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cover by Charles Wybierala

Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk How well do you know your guns?..............................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Defunding ‘best and brightest,’ remembrance of bricks past, and task force follies ....6 Etc. The conflicted, uncomfortable, maddening case for Quist .....................................7 News How Mark Wicks wrapped Montana Libertarians around the axle .......................8 News With expansion unfettered, Sinclair Broadcast Group comes to Missoula...........9 Opinion The Republican fetish for following the moneyed.........................................10 Opinion Re-seeing the West in East Africa ....................................................................11 Feature Can the left reclaim gun culture?.....................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Photographer Holly Andres takes a political turn .................................................20 Music Jacob Robert Stephens, Tennis, and Full of Hell ................................................21 Books The genre-bending audacity of J. Robert Lennon’s Broken River .....................22 Film The suffocated dreams of Buster’s Mal Heart ......................................................23 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................26 Brokeass Gourmet Eggless egg salad ..........................................................................25 Happiest Hour Inside the Forest Lounge.....................................................................27 8 Days a Week AKA Greg Gianforte’s nightmare itinerary ...........................................28 Agenda Semicolon Tattoo Day at American Made ........................................................37 Mountain High DIY gear workshop at Free Cycles......................................................38

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News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology.....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

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by Derek Brouwer and Alex Sakariassen

Asked Friday evening at Missoula Brewing Company

This week’s feature story is about political leftists reclaiming guns. What’s your personal experience with firearms?

Follow-up: Under what circumstances would you feel compelled to use a gun in self-defense?

Jared Miller: I’ve always been raised around firearms. My dad has rifles, pistols, shotguns, everything. Not so much anymore, though. No hesitation: If I was in fear for my life, or I was in fear for someone else’s life.

Asa Hohman: I think like many Montanans I grew up with firearms in the house. My dad was a firearms salesman.

They were around. Tough call: Jeez, I don’t know. The situation would need to be pretty extreme. But if I feared for my life, I would definitely defend myself.

Katy Brautigam: I’m from Alaska, so kind of like Montana—I grew up around them.

I’ve had multiple lessons with firearms of various kinds. I own a gun. Are you packing? Only if I were in fear for my life, at home or out hiking, probably. I don’t open carry or anything.

Greg Kemmis: Not a lot, even though I’m from Montana. I don’t have a firearm, and I don’t hunt. Gotta buy one, first: If my family or life were threatened, then I would definitely, without a doubt, be compelled to use a gun in self-defense.

Mike Mueller: I shot BB guns, and I’ve shot a .45 caliber revolver once in my life. It was beside the railroad tracks, beside a big hill. Self-defense, in a sense: I guess if the shit went down, I’d consider it, but other than that, I’d probably just hurt myself.

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The real issue...

A more important issue for Montanans than whether hunting deer or elk makes for a true “Montanan” (“If hunting is such a core ‘Montana value,’ how come most Montanans don’t hunt?” May 11) is whether that individual treasures and respects Montana’s public lands wildlife, and wants to keep public lands in public hands.

Mary Costello facebook.com/missoulaindependent

...is public lands I know that Rob Quist had tax liens and $20,000 in debts, and that he struggled financially for years. I also know that he paid his debts, which were due to medical expenses following a botched surgery.

I personally know what it’s like to spend years paying medical-related debt caused by circumstances, not by a character defect. I won’t fault Quist for this.

Neither will I judge Greg Gianforte for not being from Montana. I won’t assume that multimillionaire status makes him out of touch with ordinary Montanans. I admire his financial success.

I only care about these questions: What does each man each stand for?

Most importantly, who will fight to conserve our public lands? The only answer is Quist. He has spoken continuously about his passion and commitment to preserve our public lands, whereas Gianforte has not. Gianforte openly supports candidates and funds organizations that want to sell Montana’s public lands. He also petitioned FWP and sued Montana in an effort to eliminate public stream access near his property.

Let’s put aside our political divides and unite to safeguard the majestic beauty of our state. Let’s elect Rob Quist.

Heidi McCormick Missoula

tist starts from informing their presuppositions that they use to interpret the facts.

All science has this basis—can’t get out of it by claiming to be completely objective.

No such person exists. I would really like to see evolutionists make their case with true science, not ad hominem attacks or innuendo. They need to address the scientific mechanisms (or lack thereof ) that allow naturally occurring chemicals to form life in natural conditions (all scientific studies show these to be hostile to life molecules). What mechanism allows chemicals in their natural state to defy the second law of thermodynamics? How can life molecules form and begin chemical processes without the enzymatic catalysts needed to speed up chemical reactions to

Sins of omission This article (“Muddy the waters,” May 11) missed commenting on the science that was clearly presented at the conference. As usual, the evolutionist-leaning journalist ignored commenting on the scientific facts that are presented that clearly contradict the evolutionary storyline.

There is no recognition of the worldview basis Ken Ham addresses that each scien-

Greg Gianforte is always blowing hot air. Now he has already reached the point where he no longer feels he has to be truthful with us Montana peasants (“What a tool believes,” May 11). Apparently, Greg believes his love of money makes him a Christian and he has a great chance of getting into heaven. Obviously, Greg believes his lying doesn’t violate any commandments, and that he can fool anybody or any being. Undeniably, Greg thinks taking food from the poor is “what Jesus would do,” and says that the accumulation of wealth is his only value (greed).

Incredibly, Greg thinks supporting state-sponsored executions and illegal wars is being pro-life. Greg thinks it is his place, not God’s, to pass judgment.

Treacherously, Greg believes that outsourcing American jobs to dictators and oligarchs who hate our country is OK. He cites capitalism and the Bible as his guiding force here. Greg says the 30 pieces of silver he gets for betraying American workers has precedent in the Bible, and that the ends always justify the means.

The worst kind of people are the ones who violate their own stated values. Greg Gianforte violates every value Christianity stands for and exemplifies selfishness, hypocrisy and, above all, greed. He tells lies, worships money, has no respect for life, does business with our enemies and is an economic traitor. Let’s put Greg on the dinosaur express and send this New Jersey-educated Californian back to the coastal swamp.

Alex Gray facebook.com/missoulaindependent

“Evolutionists continue to shout aloud that evolution is a fact, but fail to address the science to prove it. It is time for a broader look at the facts rather than automaton allegiance to a 150-year-old Save the EPA Some of you may not have had the hypothesis.” opportunity to visit Butte, Anaconda,

Thanks for sharing Grew up in Montana. Still visit regularly and own land there. Still hunt at 69, butcher and eat the venison I take.

Wouldn’t vote for a carpetbagging rich jerk from the East on a bet. Wish I could vote for Quist.

Ken Robertson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Ixnay on the Gianforte

the point life can be sustained while waiting for the next evolutionary change?

Please address the mathematics that show the chance of life molecules forming by chance is so miniscule no amount of time will allow it to happen. Please show how natural selection adds information at the genetic level; all observations and empirical testing show genetic loss with natural selection, not additions. Evolutionists continue to shout aloud that evolution is a fact, but fail to address the science to prove it. It is time for a broader look at the facts rather than automaton allegiance to a 150-year-old hypothesis. Science can only advance as robust challenges are aired, examined and addressed.

Esther Fishbaugh missoulanews.com

Libby, Great Falls and other communities impacted by industry in Montana’s past.

With the elimination of the EPA promised

by Washington, D.C., in the name of job creation, I have to wonder what effect this might have on this “last, best place” we call home. Montana’s streams, rivers, forests, air and land are all critical to the primary industries we hold dear. Ranching, farming and recreation are part of our heritage. Extraction industries, while promising good jobs for today, have often left us with poisoned water (read Berkeley Pit) and poisoned citizens (read Libby).

Cut Bank native Rob Quist’s cowboy boots are firmly planted in Montana’s soil. On May 25, please join me in sending him to Washington to be our representative. We need his voice to help preserve our Big Sky Country for the next generations.

Helen McLeavy Great Falls

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WEEK IN REVIEW

Dept. of disincentives

Wednesday, May 10 A day before Glacier National Park’s 107th birthday, a new U.S. Geological Survey study says the park’s 37 remaining glaciers will be gone by 2100. Montana’s glaciers have shrunk by about 85 percent in the past 50 years.

Thursday, May 11 One of the three remaining white wolves in Yellowstone National Park is shot, and later has to be euthanized. Park officials offer a $5,000 reward for information leading to the shooter. Altogether, not a great week for parks.

Friday, May 12 Vice President Mike Pence rallies for congressional candidate Greg Gianforte in Billings after a day spent on horseback with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and U.S. Sen. Steve Daines. Altogether, not a great day for horses.

Unfunding ‘Best & Brightest’ If you’re one of the roughly 500 Montana university students relying on the Governor’s Best and Brightest Scholarship, you’re out of luck—at least for the coming school year. Recipients of the scholarship received an email last week informing them that “funding for the Governor’s Scholarships was not restored during this recent Legislative Session.”

That could cause problems for students grappling with this fall’s tuition increase. Ron Muffick, director of student affairs at the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education, says the Legislature appropriated some money, but nowhere near enough to cover all of the recipients. The scholarship dispenses $1,000 per semester to eligible students, which requires funding in the ballpark of $1 million per academic year. Muffick says the Legislature appropriated only around $279,000, which will now be diverted to general need-based aid.

While the scholarship still exists, and funding

may be reinstated in a future session, no students will receive Best and Brightest aid this academic year.

Ronja Abel, communications director for Gov. Steve Bullock, said students deserve to be incentivized for their talents, and that the governor’s budget proposal was designed to keep tuition affordable. But neither that budget, nor the one proposed during the 2015 legislative session, included funding for the scholarship.

Rep. Tom Woods, D-Bozeman, sat on the Joint Appropriations Education Subcommittee during the 2017 session, and says Democrats attempted to amend the budget to reinstate funding for the scholarship, but were shot down by Republicans.

With tuition set to increase at UM this fall, students who were anticipating the scholarship money are now weighing other options. Cara Grewell, a 19-year-old political science major, says she had banked on the scholarship getting her through her undergraduate degree without having to take out student loans. Now, the $2,000 annual shortfall may force her to take on that debt. Grewell says the work she put into applying

for the scholarship, and maintaining the GPA necessary to retain it, now feels like a waste of time.

“The philosophy in Montana is, if we can keep tuition low, then college is by definition affordable,” says Kent McGowan, director of financial aid at UM. “But because Montanans have some of the lowest per capita income, college is not affordable even with the low tuition.”

Michael Siebert

Drugs & money

Task force fears cuts Ten ounces of cocaine. Three ounces of heroin. Two and a half pounds of meth, along with two handguns. The list of recent drug-related seizures rattled off by Missoula County Sheriff ’s Sergeant Jeremiah Peterson isn’t meant to be a comprehensive catalog of everything the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force has accomplished so far this year. It’s more of a sampler platter. One drug case tends to bleed into

Saturday, May 13 The UM campus is filled with families celebrating 2,122 would-be graduates at the university’s commencement ceremony. No word on how many unpleasant surprises are in store when final grades are posted.

Sunday, May 14 Mother’s Day! One Missoula mom/Indy staffer reports receiving a bottle of bourbon from her 4-year-old daughter.

It was always intended to be removed, but maybe not so quickly.”

Monday, May 15 The U.S. Supreme Court rejects a challenge to Montana’s “open primary” law, which allows citizens to vote in primary contests regardless of party affiliation.

“There’s no silver lining here if you’re a conservative Montanan,” Bozeman attorney and former state legislator Matthew Monforton tells Montana Public Radio.

Tuesday, May 16 A Broadwater County sheriff’s deputy is shot and killed after a routine stop at about 1 a.m. near Three Forks. Police arrest two suspects east of Rock Creek after a high-speed chase along I-90.

——Alan McCormick, attorney for Bozeman developer Andy Holloran, explaining to Missoula City Council the May 14 collapse of the east wall of the old Missoula Mercantile pharmacy, which forced the temporary closure of Higgins Avenue.

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“We have I-90 that runs right along the heart of the city, and there is a huge amount of narcotics that are transported on that interstate corridor,” Peterson says. “It probably happens daily, you know. Drugs go one direction, and money goes the other way.”

Peterson is relatively new to the task force, having joined as its coordinator in early March.

But the effort itself has been active since the early 2000s, a mix of city, county, state and federal law enforcement agents working to disrupt and dismantle the flow of drugs in and through western Montana. Peterson is now in charge of a 20-person team that includes members of the DEA, National Guard and U.S. Secret Service, all conveniently under one roof. It’s one of five such task forces in Montana, all of which fall under HIDTA’s four-state Rocky Mountain region.

“It’s real important, particularly in the more rural states where there are limited resources, to have that kind of support,” says regional director Tom Gorman.

One critical piece of the HIDTA formula, particularly in Missoula, has been the availability of funding through the federal government’s HIDTA grant program. Montana’s task forces receive about $1 million a year from the program—money that Peterson says is critical in making it feasible for local agencies to participate. Last week, Sen. Jon Tester sounded the alarm over a Trump administration proposal to eliminate the HIDTA program as part of a larger series of cuts to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Tester isn’t the only one who’s worried.

“If the funding were to go away, it would, I think, essentially dissolve HIDTA,” Peterson says.

“I don’t know that we could sustain what we’re doing right now without that federal funding.”

The Rocky Mountain HIDTA annual report for 2016 isn’t due out until June. But according to the region’s most recent report, the federal government allocated just over $9.5 million for task force efforts across Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado in 2015. HIDTA initiatives succeeded in removing drugs valued at $112.4 million from the marketplace—a return on investment, the report points out, of $11.50 for every dollar spent on the program.

“As far as the local stuff,” Peterson says, “it would be really hard for the sheriff ’s office and the police department to fund their portion that we’re getting from HIDTA to make that happen.”

Alex Sakariassen

Remainders

It’s not just a brick Melinda Leibinger stood in a cloud of dust, feet planted on the tumble of debris, arms cradling chipped and chalky bricks. Her husband, Len, moved around a rubble pile, picking up small pieces of what used to be the Missoula Mercantile, examining them, then tossing them back or adding them to his wife’s collection. All around, people were doing the same.

“I want them all,” Leibinger said, her gaze sweeping over the multiple mounds of brick heaped across the Firestone building parking lot.

Back when she was eight, or maybe nine, Leibinger recalls standing on the second floor of the Mercantile, gazing down at the people on Higgins as she shopped with her mother. The building had “a smell to it,” she said, “a creak to it.”

To see that memory torn down was sad. So, like hundreds of other Missoulians who turned out May 14 for Home ReSource and ZillaState Realty’s Merc brick giveaway, Leibinger vowed to take a piece of it with her.

Those picking over the wreckage or standing in line to get a brick with a commemorative plaque attached all had similar stories. Diane Powell’s mother used to drag her to the Bon Marche as a child. Vicky Erhart’s brother Ben worked there as a stockboy in the 1970s. Marcy Mickey held down a job at Macy’s before it closed.

“It’s sad to see a part of Missoula’s history being torn down,” Mickey said, the front of her coat covered in brick dust. “It’s cool they got to save the pharmacy part of the building.”

Though that was the plan, it remains to be seen whether the pharmacy building will survive.

BY THE NUMBERS

ETC.

Net loss of trees in Missoula in 2017, according to the city’s Urban Forestry Division. There are 2,339 trees in Missoula that are designated as either dead or in poor condition.

The city will remove 325 trees and plant 160 new ones this year.

We may be part of the Lee Enterprises family now, but you know who else is family? Your mean uncle who can’t pull his head out of Fox News long enough to notice that his party has devolved into the shameless enabler of a tin-pot dictator.

On May 14 the Missoulian endorsed Greg Gianforte—“with some reservations”—in the May 25 special election for Montana’s seat in the U.S. House. To which we can only reply, “Go home, Uncle Lee. You’re drunk.”

We’re not impressed with Rob Quist the candidate. And we’re way not impressed with the state Democratic Party that decided to run an affable and apparently unvetted cowboy hat. So we also have some reservations.

We presume that either Quist or Gianforte would be a faithful tool of his party. One of those parties already controls both chambers of Congress and the presidency. The other is the only prospect— however thin—of representative resistance to an out-of-control administration.

So while we don’t generally advocate a preference for party over candidate, in this case we’re doing just that.

A vote for Greg Gianforte aids and abets a toxic administration that is already aided and abetted by a Republican majority that repeatedly and unembarrassedly puts party before country.

Rob Quist can’t change that, but a vote for Quist is the closest thing to a vote of resistance available to us. It’s not an especially hopeful vote, and this endorsement comes with no guarantee even that everyone on our deeply conflicted staff will actually cast that ballot.

What we’re conflicted about is whether it’s worth voting at all. Whether maybe an unenthusiastic vote for Quist will just encourage an incompetent Democratic Party to offer more of the uninspired same next time. Whether a protest vote, as fruitless as protest votes are, might be the only genuinely defensible course of action.

But not one of us could make a case for Gianforte.

The Missoulian’s case amounted to this: Greg Gianforte has exhibited effectiveness in his professional life, so we can expect him, most among the candidates, to be effective in the role of congressman. Here’s what we say to that: Effectiveness in support of a toxic agenda is no virtue.

“Montana needs more than a ‘no’ vote,” according to the Missoulian. We disagree. Montana needs precisely a no vote. So we recommend a vote for Quist, if only to send the signal. We desperately wish this race offered an opportunity to do more.

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The day after the brick giveaway, the roof and second story floor of the pharmacy began to sag, raising concerns of a collapse and prompting the closure of a portion of Higgins Avenue. The pharmacy was still standing as of press time.

Sunday also happened to be Mother’s Day, a coincidence that wasn’t lost on Catherine Rose.

Rose’s memories of the treasured downtown space are inescapably tethered to her mother, who wore Chanel No. 5 and reveled in regular trips to the Merc.

“She passed away in 1998 of breast cancer,” Rose said as she clutched a single brick. “That’s what the memory holds for me— getting dragged to the Mercantile to go shopping with my mother.”

Loitering on the nearby street corner, Bonnie Leifer, her husband, Tim, and friend Mark Van Loon considered themselves lucky. Bonnie had heard something about a brick giveaway, but hadn’t known the details. It was “serendipitous,” Tim says, that they happened to walk by on their way to get coffee.

As sunshine turned to sleet and back to sunshine, the trio lingered, eating ice cream and sharing their fears about the changing face of Missoula. “Once it starts going to glass and metal buildings, the modern stuff,” Bonnie said, bricks at her feet, “that doesn’t have much soul.”

Alex Sakariassen

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Car talk How Mark Wicks wrapped Libertarians around the axle

by Derek Brouwer

“Honestly, and a lot of libertarians feel Libertarian congressional candidate if minor, factor in state politics. Fellows ran Mark Wicks and a few supporters had been for office every cycle for 20 years, including the same way … Mark doesn’t represent all standing around a Whitefish parking lot for five bids for the U.S. House. Wicks is new the libertarian values,” says party member Joe more than half an hour before the first con- to libertarian politics, but he possesses Paschal, of Townsend. “He’s sort of a Repubtestant rolled up. Wicks, a rancher and mail- many of the personality quirks that typi- lican, alt-right kind of guy.”

Wicks earned the nomination in March man from Inverness, was hosting an “ugly cally signify a true believer. He named his truck” competition outside the Firebrand youngest daughter Liberty. In 2012, he self- at the party’s first-ever state convention, beatHotel in an attempt to capitalize on the rare published a post-apocalyptic novel about a ing Paschal in the last round of voting. As a bit of attention the political newcomer had Montana ranching family titled Wrath of way to begin rebuilding the party without Felmustered. During the only televised debate the Dodo. (A prefatory author’s note warns lows, Vandevender says, he tried to make the between special election candidates, on that “a lot of the government policies and convention inclusive by allowing county April 29, Wicks had delivered a zinger com- standard operating practices in this coun- committees to seat delegates, even if they paring his opponents to vehicles—Gianforte try need to change before we find our- hadn’t filed the requisite elections paperwork. Doing so, he says now, may have been a “country club” sedan, Quist a half-ton selves living in a third world country.”) a mistake. Wicks won on a 9-7 pickup with nice speakers but vote. Wicks’ son was one of the little torque—while branding delegates, party communications himself the “work truck.” In director Michael Fucci confirms.

Whitefish, he had “Send the Wicks has campaigned on Work Truck” T-shirts for sale his own, without a manager, beand a campaign stunt that mantween mail delivery routes and aged to draw as many reporters while traveling for his daughter’s (three) as actual trucks. sports tournaments. His camThat was enough to attract paign has raised $2,030—all in inDon Anderson, a Libertarian dividual contributions—as of May who lives down the street, and 5, Federal Election Commission his 150-pound Newfie, photo by Derek Brouwer records show. Wicks hasn’t had Shadow. Anderson didn’t know the benefit of a party mailing list, much about Wicks, but said that the “basic statements” he’d Mark Wicks, left, talks to a supporter about his run as which he says is one of the items the Libertarian candidate for Congress during an “ugly heard, like eliminating the U.S. truck” campaign event May 13 in Whitefish. The special tied up in legal issues surrounding Fellows’ death—or of state Department of Education, are election is May 25. party money, of which Vandeven“so consistent with the Libertarian philosophy.”

Protests in the wake of Donald Trump’s der says there is none. In their stead, Wicks State Libertarian party stalwarts are less election as president convinced Wicks the is trying to harness social media to generate sure about Wicks. Behind the scenes, his un- country needs “calmer heads,” like his, to momentum from his public debut on the deconventional campaign and sometimes con- help it get back on track. He describes his bate stage in late April. fusing platform is roiling Montana’s only philosophy as “libertarian mixed with comAmong his supporters is former Bozerecognized third party, exacerbating a power mon sense.” He credits his rural lifestyle with man mayor Jeff Krauss, who was mingling struggle that’s emerged in the absence of for- allowing that philosophy to take form. in the Whitefish parking lot after speaking “If you’re farming, you’re going around at the Flathead County Libertarian Party’s mer standard-bearer Mike Fellows, who died while campaigning last September. The in circles, so it gives you a lot of time to “Liberty Think Bash” the night before. As wheels fell off May 8, when party chair Ron think,” he says. he told the Indy of his support for Wicks, The resulting platform can be difficult a local party official asked if the campaign Vandevender resigned during the homestretch of the party’s first major race since Fel- for some of his harder-line libertarian peers had publicized the endorsement. It hasn’t, to parse. Wicks supports federal subsidies for but an endorsement from Vandevender is lows’ death.

“I’m not real fond of his ideas,” Vande- wind energy, and he also supports drilling in spotlighted on Wicks’ campaign site. It vender says of Wicks. “I don’t think he’s hard the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He touts may need some revision. libertarian. I think he’s more in line with this, faith-based private health cooperatives, while “I’m looking at my ballot on the table,” maintaining that the federal government Vandevender says. “I’m going to do a write‘I got to do what I got to do to get a vote.’”

Under Fellows, the Libertarian party should regulate prescription drug prices. in, or I’m going to burn it.” and its agenda of personal freedom and He’s expressed support for intervention in limited government became a consistent, Syria and for building a border wall. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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Right of the dial How the FCC paved the way for Sinclair’s expansion

by Alex Sakariassen

On April 20, Mignon Clyburn, the sole plemented in 1985, was intended to credit Washington [D.C.] headquarters that often Democrat on the Federal Communications station owners for the weaker signal of chan- are hard to distinguish from Republican Party Commission, forecast a wave of broadcast nels on the UHF band when calculating their talking points in terms of their framing, and media acquisitions and mergers on the near overall ownership. Critics of the decision to they get especially active in doing this when horizon. The FCC had just reinstated a rule reinstate the rule contend that, with the it comes to election season,” says Craig affording media companies certain leeway in move to digital broadcasting nearly 10 years Aaron, president and CEO of the nonprofit calculating the extent of their television own- ago, UHF is more desirable now. They also Free Press, an advocacy group for press indeership interests—a boon for any conglomer- say that the FCC’s reversal is a byproduct of pendence. “You can go back to 2004—Sinclair ate seeking to expand its presence on the Sinclair’s cozy relationship with the Trump was the network that aired the Swift Boat Vetnation’s airwaves. Donald Trump-appointed administration, and that it was intended erans for Truth ‘documentary’ aimed at takchair Ajit Pai, who had opposed the Obama specifically to set the stage for Sinclair’s re- ing down John Kerry.”

Aaron, whose organization joined a halfadministration’s abolishment of this so-called cent purchases. Last December, Politico reUHF Discount just seven months earlier, ported that the president’s son-in-law, Jared dozen other groups in formally petitioning touted his commission’s reversal. In her April Kushner, had bragged to Manhattan business the FCC to stay its recent UHF Discount reversal pending judicial review, 20 dissent, Clyburn had a decidsays Sinclair has a lengthy track edly different take. record of pushing “cookie-cutter “Welcome once again to Incontent” onto its affiliate stations. dustry Consolidation Month,” Conservative politics and consershe wrote. vative ideology are the company’s Clyburn’s prediction began “special sauce,” he adds. He cites coming true almost immeditheir use of commentary from ately. The day after the FCC’s longtime conservative pundit ruling, Baltimore-based Sinclair Mark Hyman, also Sinclair’s vice Broadcast Group announced it president of corporate relations, had entered into an agreement photo by Chad Harder and former Ben Carson campaign to buy the stock of New York’s Bonten Media Group Holdings, A recent FCC ruling has opened the door for Sinclair manager Armstrong Williams. which owns 14 television sta- Broadcast Group—widely criticized for its conservative Others have criticized the combent—to execute two major acquisitions, one of which pany for recent layoffs targeting tions nationwide, including includes Missoula’s KECI. newsrooms. Seattle’s ABC affiliate NBC affiliates KECI in Missoula, KCFW in Kalispell and KTVM in Butte and executives that the Trump campaign had KOMO—purchased by Sinclair in 2013—lost Bozeman. Two weeks later, Sinclair followed struck a deal with Sinclair to secure more fa- both members of its investigative reporting up with an even bigger announcement: a vorable media coverage—a claim Sinclair did- team to cuts in January.

Aaron doubts the quality and editorial $3.9 billion deal to acquire Chicago-based n’t so much deny as recharacterize. On April Tribune Media Company and its 42 stations, 17, Sinclair announced it had hired former decision-making at local stations like KECI an acquisition Sinclair President and CEO Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn as the com- will change under Sinclair ownership, at least not immediately. Viewers are far more likely Chris Ripley described as “transformational.” pany’s chief political analyst.

But it’s not Sinclair’s connections to the to notice the company’s conservative leanKECI General Manager Tamy Wagner referred the Indy’s inquiries to Sinclair. When Trump administration that have raised the ings in national-level segments aired locally, the Indy reached out to another KECI em- loudest alarm. The media goliath has come but crafted at Sinclair headquarters, he says. ployee, Wagner called to reiterate that Sinclair under increasing scrutiny for its apparent And they should speak up when the do.

“I think as a news consumer, especially would field any questions about the Bonten conservative bent. Just last week the New purchase. A Sinclair spokesperson did not re- York Times ran a story about Sinclair distrib- in this day and age of consolidation and conspond to multiple messages requesting com- uting short video segments defined as “must- centration, you really have to work to find runs” to its various stations, including a your alternative and independent sources of ment for this story.

If both sales win FCC approval, Sinclair segment from the company’s “Terrorism information. It’s incredibly important with a will reach more than 70 percent of the coun- Alert Desk.” As recently as March, Sinclair sta- dominant outlet like Sinclair that folks are try’s television-viewing public. Given the tions were required to run a short statement out there critiquing and criticizing and pointFCC’s 39-percent limit on how many house- from the company’s vice president for news, ing out when they see something they don’t holds a single company’s stations can reach, Scott Livingston, accusing other national think is right.” that scale of ownership wouldn’t be legal media outlets of publishing “fake stories.”

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Follow the moneyed Why is the GOP so infatuated with millionaires?

by Dan Brooks

The changing of the seasons has brought with it a heavy blanket of campaign mailers, which seem to grow more shrill as summer and the special election approach. Last week, I got one warning me that “Rob Quist’s debts are burning through Montana.” It featured a picture of the Democratic candidate next to a dollar bill in the shape of the state with—this is the artistic element—a burning hole in it.

I agree that Quist’s financial problems should give voters pause. In 2011, the state filed liens against his ranch after he failed to pay property taxes for three years. Quist blames a series of medical bills stemming from a botched gallbladder operation. But that doesn’t explain his failure to pay a Kalispell contractor who did excavation work for him 10 years earlier, in 2001.

It’s one thing for Quist to have gotten behind on his taxes, but stiffing a contractor is quite another. As a freelancer with a trick shoulder, I have a lot of sympathy for people who get buried under medical bills.

But as a freelancer with certain accounts receivable that I will probably never receive, I have no sympathy for people who hire work done and don’t pay. That amounts to stealing, and stealing from someone who works for a living is worse than stealing from the government.

Did no one in the Democratic Party of Montana run a credit check on Quist before they nominated him for Congress? After Amanda Curtis was investigated and found to be a woman, were there no remaining candidates without ready-made opposition files? The Democrats’ bizarre failure to anticipate this problem supports my suspicion that all they cared to know about Quist was that he was semi-famous and had never done anything like this before.

But as much as the Democratic Party has embarrassed itself since March, the Republicans are making their own mistakes, too. This “burning through Montana” business dramatically overstates the impact that one man’s personal debt can have on the economy. Quist’s problems are hardly going to trigger a banking crisis. The mailer seems to be reaching for a public-interest argument to justify demonizing Quist for

his private debts. That implies a troubling ignorance of how most people actually live.

Between the contracting bill and the property taxes, Quist’s debts came to about $20,000. That’s not so much money—especially if you are, for example, a tech entrepreneur who sold your company to Oracle for $1.5 billion. Such a person would have

“The whole conceit of Republican politics in the 21st century is that personal wealth equates to high character and patriotic goodness.

You don’t hear people saying that government should run like a dentist’s office or a school.”

no excuse for not paying his debts immediately. But the median household income in Montana is $49,505. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, average Americans save 5 percent of their income. For half the state, a $20,000 debt represents eight years of savings.

I mention these facts not to excuse Quist, but to warn the GOP. The party is

infatuated with millionaires right now, nationally and in Montana. Republicans backed an obvious liar with no record of public service all the way to the presidency, arguing that he would do a good job because he’s rich. In the Montana party’s estimation, the same attribute qualified Greg Gianforte to be governor. It turns out his record of making a lot of money also makes him the Republicans’ best choice for Congress, even though the roles of state executive and U.S. representative are completely different.

The whole conceit of Republican politics in the 21st century is that personal wealth equates to high character and patriotic goodness. Rich people are job creators.

Government should run like a business. It seems odd that business, which requires no special expertise beyond the desire to make money, happens to be the one field that qualifies you to do everything else.

You don’t hear people saying that government should run like a dentist’s office or a school. But teachers and dentists don’t donate billions to political parties. The success of the education and dental care industries has not widened the gap between rich and poor to its worst discrepancy in 100 years.

Right now, while we choose between a computer tycoon and an affable deadbeat, America is building an aristocracy. What’s surprising is not that it’s happening, but that Republicans expect us to identify with the tycoons. Inequality is at the center of our political discourse. If democracy worked the way it should, being wealthy would be a political liability in 2017. But our parties have spent so much time flattering and fundraising that they assume we all think of rich people as our benefactors, too.

In our present socio-economic moment, I’m not sure broke folk singers are the problem. If something is burning a hole in Montana, it probably has more to do with a handful of billionaires than with the millions of debtors it took to create them.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the inherent goodness of rich people at combatblog.net.

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As go the rhinos In Montana as in Africa: Safety in spaces

by Rick Bass

My guide, David, a member of the Maasai Tribe, has been showing me his home ground, in what is now the Lewa Conservancy of northern Kenya. The Maasai once were hunter-gatherers, but they have transitioned over the past century to becoming pastoralists, raising cattle and goats. During the European colonization, they were chased into the mountains and forced to survive by hunting with bowdrills, snares and deadfalls.

Now they have agreed to support a conservation area that allocates the core of their traditional land to the wildlife that makes East Africa the Africa we think of— dry equatorial grasslands that thrive on two rainy cycles per year, spring and fall.

Different people come here seeking different things: rare and spectacular birds, the baroque and bizarre giraffes, the hallucinogenic zebras, the big cats, Cape buffalo, gazelles flowing through the grass like a dream. But the rhinos are most rare, and most valuable.

There are many lodges in Kenya, and when the conservation districts were created, this was one of the elements of the conservancies’ establishment—encouraging tourist dollars to flow directly back into the communities.

Standards of Western hotel affluence were expected and often attained, though almost always by utilizing European management long experienced in providing elevated levels of pampering.

I visited a Maasai lodge, Il Ngwesi, that is reported to be the only lodge in the Lewa Conservancy run exclusively by Maasai. To my way of thinking, this is important, maybe vital, in the long run; certainly, to a guest, it feels more ethical than sending a portion of high-end dollars to London. (Last month, pastoralists stormed a non-Maasai lodge at the other end of the conservancy, killed five game guards, slaughtered wildlife, and turned their stock loose into lands previously dedicated for wildlife. By no means is the conservation system flawless, yet).

Wildlife is the driver. This is a model conservationists have long sought, and to that end, it is imperative that ven-

tures such as Il Ngwesi survive. In addition to drawing visitors to look at animals and housing guests in a charming tree hut over a watering hole, the lodge owners take them to a Maasai village, consisting of maybe a hundred people, where they can spend time in the late afternoon just watching the flow of the village, without pomp.

“What, is our rhino?

Surely it is the grizzly bear. so powerful that, like the rhino, it shapes not just the ecology of the physical landscape, but the human communities that fall under its shadow.”

There are cheetahs in Kenya, of course, as there once were on our continent. The cheetahs are elegant and beautiful, but again, the bruising mass of the rhino is the heart of the narrative. The conservancy employs Maasai to guard their livelihood, with “shoot to kill” orders against poachers. A single horn can sell for a million Kenyan shillings.

Once again, I’m reminded of North America, of home. Where, or what, is our rhino? Surely it is the grizzly bear, an

equally dramatic animal, so powerful that, like the rhino, it shapes not just the ecology of the physical landscape, but the human communities that fall under its shadow. How ironic that in Montana, the state Legislature has just passed a bill in the House authorizing the hunting of all grizzlies—a federally protected species—in the state.

Certainly, the grizzlies are one of the West’s economic and indeed spiritual drivers; people come West hoping to see them, to the corner of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park, where there are only 700 left, and where global warming threatens their survival, and to Glacier National Park, where roughly 200 live. In my Montana valley, the Yaak, we have only 20 remaining. How ludicrous to seek to legislate their extinction.

What are the great bear’s protections, and where in our country is a long-term vision to rival Kenya’s—a way to empower local communities to embrace, rather than fear, the presence of such an animal?

David said that, in Kenya, the guards are effective—no rhino has been poached in over a year—but that among the tightly connected Maasai, the best deterrent to a would-be poacher is often local disapproval. Someone’s second cousin will get wind of an upcoming attempt and contact the would-be perpetrator and say, “Hey, people know what you are planning, you shouldn’t do it.”

I think of the West’s last grizzlies, and I think of the one thing they need most and absolutely to survive—big wild country where people are unlikely to hunt and kill them. Slowly, despite setbacks, Africa is seeking to protect its wildlife heritage, even sometimes in the midst of drought and famine. So far, in our fragmented affluence, we have not yet learned to value and sufficiently protect the wildlife unique to our West.

Rick Bass is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He lives in Montana.

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SWEET, SWEET REVENGE – It is legal in China to sell electric “building shakers” whose primary purpose apparently is to wreak aural havoc on apartment-dwellers’ unreasonably noisy neighbors. Models sell for the equivalent of $11 to $58—each with a long pole to rest on the floor, extending ceiling height to an electric motor braced against the shared ceiling or wall and whose only function is to produce a continuous, thumping beat. Shanghaiist.com found one avenger in Shaanxi province who, frustrated by his miscreant neighbor, turned on his shaker and then departed for the weekend. (It was unclear whether he faced legal or other repercussions.)

CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE – Mats Jarlstrom is a folk hero in Oregon for his extensive research critical of the short yellow light timed to the state’s red-light cameras, having taken his campaign to TV’s “60 Minutes” and been invited to a transportation engineers’ convention. In January, Oregon’s agency that regulates engineers imposed a $500 fine on Jarlstrom for “practicing engineering” without a state license. (The agency, in fact, wrote that simply using the phrase “I am an engineer” is illegal without a license, even though Jarlstrom has a degree in engineering and worked as an airplane camera mechanic.) He is suing to overturn the fine.

Last year, surgeons at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), for only the second time in history, removed a tumor “sitting” on the peanut-sized heart of a fetus while the heart was still inside the mother’s womb—in essence successfully operating on two patients simultaneously. The Uruguayan mother said her initial reaction upon referral to CHOP’s surgeons was to “start laughing, like what, they do that?” (The baby’s December birth revealed that the tumor had grown back and had to be removed again, except this time, through “ordinary” heart surgery.)

The word “Isis” arrived in Western dialogue only after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as an acronym for the Islamic State, and the Swahili word “Harambe” was known to almost no one until May 2016 when the gorilla “Harambe” (named via a local contest) was put down by a Cincinnati zoo worker after it had dragged an adventurous 3-year-old boy away. In April, a Twitter user and the website Daily Dot happened upon a 19-year-old California restaurant hostess named Isis Harambe Spjut and verified with state offices that a driver’s license (likely backed by a birth certificate) had been issued to her. (“Spjut” is a Scandinavian name.)

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GOVERNMENT IN ACTION – Sidewalk Wars: (1) Thirty-four residents of State Street in Brooklyn, New York, pay a tax of more than $1,000 a year for the privilege of sitting on their front stoops (a pastime which, to the rest of New York City, seems an inalienable right). (The property developer had made a side deal with the city to allow the tax in exchange for approving an architectural adjustment.) (2) The town of Conegliano, Italy, collects local taxes on “sidewalk shadows” that it applies to cafes or businesses with awnings, but also to stores with a single overhanging sign that very slightly “blocks” sun. Shop owners told reporters the tax felt like Mafia “protection” money.

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FINER POINTS OF THE LAW – “Oh, come on!” implored an exasperated Chief Justice John Roberts in April when the Justice Department lawyer explained at oral argument that, indeed, a naturalized citizen could have his citizenship retroactively canceled just for breaking a single law, however minor—even if there was never an arrest for it. Appearing incredulous, Roberts hypothesized that if “I drove 60 miles an hour in a 55mile-an-hour zone,” but was not caught and then became a naturalized citizen, years later the government “can knock on my door and say, ‘Guess what? You’re not an American citizen after all’?” The government lawyer stood firm. (The Supreme Court decision on the law’s constitutionality is expected in June.)

WAIT, WHAT? – Emily Piper and her husband went to court in January in Spokane, Washington, to file for a formal restraining order against a boy who is in kindergarten. Piper said the tyke had been relentlessly hassling their daughter (trying to kiss her) and that Balboa Elementary School officials seem unable to stop him.

A private plane crashed on take-off 150 feet from the runway at Williston (Florida) Municipal Airport on April 15, killing all four on board, but despite more than a dozen planes having flown out of the same airport later that day, no one noticed the crash site until it caught the eye of a pilot the next afternoon.

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LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Didn’t Think It Through: (1) Edwin Charge Jr., 20, and two accomplices allegedly attempted a theft at a Hood River, Oregon, business on April 23, but fled as police arrived. The accomplices were apprehended, but Charge took off across Interstate 84 on foot, outrunning police until he fell off a cliff to his death. (2) Police said Tara Cranmer, 34, tried to elude them in a stolen truck on tiny Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, on April 22. Since it is an island, the road ends, and she was captured on the dunes after abandoning the truck.

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magine it’s six months from now.

Your Facebook feed, never mind the newspapers, is still filled with foreign bombings, murky hints of Russian interference and reactionary analysis of the president’s tweets. Just under the surface of mainstream discourse, alt-right groups continue to exacerbate tensions, engaging in public fist fights with anti-fascists and trolling the Internet with hate speech.

As an engaged citizen, you’ve attended local resistance efforts, marching in support of science and open borders.

Such demonstrations have been happening with at least monthly regularity, so it’s no surprise you’ve begun hearing rumblings about plans for a far-right counter-demonstration in Missoula.

You’re skeptical—the neo-Nazis who announced their protest of a Jewish real estate agent in Whitefish turned out to be a false alarm, after all.

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As the scheduled day approaches, the group amps up its rhetoric. They start talking about carrying firearms openly, about showing Missoula what the alt-right is really made of. You try to brush off the implied threat, but it becomes harder and harder to unknot your stomach.

The day finally arrives. The whole city is anxious. This time, they actually show up.

Crowds of MAGA-hat-wearing young men (and a few women) swarm downtown. Some are sieg heiling, others hoist signs featuring Nazi symbology. Many of them are carrying: pistols, shotguns, semiautomatic rifles. In assembling, armed, they are exercising their rights—open carry and public protest are perfectly legal in Montana. And yet their presence feels clearly like a threat. The police are aware, of course—the demonstrators received the proper permits—but shy of actual violence there’s nothing the cops can do.

Counter-protesters soon show up and line the streets. Paleoconservatives and neo-Nazis hurl insults at the spectrum of anti-Trump Missoulians. Resisters hurl insults back.

Then a shot rings out. Maybe someone fired into the sky as a warning. Maybe the shot was fired into a crowd, or at some

protester in particular. Regardless, the street is suddenly thrown into chaos.

Whatever intangible barrier separated the two sides collapses, and within minutes downtown is engulfed in violence. Rocks and punches are thrown, and guns are drawn. But just one side has the guns.

Soon, the police will swoop in with their full arsenal of military-grade response gear and quell the riot, but the police can’t be everywhere.

Now let’s say you’re at this demonstration. Let’s say you’re black, or Jewish, or transgender, or Native American, or Latinx, or liberal, or poor. You’re unarmed, and your belief that something like this could never happen here has just been shattered. Empowered by the violence, a 20-year-old kid storms toward you with a 9mm pistol on his hip.

Do you run?

Alternately, let’s say that the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2017, shook you to your core. You couldn’t get past the fear, born of the candidate’s campaign rally thuggery and the embrace of white supremacists, that the country had taken a turn toward the threatening. So let’s say that, in response, you went to a pawn shop, or a sporting goods store or Walmart, and you put $500 on the counter

and left with a gun. You took some classes and got a concealed carry permit. You know how to use it.

And let’s say, in downtown Missoula, mid-riot, with an armed kid charging you, you have your gun with you.

What would you do?

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hroughout history, both the political left and the political right have found occasion to take up arms, from the FARC in Colombia to the Bundys in Oregon. But in America, mainstream gun culture tends to favor conservatism.

The Pew Research Center reported in 2014 that 41 percent of gun owners in the United States identify as conservative, with only 23 percent considering themselves liberal. The National Rifle Association gave 99 percent of the roughly $1.1 million it spent on campaign contributions in 2016 to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Far-right individuals and groups make up just a fraction of conservatives, but Montana is no stranger to their influence.

The Southern Poverty Law Center reported in February that of the 917 hate groups currently active in the United States, seven are based in Montana. Five of those groups are considered anti-Muslim, and two are primarily white nationalist. ( Whitefish is the occasional stomping ground of Richard Spencer and his white nationalist National Policy Institute.) Such extremism has a long history, but SPLC claims that its prominence and visibility has increased dramatically following the election of Donald Trump.

That election, and the newfound prominence and visibility of right-wing extremism, has leftists—Marxists, anarchists, socialists and some Democrats—reaching for their holsters. After the election last

year, NBC reported that minority groups fearful of an uptick in hate crimes were arming themselves in response. And the BBC reported that FBI background checks for gun sales on last year’s Black Friday, just weeks after Election Day, set a new single-day record.

Today, the threat of far-right violence is palpable for many Montanans. In an age when neo-Nazis threaten to storm Whitefish and white supremacist propaganda litters Missoula synagogues and gas pumps, opponents and potential targets of newly empowered racists, nationalists and fascists have reason to be scared, and motive to recalibrate their response.

us as a country, those are the people that make me scared,” he says. “I don’t know what the future holds,” he says, but he wants to be prepared.

Rudolf, who had always been agnostic about guns, came to see the benefits of gun ownership after watching Schindler’s List. He says the film made him reflect on the ability of the state to tear families apart, and an individual’s helplessness in the face of that power.

For many leftists, such fear isn’t confined to the federal government. In Montana, largely untouched by immigration enforcement, it can sometimes feel like we’re beyond the influence of D.C. What’s

“Empowered by the violence, a 20-year-old kid storms toward you with a 9mm pistol on his hip.

Do you run?”

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ick Campbell, a 27-year-old independent construction contractor and musician in Missoula, started learning to shoot from his parents when he was 5 years old. Today he’s the very picture of a working-class anarchist, wearing jeans and a T-shirt revealing a tattoo of a black cat on his triceps, a symbol of the anarchosyndicalist union the International Workers of the World.

Campbell, whose ideology centers on workers unionizing to take control of the economy, didn’t form his far-left beliefs until getting into the Missoula punk scene as a teenager. That’s where he began to see violence as a potentially necessary force against racism, and for self-preservation. He watched racists try to force their way into a music scene that didn’t want them. And he watched members of the scene fight them off physically. “That’s what made them leave,” he says.

Campbell thinks that people beholden to certain ideologies simply can’t be reasoned with, because they fundamentally don’t respect the rights of other people to exist. What an avowed racist may consider a different point of view is experienced by others—especially members of traditionally targeted and marginalized groups—as a threat to their safety.

“The ability to effectively defend yourself is a fundamental human right,” Campbell says. “In a world where guns exist, that means you need to be able to own and competently use a firearm.”

The notion of armed self-defense resonates with Sean Rudolf. The 23-year-old Missoula janitor inherited his .22 rifle, a family heirloom, which he leans in the corner of his downtown apartment, fully loaded magazines at the ready.

Rudolf lets me inspect the gun, a beautiful old Ruger, as he tells me about his politics. He is genuinely fearful of the climate engendered by the Trump administration.

“However much we want to put faith in these bodies that are supposed to guide

Gus Hemphill, 23, in his apartment. Hemphill studies the development of far-right movements at the University of Montana.

more concerning is what freshly empowered far-right citizens are up to.

And alt-right groups are starting to take up arms. Vice co-founder and former Fox commentator Gavin McInnes’ group, Proud Boys, a faux fraternity dedicated to espousing the virtues of Western culture and male chauvinism, recently declared the formation of a “military wing.” The group gained momentum after its violent response to Ann Coulter protesters in Berkeley, California. (McInnes ended up reading Coulter’s speech after she canceled, citing a lack of support from the university.)

It’s such non-governmental threats that have Gill Wiggin, a 27-year-old Missoula bike mechanic, worried.

“I am much more afraid of nongovernmental militant right-wing groups

that feel inspired or mobilized by the current political climate than I am of the actual Trump government,” Wiggin said.

Wiggin and Campbell both say that friends and acquaintances have recently begun taking steps to educate themselves on firearm safety and usage.

Wiggin considers—and owns—guns both as a practical tool for hunting and an instrument of self-defense. While he said he knows he could never stop a large-scale violent action by himself, that doesn’t mean he intends to leave himself personally defenseless.

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here’s plenty of American precedent for armed self-defense. The black struggle for civil rights saw an oppressed group and its sympathizers responding to

violence from both the state and organized individuals. Police officers turned hoses on pro-rights demonstrators, and Klan members killed and terrorized black people.

But while the civil rights era is consistently lauded for its nonviolent resistance, from sit-ins to bus boycotts, and regularly deployed as a counterexample by critics of violent resistance and armed self-defense, that narrative is flawed, according to Charles Cobb Jr., author of This Nonviolent Stuff ’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.

Cobb’s book asserts that gun ownership and armed self-defense were integral to the movement’s success.

“Nonviolence, which most people use to characterize the Southern civil rights movement, doesn’t really have very deep

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“It’s important to understand that something happens to people when they defend themselves. They grow, they develop, and they gain a certain degree of autonomy.”

“It’s important to understand that something happens to people when they defend themselves,” Ciccariello-Maher says. “They grow, they develop, and they gain a certain degree of autonomy. That’s a certain part of what people on the left are trying to build.

We’re saying that we’re capable of building communities that defend themselves.”

Building community, however, usually means doing so with like-minded people. The idea faces a special challenge in the United States, where the two-party system reflects and helps shape sharp divisions over ideological issues like gun ownership. Here, where there’s a very limited tradition of revolutionary change,

Hemphill’s guns are for hunting and target shooting, not for self-defense. He’s careful to acknowledge the dangers posed by semiautomatic guns. He barely missed being present for a 2013 shooting at Santa Monica Community College when he was enrolled there. But even so, he sees liberal resistance to guns as counterproductive.

In Montana, 1 in 57 people has a concealed carry permit, according to the Great Falls Tribune. The same report says that 61.4 percent of Montana households contain guns, with an average of three guns per owner.

Campbell, the Missoula musician, thinks that if Democrats dropped their traditional support for gun control, they could gain a supermajority. He says he encounters many conservatives who are politically concerned almost exclusively with guns, and that he usually finds little to disagree with them about other issues.

Campbell thinks gun violence is a condition more of poverty than of access to firearms, a result of basic needs going unmet. He says Democrats should focus on addressing economic inequality.

“Democrats and liberals really planted themselves on the side that guns are the problem, gun culture is the problem, and that if we could just get rid of these pesky guns, then all of this violence would stop, which is an insane notion,” Campbell says.

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Nick Campbell, 27, target shooting with an AK-47 near Miller Creek.

roots in southern black communities,” Cobb says in an interview with the Independent. “The deeper tradition is one of self-defense.”

That impulse to self-defense isn’t confined to history, and its role in the struggle for equality is now becoming associated with new groups, including leftist gun clubs.

Two—the Huey P. Newton Gun Club and the John Brown Gun Club—have nationwide affiliates and chapters. The former, founded in 2014 and named after Black Panthers co-founder Huey Newton, concentrates on community patrols and armed demonstrations against police brutality. The latter, longstanding but known as Redneck Revolt since 2009, is named after abolitionist John Brown, who encouraged armed revolution as a means of

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overthrowing slavery. It has a chapter in northern Idaho.

George Ciccariello-Maher, an associate professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University, says that groups like Redneck Revolt show that bearing arms as a leftist isn’t just about self-defense—it’s about building movements.

“Too often, people reduce it to a question of armed force, when it’s actually much more importantly a political question,” he says.

Maher, who researches armed self-defense movements in Mexico, describes self-defense as a radically political act, pointing not only to black Americans resisting racism, but unionists and laborers fighting back against corporatism—a dynamic with a rich history in Montana’s mining economy of the early 20th century.

movement building is also about winning over the other side.

Not all leftists see the merit in armed self-defense, but some do believe that guns have the potential to build bridges between diverse elements of a divided working class.

That’s what Gus Hemphill, a 23-year-old University of Montana student of far-right movements, thinks. Sipping coffee from a “Feel the Bern” mug in his immaculately clean apartment, he occasionally gestures to the array of weapons—three rifles and a handgun—on his kitchen table, all unloaded and displayed for a reporter’s visit.

“To expect that a Montana liberal should be against gun ownership is kind of ridiculous, given the idea that they’re supposed to be representing their constituency, much of which does own weapons,” Hemphill says.

ay it’s a few weeks after Inauguration Day, and you walk into a sporting goods store. You pass the bowie knives and the fishing poles and continue to the back, where the guns are.

Maybe you grew up around guns, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you spent your childhood shooting at prairie dogs with a weatherbeaten .22, or maybe your parents moved here from New Jersey and told you they’d disown you if you ever carried a gun.

Maybe you’ve never even touched one.

For a long time, maybe you thought the world was a better place without guns. The near-constant stream of mass shootings, many of them perpetrated by misanthropic white men fearful of multiculturalism, may have left you wondering if Australia, where guns are nearly impossible to obtain, might be a better place to hang your hat at night.

But now everything is different. You could be a Democrat, you might be a Marxist, or you may be entirely apolitical.

What matters is that you’re afraid. What matters is that the news terrifies you, that the glares and scowls have started to increase in frequency, that the sight of a red baseball cap makes you turn a corner and walk the other direction.

What matters is that you want to survive the next four years.

Your security no longer seems a thing you can take for granted, and so you plunk down $500 for a handgun. It’s small, and could easily fit in a holster under your jacket. You don’t want to use it—you have no intention of shooting anyone. But you immediately feel safer holding it. For the first time since November, you feel like you have some power.

You learn how to assemble and disassemble it, and you store it responsibly.

You apply for and receive a concealed carry permit. Should the alt-right come to town with guns blazing, at least you won’t go down without a fight.

You’ll probably never use it, but just knowing that you could is a radical act. The right has known this for years. But now you, pushing back against groups and ideologies that would deny your humanity, are showing that the left can know it too. Whether it’s a matter of feeling a little more secure or building a movement that might lead to a more equitable and interconnected world, the gun you now own signals a kind of resistance more pronounced than protest.

Guns have always been a means to an end, and preventing the infliction of violence is just one. The construction of a new, more inclusive, and more secure left could be another.

Nick Campbell loads a 9mm pistol during target practice.

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Cheeto invasion Photographer Holly Andres takes a political turn at MAM

by Erika Fredrickson

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olly Andres makes photographs that evoke the simmering terror of a Hitchcock film mixed with the precariousness of adolescent awakening. Her exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum last year, for instance, included several narrative pieces riffing on young girls discovering locked rooms and boxes, suitcases and a hornets nest, all rendered in the rich colors and suspenseful staging of a Nancy Drew cover.

Andres grew up in Missoula in a family of 10 kids, and even now, living and working in Portland, Oregon, she still pulls images and stories from her childhood to create her art. (Her sisters once found a woman’s suitcase on the shore of the Clark Fork, and another sister was brutally stung by hornets one summer afternoon.) Over the past decade, Andres’ eye for candybright colors and meticulous detail, and her ability to create visual tension, has put her in high demand with the most prestigious magazines in the country—she’s shot commercial and editorial work for Time, The New Yorker, Popular Mechanics, Wired and the New York Times Magazine, to name a few. When she makes art for exhibits, she often returns to the palette of childhood.

But ever since the November election, Andres has found herself unmoored from her usual inspirations. A few months ago, while preparing to give a presentation of her work to a college class, she started questioning everything she’d been working on.

“I was dusting off the old PowerPoint, and I had this thought, like, ‘Who cares?’” she says. “My work just felt in that moment so inconsequential to everything that’s happening in our country and, by extension, the world.”

And so, when Missoula’s Radius Gallery asked Andres to contribute to its upcoming figurative art exhibit, she decided to go political.

The new four-piece series has all the flair of a signature Andres vision—rich color and an anachronistic feel. She shot it in her bedroom, capturing the crisp detail of personal objects: stacked books, vintage camisoles hanging out of drawers, an aqua rotary phone. The only human subject is a man whose face is mostly obscured, but the bleach-blond sweep of

photo courtesy of Holly Andres

Photographer Holly Andres’ new series explores her feelings about the presidential election, and is part of Radius Gallery’s upcoming group exhibit.

flyaway hair is unmistakable. The photographs are a sequence in which this Trump-like character ransacks Andres’ room, beginning with him dumping out a dresser drawer of her underwear and ending with him crawling out the window like a burglar, at this point nearly disrobed, his boxers bunching just below his buttcrack.

Andres says she was trying to re-enact the feeling she had on November 8. She had a shoot that day and she was excited about it, and in the middle of hurriedly packing up her gear, she suddenly started to cry with overwhelming relief.

“The polls were still promising in Hillary Clinton’s favor, despite the Comey fiasco,” she says. “And the possibility of a woman running the country struck me as so powerful— this ripple effect that could impact the

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respect and the self-esteem of women and girls everywhere. And, finally, this uninvited intruder who had been occupying my mind for the last six months was going to have to exit the situation.” She pauses. “Of course, we know that did not happen.”

The new body of work is an attempt to capture that image of Trump as a violator.

It’s humorous—that hair and the plumber’s crack!—and also grotesque in the way the figure seems to be lecherously and carelessly helping himself to the objects in the room. “I’m using my room—this intimate private space—as a kind of a proxy for my mind, and I was thinking of this monstrous figure upending it,” Andres says.

Andres considers the work a light homage to Jeff Wall’s 1978 photograph “The Destroyed Room,” which is itself a

piece in dialogue with Eugène Delacroix’s 1827 painting The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix’s piece is a critique of the French bourgeoisie in the postNapoleonic era, and depicts the last king of Assyria on his deathbed ordering the destruction of his possessions and the slaughter of his concubines. Andres notes that the Delacroix painting echoes the maniacal Trump administration, but she also acknowledges the silver lining in the Wall photographs: Despite the violence evoked by the destroyed room, a female figurine remains on the dresser, untoppled.

Since the election, Andres has involved herself in Portland-area political action on social media. She talks a lot about white privilege and protecting and elevating the country’s most vulnerable voices.

The Trump series is the first time she’s incorporated politics into her art, and while it has all the elements that Andres usually brings to her work, it’s also much more directly to the point.

“Part of the anxiety of this time period is not really knowing what is going to happen from day to day,” she says. “And that feels like a type of psychological warfare.

This is a great country, don’t get me wrong. But I do feel like Donald Trump perfectly epitomizes all of its ills—the greed, the ignorance, the narcissism, the gluttony. He’s not the American Dream.

He’s our American monster.”

Radius Gallery’s group show featuring Holly Andres opens Fri., May 26. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

New Orleans dreams Measuring time on Broken String Jacob Robert Stephens is a double threat in that he’s an accomplished guitarist—skilled at the sweet-and-mournful melody—and, with a master’s degree in creative writing under his belt, he has an ear for just the right words and images.

On his latest album, Despite the Broken String, the Missoula singersongwriter sings about old flames and new love with comparisons to the natural world, but thank goodness he knows how to do that without overripe emotion.

Stephens’ other superpower is his understated approach, so in “Bull River,” for instance, when he sings about wildflowers peeking up through the snow and the sky falling away from the stars, it doesn’t feel like melodrama.

There are times on Despite the Broken String when the instrumentation and mixing seems off—

sometimes the drums and pedal steel tumble in with clumsy entrances and bury the harmonies.

It’s a little distracting, but the songwriting mostly makes up for it. The album includes some expected ingredients, like that pedal steel, but the addition of piano and Dixieland horns gives it that much more character—especially on “North Winter Blues,” where the narrator, broke down in the snow, dreams of the warm streets of New Orleans. This is an album about time measured in empty whiskey bottles and seasons. The way that theme carries through the collection makes a good case for why listening to a full album—not just cherry-picking songs—should never become an antiquated notion.

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Tennis, Yours Conditionally Tennis is annoying, at least on paper. Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, the husband-and-wife indie-rock duo, played Coachella last month after writing much of their fourth album, Yours Conditionally, on a boat while sailing around the Sea of Cortez. While they sailed and wrote songs, they blogged about it for Urban Outfitters, describing how they have turned inward, toward the sea and away from the music industry. How grating and ultrahip, and yet the music is wonderful.

Yours Conditionally is the first album since the band’s full-length debut, and it does sound like it was written on a boat: poppy, shimmering, timed to the waves, Moore’s dreamy voice paired with Riley’s relaxed strumming. It’s happy music. It’s also heavily

influenced by the ’70s (think the Carpenters), but while the vintage sound is preserved, the lyrics provide commentary on the cheesy ballads the songs are modeled after. These songs are complex and feminist—almost sinister at times—balancing a sound that borders on cloying.

Standout track “Modern Woman” showcases Moore’s clear voice and the duo’s best writing. “Kate, I’m so afraid you hate me/I think I might have made it true,” Moore sings, her voice rising and dipping beautifully. It’s so enjoyable that even the Urban Outfitters blogs can be forgiven.

(Sarah Aswell) Tennis opens for the Shins at the Wilma Thu., May 25, at 7 PM.

Full of Hell, Trumpeting Ecstasy Bands like Full of Hell don’t demand your attention so much as they seem to threaten your life for it. The Maryland grindcore outfit has released three full-length and two collaborative albums, making its mark in the metal world with a chaotic combination of harsh noise and pummeling hardcore.

On its latest album, Trumpeting Ecstasy, the band has opted for a slicker sound, brought about in part by producer Kurt Ballou. The addition of a new backing vocalist, whose guttural bellows give the band an element of grindcore classicism, was by no means a bad move, either.

Compositionally, the band is stronger than ever. Ecstasy is full of honest-to-god riffs, and the cleaner production boosts elements like bass that had previously been relegated to background textures. It’s the band’s most focused album yet, and in many ways, it’s also their most accessible. Despite that, this is not a particularly fun album. The misanthropic dialogue samples from Werner Herzog, for instance, don’t make for easy listening. But Trumpeting Ecstasy is easily the band’s most accomplished release, and signals the arrival of a bolder, tighter sound. (Michael Siebert)

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[books]

Rules for breaking The genre-bending audacity of J. Robert Lennon

by Molly Laich

Lennon is a writer who works with flagrant disWhat a delicious, heartbreaking, hilarious and true work we have in J. Robert Lennon’s eighth novel, regard for genre. I know this because he said as much Broken River. It arrives just in time for the kind of in our last interview. His last novel, Familiar, shifted feverish reading that fans of good literature are wont brazenly from science fiction to domestic drama to to do when the sun finally shows its face and Mon- something like horror, and things are much the same tanans patiently wait another two months for real here. Most audaciously, Broken River features a summer to arrive. It’s a special novel that features strange third-person omniscient voice, the “Obboth a plot worthy of binge reading and fiercely server,” with a self-referential, emerging consciouscrafted sentences. Usually we have to settle for one ness—the kind that will get you thrown out of most writing workshops. “Indeed, it is quite capable of obor the other.

I’ve been a follower of Lennon’s work (and spir- serving anything, all things,” the Observer states of ited Twitter account) for some time, and this latest itself. “But it has begun to recognize that its purpose, as opposed to its ability, is limnovel features his usual touchited: or more precisely, its purstones. We have at the center an pose is to be limited. It is eccentric, dysfunctional (but unconcerned with, bored in fact damn it, they love each other) by, the enormity of its power.” family. The home that shelters Lennon uses the Observer to them somewhere in rural New address readers directly about York state has a life and a will of the godly powers of narration, its own. If you didn’t know, how the story is built from which homes are a re-occuring obsesdetails the author chooses to insion in Lennon’s work: home reclude, and what he omits. pairs, homes left vacant and a Add to the Observer not weird invitation to imagine what one but two characters who are creaking floors are thinking. novelists (Irena is working on a On the surface, we’re prebook, too), and now we’re resented a murder mystery, but it’s ally breaking all the rules. a trick. Lennon reels us in with Through Eleanor, Lennon seems corpses at the start so we don’t to exorcise his own grievances notice that the real drama lies about the relentless tortures of with the people who are still Broken River J. Robert Lennon novel writing. “It’s like a nuclear alive, their fractured and unlikely paperback, Graywolf Press meltdown, a destructive reacrelationships with each other and 240 pages, $16 tion that feeds on itself and renthe precious and terrible ways ders everything around it toxic,” she says. “At best, they strive to reconnect.

The family unit consists of Karl the sculptor; his finishing a draft these days feels like inadvertently wife, Eleanor (a novelist); and their precocious, knocking something off a table—a bowl of soup, home-schooled 12-year-old daughter, Irena. The story say—and gazing at it there, slowly spreading at your includes a couple of thugs in town, book editors in feet, and thinking, I guess I’m not going to eat that New York City, a pretty waitress at Denny’s, and her anymore.”

And that pretty much settles it: Broken River is a drug-dealing brother. All of their perspectives are presented through a tightly wound, forever-shifting third- novel written in large part for writers, and why the person perspective. Seriously, these voices are heck not? Who even picks up a book anymore if not captured so closely it almost feels like a violation of to extract the author’s tricks, to fuel their own halftheir privacy. In Irena, we have a girl who knows hearted NaNoWriMo promises to themselves? And more than her parents think. “She is beginning to feel even if by some rare miracle you’re a person living in resentful. It’s nothing in particular that is making her Missoula reading a book review in the Independent angry, just the vague and growing sense that she is who is not also an aspiring writer, this book could be little more than a pawn in her parents’ lives.” And for you, too! There are killers on the loose, marriages then her mother: “The gesture unexpectedly fills in trouble and marijuana to be dealt—something, in Eleanor with sadness. She suddenly believes that her other words, for almost everyone.

J. Robert Lennon reads from Broken River at marriage is going to fail.” And finally, the cool dad: “He loves her, for shit’s sake, everybody knows that,” Shakespeare & Co. Tue., May 23, at 7 PM. and then, “but for real: Irena is a girl who’s part him.

How can he deal with that? How can anyone?” arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Mad man The suffocated dreams of Buster’s Mal Heart

by Molly Laich

“You call this a plague?”

It’s been a minute since I’ve had the pleasure of sending you into a dark theater to trip out in the immersive glow of a bizarre story, but writer and director Sarah Adina Smith’s latest feature, Buster’s Mal Heart, delivers the opportunity.

We first meet our protagonist, Buster, huddled in the Montana wilderness as he’s hunted down by lawmen for reasons unknown to us. The film was shot in Kalispell, which is nice (look out for a brief but perfect appearance by hometown actress Lily Gladstone), but this isn’t your typical Last Best Legend of the Fall Runs Through It look-at-our-Big-Sky landscape showcase. Think Twin Peaks (remember when Bob screams, “You’re going back to Missoula, Montana!”) meets Donnie Darko on his way to Barton Fink’s motel room with the bloody corpse and sweating wallpaper.

Buster’s Mal Heart tells a nonlinear story that cuts liberally between two stages of a disturbed man’s life. Long before he huddled in a cave, Buster was a mild-mannered hotel clerk named Jonah, with a wife and young daughter. He worked the night shift at a motel that seems to be somewhere near Glacier Park International Airport. The guests are generally rich out-of-towners on their way to their vacation homes in the mountains, with the exception of a strange drifter known only as “The Last Free Man” (DJ Qualls), who shows up one night and puts crazy ideas in our protagonist’s head about an upcoming catastrophic event known as the “inversion.”

It’s the late 1990s, you see, when the creeping unknown of the big Y2K switch bothered a few people (including me, a lot), but mostly everyone went on with their lives. (I can’t tell you how disappointing it was to have my teenage paranoia go so unrewarded.)

Much of what makes Buster’s Mal Heart so fascinating belongs to the charisma of its lead, Rami Malek, from USA Network’s Mr. Robot. He’s got this mysterious, brooding face that you would immediately classify as handsome if you saw him at a party, in real life, but which seems on the big screen like some kind of lucky mistake, like he burgled his way onto the set and they went ahead and put him in the picture anyway.

Jonah’s a strange guy from the start. He wants his daughter to learn Spanish alongside English (to the consternation of his Montana-born mother-inlaw), and he dreams of moving his family somewhere off the grid where they can escape the daily grind.

His traditionalist Christian wife (Kate Lyn Sheil) carries the unsung female burden of practicality. She knows there’s no escape from the rat race (they can’t afford to buy land on his hotel clerk salary, etc.), but to Jonah, she just seems like the killer of dreams.

And then there’s the hypnotizing way Smith feeds us the story, with strange images from the past and the future. We see Jonah behind the front desk, surrounded by garish gold trim and frightening carpet, then his family’s legs are flitting underwater in the hotel swimming pool, then he’s despondent on a boat in the middle of the sea with a full beard—it’s like a puzzle that’s been put together all wrong, because it’s coming from the mind of a mad man. The plot is hard to follow on a first viewing, but try not to get hung up on the particulars. Thinks of Buster’s Mal Heart as a visual poem about the suffocating sadness of a world in which we’re victim to unfair rules.

How does it make you feel?

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[film] mafia. Wonder how he turns this around? Rated PG-13. Stars Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law and David Beckham and directed by Guy Ritchie. Wait, really? Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK ALIEN: COVENANT In space no one can hear you scream, but when you’re part of a team of colonists on an unknown planet, screaming is going to be the least of your problems. Rated R. Stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson and Danny McBride. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

MULLHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) The stories of a small-town girl with stars in her eyes, an amnesiac brunette and a frustrated filmmaker blend to create David Lynch’s scary and seductive vision of Los Angeles. Rated R. Stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux. Playing Thu., May 18 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

BUSTER’S MAL HEART How did a milquetoast concierge end up as a crazed mountain man surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes? Well therein lies the mystery. Not Rated. Rami Malek, Kate Lyn Sheil and Lily Gladstone star in this surreal thriller filmed in Kalispell, Montana. Playing at the Roxy.

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POINT BREAK (1991) You ever fire a gun straight up into the air while screaming? The FBI sends an undercover agent to infiltrate a gang of surfing bank robbers. Hope he has 100 percent pure adrenaline. Rated R. Stars Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey and Keanue Reeves.

Playing Wed., May 24 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

CHASING TRANE: THE JOHN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY He’s an outside-the-box jazz legend whose music changed the world forever. But who was the man behind the music? Not Rated. Director John Scheinfeld’s new film plays at the Roxy Theater.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL Sure he told his parents he wanted to take a family road trip, but only because they would have said no if they knew they were going to a video game convention. Hope you weren’t married to the cast of the first three movies in this series, because this reboot of Jeff Kinney’s popular book series features a brand new cast. Rated PG. Stars Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone and Chris Coppola. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING Good news: the new boy next door is super cute.

Bad news: you have a rare disease that forces you to stay inside 24/7. Good news: he wants to take you to the beach. Bad news: it will probably kill you. Rated PG-13. Stars Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson and Ariana Grande. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

TOKYO IDOLS Girl bands and pop music permeate Japanese culture, but it’s the middle-aged male fans that take their love of this genre to extreme new levels. Not Rated. Screening for free at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Tue., May 23 at 7 PM. Director Kyoko Miyake and producer Felix Matschke will be in attendance.

I know how this is going to turn out. You're probably going to want to move, lady. Alien: Covenant opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK Last year Standing Rock, North Dakota became one of the most watched places on Earth. Now see the story of the Native-led battle for clean water as it happened. Not Rated. Directed by Myron Dewey, Josh Fox and James Spione. Playing Mon., May 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

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

THE BOSS BABY Older children sometimes feel jealousy toward new siblings. Of course most newborns aren’t high-powered executive spies. Are we sure this isn’t a 30 Rock joke? Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi and Lisa Kudrow. Playing at the AMC Missoula 12.

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A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND (2014) Despite being taken under the wing of an unconventional and anarchic teacher, a young man struggles with the day-to-day world around him. At least he has math to comfort him. Rated PG-13. Stars Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins. Playing Fri., May 19 at 6 PM at the Roxy.

THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS You’ve seen the last seven movies in this franchise, I doubt this one is a big departure from fast cars, exotic locals and beefy hunks punching each other.

Rated PG-13. Stars Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Marvel Comics’ rag-tag group of space heroes are back for more action, more adventure and more hit songs from the ‘70s. Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Kurt Russell. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD Before he ruled England from Camelot, Arthur was apparently a down on his luck enforcer for ye olde

SLITHER (2006) After a meteorite crawling with alien slugs lands near their small town, the residents of Wheelsy, South Carolina find themselves turning into mutant zombies and tentacled monsters. Rated R. Stars Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker and Elizabeth Banks. Playing at the Roxy Sat., May 20 at 8 PM. SNATCHED When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, where the two are promptly kidnapped. She is never going to hear the end of this one. Rated R. Stars Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn and Joan Cusack. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD (1994) Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening twopart film explores the sacred text from the Himalayas, and visualizes the afterlife according to its ancient wisdom. Not Rated. Directed by Barrie Mclean. Both parts screen at the Roxy Sun., May 21 at 5 PM. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area.

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Eggless egg salad

by Gabi Moskowitz I attended elementary school in the early heyday of the Lunchable, AKA the ultimate cafeteria lunchtime trade item. Tiny plastic cartons with dividers separating a stack of cheddar cheese, a stack of golden butter crackers, and some slimy pink lunch meat (usually turkey or ham) were the Hidden Valley Elementary School fourth grader’s ticket to trading her way to an optimal lunch.

It was the lunchbox equivalent of a royal flush.

My lunchbox, on the other hand (My Little Ponies from first through third grade; scrunchy brown bags with my name scrawled on them, so as to not look like such a baby, from fourth grade onward), with its sprouted, meatless contents, never got me far in the midday meal barter game. My mother, who had embraced the wholefoods-bulk-bin-health-food-co-op approach to food in the 1980s, packed my lunch with life-affirming nutritional foods like eggless egg salad—a creamy blend of soft tofu, turmeric, onions, celery, a little mayonnaise and fresh dill. She would pack it in a little Tupperware container, with crackers or on a sprouted whole wheat bagel.

While I craved the sort of schoolyard clout that came with having Lunchables in my lunch, I secretly loved my hippie lunches. But the other kids teased me for eating tofu (then relatively uncommon in American households) and so I often ate them in the girls’ bathroom to avoid taunting. And despite my actual preferences, I asked my mother to pack me something a little more “normal” so as to spare myself being called “Tofu Girl” at lunchtime.

“That is a very stupid nickname and there is no way I’m giving you white bread and chips for lunch, Gabrielle,” Mom told me. Gabrielle, my full first name, was what she called me when she meant business.

“Just ignore the teasing and eventually they’ll get bored and stop.”

I pushed back: “But nobody will ever trade with me if you keep giving me all this healthy stuff!”

“Good,” she replied. “I don’t want you eating their crappy food anyway.”

I sighed. Eggless egg salad it was, and thus began my first lesson on the wisdom of doing something that doesn’t look cool and doesn’t win popularity points, but is the right thing to do anyway. The next day I decided to start eating lunch in the cafeteria again, opting out of the lunchtime trade. And she was right: I ignored the teasing and eventually it stopped.

So here’s to my mom, and all moms, who stood their ground, when it would have been so much easier to just give in to their whining children. They taught us

BROKEASS GOURMET to be strong, to be true to ourselves, and to eat our grosslooking lunches out in the open, despite the naysayers.

Eggless egg salad is one of my favorite quick vegetarian protein sources, even to this day. It starts with soft tofu (you could use medium or firm tofu, but it won’t have that egg-white-like texture) plus celery, shallot (you could use regular or green onions too), fresh dill, plus cayenne for spice and turmeric for flavor and egg-like color.

You smush up the tofu so it looks like crumbled hard-boiled eggs. This part is fun. Stir everything together with a little mayonnaise and mustard to bind and flavor it, as well as a little salt and pepper. Let it chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes (this improves the texture).

Eat on a toasted bagel (or on lightly dressed greens, or with crackers or by itself ). Listen to your mom. Ignore the haters.

Serves 4–6 Ingredients 14 ounces soft tofu 1/4 cup mayonnaise (use eggless mayonnaise for a vegan version) 1 stalk celery, diced 1/2 medium shallot, diced 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon (or more to taste) of your favorite mustard salt and pepper to taste Directions Drain the tofu and place it in a mixing bowl.

Use your clean hands to crumble it, being careful not to overwork it—a few squeezes will do.

Gently fold in the mayonnaise, mixing well to distribute evenly.

Stir in the celery, shallot, spices, salt, and pepper to taste.

Chill for at least 30 minutes.

Serve plain, with crackers, over greens, on toast or on a bagel.

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

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“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com

Order Online Lunch & Dinner 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

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

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

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

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

It’s a done deal! No foolin’. Bernice’s Bakery will be introducing a new owner June 1st!

Christine and Marco have spent the last 15 years stewarding the development and sustainability of one of Missoula’s iconic businesses. Congratulations to Marco and Christine! And, congratulations to the new owner Missy Kelleher. Come in and say hello or good-bye. Follow that up by a “hello” to Missy in June as you snag your favorite treat or a cup o’joe.

Bernice’s Bakery Keepin’ Missoula Sweet. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery.

Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$

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

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Forest Lounge

HAPPIEST HOUR Why you’re here: You don’t want to run into anyone you know.

Maybe the hipper bars downtown are wearing you out. Maybe you’re ashamed of what you said to an ex-roommate at the Mo Club and want to lay low for a while. Or maybe you just want to eat some inexpensive food and a have a really stiff drink.

What the vibe is: The Forest Lounge is a classic roadside bar and part-time restaurant, hold the frills. But its bare-bones setup is given life by an absolutely wonderful staff. They’re witty as hell, extremely personable, and don’t do B.S. Not that they have to—the regulars, many of whom mosey over from the apartment complex next door, tend toward the friendly, and if you avoid making a pest of yourself, they’ll be delighted to chat.

What you should order: Regulars drink a lot of whiskey, so start there. I had a whiskey Coke (and my sober companion ordered a Shirley Temple).

In total, that cost us $4.50, a price you couldn’t even dream of seeing anywhere else.

What about the food? The kitchen serves a litany of appetizers, from potstickers to hot wings. But on Wednesday afternoons, when the Forest Lounge is busiest, a huge prime rib special will set you back just $12.50.

It also has a fantastic hangover-friendly breakfast starting daily at 8 a.m.

When to go: If you’re trying to avoid a crowd, evenings seem to be the best, partic-

ularly on Sundays. If you’re more interested in meeting interesting new people, head over in the afternoon.

How to get there: You can find the Forest Lounge at 3695 West Broadway, out toward the airport. If you’re planning to have more than a few, consider a taxi or Uber—it’s definitely a haul from most parts of town.

—Michael Siebert Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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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THU | 5/25 | 8 PM | WILMA The Shins play the Wilma Thu., May 25. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40/$35 advance.

SAT | 10 PM | TOP HAT The Ghost Peppers play the Top Hat Sat., May 20 at 10 PM. Free.

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SAT | 8 PM | JOE BELOW Tispur plays the Joe Below Sat., May 20. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5.

TUE | 7:30 PM | BADLANDER The Bridge City Sinners indulge the darker side of bluegrass and Americana at the Badlander Tue., May 23 at 7:30 PM. Free.

THU-SUN | 7:30 PM | ROXY BetweenTheLines presents Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird at the Roxy Theater Thu., May 18 through Sun., May 21, at 7:30 PM with a 2:30 PM matinee Sun, May 21. $20.

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Thursday nightlife Local singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas plays homegrown folky tonk at Draught Works. From 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Writer Eden Solas and poet Nora Justice give a back-to-back reading at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

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

Enjoy made-in-Montana wine and the live, local music of John Floridis at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Portland’s Rotties plan on using every trick in the PDX punk playbook to get the job done at the ZACC Below. Local support from Preachy and Hermanans y Hermanas. 7 PM. $5.

Author and activist S. Brian Willson reads from his memoir about his involvement in the Vietnam War, peace activism and losing his legs on a railroad track in California in an attempt to block weapons from being transported to South America.

Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

Come flaunt your verbal prowess or just root for your favorite poet.

Poetry Slam! at E3 Convergence gallery, hosted by man of letters Old Sap, kicks off at 7 PM. Email 3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com to sign up to perform.

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

Aaron Posner’s postmodern take on Chekhov’s classic play continues at the Roxy Theater. Stupid Fucking Bird features drama, comedy and maybe even one of those guns on a wall you hear so much about. 7:30 PM. $20.

Aaron Posner’s postmodern take on Chekhov’s classic play continues at the Roxy Theater. Stupid Fucking Bird features drama, comedy and maybe even one of those guns on a wall you hear so much about. 7:30 PM. $20.

Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

The talented troupe at Bare Bait Dance close out the season with Hysteria, brought to the stage by BBD co-directors Kelly Bouma and Joy French. Union Hall. 8 PM–9 PM. $16/$14 advance.

School’s out for the summer! Celebrate at I’ll House You at the Badlander. Guest DJ Cadence Miles spins tracks that will make you forget how bad you did in Math. 9 PM. Free.

NightLiner lugs a big delivery of country, blues and rock to the Eagles. 8 PM. Free.

This band is like having 11 protons; it’s sodium fine. The Elements play the Sunrise Saloon.

Annalisa Rose and Tyler Barnham provide the country soundtrack at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. Free.

The talented troupe at Bare Bait Dance close out the season with Hysteria, brought to the stage by BBD co-directors Kelly Bouma and Joy French. Union Hall. 8 PM–9 PM. $16/$14 advance.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

The Newlyweds play the Top Hat Friday, May 19, at 10 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset & the Revelators open the seventh seal of honky-tonk at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

Self-described as the sweatiest band west of the 100th median, the Newlyweds play the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Spotlight Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is currently obliterating the worldwide box office while raking

WHAT: Slither screening WHERE: The Roxy WHEN: Sat., May 20 at 8 PM HOW MUCH: $8

Karaoke at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org

Sheridan, Wyoming’s The Two Tracks bring expertly crafted Americana to the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

in positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. The movie is also strikingly distinct from the rest of Marvel Studio’s films in both tone

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young gunn and content by focusing more on the fun, while going absolutely bananas when it needs to. All of these things can be attributed to writer/ director James Gunn who first cut his teeth writing the low-budget gore fest Tromeo & Juliet for Toxic Av e n g e r c r e a t o r Lloyd Kaufman back in the '90s. But when the young filmmaker got a chance to direct his own major studio release, he jumped on it. The result, Slither, is a gory romp through body horror and zombie explosions and an

homage to dozens of '80s horror films.

Slither tells the story of an alien parasite that rides a meteorite into a small South Carolina town and quickly begins turning the residents into tentacled slug monsters. Despite being one of the biggest box office bombs of 2006, Slither became a cult classic, and Gunn's sharp and tense writing and directing stood out. If you're a fan of the unbridled lunacy the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films occasionally dip into, check out Slither and see the beginning of a great director's career.

— Charley Macorn

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Saturday Five Valleys Audubon takes an overnight trek to Freezeout Lake and the Rocky Mountain Front.

Call 406-549-5632 for more info.

7 AM. $10.

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

The Clark Fork Market features farm-fresh produce, live music and delicious food every Saturday in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM– 1 PM. The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses, and culturally diverse delicacies. Join the fun every Saturday through October. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM– 12:30 PM. Senator Bernie Sanders campaigns for congressional candidate Rob Quist with a rally at the Wilma. Doors at 10 AM, rally at 11. Free.

Sharpen your bird identification on a beginning birder walk at the Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Learn key field marks and how to use binoculars and field guides. Minimal walking is involved. 10 AM. Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM. I’m guessing this is different than playing Questions Only or Scenes From a Hat with Jodie Foster and an alien? Learn the basics of Contact Improv with a dance workshop at Downtown Dance Collective. 12 PM–3 PM. $15.

The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula celebrates Armed Forces Day with a free barbecue honoring our men and women in uniform. 12 PM–4 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations.

Missoula’s first cidery celebrates its grand opening with the live music of The Beet Tops, Night Blooming Jasmine and Black Mountain Boys.

Western Cidery. 501 N California.

12 PM–10 PM. UM alumna Natalie Peeterse reads poetry from her new chapbook,

Montana-based musician Martha Scanlan performs at a seated performance at the Wilma Sat., May 20. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18/$16.

Dreadful: Luminosity at Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM. Free.

guns on a wall you hear so much about. 7:30 PM. $20.

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And you thought there was no way this could happen. The kings and queens of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana celebrate Hell freezing over with a drag show at the Badlander. 8 PM. 18-plus. $5.

Singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas plays homegrown folky tonk at Missoula Brewing Co. From 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

Create a cool contingency plan so you can catch Basses Covered at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Montana-based musician Martha Scanlan performs at a seated performance at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18/$16.

NightLiner lugs a big load of country, blues to the Eagles. 8 PM. Free.

Circle left, partners swing. Skippin’ A Groove provides the music for the Missoula Folklore Society’s

Contra Dance. All the dances will be taught and called, no partner necessary. Union Hall. 8 PM. $9/$6 for members.

It’s the dance, not the chip dip.

Salsa 406 returns with Latin music and dancing at the Dark Horse every third Saturday of the month.

8:30 PM. Free.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut

Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

The Tom Cats play the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Catch the funky-soul mantra of the Joan Zen Band at the Union Club.

9:30 PM. Free.

Sister Christian, oh the time has come to head to the VFW for Kaleidoscope Karaoke. 9:30 PM. Make sure to bring a glass of milk!

The Ghost Peppers play the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Boise musicians Tispur and Queen Boychild play the Joe Below. Local support from Wilma Laverne Miner.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5.

A Night at the Circus at MASC Studio is a cabaret showcase featuring fire, aerial acrobatics and dance performances. 7 PM–8:30 PM. $5 for 12-plus, free for 12 and under.

Aaron Posner’s postmodern take on Chekhov’s classic play continues at the Roxy Theater. Stupid Fucking Bird features drama, comedy and maybe even one of those

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Texas rockers Blue October play the Wilma Sun., May 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.

Is sweating like someone with a preexisting condition a preexisting condition? Missoulians march for Medicare starting with a rally at Caras Park 1 PM. People Who Stutter is a casual group of folks who get together the third Sunday of each month to just hang out and exchange stories and info. With Tricia Opstad, MS, CCC-SLP and Trevor Monsos. Liquid Planet Grille, 1025 Arthur St., 1:30–3:30 PM. Free.

nightlife Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. How long have they been hunting for these guys? Texas rockers Blue October play driving melodies and heart-wrenching songs at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.

The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and the Olive Branch host a free screening of Paying the Price for Peace at the Public House. This documentary follows the life of S. Brian Willson, who lost his legs trying to stop weapons from being transported to South America. 7 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations.

(See Spotlight) Aaron Posner’s postmodern take on Chekhov’s classic play continues at the Roxy Theater. Stu-

pid Fucking Bird features drama, comedy and maybe even one of those guns on a wall you hear so much about. 7:30 PM. $20.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM. Sister Christian, oh the time has come to head to the VFW for Kaleidoscope Karaoke.

9:30 PM.

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Monday Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.

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

Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the

Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.

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Revelators frontman Russ Nasset plays a solo show chock-full of honky-tonk blues at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM. Free.

he’s going to head to the Union Club for a night of karaoke. 9 PM.

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

Sister Christian, oh the time has come to head to the VFW for Kaleidoscope Karaoke.

9:30 PM.

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

Tommy used to work on the docks. Union’s been on strike, he’s down on his luck. So

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close.

Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

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

RHETT• Rhett is a 4-6-year-old male orange Tabby. He would love a home in the counrty with the freedom to come and go as he pleases. Rhett loves human affection and attention, jumping up on the desk and sprawling across the keyboard when he feels ignored. At the same time, he does not like being confined, and would prefer to have the entire house and yard to explore, unencumbered by obstructions.

Buck is a 1-year-old male Husky/ Shepherd mix. He is a timid and submissive young boy. When he isn't sure about something new, he'll lay flat against the floor with his legs shaking. As soon as you get down to his level, he'll belly crawl to you and lean into you for protection. He'll go wherever you want to go as long as you're willing to encourage him this way.

Buck likes other dogs and kids.

BELLADONNA•Belladonna is a 7-month-

old female Alaska Malamute mix. She is a very happy young girl with a playful, yet respectful, disposition. She loves other dogs and is good with kids. Belladonna came to the shelter when her owner fell ill and could no longer care for her. She is a sweet and gentle soul that is happy to meet and play with anyone.

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ELLA• Ella is a 5-year-old female American Bully. She is a sweet, lazy, couch potato of a dog.

Ella gets along well with most dogs, but doesn't enjoy those that are high-energy or pushy. She'd love to find a home with another dog that shares her enjoyment of the finer points in sprawling across the furniture and napping. This low energy dog doesn't even mind if you skimp on the daily walks.

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RAINA• Raina is a 6-year-old female orange Tabby. She is a very affectionate girl that never seems to get enough love and attention. Raina came to the shelter with a severe head tilt that threw her balance off, making it difficult to walk.

We knew there was something wrong, and the vet discovered pollups inside her left ear that were throwing off her equilibrium. She is doing much better now that they have been removed.

BECK• Beck is a 7-year-old male brown Tabby. He is a very shy, timid boy that has not yet adjusted to the hussle and bussle of shelter life. He hunkers down low in his cat bed and lays perfectly still, hoping to blend into the background. When you pull him out and set him in your lap, he will slowly pick his head up, start kneading your leg, and quietly purring while he soaks in your affection.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 BO• Handsome, Husky Bo loves to go on adventures! He is crate-trained, has been around children, and loves playing with dogs his size! Bo has lived with a cat and enjoys dog company while you're away. This 7-year-old gentleman loves to use his beautiful singing voice. Bo is part of our Senior for Senior program, so his adoption fee is reduced! Visit myhswm.org for more information.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

GINGER SNAP• Orange you glad you met Ginger Snap? We sure are! This super orange, wildly colored calico gal has delectable fur and loves to say hi to new friends! Come meet this beautiful 6-year-old girl today! Ginger Snap and other adoptable cats are living at the Humane Society: 5930 Highway 93 S, just south of Missoula!

ANGELINA• Angelina is just fine without Brad, thankyouverymuch, and is ready for her forever home! This friendly 8-year-old enjoys meeting new dog friends and playing with brave cat buddies. She would prefer a home without chickens, but loves spending time sniffing around and going on hikes! Angelina is looking for a mature home, and her adoption fee is reduced to help her find her family!!

TYLEE• Smiley Tylee is a beautiful, 2-yearold dilute torti who has been around kids, cats, and dogs. She would love a quieter home or a little hiding place of her own for when she gets overwhelmed. Tylee loves people and will curl up next to you on the couch. She gets along with cats and is friends with laid back dogs! Come visit this darling Wed-Fri 1pm-6pm and Sat-Sun 12pm-5pm!

MALU• This gem of a Labrador cross loves her people, enjoys playing with dogs of all sizes, and is happy to be a couch potato at the end of the day. She is 6 years old, LOVES fetch, and is very sweet! Responsive and kind, Malu ignores livestock and enjoys children! She already knows 'sit' 'come' 'ball' and 'treat'! Visit Malu at the Humane Society Wed-Fri, 1pm-6pm, or Sat-Sun, 12pm-5pm!

PENNY• Are you speechless? So are we.

Penny is an absolute stunner. This white and orange 5-year-old recently lost her best cat friend and is looking for a loving family. She would probably enjoy having a relaxed resident cat to take her in, too! She enjoys children and visitors, and will make you smile as soon as you see her. Call 406.549.3934 for more information on Penny!

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Tuesday Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

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

12–8 PM.

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

Donations accepted.

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

Author Milana Marsenich reads from Copper Sky, her new novel about two women living their lives in 1917 Butte at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

Learn the two-step during country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 3811392 for more info.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill

The superstars of Extreme Midget Wrestling enter a battle royale at the Sunrise Saloon Tue., May 23. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$20. levels welcome. $10/$35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical

talent at the Badlander. 8 PM. Free.

Author J. Robert Lennon reads from his new novel Broken River at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

The Bridge City Sinners, Clyde & the Milltailers and Derek Blake

unite for a night on the darker side of bluegrass and Americana at the Badlander. 7:30 PM. Free.

The superstars of Extreme Midget Wrestling enter a battle royale at the Sunrise Saloon. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$20 advance.

Spotlight an account in a military newspaper about a young man being jailed in the states for burning the American flag in protest.

Willson was shocked. How could the men who killed all these children be lauded and promoted WHAT: Paying the Price for Peace screening while a man who WHO: S. Brian Willson burned nothing more than a flag was imprisWHEN: Sun., May 21 at 7 PM. oned? What kind of government would do WHERE: The Public House that? Willson received HOW MUCH: Free, but donations accepted a law degree after leaving the military. He MORE INFO: jrpc.org joined Veterans for Peace and Vietnam fended villages in Vietnam. The Veterans Against the War and bemajority of the inhabitants, most of came an educator and activist, leadthem children, had been na- ing nonviolent acts of civil palmed. A few days later he read disobedience across the country.

In April of 1969, S. Brian Willson, then a captain in the United States Air Force, witnessed the immediate aftermath of a bombing campaign against several unde-

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Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free.

Our trivia question for this week: What rocker was born John Michael Osbourne in 1948 in Birmingham, England? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

little peace Then, on September 1, 1987, while protesting shipments of weapons bound for Contra groups in South America, Willson was hit by a train transporting weapons to Contra groups in South America.

He lost both of his legs beneath the knee, as well as part of his frontal lobe. After a lengthy recovery, he ramped up his activism, continuing to work for peace through nonviolent protests and writing.

A new documentary, Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson, follows the peace advocate's life. A discussion will follow the screening. He will also be reading from his 2011 book Blood on the Track at Shakespeare & Co. on Fri., May 19.

— Charley Macorn

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Wednesday The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park. The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water. 8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere.space/coffeeclub for more info.

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

Show your Press Box buddies just how brainy you are at Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

Stop by American Made Tattoo where artists will be giving semicolon tattoos in exchange for a $50 donation to Missoula Life Maintenance Center. 11 AM–9 PM. Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing.

NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. 202 Brooks.

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

Check out James Comey’s first FBI assignment when Point Break hits the Roxy Theater Wed., May 24, 7PM. $8.

Got two left feet? Well, throw them away and head to Sunrise Saloon for beginners’ dance lessons. Starting at 7 PM. $5.

Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Showcase features established comics and new voices every month at the Roxy Theater. This

month features headliner Dan Trimble and host Gilmore McLean.

7:30 PM. Free admission with concession purchase.

Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

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

Free. All ages.

Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, support Partners in Home Care. 5 PM–8 PM. Ocelot Wizard casts a musical spell at Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in.

Yes, even you with the tuba.

Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Ozzy Osbourne.

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Thursday nightlife Learn how to craft your own handlebar roll for your bike, and get the skills you need to make camp hammocks and can stoves with a free workshop at Free Cycles. 6 PM. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Looking for some of that new slang? The Shins play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40/$35 advance.

Rachel Mindell and Jenny Montgomery read from their collections of poetry at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

Tennis opens for the Shins at the Wilma Thu., May 25. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40/$35 advance.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no.

Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a

night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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

Can I get that on the side? Funk

powerhouse Ticket Sauce plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

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Among the many diverse members of the punctuation family, the semicolon stands out as the most misunderstood. Few know how to use it outside of a winking emoticon. Most people seem to follow the grammatical advise given by noted author and weirdo Kurt Vonnegut; the only reason to use a semicolon is to show you've been to college. But recently the semicolon has gone from simple punctuation to a more personal use. Since the semicolon doesn't end a sentence, but rather continues it, the misinterpreted mark has been adopted as a symbol of suicide awareness and prevention.

American Made Tattoo hosts its second annual Semicolon Tattoo day on Wed., May 24.

All day long, artists will be giving semicolon tattoos in exchange for a $50 donation to the Mis-

SATURDAY MAY 20 Senator Bernie Sanders campaigns for congressional candidate Rob Quist with a rally at the Wilma. Doors at 10 AM, rally at 11. Free.

SUNDAY MAY 21

soula Life Maintenance Center. The MLMC, also known as Joey’s Place, is a planned suicide prevention center dedicated to the memory of Joey Connell who took his own life last year. Founded by his brother Mikey, the Center hopes to create a stigma-free, community-based facility to help locals dealing with mental health and suicide.

So even if you're still not sure where to put a semicolon in a sentence, come get one on your body for a good cause. If getting ink isn't your speed, donations will still be accepted all day.

–Charley Macorn The Second Annual Semicolon Tattoo Day runs from 11 AM to 9 PM on Wed., May 24 at American Made Tattoo.

and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

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

Is sweating like someone with a preexisting condition a preexisting condition? Missoulians march for Medicare with a rally at Caras Park 1 PM.

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

MONDAY MAY 22

WEDNESDAY MAY 24

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

12 PM–8 PM.

Stop by American Made Tattoo where artists will be giving semicolon tattoos in exchange for a $50 donation to Missoula Life Maintenance Center. 11 AM–9 PM.

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

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

TUESDAY MAY 23

Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, support Partners in Home Care. 5 PM–8 PM.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free

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

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espite the warnings of freak snowstorms, it's clear summer is barreling toward us. This is apparent due to the sudden army of road workers that have spontaneously popped up in recent weeks. With these helmeted heralds reminding us that it's going to be impossible to drive anywhere for the next three months, now is the perfect time to plan those weekend getaways away from the city.

And while there are several stunning, majestic places you can hike or drive to, many Missoulians answer the call of the wild by hopping on their bikes. The biggest problem with taking a bike trip is there is only so much gear you can bring with you.

Biking with a heavy backpack is impractical and tiring. Sure you can attach a basket to your handle-

bars, but how good is that going to hold up when you're cruising along a mountain trail? Free Cycles offers a free workshop on how to build your own handlebar roll out of household items. Participants will also learn how to craft other handy, DIY gear such as camp hammocks and can stoves to elevate their summer bike trips. The workshop covers the best way to measure and design your own bag for your bike's frame, and offers various hacks for packing.

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Five Valleys Audubon takes an overnight trek to Freezeout Lake and the Rocky Mountain Front.

Call 406-549-5632 for more info. 7 AM. $10.

The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park.

The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water.

8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere.space/coffeeclub for more info.

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

Sharpen your bird identification on a beginning birder walk at the Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Learn key field marks and how to use binoculars and field guides. 10 AM.

THURSDAY MAY 25 Learn how to craft your own handlebar roll for your bike, and get the skills you need to make camp hammocks and can stoves with a free workshop at Free Cycles. 6 PM.

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Medical Marijuana Recommendations Alternative Wellness is helping qualified patients get access to the MT Medical Marijuana Program.

Must have Montana ID and medical records. Please Call 406-249-1304 for a FREE consultation or alternativewellness.nwmt@gmail.com

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Sugaree. Sweet Sugaree is part snuggler and part adventurer!

Sugaree grew up with children and is OK with dogs. This beautiful gal enjoying mousing outside then coming in for cuddles or a nap on her favorite scratching post. Sugaree is part of our Senior for Senior program, so her adoption fee is reduced to help her find her forever home!

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By Amy Alkon CRAZY BELITTLE THING CALLED LOVE My boyfriend of five years has gotten super moody. He picks fights with me and even gets a little verbally abusive and condescending. I know he’s a good guy, and I want to help him sort through his stuff, but I’m finding myself flirting with other guys and fantasizing about cheating on him. I am not the kind of person who cheats, and I feel terribly guilty even having those thought —Demeaned Ideally,“I’ve never felt this way before!” reflects something a little more romantic than longing to tunnel out of your relationship with a sharpened spoon.

I wrote recently about a cocktail of personality traits that are associated with a susceptibility to infidelity in a person— basically those of a narcissistic, lazy con artist with all the empathy of a bent tack.

That finding is from research by evolutionary psychologists Todd Shackelford and David Buss, who also studied the emotional circumstances in a relationship that might lead one of the partners to cheat or to want to (even if that person isn’t some ethically bankrupt, empathy-deficient buttknuckle).

They found that there are two personality characteristics someone can have that make a relationship particularly miserable. One is emotional instability— marked by mood swings and a gloomy obsessiveness about things beyond one’s control. As Buss explains in “The Dangerous Passion,” when emotional instability is paired with quarrelsomeness (and all of the ugly condescension, sniping and emotional neglect that goes with it), relationships become “cauldrons of conflict.” This, in turn, raises the odds that one’s partner will seek solace in the, um, back seat of another.

Part of being in a relationship is taking out the trash when it starts to overflow— including the psychological trash spilling out of the dumpster that has become “you.” Talk compassionately with your boyfriend about the need for him to start figuring out and fixing whatever’s causing him to act out in toxic ways.

Don’t expect change at “Poof!” speed, but look for signs that he’s taking meaningful steps to dig out of his emotional winter.

Give yourself some time markers—maybe the two-week mark, a month from now, the three-month mark. This should keep you from just blindly continuing along with a partner whose interests could be advertised as: Enjoys dive bars, French cinema, long screaming arguments on the beach, and

staying up till dawn pondering the age-old question, “I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?!”

SWARM FUZZIES I got in an argument with my boyfriend about the reason not to have sex outside our relationship. He said he wouldn’t do it because he wouldn’t want to hurt me. I said he shouldn’t want to be with anybody else, but he said that’s just not realistic for guys. Are men really just these unfeeling sex machines?

—Dismayed Male sexuality is about as sentimental as an oar.

In fact, if there’s one secret guys try to keep from women, it’s this: A man can really love a woman and still want to spend the afternoon wrecking the bed with her BFF, her well-preserved mom and her sister.

As awful as that probably sounds, men’s evolved lust for sexual variety isn’t something you and other women should take personally. Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt explain that genetically speaking, it’s generally in a man’s interest to pursue a “short-term sexual strategy”— pounce and bounce, coitus and, um, avoid us—with as many women as possible.

This isn’t to say men evolved to be entirely without discernment. Because “beautiful” features (like pillowy lips and an hourglass bod) reflect health and fertility, if a man has a choice in casual sexmates, he’ll go for a hot woman, but if he doesn’t, he’ll go for a woman with a pulse.

However, Buss and Schmitt explain that there are times when it’s to a man’s advantage to pursue a “long-term sexual strategy”—commitment to one woman. It’s a quality-over-quantity strategy—wanting a woman with “high mate value” (one who’s physically and psychologically desirable enough to hold out for a guy who’ll commit). Other factors include seeking the emotional, social and cooperative benefits of a partnership.

In light of this, think about what your boyfriend’s really telling you by opting for “Honey, where do I sign away my sexual freedom?”This isn’t dismaying, degrading or any of the other bummer D-words. In fact, it’s really romantic, considering that men evolved to be sexual foragers. But for your boyfriend’s desire to make a life with you, he could be wandering the planet and sharing his life and hopes and dreams—uh, for about six minutes and 23 seconds—with a wide variety of oiled-up naked strangers.

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Claims must either be mailed to STEVEN W. TIMMONS, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26th day of April, 2017. /s/ Steven W. Timmons, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-95 Dept. No. 1 Hon. Leslie Halligan Presiding.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAMES T. SCALISE, 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 Dece-

dent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to VICKI SCALISE, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 16 day of April, 2017. /s/ Vicki Scalise, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

SIGNED this 16 day of April, 2017. /s/ Vicki Scalise, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 16 day of April, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires September 24, 2019 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause No. DP-17-73 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLAUDIA ANN BARTH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim 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 Kay Barth, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

DATED this 31 day of March, 2017 /s/ Kay Barth, Personal Representative DATED this 27 day of April, 2017. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Probate No. DP-17-78 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RANDY J. HOLDSAMBECK, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Rex Holdsambeck, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the

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No. 1 Probate No. DP-17-93 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FREDERICK J. MEYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Catherine L. Meyer-White, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., at 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of April, 2017. /s/ Catherine L. Meyer-White c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 W. Spruce St. Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A two-year-old kid is like using a blender, but you don’t have a top for it,” said comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Would you like to avoid a scenario like that, Aries? Would you prefer not to see what happens if your life has resemblances to turning on a topless blender that’s full of ingredients? Yes? Then please find the top and put it on! And if you can’t locate the proper top, use a dinner plate or newspaper or pizza box. OK? It’s not too late, even if the blender is already spewing almond milk and banana fragments and protein powder all over the ceiling. Better late than never!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My pregnant friend Myrna is determined to avoid giving birth via Caesarean section. She believes that the best way for her son to enter the world is by him doing the hard work of squeezing through the narrow birth canal. That struggle will fortify his willpower and mobilize him to summon equally strenuous efforts in response to future challenges. It’s an interesting theory. I suggest you consider it as you contemplate how you’re going to get yourself reborn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I invite you to try the following meditation: Picture yourself filling garbage bags with stuff that reminds you of what you used to be and don’t want to be any more.

Add anything that feels like decrepit emotional baggage or that serves as a worn-out psychological crutch. When you’ve gathered up all the props and accessories that demoralize you, imagine yourself going to a beach where you build a big bonfire and hurl your mess into the flames. As you dance around the conflagration, exorcise the voices in your head that tell you boring stories about yourself. Sing songs that have as much power to relieve and release you as a spectacular orgasm.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In normal times, your guardian animal ally might be the turtle, crab, seahorse or manta ray. But in the next three weeks, it’s the cockroach. This unfairly maligned creature is legendary for its power to thrive in virtually any environment, and I think you will have a similar resourcefulness. Like the cockroach, you will do more than merely cope with awkward adventures and complicated transitions; you will flourish. One caution: It’s possible that your adaptability may bother people who are less flexible and enterprising than you. To keep that from being a problem, be empathetic as you help them adapt.

(P.S. Your temporary animal ally is exceptionally well-groomed. Cockroaches clean themselves as much as cats do.)

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lady Jane Grey was crowned Queen of England in July 1553, but she ruled for just nine days before being deposed. I invite you to think back to a time in your own past when victory was short-lived. Maybe you accomplished a gratifying feat after an arduous struggle, only to have it quickly eclipsed by a twist of fate. Perhaps you finally made it into the limelight but then lost your audience to a distracting brouhaha. But here’s the good news: Whatever it was—a temporary triumph? Incomplete success? Nullified conquest?—you will soon have a chance to find redemption for it. titled You’re a Genius and I Can Prove It. Sadly, the rest of the book was not available. Later I c book searched for it in online bookstores, and found it was out of-print. That’s unfortunate, because now VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While shopping at a funky yard sale, I found the torn-off cover of a

would be an excellent time for you to peruse a text like this. Why? Because you need specific, detailed evidence of how unique and compelling you are—concrete data that will provide an antidote to your habitual self-doubts and consecrate your growing sense of self-worth. Here’s what I suggest you do: Write an essay entitled “I’m an Interesting Character and Here’s the Proof.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Leonardo da Vinci wrote a bestiary, an odd little book in which he drew moral conclusions from the behavior of animals. One of his descriptions will be useful for you to contemplate in the near future. It was centered on what he called the “wild ass,” which we might refer to as an undomesticated donkey. Leonardo said that this beast,“going to the fountain to drink and finding the water muddy, is never too thirsty to wait until it becomes clear before satisfying himself.”That’s a useful fable to contemplate, Libra. Be patient as you go in search of what’s pure and clean and good for you. (The translation from the Italian is

by Oliver Evans.)

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My friend Allie works as a matchmaker. She has an instinctive skill at reading the potential chemistry between people. One of her key strategies is to urge her clients to e SCORPIO write mission statements. “What would your ideal marriage look like?” she asks them. Once they have clarified what they want, the process of finding a mate seems to become easier and more fun. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you try this exercise—even if you are already in a committed relationship. It’s an excellent time to get very specific about the inspired togetherness you’re willing to work hard to create.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In ancient Greek myth,Tiresias was a prophet who could draw useful revelations by interpreting the singing of birds. Spirits of the dead helped him devise his prognostications, too. He was in constant demand for revelations about the future. But his greatest claim to fame was the fact that a goddess magically transformed him into a woman for seven years. After that, he could speak with authority about how both genders experienced the world.This enhanced his wisdom immeasurably, adding to his oracular power. Are you interested in a less drastic but highly educational lesson, Sagittarius? Would you like to see life from a very different perspective than the one you’re accustomed to?

It’s available to you if you want it.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You remind me of the parts of myself that I will never have a chance

meet,” writes poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke, addressing a lover. Have you ever felt like saying that to a g tobeloved ally, Capricorn? If so, I have good news: You now have an opportunity to meet and greet parts of yourself that have previously been hidden from you—aspects of your deep soul that up until now you may only have caught glimpses of. Celebrate this homecoming!

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that you won’t be bitten by a dog or embarrassed by a stain or pounced on by a lawyer. Nor will you lose your keys or get yelled at by a friend or oversleep for a big appointment. On the contrary! I think you’ll be wise to expect the best. The following events are quite possible:You may be complimented by a person who’s in a position to help you.You could be invited into a place that had previously been off-limits. While eavesdropping, you might pick up a useful clue, and while daydreaming you could recover an important memory you’d lost. Good luck like this is even more likely to sweep into your life if you work on ripening the most immature part of your personality.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Time out. It’s intermission. Give yourself permission to be spacious and slow. Then, when you’re sweetly empty—this may take a few days—seek out experiences that appeal primarily to your wild and tender heart as opposed to your wild and jumpy mind. Just forget about the theories you believe in and the ideas you regard as central to your philosophy of life.

Instead, work on developing brisk new approaches to your relationship with your feelings. Like what? Become more conscious of them, for example. Express gratitude for what they teach you. Boost your trust for their power to reveal what your mind sometimes hides from you.

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GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 4 day of May 2017. /s/ Richard B. Larson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-104 Dept.

No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL H. LEE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TERESA LEE KERBY, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to TERESA LEE KERBY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, Ste. 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Teresa Lee Kerby, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/12/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803250 Bk-813 Pg-345, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Tom M. Jorgensen and Amy E. Jorgensen as joint tenants was Grantor,Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. 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 16 of J & M Suburban Homesites No. 2, 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 09/16/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 7, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $146,367.24. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,988.46, 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 21, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or

USA-Foreclosure.com. Jorgensen, Tom M. and Amy E. (TS# 7023.118151) 1002.290864-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/17/16, recorded as Instrument No. 201604181 Book 958 Page 1209, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas A. Strand and Denise Strand, as joint tenants (and not as tenants in common) and to the Survivor of said named joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as designated nominee for Low VA Rates, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Liberty Title Company, LLC. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Liberty Title Company, LLC. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 18 in Block 6 of West View Addition, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201702488 Book 974 Page 946, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to 360 Mortgage Group, LLC. 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 10/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 27, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $221,754.90. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $216,422.85, 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 to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 3, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure .com.

Strand,Thomas A. and Denise (TS# 8794.20084) 1002.291060-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/15/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200706553 BK 793 Pg 1368 and Modified on dated 5/20/16 recorded on 8/9/16 Under AF# 201614019 BK 965 P 1247, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David E Jones was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described

PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP as follows: Lot 18 in Block 9 of West View, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201402879 B: 926 P: 2, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2007-7, AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2007-7. 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 11/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 5, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $199,646.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $195,234.07, 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 August 9, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then

due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Jones, David E. (TS# 7023.118287) 1002.291126-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/22/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200901828 B: 832 P:859 and modified 9/25/13 and recorded 11/12/13 under Instrument No. 201321878 B: 921 P: 1244, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which William F. Everett and Judy C. Everett, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc., successors and assigns 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: The North half of Lots 17, 18, and 19, all in Block No. 55 of Daly Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official Plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 607 of Micro Records at Page 509 By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201203046 B: 889 P: 1123, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 11/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 1, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $221,570.90. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $214,844.66, 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 September 8, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, 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.

Everett,William F. and Judy C. (TS# 7023.118304) 1002.291422-File No.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 22, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 16 and the West One-Half of Lot 17 in Block 3 of Residence Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 896 of Micro Records at page 1375 Rebekah A Dubois, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on July 12, 2012, and recorded on July 16, 2012 as Book 896 Page 1376 Document No. 201213099. Modification Agreement recorded November 7, 2016, Book 970, Page 683 under Document no. 201620455. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning October 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which

monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 1, 2017 is $188,562.39 principal, interest totaling $3,522.18 late charges in the amount of $233.72, and other fees and expenses advanced of $66,871.91, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by

Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS

AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 30, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 30 day of March, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY vs Rebekah A Dubois 100858-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 31, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broad-

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PUBLIC NOTICES

way in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 5 OF SUNSET ACRES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR IRRIGATION PIPE ACROSS LOTS 1, 2, 3 AND 4 OF SUNSET ACRES, AS DISCLOSED IN DEED RECORDED NOVEMBER 5, 1959 IN BOOK 214 OF DEEDS AT PAGE 75.

DAVID DECOITE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Deborah J. Bishop, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as a nom-

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inee for GB Mortgage, LLC., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 18, 2008 and recorded on April 18, 2008 in Book 817 Page 462 under Document No. 200808685. Loan Modification Agreement recorded May 4, 2016 in Book 960 Page 1001 under Document no 201606773. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments

beginning December 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 4, 2017 is $208,915.82 principal, interest totaling $3,772.53 late charges in the amount of $76.39, escrow advances of $4,556.82, suspense balance of $-501.74 and other fees and expenses advanced of $37.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be

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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: April 19, 2017 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 19th day of April, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2022 Seterus vs DECOITE 100257-2 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: OCCUPANT - 2224 W. SUSSEX AVE., MISSOULA, MT 59801 KAREN L. NEUMILLER, 2362 VILLAGE SQUARE, MISSOULA, MT 59801-2100 KAREN L. NEUMILLER, 2224 W. SUSSEX AVE., MISSOULA, MT 59801-6528 COLLECTION BUREAU SERVICES, INC., 212 EAST SPRUCE ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 JEFFERY KOCH, COLLECTION BUREAU SERVICES, 212 EAST SPRUCE ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 M. MOORE & B. WILLIAMSON & J. NOWAKOWSKI - PO BOX 7339, MISSOULA, MT 59807 U.S. TREASURY, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION, MS5021 DEN, 1999 BROADWAY, DENVER, CO 80202-2490 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, c/o OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER, 44 W. PARK, BUTTE, MT 59701 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, COLLECTIONS UNIT, PO BOX 201350, HELENA, MT 59620 STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, PO BOX 5805, HELENA, MT 59604-5805 STATE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, PO BOX 7149,

HELENA, MT 59604-7149 STATE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, PO BOX 1712, HELENA, MT 59624-1712 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, JUSTICE BUILDING, THIRD FLOOR, 215 NORTH SANDERS; PO BOX 201401, HELENA, MT 596201401 MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 TAX ID # 1617605 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana code annotated, Notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: CARLINE ADDITION, S29, T13N, R19W, BLOCK 24, LOT 31-32. 2.

The property taxes became delinquent on: 6/1/2014. 3.

The property tax lien was attached as a result of a tax sale on: 7/10/2014. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on: 7/10/2014, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to M.I.P. Assets LLC, whose address is PO Box 16561, Missoula, MT 59808 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and cost is: Tax: $7,010.88 Penalty & Interest: $281.11 Costs: $580.00 Total: $7,871.99 7.

The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice.

8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to M.I.P. Assets, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10.The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is : Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 258-4747 Further notice for those persons

listed below whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3.

The interested parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this: MAY 12, 2017 M.I.P. ASSETS LLC /s/ JMP NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: OCCUPANT - 22380 WAPITI RD., HUSON, MT 59846-9701 LUNDIN, DAVID & LAURA, 22380 WAPITI RD., HUSON, MT 59846 LUNDIN, DAVID & LAURA, 22340 WAPITI RD., HUSON, MT 59846 LUNDIN, DAVID & LAURA, PO BOX 629, FRENCHTOWN, MT 59834-0629 ELK MEADOWS RANCHETTES HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION, PO BOX 903, FRENCHTOWN, MT 59834 MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, 200 WEST BROADWAY ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 TAX ID # - 1728301 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana code annotated, Notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: S13, T15N, R22W, ACRES 10.82, TRACT 8 IN NE 1/4 NW 1/4. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on: 6/1/2014. 3. The property tax lien was attached as a result of a tax sale on: 7/24/2014. 4.

The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on: 7/24/2014, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to M.I.P. Assets LLC, whose address is PO Box 16561, Missoula, MT

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 28, 103, 141. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 5/22/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 5/25/17 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.

59808 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and cost is:Tax: $6,623.14 Penalty & Interest: $266.24 Costs: $669.00 Total: $7,558.38 7.The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to M.I.P. Assets, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed.

10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is : Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 258-4747 Further notice for those persons listed below whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3.

The interested parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this: MAY 12, 2017 M.I.P. ASSETS LLC /s/ JMP

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 146, 157, 177, 373, 442, 454, 538 & 587. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed Tuesday May 30th, 2017 at 3 P.M. only and will conclude at 4:PM. Written sealed bids must be submitted to the storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 by 4:00 PM on the day of the auction. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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

To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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ACROSS 1 Iranian leader until 1979 5 Resort with hot springs 8 Wacky, as antics 14 "... stay ___, and Wheat Chex stay floaty" (Shel Silverstein's "Cereal") 15 Thermometer scale 17 "In ___ of gifts ..."

18 Visually controlled tennis move? [go the opposite direction] 19 Keeps from leaving the house, at times 21 "Texas tea" 22 Like England in the Middle Ages 24 2016 Justin Timberlake movie 27 Org. that awards Oscars 28 Pageant contestants' accessories 31 Suddenly shut up when collecting pollen? [tilt uppercase on its side] 34 Summer on the Seine 35 Four-time Indy 500 winner Rick 36 Airport approximation, for short 39 Actor/sportscaster Bob and family, Stretch Armstrong-style? [flip over lowercase] 44 It's the "K" in K-Cups 45 Cosmetics purveyor Adrien

46 Drop out of the union 49 Slashes 50 The whole thing 51 "The Faerie Queene" poet Edmund 54 Annual reports, completely vanished? [turn to a positive] 58 Chevre source 61 Like Consumer Electronics Show offerings 62 "In the Blood" band Better Than ___ 63 Absorb 64 Barrett who co-founded Pink Floyd 65 Doctor's order for the overly active, perhaps

DOWN 1 La preceder 2 "Bali ___" ("South Pacific" song) 3 Had an evening repast 4 Sonata automaker 5 Pissed-off expression 6 Energizes, with "up" 7 Dead set against 8 It may get dropped 9 Reno and Holder, briefly 10 Beats by ___ 11 "Good King Wenceslas," e.g.

12 Tylenol rival 13 Plantain coverings 16 Only three-letter chemical element 20 Brewer's equipment 22 Rattle

23 Put forth 24 "One of ___ days ..."

25 Civil War soldier, for short 26 Buckeyes' initials 28 Rude expression 29 "Asteroids" game company 30 "I dunno" gesture 32 Infuse (with) 33 Applied intense cold to 37 "Why don't you make like a ___ and leave?"

38 Some broadband connections 40 Jake Shimabukuro instrument 41 It may get covered in throw pillows 42 Pantry stock 43 Dr. ___ (sketchy scientist who's a supporting character on "Archer") 46 "___ With Flowers" 47 Kagan of the Supreme Court 48 Metal-on-metal sound 49 Attacked in the groin, maybe 51 "___ Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 52 Hawaiian foods 53 "Green-eyed monster" 55 Shad eggs 56 2022's Super Bowl 57 "___ Can Cook" (former cooking show) 59 "___ Gratia Artis" (MGM motto) 60 Body art piece

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REAL ESTATE

HOMES FOR SALE 1001 Medicine Man Cluster. Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $950,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group.

239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 3 Bath,Wye area home on a 0.6 acre lot. $265,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, River Road home. $267,500. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 3 Bath, Farviews home on a 0.25 acre lot. $350,000. BHHSMT

Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3701 Brandon. 4 bed, 3 bath with cook’s kitchen, 2 gas fireplaces and great views. $424,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 6869 Deadman Gulch. Private 4 bed, 3 bath on 2.71 acres with deck & 3 car garage. $890,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

CONDOS 927 Charlo. New 3 bed, 2.5 bath with double garage on Northside. $294,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Uptown Flats #101. 1 bed, 1 bonus room, 1 bath close to community room. $193,500. Anne Jablonski,

Portico Real Estate 546-5816. anne@movemontana.com

LAND FOR SALE

Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more

info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

$50,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

NHN Big Flat. 7.1 recreational acres along Clark Fork River

NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping

Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

Uptown Flats #303. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Target Range home. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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

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

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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Uptown Flats #308 $159,000 Top level condo - 1 bed 1 bath.

Nice amenities. Facing north to the tree-lined neighborhood.

MLS #21702313

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Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker

104 North 2nd East • $165,000

Real Estate With Real Experience

Cute 2 bed, 1 bath, 925 sq.ft fixer-upper.

Zoned C1-4 for multiple investment options.

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

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