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News
Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Old school and new tools: What’s your favorite gear?...........................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs City joins bathroom bill suit, immigrant vs. immigrants, and Payne in Vegas...............6 Etc. Where’s the venison (from)?................................................................................................7 News Are the Mountain Water legal bills water under the bridge? ...........................................8 News Rotting and rolling with Missoula’s new compost biz.....................................................9 Opinion When a-holes make art, from Harvey Weinstein to XXXTentacion..........................10 Opinion Why farm-to-table menus should focus on forage ...................................................11 Feature Can the Pacific Northwest Trail be friendly to grizzlies?........................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Dan Savage talks about the joys of Missoula’s first Hump! festival......................18 Dance Bare Bait takes Lovesong into the living room.................................................19 Theater UM nails of the fun of Shakespeare’s gender-bender ....................................20 Film Gerald’s Game serves its hair-raising purpose....................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 What’s Good Here We all fall for ice cream................................................................23 Happiest Hour The pursuit of hoppiness...................................................................25 8 Days a Week A judiciously curated calendar of everything that matters.................26 Agenda Prison justice x 3.............................................................................................35 Mountain High Warren Miller’s Line of Descent ........................................................36
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STREET TALK
By Derek Brouwer
Rachel Gross, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montana, recently presented her research into how consumerism shapes our experience of wilderness—through outdoors gear, in particular.
What’s your oldest, most trusted piece of gear? What’s your latest, greatest piece of outdoor equipment or apparel?
Eric Love: I have an L.L. Bean fleece that I got when I was 18 and I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail with it. Then I rode across the country with it on a bike, and I still use it today. I’m 41, so I’ve had it for 23 years. Scrapping the tent: Probably my tarp—a cuben fiber tarp, as opposed to a tent. It’s super rad—totally waterproof and super lightweight.
Kaya Juda-Nelson: That’s a great question. I have this old, really misshapen pair of fleece pants that I’ve had since I was 10. They still fit me. Through all the washings, they’ve become really misshapen and shrunken, but they’re so comfortable, I still wear them. Fit to scale: I bought this really awesome climbing pack from Patagonia. I’ve been climbing for five years, and I’d never bought myself a climbing pack that actually fits me.
Underwhelmed... I was excited to see a fresh face on the ballot this year. I read this at lunch yesterday to learn more about this candidate’s agenda (“Meet Lisa Triepke, the candidate who wants to unseat John Engen,” Oct. 12). I was completely underwhelmed. I didn’t find anything she said in the interview to be exciting or even of much substance. Disappointed. Plenty of complaints about current administration and policies but no semblance of any sort of clear goals or new ideas. Not sure why everyone thinks this lady would make a great mayor. Maybe because her last name is not Engen? Does not seem to me that Triepke has the capacity or the experience/knowledge for the job. Please don’t let my comments influence your opinion as that is not my aim. Read this and decide for yourself! Charlie Buchman facebook.com/missoulaindependent
… and disturbed… I find it disturbing that [Triepke] wasn’t able to understand the reporter’s questions about the issue of homelessness, poverty, the sluggish wages and high rents in this town. I also find it troubling she wouldn’t give specifics on infrastructure and partnerships. Hmmm. Rebecca Loren Merfeld facebook.com/missoulaindependent
… and pained Steve Nelson: My oldest piece of gear is a Kelty frame pack, a yellow one. I bought it in 1977. It’s 40 years old, and it still works great. I still use it, and people laugh at me. They laugh at me regularly. Warm gift: I think the latest, greatest piece of gear is a merino wool base layer that Kaya got me. It’s absolutely great for cross-country skiing.
Nathan Wise: I’ve got a Mountain Hardwear bag I’ve had since I was a teenager. That’s been a good piece of gear. I use it all the time. A Snuggie? It’s a brand called Poler, and they do some really interesting bags that have open bottoms and armholes in them that you can wear and cinch up around your waist. You can sleep in it if you buy a big enough one, and in the morning you just cinch it around your waist, throw your arms out—it’s got a hood on it and pockets—and go out to the campfire. Asked Wednesday morning at Black Coffee Roasting Co.
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Reading this article (mainly Triepke’s quotes) was painful and exhausting. It was kind of like re-living a Trump debate. Hollow, uninformed, confusing, scattered, full of mistruths and broad-stroke garbage. I am glad somebody is challenging the mayor. It is good for democracy. But she seems wildly unqualified. My advice would be for her to go back to serving wings at Desperado and calling people “fucking liars” in school board meetings. Adam York missoulanews.com
Free to disagree Missoulians have rarely disagreed more in recent years. But to say “I disagree, you’re wrong, you should leave town” are the words that define our individuality today. The freedom to vent online without identifying ourselves in most cases, makes our democracy weak, especially when led by leaders of our local and state governments who should know better. As I stated in my earlier letter to the editor [in the Missoulian], you go off script in Missoula, you open yourself up to bullying, threats to
your health and your business. Intelligent disagreement is the lifeblood of any thriving society. Yet we in Missoula are raising a generation who has never been taught either the hows or the whys of civil disagreement, and who seem to think that free speech is a one-way right. Namely, their right to shout down or abuse anyone they dislike due to their opinions, whether they are led by a government leader or not. Very disappointing for a city like Missoula that prides itself on being an educated and progressive community. Free speech must ultimately be free, whether or not it’s fair or
“Intelligent disagreement is the lifeblood of any thriving society. Yet we in Missoula are raising a generation who has never been taught either the hows or the whys of civil disagreement, and who seem to think that free speech is a one-way right.”
exactly what you want to hear coming from someone with a different idea than yours. Every idea is really just a disagreement with some other idea. I was raised in the time of sticks and stones could break my bones but words would never hurt me. And they don’t. I know who I am, I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I’m old enough to care less what people say or think about me. But others might not feel as secure as I do, and it would be a shame to lose out on sharing or hearing out their ideas because they are afraid of saying the wrong thing and being attacked. Despite the attacks of late, I’m still supporting Lisa
Triepke for the mayor of Missoula and I encourage you to do the same. It’s time for new ideas and transparency in the way our city government is run. Wes Spiker Spiker Communications Missoula
Two Missoulas There’s all types of multi-family units and two utilitarian houses where one used to be—which look a lot like the new Bonner Park house—going up in Ward 6, and no one bats an eye (“City council considers a zoning change for the University District,” Oct. 12). Soon as this single-family house gets built, the town freaks out and takes up arms against it. [It’s] just confirmation that there’s two Missoulas: the Missoula with money, which can afford to write the rules, and the rest of us, who have little choice but to live within their rules. Jubal Watson facebook.com/missoulanews.com
Re-elect Jenks I have known Kathleen Jenks in excess of 20 years and have observed her work ethic in everything she participates in, and her experience in Municipal Court is no exception. She works with the Missoula City Court Clerk and her colleague on the Municipal Court Bench to bring an efficiency rating that is unsurpassed in the history of the city of Missoula. Judge Jenks does this with a sense of compassion and understanding of the parties that come before her. She knows that perhaps the only experience that a citizen will have with our court system is before a court of limited jurisdiction, and she attempts to make it an understandable and memorable experience. One will not have to suffer again in the future because of the lesson learned in front of her. She dispenses justice without “an axe to grind” in an efficient manner. I wholeheartedly endorse Kathleen Jenks in her quest for re-election and encourage the citizen of Missoula to do the same. Ed McLean District Court Judge (retired) Missoula Corrections: “City Council considers a zoning change for the University District” (Oct. 12) incorrectly stated the number of lots that the Timblo house near Bonner Park occupies. The house was constructed on one and a half lots. “Meet Lisa Triepke, the candidate who wants to unseat John Engen” (Oct. 12) incorrectly stated the duration of Triepke’s service on the MCPS Board of Trustees. She served from May 2015 to July 2015. The Indy regrets the errors.
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, October 11 A judge orders the release of the mugshot associated with U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte’s misdemeanor assault conviction in May. Days later, campaign filings show he’s raised more than $250,000 for his 2018 reelection campaign.
Thursday, October 12 A deer jumps through the closed glass window of a moving minivan in the Rattlesnake. Driver Jenn Jencso jumps out, then gets back in to stop the vehicle, and the deer flees. Jensco is uninjured; the deer, presumably less so.
Friday, October 13 Mountain Line announces that its buses will remain free to the public until 2020, thanks to continuing donations from 15 community partners. Bus officials credit the zerofare program with a 70 percent increase in ridership since 2015.
Saturday, October 14 Former District Court judge Russell Fagg announces he will run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Jon Tester in 2018. Fagg formed an exploratory committee and announced his retirement from his judgeship in June.
Immigrant vs. immigrants
Trevor Loudon’s crusade Last Chance Patriots is Western Montana’s newest right-wing political organization, created by the merger of two chapters of ACT for America and headed by Vietnam vet, author and activist Ed Kugler of Big Arm. A year ago, Kugler brought a speaker to town to present “Unveiling the True Face of Islam,” a presentation that claimed refugee resettlement was part of a vast, violent Muslim conspiracy. On Monday night in the conference room of the FairBridge Inn & Suites, the vast conspiracy on the agenda was the red menace. The speaker was New Zealand author and filmmaker Trevor Louden, who claims that there are 100 Marxist-Leninist allied members of Congress, a state of affairs that was allowed to flourish after the 1975 abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is the first of five Montana appearances Kugler’s organization has arranged for Louden. He’ll speak in Kalispell, Polson, Bozeman and Great Falls before the week is over. Loudon’s talk was split between exposing what he says are secret Communists in American government and the dangers of undocumented immigrants. He repeated a Trump claim that Hillary Clinton promised to make every undocumented
immigrant in the country a full citizen with voting rights within her first 100 days in office. That would, he said, secure millions of votes for the Democratic party. (Clinton’s actual campaign pledge was to introduce immigration reform legislation within her first 100 days). Loudon himself is an immigrant, a permanent resident who has married an American woman. Describing what he called the “miracle” of the 2016 presidential election, Louden asked his audience if they knew what schadenfreude meant. He called Bernie Sanders supporters “basement dwellers,” but he could have as easily said “your grandkids” to the majority over-50 audience. Outside, at the foot of the Reserve Street pedestrian bridge, a loose coalition of Missoula leftists stationed themselves with a large pot of soup and a sign offering Louden attendees a chance to eat with “your local enemy within.” IWW member Charlie Copeland said he thought they all had more in common than not. “The thing that really gets me is, a lot of these people that are in there, I doubt that there’s any avowed fascists or white nationalists,” Copeland said. “This guy is really manipulating them to think things like, ‘The radical left wants to kill everybody who voted for Trump.’ A lot of people in my family voted for Trump! We’re still family.”
At the end of Loudon’s talk, Last Chance Patriot Linda Sauer addressed the audience, telling them she didn’t see enough urgency in Missoula about the threats that Loudon had described, considering all the empty seats (there were about 30 people in attendance). They weren’t going to make back the cost of the room rental, Sauer said, so anyone who could afford to was asked to drop an extra donation into a bucket on their way out. Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Vegas’ Payne
Shooting delays Bundy trial The mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 has created a wrinkle in the trial of an Anaconda man. Ryan Payne, the self-styled militia leader who drove his Jeep Cherokee from Montana to Nevada in April 2014 to defend rancher Cliven Bundy, asked a Vegas judge this month to delay court proceedings for fear that the recent shooting deaths of 58 people might bias prospective jurors. Las Vegas, Payne’s public defenders wrote in a legal motion Oct. 2, “is in mourning.” “In time, the community’s justified shock and outrage about this tragedy may subside enough to allow a fair trial,” the motion concluded. “Right now, however, the wounds are too fresh.”
Sunday, October 15 Free Cycles’ annual Tweed Ride draws a dapper crowd to cruise Missoula’s streets and bike paths and sip some free tea. The point is not entirely clear, but who doesn’t love vintage wool?
Monday, October 16 A 10-person crew finishes two weeks of work stabilizing what remains of Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park before the onset of winter. The chalet was gutted by wildfire this summer.
Tuesday, October 17 The University of Montana announces a plan to offer voluntary severance packages to select non-faculty staff members, similar to the buyout offers it extended to tenured professors earlier this year.
Hello, I’d like to run against Senator Jon Tester next year. Please accept these documents and tell me what I have to do next.” —Missoula City Council candidate Greg Strandberg, in a handwritten note to the Federal Election Commission announcing his intent to run in the 2018 U.S. Senate primary as a Democrat. The message was written on a Christmas-themed notepad.
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[news] District Judge Gloria Navarro granted Payne’s request Oct. 6, moving his trial date to Oct. 30. Payne faces a list of charges in Nevada, including conspiracy and threatening a federal law enforcement officer. These stem from his involvement, in 2014, in the so-called Bunkerville standoff—an armed confrontation with the Bureau of Land Management over Bundy’s cattle. Payne’s co-defendants in the Nevada case include Cliven Bundy and his sons Ryan and Ammon. Payne pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a separate case earlier this year stemming from his involvement in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. That Payne should be wary of shifting public sentiment about guns is hardly surprising. Many images from Bunkerville show Bundy defenders openly carrying semi-automatic weapons and pointing those guns in the direction of federal agents. In an interview with the Indy shortly after his return from the standoff, Payne spoke candidly about the Bundy camp’s “tactical superiority,� claiming they had “counter-sniper positions on their sniper positions.� “If they made one wrong move,� Payne said in 2014, “every single BLM agent in that camp would’ve died.� Payne’s concern in Nevada extends beyond the trial’s timing. In a separate motion filed Oct. 10, his attorneys requested that the current jury panel be disqualified and a new juror questionnaire be drafted to address the Vegas shooting. Payne proposed a number of new questions designed to gauge whether prospective jurors knew anyone who was killed or harmed in the shooting, had offered assistance to victims, or had changed their views about gun ownership as a result of the incident. (In the same motion, Ammon Bundy suggested asking jurors, “Do you agree with the recent op-eds in Salon, the New York Times and Rolling Stone calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment?�) Federal prosecutors responded that they were amenable to the inclusion of a question probing jurors’ fairness and impartiality in light of the Vegas shooting. Asked Monday whether Judge Navarro had ruled on the motion to send a new questionnaire, Payne’s assistant federal public defender, Brenda Weksler, replied by email: “Not yet.� Alex Sakariassen
Bathroom bill
Missoula joins suit The city of Missoula, a University of Montana student and a Missoula small-engine mechanic are among the plaintiffs in a new ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a ballot initiative that would dictate which bathrooms transgender people can use. The suit seeks to keep I-183, the so-called Locker Room Privacy Act, off the 2018 ballot on the grounds that it discriminates against and “threatens the dignity, privacy and safety of transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex Montanans,� ACLU Executive Director Caitlin Borgmann said during an Oct. 17 press conference in the Capitol rotunda. The case was filed in state court in Cascade County, where one of the 11 plaintiffs resides. The suit is LGBTQ advocates’ primary legal effort to block I-183. It comes on the heels of a separate lawsuit by the ACLU that forced a rewrite of the proposed ballot language to make its intent more explicit and delayed pro-initiative signature gathering. The ACLU is bringing the suit on behalf of seven transgender and gendernonconforming Montanans and two unnamed parents on behalf of their trans daughter. Two of the plaintiffs live in Missoula, including Acton Siebel, a 38-year-old trans man who works as a mechanic, and Elliot Hobaugh, a 19-year-old UM student. I-183 would require Hobaugh to use women’s facilities on campus, instead of the multi-occupancy unisex facilities that Hobaugh feels safe using, according to the suit. Laws in Indiana and North Carolina have enacted similar restrictions on trans people, only to provoke public backlash that proved costly for those states’ economies. In a press release, Missoula Mayor John Engen warned of the Montana initiative’s financial implications for municipalities, which would be forced to provide sex-specific bathrooms at city facilities and become liable for violations of the law. Missoula City Council passed a nondiscrimina-
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tion ordinance in 2010 protecting LGBTQ individuals from discrimination in public accommodations, housing and employment. I-183 would “eviscerate� those protections, the ACLU alleges in court documents. Engen elaborated on potential costs in an Oct. 5 letter to the Montana League of Cities and Towns urging it to join the suit. The costs include signage, alterations to existing facilities and logistical issues regarding public events. The League of Cities and Towns, which represents 127 Montana municipalities, is considering whether to join the suit, executive director Tim Burton says. Jeff Laszloffy, of the Montana Family Foundation, which sponsors I-183, has not responded to questions about the initiative for weeks. But he did acknowledge in a September radio program that the earlier ruling was a “speed bump� that forced supporters to restart signature gathering from scratch. Montanans for Locker Room Privacy must gather 25,000 signatures by June 2018 to qualify for the ballot. In addition to the legal strategy, LGBTQ advocates have formed a coalition to oppose the initiative. “You have nothing but stoked the fire of a movement that has been happening for decades,� said SK Rossi, ACLU director of advocacy and policy, at the press conference. “We’ll be on your phones, we’ll be at your doors, we’ll be outside protesting, and we will not stop speaking out for the transgender community in any way that we can.� Derek Brouwer
ETC. By Thanksgiving, hundreds—nay, thousands—of Montana freezers will be well stocked with venison. Last year alone, resident and nonresident hunters harvested more than 10,500 whitetail and mule deer in the state. That may be enough to keep families and friends happily munching on backstrap for months, but to supply the nation’s Arby’s takes so much more. Saturday, Oct. 21, marks not only the start of Montana’s general rifle season, but the return of an utterly bizarre marketing ploy: the Arby’s Venison Sandwich, which debuted at select locations in five states last fall. Now, after what Arby’s claims was “an outpouring of requests from hunters and meat lovers across the country,� the sandwich will be available for one day only at every Arby’s restaurant in America. In other words, Montanans can finally look forward to hitting the drive-thru for a deer burger after a long day stalking deer. It’s a redundancy so sweet it comes with juniper berry sauce. If you’re looking for a feel-good, eat-local twist on this story, though, your aim is way off. Due to a century-old law known as the Lacey Act, it’s illegal for hunters to sell wild game to friends, let alone to the second-largest fast-food sandwich chain in the country. Commercial game farms do exist in some states, but the industry is small, and Montana outlawed new game farms by ballot initiative in 2000. So, with more than 3,300 restaurants to supply, Arby’s turned to the land of hobbits and hedgehogs. That’s right—the venison in those sandwiches comes from New Zealand. Same goes for the sourcing of Arby’s elk sandwiches, available Oct. 21 in just three locations: Billings, Casper, Wyo. and Thornton, Colo. It’s too bad. Arby’s supply problem could well have been Missoula’s salvation. We’ve been interviewing candidates for our upcoming endorsements issue, and we’ve been hearing a lot about Missoula’s urban deer problem. Last week one of the crazed ungulates dove headlong through a minivan window in the Rattlesnake, scaring the daylights out of the driver, who bailed out of the vehicle before getting back in to put the transmission in park. The deer finally exited the vehicle after it rolled over a mailbox. No one, obviously, has any way of knowing what the deer thought it was doing. But come Saturday, at least, there’ll be a clearly better way to get some venison on the run.
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Under the bridge? Carlyle tries (again) to force release of city legal bills by Derek Brouwer
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Mountain Water and its parent investment firm, the Carlyle Group, spared no expense in trying to keep Missoula’s water utility out of public hands. They flew in attorneys from the firm that represents Hillary Clinton, traveled to airports by limousine and billed more than 130 eighthour days simply “assessing” the case. And the city’s attorneys embarrassed them for it. “We’ve made some hay out of some of the silly stuff, ranging from Metamucil to lunch at Hooters,” Mayor John Engen says, “but fundamentally, when Robert Dove, as director of Carlyle’s Infrastructure Fund, said he was going to make this as expensive as possible, he kept true to that.” Even after turning over the utility in June, the firm continues to fight for every last dollar. Its latest legal filing seeks to put ratepayers on the hook for an additional $3.1 million in attorney fees and expert witness expenses that a judge previously ruled to be exorbitant. In pursuit of its case, Carlyle is trying again to drag the city’s legal expenses into the light of day, in hopes of proving that its own fees were no more excessive than what the city’s private lawyers have billed Missoula ratepayers, according to an appeal filed with the Montana Supreme Court last month. The condemnees first sought to inspect the city’s bills last year as the same argument played out in Missoula County District Court Judge Karen Townsend’s court. Because the final valuation of the utility was higher than the city’s offer, Mountain Water was entitled to “necessary litigation expenses” incurred during the condemnation suit. Townsend shaved $3.1 million from the $7.1 million in claimed fees after they were scrutinized by city attorneys. Carlyle claimed the city was a pot calling the kettle black, but Townsend declined to make the city produce detailed invoices, saying city expenditures were irrelevant. Since then, the Indy and Missoulian have requested the same records, but been rebuffed by city officials who worried their release could affect future litigation, such
as the appeal filed last month. (Carlyle’s opening brief cites a February Indy story about the city’s refusal to produce the bills.) On Oct. 17, the city denied a joint request filed by the newspapers after ownership of the utility was transferred. Engen says releasing the records now could jeopardize the city’s position in the new case and “cost ratepayers more money.” The current appeal is one of six lawsuits related to the condemnation still pending, and marks the seventh time the utility’s former owners have appealed to
City officials estimate their running legal tab, including attorney and expert witness fees, is about $8 million. That’s comparable to the condemnees’ costs, as Carlyle points out in court documents. But the city contends that such a comparison is “apples-to-oranges” and argues that the city’s legal bills are high because Carlyle and Mountain Water made sure they had to be. “Carlyle’s strategy was to unabashedly use its vast resources and army of attorney [sic] to bury the city and its few attorneys,”
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Missoula Mayor John Engen says the city wants to be “as open as we can.”
the state’s high court. Natasha Prinzing Jones of Boone Karlberg, one of the city’s lead attorneys, describes the suits as “tangential,” though they involve significant sums. In addition to the $3.1 million at stake in the attorney fees case, a separate suit in Helena district court seeks to reimburse Mountain Water for property taxes it paid under protest during the condemnation process—around $5 million, Missoula County attorneys said earlier this month. Were the city to lose the cases, it might have to increase water rates or defer planned capital improvements, Engen says. Rates are currently set at 6 percent less than Mountain Water’s 2014 levels (6 percent being the penalty that Montana’s Public Service Commission imposed on the then-private company for its unauthorized sale to Liberty Utilities last year). But Prinzing Jones says she’s “very confident” the city will continue to prevail in court, as it has throughout the three-year condemnation process.
the city wrote in an Oct. 4 reply brief. Prinzing Jones says her firm billed the city at a discounted hourly rate of $200. But exactly how the $8 million bill was tallied may never be fully disclosed unless Carlyle prevails in its appeal. Engen won’t promise to release an itemized accounting of the city’s fees even after litigation wraps up, saying only that he wants to be “as open as we can.” In a joint interview with the mayor, Prinzing Jones made a case for not releasing invoices, comparing them to medical records between a doctor and patient. She also said the cost to review each line item and redact confidential information would make the exercise irresponsible. “The cost attached to that analysis alone would be thousands of dollars,” she says. “And that would be an absolute waste of taxpayer dollars at this point.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Rot and roll A new Missoula business offers curbside compost pickup by Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Sean Doty just bought a big green ’68 Chevy truck from a landscaper. The bed rails are so high that he’s going to need a ladder to get over them. That’s good, because Doty is going to need the capacity to haul Missoula’s compostables. He’s just launched Missoula Compost Collection, where, for $15 a month, Missoulians can sign up for a weekly compost pickup that will allow them to reduce the amount of organic matter they send to the landfill—without having to start their own backyard piles or haul it away themselves.
of a similar size diverts recyclable and organic waste from landfills, Doty learned of a private business that was doing home compost pickup. Inspired in part by its example, he launched his business in September. In addition to the monthly service, customers can sign up for memberships, which include perks like free Christmas tree pickups after the holidays and extra lawn waste pickups. Doty says the membership fees will help fund his efforts to provide composting to local nonprofits. From Oct. 19 to Nov. 3, Doty will donate
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Sean Doty with his big green Chevy.
Doty went through the Environmental Studies program at the University of Montana and spent a year working for the city as a Montana Energy Corps member. He co-authored the city’s zero-waste policy and, in the process, became intimately familiar with the city’s needs. “There was a lot of public input that said [people wanted] curbside compost pickup, and we found out that education and access were two of the things lacking in Missoula,” Doty says. “People didn’t know the proper way to recycle and compost.” And there was no citywide compost collection service. On a city-business trip to Fort Collins, Colo., to see how a community
10 percent of earnings from new signups to Home ReSource. Missoula’s zero-waste plan includes multiple economic arguments for diverting waste, including the value of recyclables sent to the landfill. Another is the number of jobs that utilizing multiple waste streams provides. If, in addition to waste disposal, there’s also a business that dismantles buildings into reusable components (like ReStore’s deconstruction business), one that recycles electronics (like Oreo’s Refining) and one that picks up compost, that’s three more businesses with employees. The city estimates that diverting 75 percent of Missoula’s waste could result in 800 new jobs.
For now, Missoula Compost Collection is just Doty and his girlfriend Jenny Schuberg, a physician assistant. They spend Saturday mornings at the Clark Fork Market talking to shoppers about how they can take home one of the bright green 10-gallon buckets stacked in front of their booth. Schuberg says she’s a volunteer, for the time being. “And the dog, the dog helps out,” she says. “He likes to divert waste from our trash cans.” Customers will get a card telling them what they can and can’t compost— no meat, no dairy. Eggshells and coffee filters are fine. Once Doty takes delivery of the larger 64-gallon bins, he hopes to offer residential yard waste pickup and expand to commercial accounts. He’ll be taking his loads to Garden City Compost and paying the city like any private customer would, then buying compost back from them to deliver to customers who opt for delivery to their homes. The city is divided into different pickup areas for each day of the week, and the pickup and delivery area encompasses most everything within city limits and some outlying areas. “We’d like to include Lolo,” Doty says. “We’d need about 10 customers out there to make the service pay for itself.” Last Saturday, while the homecoming parade continued on Higgins above the market, a fairly constant stream of shoppers stopped by the Missoula Compost booth. Some handed over checks on the spot. All expressed enthusiasm at the idea of curbside compost pickup. Doty and Schuberg had suggested that compost might not be an especially exciting subject for a reporter, but those Missoula residents were plenty excited. Especially interested in pickup were Missoulians who live in apartments and condos, an increasing segment of the population that lacks at-home composting options. “We’re trying to make it more accessible to renters that can’t put a compost pile in their yard,” Doty says. sshepard@missoulanews.com
I’m Committed to Your Best Interest. Not the Status Quo. 1. Raising taxes, despite a steady growing tax base, shouldn’t be the status quo. Missoula’s average growth rate is 1,000 new people a year. Taxes have risen 2.74% to 7.57% since 2006. In September 2017, in response to the idea of lowering taxes, Engen told the Missoula Current “Striking that balance is really the challenge of this office. It would be irresponsible for me to put out a budget that limits services or reduces services.” The recently passed budget for next year has no maintenance funding for parks, trails, the new pedestrian bridge, or the Jail Diversion Master Plan. Seems like a reduction of services.
2. Waiting five years (and until an election year) to address and prioritize a Housing Crisis, shouldn’t be status quo. In September 2017, Engen told the Missoula Current that the Missoula Housing Crisis is “not a housing crisis,” despite experts labeling it just that. Claims on campaign Facebook page, “Missoula is one of the most affordable tax climates in the state,” but doesn’t show any evidence or numbers. Numbers and evidence show Missoula to be the most expensive, surpassing even Bozeman by over 12%.
3. Talking about plans but not actually taking action shouldn’t be status quo. The City is now in the process of writing a housing policy for the first time. A little late when the average price of a house has risen over $60,000 in the last five years. In addition, he hasn’t made enough progress with basic services, homelessness, panhandling, or bringing in quality jobs.
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Art and a-holes When to say no, from XXXTentacion to Weinstein by Dan Brooks
On Oct. 27, the rapper XXXTentacion will perform at the Adams Center as part of the “Halloween Lit Party,” a celebration of middle-aged PR representatives learning how to use the word “lit.” Just what else the show might celebrate is an uncomfortable question. At this point in his career, the 19-yearold rapper is about as known for his music as he is for the criminal charges against him, which include false imprisonment, witness tampering, domestic abuse and aggravated battery of his pregnant girlfriend. Her testimony in a Florida court earlier this month suggests that XXXTentacion threatened her with physical and sexual violence whenever he felt jealous or insecure. That seems like an uncanny coincidence, given how many of XXXTentacion’s lyrics are about using sexualized violence to assert his dominance over women and other rappers. On the second verse of “Look at Me,” his breakout single, he raps, “I took a white bitch to Starbucks / that little bitch got her throat fucked … Got like three bitches; I’m Mormon / Skeet on your main bitch’s forehead.” Such casual misogyny and equation of sex with dominance—not just of women, but of other men and of the rap game itself—is a pervasive theme in contemporary hip hop. Along with violence and wasting money, it can be taken as one of the three obligatory motifs of modern rap. It’s something many rappers include in their lyrics but not in their lives. In this case, however, XXXTentacion seems to rap about being an awful person who hurts women while also being an awful person who hurts women in real life. What is a hip hop fan to do? As someone who has continued to listen to rap since Public Enemy, I have spent the last 25 years telling myself that misogyny, violence and dumb materialism are themes that artists indulge ironically, as conceits of the form. Listening to Ghostface Killah does not support dealing crack, because he raps about that subject the same way Louis L’Amour wrote about gunfighting. This excuse does not hold up for XXXTentacion. Knowing his
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music and learning about the allegations against him is like finding out L’Amour spent his weekends murdering Indians. It makes it impossible to enjoy the art with a clear conscience. That’s how Maggie Bornstein sees it, anyway. The 19-year-old UM freshman is organizing a protest against XXXTentacion’s performance, arguing that his appearance at the Adams Center contradicts the university’s stated com-
“It’s tempting to wish I didn’t know about the awful things the men behind these works of art did. But that would be to demand an ignorance that is no longer my privilege.” mitment to making campus a safe place for women. Bornstein does not expect UM to cancel the event, but she “hopes the university will conduct itself in a more consistent manner moving forward,” and that the protest “will make them aware that students are actively holding them accountable.” What about free speech, though? In the spirit of tolerance and open-mindedness, shouldn’t the university host a rapper who stands accused of threatening to
put a barbecue fork in a pregnant woman’s vagina at the same time it promises to “take decisive action to rid campus of known assaulters?” When you put it that way, the “it’s just art” argument seems like a dodge. If the allegations against XXXTentacion are true, it’s not just art. It’s real life and real violence. Even if the allegations aren’t true, paying him to come to campus and rhyme “bitch” with “bitch” for 40 minutes does not jibe with the university’s mission to make women feel safe—especially not when it has conspicuously failed to protect women in recent years. It kind of pains me to write this, because I like “Look at Me.” I like SoundCloud rap in general. The production is gross and the lyrics indulge hip hop’s laziest tropes to a stupefying degree, but it’s the closest we have gotten to a punk rap. That’s an upheaval the genre desperately needs. I’m not willing to throw my support behind a serial batterer of women, though, in exchange for a new sound. I probably would have been, if I hadn’t started thinking about it. I would have gone on liking The Cosby Show and Woody Allen movies, too. I don’t know what I’m going to do about Miramax productions now. It’s tempting to wish I didn’t know about the awful things the men behind these works of art did. I could even get mad at whoever pointed them out to me. But that would be to demand an ignorance that is no longer my privilege. You don’t get SoundCloud without getting Google, too. I’m an art jerk. I’ve spent decades arguing that the meaning is in the work, not the person who produced it. That might be true for artists who are dead, or for those who are so little-known that they might as well be. But Bornstein is right about XXXTentacion. He is alive and young and inexcusable in his treatment of women, and we all know it. We can choose to reward him or not. That’s on us. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the false distinction between aesthetics and morals at combatblog.net.
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Grass roots Why farm-to-table menus should focus on forage by John Clayton
After a tour of his ranch, Lon Reukauf sat restlessly at the front of a banquet room in Terry, Montana, waiting for the panel discussion to start. He was surrounded by experts from the Montana Stockgrowers Association and the World Wildlife Fund. The groups had combined to give Reukauf an environmental stewardship award and then invited a bunch of us here to see why. Reukauf knew that most eyes in the room were on him, and—like most ranchers I know—the attention made him uncomfortable. He’s not a public speaker, doesn’t seek the spotlight and prefers to spend most of his time surrounded by cows, with their heads down and grazing. “Sitting here in front of 50 strangers, I’m certainly out of my comfort zone,” he said. So he concentrated on what he knew best. He spoke about grass. It’s the native grasses, in a healthy variety, that make for the best beef, he said. The soil does better by them too, he added, as do other species, especially the grassland birds that have been declining in population. Western wheatgrass, blue grama grass, green needle and the needle-and-thread grasses growing on his ranch offer a better spectrum of nutrients than exotic species such as crested wheatgrass, which was widely planted during the 1930s as a way to fight erosion. Like a chef showing off the qualities of marble in a steak, Reukauf could compare the characteristics of various grasses, noting, for example, how they differ in the timing of their period of fastest growth, which helps to show how they contribute to the quality of the final product. He could talk about which conditions make the grasses
thrive and which leave them vulnerable to invaders. He seemed particularly pleased that the World Wildlife Fund had endorsed well-managed cattle grazing, because for decades some environmentalists have clashed with ranchers over public-land grazing. At this get-together, though, all agreed that good grazing can promote good grass.
“As he talked about grass, Reukauf relaxed. The spotlight was no longer shining on him but rather through him.” As he talked about grass, Reukauf relaxed. The spotlight was no longer shining on him but rather through him—onto the complex systems that he spends his life observing and nudging. “The grasses and other plants are the foundation of everything we do,” he said. The cattle were just harvesters, and he was just trying, in one corner of Montana, to make that process a little more productive. He didn’t seem to care much for the word sustainability, but his humble view of that
large process certainly brought the concept to my mind. Indeed, his talk reminded me of those menu listings: What’s on your plate is part of a larger process here. Let’s push the credit upstream. But why did I have to go to a ranch to learn about the role of grass in this process? When it comes to imparting a message of sustainability, isn’t it better for a menu to say that a certain steak is nurtured by, say, western wheatgrass than by the individual rancher who manages that grass? And likewise for vegetarians, that these particular lentils are nurtured by soil tillage, phosphorus levels and—at the risk of completely turning the menu into a dictionary—Rhizobium microsymbionts? Such a strategy would also keep the spotlight off a bunch of agriculturalists who would rather people knew about their struggles than recognize their names. After Reukauf and some others talked, they asked for feedback, and a chef on our tour summarized how the day had changed his thinking. “We tend to focus on the animal,” he said, referring to his buying process and the qualities he tries to convey to diners, “but I’m learning that it goes back much farther and deeper.” That was what I had learned as well, and what I wouldn’t mind learning from the menus of farm-to-table restaurants. John Clayton is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a writer in Montana whose new book is Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon.
photo courtesy Thomas Rohlfs
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WHAT’S OLD IS WEIRD AGAIN – You may have seen the widely distributed weird news story about the Mad Pooper, a woman who has been seen defecating on lawns in Colorado Springs, Colorado. According to KRDO.com, on Sept. 25, an unidentified man claiming to be a spokesman for the Pooper posted (and has since removed) two videos in which he tried to justify her movements and win sympathy for her. In the videos, the spokesman says the unidentified Pooper is not responsible for her actions because she has suffered a traumatic brain injury and has had gender reassignment surgery, leaving her unable to control herself. He also claims her actions are protected by the First Amendment, in response to which Colorado Springs attorney Jeremy Loew called foul: “Defecating in someone’s yard is definitely not protected under the First Amendment and it is actually a crime.” Loew went on: “People all over the world are talking about this, and police will catch her.” WHAT’S IN A NAME? – Death Wish Coffee—a cold-brewed, canned coffee the company touts as “fiercely caffeinated” (as much as four and a half times more caffeine per fluid ounce than regular coffee), with a skull and crossbones logo—recalled its 11-ounce cans on Sept. 20 because they could possibly contain the deadly toxin botulin. Company founder Mike Brown, 37, said no incidents have been reported, but he is very serious about the safety of his product. “I know our logo and name might not seem like it reflects that,” Brown told The Washington Post. Production has been halted, and customers can request refunds from Death Wish’s website. PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US – Mermaid Aries, 18, of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, likes to wear her specially made mermaid tail when she swims at local pools. But the Dolphin Centre in Bromsgrove, under new management, has banned her from using the flipper because “they worry I might hit someone with my tail or might get into trouble in the water and drown,” Aries (real name Leia Trigger) told the Worcester News on Sept. 22. “It is my ambition to become a professional mermaid that attends children’s parties and other events. The only problem is that I have nowhere to swim.” (UPDATE: After the story made headlines, the Perdiswell Leisure Centre stepped up. Aquatic development officer Vanessa Bale welcomed Aries to the pool, offering her “early mornings and late evenings.” Aries is thrilled: “I am absolutely ecstatic. I never thought I’d be able to swim with my tail ever again.”) – An anonymous bidder in the United States has purchased a pair of Adolf Hitler’s boxer-style underwear for about $6,700, according to auctioneer Bill Panagopoulos of Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The drawers, with a size 39 waist and “A.H.” embroidered on them, apparently were left in the Parkhotel Graz in Austria in 1938, Panagopulos told Metro News on Sept. 24. The seller was the grandson of the people who owned the hotel at that time. Panagopulos supposes the buyer will frame the underwear and hang them on a wall in his or her home: “It would be the most talked-about relic in the house.” THE FARCE IS STRONG – A black-and-white photo depicting the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 has prompted the recall and reprinting of Saudi social studies textbooks because it pictures Saudi King Faisal seated next to the Jedi master Yoda. The photograph was created by 26-year-old Saudi artist Abdullah Al Shehri, who mixes pop culture icons into historic photographs. Shehri told The New York Times in September he inserted Yoda into the photo because he reminded him of the king. “He was wise and was always strong in his speeches,” Shehri said. “I am the one who designed it, but I am not the one who put it in the book,” he clarified. Saudi education minister Ahmed al-Eissa apologized for the mistake, but the mystery of how the photo got into the book remains unsolved. IT’S GOOD TO HAVE GOALS – Octogenarians Ray and Wilma Yoder of Goshen, Indiana, have finally achieved a goal they set nearly 40 years ago: to visit every Cracker Barrel location in the United States. On Aug. 31, they checked off the last of 645 stops in Tualatin, Oregon, where they each received a Four-Star apron, the company’s highest honor. The Yoders once stopped at 10 Cracker Barrels in one day as they traveled up the East Coast. “I’ve always walked away feeling refreshed,” Ray Yoder told ABC News. “For two old people, we’re pretty fast moving.” BRIGHT IDEAS – The Detroit Red Wings’ new promotion commemorates the Joe Louis Arena, where the team played until this year, when they’re moving to a new rink. The Detroit News reported in September that fans who want to keep the old home ice close to their hearts and contribute to the team’s foundation can buy a small vial of limited edition “melted ice” taken from the arena’s surface (otherwise known as water) for $85. Only 3,000 vials have been produced; they are accompanied by a framed photo of The Joe. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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e was a Montanan, via Chicago, born into the heart of the Depression. He was a tundra explorer, a crusader for polar bears long before anyone dreamed the nightmare of global warming. But first and foremost, he was a Missoula badass—the place shaped and nurtured him, and he, in turn, shaped and nurtured the place. The way that a grizzly is a kind of gardener, digging and aerating, tilling the thin alpine soil as it feeds on the corms and bulbs, which then self-resurrect on that puzzle-piece tillage each spring—so that the bear is good for the lilies and the lilies for the bear—Chuck Jonkel was good, real good, for Missoula. And while he is gone, the qualities that were in him, and in this place, are still
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present, and it is time for the nobility and integrity that defined him to come forth from this place again, even though he is beneath the soil now. The thing that was in him is still here—I worry sometimes there’s not as much of it, without him blowing his steady breath on its coals. His town, his home, Missoula—the place he left behind—is needed. He left us a legacy, a path—a way of doing things, a way of finding a solution in a hard spot—and it’s time for Missoula to rise up. You are needed. He gave you— all of us—what we need. What’s the ask, you ask? Nothing new or surprising, really: We in the Yaak need y’all to step up and be firm with the Forest Service. Write them letters, sched-
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ule meetings with officials—tell them there’s a rogue route of the Pacific Northwest Trail that cuts straight through the upper Yaak, routing hundreds and soon thousands of recreational thru-hikers through the heart of what is, and should remain, designated core grizzly bear habitat—a route that Dr. Jonkel shitcanned 40 years ago. This route is an even worse idea now than it was then. We need letters. We need integrity. We need Missoula. We need Chuck.
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e lived his life. How many of us can say we do that, step after wandering, exploring step, rather than drifting? Maybe there’s not a right or wrong in this matter, and to be sure, the only way to as-
sure failure is to delineate the one-path, one-way that a thing, a way, must be. Am I using him? I asked myself this question before the first wet ink was applied to this page. Hell yes, came the immediate answer, followed by—as if in an echo that begins before the initial sound has died away—That’s exactly what he would want. Still, it’s using. I guess the best accommodation that can be made is to use, but to do so with respect. Ours is a country built on appropriation, while his was a life built on giving. The bears— and Missoula—were in the middle of this nexus, this map of his generosity, his passion. His exuberance for bears. Just because he is gone does not mean that map is gone.
The culture of bears is about nothing if not respect. Jonkel was always mapping the future, trying to identify spaces and routes for people that would respect the bears’ space. As it gets hotter, smokier, dryer, little gardens, little microsites—the culture of the oasis—will become ever more important. As it becomes firecracker dry and smoky hot, I worry the bears’ good nature will become shorter-tempered. That under increased stress, they might become more irritable, and that as their country becomes smaller and ever-more crowded, likewise. I know it works that way for us. Why should we hold them to a higher standard of impossible expectations? I worry that trouble lies ahead—political and ecological. We can smell it on the wind.
The Pacific Northwest Trail is blazing an unauthorized route through the Yaak— grizzlies be damned. Rick Bass says there’s a better way, and he needs Missoula’s help. “I knew him,” says Jessie Grossman, conservation director of the Yaak Valley Forest Council—“but he was… old.” I know what she means. By the time I got to bump into him, at this-or-that benefit—the lifeblood, the sparkling shimmer of Missoula’s current—he was old. And I would look at him and think, Isn’t old beautiful? Isn’t it still powerful as fuck? How could you ever bet against him? And then he went away. Sort of. No one person can be said to have made Missoula more what it is today than another, but he was certainly one of Missoula’s many cornerstones—so much so that he continues to help us from way beyond the grave. As if he keeps coming back every spring, even though we thought we had said goodbye to him.
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don’t know why I like to bury ledes, turn things upside down, as if digging beneath a boulder for a squirrel. Having rung the alarm, having invoked Chuck and Missoula, I obviously need to inform you of the great danger. The danger is to some of Chuck’s beloved border country. How he was drawn to that veil between one thing and another: the ’burbs and deepest wilderness, the United States, and Canada, and the bears that passed back and forth between the two nations. The Yaak Valley—the northwesternmost valley in Montana—is a funky, lowelevation, swampy wet rot of a place with few sightlines, and more rounded little hills than big mountains. It’s a land of outlaws, desperadoes, misanthropes. About 150 people live there year round. Vast parts of it have been clearcut to hell and back. Well, not back. The threat—the returning threat—is this: Forty years ago, there was a threat to
photo courtesy fs.usda.gov
The Pacific Northwest Trail in Glacier National Park.
the Yaak’s grizzlies that—if you can believe this—transcended even the 10,000 miles of logging roads and seemingly countless clearcuts that came to the Kootenai back during the Timber Wars. In the Yaak, we’ve encountered a lot of challenges in our efforts to protect the biological integrity of this great swamp of a place, but none more so than what lies before us now: a recreational hellhole, a rogue, unapproved 1,200-mile spur trail to the much-trampled Pacific Crest Trail. This route is supported by a nonprofit organization, the Pacific Northwest
Trail Association (PNTA), whose founder, Ron Strickland, has been pursuing for 40 years, with unimaginative Golden Spike railroad doggedness, the idea of a thruhiking trail, an endurance-jock human highway, a “zone of disturbance” 1,000 feet wide, running in a straight line from Glacier National Park to the Pacific Coast. The authority to create a trail became law when Rep. Norm Dicks (DWash.) snuck it onto a midnight rider to the 2009 omnibus bill, but the route itself was not created, only the authority to determine one. Unwisely, Strickland’s
group drew a ruler through the upper Yaak, which the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had previously designated as core habitat for Yaak grizzlies. The route hasn’t been approved—a federal advisory committee (only four of its 28 members are from Montana!) was created in 2015 to receive and analyze input about a route, but the PNTA is nonetheless posting trail signs on the route they support—the one that tears ass through the middle of the Yaak’s prime griz habitat—and they are encouraging
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“As it gets hotter, smokier, dryer, little gardens, little microsites— the culture of the oasis—will become ever more important. As it becomes firecracker dry and smoky hot, I worry the bears’ good nature will become shorter-tempered.” and abetting illegal use by publishing maps identifying a route with braids that splinter off the straight-line route all through the upper Yaak, uncaring for bears or any of the other many issues. The same Forest Service that now embraces this illegal user-created route previously resisted it for 40 years, based largely on Dr. Jonkel’s 1978 analysis of the proposed straight-line Yaak route. Jonkel identified a southerly route that would avoid core Yaak grizzly habitat. I’m a member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, which supports a safer, more environmentally friendly alternative. We’re interested in supporting thru-hikers who want to take a day off and get a burger in the town of Yaak. But this current wandering dusty stream of lost penitents, leaving messy camps, is neither legal, acceptable nor necessary. There are alternatives. All summer we’ve seen lost hikers trying to follow this unauthorized route through the upper Yaak, staggering heatdrunk and smoky-lunged down the public roads of the Yaak. Strickland’s group
hasn’t really figured out the whorls and gnarl of the Yaak, and they and the Forest Service have tacked up a bunch of plastic insignias that kind of direct hikers here and there, but mostly the walkers have to cobble together a pastiche of dirt roads and paved highway. There are a lot of open roads and private property being used by these confusing upper Yaak routes. Yaak pickupbombers come powersliding around gravel corners only to find a whole herd of wayfarers, some heading one way, the others another way, many of them with their thumbs out, hitchhiking. Trying to get to the Pacific. The Forest Service is avoiding the fact that a high-use human highway through the last designated core grizzly habitat in the Yaak would require the creation of new core habitat, which could only be accomplished by closing open roads. The Forest Service’s attitude appears to be: We’ll let someone else worry about that later. What else is bad about a straight-line route proposed through the upper Yaak?
I can’t imagine the U.S. Border Patrol is too happy about the route—there are already internet tales of hikers being harassed. What’s in the backpack, Sonny? A fair question, I suppose, for anyone tightroping along the international border with a backpack. There’s also no cell service for when a campfire gets out of hand, no infrastructure for hikers who get in trouble. “The trail’s coming, whether you like it or not,” PNTA’s Jeff Kish told Jessie Grossman, the Y VFC conservation director, at a FACA committee hearing in Whitefish last year. I wonder what he’d say if he could see the trash littering the campsites that are already popping up along this unauthorized route that his group is embracing. He’s declared that in the Yaak, “brown bears,” as he calls grizzlies, “are not a problem.” (Bloggers who have attempted the Yaak route have already gone online counseling other thru-hikers that once they are out of Glacier, there aren’t any grizzlies left to worry about, and that because there’s no law enforcement, hikers can run their
dogs off-leash in the Yaak.) While Kish and his organization represent people who presumably love the outdoors, their support of this rogue route will spell the end of a time-crafted race of bears. I can’t understand it.
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hy are Yaak bears so important? These bears have received no special lands protections, unlike other grizzly populations. Our Yaak bears have been shaped and sculpted in time’s crucible. They’ve faced the hardest logging in the state of Montana for decades, and have the highest rate of human-caused mortality, as a result of the thousands of miles of logging roads. There are about 20 left—25 if you count Canadian visitors, drifting back and forth. Those few that are left are super-survivors, and have evolved to be more secretive, and to live in the interior, shady, low-elevation forests. It’s here where they are making their last stand. These are not salmon bears, nor bison-eaters, nor even cattle-eaters. These are lean little shadow-bears, not quite vegan, but damned close. For now, they avoid us. But they need big country for that compromise. And our world, as we know, is moving in the opposite direction. What is rare is valuable. There are two other grizzly populations in Montana, still isolated from the other—a violation of the intent of the Endangered Species Act, though the feds and the state delisted the Yellowstone population anyway, and now turn their sights on the
grizzlies living in the cut-off island of the Northern Continental Divide.
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trickland was in the Yaak once, about 20 years ago. He gave a presentation at the community center. He knew of my wilderness advocacy and tried to pitch the idea of the trail to me as “a linear wilderness.” Like a powerline corridor. I told him I didn’t support it and he slipped away. The proposed trail goes through the heart of roadless country. Who would like to try to fight wildfires back in there? How many resources do you think would be required? Let’s say a modest average of 4,000 thru-hikers per season pass through, spending a week or more, crossing the upper Yaak. That’s more than 30,000 user-nights, a potential 60,000 campfires. This proposed route has all the subtlety of a railroad, an interstate highway. What to do? How to protect a small grizzly population? Ask for help. Shannon Donahue, executive director of the Great Bear Foundation, writes that “Chuck … hoped to be reincarnated as a polar bear. He had a den picked out, lined with tundra flowers.” I imagine he’s up there now, at the top of the world. I know he’s down here, too, down with the last 20 grizzlies in the Yaak—call it 21, with him—leading folks to the safety of a southern route, away from the grizzlies’ garden. Stonecrop, larkspur, wild onion, lupine, fireweed: I imagine the southerly path he identified. I imagine grizzlies continuing to have a chance in this great new
photo by Chad Harder
Unofficial Pacific Northwest Trail route through northern Montana, as adapted from Forest Service maps.
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Bear biologist Chuck Jonkel, who died in 2016.
“Bloggers who have attempted the Yaak route have already gone online counseling other thru-hikers that once they are out of Glacier, there aren’t any grizzlies left to worry about, and that because there’s no law enforcement, hikers can run their dogs off-leash in the Yaak.” burning country, rather than the indignity of having their core territory trashed. Picking through cold campfires for bits and scraps of scorched aluminum. That is not the Yaak way. The Forest Service needs to step in and do its job—protect the grizzly bears—or the courts will. How many times have we heard that before, elsewhere, but particularly on the Kootenai? If we do not commit to protecting the last grizzly bears in the Yaak, then where? Here, in the dead-center of their distribution. The place, it could be said, where they have been isolated for so long from all other bears that it is no longer as if they came over from Asia and down the Rocky Mountain Front, spreading into the glistening emerald meadows, swamps and marshes fed by the melting of the Ice
Age, so much water, back then, but instead arrived here by other means, came surging up from some fissure that started far below, a seam between two chunks of country, chunks of continent. That they were born here, in their little garden. Jonkel’s vision was all about science and activism. He was all about solutions. Forty years ago, in his (successful) efforts to defend the grizzlies of the upper Yaak, he wrote: “Our strongest recommendation is that the trail swing far to the south to avoid both the prime and precarious grizzly range. In leaving Glacier National Park, the trail could cross to the southern end of the Whitefish Divide and follow that divide to Werner Peak, then cross Highway 93 near Olney, follow various divides to Libby Dam, stay relatively close
to Highway 2 to Bonners Ferry, and then swing northwest to join with the proposed route near Northport.” For 40 years, the Forest Service heeded his science, his research. Times, finally, have changed, and the bears are more in danger than they ever were. Come back to us one more time, Chuck Jonkel. Interested in registering opposition to the PNT’s Yaak route? Contact Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail Program Manager Matt McGrath at mtmcgrath@fs.fed.us, or email the Yaak Valley Forest Council at info@yaakvalley.org. editor@missoulanews.com
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What brings us together Dan Savage talks about the joys of Missoula’s first Hump! festival by Sarah Aswell
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or you can film porn with your friends and lovers.
hirteen years ago, Seattle sex advice columnist Dan Savage decided to start an amateur pornography film festival in Seattle. The idea was that filmmakers could be porn stars for just one weekend, in one theater, before returning to their regular lives as regular people. Now, the festival has spread to cities across the country and involves $15,000 in cash prizes and mountains of submission tapes. More notably, though, Hump! is known for its diversity, inclusivity, fun and humor, as audiences experience a group of fiveminute films that push boundaries, challenge stereotypes, and ultimately bring everybody together in the name of sex, desire and love. We chatted with Savage about Hump! ahead of the festival opening at the Roxy this weekend. I just watched this year’s films, and I really enjoyed them, but I felt like I’d be scared to watch pornography in a theater! Dan Savage: You’ve got to see them with an audience. When we first started Hump!, one of the questions we asked was: Would people come to a movie theater and sit in the dark next to strangers and watch pornography, the way their grandparents used to do? And the answer to that question is, yes! People don’t come to Hump! to sit with their coats in their laps and masturbate like it’s an old timey porn theater. It’s a different experience than if you were sitting at home on your computer watching porn for your own pleasure. It’s more like a porn erotica comedy horror short film festival. My favorite dynamic is that at first, people are kind of knocked back in their seats, because it’s straight people watching gay porn, and gay guys watching lesbian cunnilingus, and cis people watching trans porn, and vanilla people watching kink porn. It’s kind of overwhelming and shocking, because at first what they perceive is what’s different. Then about a third of the way through the festival, you realize no one is flinching, no one is quiet anymore. Everyone is cheering. Everyone is laughing and clapping. There’s this moment
What advice would you give to someone heading to Hump! this weekend? DS: Come with friends and come with lovers. Don’t come with your parents, or at least don’t sit near them. Don’t get too drunk—some people feel they have to steel their nerves with alcohol before going to a porn festival, but you don’t have to. It’s a celebration of sexual diversity. If you can’t look at two men having sex or a trans person having sex or kinky sex without having to telegraph your disgust to everyone around you, it’s maybe not the film festival for you.
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Hump! Film Festival was started 13 years ago to host independent, often humorous, celebratory porn films.
when everyone in the audience flips from only being able to see what’s different to perceiving everything that is exactly the same. How did Hump! come into existence? DS: A coworker of mine started joking one day about having an amateur porn film festival, and just doing a call for submission in the paper and to wait and see what we got in the mail. We weren’t trolling people. We were trying to create a festival where people could have porn screened and it wouldn’t go online. It would just be in the movie theater, just for the weekend. It is a way to be a porn star for a weekend instead of being a porn star for eternity. People really took to it and loved it. It was the alchemy of the audience meeting the film. A room with a couple hundred peo-
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ple watching these films together and celebrating together. That’s where the magic happened. Many of the films are funny. What’s the relationship between sex and comedy? DS: Think about sex as a build up of tension, and then a release in orgasm. Humor and laughter replicate that tension and release. For the first few years at Hump!, we had a lot of people stay within the conventions of commercial pornography, and audiences didn’t really take to those films. You can get that crap anywhere. It was the films that were much more personal and much more unique, and the ones that utilized humor, that the audience really loves. And sex is embarrassing. Sex implicates and indicts us all. In the back of our minds, we all have insecurities. We feel
ridiculous in pursuit of it, we look ridiculous doing it, and 10 minutes later, we’re ready to do it all again. You have to laugh. That’s one of the times you get this we’reall-in-this-together feeling at Hump!. What’s your advice for people who want to consume porn responsibly and ethically? DS: If you’re going to watch commercial porn, you should pay for it instead of ripping it off. I would direct people to Violet Blue and Tristan Taormino. They write about and critique porn that is produced ethically and responsibly. You’ll find everything you want there. It’s not like feminist porn can’t be intense or kinky or have eroticized power dynamics. Also, with the democratization of porn, you can make the porn you want to see in the world. You can write erotica,
What’s your most compact, universal relationship advice that you can give to everyone out there? DS: Don’t take each other for granted. Make an effort. The two terms that I’ve added to the lexicon are “the price of admission” and “GGG” and I think they’re really important. “The price of admission” means that at a certain point, you have to accept your partner for who they are and you have to stop trying to change them. You have to ask yourself about the things that drive you crazy about them or gets you upset: Is this the price of admission that I’m willing to pay? If it isn’t, then you go. If it is the price you’re willing to pay, you pay it and shut the fuck up. You don’t continue to complain about it for 30 years. GGG means Good, Giving, Game. Good means that you work on your skills. Giving means that sometimes you give pleasure without the expectation of receiving pleasure in immediate return in that moment or day. Game means you’re up for anything within reason. Of course you can have boundaries and limits, but err on the side of being a person your partner can turn to and see adventure and possibility and yes. The Hump! Film Festival plays at the Roxy Fri., Oct. 20, at 7:30 and 9:30 PM and Sat., Oct. 21, at 7 PM and 9 PM. $20. arts@missoulanews.com
dance
In the house Bare Bait brings home the Lovesong by Erika Fredrickson
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Kelly Bouma, left, and Colton Swibold star in Bare Bait Dance’s production of Lovesong.
Bare Bait Dance rarely sticks with convention, but the immersive nature of the dance company’s newest production feels more unorthodox than usual. Lovesong, written by British playwright Abi Morgan, was originally performed on a stage, but BBD has taken its version of the show away from the familiar environs of downtown Missoula and the University of Montana’s theaters and set it inside a house located in the quiet, maple-lined Slant Street neighborhood. Lovesong is also unconventional in that it’s not really what you’d initially consider a dance piece. It’s a narrative play that entwines the story of a newlywed couple in their 20s with the story of the same couple 40 years later. Actors Colton Swibold and BBD co-director Kelly Bouma play the younger couple, just becoming accustomed to life together, while E.T. Varney and Pamyla Stiehl play the couple decades later, their lives marked by sweet moments and little betrayals. Despite its core theatrical qualities, the way that these separate timelines mesh is part of why Lovesong does fit into the dance world. The actors swoop in and out of the scenes, serving as future and past ghosts of each other’s selves. There’s a gracefulness about the way the four characters occupy the house in order to create the illusion of being separated in time, if not in space. And a lot of the essential emotion of this show manifests in the way the characters move, rather than in dialogue. An additional interesting effect of setting Lovesong in a house is that it takes on a cinematic quality. “It’s almost like we rehearsed a play, but now we’re shooting a film,” says director Bernadette Sweeney. “Once we were in the house it became all about angles, and trying to anticipate how to make a real house a setting with the right lighting. It’s like a film set.”
There are three areas within the house where the show takes place. One is the kitchen, a space that opens out into the livingroom, where the audience will sit. Throughout the performance, showgoers will move to another space on the ground floor made into a bedroom nook. There’s also a scene that takes place in the backyard (Sweeney assures that it’s a brief part of the play, and the producers plan to provide blankets on the seats.) During a recent evening’s rehearsal, the actors practiced their entrances and exits and talked through logistical hiccups. For instance, the peaches on the table in the kitchen are rock hard, which makes it difficult for Varney’s character to take a bite and believably call it ripe. No problem: The peaches have plenty of time to soften before the play’s opening, but the situation provides a window into something else that makes this production so intriguing: the effect of watching the drama so close up. Inside the walls of a real house, the attendees get to be in the thick of the drama in a naturalistic way. And in a story about the human condition, which hints at Prufrock’s famous poem, the house ends up seeming just as much a character. “I was walking into rehearsal the other night,” Sweeney says, “and I was looking up and down the street and I thought, ‘My goodness, what are the stories of all these houses? What have they witnessed over the years? What joys? What trauma?’ And this is just one story, but it does make you wonder.” Bare Bait Dance presents Lovesong Fri., Oct. 20–Sun., Oct. 22 and Wed., Oct. 25–Sun., Oct. 29, at 8 PM. $28. $60 date night package with love note included. Barebaitdance.org. Location disclosed upon purchase of ticket.
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Most jolly UM nails the fun in Shakespeare’s gender-bender by Geoff Mainwaring
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UM’s Masquer Theatre has been transformed to emulate the design of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for the school’s production of As You Like It.
Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed in an outdoor theater, ostentatiously named the Globe, crammed with as many as 3,000 spectators. A portion of that most famous theater has been recreated in the Masquer Theatre for the University of Montana School of Theater and Dance’s production of As You Like It, where it is staged in an intimate space before fewer than 200 people. Alessia Carpoca’s set design is faithful to the tradition of Shakespeare’s day, utilizing a stage devoid of fancy backdrops and props that asks the audience to not only suspend disbelief, but also actively imagine a Duke’s court and the Forest of Arden. This kind of pure theater demands much of its cast and crew. In this production, directed by John Kenneth DeBoer, small gestures are cleverly used to establish settings. Apples scattered on the ground reveal that we are in an orchard (a few potatoes get thrown around as well), and the actors must do quick changes in and out of renaissance-inspired costumes adapted for the woodland setting. There are leafy doublets and camouflage breeches. Also true to Elizabethan theater, there are a distressing number of speaking roles for the number of actors on hand. Half the cast plays more than one part and one actress plays four. An encapsulation of how well a bare stage can work comes in a moment of quiet pathos delivered by the melancholy Jaques, played by Tsiambwom Akuchu not as a pure depressive so much as a bit of a trickster. After the “all the world’s a stage” soliloquy, Akuchu remains alone on stage huddled against a pillar. We hear rain falling and he sings dolefully, “This life is most jolly.” A sound effect, a subtle lighting change, and an actor. The audience sees a man in the middle of a wood shivering under dripping boughs, trying to cheer himself and keep dry. But, Jaques aside, As You Like It is a rush of merriment, a variety show consisting of fast-paced
and mostly brief scenes. Cupid’s first shafts are shot during a wrestling match of multiple falls at the evil Duke Frederick’s court. Stage fighting of any kind is tricky and can easily look hokey, but Hudson Therriault’s Orlando grapples Will Copeland’s Charles the Wrestler athletically. On the night I watched the play, an older gent a row ahead exclaimed rather too loudly to his wife after the second throw, “That’s pretty realistic, isn’t it?” Eventually everybody flees or pursues someone into the Forest of Arden. And in Arden we follow a grab bag of entwined plots. Duke Senior and his merry band hunt deer and sing. As You Like It is a musical comedy and some of the songs are played for laughs while some, especially the final number by Saige Perchy, are performed earnestly. A comedic highlight is provided by lanky Matt McDaniel’s Touchstone. He cavorts and flings himself about recklessly. If you’re afraid people tend to take Shakespeare too seriously, you may enjoy the I’ve-got-a-boner-in-my-tights bit of stage business that happens in his scene. This play of “strange capers” is held together by the main romantic comedy plot between the poemwriting Orlando and his hose-wearing Rosalind, played by Natasha Conti (partially fulfilling her Master of Fine Arts degree with this role). Conti admirably struts and frets her way through the largest female role in the Shakespeare canon. Her Rosalind is giddily in love, but still a take-charge proto-feminist. She’s also the center of all the gender-bending fun and complexity that makes this farce so rewarding to watch. As You Like It continues at the Masquer Theatre Thu., Oct. 19–Sat., Oct. 21, at 7:30 PM, with a Sun., Oct. 22 matinee at 2 PM. $16/$14 students and seniors/$10 for 12 years and under. arts@missoulanews.com
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House of horrors Gerald’s Game serves its hair-raising purpose by Molly Laich
Carla Gugino stars in the adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game.
Horror fans the world over just can’t seem to get enough Stephen King adaptations this year. In the past few months, we’ve seen the commercial and critical failure of The Dark Tower, followed by the wildly successful remake of It. But these were both theatrically released blockbusters based on epic stories. For this latest effort, our collective Stephen King fever says, “let’s scale it back a bit.” And with that, we have the Netflix original film Gerald’s Game, based on King’s 1992 novel. The film features Jessie (Carla Gugino) and Gerald (Bruce Greenwood), who have absconded to a cozy, secluded lake house for the weekend in hopes of reinvigorating their lackluster, 10-year marriage. The Netflix thumbnail image says it all, really: Gerald’s got Jessie’s hands splayed out and shackled to either bed post, you know, for sex purposes. And here we are in our living rooms, deliberate voyeurs to this aging but still beautiful, rich white couple’s vanilla sex play—it’s so embarrassing! Lucky for me, I do most of my Netflix and chilling by myself, but I can only imagine the awkward conversations that couples might have around choosing this title. “You liked Misery, right? Those handcuffs will surely tide us over while we wait for the final installment in the increasingly dismal Fifty Shades of Gray series… It may be hard to root for a woman with two houses and seemingly no real problems, but hey, let’s give it a try!” Anyway, this movie is a little better than it looks. Director Mike Flanagan has a decent streak of creepy films in his catalog. Just last year, he directed the promising Ouija: Origin of Evil and the suspenseful home invasion picture Hush (also starring Gugino as the deaf but formidable heroine). Even the horror Oculus (2013) about a dumbass mirror
coming to life and killing people has its moments, which is just to say, we’re in adequate hands. The plot thickens early and terribly when Gerald drops dead of a heart attack. On one side of the bed we’ve got an iPhone, just out of reach and (we learn later) drained of battery. The keys to the handcuffs are across the room, there’s a hungry stray dog at the food of the bed—basically, things are hopeless for Jessie in every direction. You may worry some about a premise as simple as this. How will we get 103 minutes of thrills from an image so static? But don’t worry: Jessie has a rich inner life and a delirious imagination, and it’s not long in movie time before she starts to lose it. The ghost of her husband stands up from the foot of the bed for some sobering real talk, not just with regard to Jessie’s current situation, but also their doomed marriage and all the many faults he’s come to find in her character. Next up, a stronger, more resilient version of Jessie joins the conversation to stir up demons from the past that chained-to-bed Jessie would rather not explore. Throw in some daddy issues, what may or may not be an imaginary being lurking around the room called Moonlight Man— and don’t forget about that hungry dog. Point is, there’s more than enough plot to go around. This will remind you some of 1995’s Dolores Claiborne (one of King’s very best) in content and The Good Marriage (2014) in style and scope. Gerald’s Game isn’t earth shattering, and it’s definitely not sexy. Still, the movie works as a late night, Bpicture experience, bolstered primarily by its smart dialogue and emotional cunning. If you ask me, it’s the best King adaptation of the year. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film]
OPENING THIS WEEK
NOW PLAYING
THE BACHELORS After the death of his wife, a man and his 17-yearold son move to the big city for a fresh start. Honestly, it doesn’t matter what this movie’s about; it stars J.K. Simmons and as Missoulians we’re legally obligated to go see it. Not Rated. Also stars Josh Wiggins, Odeya Rush and Julie Delpy. Playing at the Roxy.
AMERICAN MADE If the CIA ever asks you to fly an airplane full of cocaine to Panama in an attempt to get dirt on deadly cartels, it would probably be in your best interest to just say no. Rated R. Stars Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright and Lola Kirke. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.
GEOSTORM Good news: weather-controlling satellites are making natural disasters a thing of the past. Bad news: someone has infected the systems with a virus and is literally raining destruction down on the earth. Worse news: the only one who can stop it is Gerard Butler. Rated PG-13. Also stars Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia and Ed Harris. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. LUCKY Harry Dean Stanton’s final performance before his death finds the iconic character actor in the role of a 90-year-old atheist who searches for enlightenment. We’re absolutely going to give him a posthumous Oscar for this one. Not Rated. Also stars David Lynch, Tom Skerrit and Ron Livingston. Playing at the Roxy. ONLY THE BRAVE The director of Tron: Legacy tells the harrowing true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the elite crew of firefighters who ended up battling one of the worst fire disasters in history. It’s a good thing none of us are sick of forest fires, right? Rated PG-13. Stars Josh Brolin, Taylor Kitsch and Jeff Bridges. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME A struggling couple rekindle their marriage while volunteering at a soup kitchen and befriending a baseball bat-wielding homeless man. A movie so sweet you’ll have to go to the dentist. Rated PG-13. Stars Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger and Djimon Hounsou. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. THE SNOWMAN Detectives find themselves in a cat-and-mouse game with a frosty serial killer who loves cutting off the heads of ladies. This one has a bunch of snow in it, which should help differentiate it from all the other movies with exactly the same plot. Rated R. Stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson and J.K. Simmons. Guess we all gotta see this one, too. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.
BATTLE OF THE SEXES What’s better than winning a tennis match against a sexist jackass? Doing it in front of the whole world, obviously. Based on the true story of Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Rated PG-13. Stars Emma Stone, Steve Carell and Sarah Silverman. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. BEACH RATS On the outskirts of Brooklyn, an aimless teenager balances a cautious relationship with a young woman while scouring hookup sites for older men. Rated R. Starring Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein and Kate Hodge. Playing through Thu., Oct. 19 at the Roxy. BLADE RUNNER 2049 You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. The tortoise lies on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun. But you’re not helping because they’ve finally made a sequel to Blade Runner and you’ve got to get tickets. I can’t wait to watch a hundred different director’s cuts of this one. Rated R. Stars Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and Jared Leto. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. CARRIE (1976) Take a trip back to the ‘70s when the hair was big, the pants were bell-bottoms and everyone was bullying the weird religious girl with deadly telekinetic powers. Dyno-mite! Rated R. Stars Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie and John Travolta. Playing Sat., Oct. 21 at 9 PM at the Roxy. THE DEPARTURE In this mindful documentary, a punk rocker-turnedBuddhist priest examines his own mortality when a heart disease diagnosis threatens his life’s work combating suicide. Not Rated. Directed by Lana Wilson. Playing Sun., Oct. 22 at 3 PM at the Roxy. THE FLY (1986) Be afraid. Be very afraid. A sexy scientist may have discovered the secrets to teleportation. Too bad his bug zapper wasn’t working on the night of his final test. Rated R. Stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and the grossest arm wrestling sequence ever put on film. Playing Thu., Oct. 19 at 7 PM at the Roxy.
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THE FOREIGNER Jackie Chan enters the fighting-terrorists-who-killedhis-daughter portion of his career, and he’s bringing the director of Casino Royale along for the ride. Rated R. Also stars Pierce Brosnan, Katie Leung and Simon Kunz. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. HAPPY DEATH DAY Wake up with a hangover, have a bad day, get murdered by masked psychopath, repeat. That’s as strange as having Groundhog Day on Friday the 13th. Rated PG-13. (Wait, really? That’s disappointing.) Stars Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard and Ruby Modine. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) He’s young, rich and obsessed with death, but this young man didn’t know what he was missing until he met a 70-something woman who teaches him about life. Rated PG, but again, a 1970’s PG. Starring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort and Vivian Pickles. Screening for free at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 25 at 6:30 PM. IT There’s an evil clown caked with makeup and sporting unnaturally colored hair threatening everything we hold dear, so take your mind off politics with a trip to the movies to see this new Stephen King adaptation. Rated R. Stars Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher and Sophia Lillis. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Superspy Eggsy Unwin is back to battle the forces of chaos. This time he’s getting some help from his brash American counterparts. Rated R. Stars Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Channing Tatum. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. LUTHER AND THE REFORMATION It was five hundred years ago when Martin Luther kicked off the Reformation that spit Christianity in two. Follow the path of these dramatic events through a grassroots movement that changed history. Not Rated. Directed by Rick Steves. Playing Sun., Oct 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy. THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US A bride-to-be and a busy surgeon charter a private flight to get them home when weather delays commercial airlines. Too bad they didn’t know about their sudden and unplanned layover on the side of a frozen mountain in the middle of nowhere. Rated PG-13. Stars Kate Winslet, Idris Elba and Dermot Mulroney. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN You were blown away by Gal Gadot as DC Comics’ Amazon princess, now see the unbelievable true story of Wonder Woman’s creator, the two women he loved and the polyamorous relationship that tied them together. Rated R. Stars Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. STEAM OF LIFE (2010) What exactly is going on with Finland’s national obsession with saunas? Two documentarians get deep in the sweat to figure it out. Not Rated. Directed by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen. Playing Thu., Oct. 26 at 7 PM at the Roxy. VICTORIA & ABDUL Queen Victoria was the undisputed monarch of the British Empire for over 60 years. Abdul Karim was a humble Indian Muslim servant. Despite their different stations, these two unlikely friends became inseparable, much to the condemnation of the big wigs in Parliament. Based on the true story. Rated PG-13. Stars Judi Dench, Ali Fazal and Eddie Izzard. Playing at the Roxy. VIDEODROME (1983) A sleazy TV executive tries to find something truly shocking for his UHF channel. And, boy howdy, does he ever. Rated R. Stars James Woods, Debbie Harry and the gruesome genius of practical effects wizard Rick Baker. Playing Thu., Oct 26 at 7 PM at the Roxy. Long live the new flesh! WALK WITH ME Benedict Cumberbatch narrates this documentary about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Not Rated. Directed by Marc Francis and Max Pugh. Playing through Thu., Oct. 19 at the Roxy. WALKING OUT Shot against the beautiful and dramatic mountains of Montana, this film follows a teenager whose annual hunting trip with his dad takes a bloody turn. Rated PG-13. Stars Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins and Lily Gladstone. Playing at the Roxy and the Pharaohplex.
Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.
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photo by Erika Fredrickson
We all fall for ice cream by Erika Fredrickson Summer in Missoula is magical, but autumn is even better, in my totally objective opinion. That’s because fall is time for crockpot dinner parties, hot cider (with whiskey) and fresh-baked apple pie (à la mode). And, perhaps most important, it’s still warm enough to ride your bike to the ice cream shop. Ice cream is serious business in this town, and some of the most creative flavors are made at two downtown shops: Big Dipper and Sweet Peaks. These places like to experiment with local ingredients and seasonal flavors in ways that push the boundaries of our sometimes vanilla (pun intended) taste buds. And, for me at least, they usually exceed expectations. Big Dipper (631 S. Higgins Ave.) has been churning out the fall flavors since August, which manager Bryan Hickey says is about the time Starbucks rolls out its season-signifying pumpkin spice latte. Still, he says, making pumpkin ice cream from August through November becomes a drag for the ice cream makers, so this year they’ve been experimenting with riffs on the flavor—pumpkin marshmallow, pumpkin Biscoff cookie, pumpkin brownie—while also crafting other fall-inspired flavors, like molasses. You can still get pints of Big Dipper’s straightup pumpkin ice cream at almost any store around town, as well as eggnog and candy cane (people are already thinking about Christmas?!), but I definitely recommend going to the source to try out the daily specials. If you get bored with pumpkin, like I do, you’ll find something else to love. Earlier this month, Big Dipper was serving up buttermilk
WHAT’S GOOD HERE bacon ice cream made with Burns St. Bistro’s candied bacon. Unless you don’t eat meat, you will never, ever go wrong with one of Big Dipper’s bacon recipes, no matter what the season. A few days ago, in anticipation of one of my first fall crockpot dinner parties, I walked down to Sweet Peaks (420 N Higgins Ave., Suite D) to buy a couple of pints. Their new fall line includes some doozies: chocolate zucchini bread, plum cardamom, apple pie à la mode, brown butter peach and pumpkin cookie. The most outrageous is Hopz hard cider, which is made with a hops essential oil from Glacier Hops Ranch in Whitefish and combined with a swirl of apple jam spiked with Western Cider’s Poor Farmer Hopped Cider. Truth be told, I really dislike IPAs, so hoppy flavors aren’t my bag. But the cream and sweet cider jam soften the edge on the hops, making it super delicious, and, weirdly, there’s even a carbonated sensation to the aftertaste. I tried all the fall flavors, because as a journalist, it’s my job to do a thorough investigation, and then bought a pint of the Hopz hard cider. I went for one of Sweet Peaks’ classics for the other pint: salted caramel. The Hopz is such a novel idea that I didn’t want to pass it up, but now I wish I’d also gotten the apple pie à la mode. It basically tastes like it has pieces of pie in it, flaky crust included. The most decadent thing I can think of right now is putting apple pie à la mode ice cream on apple pie. I can’t stop thinking about it. Good thing there’s some autumn left to savor. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358
Gluten-Free & Vegan NO PROBLEM
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Italian Roast $10.95/lb.
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232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN
232 NORTH HIGGINS AVENUE DOWNTOWN
Ahh, Autumn in Missoula! There’s no better way to embrace the changing of the seasons than with a freshly baked pastry and a piping hot cup of joe from Bernice’s! Our carefully crafted coffee and espresso drinks are perfect for a stroll through the fallen leaves. From two different daily quiche flavors to our handcrafted bran muffins, scones and croissants, we’ve got your breakfast needs covered. Of course we’re known for our cookies, cupcakes and specialty cakes but did you know we serve lunch seven days a week? Soups, sandwiches and salads are available from 11-4 every day. And don’t forget: Halloween treats are coming! Keep an eye out for Monstrous Cupcakes and Cookies October 25 - 31 as well as our Festival of the Dead treats on Nov 1st and 2nd! Stop by, check out our new designs and treat yourself! 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. $-$$ Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar & Grill is the place to relax and unwind while enjoying our New Feature Menu. Great selection of Montana Brews on tap! Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour every day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials changing daily. Thursday Trivia from 7:30-9:30. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$
Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
The pursuit of hoppiness
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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: Last week, Imagine Nation Brewing tapped its latest India Pale Ale, and it’s a humdinger. Aromatic, zesty, satisfyingly hoppy without the aggression of those souped-up double-IPA affairs— you might as well call it a session IPA (but it’s definitely not). There’s a pleasantly fruity taste to this one that lingers just long enough to remind you how good the last sip was. They’re calling it the Hopkinsman Fresh Hop Harvest Northeast IPA. It weighs in at 7.2 percent alcohol by volume, but the bitterness level is a mystery even to Imagine Nation. Where it comes from: The Hopkinsman is made possible by an old college buddy of brewery co-owner Robert Rivers. In fact the IPA is a riff on his name: Ryan Hopkins. He’s a regional hops salesman for Washingtonbased Yakima Chief, and he drove 10 hours overnight from Yakima to Missoula to deliver about 100 pounds of freshly harvested Chinook hops. Rivers and Imagine Nation brewer Derek Fassino began brewing Hopkinsman around 1:30 a.m. so they’d be ready to dump
the hops in the moment Hopkins arrived. Fassino estimates the hops traveled roughly 16 hours from vine to kettle. Why the rush? Breweries usually use hops pellets for their hopped concoctions. The hops harvest season typically lasts from midAugust through September, and the unprocessed hop cones don’t keep for long. That’s why fall taproom menus often feature fresh- or wet-hopped beers. Fassino explains that using fresh hops enhances the flavor and allows brewers to capture more of the dank, resiny hops oil. When they were brewing Hopkinsman, he says, “the whole brewery smelled like Christmas morning, like a pine tree.” In Fassino’s opinion, Hopkinsman is one of the better beers Imagine Nation has brewed, and it’s already got him thinking about the possibilities next year’s hops harvest might bring. Where to get it: Hopkinsman should last roughly another week at Imagine Nation, 1151 W. Broadway. It’s going for $6 per glass. —Alex Sakariassen
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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THU | 10/19 | 8 PM Flogging Molly plays the Wilma Thu., Oct 19. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Sold Out.
SAT | 10 PM Rittz plays the Top Hat Sat., Oct. 21. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $25/$22 advance
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THU | 10/19 | 10 PM Har Mar Superstar plays Monk's Thu., Oct. 19 at 10 PM. $15.
SAT | 8 PM Milky Chance plays the Wilma Sat., Oct. 26. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Sold Out.
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nightlife Jordan Lane provides the soundtrack at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Make your own spooky witch and skeleton earrings while watching Practical Magic, the movie where they tried to convince us Sandra Bullock was a witch. Bathing Beauties Beads. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. $7. Genuflect all you refugees! Celtic punk champions Flogging Molly play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $38/$35 advance. Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
As You Like It at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students. Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo serenade the wine at Plonk. 8 PM–11 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts a volcanic party at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Singer, songwriter and current bandleader for MST3K, Har Mar Superstar plays Monk’s. 10 PM. $15. Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons bring their high-altitude stink funk to the Top Hat. This is what happens when we let people name their own genres. 10:15 PM. Free.
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Honoring the centenary of Russia’s October Revolution of 1917, a two-day conference aims to learn from revolutions past. Visit umt.edu/sell/cps/revolution for a full schedule of events and speakers. Free and open to the public, comrade.
nightlife Missoula music powerhouse Tom Catmull plays Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free. This is what happens when you let Fido read the Necronomicon. Crazy Dog Band plays Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Astronomers guide audiences through the grand finale of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft journey to Saturn at a special planetarium show at the Payne Family Native American Center Star Gazing Room at 6:30 PM and 8 PM. $6. Missoula’s All-City Poetry Slam, hosted by Rae Birdy, runs from 7 PM–9 PM at Shakespeare & Co. Cheap Date Night at the library doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building.
As You Like It continues at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.
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Alder Lights play the ZACC Below with Strange Ranger, Rock and Roll Girlfriend and Go Hibiki Fri., Oct. 20 at 7 PM at the ZACC Below. $5. The Wilma screens Warren Miller’s 68th ski and snowboard film, Line of Descent. 7:30 PM. $19. Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival brings over 20 short films about the creative, the kinky and the sexy to the Roxy. 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM. Head to humpfilmfest.com for tickets. $20. (See Arts.)
Girl, I wouldn’t be caught dead in that dress. The kings and queens of Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana host the Living Dead Drag Show at the Union Hall. Music by Cory Fay, Pale People and Girlfingers. 8 PM. 18–20/$15. 21-plus/$10. (See Spotlight) Portland’s Strange Ranger plays the ZACC Below with Alder
Lights, Rock and Roll Girlfriend and Go Hibiki. 7 PM. $5. Seattle’s Martin Gaye is on deck at I’ll House You at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. I know that feeling all too well. Whiskey Shivers brings its apocalyptic bluegrass to the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10:15. $5.
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Saturday The Clark Fork Market features farm-fresh produce, live music and delicious food every Saturday in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM. Fort Missoula Regional Park invites kiddos of all ages to the 17th Annual Fall Family Fest. Folf, cider pressing and more. 1 PM–4 PM. $1.
nightlife Blues musician Andre Floyd plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Singer-songwriter Annalisa Rose mixes country and soul at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Larry Hirshberg provides the tunes at Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free. German folk group Milky Chance plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Hope you’ve got your tickets, because this one is sold out. Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival brings over 20 short films about the creative, the kinky and the sexy to the Roxy. 7 PM and 10 PM. Head to humpfilmfest.com for tickets. $20. (See Arts.) Missoula Folklore Society host its annual Town and Gown contra dance in the University Center Ballroom. Learn the steps at 7:30 PM, then dance the night away to the music of Out of the Wood. Donations.
As You Like It continues at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.
Spotlight The Living Dead Drag show, a fundraiser for the upcoming webseries The Last OK Place, features the drag kings and queens of WHAT: Living Dead Drag Show WHERE: Union Hall WHEN: Fri., Oct. 20 at 8 PM. HOW MUCH: $15/18-20, $10/21-plus MORE INFO: facebook.com/iscsm
the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana, music by Cory Fay & the Good Goddamn, Pale People and Girlfingers and a raffle full of Missoula swag. More than that, however, it also gives you a chance to break out your best undead duds from the closet. If, for whatever stupid reason, you don't have a zombie costume ready to go, splash some fake blood on your face, and use one of our quick and simple zombie costume ideas.
Get in the Halloween spirit with A Night of Dangerous Liaisons, a spooktacular drag show at the Badlander. Door at 8 PM, show at 9. $5. One, two, Freddy’s coming for you. Three, four, I’m heading to the bar. A Nightmare on Main Street Halloween Pub Crawl takes you out in search of spirits through downtown Missoula. Visit facebook.com/CollegeCityCrawls for more information and registration. $30. 8 PM–12 AM. It’s the dance, not the chip dip. Salsa 406 returns with Latin music and dancing at the Dark Horse every third Saturday of the month. 8:30 PM. Free. If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to why don’t you go hear hip-hop hits? Rittz plays the Top Hat. Resemblance to Gary Cooper is probably unintentional. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $25/$22 advance. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free. Monk’s presents Flow Like Whoa, a night of live music featuring Dar, Stilgone, Wormwood and more. 9 PM. Free. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for a night of music. 9:30 PM. Free.
undead duds Zombie Gwyneth Paltrow: This one is simple as all you'll need to do is stumble around while gazing at everything like you just don't understanding anything about modern culture or medicine. Occasionally offer zombie health supplements that don't work in exchange for a literal arm and a leg. Eat an apple. Zombie of Person Who Never Watches The Walking Dead: Look perplexed at the onslaught of references to a T.V. show that you just thought was okay when you watched the first season at your awful ex's place. Treat everything as a spoiler. Zombie Santa: What kind of person has a ready-to-go Santa costume, but can't put together a zombie outfit? A real sick weird beard probably. Lose the beard when you get overheated and then explain to traumatized onlookers that you're not really Zombie Santa, but one of his helpers.
—Charley Macorn
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Sunday Run like the house at the end of the block is giving out full-sized candy bars. The 22nd Annual Pumpkin Run 5K takes you along the Riverfront South and Milwaukee Trails. Dash to runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. $17. Glacier Ice Rink hosts a costume party on ice. The 5th Annual Spooky Skate runs from 12 PM to 2:15 PM. $6/$4 kiddos. The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare’s As You Like It ends its run at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 2 PM. $16/$14 students.
Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Take your first steps to stardom at Open Mic Night at the Missoula Senior Center. 6 PM–8 PM. $5. He’s going to see his name everywhere here. I mean just everywhere. Griz plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50.
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Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
This sounds pretty flammable. Michael Straw and the Wildfires play Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.
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Portland's Cool Schmool plays the ZACC Mon., Oct. 23 at 7 PM. $5.
nightlife Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. Portland’s Cool Schmool plays the ZACC with New Old Future and Mermaid Book Club. That is pretty cool! 7 PM. $5. Trio Canta plays Brazilian jazz at Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.
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Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
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Tuesday Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building downtown, noon– 1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.
nightlife Montana Conservation Voters, MontPIRG and UM Climate Change Studies faculty discuss the extreme weather spreading across the state and country. University Center Room 332. 5:30 PM. Free. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM. All ages.
Montana World Affairs Council hosts former Ambassador Max Baucus, who talks of China, North Korea and the United States at the DoubleTree Hotel. 7 PM–8:30 PM How can bugs help us solve violent crime? Have a drink and learn about the work of creepy crawly detectives at Bugs & Brews at the Insectarium. 6:30 PM. Viewer discretion is advised. 6:30 PM. $8. Visiting artist John Hitchcock lec-
tures on his work, his process and growing up next to a filed artillery base in Oklahoma. Missoula Art Museum. 7 PM. Free.
China, North Korea and the United States. DoubleTree Hotel. 7 PM–8:30 PM. $15/free for students.
Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.
Author Theodore Catton reads from his new book Rainy Lake House at Fact and Fiction Books. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.
The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10/ $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information. Montana World Affairs Council hosts a community discussion with former Ambassador Max Baucus concerning
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Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini gave his final performance before his death in what city on today’s date in 1926? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.
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Wednesday The U.S. State Department hosts a lecture on contemporary issues in Southeast Asia, and what young leaders are doing to make a difference. University Center Room 332. 12 PM. Free and open to the public. Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing.
nightlife Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support Montana Renewable Energy Association. 5 PM–8 PM. I hear that if you mix pop rocks
and a beaver your stomach explodes. The Clark Fork Coalition puts to bed the many myths and misconceptions about the noble beaver at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5:15 PM. Free.
tion Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.
Artists Pam Caughey and Joe Boddy discuss their work, their process and their mediums at Radius Gallery. 6 PM. Free.
Revivial Stand-up Comedy Open Mic at the Badlander. 7:30 PM. Free.
I know that feeling, too. Rotgut Whines play Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. The Women’s Comedy Workshop and Happy Hour lets you learn all about the craft of standup comedy in a supportive, open environment. The Badlander. 6 PM–7 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Na-
Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Detroit, Michigan.
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. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 prize to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Missoula trio Ticket Sauce brings its blues/rock/funk/soul sound to the Top Hat Thur., Oct. 26, at 10:15 PM. Free. Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4.
place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
Missoula Partners for Reintegration offer a free community discussion on the challenges those returning from incarceration face reentering communities. City Council. 12 PM–1 PM.
Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo serenade the wine with their jazzy sound at Plonk. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.
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Healthy forests and clean water make great beer. Join The Nature Conservancy at Kettlehouse Brewing for a celebration of OktoberForest, a month-long effort working to restore clean water. 5:30 PM– 7 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first
Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.
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Agenda While there are no shortages of causes deserving of our time and attention, the issues of prisoner rights, fair courts and post-prison life have continued to work their way to the forefront of our modern political discussion. This week several organizations working to educate on causes related to prisons and incarceration hold events in the Missoula community. First up is The Montana Innocence Project's open house in the atrium of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law on Fri., Oct. 20. The local non-profit talks about its work preventing wrongful convictions and the ongoing battle against injustice in our state from 5:30 PM–8 PM. It's free and open to the public. On Wed., Oct. 25 at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, Deacon Doug Anderson leads The New Jim Crow Book Study at 7 PM. This book study looks at our culture of mass incarceration, and how the prison industrial complex serves as a rebranding of race-based
THURSDAY OCTOBER 19 Mountain Home Montana hosts an open house, spotlighting its work with young mothers. 5 PM– 7 PM. Humanities Montana hosts a conversation about the Trump travel ban at Imagine Nation Brewing. Doors at 5:30 PM, talk at 6. Free.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 The Montana Innocence Project hosts an open house in the atrium of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law to talk about preventing wrongful convictions and fighting injustice in our state. 5:30 PM–8 PM. Free and open to the public.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 21 The Missoula Urban Indian Health Center hosts a wellness clinic to offer free medical and dental services to Native Americans in Missoula’s area. 8 PM–2 PM. Southgate Mall hosts a Community Health Fair featuring flu shots, blood pressure screenings and more. 12 PM–4 PM.
MONDAY OCTOBER 23 slavery in the United States. There will be a panel discussion on Restorative Justice following the book study. Finally, Missoula Partners for Reintegration host a free community discussion on the challenges those returning from incarceration face when reentering communities. Held in the City Council chambers, Thu., Oct. 26, at noon. This talk discusses how a welcoming community can reduce recidivism. —Charley Macorn
The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 24 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings
at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. Montana Conservation Voters, MontPIRG and UM Climate Change Studies faculty discuss the extreme weather spreading across the state and country. University Center Room 332. 5:30 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25 The U.S. State Department hosts a lecture on contemporary issues in Southeast Asia, and what young leaders are doing to make a difference. University Center Room 332. 12 PM. Free and open to the public. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM. Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. Support the Montana Renewable Energy Association. 5 PM–8 PM. Learn how to have effective and simple conversations with your coworkers about forming a union at the Union Club. That’s easy to remember. 6:30 PM.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 26 Healthy forests and clean water make great beer. Join The Nature Conservancy at Kettlehouse Brewing for a celebration of OktoberForest, a month-long effort working to restore clean water. 5:30 PM–7 PM. Free.
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Mountain High \complete list of Warren Miller film titles reads like someone had to come up with every word association they could for the word “ski.” It’s a miracle there were any left for this year’s production, the 68th annual film to bear the Warren Miller name. But yes, folks, they’ve done it again. Line of Descent will play at the Wilma on Friday, and it’s bound to be everything your little ski-bum heart needs to be ready to kick off the season. Come for the jaw-dropping drone shots of mountain vistas around the world, and stay for the snow-encrusted characters who seem genuinely grateful to be there. (Ignore the occasional, not-subtle Volkswagen product placement. We all gotta make a living somehow.) Miller started filming skiing on a 8mm camera in 1946, when, according to a story he wrote for Ski magazine, there were only 15 chairlifts in North America. His first major film, Deep and Light, came out in 1950, after Miller spent a season living in a small trailer in a parking lot and spending only $18 on four months worth of lift tickets.
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Skiing has, obviously, changed since then, and so have Warren Miller films. Miller himself hasn’t been involved in the company since 2004, but his name is still synonymous with ski movies. The films have evolved into productions that send top-notch skiers to premier ski locations worldwide, where they tear through swoon-worthy powder to the tune of a dramatic score. Line of Descent takes us to slopes as far flung as Norway and New Zealand, but don’t worry, Montana gets its moment to shine too. Folks haul up the mountains on snowmobiles and dogsleds in Glacier Country and indulge in some springtime skiing in the Beartooths. If the familiar locations make you want to pull out your gear a little early, you’re not alone.
—Margaret Grayson Warren Miller’s Line of Descent plays at the Wilma Fri., Oct. 20, at 7:30 PM. $19. More info at thewilma.org.
Line of Descent
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The Wilma screens Warren Miller’s 68th ski and snowboard film, Line of Descent. Watch a new generation of skiers push their sport to new extremes across the globe. 7:30 PM. $19.
I hear that if you mix pop rocks and a beaver your stomach explodes. The Clark Fork Coalition puts to bed the many myths and misconceptions about the noble beaver at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5:15 PM. Free.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 21 Curious about migrating or wintering birds? Who isn’t? Take a beginning birder trip with Five Valleys Audubon into the Lee Metcalf Wilderness. Meet at the Metcalf NWR headquarters at 10 AM for this a 2-hour field trip. Free.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 22 Run like the house at the end of the block is giving out full-sized candy bars. The 22nd Annual Pumpkin Run 5K takes you along the Riverfront South and Milwaukee Trails. Dash to runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. $17.
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The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. This month’s run starts at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM. Free. Bring the whole family for an hour-long hike through Blue Mountain Recreation area. Meet at the entrance to Blue Mountain. 6 PM. $5/family. Looking for a way to get your kids out of the house so you can finally catch up on House of Cards? Cabela’s holds a recruitment event for the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts. 6 PM–8 PM.
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for the explanation of various hospital forms and policies, obtaining signatures, discussions on financial responsibilities, collection of monies and initiation of the proper episode of care. Successful candidates work effectively and calmly with frequent interruptions, in a rapid-pace environment. Previous office experience is helpful and medical experience is preferred. This position starts at $11.70 per hour without previous medical office experience. This position is full time and with variable weekdays and rotating weekends. The
weekday shift is 8A-9P with an hour lunch. The weekend shift is 8A-4:30P with a 30-minute meal break.This is temporary fill-in position to last 12 weeks. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 40471 Production Control Established Lolo company producing the finest quality nutritional supplements is looking to add to their Production team! Generous benefits are offered after the completion of probationary period, which include: Medical, Dental, 401k Plan, Paid Vacation, and
MORE! Wage $11.00 Run processing equipment as assigned by supervisor. Assist others as part of the team to ensure smooth and consistent flow of work. Work in a manner consistent with processing’s quality and quantity goals. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40307 Receptionist/Office Assistant Property Management Company in Missoula is hiring a full-time front office administrative person. Will answer phones, file invoices, take payments, and
process applications. Ideally, this person would know their way around town to check properties and monitor yard care in the summer. Need to lift up to 40lbs to fill and drop off ice melt containers in the winter. The ideal person has the ability to multitask with efficient time management, has a mellow attitude, and is an excellent problem solver to work independently. Pays $13.00$14.00 per hour, Monday through Friday, 8:30am-5pm. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40554
PET OF THE WEEK Bender is a friendly guy that gets along with everyone! He has lived with kids, dogs, and other cats, and was a friend to all! He likes to curl up on his cat bed after a long day of adventuring outside. Bender is independent and likes to do his own thing outdoors for a while, but he still loves to receive pets and attention from his person! Visit Bender at the Humane Society of Western Montana! 549-3934 www.myHSWM.org
Patient Services Representative LC Staffing is working with Missoula health services to recruit for a Patient Services Representation immediately. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys customer service and helping others. Job duties include registering patients and collecting insurance information while providing excellent care and service. This position is also responsible
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THE SCIENCE ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon SPARKS AND RECREATION I am a 32-year-old woman who has never been in a relationship with a man I’m actually attracted to.The men I’ve ended up with really pursued me, and they were all smart, funny and kind, so I thought it was shallow not to date them because I wasn’t that into their looks. Depressingly, each time, I eventually found myself repulsed by the guy and eyeing other men. Of course, that brought things to an end. How important is physical attraction in a relationship? —Lukewarmed When you’ve got a position to fill—in your life or the workplace—it’s important to bring in somebody who meets the essential requirements. So when the overheating thingy on the nuclear reactor needs fixing, you put out a call for a certified nuclear mechanic; you don’t just go “Okay, whatever” when the nicest mariachi band roadie comes in looking for work. Of course, sexual attraction isn’t everything. But without it, you and another person are best suited for a relationship like “friends,” “neighbors” or “people who give each other a friendly wave in the carport.” Experimental psychologist Gurit Birnbaum finds evidence from across social psychology and evolutionary psychology that the “sexual system” (sexual desire) and the “attachment system” (emotional bonding) work together. In fact, she explains, it seems sexual desire “has been ‘exploited’ by evolutionary processes” to promote enduring emotional bonds between partners. Basically, evolution bribes romantic partners with nooky so they’ll stay together and care for their kids, improving the chances that the little buggers survive to pass on their genes. It’s important to find somebody you have serious hots for from the start, because maintaining a sex crush on your partner is actually vital throughout the relationship stages. Birnbaum explains that sexual desire motivates partners to keep “investing resources” in each other and the relationship—beyond sexytime. Additionally, after the initial hottity-hots die down, still wanting to get it on with your partner seems to provide a “buffer” for poor communication skills and less-than-desirable personality traits, such as emotional instability. (“Whoa, that mood swing nearly gave me a concussion!”) So, no, you wouldn’t be “shallow” to date only men you’re attracted to.You’d be doing the wise (and kind) thing: keeping yourself from yet another doomed relationship with some nice but meh guy
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MOOD POISONING My boyfriend broke up with me five months ago. When I’m going to sleep at night, I find myself mentally writing him hate letters, detailing what’s wrong with him. (He’s a coward, selfish, petty, etc.) I’m relieved that I’m not crying over him anymore, but I wonder whether I’m making things worse with this nightly litany of his shortcomings. —Still Mad There are relaxation tapes that repeat a word or statement to help you go to sleep, but “I hate you ... I hate you ... I hope you fall in a manhole and drown in the sewer” isn’t one I’ve seen in the catalog. Psychologists call what you’ve been doing “ruminating”—a form of overthink that involves obsessively replaying events, problems or feelings. The term comes from a yicky place—a cow’s rumen, a stomach area where it partially digests food, only to throw it up so it can rechew the food again. Yum, huh? The late psychologist Susan NolenHoeksema found that rumination can lead to depression—probably because it’s like being on a hamster wheel of hopelessness. However, the hopelessness comes not from reflecting on your feelings or problems but from doing it pointlessly—that is, rerunning those events and feelings and generating only frown lines, not insight. Healthy reflection on the past involves making it mean something for the future—turning the unfortunate events of, say, an ill-advised relationship into a guide for a wiser course in your next one. So, for example, when you find yourself venting about this guy, stop and turn the lens on yourself. Take responsibility for how you might have seen or done things differently. To get off the beddy-bye rage train (think: “The Little Engine That Should Shut Up Already”), just keep redirecting your thoughts to the positive—people and things in your life you’re grateful for and ideas for moving forward. Sure, guys you date will probably ask why you and your ex broke up, but a few words should suffice. Nobody wants to see you cast a glance at the clock and pull a huge parchment scroll from your purse.
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project from start to finish.Wage is $20-$22 depending on previous experience. Ideal candidates have a basic understanding of stud layout, rough framing, and basic ability to read and understand blueprints. Responsible for performing a variety of carpentry and general building construction tasks at various residential, commercial, and industrial job sites. May occasionally help pour concrete and set up/disassemble forms. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40589
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Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17260 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ELIZABETH ANN YOUNGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LYMAN G. YOUNGER 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 for-
ever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the above-named as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3rd day of October, 2017. /s/ JOAN E. COOK Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17261 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: GARLAND CLAYTON YOUNGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LYMAN G. YOUNGER 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 the above-named as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3rd day of October, 2017. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-232 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MADELYN VICTORIA REYES, DE-
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CEASED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DARLENE M. LOPEZ, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 8th day of September, 2017. /s/ Darlene M. Lopez, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP17-209 Dept. No. 1 Hon. Leslie Halligan Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF FAYE ELLEN GABRIEL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to RONALD E. GABRIEL, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 17 day of August, 2017. /s/ Ronald E. Gabriel, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. SIGNED this 17 day of August, 2017. /s/ Ronald E. Gabriel, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 17 day of August, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer
Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP17-227 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONNIE BOWMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All person having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Martha Hicks, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. Dated this 28 day of August, 2017. /s/ Martha Hicks, Personal Representative By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Case No. DP-17-215 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of BONNIE LEE KELLER MENDENHALL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Brennan Mendenhall, the Personal Representative, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 29th day of September, 2017. /s/ Brennan Mendenhall, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-17-199 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: DONALD MONT FINLEY, Deceased. NOTICE
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am my own muse,” wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries? If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises.You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. So what would it mean to be your own muse? What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Happiness comes from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.” According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sigmund Freud was a medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the 20th century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you, or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next 12 months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you interested in diving down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that nurture your wild soul? I hope you’ll be working on projects like these in the coming weeks, Leo. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made. was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I c which read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May Alcott wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase,
real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth—but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home and in the groove. received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they e Itstopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon & Garfunkel released their first album in October 1964.
Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement. When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Consider how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, your self-transformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you. Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.” To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, g time. about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. I suspect that in the coming months, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1969, two earthlings walked on the moon for the first
you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict your ambitions will burn more steadily in the coming months, and will produce more heat and light than ever before.You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it. Hooray and hallelujah! But keep this in mind, Aquarius: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success—not just the kind of success that merely impresses other people—you’ll be required to take on more responsibility. Can you handle that? I think you can.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group that is supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government? Or does it involve the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials who are allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders and influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment? Or is your pet conspiracy theory more personal? Maybe you secretly believe, for instance, that the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they will forever prevent you from fulfilling your fondest dream. Well, Pisces. I’m here to tell you that whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproven once and for all. Are you willing to be relieved of your delusions? Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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IS HEREBY GIVEN that Scott Laisy, 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 Scott Laisy, 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 6 day of September, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Per-
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sonal 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 6 day of September 2017. /s/ Scott Laisy, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP-17-231 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: IRENE PATRICIA MORRIS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Janet K. Schiller and Brian P. Morris, 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 Janet K. Schiller and Brian P. Morris, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 30 day of August, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Janet K. Schiller, Co-Personal Representativen I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 1st day of September, 2017. /s/ Brian P. Morris, Co-Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-17-252 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: JOHN T. DOVE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Carla Hvid, has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Carla Hvid, 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 26 day of September, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26 day of September 2017. /s/ Carla Hvid, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on February 16, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Michael F. Manthey, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to LSI as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Green Tree Servicing, LLC, beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated August 23, 2013 and was recorded on November 12, 2013 as Instrument No. 201321882, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 27785 Issac Creek RD, Huson, MT 59846 and being more fully described as follows: TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3690, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Ditech Financial LLC. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to
PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments totaling $19,027.75 beginning April 1, 2017 through September 27, 2017; plus accrued late charges of $717.99; plus advances of $312.50; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $391,032.60 with interest thereon at the rate of 4.25000 percent per annum beginning April 1, 2017; plus advance of $3,689.01; plus accumulated late charges of $717.99; plus recoverable balance of $312.50; plus fees of $7.00; together
with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful
bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: October 2, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on February 8, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 5689, located in the East half of Section 1, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, and the Southwest Quarter of Section 6, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Excepting Therefrom Tracts A-1, C-1, Portion “A” and Portion “B” of Certificate of Survey No. 5891, located in the East Half of Section 1, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula
County, Montana. The remaining property is more fully described as Tract B1 of Certificate of Survey No. 5891, located in the East half of Section 1, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, and the Southwest Quarter of Section 6, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Scott G. Cooney, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, by Trust Indenture dated March 16, 2007, and recorded that same date in Book 793, Page 1088, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The original Trust Indenture included all of Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 5689. Partial reconveyances subsequently were recorded, releasing what is now Tracts A-1, C-1, Portion A and Portion B of Certificate of Survey No. 5891. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded June 30, 2017, in Book 982, Page 163, Document No. 201712905, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the per-
formance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1,321,167.69, plus interest totaling $72,328.47, late fees of $4,852.51, and expenses of $15,560.60, for a total amount due of $1,413,909.27, as of September 27, 2017, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing interest and costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED this 28th day of September, 2017. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE
OF MONTANA ))ss. County of Missoula ) On this 28th day of September, 2017, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires May 07, 2021 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S
SALE on January 11, 2018, at 11:00 PM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot A46 Of Windsor Park, Phase III, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. KARLA TECCA and VINCENT TECCA, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 20, 2007, and
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PUBLIC NOTICES recorded on April 20, 2007 as Book 795 Page 1176 Document No. 200709481. A loan modification agreement was recorded on May 5, 2014 in Book 928 of Micro Records at Page 131 as document number 201405808. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning January 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2017 is $226,684.21 principal, interest totaling $6,365.81 late charges in the amount of $91.50, escrow advances of $2,860.48, suspense balance of -$600.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,959.64, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real
property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close
of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay
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This sweet and affectionate girl is a bit timid at first and has a submissive demeanor. She knows a great deal of commands, including sit, lay down, roll over, shake, and high five. Shelter life is a bit stressful for this nervous girl, and she's really hoping to find an established home that can shower her with love and affection which she would gladly reciprocate.
TOBY•Toby is a 3 year old male Catahoula/Lab mix. This big goofy boy is likely the happiest dog you've ever met. He's so full of joy that he literally bounces everywhere he goes! Toby loves to play and will fetch in his own clownlike way. Toby doesn't know basic commands, but is very motivated by treats, which means he would likely learn quickly. DONALD• Donald is a 2 year old male Pit Bull. This silly boy is a bit thick headed, and it takes him a fair amount of time to relate to people. He has never had a consistent owner, and is hoping that his next home is permanent. Donald walks well on leash and knows not a single command. He is very gentle when taking treats and just recently started showing interest in toys.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 RALPHIE• Sweet Ralphie is a tender spirit, searching for his forever home. He is looking for a quiet home full of lots of TLC. Little Ralphie is a friendly guy that would love to go to a more mature home. This guy wants to be the center of attention and get all of your love! Come visit Ralphie during our open hours, Wed-Fri form 16pm and Sat-Sun form 12-5pm!
FRY• Fry is a smart cat that likes to explore. He comes from an active household with kids, dogs, and other cats. He is a friendly guy and is could be a great fit for any type of home! This guy likes to adventure outside on his own, but also enjoys affection from his person. Come visit Fry during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6 pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5 pm.
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ACE• Ace is a friendly little man that is looking for a loving home to give him lots of pets. He likes new people, and will nuzzle his head against your leg until he gets some sweet scratches behind the ears. His laid-back nature makes him a great companion for someone looking for a buddy to lounge around with. Give us a call at 406.549.3934 to find out more about Ace!
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SALE on January 9, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 8 of Huson Heights, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. FORREST L. DYER III, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff Kellogg Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 31, 2003, and recorded on August 1, 2003 as Book 713 Page 886 under Document No. 200328292. A Loan Modification Agreement was recorded June 04, 2007, Book 798 Page 955 under Document No 200713869; Modification Agreement recorded November 29, 2010, Book 869 Page 1265 under Document No 201023372; Modification Agreement recorded April 16, 2014in Book 927 Page 544 under Document No 201404821 The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation a/k/a PHH Mortgage Services. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning November 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 23, 2017 is $140,080.75 principal, interest totaling $1,847.59 late charges in the amount of $322.89, escrow advances of $1,096.25, other fees and expenses advanced of $328.20, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and
for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under
RENTALS 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 28, 2017. /s/ Rae Albert, Assistant Secretary First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 State of Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 28th day of August, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 PHH Mortgage Corp. vs DYER III 100296-2
EAGLE SELF STORAGE
NOTICE
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 106, 146, 265, 318 & 484. 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 October 23, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday October 26, 2017 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON THE 6TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2017 AT 1:00 P.M.; A PUBLIC ONLINE AUCTION @ storagetreasures.com WILL BE HELD FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD’S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF 3(THREE) STORAGE UNIT(S), STORED AT THE U-HAUL CENTER OF MISSOULA. THE GOODS TO BE SOLD ARE GENERALLY DESCRIBED AS HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, FURNITURE, AND CLOTHING. THE FOLLOWING UNITS WILL BE NOVEMBER 6TH, 2017 AT 1:00 PM AT 820 STRAND AVE, MISSOULA, MT 59801. UNIT 117 Adam Wilson 438 Axle Helena, MT 59602 UNIT 108 Kyle Wood 9463 Upper Miller Ck Rd Missoula, MT 59803 UNIT 113 Kalyn Thomas 1856 Strand Ave Missoula, MT 59801
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APARTMENTS 1 bed, 1 bath, Cooper , $700, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 1 bed, 1 bath, S. 12th West, $725, W/D hookups, storage & off street parking.W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 1 bed, 1 bath, S. Russell, $675, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & off
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611
street parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333
Studio, 1 bath, near Good Food Store, $595, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parkIng, HEAT Paid. No pets, no smoking. Gatewest 728-7333
108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, newly remodeled,W/D,A/C, downtown $950. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #10. 3 bed/2.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, carport, pet? $1075. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $495/month. 406-273-6034
DUPLEXES
2 bed, 1 bath, near Good Food Store, $800, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 210 Grant St. #4. 2 bed/1 bath, close to Milwaukee Trail, W/D hookups, DW $825. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
211 S. 4th Street East #1. 3 bed/1 bath, close to U, W/D hookups $1050. Grizzly Property 542-2060 3 Bed, 2.5 bath, S. 9th West, duplex, $1295, DW, W/D hookups, yard, off-street parking, S/G paid. PET CONSIDERED w/additional rent/deposit. NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
237 1/2 E. Front St. “A” Studio/1 bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coinops on site $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
509 S. 5th St. E. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, two blocks to University, sunroom, coin-ops, HEAT PAID $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
3712 W. Central #1 2 bed/1 bath, upper Target Range unit, W/D hookups, storage $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
820 Charlo #2 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hookups, small yard, pet? $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES 1863 S. 5th St. E. 3 bed/2.5 bath, brand new, energy efficient, central location. $1500 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
OUT OF TOWN 11270 Napton Way 2C. 3 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central Lolo location, lots of interior updates. $925. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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REAL ESTATE HOMES 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Upper Rattlesnake home on 3.6 acres on Ray Creek. $500,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1049 South 1st. 2 bed, 1 bath at the heart of it all. New roof & many other upgrades. $219,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
hilliard5@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath South 39th St home, $239,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2636 Park Street- Amazingly sweet house in the Lewis and Clark neighborhood and close to everything, including shopping and bike trails and downtown and the U and schools. $275,000 KD 240-5227
1702 Bancroft. 2 bed, 1 bath brick cottage with fenced backyard & single garage. Great investment. $225,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
2725 Lower Lincoln Hills Dr. Energy efficient amazing home in Rattlesnake’s Lincoln Hills. High ceilings in this Passive Solar home which is filled with so much natural light. KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com
1728 Ernest. Updated 4 bed, 2 bath with basement, large fenced backyard & single garage. $315,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannon-
3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, East Missoula home. $235,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3625 Kingsbury. Pleasant View 3 bed, 3 bath on corner lot with 2 car garage. $274,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Grant Creek home on 5.7 acres. $415,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 425 S 5th St West-This is an amazing stunning historic gem. The beautiful Victorian was built in 1890 and has absolute charm of yesteryear. $625,000 KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 450 Speedway- Fantastic corner lot with an adorable sweet little bungalow, with fully fenced yard! Close to University, Hiking Trails, Downtown and More! $165,000. KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com
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6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
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REAL ESTATE
& double garage. $269,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Lolo. Cute 1 bedroom w/bonus room on large landscaped lot with garden bed, greenhouse, fire pit, mature trees, 2 car garage, RV pad & mountain views. $225,000. Call Bridget 2075387 REALTOR
CONDOS 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lolo Townhome. $184,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2025 Mullan Heights #306. 2 bed, 2.5 bath facing the Clark Fork River. $227,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com The Uptown Flats #301. UNDER CONTRACT. 831 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
LAND FOR SALE 13221 Old Freight. Approximately 11 acres near St. Ignatius with incredible Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2.1 acre waterfront lot in Alberton. $169,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Raymond. Beautiful .43 acre lot in quiet Rattlesnake neighborhood. $229,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungstenholdings .com (406) 293-3714
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The Uptown Flats #303. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
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HOMES For Sale 2- 2012 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $43,900 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663
Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 1.6 acres. $700,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $378,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Upper Rattlesnake home on a half acre lot. $325,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or www.mindypalmer.com 415 Central Avenue Hot SpringsCentrally Located on 4 Lots. Great Potential- Multiple Outbuildings-Mature Apple, Pear and Plum Trees as well as Shade trees. $45,000. KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com
DUPLEXES 1779-81 W Sussex. Centrally located duplex close to shopping and parks and schools! Great investment opportunity. One 2 bedroom, 1 bath, one 3 bedroom 1 bath. Live in one and rent the other or rent both! $192,500 KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com
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Affordable Lake Living! Charming remodeled detached condo overlooking the open waters of Flathead Lake, located on Finley Point near Polson. Subdivision includes; boat launch, boat yard and private beach, with ability to rent boat & jet ski slips. 1,189 sq.ft. 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath cabin style getaway. VRBO approved, make additional income when not in use. $429,000. Century 21 Realtor: Cole WallaceCell: 406-570-7321
5 Bdr, 3 Bath,Alberton home on 20 acres with Petty Creek frontage. $475,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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5576 CIRCLE DR, FLORENCE $225,000 Beautiful home with lots of updates in great neighborhood. Back porch has Bitterroot views. Open floor plan with sunken dining & sitting area. Close to hunting up 8-mile road and walking distance to Florence beach & fishing access. Large yard on one-acre lot. Live your dream of quiet, rural serenity with easy commute to Missoula or Hamilton. New roof 2010; well pump 2015; windows 2015; foundation treatment, new sidewalk & porch, exterior repainted 2017 MLS #21707610 Call Matt Rosbarsky at 390-9023 for more information.
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