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Voices The readers write................................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Magic Men, voter ‘fraud,’ and Bigfoot’s footprint...............................................6 Etc. Football hurts..........................................................................................................7 News Triepke surrogate Wes Spiker goes off script .......................................................8 News Grant Kier takes aim at Greg Gianforte’s seat......................................................9 Opinion Faculty cuts for dummies..............................................................................10 Opinion The real lesson of Helena’s Confederate monument...................................11 Feature A reader’s guide to the Montana Book Festival .............................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts The ( World) War (I) at home................................................................................20 Music Oh Sees, Future Islands, the Lil Smokies ..........................................................21 Film Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure returns .........................................................................22 TV Strong Island and the long wait for justice ............................................................23 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................24 BrokeAss Gourmet Homemade pumpkin spice lattes ..............................................25 Happiest Hour Bottling cider .....................................................................................27 8 Days a Week Now with more rain! ..........................................................................28 Agenda Future of the U: a public forum .....................................................................37 Mountain High Festival of the Cycle...........................................................................38
Exclusives
Street Talk......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................39 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................40 Free Will Astrolog y.....................................................................................................42 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................45 This Modern World.....................................................................................................46
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STREET TALK
by Alex Sakariassen
Asked Friday afternoon at the Southside KettleHouse This week the Indy’s cover story is all about the Missoula Book Festival.
What book are you reading right now? If you were on a date, what’s the last book you’d want to see on your date’s coffee table?
Andy Meyers: I’m in theater, so usually my reading list is a stack of scripts for upcoming projects. I’m heading down to Arizona for a production of Man of La Mancha. Not my bestseller: Trump’s biography, Art of the Deal.
Anthony Roth: I just finished a Christopher Moore book called Island of the Sequined Love Nun. It’s a weird book about organ theft. Bondage is overrated: Fifty Shades of Grey. Just seems like that’s all anyone talks about when they talk about books.
Willie Boyle: I’m not reading anything right now, but what I want to read is a book called This is…. something. I don’t remember the exact title. It’s about a 17year-old kid, what’s going on with the environment, everything. A little on the nose: So I Married an Axe Murderer [ed. note: Umm, that’s a movie.]
Kristen Hoon: I’m reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It’s about these kids that live in a time loop … I’m not sure if it’s adult fiction or something in between. Why so serious? Maybe something that is nonfiction, that’s super deep into something like money or how to watch your money.
Bob Skogley: Mother Jones magazine, Funny Times magazine. I’m terribly bad about reading books. But I do read the Missoulian and the Independent every day. Let’s hope not: Does Ted Cruz have an autobiography?
Another take In last week’s review of Mother! (“Mother! only masquerades as feminism,” Sept. 13), MaryAnn Johanson begins: “I cannot recall the last time a film made me as angry as Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! has.” I can relate to that, because never before has a film review made me so mad! Johanson’s complaints are as follows. 1) The characters are one-dimensional. 2) The story is misogynistic. 3) The film makes no sense. 4) The director is bad at making movies and/or hates women? (This one is purely my conjecture, based on the otherwise unsupported, ad hominem claim that “Aronofsky’s head wended further and further up his own cinematic ass…” It’s true that Mother! isn’t easily pinned down. Read 50 reviews and you will find 50 interpretations. Instead of pat lessons, Aronofsky has given us the messy unfolding of an archetypal woman’s psychological nightmare. To unlock its secrets demands repeated viewing. Is Mother’s subservient relationship to her older, poet husband a critique of traditional gender roles? A cautionary comment on the sin of co-dependency? Does the blood seeping from the floorboards constitute a Lady MacBeth-esque breakdown or a literal event? Perhaps it’s a biblical allegory, but careful with that: If anybody’s giving away their rib in this picture, it’s Eve. Not understanding a film does not mean the film has no meaning. I think Johanson incorrectly assumes that Aronofsky believes he’s making a feminist movie. I see Mother! as apolitical, if anything. The film shows humanity at its worst, and neither gender escapes that judgment. It’s true that Mother never leaves the house, and of course women should be allowed to do that. What I don’t understand is why Johanson is so scandalized to find a horror film filled with horrible things. What is art for but to exorcise our demons, in lieu of tearing each other apart? Again, I must insist: Putting bad things on screen and condoning bad things is not the same thing. Conflate the two, and you risk missing out on a modern masterpiece. Molly Laich missoulanews.com
Mirroring life At the heart of it, this movie is really about an abusive relationship. All your points are accurate and the movie is horribly misogynistic, but perhaps where we differ is in our interpretation of the meaning behind it. Perhaps I perceived it wrong, but
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this movie in many ways acts as a mirror of our society and its casual mistreatment of women. The film is uncomfortable, and I think that’s why I liked it. You feel tension. You feel anger. It’s an intense roller-coaster acid trip of a film, and you’re along for the ride with Jennifer Lawrence’s character the whole way. I will not say it was a satisfying film, but I’m glad I saw it once, though I will probably not be watching it again any time soon. Kyle Fordham missoulanews.com
Move on, Daines By the time I finish writing this letter, the rains may have arrived, bringing relief to western Montana from recordbreaking dryness, fires and smoke. We
“I don’t understand why Johanson is so scandalized to find a horror film filled with horrible things. What is art for but to exorcise our demons, in lieu of tearing each other apart?”
all need a break, especially those individuals and families who may have suffered losses this fire season. There’s been talk about “the need for forest management reform,” especially from Sen. Steve Daines. Part of the senator’s pitch is blaming “extreme environmentalists” for the severity of this fire season. While blaming other Montanans may feel good, it’s actually incorrect and unproductive. If we as a society are going to address the risk of fire to our homes and communities, we need to focus on the facts. Montana’s largest fire, the Lodgepole Complex Fire, burned more than 270,723 acres of mostly grassland in eastern Montana, and large wildfires raged in British Columbia with no pesky federal laws standing in the way of
“management.” Leadership requires real solutions, not scapegoating. University of Montana forest scientist Andrew Larson said recently, “climate and weather drive fire.” Sen. Daines has said nothing about how climate may have contributed to this year’s fire season. However, most people know what they have seen: an extremely hot, dry and long summer that is at least in part due to climate change. It’s that obvious. A Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation forester told me just yesterday that forest fuels are drier than ever. Large fuels (downed trees) may have 10 percent moisture content. Smaller fuels (twigs and branches) may be at 4 percent. That’s really dry. Over the last 10 to 15 years, Montana’s national forests have authorized numerous timber sales in the wildland urban interface. Millions of board feet of timber have flowed to Montana mills as a result of these sales that have simultaneously reduced fire risk to private property lying next to public forests. In addition, the 2014 Farm Bill provided new authority for the Forest Service and Montana to work together to identify priority treatment areas of our national forests. In addition, localized and specific forest thinning can help protect private homes or structures. The North Fork Landowners Association has promoted a very successful “Fire Wise” program that has helped North Fork Flathead landowners reduce the risk to their property. Their progress serves as a model for other communities and neighborhoods. But no amount of timber cutting or lawsuits would have stopped this year’s fires, driven by extreme dryness, wind and other local factors. Let there be no doubt, we have a long-term fire problem on our hands, and it’s driven by climate and weather. Summers will be hotter and longer on average. That’s what climate scientists have been saying and predicting for years. Now we know that those predictions—based on sound science—have been accurate. Most Montanans get it. The climate is changing. Bigger fires are here to stay. It’s past time to plan for this reality—for our kids’ sake. Blaming others is so yesterday. The people are ahead of the politicians, and it’s time for Montana’s junior senator to move on too, and deal with the reality of climate change. Dave Hadden Director, Headwaters Montana Big fork
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WEEK IN REVIEW
Voter fraud?
Wednesday, September 13
Stapleton (double)speaks
Bozeman’s Wayne Bartlett, whose dogs attacked and killed his landlord in June, is ordered pay more than $15,500 in restitution, most of it to the family of 65-year-old Melissa Barnes, who died after the attack.
A fight was months in the making. Corey Stapleton, Montana’s new secretary of state, had sunk his teeth into voter fraud like a dog with a bone, telling anyone who would listen about the danger posed by illegal ballots cast in the recent special election for U.S. House. Missoula state Sen. Sue Malek was eager to snatch that bone away, sending Stapleton a letter demanding he appear before legislators at a Sept. 14 interim committee to support his claims. Stapleton didn’t show. He sent his chief of staff, Christi Jacobson, to read a letter in which he blamed the media and Malek for “the incorrect accusation of widespread voter fraud.” Since Malek’s demand was based on a bad premise, he said, he couldn’t provide the evidence she requested. “Thanks for your interest!” the letter concluded. The clash over Montana election integrity had devolved into a semantic blame game. Stapleton’s claim was that the number of ballots cast (but not counted) with mismatched signatures—0.0009 percent of all ballots cast—suggests that voter fraud is more common than local elections officials acknowledge. In her letter, Malek, summarizing an Associated Press story, referenced Stapleton “saying there were 360 cases of voter
Thursday, September 14 More than 30 Flathead Valley schools close after receiving threatening electronic messages from an anonymous source, which tells the Flathead Beacon it wants “to exterminate human life.”
Friday, September 15 Snow falls before fall even begins. Nobody is mad, though, because we’ve all decided we’d rather the world end by ice than by fire.
Saturday, September 16 More than a dozen leaders of Native American tribes gather in Yellowstone National Park to protest park names commemorating historical figures who encouraged and perpetrated the massacre of Native Americans.
Sunday, September 17
fraud.” Stapleton said that characterization is false. Stapleton had been less precise in his wording when he accused Missoula County election officials in June of allowing a single instance of “mail ballot voter fraud” involving a mismatched signature. Local officials argued the discrepancy was properly reported and likely involved a mail delivery mix-up. Then, in a lengthy Sept. 17 newsletter, Stapleton complained of “critics” who point out that the establishment of “fraud” requires evidence of fraudulent intent. The newsletter goes on to lay out Stapleton’s reasoning for commissioning a “top-down review of Montana’s entire election system.” “Being an engineer,” he notes that in the 2016 presidential election, 240 of 518,059 Montana ballots were rejected for mismatched signatures. And in the May special election, 363 of 385,134 Montana ballots were rejected—still a miniscule percentage, but roughly doubled. Stapleton’s office did not respond to a request for comment, but the numbers show that the proportion of ballots rejected simply because they were submitted late or without a signature similarly increased in 2017. The Indy ran the figures through an online statistics calculator and found that the jump in “illegal ballots” is not statistically significant—though the jump in overall rejected ballots is.
Missoula County elections administrator Rebecca Connors says her office saw no such spike, but she speculates that differences in the rates of rejected ballots have more to do with differences in the ways local officers categorize ballots than in any attempted fraud. Still, she says, the statewide rejected ballot “survey” Stapleton is orchestrating could provide useful information—about mailing issues, for instance—and Missoula County plans to participate. But, given her earlier experience, Connors figures the secretary has a “hidden agenda” to politicize whatever findings emerge. “This is going to be used for 2019 legislation, whatever that means,” she says. Derek Brouwer
Object lessons
Raining men at UM Last Friday night, anyone looking for the Magic Men male striptease revue at the Dennison Theatre could just follow the screaming. A packed house of women (and at least three men) had the party started long before the show began. By the time a very hyped MC came out on stage, they were ready. And they stayed ready, screaming for two solid hours. “You are going to see all kinds of men!” the MC told the crowd. Except ones with body hair! The men
A leaked White House memo reveals that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommends reducing the size of six national monuments, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in Utah, Gold Butte in Nevada, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and two marine monuments in the Pacific.
Monday, September 18 Greg Johnson announces his retirement as artistic director of the Montana Repertory Theatre after 29 years on the job. He’ll oversee one last show before stepping down in May.
Tuesday, September 19 The state Supreme Court grants an ACLU petition challenging the “legally insufficient” ballot language of I-183, aka the anti-trans “bathroom bill,” and orders Montana’s attorney general to revise the initiative's ballot language and fiscal statement.
The wonderful team over here at TheDarkOverlord Solutions can be your best friend if you cooperate with us.” —Excerpt from a ransom note sent to the Columbia Falls School District by cyberterrorist suspects whose extortion efforts shut down school activities across the Flathead Valley for several days. The group demanded up to $150,000 in bitcoin, threatening to otherwise release personal student and staff data stolen from district servers.
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[news] all shared similar body types and grooming styles. The lights went out and a video intro displayed the name of the opening number: “The Rain Men.” What? Was this going to be a tribute to Dustin Hoffman’s Oscar-winning performance in the 1988 film? Nope, just a confusingly named act best described as Dubstep Fosse, with umbrellas instead of canes. The Magic Men are good dancers and great entertainers, but one technical issue distracted from the performance. The dancers kept having to bend over and take off their shoes before they could take off their pants. This is a problem that was solved by tearaway pants long ago. Why must the Magic Men go without them? Maybe the costume budget is exhausted on the dozens of white tank undershirts they rip off every night. As they faithfully reproduce the climactic number from MMXXL, the Magic Men resemble a really good cover band doing the band’s biggest hit. As if to expand on the concept, the finale is a group Backstreet Boys bit, which slays the crowd. Male strippers-as-boy band is a cute acknowledgment of how grown women are always a little bit teen girl inside, or maybe of how teen girls are a little bit filthy-minded. Our group was composed entirely of women who’ve worked as strippers, and we greatly enjoyed joking about asking the guys the same questions we’d been asked a thousand times: What’s your real name? Is this all you do? Do your parents know? Questions they don’t get so much because, for the most part, men in the sex industry don’t carry the same stigma that women do. As compensation, stripping is one of the few jobs where women outearn men and have more options. But media about female strippers doesn’t contain one tenth of the joy and exuberance that accompanies Magic Mike, or a Magic Men show. This has as much to do with the gender of the audience as with that of the performers. Men aren’t encouraged to be this happy in public unless it’s a sporting event where their team wins and someone else loses. Speaking of: Athletes are one masculine archetype left out of the male stripper game. A basketball shorts set would kill. Magic Men uses tropes both classic (cowboys, military) and pop-cultural (Netflix and Chill, Fifty Shades of Grey). One of the women I sat with said, “They should do a Titanic set!” They really should, considering the demographics. But also, she was probably
born after Titanic came out? That would be like a Gen Xer requesting an All The President’s Men set. Which, come to think of it, would be hot as hell. Why has Dustin Hoffman come to mind more often than Channing Tatum? Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Cryptid watch
Bigfoot’s footprint Seth Breedlove’s production company, Small Town Monsters, makes documentaries about cryptids, sasquatches and monsters. Whatever you call them, many are variations on Bigfoot. To kick off the Big Sky Bigfoot Conference, which takes place in Hamilton this year, Breedlove will show his film Boggy Creek Monster at the Roxy on Thursday, Sept. 21. When Breedlove was in his mid-20s, he started gathering old stories about a monster that had been sighted near his hometown in Ohio. “Some of the people told me really weird stuff, like seeing Bigfoot and then finding deer ripped in half and stuffed up in trees,” Breedlove says. Fascinated, and with a background in newspaper journalism, Breedlove pitched a book about monsters. When it was “unanimously rejected,” he decided to make documentaries instead. So far, his films have focused on towns in the eastern U.S. In the West, Breedlove says, reported sightings tend to feature less revulsion and fear, maybe because people here are more accustomed to sharing the landscape with giant furry beasts. “It’s more like a grizzly bear,” he says. “There’s less of the mythic or folkloric side of it up there. I’m not saying that people out West are more prone to believing in Bigfoot, but I think it’s viewed more like, if it does exist, maybe it’s just this animal.” While sightings of many of the creatures Breedlove researches peaked 40 or 50 years ago, he says there’s an increasingly younger attendance at cryptid-focused events. Upticks in cryptid sightings, he notes, tend to coincide with times of turmoil.
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$25.1 million Budget expenditures omitted, due to clerical error, from the city budget resolution approved by Missoula City Council in July. City officials said Sept. 18 that the missing items had already been approved by council and would not affect property taxes. “I keep getting asked why Bigfoot and cryptids are big right now, and I honestly think it’s the fact that the world as it stands today is so crappy, that there’s something very appealing about going out in the woods and looking for something that everyone else says doesn’t exist,” he says. While Breedlove’s work takes a skeptical approach to the existence of cryptids, he has complete faith in his human subjects. “I don’t think these people are all lying when they say they saw what they saw,” Breedlove says. “And I genuinely hope that whatever they think they saw exists. I really do. It’s just—I would love to see something for myself before I can say that I think they exist.” In keeping with the “Small Town” in the production company’s name, Breedlove’s films are focused on cryptids’ impact on towns and people, not on proving or disproving the existence of any particular creature. What matters to Breedlove isn’t proof. It’s documenting stories and the ways they affect communities. “These pieces of history are not carefully documented and preserved by historical societies, they’re just not. They are typically looked at as kind of a joke by the towns where they happened,” Breedlove says. “Our movies are about capturing those stories and putting them in a bottle so someday kids can look back and see these people talking about what they claim to have encountered.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard
ETC. Griz Nation must not be familiar with the news adage, “If it bleeds, it leads.” After QB Reese Phillips shattered his fibula and dislocated his left foot Saturday against Savannah State, a Missoulian photo drew the social media ire of Griz fans. There wasn’t any blood, just an image showing Phillips’ foot pointing in the opposite direction of his knee. Unpleasant for sure, but hardly the most graphic image in the history of sports injuries. Fans were merely devastated, not angry, that in the course of normal play, their starting QB suffered a season- and possibly careerending injury in a game the Griz won 56-3. The anger came when they saw a photo. Griz fan message boards and Twitter feeds lit up with demands that the newspaper remove the offending image from its website and Instagram feed. Phillips himself retweeted a fan’s screencap of the photo with the injury blacked out, as if the image were too triggering to repost. The Missoulian’s Griz beat reporter, Amie Just, told fans on Twitter that she’d get it taken down, but then said she was being overruled. The paper did delete the photo from its Instagram feed, “because we could not provide the same context that existed on our website,” Missoulian editor Kathy Best said in a form response that fans on eGriz.com shared. Best went on to say that the paper was obligated to show the “darker side” of college football, an argument that historically hasn’t been effective with Griz fans upset at local media. It’s tough to stand out as especially hostile to the press in the thin-skinned world of college football fandom, but to mix sports metaphors, this is a program and a fan base that has always punched above its weight class. One lone poster on the eGriz boards provided a link to a gallery of photos of Syrian children after a bombing in Aleppo, and suggested that some perspective was needed. A couple of readers agreed. The rest of the posters persisted in their barrage of calls and emails to Best. Despite the uproar, as of Tuesday afternoon the photo was still up, the last in a slideshow of 28 game photos. As with all the game photos, a “buy photo” button offered to take readers to a page where they could purchase the image in the size and finish of their choice.
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Triepked up Campaign surrogate Wes Spiker goes off script by Derek Brouwer
A Sept. 13 Missoulian guest column endorsing mayoral challenger Lisa Triepke seemed designed to prick nerves. Author Wes Spiker took aim at a dozen Missoula issues—entitled bicyclists, freeloading transients, whiny environmentalists, etc.—that he claimed to be “tired of.” Spiker introduced himself as a business owner, then railed against taxes, housing costs, Royce Engstrom’s salary and the rebuttals he expected to receive for voicing an opinion out of step with the “Keep Missoula weird” crowd. Then he urged support for Triepke. Spiker’s column made a splash on social media, where the usual array of progressive tastemakers decried its disdainful tone. Meanwhile, Spiker says, he received 27 phone calls from Missoulians thanking him for “the most courageous act” they’d ever seen in the newspaper and dozens of “thumbs up” gestures sent his way at last week’s Griz game against Savannah State. He couldn’t be happier with the reaction, he says, which has drawn attention to the underdog campaign he supports. It’s also a campaign Spiker gets paid to support. Spiker owns marketing agency Spiker Communications, and though the fact wasn’t disclosed in his column, the agency has been paid $10,923 as of July 25 for work with the Triepke campaign, according to previously reported state campaign finance disclosures. Spiker says he’s doing nothing unorthodox, pointing to a mudslinging letter published in 2014 by then-sheriff candidate T.J. McDermott’s campaign manager, Jim Parker, that didn’t disclose Parker’s position. But Spiker’s role in the Triepke campaign is more ambiguous. He and the candidate have insisted the agency’s work is limited to graphic design and ad buys, despite evidence suggesting a central role. Triepke says she didn’t ask or pay Spiker to write the column and didn’t see it before publication, though she
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and campaign volunteers have asked other business owners to write letters of support. That effort has so far been unsuccessful because, they say, Triepke’s supporters fear retribution from the mayor’s office. “I just thought he raised some really good points,” Triepke says of Spiker’s column. “He is the first business owner, whether he is helping us or not, that has risked his reputation and his business income to stand up and speak his voice.” After the column was published, state Rep. Ellie Hill Smith posted to
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Mayoral candidate Lisa Triepke on campaign strategist and op-ed writer Wes Spiker: “I just thought he raised some really good points.”
Facebook asking Missoulians to “decide if you want to do business with Spiker Communications.” Spiker laughs off the backlash, saying he doesn’t do much business locally. “I know who my market was. That’s my business. I’m not trying to speak to Ellie Hill and her minions of folks who get fired up...” he says. Spiker goes on to say he believes that a “great silent majority” in Missoula is ready to deal a blow to “progressives” led by three-term incumbent mayor John Engen. He channels Trump-style rhetoric in elaborating on the things he’s tired of—especially tran-
sients, whom he distinguishes from “homeless” people. “Transients don’t do anything except kill each other and rape people and scare the hell out of people from having their kids go to school here,” he says. While Spiker complains of services for transients, Triepke sketches a more measured position, saying she’s willing to spend taxpayer funds to address homelessness in the city. Spiker is no rogue contractor. He and another Spiker staffer are two of the nine people on Triepke’s volunteer leadership team. Financial disclosures list Spiker Communications as having billed the campaign only for “advertising,” which Triepke specifies as logo design and promotional materials such as yard signs. Spiker acknowledges that one of his staffers handles social media, because “that’s where this war is being fought.” In fact, media inquiries to the Triepke campaign are routed through a Spiker email address, and the agency sent out two campaign press releases in August. Asked if his firm is paid for consulting services, such as campaign strategy, Spiker initially replied, “Oh, God, no. No, no, not at all.” The Indy later requested to review campaign invoices. Spiker declined to provide copies, but did email a list of services the firm has billed Triepke for, including “campaign strategy.” Therein may lie another parallel with the McDermott campaign. Following a complaint by his opponent, McDermott was fined for three campaign finance violations. One involved an $11,105 payment to Westridge Creative, the firm owned by McDermott’s campaign manager, Jim Parker. The campaign claimed the expense was for yard signs and campaign cards, but a review of the invoice by the Commissioner of Political Practices discovered additional expenses for “campaign project management.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Candidate Kier Former land trust director steps into House race by Alex Sakariassen
In the waning days of 2015, Grant Kier found himself in a tough spot. Missoula County commissioners were deciding whether to adopt new subdivision regulations requiring developers to mitigate the loss of agricultural land. The proposed regulations had drawn support from the Missoula Community Food and Agriculture Coalition, long an ally of the nonprofit that Kier then headed, Five Valleys Land Trust. Wary that the regulations might diminish the value of Missoula-area farmland, Kier and Five Valleys opposed them. “It was a great lesson in recognizing that it’s not enough to agree in principle,” Kier says now. “That was a real hard process on a lot of folks in Missoula, myself included, and I think what we asked for was sort of a time-out to sit down together and figure out if we can find a better path forward … and look at this in a more holistic way.” Commissioners rejected the proposal in January 2016, and Kier says the relationship between the nonprofits has only grown stronger in the aftermath. But whatever path ag land protection takes in the future, Kier won’t be the one leading Five Valleys. After a decade as executive director, Kier stepped down Aug. 31 and, 12 days later, announced his candidacy for Montana’s at-large U.S. House seat, currently occupied by Rep. Greg Gianforte. Since joining Five Valleys in 2007, Kier—a Kansas-born hunter and mountain bike enthusiast—has overseen a doubling of the nonprofit’s full-time staff and accelerated conservation activity. In 2015, for example, the Nature Conservancy entrusted 160 acres on Marshall Mountain to Five Valleys, which in turn hopes to eventually transfer ownership to the city. And last year, Five Valleys secured its largest conservation easement to date: 5,800 acres in the northern Sapphires constituting a key wildlife corridor for elk, grizzlies and wolverines. Much of the nonprofit’s work, Kier says, has required advocating specific policies and tapping into federal funding streams.
“As I’ve gotten more adept at trying to figure out how you both craft laws that really work for people in Montana, and how you hold an administration accountable for delivering those laws, I feel more and more confident that I have the skill base and eye for going to D.C.,” he says. Kier and his wife, Becks, moved to Missoula in 2005 after Becks accepted a position as a geology professor at the University of Montana, though their move actually started before that. Kier, who has a master’s degree in geology, says he couldn’t find work when the couple first decided to relocate, so UM al-
recreation stakeholders. Kier says he was surprised to find those farmers and ranchers just as friendly and welcoming as the server who waited on him and Becks during their first dinner out in downtown Missoula. “Folks in rural and urban communities have far more in common than they [have] that divides them,” says Kier, who spearheaded Hamilton’s first $10 million open space bond. Now Kier is eager to unseat Gianforte, even if it means hanging up his bike and rifle for the foreseeable future. (“You’re not going to see me out hunting
Money Talks. Over $56,000 in Campaign Funds for a Mayoral Race Says… Special Interests Over 40 lawyers, including, some from out-ofstate, have donated. Is that because the City has spent millions of dollars on legal fees for a water deal that was originally supposed to be only $400,000 in legal fees?
Career Politics Countless statewide politicians and people involved with government have donated without concern for the lack of leadership and action over Missoula affordability and careless spending. Aren’t local leaders supposed to be spending time and energy on enacting local solutions as opposed to gaining statewide or regional popularity?
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After a decade at the helm of Five Valleys Land Trust, Grant Kier announced his candidacy for the U.S. House this month. He’s the second Democrat to file in the 2018 race, after Billings attorney John Heenan.
lowed Becks to defer her start for a year while Kier searched for a job. Eventually he found one, with Hamilton’s Bitter Root Land Trust, but the episode underscored for him just how difficult Montana’s job market can be. “No matter how talented you might be, and no matter how hard you work, it is hard to find jobs here that pay well and help you pay the bills,” Kier says. “I still carry with me that deep appreciation for what it takes to make things work in Montana.” Doing conservation work in western Montana also set Kier up for another lesson. His first task for the land trust in Hamilton was to meet with farmers and ranchers about forming a coalition that would include both agricultural and
television sets on this campaign trail,” he quips.) He plans to capitalize on his 12 years working with both rural and urban Montanans as he tours cities and towns statewide, applying the lessons he’s learned about how to talk, and how to listen. He says his greatest motivation, though, draws on his experience as a husband and a father troubled by the current state of political discourse. “I’ve got a really bright young daughter and I’ve got a brilliant wife who is the smartest and most capable person I know,” Kier says. “And I watched this administration and other candidates speak about women in ways that are despicable.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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The administration plans to determine which academic departments produce the least revenue for their costs, but it hasn’t done so yet. Instead, it sent the letters to lecturers based on reverse seniority. The ones hired last will be fired first. This approach saves money in the least efficient way possible. Because new hires tend to teach more classes than their senior colleagues and get paid less to do it, UM’s plan to lay off lecturers guarantees the maximum loss in teaching capacity per dollar saved.
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dropped by about 20 percent. Engstrom will teach two classes this year, in exchange for a salary of $117,000. The university expects to save $900,000 in salary and benefits by laying off 33 lecturers, at an average savings of $27,272 per lecturer. If they are laying off 33 McManigals and Stubblefields, they will lose instruction for upward of 130 classes. Or they could fire eight Engstroms and lose instruction for 16 classes. This comparison is misleading, partly because professors with seniority often teach upper-level courses that
tinue to undermine the reputation of an institution whose public image has already been tarnished. If the University of Montana were not in good hands—if the administration were not pursuing a wise strategy of prioritization to balance what it does with whom it serves, and instead just cutting willynilly, flailing about with no real plan— how would it behave differently? Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the ongoing devaluation of his graduate degree at combatblog.net.
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A teachable moment The real lesson behind Helena’s Confederate monument by Gabriel Furshong
As debate over our nation’s legacy of white supremacy continues to roil cities and towns from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Los Angeles, California, Confederate memorials fall like dominos. According to The New York Times, approximately 22 are on the chopping block and at least 23 have already been removed, including three in Western states, where such markers are rare. One memorial in downtown Helena was especially unique, and the circumstances of its removal offer a regional perspective on the national debate about the meaning and value of Confederate monuments. Since 1916, a granite fountain with a handsome brass cap has stood at the crest of Hill Park in Montana’s capital city. Until last month, the fountain was the only monument honoring the Confederate cause in the Northern Rockies, and the only one on public land in the Northwest. According to century-old newspaper records, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the monument because “history has never yet told the true story of the devotion to the South and the courage on the battlefield displayed by the Confederate solider.” From the perspective of Shane Morigeau, a state representative and enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes, the fountain tells a very different story. On Aug. 15, three days after white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, the Helena Independent Record published an open letter from Morigeau to the Helena City Commission. The letter was also signed by eight members of the American Indian Caucus of the Montana Legislature, including seven Democrats and one Republican, representing all seven Native reservations in the state. Their letter explained that the United Daughters of the Confederacy “openly supported the white supremacist
views and mission of the early Ku Klux Klan,” and public property “should not be used to promote Nazism, fascism, totalitarianism, separatism or racism.” Those words proved to be a tipping point for elected officials. That evening, city commissioners unanimously agreed to remove the monument. The following morning, a small group of protesters looked on as a crane lifted the fountain from its foundation. Two were arrested
“The perspective of folks at the Historical Society is very ethnocentric. They’re not asking what Native people or other people of color thought.” while another filmed the proceedings with his phone, a Confederate flag wrapped around his shoulders. Local historians also communicated their displeasure, including Bruce Whittenberg, executive director of the Montana Historical Society. “Rather than just destroy it and pretend like it never existed,” he told the Independent Record, “we should use it as a teachable moment.” However, the main lesson he and his staff hoped to impart was equally
controversial: the notion that the monument’s builders were not racists. The Historical Society’s interpretative historian, Ellen Baumler, told the Independent Record, “Some people believe that (the UDC’s) ulterior motive was support of the early Ku Klux Klan and to promote white supremacy. That may be true in other places, but I simply do not believe that was true in Helena.” Morigeau takes issue with this belief, which ignores the timing of the installation—in the heart of the Jim Crow era. “The perspective of folks at the Historical Society is very ethnocentric,” he told me. “They’re not asking what Native people or other people of color thought (about this monument).” He also expressed concern with the Historical Society’s failure to address the history of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. “The UDC were out to rewrite history, to make the Civil War about states’ rights rather than slavery,” Morigeau said. “When you put the monument in (this) context, then you can understand it as a glorification of inequality.” Despite these concerns, Morigeau shares Whittenberg’s interest in teachable moments and said he’d like to participate in a dialogue about how to interpret the monument site as the community moves forward. “This is a great opportunity for us to come together and talk about what should go there,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for us to send a signal to people across the country.” The fountain was “a reminder of an attempt to tell you who controls you,” Morigeau continued. “When I saw photos of the space without the fountain, I was at ease. I thought, ‘What a beautiful sight.’” Gabriel Furshong is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes in Montana.
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Seniors Gone Weird – Guests at Scotland’s Macdonald Loch Rannoch hotel were terrorized by Robert Fergus, 72, and his wife, Ruth, 69, in February when the Troon couple rampaged through the lobby with scissors and threatened to shoot other guests. The incident apparently began when Mrs. Fergus pounded on a hotel room door at 1:45 a.m., leading the guest within to call front desk staff, who Mrs. Fergus told her husband treated her “with hostility.” That’s when Mr. Fergus “reacted disproportionately” by running naked into the lobby with scissors, cutting communications cables and shouting that he would “slit” and “kill” onlookers. Meanwhile, Mrs. Fergus told staff she was going to “get a gun and shoot you,” according to prosecutor Michael Sweeney. Staff and guests ran out of the hotel, while Mr. and Mrs. Fergus returned to their room to pack and took off in their BMW. They were apprehended when they flagged down a police car to accuse the hotel staff of abusing them, and Mr. Fergus could not pass a breath test. At their sentencing on Sept. 1, their attorneys blamed overconsumption of alcohol for their behavior, noting that Robert Fergus “had previously been of good character.” Nonetheless, they were fined 4,100 pounds and ordered to pay 800 pounds to cover the cost of damage to the hotel. Criminal’s Remorse – An anonymous Australian tourist mailed back a small stone he lifted from the Cwmhir Abbey in Wales, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1176, in August. The thief included a note explaining his remorse: “I have been an avid follower of the Welsh kings and their history, and so I took this rock. Ever since, I have had the most awful luck as if Llewellyn (sic) himself was angry with me.” Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native prince of Wales, was beheaded and buried at the abbey in 1282, and legend says his ghost haunts the abbey. The trust that manages the abbey put the returned stone and the note on display, presumably to deter future sticky-fingered visitors. A Singular Obsession – In Wenzhou City, China, an 11-year-old boy underwent surgery in August to remove 26 magnetic Buckyballs from his penis. The balls caused a blockage in the boy’s urethra, which caused bleeding and swelling. He told pediatrician Wang Yongbiao that he put the toys in his penis because he was “curious.” (Bonus: The boy was identified in news reports as “Pi Pi.”)
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– An unnamed 35-year-old man in Liaoning Province in China was rushed to the hospital with intense pain and bloody urine in June, after having inserted sewing needles into his penis over the past year. It took doctors at the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region only an hour and a half to remove 15 needles, measuring from about 2 to 4 inches long. The urologist, Dr. Cao Zhiqiang, said patients who engage in this type of behavior “are looking for excitement through unusual ways.” He suggested caution for those who “fascinate about peculiar sex.” Ironies – A Turkish homeless man who was sentenced to house arrest in June has had his sentence altered to better reflect his circumstances. Baris Alkan, 31, had been confined to a specific area, an empty spot enclosed by metal plates, near a bus station after being detained for using and selling drugs. “I don’t have a home address, so I have to stay here,” he said. “Even though I don’t have a house, I’m under house arrest.” The court subsequently lifted the house arrest order and now requires Alkan to sign in at a nearby police station once a month. People Different From Us – Emily Mueller, 33, of Ohio asked a photographer friend, Kendrah Damis, to take pictures of her pregnant with her fourth child—and covered in 20,000 bees. Mueller, who is a beekeeper, checked with her doctor before the photo session and was stung three times during the shoot. She said she associates bees with life and death: “Bees came into my life in a time that we had just suffered a miscarriage,” Mueller said. “That’s where everything fell into place for me—when honeybees entered my life.” She hopes the maternity photos will highlight the importance of bees. Least Competent Criminals – Steven Gomez-Maya, 20, handed tellers at the TD Bank North in Seymour, Connecticut, a note on Aug. 19, demanding money. He apparently failed to notice that his note was written on the back of his girlfriend’s pay stub, and when he tried to return to the bank (presumably to retrieve the note), the doors were locked. Seymour police tracked down the owner of the pay stub, and when they arrived at the girlfriend’s home, they caught Gomez-Maya as he was driving away. The hat he wore during the robbery and “a large amount of $10 bills” were found in the car, and he was charged with first-degree robbery. Animals Run Amok – A swan on the grounds of Blarney Castle in Ireland suffered a harrowing experience on Aug. 31 when it landed in a field where cattle were grazing. At first, the cattle just looked the swan over, but when the bird hissed at them, they took off after it. The swan tried to fly away, but the cows butted and stamped on it. Garden manager at the castle Adam Whitbourn was finally able to lean over a fence and drag the swan out of harm’s way. “It was an aggressive attack,” Whitbourn said. “I put (the swan) back in the lake and have checked on him twice. He’s sitting there looking bedraggled so I’m hoping it’s a happy ending.” Rather than a swan song. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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Hear it here first ane Smiley’s Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres was written more than 25 years ago and takes place in Iowa, yet it feels perfectly relevant to this year’s Montana Book Festival. That’s because it’s a book about family farms in America, and the pain bound up in generations of a family that’s born to love each other, but fails to meet each other’s expectations. Sound familiar? It’s a classic theme of many great Montana stories, and it’s also about family secrets, which means it will be relevant in any time or place. This year’s Montana Book Festival carries on in a long tradition of stories anyone can relate to. As in the past, the five-day event (Sept. 27– Oct. 1) includes author panels, readings and advice about publishing. The headliners are Smiley and Donald Ray Pollock, an Ohio writer who spent a good portion of his life as a blue-collar worker before he picked up a pen. The festival also celebrates some of Missoula’s writerly roots, including the 30th anniversary of The Last Best Place anthology, the encyclopedic compendium of Montana literature compiled by editors Annick Smith and William Kittredge. This year, festival director Karla Theilen is carrying forward several traditions established by festivals past, including popular events like Pie
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& Whiskey and an erotic fan-fiction reading. The gala readings with Smiley and Pollock will take place at the Holiday Inn Parkside, which is where the festival has traditionally been held, but most of this year’s events will be held downtown, in book shops, distilleries and bars, and at the Missoula Art Museum. And while it’s always tempting to crowd the best-publicized events, including the gala, don’t forget that sometimes the best events are the ones you don’t see coming. Thielen says people always ask her about the festival’s big names, “and I get that,” she says, “because those are the people we’ve had a lot of exposure to. It’s like hearing a song you know on the radio, and it feels good because you know it. But a lot of the emerging writers and regional writers that are coming in for this festival are worth paying attention to. Everyone has a story about seeing a band before they were big, and that’s their badge story. And I want people to see this as an opportunity to see this rich pool of up-and-coming talent that’s right here.” Most of the festival events are free, and you can check out the full schedule of activities at montanabookfestival.org. But to help you out, here’s our CliffsNotes of highlights and hidden treasures. —Erika Fredrickson
‘Your pleasure in what you do’—a Q&A with Jane Smiley by Sarah Aswell
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or four decades, Jane Smiley has been busy writing books. A dizzyingly prolific author who is acrobatic when it comes to genre and form, she won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her best-selling King Lear homage, A Thousand Acres, and has written books of just about every description, including literary novels, historical novels, murder mysteries, young adult fiction and biographies. Smiley grew up in Missouri and later spent many years living and working in Iowa, first at the famed Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and then as a professor at Iowa State. After 10 books and several husbands, she moved west, where she currently teaches creative writing at the University of California-Riverside. Most recently, Smiley published The Last Hundred Years trilogy, a series that follows the Langdon family through multiple generations, starting on a farm in Denby, Iowa. You’re not limited by genre or form as much as many other authors. How do you shift gears between books, and why do you do it? Jane Smiley: I owe my ability to shift gears between books to William Shakespeare. We had to read a play a year in school, and each play was always a different thing. It could be Twelfth Night or it could be Hamlet, and it seemed normal to me that a person would want to do that. But I’m also quite a curious person. I’m curious about different subjects and different forms. The other thing is I had a really good beginning in publishing. I got to publish three novels that were no big deal. They got published, they got small advances, and I got a little pat on the head. It made me want to play around with forms and materials. The first novel was a pretty straightforward family novel. The second novel was a little bit more autobiographical. And the third novel was a murder mystery. By the time I had done those three, I kept thinking, why not? I’ll just keep trying things out. The problem if you become a big star from the first novel is that people expect you to do the same thing over and over again. You are very prolific. What are your writing habits and routines? JS: For someone who has three children and two stepchildren and a lot of dogs and some horses and likes to cook and also teaches, I’m prolific for that kind of person. But you grow up and you read Anthony Trollope, who had a full-time job and went fox hunting four days a week, you think, I guess I’m not that prolific. When I was first starting out, I lived in Ames and taught at Iowa State. And Iowa State has a very good child-development school, and it also has very good daycare. It was an ideal place to write novels. I had a reasonable schedule from my teaching, and the
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Montana Book Festival headliner Jane Smiley: “I just love landscape. That’s why I live in the country. I always go for a lot of walks when I’m invited some place. I always look out the window in airplanes.”
daycare was right across the street from the supermarket, and housing was affordable. You could have a house, a job, and good daycare, and pick up food for dinner. It made writing easy. There were two things I really loved about Iowa State: I had some friends who were writers and we were totally out of the center of things—we weren’t in New York, we weren’t in L.A.—so we didn’t have a sense of peer pressure. The other thing was that there were stimulating things going on on campus all the time. I found being there inspiring.
I have to say, Jane Winstons don’t get mocked as much as Jane Smileys do in junior high, but those days are gone. My friends in graduate school were all very receptive to one another’s writing, and we enjoyed each other. We paid more attention to one another’s writing than our teachers, and that’s one lesson I learned. Your fellow students are your peers and they will be your readers. Those are the ones you should attempt to get to understand your work. What are you working on right now?
What’s an important lesson about writing that you’ve learned from a fellow writer? When I was in graduate school, the only lesson I learned from a teacher, I learned from a writer named Leonard Michaels. I was married to a guy for a while who lived in Missoula once, named John Winston, and my name was Jane Winston. After John and I were divorced, Leonard Michaels asked, what’s your maiden name? And I said Smiley. And he said: Go back to that.
It’s a nonfiction project called Five Mothers. It’s about my great-grandmother, my grandmother, my mother, me and my daughter. You dedicated your trilogy to your four husbands. Why? They’ve all been so funny and smart and informative that I couldn’t have written all these books without them.
John, the first one, after I graduated from college, we decided to hitchhike around Europe for a year, and since he had studied medieval history and was incredibly well read, everywhere we went, he’d tell me all about it. I learned a lot from him. When John and I split up, I met the guy who eventually became my third husband. He was a motorcycle-riding bartender and Vietnam vet, and all the things that he knew were practical. I remember one time we came out of the door of the cabin we were living in and he said, ‘Look at that,’ but I couldn’t see anything. Finally, he pointed out a huge spider web covered in dew. He saw it instantly but I wasn’t observant. So he taught me about practical issues and observing things. My next boyfriend was from New York City, and he was the guy that, if the radio station played two or three notes from a song and you were supposed to guess it, he was the guy who always knew the song. He was totally up to date on anything that was hip or cool. He was my informant on that. Then there’s my current husband. He is very informative about how things work. He loves to repair things and if you say, ‘OK, why do you have to put
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a particular screw in that?’ he’ll tell you. He’s also informative about inner peace and settling down and getting through periods like the period we’re trying to get through now. They are all different, they were all affectionate and good, and I learned so much from them. What’s the most difficult aspect of writing for you? It varies from book to book. Sometimes it’s pleasing the editor. Sometimes it’s coming up with a new idea, and sometimes it’s finding the right words. Generally, I enjoy it. Since I enjoy writing, I feel like whatever the difficulty is, it can be dealt with. What’s your favorite book of yours? I know, but I’m not going to say. I never say. I really adore the books of Anthony Trollope. I love one of the books he wrote called He Knew He Was Right. It’s about 800 pages, and its inspiration is Othello. And if you don’t want to read the book, there’s a BBC series. That’s probably the sixth or seventh Trollope book I read, and it blew me away. Then I read about Trollope, and Trollope didn’t like it. He made a mistake. The only mistake in his life, as far as I’m concerned, is that he wrote an autobiography where he said which books he liked or didn’t like. Which meant his readers took him seriously instead of making up their own minds. I learned my lesson from Trollope. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read recently? I love 19th century fiction, and I just read Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev. Most people have read Fathers and Sons, but this was his last book. I loved it. One of the things I loved about it was his ability to evoke landscape. Landscape is something you write about a lot as well. I just love landscape. That’s why I live in the country. I always go for a lot of walks when I’m invited some place. I always look out the window in airplanes. How do you approach teaching writing? When we discuss student work, I tell my students that they have to be analytical instead of critical. Listening to criticism makes you shut down, while listening to analysis is stimulating. That’s what I want for my students. Hopefully they are stimulated enough to play around with their work and see where it goes. What’s your advice for aspiring novelists? You’re the turtle, not the hare. You have to be patient and keep at it. Your pleasure in what you do has to be the thing that keeps you going. Jane Smiley reads with Donald Ray Pollock at the Montana Book Festival Friday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Parkside. Festival button required for entry.
Montana Noir and the dark side of the state by Chad Dundas
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f Montana Noir—the new short fiction anthology from Akashic Books released Sept. 5—seeks to teach us anything, perhaps it’s that the Big Sky has always been home to its share of dirty deeds. As literary terms go, “noir” often feels as slippery as a trout, but if the form is defined primarily by atmosphere—by starkness, moral ambiguity and visions of regular folks succumbing to their basest urges—well, that’s Montana all over. Despite the fact that noir and its kissing-cousin genres, crime and hardboiled, are typically cast as urban forms, the largely rural Treasure State has always had enough of all three to go around. Montana was still 22 years from joining the union when its first territorial governor, Thomas Meagher, disappeared while bound for Fort Benton aboard a steamship. Meagher’s body was never recovered and historians theorize he either got drunk and fell off the boat or was pushed by one of his many enemies—a noir end if there ever was one. In 1923, federal prohibition agent Addison K. Lusk penned a letter to Governor Joseph Dixon complaining that it was all but impossible to enforce national anti-alcohol laws in Montana. Lusk wrote that his team of roughly a dozen men couldn’t possibly patrol the state’s 147,000 square miles and its 550mile border with Canada, or keep pace with the motley crew of small-time crime lords who ran Missoula, Butte and even tiny Havre like their own private Chicagos. Especially when many locals sided with neighborhood bootleggers and viewed the long arm of the federal government as the true menace. Lusk’s ultimate finding still feels revelatory today: Montana was just too big and wild to police. It’s on this sentiment that Montana Noir picks up the thread. The anthology is the latest in Akashic’s series of 80-plus regional noir collections. Since launching in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir, the fiercely independent publishing house has steadily added editions of knuckle-popping, tough-talking short stories based in locales from Helsinki to Havana and from Pittsburgh to Paris. Now, Montana takes its turn at bat, adding another solid extra-base hit to the state’s already formidable legacy in the genre. As far back as 1929, Dashiell Hammett not only used a thinly veiled version of Butte (aka Personville, aka Poisonville) as the backdrop for his hardboiled masterpiece Red Harvest, but employed fictionalized versions of his own experience as a Pinkerton detective for the Anaconda Copper Company to flesh out the book’s convoluted plot.
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Much later, Montana became fertile ground for writers specializing in the dark arts, including not only crime-writing titans like James Lee Burke and James Crumley, but big swingers like Jon A. Jackson, Dorothy Johnson and A.B. Guthrie. As editors James Grady and Keir Graff point out in their introduction to Montana Noir, even statewide literary legends like James Welch and Richard Hugo can fit snugly in the same grimy basket, if that’s
where you want to put them. In moments, so might more contemporary figures like Maile Meloy and Smith Henderson. In keeping with that robust tradition, Montana Noir flexes its own literary muscle. It features fresh offerings from best-sellers Thomas McGuane, Walter Kirn and Jamie Ford as well as in-state heavyweights such as David Abrams, Gwen Florio, Debra Magpie Earling and Carrie La Seur. The book is divided into five broadly regionalized sections—titled Copper Power, The Hi-Line, Custer County and Rivers Run, respectively. It also includes a handy map to show where the bodies are buried—even if the good people at New Yorkbased Akashic don’t totally nail the shape of Montana’s craggy western border. The stories themselves paint a wonderfully blunt portrait of the state, far removed from the
touristy peaks of Glacier National Park or the bubbling hot pots of Yellowstone. Here is a shadowier side of Montana, where the first paragraph of Janet Skeslien Charles’ “Fireweed” finds a dead man in a car parked on abandoned farm land. Where Florio stages a fishing trip to cover up a murder in her Missoula-set story “Trailer Trash.” Even the 1972 state constitutional convention serves as the backdrop for misdeeds, in Caroline Patterson’s Helenabased “Constellations.” This is a Montana where stagnant wages, soaring housing prices and methamphetamine have bred desperation and violence. A place where people are more likely to have “Gut Shoot ’Em at the Border” bumper stickers than “Keep Missoula Weird.” Along the way, we encounter Kirn’s Billings Heights pizza delivery boy, whose boss is so cheap, the drivers have to add their own cheese to earn tips, and whose favorite co-worker harbors a dangerous obsession with the cam model he’s convinced is his girlfriend. There is Yvonne Seng’s injured circus aerialist—once half of a tandem named Nick and Nora, if you want more Hammett allusions—who settles in Glasgow and ends up staring down the local militia. There is Ford’s banged-up female MMA fighter, who travels home to Glendive in hopes of keeping her terminally ill mother from leaving the family ranch to her conniving stepfather. When McGuane’s disillusioned, feckless cattle breeder gets kidnapped outside a diner in Jordan, he asks his captor: “Ray, do you feel like telling me what this is all about?” “Sure, Dave. It’s all about doing as you’re told.” “How did you pick me?” “I picked your car. You were a throw-in. I hadn’t took you along, you’d’ve reported your car stolen. This way, you’ve still got it. It’s a win-win.” A few pages later, the two men go into business together. Meanwhile, Abrams ably paints the sidewalks, bars and distilleries of uptown Butte, while Earling delivers a rough-and-tumble vision of Polson, where a lumberyard worker falls for a fast-food waitress whose grandfather may harbor supernatural powers. These stories don’t traffic in subtlety. Readers who’d rather spend a few breezy pages in the picture-postcard version of Montana need not apply. But for genre lovers who like to drink, eat and shop local, Montana Noir provides a rollicking opportunity to read local as well. A Q&A for Montana Noir takes place at Shakespeare & Co. Fri., Sept. 29, at 4:15 PM.
Who to see, what they’re reading, & where Caroline Patterson, Ballet at the Moose Lodge Caroline Patterson has been such a familiar face in the Missoula literary community for so long that it seems almost impossible that her new short story collection, Ballet at the Moose Lodge, is her first book. Her work has been published in journals including Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Seventeen, Salamander and Epoch—and her writing and editing have earned a number of prestigious awards. She has taught writing at the University of Montana and is currently the executive director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative, an organization that places writers in classrooms to teach children how to find their own voices.
Patterson’s earliest exposure to literature came from her father, a lawyer. “Before he became a lawyer he was in the merchant marines,” she says. “He had the night watch, and to keep himself awake, he would memorize all these poems, which he recited the rest of his life.” Patterson remembers him sitting at the foot of her bed when she was a child, reciting poetry. It wasn’t until the 1960s though, when the University of Montana’s writing program “really got rockin’,” that she says she was exposed to the full possibilities of writing and being a writer. Jim Crumley, from Texas, and his wife Maggie, from California, moved in just down the street. Patterson recalls the aftermath of one of their legendary parties, their yard littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and other detritus of a lifestyle so different from her staid lawyer’s-family upbringing. It left an impression. “Maggie and Jim Crumley were both so smart, and seemed so stylish and glamorous,” Patterson says. “I had just never seen people like that before in my life. They blew me away.” Patterson was shopping a novel when the opportunity came to publish a collection instead. “My novel is a difficult, dark novel, and I hadn’t had much luck with agents,” she says. “I was feeling pretty frustrated.” Her friend Rick Newby, publisher at Helena’s Drumlummon Institute, approached her about publishing some stories. The result is Ballet at the Moose Lodge, an emotive and graceful collection of 16 stories. The work displays all the talents Patterson has gained in a lifetime devoted to literature. With all the work she’s done on behalf of
other writers, she has more than earned this share of the spotlight for herself. (Chris La Tray) Caroline Patterson reads from Ballet at the Moose Lodge at the Dana Gallery, Fri., Sept. 29, at 12 PM. Kevin Canty, The Underworld I’d never been farther West than Chicago when I moved to Missoula in 1993 to attend the University of Montana—a school I’d chosen in part because of the many great writers who taught there. Kevin Canty was, and is, one of those great writers. His debut collection of short stories, A Stranger in This World, snagged my attention in those years, and I signed up for his fiction workshop. Now, two decades later, when I teach a class, I recycle things that Kevin taught me way back then. I call them my “Canty-isms.” One thing that amazes me about Canty is his ability to churn out stellar fiction while acting as a full-time, whole-hearted teacher of writing. Since my undergraduate days, he’s gone on to publish two more short story collections and six novels. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories. His latest novel, released in early 2017, is the kind of Western narrative that could only be created by a seasoned resident and expert fiction writer. In The Underworld, Canty creates a fictional cast of characters
While Kevin Canty’s writing is intimate and riveting, shining light in the darkest places, his presence has the effect of a pleasant shift in the weather. If you get the chance to see him in person at the Montana Book Fest, perhaps you’ll catch a stray Canty-ism and find your way to The Underworld. (Melissa Stephenson) “Mining the Details of Disaster” features Kevin Canty and Milana Marsenich at MAM, Fri., Sept. 29, at 1 PM. Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table I didn’t know much about Donald Ray Pollock when I picked up his debut, the 2009 short story collection called Knockemstiff, but he seemed like someone I could relate to. His bio didn’t read like every other emerging writer’s. He didn’t bounce straight from high school to university to grad school, trailing awards and academic achievements earned along the way. Instead, he labored at a paper mill for a seeming lifetime before he engaged in any formal writing education. He enrolled in Ohio State University’s English program at the age of 50. He had spent his entire life in a part of rural Ohio with which I was intimately familiar. My hunch that I might relate was mostly correct. While Knockemstiff didn’t completely blow me away, the title story—a young man working as a gas station attendant watches the woman he loves leave town with another man she hopes will provide a better future—shows the depth and power of Pollock’s writing, in all its grit and dark sadness. He doesn’t seem to be trying to write for everybody. He is just doing the work, and I admire that. Pollock followed Knockemstiff with a novel, 2011’s The Devil All the Time, which made, among several notable accolades, Publishers Weekly’s Best Books list for that year. Even darker than his stories, The Devil All the Time broods and simmers with disturbing imagery that has generated consistent comparisons to Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor. There was a boom of this sort of “rural noir” in those years, borne on the success of the 2011 film version of Daniel
whose lives are marked by a very real disaster: the Sunshine Mine fire of 1972, near Wallace and Kellogg, Idaho. More than half the workers in the mine that day died, and the two who made it out alive survived inside for seven days before being rescued. Canty tells the tale by limiting each chapter to one main character’s point of view. The narrative passes from Anne, the young wife of a miner, to David, a young college student drawn home by the incident, to Lyle, trapped for a week at the bottom of the mine. Though the characters are, I repeat, Canty’s creations, they feel like people I know, people I might run into at the Oxford after midnight, if I still ventured out at such an hour. The grief of the community feels real as well. And though the book is based on a historical event, the novel’s tone is edgy and contemporary.
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Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone, and Pollock is a perfect example of such harshly reality-based literature done particularly well. In 2016 Pollock published The Heavenly Table, in which he flirts with the blackest of comedy and pulls it off. He continues to inspire comparisons to other writers, both historical and contemporary, which by now I think is a little unfair. Donald Ray Pollock has a voice entirely his own, and he’s earned his own place high in the pantheon of gothicstyle American writers. (Chris La Tray) Donald Ray Pollock reads at the gala reading at the Holiday Inn Parkway, along with Jane Smiley, Fri., Sept. 29, at 7:30 PM. Nick Neely, Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge Reading Nick Neely’s lovely book of nature essays, Coast Range, feels like the exact opposite of scrolling through a social media feed. These delicately written and thoughtful essays have neither need nor love for anything flashy or unbelievable or clickable. You will find no mindless lists of the best stuff ever, and there is no 30-second mustwatch video attached to these pieces. In fact, to read this book, you may even need to sit down, take a deep breath and focus your attention on just one little thing, for just a little bit. In the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Annie Dillard, each of these 11 pieces is a careful meditation. Neely takes things slowly, and there are no wasted sentences or thoughts here. Picking subjects from his life outdoors along the Pacific coast, from following the fate of salmon from a hatchery to hunting passionately for agates in Yachats, Oregon, Neely poetically and introspectively guides our attention to things we might not notice or might not know, his curiosity and wonder driving each story along with his splendid powers of observation, plus a bit of research. And whether he is writing about chiton living along the California coast or the tiny newts that resided in the basement of his childhood home, his words aren’t at all instructional or pretentious or condescending. It feels like he’s learning—excitedly—and we’re learning just as excitedly right along with him. Though the heart of all of the work here is similar—each essay deals with a small fragment of the natural world, minutely examined— Neely’s range varies considerably in form and structure, which adds playfulness and texture to the book. Some stories have an almost fictional narrative tone, while others, like the standout essay about agate, are sparse and lyrical. The result is a collection that seems cohesive but varied, as carefully curated as the author’s basket of smooth stones.
Reading over this review, I’m afraid the book may seem dry or boring, but that is not at all the case. While the subject matter is small, and quiet, each piece feels like an adventure, an opportunity to appreciate the world, a tiny mystery solved. (Sarah Aswell) Nick Neely reads on Saturday, Sept. 30, with Bernard Quetchenbach at 3 p.m. at Shakespeare & Co. Alexandra Teague, The Principles Behind Floatation What happens when a seasoned and successful poet stops with the verses for a bit and decides to write a coming-of-age novel? For Alexandra Teague, the result is The Principles Behind Flotation, a funny, strange and whimsical story of a 14-year-old who is balancing all the emotions that come with meeting your first love with all of her emerging dreams
and ambitions. The tale is, as you might guess from Teague’s background, poetically written at the sentence level, though the book is less about the form and more about the journey: through one summer between sophomore and junior year, and from carefree kid to fully formed person with real agency. It’s a bit unclear whether this is a young adult novel or intended primarily for adult readers, but despite a few parallels with books like Swamplandia!, it is more successful as the former. The story follows A.Z. McKinney on her quest to become an oceanographer, which begins with the project of studying the miraculous inland sea (and tourist trap) near her home in Arkansas in an attempt to get admitted to sea camp. Her efforts, though, are thwarted by a bevy of teenage problems, from navigating her first serious relationship to managing friendships to dealing with a harassing alligator (we told you it was whimsical). A supporting cast of idiosyncratic characters, including A.Z.’s oddball parents, fill out the story. Teague does a fantastic job of capturing the teenage voice and the teenage view of the world, and her story successfully mixes the quirky and the original with the standard trappings of any tale about growing up. It’s also great to read a story of a smart, driven and confident girl. But, perhaps for all those reasons, it’s probably more enjoyable for teenage readers. Adults may tire of the somewhat dopey love interest and the overall arc of the story. (Sarah Aswell) Alexandra Teague reads with Jamie Harrison on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. at Fact & Fiction.
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Philip Schaefer, Bad Summon Forgive me for leaning on a worn-out college-town stereotype, but Philip Schaefer may be the most talented bartender in Missoula. I’m not talking about the sunset-color drinks he makes of lemon bitters, beet juice and gin served with smoked salt on the rim. I’m talking about the poems he crafts from similarly extraordinary ingredients. Schaefer is a graduate of the University of Montana MFA program and author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with Jeff Whitney. The third, written by Schaefer alone, makes up a section in his debut full-length collection, Bad Summon. Schaefer’s poems have appeared in many top-tier literary journals, such as Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, and Prairie Schooner, to name a few. He also won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in Poetry, as well as the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize through University of Utah Press, which led to the publication of Bad Summon. I’m a poet myself, so let me tell you—the accolades Schaefer’s poems have earned are impressive, to say the least. Bad Summon is a collection you can sink your teeth and claws into. Schaefer’s work is carnal, visual and, well, unusual. The start of a phrase that rings familiar at first never turns out quite the way you might expect. Schaefer turns the familiar upside down, which creates the kind of delight that hooks readers.
I can’t tell you if you’ll love the work any more than I can predict how you might react to spanked rosemary and aquavit in your cocktail, but Schaefer’s words offer an equally intense experience—deliciously dark, sometimes erotic and often transcendent. There are lips and knives and hearts and muscles and hydrangeas and throbbing. There is the poet stepping in with good humor to tell you, “Fact: I am being dramatic.” I’ve seen Philip read, and found him upbeat, witty and entertaining—adjectives I would not use to describe the bulk of poetry readings I’ve attended. You can see him read during the Montana Book Festival, and you could, of course, pick up a copy of Bad Summon at the reading, if it speaks to you. I plan to do both. (Melissa Stephenson) “Seeking Luminosity and Tending Bar in Missoula” features readings by Philip Schaefer and Natalie Peeterse at Montgomery Distillery Sun., Oct. 1, at 3:15 PM.
Not your average readings Erotic fan fiction: Folklore and Fairytales Two years ago, the Montana Book Festival began hosting an evening of erotic fan fiction, starting with the Nancy Drew books. This year’s theme is folklore and fairytales, which provides almost endless possibilities. What makes this event so much fun is listening in as authors known for more high-end stories deploy their writerly talents to craft hilariously titillating soft-core. It’s a nice rebellion against “serious” literature, and it usually illuminates just how talented these writers really are. Monk’s, Thu., Sept. 28, at 6 PM. Pie & Whiskey Garth Whitson of Shakespeare & Co. started this event two years ago, and it’s become one of the festival’s most popular features. Authors read works they wrote specifically for the evening, centered on the theme of pie and whiskey. Meanwhile, people eat pie and drink whiskey, while listening. This year’s installment features several stellar authors, including gala readers Jane Smiley and Donald Ray Pollock, plus Missoula luminary Bill Kittredge. Is this the literati’s idea of heaven? It’s a ridiculously good time, and it sells out fast. Union Club, Thu., Sept. 28, at 8:30 PM. $8 at shakespeareandco.com. A Guerrilla Girl unmasked In the mid-1990s, at the age of 43, Donna Kaz became a masked avenger. You can hear the NYC theater-maker talk about her evolution from domestic-violence survivor to member of the Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist artists who never appear in public without rubber gorilla masks, and who go by the names of dead women artists. Kaz will read from and answer questions about her
new memoir, Unmasked, which details stories about her alter-ego and the protests, fax blitzes and street theater she participated in. MAM, Fri., Sept. 29, at 11:30 AM. Frank Little This year marks the 100th anniversary of the lynching in Butte of Frank Little, an organizer with the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial
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Workers of the World. Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood that Stained an American Family chronicles his struggle for labor rights and free speech, and was written by his great-grandniece, Jane Little Botkin. The IWW has recently been reenergized by young labor rights activists in reaction to the Trump administration, making Little’s history, and this book, especially interesting topics of conversation. Fact & Fiction, Fri., Sept. 29, at 1 PM. editor@missoulanews.com
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Home front Reigniting Montana’s interest in the Great War by Erika Fredrickson
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xcept to the most passionate history buffs, the objects of World War I have naturally become distant from contemporary American life. An army jacket, a wooden propeller, a hero’s medal—all serve as symbols of a broad story we’ve already read in history books. For the past six years—in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the war’s start—University of Montana art history professor H. Rafael Chacon has been thinking about how to present the “Great War” in a way that would highlight its personal stories and reignite public interest. “This war is so huge and so important that getting a good angle on it was going to be crucial,” Chacon says. “We have to reintroduce the American public to it because it’s been 100 years and there are no living vets.” This week, the Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents Over There! Montanans in the Great War, which focuses on five people connected to Montana who experienced WWI. They include: Glasgow-born William Belzer, a celebrated aviator and among America’s first flying aces; Josephine Hale, who left Great Falls to serve as a Red Cross nurse and eventually became a notable painter in France; doughboys Philip W. Prevost and Sidney F. Smith, both survivors and heroes of the infamous “Lost Battalion”; and James Watson Gerard, husband to Mary Daly of Hamilton and the U.S. ambassador to Berlin prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Hale’s section is especially interesting because it shows one of the few roles women were able to play on the war’s frontlines. On display are Hale’s Abercrombie & Fitch business attire and her nurse’s uniform, plus sketchbooks she kept during the war. Red Cross posters in particular show how much the organization functioned as a propaganda machine, with images of nurses caring for wounded soldiers under the motto “The greatest mother in the world.” Beyond the practical tools of war, the exhibit features some less usual objects, including art pieces created by sol-
diers in the trenches. There are vases made of melted shell casings, carefully etched with images of the battlefield (and one adorned with naked women); lamps decorated with rifle bullets and painted landscapes; even a mandolin with a body made from a soldier’s helmet. The fact that non-artist soldiers built these crudely beautiful objects, while under fire, speaks to the ways that art can alleviate troubled minds. Even more heart-wrenching is that the Allies weren’t alone in their endeavor to find beauty in the middle of battle. “There’s a reference in one of the journals I read that the American soldiers could hear the enemy doing the same thing in their trenches,” Chacon says, “pounding away at metal to make art.” When Chacon first decided to do this exhibit with the museum, he wasn't sure he’d be able to find enough WWI objects connected to Montana’s role in the war. As it turned out, there was plenty of material right in Missoula’s backyard. Between the MMAC’s permanent collection, the Mansfield Library, the Military History Museum at Fort Missoula and private collectors, Chacon found more than enough high-quality items from which to choose. Chacon has spent the past five years researching WWI by reading books and studying the art connected to the war. He also had a more immersive experience over the last couple of years, traveling to Italy and other parts of Europe where WWI is much more deeply embedded in the culture. “Hiking in the Dolomites, I would pass by places where soldiers holed up in caves,” he says. “Or the peaks where the Austrians would be stationed lobbing grenades at the battalion on the peak on the other side. Every village has a World War I monument. In Europe they really felt the presence of that war. I think it’s important for Americans to acknowledge that this was a huge sacrifice, and it really reshaped our world.” The exhibit’s five characters represent just a few of the roles Americans played in the war, but Chacon also wanted to focus on a sixth: the enemy.
Anonymous, Exploded Shell Casing Incised with Imagery from the 368th Infantry, 92nd Division, the celebrated African American Troops called “Buffalo Soldiers,” circa 1918-19, metal, Courtesy Hayes and Amalia Otoupalik Collection.
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The final part of the exhibit explores the ways in which Americans united the public against the Germans in propaganda, as opposed to the ways Germany represented itself to its own public—as veterans of war needing public support. For the most part, Over There feels inextricably linked to a particular time in the past, but there are a few elements that can be read as pointed cautionary tales for the present, too. One poster, for instance, created a few years after the war’s end, depicts a German veteran of the Freikorps, the units that would later become Hitler’s army in Nazi Germany. The transition of a disgruntled and defeated population into an Aryan supremacist military force is hard to understand solely as a remnant of the past. There are also echoes of what many Americans are now seeing in regard to immigration and refugee issues. Chacon has taken the idea of the enemy one step further to explore the ways in which America has made enemies of its own people, on one hand welcoming the ethnic diversity of Americans willing to fight for the country, and on the other enacting sedition laws (modeled in particular after Montana’s Sedition Act) that unfairly targeted GermanAmericans, pacifists, labor unionists and other groups. “The enemy is typically thought of as someone over there, somewhere else, but sometimes we look within our own ranks to find it,” Chacon says. “And clearly there were spies, but that became justification for harassment of citizens. This part of the exhibit tells the story of how there were American victims in the war on our own soil, and that included freedom of the press and freedom of assembly.” The Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents Over There: Montanans in the Great War with an opening reception Thu., Sept. 21, from 5 to 7 PM. Visit umt.edu/montanamuseum for a full list of exhibit events. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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What’s in a name John Dwyer brings Orc to Missoula L.A. via San Francisco via Rhode Island weirdo John Dwyer is the one constant in the Oh Sees (who have also gone by Thee Oh Sees and OCS, among other permutations). I first saw Dwyer play with his short-lived Load Records noise band Pink and Brown at an equally short-lived Northside venue called Eating Cake around 2001. They were touring with Lightning Bolt and set up opposite Lightning Bolt’s equipment so that at the very second Pink and Brown was done hammering out its wild, cacophonous set, Lightning Bolt started in, essentially out of nowhere. My mind broke. It was a trick that sort of reset the typical live music experience for me. I got pretty attached to the iteration of the band with Petey Dammit and Brigid Dawson because they had some magical chemistry. But Dwyer’s got some
good players here, with the drummer from !!! (aka Chk Chk Chk) adding another layer to drummer Dan Rincon’s rhythm work, and Tim Hellman (from Sic Alps). Orc is a pretty good stoney riff fest. “Animated Violence” and “Keys to the Castle” make me think of USAISAMONSTER, complete with octave-snaking guitar solos. The drums on “The Static God” and “Cooling Tower” sound like an homage to Jaki Liebezeit of Can. I want to love this, but I end up just really liking it, because I dug the old version of the band and I can’t quite hit the reset button. But it’s damn good playing, and Dwyer’s never wanting for ideas. ( Josh Vanek) Oh Sees play Monk’s Fri., Sept. 22, at 8 PM, along with Mag pies and Sunraiser. $23/$20 advance.
Future Islands, The Far Field Nostalgia is a difficult line to walk. Future Islands is one of many bands trying to make music that both appeals to contemporary kids and still sounds like it could be on the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie. In The Far Field, the band’s fifth full-length album, they’ve clearly put time into striking that balance. While it takes a few tracks to get used to the unrelenting synth beats and Sam Herring’s enthusiastic if under-enunciated vocals, the end result is a dose of electropop that’s less hollow than the typical genre fare. Listening to an entire album of it made me like Future Islands more, not less, which is borderline miraculous.
A not-so-surprising highlight is “Shadows,” on which former Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry croons about ghosts trying to find each other and counters Herring’s affected British accent into something slightly less pretentious. Future Islands gives a shit, which is more than can be said of many groups making danceable music these days. The emotion behind their synthanthems is real. If Herring’s chest-pounding, hip-swaying 2014 David Letterman appearance is any indication, it should be a fun show. (Margaret Grayson) Future Islands plays the Wilma Wed., Sept. 27, at 8 PM along with Oh, Rose. $22.
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The Lil Smokies, Changing Shades Changing Shades makes for an unrivaled co-pilot on just about any western Montana highway. The driving rhythms, those see-sawing banjo licks, that slightly melancholic fiddle—all synch with the pounding cadence of tires on pavement. Even the lyrics echo the timelessness of ridgelines rolling steadily past. At its heart, this latest album from Missoula’s Lil Smokies is about memory, the kind only time can generate and only ambition can stir. We all remember, for example, where we were the night David Bowie died; the song “The City” opens there. And how many of us reminisce about some past love when the right song comes on? It’s a feeling captured in “Might as Well,” when vocalist and dobro wizard
Andy Dunnigan sings, “Woah, that I still get chills / I probably always will / Whenever I hear ‘Tiny Dancer.’” If Changing Shades steers close to any danger, it’s in the Lil Smokiesrelated remembrances it can kick up for listeners. A snappy line or fleeting vocal harmony easily can get lost as the mind wanders, thinking back on that one time downtown when, like Ms. Marie in the track of the same name, we spun “around and around and round, round, round, round.” In that way, the Lil Smokies have crafted an album that inspires second listens, and thirds. If only the highways were longer. (Alex Sakariassen) The Lil Smokies play the Wilma Thu, Sept. 28, on their national Changing Shades tour.
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is the story of an adult man who is pathologically whimsical. A literal 98pound weakling who wears a gray suit and red bow tie every day, he experiences his life as a performance for himself. He lives alone. In the morning, a Rube Goldberg machine makes his breakfast while he pretends to struggle to lift hand weights, laughing at himself; brushes his teeth with an oversize novelty toothbrush, laughing at himself; makes faces in the mirror, laughing at himself; and finally animates his own pancakes and bacon, laughing at himself. The conceit of the film is that people find this behavior endearing. Although Pee-Wee seems to have no family or close friends, his acquaintances love him: the guy who owns the joke shop, for example, and the proprietor of the bicycle store. Not coincidentally, these are people with whom PeeWee has consumer relationships. Particularly in the context of Tim Burton’s future career—Pee Wee’s Big Adventure was his feature-length debut—the film can be read as commentary on the spiritual emptiness of middle-class life in the 1980s. Except there are all those scenes where Pee-Wee resists other characters’ romantic and sexual advances. The plot is a picaresque: Pee Wee sets off on a cross-country adventure to recover his stolen bicycle. The motif that recurs from scene to scene, however, is that someone treats him like an adult capable of adult desires, and he has to get out of there. It happens with his friend Dottie. It happens with the convict Mickey, who sees Pee-Wee in a new light after he dresses up as a woman and pretends to be Mickey’s wife. In the scene where Pee-Wee angers a bar full of bikers, what pushes him to desperate action is not their threat to stomp him to death, but a virago biker-lady’s demand that they hand him over to her first. Throughout the film, the only motivation that seems comparably powerful to Pee-Wee’s desire for his bicycle is his desire to remain asexual.
That makes what happened to Paul Reubens, the comedian who developed and portrayed PeeWee, kind of ironic. In 1991, after a second film and four years on Saturday-morning television, Reubens was arrested for masturbating in an adult theater in Sarasota, Florida. The incident wrecked his career. Audiences of 25 years ago were not as jaded toward pornography or celebrity scandal as they are today. They could not handle the dissonance between PeeWee the man-child and Reubens the misdemeanor sex criminal—which is frankly unfair, since the whole appeal of Pee-Wee is watching the creator peek through the performance. The Pee-Wee character is not that funny. He is weird, and most of the pleasure in Big Adventure comes from Reubens’ total commitment to the performance. The film is profoundly Brechtian, in that it regularly reminds us we are watching a movie— through stylized set pieces, stagey effects and the deus ex machina ending, in which a Hollywood executive decides to make a film of Pee-Wee’s story and we watch Pee-Wee attend that movie. This character lives in a world of imagination that he will do anything to preserve. His obsession with not breaking the spell keeps reminding us that what we are watching is fake. Burton and Reuben’s ability to turn our suspension of disbelief into a high-wire act probably accounts for the success of the film. Along with Clue, also released in 1985, it constitutes the first intrusion of high camp into mainstream movie theaters. The pleasure is not in seeing the world that Pee-Wee lives in, which is frankly obnoxious. It’s imagining the world that Reubens and Burton must have lived in to make the film, and seeing it peek through around the edges. The Roxy Theater screens Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure Saturday, Sept. 23, in the parking lot of the Missoula Senior Center. arts@missoulanews.com
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The waiting A brother’s murder, and a lasting grief by Molly Laich
Strong Island director Yance Ford
In the feature documentary Strong Island, director Yance Ford explores the 1992 murder of her brother, William. Ford recreates William’s story primarily through interviews with her mother, sister and a couple of William’s closest friends. The prosecuting attorney and other figures responsible for getting William’s case to trial are notably less talkative. Strong Island premiered quietly on Netflix last week after winning the Special Jury Prize for best documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film’s central murder carries a potent political subtext about the black experience of the criminal justice system in America, but, more than that, this is a film about loss and irrepressible grief. The details of the crime are straightforward enough. At 24, William Ford was the elder sibling to two younger sisters, in a family that was taught above all else to love and look after one another. When William, unarmed and unprovoking, is shot in the chest by a white man in a mechanic’s garage, the family mourns the loss and then waits, and waits, for the judicial system to hold the killer accountable. Twenty-five years later, the wait has morphed into a tired, angry and hopeless resignation. Ford takes her time laying out her brother’s case. It often feels like we’re wading through molasses on our way to the circumstances of his untimely death. I’ll describe this cadence as mostly a good thing—the pace matches exactly the rhythms of a festering mourning—but as a cinematic experience, it can be a bit of a trial. Steel yourself in advance for a funereal experience and you’ll be better emotionally prepared. The interviews with family members are set up simply, in a home whose meticulous clutter could be either organic or
staged. In any case, it looks realistically lived in. The effect is both comforting and upsetting, and that’s without mentioning Ford’s eerily poetic narration, as when she repeats her mother’s words: “This house is made of bones…” Strong Island might qualify as true crime, but only by the flimsiest association: There’s been a murder, and now the survivors have gathered to talk about it. I’m a big fan of murder on screen, but I mostly stick to the schlocky, poorly produced, TV pulp variety. It sound sick and wrong, but I use murder investigations as lullabies to help me fall asleep at night. There’s little actual violence in these shows; they’re mostly parades of talking heads speaking in hushed tones about their feelings. And more often than not in these stories, it’s not the murder itself that intrigues. The tragedies are rooted in ordinary families, each with its own collection of dramas, neuroses and inner turmoil bubbling just under the surface—then murder comes to town. Like a pond disturbed by a rock, the ripples reverberate, and suddenly this ordinary family encompasses an event worth documenting. Everyday people are brought into focus by an uninvited, extraordinary thud. Now, with this latest Netflix Original release, I can be prescriptive with my recommendation. Under normal circumstances, I still contend that the best way to consume cinema is trapped in a box in the dark with strangers. But because Strong Island’s pace is so languid and tragic, this could be a film best consumed piece by piece, the way you read a few pages of a sad novel every night before bed.
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missoulanews.com • September 21–September 28, 2017 [23]
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OPENING THIS WEEK FRIEND REQUEST A popular college student cyber-bullies a classmate to death and is then haunted by a malicious ghost on Facebook. Make a note of the current date and time, we’ve officially run out of ideas for movies. Rated R. Stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley and Brit Morgan. Playing at the Missoula AMC !2 KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Superspy Eggsy Unwin is back to battle the forces of chaos. This time he’s getting some help from his brash American counterparts. Rated R. Stars Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Channing Tatum. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE They’re ninjas, they’re made of Lego and they’re in a two-hour toy commercial you’re going to have to shell out 50 bucks on to see with your family. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Dave Franco, Justin Theroux and Jackie Chan. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
FUNNY HA HA (2002) Finish college. Check. Get a boring desk job. Check. Meet a shy, neurotic coworker who helps you better understand yourself. Check. Not Rated. Stars Kate Dollenmayer, Christian Rudder and Andrew Bujalski. Playing Thu., Sept. 28 at 8 PM at the Roxy. THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD When you’re one of the most deadly assassins in the world, who do you trust to watch your back before you turn state’s evidence against a murderous dictator? Ryan Reynolds, of course. Rated R. Also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. HOME AGAIN She’s a recently separated single mom, trying to live her own life. That’s why she lets three young handsome hunks move into her house to help with
LOGAN LUCKY Trying to reverse a family curse, a group of siblings set out to rob a NASCAR race. Rated PG-13. Stars Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and hillbilly Daniel Craig. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.
on a grand quest across America to regain what’s rightfully his. Rated PG, which doesn’t sound right for a movie featuring that scene with Large Marge. Sat., Sept. 23 at the Missoula Senior Center. Music at 5:30 PM , show at 7. Free, but bring cash for donations.
THE MAJESTIC (2001) A blacklisted screenwriter with amnesia is mistaken for a missing war hero and finds himself renovating a theater with his dopplegänger’s loved ones. Rated PG. Stars Jim Carrey, Martin Landau and Bruce Campbell for about 15 seconds. Playing Wed., Sept. 27 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
ROBERT SHAW: MAN OF MANY VOICES How exactly did a small-town boy with no formal music training who dreamt of being a minister like his father end up as the greatest conductor of choral music in the world? Practice. Not Rated. Directed by Peter Miller and Pamela Roberts. Playing at the University Center Theater on Sun., Sept. 24 at 3 PM. A Q&A with the film’s Executive Producer follows.
MOTHER! Tell your children not walk my way, tell your children not to hear my words. What they mean, what they say. Darren Aronofsky divisively explores the terrors of being a mother in a Darren Aronofsky film. Rated
SHE WOLF (2014) This isn’t the torture-splotation film from the ‘70s they filmed on old Hogan’s Heroes sets, it’s a documentary about one of the most famous wolves in Yellowstone. Not Rated. Directed by Bob Landis. Playing Mon., Sept. 25 at 7 PM at the Roxy.
NOW PLAYING AMERICAN ASSASSIN A Cold War veteran teaches the murderous tricks of the trade to an angry young man with nothing to lose. I hope this is a sequel to American Hustle. Rated R. Stars Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton and Taylor Kitsch. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12. ARIZONA DAYS (1937) Singing cowboy Tex Ritter straps on his six-gun to enforce the tax code. What a hero! Not Rated. Also stars Syd Saylor, William Faversham and Snub Pollard, proving actors had cooler names 80 years ago. Playing as a double feature with A Day at the Races at the Roxy Fri., Sept. 22 at 7 PM. Just like 1937, admission is only a quarter.
ROOTED IN PEACE Filmmaker Greg Reitman uses his past experiences in war zones to educate people on how to stop the cycle of war and violence. Not Rated. Playing Thu., Sept. 21 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
“Enjoying our cinematic adventures, kids? Make sure to tell your parents to buy LEGO Ninjago playsets wherever tie-in products are sold!” The LEGO Ninjago Movie opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. chores. That’s right, chores. What other reason could it be? Rated PG-13. Stars Reese Witherspoon, Nat Wolff and Michael Sheen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
BOGGY CREEK MONSTER Whether you call him Sasquatch, Bigfoot or Skunk Ape, decades of sightings around the swamps and forests of the tiny town of Fouke, Arkansas suggest something is out there. Not Rated. Directed by Seth Breedlove. Playing Thu., Sept. 21 at 7:30 PM at the Roxy. A Q&A with the director follows the film.
IT There’s an evil clown caked with makeup and sporting unnaturally colored hair threatening everything we hold dear, so take your mind off politics with a trip to the movies to see this new Stephen King adaptation. Rated R. Stars Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher and Sophia Lillis. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
A DAY AT THE RACES (1937) The Marx Brothers unleash their trademark anarchy on the residents of a sanitarium. Not Rated. Also features Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones and a few scenes that remind us how far the portrayal of African Americans on film has come. Playing as a double feature with Arizona Days Fri., Sept. 22 at the Roxy. Just like 1937, admission is only a quarter.
LEAP! (BALLERINA) So you want to be a ballerina, huh? It’s going to take a lot of dedication, practice and probably a flying machine to help you escape from the orphanage. How hard can that be? Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan and Carly Rae Jepsen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.
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R. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. MULAN (1998) A young woman gets down to business by disguising herself as a man to protect China from an invading army. Catch this animated classic before Disney decides to do a live-action remake starring Emma Stone. Rated G. Stars the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy and BD Wong. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. PATTI CAKE$ She’s a white girl from suburbia with a frame that’s ample, but once she rocks the mic she’ll wax chumps like candles. Rated R. Stars Danielle Macdonald, Bridgett Everett and McCaul Lombardi. Playing at the Roxy. PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (1985) The Roxy hosts an outdoor screening of Tim Burton’s classic film. A stolen bicycle leads Pee-Wee Herman
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) Celebrate the Roxy’s 80th birthday with an outdoor screening of Walt Disney’s game-changing animated film. A young girl finds refuge from an evil queen by moving in with a group of bearded men. My first apartment in Missoula was pretty similar. Rated G. Playing Sun., Sept. 24 at the Missoula Senior Center. Doors at 5 PM, show at 7. Free. WALK WITH ME Benedict Cumberbatch narrates this documentary about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Not Rated. Directed by Marc Francis and Max Pugh. Playing Fri., Sept. 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy. WIND RIVER The best way to describe the mood of this murder mystery set on a Wyoming Indian Reservation is to just say the soundtrack is by Nick Cave. Rated R. Stars Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen and Tantoo Cardinal. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. 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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The BrokeAss pumpkin spice latte by Gabi Moskowitz
BROKEASS GOURMET
Ahh, fall. Season of color-changing leaves, crisp mornings and the ubiquitous pumpkin spice latte. It’s an oft-yearned-for treat when September finally comes around and local coffee shops finally roll out their seasonal pumpkin-flavored coffee drinks. But if you’re buying them daily or even every other day, it can add up to a lot of dough for coffee infused with what is essentially nutmegscented, artificially-colored-and-flavored high fructose corn syrup. But don’t worry, there is a BrokeAss solution: Make them at home with highquality ingredients, obvs. This freshly brewed, wildly cheap version of the pumpkin spice latte can be warming your hands and your spirits any time you please—even after the coffee shops close, and without an espresso machine. The directions below are for one latte, but the listed ingredients will make about a week’s worth of homemade lattes. And best yet, you likely have most (if not all) of the ingredients at home already. If you like your lattes straight, feel free to omit the spices and/or sweetener.
Directions Brew the coffee with the water in a regular coffee maker, French press or drip cone. While the coffee brews, stir the pumpkin pie spice into the honey or agave nectar until completely blended. Set aside. Pour the cold milk into a microwave-safe bowl, the edges of which should come up a bit higher than the milk. Keep the bowl slightly tilted to the side, so that the milk is gathered more toward one side. Using a wire whisk, quickly and vigorously whisk the milk in the bowl for about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. If the milk isn’t frothy after 2 1/2 minutes, continue whisking an additional 30 to 60 seconds. The milk should be very frothy at this point. Microwave the milk in the bowl on high for 8 to 10 seconds. It should puff into a high foam immediately. To serve the latte, pour the hot coffee into a mug and stir in the honey/agave-spice mixture until completely dissolved. Top with the hot milk, spooning the thick foam on top. A dash of additional pumpkin pie spice or some ground cinnamon on top is a nice touch. Serve immediately.
Ingredients 3 tbsp strong ground coffee 2/3 cup water 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice 2 tsp honey or agave nectar 2/3 cup milk (any fat percentage, or even soy)
BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor in chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough: 100 Delicious Unexpected Recipes.
missoulanews.com • September 21–September 28, 2017 [25]
[dish] 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. $-$$
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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar and Grill has the best patio in town, relax and unwind with great food and a selection of Montana Brews on tap. Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour each day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials! Thursday is Trivia Night from 7:30-9:30p and we have Live Music each Friday. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$
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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[26] Missoula Independent • September 21–September 28, 2017
[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. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: Three of Western Cider’s most popular varieties are now available in 500-milliliter bottles and 12-packs: Sour Cherry, McIntosh, and Whiskey Peach. Why you’re drinking it: The shawties at Western Cider debuted their new apple bottle drinks this month, holding a release party that was, let’s say, well attended. Everyone in the club seemed to have their eyes on Whiskey Peach, which sold out. The owners figure they bottled a month’s supply, one of the bartenders told the Indy. That’s a good sign, right? Don’t they already can? Yeah, they do. But the canned varieties—Poor Farmer Classic and Poor Farmer Hopped—are more basic, “everyday” brews. The bottled varieties are more adventurous, as the names Sour Cherry and Whiskey Peach suggest. But don’t forget the McIntosh, either. A single-variety cider made from the fruit of an 80-year-old apple orchard in the Bitterroot, McIntosh won Best in Show at the Portland International Cider
Cup in June, besting 167 entries from 40 cideries across the northwest and British Columbia. Western Cider, which opened this year as Missoula’s first hard cidery with a connoisseur-meets-the-masses flair, had its approach validated at the competition, taking the cup and winning Best New Cidery to boot. How to drink it: The bottles you’ll get at the tasting room aren’t chilled, so put ’em in the fridge when you get home. Western Cider serves their tapped ciders at just over 32 degrees, but you can drink at whatever temperature hits your spot. Where to find it: Besides the tasting room, bottles are on shelves now at specialty beer stores in Missoula and Bozeman. Think Worden’s, Market on Front, and the like. What it costs: Gulp. A bottle of McIntosh (or Whiskey Peach, when it returns) will set you back $8, or $86 for a case of 12. The Sour Cherry is $6/bottle, $65/case. —Derek Brouwer
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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SUN | 7 PM Modest Mouse plays the Big Sky Brewing Company Amphitheater Sun., Sept. 24. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $40.
SUN | 8 PM Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley plays the Wilma Sun., Sept 24. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35.
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SUN | 7:30 PM Oh Sees play Monk's Fri., Sept 22. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $23/$20 advance.
THU | 9/21 | 8 PM Chase Rice plays the Wilma Thu., Sept. 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/ $30 advance.
SUN | 8 PM Big Business plays the Badlander Sun., Sept 24 at 8 PM. $14.
SAT | 10 PM Knowmads play the Top Hat Sat., Sept. 23. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/ $10 advance.
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nightlife Wait, did I miss Septemberfest again this year? Celebrate Oktoberfest with beer, brats, a stein holding contest and the live music of Oktubafest at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM. Free. Ring in the new season with the Fall Feastival on the UM Oval. Enjoy locally sourced foods with new friends. 5 PM. $14. Over There! Montanans in the Great War features artifacts and works of art related to the lives of four Montanans who experienced the war’s victories and degradations firsthand. The exhibition opens with a reception at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture. 5 PM–7 PM. Dave Manning plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. The annual showdown between Northside and Westside softball comes to a head as two teams vie for the coveted Railroader Trophy. Featuring music, beer and food, the festivities start at 6 PM at Northside Park. Country music maverick Chase Rice plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$30 advance. Bozeman’s Panther Car plays the ZACC with Tiny Plastic Stars and Tormi. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5. 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. Lentil Underground author Liz Carlisle gives a free lecture at the Dennison Theatre as part of Griz Read. 8 PM. Chuck Florence, Jim Driscoll and Pete Hand provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free. All of my horses are dead from malnutrition and Idle Ranch Hands are playing the Top Hat. Typical. 10:15 PM. Free.
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Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4. The 22nd Annual Festival of Cycles features bike building, food and the live music of Holy Smokes & the Godforsaken Rollers, Becca Kelley, Breakfast for Dinner and more. Free Cycles. 10 AM–10 PM. Music starts at 3. Free.
nightlife Author Rosalyn R. LaPier discusses Blackfeet history through their relationship with the supernatural world. Fact & Fiction. 5:30 PM. Free. NAMI Missoula’s annual Beautiful Minds fundraiser at Imagine Nation Brewing features the live music of Chris Pumphrey, Basses Covered and Shepherd/House. 5:30 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations. David Horgan and Beth Lo serenade the wine at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery at 6 PM. Free. The kids from the ZACC Rock Camp perform at Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat from 6 PM– 8 PM. Free. Skunk Apes away! Big Sky Bigfoot Conference returns for another two days of cryptozoology. Squatch on over to bigskybigfootconference.com for a full schedule of events and registration. $25. Bitterroot River Inn and Conference Center in Hamilton. Tom Catmull plays the Montana Distillery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Florida Georgia Line plays the Adams Center with Nelly Fri., Sept. 22 at 7 PM. $53.75–$142. Country duo Florida Georgia Line, hip-hop icon Nelly and Chris Lane play the Adams Center. 7 PM. Head to ticketnetwork.com to save your seat. $142. Take a step into the wayback machine and travel 80 years into the past to see a double feature of Arizona Days and A Day at the Races with vintage cartoons, trailers and newsreels. And just like 1937, admission is only a quarter. The Roxy. 7 PM. (See Spotlight)
Burns Street Bistro hosts an Oktoberfest Oktoberfeast featuring a three-course dinner, beer and the music of OkTUBAfest. 7 PM. $25. RSVP at 406-543-0719. I wonder what Peter Gallagher’s been up to? Thee Oh Sees play Monk’s with Magpies and Sunraiser. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $23/$20 advance. Pinky and the Floyd, drawing on songs from Pink Floyd’s catalog, perform a career retrospective at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $15
Spotlight WHAT: Throwback Double Feature WHEN: Fri., Sept. 22 at 7 PM. WHERE: The Roxy Theater HOW MUCH: $0.25 MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org
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Dusk plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean! Baby Tyger plays the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. Free. Explore planets, nebulas and distant galaxies during Free Observation night at Blue Mountain. 10:30 PM. Visit hs.umt.edu/physics/ blue_mountain_observatory to reserve your spots.
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On September 24, 1937 the Roxy Theater officially opened its doors with a 2 PM matinee of the Deanna Durbin musical comedy 3 Smart
Girls. Tickets were only a quarter. In the 80 years since, the Roxy has seen its share of ups and downs. From the fire that gutted the historic theater in 1994, to its years as home to the International Wildlife Film Festival's education center, and its resurrection to a full time movie house in 2013,
If I had some whiskey, I bet World War I would’ve been a breeze. JD and Western Front play the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free.
the Roxy has been a visible and beloved part of Missoula's community. This year, the Roxy has been pulling out all the stops in anticipation of its impending 80th
birthday. You've no doubt seen the newly installed vintage 1937 neon marquee crowning the theater, and the snazzy new art deco ticket booth. But for its 80th anniversary, the Roxy is going back to where it all began with a classic double feature from 1937, including vintage cartoons, trailers and newsreels. Arizona Days, starring singing cowboy Tex Ritter as a six-gun slinging tax collector, kicks off the double eature, followed by the Marx Brothers' classic A Day at the Races. In keeping with the 1937 theme, admission is only 25 cents. Events throughout the week and month (including a free, outdoor screening of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure) continue to celebrate the iconic theater. And here’s a toast to 80 years more.
—Charley Macorn
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The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses and diverse delicacies. Join the fun every Saturday through September. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM– 12:30 PM. The University of Montana Grizzlies take on the No. 11 Eastern Washington Eagles in the Big Sky Conference opener . Their mascot is named Swoop. That’s a terrible name for a mascot. WashingtonGrizzly Stadium. Head to gogriz.com for tickets and kickoff time. Not sure what to expect when you’re expecting? The Missoula Baby Fair features professionals and exhibitors as well as the hot new parenting products. Live
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music, a silent auction and more await at Caras Park. 10 AM–2 PM. Free.
The Kimberlee Carlson Trio play Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery at 6 PM. Free.
takes two to tango, but no experience or partner necessary. Missoula Winery. $10.
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.
Dan Henry plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Seattle-based hip-hop duo Knowmads play the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$10 advance.
Celebrate 20 years of Ear Candy with a parking lot party featuring food, giveaways and the music of Tiny Plastic Stars, Rooster Sauce, Cairns, Tormi and Protest Kids. 624 S. Higgins Ave. 1 PM–6 PM. Free. (See Spotlight) The Dana Gallery turns 21 with a celebration of art and music. 4 PM. Free.
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Swamp Ritual, Disenchanter and Stone Elk play the ZACC Below, accurately describe the plot of my current Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5. Inner Harmony Yoga hosts a special kirtan concert with musician Gurunam Singh. 7:30 PM. $25. Tango Missoula hosts an introductory class and milonga social dance on the fourth Saturday of each month. The beginner lesson starts at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight. It
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. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. If I had some whiskey, I bet World War I would’ve been a breeze. JD and Western Front play the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free. Band in Motion keeps on rolling into the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.
Sunday nightlife
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REI presents the premiere of TGR’s new feature-length ski and snowboard film, Rogue Elements at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 advance.
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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.
Take your first steps to stardom at Open Mic Night at the Missoula Senior Center hosted by Michael Dean. 6 PM–8 PM. $5.
The villains from Captain Planet? Big Business plays the Badlander with Mahamawaldi and Jolly Jane. 8 PM. $tk
Jamaican reggae artist Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35.
Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Spotlight If there's one takeaway Ear Candy Music founder John Fleming has from owning and operating a music store for 20 years, it's that WHAT: Ear Candy Birthday Party he's just thankful to still be WHERE: Ear Candy here. The past two decades WHEN: Sat., Sept. 23, 1 PM–6 PM. have seen the HOW MUCH: Free world of music c o n s t a n t l y MORE INFO: earcandymusic.biz upend itself. With the advent of online retailers, music pirates and streaming services, we're living in a much different musical landscape than the one Fleming grew up in, driving over a hundred miles to find a record store with a
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sweet sounds decent selection. But through all these changes, Ear Candy has kept its doors open. In 1997, Fleming sold his 1959 Chrysler Windsor, and using records from his personal collection, opened Ear Candy with his partner John “Tex” Knesek on a shoe-string budget. In the following years, he's seen his small business flourish as an integral part of Missoula's music scene. And even though he's met musical luminaries like Ryan Adams and Jack White who stopped by to dig through the vinyl, his favorite moments are seeing people's eyes lighting up when they walk in for the first time. To celebrate Ear Candy's birthday, a weeklong 20 percent off sale leads to a parking lot party featuring food, giveaways and the music of Tiny Plastic Stars, Rooster Sauce, Cairns, Tormi and Protest Kids. —Charley Macorn
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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.
Missoula BASE for an all ages comedy open mic. 6 PM. Free.
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.
Uh oh, I guess it’s time for me to find a new hiding place. Coffee Can Stash plays the Red Bird Wine Bar form 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.
nightlife Enjoy a live recorded Grateful Dead Show at the Top Hat’s Raising the Dead Happy Hour. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. 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. Is your kid the next Louis C.K.? Well, first of all, maybe teach them that it’s inappropriate to show certain body parts to strangers. Secondly, come to
Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.
Filmmaker Jo Throckmorton presents a screening of his film America’s Deadliest Battle: An Experiential Film of the MeuseArgonne Offensive at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Building. 8 PM. Free. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. 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.
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Tuesday It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.
nightlife Wet your whistle with wines from Washington at the Iron Griz. Enjoy a taste of awardwinning wines from across the Idaho fence from 5 PM–7 PM. $12. Missoula Farmers’ Market’s Tuesday Evening Market runs every Tuesday through September. Enjoy fresh produce, baked goods, flowers and more at the north end of Higgins at the XXXXs. 5:30 PM–7 PM. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6– 8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Great the sun, under the sun at
Yoga in the Parks. This week bring your yoga mat to McCormick Park. 6 PM. Free. Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, 7–9 PM. $5. Call 381-1392 for more info. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high. 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10. Call 549-7933 for more information. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Who was the first man in space? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.
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Wednesday nightlife Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week support the Pink Boot Society. 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. Discuss all things comedy with other women over drinks and laughs at the Women’s Comedy
Workshop. No comedy experience needed. This week, discuss how to write a one-liner joke. The Badlander. 6 PM–7 PM
Poetry Slam puts your verbal prowess to the test. Email e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com to sign up. 7:30 PM. Free.
Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Yuri Gagarin. The way the icecaps are melting, this is also what we can call most of Montana. Future Islands plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $22.
Can I get an amen? Revival Comedy, Missoula’s newest stand-up comedy open mic, features established comics and new voices at the Badlander. This month’s headliner is Becky Margolis. Sign up at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. Free.
It’s really about the notes they aren’t playing. The Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quartet plays Jazz Night at the Top Hat from 7 PM– 9 PM. Free.
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.
The Lil Smokies, The Brother Comatose and Mipso bring the Campfire Caravan to the Wilma. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $23/$18 advance.
Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.
I have no idea what it stands for. Portland’s WIBG plays the ZACC with Charcoal Squids and Cory Fay. 7 PM. $5.
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.
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Thursday Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4. Missoula Art Museum Senior Curator Brandon Reintjes gives a tour of the exhibition Dear Viewer: Text-Based Artwork from the MAM Collection. 10 AM. Free.
nightlife Tom Catmull plays Draught Works from 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to McCormick Park. 6 PM. $3. This year’s President’s Lecture Series will consist of seven talks on vital topics by distinguished guest speakers. The University community and general public are cordially invited to attend all the lectures. Admission is free.
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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. Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo serenade the wine at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM. Free. Dusk comes the Sunrise Saloon not to create a time paradox, but to get your feet tapping and your boots scootin’. 9:30 PM. Free.
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.
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Agenda The new school year is already well underway at the University of Montana. This year, along with the normal routine of classes and sports, Missoula at large is watching alongside the campus community as big changes approach. With four finalists for the university's presidency currently being interviewed, faculty cuts on the horizon and the challenges of balancing student needs with financial realities, a coalition of UM faculty and students are gearing up to host a public forum on the university's future. “We've looked over [the presidential candidates] and don't think any of them are qualified or acceptable for the office of president,” says organizer and philosophy student Rena Thiel. “Especially give the state of our university currently.” The larger goal of the meeting is to hold the university administration, the Board of Regents and the state legislature accountable for the way budgets cuts are allocated at the state
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4. A public forum, hosted by a coalition of students and faculty, discuss the future of the University. Open to the public. City Council Chambers. 6 PM.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4. NAMI Missoula’s annual Beautiful Minds fundraiser at Imagine Nation Brewing features the live music of Chris Pumphrey, Basses Covered and Shepherd/House. 5:30 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations.
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level and university levels. In addition to Thiel, the panel will include professor of modern genetics Douglis Coffin, UM alumnus and activist Louis Schneller, and religious studies student Nate Balano. —Charley Macorn The Public Forum on the Future of the University of Montana takes place Thu., Sept. 21 at 6 PM in City Council chambers
Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s starts at Silver Park. Registration at 1 PM, walk begins at 2:30 PM.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25 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.
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4. 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.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week support the Pink Boot Society. 5 PM–8 PM.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4.
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he last time I took my bike into a bike shop, the words “rideable, but barely” may have been muttered. Actually, that’s putting it too kindly. The bike shop guy essentially condemned the old Trek mountain bike I’ve been chugging around on for roughly a decade. I was told the fork is crooked, the cables are shot and the brakes are only vaguely functional. Then it was recommended I purchase a $600 model that was conveniently parked in the shop window. This was a year ago. I still ride my old bike almost every day. (For the record, the brakes work well enough. I’m not tearing around town endangering your children.) The point is: This town has a problem, and it’s called the Bike Bourgeoisie. To be an authentic Missoulian, it seems, you have to pour thousands of dollars and dozens of hours into researching, purchasing and perpetually fine-tuning your bicycle. But cutting through the noise is Free Cycles. A nonprofit that bills itself as Missoula’s community
bike shop, Free Cycles provides an welcoming workshop and hands-on guidance for anyone wanting to learn how to repair their bike. They even have a build-a-bike program, which lets you construct your own two-wheeled transportation from all the donated parts in the shop, with a staff member or volunteer helping you every step of the way. It’s bike appreciation the way it should be: free, supportive and inclusive. This Saturday, Free Cycles hosts its 22nd Annual Festival of Cycles, along with local nonprofits. There’ll be conversations about community health, pedal-powered machines on display, music and plenty of good food. Forget the Bike Bourgeoisie. Pedal to the People.
—Margaret Grayson The Festival of Cycles starts at 10 AM on Sat., Sept. 23, and goes until 10 PM. Free.
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 Punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to Kiwanis Park. 6 PM. $3.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22 Skunk Apes away! Big Sky Bigfoot Conference returns for another two days of cryptozoology. Squatch on over to bigskybigfootconference .com for a full schedule of events and registration. $25. Bitterroot River Inn in Hamilton.
STURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 REI presents the premiere of TGR’s new featurelength ski and snowboard film, Rogue Elements at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 advance.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 Great the sun, under the sun at Yoga in the
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Parks. This week bring your yoga mat to McCormick Park. 6 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 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. This month’s run starts at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM. Free.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28 Punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to McCormick Park. 6 PM. $3.
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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon THE SUM OF HIS BEERS I’ve been with my boyfriend for nine months. We are both in our late 20s and go out drinking a lot with our friends. I’ve noticed that when he’s drunk, he’ll be super affectionate and say really gushy things about me, our getting married, etc. Are his true feelings coming out, or is he just talking lovey-dovey because of the booze?that simple? —Bridal Hopes You’ve got to be wondering what it would take for you two to live happily ever after ... cirrhosis? Many people insist that their personality changes dramatically when they’re all likkered up. Remind them of some outrageous thing they did the other night at the bar and they’ll go all protest-y—“But that wasn’t the real me!”—and point the finger at Jack, Jose or the Captain (as in, Daniel, Cuervo or Morgan).The reality is, research on drinking’s effects on personality by clinical psychologist Rachel Winograd finds that beyond one area of personality—extroversion, which increases slightly in drunken people—we’re all pretty much the same jerks (or whatever) that we are when we’re sober. This consistency that Winograd and her colleagues observe makes sense vis-avis how psychologists find that personality has a strong genetic component and involves habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings and behavior. (There are five major personality dimensions: conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, openness to experience and extroversion.) And though the Winograd team did find a small increase in extroversion, a body of research finds that personality traits are largely consistent across time and situations. However, the skeptic in you might ask: If personality doesn’t change after, say, three Sriracha margaritas, how come we’ve all seen people behaving differently when they’re sauced? Well, according to research by social psychologists Claude M. Steele and Robert A. Josephs, the behavioral changes of drunken excess appear to be caused not by alcohol itself but by alcohol-driven changes in perception that they call “alcohol myopia.” Alcohol appears to restrict attention, giving a person a sort of tunnel vision for whatever’s right in front of them. To explain this more simply, alcohol basically turns a person into the chimp version of themselves—focusing on whatever’s right in their face and experiencing simple basic emotions in response, like fear, lust, anger or blubbering affection. Meanwhile, alcohol diminishes their ability for mental processing of any complexity—most notably
the sort of thinking that normally leads a person to say, “Well, on the other hand....” (that little voice of reason that pipes up in more sober moments). Interestingly, the research on alcohol myopia debunks a widely believed myth— the assumption that getting drunk will necessarily lead a person to be much less inhibited. It may, but it may also lead the other way—to increased inhibition and less risk taking. That may be hard to believe when you’re watching your brother, the uptight accountant, do a drunken striptease on the bar. However, recall that whatever’s right in front of the sloshed person’s face tends to drive how restrained or unrestrained their behavior is. A fascinating example of this comes from field research by psychologist Tara MacDonald and her colleagues. Patrons entering a bar got their hands stamped—seemingly just to allow them to re-enter without standing in line again. Some had their hands stamped with the ominous warning (within a little circle) “AIDS KILLS.” Others got a circle containing the nebulous statement “SAFE SEX” or—in the control group—a smiley face. The 372 hand-stamped participants were later divided into two groups based on blood alcohol level. (Those with a blood alcohol level that was .08 percent or above were the “intoxicated group.”) The researchers found that the “intoxicated” people with the smiley or “SAFE SEX” stamp were more likely than sober participants to have sex without a condom. However, intoxicated people with the fearinducing “AIDS KILLS” message expressed less willingness to have unprotected sex than even sober people the researchers surveyed.This is right in line with how alcohol leads to “tunnel vision” that makes whatever’s right in front of a person especially prominent. Getting back to your boyfriend’s drunken mushygushies, consider how the tunnel vision of alcohol myopia likely plays out for him as he looks at you in the moment at the bar: “She’s so sparkly and nice....” What’s missing, however, is all the adult complexity—all that “on the other hand....” thinking that he’d likely do in more sober moments: whether you two can make it as lifelong partners, whether he’s up for creating little people who’d call him Daddy, etc. In other words, there’s probably some stuff he still needs to figure out. Give it some time—tempting as it is to use the findings about alcohol myopia to answer the question “How will you make him hurry up and propose?”Two words: “open bar.”
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EMPLOYMENT Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 40410 Criminal Justice/Specimen Collector This job requires the ability to relate to clients in a professional, firm, and nonjudgmental fashion. Most importantly, this position is required to build positive working relationship with clients, coworkers, court officials, state agencies, and commercial accounts.The ideal candidate should have previous experience working in a rehabilitation facility, addiction treatment center, or general drug testing facility. What YOU will be doing in this role: Greeting donors as a walk-in or scheduled appointment. Documenting donor contact information. Collecting donor samples by observed urine specimen, breath alcohol testing, and/or hair collection. Complete, retain, and accurately submit required paperwork associated with the specimen collection. Maintaining compliance with agency requirements. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40207 Earn $300-$1000 per month working part-time! The Missoulian is looking for reliable individuals to deliver the daily newspaper in the Missoula, Bitterroot and Flathead areas. For individual route details go to: missoulian.com/carrier If you’re looking for extra income, are an early riser and enjoy working independently, you can make money and be done before most people get going with their day. If this sounds like you, please submit your inquiry form today at missoulian.com/carrier or call 406-523-0494. You must have a valid driver’s license and proof of car insurance. This is an independent contractor business opportunity.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP IN THE JUSTICE COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 302 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 CAUSE NO. CV-2017-2115 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION PLUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLD, PLAINTIFF, v. SUMMER HUNTER, AND ALL OTHER TENANTS, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: Summer Hunter 720 Turner St., Unit #D Missoula, MT 59801 STATEMENT OF OBJECT OF ACTION: The above-captioned action is a Cause of Action against you relating to the possessory interest that you claim in the real property located at 720 Turner St., Unit #D, Missoula, MT 59801. Plaintiff demands relief which consists partially of excluding you from said possessory interest. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the aboveentitled Justice of the Peace, a copy of which is herewith served upon you. In the event you deny any or all of the material facts stated in the complaint, you must file your written answer together with a $30.00 answer fee for each Defendant with the above-entitled Court, and serve a copy of your answer upon the Plaintiff or attorney at the address shown on the Complaint. The answer must contain a denial of any or all of the material facts stated in the Complaint that the Defendant believes to be untrue, and also a statement, in plain or direct manner, of any other facts constituting a defense. Any matter not denied shall be deemed admitted. If you fail to answer or assert a counterclaim with ten (10) days after the service of the Complaint and Summons, the Plaintiff may request entry of default judgment against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. DATED Sept. 13, 2017 /s/ Landee N. Holloway, Justice of the Peace MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-226 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WANDA V. SMALLEY AKA WANDA VIOLA SMALLEY, DECEASED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named es-
tate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHERYL W. MILLER, 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 5th day of September, 2017. /s/ Cheryl W. Miller, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty,Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-19 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE AND INFORMATION TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, DECEASED.To the Garden City Rabbit Breeders Association: 1. The decedent, DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, died on December 14, 2016. 2. This notice is being published for persons who have or may have some interest in the estate being administered. 3. GEORGE MORSE AKA GEORGE W. MORSE whose address is: 5135 Mullan Rd. MIssoula, MT 59808 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate on January 26, 2017 without bond. 4. Papers and information relating to the estate are on file in the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, County of Missoula, at Missoula, Montana.5. This estate is being administered by the Personal Representative under the Uniform Probate Code of Montana without supervision by the Court. Recipients are entitled to information regarding administration from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any manner relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. DATED this 7th day of September, 2017. DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4
Cause No. DP-17-220 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GARLAND JEFFREY THAYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said 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 MOLLY ERIN THAYER, 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 29 day of August, 2017 /s/ Molly Erin Thayer, 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 Cause No. DP-17-142 Dept. No. 2 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BETTY LOU SHUBERT, 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 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 LORI KOHLMAN, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Lori Kohlman, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. SIGNED this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Lori Kohlman, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND
SWORN to before me this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires September 24, 2019 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-17-586 Dept. No. 3 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION ANNE L. FOGELBURCHENAL, Plaintiff, vs. CHARLES J. MANNING; the unknown heirs and devisees of Charles J. Manning; NANCY J. MANNING; the unknown heirs and devisees of Nancy J. Manning; and all other persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the real property described in the Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO all persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the real property described in the Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This is an action in which the title to, alleged interests in, or liens upon, real property are involved, affected, and brought into question. This action is brought for the specific purpose of quieting title in Plaintiff to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Block 28 of Park Addition, according to the official plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula
County, Montana, together with the vacated alley through Block 28 adjacent to said Lots. Recording reference: Book 23, Page 451.WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 6th day of September, 2017. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Clerk of the District Court (SEAL) /s/ By: Molly A. Reynolds Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-870 Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Ethan Hunter Walker, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Ethan Hunter Walker to Ethan Hunter Elliott. The hearing will be on 10/25/2017 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: September 8, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-17-51 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANNY JOSEPH LODWIG, Deceased. Danny Joseph Lodwig of 2010 Trail Street, Apt. E., Missoula, Montana 59801, died on September 22,2016. Decedent’s creditors are hereby notified that all claims against the estate will be forever barred unless presented to the personal representative through his counsel of record, Rochelle Loveland at 2709 Highland Dr., Missoula, Montana 59802, or to the Probate court and the personal representative within 4 months of publication of this notice. DATED this 18th day of September, 2017. /s/ Rochelle Loveland, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 PROBATE NO. DP-17-237 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY C. TYVAND, 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
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Psychologists say most people need a scapegoat—a personification of wickedness and ignorance onto which they can project the unacknowledged darkness in their own hearts.That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news:The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to neutralize that reflex and at least partially divest yourself of the need for scapegoats. How? The first thing to do is identify your own darkness with courageous clarity. Get to know it better. Converse with it. Negotiate with it. The more conscientiously you deal with that shadowy stuff within you, the less likely you’ll be to demonize other people. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If the weather turns bad or your allies get sad or the news of the world grows even crazier, you will thrive. I’m not exaggerating or flattering you. It’s exactly when events threaten to demoralize you that you’ll have maximum power to redouble your fortitude and effectiveness. Developments that other people regard as daunting will trigger breakthroughs for you. Your allies’ confusion will mobilize you to manifest your unique visions of what it takes to live a good life. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried,” declared comedian Steven Wright. My Great Uncle Ned had a different perspective. “If at first you don’t succeed,” he told me, “redefine the meaning of success.” I’m not a fan of Wright’s advice, but Ned’s counsel has served me well. I recommend you try it out, Gemini. Here’s another bit of folk wisdom that might be helpful. Psychotherapist Dick Olney said that what a good therapist does is help her clients wake up from the delusion that they are the image they have of themselves.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): What is home? The poet Elizabeth Corn pondered that question. She then told her lover that home was “the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” I offer this as inspiration, Cancerian, since now is a perfect time to dream up your own poetic testimonial about home. What experiences make you love yourself best? What situations bring out your most natural exuberance? What influences feel like gifts and blessings? Those are all clues to the beloved riddle “What is home?”
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re most likely to thrive if you weave together a variety of styles and methods. The coming weeks will be a highly miscellaneous time, and you can’t afford to get stuck in any single persona or approach. As an example of how to proceed, I invite you to borrow from both the thoughtful wisdom of the ancient Greek poet Homer and the silly wisdom of the cartoon character Homer Simpson. First, the poet: “As we learn, we must daily unlearn something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire.” Now here’s Homer Simpson: “Every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old.” releasing it to the masses. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may c fore make changes, even cutting out certain scenes or altering the ending. You might want to try a
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Filmmakers often have test audiences evaluate their products be-
similar tack in the coming weeks, Virgo. Solicit feedback on the new projects and trends you’ve been working on—not just from anyone, of course, but rather from smart people who respect you. And be sure they’re not inclined to tell you only what you want to hear. Get yourself in the mood to treasure honesty and objectivity.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The poet E. E. Cummings said, “To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” On the other hand, naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau declared that “we are constantly invited to be who we are,” to become “something worthy and noble.” So which of these two views is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic self? Or is fate forever conspiring in our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression? I’m not sure if there’s a final, definitive answer, but I can tell you this, Libra: In the coming months, Thoreau’s view will be your predominant truth. (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “When you do your best, you’re depending to a large extent e SCORPIO on your unconscious, because you’re waiting for the thing you can’t think of.” So said Scorpio director Mike Nichols in describing his process of making films. Now I’m conveying this idea to you just in time for the beginning of a phase I call “Eruptions from Your Unconscious.” In the coming weeks, you will be ripe to receive and make good use of messages from the depths of your psyche. At any other time, these simmering bits of brilliance might remain below the threshold of your awareness, but for the foreseeable future they’ll be bursting through and making themselves available to be plucked.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together. “People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end,” she writes. Seventeenth-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months of each year. In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to “carnival revelry.” In accordance with current astrological omens, you Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks. He shook and screamed around them. Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend g sure. Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. As for me, I have an unnatural fear of watching CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Kittens made French Emperor Napoleon III lose his compo-
reality TV. What about you, Capricorn? Are you susceptible to any odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the coming weeks will be a perfect time to overcome them. Why? Because you’ll be host to an unprecedented slow-motion outbreak of courage.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The brain is wider than the sky,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “The brain is deeper than the sea.” I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days, Aquarius. In order to accomplish the improbable tasks you have ahead of you, you’ve got to unleash your imagination, allowing it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve down into hidden abysses.Try this visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than the planet Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I got an email from a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna. He complained that my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities. “People love astrological predictions about big stars,” he wrote. “So what’s your problem? Are you too ‘cultured’ to give us what we the people really want? Get off your high horse and ‘lower’ yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented, and very rich Rihanna.” I told Rihanna’s fan that my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from what it is for average folks. For Piscean mega-stars the coming weeks will be a time to lay low, chill out and recharge. But non-famous Pisceans will have prime opportunities to boost their reputation, expand their reach and wield a stronger-than-usual influence in the domains they frequent. 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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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-225 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BONNIE C. HENNES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jon V. Parker has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 6th day of September, 2017. /s/ Jon V. Parker, Personal Representative for the Estate of Bonnie C. Hennes /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-97 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND A. MEYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the 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 G. Skjelset, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Hon. John W. Larson Probate No. DP-17-228 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONNIE LOUISE PETERSON, A/K/A CONSTANCE PETERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JEFFREY A. PETERSON 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 JEFFREY A. PETERSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 327 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 13 day of September, 2017. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-17-219 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAY L. POWERS, 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 KIM D. POWERS, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25th day of August, 2017. /s/ Kim D. Powers, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G.
Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 25 day of August, 2017. /s/ Kim D. Powers, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 25 day of August, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-17-197 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF:WALTON MIDKIFF, 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 MICHAEL MIDKIFF, 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 1st day of September, 2017. /s/ Michael Midkiff, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ David H. Bjornson, Attorneys for MICHAEL MIDKIFF, Personal Representative Notice of Close of RegularVoter Registration Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Municipal General Election to be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 will close at 5:00 p.m., on Tuesday October 10, 2017. Ballots will be automatically mailed on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 to Active Electors only. *Note: Voters who miss the Close of Registration deadline may late register for the Municipal General Election at:The Elections Center (Missoula Fairgrounds Election Center, 1101 South Avenue West, Building #15, Missoula, MT 59801) from October 11, 2017 through November 6 , 2017. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, voters can complete & submit a voter registration card, but they will need to return to the local election office on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot. Same day voter registration is also available at the Elections Center on Election Day – November 7, 2017. All active and inactive electors of Missoula County Montana are entitled to vote in said election. **Note: Inactive electors may reactivate by appearing at the Elections Center in order to vote, by requesting an absentee ballot in any election, or by notifying the County Election Administrator in writing of the elector’s current
PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP address in the county. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator at the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 from September 17, 2017 through September 27, 2017. Starting September 28, 2017 through November 7, 2017 the Election Administrator’s Office will be located at the Missoula Fairgrounds Elections Center 1101 South Ave West, Building #15, Missoula, MT 59801. An application for voter registration properly executed and postmarked on or before the day regular registration is closed must be accepted as a regular registration for 3 days after regular registration is closed. For more information visit our Current Election webpage at www.MissoulaVotes.com or contact the Elections Office at (406) 258-4751. DATED this 12th Day of September, 2017 /s/ Bradley Seaman Missoula County Election Supervisor Run Dates: September 17, September 24, & October 1, 2017. This notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation 3 times in order to notify individuals of the close regular registration and the availability of late registration. Notice of Public Hearing – The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, September 26th, 2017, from3 – 5 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public. For further information, contact Erin Ojala, Homeword Administrative Specialist, at 406-532-4663 x10. If you have comments, please mail them to: Homeword, 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 116A, Missoula, MT, 59808. Notice of Sheriff’s Sale BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, Plaintiff, vs. JERRY R.ALLEN; DONNA M. ALLEN; ERIC SHAWN ALLEN; ROBIN LIN ALLEN, Defendants. CAUSE NO. DV-13-460 To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 11th day of October, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, I am commanded to sell at public auction all of Defendants’ rights and interest to the below described property: Commencing at the Northwest 1/16 Corner of said Section 24, the true point of beginning; thence South 89 degrees 57 minutes 54 seconds East along the Northerly boundary of the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of said Section 24, a distance of 665.95 feet; thence North 87 degrees 22 minutes 24 seconds East 665.62 feet to a point on the NorthSouth Mid-section line of said Section 24; thence South 00 degrees 13 minutes 11 seconds
West along said Mid-section line, a distance of 593.18 feet to the Northeast Corner of Tract A of Certificate of Survey 1124; thence the following (6) courses along the Northerly boundary of said Tract A; South 89 degrees 57 minutes 22 seconds West 216.96 feet; South 46 minutes 29 minutes 49 seconds West 105.55 feet; South 76 degrees 31 minutes 09 seconds West 158.55 feet; thence South 47 degrees 53 minutes 37 seconds West 109.18 feet; North 81 degrees 48 minutes 32 seconds West 584.60 feet; and North 89 degrees 57 minutes 50 seconds West 221.76 feet; thence North 00 degrees 02 minutes 38 seconds East 662.64 feet to the true point of beginning. Property address: 10250 Miller Creek Road, Missoula MT 59803. The above-described property will be sold to the highest bidder to satisfy Plaintiff’s judgment, with interest and costs. **WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND ANYONE INTERESTED IN BIDDING ON ANY PROPERTY NOTICED FOR SALE RESEARCH THE OWNERSHIP OF THE PROPERTY THOROUGHLY PRIOR TO BIDDING** Dated this 17th day of September, 2017. /s/T.J. McDERMOTT Sheriff of Missoula County By: /s/ David L. Merifield, Deputy Benjamin J. Mann, MSB# 33833674 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN, P.C. 376 E. 400 South, Ste. 300, Salt Lake City UT 84111 Telephone (801) 355-2886 File #47577 Attorneys for BOA NA | HWM File #47577 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/16/14, recorded as Instrument No. B: 931 P: 102 201409979, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Nathan Michaels and Allison Lawrence joint tenants was Grantor, American Federal Savings Bank was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 15 of CHEYENNE LANE, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/17 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 3, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $210,104.08. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $202,555.97, plus
accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on December 13, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwest trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Michaels, Nathan and Lawrence, Allison (TS# 7883.20300) 1002.292345File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 5, 2018, 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 4 in Block 1 of Ben Hughes Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Lisa Jones and Sheldon Jones, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for PHH Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 17, 2010, and recorded on November 22, 2010 as Book 869 Page 775 as Document No. 201022882.The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH MORTGAGE CORPORA-
TION. 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, 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 July 31, 2017 is $116,695.72 principal, interest totaling $8,746.21 late charges in the amount of $64.90, escrow advances of $3,444.20, and other fees and expenses advanced of $147.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be 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:August 22, 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 22nd day of August, 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/Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 PHH vs JONES 102329-2 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Occupant(s) 132 Dallas Street Lolo, Montana 59847 Victoria M. Holder 132 Dallas Street Lolo, MT 59847 CB1 Inc., dba CBM Collections P.O. Box 7429 Missoula, MT 59801 Victoria M. Wyatt 132 Dallas Street Lolo, MT 59847 Collection Professionals, Inc. 3104 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59808 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: WEST VIEW #1, S27, T12 N, R20 W, BLOCK 2, Lot 9. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lot 9 in Block 2 of West View, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Parcel No. 570404. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 2, 2013. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 10, 2014. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 10, 2014, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $5,774.80 PENALTY $114.00 INTEREST $1,345.85 COST $239.36 TOTAL $7,474.01 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 27, 2017, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all in-
terest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 28th of August, 2017.
NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Occupant(s) 1895 E. Broadway Missoula, Montana 59802 Sara J. Albano 1895 E. Broadway Missoula, Montana 59802 Sara J. Albano 1636 River Mill Road Oshkosh, WI 54901-2792 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 Daniel Addition Homeowners Assoc. c/o ADEA Property Management 2527 S. 3rd Street W. Missoula, MT 59804 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: DANIEL ADDITION - PHASE 3, S26,T13 N, R19 W, BLOCK 2, UNIT 6 AMENDED PLAT OF GATEWAY GARDENS #2, S.PORTION OF LOT 3 & N.PORTION OF LOT 4. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Unit 6 in Block 2 of the Amended Plat of Gateway Gardens No. 2, Southerly portion of Lot 3 and Northerly portion of Lot 4 (Phase 3 of Daniel Addition), a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to
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the official recorded plat thereof in Book 13 of Plats at Page 36. Parcel No. 5839463. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 2, 2014. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 10, 2014. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 10, 2014, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $6,149.14 PENALTY $121.40 INTEREST $1069.54 COST $232.80 TOTAL $7,572.88 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 27, 2017, 60 days after date of this notice. 8.
On September 26th at 12:30 p.m. an auction will be held at Hellgate Canyon Storage, 730 Clyde St., Missoula, MT to sell the items of a 10x15 unit rented by John Vandermeulen due to non-payment of rent..
For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 28th of August, 2017. NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Occupant(s) 916 Parkview Way Missoula, Montana 59803 Troy D.
Dussault 916 Parkview Way Missoula, Montana 59803 Buck Smith 7499 Teigen Ct. Missoula, MT 59803 Abigail J. Dussault 916 Parkview Way Missoula, Montana 59803 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3601 Minnesota Drive Bloomington, MN 55435-5284 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 HSBC Bank USA 636 Grand Regency Blvd. Brandon, FL 33510 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. P.O. Box 31557 Billings. MT 59107-9900 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: HIGH PARK # 1, S05,T12 N, R19 W, BLOCK 22, Lot 25. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lot 25 in Block 22 of High Park No. 1, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.. Parcel No. 1938504. 2.
EAGLE SELF STORAGE EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 63, 87, 159, 442, 481, 683, & 744. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday September 25, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday September 28, 2017 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
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 4465/Christian American Horse/ $307/furniture SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT
www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Oct. 4, 2017 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale t the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.
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tion date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $13,089.23 PENALTY $260.21 INTEREST $2577.60 COST $252.48 TOTAL $16,179.52 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 27, 2017, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request,
must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the CountyTreasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone
number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 258-4747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 28th of August, 2017.
APARTMENTS
PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333
ment 542-2060
$1250. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
1 bed, 1 bath, S. 12th West, $725, W/D hookups, storage & off street parking. W/S/G paid. NO
108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, newly remodeled,W/D, A/C, downtown $950. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
The property taxes became delinquent on December 2, 2013. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 10, 2014. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 10, 2014, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expira-
RENTALS
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611
2 bed, 1 bath, N. Russell, $750, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking. HEAT paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333
MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $495/month. 406-273-6034
DUPLEXES
212 S. 5th Street East #1. 2 bed/1 bath, near University, close to downtown, W/D hookups $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 345 W. Central “C”. 2 bed/1 bath in triplex, central location, W/D, close to parks. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 509 S. 5th St. E. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, two blocks to University, sunroom, coin-ops, HEAT PAID $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES
1863 S. 5th St. E. 3 bed/2.5 bath, brand new, energy efficient, central location. $1500 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
OUT OF TOWN 11270 Napton Way 2C. 3 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central Lolo location, lots of interior updates. $925. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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1706 Scott Street “B”.1 bed/1 bath, Northside, all utilities paid, shared yard $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7
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1831 S. 9th Street West “B”. 3 bed/2.5 bath, newly remodeled, central location, DW, W/D, POA $1250. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
201 Bentley Park Loop Unit B. $1300 2 car gar Bike to UM Available 10/1. Call 880-8319
211 S. 4th Street East #1. 3 bed/1 bath, close to U, W/D hookups $1050. Grizzly Property Manage-
1525 S. 10th Street West. 3 bed/1 bath, central location, W/D hookups, DW, single garage, POA
Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $825/month Visit our website at
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Grizzly Property Management "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.
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REAL ESTATE HOMES 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Upper Rattlesnake home on 3.6 acres on Ray Creek. $500,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath South 39th St home, $239,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2636 Park Street- Amazingly sweet house in the Lewis and Clark neighborhood and close to everything, including shopping and bike trails and downtown and the U and schools. $275,000 KD 240-5227 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, East Missoula home. $235,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3625 Kingsbury. Pleasant View 3 bed, 3 bath on corner lot with 2 car garage. $284,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
665 E Kent. Wow, university area charmer on a double lot for $320,000! 3 bedroom, 1 bath, in great condition and ready to move into! KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.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 7122 Brooke Lynn. Brand new 5 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan, gas fireplace, deck & timber frame accents. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 816 West Hallmark. 3 bed, 2 bath with covered deck, UG sprinklers & double garage. $275,000. 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. $219,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Grant Creek home on 5.7 acres. $415,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 425 S 5th St West-This is an amazing stunning historic gem. The beautiful Victorian was built in 1890 and has absolute charm of yesteryear. $625,000 KD 2405227 PorticoRealEstate.com 529 Blaine. Price reduced to $275,000. It’s a gem and ready to move into with tons of charm and amazing location in the heart of the Slant Streets and so close to everything near town! KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
homes in great condition $43,900 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663
2025 Mullan Heights #306. 2 bed, 2.5 bath facing the Clark Fork River. $227,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
LAND FOR SALE
Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com 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
1779-81 W Sussex. Centrally located duplex close to shopping and parks and schools! Great investment opportunity. One 2 bedroom, 1 bath, one 3 bedroom 1 bath. Live in one and rent the other or rent both! $192,500 KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com
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CONDOS 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lolo Townhome. $189,900. BHHSMT Properties.
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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 2.1 acre waterfront lot in Alberton. $169,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Raymond. Beautiful .43 acre lot in quiet Rattlesnake neighborhood. $245,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
DUPLEXES
MANUFACTURED
5185 Old Marshall Grade Road This historic Farmhouse was built in the 1880s and is listed on the National Historic Register. It was remodeled in 2013 and 1,000 ± square feet was added.The home is located on 4.8 ± acres. The Farmhouse provides the best of both worlds: A truly historic home with modern amenities; and a rural atmosphere in close proximity to town. $815,000. Call 406-880-4689
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100% Financing VA Loans. 0 down. RD. 100% Financing. Conventional. Kirk Johnson Senior Loan Officer 406-240-3585
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16 Group that breaks stories 23 Dr. of old pajamas 24 Series gaps 27 Marching band section 28 "Gone With the Wind" character Butler and "Good Mythical Morning" cohost McLaughlin, e.g. 29 Chile's mountain range 30 Drink from India or Sri Lanka 31 Author Christopher whose writing inspired "Cabaret" 32 Free 33 French Revolution radical 34 Ricky Ricardo's theme song 36 "Possession" actress Isabelle 37 ___ Farm (cheap wine brand) 38 Prepare for mummification 41 Glorify 43 Predetermined outcome 44 Person at the computer 45 1960s-'80s Ford models that go by initials 47 Woody Guthrie's son 49 Half of CDII
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REAL ESTATE
NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungsten holdings.com (406) 293-3714
VACATION
MT Log home, 20 ac,1 bed w loft & bsmt (1866 sq ft), 1 bath, off-
COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
grid solar & wind w/ propane back-up generator. Year around access, $229,900. Call 405-2587328
500 Clear Creek Trl, Anaconda
OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $390,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visitwww.mindypalmer.com
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Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com
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Condo # 303 in The Uptown Flats 612 sf South Facing on the Top Floor. Includes Carport and Exterior Storage Unit. Go to MoveMontana.com for more details. MLS#:21711541
$159,710
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18740 E MULLAN RD, CLINTON $299,500 Charming 2 bedroom, 1 bath home on 1.37 acres. Includes a 4 car garage and large barn which is divided into 4 16x20 storage spaces renting @ $200 a mo. and 9 5x10 spaces renting @ $95 a mo. Mobile home hook up rents for $400. Apple tree, 2 plum trees and UG sprinklers. MLS #21707610
4860 Jaiden Lane • $399,500
Call Vickie Amundson at 544-0799 for more information
Linda Vista 5 bed, 3 bath with sweeping mountain views from a very private deck. A must see!
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 1.6 acres. $700,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Alberton home on 20 acres with Petty Creek frontage. $475,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $378,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
5136 MALLORY LANE Like new custom home in Lolo. 3 BED/2 BATH. Attractive home with upgrades throughout. Dramatic vaulted ceiling in great room, spacious kitchen, alder trim, granite, exposed beam. Open floor plan.
Newer flooring/fixtures. Energy efficient. Landscaped yard with privacy fence. $289,000 OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1-4 REALTORS WELCOME Or call 3962939 for Appt
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891 Cheyenne Lane, Come Look! 4 bedroom 3 bath, wood floors, Mandy, Montana Land Company. $289,900. Call 406.360.1057
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