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News
Voices/Letters Krakauer, Krakauer and Krakauer ...........................................................4 The Week in Review Water compact, Medicaid expansion and IWFF ...........................6 Briefs Milk, Higher One and bike lanes ..........................................................................6 Etc. Beyond Coal considers Montana a battleground state ............................................7 News Passions run deep during Marshall Woods field trip.............................................8 News UM researcher brings pharmacogenetics to reservation.......................................9 Opinion A plea to help hardworking, ordinary name/group/entity .............................10 Feature The Music Issue................................................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Missoula’s first generation of electronic music DJs grows up...............................20 Music Local musicians on their favorite traveling tunes ...............................................22 Arts Dudley Dana’s art captures the spirit of the road..................................................23 Film Bikes vs. Cars calls for a re-imagining of cities .....................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................25 What’s Good Here Hooked on Thai.............................................................................26 Happiest Hour Tiki Ono at Montgomery Distillery .....................................................28 8 Days a Week Rockin’ to some Falling Sickness .........................................................29 Mountain High Earth Day 5K .......................................................................................37 Agenda Young Athletes Program Sports Experience Playdate ......................................38
Exclusives
Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Kate Whittle, Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Tracy Lopez, Will Peterson ADMIN, PROMO & EVENTS COORDINATOR Leif Christian CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Jule Banville, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Migizi Pensoneau, Brooks Johnson, Sarah Aswell
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missoulanews.com • April 23–April 30, 2015 [3]
STREET TALK
[voices]
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, April 21, near the corner of Broadway and Higgins. This week the Indy presents its Music Issue. What’s been your favorite live music experience in Missoula? Follow-up: What Missoula band do you think the rest of the world needs to hear?
Sam Ore: This year I saw Lettuce at the Top Hat and that was pretty amazing. Shameless plug: Three-Eared Dog. Because I’m in the band.
Alex Wolfe: The Ratatat show at the Wilma about three years ago. They projected cockatoos from the stage onto the audience and cycled through all these instruments and rocked them all. Capt. Sextastic: My favorite was The International Playboys.
Megan Williams: I’m gonna say Wartime Blues in the Old Post Pub parking lot last summer. Cut a rug: The BoxCutters. They kill it, man.
Alex Scranton: Hopefully it will be tonight at the Wilma with Neko Case, but it was probably seeing The Rolling Stones at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Whiz-bang: The Whizpops! They are really good and super fun.
Slap in the face In her important book Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman wrote, “It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering.” In this week leading up to the release of Jon Krakauer’s book, I’ve been saddened and angered to see preemptive attempts to counteract the negative effects of the book. Such was the Independent’s cover from last week, which mimicked the cover of Krakauer’s book but substituted the words “Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” with “Hope and Progress in a University Town.” This defensive, overbright posture strikes me as a slap in the face of those who have experienced sexual assault in this community. Krakauer’s book represents a challenge to a system that let women down; to attempt to undercut the impact of this message is to, by default, side with perpetrators. That this was not the intention is immaterial to the message it sends. I realize the first response of many to this strong accusation will be to say, “but it’s more nuanced than that. Having pride in our town is not the same as siding with the perpetrators. That’s ridiculous. I obviously don’t support rape, but I also don’t like that the book is named after our town.” To this I would offer a suggestion: Now is not the time for nuanced defenses of our town, or to quibble over the freakin’ title of the book (which might not have been Krakauer’s decision, though I wouldn’t get too bent out of shape if it was). Instead, it is a time to humbly await what we stand to learn. To fully own a problem is to take the first step to addressing it in a meaningful and complete way; to get defensive and insular is not helpful in this process, which must and will take place regardless of wounded pride.
Let’s decisively take the side of the victims of sexual assault by sharing the burden of pain, taking action, staying engaged, and remembering what I’m afraid many in our community would like to forget. It’s not particularly complicated to meet this challenge in the right way, but it demands courage and humility we would do well to collectively muster. Seth Quackenbush Missoula
Favorite things In 2003, I moved to Montana for grad school and the cool area code. When I told people that I was headed to Missoula, the
“This defensive, overbright posture strikes me as a slap in the face of those who have experienced sexual assault in this community.” reaction was an almost uniform “Oh I love that town!” If I asked why, I got “It’s the people!” That cryptic phrase just made me more curious. What about the people? This past year I’ve traveled a lot—both in the U.S. and abroad—and although I’ve met warmhearted folks everywhere, and been fascinated, educated, shocked, concerned and charmed by the world—the journey has only made me appreciate Missoula, and the folks who live here, more. Urban planners say that the health of a city is tied
to identity—“a sense of place”—a feeling of belonging to a specific, one-of-a-kind community. Missoula has many special qualities. Your recent issue listed 12 reasons to love about Missoula right now. Here is my top 20 list of favorite things about Missoula. 1. Lolo Peak. 2. A million nonprofits. 3. Almost as many parades as pubs. 4. Local food fetishists. 5. The bar at Snowbowl. 6. The percentage of biologists per capita. 7. Guys on skateboards being pulled by their dogs. 8. The “so-called” parking tickets. 9. The energy of this place 10. It’s not about the stuff. It’s about the experience. 11. How many CSAs are there again? 12. Ice skating under the moon in Rattlesnake park. 13. Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. 14. The trails. 15. The long, stretched-out hours of light in the early evening in the summer. 16. Ospreys, both the birds and baseball team. 17. The Festival of the Book. 18. Jumping into a cold Rattlesnake River swimming hole. (And then screaming and jumping out!) 19. Sustainable living is real here. 20. The thing I like the most about Missoula is this feeling I have here that everyone somehow decided that being friendly and spreading a little warmheartedness would make the world a better place—and so, for the most part, folks interact with that MO. You can feel it at the hardware store, at the local markets, at Brennan’s Wave, at the chairlift, at any of the fundraising runs. I’m not saying there isn’t some conflict and crime and craziness, but it isn’t what people experience day-to-day, like we do the friendly vibe. It’s good to be back. Karen Slobod Missoula
[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Hope and Progress in a University Town,” April 16
Dave Kelly: Volbeat last year at the Wilma was pretty good. They played with two other bands named Trivium and Digital Summer. Throwback: Donald Christ. That was a local reggae/punk rock-type band that played here for a while.
[4] Missoula Independent • April 23–April 30, 2015
Not enough
Reminders
Don’t love it
“Wow, nice piece. Don’t think it’ll sustain the media barrage that’ll start on Tuesday, however.” Posted April 16 at 9:10 a.m.
“Regardless of the quality of Krakauer’s book, my hope is that the publicity results in reaching people who do not realize the prevalence of sexual violence against women and girls, and the lack of prosecutions and punishment … Missoula has a lot going for it! Thank you for reminding folks.” Posted April 16 at 1:17 p.m.
“For the same reasons all whores, with their pimps watching, parrot why they ‘love’ their pimps.” Posted April 17 at 12:39 p.m.
Another peace “Having the most nonprofits per capita and a strong history of peacemakers, including Jeannette Rankin, should make the list as well.” Posted April 16 at 12:13 p.m.
More to do “This is a great piece! The book is something that will be an eye opener that the entire nation needs. As a community, we have an opportunity to make this place even better.” Posted April 18 at 3:18 p.m.
missoulanews.com • April 23–April 30, 2015 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, April 15 Missoula police officers respond to an alarm at First Security Bank on Great Northern Way, where they discover a window and screen removed by a burglar who made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. No arrests are made.
Thursday, April 16 After decades of debate, the Flathead Water Compact clears a major legislative hurdle when the Montana House votes to approve Senate Bill 262. The compact must be approved by the U.S. Congress before implementation.
Friday, April 17 The Missoula Police Department issues a warning about a Tuesday incident at Willard School, where a man with “stringy grey hair” driving a “beat-up” red car allegedly attempted to coerce a student into his car. Officers have upped their patrol of the area.
Saturday, April 18 A compromise Medicaid expansion bill passes in the Montana Legislature. If signed by Gov. Steve Bullock, as expected, the bill will expand Medicaid eligibility to about 70,000 low-income Montana residents.
Sunday, April 19 Children and adults dressed as animals parade through downtown Missoula during WildWalk, the kickoff for the 38th International Wildlife Film Festival, which continues through April 25 at the Roxy Theater and other venues.
Monday, April 20 After the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office releases a statement explaining its decision to fire former Public Information Officer Paige Pavalone for “knowingly” lying during a recent internal investigation, Pavalone’s attorney responds by vowing to sue the sheriff’s office.
Tuesday, April 21 Jon Krakauer’s Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town hits shelves. The book examines sexual-assault claims that were allegedly mishandled by local police, prosecutors and other officials.
Men compete in the Fancy Dance category during the 47th annual Kyi-Yo Pow Wow at the University of Montana’s Adams Center on April 18.
Milk
Down the drain Three filmmakers, operating two cameras and a boom mic, hurry through Pattee Creek Market on a recent Friday afternoon. They are frantically tracking the seemingly mundane action of a store employee transferring milk cartons from one side of the market to a sink on the other side. There, he will pour the contents of the cartons down the drain in compliance with a state law that forbids the sale of milk more than 12 days after it’s pasteurized. Led by director and Harvard Law School lecturer Rebecca Richman Cohen, the filmmakers are working with Emily Broad Leib, deputy director of Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Emily Deddens, a Harvard law student, on a short documentary about how confusing dating on food products leads to waste throughout the United States.
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According to Leib, Montana’s policy regarding milk dating is the nation’s strictest—and therefore the most glaring example of what’s wrong nationwide. Montana is one of only two states to legislate the dating of milk. Elsewhere, manufacturers decide what kind of date to stamp on their product. Even when those dates are merely freshness guidelines instead of no-sell mandates, though, Leib says they perpetuate the idea that drinking milk after these dates is a health concern, which it’s not. “Nine in 10 consumers have said, ‘I throw food away after the date, whether it’s sell-by, use-by, bestby, because I’m afraid it’s not safe,’” Leib says. Instead, she would like to see a uniform, consistent dating system for food products “that makes it really clear this is freshness, not safety.” Pattee Creek estimates it pours 20-100 gallons a week down the drain due to the state’s sell-by rule, and all that spilled milk is just a drop in the much larger bucket of food waste. Deddens says 40 percent
of food produced in the nation is thrown away, leading to inefficiencies in production and transportation, as well as unnecessary trash accumulation. “Food waste contributes to climate change, but it’s hard to go out and say, ‘I’m going to fix climate change,’” Deddens says. “That’s overwhelming. But this is something that’s solvable.” The effort to overturn Montana’s milk dating law has been ongoing for some eight years, says Christian Mackay, executive officer of the Montana Department of Livestock, which is responsible for the regulation. But, Mackay points out, the rule has withstood numerous challenges in the courts and in the legislature, which killed a bill designed to overturn the law this session. Mackay defends the sell-by date, arguing it’s designed “to give most of the [milk’s] freshness to the consumers.” He also argues that there’s no “documented proof of this widespread dumping of milk that we hear about.” The film crew excpects its documentary to air
[news] sometime this fall. The goal, Cohen says, “is to raise awareness with consumers but also to change policy.” To that end, they aim for the film to be only about five minutes long and easy to share online. Ted McDermott
UM
Slow ride After successfully investing to speed up development at South Crossing and elsewhere along south Brooks Street, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency is working on a new project aimed at slowing things down. Currently, MRA is partnering with the WGM Group, an engineering firm, and the Montana Department of Transportation to put the finishing touches on a $1.5 million project designed to calm traffic and increase bicyclist and pedestrian comfort between Reserve and Dixon streets, along Brooks. “It’s gonna have a huge impact on the way Brooks looks and feels and how comfortable it is to be on Brooks, other than just in a car,” says Ellen Buchanan, MRA’s executive director. “... Because right now, it doesn’t matter what [speed limit is posted], it’s a racetrack.” The project’s design plans, which are 60 percent complete, call for narrower motor vehicle travel lanes, while adding parallel parking, bike lanes, pedestrianfriendly lighting and sidewalk landscaping. Though the changes are intended to slow cars and accommodate cyclists and walkers, members of Missoula Bicycle and Pedestrian Board still have concerns. In a letter to Buchanan dated April 7, board members “strongly urge MRA to further evaluate the proposed plan for accommodating bicycles,” due to questions about safety and whether the lanes would effectively attract new riders. Citing problems with similar bike lanes along Stephens and Higgins, the letter asks MRA to consider the creation of a buffer to increase the space between bikes, moving vehicles and the opening doors of cars parked in the new parallel spaces. “Our ideal for cyclist safety and for encouraging more cyclists to ride there is to have a buffered bike
lane, not to provide for parallel parking along that stretch of Brooks,” says Bob Wachtel, the board’s chair. “We see sufficient parking in the off-street parking lots for the various businesses.” While Buchanan acknowledges the parallel parking spaces “might not be used a whole lot right now,” she says that continued development could make them necessary down the line. She adds that designers are looking “at the various alternatives” to accommodate the board’s concerns. “And frankly,” Buchanan says, “one alternative might be to put in the parking, put in the bike lane—if there are conflicts, you can always remove the parking. It’s as easy as painting the curb yellow and putting up signs.” The coming changes are part of the second phase of the three-phase Brook Street Corridor Plan, paid for with tax-increment financing from Urban Renewal District III. During the first phase, changes—including the installation of a new traffic signal—were made to improve safety at the intersection of Brooks Street and Dore Lane. It will be up to MDT to pursue the third and final phase of the corridor improvement plan, which would entail replacing Brooks’ continuous left-turn lane with a landscaped median. Doing so, Buchanan says, would require consolidating exits and entries to businesses and finding ways to preserve access without the turn lane. Ted McDermott
Redevelopment
Higher One saga’s slow close Another chapter in the Higher One Holdings saga at the University of Montana and elsewhere has officially come to a close. Members of the class action lawsuit against the bank finally began receiving checks last week as part of a $15 million settlement reached last February and approved in November. Among those receiving payment was UM law student Daniel Knudsen, who filed a separate lawsuit against UM alleging privacy rights violations stemming from its contract with Higher One. “I got a settlement—a small settlement check—along with other students included in that class action from
BY THE NUMBERS Songs on iTunes that include “Missoula” in their title, such as “Midnight in Missoula” by Nanci Griffith and “Missoula’s Gonna Get You” by Falling Sickness. For more of our Music Issue, check out page 14.
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the bank itself,” Knudsen says, adding he doesn’t know of anyone else at UM who received settlement payments. According to comments from class members on the Facebook page “Fuck Higher One,” check amounts ranged from 50 cents to several hundred dollars. Following final approval of the settlement by a U.S. District Court judge in Connecticut on Nov. 24, 2014, students who received refunds through a Higher One bank account were given until late January to file their claims. Higher One had sparked continued controversy on campuses going back nearly a decade in relation to steep swipe fees for PIN-based transactions and other questionable account-related charges. UM signed its five-year contract with Higher One in 2010, joining roughly 1,900 schools nationwide contracting various services through the bank. The Associated Students of the University of Montana spent the past several years arguing for UM to cancel its contract with the bank. The contract was set to expire this year, and according to ASUM business manager Ryan Hazen, a new contractor—Nebraska-based Nelnet—was selected this spring to handle UM’s student refund distributions. Hazen says he opposed renewing the Higher One contract partly due to the “non-stop horror stories” from students regarding hidden fees and mistreatment. “For the refund committee that looked at Higher One’s potential replacements, one of the main focuses we had was getting rid of the card that comes with the refund,” Hazen says. “With Nelnet, we made it a point that that would not be an option, so what we’re having them do is either direct deposit or paper check.” Nelnet will take over those services starting this fall. The only lingering thread in the Higher One story at UM is Knudsen’s lawsuit against the university itself. Missoula District Court Judge Robert Deschamps denied UM’s motion to dismiss last month; the case is ongoing. Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Five years ago, the Sierra Club set an ambitious goal for its latest nationwide campaign. Beyond Coal aimed to see one-third of the country’s 500 coal-fired power plants retired by 2020. Backed by a $50 million donation from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s charity, the campaign mobilized an army of community activists and today claims credit for the shutdown of some 188 coal plants. As Campaign Director Mary Anne Hitt puts it, Beyond Coal made it clear “we could win and we could deliver.” With roughly 335 plants remaining—Montana’s Colstrip among them—Beyond Coal is looking to capitalize on that momentum. The campaign was initially set to end this year, but earlier this month it netted another $30 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Hitt, former executive director of Missoula’s nonprofit Ecology Center, says Beyond Coal’s new target is “half the coal plants announced to retire by 2017 and replaced with clean energy.” And she sees Montana as a key state in the campaign’s fight to come. “You’re right at the center of a lot of the biggest energy debates in the country,” Hitt says. Beyond Coal has already been a vocal proponent of Washington state’s efforts to wean itself off coal-fired power—a push that would significantly erode existing demand for Colstrip energy. The campaign has also taken a stand against coal exports, echoing the position of activists throughout Montana. “Other states may have one or two pieces of the puzzle,” Hitt says. “In Montana, they’re all happening.” While not one of the session’s dominant issues, coal has played a part in the current Montana Legislature with proposals supporting coal development and exports and allocating funds for export-related litigation. Several lawmakers last month reportedly mailed copies of a form letter circulated by Cloud Peak to the U.S. Department of Interior regarding the agency’s consideration of fair returns on fossil fuel sales from public lands. Ultimately, Beyond Coal’s $30 million will have to stretch across roughly 45 states. Hitt doesn’t anticipate any dramatic changes, but the existing momentum may be all the campaign and its allies need. After all, Hitt says, five years has left the movement “more sophisticated, more effective and able to take on a bigger goal.”
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Tour tension Passions run deep during Marshall Woods field trip by Alex Sakariassen
Staff from the Lolo National Forest versation, this has been a great opportu- about that. Now, these commercial units, we do not have consensus on it.” convened with roughly two dozen con- nity to do that.” In the waning hour of the field trip, At the height of Saturday’s tour, Andy cerned citizens in the paved turnout at the end of Marshall Canyon Road April 18, Kulla, a former recreation staff officer on the Gunn discussed why the 100-year absence eager to explain the proposed Marshall Missoula Ranger District and early partici- of fire as a natural disturbance on the forWoods Restoration Project. The four-hour pant in the project, offered his take on the est dictates a need for landscape-wide field trip promised to cover a host of topics history of Marshall Woods. The project, Kulla restoration work. Decades of fire suppresranging from road-to-trail conversions to said, was intended to enhance recreation sion policy have left the forest subject to wildlife habitat improvements. Yet atten- and facilitate a vegetative analysis of Section other natural stressors, she said, including dees hadn’t even left the parking lot when 31—a swath of forest adjacent to the Rat- mountain pine beetles. The proposed the debate surrounding portions of the tlesnake NRA acquired from Plum Creek in project includes hand-thinning of the for1998. The Lolo National Forest began work- est wherever feasible, she added. proposal came bubbling to the surface. “We want to create forests that Following introductions, local can grow large trees, so, over time, environmental consultant Mike along the trails, we maintain Bader jumped straight to the contrees,” Gunn said. “That’s what the tested suggestion of using comobjective is. This has absolutely, mercial timber harvest to treat 250 positively nothing to do with comacres in the main corridor of the mercial logging. It’s a tool.” Rattlesnake National Recreation However, Gunn’s analysis Area. He read a passage from the drew a final round of criticism, Lolo National Forest Plan declaring this time from Wilderness Watch the NRA “unsuitable for timber Executive Director George production,” and followed up with Nickas, who claimed the Marshall a direct question: Would the projWoods project is based on a “very ect result in the removal and sale photo by Alex Sakariassen simplistic perspective” of the forof any trees from areas governed by those management objectives? Members of the public got an up-close look at the pro- est’s ecology. The science comBefore Missoula District posed Marshall Woods Restoration Project during an munity’s understanding of issues April 18 field trip. The outing grew intense at times due like pine beetles is constantly Ranger Jennifer Hensiek could re- to several controversial portions of the proposal. shifting, Nickas said. And there’s spond, another attendee attempted to silence Bader. After a brief ing with the Lolo Restoration Committee to an economic side to consider too when a back-and-forth, Hensiek reiterated the same develop the plan in 2008, but in Kulla’s financially hamstrung agency proposes a potentially $3 million project. statement she’s given consistently when con- words, “the horse got out of the corral.” “I think we have to look at something “We had a nice, compact, straightforfronted on the commercial harvest issue. “Let me be clear,” she said, “there’s ward project in Section 31 when the LRC that’s much more light on the land and accame on board,” Kulla said. “The horse cept the idea and promote the idea that we been no decision.” While forest staff spent much of the busted out of the corral, the horse ran across need to let nature continue to manage the afternoon addressing components like en- Rattlesnake Drive, it ran across the creek and Rattlesnake,” Nickas said. “If we try to manage it, we’re going to screw it up and we’re hanced fish passage and noxious weed it parked itself in the main corridor.” Silviculturist Sheryl Gunn, one of the going to spend a ton of money doing it.” management along former Plum Creek Despite the heated exchanges, HenTimber roads—goals that elicited wide- lead Forest Service team members on the spread support—the next impassioned ex- project, interjected that some people dis- siek sees value in the outing. If nothing change was never far off. According to agree with parts of Kulla’s recollection of else, it impressed upon her just how imHensiek, Saturday’s tour in many ways events. Another heated standoff took portant the acreage in question is to the emulated the first project field trip con- place before LRC Chairman Jake Kreilick Missoula public. It also allowed her team to “illustrate that we’re listening.” ducted up the main Rattlesnake trail ear- politely intervened. “It was that simple,” Hensiek says. “Sheryl, I don’t think the agency was lier in the week. It’s that level of engagement, however intense, that made being completely honest with the LRC in “We came out nights and weekends to reterms of what the ultimate objectives ally make sure that we were listening, and the field trips a success in her eyes. “We scoped the public, we asked for were,” he said. “We had consensus on 31, I think we did that.” comments from the public,” Hensiek says. we still have consensus on 31. We’ve got “But to really engage in an in-depth con- consensus on [Section] 33, no doubt asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Personalized care UM researcher brings pharmacogenetics to reservation by Kellen Beck
One of the biggest buzzwords in health care right now is pharmacogenetics, also known as personalized or precision medicine. During his latest State of the Union, President Barack Obama announced he was launching a $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, and to give Americans access to the personalized information needed to keep healthier. Last week, the governor of California unveiled a similar $3 million public-private statewide initiative. As interest and investment in personalized medicine increases, University of Montana Associate Professor Erica Woodahl stands in a prominent position. She’s currently the only person in the continental United States doing pharmacogenetic research on an indigenous population. Pharmacogenetics is the study of how an individual’s genetic makeup interacts with certain drugs. It aims to answer why people with the same disease often respond differently to the same medication, as well as why some diseases affect racial and ethnic groups in different ways. The hope is that with increased research, physicians can make better-informed decisions about what types of medicine to prescribe and move away from a “one size fits all” model. “If we can figure out the genetic reason, or the genetic basis, for these differences in responses, then we can think about improving medicines and tailoring medicine to an individual’s unique genetic makeup,” Woodahl says. Woodahl began her work with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in 2007 after the Tribal Health Department approached her about ways to improve the efficiency and outcomes of cancer chemotherapy. Since beginning the project, Woodahl’s research team has also included genetic research on how the tribe’s DNA makeup affects the metabolization of heart medications. Although Woodahl’s work could directly benefit the CSKT community, she says it was not a simple process to just start swabbing cheeks for DNA samples. A longstanding mistrust between researchers and
indigenous populations has made such work difficult and contentious. Woodahl says she overcomes the challenge with complete transparency and communication, as well as a commitment over time. “We had to address that and put it out there like, ‘Yes, we acknowledge that there is a history of bad research, and bad research in genetics in particular,’” she says. “And how do we overcome that so we can get to a place that we can start to talk about the implementation of pharmacogenetics and how that could help health?”
like that,” she says. “It’s really been about advancing the knowledge and the information about our people.” With such a legacy of poor practices, Woodahl says many researchers are not willing to put in the time necessary to build trust and engage with the Native community. That’s what makes her project rare in an otherwise expanding area of research. “Pharmacogenetics has been a pretty solid field for about 15 years, but there has been virtually nothing to engage Native American communities,” she says. “...
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
UM Associate Professor Erica Woodahl says she’s the only person in the continental United States doing pharmacogenetic research on an indigenous population.
LeeAnna Muzquiz, medical director at Tribal Health, has worked with Woodahl since the beginning of the project, working as a liaison between the research team and tribal community. As a physician, Muzquiz is well aware of the lack of research on indigenous communities and attributes this, at least partially, to the hesitancy that many tribal members feel about genetic research. “We’ve had experiences where people have come and done research and then never shared the information or we never really knew what happened, and it didn’t really have a positive impact on the tribes or the community,” she says. “We just sort of felt like we were used.” But Muzquiz says dealing with Woodahl and her research team has been an entirely different experience. “It’s never been about their advancement or their personal gains or anything
It takes continued commitment. You have to keep doing it year after year. Even after the grant gets funded or the paper gets published, you have to keep going back and keep talking with the community and making sure that they get a benefit, too.” Woodahl says she’s been approached about sharing the DNA samples, but she has denied each request and will continue to do so. She says it’s important for her to remember that the aim of her research is first and foremost to benefit the CSKT community. Woodahl’s research is an ongoing project, but she has already found evidence that Salish and Kootenai genetics are unique in the way they affect the metabolization of drugs. She hopes that, over time, providers like Muzquiz will implement her findings and that it will benefit patients in the future. editor@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • April 23–April 30, 2015 [9]
[opinion]
One voice A plea to help the ordinary, hardworking name/group/entity by Dan Brooks
DOCUMENTARY FILM “BOUGHT” Free viewing and discussion about vaccinations, GMO’s and the pharmaceutical industry.
Wed. April 29th 6:30pm Please call to RSVP your seat.
[10] Missoula Independent • April 23–April 30, 2015
Right now, as you read this, the U.S. Department of the Interior is considering increasing its rate for royalty payments from coal mined on federally owned land. I’ll give you a moment to catch your breath. I know this news must come as an unpleasant shock, since you lease a tract of land from the U.S. government that you mine for coal. Obviously not every reader of this free newspaper bid for a federal coal lease this year, but I assume most of you did. Otherwise, why would Montana Sen. Steve Daines, Rep. Ryan Zinke and more than a dozen other legislators, mayors and elected officials around the state write letters to the Department of the Interior urging it to hold off on raising its lease rates? You know that these leaders were representing the urgent needs of the people, because they spoke with one voice—literally. Most of the letters they sent were verbatim copies of a 300-word form circulated by Cloud Peak Energy, a coal mining company based in Wyoming. I quote the letter to Interior from the Montana Chamber of Commerce: “We are concerned that the likely outcome from this rule will be diminished sales of federal energy resources and diminished revenues for state and federal entities that may impact (insert name/group/entity.)” That’s how bad government overreach has gotten: ordinary, hardworking Montanans are so exhausted from trying to make their federal coal leases profitable that they don’t even have the strength to insert name/group/entity. If this trend keeps up, the mom-and-pop surface mining operation might become a thing of the past. Consider this sobering indicator: the Government Accountability Office reports that since 1990, over 80 percent of coal leases have sold on a single bid. Although federal coal leases are supposed to be competitive, and despite large increases in export volume since 2008, only one mining concern typically
bids for each federally offered tract of land. As a result, Uncle Sam has accepted dozens of contracts to sell publicly owned coal below market value, costing the federal government millions. China and other overseas markets are paying more for coal than they have in decades, but the Department of the Interior’s proposed rate increase has ordinary Montanans so flummoxed that they can’t cash in. Fortunately, we have elected plenty of people to represent our interests to our government.
“Lobbyists may charge millions of dollars to speak for Big Coal, but my elected representatives will do it for free.” That’s why Montana Sen. Debby Barrett, R–Dillon, stood up for voters and pasted the Cloud Peak Energy letter onto her official letterhead, filling the name/group/entity field with “Montana.” The Yellowstone County Board of Commissioners did the same thing, although obviously using their own letterhead and filling in “Yellowstone County.” The Billings Chamber of Commerce, presumably as uncertain as the rest of us about what a Chamber of Commerce does, just filled in “member businesses which we represent.” As one of the biggest members currently representing business, Sen. Daines wrote his own letter. It borrows heavily from the Cloud Peak Energy
form letter in places, but it is clearly his own work. Daines, too, calls for an extension of the public comment period before Interior considers raising its rates, and his letter is co-signed by 14 other congressmen, including Zinke tand the delegation from Wyoming. Kudos to these champions for speaking out on behalf of their constituents: the hard-working, plainspeaking, federal-land-tract-leasingand-coal-exporting voters of Montana. We elected these people—or, in the case of the Chambers of Commerce, ate brisket with them at the Rotary Club— to represent our interests to an almost impossibly large and complex federal government. In a corrupt system, our individual voices might be drowned in a torrent of money and lobbying, and our natural resources might be sold off to the highest bidder. But Daines, Zinke, Barrett and the Yellowstone County Commission don’t work for Big Coal. They work for us, and thanks to their efforts, our natural resources will continue to be sold to the only bidder who makes an offer. These are tough times for everyday Montanans who own strip mines on federal land. The coal industry has spent more than $88 million to lobby members of Congress since 2009. How can the individual voter pursue her own coal-related interests amid this storm of lobbyist dollars? As an ordinary, hardworking name/group/entity, I’m glad I still get a voice on the floor of Congress. Like Cloud Peak Energy, I just want to keep mining my 499,000 acres of federal land and scraping by as best I can. That’s why I’m glad to have Daines et al on my side. Lobbyists may charge millions of dollars to speak for Big Coal, but my elected representatives will do it for free. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and form letters at combatblog.net.
missoulanews.com • April 23–April 30, 2015 [11]
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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Cass Alder, 22, bought table napkins made with images of $100 bills on them, then cut out the images, glued them onto paper and tried passing one of the bogus bills at a convenience store. The clerk refused to accept it. Alder exited the store but left the bill behind. It was used in evidence against him at his trial in in Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, where a provincial court judge sentenced him to 18 months probation. (Charlottestown’s The Guardian) Micah Hatcher, 36, was charged with auto theft after he drove a stolen vehicle into the Washington State Patrol district office parking lot in Bellevue. Hatcher had been arrested a few days earlier and came to the district office to retrieve some belongings that had been taken then. Troopers said they were alerted to the stolen vehicle by a witness who recognized it from a Facebook post and followed Hatcher to his destination. (Seattle’s KOMO-TV)
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GAME OF DRONES – The world’s first university licensed to grant doctorates in unmanned systems said its students can learn to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle in less than three weeks. Instruction at Arizona’s Unmanned Vehicle University consists of three phases, provost John Minor said. The first two allow students to learn at home, using a flight simulator. Phase three requires students to travel to one of the university’s flight schools around the country and work with an experienced flight instructor. The school charges students $3,500. (The Washington Times) Military researchers plan to test whether drones can be placed on the ocean floor for an indefinite period and then be activated remotely to attack surface targets. The drone operation, named the Upward Falling Payload program, faces three challenges, according to Steven H. Walker, deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which heads the project: how to remotely trigger the launch, how to get the drone to float to the surface and how to power and protect the system on the ocean floor for more than a year. (The Washington Times) Drone operators won’t need a pilot’s license, according to draft rules for commercial drones announced by the Federal Aviation Administration. Instead, the agency proposed that drones weighing less than 55 pounds that are well maintained and checked before flight can be flown by operators who’ve passed a basic aeronautical test. The drones would have to stay below 500 feet, fly only in daylight and not over people, and remain in view of their operators at all times. Amazon said the last requirement would prevent it starting its drone-delivery service. (The Economist) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spent $600,000 on drones but never flew them operationally because it couldn’t maneuver them correctly, according to the Department of Justice inspector general. The bureau subsequently suspended its unmanned aerial system program and disposed of all its aircraft, but less than a week later, a separate ATF unit purchased five small drones for $15,000 without consulting headquarters. (The Washington Times)
OVEREATER’S LAMENT – After John Noble, 53, shot and killed himself at a Henderson, Nev., resort buffet, authorities said he left a suicide note blaming the resort for his death by withdrawing its offer of free meals for life. The M Resort Spa Casino awarded him unlimited meals at its buffet in 2010 for being an M “biggest winner.” Three years later, it banned him from the property for harassing some of the women working there. “I was unjustifiably kicked out,” Noble insisted on a two-hour DVD of him talking about his troubles that accompanied his note. (Las Vegas Review-Journal) NUPTIAL SECRETS – An Indian bride dumped the groom after he incorrectly answered an arithmetic problem. Tipped off before the arranged marriage that Ram Baran was illiterate, Lovely Singh asked him to add 15 and 6. He replied 17, according to a police official in Rasoolabad, Uttar Pradesh. Father of the bride Mohar Singh said the “groom’s family had kept us in the dark about his poor education.” (BBC News) Also in Uttar Pradesh, when the groom at a wedding in Rampur had a seizure during the ceremony and was taken to the hospital, the bride and her family learned that he was epileptic and had kept that information from them. The angry bride then asked a guest, a member of her brother-in-law’s family, to marry her instead. He agreed. When the original groom, 25-year-old Jugal Kishore, returned from the hospital, he pleaded with the woman to change her mind, but she refused. Kishore and his family lodged a complaint, police official Ram Khiladi Solanki said, “But since the bride is already married now, what can anyone do?” (BBC News)
SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – The National Rifle Association banned working guns from its annual convention this year in Nashville, Tenn. The group will require the thousands of firearms displayed at the event to have their firing pins removed for safety. (Nashville’s The Tennessean)
NOT-POT FOLLIES – Sheriff’s deputies who stopped a vehicle in Lincoln, Neb., reported finding a 16ounce container under the front passenger’s labeled “Not Weed.” It held 11.4 grams of marijuana. The 21year-old driver admitted it belonged to him and was arrested. (Lincoln Journal Star)
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Brooks & Browns presents SINGER/SONGWRITER at Brooks & Browns: Jesse, The Ocelot: 6:30-7:05 Betty Jane: 7:25-8:00 Luke Dowler: 8:35-9:10 Kappa Oie: 9:30-10:05 Sierra Kamplain: 10:25-11:00
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Missoula Copy Center presents INDIE/POP at Free Cycles Missoula: Adam & Skylar: 5:45-6:20 Maiah Wynne & The Deadly Pear: 6:40-7:15 Boston Tea Party: 7:35-8:10 Letter B: 8:30-9:05 Catamount: 9:25-10:00
T&C Lounge presents COUNTRY at Stage 112: Caleb Coffey: 9:15-9:50 Dean & Riley: 10:10-10:45 Tammie Jones: 11:05-11:40 Good Old Fashioned: 12:00 – 12:35 Keema & The Keepsakes: 12:55-1:30
Piece of Mind presents BLUEGRASS at Stage 112: The Dirt Farmers: 10:00-10:40 Local Yokel: 11:00-11:40 Gil And The Spills: 12:00-12:40 Ted Ness And The Rusty Nails: 1:00-1:40
Garage Tees presents ELECTRONIC at The Real Lounge: Lushush: 9:15-9:50 Butter That Shit Up: 10:10-10:45 Partygoers: 11:05-11:40 Lecture: 12:00-12:35 Space Bass!: 12:55-1:30
Bitterroot Brewing presents FUNK/SOUL/REGGAE at Monk's Bar Missoula: In Walks Bud: 10:00-11:00 Off In The Woods: 11:20-12:20 Ore Bros: 12:40-1:40 Rebel Yell presents METAL/PUNK at The Real Lounge: Brad Craig: 10:00-10:35 Arctodus: 10:55-11:30 Hence, Fourth: 11:50-12:25 Latitude 45: 12:45-1:20 Rocky Mountain Cannabis presents PSYCHEDELIC at The Palace Lounge: The Steady Changes: 9:15-9:50 Certain Molecules: 10:10-10:45 Joie Rainbeau: 11:05-11:40 Baby Tyger: 12:00-12:35 Voodoo Horseshoes: 12:55-1:30
SATURDAY, APRIL 25 Hurraw! presents BLUES/JAZZ at Free Cycles: The Captain Wilson Conspiracy: 5:30-6:20 Moneypenny: 6:40-7:30 Ryan Bundy: 7:40-8:30 Blue Moon : 8:50-9:40
The Green Light presents ROCK at The Palace: The Bent Bones: 9:15-9:50 Red Carpet Devils: 10:10-10:45 One Leaf Clover: 11:05-11:40 Muddkikker: 12:00-12:35 Cain & Fable: 12:55-1:30 Painless Steel presents HIP HOP At Monk's: Rude Max: 9:30-10:05 Analicia & Mindless: 10:25-11:00 Tahj Bo: 11:20-11:55 Mesozoic Mafia: 12:15-12:50 Codependents: 1:10-1:45
missoulanews.com • April 23–April 30, 2015 [13]
I
n 2008, Wasted Wednesday at the Top Hat was a pretty straightforward proposition: $7 for all-youcan-drink draft beer from 9 p.m. to last call. Inevitably, a flock of college students—mostly of the crunchy, outdoorsy kind—would camp out inside the weathered blues-rock club to chug pints, play pool and shake their booties to whatever band happened to be playing. And that’s where the Lil’ Smokies got their start. “Tuesday and Wednesday nights were really the only nights they could book us,” says mandolin player Cameron Wilson. “We’d look out and the whole crowd would be 14 to 20 of some of our closest friends and roommates, and we’d play our songs, which everyone would all have already heard the night before.” The band also set up each Saturday morning in the alley next to Taco del Sol to play for the delighted—and much more sober—farmers market passersby. But it twas the Top Hat stage that gave them a taste for the dynamic interaction with an audience willing to dance late into the night. Every band experiences some sort of humble beginning like mid-week gigs for friends and busking next to a taco shop, but not every band escapes those moments so quickly. In the last couple of years, the Lil’ Smokies have jumped from local buzz to a regional following that now extends to Washington, Oregon, California and, especially, into Colorado, where bluegrass reigns supreme. Last month, they played Boise’s TreeFort Music Festival. This summer they’ll hit the stage at Red Ants Pants Music Festival in White Sulphur Springs. For the last two years, they’ve been voted Best Band by Indy readers. In 2012, they won a battle-of-the-bands contest to open for Steve Martin and
the Canyon Creek Ramblers.They also scored first place in last year’s Zoo Music Awards bluegrass category (see a 2015 Zoo Music Awards preview on page 16). In 2013, they won the Northwest String Summit Band Competition. And in 2014, the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Asso-
“It’s like we are in this in-between stage of us all being the local band but just starting to hit it nationally.” —Cameron Wilson
ciation nominated them for Momentum Band of the Year, which rewards one young, up-and-coming group each year. The Lil’ Smokies lost to Nashville’s The Barefoot Movement, who have been featured on CMT’s “The Edge,” but the experience helped put the Missoula band on the national bluegrass map. In fact, the IBMA nomination is a perfect indicator of where the Lil’ Smokies stand in the grand scheme. The six-
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piece band, made up of Wilson, Pete Barrett on guitar, Matt Cornette on banjo, Andy Dunnigan on dobro, Scott Parker on upright bass and Jesse Brown on fiddle, still play off the beaten path and stay true to their humble Missoula roots, but they’re increasingly pushing into larger venues and selling out shows. They don’t always look the part, but the Lil’ Smokies are the latest example of a band of the cusp. ••• On a recent weekday afternoon, Wilson and Barrett sit in spare chairs on the back patio of the Top Hat, sipping beers. There’s just enough sun for the occasion, though the bar has yet to officially break out the outdoor furniture. Literally every person who walks by says hello to them. They laugh. “We don’t actually know everyone in this town,” Wilson says. The Smokies are more like a family than a group of buddies. Their ages range from 21 to 39 and they come from diverse music backgrounds. Barrett and Cornette came from more traditional old-timey and bluegrass bands. Brown is trained in the Suzuki method but he more recently played in a hardcore metal band. “When we found him he had a mullet and painted-on emo jeans,” Wilson jokes. Dunnigan comes from a family of musicians, including his Whitefish-based singer-songwriter father, John, who is well-regarded across the Northwest. Wilson is especially fond of David Grisman “dawg” music, which borrows from jazz and klezmer. And Parker, who didn’t really play in any bands before, grew up in Wyoming listening to metal. “We are all really close and we probably talk to each other more than we talk to almost any other close friends
just because we’re always around each other,” Wilson says. “But I wouldn’t say that without the band that the six of us would be best friends or we would do everything together. The band makes you do that—but then you find those joys in each other.” In 2009, Top Hat owner Steve Garr died, and his daughter, Nicole, and her partner, Armando, took over operations. Though they did away with Wasted Wednesdays, Nicole and Armando kept booking the Smokies on a regular basis. By the time current owner Nick Checota bought the venue in 2012, the band already had a solid reputation for getting people in the door. “They bring in an interesting crowd,” Checota says. “Everyone thinks Missoula is like Boulder and that whole scene—and that hasn’t been my experience. We get big names like the [Infamous] Stringdusters and Greensky Bluegrass, and they do okay, but not nearly as well as they do in other markets. The Smokies are interesting because they draw so well, they’ve got some kind of connection with the crowd here. And they do a little different arrangement on bluegrass that’s more progressive, less traditional. They kind of do have an indie rock vibe to them.” That vibe came through in the early days, when the Lil’ Smokies filled their sets with mostly covers: bluegrass standards like Lester Flatt’s “Sleep with One Eye Open,” country-rock favorites like Pure Prairie League’s “Amie” and other popular hits from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, including Cher’s “Believe.” Those pop hits reconfigured with a string-band spin went over especially well when the band would play the Lumberjack Saloon, a lively log cabin bar on the outskirts of Lolo.
“There was always a bachelor or bachelorette party up there with people getting crazy,” Barrett says. “At that point it was almost easier to play covers because we’d get to see the reaction. And when playing a tune you wrote, you don’t get that immediate response. That’s something you are keyed into as a band when first starting out, because you’re new to it.” When they first formed, they were more carefree with showing up to practices and gigs. Founding member Aaron Anderson, a multi-instrumentalist, struggled with drugs, and the band members often felt helpless in the face of that. It was easier to bottle up frustrations when a problem came up, admits Barrett. “Maybe you don’t wanna hurt somebody’s feelings, or you don’t wanna create some problems, or you don’t wanna kill the awesome vibe.” Anderson left the band in 2011, though they all remained friends. (He died in 2013, and the band still plays one of his songs, “Whiskey,” everywhere they go.) The early bumps in the road taught them to step up. As they started gaining momentum and playing music on an almost full-time basis, keeping things stable mattered more than ever. “Something that Pete brought up maybe over a year ago that meant a lot to everybody is that we’re not only living with each other, but our families are reliant on us,” Wilson says. “All of us are in relationships. If you don’t show up to a gig then we have to cancel that gig and then I don’t make that money and I can’t feed my family.” Barrett agrees. “I think going through that early really opened people’s eyes to the things that can happen just generally, dynamics-wise. That we’d kinda been down a pretty hard road really early on taught us things like patience and communication.” That patience really comes in handy when the tour van breaks down, which happened to the Lil’ Smokies last month. They were on a Northwest swing when they found themselves stranded in Ashland, Ore. “It was a typical tour in that way,” Barrett says. “With the van breakdown issues came band morale breakdown, and so that was a low. And then we had these awesome highs.” Forced to linger for four days while the van got fixed, the Lil’ Smokies took advantage of the situation. They set up in downtown Ashland’s main square and played, prepared for the usual busking experience from their early days outside Taco del Sol: general ambivalence, perhaps the occasional dollar dropped in the guitar case. They were surprised by the reaction. “All of a sudden we had this whole crowd of people hanging out,” Wilson says. “And you’re like, What? This is different than the normal busking, guys. It’s like we are in this in-between stage of us all being the local band but just starting to hit it nationally.” Still, it was the band’s tour through Colorado in January that really drove home the point that the Lil’ Smokies had arrived. The first place they played was a pub called Schmiggity’s in Steamboat Springs. Barrett recalls how the sound man looked them up and down when they walked in for a soundcheck. “There’s this first impression thing when you first walk into the venue where the sound guy’s trying to size you up,” he says. “Colorado is such a center for bluegrass and they see a lot of bands come through.”
But a Lil’ Smokies soundcheck is something to be reckoned with. At the 2013 Zoo Music Awards, for instance, the crowd at Sean Kelly’s went silent with the first plucking notes of the soundcheck before erupting into sustained cheers.
At Schmiggity’s, they plucked away as the eight patrons in the room and the skeptical sound man now smiled and nodded at them. Over the next several days, they toured from town to town playing to mostly sold-out venues. But the weirdest part of it was playing to strangers who knew their music. “They had heard about us,” Barrett says. “And a lot of them were singing along. We couldn’t believe it.” The Smokies have now shared the stage with major players in the bluegrass scene. They’ve also jammed with their heroes backstage and around late-night campfires at festivals. In one memorable encounter last September, Wilson ended up in the green room jamming with David Grisman on his mandolin before a David Grisman Sextet show at Snowbowl. When The Traveling McCourys played the Top Hat in July, they listened to the Lil’ Smokies from backstage.
“Afterwards they said some really nice things to each of our band members about specific things that you could tell they listened to,” Wilson says. “We used to measure how the night went by how packed the dance floor was, but to actually be getting feedback from your idols saying that was pretty great, it feels like something more is going on for us.” One of the best memories for the Lil’ Smokies was coming back home to Montana at the end of their recent Colorado tour. They took the stage at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish, and felt a little odd rolling out of their sloppy van and into a concert hall where people prepaid for tickets and stood in the lobby asking for autographs. It was a sold-out audience, with full balconies. “It’s gone full-circle from when we played covers and people sang along,” Wilson adds. “Now, when we start off with an opening lick, people at the Top Hat and other places, they know Pete Barrett this is ‘Decades’ or ‘California.’ And they’re songs that we wrote. So, when the crowd cheers and they start singing along to our songs, that’s a whole other feeling. That’s the ultimate.” ••• The Lil’ Smokies are part of a new trend spawned from an old tradition. They look like a bluegrass band— no drums, lots of strings—but their songs have enough hooks and anthemic angst to render “bluegrass” a useless description. Dunnigan’s lyrics are colorful and raw, tortured and hopeful. In “Fell Asleep” he says, “Drove through the night/ watched the sun melt the shadows away./ The song on the radio played, we didn’t know the words but we sang it anyway,” and in “Might As Well,” he belts out, “I recall that night in the Canyon Bar/ sang karaoke to the strangers./ I still get chills—probably always will!—whenever I hear ‘Tiny Dancer.’”
A recent Rolling Stone article covered the debate between those who believe bluegrass has been sullied and those who feel like the change is a long time coming. Mostly, the complaints come from bluegrass fans who demand purity from the genre. But the musicians, including old stalwarts like Ricky Skaggs and Del McCoury, who were interviewed in the article, see progressive bluegrass bands as legitimate rather than ruining a genre. “The article has Del McCoury literally being like, ‘Who cares?’” Barrett says. “It’s super encouraging, coming from him.” With the help of the Top Hat’s Checota, the Lil’ Smokies were recently signed with a booking agent, Blue Sun Entertainment. All the members still pick up a little work here and there—teaching music lessons, setting tile, waiting tables—but they’ve mostly cut their ties to 9-to-5 day jobs. Right now, the Smokies’ future is both literally and figuratively an open road. “It’s tough,” Checota says. “When you get labeled as a bluegrass band now, it’s almost like a kiss of death. But I think their potential is pretty high. They’re the quintessential Missoula band, I think. They connect so well with the crowd. But I’m not surprised they’re doing so well, particularly in the Colorado market where they love string music—and the Smokies bring something a little bit different.” Back on the Top Hat patio, Barrett and Wilson finish their beers. They have to get going. It’s April, which means it’s time to hit the highway for another Northwest tour. When I talk to them next, they’re outside of Salt Lake City, on their way back home to Missoula before they head back out for more gigs throughout the summer. Unlike so many bands who move away, the Smokies have no intentions of uprooting—even if they play less and less frequently at the Missoula venues where they first go their start. “The festival season coming up is huge for rubbing elbows with other bands,” Dunnigan says. “Our immediate goal is to be in the van. That’s the ethos of the traveling musician is to be in the van and take our music to new places.” The Lil’ Smokies play the Top Hat Saturday, April 25. The Zoo Music Awards bluegrass competition takes place Friday, April 24, at Stage 112. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Zoo Music Awards Preview Bios provided by artists
Funk/Soul/Reggae Friday, April 24, at Monk’s Bar, starting at 10 p.m.
In Walks Bud In Walks Bud is a rock/reggae band based out of Bozeman. Formed in early 2007, In Walks Bud has continuously toured Montana and surrounding states. The band is currently working on their fifth album, due later this year.
Off in the Woods The four original members—Jon Schumaker (guitar/vox/bass), Nathan Noble (drums/percussion), Layne McKay (sax/guitar) and Sean Burress (bass/guitar)—grew up playing music together in Polson. The newly added fifth member, Kyle Daugherty, plays trombone.Their music has appeared in the documentary Ride the Divide and the indie feature Bella Vista.
Ore Bros The Ore brothers were born in the future. They have been engaging in sonic alchemy across time and space for a millennia. This current vessel is chiseled from molten emotion, set alight in the vacuum of space beneath a benevolent sun, and relinquished as a sacrament to ghosts of the here and now. It will make you want to drink and dance. A lot.
Bluegrass Friday, Friday, April 24, at Stage 112, starting at 10 p.m.
The Dirt Farmers The Dirt Farmers are a foot stomping six-piece string band that fits any party like an old shoe. They’re pure Montana in the “country cosmopolitan” sense of the word, playing original tunes and a lively list of old-school country, blues, bluegrass and pop tunes.
Gil and the Spills Gil and the Spills feature five songwriters and multi-instrumentalists who all share a love for each and every genre of music. The Spills move fluidly from a five-piece bluegrass band of mandolin, fiddle, banjo, guitar and bass to a rock and roll setup including drums, electric guitar and keyboards.
Local Yokel We are just a bunch of folks living in Missoula, bringing you bluegrass(ish) tunes that are good for the soul. The band includes Dave Wilbert (bass), Nick Chapoy (mandolin), Trevor Snodell (guitar and vocals), Kaya JudaNelson (banjo, fiddle, vocals) and Ethan Ryan (guitar and vocals).
Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails have been performing their own special blend of Montanagrass since 2011. Known for their fiery instrumentals and warm vocal harmonies, the band distills a sound as intoxicating and exhilarating as the great Rocky Mountains.
Jazz/Blues Saturday, April 25, at Free Cycles, starting at 5:30 p.m.
Blue Moon Blue Moon is a smooth jazz, blues and funk combo featuring original tunes from lead singer and bass player Mary Place. Blue Moon features a mature, eclectic sound and is quickly becoming known as one of Missoula’s hippest new bands.
The Captain Wilson Conspiracy Captain Wilson Conspiracy Quartet plays original jazz compositions—melodic, emotional, ranging from the subtle and intimate, to the boundless and wild. It’s original jazz born and raised in Montana, featuring bassist Steve Kalling, pianist Keaton Wilson, guitarist D.R. Halsell and percussionist Ed Stalling.
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Moneypenny Moneypenny features four seasoned, accomplished and skilled musicians who bring different influences and angles to their music, and the end product just works.
Ryan Bundy Ryan Bundy surrounds himself with homemade banjos, guitars, slide guitars, stomp boxes and electronics to create songs and stories that pull from deep traditions of old-time porch picking music, but twist themselves into something new.
Indie/Pop Friday, April 24, at Free Cycles, starting at 5:45 p.m.
Adam & Skylar We live in Lakeside and have been writing and recording together for about a year. We only have two members in the actual band, but we bring in other people for our live shows to create an indie/instrumental/ambient, as well as indie/ rock sound.
Boston Tea Party Four handsome individuals got together in late spring 2013 with grand intentions of bringing rock and roll to the masses. Today, in 2015, it is still happening.
Catamount Catamount was formed in summer 2013. After releasing a single and two EPs, their first full album, Marta Elena Cortez-Neavel, was released earlier this year. The band features James Riach, Brady Schwertfeger and Irvan Bubic.
Letter B Letter B is an indie band from Missoula. With their tight sibling harmonies and upbeat rhythm section, they make you want to dance the night away. Letter B allows the mind to float while the body gets down. They say, “We aim to captivate the soul and motivate love. Namaste.”
Maiah Wynne & the Deadly Pear Maiah Wynne and the Deadly Pear are a unique band with a beautiful sound. Lead singer Maiah Wynne is a singer, songwriter, musician and actress attending school in Missoula. The Deadly Pear consists of Noah Dun, Heidi DuBose and Troy Dunn.
Country/Folk Saturday, April 25, at Stage 112, starting at 9:15 p.m
Caleb Coffey Caleb Coffey has been playing guitar and writing songs for 20 years. He calls his new sound alt-country/bluegrass fusion, taking little bits of several styles to create a dynamic and smooth sound.
Dean & Riley Dean & Riley is the folk duo formed by guitarist Kyle Dean and violinist Amelia Riley Thornton. The duo presents elements of Rocky Mountain folk and fiddle music with a chamber music sensibility.
Good Old Fashioned Good Old Fashioned plays dirty drivin’ rock ’n’ roll music to get you stomping. Chris (guitar, vocals), Justin (drums), Max (bass), Callie (vocals, percussion) and Stephen (keys, vocals) blend blues, rock and country into a good old time honkytonk throwdown.
Keema and the Keepsakes Driven by singer/songwriter Keema Waterfield’s powerful vocals and punchy lyricism, the band brings you to the intersection of old-timey and new-timey. The talents of Jed Nussbaum and David Wilbert make this a band for alt-country and indie folk music lovers alike.
Tammie Jones All of Tammie’s earliest memories involve music and family. When she was little, her mother let her curl under her piano while she played. Now Tammie is married with two sons and she lives and works in Helena as a dental hygienist and musician.
Electronic Saturday, April 25, at The Real Lounge, starting at 9:15 p.m.
Butter that Shit Up BTSU, aka Rusty Sutton, is just a dude who lives in the middle of nowhere who really loves EDM. He’s been making music for about nine years. It’s his dream to make music and travel the world playing shows, becoming friends with as many people as possible.
Lecture Hannibal Hayes, aka Lecture, has been passionate about music since childhood in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. Early experience with instruments such as guitar, bass, saxophone and drums led to many jam sessions and a stint playing guitar in an instrumental metal band.
Lushush Tom, 21, grew up in Helena and came to Missoula for school. He got interested in music when he was a kid, started making music when he was 15 and started taking it a bit more seriously when he was 19.
Partygoers Partygoers presents sample-based music inspired by hip-hop, jazz and blues, performed live by Charlie Apple (MPC 2000XL) and Trickshot Johnson (drums).
Space Bass! Benjamin Wilson is an abstract artist from northwest Montana.Over the years he has done live paintings on stage with many up-and-coming DJs, along with some of the most recognizable names in the EDM community. He performs under the alias Space Bass!
Psychedelic Friday, April 24, at the Palace Lounge, starting at 9:15 p.m.
Baby Tyger Formed in late summer 2011, Baby Tyger includes guitarist and main songwriter Tyler Bernhardt backed by Missoula’s most powerful rhythm section made up of Nathan Talley on bass and Christian Gutierez on drums.
Certain Molecules After playing live music together as a rhythm section in a band for about four years, this unlikely duo of Larry Hirshberg and Brandon Zimmer decided to start working on an experimental project in 2007 called Certain Molecules.
Joie Rainbeau Joie Rainbeau is a poet, singer, harpist, guitarist, percussionist and producer. It is her ultimate dream to one day become a certified sound healer. Her music attempts to defy every genre and unite them all simultaneously. It sounds like an avant-garde lullaby mixed with psychedelic trip hop.
The Steady Changes We are a psychedelic rock ’n’ roll band from Missoula. We are four friends who formed The Steady Changes after a psychedelic road trip to San Francisco.
Voodoo Horseshoes The Voodoo Horseshoes have been satisfying crowds across the Northwest since 2004 with exciting original psychedelic roots rock featuring banjo, electric guitars and a dynamic rhythm with some didgeridoo and keys thrown in for good measure.
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Metal/Punk Friday, April 24, at The Real Lounge, starting at 10 p.m.
Arctodus Dave PC Ovik, Joshua Bowers and Quincy Walker had long been friends who would occasionally get together to show off their pseudo-musicalprowess to a crowd of no one but themselves. Now they do it in front of crowds.
Brad Craig Brad Craig lives in Missoula. His latest release is Thrashed, an old-school, lo-fi, thrash-metal EP. He’s now working on a follow-up record.
Hence, Fourth Specializing in mixing genres, Hence, Fourth favors an eclectic approach to music, combining electronic, post-hardcore, psychedelic funk and pop. All music from Hence, Fourth is written, recorded and produced by Ambrose Z. CookSaloway from his home recording corner.
Latitude 45° Formerly known as MIP, Latitude 45° features Hunter Gordon on drums, Mike De Jong on vocals and guitar, Garrett Larrabaster on guitar and Chance Harmon on bass. Crafting a unique sound from a wide range of influences, their music has an edge that’s often missing from today’s metal.
Singer/Songwriter Saturday, April 25, at Brooks & Browns, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Betty Jane Betty Jane is the inspired creation of Britta Lee, a Great Falls native pianist, singer and songwriter. Lovingly named for her grandmother, Betty Jane takes a quirky and contemporary twist on timeless musical stylings.
Jesse, the Ocelot Jesse, The Ocelot—said to be the “seed” of both Bon Iver and Andrew Bird—has traveled to the ends of the earth to bring you dreamy tones. With only the sounds in his head, he has walked through blistering infernos and shivery blizzards. Now, he brings those vibrations straight to your ear holes.
Kappa Oie Kappa Oie was born and raised in Missoula. She taught herself how to play guitar so she could write her own songs and begin to reach for her dreams. Her music is uniquely her own, not exactly genre-specific. Her goal has always been to make music, and to help the people who hear it.
Luke Dowler For more than nine years, songwriter and performer Luke Dowler has been building a prolific and versatile body of work. Refusing to be categorized by one genre, Dowler has released a large catalog of EPs, LPs and singles through honest, engaging performances and a knack for memorable hooks.
Sierra Kamplain Sierra recently finished her undergrad at the University of Montana and plans to attend graduate school for SpeechLanguage Pathology in the fall. She sings and likes it.
Hip-Hop Saturday, April 25, at Monk’s Bar, starting at 9:30 p.m.
Analicia & Mindless Analicia & Mindless have been creating music and performing together since 2009. The duo runs a studio located in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley.
Codependents Codependents are a five piece hip-hop group, residing in Missoula. The group includes Shadow Devereaux, Justin Evans, Roman Firestone, Keenan Nerby and Riley Roberts. They released their newest project, Out Here, last November.
Mesozoic Mafia The Mesozoic Mafia was formed from primordial ooze in northwest Montana. What began as a mild mannered man making beats on a homemade computer turned into the largest musical collaboration the region has seen in recent years.
Rude Max Rude Max has been performing live since February 2012 and shared the stage with Odesza, Casual (of Hieroglyphics), DJ Abilities and Pigeon John, among many others. He also performed during the Zoo Music Awards last year with Traff The Wiz at the Wilma Theatre.
Tahj Bo Tahj is a social worker, poet, musician, father and ambivalent activist from Missoula. He is the founder of the youth program Express To Speak. Tahj recently released his second full-length album, Sweat Shop Sneakers, and is currently working on a third album.
Rock Saturday, April 25, at The Palace Lounge, starting at 9:15 p.m.
tThe Bent Bones The Bent Bones met as college students and decided to jam, but soon discovered their musical chemistry was in need of further exploration. Now the group is already at work writing and recording material for a debut full-length album due out in 2015.
Cain & Fable Cain & Fable is a progressive art rock band from Missoula. With dynamic guitar, melodious bass, driving drums and meaningful vocals, they pack a big sound for a rhythmic trio.
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Muddkikker Muddkikker is from Twin Bridges and its members include 14-year-old Eddie “Caveman” Kelly on drums , 13year-old Kiki “Kikinator” Kelly on bass and backing vocals and Shawn Kelly on guitar and vocals. They are the only father/daughter/son hard rock/heavy metal band in the world.
One Leaf Clover Founded in 2008, One Leaf Clover is one of the region’s premier purveyors of Mountain Boogie Rock. What is Mountain Boogie Rock? Equal parts country and funk, rock and reggae, music and mountains. It is original songs inspired by life in the Rockies.
Red Carpet Devils Missoula’s Red Carpet Devils have been playing loud, fast, aggressive rock and roll in and around Zootown since 2011. They promise riffs, howls, harmonies, flying hair and wailing guitar solos. The band features Jay Van Dinther, Leah Van Dinther, Ryan “Shmed” Maynes and Brad Craig.
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Psst. Hey you. Yes, you. We need your help. It’s time for the Indy’s annual Best of Missoula reader poll and, if the past is any indication, your vote could determine who wins and who loses. No, really. Not to put any pressure on you or anything, but every year we ask readers to fill out a ballot and every year at least a handful of categories come down to the wire. Are you really going to let your favorite pizza joint down? Or your favorite local news anchor? Or your hair stylist? (Lookin’ good, by the way. Like what you did with the ’do.) Don’t be that person. Now is your moment to make a difference. It’s cool, there’s something in it for you, too. If you fill this out, we’ll pass along an invitation to the Independent’s Best of Missoula Party at Caras Park on Thursday, July 9. There’ll be live music from local bands, food, drinks and special activities for the whole family. It’s pretty much the biggest thing happening this summer, or so we’ve heard. But first things first: Fill out your ballot and let your opinions be known. It just might be the most important thing you do in the next five minutes. (Vote online at missoulanews.com for even more categories.)
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From Dark Dreams to DAT Missoula’s first generation of electronic music DJs grows up by Erika Fredrickson
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n a Wednesday night at the Palace, a lanky man dances behind a big screen as swirling, colorful shapes project onto his silhouette. A couple sits tucked away at the bar sipping cocktails. A hula hooper swivels under sea-green lights in the middle of the otherwise-empty dance floor. When the hoop tumbles to the ground, he steps back into the shadows to take a break. On stage, Holly Fry, aka DJ HauLi, stands in front of another screen that’s pulsating with bright geometric shapes. She is bumping to the rhythm of the music, changing out CDs as she layers one song on top of the other, matching beats. She thrusts her arm in the air with her lips slightly curled in a badass punkrock sneer, as a voice comes on the speakers, singing over and over, “I can’t breathe.’” Somehow her set seamlessly veers from a tribute to Eric Garner to Salt-nPepa’s “Push It,” before she speeds up the tempo like a record going from 45 to 78 RPMs and, finally, ending the musical stream of consciousness on a snippet of the Darth Vader theme song. “I like to come up with different moods for each set,” Fry says. “I’ve always been a maker, creating things. This is kind of like being a collage or mixedmedia artist. You’re taking two to however many different sounds and creating one sound in this seamless sort of fashion. The crowd hears one thing when it’s really pieces of other people’s creativity.” Fry’s set is part of Milkcrate Wednesdays, hosted by Travis Mendenhall, aka The Milkcrate Mechanic, a
weekly showcase of new and veteran DJs from Missoula and elsewhere. From an outsider point-of-view, it’s maybe not what you think of when you imagine live electronic music shows with laser lights and the surging sweaty masses of, say, GirlTalk. Milkcrate is the equivalent of a DIY punk show at the VFW: some nights turn into mad dance parties and others stay mellow. Either way, it’s more of a clubhouse basement vibe than a show. It’s intimate and collaborative. Fry, 37, is one of several veteran DJs who has been part of the evolving electronic music scene in Missoula. The first generation of the town’s electronic DJs emerged in the early 1990s. Now they’re grown up, many with families and professional jobs, but still with a love for EDM music and culture. That shift in age has widened the scope. Yes, late-night dance parties, rogue shows in warehouses or in the woods, and the pursuit of sick beats continue to be strong characteristics of the scene. But the older generation of DJs and promoters—along with younger associates— have had the chance to hone their mission over the years, to create a fairly unified music community and cultivate a scene that feels just as grown up.
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ne significant move toward a more developed electronic music community is the establishment of the Digital and Analog Technologies Conference. DAT, which premiered last year, is the brainchild of longtime promoters Tara Emery and
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Logan Foret. It’s three days of music, film screenings, panel discussions and art shows centered on all things electronic. DJs like Fry and Mendenhall participate both as performers and panelists. “We focus a lot on the intersection between art and electronic music,” Emery says. “And that’s one aspect of electronic music that doesn’t come to Missoula as much as the other stuff. We have artists who are innovators in live audio visual performances and a lot of times they’ve invented these techniques themselves. There’s definitely an academic element to it.” Emery first got connected to the scene through booking shows at The Other Side and The Loft (now Flathead Lake Brewing Co.). She became a true “techno lifer” after visiting Burning Man in 2007. She started going to festivals around the country, including the Decibel Festival in Seattle and Communikey in Boulder. Recently, she spent two weeks in Europe investigating several EDM festivals there. Her intent has been to bring urban electronic culture to what is usually a community focused on the outdoors. “We have a bit of urban music culture here that we are trying to expand upon,” she says. “Some of it is really techie—a lot of analog modular synth that wouldn’t necessarily be pulled off in a lot of the outdoor festivals we’re used to here.” She and Foret have also reached out to the community, including the University of Montana’s sonic arts program, to help with the education component of DAT.
“I feel like Missoula is a rock town and always has been, which is great too, but we are trying to educate people about how there’s more to dance music than the shitty EDM that’s on the radio,” she says. The conference is intended as a place for everyone in the EDM scene to come together, but it specifically looks for ways to include an older generation who spent their younger years at all-night shows and are perhaps a little burned out. After-hours parties are a given, but the conference also includes a daytime soiree at Caras Park with kid-friendly dancing and yoga, a group float down the river and evening mixers. “The amount of positive feedback that we got from members of the community that did attend last year was huge,” she says. “For the people who came from all over the country, it was something different. We kind of used the city and all its venues to almost tell a story as this weekend-long tapestry.” The second annual conference takes place July 31 through August 2. This time, Emery says, they will offer more classes for women taught by women and programs oriented toward a younger crowd. Women DJs were rare in the early days for Missoula electronica. And while they are still perceived as being in the minority, their presence in the local scene is another thing that sets Missoula apart.
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efore Fry became known as DJ HAuLi, she was known as the “unofficial fabric girl.” Starting in
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DJ HAuLi started playing electronic music for Dark Dreams in the early 2000s.
2002, she and her friends would throw electronic dance music parties inspired by New Wave, industrial and krautrock styles. The events were under the moniker “Dark Dreams” and the atmosphere required, as one might guess, darkness. Before each party, Fry would bring fabric to whichever venue they could book, and cover up every Keno machine and neon sign, snuffing out the harsh lights. With the help of “decorations”—mannequin legs and other curious objects often pulled from dumpsters—and borrowed sound equipment, the room would be transformed into an underworld scene rarely found anywhere else in Missoula. “We got all manner of people,” Fry says. “We got people who are rivetheads, people who are interested in the fetish scene, people who are just wanting to go somewhere to dance, people who like to get all dressed up fancy just wanting to be seen—which is not really a thing you can do in Missoula a lot of the time.” The idea for Dark Dreams came from Tim Greiser, a technology consultant who made music under the name Ir8 Prim8. The shows they put on surprised even them. Their first one was at the now-defunct Loft and they expected about 30 people, but they ended up packing the tiny room with 175. Fry was learning to DJ from Greiser, and she eventually became a regular on the stage. A few years after the first show, they hosted a Halloween party at Club Q (now The Real Lounge), where a line curled around the corner and down the block, waiting to get in. “We were just sort of stunned that there was this kind of hunger or desire for something that was dif-
ferent in Missoula,” Fry says. “But I think because people are so learned and intelligent here, and like exploring new things, this was something fresh.” Between 2002 and 2013, when Greiser moved to Seattle, Dark Dreams hosted an average of three big shows a year, plus smaller DJ showcases. By the end of Dark Dreams’ run, electronic music was no longer such an obscure genre in Missoula: you could see an EDM show at the Wilma Theatre on almost a weekly basis. And at venues like the Badlander and Palace, especially, the more independent electronic scene was thriving, as it continues to do now. Fry has changed, too. She is an oncology researcher applying to medical school. She has switched from the darker, odd-tempoed goth style to house music and other more mainstream styles. At the Palace, she ends her set and grabs a drink at the bar with some friends. The act of DJing was a good way to express rebellion and youthful angst, now it’s become a way to provide balance for a sometimes stressful career. It keeps her young, she says, and connected to a scene she’s not ready to let go of. “I’ve found that kind of the whole point of being a DJ is just to really give people a way to unplug from their life for a while,” she says. “And, no matter what music I’m playing, that’s what’s really gratifying to me now.” For more on Missoula’s electronic music scene, visit The Green Room at missoulanews.com.
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In the last decade, Missoula’s electronic music scene has shifted from being a misunderstood subculture to a dominant form of entertainment.
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Life is a highway Local musicians on their favorite traveling tunes by Kate Whittle
If the warm spring weather and sunny skies have you dreaming of road trips and summer adventures, you’re in good company. But crossing Montana’s expansive territory can sometimes be a drag without the right kind of engaging listening material. If you need some inspiration for playlists or commiseration for junkets gone wrong, here’s some words of wisdom from local musicians who’ve logged plenty of time behind the wheel. Larry Hirshberg We caught up with singer-songwriter Larry Hirshberg as he was driving back from solo gigs in Bozeman and Livingston. If you, like Hirshberg, only have a CD player to rely on, he suggests firing up iTunes and burning mixes onto mp3 discs, which have a higher storage capacity than regular CDs and can contain up to six hours of music. His mixes include everything from electronic band Ben Wa to classic blues singer Barbara Lynn to D’Angelo’s newest soul album, Messiah. When asked if he likes to sing along to the music, Hirshberg says not really. “I’m not much of a singing along kind of person,” he says, and laughs. “Maybe that’s why I play solo.” Travis Yost Travis Yost’s musical projects have been all over the map, from NextDoorPrisonHotel to Tom Catmull’s Radio Static to Stellarondo, and so are his tunes. Yost says he and his longtime collaborator John Sporman plug in an iPod and generally agree on the likes of Wilco, Radiohead, Black Keys and Tom Waits. He also highly recommends newer tracks from rock bands like Calexico, OK Go and Japandroids. Occasionally, Yost likes to make a project out of listening to a band’s entire discography. “We listened to 56 straight Zeppelin songs, which is so random and so unhip,” he says. But revisiting the catalogue was inspiring, although a little exhausting. “Both of us were teenagers when we dis-
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covered them. Now we’re in our 30s and 40s, and we’re like, this really is a great band.” A similar attempt to listen to the Beatles’ entire discography left him a little cold: “I was like, ‘I don’t ever need to hear another Beatles song.’” Louie Bond and the Texas Playgirl When Kimberlee Carlson and Louie Bond hit the road for their country and western swing act, Carlson packs CDs and an iPod, and stays alert by bumping hip-hop beats. “I really like to go old-school and listen to De La Soul and Digital Underground,” she says. In a newer vein, she digs RH Factor, a progressive funk-soul band. But when seeking something more mellow for contemplative moments, she says, jazz pianist Bill Evans’ classic improvised 1958 album Piece Peace does the trick. She and Bond get along pretty well, she says, although she won’t hesitate to change a song if she’s bored with it, while Bond tends to be more patient. But on their most recent tour, they both agreed that the bluegrass outfit Frank Solivan and the Dirty Kitchen were right up their alley. Magic Genie On Caroline Keys’ last trip out of town, she and Magic Genie bandmate Nate Biehl ventured to Seattle to record music for the Ball of Wax audio quarterly. While headed west, they listened to artists like Neko Case, Black Prairie and Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra’s “Some Velvet Morning.” Keys says the Seattle visit was a “great experience”—until her car blew a head gasket east of Snoqualmie Pass. While limping back home in a UHaul truck, she says they found some distraction from their troubled times with AM Christian talk radio. “Then we would turn the radio off and talk for a while,” she says. The inspirational coverage was “food for thought, definitely.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Free to wander Dudley Dana’s art captures the spirit of the road by Sarah Aswell
Dudley Dana’s “Ryegate to Lewistown Snowies.”
Usually, to see Dudley Dana’s art in Dudley Dana’s art gallery, you have to head to the restroom. “We have fabulous artists and I don’t really feel comfortable taking space from them,” Dana, the coowner of Dana Gallery, explains. “And when people complain about where their work is displayed, I can say mine is in the bathroom.” This month, however, some of Dana’s work has an official spot on the gallery’s wall (and away from the stalls). The photographer and clinical psychologist is publicly sharing his work-in-progress, Montana Roads & Lyrics, partially for feedback, partially to forge a connection with viewers, and partially, well, just for fun. For the last 15 years or so, Dana has been taking pictures of roads: gravel roads out in the country, empty two-lane highways ribboning into the mountains and plain old streets around his neighborhood. He takes them mostly during trips across the state, but also sometimes just when he is out and about in town. Montana Roads is a mixed media presentation of the best shots from his collection—each piece consists of a photograph, a song lyric and a stream-of-consciousness poem by Dana that reflects on the song and image. “Roads are great compositions because they’re one of the things in photography where you can really gain depth,” Dana says. “And they are so metaphorical. I just kept collecting them over the years. It’s a great excuse to get away and drive all over.” It’s no mistake that each piece feels like a mini road trip in itself: The road is unfolding ahead of you, a great song is playing, and your mind is free to wander, inspired by the sights and sounds around you. “Personally, there’s something about being in a car or truck going down the road,” Dana says. “Essentially, you are going away from some stresses. It’s pretty freeing. And it’s a good time to just be with
yourself and good music. But it’s also a really good time to be with your partner or a good friend. It’s a great place to have a good rambling conversation.” The works started out simply as photographs, some of them incorporating digital painting. Then the project grew increasingly complex. Dana began to envision a coffee table book of 100 of the photographs, all paired with his favorite song lyrics, perhaps including a poem by a collaborator. In the end, though, he worried about copyright issues and finding an interested poet. He began to write stream-ofconsciousness poems about each piece, and the project took on its current form. While every piece shares the same three components, the individual works each evoke very different responses. “Shadow of a Man” features the long shadow of Dana, standing in the light of his vehicle’s headlights at dusk. The lyric is from Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown,” and the poem meditates on how we all struggle with our shadows. On the other hand, in “Just Might Be Leavin’,” which pictures a nighttime shot of a train track near town, Dana offers a lighter statement in his writing: “There’s no reason you can’t call a railroad track a road if you want to.” “I’m pretty self-conscious about these pieces,” he says. “There are some where I want people to laugh, others I want them to connect with some issues that a lot of us deal with in life. I have one where two roads split—and I think that as a therapist, you often meet people when they are at that point in their life. Should I take the left fork or the right fork? I just wanted to share issues like that.” Dudley Dana’s Montana Roads & Lyrics continues at the Dana Gallery through May 10. arts@missoulanews.com
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Culture clash Bikes vs. Cars calls for a reimagining of cities by Molly Laich
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If we’re talking about a fight to the death, it’s not really a fair fight. Car crushes bike every time, and that’s sort of the point of filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s poignant documentary, Bikes vs. Cars. The new film tells the story of several bicycling enthusiasts who aim to level the playing field in cultures the world over that have become dominated and stifled by too much automobile traffic. We begin with Aline Cavalcante in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a feisty cycling advocate who’s passionate about making bikes safer and easier to ride in a city whose infrastructure has been crippled by too much expansion. (This isn’t in the movie, but I read recently that traffic in Sao Paulo is so bad, its most affluent citizens have dispensed with the roads altogether and instead travel by helicopter.) The film spends a lot of time watching Cavalcante navigate her bicycle through Sao Paulo’s perilous city streets. Even after the film tells us one cyclist dies there every week, the girl’s got no helmet on, but never mind the danger: Cavalcante on a bicycle looks how one imagines freedom tastes. A blogger by profession, we watch her put some live grass in a box under her desk, so as to rest her bare feet on the earth. I’ve never seen anybody do that before, and what a touching way for a film to show what a person is all about. In Los Angeles, Dan Koeppel and Don Ward are bike advocates in a city famous for its impossible urban sprawl, traffic jams and dismal public transportation. Everybody knows this about LA, but it hasn’t always been so. In the early 1900s, newly invented bicycles dominated the landscape. It wasn’t until the car industry got ahold of the hearts and minds of people who were hungry for faster commutes that the city became the deadlocked horror show it is today. You can see how it happens innocently enough: twolane freeways become four, then eight, then 12, and pretty soon there just isn’t room on the roads or in our hearts for a bike lane anymore.
In Toronto, infamous Mayor Rob Ford advocates passionately against any attempts to make Toronto a bike-friendly city. The bikes are a dangerous nuisance in an infrastructure designed for automobiles, he argues. Thanks in large part to Ford’s ceaseless campaign, bike lanes that cost $80,000 to install are just as swiftly removed by the crack-smoking mayor for $300,000 a few years later. I’m reminded of that time back in the 1980s when President Reagan made a big to-do about removing the solar panels his predecessor had installed on the White House, lest our enemies perceive us as weak. From that perspective, it starts to look like a cultural war more than anything, wherein fans of the old ways see bike riders as bleeding heart hippies who hate freedom and want all that war oil to go to waste. Idiotic, I know, but when you’re lobbying for something as environmentally devastating as billions of cars, a little hyperbole goes a long way. The automobile advocates in this film are given short shrift, but in that politely respectful way you would expect from a Swedish filmmaker. In Copenhagen, where bikes overrun the streets like Hindu cows, we hear briefly from a cab driver. He thinks the bikes are okay and all, but he wishes they would stay in their lanes and follow basic traffic laws. Nobody thinks we’re going to eliminate cars from the planet entirely, but what if we started re-imagining our cities to decrease our dependence on cars and make cycling safe, fun and easy for everyone? Bikes vs. Cars is a sweet and poised film intent on getting you hip to revolutionary new ideas in the surprisingly fascinating field of urban planning. If nothing else, all those aerial shots of California’s dreaded 405 freeway should give you renewed appreciation for Montana’s precious little traffic. Bikes vs. Cars screens at the Top Hat Tue., April 28, at 8 PM. arts@missoulanews.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK THE AGE OF ADALINE Blake Lively stars as a woman who stops aging after a supernatural accident; strangely, this isn’t a biography of Cher. Also starring Michiel Huisman and Harrison Ford. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. BIKES VS. CARS Documentary explores ways to combat the worldwide car culture and how to improve infrastructure to better support bike commuting. Screening at the Top Hat Tue., April 28 at 8 PM. (See Film.) EX MACHINA A brilliant young computer programmer must evaluate the, ahem, assets of a beautiful lady android; contemplation about the true meaning of humanity ensues. Starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac. Rated R. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA & PAGLIACCI Dramatic tragedy is afoot in a double-feature set in an Italian village, featuring tenor Marcelo Álvarez and heroines Eva-Maria Westbroek and Patricia Racette. Screening at the Roxy Tue., April 28, at 6:30 PM. Visit mtlive.org.
NOW PLAYING ANDY WARHOL: A DOCUMENTARY FILM PT. 1 Filmmaker Ric Burns uses rare archival footage and interviews in his tribute to the art icon. Screening at the Roxy Wed., April 29. Part 1 is at 5 PM, Part 2 is at 7 PM. THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT Shailene Woodley is back as the heroine who must get her group of rebels to band together to fight the Man, or something. Also starring Ansel Elgort and Theo James. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. FURIOUS 7 Let us all commemorate Paul Walker (RIP) in this, the seventh film about cars that are fast and men who are furious. Also starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
Just another face in the crowd. Ex Machina opens Friday at Carmike 12. HOME A clumsy alien lands on earth and befriends a cheerful young girl. Be advised, the trailer features a Biggie reference that will make you feel delighted/old. Featuring the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna and Steve Martin. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE LONGEST RIDE In case your DVD of The Notebook is starting to get scratched, a bull rider and an artsy college girl fall in love in the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Starring Britt Robertson, Alan Alda and Scott Eastwood’s chiseled jaw. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. MONKEY KINGDOM Disney nature doc where a baby monkey and its
mama have to survive in the jungles of South Asia. Rated G. Carmike 12. PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Rejoice, all ye who have been deprived of jokes at a fat man’s expense, ‘cuz Kevin James is back as the hapless security guard, and he’s headed to Vegas, baby. Also starring Raini Rodriguez and Eduardo Verástegui. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer. UNFRIENDED A bullied teen’s angry ghost kills off mean kids via Skype. See, these lazy millennials won’t even leave the house to torment each other anymore. Starring Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer and Courtney Halverson. Rated R. Carmike 12.
WOMAN IN GOLD A Jewish refugee campaigns to recover artwork stolen by Nazis and some small measure of justice for their war crimes. Starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Brühl. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Hooked on Thai by Lacy Roberts You may have heard some rumblings among the Northside set that you’ve got to try Pagoda Chinese Food. So you duck into the small, strip-mall restaurant near I-90 for some takeout. There’s the standard fare on the steam table—fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, beef and broccoli—but then you catch a whiff of what’s going on in the kitchen. All of a sudden, you have the urge to take a bath in some richly spiced coconut milk curry. That’s the so-called secret of Pagoda Chinese: order the Thai food. When Thai-born Pornthip Rodgers (call her Thip) purchased Pagoda Chinese Food five years ago, the restaurant had been slinging chow mein to Northsiders since the early ’90s. She took over the kitchen and, as her daughter Sudarat Khieoduangdee (call her Suda) tells it, regulars started asking, why don’t you try serving up some Thai food? They started with pad thai and a couple curries, then put a tiny “Thai Specialties” section on the menu, below the Chinese food combos. Every Thai dish was listed with the little flame icon, signifying to the uninitiated that they were not messing around when it came to hot chilies. Before long, they’d converted many of their regulars from orange chicken to green curry, and word spread through the neighborhood. They started selling more Thai dishes from what amounted to a tenth of their menu than all the Chinese options combined. “My mom puts a lot of care and love in her food,” Suda says. “She doesn’t want to serve food for food. She wants to serve love, care and quality.” And yes, you can taste that love. The pad thai is the perfect balance of sweet, sour and spicy, and you can totally see why people have been going bonkers for the stuff. Sitting in the tiny restaurant on a Friday evening, I notice that just about every one of the steady stream of customers orders it. Suda isn’t surprised. Her customers keep telling her they are hooked. And it’s not just the food. “[People say Pagoda] is more like coming into a home than a restaurant,” she says. That might sound a little cliche until you spend some time hanging out around Thip and Suda. Thip
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appears ageless, and is in constant motion. She shuffles in and out of the kitchen, greeting regulars with a huge smile and some light ribbing, answering the phone, bagging orders. The day I meet her, Thip tells me she was at the restaurant until 2 in the morning the day before frying chicken, and back again by 8. Most of the last five years, she’s run Pagoda as a mostly one-woman show, with help from Suda, six days a week. She’s so busy, in fact, that she’s only able to answer a question or two between cooking and taking orders. Luckily, Suda has a few minutes to talk. She says they are from Bangkok, where Thip owned a copy company until her husband, Suda’s father, passed away. When the copy shop went out of business, Thip opened a small restaurant. One day, the way Suda tells it, Thip was sitting on a Bangkok bus when it broke down. She looked over to see a handsome American boy and decided she better go talk to him. They married and came to Missoula. Suda, now 22, joined her mom in Missoula nine years ago, and has been her Pagoda sidekick since she took over. And she’s proud of the work they’ve done together. “It’s really hard to get ingredients here, especially in Montana, so we try really hard to make it as much like what you get in Thailand as possible,” Suda says. Thip brings ingredients from Spokane and Seattle, and makes authentic sauces and curries. They go through buckets of fresh curry paste and cases of the stuff that makes Thai food so aromatic and distinctive: lime leaves, lemongrass and galangal. Starting this week, a whole page of new Thai menu options debuts at Pagoda. Thip and Suda aren’t completely giving up on Chinese food (folks still love their kung pao chicken) but the focus has shifted to the fresh Thai food they do so well. They’re adding staff to deal with the increased demand and you’ll be able to find them serving up curries at Out to Lunch this summer. Just know that if you do stop by the restaurant and manage to snag one of the five tables, be prepared to be thoroughly charmed by the mother-daughter power-duo. You’ll also likely end up hooked.
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Tiki Ono at Montgomery Distillery HAPPIEST HOUR raining, any time you’re drinkWhat you’re drinking: ing out of a coconut you’re Tiki Ono is the most popular going to be happy. of the five new cocktails on Montgomery Distillery’s Other spring drinks: menu this spring. The tropiAnother popular drink on the cal drink—featuring a splash distillery’s new spring menu is of the distillery’s Quicksilver the Greenough Park, a reVodka, pineapple, papaya, freshing vodka, cucumber falernum and lime—feels and cilantro cocktail. Others like you’re away from the include the Se Grafo, with gin, mountains and swinging in blueberry shrub and lemon; a a hammock under a palm barrel-aged gin-based cocktail tree. Falernum, a Caribbean called Purely Platonic; and syrup, is infused with the Amuse Kombuch, featuring vodka and spiced with ginphoto by Cathrine L. Walters cherry kombucha and vodka. ger, clove and lime. The dash of sweetness comes from a drop of How to find it: The new spring cocktail Wustner Brothers honey, according to distiller lasts into June, and the Tiki Ono goes for $6. and bartender Kira Bassingthwaighte. Find the tasting room at 129 W. Front St. —Courtney Anderson How it’s dressed and why it matters: The iced Tiki Ono is served in a coconut, topped Happiest Hour celebrates western Monwith a mini umbrella, a long straw and a slice of lime. Bartender Whitney Bergum says the Tiki tana watering holes. To recommend a bar, Ono is one of her favorite new spring drinks be- bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, cause no matter if it’s been a tough day or it’s email editor@missoulanews.com.
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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 $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3? (Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:3012:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ 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 Korean-Japanese 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 www.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? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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April 23–April 30, 2015 The 11th annual Jazzoula brings snazzy locals like Josh Farmer Band, UM jazz bands, Canta Brasil, Kimberlee Carlson and many more. Nightly shows at St. Anthony’s, 217 Tremont Ave. Doors at 6 PM, shows at 6:30. Full bar and refreshments available. Find tickets at Rockin Rudy’s or 542-0077; and check out the “Jazzoula” Facebook page for full lineup and info. The party don’t start ‘til Caroline Keys and Jeff Turman walk in, so don’t stop, make it pop, blow some speakers up 2nite at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover. The Family Maker Discover Night invites you and your little ones to check out the work stations in snap circuits, robotics, squishy circuits, sewing and knitting. Missoula Public Library, 6-8 PM. Free.
Don’t let ’em get your goat-ee. Anthrax plays the Adams Center Tue., April 28, along with Volbeat. Doors at 6 PM. $36.50.
THURSDAYAPRIL23 UM Opera Theater presents their rendition of Mozart’s Idomeneo, a grand tale about the King of Crete and unfortunate coincidences. Music Recital Hall, Thu., April 23-Fri., April 24, at 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.
The International Wildlife Film Festival presents eight days of vibrant films about critters, conservation and climate change at the Roxy Theater, Sat., April 18-Sat., April 25. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule and info. $75 for full festival pass/$8 per screening,
with discounts for students and seniors. Native American flautist R. Carlos Nakai gives a public talk and performance at the Payne Family Native American Center in advance of his performance this weekend with the MSO. 2 PM. Free.
nightlife Discover Spanish wine with a special tasting of imported vino, including appetizers, at Romaine’s, 3075 N. Reserve St., Ste. N. 5-7 PM. $10. Call 317-1829 for more info.
The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers interactive instruction in performance traditions from nations including Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month from 6-7:30 PM. $5 donation requested. Anything But Suzy plays all kinds of country, bluegrass and folk for your Suzy-free entertainment at the Starving Artist Cafe and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St., across from Larchmont Golf Course. 67:30 PM. No cover.
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April 23–April 30, 2015 The 11th annual Jazzoula brings snazzy locals like Josh Farmer Band, UM jazz bands, Canta Brasil, Kimberlee Carlson and many more. Nightly shows at St. Anthony’s, 217 Tremont Ave. Doors at 6 PM, shows at 6:30. Full bar and refreshments available. Find tickets at Rockin Rudy’s or 542-0077; and check out the “Jazzoula” Facebook page for full lineup and info. The party don’t start ‘til Caroline Keys and Jeff Turman walk in, so don’t stop, make it pop, blow some speakers up 2nite at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover. The Family Maker Discover Night invites you and your little ones to check out the work stations in snap circuits, robotics, squishy circuits, sewing and knitting. Missoula Public Library, 6-8 PM. Free.
Don’t let ’em get your goat-ee. Anthrax plays the Adams Center Tue., April 28, along with Volbeat. Doors at 6 PM. $36.50.
THURSDAYAPRIL23 UM Opera Theater presents their rendition of Mozart’s Idomeneo, a grand tale about the King of Crete and unfortunate coincidences. Music Recital Hall, Thu., April 23-Fri., April 24, at 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.
The International Wildlife Film Festival presents eight days of vibrant films about critters, conservation and climate change at the Roxy Theater, Sat., April 18-Sat., April 25. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule and info. $75 for full festival pass/$8 per screening,
with discounts for students and seniors. Native American flautist R. Carlos Nakai gives a public talk and performance at the Payne Family Native American Center in advance of his performance this weekend with the MSO. 2 PM. Free.
nightlife Discover Spanish wine with a special tasting of imported vino, including appetizers, at Romaine’s, 3075 N. Reserve St., Ste. N. 5-7 PM. $10. Call 317-1829 for more info.
The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers interactive instruction in performance traditions from nations including Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month from 6-7:30 PM. $5 donation requested. Anything But Suzy plays all kinds of country, bluegrass and folk for your Suzy-free entertainment at the Starving Artist Cafe and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St., across from Larchmont Golf Course. 67:30 PM. No cover.
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[calendar] It’s all punny business at the Punrise Saloon competition, where wordsmiths are invited to duke it out in a slam-style pun-making competition for the honor of being No. 1 Punner. Brink Gallery, 6-8 PM. Free, email PunriseSaloon@gmail.com to join in the fun. Raise a pint to the jazzy stylings of Captain Wilson Conspiracy, playing the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton from 6:30-8 PM. No cover. Teresa Waldorf and Rosie Ayers team for goofy shenanigans in Parallel Lives: An Evening of Funny Women, featuring comedic sketches about Disney moms, cabaret queens and other oddities of modern-day ladyness. Crystal Theater, April 23-25. Doors at 6:45 PM, show at 7:30. $15. The Clark Fork Symposium brings together citizens to chat about progress with conservation in the basin and what projects lie ahead. North Urey Underground Lecture Hall, April 23 from 7-9 PM. Most sessions free. Visit umt.edu/clarkforksymposium to sign up and learn more. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
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Find creative minds and graceful feet at the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s annual Dance in Concert, featuring original choreography at the Montana Theatre. Performances Wed., April 22-Sat., April 25 at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students and seniors.
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The dress code is denim on denim when country singer Dylan Scott brings his baritone to Stage 112,
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with guests. Doors at 8 PM. $15/$12 in advance. Check out stage112.com. Seattle’s McTuff gets groovy at the Real Lounge, along with Three-Eared Dog. Doors at 8 PM. $5. Check out stage112.com. Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 8:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406-396-5934 to sign up early. Portland’s indie-folkers Shook Twins double your fun at the Top Hat, along with the Lil’ Trio. 9 PM. $14/$10 in advance at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and online. 18-plus. KBGA College Radio’s fourth residency evening at the VFW, hosted by the purr-fectly amiable Kosmic Kitten, includes such wizards as Farch, Traff the Wiz, Beatzlevox, and Jesse, the Ocelot with Lige Newton unleashing the boogie. 9:30 PM. $2/$5 for ages 18-20.
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[calendar] ater, Sat., April 18-Sat., April 25. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule and info. $75 for full festival pass/$8 per screening, with discounts for students and seniors. You bring the snacks, Captain Wilson Conspiracy brings the intrigue to Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4 PM, tunes from 6-8:30. No cover.
nightlife The Clark Fork Symposium brings together citizens to chat about progress with conservation in the basin and what projects lie ahead. North Urey Underground Lecture Hall, April 23 from 7-9 PM and April 24 from 8:30 AM-5:30 PM. Most sessions free. Visit umt.edu/clarkforksymposium to sign up and learn more. The Zoo Music Awards indie-pop showcase features Adam and Skylar, Maiah Wynne and the Deadly Pear, Boston Tea Party, Letter B and Catamount all doing their thang at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. 5:30-10 PM. Included in ZooMusic passes, which run $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com. Missoula’s own Treasure Statelovin’ Statriot hosts a party for its latest T-shirt design, with “regional daredevil” Kitt Kourage signing autographs. Betty’s Divine, 5-8 PM. Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to the Emerald Isle with the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover. Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental
The Stensrud Playhouse presents The Fatal Fifties Affair, a catered murder-mystery dinner show about 1950s sitcom stars and shocking secrets. Performances Fri., April 17-Sun., April 19 and Sat., April 25-Sun., April 26, at 7 PM. $47/$84 for two. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com or call 926-2477.
make art In a recent post on Boing Boing, one of the creators of the “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast, Jeffrey Cranor, writes about how the strange little series has become one of the most popular podcasts in the country, often beating out even “This American Life.” Cranor writes that the secret to “Night Vale’s” success has been simple: “Make art. Make art with people you love. Respect the art you make.”
The annual Death-By-Chocolate Murder Mystery features scandal, 1970s kitsch and crime-solving guests at the Conrad Mansion, with wine, hors d’oeuvres and live tunes aplenty. 7-10 PM. $55/$100 for two. Visit conradmansion.com.
WHAT: “Welcome to Night Vale” WHERE: Wilma WHEN: Tue., April 28, at 7 PM HOW MUCH: $25
He also notes that “success” can be defined however you like, pointing out that a dance piece he created was seen by only 100 people, but to him, “it was a glorious success.” That kind of love and passion makes every episode of “Welcome to Night Vale” a surprising, engaging and sometimes poignant treat. The podcast is an ongoing fictional series where radio announcer Cecil talks about life in a strange desert town; it’s been described as “Lake Woebegone through the units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. No cover. Do whatever you feel at the Family Friday Night at the YMCA, with activities including a bouncy house, basketball, open swim time, rock climbing and more. 3000 S. Russell
eyes of Stephen King.” And though it’s appropriate for most ages, the show’s humor is wry and insightful, always finding the unexpected twist. Consider some of the “Night Vale” proverbs, which run at the end of every show, like, “Today is the last day of your life, up to this point.” And, “If I said you had a beautiful body, would it even matter because we are so insignificant in this vast incomprehensible universe?” The “Night Vale” live show comes to the Wilma on April 28, with readings, performance and music from singer-songwriter Mary Epworth. —Kate Whittle
St. Every last Friday of the month from 6-8:30 PM. $17 per family/included in Y membership. Teresa Waldorf and Rosie Ayers team for goofy shenanigans in Parallel Lives: An Evening of Funny Women, featuring comedic sketches about Disney moms, cabaret queens and other oddities of modern-day la-
Find creative minds and graceful feet at the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s annual Dance in Concert, featuring original choreography at the Montana Theatre. Performances Wed., April 22-Sat., April 25 at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students and seniors. UM Opera Theater presents their rendition of Mozart’s Idomeneo, a grand tale about the King of Crete and unfortunate coincidences. Music Recital Hall, Thu., April 23-Fri., April 24, at 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.
dyness. Crystal Theater, April 23-25. Doors at 6:45 PM, show at 7:30. $15.
Award-winning Idaho-based poet Alexandra Teague stops by Shakespeare & Co. to read from her second collection, The Wise and Foolish Builders. 7:30 PM.
Robert Rustad chats about his new book that examines changing gender roles and expectations, True Love’s Kiss: Disney Romance from Snow White to Frozen. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM.
The Handsome Little Devils bring their madcap touring vaudeville and circus show, Squirm Burpees, to Hamilton High School. Show at 7:30 PM. $17.50-$22.50. Find info and tickets at bitterrootperformingarts.org.
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A dark plaid rises. Noah Gundersen plays the Top Hat Wed., April 29, at 8 PM. $12/$10 in advance. 18-plus.
The goofballs of Zootown Improv present an evening of sketch and improvised comedy, A Now a Tweet from our Sponsor, at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. Pizza and a full bar. $12/two for $22. Tickets available at stensrudplayhouse.com or at the door. Viscosity Theatre presents Philly magician Francis Menotti’s dazzling sleight-of-hand in Sisyphus and Siri, a “magic show swallowed by a play.” Crush Lounge, 124 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Performances at 8 and 10 PM. $20/$15 in advance. Tickets at viscositytheatre.com. Tip your hat and your bartender when The Country Boogie Boys holler it up at the Eagles Lodge, with tunes starting at 8 PM on Friday and Saturday. No cover.
See the girl with kaleidoscope eyes at the Zoo Music Awards’ psychedelic showcase, with Steady
It’ll all be a blur of activity when Band in Motion plays tunes for boogying at the Union Club, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Get sassy with the bluegrass Zoo Music Awards showcase, featuring The Dirt Farmers, Local Yokel, Gil and the Spills and Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails, 10 PM-bar time. Included in ZooMusic passes, which run $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com.
Changes, Certain Molecules, Joie Rainbeau, Baby Tyger and Voodoo Horseshoes. 9 PM-1:30 AM. Included in ZooMusic passes, which run $10$18; check out zoomusicawards.com.
The Zoo Music Awards funky it up with the funk/soul/reggae showcase, featuring In Walks Bud, Off in the Woods and Ore Bros, 10 PM-bar time, at Monk’s. Included in ZooMusic passes, which run $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com. The metal/punk portion of the Zoo Music Awards rawks out with Brad Craig, Arctodus, Hence Fourth
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[calendar] and Latitude 45 at the Real Lounge, 10 PM-1:20 AM. Included in ZooMusic passes, which run $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com.
Quidditch Tournament at UM presents two afternoons of magical competition for everyone to enjoy at Schreiber Gym, April 18 and 25. $5/$25 if you register as a team of seven. Visit missoulaministryof magic.tumblr.com/quidditchtournament to learn more.
Grab your miniskirt made of snakeskin and head to see the New Wave Time Trippers, an ‘80sthemed extravaganza with all your fave hits from U2 and Blondie and back when there was music still on MTV. Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.
The new Missoula Winter Public Market features all manner of produce, meats, eggs, honey and treats, plus coffee and craft vendors. 800 S. Third St. W. Now open every Saturday, Jan. 10-April 25. 10 AM-2 PM. Visit facebook.com/msla winterpublicmarket.
SATURDAYAPRIL25 Show those “lumbersexual” newbies what the real deal is when the Society of American Foresters host the annual Forestry Day shindig, with a pro/am logging show including wood chopping, pole climbing, cross-cut sawing, plus demos of antique equipment, steam-powered saw mill, and also beer drinking. Fort Missoula, 10 AM4 PM. $3/$2 seniors/$1 students. Check out forestrydays.com. The International Wildlife Film Festival presents eight days of vibrant films about critters, conserva-
Jon Axline discusses his new book, Taming Big Sky Country: The History of Montana Transportation from Trails to Interstate, at Fact and Fiction. 220 N. Higgins Ave. 1-3:30 PM.
American Hustle goes low-budget. The sketch comedy night Parallel Lives: An Evening of Funny Women appears at the Crystal Theater, Thu., April 23–Sat., April 25. Doors at 6:45 PM.
tion and climate change at the Roxy Theater, Sat., April 18-Sat., April 25. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full sched-
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The Spell Crafting 101 course invites one and all to learn the basics of spell casting at Between the Worlds, 205 W. Main St. in Hamilton. 1 PM. Free. Get rad at the Skate It Forward fundraiser, with instructional booths and folks from Edge of the World,
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[calendar] Missoula Parks n Rec and Elements Board Shop hanging out at Mobash Skatepark, starting at 1 PM. Proceeds benefit local kids. Charla Bauman and Co. spread their tuneful ways at Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, while you get your wine on. Tunes from 6-8:30 PM.
nightlife The Zoo Music Awards get snazzy with the blues/jazz showcase, with snappy folks like the Captain Wilson Conspiracy, Moneypenny, Ryan Bundy and Blue Moon, at Free Cycles, 732 First St. W. 5:30-9:40 PM. Included in ZooMusic passes, $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com. Prepare for an old-timey radio show inspired evening at the Ravalli County Museum with “On the Air with The Dillon Junior Fiddlers.” 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton. 6 PM. Call 3633338 for info and tickets. Do a little turn on the catwalk at the Maker’s Ball, with local amateur designers competing to dress and impress. MIssoula Public Library, 6-9:30 PM. Free, but visit MPL to get a ticket and ensure your spot. The Backups arrive to save the day, with tunes at Draught Works from 6-8 PM. No cover. The singer-songwriter showcase of the Zoo Music Awards gets rolling with Jesse the Ocelot, Betty Jane, Luke Dowler, Kappa Oie and Sierra Kamplain at Brooks and Browns, 6:30-11 PM. Included in ZooMusic passes, $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com. Teresa Waldorf and Rosie Ayers team for goofy shenanigans in Parallel Lives: An Evening of Funny Women, featuring comedic sketches about Disney moms, cabaret queens and other oddities of modern-day ladyness. Crystal Theater, April 23-25. Doors at 6:45 PM, show at 7:30. $15. Do the Charleston to your heart’s content at the Hellgate Rollergirl’s Sip It: Speakeasy, a flapper-themed shindig at the Masonic Temple, 126 E. Broadway, third floor. 6-10 PM. $20, includes dinner, live tunes, Cigarette Girls burlesque and more. Find tickets and info at hellgaterollergirls.org or Rockin Rudy’s. The Stensrud Playhouse presents The Fatal Fifties Affair, a catered murder-mystery dinner show about 1950s sitcom stars and shocking secrets. Performances Fri., April 17-Sun., April 19 and Sat., April 25-Sun., April 26, at 7 PM. $47/$84 for two. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com or call 926-2477.
The annual Death-By-Chocolate Murder Mystery features scandal, 1970s kitsch and crime-solving guests at the Conrad Mansion, with wine, hors d’oeuvres and live tunes aplenty. 7-10 PM. $55/$100 for two. Visit conradmansion.com. Find creative minds and graceful feet at the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s annual Dance in Concert, featuring original choreography at the Montana Theatre. Performances Wed., April 22-Sat., April 25 at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students and seniors. Missoula Symphony Orchestra celebrates Earth Day with guest flute soloist R. Carlos Nakai for compositions combining spiritual Native American sounds with orchestral majesty. Dennison Theatre, Sat., April 25 at 7:30 PM and Sun., April 26 at 3 PM. $10-$45. Check out missoulasymphony.org or call 721-3194. Tip your hat and your bartender when The Country Boogie Boys holler it up at the Eagles Lodge, with tunes starting at 8 PM on Friday and Saturday. No cover. Tip your hat to the country showcase of the Zoo Music Awards, featuring Caleb Coffey, Dean & Riley, Tammie Jones, Good Old Fashioned and Keema and the Keepsakes at Stage 112. 9 PM-1:30 AM. Included in ZooMusic passes, $10-$18; check out zoomusicawards.com. Push the button at the Zoo Music Awards electronic showcase, with Lushush, Butter That Shit Up, Partygoers, Lecture and Space Bass! at the Real Lounge. 9 PM-1:30 AM. Included in ZooMusic passes, $10-$18; visit zoomusicawards.com. The Zoo Music Awards rock showcase parties down with The Bent Bones, Red Carpet Devils, One Leaf Clover, Muddkikker and Caine & Fable down at the Palace Lounge. 9 PM-1:30 AM. Included in ZooMusic passes, $10-$18; visit zoomusicawards.com. The Idle Ranch Hands do the thinkin’, you do the drinkin’ at the Union Club. Tunes start at 9:30 PM. No cover. Hip hop hooray, ho, hey, ho, the Zoo Music Awards hip-hop showcase includes Rude Max, Analicia & Mindless, Tahj Bo, Mesozoic Mafia and the Codependents down in Monk’s Bar. 9:30 AM-bar time. Included in ZooMusic passes, $10-$18; visit zoomusicawards.com. Lil’ Smokies do their bluegrass ‘n newgrass at the Top Hat, along with Moonshine Mountain. 10 PM. $7.
SUNDAYAPRIL26 Swap out your wardrobe for sweet new-to-you threads at the Spring Clothing Swap at Stage 112, where all you have to do is bring some old clothes that are still in good shape, and then dig in and try on stuff brought by other gals and gents. 2-6 PM. $5; proceeds benefit the Elk’s scholarship fund. Visit ceramic artist Esther Shimazu leads a course in crafting “Expressive Busts,” where students will learn about wet clay construction to build small detailed heads. Prior experience recommended. Clay Studio of Missoula, 10 AM-5 PM. $95/$85 members. Visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org. This special edition of the Art on Tap social painting class at Montgomery Distillery, 2-5 PM, benefits Missoula’s All-Ability Playground: Silver Summit. $40. Visit artontapmissoula.com to learn more. The Harms Brothers do a body good with tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton as part of its fundraiser for the Bitterroot Arts for Autism nonprofit. Tunes, raffle and silent auction from 4-7 PM. The Blue Skies Campaign and Rattlesnake neighborhood residents host a community meeting about plans to dramatically increase the amount of coal trains passing through Missoula. Pineview Park, corner of Raymond and Pineview Drive., 4-5 PM. Free.
nightlife Missoula Symphony Orchestra celebrates Earth Day with guest flute soloist R. Carlos Nakai for compositions combining spiritual Native American sounds with orchestral majesty. Dennison Theatre, Sat., April 25 at 7:30 PM and Sun., April 26 at 3 PM. $10-$45. Check out missoulasymphony.org or call 721-3194. Tom Catmull plays tunes to please the ear while you get down to business at Draught Works, 5-8 PM. No cover. Singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas debuts his folky tonk at Great Burn Brewing, with tunes from 6-8 PM. No cover. The Reflective Evening Movement invites dancer-types to a contemplative, silent, self-led movement experience at Downtown Dance Collective at 7 PM. $5 donations appreciated. Email Jody at ouzeljig@gmail.com to learn more.
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[calendar] Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, kick back and enjoy the lolz at the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour, at the VFW, 8 PM. No cove. April 26 features Rochelle Cote, Zack Troxel, Alice Martin and Michael Beers. Hosted by Kyle “Frozen Corndog” Kulseth.
MONDAYAPRIL27 The Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program hosts a grant writing workshop. County Extension Conference Room, 9 AM-4 PM. Contact Seth for info at 258-4205, or visit missoulaeduplace.org.
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Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Email michael.avery@live.com ahead of time to sign up.
WEDNESDAYAPRIL29 Local poet Philip Burgess reads from his latest Western-inspired collection, Henry’s Cows. Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM.
nightlife The original honky-tonkin’ guitar man Russ Nasset does what he do at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, with tunes in the fireside lounge from 6-9 PM. No cover.
ter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28– Sat., May 2, seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. Singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen is a 24-year-old who recorded his first album 11 years ago, so, um, let’s try not to feel inadequate about our own rockstar dreams when he plays the Top Hat at 8 PM. $12/$10 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and the Top Hat. 18-plus. Rock outfit Shark plays their “Pixies meets Guided by Voices” tunes at Stage 112, along with LA Font. 9 PM. Doors at 9 PM. $4–$6. 18plus. (Trivia answer: “A place for discs.” The word originally described underground WWIIera venues where French youth danced t music that had been banned by the Nazis; eventually it came to mean clubs in general.)
You’ll havta show up to find out just what NextDoorPrisonHotel will be up to next at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. No cover.
The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28– Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance.
The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reenter society. Masquer Theatre, Tue., April 28–Sat., May 2 and Tue., May 5–Sat., May 9 at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Visit umt.edu/theatredance. Esteemed local thespians cavort about for a production of My Leg or Something or Another, an irreverent medieval farce with Alexsa Prince, Jeff Medley and Craig Domes. Roxy Theater, Thu., April 30-Sat., May 7, at 7:30 PM. $10-$15.
The six-week Releasing Anxiety: A Practical Class for Regaining Balance, Peace, and Personal Strength program imparts everyday ways to find clarity and peace. Meets at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Tuesdays from 6-7:30 PM. $140. Visit redwillowlearning.org.
Mike Avery hosts the Singer-Songwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the
The seated “Qigong Self-Massage for the Eyes” workshop explains how to revitalize the eyes, brain and other organs that might be strained from excessive computer use. Learning Center at Red Willow, 6-7:30 PM. $35. Visit redwillowlearning.org.
Minneapolis’ Mikel Wright and the Wrongs groove it and move it at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover.
Hold on to your hesher jacket, ‘cuz 80s thrash-metal legends Anthrax are bringing the ‘tude to the Adams Center, along with Volbeat. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $36.50. Check out griztix.com.
Chicago multi-instrumentalist drone-y ambient gal Muyassar Kurdi warps minds at the Real Lounge, along with locals including False Teeth, PCRV and Hot Car Death. 9 PM. $4-$6. 18-plus.
The UM Senior BFA Thesis Exhibition collects a slew of creative ‘n clever artists under one roof, with opening reception at the Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences building from 5-7 PM.
The Kimberlee Carlson Trio presents its jazzy stylings at Draught Works while you argue the difference between a porter and a stout, 68 PM. No cover.
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C.U. this Tuesday at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM and a minimum of three teams are required for the game to start, so show up pronto. To warm up the noggin, here’s a trivia question: What does the French word discothèque mean? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.
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Missoula singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas celebrates the release of his second album, MacDonald Pass, with a party at Lolo Peak Brewing from 6-8 PM. No cover.
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The Welcome to Night Vale podcast’s live show comes to the Wilma, with performance and live music from guest Mary Epworth starting at 7 PM. $25 at Rockin Rudy’s and thewilma.com.
The Beginning Olympic Fencing class invites ages 6-8 to learn this swashbuckling art. Meets at the Missoula Fencing Association, 1200 Sherwood St., on Thursdays from 3:154 PM for six weeks. $60. Register at missoulafencing.net, 406-251-4623 or missoulafencing@hotmail.com.
Sweet sentiments. Murs performs at the Wilma Wed., April 29, along with Tech N9ne, Kriss Kaliko and several guests. Doors at 6:30 PM. $30. Honorary hometown hero Tech N9ne is back to party down at the Wilma, along with guests including Krizz Kaliko, Murs, Chris Webby, King 180, Zuse and Koshir. Doors at 6:30, show at 7:30 PM. $30. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com. The weekly Dinner and a Movie series brings top-notch indie flix and good eats under one roof. Screening at the Crystal Theater at 7 PM, $7. Dinner menu from Silk Road available (not included in admission price). The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a dark comedy about an Iraq vet trying to reen-
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THURSDAYAPRIL30 Celebrate National Poetry Month and support women at the same time at the Planned Parenthood Poetry Night, with readings at the Badlander from 6-9 PM. No cover; 18-plus. Visit the “Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana” Facebook page to find more info and learn how to join as a reader. The new-ish gallery Repertoire Art & Design hosts the Mixed Media Salon, featuring several creative minds at 113 W. Broadway. Check it out anytime between 10 AM-6 PM.
Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 8:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406-396-5934 to sign up early. Troubadour Dan Tedesco takes the stage at the Top Hat to belt out some tunes, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover. Hydrate before you gyrate, kids. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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elebrate our Mother Earth and learn how to take a little better care of her at the ninth annual Earth Day Celebration at Caras Park, hosted by the nonprofit Missoula Urban Demonstration Project. True to the MUD mission to create a model of sustainable urban living that Missoulians can replicate through education, demonstration and celebration, the day will be filled with opportunities to learn about how we can reduce the waste that ends up in landfills. There will be a composting workshop and Zero Waste Ambassadors at the event who have volunteered to help show the public on how to reduce refuse both at the event and at home.
But it's not just for learning, it’s a celebration as well with food, vendors, libations and live music. The Runners Edge is also hosting a 5k fun run along the riverfront trail with proceeds from the race going towards MUD's programs promoting sustainability. Race runners will receive a monogrammed reusable tote bag and a stainless steel pint cup. —Kellen Beck Missoula’s ninth annual Earth Day Celebration will be held at Caras Park Sun., April 26 from 11 AM-5 PM. Sign up for the race at mudproject.org.
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SATURDAY APRIL 25 Five Valleys Audubon heads off to Warm Springs Ponds in search of migrating shorebirds and waterfowl; meet at the Adams Center fieldhouse parking lot for 7 AM departure, or meet up at the I-90 Conoco in Deer Lodge at 8:15 AM. Bring a lunch for the all-day trip. Call 214-1194 for info. Grab all your superfriends and head out on the Superfun(d) Run, a celebration of Earth Day and open spaces starting at Our Savior’s Lutheran, 8985 Hwy 200 E. in Bonner. 9 AM. Includes 1-mile, 5K and 10K. $25/free for K-8 students. www.runwildmissoula.org The UM School of Physical Therapy hosts the 1-mile Bust A Gut Fun Run, featuring divisions for adults, kids, adaptive equipment like wheelchairs or handbikes and 400-meter relay for families. Sentinel High School Track, 10 AM. $15/$10 for kids. $35 per relay team. Proceeds benefit the UM physical therapy scholarship program. The Missoulians on Bicycles host the 60-mile Corvallis Cruise, meeting at the Exxon station in Woodside at 10 AM and taking a loop around the west and east sides of the Bitterroot Valley. Call Tim for more info at 250-7228. After Down the Hatch at Caras Park, the Orvis Film Fest casts off at the Wilma, with a selection of short fishing films. Doors at 6 PM, show at 6:30. $10. All ages.
SUNDAY APRIL 26 UM ROTC and the University Council on Student Assault host the Stomp Out Sexual Assault 5K
Fun Run and Walk, which starts at Schreiber Gym at 10 AM and cruises around campus. $15 to participate. Register at runsignup.com/Race/MT/Missoula/StompOutSexualAssault5KFunRunWalk. The Big Flat-Six Mile ride with MOBI meets up at Wheat Montana on Reserve Street at 11 AM for a 54-mile roundtrip to Frenchtown ‘n back. Call Chris for more info at 291-1327. Just take in the fresh air at the new Earth Day 5K Race, a timed race on the Clark Fork riverfront trail before the annual Caras Park Earth Day celebration. Kicks off at 11 AM; racers get goodies including beer, tote bag and a stainless steel pint cup. $30. Proceeds benefit the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project.
TUESDAY APRIL 28 Here’s your chance to jump ahead of the competition at the Ovando Gran Fondo registration party at the Top Hat, starting at 5:30 PM. This year’s epic 55-mile supported ride is slated for Sept. 19. The Montana Dirt Girls kick into gear with group cycling trips in the Missoula area, meeting up at 6 PM every Tuesday at various locations. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com to sign up for the mailing list and find out more. The Chain Reaction bike ride takes off from Free Cycles at 6:30 PM for a four-mile loop, winding up the Top Hat for the Ovando Gran Fondo registration party and Bikes Vs. Cars screening. Free.
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According to Urban Dictionary, the phrase “so college” emphasizes the difference between the real world and the collegiate world, often with stereotypical jokes about casual sex and drinking. Let us not confuse this phrase with “SO College,” the acronym for the Specials Olympics College student organization, a national group with a chapter in Missoula. The UM student group SO College coordinates with local Special Olympics teams and hosts fundraisers like the Griz Dip and the Respect Rally, where hundreds of students pledged to not use derogatory terms to refer to people with intellectual disabilities. This weekend, SO College hosts the Young Athletes Sports Experience Playdate, where toddlers and young kids, regardless of intellectual abilities or disabilities, can participate in a fun morning of games and activities alongside athletes from UM and Special Olympics Montana. The activities will emphasize play, developing motor coordination, basic skills like kicking and throwing, and cooperating as a team, as opposed to an emphasis on just competition. The YAP Playdate is Missoula’s first Inclusive Sports Experience hosted by Special Olympics affiliates. Sometimes college is all about partying, true; but sometimes, it’s about people expanding their
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You don’t have to be a time lord to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on fourth Thursdays at 7 PM. RSVP required at info@missoulatimebank.org.
The anniversary screening of Coal Road to China, a locally produced film about exporting Montana coal to Asia and the impacts on Powder River Basin country, screens at the Crystal Theatre. 7 PM. Free, but donations appreciated.
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Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a peaceful communication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-play stressful situations and practice responding calmly. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free.
Professor Janet Finn and student guests present “Bearing Witness on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” discussing social justice and rights issues impacting women. YWCA Missoula, noon-1 PM. Free; community members welcome to bring a lunch.
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The workshop to explore estate planning, led by MSU profesor Marsha Goetting, goes over beneficiary designations and how to pass property to your heirs. Presentations at Missoula Public Library today at 2:20 and 5:20 PM. Free, but call 728-7682 to register a spot.
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As part of the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War, the 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds: The White Man’s Last Burden screens at the University Center Theater, 6-8:30 PM, with discussion to follow. Free.
The citizen climate-change activist group Northern Rockies Rising Tide invites folks to be part of the change at the Hive, 800 S. Third St. W., on the fourth Monday of every month starting at 5:30 PM. Email flyfeverdj@hotmail.com to learn more.
Find help with food issues at the Overeaters Anonymous meetings on the third floor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Brooks St., Wednesdays. Newbies can come at 6:30 PM, and the regular meeting begins at 7 PM. Free. Call 543-5509 for info.
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FLEE CIRCUS My mom left when I was young, and my former husband left me, too. Maybe because of this, I've noticed that I'm quick to assume that any man I'm seeing is ditching me. In the early stages of dating, if there's a lag in calling or texting me back, I'll lash out—block the guy on Facebook and delete him from my phone—only to feel stupid when I learn that his phone battery died or he was already asleep. As a relationship progresses, I still perceive relatively innocuous things as signs it's over, and I keep testing a guy's limits with demands and drama, pushing him to (finally) bail. How do I stop doing this? It's totally unconscious in the moment. —Abandonment Issues It's good to make an effort to see what a man's made of—just not to the point where he's unsure of whether he's in a relationship with you or he got really drunk and enlisted in the Marines. You seem to be turning your past—getting ditched by those closest to you—into prophecy. This isn't surprising. British psychoanalyst John Bowlby had a theory that our "attachment style"—the way we relate in close relationships—stems from how attuned and responsive our mother was to our needs for comforting when we were infants. If your mommy (or other primary caregiver) was consistently there for you during your infant freakouts, you end up "securely attached," meaning that you tend to feel that you can count on others to be there for you when you need them. Research on adults by social psychologists Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver did find that patterns of relating to romantic partners seem to trace back to childhood attachment experiences. But attachment history isn't the whole story. Genes, temperament, childhood environment, and other factors also shape how we relate. And though research finds that securely attached children seem likely to end up securely attached grown-ups, adult shifts in attachment style are common. In other words, just because somebody's mommy was kind of an ice bucket, they aren't necessarily doomed to see every boyfriend as an ice bucket with a penis. Unfortunately, though we have the ability to reason, we hate to wake the poor dear from its nap. As behavioral economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky pointed out, in the heat of the moment, the brain's emotion department is our "first responder," quick to hop on the drama pony. If our rational system parses the situation
at all, it's usually much later (often after we've burned two or three bridges and carpet-bombed a relationship into fresh farmland). Not going all Full Metal Jackie in the moment takes preplanning—pledging to yourself to step back and run suspiciousseeming situations through the reason department. A technique called "cognitive reappraisal" seems to help. This involves dialing down your emotional response by changing the meaning some situation has for you. Instead of thinking "I know he's left me!" when an hour goes by without a text back, reframe his absence in a positive light. For example, "He's out getting me flowers." You don't have to know that this explanation is true. It just needs to be positive and possible. Research by psychologists Iris Mauss and James J. Gross and others finds that using this imaginative reframing not only decreases knee-jerk negative emotions but activates the prefrontal part of the brain involved in emotional control and downshifts the pounding heartbeat of stress to the thumping heartbeat of possibility. This next bit of advice may sound lame and unbelievable (because it did to me until I read the research by psychologist Mario Mikulincer, Phillip Shaver, and others that suggests it works). It seems you can boost your sense of emotional security through mentally "priming" yourself—like by repeatedly imagining yourself being treated lovingly by a man or a parent. You can get this security-enhancing effect just by viewing positive images—for example, by repeatedly looking at a photo of lovers gazing into each other's eyes or a video loop of a mother cuddling her baby (as opposed to leaving it on a counter at a train station). How secure you feel can also be transformed by whom you're with. The best partner to help you shift out of auto-panic is one who is loving and caring and has a more "secure" attachment style—in other words, a person who doesn't leap to the conclusion that your being in the bathroom for 20 minutes means you've crawled out the window to freedom. With some consistent work and the right guy, you could someday get to the point where absence really does make your heart "grow fonder"—instead of making it get out a tiny hammer and wood strips to construct an itsy-bitsy coffin for your relationship.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you're stumped about what present to give someone for a special occasion, you might buy him or her a gift card. It's a piece of plastic that can be used as cash to buy stuff at a store. The problem is, a lot of people neglect to redeem their gift cards. They leave them in drawers and forget about them. Financial experts say there are currently billions of dollars going to waste on unredeemed gift cards. This is your metaphor of the moment, Aries. Are there any resources you're not using? Any advantages you're not capitalizing on? Any assets you're ignoring? If so, fix the problem.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you were a supporting character in a popular TV drama, the producers would be cooking up a spin-off show with you in a starring role. If you were in an indie rock band, you'd be ready to move from performing at 300-seat venues to clubs with an audience capacity of 2,000. If you have always been just an average egocentric romantic like the rest of us, you might be on the verge of becoming a legend in your own mind—in which case it would be time to start selling Tshirts, mugs, and calendars with your image on them. And even if you are none of the above, Leo, I suspect you're ready to rise to the next level.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It will soon be that time when you are halfway between your last birthday and your next birthday. I invite you to make this a special occasion. Maybe you can call it your anti-birthday or unbirthday. How to celebrate? Here are some ideas: 1. Imagine who you would be if you were the opposite of yourself. 2. Write a list of all the qualities you don't possess and the things you don't need and the life you don't want to live. 3. Try to see the world through the eyes of people who are unlike you. 4. Extend a warm welcome to the shadowy, unripe, marginal parts of your psyche that you have a hard time accepting, let alone loving. 5. Any other ways you can think of to celebrate your anti-birthday?
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As I climb the first hill along my regular hike, both sides of the path are dominated by a plant with glossy, three-lobed leaves. They're so exuberant and cheerful, I'm tempted to caress them, even rub my face in their bright greenery. But I refrain, because they are poison oak. One touch would cause my skin to break out in an inflamed rash that would last for days. I encourage you, too, to forgo contact with any influence in your own sphere that is metaphorically equivalent to the alluring leaves of the poison oak.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today the French Capricorn painter Henri Matisse (18691954) is regarded as a foremost pioneer of modern art. Some critics say his innovative influence on painting nearly matched Picasso's. But during the first part of the 20th century, his work often provoked controversy. When a few of his paintings appeared at a major exhibition in Chicago, for example, local art students were shocked by what they called its freakishness. They held a mock trial, convicted Matisse of artistic crimes, and burned his painting Blue Nude in effigy. I don't expect that you will face reactions quite as extreme as that in the coming weeks, Capricorn. But it will make sense to express yourself with such forceful creativity and originality that you risk inciting strong responses.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Leonardo da Vinci had skills in many fields, ranging from botany to engineering to cartography, but he is best known as a painter. And yet in his 67 years on the planet, he finished fewer than 40 paintings. He worked at a very gradual pace. The Mona Lisa took him 14 years! That's the kind of deliberate approach I'd like to see you experiment with in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Just for a while, see what it's like to turn down your levels of speed and intensity. Have you heard of the Slow Food Movement? Have you read Carl Honoré's book In Praise of Slowness? Do you know about Slow Travel, Slow Media, and Slow Fashion?
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Modern movies don't scrimp on the use of the f-bomb. Actors in The Wolf of Wall Street spat it out 569 times. The word-that-rhymes-with-cluck was heard 326 times in End of Watch, while Brooklyn's Finest racked up 270 and This Is the End erupted with an even 200. But this colorful word hasn't always been so prominent a feature. Before 1967, no actor had ever uttered it on-screen. That year, Marianne Faithfull let it fly in the film I'll Never Forget What's'isname. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to break a taboo that's maybe not as monumental as Faithfull's quantum leap, but still fabulously fun and energizing. Be a liberator! End the repression! Release the blocked vitality! Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-15-65 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES GOLDADE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above! named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHRISTOPHER J. GOLDADE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 8th day of April, 2015. /s/ Christopher J. Goldade, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DR15-206 Department No. 1 Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF Renata Barros deSilva, Petitioner, and Stephen Emerson Eckhold, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of
Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a cop thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a dissolution. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: None. DATED this 31st day of March, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Probate No DP 1558 District Judge John W. Larson Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MURRAY F. EHLERS Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JAMES M. EHLERS, the personal representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorney, Robert G. Michelotti, Jr., of Crowley Fleck PLLP, 500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street, Billings, Montana 59101, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of March, 2015. /s/ JAMES M. EHLERS, Personal Representative ADDRESS: 3925 208th PL SE Bothell, Washington 98021
MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. A12993 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GILLE V. WOOTEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cassie R. Dellwo has filed an APPLICATION OR PETITION FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF LIMITED SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR of the Estate of Gille V. Wooten which may be examined in the office of the Clerk of this Court. Hearing has been set at the Courtroom of this Court in Missoula County, Missoula, Montana, on the 10th day of June, 2015, at 1:15 o’clock p.m., at which time and place all interested persons may appear and object. Applicant, Cassie R. Dellwo, will appear at said hearing via telephonic conference call. DATED this 9th day of April, 2015. /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, Attorney #11880, Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm, 38 2nd Ave. East, Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/04/92, recorded as Instrument No. 9219519 Bk: 361 Pg: 15021509, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James J Lewis, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described
as follows: Lot 15 in Pattee Canyon Addition to Farviews Homesites, a Platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat Thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 9600394 BK: 461 Pg:721, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chevy Chase Bank, FSB. 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 08/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 18, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $31,235.27. This
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amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $27,945.98, 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 July 2, 2015 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.northwest trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 8520.20231) 1002.278433File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/10/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201108149 Bk 877 Pg 964, mortgage records of MIS-
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SOULA County, Montana in which Camia L. Fiscus, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 54 of Southpointe - Phase III, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. 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 05/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 25, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $90,011.99. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $84,291.45, 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 July 7, 2015 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 im-
PUBLIC NOTICES plied, 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. (TS# 7 0 2 3 . 1 1 3 0 0 2 ) 1002.278593-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 22, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 4-A of Certificate of Survey No. 1692, located in the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) of Section 21, Township 19 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Daniel J Martin, M Katherine Stillwell-Martin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 09, 2006 and recorded on March 10, 2006 in Book 770, Page 434 as Document No. 200605440. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank NA as trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-5. 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 due in the amount of $847.29, beginning June 1, 2014, 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 December 30, 2014 is $165,427.80 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% totaling $3,589.98, late charges in the amount of $169.44, escrow advances of $2,130.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,270.77, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.71 per diem, 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 asis, 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
MNAXLP person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 11, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez 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 11th day February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 11/6/2018 Select Portfolio V Martin 42085.080 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 9, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. 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 54 of Grantland Nine, A platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana according to the official recorded plat thereof Loubelle Lewis BlaichWissler Trustee of the Loubelle Lewis Blaich Wissler Trust Dated April
12, 1991, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 25, 2008 and recorded on January 30, 2008 in Book 812, Page 830 under Document no. 200802171. The beneficial interest is currently held by Quicken Loans 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 due in the amount of $1,571.54, beginning May 1, 2014, 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 December 23, 2014 is $247,255.10 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% totaling $10,110.38, late charges in the amount of $707.22, and other fees and expenses advanced of $248.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.10 per diem, 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 con-
veyance 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 asis, 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: January 30, 2015 /s/ Lisa J. Tornabene 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 30th day of January, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Quicken V Blaich-wissler 42010.035 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee’s Sale No: MTBVS-15015960 Loan No.:
0000598162 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, the duly appointed Successor Trustee, will on July 27, 2015, at the hour of 11:00 AM, of said day, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, the following described real and personal property (hereafter referred to collectively as the “Property”), situated in the County of MISSOULA, State of Montana, to-wit LOT 1A OF ELMS ADDITION NO. 3, BLOCK 2, LOT 13, DIXON STREET ALSO ELMS ADDITION NO. 4 BLOCK 5, LOT 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The Trustee has no knowledge of a more particular description of the above-referenced Property but, the Trustee has been informed that the address of 3301 PARK ST, MISSOULA, MT 59801, is sometimes associated with said real property. BRIAN D. PARKS, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER, as Beneficiary, dated 6/13/2005, recorded 6/20/2005in Volume 754, page 1248, of Deeds of Trust under Instrument No. 200514943, Mortgage records of MISSOULA County, MONTANA. The beneficial interest is currently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-28CB MORTGAGE-PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200528CB. The default for which this sale is made is the failure to pay when due under the Deed of Trust Note dated 6/13/2005, THE
MONTHLY PAYMENT WHICH BECAME DUE ON 2/1/2010 AND ALL S U B S E Q U E N T MONTHLY PAYMENTS, PLUS LATE CHARGES AND OTHER COSTS AND FEES AS SET FORTH. Amount due as of March 10, 2015 Delinquent Payments from February 01, 2010 31 payments at $1,194.18 each $37,019.58 15 payments at $1,410.21 each $21,153.15 9 payments at $1,289.00 each $11,601.00 7 payments at $1,242.23 each $8,695.61 (02-01-10 through 03-1015) Late Charges: $1,288.34 MTGR Rec Corp Adv: $3,776.50 TOTAL: $83,534.18 All delinquencies are now due, together with unpaid and accruing taxes, assessments, trustee’s fees, attorney’s fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. The principal balance is $154,336.52, together with interest thereon at 5.500% per annum from 1/1/2010 to 9/1/2012, 5.500% per annum from 9/1/2012 to 12/1/2013, 5.500% per annum from 12/1/2013 to 9/1/2014, 5.500% per annum from 9/1/2014, until paid. The Beneficiary elects to sell or cause the trust property to be sold to satisfy said obligation. 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 for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. SALE INFORMATION LINE: 714-730-2727 or h t t p : / / w w w. l p s a s a p. c o m DATED: March 13, 2015 FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE By: Dalia Martinez, Assistant Secretary c/o PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC. 5900 Canoga Avenue, Suite 220 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Phone: (877) 237-7878 A4516699 04/16/2015, 04/23/2015, 04/30/2015
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 Serving the community’s UGG• Ugg is an active, friendly and smart framing needs since 1993 dog who is looking for his forever home. Going using environmentally on car rides and walks are some of his favorite sustainable practices. activities. If you love getting out in the great outdoors and need a partner, Ugg may be the 139 West Front St. dog for you! Ugg is looking for a home without cats and an adult family who will give him daily inside the Monte Dolack Gallery, Downtown Missoula, MT (406) 549-3248 • dolack.com exercise and affection.
KIRBY• Meet Kirby! Kirby is a large fellow who loves spending his days gazing at the world through his favorite window and snoozing with his stuffed bunny. He likes exploring cabinets and playing with toys. Looking for a larger-thanlife companion? Come meet Kirby today!
PUMPKIN•Pumpkin is a beautiful 3 1/2year-old Cattle Dog/Chow mix. This friendly girl loves to play with dogs of all sizes, and wants to be the center of attention with her people. Pumpkin is a very smart and knows a few basic behaviors. If you are interested in meeting Pumpkin stop by the Humane Society of Western Montana.
MOMMA• Momma is a sweet, declawed girl who loves snuggling on her bed or in her person's lap. She loves catnip and treats and can be quite playful, and also has experience living with small dogs. This sweetheart can be bashful and is looking for a patient home where she can Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store adjust slowly and get to know her furrever famwww.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 South Russell • North Reserve ily.
JESSIE•Meet miss Jessie! Jessie came to us as a stray and is looking for her forever home. She is playful with other dogs and loves affection. This young lady would also love to be enrolled in our Basic Manners class so she can learn more. Come meet this sweetheart today!
REX• Rex is a friendly kitty cat who likes to chat it up with meows and purrs. He really enjoys being held and he likes giving and receiving rubs. He is a sweetheart looking for his forever home. Come meet this playful, independent and loving snuggle bug today.
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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $675, newer complex, near Broadway & Russell, DW, A/C, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $600$705, quiet cul-de-sac, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1024 Stephens #2. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, DW, coinops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 119 Turner Ct. #4, 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hookups, storage, pets? $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 120 Harlem: Newer studio, Full kitchen & bath, Heat paid, Patio. $595. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 1 year Costco membership & $100 gift card. 1213 Cleveland St. “E”. 1 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central location, shared W/D, pet? $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #4. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coinops, pet? $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1409 3rd: 1 Bedroom, Private deck, Storage, LF, Heat paid. $625. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 1 year Costco membership. 1920 S. 14th St. “C” newer centrally located studio, w/d, a/c, dbl. garage $650. Grizzly Prop-
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erty Management 542-2060 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $705. Downtown, coin-op laundry, carport, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $750, 62 and older community, third floor unit, elevator, coin-op laundry, free basic cable, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $795, Southside location, remodeled, w/d hookup, storage, carport, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895, 2 Weeks FREE w/6 Month Lease, Brand New 6-Plex, DW, A/C, large closets, patio/balcony, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2101 Dearborn: 1 Bedroom condo, Private patio, 2 Carports, Heat paid $795. Garden City Property Management 5496106 1 year Costco membership. 2306 Hillview Ct. #1. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, shared yard, storage. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2329 Fairview #1. 2 bed/1 bath, shared yard, close to shopping. $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 720 Turner St. “A” 3 bed/1.5 bath Northside, pet? $900 Grizzly Property Management 5422060 Are you a first time renter and not sure how to pick the right property choose a NARPM professional property manager. Our members have a code of ethics that require managers to educate our tenants on fair housing laws. westernmontana.narpm.org Got vacancy? Contact a NARPM member and see how you can put their expertise, education and commitment to work for you. westernmontana.narpm.org
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DUPLEXES 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $625, duplex, north side of Missoula, W/D hookups, fenced back yard, storage and off-street parking, W/S/G paid. Pet Upon Approval, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333
Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
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2414 Gilbert. 2 bed/1 bath, Rattlesnake, single garage, pet? $875. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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River Ridge is a lovely, active community dedicated for seniors only (residents must be 55+ to qualify). This apartment complex has a mix of 1 & 2 bedrooms apartments over 3 floors. 2 elevators serve the building, there is a laundry room on each floor and garages are available for an additional fee. 1 bedrooms $625, security deposit $550 and 2 bedrooms $725, security deposit $650. Please contact Property Manager Colin Woodrow at 406-549-4113 x131 cwoodrow@missoulahousing.org to schedule a tour.”
2608 O’ Shaughnessy. 3 bed/2 bath, N. Reserve, pet? $1350. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE
$135,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 2398350. shannon@prudential missoula.com 11864 O’Keefe Creek. 5 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. Daylight walkout lower level, decks & double garage. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 1307 Phillips. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath Craftman with great front porch, back deck & double garage. Lots of recent upgrades. $300,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 1511 Van Buren. 3 bed, 1 bath in lower Rattlesnake. Hardwood floors, coved ceilings & basement. Mt. Jumbo views. $229,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-581. annierealtor@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2227 West Kent. 2 bed, 1 bath ranch home with unfinished basement. Priced to sell!
2304 River Road. Fully remodeled 2 bed, 2 bath 1940’s bungalow with large fenced yard, patio & deck. $209,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 5 acres in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. Borders DNRC land. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $325,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University District home. $410,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Plex By The River 319/321 1st St. Dream location!
1307 Phillips $300,000
3-plex and alley house (2 efficiencies and 2 one bed units) behind Bernices ‘hood, River views and end of the street. Reduced $365,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 4221 Bordeaux. 3 bed, 2 bath on Windsor Park. Full unfinished basement & double garage. $219,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 5802 Longview Drive. South Hills Split Level. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, double car garage on 9,338 sf fenced lot. $225,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 annierealtor@gmail.com 601 Montana Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath on 3 lots in East Missoula. Fenced yard, double garage & shop. $260,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com Affordable & Adorable Northside 217 N 2nd St. W. $189,500. Home with some upgrades including kitchen floor, some newer windows, roof in 2003, water heater in 2008. Private back yard with a wonderful shed, and lovely front yard with a picket fence KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Farviews Home 404 Westview. Three bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable Farviews neighborhood for $265,000! Solar panels, views, great home. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com
Westside Craftsman 3 bed, 2 bath with original woodwork & wood floors. Open living & dining areas with lots of natural light & wonderful master bedroom suite. Classic front porch, back deck & patio. Double garage. New roof, furnace & water heater. MLS #20151637 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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Missoula Properties Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com
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If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM
Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal and solar PV. 3690940 or 642-6863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net Orange Street Triplex 201 S Orange Street Triplex. $275,000. Location is awesome, near the river and downtown and river trails and bike trails and all sorts of conveniences. Two main floor units, one upper. Some hardwood floors and some upgrades and tons of character! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 2144016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com South Hills Ranch Style 2615 Arcadia - $250,000. 3 bed/1 bath. Open floor plan, gorgeous updates including kitchen abd bath, backs to open space, large backyard. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Sweet & Modern 949 Discovery. $225,000. 3 bed/2 bath energy-efficient home with a trail up Mt. Jumbo right out your door! No maintenance siding; low maintenance yard; super floor plan and kitchen and lots of light. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com “There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406)
REAL ESTATE 214-4016 • jay.getz@ prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com
tico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 . 5 8 1 6 . annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage and access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Por-
Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ g m a i l . c o m www.movemontana.com
THE UPTOWN FLATS #303 • $159,710 & #312 • $151,900 Top floor units include all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offer. Ask Anne about ALL the opportunities for Ownership in The Uptown Flats or visit www.movemontana.com
LAND FOR SALE 1 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $115,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit...
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www.mindypalmer.com 2 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $125,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres
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REAL ESTATE
COMMERCIAL Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
OUT OF TOWN 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. 3 bed, 2 bath Victorian on over 7 fenced acres with barn & outbuildings. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@pruden-
tialmissoula.com 17430 Six Mile Road Wow. Stunning setting - picture perfect with a wooded hillside behind and open meadows in front. 12.5 acres with wonderful farm house $250,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com
17730 Wild Goose, Frenchtown. 4 bed, 2 bath on 1/2 acre by King Ranch Golf Course. Fireplace, jetted tub & 2 car garage. $310,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $178,000. BHHS Montana
Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit
www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
1329 BRIDGECOURT WAY 3 BED 2 BATH • $182,000
MLS# 20134348
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$287,900 1807 Missoula Ave
Pat McCormick
Cottage-like 3 bed, 2 bath in the heart of the Rattlesnake. Near park & creek with Mount Jumbo views.
Real Estate With Real Experience
Real Estate Broker pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)
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Home located in a quiet neighborhood. South-facing pergola with lots of sunlight Contact Matt for more information 406-360-9023
MORTGAGE We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-2587522 or Cell: 406-550-3587