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Voices/Letters Concert crowds, community support and trapping...............................4 The Week in Review Gubernatorial debate, Salt N Pepa and emergency landing ........6 Briefs Mike Fellows, Jon Krakauer and Bruins hockey...................................................6 Etc. What puts the health department on full alert? .......................................................7 News Conservationists build on Marshall Woods victory ...............................................8 News Food Farm celebrates community spirit with acclaimed soda displays ................9 Opinion It’s not just about the money with UM athletics ............................................10 Feature Fall Arts Preview ...............................................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Trash, arm wrestling and American identity at Missoula VonCommon.................16 Music Behind the music of Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan.........................................17 Music Five albums that made Dwight Yoakam a country king .....................................18 Film High Water masters the Western heist...................................................................19 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................20 What’s Good Here De La Calle enters the fold............................................................21 Happiest Hour Montana Brewers Fall Rendezvous .....................................................23 8 Days a Week And yet not a single word on the Beatles’ film....................................24 Agenda The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos...................................................30 Mountain High An Evening with a Naturalist ............................................................31

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Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

by Tess Haas

Asked Tuesday morning on the University of Montana campus.

University of Montana athletics recently released a report touting its fiscal contribution to the greater Missoula community.

How do you show your support for Griz athletics, if at all?

Followup: Has your enthusiasm for the Griz changed in recent years?

Dan Dettman: Yeah, I go to, like, two football games a year. Beer fan: I probably go more now that I can drink outside.

Tailgating is fun.

Olivia Schuler: Not at all. Sports has never been my thing so I don’t see why I would support a part of the institution that already has so much funding. Keep at it: No. I’m about to graduate and I’ve never been to a single game.

Jaden Hatlestad: Yeah, I go to games and buy merchandise. I’ve gone to every home football game and a few basketball games, too. True fan: It’s always Go Griz.

Aaron Shay: I support Grizzly athletics by consumption of malt beverages at the local pub. I watch the games on TV. Dedicated drinker: No, my support is not waning.

Shelby Max: I’m in the marching band, so I support in that way. I play piccolo.

Team spirit: Probably gained. I moved here two years ago, so since I started playing with the marching band, it’s increased.

Shush up already We read with great interest Dan Brooks column on the Ryan Adams concert at the Wilma (see “Earning an encore,” Aug. 18). We have attended several concerts at the Wilma and have been dismayed at the lack of respect and attention by audience members. We simply do not understand why anyone would pay money to hear an artist and then spend the evening talking over the performance. It is disrespectful to the artist certainly and is downright rude behavior to fellow audience members.

At a concert this summer we actually requested assistance from the staff to quiet those behind us at the bar who did not stop their chatter once the “warm-up” took the stage. In this case the talkative groups cooperated and we were able to enjoy the main performer. Unfortunately for friends, seated in the prime balcony front rows, even a request from staff and themselves did not silence the nonstop, loud conversation behind them—it continued for the entire concert. At this same seated performance another group of friends were on the main floor, close to the stage, and they could not even see the performers because the table in front of them insisted on standing and dancing through the entire performance. What the hell?

We think good manners should be in play here. The final result for us: We carefully choose who we will pay money to hear at the Wilma, a wonderfully restored venue.

We appreciate the article and the attention it will hopefully draw to this social problem.

Last, for years we have attended most of the performances in the Bitterroot Performing Arts series in Hamilton and have never encountered a problem with a disrespectful audience. Apparently the Bitterroot Valley crowd knows their manners!

Bobbie and Shirley McKibbin Stevensville

Collaborative culture Every small business owner has probably repeated the classic Field of Dreams quote in their minds from time to time: “If you build it, they will come.”

What we have found in Missoula is perhaps an even more inspiring mantra: “If you invite others to join you, you will build it to-

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gether; once you build it, it will become something more than any of us imagined.”

For the fourth year in a row, the Kauffman Foundation ranked Montana No. 1 in the nation for entrepreneurship. Jonathan Ortmans, a Kauffman senior fellow, noted, “While many rightly see Montana as barely a blip on the map in this regard compared to other places cranking out tech startups, state authorities have a chance to build on Montana’s collaborative culture to create opportunities for connectivity.”

Our own startup would not be heading toward our second annual community festival without the collective talents given so generously by the Missoula community

back to something bigger than themselves.

It is in the spirit of collaboration and connectivity that we are thrilled to team up with the Zootown Arts Community Center for Imagine Fest 2016 on Sept. 24. A portion of the proceeds will support the ZACC as well as Playing for Change—a nonprofit that develops opportunities for street musicians while building music and art schools for children around the world.

Imagine Fest is beyond beer. It is about carving out the space and time for good people to do good things. We invite you to join us and the ZACC to create something more than we all might imagine.

Robert Rivers and Fernanda Menna Barreto Krum Imagine Nation Brewing Missoula

Not very sporting “Apparently the Bitterroot Valley crowd knows their manners!”

to sustain the country’s first brewery and educational center. Whether hammering nails, landscaping, designing artwork, sharing music, brewing beer or helping us to connect more deeply with our guests and important local causes, so many individuals and groups have offered their time, advice and support. All of this makes it clear to us why Montana keeps winning national rankings for business startups.

Even in the midst of extreme national polarization, we believe Montana is tops for entrepreneurship because of a collaborative culture that brings people together, celebrates what connects us all and offers pathways for people to share their talents and give

I am compassionate, yet realistic—my husband is a hunter and fisherman. I heard outrageous lies when approached by a trapper at his booth during a recent fair saying that animal rights people are trying to outlaw hunting and fishing and I-177 is just to get a foot in the door. The trapper bragged that he sells his services to ranchers who want to get rid of coyotes, wolves and foxes. I asked him about the domino effect of killing these predators, i.e., being overrun with mice and voles, and he stated that he kills those too.

For those who are concerned about trapping, please realize that trappers can still trap on private land. Public land is for everyone to enjoy and not have to worry about their child or pet being caught, mutilated and/or killed in a trap—and being helpless to save them. I took a class to learn how to release my dog if he became trapped and found that I could never free him in time, especially from a conibear trap.

I am compelled to include my concerns about the indiscriminate deaths caused by trappers: species that are endangered and non-target victims of trappers actions. In closing, as mentioned above, my husband is a hunter and maintains that trapping is not fair chase. There is nothing sporting about setting a trap and baiting it.

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LUCAS• Lucas is a 4-5 year-old male Brown Tabby. He came to our shelter with 7 other cats when their owners passed away. He gets along well with other cats and would do best in a home with another feline companion. Instead of being the outgoing, boisterous cat you'd think, Lucas has a tendency to shyly curl up in a ball and watch the action from his comfy perch.

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MACK• Mack is a 5-year-old male Black Lab mix. Originally from Texas, this southern boy is a true charmer. He loves to schmooze with all the ladies and hang with all the boys. Mack even turns up the charm a notch by showing off his nurturing side. He loves puppies, kittens, and kids. He does get defensive around other adult male dogs, so would do best starting out with a puppy playmate.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 EMMA• ZOOM! Don't blink, you might miss Emma, the speediest young girl around! Emma would love a grown-up family who could give her the exercise she needs and the love she wants!

Emma is wary of new situations and strangers, but warms up with time and treats. Come meet her at the Humane Society of Western Montana.

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GLENDA• Glenda The Good Cat was being bullied by her fellow kitty at her previous home, so Glenda thought she might have better luck stopping by the Humane Society to find a new forever home! Glenda loves her scratching post and enjoys napping in the sun.

KENAI•Kenai is a sweet girl who was transferred to us from Missoula Animal Control. She would prefer a home without cats but would make a wonderful hiking, walking, or lounging companion. This young Malamute mix is a blank slate that is eager to learn.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Robin Carleton

Wednesday, Sept. 14 Former Tour de France competitor Tyler Hamilton is the keynote speaker at the Missoula Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet.

Hamilton moved to Missoula after testifying in 2010 to a grand jury about the widespread doping among elite cyclists, including Lance Armstrong.

Thursday, Sept. 15 Salt N Pepa stop at the Iron Horse for lunch, according to restaurant employees, before they play a show at the Adams Center. The next day, co-headliner Coolio posts an Instagram photo of himself standing on the Washington-Grizzly Stadium turf.

Friday, Sept. 16 Engine failure forces the pilot of a Cessna Skyhawk to make an emergency landing in a field near the Wye. The occupants, a Missoula couple, walk away unhurt.

Saturday, Sept. 17 An American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners passenger train parks in Missoula for the weekend. One railcar owner explains to an Indy staffer that while the train cars are wildly expensive to maintain, they offer amazing views of the countryside.

Sunday, Sept. 18 The Missoula City Cemetery hosts Stories and Stones, where volunteers dress up as famous denizens of the Garden City’s past, including prostitutes, teachers and serial killers.

Monday, Sept. 19 Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock and Republican challenger Greg Gianforte meet in Billings for their second debate. At one point, Bullock confuses the terms “IED” and “IUD.” Both candidates declare wins after the event.

Tuesday, Sept. 20 The 28-year-old victim of a Monday night shooting on the California Street pedestrian bridge is released from the hospital after treatment of a minor head wound. The Missoula Police Department identifies Jordan Standingrock, 24, as the suspect.

Hundreds of protesters floated on the Snake River in Clarkston, Wash., last Saturday, Sept. 17, to demand removal of four dams on the lower Snake River to help salmon and other wildlife survive. The demonstration attracted activists from across the region, including from Missoula.

Junior hockey

Bruins drop the puck On Sept. 19, two semi trucks arrived in the parking lot outside Glacier Ice Rink bearing a special delivery: aluminum bleachers, some assembly required.

Rink Director Laura Henning felt relieved.

“Oh gosh, yes,” she says.

The 143-feet-long bleachers, which can accommodate 600 people, will hopefully be set up just in time for the Junior Bruins’ first home game of the season on Sept. 30. The new team formed in the wake of the Missoula Maulers being disbanded in May by their owner Michael Burks, who cited financial conflicts with the rink. Burks followed up by removing the rink’s bleachers, which he’d had installed years before.

Henning says she’d been under the impression that the bleachers were a donation, but since none of the rink staff could find paperwork to prove it, she had to watch as Burks’ workers spent two days removing them.

She then found out that replacement bleachers cost $100,000. But over the summer, the nonprofit rink raised $70,000 in donations, and Henning found a bleacher company out of Texas willing to put out a rush order and take payment in installments. The remaining $30,000 cost will likely be financed with a loan.

“It’s fantastic that people supported us through the whole thing,” Henning says.

As the Bruins gear up for their first season with many of the same players and the same head coach as the Maulers, Bruins co-owner Jason DiMatteo says he’s finding as many bright sides as he can. For one thing, Burks removed little-used bleachers that sat on the second-floor mezzanine, clearing a space that will now be used for a Big Sky Brewing beer garden.

“That’s one thing we’re changing to make it a better experience for fans,” DiMatteo says, “and separate families from the craziness of die-hard fans.”

One of the biggest changes for the team itself is

that it now belongs to the North American 3 Hockey League, which doesn’t allow more than three nonAmerican players. DiMatteo was delighted to recruit two Canadians, one of whom was born in the U.S. and is exempt from the rule.

“Yeah, we got an extra Canadian out of the deal.

Wish we could have four or five of ’em,” DiMatteo says.

“But the three rule is to promote U.S. hockey, which has been overlooked for so many years.”

The Bruins are also supported by a new booster club, called the Bruins Den, that offers members closer access to the team.

Club organizer Ted Moody says he’s been a huge hockey fan for years and hopes the team can foster potential star players.

“I want to continue to see Missoula-area hockey continue to grow, which is why I wanted to help out so much,” Moody says. “I feel hockey in Missoula is on the cusp of something big.”

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Supreme court punt Jon Krakauer hardly sounded surprised by the Montana Supreme Court’s decision Monday regarding his quest for state disciplinary records pertaining to former University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson. The acclaimed author released a statement saying the ruling was precisely what attorney Mike Meloy anticipated after oral arguments this spring. Justices affirmed Krakauer’s right to seek those documents, but kicked the case back to District Court to decide what records, if any, should be released.

For UM media law professor Lee Banville, the most remarkable thing about the court’s opinion was how unremarkable it was. The court had an opportunity to stake out a clear position on the dueling pressures of privacy and the right to know, he says. Instead they “punted,” leaving it to District Court Judge Kathy Seeley—who previously ruled in favor of disclosing all the records—to balance those constitutional considerations.

“If I’m the District Court judge in this case, I’m still kind of like, ‘Yeah, so what do I do different that I didn’t do last time?’” Banville says.

Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, has a far more dour take on the decision’s implications. His organization first joined Krakauer in the suit nearly two years ago, seeing it as an opportunity to fight back against use of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, as a “secrecy cloak for embarrassing information.” Now he’s afraid the court’s ruling will have the opposite effect.

“Colleges are going to take this as an open invitation to define anything and everything as a FERPA education record if they prefer to keep it sealed,” LoMonte says. He adds he was particularly interested in any records shedding light on who may have lobbied Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian prior to his decision to overturn Johnson’s expulsion—information he argues has a clear public benefit.

LoMonte and Banville are in agreement that the court’s decision could have a broader impact on how journalists choose to pursue records. Both the majority and dissenting opinions stated Krakauer’s request may have been treated differently had he sought broader information on disciplinary actions by Christian as opposed to name-specific records. It’s a cautionary element for journalists in structuring information requests, Banville says. Still, he wonders about the logic of the court’s position.

“There was only one record we were talking about,” Banville says, “and if you redact the name, we still know what the name is underneath the blacked-out line.”

How Seeley will decide to balance the constitutional questions left unanswered by the Supreme Court is anyone’s guess. But LoMonte believes Monday’s decision, coupled with recent legal scuffles on other campuses, could wind up helping those pushing for FERPA reform at the national level.

“It has now become impossible for Congress to ignore that this statute is being abused to conceal dangerous conditions on college campuses,” LoMonte says.

Alex Sakariassen

Libertarian Party

Fellows dies on the trail Mike Fellows’ absence from breakfast on Monday was noticed by members of Missoula’s American Legion Post 27, according to Commander John Angwin, even if it wasn’t particularly surprising. Fellows, a first vice commander, wasn’t known for missing events, but the 59-year-old had been ailing lately, admitted to St. Patrick Hospital twice in recent months as his kidneys failed. And yet at 5:30 that same Monday evening, Fellows hobbled with the help of a walker into the Seeley Lake community hall, 45 miles away, to talk about his latest race for U.S. House as the Libertarian candidate. He was the only House candidate to attend the town forum.

Fellows’ remarks to the audience of around 30 people were his last. After giving his closing statement, he began driving home, alone, in his old Lexus sedan that had a few campaign stickers affixed to the rear bumper. Around 9 p.m., according to the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office, Fellows crossed the center line near Potomac, colliding head-on with an oncoming car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Fellows was the face of the Montana Libertarian Party for 20 years, running in every statewide election while serving as its chairman. “The Montana Libertarian Party was Mike’s life,” says Andrew Forcier, state director for the Gary Johnson campaign. He typically polled in the single digits, but did garner over 40 percent of the vote—a national Libertarian party record—in the 2014 race for clerk of the Supreme Court when Republicans didn’t field a candidate. Political observers credit Fel-

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Acres of land in the South Hills slated to be purchased for public trails with open space bond funds, pending an Oct. 3 public hearing.

It was all hands on deck at the Missoula CityCounty Health Department this month after a Missoula resident contracted a case of Hepatitis A. The department went into “incident command mode,” which Director Ellen Leahy says sounds more dramatic than it actually is, but did include a press release, additional staff to field calls from concerned residents and preparations to dole out hundreds of immunizations. The University of Montana chimed in, too, sending out a text alert across campus.

That’s a lot of energy over a single infection, especially for a disease that isn’t particularly rare in Missoula County. Most Hep A cases go unnoticed by the community at large, Leahy says.

But this incident checked a slew of boxes that merited the department’s action, the first of which was the patient’s employment as a food service worker at the Good Food Store. Hepatitis A is highly contagious through oral and fecal contact, requiring as few as 10 individual organisms for transmission. The disease is also unique in that symptoms don’t present for an average of four weeks, even though someone with the virus is contagious for the preceding two weeks. So anyone who ate at the salad bar, where the food is uncooked, during the prior month could conceivably have been exposed.

“With the food worker, even though they’re taking all the precautions as they were in this store, there’s still a potential to expose a sector of the public,” Leahy says.

Leahy’s decision-making didn’t end there.

Her department then considered what a public notification might actually accomplish (other than widespread panic among local health-food junkies, which is basically everyone). Hepatitis A vaccines can be effective up to two weeks after initial exposure to the virus. Since the original case was traced to GFS quickly, Leahy reasoned, the window to intervene was still open. Check, check.

Then there’s the employer itself. Being on the front page for Hep A in the salad bar isn’t exactly a public relations win for a local business.

Leahy says a reticent business wouldn’t derail outreach efforts, but a willing partner, as GFS was, can improve the response.

Locals responded in droves, with more than 200 obtaining vaccinations in the first 48 hours after the news went out. Many sick people came in for testing, and so far, according to Leahy, all of the results have come back negative.

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lows’ efforts for ensuring the Libertarian Party has kept a foothold in the state.

Still, campaigning on the political fringe could be a lonely endeavor, and Fellows’ idiosyncrasies seemed to match his outsider status. He mumbled from the podium in a voice Seeley Lake Community Council Chair Klaus von Stutterheim says was difficult to understand. Longtime state politics reporter Chuck Johnson recalls that Fellows refused to disclose personal details, including his exact age, because he considered the information private.

Even his colleagues at Missoula Community Access Television, where he worked as a producer for 24 years and served as treasurer, found Fellows inscrutable. “I really enjoyed Mike’s personality, his sense of humor,” says General Manager Joel Baird, who worked with Fellows since he started a pair of local programs in the ’90s. “In the conventional sense of, ‘Who is his family?

What friends does he hang out with? Does he have any romantic interests ever?,’ nobody here could tell you.”

They did notice, however, as Fellows’ health deteriorated. Baird says Fellows appeared “incredibly frail” in recent weeks, having only begun dialysis after months of resistance. “Part of his Libertarian principle seemed to be that he didn’t want medical help, he didn’t want to release to medical authorities the information,” Baird says.

Fellows was first admitted to St. Pat’s this spring after another MCAT producer convinced Fellows to go to the emergency room, then again in August just before a pair of scheduled debates. Fellows explained his absence to the Billings Gazette by saying he didn’t think it was safe to drive long distances in his current health.

Less than three weeks later, Fellows was back on the trail.

“He continued to campaign because he was that committed to it,” Forcier says. “He acknowledged at different points in time that he was putting his health behind his candidacy.”

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When the Lolo National Forest released its proposal to commercially log a portion of the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area early last year, local residents could hardly believe it. The idea generated a flurry of questions and criticism, prompting forest officials to host public field trips to defend the more controversial components of their Marshall Woods Restoration Project. In the end, any notion of commercial logging in the Rattlesnake’s main stem was abandoned.

The issue brought together a small clutch of local conservation advocates, the interests of their separate organizations temporarily entwined in opposition. Rather than disbanding in the wake of their mutual victory, the group—made up of the WildWest Institute’s Jake Kreilick, Wilderness Watch’s George Nickas, Friends of the Rattlesnake’s Cass Chinske and independent consultant Mike Bader—decided to build on the experience. Earlier this month, they announced the formation of a citizen task force designed to take a critical look at a slate of national forest plan revisions set to hit western Montana over the next few years.

“For us, the Marshall Woods project did galvanize some new energy, and we’ve known that this plan revision process is coming down the pike,” Kreilick says. “We’ve known in the back of our heads that we’re going to have to start gearing up for this.”

The group has had to work fast to weigh in on forest plan revisions for the Flathead National Forest. The first phase of public comment on those revisions closes Oct. 3, but Bader has already completed an independent review of the agency’s data pertaining to grizzly bear management in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. One goal of the revision is to bring the forest plan more in line with the grizzly conservation strategy for that ecosystem and reflect the possibility of delisting in the future. Bader’s analysis of more than two dozen pieces of scientific literature, conducted on contract for the new task force, challenges the current population estimate of nearly 1,000 bears. He concludes there may be an “equally compelling alternative narrative” that should be considered in the forest plan revisions.

“They’re trying to create artificial man-

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agement space using imaginary bears, and the bear population will pay the price,” Bader says. “The problem now is if you look at these forest plans through the Flathead National Forest plan revision, the grizzly bear in the NCDE is fully recovered. That’s not true and it hasn’t been proven true and they shouldn’t be saying that.”

Keith Hammer of the Swan View Coalition says he’s been working on a response to the draft revisions for the Flathead since May. After a recent meeting with the task force, he’s optimistic they will not only weigh in themselves but also support any comments or concerns his nonprofit submits to the U.S. Forest Service. Although he’s known Kreilick

National Forest plan revision and come up with a citizen alternative for forest officials to consider. They’re in a recruitment period right now, Kreilick adds, but he expects public meetings, along with a website, to materialize this winter. Nickas sees considerable value not just in engaging the public but in pooling the resources of an otherwise “Balkanized” conservation movement.

“Having a coalition like this or a task force, it allows us now looking at these plans in western Montana to say, ‘We can all work together, bring all of our strength to bear on all these issues,’” Nickas says. “It really is a whole is stronger than the sum of the parts.”

photo by Alex Sakariassen

Criticism from conservation advocates over last year’s Marshall Woods project helped spur public interest about the Lolo National Forest’s plans. Those same advocates now hope to channel their efforts through a new citizen task force.

and the others for years, he believes their new endeavor will bring something fresh to Montana’s conservation community.

“It really helps spread the word,” Hammer says. “Each individual conservation group, whoever they are, has a certain reach and their reach is limited by their membership and funding ... So anytime you have other groups that get involved and coordinate, it just helps raise the awareness level of the general public.”

Bader’s 15-page review is just a small example of what the task force members hope to bring to the table. Kreilick says they intend to pull locals together ahead of the Lolo

For Chinske, the fight over Marshall Woods was a personal one. In addition to founding Friends of the Rattlesnake, he helped push the original legislation creating the national recreation area. Involvement on the task force is equally personal, he says. In his decades of conservation work, he’s never teamed up with a higher caliber group than he did on Marshall Woods.

“We can’t break it up right now because of the critical nature of the up-and-coming decisions,” Chinske says. “We would not be able to look at ourselves unless we tried.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Pop culture Food Farm celebrates community spirit with acclaimed soda displays

by Kate Whittle

In April, an Orange Street Food Farm phone. “It’s already basically graphed out. he browsed the Reddit comments on the customer snapped a picture of the tower- The white becomes Diet Coke, these are April Super Mario post. Some coming soda boxes on display in the front win- the Fanta colors, Coke Zero is black, and menters fondly recalled “Orange Street dow, depicting a colorful image of Super I think it’s Dr. Pepper Ten that’s the gray.” Beer Farm,” others posted about how She credits the Coke and Pepsi dis- much they missed Missoula. Some linked Mario Brothers. The customer posted the image to Reddit on April 3, where it sky- tributors for being willing to spend their to The Decemberists’ “Apology Song,” rocketed in popularity, eventually garner- day getting up on ladders and arranging which references the store. ing 1.7 million views. Soon after, Food the designs, which stay up for a month or “I mean, there’s people all over the Farm manager Vanessa Hendrix’s phone so. Nyan Cat will soon come down to country and the world that have been here blew up with notifications from friends make way for a Halloween theme. and have been part of that [culture],” The response from customers has Holtet says. “To me that’s a huge responsiasking her about the post.

“I actually couldn’t believe it. So I texted been overwhelmingly positive, although bility and super cool to be part of.” it to one of my young employees here and was like, ‘Is this real?’” Hendrix recalls. “I was just like, ‘How did that happen?’ We made the front page of Reddit.”

The Super Mario display wasn’t an original concept—Hendrix says she got the idea from a picture someone posted on Facebook. She’s managed the Food Farm for 15 years, and says she’s dedicated to maintaining the upbeat culture at the small grocery store that, incidentally, is still ranked tops in the nation for sales of Pabst Blue Ribbon. The displays help fuel that distinct community spirit. photo by Charles Wybierala “I just thought it was cool, and everybody loves Orange Street Food Farm’s soda displays are designed by longtime manager Vanessa Mario,” Hendrix says. “It’s Hendrix, who says she picks characters that will appeal to all ages. just so multigenerational Hendrix says the Food Farm’s owners, that it really impacted a lot of people.”

Holtet remembers how the business The Mario display took six months of who bought the business almost three lost power during the August 2015 windplanning because of its size. Hendrix has years ago, needed a little bit of coaxing. storm—and Hendrix rallied her staff and “I don’t think they quite knew what threw an impromptu barbecue. also devised smaller displays of Batman v.

Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to think when I pitched the Mario one,” “They pull out a guitar and a grill and Jack Skellington and other pop culture Hendrix says. “And I was like, ‘Trust me, in the dark, under candlelight, they start icons. The latest, Nyan Cat, is based on a it’s cool.’ But they’re very supportive of up a barbecue and they sing, and there’s meme of a cat with the body of a Pop-Tart it. We’re the Food Farm. They respect that 15 or 20 employees down there having a Missoula cult icon.” flying through space. good evening,” Holtet says. “They turned Food Farm co-owner Craig Holtet something bad into something good.

“I looked up ‘pixel art’ on Google, and pixel art is cool because it’s already says his goal as a business owner has been That’s the best description of that store, broken down into little symmetrical to not interfere with the character of the the vibe there.” blocks just like the soda is,” Hendrix says, 30-year-old grocery store. He saw evipulling up the Nyan Cat image on her dence of how much people love it when kwhittle@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • September 22–September 29, 2016 [9]

[opinion]

Running up the score It’s not just about the money with Grizzly athletics

by Dan Brooks

Last week, UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research published a study measuring the economic benefits of Grizzly athletics. It found that university sports produce $120.8 million in sales for local businesses each year, along with $52.8 million in wages and benefits. That’s a lot of money. The total seems to have been calculated with an eye toward making it as large as possible, though.

Among other categories, the study counts scholarships for student athletes, the value of employee benefits like health insurance and pension funds, travel and accommodation expenses during away games, and even money spent on auto repairs by visiting fans. It includes $13 million from “real estate rental and leasing,” as well as “$5.5 million a year spent…by student-athletes who are members of Grizzly Athletic teams.” If it has anything to do with UM athletics, from ticket sales to the money players spend on textbooks, it’s in there.

This methodology is in keeping with the study’s stated purpose, which is to explore the question, “What would the economy of Missoula look like if Grizzly athletics didn’t exist?” The authors of the study seem to have taken this question literally, calculating the economic contribution according to the principle that if Grizzly athletics went away, every player and employee associated with them would vanish, too.

It’s an interesting thought experiment.

Whether the $173 million in sales and wages is an accurate measure or not, there’s no denying that UM athletics generate a lot of money. But I think the BBER study, comprehensive though it seems to be, overlooks a few other contributions the Griz have made to our local economy.

For example, it does not appear to include sales of Jon Krakauer’s book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. The biggest sexual assault investigations in that book involved student athletes, and many of the copies sold were purchased at local bookstores. Their value should be added to the total, along with the cost of food and accommodations

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Krakauer and other members of the media purchased when they came to town.

While we’re at it, we should probably include wages paid to police in the course of investigating student athletes, plus legal fees for those who went to court. After all, if Grizzly athletics didn’t exist, none of that economic activity would, either. And, of

“I think the study, comprehensive though it seems to be, overlooks a few other contributions the Griz have made to our local economy.

For example, it does not appear to include sales of Jon Krakauer’s book.” course, we’ll need to count the salaries of local reporters, both on the sports beat and on cops and crime.

It all seems absurd, when you put it that way. The question of what would be different if UM athletics didn’t exist is a counterfactual so far-reaching as to be completely meaningless. A more interesting question might be what it means that BBER undertook this study, at this moment.

No one is calling for the disappearance of Griz sports. No prominent voice has even suggested they do more harm than good. But BBER’s elaborate study, funded

by a private donor, implies someone has at least considered the possibility.

Let us put aside the problem that it almost certainly takes up the wrong metric.

Knocking down Fort Missoula and building a dog track on its ruins would probably bring in a couple hundred million dollars a year, too, but that wouldn’t make it good.

Still, this study suggests that UM athletics is doing some soul-searching, if only to frantically defend their own legitimacy.

The first step to arguing that you are a net plus for the community is admitting you have a downside. In the case of the Griz, that downside has been conspicuous over the last few years, and maybe bigger than it needs to be. The question is not what Missoula would look like if UM athletics didn’t exist, but what it would look like if UM athletics hadn’t generated a series of scandals.

That, too, is a counterfactual, and we can’t really know anything about it. But let us not imagine the choice is between books about our town with “rape” in the title and no athletics at all. The vast majority of student-athletes whose hard work and tuition dollars count toward those $173 million never get arrested. They don’t commit sexual assaults or take bail money from boosters. But that doesn’t mean the few who do are inevitable, or that we cannot correct the culture that produces them without scratching sports entirely.

I believe UM athletics do more good than harm. I also believe that, over the last five years, they have hurt this community in specific ways that will take a lot of time and hard work to repair. I choose to read the BBER study as part of that work. It reminds us that you can’t make blanket statements about the whole Griz and hope to say anything true. It also reminds us that money isn’t everything. This community has incurred costs that can’t be measured in dollars but, nevertheless, need to be taken into account.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and contributing literally tens of dollars to the local economy each year at combatblog.net.

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WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND – One of the Islamic State's first reforms in captured territory has been to require adult women to dress devoutly – including the face-covering burka robe, which, in Western democracies famously presents security dilemmas because it hinders identification. Now, after two years of Islamic State occupation in Mosul, Iraq, the security problem has come full circle on ISIS itself. Dispatches from the town reported in September that ISIS has likely banned the burka because it hinders identification of anti-ISIS insurgents who (female and male) wear burkas to sneak up on Islamic State officers.

RECURRING THEMES – Barbara Murphy, 64, of Roy, Utah, is the most recent "dead" person battling the federal government to prove she is still alive (but seemingly getting nowhere). She said Social Security Administration bureaucrats, citing protocols, have been tight-lipped about her problem and remedies even though her bank account was frozen; Social Security was dunning her for two years worth of Medicare premiums (since her 2014 “death”); and warning letters had been sent to banks and credit agencies. Nonetheless, Murphy told the Deseret News in August that, all in all, she feels pretty good despite being dead.

Political connections in some Latin American countries have allowed convicted drug dealers and crime bosses to serve their sentences comfortably, and the most recent instance to make the news, from Agence France-Presse, was the presidential-suite-type “cell” occupied by Brazilian drug lord Jarvis Chimenes Pavao in Paraguay. When police (apparently not "politically connected") raided the cell in July, they found a well-appointed apartment with semi-luxurious furniture settings (including a conference table for Pavao to conduct "business"), embellished wallpaper designs with built-in bookcases, a huge TV among the latest electronics – and even a handsome shoe rack holding Pavao's footwear selection. Pavao also rented out part of the suite to other inmates for the equivalent of $5,000 plus $600 weekly rent.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR – Chris Atkins in Denver is among the most recent judicially ruled "fathers" to owe child support even though DNA tests have proven that another man's semen produced the child. Atkins is in the middle of a contentious divorce/child custody battle in which his estranged wife wants both custody and support payments, and since Atkins did not contest his fatherhood until the child reached age 11, he has lost legal standing. (2) A high school girl and her parents told the Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat in July that they were on the verge of filing a lawsuit demanding that the school district order the Leon High School cheerleader squad to select her (even though she had fallen twice during tryouts).

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Boyd Wiley, 47, was arrested in August when he walked into the Putnam County (Florida) Sheriff's Office and, apparently in all seriousness, demanded that deputies return the 91 marijuana plants they had unearthed from a vacant lot in the town of Interlachen several days earlier. (Until that moment, deputies did not know whose plants they were.) Wiley was told that growing marijuana is illegal in Florida and was arrested.

Not a Techie: The most recent perp to realize that cops use Facebook is Mack Yearwood, 42, who ignored a relative's advice and uploaded his Citrus County, Florida, wanted poster for his Facebook profile picture, thus energizing deputies who, until then, had no leads on his whereabouts. He was caught a day later and faces a battery complaint and several open arrest warrants.

SUPER-SIZE ME – Texan Monica Riley, age 27 and weighing 700 pounds, is the most recent "super-sized" woman to claim happiness in exhibiting herself semi-nude for "fans" (she claims 20,000) who watch online as morbidly obese people eat. She told the celebrity news site Barcroft Media in September that her 8,000 calories a day puts her on track to weigh 1,000 pounds soon, and that her loving boyfriend, Sid, 25 and a "feeder," is turned on by helping her. Sid, for instance, feeds Monica her special 3,500-calorie "shake" -- through a funnel -- and supposedly will eagerly become her caretaker when she eats herself into total immobility. ("Safe For Work" website: SSBBW Magazine) NO LONGER WEIRD – Another DIY Overkill: Police in Centralia, Washington, arrested a man (not identified in news reports) for reckless burning in August when, trying to rid his apartment of roaches, he declined ordinary aerosol bug spray in favor of making a homemade flamethrower (the aerosol spray fired up by a lighter). He fled the apartment when he realized he might have taken things too far. (Firefighters were called, but the damage was minimal.) [The Oregonian, 8-82016] http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2016/08/washington_man_arre sted_for_go.html Population grows; goods must be hauled; traffic congestion is worse; and thus trucks keep spilling their loads on the highways. The really weird ones have set the bar perhaps unattainably high for this genre of news (e.g., the truck spilling pornographic magazines; the truck hauling ham colliding with the truck hauling eggs). In September, a tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 295 in New Castle, Delaware, spilling a particularly low-value load. The truck, headed for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, was filled with 22 tons worth of increasingly shunned U.S. pennies, but these were even less useful (though perhaps, by metal content, more valuable!) because they were not-yet-engraved “blanks.”

UPDATES – Roy Pearson, a former District of Columbia administrative law judge, may be the only person in America who believes that his 2005 $54 million unsuccessful lawsuit against his dry cleaners was not frivolous – and he has still not come to the end of his legal odyssey. In June 2016, a D.C. Bar disciplinary committee recommended that Pearson be placed on probation for two years because of ethics violations, including having made statements “unsupported” by facts when defending his contention that the cleaners' "satisfaction guaranteed" warranty made it liable for various negative occurrences in Pearson's life following the loss of a pair of pants at the store. Not surprisingly, Pearson, now 65, announced that he would challenge the committee recommendation.

Thanks this week to Rob Zimmer and Jim Weber and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

missoulanews.com • September 22–September 29, 2016 [11]

THEATER AND DANCE

St r e t c h in g l im b s Bare Bait Dance picks up the pace with the.humanest and other new projects

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n improvised dance guided by a computer’s suggestions. An onstage display of onion-cutting, and the accompanying triumphs and travails. An actor animatedly recounting his years in the Navy, while behind him five other cast members wear masks of his face and perform a choreographed pantomime. Snippets of Disney animation. Wordless conversations. Blindfolded dancers. An audience full of befuddled judges.

This unlikely collection of actions and situations somehow creates the surprisingly coherent content in the.humanest, an interdisciplinary production concerned with artificial intelligence, competition and what ultimately makes us human.

The show is produced by Missoula’s Bare Bait Dance and offers proof of the company’s evolving creative aims. When any operation hits the five-year benchmark—be it a restaurant, a corporation or a tiny arts nonprofit—it often takes it as an opportunity to pat itself on the back and enjoy a well-earned breather now that it’s made it through those risky first years. Not so with Bare Bait Dance. As the company launches into its sixth season, Bare Bait is ramping up and thinking big: Not only is it promising an ambitious lineup of shows, it’s also broadening its scope. Joy French, founder and sole director for the past half-decade, is now joined by co-director Kelly Bouma, an actress and performer with a penchant for dance theater.

“She has a major skill set that she’s bringing to our productions,” says French of Bouma. “Frankly, we’ve done shows in the past that would have benefitted from more acting—but I don’t know how to train dancers how to act!”

The result is a nimble company that can range widely from pure dance (such as Surge, its spring showcase that will pair local choreographers with local musicians to create new dances) to works like the.humanest. Part theater, part dance, part interactive performance art, the piece by New York-based guest artist Peter Musante is a scintillating example of what happens when skilled performers collaborate and stretch the boundaries of genre.

Bare Bait is also striving to expand its reach beyond the stage—and even beyond the state. Along with its sixth season, the company has launched an online, subscription-based showcase of short dance films, performed by company members and filmed by local filmmakers. French admits it’s a strange idea for people to grasp at first.

“As far as I know, no other dance company is doing this,” she says. “But it’s an exciting pilot project that allows us to make work and engage a larger audience each month.”

Given that one of Bare Bait’s main goals has always been to create dance in and about Montana, this progression into film allows the company to bring its statecentric performances to an international audience.

“It’s a unique way to highlight our beautiful state and all these interesting locations that we have, that most people never get to come visit,” French says.

And while the natural landscape plays a role in some films, Bare Bait is also focusing on Montana’s distinct history and heritage too. For example, films have been shot on location in a historic copper-king mansion in Butte, the carnival section of the Montana State Fair, ghost towns and a front porch on Missoula’s Westside.

photo courtesy of Bare Bait Dance

With performers-in-residence arriving from Seattle in November (a competitively selected position for which Bare Bait received nearly 50 applications from around the world), a two-day dance-film festival in January and two major shows slated for the spring, Bare Bait is doing everything but resting on its laurels.

Instead the company is proving what it set to do from the beginning: That Montana is, in fact, the perfect

place for a thriving, experimental and ambitious modern dance company.

— Melissa Mylchreest Bare Bait Dance’s the.humanest continues at the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PAR/TV Center Fri., Sept. 23, at 8 PM and Sat., Sept. 24, at 2 PM and 8 PM. $16/ $14 advance. Season tickets available.

MORE FALL SPOTLIGHTS Dracula For years, the Halloween season has been dutifully—and raucously (or maybe raunchily?)—served by a standout local production of Rocky Horror Show Live. That production returns again this year to the Wilma, but horror purists might be more inclined to sink their teeth into UM Theatre & Dance’s Dracula. This age-old story of good and evil promises a less gaudy and more gothic vibe for the season.

UM Theatre and Dance presents Dracula in the Montana Theatre starting Oct. 19 and continuing through Oct. 29. Tickets at griztix.com.

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photo courtesy of Diavolo

Diavolo Martin Mull once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, meaning it’s a fool’s errand. Don’t tell that to Diavolo, the ground-breaking dance company that’s a little bit Cirque du Soleil, a little bit Pilobolus and mostly a rebuttal to Mull’s famous quote.

Founder Jacques Heim choreographs dances that incorporate elements of modern, ballet and complex partnering all set within or on portable structures for something described as “architecture in motion.”

Diavolo presents VOLO as part of the Bitterroot Performing Arts Series on Oct. 15. Tickets at bitterrootperformingarts.org.

COMING ATTRACTIONS Molly Laich lists her five most anticipated fall releases Films with “Girl” in the title The Australian import Girl Asleep, directed by newcomer Rosemary Myers, chronicles the weird inner life of a 15-year-old girl living awkwardly through high school in the 1970s. Critics have compared the picture to Napoleon Dynamite blended with a Wes Anderson aesthetic. I’m still kicking myself for missing Girl Asleep when it played at the Seattle International Film Festival this summer, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. The movie has a Sept. 30 limited release date, so it’s hard to say when or if it’ll reach Montana. Fingers crossed.

On Oct. 7, we get the film adaptation of Paula Hawkins best-selling thriller Girl on the Train, directed by Tate Taylor. In truth, I passionately disliked the novel, and yet that irresistible Dead Girl narrative had me hate reading all the way to the story’s sensational and melodramatic conclusion. Emily Blunt stars as Rachel, an unreliable narrator made so by her burgeoning alcoholism. They’ve moved the story from London to the States, and I’m hoping the film has other major changes in store that will improve on the source material.

A note on horror season Unless you’re a fan of uninspired reboots, cash grabs and studio rejects, there’s not a lot to look forward to in horror this fall. The Disappointments Room is by all accounts not just a clever name. The new Blair Witch is damp with faint praise and I have no hope either for the latest in the “Ring” franchise, named simply: Rings.

For your last chance at horror still in theaters, go see Fede Alvarez’s brilliant thriller Don’t Breathe. Otherwise, I would spend October at home revisiting the classics.

FILM

P o r t r a it o f a t r ip

Toad to Nowhere journeys into the mind of local filmmakers

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oad to Nowhere begins with a shot of cacti silhouetted against the dimming sky of the Arizona desert and a voiceover of Missoula filmmaker Andrew Rizzo saying, “Here it comes. How the fuck did we end up here in this place, with this stuff?” The camera cuts to Rizzo and fellow filmmaker Marshall Granger sitting cross-legged on the dry ground as Rizzo puts a blowtorch to the carb of a glass pipe and inhales a cloud of white smoke.

From there, the film flashes back in time as Rizzo and Granger tell the story of how they first decided to track down a psychoactive toad called bufo alvaris and smoke its glandular poison for hallucinogenic effect.

Toad to Nowhere, which was shot by yet another local filmmaker, Eddie Roqueta, is a documentary that feels like a narrative film. This isn’t a story about the habits or history of a particular toad nor is it a clinical look at hallucinogens. It’s a portrait of two artists—Rizzo is 41, Granger is 24—trying to unlock some pent up pain. To that end, they pursue several hallucinogens in Missoula—and the toad in Arizona—in order to journey inside their own minds.

“Most drug documentaries are hippie-dippy,” Rizzo says.

“Not that that’s a bad thing. But they deal with it in a certain tone as a subculture … This is a story about two guys dealing with whatever their own personal issues are and having drugs as a place to get different insight. And then it’s about coming back from it and continuing to work on whatever it is you’re working on as a human.”

Rizzo, Granger and Roqueta represent some of Missoula’s most active filmmakers, along with Doug Hawes-Davis and Dru Carr, Andrew and Alex Smith, Skye Grace Bennett, Eric and Damon Ristau, John D. Nilles, Jeri Rafter, Kier Atherton, Mike Steinberg and so many more. When Rizzo first moved to the valley in 2001, there wasn’t a big filmmaking community—at least not outside the university and especially not in the narrative realm. Rizzo helped make a motorcycle road trip film called The Best Bar in America with the Ristau brothers in 2009 and he recently co-directed and starred in The Triangle, a slow-burn horror mockumentary about a group of filmmakers documenting an

eastern Montana cult. Rizzo, who started out in theater, also made a short film called The Duchess of Suchness, starring local celebrity Pepper Wilson, in which she plays a woman with dementia trying to live and die in the manner she chooses.

Granger’s self-exploration in Toad to Nowhere is perhaps the most harrowing, partly because of the film’s buildup to his decision to smoke salvia. He says he was on board from the beginning, though the drug journey meant breaking out of his comfort zone.

“We kind of decided it was necessary,” Granger says. “We knew it would probably bring us closer together and so that was interesting.”

It’s worth noting that Granger isn’t new to experimenting with identity. His musical project “Dorothy” is a performance art exploration of a feminine alter ego. Granger, whose production company is called Big White Moon Pictures, also made a narrative short with his friend Emily Johnson while filming Toad that was influenced by his experience with the hallucinogenic journey.

Like any film, Toad to Nowhere required a lot of behind-thescenes people and the credits reveal well-known local names like musician John Sporman, who created the score. For his part, Roqueta, the man behind the camera, never appears onscreen, but he somehow creates a presence. Last year, the filmmaker won Montana State University’s College Television Award for best documentary with a bison film called Silencing the Thunder. His skills are on display again here. During some of the most intimate and uncomfortable moments in Toad to Nowhere, Roqueta’s empathetic presence behind the lens is as much a character as anyone else.

In a town where writing has often been the lauded form of storytelling, Rizzo says filmmaking is finally getting its due, partly because the way humans communicate is changing.

“How to tell a visual story is huge,” he says. “It’s almost like being able to write an essay. The modern way to express oneself is not just in letters, it’s in images.”

—Erika Fredrickson A sneak peek of Toad to Nowhere screens at the Roxy Sun., Sept. 25, at 7 PM with a Q&A to follow. $10.

Oscar bait First up is director Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, which is not in fact a remake of the racist 1915 picture (as my belligerent tweet back in August erroneously claimed). Opening Oct. 7, Parker’s film chronicles the true life of Nat Turner, an educated slave who orchestrates an uprising in the middle of the Civil War. So far, the narrative of slavery in America has overrepresented the downtrodden and done scarcely little to highlight slavery’s many resistance movements. I have big hopes that The Birth of a Nation will break the mold and provide important historical context to the Black Lives Matter conversation, just in time for this election cycle.

Finally, there’s not a whole lot of intel yet on Martin Scorsese’s latest, Silence, but it’s a Scorsese movie about a couple of Jesuit priests in 17th century Japan on a mission to propagate Christianity—what more do you need to know? Silence stars Liam Neeson as the elusive mentor, with Andrew Garfield and the charismatic-AF Adam Driver as the young priests. Silence has a limited release date set for late November, which means general audiences probably won’t see it until late December. Hopefully, it’s worth the wait.

Also playing: Local cinephiles have already marked the weekend of Oct. 6–8 for the second annual Montana Film Festival at the Roxy Theater. This year’s lineup includes the Oct. 7 Montana premiere of Certain Women, starring Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and UM alum Lily Gladstone, based on a short story by Montana native Maile Meloy. Keeping it local, another former Griz, J.K. Simmons, appears in one of the season’s most anticipated releases, La La Land. The love story stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and already has strong Oscar buzz. It Certain Women opens Dec. 16.

missoulanews.com • September 22–September 29, 2016 [13]

CULTURE

B o r n a g a in

Poetry, images and the process of healing through Hatch

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through the air? So I get this little $3 metaphysical medal and it somehow finally makes the piece into what I was going for.

enny Montgomery’s Radius Gallery pop-up show, titled Hatch, explores the parenting of her son, who was born seven years ago with no signs of life. Nurses at the remote, rural hospital revived him and he was immediately whisked away from Montgomery and her husband, Ryan, to a large urban facility where modern technology enabled his survival. Hatch documents Montgomery’s experience, substituting the medical jargon and technology with images and poetry. It’s an exhibit that touches on ancient ritual traditions surrounding death and the afterlife, the romantic idealization of childhood and the near-fetishization of medical “cures” and pharmaceuticals. We spoke with Jenny—you may also know her as co-owner of Montgomery Distillery—about this intensely personal exhibit and her uncommon son, Heath.

What does that particular image mean to you?

JM: I think it’s an image of survival and pride and the history of our injuries. There’s an ambivalence that runs through the whole show toward medical culture, the medical/technical culture.

Ambivalence in maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be?

JM: Well, it’s incredibly alienating, but also it saved this life. It saved the life of my son. If all this hadn’t unfolded in a hospital, he wouldn’t be alive.

What exactly is Heath’s disability?

JM: He has an unusual form of cerebral palsy called Dyskinetics CP, which is actually closer to Parkinson’s in terms of controlling muscle tone and coordination.

What came first, the art or the poems?

Jenny Montgomery: The poems came first.

Have you always written poetry?

JM: I had been a writer all through my 20s, and then when Heath started kindergarten my day was free, and I began to think of things in terms of poetry again. This work just started to emerge. I got with Chris Dombrowski and the 406 Writers Collective poetry workshop. He really helped to shepherd these poems along, along with the other members of the workshop, and I really didn’t know what was going to come out.

So I think of this collection of work as being in some sense a ritual of gratitude.

How did the installation initially come about?

JM: I was visiting a gallery in Olympia [Wash.] called Salon Refu and I started speaking to the gallery owner, Susan Christian, about this collection—we had known each other when I lived in Olympia—and I sent her some of the poems. She said, “We’re gonna put these in the gallery!

We’re gonna print them on huge pieces of paper and put them on the walls!” I thought, well, that’s an interesting idea, but people won’t like it. They won’t want to stand there and read. So in the course of mulling it over and just imagining, I came up with ideas for installations that were extensions of images that were in the poems.

Do you have a background in visual art?

JM: Well, I got really interested in imagery as a student at the Evergreen State College studying with an artist named Marilyn Frasca, who was a big formative influence on me. I was sort of trained on the idea that a lot of material was going to come out of dreams, or any imagery that arises out of an unconscious state. Then Melissa Kwasny’s work in

image courtesy of Forrest Peaker

Pictograph and her essays in Earth Recitals, about images as being something that are quite alive, also had a big impact on me. So for this gallery installation I started to think about working with images from things around me.

Like the child’s coat with Heath’s medical records inside it.

JM: Yes, his medical records all shredded up. We had all kinds of this medical “stuff ” just left over from Heath’s treatment. The coat was actually my dad’s coat when he was little. I had this idea of a child’s coat all stuffed full of these records. When I finished it didn’t have the right feeling so I went to the medal store and bought this medal to put on it.

I mean, what the hell do you get this medal for—it’s like an angel flying

And it’s a condition he was born with?

JM: Heath was born with the umbilical cord wrapped very tightly around his neck. He was born in a small country hospital in Tennessee, but was then taken away to Nashville where he spent 35 days in an intensive care unit. I didn’t get to hold him or anything, so hours later, after getting stitched up and going through the Burger King drive-thru, I meet my son and he’s in a nest of machinery that’s keeping him alive. I’m so happy that he’s alive, but it’s really unclear what’s happening for some time.

We learn that he is doing quite well, considering, but that he’s sustained some injury to the motor portion of the mid-brain, and so we know that there will be some disability but we don’t know what it’s going to be. Very shortly after that he begins to smile. As he gets stronger, and we are preparing to take him home, I just got a very strong sense that there was no problem. I don’t know if this was a result of trauma, or just a lesson I was already getting from this person about resilience. But I knew we were going to be okay.

—Chris La Tray The Radius Gallery Sidecar presents Jenny Montgomery’s Hatch installation and poems Thu., Sept. 22 through Sat., Sept. 24, from noon to 6 PM, with a reading on Saturday at 5:30.

MORE FALL SPOTLIGHTS Courtney Blazon There always seems to be a story lurking in Courtney Blazon’s illustrations. The offbeat situations, those languid expressions—it’s her visual narratives that have made her work stand out so prominently in Missoula. Sometimes the stories tell themselves, other times the telling is left to our own imaginations. And occasionally—as in the case of her upcoming exhibit, The Year Without a Summer—Blazon takes a familiar tale and gives it greater context. How does a 19th century volcanic eruption relate to the birth of Frankenstein’s mon-

ster? With Blazon, the answer comes with a dash of whimsy.

Courtney Blazon presents The Year Without a Summer at the Missoula Art Museum, Sept. 22 through Dec. 31.

VonCommon Artist Collective See page 16.

Dean Strong The Netflix series “Making a Murderer” was a phenomenon, when released last winter, for its in-

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timate and controversial portrayal of the murder trials of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. Their attorneys were the documentary’s moral compass as crusaders for justice amid a broken and corrupt system. One of them, Dean Strang, emerged as a “heartthrob” among sympathetic viewers, and now he takes his case on the road for a moderated discussion about the systemic failures of the criminal justice system.

The University of Montana presents a Conversation with Dean Strang Fri., Oct. 7 in the Dennison Theatre. Tickets at griztix.com.

“Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures,” by Courtney Blazon

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Tiny Plastic Stars shine through in a crowded local scene

Destroyer and Mac McCaughan See page 17.

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Dwight Yoakam See page 18.

t’s hard to go anywhere in Missoula without seeing a Tiny Plastic Stars poster, probably because the local rock band appears to be playing everywhere and often. But on a recent Monday evening, the busy band has settled into a lamp-lit booth in the back of the Union Club for a rare moment of calm. The mood is light despite their packed schedule—in two days they’ll head out for a 10-day tour of the Northwest, including Washington, Idaho, California and Oregon—and their current discussion over how best to describe their music.

“Classic rock for the future?” asks bassist Josh Bacha.

“Serial blues?” wonders drummer Dan Miller.

night at the VFW, Bacha, who was playing a show with his then Idaho-based band Charcoal Squids, saw Roberts’ set and struck up a conversation. He moved to Missoula a year later to join Tiny Plastic Stars. Bacha later started a record label called Ghost Carrot, which promotes TPS, among other local acts. The band plans to record their first album later this year but in the meantime, they have plenty on their plate—like all those live shows.

The night before they leave on tour, Tiny Plastic Stars kick things off at the Palace with bands Cairns and Ratbath. The crowd starts expectedly thin for a weeknight, but by the time TPS takes the stage the room has started to fill. A smoke machine pours

Shonen Knife In the late 1980s, a Japanese pop-punk trio gained cult status in America.

Shonen Knife found a following among rock bands like Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Red Kross (as well as those bands’ fans), and in 1989 a bunch of musicians paid tribute to Shonen Knife by covering their songs in a compilation titled Every Band Has Shonen A Knife Who Loves Them. The all-female group has played Missoula before, at least a couple of times at the notorious Jay’s Upstairs, and their lineup has changed over the years, but they’re always worth seeing.

Shonen Knife play Monk’s Bar Tue., Oct. 11, at 10 PM. $15 advance.

Erosion Festival Fans of underground metal in the vein of stoner and doom will find some pretty stellar acts at this brand-new two-day festival. Some of the more legendary and vintage groups include Saint Vitus, Acid King, Witch Mountain and The Skull, as they join forces with local favorites like Shramana, Stone Elk, Swamp Ritual and American Falcon. Saint Vitus formed in Los Angeles back in 1979 and is considered one of the first doom metal bands ever. Acid King, a San Francisco doom band that features frontwoman Lori S., was formed in 1983. Whether you’re already a metal maniac or just learning your history, this is an opportunity to see some of the kings and queens of the genre.

Erosion Festival takes place at Stage 112 Fri., Oct. 14 through Sat., Oct. 15. $40 weekend pass/$25 per night.

photo by Amy Donovan

“Like watching School of Rock for the first time on a continuous loop,” Bacha chimes in again, meaning the band is fun and exciting.

“Psyche rock with some pop,” concludes singer/guitarist Riley Roberts.

Roberts’ verdict is apt, but new descriptions continue to come to the surface for other listeners. A psychedelic Stones meets Alabama Shakes. Janis Joplin with Pretenders-style guitar.

Stoner rock meets metal meets the Beatles. It’s hard to pin down, but one thing’s for sure: In Missoula’s sea of bluegrass—and even among the multitudes of local anti-folk and indie rock bands— Tiny Plastic Stars stand out. And they’re getting noticed for it.

This summer the trio was a winner at the Western Montana Fair’s Battle of the Bands and they garnered considerable buzz at the new Plus One Festival. In recent months, they’ve also opened for popular independent touring bands like Austin’s Megafauna and Nashville’s Diarrhea Planet.

Roberts started TPS in 2014 while working in the studio with producer and musician Ryan “Schmedly” Maynes. It began as a solo endeavor that steadily evolved. Miller met Roberts through other music projects and open mic nights at Stage 112. (Roberts also has a current side project called Lige Newton.) Last year, on a fateful

over Bacha as he rides into a powerful, at times synth-like bass line. He asks later if the smoke was too much. “No, not at all, it was awesome,” a fan assures him.

“Sleepy Eyes,” their closing song, exemplifies the themes TPS explores. Roberts says the track is about all the opposing forces that negatively affect a man’s life, told from the perspective of the female figures closest to him. It begins, “Shut your sleepy, sleepy eyes/ she could say/ But the sun now rises three times a day.”

The most striking aspect of the group’s sound is Roberts’ voice. It transitions from an almost falsetto to a confident, metal end. There is a vulnerability to it. The combination of bass, drums and voice balance out, and the music at the Palace this night eventually stops. The band members thank the sound guy and begin packing up. They have to wake up early in the morning to hit the road. They’re looking forward to playing as much as possible, but riding the current wave can sometimes be a burden.

“There are days [I] don’t want to do it,” Miller admits, “until I hit the first note.”

—Tess Haas Tiny Plastic Stars play an all ages show at the Joe Below inside Zootown Brew Sat., Sep. 24, along with Sun Riah, Cairns and Ratbath. $3.

Brand New I just about fell out of my chair when I saw that cult-favorite New York rock band Brand New would be playing the Adams Center, of all places. See, Brand New’s discography—a mere four albums in 15 years, each more complex and melancholy than the last—is like a container holding all of my feelings. This band and I grew up together. They haven’t put out a full-length album since 2009, either, so it’s surprising and wonderful to see them on such a major tour with two other catchy sad-sack emo bands. The dress code for this show: a black hoodie, Converse—and tears. (Kate Whittle) Brand New, Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball play the Adams Center Thu., Oct. 27. Tickets at griztix.com.

Reggie Watts National audiences are accustomed to seeing Reggie Watts during his regular gig jamming on “The Late Late Show with James Corbin” or flashing some serious style at the recent “Emmy Awards.” But around these parts? Watts might play a Montana-themed set at the Badlander or drop into the VFW—the VFW—for a lastsecond show. The Great Falls product may be big-time, but he always keeps it real when returning to his home state.

Reggie Watts plays the Wilma Sat., Dec. 17. Tickets at ticketfly.com

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[arts]

Art for life Trash, arm wrestling and American identity at Missoula’s VonCommon

by Erika Fredrickson

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ome of the best—and weirdest— parties in town go down at the industrial warehouses at Wyoming and Johnson streets. The culprit is VonCommon, an artist collective that hosts at least two festivities a year, including a springtime prom (aka “PromCommon”).

Since its 2011 inception, the group has gained a reputation for creating art that pushes boundaries and for treating the community to performance art experiences—the more down-the-rabbit-hole, the better. But even the performances at these parties are masked as casual entertainment for the masses—a game of bingo where everyone wins, for instance, or a dance party on a school bus. VonCommon isn’t really a place for pretension.

Case in point: On a recent Sunday night three members of VonCommon sip domestic beers from a cooler outside the metal walls of the studio as they talk about their next party. Cofounder Adelaide Every holds up a dress she made out of a black garbage bag and everyone oohs and aahs.

It’s surprisingly elegant, given the material.

And that really shouldn’t be a surprise since Every is no newbie when it comes to making treasure out of trash (or trash bags).

She currently has a show at Betty’s Divine called Nothing But Trash, which runs through Oct. 3 and showcases the lightboxes she makes out of recycled materials.

Every will wear the trash dress at VonCommon’s upcoming fundraiser, which will help them raise money to get nonprofit status.

“I’m kind of averse to Kickstarter and GoFundMe,” Every says. “I don’t know why. I thought it would be more fun to have an event where people can come and be entertained.”

This time the collective will bring the party downtown and host it at the VFW. It will feature live bands and an arm wrestling event by Garden City Ladies Arm Wrestling. One of the best parts about the collective’s gatherings is that they have the in-house assets to provide most of the entertainment. Every is the bassist for garagerock band Rooster Sauce and she’ll also arm wrestle under the moniker Trash Queen (her walk-up music is “Trash Queen” by Wrathchild). Aaron Jennings

photo by Amy Donovan

VonCommon founders Adelaide Every, left, and Marlo Crocifisso practice arm wrestling for a fundraiser as “coach” Shane Rooney facilitates.

and Ann Szalda-Petree, who have a recording space at VonCommon, will play music and VonCommon cofounder Marlo Crocifisso will arm wrestle under the name Saran Rap. (Other VonCommon artists will serve as wrestling managers and judges.)

Every founded the collective with Crocifisso, a mixed-media artist and former framer for Monte Dolack, along with two other artists who have since moved on. Every and Crocifisso have grown the studio since it first started in the space where Burns Street Bistro now resides, and expanded their scope. Crocifisso’s most recent project involves launching her own custom frame shop in the VonCommon loft. Part of her mission is to teach her comrades the ropes of art curating and preservation.

“Any artist that’s a part of the studio, I’m more than happy to give a tutorial

to—and I already have—on framing their art and preserving their art,” she say.

VonCommon’s mission is “to provide affordable artist studios, and to strengthen our practice and friendships through shared space.” The diversity in the space seems unusual, 11 artists ranging from musicians to photographers to painters. Besides Every and Crocifisso there’s Elisha Harteis, who makes edgy ceramic sculptures exploring childhood.

Ladypajama draws booklets, cards and murals that evoke childlike wonder while pushing at conformist values.

There’s also Nate Biehl, whose original mission in joining the collective was to restore a 1925 Weber Aeolian piano that he acquired. A little daunted by its antiquity, he’s mostly been working on guitar amps and an occasional mixed-media arts piece.

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“The guitar amps on my bench are getting much more attention than the piano these days,” he says, “probably because the consequences of a misstep are far less costly—even though I have very little invested in the piano, so any financial risk is entirely imaginary. The fear that I could be fucking up an American classic instrument is very real, though.”

The fun-loving parties and art shows all help support the serious work that happens inside the warehouse on a day-to-day basis.

But that’s not to say viewers won’t see the artists take on weighty ideas. Its big art show on Oct. 21, which will take place at VonCommon, is called This is What Democracy Feels Like and asks artists within the collective and around Missoula to think about what Democracy means in light of the upcoming election. (Submission deadline for the show is Sept. 25). Every’s piece, which

is in-progress, is composed of found family photographs in which she’s altered some of the clothing to look like traditional Islamic dress. She titled it “All American.”

“It’s illustrating the fact that Americans come from all different backgrounds and histories,” Every says. “When we say ‘All American,’ people think of blondehaired, blue-eyed football players and cheerleaders, but I wanted to flip that terminology on its head and illustrate that Muslims are American.”

And whether it’s political statements or dance party fundraisers, flipping things on their head is exactly what VonCommon does best.

VonCommon hosts its fundraiser at the VFW Sat., Sept. 24. Doors at 8 PM. $5/$8 for those 18 to 20. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

No slack Behind the music of Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan

by Andy Smetanka

Though Mac McCaughan’s longtime band Superchunk was influenced by punk, his solo work is inspired by synth-heavy bands of the 1980s like New Order.

To any casual surveyor of the American indie landscape circa 1992, Superchunk—singer/guitarist “Mac�

McCaughan, bassist (and then-girlfriend) Laura Ballance, second guitarist Jim Wilbur and drummer Jon Wurster— were living the dream with particular enthusiasm: indiebig but still decidedly outside the pre-Nirvana mainstream, putting out records that were the cream in every music nerd’s coffee, even lauded in trendy British music papers. Speaking down the line from Merge Records, the label he and Ballance cofounded in 1989, Mac McCaughan recalls that Superchunk once graced the cover of the New Musical Express—a plummy bit of career positioning that many a British band would kill for. But then along came Blur and Oasis. “They liked us a lot when we first started out,�

McCaughan says of the famously fickle British music press. “There was a real American band thing going on over there in the early ’90s. But then Britpop happened and everyone decided they didn’t like American bands. We were out of vogue for quite a while.

I’m not sure we ever came back in, frankly.�

There’s a touch of irony there, as old and well-traveled copies of the NME had been among the few sources of print information available to a barely teenaged McCaughan to feed his interest in new British sounds.

Sparked by a family viewing of The Kids Are Alright (“It was still in theaters—this was the late ’70s.�), an early infatuation with The Who and AC/DC blossomed into an abiding love for Echo and the Bunnymen, Bauhaus and the Cocteau Twins. Meanwhile, mumbly janglings emanating from not-too-distant Athens, Ga., offered an inkling of what was possible closer to home. “We don’t sound anything like REM, obviously,�

McCaughan points out, “but everybody in the band was a fan at some point. Even if your band didn’t sound like REM, seeing this band from a Southern college town similar to yours—that was still a very inspirational thing.�

The blazing 1992 B-side “On the Mouth� is Superchunk in a nutshell: squalling feedback intro, infectious rush of guitars, McCaughan’s distinctive tenor barely staying atop an avalanche of sheer indie

enthusiasm. The basic formula, ever heavy on melody, has delivered consistently excellent tunes across nearly a dozen Superchunk albums and a slew of EPs and CD singles, with the pace of releases only slackening somewhat around the turn of the century.

Both band and label survived the romantic breakup of McCaughan and Ballance; McCaughan insists that neither joint venture was ever seriously in jeopardy. “If it was, it never came to that,� he says. “Or maybe it was in danger and we didn’t know it. We always talked about wanting to keep those things going. There’s always a danger when you’re in a relationship with someone and that relationship changes—drastically—but I don’t feel like that ever came close to happening.�

No fan of Superchunk will be surprised to learn that its principal songwriter boasts a mile-wide Anglophile streak. Even so, it’s mildly surprising to hear the singer of “Slack Motherfuckerâ€? reveal his favorite band to be New Order. Proof is abundant on 2015’s Non-Believers, McCaughan’s first solo album under his own name, a favorite-old-sweater of vintage synth textures with a meandering storyline involving two imaginary goth teenagers. “If you’re a New Order fan,â€? he says, “you know you’re never going to make a record that actually sounds like New Order—you’re just going to incorporate the things you can and put it behind the songs that ‌ well, for me, the songs that I would write.â€?

If Superchunk has slowed a bit with age and wear—Ballance no longer tours with the band due to hearing loss—McCaughan says he is still living the dream, dividing his time between making music, running a label and enjoying family life. “My daughter is 13,� he chuckles. “I hear all the bands that she listens to, and then I find out they’re actually huge. It’s just that if you’re not 13, you wouldn’t have any reason to know about them.�

Mac McCaughan opens for Destroyer at the Top Hat Thu., Sept. 22. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $18/$15 advance at tophatlounge.com.

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In the 30 years between Dwight Yoakam’s debut, music, I thought she showed promise. Our youngest Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., and his latest project, child starts college next week. “Inside the Pocket of a the all-bluegrass Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars..., the Clown” revealed a weird side of Yoakam’s songwriting, snake-hipped country crooner has chiseled out a and “Ain’t That Lonely Yet,” cowritten with Kostas, complex style that brings in influences from all over earned him a Grammy. “Fast as You” furthered the Oryet still maintains a singular sound. For dyed-in-the- bison connection with its “Oh Pretty Woman” guitar wool fans, I bet these are the ones at the top of your hook, and “Wild Ride” rocks with Stones-y swagger.

This album gives you the most Dwight for your dollar. playlist.

Gone (1995): This was Yoakam’s first album to not Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (1986): This bracing blast of boilerplate country was a complete game score a No. 1 hit, but to me it’s one of his most interesting—and funniest. “Sorry changer. Country music You Asked?” opens the had suffered through the record with a hilarious exsaccharin lounge-pop era change between a couple of Ronnie Milsap, Kenny of guys in a bar, one who Rogers and other dreckpolitely asks how’s it going, meisters in the 1970s, only the other answering him in to morph into the Urban great detail. “Baby Why Cowboy posing of the soNot” is a Tex-Mex romp that called New Traditionalists fades out over the singer arof the early 1980s. With guing with his stubborn Yoakam’s twang-eriffic partner. “Hey, don’t bite cover of Johnny Horton’s me!” he says. Gone takes “Honky Tonk Man,” notice chances, explores some was served. His authentic new territory and occasionKentucky drawl sounded ally produces a head like a hayseed Roy Orbiscratcher, like the oddly son. The ACMA agreed, retro “Heart of Stone.” naming Yoakam that year’s Washes of organ and blasts top new male vocalist. He of trumpet provide some was just getting started. unexpected textures that Hillbilly Deluxe take the music beyond the (1987): If Guitars, Cadilconfines of mere country. lacs was the set-up jab, photo courtesy of dwightyoakam.com Second Hand Heart this was the haymaker.

Yoakam and his producer/guitarist extraordinaire Pete (2015): After returning to the Reprise fold with 2012’s Anderson had found the way to thoroughly modern- Three Pears, Yoakam reminded us all that he still has a ize the Bakersfield sound without stripping its sim- lot in the tank. He wrote all but two of the songs here, plistic charm. With Anderson’s stinging Telecaster and they dip into a smorgasbord of styles, recalling the lines, spare arrangements and plenty of classic ’60s pop of Glen Campbell and Jerry Reed on “Dreams touches like twin fiddles and barrelhouse piano, of Clay,” as well as classic songsmiths like HollandYoakam pushed on with songs like “Little Ways” and Dozier-Holland on “In Another World,” which wouldn’t “Please Please Baby,” his own compositions that sound out of place arranged for a Motown artist in harkened back to the honky tonk shuffles of Lefty their heyday. The muscular Americana feel of “Believe” Frizzell and Faron Young. Hillbilly Deluxe is the sets the stage for a trio of breakneck rockers before the sound of an artist hitting his stride. The production album closes with “V’s of Birds,” a ruminative ballad is pristine but punchy, like much of the roots music that updates Ray Price’s Countrypolitan sound with mandolin and organ instead of strings ’n’ things. Counin the late ’80s. It’s the songs that make it timeless.

This Time (1993): Like many Yoakam acolytes, I try trends may come and go like hairstyles, but Dwight consider his first three albums a trio under glass—a marches on to the beat of his own rhythm.

Dwight Yoakam plays the Wilma Mon., Sept. near-perfect body of work that’s as airtight in its sound as it is moving and authentic in its songwriting. But 26, with opener Caroline Keys & the LanesplitThis Time is a horse of a different wheelbase. One rea- ters. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45–$65 advance son this album is in my personal top five is that it was at thewilma.com. one of only a dozen CDs owned by a woman I’d begun dating in Missoula that year. Impressed by her taste in arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Heavenly hell High Water masters the Western heist

by Molly Laich

Seductive Scowl: The new cologne for men.

Hell or High Water is a sometimes thrilling, other times agonizingly calm morality tale that demands to be not just seen, but also felt. I can’t think of another film in recent memory that has had so much respect for every one of its characters. Everyone, from a waitress with one scene to the criminals and the lawmen chasing them—they all seem wideawake and acutely aware of their situation. It might be more credit than some of them deserve, but for a cinematic experience, it’s working. No matter who’s on-screen, the movie makes you care a lot about what happens to them.

Ben Foster and Chris Pine star as Tanner and Toby, two brothers on a calculated crime spree with an agenda: They need to raise enough money to save their deceased mother’s oil-rich land before the banks foreclose on the property. They need at least $40,000, and they’re going to get it by robbing just the small, unmarked bills at a series of tiny branches in forgotten, depressed West Texas towns.

These characters represent familiar archetypes acting out a story we’ve more or less seen before. In Tanner, we get a protective older brother fresh out of prison for shooting their no-good, abusive father. He is loyal, brave and reckless. Meanwhile, Toby’s a handsome, divorced dad haunted by bad choices.

Their crime spree hinges on Toby’s measured, calculated planning, and they’re motivated by his desire to take care of his children. Tanner’s bravado is a liability, but Toby doesn’t have the stomach for the necessary dirty work ahead. They need each other, and it’s more than touching.

On the law side, we have the perhaps too familiar trope of an old man cop named Marcus ( Jeff Bridges) on the brink of retirement. Marcus and his

partner Alberto (Gil Birmingham) pursue the brothers with folksy, dogged determination. Beyond that, they have a rapport based on a basic misunderstanding: Only one of them finds Marcus’ constant, racist teasing of Alberto (half Comanche, half Mexican) charming.

One can’t help but notice the parallels between this and the Coen Brothers’ masterpiece No Country for Old Men. Both films feature men acting like fools in Texas in pursuit of something larger than themselves on land that doesn’t really belong to them.

They even share a beleaguered character actress (the hotel clerk who memorably says, “But that room has two double beds!”). This isn’t a criticism so much as a witless appeal: If you loved No Country for Old Men, you’ll love Hell or High Water, too.

The film comes to us from British director David McKenzie, based on a truly splendid screenplay by Taylor Sheridan (Sicario). Together, they’ve created a story that rallies and invigorates its audience. Seriously, how scary would it be to rob a bank in West Texas? To an old man in line at the teller, the robbers ask, “Do you have a gun?” and the man says, “You’re goddamn right I do.” Thank god we have films that do the bank robbing for us. Hell or High Water has a charming way of making crime seem profitable, easy and fun. Until, of course, it isn’t.

“You talk like we ain’t gonna get away with this,” Toby says. Tanner replies, “I never met nobody that got away with anything, ever.” The movie marches us toward that promise, and yet it’s never quite what you think.

Hell or High Water continues at the Roxy. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS The creator of the “Minions” series lets us in on what our pets do while we’re at work. If they’re anything like humans, I imagine they probably scroll through Facebook and think about writing a novel while worrying about student loan debt. Stars Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Dana Carvey. Playing at the Carmike 12.

OPENING THIS WEEK EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS Learn more about Frank Zappa than you thought possible with this trippy documentary. Rated R. Playing at the Roxy.

SNOWDEN Did somebody say secrets? Keep them away from this computer professional. He has a conscience. Rated R. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Melissa Leo. Playing at the Carmike 12.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Beleaguered townsfolk enlist seven outlaws to defend them from a corrupt industrialist. Rated PG13. Stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaoplex.

SULLY Who would have thought crashing an airplane would have been the best thing to happen to him? Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Hanks, Frank Marshall and Allyn Stewart. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

STORKS Instead of delivering babies, these storks find themselves delivering packages for a giant online retailer.

Rated PG. Stars Andy Samberg, Katie Crown and Jordan Peele. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

NOW PLAYING AYURVEDA: THE ART OF BEING The science of life and art of healing comes to focus in this mindful documentary. Not Rated. Playing Sun., Sept 25 at 4:45 PM. Playing at the Roxy.

Has Denzel ever played a samurai? The Magnificent Seven opens at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

BAD MOMS Three overstressed moms decide the best way to unwind is to turn into party monsters. I wonder what the PTA will say. Starring Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn. Rated R. Playing at the Carmike 12.

LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD Uh-oh. Someone told Werner Herzog about the internet. Now the glum documentarian explores how the net affects human life. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Roxy Thu., Sept. 22.

BLAIR WITCH Director Adam Wingard takes us back to the woods hoping to find the Blair Witch, and make everyone forget about Book of Shadows. Rated R. Stars Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott and James Allen McCune.

Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaoplex.

BRIDGET JONES’S BABY Bridget Jones is 43, single and pregnant. Is the father McDreamy or Mark Darcy? Rated R. Stars Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

DON’T BREATHE Three down-on-their-luck burglars think they’ve hit the jackpot when they break into a blind veteran’s house, only to find themselves stuck in a death trap. Rated R. Stars Jane Levy, Stephen Lang and Dylan Minnette. Playing at the Pharaoplex and Carmike 12.

HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS Documentarian James Szalapski just happened to have his cameras on at the birth of the outlaw country movement. See where it all began Thu., Sept 22 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

HELL OR HIGH WATER The bank is foreclosing on your ranch just after you’ve discovered oil. The only sensible thing to do is turn to bank robbing. Rated R. Starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film.)

JASON BOURNE Robert Lundum’s amnesiac super soldier is back, wresting control of the franchise away from Jeremy Renner. Starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander. Rated PG-13. Playing at Carmike 12.

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Ancient vendettas and mysterious spirits send a young man on a quest to find an ancient suit of magical armor in a beautiful, stop-motion animated adventure.

Rated PG. Stars the voices of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey. Playing at the Carmike 12.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS Congratulations! You survived World War I, got a cool job as a lighthouse keeper and now a mysterious baby has shown up! I hope she doesn’t ruin your life.

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Rated PG-13. Stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz. Playing at the Pharaoplex.

NT LIVE: THREE PENNY OPERA The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out of sight in this live musical broadcast of the National Theatre.

Not Rated. Stars Rory Kinnear, Rosalie Craig and Haydn Gwynne. Playing at the Roxy Tue., Sept 27 at 7 PM. PHANTASM: REMASTERED Aside from the compact zombies, floating murder balls and a grave-robbing tall man, this funeral home seems like the safest place for a boy to play. Rated R. Stars Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister and Michael Baldwin. Playing Sat., Sept 24 at the Roxy. 9 PM. SAUSAGE PARTY Learning food is meant to be eaten by humans, a hotdog decides to swear about it. A lot. Rated R. Starring Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and Michael Cera. Playing at the Carmike 12.

TIME BANDITS A boy goes time-traveling with dwarves in search of treasure (you know, like you do) in Terry Gilliam’s 1981 kids’ adventure. Starring Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall and John Cleese. Rated PG. Playing Sat., Sept 24 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

TOAD TO NOWHERE Two local Missoula filmmakers journey to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona to find a psychedelic toad in this mind-expanding documentary. Not Rated. Playing at the Roxy Sun., Sept 25 at 7 PM. (See Feature.)

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS When you’re looking someone to be a surrogate mother for your child, maybe avoid crazed murderers.

Someone should have told this couple. Rated PG-13.

Stars Morris Chestnut, Theo Rossi and Regina Hall.

Playing at the Carmike 12.

THE WILD LIFE (ROBINSON CRUSOE) Being shipwrecked isn’t that bad, unless you have a pair of murderous cats out to get you. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Yuri Lowenthal, Joey Camen and Sandy Fox. Playing at the Carmike 12.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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photo by Kate Whittle

De La Calle enters the fold

by Kate Whittle Four hundred and sixty tacos in three hours.

Two and a half tacos per minute.

That’s how many tacos Andres Buitron and Marquéz Ruiz slung to a ceaseless stream of customers at the Sept.

10 grand opening of their food cart, De La Calle, until the 100 pounds of meat they prepared sold out.

While parked outside of the Northside Kettlehouse the next Saturday, Buitron and Ruiz are prepping twice as much meat just in case. The two friends say they’ll never get tired of tacos.

“I don’t know if it’s possible to hate tacos,” Ruiz says. He’s the more outgoing one, usually high-fiving friends who arrive to see him at the taco cart.

“Breakfast, lunch and dinner,” Buitron adds. He’s a big man with tattoos and a fierce-looking septum piercing, but he speaks softly and laughs easily.

Half an hour before the truck is set to open, two families are already lined up and waiting on the sidewalk. A vat of carnitas—slow-cooked pork—simmers and bubbles in the open air.

Buitron and Ruiz, both first-generation MexicanAmericans, met in a local homebrewing club a few years ago, and saw a dire lack in Missoula of the kind of tacos they grew up with. While preparing to launch their business over the past year, they came up with a menu featuring their four favorite kinds of tacos: carnitas, carne asada, chorizo and lengua, aka beef tongue. (Sorry, vegetarians—Buitron says they might expand the menu in time.)

“We thought about doing chicken for a while, but when we go somewhere, that’s not what we order,” Buitron says. “We order lengua, carnitas, carne asada or chorizo. Lengua is—if we find a place in Montana that has lengua, it’s one thing we order no matter what. Because it’s beef tongue, people are afraid of it. And me and him grew up eating it like it’s chicken.”

So far, they’ve sourced all their meat from the Bitterroot’s Oxbow Cattle Company or Superior Meats on Mullan Road, and they slice, grind and pound everything themselves.

Every De La Calle taco—whether it’s creamy cubes of beef tongue, addictivly sweet pork carnitas, spicy chorizo or satisfyingly chewy carne asada—gets sprinkled with onions, cilantro, a little bit of homemade salsa and a slice of lime. Any other topping

WHAT’S GOOD HERE counts as excessive frou-frou. Don’t even mention cheese around these guys.

“Never cheese,” Ruiz says. “We are almost religious about that.”

Each taco is lovingly arrayed on a pliable 8-inch corn tortilla from Billings-based Trevino’s, the only brand of tortillas that satisfied Ruiz and Buitron’s high standards.

“We’d have better margins if we used the cheapest tortillas, but you got to do it right,” Ruiz says.

Both men bring generations of family cooking to the cart. Ruiz is in charge of the carne asada, a marinated skirt steak that’s seared on a hot grill.

When asked what’s in the marinade, both men reply in unison—“It’s a secret.” Ruiz claims that he won’t even tell Buitron what’s in the marinade until they’ve run the cart together for at least a year.

For Buitron’s part, he commands the Michoacánstyle carnitas. Buitron hails from Chicago, where he has an uncle famous for them. His family recipe calls for simmering pork in a broth of lard, Coca Cola, oranges and salt for almost three hours until each hunk of pork is sweet and meltingly tender. Buitron wants to live up to his family’s expectations.

“Oh yeah. Otherwise I’ll get a bad reputation for making tacos,” he says.

As the clock ticks down to the opening time, Ruiz’s wife, Nicole, reminds him. “Five minutes, babe,” she says. While they do the cooking, she runs the cash-only till, charging $5 for two tacos.

Ruiz gets ready for the onslaught of customers by laying long strips of marinated skirt steak on the grill.

In the smoke and sizzle, he and Buitron explain that for now they’re planning to stick with sporadic weekend openings around town, since they both also hold down full-time jobs. Their next taco day is Sept. 24 at Imagine Nation Brewing’s anniversary party.

So far, the enthusiastic response has shown Ruiz and Buitron that the classic street-style tacos they love have a huge appeal, even this far north of the border.

“It kinda took me back to home, too,” Ruiz says.

“Food that you grew up with. Obviously there’s a desire, a need for it in this town.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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$8.00 Sushi Lunch Combo with miso soup and green salad It will get you through the day!

406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

SEPTEMBER

COFFEE SPECIAL

Guatemala Antigua Italian Roast

$10.95/lb.

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

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 Welcome back students!! Happy Fall!!

Fall is Bernice’s time of year. The smell of fresh baked goods wafts around the Hip Strip as Bernice’s prepares to serve a rockin’ cup of Joe, danishes, cookies, croissants, muffins and a whole lot more. The crisp Missoula air is the perfect compliment to a slice of apple pie in the afternoon or a warm Tipu’s Chai around 6pm. Fall BBQs are topped off with Bernice’s Parker House Rolls, Curried Chicken Salad and 8" Chocolate Chocolate Cake for dessert. Stop by the UC Market and Book Exchange to see what goodies Bernice’s is showcasing this school year. A pesto croissant just before class is a great wake-me-up! Or swing by Bernice’s and wake-up with our newly added espresso! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice

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

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

Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula’s only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our house-made Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am-3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service.

Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu.

We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea.

Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage.

Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

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

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

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

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

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$

Montana Brewers Fall Rendezvous

HAPPIEST HOUR

Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

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

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What it is: Forty-two brewers congregated at Caras Park for a(nother) brewfest.

Why this brewfest is different: First off, it’s a rendezvous, okay? Second, the rendezvous features only Montana-made beer.

No Bud Light on these taps, friend. Third, and perhaps most notably, unlike some other local brewfests, a $25 rendezvous ticket ($30 day of) buys you unlimited beer samples. Even Donald Trump’s accountant could do the math on how that works out for you thirsty beavers.

How it can be even more special: Score a VIP pass for $10 extra and get access to the brews an hour early. This helps ensure you’re sipping the best pours without a crowd and before the kegs run dry.

Speaking of which, here’s some of what’s on tap: You’ll find many of the usual suspects, with some limited releases that are

ALL DAY

MONDAY & THURSDAY SATURDAY NIGHT

sure to go fast. For example, Philipsburg has an Incarcerator Doppelbock, Kettlehouse has its Coconut Cold Smoke and Lewis & Clark will unveil a special “Rendezvous Release.”

There’s also the chance to finally taste a few of Montana’s smaller, newer or more remote brewers, such as Darby’s Bandit Brewing, Helena’s Ten Mile Creek, Beehive Basin Brewery in Big Sky, Busted Knuckle in Glasgow and Eureka’s Homestead Ales.

The details: The Montana Brewers Fall Rendezvous is Fri., Sept. 23, from 5 to 9 p.m., at Caras Park. Visit montanabrewers.org for complete beer listings, as well as information on food trucks and live entertainment.

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

SUSHI SPECIALS Not available for To-Go orders

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Country music superstar Dwight Yoakam plays a guitar-strumming, foot-stomping show at the Wilma Mon., Sept 26. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $65/$45 in advance. (See Music.)

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SUN | 8PM | TOP HAT

Brett Dennen plays the Top Hat Sun., Sept 25.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20.

MON | 8PM | WILMA

SAT | 7 PM | ADAMS CENTER Country music star Dierks Bentley brings his Somewhere on a Beach Tour to Missoula, the most beachless city in America, Sat., Sept 24. 7 PM at the Adams Center. $39.75–$54.75.

WED | 8PM | WILMA Drive-By Truckers are joined by Lydia Loveless at the Wilma Wed., Sept 28. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27-$30. Grab your tickets at thewilma.com.

FRI | 8 PM | PALACE Elephant Gun Riot takes over the Palace Fri., Sept 23. Joined by The Broken Thumbs, American Falcon and Drift, the show fires off at 8 PM. Free. 21-plus.

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Thursday Missoula, land of fresh produce, provides yet another weekly market for all your organic needs.

The Grizzly Green Market runs from 10 AM to 2 PM every Thursday in the mall outside the Mansfield Library on campus.

Members of the campus community are invited to a lunch celebrating Native American Heritage Month at the Lommansson Center. 11 AM1:30 PM. $10.75.

Learn how to use monoprinting to make your own one-of-a-kind prints at Nancy Seiler’s Studio. $70 gets you all your materials and three hours of fun. 1 PM– 4 PM.

The Montana Festival of the Book is a five-day celebration of writing from Aasimov to Zelazny. Montana bookfestival.org is your library card for full schedule and events.

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The smooth folk-rock of John Floridis provides the perfect soundtrack to the good times and good beers at Lolo Peak Brewery.

6 PM. Free.

“A man without hops is a man without beer.” From Frank Miller Lite’s Daredevil. Montana Brewers Fall Rendezvous lets you sample beer from all over the Big Sky State. $30/$25 advance. General Admission starts at 5 PM. VIP tickets and more info at montanabrewers.org.

The Montana Festival of the Book is a five-day celebration of writing from Aasimov to Zelazny.

Montanabookfestival.org is your library card for full schedule and events.

Just one more year until Missoula Bicycle Works can legally drink! Celebrate 20 years of biking in Missoula with an anniversary party full of food, drinks and live music. 5 PM–8 PM.

John Adam Smith, if that is his real name and not a clever alias, plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Imagine Nation Brewing hosts Beautiful Minds. This benefit, featuring live music by the Loose String Band, Mark Chase and Basses Covered, helps NAMI Missoula’s work with mental illness. $5 donation.

nightlife

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night.

Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer.

200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. I wish they could just sit still for a minute. Band in Motion play the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. Free.

Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it.

The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus.

Vancouver, BC’s own Destroyer detonates a big ball of rock at the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $18/$15 advance at tophatlounge.com. All ages.

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

Mendelssohn continue their residency at the VFW with help from Red Onion Purple and New Old Future. 10 PM. $2.

Looking for somewhere new to escape to on Thursdays? Shadow Productions takes over Monks on Thursdays to bring you great music, blacklight beer pong and amazing drink specials. 10 PM– 2 AM. Free. 21-plus

Looking for adventure? Russ Nasset storms The Keep restaurant for a solo acoustic show. 6 PM. Free.

Take a dip with the music of Geoff Lake at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM8 PM. Free.

Britchy: 1. adj. Having to do with pants. 2. noun. A musical duo playing Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. $8-$10.

Grab your best buds and walk on down to the Montana Distillery to enjoy the live music of In Walks Bud. 6 PM. Free.

I feel like Batman and Superman would disagree with their name. World's Finest brings their Americana to the Top Hat Lounge Fri., Sept 23. 9:30 PM. Free.

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

Enjoy appetizers and drinks while renowned writer and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle speaks about his work with butterflies at the Montana Natural History Center. Doors at 7 PM, event at 7:30. $60. (See Mountain High.)

I’d probably have a Pulitzer too if those jerks in New York accepted my bawdy limericks. Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo reads his poetry at the Wilma Theater. 7 PM. Free.

Life might be a drag, but the Caravan of Glam knows that you shouldn’t just dream it; you should be it. Catch the debauchery, raffles and off-the-wall performances at Stage 112. 8 PM. $15/$12 in advance.

Spotlight In 1956, America was home to a drive-in screening is cause for over 12,000 drive-in movie the- celebration. aters. Today, 60 years later, less than 1 percent of that number are still in opera- WHAT: Drive-In Grill Out tion. People recollect drivein theaters the same way WHEN: Fri., Sept 23, at 8 PM they look at early rock and WHERE: Missoula County Fairgrounds roll, television and milkshakes. They were part HOW MUCH: $30 per car of the American identity.

MORE INFO: missoulabbqfest.com And while we in Missoula are lucky to have one of the few remaining drive-ins within As part of the Missoula BBQ a two-hour drive from us, having Festival, the Missoula County Fair-

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Cram your station wagon full of friends and drive down to the Missoula County Fairgrounds where you can enjoy some barbecue and corn and then watch The Goonies. Like the classic driveins, admission is charged per car. $30. 8 PM. Movie starts after sunset. (See Spotlight.)

Sophie Jester & the Medicine get the good times going at the Eagles. 8 PM. Free.

In what I hope to be a musical event and not something more dangerous, Elephant Gun Riot takes over the Palace. Joined by The Broken Thumbs, American Falcon and Drift, the show fires off at 8 PM. Free. 21plus.

ThatKidCry and DJ Kut Throat bring their Tour to Remember to Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $10/$7 in advance.

18-plus.

Bare Bait Dance launches the 2017 season with an original dance-theatre performance created by NYC director and Blue Man Group performer Peter Musante. The Masquer Theater. 8 PM. $16/$14 in advance. (See Feature.)

Did you see that hilarious joke about Band in Motion yesterday? That was pretty great. I don’t know if I can replicate it. But I do know Band in Motion are playing tonight at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

I feel like Batman and Superman would disagree with their name.

World’s Finest brings their Americana to the Top Hat Lounge. 9:30 PM. Free.

What a coincidence, that’s also the profession my uncle puts on his tax return. Dakota Poorman plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

drive-in dreams grounds is heading back in time with an outdoor, drive-in screening of Richard Donner's The Goonies.

And like those drive-ins of yore, popcorn, soda and candy will be available for purchase as well as pulled pork sandwiches and booze from the Rhino. So pack up your station wagon, start your engines, and take a drive down memory lane where a glowing silver screen and slow-cooked pork is waiting for you.

– Charley Macorn

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Saturday Missoula’s Farmers Market offer produce, flowers, plants and more. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM– 12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave.

celebrates the music, arts and activities. featuring Letter B, Night Blooming Jasmine and Bryan Jay and Lowell Chandler. 10 AM–8 PM. Imagine Nation Brewing. Free.

The Missoula Symphony Orchestra kick off the season with Fast Machine featuring violin soloist Jennifer Frautschi. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $15–$45 at missoulasymphony.org

Missoula’s Clark Fork Market is under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October.

The Hellgate Rollergirls take on the PRR All-Stars in a match for the ages. I’m glad the team isn’t the PBR All-Stars, because I would feel sad they didn’t invite me to join. 5 PM. $10/$8 in advance.

Sophie Jester & The Medicine get the good times going at the Eagles.

8 PM. Free.

Yoga and Beer at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8.

All money goes to Free Cycles.

Meat up at the Missoula BBQ Festival at the Missoula Fairgrounds.11 AM–4 PM. Free admission.

The Montana Festival of the Book is a five-day celebration of writing from Aasimov to Zelazny. Montana bookfestival.org is your library card for full schedule and events.

Harvest the moon at Moon-Randolp Homestead’s 16th Annual Fall Gathering and Fundraiser. Enjoy warm soup, cool cider and delicious pies as Nate Biehl, Caroline Keys and Gibson Hartwell provide the live soundtrack. $12. 4 PM–10 PM.

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It seems like only yesterday that we were opening up our Art House Theater Day presents under the Art House Theater Day shrub. Join the festivities at the Roxy Theater. 5 PM–11 PM. Free.

Jeff Carroll plays at Draught Works.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

What? That’s preposterous. I don’t believe Malarkey is playing live music at Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. $8–$10.

Country music star Dierks Bentley brings his Somewhere on a Beach Tour to Missoula, the most beachless city in America. Show starts at 7 PM at the Adams Center. $39.75–$54.75. Swim over to griztix.com for more info.

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Help the Griz kickoff Home coming week at Southgate Mall with Griz mascot Monte and the UM Cheer Squad and Dance Team. 1 PM. Do you like your pasta loud but your auctions silent? The Union Club hosts a spaghetti feed and silent auction to raise funds for the Kenner Imus Medical Trust.

Live music from 2 PM–10 PM, pasta from 4 PM–7 PM. The Missoula Symphony Orchestra kicks off the season with Fast Machine featuring violin soloist Jennifer Frautschi. Dennison Theatre. 3 PM. $15–$45 at misoulasymphony.org.

nightlife What a really good house. Like just the best one. Draught Works is the place to be to catch the music of Top House. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

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Monday Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM. Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon–1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillow learning.org.

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners or those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $2.25.

The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts

Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly class at Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays noon–1 PM. $35 for four classes or $10 drop-in.

Visit redwillowlearning.org.

There is so much more to Brett Dennen than just smoke and mirrors. He brings hope to the hopeless and is a real loverboy. So please–por favor–come see him at the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help 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.

Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, enjoy the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour every fourth Sunday of the month at the VFW. This month No Pads welcomes everyone’s favorite humorist Dan Brooks. 8 PM. $3 suggested donation.

Wildwood Brewing hosts Sustainability Fair. Montana’s finest vendors are on hand to sell and demonstrate their products that promote the skill of sustainability.

8 PM. Free.

The Montana Festival of the Book is a five-day celebration of writing from Aasimov to Zelazny.

Montanabookfestival.org is your library card for full schedule and events.

WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at The Base. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.

nightlife Is your kid the next Steve Martin? Put him to task at the All Ages Comedy Open Mic at BASE Missoula. 6 PM– 7 PM. Free.

Is peace possible in Northeast Asia?

US Ambassador Sung Kim, the State

Department’s Special Representative for North Korea Policy, discusses the future prospects for stability and security in light of North Korea’s fifth nuclear test. 6 PM. Turner Hall. Free.

RSVP online at umt.edu/mansfield.

Country music superstar Dwight Yoakam plays a guitar strumming, foot stomping show at the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, shows at 8. $65/$45 in advance. (See Music.)

Prepare a couple 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.

Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org.

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

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

We’re getting closer and closer to the presidential election. See the main two contenders duke it out at the Presidential Debate Watch Party at the Top Hat. 6:30 PM.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

Tuesday

I’ve got a telegram here for you: Come to the Missoula Winery to catch the country sound of the Western Union Swing Band STOP. 6 PM–8 PM STOP. $7 STOP.

Dolce Canto, guest soloist Carl Franklin and the Missoula Gay Men’s Chorus play at University Congregational Church at the Concert to End Gun Violence.

Free. 7:30 PM. UCC is a gun-free zone.

tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 47 PM. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Call 210-8792 or drop in to observe a class. $60 for four classes.

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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 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Fort Missoula Park. 5 PM. Free.

Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week head to McCormick Park to greet the sun. 5 PM–7 PM.

Catch Corey Smith's prog country sound at the Top Hat Tue., Sept 27. Door at 7:30, show at 8. $25/$20 advance.

Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls.

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Former Japanese internment camp prisoner Yukio Shimomura speaks about his two and a half years behind barbed wire in the United States. 6 PM. UM Interdisciplinary Sciences Building. Free.

And behold I saw a pale rider, and his name that sat on him was Carbon Emissions. Dr. William Schlesinger presents Climate Change: Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, at the University Center. 7 PM–8 PM. Free.

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

Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–

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Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library.

7–9 PM.

Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more.

8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Which artist co-created Batman with Bob Kane? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

A quick Google search of prog country brings up both a condescending message, insulting my spelling of Prague, and also artist Corey Smith.

Catch the latter’s prog country sound at the Top Hat. Door at 7:30. Show at 8. $25/$20 advance.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.

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Chelsea Robinson, the program coordinator for the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program for the consulate-general of Japan in Seattle, speaks at the University Center. 12 PM. Free.

Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-4433439 for more information.

their lobby to see what’s playing.

NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness. Join the fun every Wednesday at 2 PM. Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wednesday through the summer.

Croquet, bocce and petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4–7 PM.

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This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.

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

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

When Drive-By Truckers and Lydia Loveless stop by the Wilma, you’re sure to have a good time. The southern rock kicks off at 8 PM. Doors at 7. $27-$30. Grab your tickets at thewilma.com.

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

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

Patrica teaches West Coast Swing dance classes at Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday from 7-8:30 PM. Beginning level II, so you better know how to jive. $5 per person.

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

running through December 8, highlights the advent of idiosyncratic language. Things kick off with a reception at the Museum of Art & Culture. 5 PM–7 PM.

Megaton Gypsies make their debut performance with a special hour of music at the Eagles.

8 PM. Free.

The Grizzly Green Market runs from 10 AM to 2 PM every Thursday in the mall outside the Mansfield Library on campus.

I shouldn’t have to give you the hard sell to see the fantastic music of Andrea Harsell at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Learn how to use monoprinting to make your own one-of-a-kind prints at Nancy Seiler’s Studio. $70 gets you all your materials and three hours of fun. 1 PM–4 PM.

Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash.

Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in

Missoula HomeGrown Comedy competition finalist Nick Dowdy headlines a diverse and hilarious crowd of comedians at the Roxy Theater.

7:30 PM. Free with concessions purchase.

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

Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

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

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

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Yoga newbies can get hip to a gentle, mindful practice with Easy Yoga for Beginners at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays from 4–5:15 PM. $45 for six weeks or $10 drop-in.

nightlife Postwar America had a big role in how we view contemporary printmaking. Present Tense,

Come on and slam! Welcome to the jam! E3 Convergence Gallery hosts a poetry slam that puts local word-slingers head to head. 7 PM. Free. Email e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.com to register to perform.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

My name is Cal-essi and I’m here to say, I like rap music in a major way! The Palace hosts September Cavalcade, featuring the best local rap talent. 9 PM. Free. 21-plus.

Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it. The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus.

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

Yak Attack at the Top Hat! I would be really good at writing headlines. But seriously, check out the music of Yak Attack at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

Mendelssohn close out their residency at the VFW with a show for the ages. Joined by Tiny Plastic Stars and Pender, the music starts at 10 PM. $2. (See Feature.)

Looking for somewhere new to escape to on Thursdays? Shadow Productions takes over Monks on Thursdays to bring you great music, blacklight beer pong and amazing drink specials. 10 PM–2 AM. Free. 21-plus.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. Anyone see Blair Witch this week? Kind of a let down, right?

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Agenda By 1989 over half of the elephants in Africa were lost to the ivory trade. Despite a brief recovery, buoyed by worldwide legislation banning the international trade of elephant tusks, things somehow got worse for our trunked chums in recent years. A boom economy in China created a demand for ivory, causing the street price to skyrocket to $2,100 per kilo, over three times what it was in the past. Poachers and importers the world over, knowing they could make their fortunes, decided to ignore international law and in the process caused the deaths of an estimated 62 percent of the world's elephant population between 2002 and 2011. Zoinks.

Saturday, September 24, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., a global march for elephants and rhinoceroses hopes to bring attention to this worldwide problem and call for a total ban on China's domestic ivory

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 Malik Yakini discusses the work of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network as an example of grassroots efforts to built community self-determination at the North Underground Lecture Hall on the UM Campus. Free. 7:30 PM.

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The Voices for Justice Rally bridges the intersectionality of African Americans and Native Americans to stand up for racial justice. 12 PM. University Center.

gregational Church at the Concert to End Gun Violence. Free. 7:30 PM. UCC is a gun-free zone.

Wildwood Brewing hosts Sustainability Fair. Montana’s finest vendors are on hand to sell and demonstrate their products that promote the skill of sustainability. 8 PM. Free.

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

We’re getting closer and closer to the presidential election. See the main two contenders duke it out at the Presidential Debate Watch Party at the Top Hat. 6:30 PM.

Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent from 2-4 PM. Call 728-1630.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

Imagine Nation Brewing hosts Beautiful Minds. This benefit, featuring live music by the Loose String Band, Mark Chase and Basses Covered, helps NAMI Missoula’s work with mental illness. $5 donation.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25 Stroll down to Silver Park for the Missoula Buddy Walk. This family-friendly fun walk raises awareness and funds for people with Down syndrome. 1 PM–3 PM. $10.

Everyone’s got a story, but what makes that story stand out? Contestants at The Big Montana Story pitch their true tales to a panel of experts in film, TV and theater to see how they would develop the story. Montgomery Distillery. 1:30 PM. Do you like your pasta loud but your auctions silent?

The Union Club hosts a spaghetti feed and silent auction to raise funds for the Kenner Imus Medical Trust. Live music from 2 PM–10 PM, pasta from 4 PM–7 PM. Dolce Canto, guest soloist Carl Franklin and the Missoula Gay Men’s Chorus play at University Con-

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The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos starts Sat., Sept 24 at 10 AM at the Griz Statue on the UM campus.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM.

Missoula Senior Center hosts a Fall Prevention Workshop. 1 PM–4 PM.

Lack of speech is a sign of autism.

Learn the others at autismspeaks.org/signs.

trade with protests in cities across the world. Missoula's branch of this initiative starts at the Griz statue in the University of Montana Oval. .

–Charley Macorn

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help 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 28 Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.

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

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

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he fastest moth in the world clocks in with a speed just under 15 MPH. The Sphingidae, sometimes called the hawk moth, flies so fast it is often mistaken for a hummingbird. It takes someone with patience, skill and a keen understanding of moths, butterflies and other Lepidoptera to catch one of these elusive insects. Someone like Robert Michael Pyle.

Since the 1970s, Pyle has crisscrossed the country as a naturalist and writer, studying and recording his findings about birds, butterflies and, for some reason, sasquatches. And now with all these years of experience exploring the wonderful world of nature, Pyle comes to the Montana Natural History Center to recount his many adventures. Primarily a

lepidopterist (a fancy word I only use to prove I've been to college), Pyle has used the same net, affectionately named Marsha, for over 30 years, catching and cataloging countless species of butterflies.

This special event, hosted by Montana Public Radio's Annie Garde, includes light appetizers, drinks and the opportunity to mingle with one of the greatest naturalists to ever bag a Sphingidae.

—Charley Macorn Join An Evening with a Naturalist at the Montana Natural History Center at 7 PM. $60

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The stars at night are deep and bright CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP up on Blue Mountain Observatory.

University Astronomers will be on hand to guide viewers. Visit hs.umt.edu for times and to reserve free tickets.

Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Fort Missoula Park. 5 PM. Free.

Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.

Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week head to McCormick Park to greet the sun. 5 PM–7 PM.

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Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM.

The Fire Hazard Reduction Workday starts with a 9 AM meeting at The Keep restaurant parking lot and ends with you feeling good about yourself for helping clean up branches in the South Hills in anticipation of public hiking. 9 AM–2 PM. Harvest the moon at Moon-Randolp Homestead’s 16th Annual Fall Gathering and Fundraiser. Enjoy warm soup, cool cider and delicious pies as Nate Biehl, Caroline Keys and Gibson Hartwell provide the live soundtrack. $12. 4 PM–10 PM.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wednesday through the summer. Croquet, bocce and petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4–7 PM.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25

The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

If your fantasy football team isn’t working out, you can always see if your kids have any natural talent you can bank on in a few years. The NFL Punt, Pass and Kick Competition kicks off at 10:30 AM at Missoula County Public Schools football stadium. Open to all kids ages 6–15.

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. Each month runners and walkers start and finish at a different brewery. This month’s spot is Northside Kettlehouse. 6 PM. Free.

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By Amy Alkon AISLE ALWAYS LOVE YOU My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and a half, and we really love each other. His parents adore me and are thrilled that he might not die alone. After his mom saw us being all cuddly in the supermarket, she warned him that we may be getting in people's way or annoying them by “hanging all over each other.” (We aren't doing anything dirty or gross -- just hand-holding, play wrestling, quick kisses.) She wondered whether we do this because one of us is insecure. I felt sort of offended.

We're just affectionate. Most people who see us smile – Lovey-Dovey There's being cuddly at the supermarket, and then there's being cuddly in a way that says, “We usually do this with whipped cream.”

Even if what you're publicly displaying is affection, not foreplay, there are a number of reasons it may make onlookers uncomfortable: It's them. (They were raised to think PDA is not okay.) It's their relationship. (The more warm, cuddly, and adorbs you two are the more you remind them that their relationship temperature is about 3 degrees above “bitter divorce.”) It's the wrong time and place.

(They're watching you do huggy headlocks at Granny's funeral.)

You're actually onto something by being so physically demonstrative.

Charles Darwin observed that expressing the physical side of an emotion – that is, "the outward signs," like the red-faced yelling that goes with rage – amps up the emotion. Modern research finds that he was right.

For example, clinical psychologist Joan Kellerman and her colleagues had total strangers do something lovers do – gaze deeply into each other's eyes. Subjects who did this for just two minutes "reported significantly more feelings of attraction, interest, warmth, etc. for each other" than subjects in the "control" condition (who spent the two minutes looking down at each other's hands).

Research on touch has found similar effects. The upshot? Act cuddly-wuddly and cuddly-wuddly feelings should follow.

Maybe you can science his mom into feeling better by explaining this.

Consider that she may just be worried that you two are going to burn yourselves out. If you think that's part of it, you might clue her in on what the greeting cards don't tell you: Love is also a biochemical process, and a year and a

half in, you're surely out of the hormonal hurricane stage.

You also might dial it down a little around her (not because you're doing anything wrong but because it's nice to avoid worrying Mumsy if you can). The reality is, we all sometimes get in other people's way when we're trying to find something at the supermarket –organic Broccolini...grape kombucha...precancerous polyp in the girlfriend's throat.

FLORIST GUMP I love my girlfriend, but the other night on the phone, I said something that really hurt her feelings. I was out with my guy friends, and one said, “Get her flowers. Girls love that stuff.” I ran around in the middle of the night looking for them. Obviously, there were no florists open. I had to hit a slew of 7-Elevens. I came home with a rose and told her about my treasure hunt to find it. She loved it, and all was forgiven. For a flower?

I don't get it.

– Temporary Jerk It is a little crazy that when you love a woman, you're supposed to express it with a handful of useless weeds – that is, “Say it with flowers” and not something nice and practical, a la “Say it with a repeating stapler.”

“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” wrote Gertrude Stein. Sorry, Gertie. It's actually not.

A rose can also be a form of information – one that anthropologists call a “costly signal.”

A costly signal is a message that's more than just words –meaning it involves an investment of time, effort, risk, and/or money, which tells the recipient that it's more likely to be sincere. So, the pointless extravagance of buying a woman flowers is exactly the point. To be willing to burn money on something so intrinsically useless suggests you're either a natural-born idiot or so in love that it makes you droolingly dim.

But – as you might argue – you only spent a few bucks on that rose. Well, context counts. Research by evolutionary social psychologist Yohsuke Ohtsubo and his colleagues points out that buying just one flower will make you look cheap -–but only when “a more costly option (is) available” (like if you're at a florist). Otherwise, effort counts. In other words, if you only bring your woman a single rose, casually mention that you got it by crawling over broken glass to 7Eleven while dodging gunfire from the Albanian mob. (Or that you at least tried Rite Aid, CVS, and 12 other 7-Elevens first.)

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Wage $13-$14/hour DOE- Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27792 Tool Room Machinist An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a full time, experienced Tool Room Machinist. Responsible for producing machined parts by programming, setting up and operating a CNC machine; maintaining quality and safety standards. Experience with G-code programming, Solid Works for CAD and CAM is preferred, other 3D solid modeling experience will be considered. Experience setting up manual and mill lathes. Knowledge of basic math, geometry and trigonometry. Ability to interpret drawings and specifications.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even if you are a wild-eyed adventure-seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you'll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you're most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud, and in-your-face nor demure, quiet, and passive –but rather just right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some of my readers love me but also hate me. They are drawn to my horoscopes in the hope that I will help relieve them of their habitual pain, but then get mad at me when I do just that. In retrospect, they feel lost without the familiar companionship of their habitual pain. It had been a centerpiece of their identity, a source of stability, and when it's gone, they don't know who they are any more. Are you like these people, Taurus? If so, you might want to avoid my horoscopes for a while. I will be engaged in a subtle crusade to dissolve your angst and agitation. And it all starts now with this magic spell: Your wound is a blessing. Discover why.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my dream last night, bad guys wearing white hats constrained you in a canvas straitjacket, then further wrapped you up with heavy steel chain secured by three padlocks. They drove you to a weedy field behind an abandoned warehouse and left you there in the pitch dark. But you were indomitable. By dawn, you had miraculously wriggled your way out of your confinement. Then you walked back home, free and undaunted. Here's my interpretation of the dream: You now have special skills as an escape artist. No cage can hold you. No riddle can stump you. No tangle can confuse you. (P.S.: For best results, trust yourself even more than you usually do.)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: 1. Nourish your roots. 2. Strengthen your foundations. 3. Meditate about where you truly belong. 4. Upgrade the way you attend to your self-care. 5. Honor your living traditions. 6. Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. 7.

Deepen your intimacy with the earth. 8. Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. 9. Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What tools will work best for the tasks you'll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver? Here's my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You may need to change tools in mid-task -- or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I'm confident that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills. My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it's no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery store dumpsters. What accounts for my growing financial luck? I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it may in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity. As I've become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here's my translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas, a gnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: "If you do not awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you." Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts NOW.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can't completely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life. But you're entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor, try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness, or alienate you from what you love.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Work too much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius. Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch, and French fries for dinner -- every day, if possible.

And please please please get no more than four hours' sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine. JUST KIDDING! Don't you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice. In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite. Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your long-term dreams is by having as much fun, joy, and release as possible.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I propose that you and I make a deal. Here's how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate, and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here's what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires, and say only what you truly mean. You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you loosen yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don't drive a forklift or ride a unicycle. If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don't buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you're drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I'm not saying that you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I invite you to explore the healing power of sex. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do so. You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner's mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S. You don't necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)

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PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff ’s attorney within twentyone (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service.

Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: An undivided one quarter interest in the Dixon Patent and 7 acres, more or less, of the Barrette Patent, lying immediately adjacent to the Dixon Patent on the up creek side of said Dixon Patent, all on the Nine Mile Creek in the Nine Mile Mining District in Missoula County, Montana, as particularly described on those certain instruments files and recorded with the office of the clerk and recorder of Missoula County, Montana, at Book 89 of Deeds at Page 246 and Book 89 of Deeds at Page 407. Dated this 26th day of August, 2016. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST By: Laura M. Driscoll Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

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[C6] Missoula Independent • September 22–September 29, 2016

No. 2 Cause No. DP-16-159 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES R. WROBEL, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lisa L. Venuti 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 said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lisa Venuti, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, 1615 S. 4th St. W, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 19 day of September, 2016 /s/ Lisa L. Venuti, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Probate No. DP-16-169 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MILO R. JANECEK, Deceased. NO-

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 3320/Cordelle Slinkard/$273/instruments 4431/Aileen Ast/$273/furniture

SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Oct. 5, 2016 @ 5:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.

TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Edward Janecek III 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 said 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, 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 29 day of August, 2016. /s/ Edward Janecek III, Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-16-175 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 15, 54, 176, 217, 285, 291, 318, 348, 368, & 541. 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 26, 2016. 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 29, 2016 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.

PUBLIC NOTICES ESTATE OF: JOANNE DEBRUIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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 DANIEL ERNEST DEBRUIN and DAVID CARL DEBRUIN, the Co-Personal Representatives, 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 19th day of September, 2016. /s/ Daniel Ernest Debruin, Co-Personal Representative /s/ David Carl Debruin, Co-Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ Craig Mungas, Attorneys for Daniel Ernest Debruin and David Carl Debruin, CoPersonal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 4 Cause No.: DP-16-166 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: RAYMOND D. SCHMIDT, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Vera M. Schmidt, 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 Vera M. Schmidt, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24 day of August, 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative.

I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 24 day of August, 2016. /s/ Vera M. Schmidt, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-16-142 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH E. AZZARA, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christine R. Gingerelli, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas D. Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 19 day of August, 2016. /s/ Christine R. Gingerelli, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016, from 3 – 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 TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/22/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200926051 B: 849 P:1299 and Modified by Agreement recorded on 07/28/2014 under Auditor’s File No. 201411063 B: 931, P: 1186, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Stephan P. Ward, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 24,25 and 26 in Block 17 of car line addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, 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

MNAXLP obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of July 19, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $122,958.41.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $112,492.92, 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 Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on December 1, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior

to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Ward, Stephan P. (TS# 7023.115270) 1002.285511-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 5, 2016, 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 8 OF PROSPECT PHASE 1A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA,MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN BOOK 16 OF PLATS AT PAGE 70. R CRAIG FLINT and TRISTIN S FLINT, as Grantors, conveyed said real

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[C8] Missoula Independent • September 22–September 29, 2016

property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiMortage Inc. successor by merger to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust on December 5, 2006, and recorded on December 11, 2006 as Book 788 Page 889, Document No. 200631620. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortage Inc. successor by merger to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning February 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 June 27, 2016 is $254,326.07 principal, interest at the rate of 3.00000% totaling $3,300.52, escrow advances of $631.17, and expenses advanced of $47.50, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 INFORMA-

TION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 26, 2016 /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 26 day of July, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 01-19-208 Citimortgage v FLINT 101670 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 9, 2017, at 11:00

MNAXLP AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 OF HAGESTAD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF IN BOOK 31 OF PLATS AT PAGE 7. Daniel R. Hagestad and Constance J. Hagestad, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 28, 2011 and recorded on De-

cember 2, 2011 as Book 886 Page 493 Document No. 201120266. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning April 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 20, 2016 is $332,922.47 principal, interest at the rate of 4.37500% totaling $5,745.32, late charges in the amount of $428.03, 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 condi-

tions, 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 26, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC. Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 26 day of August, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert , know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 01/17/2018 GUILD vs HAGESTAD 101875-1

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[C10] Missoula Independent • September 22–September 29, 2016

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

The Uptown Flats #105. Ground floor condo offers extra large south-facing patio. 1 bed, 1 bath. $161,900 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

www.HOMEMTP.com Sweet Bungalow 120 Strand Ave. This little bungalow is about as sweet as they come!

1 bed 1 bath $230,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Burns Street Condo 1400

LAND FOR SALE 14.9 acre building lot in Frenchtown. Borders public lands. $180,900. BHHSMT

Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900.

BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3.52ac $259/month Boulder, MT- 2.12ac $391/month Absarokee, MT21.3ac $203/month Red Lodge, MTMore properties online. Justin Joyner Steel Horse RE www.ownerfinancemt.com 406-539-1420

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000.

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

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com

NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water.

Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m .

(406)293-3714

631 Carter Court $215,000

4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy.

1201 South 6th Street, Missoula Modern Condo Unit #204

$259,900 • MLS # 20157047

2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Unit, 1,496 sq ft. The Factory Condos Complex is possibly the ''Greenest'' Building in Missoula. High Efficiency Lighting and Energy Efficient Gas Boiler with H2O Baseboard Heat. Unit consists of 2 levels with 10 Foot Ceilings on Main Floor and 9 Foot Ceilings on the upper floor. Bamboo Floors throughout the Main Floor Highlight the Open Kitchen which has Butcher-Block Counter Tops. Fresh Interior, Brand New Appliances with Natural Gas Range. Living Area has a New Gas Fireplace Master Bath with Tiled Floors and Counter Tops.

Tylor Trenary Main Street Realty (406) 544-3310 tylor@mainstreetmissoula.com

OPEN HOUSE | Sunday 1pm–3pm One level living in 55+ community on quiet cul-de-sac near river and trails.

2 bed, 2 bath with low maintenance yard, fenced back, patio and underground sprinklers. Attached 2 car garage. Ready to move into!

MLS #21610382 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

www.rochelleglasgow.com

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

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REAL ESTATE

South Frontage East, Alberton.

37 acres with multiple building sites. $49,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building

with office, retail & warehouse space. $795,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

power washing business includes truck & equipment. $80,000. Pat McCormick, Properties. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

Business For Sale Established bulk spices, herbs, teas and gifts. All products, furnishings and equipment must be moved. Turn-key. 406-8223333

OUT OF TOWN

Martin’s Clean All. Successful

6060 LEBEAU $59,900

122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

2 bedroom, 1 bath manufactured home in the Katoonah Lodges (a 55 year and older community). Open floor plan, beautifully landscaped yard and double carport. Lot rent is $350/month.

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $315,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Call Vickie at 544-0799 for more information

Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens. $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL 235 McLeod • $499,000 U District 4+ bed, 2.5 bath with arched doorways, study, fireplace & spacious fenced backyard.

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

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

Properties2000.com

EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com

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