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Voices The readers write................................................................................................4 Street Talk Say it’s your birthday...................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time.....................................6 Briefs Hatching in hi-def, Tester’s VA win, and a pickleball rebellion at Playfair ..........6 Etc. Remembering the roots of Pride Month .................................................................7 News Broadband’s slow go in rural schools..................................................................8 Opinion The GOP gears up to blame the messenger ...................................................9 Opinion A pot tax counterpoint..................................................................................11 Feature Jay Rummel’s Missoula ...................................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts A home away from homecoming for Blitzen Trapper ..........................................18 Music Free Cake for Every Creature, Saint Pé, Career Suicide....................................19 Art James Todd revisits his childhood self with Loony Toones....................................20 Film A refreshingly Raw take on teen horror ..............................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 What’s Good Here The chicken and waffle sandwich at Scotty’s Table .....................23 Happiest Hour Revving up Feruqi’s Flaming Lamborghini........................................25 8 Days a Week Felt like nine.......................................................................................26 Agenda The Missoula World Refugee Cup ..................................................................35 Mountain High Go Skate Day at MOBASH .................................................................36
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STREET TALK by Derek Brouwer and Margaret Grayson Asked Monday afternoon at the Southside KettleHouse
What do you remember about your 21st birthday? Follow-up: If you were in charge of planning a friend’s 21st birthday, what would you do with them?
Mandela van Eeden: I wasn’t super excited because I had been drinking for a while. I’m originally from South Africa, and the drinking age is a little bit different there. Alone time: I’d probably organize for them to be by themselves somewhere, reflecting what it means to turn 21 in this day and age in this country. Andy Ambelang: I went skiing in the backcountry in the southern Bitterroots. Came back to town in Hamilton and went out to the bars. I remember having already been to the bars for quite a bit and being noticed by a couple people who were surprised it was my 21st. Balance is key: Have a few beers, hopefully not get them so drunk that they’re hating life the next day. Kilah Tierney: The story goes there was girl that I really liked. She came to my party and we hit it off, or something. But then I hit on every other girl at the party, then went back to her and her roommate’s place and did the same thing. I got thrown out. I thought I had this great 21st birthday … and then I get a string of four, five, six texts. Lesson learned: You should black out on your 21st, honestly.
Robert Stubblefield: I remember that I went out the night before my 21st birthday, so my 21st was somewhat anticlimactic. Ahh, to remember: A friend of mine brought his son to the KettleHouse for his 21st. His 21st birthday was more enjoyable for me than mine, and I remember more of it.
Amanda Hughes: You have to do the flaming shot at Feruqi’s, that’s a must. I remember bopping around to different bars and drinking a lot of bright green liquor. That seemed to be what bars were giving away. I smoked a blunt, then blacked out after that. Lap dances: Take them to the Fox Club, for sure.
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Allowed! Persecution! I read with amusement the featured story about why the Democrats keep losing elections (“Montana Democrats just got their ass handed to them. What will it take to get this party started?” June 8). At the heart of the matter is a need to take a more moderate stance on some issues. As a former Democrat, I have noticed how rude and unreasonable the left can be, not to mention insulting to the more mature, working and business-owner party. I see the news almost daily showing rallies that remind me of Earth First tactics. Sure, we are allowed freedom of speech, but these reckless radicals are not winning over any rational converts. Regarding social justice, the liberals seem to only support causes that will further their percentage of voters at the ballot box. When was the last time you saw a leftist group protesting the persecution of Christians? Conservatives tend to support their ideas of social justice through their local church, or by donations of time or money, without much fanfare. Social justice would be increased if more people would buy local American products so our citizens could be productive workers. To loosely quote an old environmentalist, Edward Abbey: “Instead of complaining and talking about saving the West, get out there and clean it up, enjoy it, donate, do something!” Joe Petrusaitis Hamilton
It’s reigning men After reading “Montana Democrats just got their ass handed to them. What will it take to get this party started?” by Michael Siebert and Alex Sakariassen, two reporters I read and respect, I am compelled to respond with an unqualified WTF! I am not reeling at the content of the article. As an unapologetic voice of the progressive flank of the Montana Democratic Party, and your Missoula representative in the Montana Legislature for the past four terms, I am certainly not above criticizing the establishment ranks of the party. My feathers are ruffled by the literal faces the authors provided of the “Democratic bench” of state legislative leaders whose “opinions” were featured about the party’s future. Five state reps were interviewed in the piece and that bench was 100 percent male. The percentage of women in the Montana legislature is 28.7 percent, but we are the vast majority of your Democratic representatives. Your omission of the majority of your Democratic representatives in an analysis of the future of the Democratic party is beyond disappointing. It’s irresponsible to the reader and the voter. The centrality of gender to our understanding of American democracy is a part of the conversation and, in my humble but qualified opinion,
it is the direction this state and this nation is headed. Despite accounting for half the population, we women make up roughly 20 percent of Congress, state legislators and mayors. Yes, women are underrepresented in politics at every level of government, and yet, in response to our current science-denying state officials and our pussy-grabbing federal leadership, women have mobilized in larger numbers to run for office than ever before. In January of this year, 10,000 Montana women grabbed their Patagonia jackets and donned them with pink pussy hats, huddling together, fists and protests signs in air. The Washington, D.C. “Women’s March” drew 500,000. A woman’s place is in the resistance, indeed. Gender matters in communication,
“Gianforte is a violent man whose morals are questionable. He said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for attacking the reporter on election eve, but he won’t explain why his staff made false statements as to what happened.” media portrayals and citizens’ attitudes toward their government, and no article about the future of the Montana Democratic Party—or any party—should so wildly omit our leadership or our opinion. As a longtime Indy reader and supporter, I demand better. Rep. Ellie Hill Smith Missoula
Unanswered I think Gianforte should invite the same reporter to ask the same question and answer it honestly (“Conservatives aren’t going to be thrilled about Gianforte’s $50,000 donation to press freedom group,” June 8). Then I would maybe consider it a “sincere” apology. Brooke Jones missoulanews.com
Busted Funny, I’m conservative and I’m thrilled. Thanks for judging. Your Missoulian/Lee Enterprises bias is already shining through. How ’bout you go back to just reporting the news? Patti Earling missoulanews.com
Not her representative Gianforte is a violent man whose morals are questionable. He said he takes “full responsibility” for attacking the reporter on election eve, but he won’t explain why his staff made false statements as to what happened. He had plenty of time to file for re-election, however. If the House of Representatives has any integrity left they will not seat him. Even if the Republicans cave to their party over what is ethical and admit him to Congress, Gianforte will never represent me! Mari von Hoffmann Missoula
Possibly? I thought the tree thingy said it was “The Arm” transitioning and there’s a second that is its evil doppelganger, a replacement for the dwarf that we first met 25 years ago (“Talking creamed corn, Agent Cooper and Twin Peaks after 25 years,” June 8). Did I just make that up in my head? Carrie Ann Mallino missoulanews.com
Here’s a tip... As a former dishwasher, cook and server, I’ve never experienced money voluntarily rolling downhill, but I have experienced the assumption that one job is harder or more worthy than another (“A tip-splitting case at Missoula’s The Keep could change the way Montana restaurants do business,” June 8). We can bemoan wage equity in restaurants—until you unionize each and every one, it ain’t gonna happen. Litigation like this only harms fellow workers, but I suppose she thought she deserved that money more than they did. Julie Janj facebook.com/missoulaindependent
Off-target Suicide needs mental health care, not disarmament (“Too hot to handle?” June 8). In fact, making it all about guns does a huge disservice to those in need of mental health care. “Oh I’m sorry you’re depressed. Let me take that gun away. Now you’re all better.” This author should be ashamed for politicizing his friend’s illness. Matthew Neer facebook.com/missoulaindependent
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, June 7 Greg Gianforte releases a letter of apology to Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, whom he assaulted, stating that “notwithstanding anyone’s statements to the contrary, you did not initiate any physical contact with me.”
Thursday, June 8 Butte holds a remembrance ceremony on the 100th anniversary of the Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine disaster, when a lamp started an underground fire that killed 168 miners from 26 different countries—the worst mining disaster in U.S. history.
Friday, June 9 A search-and-rescue team finds the body of Jeff Murphy, a 53-year-old Illinois man who apparently fell while hiking on Turkey Pen Peak in Yellowstone National Park. Murphy’s wife had reported him missing June 8.
Saturday, June 10 Republican delegates elect former Montana legislator Debra Lamm as the new chair of the Montana GOP. Lamm is known for opposing Common Core. The new party vicechair is Terry Nelson.
Sunday, June 11 More than 100 people parade through Missoula for the city’s LGBTQ+ Equality March. Adults and kids alike donned rainbow garb and carried signs promoting love and equality.
Bird’s-eye
Hatching in high-def The thunderstorm that rolled through Missoula on June 12 put internet users across the globe on edge. Two of the city’s biggest online stars—a mated pair of osprey named Iris and Louis—were caring for Iris’s first brood since 2014. Over the prior week, thousands of people had watched the baby birds hatch, a biological drama broadcast live in high definition via the Hellgate Canyon Nest Cam. Faithful followers knew the perils of a storm. In 2015, a late-May hailstorm smashed Iris’ three speckled brown eggs just before they could hatch. So as the thunderstorm approached, one of the operators of the @HellgateOsprey Twitter account asked followers to send “pure thoughts.” That person then offered a word of caution: “Know your limits on what you are able to watch.” Every day brings new drama on the nest cam, and seven years of broadcasting has attracted an international following of animal lovers who hang on each twist of fate. The video feed, attached to an osprey nesting platform adjacent to the new Missoula College building, is overseen primarily by University of Montana ecologist Erick Greene as the public education component of a larger osprey research project. It’s become one of the most popular bird cameras in the world, Greene says, with views from
more than 200 countries. More than 13,000 people follow the Facebook page where he posts regular updates. “There’s a lot of people who are spending a lot of their lives watching this camera,” he says. Greene works with a network of remote volunteers to operate the camera and social media feeds 24 hours a day (the early-morning shift is claimed by a man in England). Other viewers, he says, have taken vacations to Missoula after becoming engrossed in Iris’s life. Greene understands the passion. He’s been studying ospreys for more than 30 years and says the nest cam has given him a more intimate connection with the animals than anything else in his research. One challenge, Greene says, is to translate viewers’ sentimental attachment to specific animals into a more nuanced understanding of the broader ecological forces, including climate change and mining pollution, that affect them. Another challenge is to help viewers process tragedy. “Since it’s on a screen, it’s easy to get lulled into thinking this is a feel-good Disney movie,” Greene says. The first of the four chicks to hatch this month died after inexplicably wandering out from under Iris in the middle of the night (osprey chicks can’t regulate their body temperature, making them vulnerable to hypothermia). And dangers lie ahead for the three that remain. Runoff from recent storms will make fishing difficult for Louis. Baby birds that
grow hungry can become aggressive, triggering a pecking behavior known as siblicide. Greene is already thinking about what to tell Facebook followers in case siblicide occurs in the difficult weeks ahead. “That can be really upsetting and hard to watch,” he says. “It’s hard for me to watch.” Derek Brouwer
Winning
Tester moves a VA bill Back in mid-April, the nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America dropped its second web ad in as many months targeting Montana’s 2018 U.S. Senate race. The clip wasn’t an explicit attack on incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, but it did encourage him to throw his support behind the Veterans Affairs Accountability First Act, a measure passed in the House with the almost exclusive support of Republicans. Such encouragement ads rarely fool anyone, and this particular spot failed to mention a key detail: Tester, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, was already crafting a bill of his own to expedite the firing of VA employees for misconduct while strengthening protections for those who report mismanagement or illegal activity. And he was doing so alongside the chair of that same committee, Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia. Even Sen. Marco Rubio jumped on
Monday, June 12 Mayor John Engen announces on Facebook his support for the Paris climate agreement, saying Missoula is committed to taking climate action and joining more than 300 mayors nationwide who say they’ll honor the agreement despite President Trump’s decision to withdraw from it.
Tuesday, June 13 The University of Montana makes new buyout offers to about 50 faculty members aged 60– 64. UM previously made offers to faculty 65 and over, but only 14 expressed interest.
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[news] board. Their proposal—the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act—passed the Senate on June 6, which happened to be the 73rd anniversary of the D-Day landings. “This bill will crack down on bad employees who jeopardize veterans’ health care,� Tester said after the voice vote, “while also protecting the hardworking folks who dedicate their careers to those who served.� The solution Tester and Isakson offered was vastly different than the one CVA pressed Tester to back. For starters, the two incorporated feedback from the government employees’ union and worked to maintain current due-process protections for employees the VA seeks to fire. Their bill also codifies an Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection, though, unlike Trump’s April order establishing the office, it places management in the hands of a Senate appointee rather than an executive one. The bill would require the VA to evaluate supervisors based on their protection of whistleblowers and to submit a report to Congress regarding its methods of investigating employees. The bill’s sidestepping of the partisan dysfunction that’s plagued other issues became apparent immediately. Following the Senate’s vote, President Donald Trump tweeted, “The House should get this bill to my desk ASAP! We can’t tolerate substandard care for our vets.� The House did indeed pass the measure June 13 on a vote of 368 to 55. It’s ultimately Tester’s experience in Montana that informed his approach. Tester has hosted numerous listening sessions with veterans across the state over the years. The revelation two years ago that thousands of vets have died awaiting care through the Department of Veterans Affairs amplified his calls for reform. According to a Tester spokesperson, “Veterans who are frustrated with the VA are overwhelmingly the number-one type of casework Jon’s office deals with on a daily basis.� By the time the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act hit the Senate floor in May, CVA had already adjusted course. In response to Tuesday’s vote, the group’s policy director, Dan Caldwell, issued a statement proclaiming, “Lives will be saved as a result of this legislation.� Tester’s name wasn’t mentioned. Alex Sakariassen
Aging out
The pickleball rebellion Among the many signs that mark the coming of summer in Missoula, perhaps the most reliable is the return of a bunch of old men playing pickup tennis on Tuesday evenings at Playfair Park. The informal gathering—no reservations, BYO balls—has been going on for years, and come 5 o’clock on fair-weather Tuesdays they arrive via truck and hybrid and scooter and bike, contractors, grocers, retirees and at least one journalist lugging water jugs and racket bags rattling with ibuprofen. On June 6, a not untypical Tuesday at Playfair, 12 came to play. Playfair’s dozen tennis courts are arrayed in three rows of four. The old guys, out of habit, proximity to the over-powered water fountain and maybe a Wimbledon-infused desire to perform on Centre Court, typically occupy the middle row. They play doubles, mostly, because it’s less effort and more fun. And so the men swing strung sticks at balls: here a flash of relict coordination, there a comic whiff, line calls explainable only by out-of-date eyeglass prescriptions, bursts of cheerful congratulation, all punctuated with periodic outbursts of frustrated temper unbecoming men their age. A typical summer Tuesday evening in Playfair Park. Then came the pickleballers. Pickleball, for the uninitiated, is one of the fastest-growing recreational activities in the United States, a cross between ping-pong and tennis played mostly by people too slow for the former and too weak for the latter. Pickleball is usually played on tennis courts retrofitted with confusing (to tennis players) lines appropriate to the minimal mobility required of its players. Play is conducted with solid-faced rackets and plastic wiffle-type balls that produce a rapid clacking sound that is approximately as tolerable an aural assault as Andy Murray’s whinging in the late stages of a match that he should be, but isn’t, winning.
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$153,815 Donations via the right-wing crowdfunding site WeSearchr to the legal defense fund of Andrew Anglin, founder of the white supremacist website Daily Stormer. Anglin is being sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center for releasing the personal contact information of a Jewish Whitefish resident and encouraging readers to start a “troll storm� against her. A good number of the nation’s new pickleballers, according to Missoula Parks and Rec recreation superintendent Shirley Kinsey, are racket-sport aficionados who’ve “aged out� of tennis. The pickleballers arrived like a wave, crossing the old men’s courts—ball in play!—without notice or apology. They set up their little half-court nets and crowded around them, clacking their little balls. Finally, when enough of them had arrived, they informed the tennis players that they would have to leave—those courts were reserved for pickleball. This was unwelcome news, and the old tennis men did not receive it magnanimously. Shoulders were squared, chests puffed, words spoken and stakes claimed. By whose authority? Where was public notice of this supposed reservation? (The reservation hadn’t been posted—an oversight, Parks and Rec later acknowledged). It went on for a few minutes like that, play interrupted, but the pickleballers, led by a polite if overmatched volunteer, were inexorable, and the tennis men finally retreated to a nearby picnic table for cold drinks and muffled grousing. It wasn’t just the lousy etiquette and incessant tick-tock clacking. It wasn’t even just the missing reservation notice. That was our diminished future encroaching, and even with the shadows getting inescapably long, not one among us was ready to cede the court quite yet. Brad Tyer
ETC. Last Sunday, Missoula’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer citizens turned out for the Equality March, part of a worldwide series of demonstrations affirming LGBTQ+ rights. More than 100 people showed up, waving signs and standing up to homophobia. June is national Pride Month, a time of celebration and mobilization for queer people around the world. If ever queer people needed a morale boost, it’s now. Vice President Mike Pence is well known for his anti-gay sentiment. And while the alt-right has taken a somewhat openarmed approach to gays (as evidenced by their embrace of gay provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos), transgender people remain the targets of widespread vitriol. Shows of pride should be encouraged. While pro-LGBTQ+ attitudes have increased dramatically over the last few years, with 64 percent of Americans now supporting same-sex marriage according to a recent Gallup poll, the queer community is still subject to hatred and violence. Marches and rallies are excellent for morale, particularly in sparsely populated states where community can be hard to come by. But pride shouldn’t be a replacement for anger. While LGBTQ-identifying Montanans have every reason to be proud of their identities, there aren’t nearly enough reasons to be proud of their state. Not with a Legislature that can’t be bothered to pass a statewide nondiscrimination act. Or when Sen. Steve Daines is on record saying marriage should be between a man and a woman. What’s to be proud of when, just last month, a bartender at a popular Missoula bar allegedly bashed a gay patron’s head into the sidewalk while yelling anti-gay slurs? Pride Month isn’t held in June just because the weather’s nice. It commemorates the Stonewall Riots, which took place on June 28, 1969, when New York gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people fought back as police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that catered to queers when few public establishments did. The Stonewall Riots were an act of resistance against an arm of the state that actively sought to oppress people solely because of their identities. Pride is about owning that identity, yes, but it’s also about continuing the fight for the rights that LGBTQ people are still denied.
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Slow going Getting rural schools up to internet speed by Derek Brouwer
Viewed from Highway 12, Woodman School is a pastoral painter’s dream. A bell tower tops the white wooden schoolhouse, which sits on a hill 10 miles west of Lolo. Cows graze in a pasture out front or lay across a dirt road leading up to the grounds. The teaching that occurs inside, however, is decidedly modern—for the most part. “We’re a Google school,” middleschool teacher Charise Jacobson says. Students have access to a computer lab with 10 laptops, and teachers can deploy another eight Chromebooks as needed. Everyone uses Google Drive to share files and Gmail to communicate. For a school with 32 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, Woodman is pretty tech savvy. Except, that is, for one hold-over from a nostalgic past: really, really, slow internet. Woodman has one of the slowest internet connections of any school in Montana, a mere 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth to go around. (By comparison, Spectrum advertises 60 Mbps for its residential service). A connection that slow tests more than teachers’ patience. It dictates the terms of classroom instruction. Students ride buses to Lolo to take computerized assessments at that district’s computer lab, turning a 30minute checkup exam into a 90-minute ordeal. When the Missoula Public Library’s W.O.W Bus ventures up the valley, librarians have trouble accessing their database to process students’ books. The school relies on the Montana Digital Academy to introduce middle schoolers to foreign languages, but the students must ration their time taking the online courses throughout the week. Woodman isn’t the only Montana school that’s lagging. Montana ranks 49th, just ahead of Alaska, in its percentage of schools with fiber connections (70 percent), according to the nonprofit broadband advocacy group EducationSuperhighway. In terms of bandwidth, the state is making good progress: 90 percent of districts met federal connectivity targets last year, up from 78 percent in 2015. There’s a phrase in the telecommunications world, “the last mile,” that refers to
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the particular challenges of delivering signals from the main line to remote users locations. The remaining Montana districts without high-speed internet—mainly in rural areas—represent a similar “last mile” challenge to ensuring that all students have equal access to online learning. Make that the last nine miles, in Woodman’s case. The path of Highway 12 is served by a DSL line owned by CenturyLink, and the only option for improving internet speed in the area is to dig a trench and lay a fiber line from Lolo. School officials have been trying to accomplish that for more than three years, but they’ve been stymied by a lack of expertise, high costs, and trouble convincing
didn’t respond to the district’s first two RFPs for the project, leaving local officials scratching their heads over a way forward. The Montana Telecommunications Association, which represents rural providers, has publicly committed to getting every school in its members’ service areas up to speed by the end of 2017. Most of its schools already are. But many of the districts with slow internet are serviced by corporate providers such as CenturyLink, which, according to EducationSuperhighway’s data, didn’t provide adequate connections to a third of the students it serves last year. Woodman “kept at it,” Crews says, and this spring CenturyLink submitted a
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At Woodman School, YouTube videos buffer for as long as it takes the cows out front to chew their cud.
CenturyLink to undertake the project. But last month, fiber was finally put within reach. “It’s been a long road for us,” says Jeff Crews, a tech consultant hired by the district. Connecting Woodman’s 32 students to high-speed internet will cost $954,000. Federal “E-rate” funding can cover the lion’s share, but Woodman was still a few hundred thousand dollars short. Earlier this year, the Montana Legislature allocated $2 million over the next two years in state matching dollars so districts can access more federal assistance, bringing the total state and federal contributions to 90 percent of Woodman’s upgrade costs. But coming up with the money isn’t always the hardest part. CenturyLink
bid. (Asked about its service to Woodman, a company spokesperson emailed a general statement listing distance and geography as top barriers to deployment). The school should have its fiber connection in place either this fall or next summer. On June 6, Gov. Steve Bullock visited Woodman to celebrate the pending upgrade. Teachers tried to underscore their slow internet speed with a demonstration, but as is often the case with technology, it didn’t go as planned. “Usually, in the afternoon, it’s so slow loading, a video is totally out of the question,” Jacobson says. “However, nobody was online, they were all at the event, so it actually worked way better than it should have.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Blame the messenger Do you want an anti-media GOP controlling your news? by Dan Brooks
On Monday, congressman-elect Greg Gianforte pleaded guilty to assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs and was sentenced to 40 hours of community service. On May 24, the night before the election, Gianforte threw Jacobs to the ground and punched him in response to a question about the Republican health-care plan. That night, his campaign released a statement claiming that the “liberal journalist” had grabbed Gianforte’s wrist and caused them both to fall. That statement was not true. It was presented by Gianforte spokesman Shane Scanlon and flatly contradicted, in the hours that followed, by a Fox News crew that had been in the room and seen the attack. Kids, remember the moral of this story: If you’re going to falsify your account of a crime, make sure there are no witnesses. The Republican Party seems to have learned that lesson. According to the McClatchy news organization, GOP strategists hope to make the 2018 midterm elections a referendum on the media. Without a prominent Democrat to position themselves against, they plan to direct voters’ hostility against reporters and news organizations. “If you can pick a fight with them,” consultant David Woodard told McClatchy, “I think it kind of helps you, and I don’t think many people care.” Gianforte bet on that lack of caring after he assaulted Jacobs on the eve of the election. He refused to talk to reporters for the next 24 hours, emerging only to address his victory party once the votes were in. It’s hard to say whether that strategy worked, given all the other variables at play. But in the hours after he made the worst mistake of his political career, Gianforte wanted voters to have as little information about it as possible. This strategy draws attention to the flaw in Republicans’ plans to harness resentment against the media. In the game of representative democracy, reporters and voters are on the same side. I’m sure many political actors would like to do business in secrecy, without the news telling people what they’re up to. But the GOP trying to
make the media its opponent in the next election is like the Mets saying they plan to win baseball games by breaking the cameras in Citi Field. The very strategy implies wrongdoing. You can see this principle at work in the dishonest version of events the Gianforte campaign released after the candidate attacked Jacobs. I’ve said this already, but it bears repeating: That statement was not true. Scanlon lied about what happened.
“The GOP trying to make the media its opponent in the next election is like the Mets saying they plan to win baseball games by breaking the cameras in Citi Field. The very strategy implies wrongdoing.” Through his spokesperson, Gianforte libeled the man he had just assaulted, and then he hid from reporters in the hope his lie would pass unquestioned long enough for Montanans to cast their votes based on false information. It seems Republican politicians are not against telling voters what’s happening. They’re against telling voters what’s happening objectively. Their frustration with the media does not extend to PR flacks, partisan websites and 501(c)4 “social welfare” organizations that publish news-like content favorable to their
donors. When they say they’re against the media, they mean they are against the media they do not control. Maybe that’s not Gianforte’s policy. Perhaps he just lost his temper, lied about it, ducked reporters until he was safely elected and then remembered how much he values a free and independent press. He has since offered Jacobs a written apology and promised to donate $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The apology was part of a settlement agreement in which Jacobs waived his right to file a civil suit and Gianforte reserved his right to plead no contest to the assault charges in court. On Monday, however, he pleaded guilty. That choice suggests that he either genuinely regrets assaulting Jacobs, or he wanted to do everything possible to avoid jail time. The maximum fine for misdemeanor assault in Montana is $500, which doesn’t mean much to someone with hundreds of millions of dollars. Community service is a drag, but 40 hours isn’t much when you don’t have a job. The judge also ordered Gianforte to complete 20 hours of anger management therapy, in which he will presumably learn techniques to control his violent impulses in the absence of any meaningful consequences for them. He won the election. His party is standing behind him. He only has to contend with everyone knowing what he did. Greg Gianforte is a liar. He told the truth only when it was sure to benefit him, after he had gotten what he wanted. I’m sure he regrets what he did, in that special way that only a multimillionaire congressman whose party plans to turn his mistake into a strategy can. The reason we know about that mistake is the press. Without it, we would still believe Scanlon’s report that Gianforte was the victim of the man he punched. That’s worth keeping in mind when his fellow Republicans start telling you we’re all in this together against the newspapers. Dan Brooks writes about people politics, culture and blaming the ref at combatblog.net.
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A pot counterpoint Correcting the record on Montana’s marijuana tax by Kate Cholewa
Brooks is correct that the medical marijuana program is primarily a cash business, and that banking is often a challenge for providers, and there can be challenges to government in dealing with revenue. It is also true, though, that there are federal guidelines for banks regarding providing accounts for state-legal marijuana providers. Licensing is critical to
“Brooks did not read, or understand, the bill, or even the provision he targeted, or he would know the tax is on producers and it goes to pay for regulating the program.” Montana’s ability to utilize these guidelines. This is one of the many reasons I182 required provider licensing. Licensing should be implemented within the next few months. In addition, Montana just launched its pilot program for industrial hemp. Industrial hemp is just as illegal under federal law as marijuana. The Farm Bill of 2014 provides for state hemp pilot programs. The Consolidated Appropriations Act provides federal allowances for state medical marijuana programs. If hemp growers aren’t going to be a problem for banks and the government processing of cannabis-generated revenue, medical
marijuana providers shouldn’t be either. But yes, it takes some time to make these shifts and educate stakeholders. Finally, Brooks refers to the November initiative as making medical marijuana easier to buy and sell. What the initiative did was make the buying and selling of medical marijuana safer for patients, providers and communities. It restored the program from a complete shutdown to the provisions under which it operated from 2011 until August 2016, that is, the 2011 legislation (SB 423) as enjoined by the court. Plus, I-182 required licensing and inspections of providers. Inspections will not make the selling of medical marijuana easier. The legislation won’t make it easier, either. It will make it more labor intensive, and costly, in service of greater accountability, transparency, containment and safety. Medical marijuana is at the beginning of being properly regulated in Montana after years of being ignored, or worse, sabotaged, by the state legislature. The bill sponsor and Senate and House tax committees put considerable time into the new regulations in recognition that the people have spoken and passed initiatives allowing access to medical marijuana not once, but twice. For the first time, the Montana Legislature took the subject seriously. They are to be commended, not mocked, by a writer who doesn’t seem to know much about the status of Montana’s medical marijuana law and program. Currently, the departments of Health and Human Services, Revenue, Justice and Agriculture are doing the post-session work of implementing the legislation. The task is new. It will be challenging, and bumpy. But a shout-out to those undertaking the task is more in order than a condescending rant that’s ignorant of the important work being done in Montana.
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In the past, I have appreciated much of Dan Brooks’s work. But Brooks’s column “Is the Revenue Department ready for Montana’s weed tax tidal wave?” ( June 8) reads like an uninformed letter to an editor. Where to start? With phrases like “ask any doctor” about abuses in the medical marijuana system without having asked any doctors, or at least not reporting that he had; or implying that dispensary owners are all hustling recreational use under the cover of medical? Or, we can go straight to Brooks’s larger point. Brooks asserts that the legislature’s principles “couldn’t tolerate a tax to pay for schools” but were willing “to tax pot to pay for whatever.” Brooks did not read, or understand, the bill, or even the provision he targeted, or he would know the tax is on producers and it goes to pay for regulating the program, nothing else, not “whatever.” Montana has had a medical marijuana law since 2004. The 2016 initiative, I-182, provided real oversight provisions (inspections) for the first time. The 2017 legislation, SB 333, includes the 4 percent year-one tax that Brooks references (it drops to 2 percent thereafter, which Brooks doesn’t mention). SB 333 provides for seed-to-sale tracking; square footage licensing, which provides a more accurate read on statewide production than plants per patient; mandatory testing; and residency requirements. The tax pays to implement and administer the provisions. Given Brooks’s assertions about abuses in the program, one would think he would appreciate and welcome greater oversight. Brooks also mocks the idea of tax collection on medical marijuana businesses because they are largely cash businesses. He sarcastically states that “it might be a good idea” for the Department of Revenue to get a secure room in order to deal with the cash. He says, “Now is a good time to invest in armored car companies.” In fact, such a room is included in the fiscal note of the bill, as is an armored car.
Kate Cholewa is a Montana writer and consultant. She does government-relations work on behalf of the Montana Cannabis Industry Association.
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UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam argues that his “hands are tied” by “federal food laws” and that fresh, “all-natural” milk with the cream skimmed off the top cannot be sold in Florida as “milk” (or “skim milk”) but must be labeled “imitation milk”—unless the “all-natural” milk adds (artificial) vitamin A to the product. A family farm in the state’s panhandle (Ocheesee Creamery) decided to challenge the law, and Putnam, who recently announced his candidacy for governor, said he would try to resolve the issue soon. NEWS YOU CAN USE – Briton Fred Whitelaw, 64, who has bowel cancer, recently began working “therapeutic” breast milk into his diet, but only that supplied by his daughter, Jill Turner, who recently gave birth and said she is happy to double-pump to assure both Fred and baby Llewyn adequate supplies (although husband Kyle is trying it out for his eczema, as well). Scientists writing in the journal of the American Society for Microbiology recently recommended that parents not discourage children from picking their noses because snot contains a “rich reservoir of good bacteria” beneficial to teeth and overall health (fighting, for example, respiratory infections and even HIV). INEXPLICABLE – It recently became necessary for Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski to acquire a bigger home in the Los Angeles area because their 33,000 “bunny”-related items (stuffed bunnies, antique bunnies, bunny paintings, bunny dinnerware, etc.) needed more space. Brantford, Ontario, real estate agent Kyle Jansink, speaking for unidentified sellers, said he accepted the challenge of selling the meticulously maintained home “as is”—still packed with the sellers’ clown-related items (dolls, miniatures, porcelain statues, paintings). COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – James Pelletier, 46, was arrested in Hollis, Maine, in May after he fired a BB gun point-blank at his two sons, ages 9 and 11—but only, he said, as a “rite of passage” into maturity (perhaps thinking the experience would help them become as mature as their father). He said if the kids knew how it felt to get shot, perhaps they would not be so quick to fire their own guns. MILITARY ALLIES IN ODD PLACES – In April, three days after ISIS fighters reportedly executed 25 villagers about 50 miles south of Kirkuk, Iraq, the three murderers were themselves killed (and eight more wounded) when a pack of wild boars overran their position and gnawed them into martyrdom. In April, a Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank in the Black Sea off of Turkey (likely op: Syria-related) when it collided with a livestock barge flying the flag of Togo. All aboard the Russian ship were rescued; the much-heavier Togolese vessel suffered barely a scratch. PERSPECTIVE – Rights in Conflict: An elderly German man, unnamed in news reports, was fined the equivalent of $110 in May for “terrorizing” neighbors in the town of Hennef by violating a 2015 agreement to lower the sound of his pornographic videos. He demanded sympathy because of his hearing disability, arguing that if he wore headphones, he could not hear the doorbell, or burglars, and therefore would feel unsafe. (At his May hearing, he objected to the characterization that the “sex sounds” were from videos; on the day in question, he said, he had a prostitute in the room. “It was not porn,” he insisted, confusingly. “It was live!”) OOPS! – In May, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley apparently mindlessly signed the proclamation designating a special day for the late Tre Hummons (submitted by his grieving father, to honor the son’s “sacrifice”). Tre Hummons was killed in 2015 by a police officer—but only after Tre had just shot and killed another Cincinnati police officer. Winneshiek County (Iowa) Engineer Lee Bjerke said he had no idea how the driver of the loaded 18wheeler had missed the “Load Limit 3 Tons” sign at the entrance of the small, rickety bridge near Cresco in May, but in seconds, the span was wiped out, and the tractor-trailer had become part of the Turkey River. The loaded grain truck weighed more than 30 tons. ARMED AND CLUMSY (ALL-NEW!) – Still more incidents in which people (make that “men”) accidentally shoot themselves: a National Rifle Association staff member, 46, training on a firing range (Fairfax County, Virginia, April); a fleeing robber, run over by his victim, with the collision causing the robber’s gun to fire into his own mouth (Hawthorne, California, March); two boys, 17 and 19, “practicing” loading and unloading a handgun, managing to hit each other (Houston, March); a homeless man, 45, in a now-classic waistband-holster-crotch malfunction (Lake Panasoffee, Florida, Oct.); U.S. Park Police officer, shot his foot in a confrontation with a raccoon (Washington, D.C., Nov.); man, 48, shot himself, then, apparently angry at how it happened, shot his bed (Oceana County, Michigan, July). Thanks This Week to Laurel Bender, Michael Isquidsrus, Kathryn Vinson, William Carter, Michael Brozyna, Steve Passen, and Bruce Leiserowitz, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors
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RUMMEL’S REMAINS ockin Rudy’s is an iconic music and gift store with deep Missoula roots and a finger on the pulse of contemporary local culture. But if you know where to look among the toys, curios, CDs and greeting cards, you can also find some interesting remnants of Missoula’s past. Inside the jewelry department, for instance, are display cases salvaged from former Missoula Mercantile tenant Bon Marche. On the wall above the greeting cards is the old sign from Luke’s, a Front Street biker bar that closed in 1990. Nearby stands the altar from the Chapel of the Dove, which lived in the basement of the historic Wilma Theater from 1982 to 1993, serving as a funky screening room, wedding space and shrine to former Wilma owner Ed Sharpe’s pet pigeon, Koro Hatto.
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when I was a kid, and then when I got into music I went to secondhand stores to buy 45s. I haven’t thrown away any music memorabilia—posters, magazines, anything—since the early 1970s.” While most of the attic’s objects are related to music, some of Micklus’ most prized possessions are in the realm of visual art: large framed artworks by one of Missoula’s most quintessential artists, the late Jay Rummel, who died in 1997. Rummel was a printmaker and musician, a central figure in Missoula’s creative scene during the 1970s and early 1980s who haunted downtown bars such as Luke’s and Eddie’s Club (now Charlie B’s). Even if you don’t think you know Rummel’s work, you’d probably recognize it. His most distinctive pieces are large, intricately detailed black and white wood-
Twenty years after his death, artist Jay Rummel still haunts Missoula. by Erika Fredrickson
Jay Rummel's “Lady from Missoula County.” Artwork courtesy of Bruce Micklus.
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If you want to dig even deeper into Missoula’s cultural history, Rockin Rudy’s attic is the place to go—if you can get there. Owner Bruce Micklus keeps the space mostly off limits, even to employees, though he occasionally invites a friend or a collector (or a reporter) to ascend the narrow staircase and survey a maze of rooms filled floor to ceiling with artifacts. Some aren’t local, like the surfboard signed by the Beach Boys and the countless crates of old rock and blues vinyl. But the Missoula archives are extensive, a madman’s library of music posters from local concerts dating back to 1982 (when Micklus first arrived in Missoula and started the shop) and yellowed newspaper clippings about longgone local bands. “I’m a hoarder, I guess,” says Micklus, now 70. “But of very particular things. I started collecting baseball cards
cuts, some of which hang on the walls of the Top Hat, Charlie B’s, the University Center and Bridge Pizza. They feature historical Montana characters sharing the frame with Rummel’s friends, many of whom were fellow musicians and artists. Even 20 years after his death, stories about Rummel and his work continue to bubble up. Last year, a quarterly magazine out of Brooklyn called Smoke Signal rediscovered the artist and printed a 13page portfolio of his work. Earlier this year, Missoula’s Dana Gallery tried to mount a show featuring Rummel prints from private collectors, though the project fell through after concerns were raised about the possibility of counterfeit prints. Regardless, Micklus—who had been contacted by the gallery during the initial call for art—has been thinking a lot about how to get Rummel’s legacy back into public view. He’s bequeathed several prints to
his children and displays some in his home, but others have been stacked in the attic, in unseen limbo. “I guess it’s the fact that I’m getting old, and what the fuck am I going to do with all these?” he says. “I have 18 Jay Rummel pieces, and right now they’re sitting up here not being looked at by anybody.” The content of Rummel’s work is of particular interest to Micklus. “I don’t think there are very many artists who have this kind of historical value in their art,” he says. “He captures a way of life, a subculture that was important to downtown Missoula. To know a Rummel print is probably more Montana than knowing the name of whatever peak or where Lewis and Clark camped.”
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espite Rummel’s expansive body of work and hulking personality, it’s hard to find much of his story beyond a few gallery descriptions, some newspaper articles and the references that pepper poems and essays written by his artist friends. He was born in 1939 into a family of carvers in the Prickly Pear Valley north of Helena. His grandfather helped sculpt Mount Rushmore, and several other family members plied their trade chiseling gravestones. In high school, Rummel signed up for a short-term army enlistment and in 1957 went to Fort Ord, in Monterey, California, for basic training. The Korean War was already over, but its near-nuclear consequences had caused the army to consider worst-case scenarios, and Rummel was put to work illustrating nuclear explosions. The enlistment program allowed Rummel to return to Montana after only six months. He landed in Missoula, where he signed up for a ceramics class with Rudy Autio, a master sculptor who had just created the University of Montana’s first ceramics program. Rummel lived with some other young artists at an old army barracks on the south side of campus. He made friends with his fellow art department students, including Doug Grimm, who’d also served at Ford Ord, though they never crossed paths there. At UM they became fast friends. “He’d walk all the way from the pottery studio to [the barracks], and once in a while I’d give him a ride,” Grimm remembers. “We just sort of fell into each other, like two magnets—plop! And what he didn’t know, well I’d fill him in, and he’d give me advice on what I was doing. And that went on for years and years and years.” By all accounts, Rummel quickly became an admired ceramacist, with a penchant for making large plates decorated with imagery that evoked a mix of indige-
nous folk art and Picasso-style Expressionism. But one semester, he decided to try his hand at printmaking. After class one day, Grimm found him on the top floor of the art building etching a small block of wood. Grimm was intrigued by Rummel’s style and encouraged him to go bigger. “I was a drama major,” say Grimm, now retired and living in Missoula, “and I knew where to find sheets of plywood under the university stage.” He brought the plywood to Rummel and Rummel carved out a few human figures and some lyrics to a song. As he inked it up and began to run it through the press, Grimm heard Rummel yell, “Oh shit!” “And I thought, ‘Oh God, his hand!’” Grimm says. “It turned out he had the lettering backwards. So I said, ‘Just wait here,’ and I went downstairs and I got an even bigger piece of plywood. He said, ‘Well, I’m just so tired I’ve got to go
home and call it a night.’ But he did reverse the lettering and make an even bigger print a day or two later. And that was how he got started.”
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ummel’s woodcuts often riffed on Missoula’s downtown social scene. He spent time on Woody Street drinking with friends and playing guitar in makeshift bands. He was a character, more often than not sporting a black felt cowboy hat and a leather vest and boots. Sober, he was a man of few words, but a few drinks in, he became the life of the party. After a few years, he quit taking classes at UM and focused on his woodcut prints, which he often sold to friends for beer money. Though he never abandoned art, alcohol was Rummel’s demon. Printmaker James Todd recalls that when he moved to Missoula with his
wife, Julia, to pursue a master’s, they lived in the same barracks Rummel had occupied. No longer a student, Rummel was living out of his truck behind the barracks and doing piecemeal work on campus. “[The] first night we were sleeping there in the summer somebody came out shrieking at the top of his lungs, clearly drunk,” Todd recalls. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have to deal with this.’ I went outside and saw this guy with his shirt off, bellowing, and then he went back in.” Days later, Todd was working on some prints when Rummel sidled up beside him. “I had a certain amount of insecurity at the time because everyone was doing abstract expressionism—that’s what you were supposed to do—and I didn’t want to do it,” Todd says. “Well, Jay came up and looked at my work, said, ‘That’s
James Todd created this woodcut portait of Jay Rummel, for which Rummel posed a few years before his death.
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pretty good,’ and wandered away. That made me feel pretty good. Jay already had a reputation as a famous ceramicist. And he never paid attention to what he was supposed to do one way or the other.” Rummel had also begun to use a new technique. Without access to the university’s press, he’d begun to make his prints by hand. He’d ink up the woodblock and lay the paper on top. Then he’d use a spoon, pressing and circling it meticulously across every inch of the paper until the image was perfectly imprinted. “That had a direct influence on me,” Todd says. “Later, when I went to Germany, I didn’t have a press and so I started hand printing and I’ve been hand printing ever since. I’ve come to prefer it. And I trace all of that back to Jay.” In 1966 Rummel moved to California, where he worked as a production potter and mold maker in Los Angeles and Sausalito. According to Missoula art appraiser
“He captures a way of life, a subculture that was important to downtown Missoula. To know a Rummel print is probably more Montana than knowing the name of whatever peak or where Lewis and Clark camped.” tana Gothic, a collection of literary journals published between 1974 and 1977, Missoula poet Dave Thomas writes about meeting Rummel at Eddie’s Club and later visiting him in California. Thomas and his friends, including Montana Gothic editor Peter Koch, found Rummel in a Sausalito bar, where they drank and argued about surrealism. According to Thomas, the argument gained heat as they drove the streets of
he’d left off, embedding himself in the local scene, making art and hanging out in bars. “Voulkos went off into the national scene and created a name for himself,” Gordon says, “but Jay never had that. There was no continuum for him beyond Missoula.” One of the reasons Rummel moved back was that over the summer he had met and fallen in love with Shirley Juhl.
him a big bear hug, and he didn’t know what to do with a man hugging another man, I guess. You know, I was so happy to see him, I was ready to cry.” Grimm was then teaching ceramics classes at the Missoula Tech Center, and he convinced Rummel to pay the $24 to enroll, eventually enlisting him as an instructor. Rummel was good at teaching, Grimm says. He could put on the confident air of an academic, though every
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Shirley Juhl, a champion of Rummel’s art, was part of the crowd he ran with in the 1970s. Rummel created this plate of a man contemplating life while at a detox center.
Tim Gordon, Montana artists were making an impact on the West Coast art scene at the time. Ceramacist Peter Voulkos had already moved to Los Angeles and was raising hell at the Otis School of Art. “[Voulkos] went to war with the concept of art at the time, that art should be functional,” Gordon says. “He shook everything up in the ceramics department to where nothing was functional. Jay was down there changing people, too, in Sausalito. His work mimicked nothing else. He was down there doing something nobody had done before at that time period.” Rummel often returned to Montana during the summers, and he made a lot of friends in Missoula during those homecomings. In The Complete Mon-
San Francisco, and even more as they climbed the stairs to Rummel’s apartment on Sacramento Street. “Now Koch figures he won that argument based on his knowledge of the intellectual and aesthetic movement that surrealism had by then become,” Thomas’s essay recalls, “but I figure you’ve got to give Rummel some points for melodrama, for shortly after we entered the flat Jay burst out of his bedroom with a .50-caliber Sharps buffalo rifle, yelling, ‘I’m the most surreal son of a bitch you ever met, Koch, get out of my house!’” (Thomas notes that Rummel later apologized, and he and Koch became good friends.) Rummel eventually decided to move back to Missoula. He picked up where
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The good times were accompanied by bad. Rummel’s drinking became a problem in his relationship with Juhl, and one night, after Rummel threw her sewing machine across the room while she was sleeping, she left their home with nothing but a suitcase.
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issoula’s art world seemed to genuinely admire Rummel’s work, even within the upper tiers of fine art and academia, but that’s not where Rummel’s people lived. Rummel’s people were in the bars and on the streets, at late-night parties and in lazy summer backyards. Part of his allure was that he paid tribute to the people and places in his life. The music he listened to also ended up in Rummel’s art. He was a music geek with a huge collection of records—Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, the Carter family, Johnny Cash. He would pull the records out and talk about each song in detail. In
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Bruce Micklus, who has collected Rummel’s works for years, is now trying to get the pieces out of his attic and into the world.
Juhl, former owner of the former Crystal Theater and co-owner of Bridge Pizza, drove to California to help him move, and she recalls him bringing some of his woodcuts with him and leaving others behind. “He left some at the edge of the street by the garbage can,” Juhl says. “And I said, ‘Aren’t you taking those?’ He goes, ‘No, they’ve got bad juju. I’m leaving them here.’” Rummel’s return to Missoula was cause for celebration, especially among his close artist friends. “I remember him walking into Eddie’s Club, and I was sitting right by the door,” Grimm says. “I hadn’t seem him for a long time. And I jumped up and I put my arms around him and I gave
once in a while he’d call in sick after drinking too much and Grimm would have to cover for him. Juhl lived with Rummel for several years in town, and later in Clinton. She helped Rummel paint some of his woodcut prints, converting them from black and white into color. Many nights, after the bars closed, they’d go to the Autios’ home in the upper Rattlesnake. Leila Autio, an artist married to Rudy, would be sleeping in the house while everyone else gathered in the garage studio. “We’d be there playing music and drinking,” Juhl says, “and pretty soon we’d go, ‘Uh oh,’ and here comes Leila saying, ‘Get out of here now! All of you!’ Because she had to get up to teach. We’d go, ‘OK, Leila! Bye!’”
one Rummel piece, titled “Lead Belly,” you can see Woody Guthrie playing his guitar, imprinted with “this machine kills fascists,” among a swirling visual history of the roots of the blues: slavery. Rummel also had some X-rated work, including one piece in which Custer’s Last Stand is depicted as an orgy rather than a battle. It’s an irreverent work that embodies the anti-establishment political views that Rummel and many of his friends held at the time. The cost of Rummel’s work fluctuated, depending on how much money he needed on any given day. The inexpensiveness of his prints meant that even people who never set foot in a museum could end up with fine art on their walls.
“You’ll have people that probably never bought another piece of art in their life, and yet they picked up Jay Rummel prints because of the cool factor.” Some Rummel prints circulating in Missoula have pinholes in them where the owners hung them with tacks because they didn’t have money for frames. Musicians collect his pieces for the music references, and still others bought them for the depictions of indigenous people in his work. “You’ll have people that probably never bought another piece of art in their life, and yet they picked up Jay Rummel prints because of the cool factor,” Gordon says. According to some of his friends, it never seemed to bother Rummel much that his work was rarely recognized beyond the state lines, though he did have a dry awareness of it. Thomas, who continued to hang out with Rummel after their stint in the Bay Area, recalls seeing him at Charlie’s one afternoon. “What’s up, Jay?” Thomas asked him. “Oh just toiling away in the dim light of obscurity,” Rummel said. “Well, jeez, man, what if that’s all there is?” said Thomas Rummel answered: “What the hell do you think I’ve been trying to tell you?” In 1995, Rummel created one of his most important works, a large-scale triptych titled Five Valleys Trilogy, featuring the pieces “When First Unto This Country,” “Road to the Buffalo” and “Lady from Missoula County.” (Its working title, “Psychic Missoula,” was much more in the spirit of Rummel’s offbeat style.) Not woodcuts, these pieces were made with an offset-lithography process using lightsensitive chemicals and photographic techniques to transfer the images onto printing plates. He made the work as part of a contract to paint the history of Missoula for the Top Hat bar. At the top of “When First Unto This Country,” you can see the primeval forest of pre-human Montana, and below that, the arrival of the first people, the Indians, who lived off the land for 10,000 years until white settlers showed up. Toward the bottom is Fort Fizzle and the arrival of Thomas C. Power, the founder of Helena. “Road to the Buffalo” depicts Sacajawea and the spread of railroads.
“Lady from Missoula County” depicts Missoula’s contemporary art and music scene. In the center of the piece are the Snake River Outlaws, a then-popular band from the Bitterroot, playing raucous country-folk at the Sunshine Bar on the corner of Woody and Alder. Next to that is Spider’s Maverick Bar, a watering hole owned by a man named Spider McCullum that closed after Spider was murdered with an ax. There’s also an image of a crew drinking at Eddie’s Club that comprises a self-portrait of Rummel, in his hat and vest, standing next to photographer Lee Nye (whose portraits of bar patrons still cover the walls at Charlie B’s), a local character named Adam Gardipee and musician Michail Story. Story and Rummel often played music together at the Top Hat, where Rummel hosted an open mic. In the bottom corner of the piece is Missoula’s train depot, still standing at the north end of Higgins Avenue near the XXXXs, with Juhl’s old Studebaker parked outside. The trilogy, now hanging in the University Center, is one of the best examples of Rummel’s realism. When people think of the art of the West, they’re often thinking of the landscapes—the big sky, the mountains—of Charlie Russell. Both Rummel and Russell, though they worked in completely different styles, were committed to portraying Montana’s indigenous roots and lamenting the disappearance of the traditional West. “That exists in Jay’s work,” says Stephen Glueckert, artist and former curator at the Missoula Art Museum. “He’s trying to say that one day, this is all going to be gone.”
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ot long after Rummel made Five Valleys Trilogy, Glueckert started putting together a survey show featuring hundreds of Rummel’s works. Jay Rummel: A Montana Original was scheduled to fill every room of the museum and later travel to some of the most prestigious art spaces in the state, including the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls and Helena’s Holter Museum
of Art. By then Rummel’s health was failing and, Glueckert says, he was trying to quit smoking and drinking. In November 1997, just a few months before the show was scheduled to open, Rummel told Glueckert he didn’t want to do it. Glueckert knew Rummel was sick, but he’d spent almost two years working on the exhibit and didn’t want to give it up. “I just told him, ‘Bullshit, you can’t do that,’” Gluckert says. “And he said, ‘OK.’” A month later, on New Year’s Eve 1997, Rummel died at the age of 58. The show, which opened in mid-February, ended up being a memorial and a celebration of his life. “Jay fought for what was handmade, what was hand done and what was done here,” Glueckert says. “And so he is really important. He’s never going to get out of our system—he’s in our blood. He’s part of the consciousness of our community whether we understand his work or not. He’s part of the story of this place.” In the almost 20 years since his death, people have continued to collect and sell Rummel’s work. According to James Todd, Rummel’s longtime wife, Susan Batiuchok, has continued to be a guardian of his work and legacy. (She could not be reached for this story.) But the number of people who knew Rummel during his heyday continues to diminish. Recently, a few weeks after developers began dismantling the old Missoula Mercantile, Doug Grimm and Shirley Juhl came to Bruce Micklus’ attic to talk about all the characters and places, the symbols and lyrics, in Rummel’s work. The fall of the Mercantile has generated a lot of anxiety among people committed to preserving Missoula’s history. And in some ways, Rummel’s work is in similar jeopardy. His art will be sold and collected for years to come, but the stories behind the work have a shelf life. “That era is dying, and everyone in their mid-60s to late-70s—those were the people rubbing shoulders with Jay Rummel,” Micklus says. “I think it’s important to get this history down. Let’s not let this slip away.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com
photo by Celia Talbot Tobin
Doug Grimm leafs through some Rummel prints holding a spoon, which Rummel used in his hand-printing process.
photo courtesy of James Todd
Jay Rummel stands outside Missoula’s Brunswick Building, where he rented a studio in his later life.
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West Missoula’s finest Blitzen Trapper finds its home—and voice—in the Inland Northwest by Jason Cohen
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litzen Trapper hasn’t been on tour since 2016, but the band recently played 28 shows in six weeks in Portland. Those shows comprised an impressionistic, futuristic, rock ’n’ roll theater piece produced by the Portland Center Stage company called Wild and Reckless: A New Concert Event with Blitzen Trapper. Written by frontman Eric Earley, it featured a dozen brand-new Blitzen Trapper songs (as well as several older ones) and starred the five members of the band—Earley, Brian Adrian Koch, Marty Marquis, Erik Menteer, and Michael Van Pelt—along with professional actors Laura Carbonell and Leif Norby. Four of the musicians (all but Van Pelt) tackled speaking parts, while both actors also sang with the band. A selection of songs from the show has already been released on a limited-edition album that was sold only at the performances, and a proper full-length record, Blitzen Trapper’s ninth, is due out later this year. So when the band comes to the Top Hat on June 20, there’s likely to be lots of new-to-Missoula material. Missoula may also see a more talkative Eric Earley. Blitzen Trapper’s last stint on the road was the semi-acoustic Songbook: A Night of Stories and Songs tour, which skewed toward cover tunes (ranging from Gillian Welch to Elliot Smith to Pearl Jam) and youthful memories. “Over the three weeks that we did it, I got more and more comfortable sharing,” Earley says. That gave him a bit more confidence as the narrator and star of a musical. Or—ahem—concert event. “It’s not a musical,” Portland Center Stage Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan, who co-directed the show with Liam Kaas-Lentz, said during rehearsals. While the show was not quite a twangy Hamilton, it did somewhat resemble Stew’s Passing Strange, and it could definitely be categorized as a rock opera or live concept album in the spirit of Tommy, Red Headed Stranger and (sorry) Kilroy Was Here. Earley had already written most of the band’s new album, with a loosely au-
Over the past decade, Portland’s Blitzen Trapper has become an honorary Missoula band. “We probably play Montana more than we play Portland at this point,” says frontman Eric Earley.
tobiographical storyline about starcrossed lovers, when PCS reached out, looking for a Portland artist to do something unusual for its “Northwest Stories” series. He also had a novel-in-progress, which he describes as “a huge blown-out work about heroin addiction, robotic science and Old Portland.” These two works laid the foundation for Wild and Reckless, which is set in a dystopian, alternate-reality version of Portland’s future based on Portland’s past: the city of Drugstore Cowboy rather than Portlandia, with a little bit of Edward Abbey in the mix. The conceit of the the show is that sometime in the future, lightning has been harnessed to generate power, the latest chapter in mankind’s tendency to, as one character puts it, “tame the earthly forces one by one, to our own short-sighted ends.” But there’s also an addictive byproduct. “Dust” addicts are not only unable to kick their habit, they are also prone to being struck by lightning. As Earley puts it, “What are the symptoms of a society that seeks nothing but power in all its forms?” Earley’s songwriting touchstones include the likes of Townes Van Zandt,
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John Prine and Neil Young, and the recorded versions of the Wild and Reckless songs brim with a mix of Muscle Shoals grooves, country-tinged pop, Southern prog and ’70s AOR. For the pomp and bombast of the theater, Earley looked to Judas Priest, Queen and even Bruce Springsteen. The PCS production, with its special effects, projection screens and Madonna-style wireless mics let the band pretend it was a “mini-arena show,” Earley says. “Just having sets and a lighting designer made the whole experience kind of a rock ’n’ roll fantasy.” Wild and Reckless hearkens back to the days when Earley was living on the streets of Portland, largely by choice, while writing and recording the band’s breakthrough albums, 2007’s Wild Mountain Nation and 2008’s Furr. He worked—and, on rainy nights, slept—at what’s known in Blitzen Trapper lore as the “Telegraph Building,” which was something between a storage space and squat. “Half of it they were using, the other half the roof was caved in,” Earley remembers. Then the band began its period of constant of touring, allowing Earley to con-
tinue being a vagabond, except now it was his job. Constant touring is what it takes to be a viable working band in the age of mobile phones and music streaming. “You’re basically a trucker,” Earley says. “I like to think of it as Performative Furniture Moving,” adds Brian Adrian Koch, the band’s drummer. Not that they’re complaining. “To be able to make a living giving people something of myself, that they are actually giving a shit about, that’s a good feeling,” Earley says. “When we play shows, the people that I interact with, they’re there for the right reasons. They’re there because of the music. And because of the words.” Portland has always been the lifeblood of Blitzen Trapper’s music. But success and touring can take you not just far from home, but away from who you were. Ten years of road work later, Earley can still conjure the shock of returning to a city that was changing as quickly as he could write songs about it. “I can remember just being like, ‘What? When did they build this? That place is closed?,’” he says. The “new Portland” is a place where fledgling bands can’t afford to live, but
it’s also a place where a dues-paid band like Blitzen Trapper can star in a show at a corporate-sponsored nonprofit theater in a renovated armory a block from Powell’s Books. “Portland’s kind of rebirth is very interesting for us, and our career … our place in the city,” Earley says. “I don’t know that I even think of us as a Portland band to be honest, because we hardly ever play here. We probably play Montana more than we play Portland at this point.” Indeed. Like the Gourds, or Yonder Mountain String Band, or (wink) the Decemberists, Blitzen Trapper is an honorary Missoula band. I’ve lived in both Missoula and Portland (hey, who hasn’t?), and the Blitzen Trapper shows I saw at the Palace and the Badlander (where the whole basement sang along to “Furr”) remain my favorites. The feeling is mutual, and mutually beneficial. Where some bands route through Utah, passing over Montana for Boise, or blow straight from Seattle to Minneapolis, Blitzen Trapper thrives in the Inland Northwest and the Rockies, especially in the summer, what with all the resorttown events and music festivals (according to Pollstar, the band is already booked for both Spokane and “Groovin’ on the Gallatin” in September). Earley says that in some cases they make more money playing here in the hinterlands than they do on the East Coast. Plus, since the band members all hail from small Northwestern towns, they feel at home in the region. “It’s authentic,” says Earley. “We grew up in the mountains.” As a kid, he assumed that his immediate world in Oregon was the only wild and reckless place in America, that everywhere else was the big city. “Now I’m like, ‘No, there’s a whole Mountain West that’s awesome.’ The Rocky Mountain states feel like our places now.” Blitzen Trapper plays the Top Hat Tue., June 20. The band’s own Marty Marquis, who recently released a solo album, Skookum Sound, opens. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16/$18. arts@missoulanews.com
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Good twee The uncompromising quiet of Free Cake It’s easy to mess up lo-fi indie rock. If you do it wrong, it sounds precious, derivative and technically crappy. But when you do it right, it’s delightful. Philadelphia singersongwriter Katie Bennett and her band Free Cake for Every Creature make delightful lo-fi. Talking Quietly of Anything with You is a tiny album of tiny moments. Ten songs, each under three minutes, feature Bennett whispering whimsical ditties about everyday life: writing poems, pictures of crushes on dressing room walls, what it feels like to move to a new city. Most songs are just Bennett and a few strums of guitar, though some have boy background vocals and, of course, a bit of clapping.
The effort seems influenced by late-’90s K Records outfits like Mirah, The Blow and The Softies—stuff that was twee before “twee” became a bad word. And why should it be a bad word? Listening to Bennett’s soft, sweet and even cute songs is fun and pleasing. They’re funny and emotionally affecting, even if they’re syrupy (and even if they’re over almost as soon as they’ve begun). On the title track, Bennett sings, “It took me years to believe I could still be quiet but uncompromising.” That’s a perfect description of this album. (Sarah Aswell) Free Cake for Every Creature plays the ZACC Below Wed., Jun 21, at 7 PM, along with Adult Mom, Eriz Szalda-Petree and Wrinkles. $7.
Saint Pé, Fixed Focus Ian Saint Pé’s first solo effort was born in his log cabin home in Nashville with the backing of four musical friends. While it doesn’t sound fundamentally different from the work of Saint Pé’s previous musical venture, the Black Lips, Fixed Focus is more polished and less noisy than much of the music of the band he toured the globe with for a decade. Fixed Focus is like the house you move into after the house you live in during college. It’s a little more grown-up, and you keep the carpet a little cleaner, but you’re still going to rattle some walls.
Some of Fixed Focus is immediately catchy, like “Street Lights” and “Kiss It Goodbye,” but the surprise highlight is “Southern Sunshine,” a blatantly jangly ode to Southern living (Saint Pé was born and raised in New Orleans). Not every track is a winner—“Renowned Movement” is so Bob Dylan-ish it’s distracting—but the album comes together as a solid solo debut by an experienced rocker. (Margaret Grayson) Saint Pé plays Monk’s Bar Fri., June 16, at 9 PM, along with Shahs and Tiny Plastic Stars.
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Career Suicide, Machine Response I’m a fan of guitar rock, which probably has to do with growing up listening almost exclusively to Van Halen, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. Well-played hardcore represents the zenith of guitar music. It’s got riffs, of course, and all the elements that regular rock and punk have, but it’s a style that, when played well, demands and rewards economy. Toronto hardcore band Career Suicide hasn’t updated much about its blistering, full-tilt, pissedoff rock and roll since the band started in 2001, and that’s what makes it appealing. The first time I heard them, I presumed they were some obscure
1980s hardcore band. A few years later I saw them play Austin’s Chaos in Tejas festival, and they were among the most memorable of a great lineup that included a Universal Order of Armageddon reunion, Finns Kieltolaki and the Japanese band Kriegshog. They started around 1 a.m. and shredded for about 20 minutes, nonstop, with drunks falling into them, and they didn’t miss a beat. Machine Response is Career Suicide’s fourth LP, and it represents the band’s aesthetic well. It’s on par with all the band’s previous albums, which is to say it’s at the top of the hardcore heap. ( Josh Vanek)
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[art]
Ripple effect James Todd revisits his childhood self in Looney Toones by Erika Fredrickson
When James G. Todd, Jr. retired from the University of Montana in 2000, his mother showed up bearing a box of his childhood artwork. The renowned printmaker and former art department chair and humanities director, now 80, hadn’t seen most of the pencil-on-newspaper drawings in at least 50 years, some not since he first made them. A few of the pictures were vaguely familiar to him, while others he didn’t recognize at all. It was a strange experience, he says, to see images of what had been on his mind when he was so young. “It was like meeting myself as a child,” he says. Several of the drawings, all of which he drew between the ages of five and eight, depicted what Todd was learning about World War II. Among them is a patriotic parade featuring flags and marching band, men going off to war on a ship, a wounded sailor bandaged in a cart and three evil-looking men representing the axis powers with swastikas on their uniforms. In other drawings, he drew a leopard sneaking through a living room, monsters, cowboys, a carnival, a dancing hippo—the stuff of an innocent childhood imagination. For his new exhibit, Looney Toones, on display at UM’s Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Todd has taken several of the childhood drawings and reinterpreted them as woodcuts. In the woodcuts, he’s added shadow and embellished details, and afterward he hand-painted the prints in bright colors, giving them more dimension and an element of motion. But in general, the new versions stay pretty close to the originals in most ways, including the spontaneous spirit so often present in children’s art. In his early years studying art, Todd learned about the modernists’ interest in spontaneity. “There was a lot of reference to early modern artists being interested in the work of the insane and the work of children,” Todd says. “There was a preoccupation with trying to find spontaneity and more authenticity.” Todd says he didn’t get too wrapped up in the philosophy, but the idea of comparing a child’s artwork to the work of an adult artist steeped in theory and practice stayed with him. He didn’t find many artists who could pull off the childlike lines with satisfactory sophistication, save for the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, who made spontaneous work in the Expressionist/Surrealist style and who notably listed his childhood artwork in his catalogue raisonné alongside his major masterpieces. When he had his own children, Todd studied their artwork with curiosity. He picked out a few of their drawings that intrigued him and turned them into woodcuts, which he exhibited in the early 1980s. One was a reinterpretation of a picture his son, Bhaird, drew when he was three years old, of a little kid with
James Todd’s “Electric Lantern Show” is part of a new exhibit featuring his woodcut interpretations of childhood drawings.
flowers for hands smiling ear-to-ear while planes and bombs fly around him. Another, drawn by his son Rial, was an image of a duck-like creature with a cape standing near a highway. He also did a rendition of an art piece made by his son Seamus (who eventually grew up to be an artist like his dad), which seems to show a person with five eyes facing an ice-cream-coneshaped creature. Todd called that one “Moses and the Holy Ghost,” though he doesn’t know why, exactly. Todd, who’s represented by the Radius Gallery, has been creating the pieces for Looney Toones slowly and steadily since he received the childhood drawings from his mother. The exhibit stemmed from an art catalog of the series that Todd had made, printed as a glossy, softcover coffee-table book through UM Printing and Graphic Services. The art director there, Ken Price, was one of Todd’s former students, and Todd says Price helped him to clearly reproduce the rippling, impulsive lines of the sometimes faint original drawings. The titles Todd uses for the woodcuts had always come to him spontaneously, and he stuck with them even when he didn’t know what they meant. In “Bap-
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tism of the Devil,” for instance, which shows a monk, a priest and a devil, the ladle-like implement used for the baptism looked to Todd like a hot dog on a stick. In his interpretations, as with the originals, there’s a mix of horror and humor, with a playfulness that seems to be integral to his mission of reimagining the meaning of those mysterious pictures from long ago. Todd had some some fun ideas about wordplay in the pictures. One image shows a knight in armor visiting a patient at a hospital, which Todd came to believe was a child’s misinterpretation of “night nurse.” But while flipping through the drawings, he also discovered some disturbing images. In one picture, a small person is attacking a larger person, punching at the large person’s groin with one hand and wielding a knife in the other. Todd recalls the incident from which that drawing came. He was somewhere around four years old and his father had made him angry, though he doesn’t remember why. “I do remember coming across the room at him and taking a box of crayons and ramming them against his lower shins,” Todd says. “That’s all I can remember.”
Embracing the horror of the picture, in which his childhood self had reinterpreted the event with a knife, he called his woodcut “Patricide,” though in the introduction to the book he takes great care to thank his parents for encouraging his artwork from an early age. In a way, though, Todd was surprised his childhood drawings didn’t evoke more despair. He drew them during a war and while living uncomfortably in Seattle in a run-down low-income housing project. “That interested me,” he says. “I would have expected the pictures to show more distress or fear or something,” he says. “But mostly they’re really zany. That took me by surprise. As an adult, the darkness of things often consumes me more but these are quite optimistic despite everything. I don’t know if it was wish fulfillment or what. But it may have just simply been the joy of doing them.” The Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents James Todd’s Looney Toones, on display at the Meloy Gallery in UM’s PARTV Center through September 9. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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No taste for flesh
These are the good old days.
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If you generally don’t care for horror films, or you don’t have the patience for subtitles, or you’re terrified of your own sexuality, or you just can’t stomach watching teens engaged in cannibalism, then Raw might not be the picture for you. For everyone else, spending Friday night at the Roxy with writer and director Julia Docournau’s Frenchlanguage bloodfest is right where you need to be. Raw stars Garance Marillier as Justine, whom we meet when her parents and the family dog drop her off on her first day of veterinary school. (This is a horror film, so whenever a dog is introduced in the first act you’ve got to ask yourself a tough but essential question: Is the dog going to be OK?) Justine’s older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf ), already attends (she’s in her second year), and the sisters’ parents both graduated from the same academy. An entire family of veterinarians, and they’re all vegetarians to boot. Nothing weird about that! The school looks a bit like a prison, with several stories connected by M.C. Escher-like staircases leading to sterile, concrete common areas. And yet, as it turns out, this is quite the party school. An insane hazing ritual quickly interrupts Justine’s first night in the dorms, wherein mattresses are thrown out of windows and the upperclassman force the young, scared newcomers to party all night in their underwear. It sounds innocent enough, but something about the claustrophobic, frightening way these scenes are shot has the expert effect of putting us on edge, even before the carnage begins. Justine arrives to the academy waifish, intelligent and shy. She’s a far cry from Alexia, who’s outgoing, iconoclastic and a tad goth, and these differences between the sisters will reverberate
throughout the picture. The trouble begins when Justine is forced to eat a dead baby rabbit as part of her freshman initiation. She resists at first, but her sister wears her down. The dead rabbit might as well be the apple in Eve’s garden—what on earth has this taste of flesh unleashed? Fundamentally, what we have here is a comingof-age story drawn in blood. Justine is becoming a woman, and oh my word, is that not terrifying? The horror genre has a long tradition of male directors feeding off of such sexual hysteria (It Follows and The Witch are just two recent examples). Here, with a woman at the helm, we get a refreshing usurping of the male gaze. Consider Justine’s roommate, for example. She’s paired up with a handsome gay man named Adrien (Rabah Nait Oufella), and good lord, did I mention how stunning he is? Notice how the camera lingers on his body for an uncomfortable amount of time as Justine watches him play soccer. An American film would have quickly embarrassed itself and ruined the moment with fast cuts and a blaring soundtrack. But European cinema understands that a lingering camera evokes sensuality. Raw is a bizarre, sexy film with a healthy dose of humor about itself. By the way, you may have heard that at the film’s premiere in Sweden, some filmgoers were driven out of the theater with nausea and vomiting. How lucky for them, to have a film be so affecting! I gagged a little bit, but what are movies for if not to literally make you ill? Montana Film Festival presents Raw Friday, June 16, at 9 PM. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] closer to your desolate home is a real nightmare. Rated R. Stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot and Carmen Ejogo. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK 47 METERS DOWN Mandy Moore versus a bunch of sharks. What more do you want? Rated PG-13. Also stars Claire Holt and Matthew Modine. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
KUNDUN (1997) The Dalai Lama’s life, from his early days as a boy in Tibet through his eventual exile, is brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese. Rated PG-13. Stars Tsewang Migyur Khangsar, Sonam Phuntsok and Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong. Playing Sun., June 18 at 5 PM at the Roxy.
ALL EYEZ ON ME Before his murder, before the fame and before the music, Tupac Shakur was just another man trying to find his way in the world. Rated R. Stars Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira and Jamal Woolard. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. CARS 3 Pixar’s deeply troubling and confusing franchise about a world populated by talking cars returns to make sure the company has enough money to finance their good films. Rated G. Stars the voice talents of Owen Wilson, Kerry Washington and Armie Hammer. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. A QUIET PASSION You know the pathos and the poetry behind Emily Dickinson, but now see the life that led to a literary icon. She’s the one that did those dirty limericks, right? Rated PG-13. Stars Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine. Playing at the Roxy. RAW After undergoing a carnivorous hazing ritual at veterinary school, a young vegetarian finds a insatiable and ghoulish taste for meat growing inside her. I had a similar thing happen to me at clown college. Rated R. Stars Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf and Joana Preiss. Playing at the Roxy Fri., June 16 at 9 PM. (See Film) ROUGH NIGHT These women just wanted to send their best friend off with a fun and memorable bachelorette party, but then they went and accidentally killed a stripper and now have to Weekend at Bernie’s their way out of it. Rated R. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon and Zoë Kravitz. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. WAKEFIELD A successful lawyer decides he’s going to take a break from it all. Instead of going to Hawaii or Europe, however, he just hunkers down in the attic. He probably should have told his wife, though, because she is worried sick. Rated R. Stars Brian Cranston, Jennifer Garner and Beverly D’Angelo. Playing at the Roxy.
MOONLIGHT Set against the backdrop of the War on Drugs, a young man comes to terms with himself, his community and his sexuality while learning that the person he became wasn’t necessarily the person he wanted to be. Rated R. Stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Janelle Monáe. The Roxy screens the Academy Award winner for Best Picture Wed., June 21 at 8 PM.
Shouldn’t they be wearing some sort of mouthguard? Lightning McQueen returns in Cars 3, opening at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
NOW PLAYING CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE Two pranksters spend their time creating comic books in a treehouse but when their cruel principal threatens to separate them, the kids hypnotize him into thinking he’s a dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants. Rated PG. Starring the voices of Kevin Hart and Ed Helms. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. CHECK IT The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center screens this compelling documentary about gay and transgender youth unifying as street gangs to protect themselves and protect each other. Not Rated. Directed by Dana Flor. Playing Mon., June 19 at 8 PM at the Roxy. COLOSSAL A giant monster tears through Seoul, South Korea, but what is its connection to an out-of-work woman who has to return to her hometown after getting kicked out of her New York City apartment? Rated R. Stars Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Dan Stevens. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., June 15. 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 con-
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vention. 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. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966) A mysterious drifter and a Mexican outlaw form an uneasy partnership to stay alive and find a fortune buried in desert. You’re already whistling the theme to yourself, aren’t you? Rated R. Stars Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef. Playing Thu., June 22 at 8 PM at the Roxy. 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. HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART 1 (1981) Director Mel Brooks takes a tour of world history from the Old Testament through the French Revolution in a series of darkly hilarious vignettes. It’s good to be the king. Rated R. Also stars Gregory Hines, Dom Deluise and Orson Welles. Playing Sat., June 17 at 9 PM at the Roxy. IT COMES AT NIGHT Having houseguests is always stressful. But having houseguests while an unnatural horror creeps ever
THE MUMMY An ancient evil awakens in Egypt and the only person who can stop it is Tom Cruise. That guy sure gets around. Rated PG-13. Also stars Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis and Javier Botet. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex, which would be a pretty appropriate place to see it. NORMAN (NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER) He’s the guy who knows the right people and can get things done, but after buying a very expensive pair of shoes for an Israeli dignitary, this fixer finds himself in over his head. Rated R. Stars Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi and Dan Stevens. Playing at the Roxy through Thu., June 15. WONDER WOMAN Like most of us, Diana, princess of the Amazons, was trained on a sheltered island paradise to be a warrior. When an American pilot shows up to tell her about a massive conflict raging in the outside world, she joins the fight and becomes Wonder Woman. Rated PG-13. Stars Gal Gadot, Robin Wright and Chris Pine. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn and Erika Fredrickson. Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.
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Chicken and waffles, together again by Michael Siebert Unlikely food combinations are in vogue. Buzzfeed’s Tasty and other cooking sites are busy filling your Facebook feed with artery-clogging recipes for Doritos-encrusted mozzarella sticks and cheesy stuffed plantain tots. The market for adventurously unhealthy foods is booming, but few of these dishes offer anything in the way of staying power. Not that they could. After all, these abominations are indebted to a truly delicious and genuinely unique marriage of flavors: chicken and waffles. While the Pennsylvania Dutch were topping waffles with pulled chicken and gravy as early as the 1600s, according to PBS food columnist Tori Avey, the combination achieved its apex in late-1930s Harlem. Avey says the Wells Supper Club served the dish to hungry jazz musicians who, arriving too late at night for dinner but too early for breakfast, got the best of both worlds: deep fried chicken on top of fresh waffles. Growing up in Billings, the only restaurant I could find that served the dish was the local International House of Pancakes, which haphazardly tossed some chicken tenders on top of listless waffles—not exactly a fair representation of a mind-exploding soul-food mainstay. But even then, with the chicken served lukewarm and the waffles tasting like something from a cheap hotel’s continental
WHAT’S GOOD HERE breakfast, the combination was tantalizing enough to keep me coming back. Moving to Missoula opened up my culinary world, and after years of searching, I’ve found a replacement for the chain restaurant catastrophe I ingested for so long: the chicken and waffle sandwich at Scotty’s Table. Available only on the brunch menu, the chicken and waffle sandwich is an elevated take on a classic pairing. The deep-fried, buttermilk-brined chicken breast rests between two quarters of a cheddar-bacon-chive waffle, dressed with bacon, tomatoes and arugula for good measure. But without some sort of maple flavor, your dish is destined to feel incomplete. Luckily, Scotty’s adds a healthy dose of sweet-tangy maple-mustard sauce. Scotty’s take on the pairing is a little more upscale than the New York original. It dares to add more complexity of flavor to a dish that already toes the line of excess. There is just the right hint of cheddar, and the veggies add a much-appreciated freshness to every bite. This may not be a soul-food classic, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s a decidedly innovative spin on an unimprovable original, and even purists should have no problem singing its praises. msiebert@missoulanews.com
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“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com
LUNCH COMBO 3 rolls with choice of miso soup or green salad for your busy afternoon schedule!
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining in 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. $-$$$
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 It’s a done deal! No foolin’. Bernice’s Bakery will be introducing a new owner June 1st! Christine and Marco have spent the last 15 years stewarding the development and sustainability of one of Missoula’s iconic businesses. Congratulations to Marco and Christine! And, congratulations to the new owner Missy Kelleher. Come in and say hello or goodbye. Follow that up by a “hello” to Missy in June as you snag your favorite treat or a cup o’joe. Bernice’s Bakery Keepin’ Missoula Sweet. $-$$
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. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$
Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ 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. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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photo by Rebecca Keith
What you’re drinking: the Flaming Lamborghini at Feruqi’s
enough, the liquor caramelizes and your straw melts. Total amateur move.
Where you’re drinking it: With roughly one bar for every 1,600 residents, Montana is an, umm, accommodating place to turn 21, and Missoula, as the second-largest and obviously best city in Montana, is the best town in which to partake on your special day. Missoula boasts at least 20 bars and taprooms within easy walking distance just in downtown, making a power lap for the record books, but where to start? If you’d rather black out early (not that we recommend it) and avoid remembering the wretched humiliation that awaits you at the end of the night, consider starting at Feruqi’s. With a Flaming Lamborghini.
But really, what are you drinking: The Flaming Lamborghini consists of four sugary liqueurs and has an alcohol content of almost 40 percent. Bols Cacao Brown and Sambuca are combined in the cocktail glass. One shot glass is filled with Bols Blue Curacao and the other with Bailey’s Irish Cream. After the cocktail is set ablaze, you drink that concoction, then douse the flaming cocktail glass by tossing in the shots. Then you drink that. It finishes all warm and creamy, sort of the taste-bud equivalent of driving a Lamborghini, if the Lamborghini—and maybe you, too—were on fire.
How to drink it: It’s important to understand that “flaming” is not a metaphor. The Flaming Lamborghini is actually on fire. The drink involves a cocktail glass, two shot glasses and a blowtorch. The bartender lights the 4 oz. cocktail, which you immediately slurp through a straw. Pro tip: Be sure you completely empty your lungs and totally relax before you begin, because as soon as this baby’s lit, the pressure is on and you can’t pause for breath. If you don’t drink it fast
Why you’re drinking it: Well, that’s worth a long, sober think, now isn’t it? But chances are good it’s because it’s your birthday, in which case the drink is free. Otherwise it costs $14 dollars and your memory of the next 12 hours. —Rebecca Keith Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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TUE | 9 PM | TOP HAT Folk rock troubadours Blitzen Trapper play the Top Hat Tue., June 20. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance.
FRI | 9 PM | MONK’S Black Lips guitarist Ian Saint Pé brings some Nashville-flavored rock to Monk’s Fri., June 16 at 9 PM. $7/18-20, $5/21-plus.
SAT | 7 PM | UM Dennison Theatre hosts Tim Ryan Rouillier’s Play Me Montana, a symphonic memoir about a young boy and his Salish grandfather. Sat., June 17, 7 PM. $70.
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THU | 6/22 | 10 PM | TOP HAT Hip-hop automatons Flobots play the Top Hat Thu., June 22. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$8 advance.
WED | 8 PM | OGREN PARK Music legend Paul Simon plays at Ogren Park at Allegiance Field Wed., June 21, at 8 PM. $53.
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Thursday nightlife Bring your talent to Bring Your Own Brain, a poetry and performance-art based open mic at Free Cycles. 5:30 PM–10:30 PM. Free. Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with Erin & the Project playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park every Thursday night between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free. Get ready to punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. Bring an exercise mat and make your way to McCormick Park. 6 PM. $3 suggested donation. Students from Navy bases across the world present It’s All Greek to Me, a short play featuring well-known stories from Greek mythology at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 6 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. 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. NightLiner plays the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts 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. Resident DJs Hotpantz and Kalub Swirvin are joined by Martin Gaye for a special summertime edition of I’ll House You at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. 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.
Albuquerque's Gunsafe brings family-friendly footstomping country to Free Cycles Fri., June 16 at 6 PM. Donations. Put your b-ball skills to the test at the 2017 Garden City Shootout. Teams of three go head-to-head in a daylong basketball tournament. Live out your hoop dreams at the northern parking lot of Southgate Mall. Visit active.com/missoula-mt to register.
nightlife Teams compete in a bevy of outdoor challenges to win prizes and bragging rights at Questival Missoula. Visit cotopaxi.com for more info and registration details. The festivities kick off at 5 PM at Caras Park. Kick off summer with ice skating, knockerball and a slew of other activities at Missoula Midtown Melt-off at Missoula County Fairgrounds. 5 PM–10 PM. Free.
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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.
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.
Albuquerque’s Gunsafe brings familyfriendly footstomping country to Free Cycles. 6 PM. Donations.
Black Lips guitarist Ian Saint Pé brings some Nashville-flavored rock to Monk’s. 9 PM. $7/18-20, $5/21-plus.
Enjoy made-in-Montana wine and live music of Larry Hirshberg at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free. Who’s in charge here? The Absent Wilson Conspiracy provides the soundtrack at the Keep’s outdoor terrace. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the
Russ Nasset & The Revelators open up the seventh seal of rockabilly roots at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Brrrrrrr. The Shiver plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. We’ll make him an Overosaurus he can’t refuse. Mesozoic Mafia plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
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Saturday Run 4.06 miles along the scenic Clark Fork River with the Missoula 406 Run. Things start at 6:30 AM. Visit hiphoprun.com for more info and registration. $40. Rock art expert Dr. Jim Keyser leads an expedition to view and understand local pictographs in Kalispell. Visit montana naturalist.org for more info, a schedule and registration. $70.
quired. Meet at the Metcalf NWR headquarters at 10 AM for this two-hour trip. 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.
Take a free tour through Missoula Art Museum’s galleries with artist and guide Mary Oelshlaeger. Please let me know if any of the pieces have secret treasure maps on their backs. 12 PM–1 PM. Free.
My derby name is Zora Neale Hurtsome. Hellgate Roller Derby takes on the Fernie Avalanche in the second home bout of the season at Missoula County Fairgrounds. 5:30 PM. $10.
Montana Conservation Corps’ crew leaders teach the basics of sharpening,
Matt Cosca provides the soundtrack at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Carla Green Jazz provides the jazzy tunes at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free.
Join plant enthusiast Michael Wharton on a trip to see Douglasia conservatorium in its only known location in the world near Trout Creek, MT. RSVP at clare.beelman @gmail.com. Space is limited. Free.
You mean like President Chester A. Arthur Fonzarelli? Portland’s Cool American plays the ZACC. 7 PM. $5. (See Spotlight) Dennison Theatre hosts Tim Ryan Rouillier’s Play Me Montana, a symphonic memoir about a young boy and his Salish grandfather sharing a musical journey. 7 PM. $70.
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 runwild missoula.org.
Run Wild Missoula raises awareness for prostate cancer with the Missoula Mile. Visit runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. 8 AM. $25.
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 diverse delicacies. Join the fun every Saturday through October. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM– 12:30 PM. Soft Landing Missoula commemorates World Refugee Day with a 7-on-7 soccer tournament at Fort Missoula Regional Park. Register to play on the Missoula Parks and Rec website. $45 to play, free to watch. Learn the basics of bird identification with a beginning birder walk at the Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. No experience re-
Hellgate Roller Derby takes on the Fernie Avalanche in the second home bout of the season at Missoula County Fairgrounds. 5:30 PM. $10. Celebrate the men who are always there to bail us out of jail by learning about climate change with Clean Air Montana at a special Father’s Day picnic at Silver Park. You and your pops can learn about how global warming can negatively impact our state while enjoying hot dogs. 12 PM–3 PM. Grab your hot glue guns and don your Blood Ravens Terminator Armor for a potluck meet up for all things cosplay at McLeod Park. 12 PM–4 PM. Free.
rehandling and caring for your old hand tools at the Moon-Randolph Homestead. 2 PM–3:30 PM. Register online at mud project.org. $10.
nightlife The Second Annual Sportsmen Against Cancer Banquet works to help local families in their fight against cancer. Linda Vista Golf Course. 5 PM. Visit cashhydefoundation.org for ticket and more info.
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. Time to Kill, Brah! and The Shoving Leopards unite for a night of punk rock at Monk’s. 9 PM. $3. 21-plus. 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. Eureka! Paydirt uncovers the musical motherlode at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 CADENCE• Cadence is a 1-year-old female long-haired Brown Tabby. She is a very sweet and affectionate girl; always looking for head rubs and chin scratches. Cadence is a spry young lady who loves to play. She gets along well with other cats, and seems to be happy with any kind of attention she can get. Cadence will not disappoint with her constant purring motor.
DONALD• Donald is a 2-year-old male Pit
Bull. This big goof ball is looking for a constant companion to go on hikes, play in the yard, or just lounge on the couch. Whatever you're doing, Donald will be happy to come along. Donald gets along with most dogs, but prefers to be the "boss dog." Donald is very treat motivated, and we're sure will pick up many new tricks easily.
ELLIE•Ellie is a 3-year-old female American Pit Bull. She is a very sweet girl who loves long walks, playing fetch, and trying to catch the spray of a water hose. Ellie gets along with small dogs, cats, and goats. However, she does not particularly enjoy other large dogs, especially other assertive dogs. Ellie came from a place where neighborhood kids were allowed to pick on her, so she would prefer a kid free environment. MAGGIE• Maggie is a 11-month-old female Chocolate Lab/Heeler mix. She is an energetic and playful young girl, looking for a home that will give her lots of play time. Maggie would do best in a kid free home, as she doesn't care much for pint sized humans. She loves adults though. Maggie would do well with home that provides her space to run and a job where her energy reserves can be depleted regularly.
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BOBBIE• Bobbie is a 15-year-old female Brown Tabby Manx. This super cuddly senior gal is hoping to find a retirement home to live the rest of her days. Bobbie's favorite activity is lounging about in cat trees and beds. She is a master at finding the most comfy cuddle spot in the house. Bobbie would make a great lap cat, and despite her size, is rather agile and able to jump up and down off of furniture unassisted.
Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MontanaSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays
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www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543
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CARSON• Carson is a 5-year-old male Buff Tabby. He would love a home in the country with the freedom to come and go as he pleases. Carson loves human affection and attention, sprawling across furniture and cat trees to convince you to pet him. At the same time, he does not think being stuck inside all the time is fun either. He would prefer to have the entire house and yard to explore, unencumbered by obstructions.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 CHEWIE• Are you looking for a little, old man to keep your lap warm and your home full of love? Chewie is an easygoing, 12-year-old gentleman who enjoys being held, walking on the grass, and people! ! He has experience with older children and is fine with dogs. As part of our Senior for Senior program, his adoption fee is reduced! Call Humane Society of Western Montana for more info! 406.549.3934
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BENNY• Sweet, wimpy Benny is a young male guinea pig hoping to find his forever home! This handsome orange guinea enjoys pets and his ‘outside’ time to run around like an adorable, chunky racecar. If you’re looking for a guinea friend, stop in to Humane Society of Western Montana! We’re open Wed-Fri, 1pm-6pm; Sat-Sun, 12pm-5pm!
ADA LOVELACE• This hilarious senior pup came all the way from California to find her forever home! If you are looking for a quirky companion full of charm, Ada might be the dog for you! Ada loves making new friends and going for walks. She enjoys spending time with other small dogs and is full of energy! Visit myhswm.org to learn more!
WHISKERS• Whiskers is a cuddly, friendly, tabby cat who loves to love you back. She has experience with other cats and is a brave, easygoing gal! Two years old and happy to be an indoor-only or indoor/outdoor kitty, Whiskers is a win-winwin! Come visit her at Humane Society of Western Montana at 5930 Highway 93 S, in Missoula!
ROSALIE• This little 2-year-old sweetheart is looking for a patient family, willing to help her build her confidence, and would love to have another brave dog friend in the home to teach her about this beautiful world! This month, Roemer’s Point S is donating a portion of their proceeds to pets like Rosalie! Visit Humane Society of Western Montana at 5930 Highway 93 S in Missoula to learn more!
SYLVESTER• If Sylvester could talk, he’d sound like Willie Nelson, weaving tales of riding the rails and big adventures in the open countryside. This 11-year-old guy appreciates attention and pets, but prefers not to be picked up. Instead he’ll head butt you, pat you lightly with his sweet, white paw, and tell you about his life. Call HSWM at 406.549.3934 to learn more about Sylvester!
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A portion of every beer sold at Great Burn Brewing between 1 PM and 4 PM will be donated to the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation. 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 Mon-
sos. Liquid Planet Grille, 1025 Arthur St., 1:30–3:30 PM. Free.
nightlife Russ Nasset serenades the beer at Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.
Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every
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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. for example, had to change the name of Cool Ranch Doritos to Cool American Doritos. It is from this bit of creative marketing that Portland punks Cool American took not only their name, but also their whole musical outlook. Guitar-heavy songs about buying burriWHO: Cool American tos, or getting drunk enough to make it WHERE: Zootown Arts Community Center through a shitty party, are all coated WHEN: Sat., June 17 at 7 PM in the Doritos dust of HOW MUCH: $5 classic slacker-rock. But like your stoner friend who is likewise surrounded virtually unknown. While it's and inspired by snack chips, probably a good thing that the Cool American occasionally has rest of the world isn't slathering moments of inspired wisdom. everything they eat with the stuff Just like the salad dressing that the way we do, some companies helped inspire the band’s name, have had to do some creative re- this group is distinctly American. branding to sell their ranch-related wares overseas. Frito-Lay, —Charley Macorn Ranch dressing, that tangy and omnipresent emulsion that's just as welcome served with hot fries as it is with fresh vegetables, is a distinctly American creation. Outside of the United States, however, the dressing is almost
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.
keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. Develop the tools that bring ease, clarity and personal integrity to every conversation with a class at Inner Workings Resources. 6:30 PM. $55. Dan Dubuque brings his slide guitar for a night of music at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.
WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
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Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
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.
Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.
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Tuesday See local Missoulians embrace their inner Jack Kerouac with tales about their most exciting, hilarious and terrifying road trips at the live storytelling show Tell Us Something at the Wilma. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $10/$8 advance. Hamilton’s Jean Matthews Tuesday at Twelve Summer Concert Series kicks off another summer of music and food with the Absent Wilson Conspiracy. 12 PM. Ravalli County Museum. 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. Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every
third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 728-7682 for more information.
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. All ages. 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 from 7 to 8:30 PM at the M i s s o u l a S e n i o r C e n t e r. $10/$35 for four classes. Call 549-7933 for more info. San Francisco garage rock heroes Turqouiz Noiz plays the ZACC Below, and makes our copy editor cry. 7 PM. $5. Missoula Art Museum hosts activist and writer Lucy Lippard for a lecture about the intersection of art and politics and her
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new book at the Public House. $5. 7 PM. (See Spotlight) The Matt Stivers Band plays the Badlander as part of Michael Avery’s music showcase. 7 PM. Free. Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. Oregon-based folk rock troubadours Blitzen Trapper play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance. Let the drums roll out, let the trumpet call. Strike up the Missoula City Band. See local musicians perform together at the Bonner Park Band Shell. 8 PM. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: The fast-food chain Burger King is known by what name in Australia? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Take your first step into the spotlight at Open Mic Music as the Union Club. 9 PM.
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Her most recent book, 2014’s Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing West, brings her experiences in New Mexico to the forefront, starting with an exploration of the many gravel pits around her WHO: Lucy Lippard small hometown. WHAT: Voices in Contemporary Art Lecture From there, Lippard explores the history WHEN: Tue., June 20 at 7 PM and ethics of fracking, mining, Indian WHERE: The Public House land rights and the HOW MUCH: $5 suggested donation old West while tying it back to the creMORE INFO: missoulaartmuseum.org ative work that continues to define these heavy ideas. gious awards including the The Missoula Art Museum is Guggenheim Fellowship and two sponsoring Lippard’s appearNational Endowment for the Arts ance at the Public House, both to grants. In this time the world has give a voice to people working seen many changes. Not just in in the artistic field that aren't necour politics and art, but in the essarily artists and to indirectly way we view the earth itself. But, tie-in with several upcoming if you look deep enough, all of events exploring art and public these changes are intercon- lands this summer. nected. If anyone can trace the connections, it's Lucy Lippard. —Charley Macorn Writer, art critic and activist Lucy Lippard has been writing about art, feminism and culture since the 1960s. In that time she has published 21 books of art criticism and won several presti-
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Free Cake for Every Creature provides the lo-fi pop tunes at the ZACC Below Wed., June 21, at 7 PM. $7. 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. Out to Lunch features the music of the Ed Norton Big Band in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from vendors. 11 AM–2 PM. Free. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. 202 Brooks. MOBASH Skatepark hosts the annual Go Skate Day with raffles, games and skateboarding competitions. 4 PM–7 PM. Free.
nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, videos and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week: Climate Ride. 5 PM–8 PM. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free. Don’t have a gift picked out for your cat’s birthday? Learn the skills you need to create portraits
of your four-legged friends at Paint Your Pet night at Painting with a Twist. No experience necessary. Visit paintingwith atwist.com for registration. 6:30 PM. $35. Billings novelist Sean McDaniel and local author Alec Cizak read from their new books Criminal Zoo and Down the Street at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Got two left feet? Well, throw them away and head down to Sunrise Saloon for beginners’ dance lessons. 7 PM. $5. 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. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Hungry Jack’s.
I bet the ants will be pretty excited, but I’m thinking this might be lost on the narwals. Free Cake for Every Creature provides the lofi pop tunes at the ZACC Below. Adult Mom, and Eriz Szalda-Petree & Wrinkles also perform. 7 PM. $7.
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The Kimberlee Carlson/Ron Meisner Jazz Quintet plays the Top Hat. 7 PM–9 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.
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. Hello darkness my old friend! Music legend Paul Simon plays at Ogren Park at Allegiance Field. The show starts at 8 PM. $53. Get your tickets at Ticketmaster or
Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 prize to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover.
Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.
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Thursday nightlife Missoula’s favorite weekly music and food festival continues with Good Old Fashioned playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free. Ain’t no hungry horses around here anymore. Max Hay plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 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. 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. Pinot noir meets Trio Noir when Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo play Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 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. Hip-hop automatons Flobots take the Turing Test of music at the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$8 advance. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action 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. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. This calendar is part of a greater cinematic universe.
Good Old Fashioned plays at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park every Thursday night between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free.
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Agenda Despite our intertwined history, common language and similar horrifying political systems, the one thing citizens of the United States and the United Kingdom never seem to see eye-to-eye on is sports. Americans have football, a sport where players carry something that clearly isn’t a ball, and the one person who gets to kick it only shows up on the field occasionally. In Great Britain (and, let's be honest, most of the rest of the world) they have football; the sport where everyone kicks a ball. Football, which Americans call soccer because we’re incredible contrarians, is hugely popular across the world. It's the sport that has united people across the world for well over a century. Soft Landing Missoula commemorates World Refugee Day with a 7v7 football (the non-American version) tournament at the new Fort Missoula Regional Park. Either register to play online, or come watch the festivities. The daylong event runs from 9 AM to 4 PM with dinner and the live music of the WhizPops. Funds raised by the tournament go to help support those who are forced to flee
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Soft Landing Missoula commemorates World Refugee Day with a 7-on-7 soccer tournament at Fort Missoula Regional Park. Register to play on the Missoula Parks and Rec website. $45 to play, free to watch.
Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.
The Second Annual Sportsmen Against Cancer Banquet works to help local families in their fight against cancer. Linda Vista Golf Course. 5 PM. Visit cashhydefoundation.org for ticket and more info.
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.
Run Wild Missoula raises awareness for prostate cancer with the Missoula Mile. Visit runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. 8 AM. $25.
SUNDAY JUNE 18 A portion of every beer sold at Great Burn Brewing between 1 PM and 4 PM will be donated to the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation.
MONDAY JUNE 19 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.
their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence. –Charley Macorn The Missoula World Refugee Day Cup kicks off (literally) at 9 AM at Fort Missoula Regional Park. Visit softland ingmissoula.org/news/soccer to register. $45.
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans. Develop the tools that bring ease, clarity and personal integrity to every conversation with a class at Inner Workings Resources. 6:30 PM. $55.
Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 728-7682 for more information. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 21 NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. 202 Brooks. 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: Climate Ride. 5 PM– 8 PM.
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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Gefland's nickname, has become a staple of skateboarders across the globe. It is now the first trick that most beginning skaters learn. And it is the trick that puts the skaters convening at MOBASH Skatepark's Go Skate Day head to head. With highest ollie contests, best trick competitions and games of S.K.A.T.E (think H.O.R.S.E without the basketball), Go Skate Day promises to showcase the best of local skateboarding. –Charley Macorn Go Skate Day at MOBASH Skatepark kick(flips) off at 4 PM on Wed., June 21. Free.
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See crickets fed to big fuzzy spiders at the tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
SATURDAY APRIL 22 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. The Thomas Meagher Hurling Club and Montana Grizzlies Hurling host the annual USGAA Northwest Division Irish Hurling tournament at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. I used to be in the Sean Kelly’s hurling club, but that’s because of the drink specials. 10 AM. Free.
MONDAY APRIL 24 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers
Coffee Walks. This week, explore the MoonRandolph Homestead. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 26 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. The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. Starts at Draught Works. 6 PM. Free. The Wild Rivers Film Tour showcases river-specific adventure and conservation films in one evening of entertainment at the UM UC Theater. The 2017 tour includes eight films including The Super Salmon, The Shape of a River and Every Bend. Proceeds go to the UM American Fisheries Society. No entry fee, donations accepted.
THURSDAY APRIL 27 Silver Park hosts the Zoo Town Surfers Gear Swap and Social. Local experts will be on hand for all of your kayaking, rafting and surfing questions. 4 PM–8 PM.
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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon SIGHT FOR THOR EYES I’m a 35-year-old masculine gay man. I’ve had relationships with (masculine) gay men, but I’m often attracted to masculine straight men. I’m not looking to “turn” them, and I’m ready for a relationship, so I’m concerned that I’m so frequently attracted to men who won’t be interested in me. What is this about? Do I need therapy? —Worried Gay Guy Like you, I happen to like men who look like their hobbies are chopping down trees and going to war with foreign powers. I am not attracted to femmy men in body glitter with My Little Pony haircuts. Luckily for me, the sort of people I am attracted to did not require me to come out to my parents (“Mom and Dad ... I-I-I’m straight”), nor are my preferences considered reason for suspicion that I might be a self-loathing heterosexual. As for you, because of the ugly views and behaviors toward gays, sure, it’s possible that your being attracted to straight men is some sort of internalized version of those camps for “praying away the gay.” (If that seems to be a possibility, yes, you should look into that—perhaps with a therapist’s help.) But if you were really so self-loathing and in denial about being gay, wouldn’t you just be sneaking glances at all the manly men on your way to marrying a woman and buying a house with a lot of closet space? Your being a manly man who’s into boyfriends who wield power tools not intended for hairstyling might be explained by research on “assortative mating.” This basically means “like mates with like”—reflecting how we seem motivated to choose mates who are similar to us on various levels, from age to looks to race to personality. In the gay world, psychologist J. Michael Bailey’s research finds that masculine gay men tend to prefer masculine partners (Conan the Barbarian versus Conan the Featherboa-tarian). Increased similarity between partners is associated with happier, longer-lasting relationships. This makes sense, considering that more similarity means more compatibility—from shared beliefs to shared interests and activities. So, it’s good news you’re eyeing the manlier men, even if many are ultimately “for display purposes only.” Of course, it is possible that you’re telling yourself you want a relationship but picking people totally unavailable for one. (For straight women, this often involves a one-sided affair with a member of the
British royal family.) If that isn’t the case, why worry that your ideal relationship is basically a nature preserve for chest hair and testosterone? Just accept that it might take a little more effort to find a boyfriend for whom “contouring” is not skillful makeup application but helping you get the back of your head with the Weedwhacker before your welding group arrives.
BLEACHABLE MOMENTS I went through a crazy party girl period in my 20s. My boyfriend recently asked me how many men I’d slept with before him. I told him, and he freaked out at the number— despite his having his own wild past. Now I wish I hadn’t been honest. What should I have said instead? —Glum It’s usually best to keep mum if the number of men is something like “I’m not exactly sure because the census takers keep fainting from exhaustion while they’re tallying up my total.” There is a sexual double standard, though it doesn’t come from men wanting to keep women’s sex drives in park (which wouldn’t exactly serve their interest). What’s telling, however, are sex differences in jealousy—specifically, jealousy over infidelity. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that men across cultures are most distressed by sexual infidelity—the sex acts themselves.Though women aren’t exactly “yeah, whatevs” about their partner’s doing the nudie tootie with another woman, women are substantially more distressed by his being emotionally gaga about someone else. (A woman’s first question is inevitably: “But do you luvvvv her?!”) These differences in freakouts dovetail with men’s and women’s differing evolutionary concerns. Women evolved to worry that their partner would divert his investment of time, energy and resources in her and her children to a rival. Men, however, have a different worry. Because a man can never really be sure whether a child is his and could lead to his spending decades feeding and caring for some other dude’s genetic offspring. If, in the future, another boyfriend asks for your sexual tally, be generally honest—you were a bit of a party girl— but avoid giving any specific number that suggests that this involved much of the Democratic Party (and a few straggling Greens).
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PARENTING PLAN OF: Doranda Ann Standing Rock, Petitioner, and Curtis Robert Windy Boy, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT:You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in this Petition. This action is brought to obtain a Parenting Plan. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: N/A DATED this 11th day of January, 2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 1 Your Case No. DV-17-473 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of, Christin Lyn Lulow, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Christin Lyn Lulow has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Christin Lyn Lulow to Christin Senechal Danielson and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 28th day of June, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, in courtroom number 1. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 22nd day of May, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-150 Dept. No. 1-Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARLYN HUBERT SIMMS, 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 PATTY SIMMSDAUM, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, 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 9th day of June, 2017. /s/ Patty Simms-Daum, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-128 Dept. No. 4-Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOYCE WOOD MONTREUIL, 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 VANESSA J. MARINO, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, 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 19th day of May, 2017. /s/ Vanessa J. Marino, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-136 Dept. No. 1-Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE WARREN WEBER, 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 TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 4337 POTTER PARK CT, MISSOULA, MT 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 8th day of JUNE, 2017. /s/ TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-136 Dept. No. 1-Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE WARREN WEBER, 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 TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 4337 POTTER PARK CT, MISSOULA, MT 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 8th day of JUNE, 2017. /s/ TAUREAN J WEBER, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP17-132 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEANNE M. AUEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as the Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have to admit that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt. This isn’t usually a major problem, though. Mistakenly sprinkling sugar on your food when you thought you were adding salt won’t hurt you, nor will putting salt in your coffee when you assumed you were using sugar. But errors like these are inconvenient, and they can wreck a meal. You may want to apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming days, Aries. Be alert for things that outwardly seem to be alike but actually have different tastes and effects. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a possible plan for the next ten days: Program your smart phone to sound an alarm once every hour during the entire time you’re awake. Each time the bell or buzzer goes off, you will vividly remember your life’s main purpose.You will ask yourself whether or not the activity you’re engaged in at that specific moment is somehow serving your life’s main purpose. If it is, literally pat yourself on the back and say to yourself, “Good job!” If it’s not, say the following words: “I am resolved to get into closer alignment with my soul’s code—the blueprint of my destiny.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Actress Marisa Berenson offers a line of anti-aging products that contain an elixir made from the seeds of a desert fruit known as prickly pear. The manufacturing process isn’t easy. To produce a quart of the potion requires 2,000 pounds of seeds. I see you as having a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming weeks, Gemini. To create a small amount of the precious stuff you want, I’m guessing you’ll have to gather a ton of raw materials. And there may be a desert-like phenomena to deal with, as well.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are three kinds of habits: good, bad and neutral. Neutral habits are neither good nor bad but use up psychic energy that might be better directed into cultivating good habits. Here are some examples: a good habit is when you’re disciplined about eating healthy food; a bad habit is watching violent TV shows before going to bed, thereby disturbing your sleep; a neutral habit might be doing Sudoku puzzles. My challenge to you, Cancerian, is to dissolve one bad habit and one neutral habit by replacing them with two new good habits. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, cosmic forces will be on your side as you make this effort.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology: Good fortune has been visiting me a lot lately. Many cool opportunities have come my way. Life is consistently interesting. I’ve also made two unwise moves that fortunately didn’t bring bad results. Things often work out better for me than I imagined they would! I’m grateful every day, but I feel like I should somehow show even more appreciation. Any ideas? -Lucky Leo.” Dear Lucky:The smartest response to the abundance you have enjoyed is to boost your generosity. Give out blessings. Dispense praise. Help people access their potentials. Intensify your efforts to share your wealth. to get together with him and his friend when I visited New York. “Maybe you know her?” c wanted he wrote. “She’s the artist Cindy Sherman.” Back then I had never heard of Cindy. But since Paul VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago, a fan of my work named Paul emailed to ask me if I
was smart and funny, I agreed to meet. The three of us convened in an elegant tea room for a boisterous conversation. A week later, when I was back home and mentioned the event to a colleague, her eyes got big and she shrieked, “You had tea with THE Cindy Sherman.” She then educated me on how successful and influential Cindy’s photography has been. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience,Virgo: inadvertent contact with an intriguing presence. Hopefully, because I’ve given you a heads up, you’ll recognize what’s happening as it occurs, and take full advantage.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll never get access to the treasure that’s buried out under the cherry tree next to the ruined barn if you stay in your command center and keep staring at the map instead of venturing out to the barn. Likewise, a symbol of truth may be helpful in experiencing deeper meaning, but it’s not the same as communing with the raw truth, and may even become a distraction from it. Let’s consider one further variation on the theme:The pictures in your mind’s eye may or may not have any connection with the world outside your brain. It’s especially important that you monitor their accuracy in the coming days. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to go gallivanting so heedlessly into e the labyrinth. Or maybe it was. Who knows? It’s still too early to assess the value of your experiences in that maddening but fascinating tangle.You may not yet be fully able to distinguish the smoke and mirrors
from the useful revelations. Which of the riddles you’ve gathered will ultimately bring frustration and which will lead you to wisdom? Here’s one thing I do know for sure: If you want to exit the labyrinth, an opportunity will soon appear. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Over the years I’ve read numerous news reports about people who have engaged in intimate relations with clunky inanimate objects. One had sex with a bicycle. Another seduced a sidewalk, and a third tried to make sweet love to a picnic table. I hope you won’t join their ranks in the coming weeks. Your longing is likely to be extra intense, innovative and even exotic, but I trust you will confine its expression to unions with adult human beings who know what they’re getting into and who have consented to play. Here’s an old English word you might want to add to your vocabulary: “blissom.” It means “to bleat with sexual desire.”
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):Your life in the coming days should be low on lightweight diversions and high in top-quality content. Does that sound like fun? I hope so. I’d love to see you enjoy the hell out of yourself as you cut the fluff and focus on the pith ... as you efficiently get to the hype-free heart of every matter and refuse to tolerate waffling or stalling. So strip away the glossy excesses, my dear Capricorn. Skip a few steps if that doesn’t cause any envy. Expose the pretty lies, but then just work around them; don’t get bogged down in indulging in negative emotions about them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Inventor, architect and author Buckminster Fuller lived to the age of 87. For 63 of those years, he kept a detailed scrapbook diary that documented every day of his life. It included his reflections, correspondence, drawings, newspaper clippings, grocery bills and much other evidence of his unique story. I would love to see you express yourself with that much disciplined ferocity during the next two weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you’re in a phase when you have maximum power to create your life with vigorous ingenuity and to show everyone exactly who you are.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a cosmic license to enjoy almost too much sensual pleasure. In addition, you should feel free to do more of what you love to do than you normally allow yourself. Be unapologetic about surrounding yourself with flatterers and worshipers. Be sumptuously lazy. Ask others to pick up the slack for you. Got all that? It’s just the first part of your oracle. Here’s the rest: You have a cosmic license to explore the kind of spiritual growth that’s possible when you feel happy and fulfilled. As you go through each day, expect life to bring you exactly what you need to uplift you. Assume that the best service you can offer your fellow humans is to be relaxed and content. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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PUBLIC NOTICES STEPHEN A. AUEN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25 day of May, 2017 /s/ Stephen A. Auen, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause Probate No. DP-13-182 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEBORAH C. RAMSEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James W. Ramsey, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: March 5th, 2014 /s/ James W. Ramsey Personal Representative Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-17-47 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN B. PARKER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Douglas C. Parker, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW
OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: March 1, 2017 /s/ Douglas C. Parker Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-17-135 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY PHILIP a/k/a SHIRLEY SUE PHILIP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Shawn Kretchmer, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26th day of May, 2017, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Shawn Kretchmer, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Shawn Kretchmer, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Case No. DP17-98 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of KAREN G. TIPP, 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 (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 Bryan C. Tipp, the Personal Representative, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed
PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 18th day of April, 2017. /s/ Bryan C. Tipp MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-17-146 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ESTHER RUTH WEBER, 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 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 certified mail, return receipt requested, to Levonne E. Campbell, c/o WORDEN THANE P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 6 day of June,2017. /s/ Levonne E. Campbell, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JU-
DICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP17-131 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: VIRGINIA L. FOREMAN, 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 ALEXANDER D. VRAC, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of May, 2017. /s/ Alex Vrac, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ David H. Bjornson, Attorneys for ALEXANDER D.VRAC, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 John W. Larson Cause No.: DP-17-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
RE THE ESTATE OF: RAYMOND O. WIEDMER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda K. Garberg, 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 Linda K. Garberg, Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13 day of March, 2017. 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 15 day of March 2017. /s/ Linda K. Garberg, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by LINDY M. LAUDER, as successor Trustee, of the
public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER IS/ARE: Grantor: William Austin Pugh, III (“Grantor”) Original Trustee: Charles Peterson Successor Trustee: Lindy M. Lauder, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary:Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: William Austin Pugh, III THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book 756 of Micro Records at Page 1609. RECORDING DATA: The
following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Montana Trust Indenture to secure an original indebtedness of $67,143.24, dated June 13, 2006, and recorded June 22, 2006, as Document No. 200615125, Book 777 of Micro Records at Page 498, records of Missoula County, Montana; and Substitution of Trustee dated April 20, 2017, and recorded May 1, 2017, under Document No. 201707212 Book 978 Page 70, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $625.42 due under the Trust Indenture Note dated June 13, 2006, which is secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. The borrower is due for the September 1, 2016 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF APRIL 5, 2017 ARE: Principal: $48,111.92 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 9.490% per annum. As of April 5, 2017, the interest balance is $3,486.91 and interest accrues at the rate of $12.51
per day. Late fees: $40.00 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the pro-
ceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: September 21, 2017 Time: 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 S. Fourth St., Suite 100,
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Missoula, MT 59807-7099 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated this 2nd day of May, 2017. /s/ Lindy M. Lauder LINDY M. LAUDER Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on May 2, 2017, by Lindy M. Lauder, as Trustee. /s/ Dawn L. Hanninen [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: February 14, 2020 File No.: 093399-000007 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on September 29, 2017 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the
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time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: Missoula County Courthouse, on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Jon R Binney, and Brenda J Binney, Husband and Wife as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title Ins. of CA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Decision One Mortgage Company, LLC, its successors and assigns, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated July 21, 2005 and was recorded on July 27, 2005 as Instrument No. 200519014 in Book 756 at Page 1535 Mircro Records, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The
Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 15 Virginia Drive, Missoula, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 1 OF VIRGINIA VILLAGE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments beginning February 1, 2013 through May 12, 2017 in the principal amount of $8,208.55; plus late fees in the amount of $1,298.11; plus total advances in the amount of $721.90 together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $126,939.10 with interest thereon at the rate of 8.92000 percent per annum beginning January 1, 2013 in the amount of $10,942.03; plus late charges due in the amount of $1,298.11; plus other fees and costs in the amount of $728.90; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is fur-
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ther given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: May 1, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 3, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5641, LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Michael R McVey, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 18, 2007, and recorded on June 25, 2007 as Book 800 Page 290 Document No. 200716085. The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 July 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 8, 2016 is $217,245.14 principal, interest totaling $32,100.57, escrow advances of $20,211.68, suspense balance of $-27.84 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,915.70, 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: May 16, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 16th day of May, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Caliber Home Loans vs Michael R McVey 100761-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 4, 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 A46 Of Windsor Park, Phase III, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. KARLA TECCA and VINCENT TECCA, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 20, 2007, and recorded on April 20, 2007 as Book 795 Page 1176 Document No. 200709481 Modification Agreement
recorded May 5, 2014, Book 928 of Micro Records at Page 131 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 January 1, 2017, 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 May 4, 2017 is $239,240.85 principal, interest totaling $3,611.82 late charges in the amount of $130.46, escrow advances of $1,556.49, suspense balance of $-600.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $201.35, 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 envi-
PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP ronmental 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: May 26, 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 26 day of May, 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/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 Seterus vs Tecca 100866-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 5, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 2 OF NEW MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING
TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 13 OF PLATS AT PAGE 16. Christopher S Hewitt and Stephanie M Hewitt, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for American Home Mortgage, its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on August 26, 2005, and recorded on August 31, 2005 as Book 759 Page 426 Document No. 200522819. The beneficial interest is currently held by United Guaranty. 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 June 24, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 19, 2017 is $28,276.32 principal, interest totaling $23,245.60 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: May 26, 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 26 day of May, 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/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 Law Offices of Goldberg & Oriel vs Christopher S Hewitt Stephanie M Hewitt 102829-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 25, 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 94 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Ronald James Fenlon, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Liberty American Mortgage Corp. , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 22, 2005, and recorded on August 29, 2005 as Book 759 Page 146 Document No. 200522539. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank, N.A., Successor Trustee to LaSalle Bank National Association, on behalf of the Holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2005HE12, Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2005-HE12. 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 July 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 February 8, 2017 is $187,468.32 principal, interest totaling $4,844.54 late charges in the amount of $108.96, escrow advances of $3,172.38, and other fees and expenses advanced of $43.91, plus accruing inter-
est, 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: May 17, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 17th day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 SPS vs Fenlon 102958-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 28, 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:The E1/2 of Lot 25,
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 21, 104, 133, 157, 159, 279, 284, 318, 681 & 683. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, June 26, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 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
all of Lots 26 and 27 and the W1/2 of Lot 28 in Block 61 of SUPPLEMENT TO CAR LINE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 522 at Page 733 Micro Records JAMES K HARBISON and SUSAN E HARBISON, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Financial Montana Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on December 14, 2005, and recorded on December 20, 2005 as Book 766 Page 391 Document No. 200533743. The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 January 31, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 15, 2017 is $193,022.70 principal, interest totaling $27,292.30, escrow advances of $14,138.25, and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,604.30, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 4150/Joseph Grady/$554/furniture 239/Richard Stevenson/$447/furniture SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT
www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, June 14, 2017 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.
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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: May 12,
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 12th day of May, 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/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 09-06-2022 Caliber Home Loans vs JAMES K HARBISONSusan E Harbison 102447-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 29, 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: Parcel A of The Amended Plat Of Tract 1 And 2 Of CALRTON Tracts, Block 2, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. Together With An Easement For Access Over 20 Foot Strip Along An Existing Road Parallel to the North Portion Of The Westerly Boundary Of The Above Described Parcel A. More Accurately Described as Follows: Parcel A of The Amended Plat Of Tract 1 And 2 Of CARLTON Tracts, Block 2, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. Together With An Easement For Access Over 20 Foot Strip Along An Existing Road Parallel to the North Portion Of The Westerly Boundary Of The Above Described Parcel A. RUBY FINCH, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 7, 2005, and recorded on June 8, 2005 as Book 754 Page 40 under Document No. 200513735. The bene-
ficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation aka PHH Mortgage Services. 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 February 1, 2017, 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 May 2, 2017 is $95,944.79 principal, interest totaling $1,894.36 late charges in the amount of $52.40, escrow advances of $116.21, and other fees and expenses advanced of $81.00, 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
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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 COL-
LECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 23, 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 23rd day of May, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, person-
ally 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/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-62022 PHH vs FINCH 101879-2
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HOMES FOR SALE 1302 Linnea.Well-designed 4 bed, 3 bath with patio and attached single garage. $235,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
1817 South 5th West. Adorable, sunny 2 bed, 1 bath bungalow with fireplace, large yard & great irrigation ditch. $250,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
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2 Bdr, 1 Bath South 39th St home, $245,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer
2000 Raymond. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath Rattlesnake home with wood floors, stonework, sun room and covered patio. $335,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $182,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Franklin to The Fort home with a large barn. $325,000. 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 visitwww.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
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 901 Defoe. Updated 3 bed, 1 bath with new flooring & deck, Near Northside pedestrian bridge. $229,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 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
3701 Brandon. 4 bed, 3 bath with cook’s kitchen, 2 gas fireplaces and great views. $419,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Grant Creek home on 5.7 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with
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ACROSS 1 Greek letters shaped like pitchforks 5 Retired NHLer Larionov whose nickname was "The Professor" 9 Wright of 2017's "Wonder Woman" 14 Hosiery shade 15 Neighborhood near Greenwich Village, slangily 16 Bacteria in spinach recalls 17 Poetic foot 18 Vivacity 19 Crack filler 20 Racquetball match, in a way? 23 Debtor's note 24 2010 Apple debut 25 With 44-Across, exasperated complaint about endless corridors? 31 ___Pen (injector for some allergic reactions) 34 Garlicky dip for sweet potato fries, e.g. 35 "Look ___ this way ..." 36 Seize suddenly 37 Pouting countenances 38 Tony-winning Sweeney portrayer Cariou 39 Part of an M.O.? 40 Dies down
41 "Shameless" blurb 42 "I would give all my fame for a pot ___ and safety": Shakespeare's "Henry V" 43 Montreal steak seasoning? 44 See 25-Across 46 Part of Q.E.D. 48 Ear, in German 49 Left like a tossed football? 55 African country just north of the equator 56 Move like a batch of homemade slime 57 Ingredient in some diaper rash creams 59 Limp Bizkit frontman Fred 60 Taj Mahal location 61 Embarrassing defeat 62 "Orange" drink that's really black 63 Yearling, previously 64 Her friends include a Backpack and Map
DOWN 1 Louvre Pyramid architect I.M. 2 Scraped elbow souvenir 3 Jon's usual waitress, in "Garfield" 4 Feature on some Blu-Rays 5 "Rhapsody ___" 6 45th American vice president 7 Only U.S. state with a non-rectangular flag 8 It provides coverage 9 Episode summaries 10 City between Jacksonville and Tampa 11 Barrier later renamed for Herbert Hoover
12 Maladies 13 No-good conclusion? 21 Andrew Marvell's "___ Coy Mistress" 22 Go bad, like kale 25 Willie of "Eight Is Enough" and "Charles in Charge" 26 Weeping statue of Greek legend 27 Be an ass in the lot, maybe 28 "X-Men: Days of Future Past" star Berry 29 Bought hook, line and sinker 30 Specialized slang 32 St. _ Girl (German beer brand) 33 "Peer Gynt" dramatist Henrik 36 Phrase before "Move ahead" in "Whip It" 39 McCafe option 41 "2017: The Year for Animal Liberation" sponsor 44 Martial art debuting as an Olympic event in Tokyo in 2020 45 Game show option after The Banker makes an offer 47 Bygone detergent with an apt brand name 49 "Leaving Las Vegas" actress Elisabeth 50 Boulangerie purchase 51 Airer of "RuPaul's Drag Race" before it moved to VH1 52 MSNBC contributor Klein 53 ___ gobi (Indian potato dish) 54 "How to Train ___ Dragon" 55 National economic indicator, for short 58 Announcement of when Alaska lands in Washington, e.g.
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Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.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 anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
LAND FOR SALE 13221 Old Freight. Approximately 11 acres near St. Ignatius with incredible Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard,
Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.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 2.1 acre waterfront lot in Alberton. $179,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest
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BUSINESS 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 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $385,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
1543 34th St — $375,000
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6944 SHAVER DR. $440,000 NEW 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home featuring a spacious master suite with ample closets and a soak tub, hickory wood floors, granite counter tops, a 1,000+ sqft over-sized triple garage, and so much more! Call Matt Rosbarsky at 390-9023 for more information.
3725 Jack Drive • $359,900 Lovely 4 bed, 3.5 bath on Maloney Ranch open space walking trail. Great views, deck, hot tub & lots of natural light. Attached 3 car garage.
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