guy, he adds, even offering Floridis a sugarfree soda (“I have diabetes,” King explained). Floridis the musician who became Floridis the radio host shakes his head at Floridis the B.B. King fan. “I still have that Diet Coke can in a glass bell jar.” Catch Musician’s Spotlight every Thursday, from 7:30 to 8 PM, on Montana Public Radio. arts@missoulanews.com
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Each day different Brian Christianson captures Missoula’s epic winter by Chris La Tray
Brian Christianson’s “Rattlesnake Blues” is part of his new exhibit Missoula on Ice.
During this transitional season, when spring seems hesitant to grab hold, it’s easy to long for the summer months ahead and try to block winter from your mind, no matter how epic it was. In his new exhibition, Missoula On Ice, photographer Brian Christianson offers a powerful argument against forgetting the winter Missoula is just exiting. Christianson committed last fall, before the season’s first snow, to mount a show at the Public House, though he didn’t know at the time what work he might display. “Then December hit,” he says. “It got really cold, the river started to freeze, snow just kept dumping, and I thought, ‘This is it. This is going to be a winter show.’” Just when it seemed Rattlesnake Creek couldn’t freeze any deeper, for example, it did. He watched people mountain biking over the frozen creek. “My guiding principle for landscape photography is: What makes today different from any other day?” Christianson says. “I was out every day just working it, watching it, seeing all the changes in the Missoula landscape. It’s the most fruitful two months of shooting I’ve ever had.” Christianson first picked up a camera as a high school student in Albert Lea, Minnesota, where he cut his teeth shooting endless fields of corn and soybean. In 2004, he went to Colorado to study photography. Though he loved the program, he sold all his
gear and quit photography for nearly a decade after leaving school. “I wasn’t ready to be an artist, or a starving artist, at that time,” he says. “I needed to do something else.” He went back to school, studied education, and worked his way into the nonprofit sector, where he’s been ever since. That career path brought him to Missoula about eight years ago. But photography wasn’t finished with him. “About three years ago it hit me that I want to do more photography, and I want to commit to it this time,” he says. He bought a starter camera, started doing small exhibitions around town, and made enough money to upgrade his equipment. Missoula On Ice will feature a dozen images shot in and around Missoula this past winter, each printed 32-by-48 inches or larger on either canvas or metal. Christianson says he hopes the large prints will allow viewers to experience the same thrill he felt shooting them. “Most people are looking at images on phones or tablets,” he says. “Occasionally a computer, but not likely. But this is the way [landscape photography is] meant to be seen, in large format. It’s really fun for me to experience them, too, when I open the box when the images come in. I’m like, ‘Oh my god, this is it!’ I’m always surprised.” Missoula On Ice opens at the Public House Fri., April 7, with a reception from 5 to 8 PM. arts@missoulanews.com
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[books]
A life consumed Savoring Jim Harrison’s enormous appetite by Melissa Stephenson
Jim Harrison’s new collection of food essays, A Re- ways that could jeopardize your health. I rarely drink ally Big Lunch, was released exactly one year after his wine of any sort, but halfway through A Really Big death. I’ve been a Harrison fan since I was a teen, and Lunch I bought a bottle of the only red wine I know the news of this book excited me beyond reason. by name: the Red and Green Zinfandel my partner Though his calling in life, as he notes, is writing, the force and I order every time we splurge on a meal at that fuels his writing is an almost superhuman appetite. Scotty’s Table. I sipped it with new appreciation as I Not that I share his appetite, exactly. Harrison returned to reading the names of wines and foods I and I both hail from the great Midwest, but we were can’t even pronounce. All this led me to wonder: What sort of toll must born 37 years and roughly 500 miles apart, and my palate was shaped in an era when kitchen duty often this kind of appetite take on a body? Harrison wonders the same when he says, “I’m meant selecting boxed “food” puzzled. Perhaps I have eaten from the freezer and popping it too much of the world?” into the microwave. I cook from Though the essays are not scratch more often than not for arranged in strict chronological my own family, but I’ve never order, Harrison writes as they eaten half of the entrées Harrison progress about being diagnosed describes in these essays, which with Type 2 Diabetes late in life. were written from 1981 to 2014. To his great heartbreak, the doctor In the collection’s title essay, orders him to reduce his wine inHarrison describes in enormous take to no more than a bottle for detail a 37-course lunch, shared every two hours he spends walkwith 11 companions, that lasted ing. Jim works hard to earn a bot11 hours—a lunch for which he tle or two a day, and to learn to traveled from his home in Monsavor those bottles—an amount of tana to France. The meal opened wine he’d have gulped in half an with four soups, followed by oyshour prior to his diagnosis. The ters and Camembert, jellied nearer we get to the end of the poultry loaf with saffron, Baltic book, the more he discusses variherring with mayonnaise, a calf A Really Big Lunch: ous maladies, from the diabetes to brain tart, and sole with monkMeditations on Food and fish livers in champagne sauce. Life from the Roving Gourmand shingles to spinal surgery. The humor and insight that That list describes just a portion Jim Harrison Hardcover, Grove Press Harrison brings to the end of his of the first of the four “services” 272 pages, $26 life is, for me, the most nourishover which the meal’s 11 courses ing part of the book. “Everything were delivered. I read parts of the menu aloud to my kids, ages 7 and 10, who ac- living ends up as a turd of sorts,” he writes. Though cused me of playing a belated April Fool’s joke until I haven’t done a proper count, I would guess that they skimmed the menu—included in full in the “turd” and “bird” are two of the most frequently used words in this book, which illustrates the way Jim conbook—for themselves. In an earlier essay, the actor Jack Nicholson de- nects all things natural, from the scatological to the clares, after a meal shared with Harrison, “Only in the ornithological. His appetite never waivers, but I could Midwest is overeating still considered an act of hero- feel him pulling skyward as the chapters flew by. Devour this book one course (or chapter) at a ism.” While Harrison confesses that his indulgence of food leads him into gluttony on a daily basis, his ap- time. It’s like a rich meal, best savored so that no petite goes beyond the carnal. “I have long since pub- word goes unappreciated. If you can’t control yourlicly admitted that I seek spirituality through food and self and read it all in one brief binge, you risk becomwine,” he writes. It is this kind of reverence for food ing infected, as I have, with Harrison’s rambling voice. “Your meals in life are numbered and the numthat makes this book such a transcendent read, even if normal humans would be hard pressed to consume ber is diminishing,” he tells us. “Get at it.” In a life too short for all the adventures, drinks, some of the meals Harrison describes here. I’d be remiss if I didn’t slap a warning on A Really lunches, loves and books we desire to consume, Jim Big Lunch. If you haven’t already intuited this, vege- Harrison reminds us not to waste another day. Wake tarians, dieters and people recovering from a toxic up. Go too far. Dig in. relationship with red wine, beware. This book may repel you or, worse, leave you hungry and thirsty in arts@missoulanews.com
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And time again Like Groundhog Day, but without the funny by Molly Laich
Zoey Deutch, left, stars in Before I Fall.
In Before I Fall, we meet high school senior Sam (Zoey Deutch) as she floats through a typical day in any popular, rich girl’s life. She gets a ride to school with the other pretty girls from her graduating class. They’ve been hanging out their whole lives, and what could ever go wrong on Cupid Day (the Friday before Valentine’s Day) when students buy each other roses delivered during first period and there’s talk of a big party, and so on. But who invited the unpopular girl? She’s a gross lunatic with wild hair, the popular girls conclude. Let us drive away from this party in the rain and crash our car. And then, a miracle: Sam wakes up to the same song she woke up to the day before (“Dangerous” by Big Data) and slowly realizes, to her horror, that it’s Friday, Feb. 12, all over again. Uh oh, you guys. We’ve got a total Groundhog Day situation on our hands. Ry Russo-Young directs the film from a screenplay by Maria Maggenti, which is based on Lauren Oliver’s novel. Structurally, it really is like Groundhog Day, right down to the season (seriously, is there a more miserable month than February?). Within the gimmick exists a rare opportunity for our protagonist to evaluate her life, take a sincere moral inventory and, only then, break free from the incessant time loop of a nightmare that has become her existence. But unlike Groundhog Day, Before I Fall is very much not a comedy. The perpetually gray Pacific Northwest setting and somber lessons about privilege, bullying and teen suicide are more than serious—they are damn-near grave. This is Senior Year with a capital S. Cliques have calcified over the years, but it hasn’t always been that way. A nerd named Kent (Logan Miller) is throwing the party at his immaculate home while his parents are out of town. Kent and Sam were friends before the rifts of teenage popular-
ity separated them, and the party is designed to lure her back to his place—and holy lord I can’t get over the affluence of this school district. Much of the recurring plot revolves around the actions of a troubled teen named Juliet (Elena Kampouris), whose years of being bullied result in a latenight suicide on Cupid Day. There are a few housekeeping notes for Sam to address on her supernatural odyssey, but chief among them should most definitely probably be preventing Juliet from killing herself. It could be that I’m being hard on Before I Fall because this movie just isn’t made for me. We are firmly in Young Adult country here, and that’s not a place I enjoy visiting. High school was no picnic for me, and today’s teenagers seriously freak me out. (For an even scarier glimpse into their secret world, look out for a new documentary, All This Panic, about teenagers in New York City.) In a lot of ways, Before I Fall is a sophisticated effort. Throughout the 98-minute running time (it feels longer) we really do get to know these characters. How could we not, as the structure places them in a sociological experiment of the highest order. The girls in Sam’s clique have sufficiently distinctive personalities, led primarily by Lindsay (Halston Sage), the meanest among them. Their bravado mixed with teenage insecurity achieves ample depth. I can’t quite recommend Before I Fall to grownups, but for teenage girls still battling social hierarchies (and lacking the cinematic wherewithal to know that Groundhog Day is so much better) this might be just the ticket. Before I Fall reopens at the AMC Fri., April 7. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] 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.
OPENING THIS WEEK GOING IN STYLE Three retired steelworkers decide to rob the bank that canceled their pensions. That seems fair. Rated PG-13. Stars Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex.
PERSONAL SHOPPER While buying designer clothes for an A-list celebrity in Paris, a young woman has to deal with weird messages from her brother. A brother that’s been dead for quite some time. Rated R. Stars Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger and Sigrid Bouaziz. Playing through Thu., April 6 at the Roxy.
THE RED TURTLE (LA TORTUE ROUGE) Just because you’re shipwrecked on a deserted island doesn’t mean you can’t fall in love. Rated PG. Studio Ghibli’s newest film plays at the Roxy. SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE I can’t believe they rebooted the Smurfs franchise before we got a Snorks movie. What is wrong with this country? Rated PG. Stars the voices of Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson and Danny Pudi. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex.
NOW PLAYING 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. 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 AMC Missoula 12. (See Film) BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) An arrogant and incompetent truck driver finds himself caught in the middle of a supernatural gang war in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Good thing he’s got some good friends and some good magic on his side. Rated PG-13. Stars Kurt Russell, James Hong and Kim Cattrall. Playing Sat., April 8 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
“Hey man, I found a volleyball with a face on it. Does it belong to you?” The Red Turtle opens at the Roxy.
THE BOSS BABY Older children sometimes feel jealousy toward new siblings. Of course most newborns aren’t high-powered executive spies. Are we sure this isn’t a 30 Rock joke? Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi and Lisa Kudrow. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12 and the Pharaohplex. CHIPS The big screen adaptation of your weird uncle’s favorite TV show finally hits the big screen as an R-rated comedy. Just what everybody wanted! Stars Dax Shepard, Michael Peña and Kristen Bell. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (2013) Filmmaker John Maloof searches for the backstory behind a nanny whose 100,000 photos found after her death earned her acclaim as an amazing photographer. Not Rated. Playing Mon., April 10 at 8 PM at the Roxy. GET OUT Chris is pretty worried about visiting his girlfriend’s parents due to his uncertainty about how they’ll react to their daughter’s interracial relationship. That and their neighborhood has a sinister history of young black men disappearing. Rated R. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams
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and Stephen Root star in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut. Playing at the Roxy Theater. GHOST IN THE SHELL A one-of-a-kind human-cyborg does battle against criminals, hackers and terrorists in a cyberpunk future. Rated PG-13. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano and Michael Pitt. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. KONG: SKULL ISLAND Life for everybody’s favorite giant ape used to be simple until the U.S. Army started sending helicopters 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. LIFE The crew of the International Space Station discovers proof of alien life. That’s great! Then they discover proof the alien life really wants them all dead. That’s apocalyptic! Rate R. Stars Jake Gyllenhall, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12. LOGAN He’s the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice. In the near future, Marvel
THE PIANO (1993) Moving from Scotland to New Zealand to marry a man she’s never met isn’t exactly how this woman thought her life would turn out. But falling in love with her husband-to-be’s pal would be completely out of the question. Right? Rated R. Stars Holly Hunter, Sam Neill and Harvey Keitel. Playing Sun., April 9 at 7 PM at the Roxy. POWER RANGERS A group of teenagers with attitude are summoned by a giant alien face to drum up nostalgia for another franchise from the ‘90s. Rated PG-13. Stars Becky G, RJ Cyler and Dacre Montgomery. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. THE MASTER (2012) In this film that is absolutely not about Scientology, a former sailor drifts around the country until he discovers The Cause and its charismatic leader. Rated R. Stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams. Playing Wed., April 12 at 7 PM at the Roxy. WILSON Based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Learning that he fathered a daughter seventeen years ago, a middle-aged misanthrope seeks out this child and brings his ex-wife along for the ride. Rated R. Stars Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern and Judy Greer. Playing through Thu., April 6 at the Roxy. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area.
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photo by Kate Whittle
Toward a more perfect Union Club by Kate Whittle For the first time in seven years, the kitchen in the back of the Union Club is open and slinging burgers. The first day of business? Friday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. “Oh, it was busy,” says manager Jon Peragine. A succession of businesses have leased the club’s small kitchen over the years, most recently Mandolin, which closed in 2010. Peragine says the Union Club board of trustees decided last year to try the endeavor in-house as a complement to the bar. Thus the Union Club Bar and Grill, which, conveniently enough, is the name that’s been on the sign out front all along. The revamped grill features an a la carte menu filled with bar-food staples like burgers, salads, nachos, onion rings and house-cut fries, as well as Philly cheesesteaks and a midwestern specialty called the “Horseshoe.” (Think cheese fries plus toast points and ham.) Customers can order at the window at the back and get their drinks at the bar up front. Hours are currently 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Peragine says the Union Club board recruited him in late 2016 after admiring his work managing the Eagles Lodge on South Avenue. As the Union’s new manager, Peragine’s goal is to upgrade the venerated local bar—which consistently wins “Best Place to Dance” in the Indy’s Best of Missoula poll—and make it a daytime destination, too. He is not unaware that the
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Union is surrounded by major downtown construction projects, including the new library, a student housing complex, condos and the Marriott that’s replacing the Missoula Mercantile. “There’s all kinds of things going on in this neighborhood that should bring business,” Peragine says. To that end, expect more Union improvements on the way. Peragine has already updated the lighting throughout the space, and the mint-green paint in the women’s bathroom is gone, replaced with a burgundy-and-gold color scheme and new Art Deco-style fixtures. Next up, Peragine is planning improvements to the men’s room, a new wooden dance floor, and replacement of the decades-old tile throughout the venue. He’s talking to structural engineers about whether it’s possible to remove the giant load-bearing pillar that currently divides the dancefloor and blocks views of the stage. Peragine says the improvements—and the new restaurant—are all meant to enhance what already makes the Union a draw, including monthly comedy nights and live local bands every weekend. “My motto is, I don’t want to lose anyone, I just want to add to what we have,” Peragine says. Starters is a new periodic column profiling new food businesses, trends and restaurants in and around Missoula. Send tips to editor@missoulanews.com.
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LUNCH COMBO 3 rolls with choice of miso soup or green salad for your busy afternoon schedule!
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com
Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Ah… Easter in Missoula; the gateway to spring and the glory is yet to unfold before our eyes. At Bernice’s Bakery, we revel in the fertility of this holiday with both taste and decadence. Come to Bernice’s and wrap your lips around our succulent orange infused chocolate truffle cupcake filled with chocolate Ganache and frosted with our old fashion butter cream, or playfully squeeze our soft Hot Crossed Buns. Bernice’s Bakery, not your average Chocolate Bunny. xoxo bernice. $-$$
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. $-$$
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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual
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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
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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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photo by Alex Sakariassen
What you’re drinking: Late last month, KettleHouse tapped its latest summertime brew, this one tantalizingly dubbed Dreamer Fest. It’s a pale ale dry-hopped with crystal and palisade hops, and comes in at around 5.4 percent alcohol by volume. Taste-wise it falls somewhere between KettleHouse’s delectably smooth Fresh Bongwater and the brewery’s more bitter Eddy Out. Where the name comes from: Dreamer Fest gets its name from veteran taphandler Dreamer, the same way Al Pilsner was christened after longtime K-Hole staffer Al Pils. Who’s this Dreamer? You don’t hit the Southside much, do you? His real name is J. Ryan Weingardt, and yeah, he’s dreamy. Tom Selleck mustache, soul-piercing eyes, wry sense of humor. Dreamer first landed at the KettleHouse about eight years back. He’d been pouring cocktails at the James Bar when Pils and KettleHouse co-owner Tim O’Leary started stalking him. “Apparently they were into my shtick,” he says, shrugging his shoulders. He’s a self-professed people person, the
kind of bartender who has your favorite brew poured for you before you even reach the bar. He also skis, plays drums in Mass FM and probably likes long walks on the beach—with his wife and their baby daughter. So, when is Dreamer Fest? According to Dreamer, Wednesday through Saturday, every week. That’s when he works. But there’s no actual Dreamer-themed festival. Yet. Oh, right, the beer: Asked for his thoughts on Dreamer Fest, Dreamer describes it as “light and airy, like myself.” He’s pretty stoked to finally have his name on a brew, too. “It feels amazing,” he says. “Hashtag facetiousness.” Where to get it: Dreamer Fest is on tap in the Myrtle Street Taphouse, 602 Myrtle. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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THU | 4/6 | 10 PM | VFW White Mystery plays the VFW Thu., April 6 at 10 PM. $8.
THU | 4/6 | 9 PM | PALACE Captured! by Robots plays the Palace Thu., April 6 at 9 PM. $8.
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TUE | 7 PM | JOE BELOW Philadelphia's Spirit of the Beehive plays the Joe Below Tue., April 11 at 7 PM. Free.
SAT | 9:30 PM | SUNRISE Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts play the Sunrise Saloon Sat., April 8. 9:30 PM. Free.
SAT | 6 PM | DRAUGHT WORKS Heather Lingle mixes Texas twang with Montana Americana at Draught Works Sat., April 8. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
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Thursday Rupert Snell, diretor of the Hindi-Urdu flagship at the University of Texas, Austin presents a lecture on translating 17th-century Hindi poetry for modern readers. UM Liberal Arts room 103. 3:30 PM. Free. Elisha Harteis’ solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture and stop-motion video, Forget Me Not, opens at the University Center Art Gallery. 4 PM–6 PM. Free.
nightlife Tom Catmull plays Draught Works. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Bozeman’s In Walks Bud plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Montana author Richard Fifield reads from his book The Flood Girls at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Dr. Hal Stearns traveled the rivers and trails of Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Now the historian and storyteller breaks down how the reality of the trip clashes with how artists present it. Lolo Community Center. 7 PM. Free. Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. UM School of Theatre and Dance Presents The Madwoman of Chaillot, the classic play about the absurdities of rampant capitalism, at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9. UM Opera performs The Rivals, a new comic opera by distinguished American composer Kirke Mechem at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11. It looks more like a burned umber to me. Mandolin Orange plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $17/$15 advance. Kris Moon hosts a cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free. Captured! by Robots, the result of one man deciding to build his own mechanical band, celebrates 20 years at the Palace. 9 PM. $8. Knock knock? Who’s there? Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. I don’t get it. Sign up at 9:30 PM. Show at 10 PM. Free. Karaoke at Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free. Rooster Sauce’s VFW residency kicks off with Chicago siblings White Mystery. The duo delivers what Pitchfork magazine calls “jovial rock’n’roll” and “DIY sensibility.” 10 PM. $8.
Dodgy Mountain Men play the Top Hat, Fri. April 7, at 10 PM. Free.
The Madwoman of Chaillot, the classic play about the absurdities of rampant capitalism, comes to the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9.
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers’ Rendezvous celebrates public lands and those who enjoy them. Visit backcountry hunters.org for a schedule and ticketing. $150 all-access pass.
Enjoy beers from 25 Montana breweries and music from Local Yokel and Shane Clouse while celebrating our public lands with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Brewfest. 5 PM–9 PM. Caras Park. $15.
Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living from 2–4 PM. Call 728-1630.
Kitty Caveat & Crowbar Vigilantes play Break Espresso. 5 PM–8 PM.
Comic duo Gingers on Ice performs sketch, improv and stand up at the Roxy Theater. 8 PM. $8. (See Spotlight)
Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie to live music while parental units kick back at the Top Hat. This week enjoy the music of Night Blooming Jasmine. 6 PM. Free.
Rotgut Whines celebrates the release of its new album with a party at Monk’s. 9 PM. $3.
The Shrine Circus brings the big top to the big sky. See animals, acrobats and more at the Adams Center. Visit umt.edu/griztix for more information. $12. 3 PM and 7 PM. A girls youth group, ARIELS, meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.
nightlife 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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Can I get an event, a location and a profession? Zootown Improv at the Badlander will make you laugh, even if you’re a charter pilot. 7 PM. Free. Poets Sherwin Bitshi and Melissa Kwasny read their poetry in the Dell Brown Room of Tuner Hall. 7 PM. Free. Author, TV host and angler Kelly Galloup speaks about his experiences fishing across the world at the Wilma. 7 PM. $20.
Get down and boogie with Chaddabox at Drop Culture. The Badlander. 9:30 PM. Free. Mudslide Charley plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Also my favorite category on Grindr. Dodgy Mountain Men play the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. Jackson Holte, War Pony and New Old Future play at the VFW. 10 PM. $3
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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers’ Rendezvous celebrates public lands and those who enjoy them. Visit backcountryhunters .org for a schedule and ticketing. $150.
Jacob Godbey, one half of the Missoula-based comedy team Gingers on Ice, knows exactly what the duo hopes to accomplish with their upcoming shows. “Our goal is to make people laugh so loudly that we disturb the adjacent theaters at the Roxy.” Having seen Godbey and his partner, Alex Tait, perform, I believe they could do it. The two met while attending the University of Montana, and their hilarious and often chaotic performances have produced big laughs in venues throughout Montana and across the country. The two jump between scenes with such lightning speed, the line between sketch and improv blurs. The Gingers on Ice become disparate characters: rival mimes, the world's greatest detec-
Beth Judy reads from her new book Bold Women in Montana History at Fact & Fiction. 1:30 PM.
tive in search of his Vespa and a positively Grinchy portrayal of former University President Royce Engstrom. WHAT: Gingers on Ice It's been some time since the comeWHERE: The Roxy Theater dians headlined their own show, and that’s WHEN: Fri., April 7 and Sat., April 8 at 8 PM because Godbey HOW MUCH: $8/$5 students and Tait have been incredibly busy. HavMORE INFO: jrpcomedy.com ing completed their
first comedy tour last summer and wrapped shooting on their own television pilot, the two are excited to return to where they started with a showcase of their finely honed improv skills, sketch comedy and stand up. The show also features screenings of three of the sketches the two filmed for the pilot, which serves as a sneak peek before it's official premiere at the upcoming School of Media Arts Expo in May. –Charley Macorn
The Shrine Circus brings the big top to the big sky. See animals, acrobats and more at the Adams Center. Visit umt.edu/griztix for more information. $12. 3 PM and 7 PM. Join Five Valleys Audubon on a field trip to the Ninepipe area to look for Short-eared Owls. Meet in northwest corner of the Adams Center parking log at 4 PM. Call 406-549-5632 for more info.
nightlife Heather Lingle mixes Texas twang with Montana Americana at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Western Union plays Bitter Root Brewing STOP Dance to country western swing STOP 6 PM–8:30 PM STOP Free. The Madwoman of Chaillot, the classic play about the absurdities of rampant capitalism, comes to the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9. Comic duo Gingers on Ice perform sketch, improv and stand up at the Roxy Theater. 8 PM. $8. (See Spotlight) DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with 2 for 1 Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free. Tater Gun plays the VFW. 9 PM. Free. Ryan Chrys and the Roughcuts play the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. The Tomcats play the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.
First Friday Moxie Studio’s April exhibit kicks off with a display of acrylic paintings by artist Rob Rez. 4:30 PM– 8 PM.
just had. Photographer Brian Christianson presents Missoula on Ice at the Public House. 5 PM–8 PM.
Gallery 709 in Montana Art and Framing presents a collection of art created by recently graduated high school seniors staring down the barrel of adulthood. 5 PM–9 PM.
Missoula Art Museum opens Sheila Miles: Light and Shadow with live music, a no-host bar and a gallery talk at 7 PM. 5 PM–8 PM.
BASE Missoula hosts the photography of Richard Kasden, followed by a variety show featuring comedy, poetry and music. 5 PM– 8 PM. Artist B.MartiNez hosts a new exhibition at the Bike Doctor. 5 PM– 8 PM. You know what really bugs me? Animal extinction. David Miles Lusk’s new show Asunder, a memorial to endangered insects, opens at Clyde Coffee. 5 PM–8 PM.
Rusty Parts for Metal Art, a new exhibit of metal sculpture by Dennis Althoff, opens at 4 Ravens Gallery. 5 PM–8 PM. At least someone got something good out of that terrible winter we
Badass Beauties, the Culture of Rebellious Femininity , a photography exhibit by Natalia Boise, captures the multiple experiences of women at Betty’s Divine. 5 PM–8 PM.
Glacier Sothe-by’s International Realty celebrates First Friday with the photography of Amber Shaffer. 5 PM–8 PM.
Take The Road Less Traveled with Chris Gibisch’s photography at the Dram Shop. 5 PM–8 PM. Cynthia Swidler displays photos of landscapes, flora and fauna from walks along the Clark Fork River at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. 5 PM– 8 PM.
The staff of Bernice’s Bakery don’t just make Camel Spit cakes, they also make art. See the crew’s finished di- Missoula Art Museum opens Sheila Miles: Light and verse work with a special Shadow with live music and a no-host bar Fri., April 7. 5 PM–8 PM. exhibition. 5 PM–8 PM. This exhibit is all bark, no bite. Adrienne Dussault’s vases are made from the bark of non-living tree branches fallen in the forest. See the result at A&E Architects. 5 PM–8 PM.
The 6th Annual Bead Challenge at Bathing Beauties Beads asked participants to use a blind packet of beads and supplies to create a new work of art. See the final results. 5 PM–8 PM.
Katie Machain’s collection of woodcuts, created over the last five years, are displayed at La Stella Blu. 5 PM–8 PM.
Bobbe Almer and Steve Woodhouse’s exhibition Rhythms of the West opens at E3 Convergence Gallery. 5 PM–9 PM.
Cathy Richman of Delicate Hardwear unveils a new series of jewelry handcrafted from repurposed zippers at Upcycled. 5:30 PM–8 PM.
The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Potsketch features drawings and ceramic artworks from local, national and international artists. All artwork on display is part of an upcoming silent, online and live auction to raise funds for the Clay Studio facilities and programs. 5:30 PM–9 PM. Masc Studio features art by Charlotta Champion and music by DJ B3arb3ats. 7 PM–9 PM.
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Sunday Backcountry Hunters and Anglers’ Rendezvous celebrates public lands and those who enjoy them. Visit backcountryhunters.org for a schedule and ticketing. $150. The monthly LGBTQ Spirituality Group meets to discuss queer perspectives on spirituality at the Western Montana Community Center. 3-4 PM.
nightlife Every Sunday, Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.
The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band is taking a break from annoying the Ralph Kramden Orchestra to put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com.
at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $5. The world premiere performance of Big Sky Music, written expressly for the String Orchestra of the Rockies, kicks off at the UM Music Recital Hall at 7:30 PM. $30.
Terror Pigeon’s Surround Sound Lay Down invites you to bring pillows and blankets, and enjoy the show while laying on the ground at the ZACC Below. 7 PM. $5. (See Spotlight)
Top House plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Tower Street. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
Sixteen poets go head to head at the Top Hat at a poetry slam fundraiser for Express to Speak and its work to empower youth through creative expression. Doors
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world! She took the midnight train to Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the Press Box. 9:30 PM.
Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Home Resource. 12 PM–8 PM.
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If you've ever been in bed, staring at the ceiling with your radio playing and wondered what it would be like to do the same thing with a room full of strangers, Nashville's Terror Pigeon has you covered.
Tour, however, is a stark contrast to the peppy and speedy shows with which it has become synonymous. The breezy 30-minute show is designed to be performed for an audience that is lying on the ground. Four speakers, all operating independently and playing WHAT: Surround Sound Laydown distinct sections of the soundtrack are WHO: Terror Pigeon mounted at each WHERE: ZACC Below at the Zootown Arts corner of the venue with subwoofers set Community Center up on each side of WHEN: Mon., April 10 at 7 PM the audience. This hexaphonic sound HOW MUCH: $5 creates a lush and serene soundscape Known for their nonstop tour- for the lounging listeners. To go ing schedule and jubilant dance along with this peaceful show, an party celebrations, the members of accompanying video created by Terror Pigeon definitely have artists Jakob Biernat and Victoria earned the right to call themselves Sobel, projects onto the ceiling. Atthe World's Sweatiest Band. Its cur- tendees are encouraged to bring rent Surround Sound Laydown pillows, sleeping bags, blankets
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. Close down humpday with a glass of vino and the music of Larry Hirshberg at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Learn about the little-known Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge at the Five Valleys Audubon meeting at the Gallagher Business Building. 7:30 PM. Free. 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.
and giant stuffed animals to the show and leave their dancing shoes at home. — Charley Macorn
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at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM–8 PM. Free.
Montana State University’s Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee reflects on a lifetime of playing the cello with a special performance at Garlington, Lohn & Robinson. 350 Ryman. 5:30 PM. $15/ free for students.
The Montana Institute on Ecosystems welcomes Stanford’s Dr. Peter Vitousek and his presentation “Understanding Global Change and a Transition to Sustainability, with a focus on Pacific Islands” at the University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.
Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7–9 PM. You’re telling me bees have to put up with bears AND ghosts? Philly’s Spirit of the Beehive plays the Joe Below with Tormi and Fantasy Suite. 7 PM. Free.
Where are you from again? Local Natives play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance. Put on your dancing shoes and get yourself down to the Top Hat for a Square Dance, featuring live old time stringband music by The Beet Tops. All abilities welcome. 8 PM. Free.
Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander. 8 PM. Free.
Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What fast food staple originally came with a stencil, a wallet or an eraser when introduced in June of 1979? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Sherwin Bitsui, Megan McNamer and Christin Rzasa read from the anthology Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear with a special event
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world! She took the midnight train to Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the Press Box. 9:30 PM.
Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.
This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: The Happy Meal.
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Got two left feet? Well, throw them away and head down to Sunrise Saloon for beginners’ dance lessons. 7 PM. $5.
At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.
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.
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 the Montana World Affairs Council. 5 PM–8 PM.
Show your Press Box buddies just how brainy you are at Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.
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.
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. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.
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Thursday nightlife Lochwood showcases its traditional, harddriving bluegrass at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Djebe Community Drum and Dance immerses you in the dancing and drumming of many countries at Barn Movement Studio Thursdays at 6 PM. $5 donation. Phil Smith 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. Poetry and Prose with Planned Parenthood presents personal prose plus popular performance and philanthropy at the Badlander. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Author John Gierach reads from his book A Fly Rod of Your Own at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM.
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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 Josh Farmer Band plays the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ TRex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. 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. The Workers, Karl Marx’s favorite bluegrass rock band, play the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
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THURSDAY APRIL 6
Every Montanan has some version of this same story. On a trip somewhere out of state, they meet an otherwise decent person who, upon discovering a resident of Big Sky Country, immediately ask if Montana has electricity, paved roads or Netflix. At this point we have to explain to these well-meaning dum-dums that we live in Montana, not on Gilligan's Island. Unfortunately, these reductive views of Montana also extend to the perception of our politics. And just like how we can enjoy all the wonders of our technological age, we also have people pushing Montana onward. Forward Montana's Fourth Annual Rockstar Hall of Fame celebrates Montanans whose work, either in the legislature or by busting their butts carrying clipboards and getting signatures, keep Montana engaged and moving. Among those inducted this year are Mayor John Engen, Denise Juneau, Dayna Swanson and Bryce Bennett. “Our awardees are being recognized for a range of achievements but they all reflect our values of promoting youth leadership,” says Forward Montana Executive Director Rachel Huff-Doria. The event, which also features hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar, also honors the organization's monthly donors. “It is our way of rec-
This month’s Climate Smarts meet up at Imagine Nation discusses how green building and energy can strengthen our community. 5 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 APRIL 7 Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living from 2-4 PM. Call 7281630. A girls youth group, ARIELS, meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.
SUNDAY APRIL 9 The monthly LGBTQ Spirituality Group meets to discuss queer perspectives on spirituality at the Western Montana Community Center. 3-4 PM.
ognizing all the folks who help us keep our doors open and our mission alive year after year.” —Charley Macorn Forward Montana's Rockstar Hall of Fame celebration takes place at the Dana Gallery Sat., April 8, at 7 PM. $25 donation to help Forward Montana's work.
TUESDAY APRIL 11 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.
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 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. Sherwin Bitsui, Megan McNamer and Christin Rzasa read from the anthology Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear with a special event at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM–8 PM. Free. The Montana Institute on Ecosystems welcomes Stanford’s Dr. Peter Vitousek and his presentation “Understanding Global Change and a Transition to Sustainability, with a focus on Pacific Islands” at the University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 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 the Montana World Affairs Council. 5 PM–8 PM.
THURSDAY APRIL 13 Poetry and Prose with Planned Parenthood presents personal prose plus popular performance and philanthropy at the Badlander. 6:30 PM–8 PM.
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MOUNTAIN HIGH etween 1825 and 1840, trappers, hunters and mountain men who plied their trade in the Rocky Mountains met in early summer to swap wares and get tore up on whiskey. These informal meetings, as one might imagine in a time when the most exciting thing someone could do was die, expanded every year, until the annual rendezvous became the central event for these rugged pioneers. These rendezvous were cheerful and lively events punctuated with storytelling, music, food and sports such as knife and tomahawk throwing competitions. These huge events were well-attended by not only people who called the Rocky Mountains their home, but also a great number of tourists, some from as far away as Europe, who traveled across the continent to take part in the famous gatherings. The spirit of the old rendezvous continues in Mis-
FRIDAY APRIL 7 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. Author, T.V. host and angler Kelly Galloup speaks about his experiences fishing across the world at the Wilma. 7 PM. $20.
SATURDAY APRIL 8 You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts
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soula with the 6th Annual Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Rendezvous. The three-day gathering of outdoor enthusiasts features venders, seminars on a diverse list of subjects (such as on how to use the whole animal) and special events like the Backcountry Brewfest. Like the gatherings of yore, storytelling plays a big role at the modern rendezvous. Not just stories about adventures in the great outdoors, but stories about rendezvous past. —Charley Macorn The Backcountry Rendezvous runs Fri., April 7 through Sun., April 9 at the Holiday Inn and other locations around Missoula. Visit backcountryhunters.org for a full schedule and registration.
at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Join Five Valleys Audubon on a field trip to the Ninepipe area to look for Short-eared Owls. Meet in northwest corner of the Adams Center parking log at 4 PM. Call 406-549-5632 for more info.
MONDAY APRIL 10 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Tower Street. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon REBOOTY AND THE BEAST I’m a woman in my 30s. I was married for five years, but now, thank God, I’m divorced and about two years into a wonderful new relationship. Disturbingly, I occasionally call my boyfriend by my awful ex-husband’s name. He laughs it off, but it really freaks me out. Should I see a neurologist? Is my memory going? Or—gulp—do I miss my ex on some subconscious level? —Disturbed Right about now, you’ve got to be recognizing the unexpected benefits of those gas station attendant shirts with the guy’s name sewn onto them. As with dead bodies carelessly submerged after mob hits, it’s unsettling to have your ex’s name bobbing up when you love somebody new. Naturally, you suspect the worst—that you’re subconsciously pining for the ex. But—good news!—the likely reason for your name swapperoos is something you should find comfortingly boring. According to research by cognitive scientists Samantha Deffler and David C. Rubin, we’re prone to grab the wrong name out of memory when both names are in the same category—for example, men you’ve been seriously involved with or, in the pet domain, gerbils you’ve dressed in tiny sexy outfits. You might also keep in mind that your ex’s name was the default for “man in my life” for more than twice as long as the new guy’s. Other memory research suggests that especially when you’re tired, stressed or multitasky, it’s easy to go a little, uh, cognitively imprecise.You send your mindslave off into your brain—back to the “My Guy” category—and the lazy little peasant just grabs the name he spent five years grabbing. So, you might think of this as a mental workforce issue. The Department of Emotions isn’t even involved. However, research by cognitive psychologist Robert Bjork suggests that you can train your memory to do better through “spaced retrieval”—correcting yourself just post-flub by asking and answering “Who is the man in my life?” and then letting a few minutes pass and doing it again. But considering that you have a partner who just laughs at your errors, your time would probably be better spent appreciating what you have: an easygoing sweetheart of a guy and no readily apparent need for a neurologist. Bottom line: Your calling the guy by the wrong name probably points to a need for a nap, not unwanted company—as in, a tumor named Fred squatting in the crawlspace behind your frontal lobe.
INSECURITY BLANKET I’m extremely insecure about my looks, though objectively, I know I’m pretty. I constantly ask my boyfriend for reassurance. He gives it to me but feels bad that I feel this way. Now I’m worrying that I’m making such a good case for what’s wrong with me that he’ll start believing me. Possible? —Bag Over Head One oft-overlooked beauty secret is to avoid constantly giving a guy the idea that you might actually be ugly. People will sneer that it’s “shallow” to care about how you look, and they’re probably right—if it’s all you care about. However, research confirms what most of us recognize about the especially eyepleasing among us: They get all sorts of benefits—everything from social perks to job opportunities to discounts when they act like dirtbags (with judges assigning them lesser fines and a lower rate of bail for misdemeanors). As a woman, being babe-alicious is a pretty vital tool for landing and maintaining a relationship, because the features that men—across cultures—evolved to consider beautiful are actually health and fertility indicators. So, for example, full lips and an hourglass bod are basically evolution’s bumper sticker: “Your genes passed on here!” Not surprisingly, psychologist Tracy Vaillancourt, who researches competition among women, explains that women attack other women “principally on appearance and sexual fidelity” because men prioritize these qualities in their partners. One way women chip away at rivals is by trash-talking another woman’s looks to a man—suggesting he really could do better. That’s what you’re doing—but to yourself. It’s the relationship version of “Ewww, you’re not really gonna eat that, are you?” (And you’re the fricasseed crickets.) Beyond that, constantly begging a romantic partner for reassurance—while being kind of a black hole for it—can be toxic to a relationship. Also, the fact that your need for reassurance seems bottomless suggests it’s not your exterior but your interior that’s in need of work. Get cracking on that, and try to remember that your boyfriend is with you for a reason—and it probably isn’t that your mom and grandma are crouched behind your sofa, holding him at gunpoint.
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Experienced Groomer wantedMUST LOVE DOGS!! We are looking for an experienced groomer to add to our pack! Please visit our website for more information - www.2barkingsisters.com - To apply, send resume and references to 2barkingsisters@gmail.com. No calls please.
Night Auditor Local hotel seeking a Night Auditor. Must be able to accurately handle cash and credit card transactions and have basic computer skills. Successful candidate will reconcile and audit daily books, check in guests, handle reservations and cancellations and set up continental breakfast buffet. Shift is 11:00pm to 7:00am; approximately 24 to 32 hrs/wk; must be able to stay awake entire shift. Pay depending on experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278001
Greenhouse Help Knowledgeable plant lover needed for this GENERAL LABORER/SALES position at a local nursery. Prefer 6 months experience or proven self-gained knowledge. Must have valid driver’s license. Will answer customer questions about plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, assist with loading purchases, operate tractor for loading ground cover, stock, clean and organize displays. Will be working in all types of weather conditions. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275258 Line Cook Steak house located in the Nine Mile area is looking to hire a Line Cook A.S.A.P. Experience preferred. Schedule will be discussed at interview, wage is $12 per hour. Full job description at
Larchmont Golf Course is currently hiring for all seasonal positions, including Caddy Shack Attendant. Job Description: Duties include, but are not limited to, greeting customers, food and beverage preparation and sales, and beverage cart operation. Must be able to work weekends and holidays. Full and part-time seasonal positions available. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278398
EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.
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A Missoula restaurant is seeking to fill a morning / afternoon kitchen prep and line cook position. This position requires experience with prep, par lists and line cooking. Monday through Friday 9:00 AM - 3ish. Starting wage is 8.50 - 9.50 (DOE) Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278405 Ramp / Customer Service Agent - PT PAY The starting hourly wage for this position is $11.26 + medical and flight benefits! POSITION INFORMATION The Ramp and Customer Services Agent is often the first person from Horizon that our customers will meet in person. Not only is customer service very important,so is the ability to work in physically demanding and varying weather conditions. One moment a CSA is scanning people on to a flight and the next,they are repeatedly lifting 50lb bags on and off aircraft or de-icing an aircraft 30 ft in the air. Then going back inside to help customers with a smile. This role is perfect for someone who can work flexible hours. Perhaps you have your own business that you can schedule around your hours. Or you are new to the workforce or starting a second career. If you've worked outside or in physically demanding conditions with some customer service computer oriented experience,then this is the job for you. It's hard but also very rewarding. QUALIFICATIONS High school diploma or equivalent required Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278595 Shop Laborer Tasks include cleaning, parts delivery, shipping/receiving, landscape maintenance, job site cleaning and other labor tasks.This is part time with possible full time. Possible advancement to higher level positions. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278255
PROFESSIONAL Mechanical Intern CTA Inc. has opening for a paid summer Mechanical Internship. We are looking for students who have completed at least 3 years of a Mechanical undergraduate program. Interns will work on architectural design, project development, and construction documents. Must have experience in Revit and possess strong design and communication skills.This position offers excellent pay and flexible schedules. To see if we are a match for you, please visit www.ctagroup.com, and when you’re ready to apply, click the
“Join Us” link. CTA Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, including vets and disabled individuals. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278258 CACI International Inc. is currently hiring a Background Investigator for Missoula, MT. At CACI, background investigation is more than research and reports; it's your chance to contribute to the safety and security of our nation in the company of colleagues who value trust and integrity above all else. CACI fosters a culture based on integrity, strong ethics,quality, and professionalism. Our staff has been an industry-leading provider of federal background investigations for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) since 2004 and employs full-time and parttime investigators in all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico,Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands,and other U.S. territories. Duties and RESPONSIBILITIES: - Conduct comprehensive interviews with subjects,employers,associates,references,and other knowledgeable individuals and review appropriate records to obtain facts to resolve all material issues in a case or to establish the background, reputation, character,suitability, or qualifications of the subject under investigation Document all information received and submit a detailed report of investigation within a strict timeline. - A current driver’s license, reliable personal vehicle, and willingness to travel up to a 100-mile radius daily in support of assignments - A home office equipped with high-speed Internet (LAN line required as wireless is unauthorized) - A personal computer compatible with Microsoft applications (e.g. Word and Excel) - Ability to walk, type, sit, or stand for long periods of time - Excellent time management skills - Exceptional written and oral communication skills,such as typing detailed reports 1-20 pages in length - Ability to pass a mandatory pre-employment drug test Completion of a pre-selection process and a six-week OPM New Investigator Training course. - Must be able to obtain/maintain a favorable SSBI EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: PHYSICAL DEMANDS: CACI employs a diverse range of talent to create an environment that fuels innovation and fosters continuous improvement and success. Join CACI, where you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence,Defense,and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Op-
EMPLOYMENT portunity Employer. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278649 Seeking Operations Manager: Organization: Blackfoot Challenge, Ovando, Montana Terms: 1.0 FTE (full-time), non-exempt, Salary DOE ($35-45K annually), Paid Time Off, Holidays, Medical stipend and Matching retirement. To Apply: Submit cover letter and resume to operations [at] blackfootchallenge.org Deadline: April 14, 2017 or until position is filled. Start Date: Immediately Position Description: This is a full-time position working to support core watershed programs, managing administrative, financial, fund development and Board development functions.This is a core leadership position for the Blackfoot Challenge, and critical to supporting committees and partnerships. Please visit our website, www.blackfootchallenge.org, for full listing of job duties and qualifications.
SKILLED LABOR Auto transport company seeking professional Class A CDL drivers. Experience preferred. Excellent wages, Benefits and Sign on Bonuses. On the road 2-3 weeks at a time. Call Gary 406-259-1528 or apply online www.jandstransport.com/drivers
Seeking a GRADER OPERATOR (Seasonal, Spring & Fall) QUALIFICATIONS: Must have a minimum of 3 years of "woods road" experience. Must be able to sit for long periods of time and be able to lift 50 lbs. This employee must be dependable, hardworking and possess good communication and equipment operating skills. DUTIES: Operating road grader for various construction and maintenance of dirt roads and gravel roads. WAGE: $20+ with possibility of prevailing wage. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278887 Established, local construction firm seeking carpenter helpers immediately! Will be working on a variety of projects on residential remodels not limited to demolition, framing, siding and finish work. Looking for employees with full time availability. Qualified candidate must have a current valid driver's license with a clean driving record. Previous construction/carpentry experience a must! Own tool bag and hand tools a plus. Wage $10-$12/hour DOE Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278317 Seeking a DISTRICT COURT FILE AND COLLECTIONS CLERK TRAINEE where one is trained as a new district court file clerk to perform the full component of duties required of
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marriage licenses, divorce and annulment statistics, and certificates of adoption. Processes requests for marriage licenses including: accepting applications, verifying completeness of information and signatures, and issuing licenses. Prepares documents for microfilming. Prepares and images documents. Work is fulltime and pay is $14.08/hr. Benefits available. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10278292 Excavation Will be shooting grades with laser; digging with shovels; raking and laying pipe for sewer, septic and water systems. Must be able to read tape measurer, be physically fit, and able to work in all weather conditions.Work is usually M-F, with some weekends depending on job deadlines. Must have transportation to get to Lower Miller Creek.Wage is depending on experience. MUST have clean driving record. A CDL is preferred. Must be able to pass background check, and consent to pre-hire and random drug and alcohol testing. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10275366
MEDICAL Clinic Assistant I Serves as initial contact with patients, representing Planned Parenthood of Montana’s commitment to excellent customer service. Responsibilities include front desk reception, insurance verification/and or payment processing, basic lab duties, assisting with procedures as applicable (including abortion), patient education, and administrative tasks that support an efficient, patient-focused clinic environment. Eligible for full benefits package. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employ missoula.com Job #10277550 CNA Home health CNAs assist individuals with bathing, getting dressed, exercise, cooking, as well as provide companionship and
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SALES Gift Shop Clerk A casino and restaurant near Evaro is seeking a Gift Shop Clerk. A complete job description is available through the employer.Applicants are subject to a pre-hire drug test and will be placed on a random drug testing list. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10267333
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is an excellent time to FREE YOUR MEMORIES. What comes to mind when I suggest that? Here are my thoughts on the subject. To FREE YOUR MEMORIES, you could change the way you talk and feel about your past. Re-examine your assumptions about your old stories, and dream up fresh interpretations to explain how and why they happened. Here’s another way to FREE YOUR MEMORIES: If you’re holding on to an insult someone hurled at you once upon a time, let it go. In fact, declare a general amnesty for everyone who ever did you wrong. By the way, the coming weeks will also be a favorable phase to FREE YOURSELF OF MEMORIES that hold you back. Are there any tales you tell yourself about the past that undermine your dreams about the future? Stop telling yourself those tales.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): How big is your vocabulary? Twenty thousand words? Thirty thousand? Whatever size it is, the coming weeks will be prime time to expand it. Life will be conspiring to enhance your creative use of language ... to deepen your enjoyment of the verbal flow ... to help you become more articulate in rendering the mysterious feelings and complex thoughts that rumble around inside you. If you pay attention to the signals coming from your unconscious mind, you will be shown how to speak and write more effectively. You may not turn into a silver-tongued persuader, but you could become a more eloquent spokesperson for your own interests.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all need more breaks from the routine—more holidays, more vacations, more days off from work. We should all play and dance and sing more, and guiltlessly practice the arts of leisure and relaxation, and celebrate freedom in regular boisterous rituals. And I’m nominating you to show us the way in the coming weeks, Leo. Be a cheerleader who exemplifies how it’s done. Be a ringleader who springs all of us inmates out of our mental prisons. Be the imaginative escape artist who demonstrates how to relieve tension and lose inhibitions.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): People in your vicinity may be preoccupied with trivial questions. What’s more nutritious, corn chips or potato chips? Could Godzilla kick King Kong’s ass? Is it harder to hop forward on one foot or backward with both feet? I suspect you will also encounter folks who are embroiled in meaningless decisions and petty emotions. So how should you navigate your way through this energy-draining muddle? Here’s my advice: Identify the issues that are most worthy of your attention. Stay focused on them with disciplined devotion. Be selfish in your rapt determination to serve your clearest and noblest and holiest agendas.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope that by mid-May you will be qualified to teach a workshop called “Sweet Secrets of Tender Intimacy” or “Dirty Secrets of Raw Intimacy” or maybe even “Sweet and Dirty Secrets of Raw and Tender Intimacy.” In other words, Libra, I suspect that you will be adding substantially to your understanding of the art of togetherness. Along the way, you may also have experiences that would enable you to write an essay entitled “How to Act Like You Have Nothing to Lose When You Have Everything to Gain.” (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you have a dream of eating soup with a fork, it might mean that in your waking life you’re using the wrong approach to getting nourished. If you have a dream of entering e SCORPIO through an exit, it might mean that in your waking life you’re trying to start at the end rather than the beginning. And if you dream of singing nursery rhymes at a karaoke bar with unlikable people from high school, it might mean that in your waking life you should seek more fulfilling ways to express your wild side and your creative energies. (P.S.You’ll be wise to do these things even if you don’t have the dreams I described.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re a Quixotic lover, you’re more in love with love itself than with any person. If you’re a Cryptic lover, the best way to stay in love with a particular partner is to keep him or her guessing. If you’re a Harlequin, your steady lover must provide as much variety as three lovers. If you’re a Buddy, your specialties are having friendly sex and having sex with friends. If you’re a Histrionic, you’re addicted to confounding, disorienting love. It’s also possible that you’re none of the above. I hope so, because now is an excellent time to have a beginner’s mind about what kind of love you really need and want to cultivate in the future.
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PUBLIC NOTICES IN THE JUSTICE COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 302, 200 WEST BROADWAY MISSOULA, MT 59802 CAUSE NO. CV-2017-0550 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION PLUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, PLAINTIFF, v. SKYLAR SEALS, AND ALL OTHER TENANTS, DEFENDANT.THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: Skylar Seals, 417 E. Spruce St., Unit #2 Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the above-entitled Justice of the Peace, a copy of which is herewith served upon you. In the event you deny any or all of the material facts stated in your complaint, you must file your written answer together with a $30.00 answer fee for each Defendant with the above-entitled Court, and serve a copy of your answer upon the Plaintiff or attorney at the address as shown on the Complaint. The answer must contain a denial of any or all of the material facts stated in the Complaint that the Defendant believes to be untrue, and also a statement, in plain or direct manner, of any other facts constituting a defense.Any matter no denied shall be deemed admitted. If you fail to answer or assert a counterclaim with ten (10) days after the service of the Complaint and Summons, the Plaintiff may request entry of default judgment against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. DATED: March 28, 2017. /s/ Marie A. Anderson, Justice of the Peace Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-256 Dept. No.: 4 Notice of Hearing of Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Paisley Schuman, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Paisley Loren Schuman to Paisley Loren Miles. The hearing will be on 05/02/2017 at 3:00 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 3/29/17. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molli Zook, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF MISSOULA DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17-61 JUDGE: Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES BRUCE PATTEN, De-
ceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate.All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Thomas William Patten, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Bruce O. Bekkedahl, Patten, Peterman, Bekkedahl & Green, P.L.L.C., 2817 2nd Ave. N. Suite 300, Billings, MT 59101, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED 3/6/2017 /s/ Thomas William Patten, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-32 Dept. No. 3 Hon. John W. Larson Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DENISE FELT LUTES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michaelene Armstrong, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene Armstrong, PerRepresentative sonal SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene ArmApplicant strong, SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020
Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM PETER ENDRES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to June A. Novark, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of March, 2017. /s/ June A. Novark, Applicant 15 Smith River Road, White Sulphur Springs, MT 59645 SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 7th day of March, 2017. /s/
June A, Novark, Applicant SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 7th day of March, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of at Residing Montana Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP-17-954 Dept. No.: 1 DeMAROIS, SUMMONS INC., doing business as DeMAROIS BUICK-GMC-MERCEDES-BENZ, Plaintiff, v. BEATRICE L. GILL, doing business as MONTANA ROADS AND PARKING LOTS, and MONTANA ROADS AND PARKING LOTS, LLC, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: BEATRICE L. GILL. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint for Amounts Due and Order of Sale on Agister’s Lien in this action, which is filed in the office of the District Court of the Montana Fourth Judicial District, Missoula County, Montana, a copy of which is herewith served
upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, Douglas D. Harris, of Douglas Harris Law Offices, 322 West Spruce Street, P.O. Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937, within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court, the 28th day of March, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk HARRIS & IRWIN LAW OFFICES, PLLP, By: /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Plaintiff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-16-248 Hon. Leslie Halligan Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAMES LEE DAVIS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named
estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Marcelle Marie Chase, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 15 day of December, 2016. /s/ Marcelle Marie Chase, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 15 day of December, 2016. /s/ Marcelle Marie Chase, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 15 day of December, 2016. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-17-66 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUNG WON “JOHN” KIM, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Marian Wilson, the Representative, Personal return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 30th day of March, 2017, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Marian Wilson, Personal Representative for
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sentative of the abovenamed 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 Harold G. Davis, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, David J. Steele II, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of February, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/
David J. Steele II, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-71 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOUISE BROWNLEE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Frank D. Heston 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 Frank D. Heston, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Sally Johnson, Johnson Law Firm, 234 E. Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 31st day of March, 2017. /s/ Sally J. Johnson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-17-64 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE OF CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF FLORA A. BLOCK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Donna F. Tyler 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 Donna F. Tyler, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Reep Bell Laird Simpson & Jasper, P.C., P.O. Box 16960, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 29th day of March, 2017. REEP BELL LAIRD SIMPSON & JASPER, P.C.. /s/ Lance P. Jasper, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA Cause No.: DP-17-55 Department No.: 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES RONEY BAKER, Deceased.
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NOTICE IF HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. If any person or organization has a valid claim against said estate, the claim must include the basis of claim, the amount claimed, the name and address of claimant. Mont. Code Ann. §72-3804(1). Creditors must make claim within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred. Mont. Code Ann. §72-3-801. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative at the address named below, Certified mail requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21st day of March, 2017. /s/ Charlotte A. Nelson, 2707 Queen Street, Missoula, MT 59801 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/04/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201208270 B: 893 P: 747 and Re-recorded on 10/25/2013 under Auditor’s File No. 201321009 B: 921 P: 375 and Modified on 2/4/2016 under Auditor’s File No. 201601689 Book 957 Page 114, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Michael K Fitzpatrick, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 16 of Certificate of Survey No. 370, located in the Southeast One-Quarter of Section 11, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the
09/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 8, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $235,572.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $218,015.32, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 28, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.co m or USA-Foreclosure.com. Fitzpatrick, Michael K. (TS# 7023.115750) 1002.287445File No.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 12, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract D of Certificate of Survey No. 3943, being located in the Northeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 17, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. TOGETHER WITH road and utility easement as delineated on the face of Certificate of Survey No. 3943 Joseph J. Bechtold, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. dba America`s Wholesale Lender, it`s successors and /or assigns. , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 8, 2007, and recorded on June 25, 2007 as Book 800 Page 302 Document No. 200716097; Modification Agreement recorded November 7, 2011, Book 885 of Micro Records at Page 321. The beneficial interest is currently held by WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, doing business as CHRISTIANA TRUST, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee for BCAT 2014-9TT. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning September 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2016 is $372,335.97 principal, interest totaling $11,052.33, suspense balance of $-134.45 and other fees and expenses advanced of $76,499.23, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may
disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 24, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First Amer-
PUBLIC NOTICES ican Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 24th day of February, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Shellpoint Mortgage Serving vs Joseph J. Bechtold 100918-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 13, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT A90 IN WINDSOR PARK, PHASE V, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BRYAN W WELZIEN and STORMEE C WELZIEN, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Interstate Bank, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 29, 2012, and recorded on February 29, 2012 as Book 890 Page 549 Document No. 201203872. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 31, 2017 is
$194,302.78 principal, interest totaling $3,036.00 late charges in the amount of $281.80, escrow advances of $1,061.71, and other fees and expenses advanced of $233.54, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days
by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 28, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 28th day of February, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 J P Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. vs WELZIEN 100178 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 31, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2, BLOCK 12, WEST VIEW ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 10 OF PLATS AT PAGE 1 PENNY DICKEY, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana,
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 117. 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 4/24/2017 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 4/27/17 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.
Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on November 1, 2011, and recorded on November 4, 2011 as Book 885 Page 293 under Document No. 201118666. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 31, 2017 is $184,174.41 principal, interest totaling $11,664.29, escrow advances of $4,803.99, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,639.16, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Ben-
COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on Saturday April 29th, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. A silent auction will be held Saturday April 29th at 11:00 a.m. at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
eficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.
The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or
health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred
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PUBLIC NOTICES and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 20, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 20th day of March, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 6-9-2021 J P Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. vs PENNY DICKEY 101034-3 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-32 Dept. No. 3 Hon. John W. Larson Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DENISE FELT LUTES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michaelene Armstrong, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene Armstrong, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of
Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Michaelene Armstrong, Applicant SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 7th day of February, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY 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 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 un-
MONTANA STREET STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): E, F. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 4/17/2017 by appt only by calling 880-4677. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at Montana Street, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 4/20/2017 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.
dersigned 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. 4 Case No. DP-17-34 NOTICE TO CREDITORS 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 abovenamed 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 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
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Waterfront Lodge 5 bed, 6 bath, 2 kitchens $1,225,000. 97 Golden Pond Dr, HWY 200 – Heron, MT 59844. M.K. Broker (406)241-9982 – martykukich @hotmail.com – for more information visit Realtor.com or Zillow
Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
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HOMES
Pinnacle Townhomes. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage on Charlo
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For Sale 2- 2013 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $43,900 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663
LAND 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 KING•
King is a 2-year-old male American Bully. He has the adorably squat build and raucous bark of a Bulldog, without the health issues of the smooshed in face. Combine that with the sensitive demeanor and whine of a Pit Bull, and you've got the best of both bully breed worlds. King loves to destroy stuffy toys. Once you've found a sample of his handy work, he gives the best guilty look you've ever seen.
IZZY•Izzy is a 3-year-old Pointer/Hound mix. This sweet girl is deaf, so she needs a family that understands the needs and behaviors of hearing impaired dogs. Izzy is a sweet and playful girl who gets along well with people of all ages and other dogs. She can startle easily if you sneak up on her or interrupt her while sleeping. She also has a knack for chasing small animals and wildlife.
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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. Bodie just wants to be loved. He gets along well with small dogs and is terrified of cats. He will also defend his fence line from anyone on the other side with his big, scary bark.
CHELSEA• Chelsea is a 4-year-old female Tabby/Tortie. She enjoys flying solo when it comes to dogs and cats. She can be affectionate and talkative when she's in the mood. When she's not, she'll find somewhere to perch herself and people watch. Chelsea would make the perfect companion for someone with a busy lifestyle that's looking for a less needy pet. HAYDEN• Hayden is an approximately 12year-old female cat. This older lady is a lovely silver tabby. She is friendly and curious with a settled and relaxed personality. Hayden was found as a stray on someone's front porch in very rough shape. She has come a long way to recovering her health, and this dignified lady is searching for a forever home that can help her live out the remainder of her days in the lap of luxury.
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MARTHA• Martha is an approximately 7year-old female black Manx. Martha is a shy girl, preferring to spend her time tucked into a comfy little nook rather than socializing with other cats. The shelter life is a bit too exciting for an introvert like her. She does seem intersted in cat toys, and loves when you meet her at her level and offer your affection. Could you be the one to help coax her out of her shell?
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 GISELLA• Gisella, a 4-year-old tuxedoed girl, is the queen of the world and she knows it! This beautiful black and white gal is flirty, fun, and enjoys being around cats (so she can boss them around!). Gisella is spayed, up to date on all her shots, litterbox-trained and raring to go home with you today! Call Humane Society of Western Montana for more information
To sponsor a pet call 543-6609
BRAMBLE• Big, bold Bramble loves to loll
about the house. This black and white girl is super tolerant of children, a great lap warmer, and a beautiful addition to your household! Come meet this laid-back 6-year-old female today! Our Humane Society of Western Montana shelter hours are Wednesday-Friday, 1pm-6pm, and Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-5pm.
ZEUS• Zeus is our kind of mythology! This independent 1-year-old gentleman is tolerant of busyness and lots of activity, but he'd prefer to be in charge of a moderately quiet household. You'll fall in love as soon as you meet this black and white cat! Zeus has lived with lots of cats, dogs, and kiddos! Come say hi today! 5930 Highway 93 S, just south of Missoula!
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COCOA PUFF• This 9-year-old Boxer cross is looking for a home where she can be the only fur baby in an adult family. She loves going on walks around the neighborhood before taking over the couch for a well-deserved nap. Cocoa Puff walks nicely on leash and is laid back! She loves the three s’s: snacks, snuggling, and sniffing around! Come meet her today! 406.549.3934
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BLAZE• Blaze is an utterly gorgeous Rottweiler cross who, at just 1-year-old, is so ready to learn and explore the world! This wonderful guy would love to attend Basic Manners courses and go on lots of adventures with his people! Come meet Blaze at Humane Society of Western Montana! Our hours are WednesdayFriday, 1pm-6pm, and Saturday-Sunday, 12pm5pm! STEPH• One look into Steph’s golden German Shepherd eyes, and you’ll know just how smart this stunner is! Steph is young, active, and excited to find a forever family where she can gets lots of exercise and positive reinforcement training! Come play a chess game or two with Steph at Humane Society of Western Montana today! 406.549.3934 missoulanews.com • April 6-April 13, 2017 [C11]
REAL ESTATE
info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 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 Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees
and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungstenholdings.com (406) 293-3714
COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
OUT OF TOWN
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
255 S Russell Street, Missoula, MT 59801 | MLS #21611393 Need a Hospitality Space? Serve your special coffees, health drinks, juices, etc Lots of foot traffic. Modified gross lease of $21sf = $2,660/Mo www.MoveMontana.com MLS#2161193
Homes: 3736 W Sussex - Country feel-City access! This 5 bed, 3 bath home w/almost 2500 sq ft is spacious w/tons of natural light. .......$319,000 932 S 2nd St W - Sweet and sunny two story, 3 bed/2 bath home in the desirable McCormick park neighborhood. ....................$230,000 1839 Mansfield - Wonderful 5 bed/2.5 bath home in the University area on a corner, double lot. Large, tiled entry with glass brick, windows and great light......................................................................................................................................................................$575,000 9 Main St. Regis - Sweet 2 bed, 1 bath in St. Regis on 4 lots. Fully fenced. Adjacent to park, baseball fields and pond.................$120,000 2301 Hilda Ave - Beautiful University area home with lovely character. Price reduction.................................................................$365,000 412 W Artemos - Truly amazing mid-century modern home in Pattee Canyon. Three bed, one full bath and one 3/4 bath. ........$409,000
Townhomes/Condos: 801 N Orange - Uptown Flats #303. Third floor, south facing. 1 bed 1 bath. $159,710 801 N Orange - Uptown Flats #308. Quick access to downtown, the river, Farmers Market, and only a few steps away from Northside Kettlehouse. .......................................................................................................................................................................$159,000 801 N Orange - Uptown Flats #301. Larger than most units in The Uptown Flats. This 814 sf condo has one bedroom plus a bonus room.........................................................................................................................................................................................$184,000 1401 Cedar St #13 - This is your chance to own an amazing home in Clark Fork Commons. ......................................................$145,000
For Lease: 255 South Russell St - LEASE SPACE IN THE SOURCE HEALTH CLUB. Modified gross lease of $21 sqft/year/$2,660/month
Featured: 3736 W Sussex – Country feel-City access! This 5 bed, 3 bath home w/almost 2500 sq ft is spacious w/tons of natural light. $319,000
3811 STEPHENS #26
3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Target Range home. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
1839 Mansfield – Wonderful 5 bed/2.5 bath home in the University area on a corner, double lot. Large, tiled entry with glass brick, windows and great light. $575,000
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ALL ON ONE LEVEL condo in convenient central location. Master bedroom has full bath and walk-in closet. Kitchen is equipped with newer stainless steel appliances. Single garage. $140,000
955 7th Street • $180,900 Well-loved 1 bed, 1 bath with custom woodwork, separate studio, landscaped yard, deck & new garage.
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