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Voices The readers write...................................................................................................4 Street Talk Eating bugs.....................................................................................................4 Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ...............................................6 Briefs Connecting Montanans to tech, Milltown State Park and Motl battles a bill.........6 Etc. Montana’s 2018 Senate race is already off to a spendy start .....................................7 News How to pee in public, Portland-style.......................................................................8 News Zinke rolls out Trump’s climate change anti-agenda..............................................9 Opinion Governor Bullock prepares to commit legicide ..............................................10 Opinion To save wildlife, humans better start sharing...................................................11 Feature Could insects feed a hungry world? ..................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Remembering International Wildlife Film Festival founder Chuck Jonkel .............20 Music Pale People, Joseph Running Crane & the Dirty Birds, Mastodon ......................21 Film Three must-see films at this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival.................22 Books For John Gierach, fly fishing is freedom..............................................................23 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .......................................................24 Happiest Hour Shine potions at Good Medicine ..........................................................25 Resistance Kitchen See ya Steve sunchoke salad..........................................................26 8 Days a Week So metal. ................................................................................................28 Agenda Lunafest screens nine films for GUTS................................................................37 Mountain High The making of The Hard Way...............................................................38

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News of the Weird .........................................................................................................12 Classifieds ....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World .....................................................................................................C-8

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STREET TALK

by Kate Whittle and Derek Brouwer

Asked Friday, April 7, at the southside KettleHouse.

Would you eat bugs, and if so, have you eaten bugs? Follow-up: What’s your preferred method of cooking bugs?

Anthony Lozada: I have. I’ve eaten raw ants, chocolate-covered crickets, salt-andvinegar crickets. Tangy: The ants. I was in Costa Rica and they were live and they tasted like lemon.

Tim Brothwell: If I got hungry enough, I would. Desperate times: I mean, I wouldn’t do it by choice. But if I had a lighter I could create a fire and cook it over there and heat it up.

Devin O’Brien: So, I’ve eaten bugs in chocolate before, and “roasted,” which would probably be more like heated by my TA in undergrad. It was ants and crickets in chocolate and mealworms.

Crunchy candy: Ants in chocolate. It’s like Rice Krispies in chocolate. They kind of pop.

Jesse Weber: Crickets, ants. My favorite are mopane worms. They’re giant, they’re about four inches long, and they grow on trees in southern Africa. The Red Lobster special: There’s two ways of cooking them. One is you can dry them sitting out in the sun. The other is to cook them with onions and sauté them up. Both ways, they taste like shrimp.

Victoria Dahlhoff: Just cricket flour, made into cookies and stuff. It tastes completely normal. But I’ve also had chocolate-covered crickets. It didn’t taste like much, just crunchy and yummy. What a coincidence: I would say, yeah, chocolate-covered crickets.

But I’m really excited to go to the Bug Appetit dinner (see pg. 14) because it’s going to be cricket tacos.

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The more you know I am a visiting researcher from India.

Let me share the India story on tobacco here (“Sins of the others,” April 6). India has a huge tobacco problem, both smoked and chewed varieties. India also has huge taxes on tobacco, and this item figures almost annually on the tax-hike section in the budget.

But, as we moved into the 21st century, we have encountered many fewer smokers on the roads than we previously did. (Sadly, the number of smokers generally keeps increasing.) The reduction in public smoking is the result of a concerted effort. Every pack of cigarette needs to carry a health hazard warning covering 40 percent of the pack’s front. All movie-goers watch warnings on the hazards of tobacco. Above all, there is a nationwide ban on public smoking. The logic is that smoking, unlike other habits, causes cancer and other health hazards not just for the smoker, but also for those around him or her. The family, especially the kids at home, are the worst affected. If a tax hike reduces a person’s cigarette consumption by 30 packs a year, then it should be welcomed from the health perspective.

But the tax money thus acquired should be spent on awareness and rehabilitation programs.

David Jeyaraj posted at missoulanews.com

Put that in your pipe I take offense at this article. No, the Legislature would not be taxing the poor. They would be taxing anyone who uses tobacco products! Period! The poor can’t afford tobacco products, that is their choice … tobacco or food! We all have to make tough decisions financially. And who ends up paying the bill for their health care for tobaccorelated issues? We do, the citizens of Montana. This article appears to be written by someone under the influence of “Big Tobacco.” This is their defense too, almost verbatim!

Diana Jo Page posted at facebook.com/ missoulaindependent

No sympathy If outrageously pricing cigarettes discourages people from buying them, everyone wins. Medical treatment as a result of smoking is an ongoing public health concern. A drop in people who waste their money on tobacco means more of my tax dollars are available for treatment of conditions that are not easily preventable. Lives, especially those of children, will be improved when innocents are not exposed to secondhand smoke. The planet will not be

littered by cigarette butts. Death and disfigurement will be reduced as a result of a decrease in house fires and wildfires, both commonly a result of careless smoking habits. The horror of being unable to breathe crosses all economic groups.

Higher cigarette taxes do not unfairly target the poor. Cigarette taxes are funding edu-

“I am more than willing to help people who can’t afford basic necessities such as shelter and food. But if a person can’t afford cigarettes, they need to give up the habit.

Period. No sympathy, because it’s a good thing!” cational programs and medications that are proven to help people kick the tobacco habit. Cost is just one more way to discourage cigarette use. I am more than willing to help people who can’t afford basic necessities such as shelter and food. But if a person can’t afford cigarettes, they need to give up the habit. Period. No sympathy, because it’s a good thing!

Linda Joye posted at facebook.com/ missoulaindependent

Out of date Lead was federally banned from use in waterfowl hunting on all federal, state, and privately owned land since 1991. There are hefty fines for being caught using lead by FWP. The issue at hand is lead core bullets.

The statistics these hippies recite are numbers from the ’70s and ’80s, before the lead ban (“Get the lead out,” April 6). Condors and eagles do not get lead poisoning these days from roadkill on highways, but more from lead fishing weights that fish ingest and birds of prey eat. There are still higher concentrations of lead in most of the municipal drinking water in this country than in every condor and eagle combined. Metallurgy and alloy technology have come a long way since

the ’80s, and lead core bullets do not fragment but mushroom out. No animal I have or have seen harvested has ever had a fragmented bullet. Bone yes, bullet no. Alternative facts from a bucket biologist.

Justin Benson posted at facebook.com/ missoulaindependent

Mail-in confusion Once again, Dan Brooks has articulated the situation in Helena, in this case the failure of SB 305, which would have allowed the special election on Thursday, May 25, to be conducted exclusively by mail, rather than extract thousands in taxpayer money from already strapped counties to fund an unnecessary full-fledged election (“Suppressing the vote is not a campaign tactic,” March 30).

Since reading Brooks’ piece, however, I’ve learned that all-mail-in ballots may still be alive with Gov. Bullock’s Fri., April 7, action, now part of HB 83. As of this writing, I have found no info on the bill’s movement.

Due to the controversy, Montanans are confused about how to vote. I’d like to share what I know: 1) No matter what happens, you can still vote by mail, which I highly recommend! 2) Registered voters who are already signed up to get absentee ballots will get them as usual. 3) Those who are registered but aren’t signed up to get absentee ballots can download the form from Montana Secretary of State website and mail it in before April 25, or do it all in person at the county courthouse downtown or election center at the fairgrounds. You can ask for the absentee ballot just this once, or get on the permanent list. 4) Those who aren’t registered at their current addresses can do so on the Secretary of State website or at the courthouse or fairgrounds any time up until noon on Election Day, May 25. 5) Absentee ballots allow you to vote early, but must be received by Election Day, so mail them at least three days before the election or deliver in person to courthouse or the election center at the fairgrounds on or before Election Day. 6) In-state students, check your registration address and remember to vote.

7) Out-of-state students, if you voted in Montana in the last election, you are still registered unless your address has changed.

If it has, or if you aren’t registered in Montana, please register at your Montana address and vote by mail before you take off for the summer. 8) People with criminal records can vote, including those currently on parole or probation. 9) The homeless can vote in Montana! A homeless shelter or church can be your address.

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, April 5 The Montana Kaimin breaks the news that former University of Montana president Royce Engstrom will be returning to campus as a chemistry professor—at least until the position is eliminated due to budget cuts. Womp womp.

Thursday, April 6 In a Facebook post, Montgomery Distillery seeks clues in the disappearance of a mountain lion skin stolen from its hallway. The post threatens the thief with both “bad karma” and “iron-fisted justice.”

Friday, April 7 Mount Jumbo’s South Zone opens at last!

Although dozens of elk are still partying it up, so avoid the elk. The Parks and Rec Department notes that letting a pet dog harass game animals can result in a fine of $1,000.

Saturday, April 8 A Great Falls judge reduces the number of signatures required to get third-party candidates on the ballot for the May 25 special election. Montana Green Party candidate and Missoula resident Thomas Breck still doesn’t meet the new 400-signature threshold.

Where’s the money?

Connecting Montana to tech Two-thirds of Montana college and university graduates end up leaving the state to find work elsewhere, according to the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research. And while the state’s employment rate is high, Montanans don’t typically make much money—a 2015 report from the Montana Department of Labor ranks Montana at 47th in the nation in average earnings.

“Every place has at least one problem, and in Missoula and Montana the problem is that wages are pretty low,” says Bryce Ward, BBER’s associate director.

Ward says he’s a big booster for Montana’s outdoorsy, small-town lifestyle, and his goal is to find ways to bring educated Montanans back to the state while fostering the kind of 21st century industries that pay higher wages. On April 26, Ward plans to unveil the prototype of an online service he calls “Meet Me In MT” at an economic seminar in Billings. The service won’t be public for a few months at least, but he envisions it as similar to a dating website, but for people who want to live and work in Montana—particularly

people with skills in knowledge-based industries like software development and web design. His theory is that big companies will locate to Montana and boost the economy only if they can draw workers with the right skills. Some tech-focused startups are already here—Ward points to Missoula companies like Submittable, Workiva and GatherBoard.

“I’ve talked to lots of firms, not just tech firms, and they’re saying there’s not a lot of workers here,” Ward says. “Something needs to be done in breaking that cycle.”

Ward, a native Oregonian, envisions Meet Me in MT serving people like his wife, a native Montanan.

When they lived in Portland a few years ago, he says, she always wanted to move back home.

“My wife looked for jobs in Montana every day when we lived in Oregon. And I don’t know that most people have that diligence,” Ward says. “Maybe they just pull up a job board once and think there’s no jobs.

So the goal of Meet Me in MT is to get people to say, ‘Yes, I’m interested, here’s things you can use to match me with employers.’”

At the Montana High Tech Alliance, Executive Director Christina Henderson says she hears from startups

that want to keep their headquarters in Montana—they just need tech-savvy applicants with coding skills. She supports Ward’s idea for Meet Me in MT. “The No. 1 barrier to growth for tech firms in Montana is access to high-tech talent,” Henderson says.

Kate Whittle

Last licks

Motl battles one more bill When state Rep. Derek Skees’ bill to eliminate the Office of Political Practices was tabled in committee late last month, it looked like the state’s campaign-law enforcement agency might escape the 2017 Legislature unscathed. Then Senate Bill 368 stormed in, passing from committee to the Senate floor to the House in just two weeks. Commissioner Jonathan Motl found himself once again stepping before lawmakers to urge caution over action, declaring SB 368 a “political insiders’ bill."

Though not nearly as startling as Skees’ proposal, SB 368 would significantly alter the campaign practices landscape in Montana, in part by doubling contribution limits. The aggregate limit for contributions

Sunday, April 9 Montana Public Radio’s annual on-air fundraising drive concludes after raising $604,824 in listener pledges April 1–9. The station fell short of its $660,000 goal.

Monday, April 10 After city councilors balk, Mayor John Engen withdraws a request for the city to chip in $12,500 to fund a workforce study by the Missoula Economic Partnership.

Tuesday, April 11 Five Missoula businesses score $322,000 in state economic development grants, including film content mediator the Audience Awards and “fashionable compression sock” manufacturer VIM & VIGR.

Most people have room to improve their social functioning, and could experience less anxiety and more satisfying interpersonal interactions with even just a little practice.”

—Christina Yoshimura, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Montana, on a new campus counseling program she established to help students build social skills.

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[news] to gubernatorial races from political parties, for example, would rise from $23,850 to $47,700. The measure’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Tom Richmond of Billings, worked with lawmakers including Democratic Sens. Jon Sesso and Diane Sands to craft the bill, and pitched the increases as a bipartisan solution to a controversy that has pinballed in the courts for nearly five years.

“It really is about putting them at some point where a federal judge under Citizens United … that they pass the test of a reasonable limit, because we’re going to apparently treat money as free speech,” Richmond told the House Judiciary Committee on April 7.

Montana’s contribution limits have become something of a moving target ever since District Judge Charles Lovell first struck them down as unconstitutional in an October 2012 suit filed by conservative groups including the nonprofit American Tradition Partnership. That ruling lasted roughly a week before the decision was overturned by the 9th Circuit on appeal. Lovell again threw out the limits on political parties last May, this time making it nine days before staying his own order. That suit, brought by a coalition of conservative PACs and Republican central committees, is still unresolved in the 9th Circuit.

It isn’t the doubling of contribution limits that drew Motl’s criticism, though, as Motl tells the Indy such a position is outside the commissioner’s purview. SB 368 would also strip the commissioner’s office of its authority to bring criminal action against those it finds in violation of campaign practice law, and would establish an appeal and mediation process for candidates and committees—changes Motl sees as an “erosion” of the office’s independence. “The candidates and committees that are going to ask for ondemand mediation are those that are against campaign practices entirely,” he told House Judiciary. “Those are the candidates and committees that go to court anyway, that we cannot settle with.”

Motl has little professional skin left in the SB 368 debate at this point. While Gov. Steve Bullock hasn’t set a timeline for naming Motl’s successor, he’s already interviewed both of the Legislature-approved candidates, meaning Motl’s retirement could begin any day now. Even so, Motl appears intent on waging one last legislative skirmish. “I don’t really see there being any other option than to do what I’m doing,” he tells the Indy, “which is to fully represent the independence of the office until the next commissioner is appointed."

Alex Sakariassen

Long last

Work to start on Milltown Park River enthusiasts will finally be able to launch their boats from the confluence of the Blackfoot River and the Clark Fork this fall. Maybe.

Transforming the former Milltown dam Superfund site into a state park has taken longer than anyone envisioned. The scenic overlook, initially conceived as a way for the public to view ongoing remediation, didn’t open until the contaminated soil had already been hauled away. Montana State Parks has had the money and the plans to build park facilities at the confluence since 2010, but a

nagging road access issue has prevented shovels from hitting dirt.

The last roadblock was finally lifted April 10, when the agency announced its acquisition of a 10acre property donated by the International Paper Company, a deal that took years to seal. Though state officials remain reluctant to say when Milltown State Park will open to the public—maybe this fall, maybe next spring—park manager Mike Kustudia can at least say this: “Hopefully we’ll be breaking ground sometime in June.”

BY THE NUMBERS

10.5

Number of years that Laurie Johnson has worked as a Missoula Downtown Ambassador.

She’ll mark her last day at work—Friday, April 14— with an open-to-the-public reception from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Downtown Missoula Partnership office at 218 E. Main.

Developing the confluence area is the first phase in turning the 535-acre park into a hub for local river travelers and trail users. Plans call for paved parking, a boat launch, trails, latrines and interpretive panels. The roughly $2 million project is being funded primarily through proceeds from the Natural Resource Damage Program created as part of a state settlement with Atlantic Richfield Co., or ARCO, over historic polluting of the Upper Clark Fork River Basin.

Construction at the confluence couldn’t begin until the state obtained permanent public access to the site. The only viable access road was owned by International Paper, and crossed a property that also contains a landfill.

The land deal began inching forward in fall 2015 after International Paper agreed to split the property into two parcels and donate the portion with road access to the state.

“We realize how long folks have been waiting,” Fish, Wildlife and Parks regional parks director Chet Crowser says. “If there was the world’s award for patience, I think we could find any number of people to give it to in relation to this project.”

Still, for residents upstream of Milltown, the progress downstream might seem enviable. On April 7, the Montana Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a long-running lawsuit against ARCO brought by nearly 100 residents of Opportunity, the tiny community where the Milltown reservoir’s contaminated sediment was dumped. Residents claim an EPA-mandated cleanup didn’t go far enough to remediate the soil on their properties.

The court is expected to rule on the case later this year.

Derek Brouwer

ETC. This week, Montana finally got the answer to a question its election-weary masses have been begrudgingly mulling for a while: Who among the Republican ranks will take on Sen. Jon Tester in 2018? State Sen. Albert Olszewski announced his candidacy on April 11, vowing to “champion the unique needs of all Montanans in our nation’s capital.” Senate Majority Leader Fred Thomas praised Olszewski as a “rising star.” The Montana Democratic Party countered that the Kalispell-based orthopedic surgeon “may be one of the most radical politicians in the state legislature.”

Whether Olszewski actually makes it to the general election ballot won’t be decided for some time. The state GOP has been courting Attorney General Tim Fox for the race for at least a month, and who knows what other right-leaning hopefuls might enter the ring between now and the 2018 primary. Outside groups certainly aren’t waiting to find out.

As the Indy initially reported last month, three conservative nonprofits launched major ad buys targeting Tester in February and early March, all focusing on the issue of Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state chapter of Americans for Prosperity joined the push on April 4, hosting a phone bank urging voters to tell their Democratic senator to vote in Gorsuch’s favor. Save for an incident in January involving an AFP lobbyist threatening to mark lawmakers down on the organization’s legislative scorecard if they supported a minimum wage increase, it’s the most publicly active AFP has been in some time.

Of course, all that money and phone banking didn’t alter anything. Tester opposed Gorsuch last week just as he’d promised—citing Gorsuch’s position on dark money among his top concerns.

Gorsuch was confirmed anyway, despite a Democratic filibuster. But the invasion of Montana’s televisions and monitors orchestrated by the likes of the Congressional Leadership Fund and Concerned Veterans for America has given us an early taste of what’s in store for the 2018 Senate race.

Consider this: Tester’s 2012 showdown with Denny Rehberg featured record spending of $47 million—less than half of it by the candidates. So far this year, Tester-critical messaging has already run up a tab of nearly $2 million. And that was before a Republican had even entered the race.

The next 18 months are going to be nasty and expensive. Judging from the special election we’re still in the throes of, that’ll be pretty much par for the course.

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Exposed to art How to pee in public, Portland-style

by Kate Whittle

Missoula’s loo is enthusiastically enApril 21 marks the Missoula Art Park’s restroom at a time, so police can intervene grand opening at the intersection of Pattee in case of excessively romantic public inter- dorsed by Sheila Snyder, chief operations and Pine. The Art Park, a longtime project actions. The handwashing station is located officer at Adventure Cycling, which donated of the Missoula Art Museum, will offer outside the unit, making for quicker exits about $75,000 to the project, and whose ofdowntown visitors a scenic plaza in which from the space. The loo is equipped with fices abut the Art Park. Snyder says the loo to view art installations. April 21 will also LED lights that brighten when someone en- will help offset the need for public restmark the grand opening of the Art Park’s ters the stall, so it’s easy to tell when it’s in rooms in a part of downtown where crowds throng every Saturday during farmers marmost novel amenity: Montana’s first Port- use.

Millin says the loo reflects the way in ket season. land Loo. “A lot of businesses don’t just let people “The original vision had been an art which the Art Park itself aims to provide a plaza, but it really blossomed into a full- public service, with all the challenges that use the restroom. You know how it is when blown park and community space,” ex- ambition entails. She regrets, for instance, you’re downtown,” Snyder says. “Someplains Laura Millin, MAM’s executive that the park won’t be able to host ceramics times you have to run all the way to Caras director. “I was asking people to envision what they’d like to see in a public space like that— the idea of the loo came from the mayor’s Downtown Advisory Council.”

The loo is no mere bathroom. It was developed in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-2000s by city designers trying to create a free public restroom that would be impervious to graffiti, drug use, prostitution and trash. Public restrooms can be an expensive proposition for busy cities. Seattle, for photo by Derek Brouwer instance, spent $5 million in 2003 on five The new Missoula Art Park will include the state’s first Portland Loo, a single-stall restroom high-tech, self-cleaning, designed to be impervious to crime. public bathrooms that Park to use the bathroom.” became “refuges for drug use, prostitution exhibits—too easy for vandals to smash.

Whitney Ford-Terry, an Adventure Cy“Public art is a gamble, that’s part of and hanky-panky,” according to the Seattle what you deal with,” Millin says. “It certainly cling staffer who is also designing an inauTimes.

The Portland Loo, which in 2010 affects what you put out in the public gural exhibit for the Art Park, says the loo seems to fit perfectly with the idea of the earned the city of Portland’s first patent, cost realm.”

The Portland Loos haven’t been park as a public amenity. about $105,000, including installation. (The “Art is a basic public service, I think, and Art Park was funded primarily through pri- greeted with enthusiasm everywhere. NPR vate donations, plus $280,000 from the city reported in 2015 that San Diego removed having spaces for people to engage in that of Missoula, and will be operated as a city one of its loos after local business owners is really important,” Ford-Terry says. “And park.) The loo’s heavy-duty stainless steel complained that the restroom attracted too there are basic human needs that need to design is resistant to vandalism and easy to many homeless people. But for the most be counted in that. I’m really happy the loo clean with a power washer. Louvers at the part the loo seems to be spreading in pop- is there.” top and bottom of the structure make it ularity, with installations from Seattle to kwhittle@missoulanews.com easy to see how many pairs of feet are in the Alaska to Montreal.

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Trolling coal Zinke rolls out Trump’s climate change anti-agenda

by Elizabeth Shogren

Late last month, before President Donald Trump ordered an about-face on federal climate change policies, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had a few minutes to speak to a gathering of members of Congress and industry executives. Encapsulating the Trump administration’s disdain for Barack Obama’s approach to climate change, Zinke said, “You know, our nation can’t run on pixie dust and hope, and the last eight years showed that.”

The event was thick with symbolism.

Rather than sign the executive order in the Oval Office, as he usually does, Trump joined Zinke, Vice President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where much of the Obama climate agenda was crafted.

The White House invited a dozen coal miners, who stood behind Trump as he signed the executive order outlining myriad rollbacks to climate change initiatives and promoting fossil fuels.

“We love our coal miners,” Trump said. “I made them this promise. We will put our miners back to work.”

But even some coal executives are skeptical that Trump’s promises can be fulfilled. Low-priced natural gas is outcompeting coal, and increased mechanization makes it unlikely that the tens of thousands of coal workers laid off in recent years could return to work. Robert Murray, founder and chief executive of Murray Energy, a large coal company, recently advised the president about this. “I suggested that he temper his expectations,” Murray told the Guardian. “He can’t bring them back.”

That reality check won’t stop the Trump administration from trying. With a secretarial order, Zinke immediately lifted a moratorium on leasing federal lands for coal mining and stopped a three-year review of the federal coal program launched by his predecessor Sally Jewell. About 40 percent of the nation’s coal comes from federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

The review was intended to evaluate whether Americans get a fair return for that coal and how climate change should figure

into decisions about leasing coal. Zinke called the moratorium and review “unnecessary” because the law already requires extensive environmental analyses of individual leases.

It’s not clear that lifting the moratorium will have much immediate effect. With coal production down and many coal companies bankrupt or in financial distress, companies have not been clamoring for new leases.

Zinke acknowledged as much to reporters in a press call March 29: “There has not been a rush in the last few years for coal leases; some of it has been market, some of it has

been an uncertain regulatory environment.”

Zinke’s measured tone stood in contrast to the triumphant rhetoric about how Trump’s order would end the war on coal and bring back coal jobs. “We’ll see where the market goes,” Zinke said. “We don’t favor one source of energy over another. We just want it to be market driven.” His comments showed the new Cabinet secretary creating an independent voice for himself in an administration over which the White House seems to want to exert tight control.

In another secretarial order, Zinke set tight deadlines for his staff to scrutinize policies that may hamper energy development on public lands. He gave agencies two weeks to identify policies tied to Obama’s executive

orders on climate change and mitigating the impacts of energy development on wildlife and other natural and cultural resources. He set a deadline of 30 days to decide whether to review or rescind those policies, and 60 days to have any replacement policies drafted. The goal, the order states, is to “better balance conservation strategies and policies with the equally legitimate need of creating jobs for hardworking American families.”

Zinke also kicked off the process of rewriting or striking four Obama administration oil and gas rules. One, which regulates hydraulic fracturing on public lands, is stuck in the courts already. The others regulate drilling in national parks and wildlife refuges and limit companies from wasting methane through leaks and intentional flaring of natural gas on public lands.

During the press call, Zinke was asked whether and how he would consider climate change impacts when making future decisions, considering that Trump’s order cancels guidance on the social cost of carbon.

Zinke said that the agency will be “transparent” as it figures out its new methodology. But he stressed: “The social cost of not having a job is important too.”

Ignoring climate change impacts could ensnare Zinke’s Interior Department in the courts. A series of rulings in recent years require agencies to account for climate in environmental analyses of major actions. “They can’t just throw up their hands and say we don’t care, we don’t want to, or we don’t believe in it,” said Nada Culver, senior counsel of the Wilderness Society.

Like Trump, Zinke insists the administration values clean air and clean water, as well as jobs. “My intention is to be the steward over the majesty of our public lands,” Zinke said during an interview with Fox News on March 29, “and make sure we can make wealth and jobs on some of it.”

This story was originally published at High Country News (hcn.org) on March 31.

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Life or something like it Governor Bullock prepares to commit legicide

by Dan Brooks

Those who know me know that I am a staunch defender of the rights of the unborn.

Fetuses, zygotes, eggs that still have the tail of a sperm sticking out of them—these are all people, just like you and me, and I love them and want to protect their rights. The only people I don’t love are the ones who have already been born. Those people are the worst.

You have to negotiate with them, though, because we live in a democracy. To that end, various 150th-trimester fetuses in the state Legislature have introduced bills to protect their fellow persons in the womb and, in at least one case, the fallopian tubes.

House Bill 595, sponsored by Republican Rep. Derek Skees of Lakeside, would redefine “person” in the Montana Constitution as “all members of the species Homo sapiens at any stage of development, including the stage of fertilization or conception.”

This bill would effectively prohibit abortion under all circumstances, including cases of rape and incest, as well as during pregnancies that threaten the life of the mother.

It would also outlaw methods of birth control that prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus, such as IUDs. The amendment, which is cosponsored by 54 of Skees’ fellow representatives, would additionally criminalize medical treatment for ectopic pregnancies, during which a fertilized egg becomes lodged in the fallopian tube.

Obviously, HB 595 is good. The thousands of invisible, single-celled people it will save from death by IUD is well worth the dozens of viable post-birth fetuses, or “women,” who will die from pregnancy-related complications. But does it go far enough?

Only a moron would argue that life begins with birth. But isn’t it just as wrong to say that life does not begin until conception?

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I believe life begins when two strangers’ eyes meet across a crowded room. This moment is a person,

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just like you and me. Its mother has no right to terminate it by leaving the room before the man can impregnate her and move to North Dakota. By allowing women to end the lives of their unconceived children in this way, HB 595 fails to protect literally millions of unborn Montanans.

Women don’t just have babies on their own, of course. Every unwanted pregnancy involves two people: the mother and her doctor. In the state Senate, Albert Olszewski, R-Kalispell, has proposed a bill that would require physicians to take every measure

“I believe life begins when two strangers’ eyes meet across a crowded room.

This moment is a person, just like you and me.” possible to preserve the life of any fetus older than 24 weeks—including induced labor, cesarean section and resuscitation after miscarriage or abortion. Doctors who fail to perform such life-saving measures would be subject to prosecution.

This bill will introduce a long-overdue element of personal responsibility to medical professionals who carelessly treat every patient. Once they know that they might face criminal charges or be forced to resuscitate a miscarried fetus, obstetricians will think twice about admitting pregnant women to

their offices willy-nilly. Olszewski’s bill will cut down on the No. 1 cause of abortion: access to medical care.

It’s a step in the right direction, I suppose, but it doesn’t go as far as SB 329. Introduced by Republican Sen. Keith Regier of Kalispell, the bill would ban abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. To this proposal I say: Why does the senator want to murder so many 19-week-old babies?

As a man who got a vasectomy, I believe that pregnancy is sacred. Every person deserves a chance at life, be they fetus, zygote, unfertilized egg—everyone except pregnant women with pre-eclampsia, really. They’re just going to have to bite the bullet. But I think we can agree that people who haven’t been born yet are the most beautiful people of all. They are innocent and pure, and they deserve laws that reflect their perfectly unrealized potential.

That’s why I support all three of the bills to restrict abortion currently before the Montana Legislature, despite their flaws. Like embryos at the moment of conception, they are beautiful ideas. Also like embryos, they’re probably not going to make it. All three of these bills will almost certainly be vetoed by Gov. Steve Bullock, should the Legislature pass them.

But that’s fine with me, because I believe that law begins at the moment of conception. As soon as a middle-aged man from Lake County thinks of a bill to make women have babies they don’t want, it’s got the same legal authority as the Code of Montana. Vetoing an unpassed law is the same as breaking it, and any governor who does it should be charged with legicide. I’m going to amend the state Constitution to say so, just as soon as I can get enough people who aren’t governors together to vote on it.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and theoretical rights for theoretical people at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Path to isolation To save wildlife, humans better start sharing

by Stephen Capra

We live in a time where we are heading toward a world without wildlife. We have a voice and a vote, yet we elect people who support the destruction of what makes our planet livable. But perhaps our gravest sin continues to be our treatment of wildlife. How is it that, given an earth so rich in life, humanity has chosen to kill—to destroy—the oasis we have been granted?

We live in a time of great knowledge about animals, and many people have become advocates for all species. Yet prejudice, war and social unrest make even our relationships with our fellow humans complex. Governments are already slow to act to protect the natural world. Now, consider how hard we find it to deal with species that look nothing like us, that live underwater or fly through the sky, that compete with us for food or could even make us their next meal.

Add into the mix poverty, hunger, population pressure and cultural norms, then multiply all that by corporate greed, energy development, rapid deforestation and climate change, and you begin to understand the true cycle of genocide that modern civilization is waging against wildlife—and ultimately itself.

We have a long history of destroying wildlife. The Great Plains remains for many the centerpiece of America’s shame, the site of a wanton waste of wildlife, which left species like the passenger pigeon extinct and the bison all but gone. In order to destroy the Native American cultures and take control of the land, many of us saw the killing of wildlife as almost a patriotic endeavor.

The aftermath of decay and dried bones scattered across a vast expanse of America marks, without question, wildlife’s own “Trail of Tears.”

Our growing awareness of the decimation of the West’s native species eventually inspired the enactment of laws and regulations designed to prevent such a killing spree from occurring again. Conservationists began working to make

people understand the value of species that do not resemble human beings.

In 2014, the World Wildlife Fund issued a report with the Zoological Society of London, which found that a number of species of wild animals had lost half their populations in 40 years. The culprits were many—humans killing wildlife for food in unsustainable numbers, the

“Right now, we are witness to the last great extinction of species in our history, one that, if not stopped, will remove the final barrier to our complete isolation as humans.” pollution and destruction of habitat. The report went on to point out that we are “cutting trees faster than we regrow them, catching fish faster than the oceans can restock, pumping water from rivers and aquifers faster than rainfall can replenish them, and emitting more climate-warming carbon dioxide than oceans and forests can absorb.” The most rapid decline of wildlife populations has occurred in freshwater ecosystems, where wildlife numbers have plummeted more than 75 percent since 1970.

Yet most of us continue to confront such situations with a shrug of recognition, a new-normal sense of futility, or maybe the vague hope that science will ultimately save us from our madness.

Right now, we are witness to the last

great extinction of species in our history, one that, if not stopped, will remove the final barrier to our complete isolation as humans. Think of the karma we will inherit for our refusal to share our world and to accept our responsibility to live in harmony with all species.

The shift to harmony may only be realized after the implosion of our material-based society, once we make massive shifts in our diet and break the back of the corporations that feed the sickness in our society. But most of all, it requires leadership—placing in power people who respect all species and understand the value of a shared earth. This change will only come with basic human kindness and love. If we pass laws that end cruelty and protect more lands and more waters, we can truly embrace the concept that all life matters.

Like all politics, this shift must begin locally. Like all education, it requires great teachers who will provide the next generation the chance to get it right. What is different for wildlife today is that we are running out of time. We cannot look to make change in 20, 30 or 40 years. The change must happen now.

We are moving toward a world without wildlife, not because we want it but because we have not accepted a formula that truly allows coexistence.

That formula will only exist when society, nations and people understand the limitations of being human—when we accept such limits on ourselves in order to share, not control, the world we live in.

The Zen of that concept is the deeper connection and relationship with species that will enrich our lives. Only then will we have finally matured as the species we call human.

Stephen Capra is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the executive director of Bold Visions Conservation, based in New Mexico.

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WORLD’S COOLEST CITY–Recently, in Dubai (the largest city in the United Arab Emirates), Dubai Civil Defense started using water jetpacks that lift firefighters off the ground to hover in advantageous positions as they work the hoses. Also, using jet skis, rescuers can avoid traffic altogether by using the city’s rivers to arrive at fires (and, if close enough to a waterway, can pump water without hydrants). Even more spectacularly, as early as this summer, Dubai will authorize already-tested, one-person “Jetsons”-type drones for ordinary travel in the city. The Ehang 184 model flies about 30 minutes on an electrical charge, carrying up to 220 pounds at about 60 mph.

LATEST HUMAN RIGHTS–Convicted murderer Philip Smith (a veteran criminal serving life for killing the father of a boy Smith had been sexually abusing) escaped from prison in New Zealand with the help of a disguise that included a toupee for his bald head—before being caught. Prison officials confiscated the toupee, but Smith said a shiny head behind bars made him feel “belittled, degraded and humiliated” and sued for the right to keep the toupee. (In March, in a rare case in which a litigant succeeds as his own lawyer, Smith prevailed in Auckland’s High Court.)

In March, star soccer goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza signed a two-year contract to play for Brazil’s Boa Esporte club while he awaits the outcome of his appealed conviction for the 2010 murder of his girlfriend. (He had also fed her body to his dogs.) He had been sentenced to 22 years in prison, but was released by a judge after seven, based on the judge’s exasperation at the years-long delays in appeals in Brazil’s sluggish legal system.

AWESOME!–The Cleveland (Ohio) Street Department still had not (at press time) identified the man, but somehow he, dressed as a road worker, had wandered stealthily along Franklin Boulevard during March and removed more than 20 standard “35 mph” speed limit signs—replacing all with official-looking “25 mph” signs that he presumably financed himself. Residents along those two miles of Franklin have long complained, but the city kept rejecting pleas for a lowered limit.

MATING STRATEGIES–The Apenheul primate park in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, is engaged in a fouryear experiment offering female orangutans an iPad loaded with photos of male orangutans now housed at zoos around the world, with the females able to express interest or disinterest (similar to swiping right or left on the human dating app Tinder). Researchers admit results have been mixed, that some males have to be returned home, and once, a female handed the iPad with a potential suitor showing, merely crushed the tablet. (Apps are not quite to the point of offering animals the ability to digitally smell each other.)

Peacocks are “well known” (so they say) to flash their erect, sometimes-6-foot-high rack of colorful tail feathers to attract mating opportunities. However, as researchers in Texas recently found, the display might not be important. Body cameras placed on peahens at eye level (to learn how they check out strutting males) revealed that the females gazed mostly at the lowest level of feathers (as if attracted only to certain colors rather than the awesomeness of the towering flourish).

SPECTACULAR ERRORS!–In March, jurors in Norfolk, Virginia, found Allen Cochran, 49, not guilty of attempted shoplifting, but he was nowhere to be seen when the verdict was announced. Apparently predicting doom (since he had also been charged with fleeing court during a previous case), he once again skipped out. The jury then re-retired to the jury room, found him guilty on the earlier count and sentenced him to the five-year maximum. (Because of time already served, he could have walked away legally if he hadn’t walked away illegally.)

In March, Ghanian soccer player Mohammed Anas earned a “man of the match” award (after his two goals led the Free State Stars to a 2-2 draw), but botched the acceptance speech by thanking both his wife and his girlfriend. Reportedly, Anas “stumbled for a second” until he could correct himself. “I’m so sorry,” he attempted to clarify. “My wife! I love you so much from my heart.”

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS–It turns out that Layne Hardin’s sperm is worth only $1,900— and not the $870,000 a jury had awarded him after finding that former girlfriend Tobie Devall had, without Hardin’s permission, obtained a vial of it without authorization and inseminated herself to produce her son, now age 6. Initially Hardin tried to gain partial custody of the boy, but Devall continually rebuffed him, provoking the lawsuit (which also named the sperm bank Texas Andrology a defendant) and the challenge in Houston’s First Court of Appeal.

MOST COMPETENT CRIMINAL–An astonished woman unnamed in news reports called police in Coleshill, England, in February to report that a car exactly like her silver Ford Kuga was parked at Melbicks garden center—with the very same license plate as hers. Police figured out that a silver Ford Kuga had been stolen nearby in 2016, and to disguise that it was stolen, the thief had looked for an identical, not-stolen Ford Kuga and then replicated its license plate, allowing the thief to drive the stolen car without suspicion.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS–Thieves once again attempted a fruitless smash-and-grab of an ATM at Mike and Reggie’s Beverages in Maple Heights, Ohio, in March—despite the owner’s having left the ATM’s door wide open with a sign reading “ATM emptied nightly.” Police are investigating.

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side from the occasional gnat that’s drowned in my bedside water glass and a few mezcal worms during college, I’m not in the habit of ingesting bugs. I’m more of a meat-and-three guy. When I think of eating insects, I imagine some wild-eyed survivalist lost in the woods, forced to choke down grubs and beetles for sustenance while waiting to get choppered out.

And yet here I sit at Burns St. Bistro, fork in hand, staring down at a steaming taco piled high with a tangled heap of Mexican grasshoppers.

At least I’m not alone. All over the world today, 2 billion people will sit down to a meal of insects.

Entomophagy—eating insects—is gaining ground in the United States, largely sparked by a 2013 report released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The 200-page document includes an exhaustive investigation into entomophagy’s worldwide history, the nutritional benefits of insect consumption, and the feasibility of large-scale bug farming.

As the world’s population inches toward the 9 billion mark, which it’s expected to hit in 2050, our food production will have to double in order to keep up. And we’re struggling now. The FAO defines undernourishment as the inability to acquire enough food to meet daily dietary energy requirements over a period of one year, and nearly 1 billion people already fail to meet that threshold. How can we ramp up the resources to battle the food insecurity that grips so much of Africa, South America, Asia and even here in the U.S.?

A quarter of the world’s people already have one answer, having eaten beetles, crickets, ants and hundreds of other insect species for centuries. In 2012, Yde Jongema of Wageningen University in the Netherlands released a study that identified 1,900 species of insects consumed as food worldwide. As a source of nutrition, insects bring a lot to the table. They’re loaded with protein, packed with energy-

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providing fat, and provide a spectrum of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients typically lacking in regions plagued with chronic food insecurity. Bugs, especially when compared to other animal-based sources of protein, are good for you.

But they’re also good for the environment.

Worldwide meat production has doubled in the last 30 years, thanks in part to advancing technology and the advance of factory farming. But this increased production comes with a price. With nearly one-third of the earth’s dry land being used to grow food for humans and feed for livestock, the environmental fallout is staggering and, some say, unsustainable. In an FAO report entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” Henning Steinfeld attributes 18 percent of greenhouse gases to agriculture, a larger percentage than the entire transportation sector. Seventy percent of the rainforests in Latin America have been cleared to create grazing lands for cattle. We’re consuming the earth for the sake of steak.

Insects, on the other hand, can be raised as food using a tiny fraction of the water, land, energy and other resources required for producing livestock, and it can be done with a much smaller environmental footprint.

Which all sounds good on paper, but in the Western world, insect diets aren’t an easy sell. When we can drive down the street and choose between three sizes of Big Mac, why would we eat a bug?

“By far the largest thing is mental stigma,” says James Rolin, the marketing manager for Cowboy Cricket Farms in Belgrade, which is owned by his wife, Kathy. The farm, one of a half dozen such operations in the country, has been ramping up its operation and plans to open officially in mid-May and be fully operational by September, Rolin says. It’s already received queries from as far away as Australia. The 1,100-squarefoot facility has been designed to raise the animals (acheta domestica, aka house crickets), which will be ground into protein-rich flour or frozen whole for sale

in bulk to restaurants and food manufacturers. Consumers will be able to buy one-pound bags of flour online. The flour is also used in the farm’s “chocolate chirp” cookies, which are baked by Big Sky Bakery in Bozeman. Rolin says the cookies are an outreach tool designed to ease people into the idea of eating bugs.

“We have not traditionally eaten insects, and as such they’re thought to be dirty and disgusting and dangerous and harmful and poisonous and all these other things,” Rolin says. “Yes, there are insects out there that are those things, but the vast majority are not. So really, just the mental roadblock is the biggest thing.”

Kathy dreamed up the idea of Cowboy Cricket Farms while studying nutrition at Montana State University. “The more we got into it, the more it just made sense,” James says, “not just from a business standpoint, but from an environmental and social standpoint as well. We’re the first ones [in Montana], but if someone else does come up with something, at least there will be a bit of a path blazed for them.”

If getting people past the ick factor is the first hurdle to acceptance of bugs as food, government regulation—or lack thereof—is a hurdle to farming them.

“There are no real regulations right now,” Rolin says, “but the general consensus is, as long as they’re fed like any other food-grade animal would be—say, chickens—and they’re treated as food throughout the whole process, they’re human food grade. We’ve spent a lot of time educating the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, both of which have been surprisingly helpful and really have given us a lot of support.”

How, exactly, does one fit a fully functioning farm, complete with hatchery and food processing area, on a footprint the size of a Taco Bell? With crickets, you go up, not out. The main barn has a 17-foot ceiling, and Rolin says the plastic bins housing some 20 million crickets will take up every foot of it. “You can grow them in a really small area. We can grow the [protein] equivalent of 20 cows a year in our facility,

Entomophagy—eating insects—is gaining ground in the United States, largely sparked by a 2013 report released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which includes an exhaustive investigation into entomophagy’s worldwide history, the nutritional benefits of insect consumption, and the feasibility of large-scale bug farming.

and you cannot fit 20 cows in our facility. It takes just a small fraction of the land.”

Cowboy Cricket Farms has already received several letters of intent for large orders of whole and powdered crickets from companies in Mexico, the United States and Canada. One outfit in Canada that produces beef substitutes has expressed interest in ordering as much as 3,000 pounds of frozen crickets monthly. Cowboy Cricket Farm will be Montana’s first bug-food entity, but the availability of finished foods containing edible insects is creeping ever closer. Insect treats and meals have enjoyed a certain vogue in cities like New York, New Orleans and San Francisco.

You can order a grasshopper stir fry at La Calaca Comelona in Portland, or slurp a cricket powder milkshake at Wayback Burger in several of the chain’s Washington restaurants. Online, you can find a variety

of ready-to-eat insects, from Exo’s cricket protein bars to bags of freeze-dried buffalo worms from EntoPure.

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ames says he and Kathy were inspired to start farming crickets by MSU’s Florence Dunkel, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture’s Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology and an international expert on edible insects. Working with MSU Catering, Dunkel hosted the 29th annual Bug Buffet in February, where nearly a thousand people gathered to chow down on orzo cricket salad, quesadillas with honeycomb moths, larval latkes and several other dishes featuring insects. The Bug Buffet aims to help people overcome their psychological aversion to eating insects by providing tasty treats like chocolate chip wax worm cookies, but the event also

emphasizes insect farming and its minimal environmental impacts.

A similar event is planned in Missoula for April 21. The Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium’s “Bug Appétit!” fundraiser features a menu of three dishes containing mealworms, crickets and grasshoppers. The recipes were researched and prepared by Burns St. Bistro chef Walker Hunter, one of the popular Westside eatery’s co-founders. “We’re trying to weigh the sensationalism with actually being good,” he says of the menu. Chef Hunter has agreed to whip up a preview meal for me, which is why I am sitting here eyeballing this mess of roasted grasshoppers, thinking about that scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where a turban-topped dinner guest gleefully slurps the goop out of a Thin Mint-sized beetle like he’s sucking the head of a crawfish.

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“In the Western world, insect diets aren’t an easy sell. When we can drive down the street and choose between three sizes of Big Mac, why would we eat a bug?”

The comparison isn’t that far off, actually. It’s no coincidence that crawfish are also known as mud bugs. Shellfish and insects aren’t that different from each other, says Glenn Marangelo, development director of the MBHI. By way of example, he points out the physical similarity between lobsters and scorpions. “We consider lobster to be a delicacy,” he says, “but people are grossed out by bugs.”

Evidently, these arthropods are alike in more than just appearance. People who have allergies to shellfish can also have a reaction to insects, says Marangelo, so they should also avoid eating bugs al-

with that. Now maybe when people see them, instead of getting creeped out, they’ll salivate.”

I’m not exactly drooling as I grab the taco off the plate. The grasshoppers were chosen by Hunter after he learned that chapulines, as they’re known in Mexico, have been a popular food in many parts of that country since pre-Hispanic times. Using them for taco filling, he says, was a no-brainer. “If people hate it,” he says with a smile, “blame Oaxaca.”

I keep that in mind as I open wide and shove the taco into my mouth. Prickly appendages tickle my tongue as I chomp. The taco, layered with cotija cheese,

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“We have not traditionally eaten insects, and as such they’re thought to be dirty and disgusting and dangerous and harmful and poisonous and all these other things,” say James Rolin, marketing manager for Cowboy Crickets Farms in Belgrade.

together. The allergen is thought to be found in chitin, the material that makes up the exoskeletons of segmented shellfish and insects alike.

Jen Marangelo, Glenn’s wife, is the executive director of the MBHI and runs the daily operations of the Insectarium. Their collection of live arthropods from around the world, from giant hissing cockroaches to a Chilean tarantula named Rosie, draws a steady stream of school tours during which “bug ambassadors” answer questions and show off the stock.

But given that their mission is to “inspire the appreciation and understanding of insects,” isn’t the idea of serving bug-based dishes at a fundraiser akin to raising money for a zoo by grilling up zebra steaks and hippo chops? According to Glenn, appreciation includes accepting bugs as food.

“Insects are already a crucial part of our world.

Maybe bringing that into our food culture dovetails

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salsa fresca, cilantro and a dollop of tangy guacamole, is crunchy yet chewy, a mouthful of goodness that’s unlike anything I’ve ever tasted. There’s a vaguely nutty flavor to the grasshoppers, with a hint of citrus. Not bad. I’m chewing a mouthful of the critters and I notice that their legs don’t crumble between my teeth like I was expecting. They’re not brittle, but fibrous and wiry like the stem of a dry maple leaf. The hoppers are dried and roasted, so at least there’s nothing gooey to contend with. The homemade flour tortilla is the perfect vehicle for the savory grasshoppers, providing a fluffy complement to the chewy brown bugs.

But as much as I’m enjoying the flavors, I can’t swallow this bite. As it happens, I’d scheduled a colonoscopy a couple of days after the sample meal, and I was already within the window where any foods with a husk, like corn or seeds or nuts, were forbidden. Nowhere in the hospital handout was the con-

sumption of bugs addressed. I could have wolfed down the whole taco in three bites, it was that good, but I could imagine the doctor scoping the folds of my lower intestine, saying, “Ahoy, what’s that there?

An antenna? A mandible? Abort!”

If you’ve submitted to this wonderful procedure, you know how much I’d hate to have to go back for an encore. So I reluctantly spit the thoroughly chewed mouthful into a napkin and apologize to Chef Hunter.

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ad this been a regular beef taco, the protein I was chewing would have consumed a lot more resources on its way to the table. As the earth approaches potential tipping points with climate change and overpopulation, our increasing agricultural water usage coupled with the attendant degradation of ecosystems creates a one-two punch that might do us all in long before rising seas turn Miami into a snorkeler’s paradise. Within 10 years, by some estimates, two-thirds of the planet will be feeling the impact of shrinking global water supplies. We need to find ways to raise more food with less water, and if beef and other livestock are a big part of the problem, insects may be the solution. According to the FAO report, one kilogram of crickets—which, pound-forpound, provides at least as much protein as beef—can be raised using discarded produce and no additional water. That same kilogram of feedlot beef would require 686 gallons of water. Crickets are twice as efficient as chickens at converting feed to protein, and four times as efficient as pigs. They’re 12 times more efficient than cattle.

As inefficient as livestock is as a food source, the way we consume livestock contributes even more waste. We typically eat just 40 percent of a cow, whereas you can eat 100 percent of most insects. And it’s not just the massive amount of resources hogged up by factory farms that can be alleviated by farming bugs for food. Agricultural emission of greenhouse gases is a runaway train that can be slowed by involving insects in the mix. Crickets, locusts, mealworm larvae and other widely used insects produce 100

Bug Appétit, a fundraiser for the Missoula Butterfuly House and Insectarium, features a menu of three dishes containing mealworms, crickets and grasshoppers.

times less greenhouse gas than pigs and cattle. Livestock waste also leads to nitrification and acidification of the soil, rendering it useless for agricultural applications. Here, insects can help by being raised in organic sidestreams and livestock biowaste like manure, slurry and compost. Such insects require no fresh resources, but are processed and then fed to certain animals or sold for aquaculture and pet food. Hey, an iguana’s got to eat.

Widespread insect consumption would appear to be a boon to the environment, but the nutritional angle may be entomophagy’s biggest selling point in a world where a billion people suffer chronic hunger.

Compared to their livestock counterparts, insects contain equal or higher concentrations of protein, calcium, magnesium, zinc, B vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids. They also happen to be loaded with iron, the deficiency of which the World Health Organization

has identified as the world’s most common nutritional disorder.

Insects also contain a lot of fat, the most energydense macronutrient found in food. Australia’s Witchetty grub, for example, contains about 38 percent fat.

The large, wood-eating moth larvae has long been a staple of Aboriginal women and children, and the grubs, which feed on the roots of red gum trees, provide the desert dwellers with a high-fat source of protein.

Cooked over hot ashes, they’re said to taste like chicken.

Their fat is mostly the unsaturated, or healthy variety.

And if that’s not enough, there’s the public health angle. Not only do insects pack a nutritional wallop, they deliver the goods with a low risk of transmitting zoonotic diseases and parasites that can be carried by livestock. Salmonella, listeria, e. Coli, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy—these threats to public safety are virtually nonexistent with an insect-based diet.

Still, some hurdles remain. One question about eating insects that’s not easily answered is: How does bugbased fare fit into the vegetarian and vegan diet? That seems like more of a philosophical debate than a scientific one, and the answer probably depends on your reasons for choosing your vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. On the one hand, there’s the oft-repeated vegetarian declaration, “I won’t eat anything with a face.” As anyone who’s seen A Bug’s Life can tell you, that lets insects off the train.

They’re adorable. A different subset of vegetarians avoids eating meat because they don’t wish to contribute to the suffering endured by animals on their journey to the supermarket. Are insects sentient organisms that suffer? Not if they’re euthanized properly. Cricket farms typically freeze their crickets before processing them into food.

And what about the pesticides used in growing the food that comprises a plant-based diet? How many insects have to die to support a vegetarian meal?

As the rainforests continue to be shaved into grazing lands and our dwindling water supply is siphoned off to raise greenhouse gas-belching livestock, trillions of insects—far and away the largest classification of organisms on the planet—are poised to swarm to the rescue. People cooking with termite flour in Ivory Coast know it. Chefs adding giant water bugs to the menu in Thailand restaurants get it. From green weaver ants in Australia to migrating locusts in the Netherlands to red-legged grasshoppers in Quebec, insects all over the world are being served up and enjoyed by billions of people.

“It’s a thing,” Glenn Marangelo says of entomophagy’s spreading acceptance. “And it’s a growing thing.”

Bug Appétit! is scheduled for Friday, April 21, from 6 to 8:30 PM at Burns St. Bistro, 1500 Burns Street. Ticket price of $50 per person includes a three-course dinner featuring mealworm arancini, chaupaline tacos, and saltine toffee cricket bark prepared by Chef Walker Hunter.

Vegetarian options will also be available. Beer and wine is available for purchase. See missoulabutterflyhouse.org for info. editor@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

The Lorax The International Wildlife Film Festival remembers founder Chuck Jonkel

by Erika Fredrickson

W

hen Mike Steinberg took over the International Wildlife Film Festival four years ago, Chuck Jonkel paid him a visit at the Roxy Theater.

Jonkel, who founded the festival in 1977, was known around town as the bear guy— a wildlife biologist who started the Great Bear Foundation, a pioneer of bear management and a colorful storyteller who could often be found at the farmers market helping children make bear paws out of grizzly molds. People always attributed an ursine quality to his character.

“He just came around the theater one day,” Steinberg says. “There was a note waiting for me when I got in that said, ‘Chuck Jonkel is looking for you.’ He sort of stalked me—and I think that was very bear-like of him.”

Steinberg says Jonkel was interested in meeting to size him up, to see what kind of person was going to carry on the legacy of the International Wildlife Film Festival, which is the first and longestrunning event in the world focused on wildlife films. For Steinberg, it was a daunting meeting. He was still finding his footing.

“That year, my first year, it was really just about making sure the festival happened,” Steinberg says. “There was not a lot of vision. I was the guy helping to push the car across the finish line at NASCAR just so you could say you finished.”

Still, he wanted to reassure Jonkel that the festival was in good hands, despite some changes. For instance, Steinberg was seeking sponsorship funding from larger corporations—something Jonkel and some other festival directors had been loathe to do. They talked for a long time, Steinberg says, about how to keep the festival’s original mission—fostering knowledge and understanding of wildlife and habitat through filmmaking—intact.

“Chuck really had great forward thinking about what something like a film festival could be,” Steinberg says. “And for better or for worse, the film fest held onto that ethos for a long time, even when the notion of a festival was much more progressive than what they were up to. There was a very pure sense about how IWFF began and what they wanted

photo courtesy of IWFF

The International Wildlife Film Festival was started 40 years ago by Chuck Jonkel, above, with the mission to foster understanding of wildlife and habitat through filmmaking.

to continue as the legacy, going so far as to reject sponsorship and putting it entirely in the uncompromised hands of the scientists and filmmakers. It was great and very noble, so in that sense it went beyond its time.”

Jonkel died on April 12, 2016, at the age of 85, just a few days before the 39th festival began. This year, IWFF celebrates Jonkel with a series of events and the Thursday, April 20, screening of a film by Frank Tyro called Standing Bear Comes Home: The Life and Work of Chuck Jonkel. Steinberg says it was always the plan for IWFF to honor Jonkel on the festival’s 40th anniversary, but without him here, it’s bittersweet. Also on April 20, poet Vic Charlo will recite poems for the

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unveiling of a memorial to Jonkel, which will be permanently housed inside the Roxy. In the evening, Western Cider Co. will showcase its Jonkel juice, cider made with Jonkel’s apple press.

The celebration is about remembering a man who believed that if people could get excited about wildlife, if they could understand it, they’d want to protect it. These days, that mission comes with more challenges. Wildlife filmmaking has opened up audiences to the natural world, but it’s also become harder to make these films. Big networks are willing to back some projects, but if you’re an independent filmmaker, access to funding— and wildlife—hasn’t gotten any easier.

This year, Steinberg hired film producer

Jeri Rafter (Winter in the Blood) to take charge of programming and seed new programs to keep the festival on the cutting edge. Rafter created Wildlife Labs, by which selected documentarians and scientists can get a crash course in wildlife filmmaking and incubate short wildlife film docs for future pitch sessions and production.

Another interesting change since Jonkel launched the festival is that wildlife filmmaking has gone from offering stories purely about animal life cycles and behavior to stories about how humans impact wildlife. This year’s festival films include two episodes of British television’s Planet Earth 2 and a hotly anticipated Netflix film called Chasing Coral, both of which cap-

ture the kind of breathtaking landscapes viewers crave and also provide a window into how resources are dwindling. A lot of the other films are centered on people or environmental cries, and Steinberg says it takes some finessing to produce a festival that simultaneously makes a case for wildlife, documents environmental issues and doesn’t completely bum everyone out.

“That’s the unavoidable, inconvenient truth, right?” Steinberg says. “You can’t tell a story about rhinos or lemur or grizzly bear without exploring the actual impact humans have because of the sheer population explosion and depletion of resources. It’s hard to tell those stories these days without having a broader view of the planet.”

Jonkel had a term for how you make connections with people about wildlife.

He called it “sittin’ and whittlin’.” He told me a story back in 2010, when I met with him for an interview at the Great Bear Foundation, about how he once approached a circle of hunters at the tip of Hudson Bay and asked them about the local polar bears. They pretended they didn’t know what he was talking about, even though the bears were in plain sight in the distance, right across the tundra. It wasn’t until Jonkel spent several hours with the men that they finally pointed him toward the bears. That whole time he’d been patiently whittling a stick, and the time he put in with them paid off. Bears were Jonkel’s passion, but he knew it wasn’t enough to understand wildlife—you had to understand humans, too. His complex viewpoint is reflected in the best films at this year’s festival and in the conversations that continue within the wildlife filmmaking community.

“The tendency was always to say, ‘What kind of bear would Chuck Jonkel be?’” Steinberg says. “And the response I’ve heard from [some people] is that Chuck isn’t really an animal, he’s like this primitive man with a connection to the natural world that goes well beyond our modern times. He was an ancient communicator. He was like a Lorax speaking for the bears.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Bottled oddities Pale People make magical portraits Portraits opens with urgent, banging, staccato keyboard, followed

by Mack Gilcrest’s theatrical voice soaring: “The robots come to kill me, summer 2003!” And the album doesn’t really slow down from there. Pale People, a Missoula trio that has gathered a small loyal following for the same exact reason it has trouble booking local shows (it’s a weird band) has bottled the magic of its odd, fun, but not super-danceable music expertly on its second album.

Portraits consists of 10 tracks, each titled with a first name. As you might guess, each song is a miniautobiography: Jason, the world’s greatest Tetris play.

Carol, an elderly woman in the last of her days.

Steven, an insane, washed-up preacher. Annabelle, a little girl seeking reality television fame. The music is as diverse as the portraits—listen for splashes of trom-

bone, accordion and toy piano—with Gilcrest backed by Kurt Skrivseth on bass and guitar and Brian Tremper on drums.

The band self-labels its music as “Broadway punk” or “dark cabaret,” and that’s accurate. With influences like Dresden Dolls and musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim, Pale People and Portraits lean heavily on high drama and performance. The album’s biggest weakness, certainly, is that it is not a live, inperson show, which is where the band shines with energy and art and quirk—maybe even a little madness. But Gilcrest’s strong songwriting and lyrical skills make the album worthwhile even if you can’t see the band in the flesh. (Sarah Aswell) Pale People play an album release party at Free Cycles Fri., April 14, at 7:30 PM. Free. 18-plus.

Joseph Running Crane and the Dirty Birds, Ladybug Joseph Running Crane first showed up on the Missoula music scene almost 10 years ago with Goddammitboyhowdy, a fast and loose punk band nurtured in Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation.

Lesser known was his other project, the Holy Family Mission Band, which pulled its influences from classic country music.

Ladybug, the new EP from Running Crane and his backup band, the Dirty Birds, offers a nice combination of those styles, especially on the title track, which starts as a warm, even-keeled country-folk song before breaking away into a dark, reckless gallop.

Ladybug is not a refined collection—it would lose its charm if it was. Running Crane has the storytelling sensibility of Townes Van Zandt and vocals that

evoke the wild abandon of Flogging Molly’s Dave King. He paints a landscape of poisoned streams and towering mountains, owls swooping toward their prey and a narrator who always seems to occupy the liminal zone in between asleep and awake, dark and light, beauty and ugliness, coming and going. The Dirty Birds are integral to that aesthetic, and Sam Platts on Telecaster and William Saylor on fiddle are especially adept at pulling off a tone somewhere between manic celebration and spiraling sorrow. (Erika Fredrickson) Joseph Running Crane and the Dirty Birds play an EP release show at the VFW Sat., April 15, at 9 PM.

Mastodon, Emperor of Sand On their new album, prog-metal heroes Mastodon spin a tale of a man cursed with certain death as he hopelessly perseveres through an endless desert. While steeped in the hackneyed mysticism and brutal imagery seemingly mandatory of the genre, the story of this doomed wanderer turns out to be an unexpectedly emotional allegory for cancer.

Cancer has dealt a heavy blow to Mastodon in recent years, including the death of guitarist Bill Kelliher’s mother. Kelliher and the band’s other three members all inject their personal experiences with cancer and the passing of loved ones into Emperor of Sand. The result is an expertly produced thematic album that has more than enough chaos and burl to dispel any notion of a

transition into mainstream hard rock— something Mastodon purists have been fearing ever since 2009’s Crack the Skye.

Emperor of Sand does contain one of the band’s most radio-friendly tracks to date (“Show Yourself ”), but the album never veers far from Mastodon’s signature amalgamation of diverse vocals, crushing riffs in dropped tunings, rapid, emotive solos and dissonant arpeggios. “Andromeda” might be the band’s best track in years, and guitarist Brent Hinds’ solo at the end of “Roots Remain” is one of the most emotional moments on any Mastodon album. (Matthew Roberts) Mastodon plays the Wilma Fri., April 14, along with Eagles of Death Metal. Sold out.

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[film]

Screenshots Three must-see features at this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival David Attenborough’s Light on Earth You’ve probably appreciated fireflies before, as they twinkled in a summer field amid a chorus of frogs and crickets. But have you ever really thought about fireflies—exactly how they light up, and why they evolved the trick?

Like so many of Sir David Attenborough’s projects, Light on Earth not only elevates the nature documentary to new heights with cutting-edge technology, it also exhibits genuine care and curiosity for its subject matter. As 90-year-old Attenborough travels the world, from Pennsylvania to Tanzania, to explore the phenomenon of bioluminescence, each segment leaves you increasingly in awe of the world and of how and why species can evolve.

The documentary begins in that common field of fireflies, but what it tells us about the bugs is amazing: Different species of fireflies use different light signals for different reasons. Some attract mates with specific flashes, while others imitate females of another firefly species in order to trap and eat male fireflies. Some firefly species blink in incredible synchronized waves of light—and we don’t know why.

That’s just the beginning. Soon we learn that literally thousands of animals, including insects, fish, worms, bacteria and fungi, utilize “living light” to survive, and many of these species evolved independently of one another. We visit strange, beautiful worlds—captured with a special camera developed specifically for the documentary—in which bioluminescence is used to attract food, propagate, raise warning flags and protect against predators.

We go deep into the ocean and observe a rainbow of glowing fish, including some that have never been filmed before. We see bright blue glowing earthworms in the French countryside. We see dolphins swimming through single-celled glowing dinoflagellates, which looks a lot like some sort of Lisa Frank acid trip. Along the way, we learn about the chemistry and biology behind the magic of what we are seeing, even though scientists don’t have nearly all of the answers yet. It’s a truly stunning, smart and moving 50 minutes, and a film that I promise will surprise you more than once. (Sarah Aswell) Screens at the Roxy Fri., April 21, at 7:45 PM. Yasuni Man Yasuni Man begins on a hunting expedition through the Amazon jungle in Ecuador, where a small band of the Waorani people have successfully tracked and killed a wild boar. They disembowel and quarter the animal right there on the jungle floor so that each of them has a manageable load to carry back to the family. If that isn’t living, then I don’t know what is.

Yasuni Man, a film by University of Montana alumnus Ryan Patrick Killackey, is one of the highlights of this year’s festival.

You don’t need a documentary film to guess that in the 21st century, the hunter-gatherer way of life that supports the Waorani and other tribes like them is on the edge of extinction. The plot thickens when we learn that the Waorani civilization rests on oil-rich land. The Waorani have a rich recent history of the modern world encroaching on their good time. If it isn’t money-hungry oil companies like Texaco, it’s meddling Christian missionaries.

Yasuni Man comes to us from Chicago native and first-time filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey. A graduate of the University of Montana, Killackey began his career as a wildlife biologist with a penchant for frogs and other reptiles and amphibians. Alongside the unfolding story of the people, the film treats us to all kinds of wildlife imagery, including big cats, rare woodland creatures and poisonous snakes curling around branches. The filmmakers make their way to the Waorani on rickety boats plying brown rivers. And lest you think they didn’t get into the thick of it, look out for the scenes where Killackey has large maggots extracted from various places where parasitic insects have laid eggs inside his body.

Yasuni Man portends a sad and uncertain future

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for the Waorani people, but offers viewers a healthy dose of adventure and intrigue. (Molly Laich) Screens at the Roxy Sun., April 16, at 5 PM, and Tue., April 18, at 5:45 PM. An Acquired Taste The themes of An Acquired Taste won’t be particularly enlightening to a lot of local viewers. The philosophy behind ethical hunting is a major component of Missoula’s locavore movement and has been for at least the last decade. The most interesting aspect of this documentary is how ethical hunting has caught the attention of a handful of kids growing up in urban landscapes. It seems shocking that kids living so far from the woods and wilderness, in a time when virtual worlds and devices are so appealing, would voice an interest in learning to stalk and kill their own food. Or is it? As the film unfolds, the idea that kids wouldn’t naturally want to participate in ethical hunting starts seeming cynical.

Filmmaker Vanessa LeMaire follows the journey of several kids who decide to leave the city and enroll in camps where they learn to hunt. The most intriguing of them is a young girl who has never left her Hispanic neighborhood and whose love for the well

being of animals seems crushing. Yet her eyes light up during a hunting-safety class when the instructor promises that they’ll learn to minimize the animal’s pain and, in learning to hunt, connect with their food.

The parents of the kids are mostly tentative: Will learning to use a gun put their kids in danger? Will their kids develop a lust for violence? Will they like killing? Even in the first 20 minutes, the documentary shows how wrong the parents are. The children learn to shoot arrows, make campfires, behead chickens (as a precursor to killing big game), and throughout it all seem to understand the complexity of hunting— that wrapped up in killing your own food is a healthy combination of grief, celebration and gratitude.

An Acquired Taste is nothing like the fancy Blue Planet films or sweeping wildlife stories you might expect at the festival. It’s straightforward filmmaking with no plot twists. But the compassion and empathy that LeMaire captures in her subjects is about as hopeful as it gets for a story about conservation and the interaction between humans and wildlife. (Erika Fredrickson) Screens at the Roxy Sat., April 22, at 2:30 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

[books]

Fishing with John For John Gierach, fly fishing is freedom

by Chris La Tray

Gierach’s wry humor is a highlight of the book Over the course of 19 books, John Gierach has emerged as a fantastic writer and a remarkable ob- as a whole, and each essay is peppered with such observer of people and the natural world. He says what servations. It’s never forced—unlike that friend we all he means to say beautifully, in crystal-clear prose, and know who tries a little too hard to be funny. Instead, he does so within the context of chasing fish in run- it’s the wit of someone who is maybe smarter than he lets on, and whose commentary is based on a ning water.

Over the course of the 21 essays that make up habit of listening, rather than flapping his gums.

Growing older on a framework of choices made as his latest collection, A Fly Rod of Your Own, it becomes clear that what Gierach truly specializes in is a younger man is a common theme throughout. Describadventure writing for people whose idea of adventure ing the type of men who try to make their livings in the hinterlands as guides, he says, is only occasionally death“Some are young and starrydefying. For example, I’ve eyed about life in the backtold just about anyone who country; others are older and will listen that I’ll consider realize that while your twenmy life a failure unless I ties and thirties can be about someday get to go somereinventing yourself, your forwhere that requires the use ties and beyond are more of a floatplane. Floatplanes about trying to make the best are cool and evoke a of who you've become.” thrilling, deep-in-the-wilds Gierach doesn’t dwell adventure from which you on it much, but it’s clear that may not (though you probhis commitment to a life of ably will) come back alive. fishing as often as possible, Gierach understands the alfinanced by writing, probalure. In the first paragraph bly hasn’t been the easiest of of the essay “Floatplanes,” paths. That he seems to have he describes his first flight pulled if off is more a testain one, back in the late ’70s: ment to his skill on the page “Flying in a floatplane than with a fly rod. The best had been a boyhood fannonfiction writers can make tasy, so I tried to soak it all their subjects interesting to up: the aluminum ladder readers who think they have leading to the rounded no interest in the subject. hatch, the unforgiving tubeGierach does that and more frame seats, the bulging A Fly Rod of Your Own John Gierach with his essays on fly fishing, cargo netting, all wearing Hardcover, Simon & Schuster which are ultimately about the colorless patina of hard 224 pages, $25 people, the wilds of water use. I peeked into the cockpit, where a pilot in coveralls was fiddling with mys- and forest, and the trials and triumphs of a life lived in terious knobs and hydraulic levers as the twin such places. In the close to the floatplane essay, he exengines warmed up. I had no idea what I was looking plores why it is that people—fishers, sure, but anyone, at, but it was unbearably romantic in a steampunk really—go to the wilderness. “We go into places … to catch wild fish,” he writes, “and for more personal reasort of way.”

In another essay, “Camp Food,” Gierach takes on sons that may be complicated or as simple as the urge all the ways we prepare meals based on the ingredi- to escape the present—which admittedly looks none ents we carry with us into the backcountry. From too promising—into, if not the actual past, then at least freeze-dried backpacker fare to canned beans cooked the kind of timelessness where life still makes sense.”

A lot of us are stuck in lives that don’t allow for over a fire, he weighs the pros and cons. Along the way he touches on food in America in general, as in such excursions. A Fly Rod of Your Own gives readers a satisfying peek into the freedoms that Gierach has this passage: “We Americans do many things well, but feeding so obviously earned.

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[film]

40TH INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full line up and schedule for the International Wildlife Film Festival running April 15–22 at the Roxy.

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.

THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS You’ve seen the last seven movies in this franchise, I doubt this one is a big departure from fast cars, exotic locals and beefcakes punching each other. Rated PG-13. Stars Vin Diesel, Dwanye Johnson and Jason Statham.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

LOGAN He’s the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice. In the near future, Marvel Comics’ resident berserker has to pull himself up by his bootstraps to protect a young girl with very familiar claws. Rated R. Stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

GIFTED After the suicide of his math-obsessed sister, a man discovers his seven-year-old niece has the same gift for numbers her mother did.

Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Evans, Lindsay Duncan and Jenny Slate. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002) Sometimes when you sell novelty toilet plungers for a living, the best thing you can hope for is to buy a startling amount of pudding to get free frequent flyer miles. Rated R. Stars Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Playing at the Roxy Wed., April 19 at 7 PM.

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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.

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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.

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.

CHISHOLM ‘72: UNBOUGHT & UNBOSSED (2004) In 1972 Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first African-American congresswoman, launched a campaign for the presidency of the United States. Heck yeah! Not Rated. Directer Shola

“I can't believe we wore the same outfit. One of us is going to have to change.” The Fate of the Furious opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and Pharaohplex.

Lynch’s powerful documentary plays Mon., April 17 at 7 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 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.

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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.

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.

THE RUNNING MAN (1987) Wrongly convicted of carrying out a massacre, a police pilot finds himself fighting for his life in a deadly television game show. But is he smarter than a sixth grader? Rated R. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson and Yaphet Kotto. Playing Sat., April 15 at 8 PM 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.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

LEMONADE (2016) Betty’s Divine screens Beyonce’s visual album as part of Missoula Fashion Week at the Roxy Tue., April 18 at 8 PM. Not Rated.

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.

[dish]

See ya Steve sunchoke salad

by Andrea Grimes

RESISTANCE KITCHEN

Maybe you’re one of those people who thinks punching a Nazi is as bad as being an actual Nazi.

Maybe you’re one of those people who thinks a polite exchange of ideas with genocidal racists is the key to ending racial oppression once and for all. Maybe you’re one of those people who thinks that punching Nazis only provokes Nazis, who wouldn’t be doing any of that Nazi stuff if non-Nazis were nicer to them, and didn’t do things like punch them in the face.

Maybe you are one of those people. I certainly am not, but maybe you are. Perhaps, however, we can agree on this: It is un-great to have a Nazi helping head up your national security jams, and pretty good to fire Nazis from positions of power.

So we probably can agree that Steve Bannon getting booted from the National Security Council is not a bad way to start a Wednesday here in The Worst Timeline, USA. (“But Andrea! Steve Bannon is not a Nazi! Don’t be so mean to the former head of Confederate-flag-waving Breitbart News who wants to wage a Christian “holy war,” doesn’t want his children going to school with Jewish people and loves racist literature.” I hear you, brave and concerned Nazi apologists! I just don’t give a fiddling flop!)

Like I was saying. Steve’s a step closer to getting his entire white-supremacist ass all the way fired, even if the White House is all, well, Steve-o didn’t want that dumb job anyway and even if he did, he did it really good and got done doing all the job because he was so, so good at it, just tremendous, just so good at this job he doesn’t have any more.

Sure, Steve. Sure. The only response I can think of that properly dignifies the Trump administration’s spin on this involves excessive flatulence. Luckily, I’m cooking with sunchokes today.

LUNCH COMBO

Ingredients two to three cups of scrubbed sunchokes, chopped bite-size one bunch of asparagus a cup of crappy white wine two cloves garlic, smashed 1 tablespoon of finely minced olive tapenade (or spread—I keep a jar around) half a pint of grape tomatoes, halved 1.5 ounces of parmesan, finely grated olive oil tablespoon of zaatar (or less? maybe you don’t like zaatar, whatever) salt and pepper Directions Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Toss your sunchokes with olive oil and zaatar and roast for 35–40 minutes until they sort of put you in mind of a french fry, texturally speaking. Let cool to room temperature. Meanwhile: Steam your asparagus over the cup of wine (thinned with some water) and garlic, probably 4–5 minutes, until softened, but not floppy. Drop the asparagus in a bowl of ice water when it’s done steaming so as to maintain crispness and cool the veg. Toss parm, cooled asparagus, cooled sunchokes, olive tapenade and tomatoes.

Season with salt and pepper.

Resistance Kitchen is a blog about food, rage and politics at resistancekitchen.tumblr.com. Andrea Grimes is a journalist for hire, Bloody Mary expert and Texpat living in the Bay Area.

3 rolls with choice of miso soup or green salad for your busy afternoon schedule!

HAPPY SPRING Khao Soi, Korean Tacos, Green Curry

406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave

ENJOY HAPPY HOUR Mon – Fri, 3 to 6 & SAKE SATURDAYS

Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

NEW RED BEAN AND HONEY DEW BOBAS

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“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. $-$$$

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

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

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

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. $-$$

Sunday, April 16 9:30 am to 3 pm $32.95 per person • $14.95 kids 3-13 Enjoy bottomless Mimosas and prizes children can win!

COLD SIDES Baked Breakfast Breads and Pastries Fresh Fruit Display Mixed Green salad Assorted Dressings Pasta Salad Orzo, Pesto, Kalamata Olives, Artichoke Hearts Shrimp Cocktail Cocktail Sauce, Lemon Wedges Deviled Eggs Truffle, Crispy Prosciutto Asparagus Salad Grain Mustard Vinaigrette, Goat Cheese Grape Tomato, Marcona Almonds

BREAKFAST Omelets To Order Eggs Benedict Canadian Bacon, English Muffin, Hollandaise Huckleberry French Toast

HOT SIDES Lemon and Rosemary Roasted Potatoes Seasonal Vegetables Rice Pilaf Roasted Sockeye Salmon Tomato-Fennel Sauce Smoked Chicken Mac N' Cheese

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. $-$$

CARVING STATION Slow Roasted RR Ranch Prime Rib Au Jus, Creamy Horseradish Maple Glazed Ham Roasted Leg Of Lamb Mint Sauce

DESSERT Huckleberry Cheese Cake Carrot Cup Cakes Chocolate-Almond Bars Lemon and Fresh Berry Parfaits

Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

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

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

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

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Shine Potions

HAPPIEST HOUR

photo by Kate Whittle

What you’re drinking: Bottled beverages created by the Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, which is run by triplet sisters in the hippie mecca of Boulder, Colorado.

Jessi Gates Brock, owner of Missoula’s Good Medicine Acupuncture, started carrying the drinks in her shop a few weeks ago. “We’re the only people outside of Colorado with a wholesale account for these potions, the only place in Montana that you can find them,” Brock says. “I’ve had people come in and say, ‘Oh my god, I used to live in Boulder and I was obsessed with these there.’” Brock says the potions are a good fit with her dedication to affordable alternative health enhancement.

(Good Medicine offers acupuncture on a sliding-scale fee.)

What’s so great about these potions?

Each Shine Potion is made with organic juice, sweetened with honey and finished with herbal extracts designed to provide special benefits. We tried the Owl Eyes blend, which contains apple juice, lemon juice, ginger, yerba mate, liquid chlorophyll and several other spices. It’s meant to be “deeply nourishing on a cellular level” and provide an energy boost.

ALL DAY

MONDAY & THURSDAY SATURDAY NIGHT

Hoot-hoot: As Brock puts it, “the real hippie stuff” comes into play with the potions’ “calibration” to sounds and mineral essences.

The Owl Eyes potion, for instance, is made while the sounds of owl hoots and waterfalls play in the background. The label declares that Owl Eyes’ mineral essence is “rose quartz.”

Do they taste good, though? Sure do.

Owl Eyes tastes like gingery apple pie in a bottle. Another blend, Fairy Bubbles, contains pomegranate juice, lemon, honey and hibiscus. (You’ll be delighted to know that it’s tuned to the frequencies of baby laughter and wind in the trees.)

Fine, but this is Missoula—can you mix these with booze? Absolutely, Brock says. “They recommend this one,” she says, gesturing to the Fairy Bubbles, “with vodka and rose petals.” Others mix well with bourbon or gin. No need to calibrate your gin to enjoy the resulting cocktail.

Where to find them: Good Medicine Acupuncture, 206 S. Third St. W., from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. A 32-ounce Shine Potion costs $18, and 12-ounce bottles cost $5.

—Kate Whittle

SUSHI SPECIALS Not available for To-Go orders

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TUE | 9 PM | TOP HAT Kevin Barnes' experimental rock band Of Montreal plays the Top Hat Tue., April 18. Doors at 8:30, show at 9. $22.

TUE | 9 PM | BADLANDER Texas’s Desilu plays the Badlander Tue., April 18 at 9 PM. Free.

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THU | 4/13 | 8 PM | VFW The Misfortune Tellers play the VFW as part of Rooster Sauce’s residency Thu., April 13 at 8 PM. $3.

Tickets at ROCKIN RUDY’S 237 Blaine St., Missoula; 542-0077 & at the door

$12; $10 seniors, students; full-festival 5-night pass is only $30; $25 seniors, students

• Doors 6 pm; MUSIC starts 6:30 pm at St Anthony Parish Hall 217 Tremont, Missoula • Food & full bar available. Set times are approximate.

MONDAY, April 17, 2017 6:30 UM Jazz: Sloppy Joe Jones, with Bryan Tremper & friends 7:15 Missoula's Youngest Divas 8:00 Naomi Moon Siegel & Kate Olson, trombone/sax extraordinaire 8:45 Josh Farmer

TUESDAY, April 18, 2017

FRI | 7:30 PM | WILMA Mastodon celebrates its 17th birthday with a sold out show at the Wilma Fri. April 14 at 7:30 PM along with Eagles of Death Metal.

6:30 The StarLighters, sax-driven swing with Edie Smith vocals 7:15 Airmail Special: Chuck Florence, clarinet; David Horgan, guitar; Jeff Stickney, trumpet; Bob LedBetter, vibes; Pete Hand, bass; Ed Stalling, drums 8:00 Jodi Marshall, the Grande Dame of piano 8:45 Canta Brasil, featuring Magda Chaney vocals 9:30 Lance Boyd A, UM Jazz; including Eli Wynn, Lhanna Writesel, Finn Carroll, Haydn Halsted

WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2017 6:30 Night Blooming Jasmine (Django jazz) 7:15 UM's Bad Platitude, with Emily Silks 8:00 Eden Atwood & Craig Hall 8:45 Chuck Florence & Sam McKenzie 9:30 Owen Ross, guitar

THURSDAY, April 20, 2017

Missoula Blues & Jazz Society Hall of Fame Award night!

6:30 Lance Boyd B Jazz Sextet with Becca Speranza, Levi Brown, Sam McKenzie, Ross Strauser 7:15 Melody Anderson 8:00 Missoula Blues & Jazz Society inducts pianist Jim Driscoll as Jazzoula 2017 Hall of Fame honoree; followed by Jim solo; The Jim Driscoll trio with Pete Hand on bass & Ed Stalling, drums 8:45 Basement Boyz: Stalling, Hand, Driscoll, Horgan, Jeff Stickney on trumpet. Guest vocalist Lindsey Stormo 9:30 Stephane Gariepy quintet: DR Halsell, guitar; Steve Kalling, bass; Milan House, piano; Ed Stalling, drums; Gariepy on saxes

FRIDAY, April 21, 2017

WED | 9 PM | TOP HAT

6:30 Kimberlee Carlson/Ron Meissner Jazz Quintet 7:15 Bob Packwood piano 8:00 MJ Williams with Beth Lo & David Horgan 8:45 Absent Wilson Conspiracy: Steve Kalling, bass; Tanner Fruit, sax; DR Halsell, guitar; Ed Stalling, drum set, plus Naomi Moon Siegel, trombone

The Motet plays the Top Hat Wed., April 19. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance.

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nightlife

Radius Gallery presents its second group ceramics show featuring over 50 jawdropping functional and sculptural clay pieces by a dozen artists. 4 PM–8 PM. Free.

Lochwood showcases its traditional, hard-driving bluegrass at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

Phil Smith plays Draught Works Brewery.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. 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. (See Books.)

Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown.

7:30–10 PM. Rooster Sauce’s residency at the VFW continues with the psychobilly circus folk of the Misfortune Tellers, MASS FM and Cannon. 8 PM. $3.

Trio Noir meets pinot noir when Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo play Plonk. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

Kris Moon at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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

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

9 PM. Free.

There’s karaoke 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

nightlife Candice Methe traveled to Ghana to work with women potters. Now she’s back at the Clay Studio of Missoula, presenting a talk on what she learned. 5 PM. Free.

Author Andrea Bemis reads from Dishing Up the Dirt, her book full of fresh recipes and stories straight from the farm at Fact & Fiction.

5:30 PM. Enjoy a beer at Missoula Brewing Co. while listening to the live music of Larry Hirshberg. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Mastodon celebrates 17 years of face-melting metal with a birthday bash featuring guests Eagles of Death Metal and Russian Circles at the Wilma. I hope you got your tickets already, because this one is sold out. 6:30 PM.

County Line is joined by Melissa Forrette at the Sunrise Saloon Fri., April 14, at 9 PM. Free.

You mean you can do more than just mix Moose Drool with pancake mix? The Cooking with Beer Workshop at Taste Buds Kitchen gives you the skills to make delicious meals with delicious beers. Register online at tastebudskitchen.com. $40.

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Missoula’s favorite cabaret rockers Pale People drops its new album Portraits with a show at Free Cycles. 7:30 PM. Free.

18-plus.

Wildcard, R00ster, PNUT BUTR and Arch.

9 PM. $8 18-20/ $5 21-plus.

Get prepped for next week’s Socotra Festival with a pre-party at Monk’s featuring

Party like it’s 1999 at the I Love the ‘90s Dance Party at the Badlander. 9 PM. $3.

County Line is joined by Melissa Forrette at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

UPCOMING

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Saturday The 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival kicks off at the Roxy Theater with a screening of the first two episodes of Planet Earth Season 2 and Chasing Coral. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule of films and events.

Author Melodie McBride signs copies of her new book Going Towards the Nature is Going Towards the Health at Barnes and Noble. 11 AM. The Montana Grizzlies and the Thomas Meagher Hurling Club host a pack of Irish guests for a hurling tournament. John H. Toole Riverfront Park. 11 AM.

Andea Harsell and Luna Roja blend Americana, rock and R&B at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

It’s the dance, not the chip dip. Salsa 406 returns with Latin music and dancing at the Dark Horse every third Saturday of the month. 8:30 PM. Free.

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.

Letter B plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

Dance, crawl, swing and slither through downtown Missoula as the 25th annual Wildlife Parade roars down Higgins Avenue, ending at Caras Park for WildFest.

Meet at the XXXXs downtown at 11:30 AM. Dress like your favorite creature or come as you are.

It’s not a time paradox, it’s a chance to get out and dance. Dusk comes to the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

nightlife

It’s been two years since their last show, but now Joseph Running Crane and the Dirty Birds are back to celebrate the release of their-long delayed EP, LadyBug.

Rock and rollers the Fredirico Brothers play Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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Cash for Junkers bring its western swing and honky-tonk jazz to the Union Club.

9:30 PM. Free.

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TICKETS & INFO AT TOP HAT • TOPHATLOUNGE.COM • THEWILMA.COM LOGJAMPRESENTS.COM & KETTLEHOUSEAMPHITHEATER.COM

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Sunday The 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival continues at the Roxy with screenings of Yasuni Man, Unlocking the Cage and more. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule of films and events.

nightlife Revelators vocalist and guitarist Russ Nasset plays a solo show at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Renowned folk singer, violinist and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea performs a special Easter show at Imagine Nation Brewing.

5 PM–8 PM. $5.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

Planet Earth II – Deserts plays Sun., April 16, as part of the 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival

Spotlight

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Naomi Moon Siegel plays Jazzoula Mon., April 17, at 8 PM. sario Bruce Micklus in 2004. Over the last dozen years, Missoula’s community jazz festival has also provided unforgettable shows WHAT: Jazzoula that dance across WHERE: St. Anthony's Parish Center genre lines.

Big bands, small combos WHEN: Mon., April 17 to Fri., April 21. Doors and incredible solo at 6 PM, music at 6:30 PM. talent convene to play everything from HOW MUCH: $12/ per night or $30 for a swing to samba to five-day pass scat, making the MORE INFO: For a full schedule of events visit weeklong celebration Jazzoula's Facebook page. a much anticipated part of spring in the Garden City. has delighted audiences since its Now in its 13th year, Jazzoula founding by Rockin’ Rudy’s impre- continues to give our local jazz muJazzoula, one of the longest running jazz festivals in Montana,

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sicians an opportunity to play and show their enormous talents in a relaxed, nightclub-style setting, including food and full-bar. Doors open every night at 6 PM, with music starting at 6:30 PM. Highlights from this year's festival include the induction of pianist Jim Driscoll into the Missoula Blues & Jazz Society's Hall of Fame on Thu., April 20 and a tribute to National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award winner Sarah Vaughan and jazz guitar pioneer Wes Montgomery by local hep cats Kimberlee Carlson and Ron Meissner on Fri., April 21.

— Charley Macorn

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*Limited to 12 people* $100/series - pre-registration Beyond the business plan practical info on starting your own specialty food biz. Learn from the experts and save time, money, and energy.

moonlightkitchens.com (406) 926-2720

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Series of 6 Tuesdays April 18-May 23 | 6-8pm at Moonlight Kitchens

The 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival continues with seminars and the IWFF LABS short documentary premiere.Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule of films and events.

Spend the morning exploring with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks.

This week, explore the North Hills.

Meet at Currents Aquatics Center.

9 AM-12 PM. $5.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM. Kevin McManigal gives a presentation on how mapmaking can help save endangered tigers. The Roxy Theater. 1 PM. Free.

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. The 13th Annual Jazzoula opens with performances by Sloppy Joe Jones, Josh Farmer and more at St. Anthony Parish Center.

Food and full bar available. 6 PM $12.

Watch the classic John Hughespenned ode to stalking, Pretty in Pink, while making your own ‘80s inspired earrings at Bathing Beauties Beads. 6 PM. $5.

The Acousticals provide the soundtrack at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 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.

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

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Tuesday The 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival continues at the Roxy with readings and special screenings. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule of films and events.

Your Montana Wilderness needs you now more than ever. Forest Service funding for Wilderness and wildlands continues to decrease. We need your help to keep these wild places accessible and preserved in their original state.

Sign up today for a six-day volunteer vacation. Projects start mid-June and run through September.

selwaybitterroot.org/2017-volunteer-trail-work info@selwaybitterroot.org (406)880-1927

Author Tom Benjey celebrates the publication of his new book Glorious Times: Adventures of the Craighead Naturalists with a party at Fact & Fiction. 10 AM. Free.

Missoula Public Library screens Children of the Camps, a onehour documentary about the lives of Japanese children who were in internment camps in the U.S. during WWII. 12 PM. Free. Not suitable for kiddos under 14.

nightlife Montana filmmakers Erik Peterson and Jeremy Lurgio spent over a year documenting 89-year-old Bob Hayes as he ran over 30 races. Hear about the process of creating the documentary The Hard Way with a talk at Rocky Mountain School of Photography.

5:30 PM. Free.

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

Donations accepted.

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A who’s who of Missoula entertainers takes the stage at the Public House as part of a statewide fundraising event for Rob Quist.

Band in Motion, Andrea Harsell, Michael Beers and more perform. $20 suggested donation.

Jazzoula continues with performances by Airmail Special, the Starlighters and more at St. Anthony Parish Center. Food and full bar available. 6 PM. $12.

Artist, historian and author Randi O’Brien delivers a lecture on ceramic abstraction at Missoula Art Museum. 7 PM–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.

Kevin Barnes’ experimental rock band Of Montreal plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30, show at 9. $22.

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 future U.S. President was referred to as Aunt Nancy by Andrew Jackson? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

The 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival continues at the Roxy with NPR’s Amy Martin, field trips and more. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule of films and events.

The Art Associates of Missoula’s monthly meeting features inspirational photographer Antonia Wolf. Missoula Art Museum. 10 AM. Free and open to the public.

nightlife Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to the National Smokejumper Association. 5 PM–8 PM. 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.

Watch nine short films made by, for and about women at Lunafest at the Wilma. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $18/$15 advance.

Proceeds go to the YWCA and the Breast Cancer Fund.

Jazzoula continues at St. Anthony Parish Center with performances

by Eden Atwood, Owen Ross and more. Food and full bar available. 6 PM. $12.

Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: James Buchanan.

UM’s School of Theatre and Dance present a raucous glimpse at backstage life and the perils inherent in the production process in Michael Frayn’s Noises Off. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20.

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.

Colorado funk powerhouse The Motet plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance.

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The 40th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival continues at the Roxy with guided walks, workshops and more. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule of films and events.

Mellow Mood’s annual 4/20 Block Party features glassblowing, flameworking demonstrations and live music by TATR, Voodoo Horseshoes, Tonsofun and Wormwood.

1 PM–6 PM.

nightlife Looking for a summer adventure?

Get some inspiration at the Shining Mountains Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association meeting at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Folk rocker David Boone plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Montgomery Distillery hosts the Old Time Social, a friendly and inclusive gathering to celebrate traditional music and dance. Have a jam at 6 PM. Free.

Jazzoula continues at St. Antony’s Parish Center with performances

by Melody Anderson, Basement Boyz and more. Food and full bar available. 6 PM. $12.

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.

Michael Frayn’s Noises Off. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. $20.

Rooster Sauce’s VFW residency continues with performances by The PCCS, Lucky Penny and Cory Fay. 9:30 PM. $3.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Missoula’s own award-winning journalist and author Gwen Florio reads from her new novel Reservations at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Honeycomb, Missoula’s newest dance party, kicks off at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

The Wilma screens the stoner classic Half Baked. Why are they doing that today? 7:30 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.

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. UM’s School of Theatre and Dance present a raucous glimpse at backstage life and the perils inherent in the production process in

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Agenda Since 2000, Lunafest has raised over $2.5 million for local causes chosen by the venues that host it. The traveling film festival, created by nutrition bar manufacturer Luna, has served as a “fundraiser-in-a-box” for organizations across America. All net proceeds are donated to charity, with 85 percent given to a local non-profit chosen by the host, and the remaining 15 percent given to the Breast Cancer Fund and its work to eliminate the environmental causes of breast cancer. Proceeds from Lunafest's stop in Missoula go to support the YWCA's GUTS! (Girls Using Their Strength) leadership program, funding scholarships for its Summer Wilderness Adventures.

Lunafest screens nine short films by, about and for women, created by filmmakers from across the globe. This year’s lineup includes Lara Everly’s documentary Free to Laugh, which follows a group of women recently released from prison who turn to comedy and improv classes as a form of therapy. Other films included on the bill are Nkosi Coiffure, a Belgian film about a woman escaping into a hair salon after a fight

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.

MONDAY APRIL 17 Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization.

12 PM–8 PM.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 19 NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.

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

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.

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.

with her boyfriend, the animated fable Family Tale and Niñera, a bitter look at the irony many nannies face in raising the children of strangers while their children are left to raise themselves.

—Charley Macorn Lunafest kicks off Wed., April 19 at the Wilma. Doors at 6 PM, screenings at 7. $18/$15 advance. Visit thewilma.com for tickets and a full schedule.

A who’s who of Missoula entertainers takes the stage at the Public House as part of a statewide fundraising event for Rob Quist. Band in Motion, Andrea Harsell, Michael Beers and more perform. $20 suggested donation.

Kevin McManigal gives a presentation on how mapmaking can help save endangered tigers. The Roxy Theater. 1 PM. Free.

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ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

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

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses

Watch nine short films made by, for and about women at Lunafest at the Wilma. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $18/$15 advance. Proceeds go to the YWCA and the Breast Cancer Fund.

Kelsey Jencso, State Climatologist and Water Hydrologist gives a lecture on how local hydrology is impacted by climate change at the Montana Natural History Center. 7 PM. $20.

THURSDAY APRIL 20 Learn the ins and outs of copyright protection in a workshop hosted by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Montana. Missoula City Council Chambers. 6 PM. Free.

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

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nyone who asks Missoulian Bob Hayes what his favorite run is always gets the same answer: “My next one.” Since he started running at the age of 60 in 1986 on the advice of his children, Hayes has run in over 100 marathons and 600 races across the nation. A staple of Missoula's running community for decades, he is well known throughout the Garden City. Now an upcoming documentary hopes to expose Haye's running exploits to the rest of the world.

Last year a documentary film crew followed the runner as he ran in roads, snow, rivers and up mountains. The result is The Hard Way, directed by Montana filmmakers Jeremy Lurgio and Erik Peterson. Lurgio, a freelance photojournalist and docu-

FRIDAY APRIL 14 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.

FRIDAY APRIL 15 Take a daylong trip with Five Valleys Audubon to the Warm Springs Ponds to look for migrating shorebirds and waterfowl. Meet in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot at 7 AM. Bring a lunch. Free.

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

Cabela’s hosts a day long celebration of Missoula’s favorite pastime. The Fly Fishing Fair fea-

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mentary photographer based out of Missoula, is on hand at a free lecture hosted at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. He covers not only the fascinating aspects of Bob Hayes life, but also the special challenges he and his co-director and crew faced by following him on his many runs while hauling along the various camera equipment they needed to record Hayes' story.

—Charley Macorn The Making of The Hard Way presented by Jeremy Lurgio starts at 7 PM in Studio B at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography Tue., April 18.

tures fly-tying seminars, a visit from the stars of Shoot Straight TV, free hot dogs and more. Visit cabelas.com for more info and a full schedule.

The Montana Grizzlies and the Thomas Meagher Hurling Club host a pack of Irish guests for a hurling tournament. John H. Toole Riverfront Park. 11 AM. Dance, crawl, swing and slither through downtown Missoula as the 25th annual Wildlife Parade roars down Higgins Avenue, ending at Caras Park for WildFest. Meet at the XXXXs downtown at 11:30 AM. Dress like your favorite creature or come as you are.

MONDAY APRIL 17 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore the North Hills. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS

By Amy Alkon WORLD OF BLURT I’m in love with my married female co-worker. I am married and have no intention of leaving my wife, and I doubt she’d leave her husband, even if she shared my feelings. I love how caring and kind my co-worker is—how she understands that you show love through action. I do this by often giving my wife romantic cards and by cleaning the house and doing the dishes every night after I get home from work and school. Feeling my wife wasn’t reciprocating, I started fantasizing about being in a relationship with my coworker, who also feels unappreciated by her spouse. My feelings for her have become overwhelming, and I feel a pressing need to tell her. I understand that this could make work very awkward. Bestcase scenario, she’s flattered. Is it selfish to want to unburden myself?

—Boiling Point Confessing your crush to your married co-worker is like arranging a transfer to her—of your 26-pound tumor: “His name is Fred. He enjoys fine wine, banned preservatives and cigarette smoke. I hope you’re very happy together!”

Your desire to tell isn’t noble or wonderful. In fact, it’s pretty much the psychological cousin of an intense need to pee. To get why that is, it helps to understand, as evolutionary psychologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides explain, that the emotions driving our behavior today motivate us to behave in ways that would have given our ancestors the best shot at surviving, mating and passing on their genes. Unfortunately, solutions for recurring challenges in the ancestral environment aren’t always a perfect fit for the modern office environment.

Consider our basic biological needs—like for food, water and sex.

When we feel the urge to satisfy these— like when we’re hungry or hungry for a co-worker—our emotions kick into gear, pushing us into a motivated state, a state of tension.That’s an uncomfortable state to be in, so we look for the quickest, easiest way out—like “To hell with my job and my marriage!”—which conflates a powerful evolved urge with a wise modern course of action.

Understanding this need to reduce emotional tension should help you realize that what’s driving your obsession is more mechanical than magical. But there’s another problem. Our motivational system comes up a little short in the brakes department. We have a “GO!” system to push us to do things, but we lack a comparable “STOP, YOU IDIOT!” system.

This makes inhibiting a feeling (and whatever course of action it’s pushing you toward) terribly hard and uncomfortable work. And as social psychologists Daniel Wegner and James J. Gross have independently pointed out, doing this on a continuing basis can have damaging effects on your physical health. Trying to quash some recurring thought also tends to backfire, making you think the unwanted thought more than if you hadn’t tried to stop. For example, in Wegner’s research, subjects told “Try not to think of a white bear” failed every time. Wegner suspects the mind sweeps around to see that we aren’t thinking of the thing— which means we’re thinking of the thing in the process. (Aargh, huh?)

Considering all of this, when you’re looking to keep yourself from doing something, it helps to take the approach aikido practitioners use. When a powerful blow is coming at them, instead of meeting it head-on and taking the full force of it, they divert it—push it off in another direction. Following this principle, your goal shouldn’t be stopping yourself from telling your co-worker; it should be redirecting the energy you’ve been putting into your crush into your marriage.

Tell your wife you love her, and discuss what might be missing in your marriage—for each of you. However, don’t do this by accusing her of failing to appreciate you (which would lead to defensiveness, not inspiration to change).

Instead, lead by example: Explain the ways you show your love for her (helping her connect the clean living room to the loving motivation behind it), and then tell her what would make you feel loved.

In case loving feelings have given way to hard feelings, there’s good news from a relatively new area of psychology called “embodied cognition”—the finding that taking action leads to corresponding feelings. So, it’s possible that acting loving can resuscitate the love you once felt.

Getting back to your co-worker, it doesn’t take much to lose yourself in fantasies about how great it would be with somebody new. However, marriage—to any person—is hard. Still, it has its perks, such as that wonderful ease that comes out of being with your spouse for a while—allowing you to finally feel comfortable talking about what you really need in bed: “Are you there yet? Hurry!

I gotta wake up early!”

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Auto Detailer MUST have a valid driver’s license, be bondable, and have previous auto detailing experience. It is REQUIRED that applicants be well groomed and presentable for public contact.Will be doing detailed Washing, Cleaning, Vacuuming. Meticulous and Intricate cleaning of both the inside and outside of the vehicle. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10280615 Experienced Groomer wanted-MUST 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.

Greenhouse Help Knowledgeable plant lover needed for this GENERAL LABORER/SALES position at a local nursery. Prefer 6 months experience or proven selfgained 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

pay, medical/dental, vacation, great career. HS grads ages17-34. Call Mon-Fri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil HIGH-TECH CAREER with U.S. Navy. Elite tech training w/great pay, benefits, vacation, $$ for school. HS grads ages 17-34.

Call Mon-Fri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil NAVY RESERVE HIRING in all fields. Serve part-time. Paid training & potential sign-on bonus.

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

Great benefits. Retirement. Call Mon-Fri (800) 887-0952, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil Sports Officiants Parks and Recreation Summer Positions: ADULT SOCCER OFFICIAL $20.00/game non-certified. $25.00/game certified. ADULT SOFTBALL UMPIRE $17.00/game non-certified. $21.00/game certified. TENNIS INSTRUCTOR - 9.66/hr. SPORTS & WELLNESS SITE FACILITATOR - $9.04/hr. Full job descriptions at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10279977 THE NAVY IS HIRING Topnotch training, medical/dental, 30 days’ vacation/yr, $$ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil

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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.

information is available. Compile, prepare, back-up and analyze period-end data on food and beverage costs and inventories (gift shop where applicable) to provide information and recommendations to management on current procedures and controls. Assist with the preparation of cost potentials as required. May supervise the accounts receivable function and perform the hotel’s credit/collection and food and beverage control function to ensure accurate, timely and quality service and support to hotel customers and management. Review and monitor internal control procedures in the hotel.Areas included are Food and Beverage, Cashiering, Room Operations, etc. Assist with the compilation and preparation of the daily report, financial statement, periodic forecasts and annual budget to provide support to ensure timely, accurate information. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment criminal background screening. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10280165 CITY ADMINISTRATOR – SPEARFISH, SOUTH DAKOTA City of Spearfish is accepting applications for a City Administrator.

For information on this position, visit our website at www.cityofspearfish.com.

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 Carpenter Carpenter wanted to assist in various new construction and remodeling projects. Project locations vary, but generally in Missoula area. Experience preferred.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 102680561

HEALTH CNA Missoula Medical Clinic is seeking a CNA. The qualified candidate must be possess excellent clinical and computer skills, initiative and ability to work in a team environment. CNA required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10280196 Community Health Nurse Under the supervision of a Community Health Nurse Coordinator, pro-

Sussex School seeks full-time 5th/6th grade STEM teacher Visit sussexschool.org for Job Description & Application Instructions

EMPLOYMENT vides comprehensive nursing services in preventive health, and clinic programs including assessment, teaching, counseling, and prevention services to individuals, families, and groups to promote health and wellness to clients. A Bachelor of Science degree in nursing or equivalent education required.

Must possess a valid State of Montana Nursing license (RN). Minimum of one year professional nursing experience desired. Valid MT Driver’s License and clean driving record. Be willing to consent to criminal background check. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10280204 LPN Planned Parenthood Montana. High school diploma or G.E.D. LPN training and license.

Minimum 2 years of customer service or related experience.

Healthcare experience preferred.

Additional Requirements: Ability to relate to diverse patients. Attention to detail and accuracy.

Ability to thrive in a fast paced, changing environment. Availability to work flexible hours,as required.

Ability to work well with others in a positive, respectful and professional manner. Ability to work independently and as a successful team member. Professional appearance and demonstrated professionalism. Planned Parenthood is committed to hiring and fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce that leverages the skills and talents of all employees in our organization, regardless of race, gender, national origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, size, physical ability or socioeconomic status.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10280133

PERSONAL ASSISTANT NEEDED Must be Flexible, Efficient, Organized and a Good Communicator. $500 Mon - Fri CONTACT - GEORGE: RHOSTERBLOOZ@GMAIL.COM

Staff Reporter The Missoula Independent seeks a professional, highly motivated Staff Reporter to produce ambitious local news content for our website and print publication. Applicants should have a strong background in journalism, a comprehensive understanding of new media and social media, an uncontrollable compulsion to collect useful information and a demonstrable mastery of the English language. This position represents an extraordinary opportunity for intrepid reporters looking for a chance to do memorable work in a great setting.

Send résumé, clips and cover letter to: Editor Missoula Independent 317 S. Orange St. Missoula, MT 59801 Or via email to editor@missoulanews.com

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before visiting Sicily for the first time, American poet Billy Collins learned to speak Italian. In his poem “By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa,” he describes how the new language is changing his perspective. If he were thinking in English, he might say that the gin he’s drinking while sitting alone in the evening light “has softened my mood.” But the newly Italianized part of his mind would prefer to say that the gin “has allowed my thoughts to traverse my brain with greater gentleness” and “has extended permission to my mind to feel a friendship with the vast sky.” Your assignment in the coming week, Aries, is to Italianize your view of the world. Infuse your thoughts with expansive lyricism and voluptuous relaxation. If you’re Italian, celebrate and amplify your Italianness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): t’s closing time. You have finished toiling in the shadow of an old sacred cow. You’ve climaxed your relationship with ill-fitting ideas that you borrowed from mediocre and inappropriate teachers once upon a time. And you can finally give up your quest for a supposed Holy Grail that never actually existed in the first place. It’s time to move on to the next chapter of your life story, Taurus! You have been authorized to graduate from any influence, attachment and attraction that wouldn’t serve your greater good in the future. Does this mean you’ll soon be ready to embrace more freedom than you have in years? I’m betting on it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The heaviest butterfly on the planet is the female Queen Victorian Birdwing. It tips the scales at two grams. The female Queen Alexandra Birdwing is the butterfly with the longest wingspan: over 12 inches. These two creatures remind me of you these days. Like them, you’re freakishly beautiful. You’re a marvelous and somewhat vertiginous spectacle. The tasks you’re working on are graceful and elegant, yet also big and weighty. Because of your intensity, you may not look flight-worthy, but you’re actually quite aerodynamic. In fact, your sorties are dazzling and influential. Though your acrobatic zigzags seem improbable, they’re effective.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Picasso had mixed feelings about his fellow painter Marc Chagall, who was born under the sign of Cancer. “I’m not crazy about his roosters and donkeys and flying violinists, and all the folklore,” Picasso said, referring to the subject matter of Chagall’s compositions. But he also felt that Chagall was one of the only painters “who understands what color really is,” adding, “There’s never been anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has.” I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be the recipient of mixed messages like these. Praise and disapproval may come your way. Recognition and neglect. Kudos and apathy. Please don’t dwell on the criticism and downplay the applause. In fact, do the reverse!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is the title of an old gospel song, and now it’s the metaphorical theme of your horoscope. I advise you to climb a tall peak—even if it’s just a magic mountain in your imagination—and deliver the spicy monologue that has been marinating within you.

It would be great if you could gather a sympathetic audience for your revelations, but that’s not mandatory to achieve the necessary catharsis.You simply need to be gazing at the big picture as you declare your big, ripe truths.

a river, it would be a perfect moment to overflow your banks in a spring flood. If you were an c were office worker, it would be an excellent phase to trade in your claustrophobic cubicle for a spacious VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you were a snake, it would be a fine time to molt your skin. If you

new niche. In other words, Virgo, you’re primed to outgrow at least one of your containers. The boundaries you knew you would have to transgress some day are finally ready to be transgressed. Even now, your attention span is expanding and your imagination is stretching.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For over a century, the Ringsaker Lutheran Church in Buxton, North Dakota, hosted rites of passage, including 362 baptisms, 50 marriages and 97 funerals. It closed in 2002, a victim of the area’s shrinking population. I invite you to consider the possibility that this can serve as a useful metaphor for you, Libra. Is there a place that has been a sanctuary for you, but has begun to lose its magic? Is there a traditional power spot from which the power has been ebbing? Has a holy refuge evolved into a mundane hangout? If so, mourn for a while, then go in search of a vibrant replacement.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most people throw away lemon rinds, walnut shells and pomegranate e SCORPIO skins. But some resourceful types find uses for these apparent wastes. Lemon rind can serve as a deodorizer, cleaner and skin tonic, as well as a zesty ingredient in recipes. Ground-up walnut shells work well in facial scrubs and pet bedding.When made into a powder, pomegranate peels have a variety of applications for skin care. I suggest you look for metaphorically similar things, Scorpio. You’re typically inclined to dismiss the surfaces and discard the packaging and ignore the outer layers, but I urge you to consider the possibility that right now they may have value.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re growing too fast, but that’s fine as long as you don’t make people around you feel they’re moving too slowly. You know too much, but that won’t be a problem as long as you don’t act snooty. And you’re almost too attractive for your own good, but that won’t hurt you as long as you overflow with spontaneous generosity. What I’m trying to convey, Sagittarius, is that your excesses are likely to be more beautiful than chaotic, more fertile than confusing. And that should provide you with plenty of slack when dealing with cautious folks who are a bit rattled by your lust for life.

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 302, 200 WEST BROADWAY MISSOULA, MT 59802 CAUSE NO. CV-20170550 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 de-

manded 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, 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 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-17-954 Dept. No.: 1 SUMMONS DeMAROIS, 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 ABOVENAMED 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

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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.

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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 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 Marian Wilson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 30th day of March, 2017, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Marian Wilson, Personal Representative for the Estate of Sung Won “John” Kim, deceased.

BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Marian Wilson, 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 abovenamed 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 above-entitled 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. 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. §72-3-804(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 .com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

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was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust enproperty real cumbers (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 2 of Sunnyside Park, Phase II, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201701509 B 973 P 1367, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust 2007Asset-Backed WFHE2, Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-WFHE2. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of February 14, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $214,862.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $204,830.68, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow install-

ments 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 30, 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 fore-

closure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee .com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

Starkel, Phillip W. and Jodi J. (TS# 7023.117729) 1002.290484-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 3, 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 6 of WILDROSE, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 19

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of Plats at Page 53. WESLEY BMNAXLP SWALLING, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mountain West Bank, N.A., corporation, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust on July 15, 2009, and recorded on July 16, 2009 as Book 843 Page 1243 under Document No. 200917601. The beneficial interest is currently held by SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. 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 November 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/13/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631950 Bk-788 Pg-1219, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Phillip W. Starkel and Jodi J. Starkel was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

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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 April 1, 2017 is $129,464.39 principal, interest totaling $3,236.64 escrow advances of $486.42, and other fees and expenses advanced of $165.98, 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

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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: March 20, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert 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 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, 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 SunTrust Mortgage Inc vs SWALLING 100304-2 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, 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

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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 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

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.

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: 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 ap-

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 80, 157, 159, 203, 318, 419 & 744. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday April 24, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday April 27, 2017 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

pointed 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 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

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.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Case No. DP-17-22 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLAYTON E. DEVOE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within Four (4) months after of first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to George C. DeVoe, attorney for the Personal Representatives, of the estate of Clayton E. DeVoe, at 310 North Higgins, Missoula, Montana, 59802 or filed with the clerk of the above named Court. DATED this 1st day of March, 2017. /s/ George C. DeVoe,Attorney Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 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 above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to 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

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.

RENTALS

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

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11270 Napton Way 2C. 3 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central Lolo location, lots of interior updates. $925. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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1315 E. Broadway #4. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coin-ops, storage, pets? $850.

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is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

1324 S. 2nd Street West “B”. 3 bed/2 bath, central location, single garage, W/D. $1100. Grizzly Property 542-2060 205 ½ W. Kent Ave. Studio/1 bath, central location, shared W/D, near U. $600.

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Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3909 Buckley Place. 2 bed/1 bath, single garage,W/D hookups, close to shopping. $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

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“They're Getting Along Great”–in this puzzle, at least.

11 Hand or foot, e.g.

48 Apr. number cruncher ACROSS 1 Animal that can follow the first word in each of this puzzle's four theme entries 4 Folklore automaton 9 Steering wheel theft deterrent, with "The" 13 "Cheerleader" singer 14 Biblical landing site 16 1980s tennis star Mandlikova 17 Group that gets called about illicit facsimiles?

19 Fix a feature, e.g.

20 ___ buco (veal entree) 21 Canines often metaphorically sacrificed 23 Weather report stats 27 Kleenex crud 28 Classic 1971 album that closes with "Riders on the Storm" 31 Rapper Biggie 35 Jointly owned, maybe 36 Animal who says "Baa, humbug"?

39 2003/2005/2007 A.L. MVP, familiarly 41 Elevator or train component 42 Blacken, as a steak 43 Where to dispose of cooking grease and tropical oils?

49 Plan so that maybe one can 50 Mischievous 52 Breakfast side dish 54 Gambling game played in convenience stores 55 Fifties fad involving undulation 59 "Terrible" ages 63 Conservation subj.

64 Product of a between-buildings cookoff?

68 Ointment ingredient 69 Illinois city symbolizing Middle America 70 "Funeral in Berlin" novelist Deighton 71 Kentucky senator Paul 72 Put up with 73 Animal that can follow the second word in each of this puzzle's four theme entries

DOWN 1 Couturiere Chanel 2 "Cornflake Girl" singer Tori 3 Contents of some jars 4 Empty space 5 El Dorado's treasure 6 Magic's NBA team, on scoreboards 7 City north of Pittsburgh 8 Big name in Thanksgiving parades 9 Extremely speedy mammals 10 Stow, as on a ship

12 Aptly titled English spa 15 Wee 18 Acronym popularized by Drake 22 __of Maine (toothpaste brand) 24 Three-letter "Squee!"

25 Failure of diplomacy 26 Moved stealthily 28 Does nothing 29 Haloes of light 30 Made music?

32 Clingy critter?

33 Made like a kangaroo 34 Prevent infestations, in a way 37 The shortest month?

38 Practical joke 40 Record producer with the 2017 single "Shining" 44 Site of Bryce Canyon 45 Old-school "Fuggedaboutit!"

46 "Call Me Maybe" middle name 47 Horse's brownish-gray hue 51 Unironic ankh wearer at night 53 Fillings for some donuts?

55 Consider officially, as a judge 56 Bruins' alma mater 57 "On Golden Pond" bird 58 Novel necessity 60 Like joker values 61 Another word for margarine 62 Illumination Entertainment's other 2016 film (besides "The Secret Life of Pets") 65 History class division 66 Counterpart of yang 67 Philandering fellow

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REAL ESTATE

3 Bdr, 3 Bath, Farviews home on a 0.25 acre lot. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties •

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TOWNHOMES

Waterfront Lodge – Heron, MT – 5 bed, 6 bath, 2 kitchens, $1,225,000. New remodel IS/OS, manicured grounds w/ koi pond & waterfall, orchard, all season greenhouse, 5 car garage/shop–M.K. Broker (406)241-9982

Pinnacle Townhomes. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage on Charlo Street. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

OWN A PIECE OF THE UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Uptown Flats #101. 1 bed, 1 bonus room, 1 bath close to community room. $193,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@ movemontana.com

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

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MANUFACTURED For Sale 2- 2013 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $43,900 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663

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