Missoula Independent

DRESSING THE PART: HOW TO DO HALLOWEEN LIKE MISSOULA’S WORST NIGHTMARE DAN BROOKS: ENGEN NEEDS A CHALLENGER, BUT TRIEPKE ISN’T IT

[2] Missoula Independent • October 26–November 2, 2017

cover photo by Kou Moua

News

Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk I can name that band in 3 notes..............................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Writing for their lives, the rising cost of downtown, and trail closures on Lolo ...........6 Etc. The J-school brouhaha isn’t actually about free speech, you know ..................................7 News The best Halloween costumes for facing Missoula’s demons.........................................8 News Promoter pops off on XXXTentatcion...............................................................................9 Opinion Engen needs a challenger, but Triepke isn’t it..........................................................10 Opinion Making room for predators on public lands.............................................................11 Feature Dead ahead: Missoula takes an uncomfortable look in the mirror........................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts How to name your band—and how not to...........................................................18 Music Indian Goat, Pale People, Omni........................................................................19 Books John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down ...........................................................20 Film The tiresome novelty of Loving Vincent..............................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Chocolate graves and cookie dirt...............................................23 Happiest Hour Sipping infused sake at Iza ................................................................25 8 Days a Week If it’s not in our calendar, it’s just not fun .........................................26 Agenda Ann Holmes Redding at DiverseU ..................................................................35 Mountain High It’s time to run for fun ......................................................................36

Exclusives

News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................37 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................38 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................40 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................45 This Modern World.....................................................................................................46

GENERAL MANAGER Andy Sutcliffe EDITOR Brad Tyer PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston BOOKKEEPER Ruth Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer Susan Elizabeth Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERN Margaret Grayson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Beau Wurster, Toni Leblanc, Declan Lawson ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER Tami Allen MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Declan Lawson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Hunter Pauli, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson Melissa Stephenson

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missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [3]

[voices]

STREET TALK

By Alex Sakariassen

This week arts editor Erika Fredrickson writes about how to name a band.

What’s the most ridiculous band name you’ve heard of?

If you were in a band, what would your band’s name be?

Kim Ramsey: Butthole Surfers. I just remember listening to them in high school, when I was a rabble-rouser.

When in doubt, look to your beer: The Raspberry Sours. I can play piano, so I’d probably play keyboard. Or the keytar.

Franklin Roswell: I don’t know if it’s the most ridiculous, but Nauticult. They’re a rap band out of Seattle that thrives on stupid puns. He was kinda tall: Thriving Giants. Because big people gotta live too, ya know?

Cassidy Randall: Rainbow Kitten Surprise.

If you have not checked out their music, you should. They’re the next big thing. The kid is onto something: I was just talking about this with my three-year-old nephew last night because he came up with the best band name. It was Soggy Elephant.

Rachel Ackerman: What about Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? That’s kind of silly, though it’s also kind of not real. She’s even got the album art: This isn’t that clever, but Melanoma. We had an art project in eighth grade where we had to come up with an album cover, and that was my band name.

Radd Icenoggle: Green Jellÿ. I actually saw them in Bozeman once. They’re kind of punkish. Forget the Eagles: Turdus. I’m a birder, and turdus is the genus name for the American robin.

Asked Monday afternoon at Draught Works

[4] Missoula Independent • October 26–November 2, 2017

Is that even a phrase? Go to your room The Indy has always been up on Engen’s nuts from the get-go (“Meet Lisa Triepke, the candidate who wants to unseat John Engen,” Oct. 12). I, too, was confused by the manner of questioning. The issue here is one of future taxes and fiscal responsibility. The current mayor spends money like an Obama clone and he spends it on some doozies. If you like runaway spending and crony capitalism, hail to King Johnny. Triepke wants to pump the brakes on this hyper-liberalism. Term limits, anyone?

Anthony Cox missoulanews.com

Gotcha politics I think a better candidate would have a better chance to show contrast to Mayor Engen. I am not Mayor Engen’s biggest fan, but I do think Missoula is a fairly well-run city due to cooperation between the mayor, city council and the community at large. A larger swath of people seem to genuinely care about Missoula compared to other cities that I have lived in, and I think that has made our fair city a pretty great (albeit expensive) place to live, but in order to have services, you gotta pay taxes.

I think Lisa Triepke is using “gotcha” politics to get sound bytes and play to the anti-Engen base. I hate the idea that a candidate has to be radically different than the person they are running against. The best kind of successes tend to be small, incremental and inclusive. Triepke has not shown that she is any of that. She has shown that she is not the kind of person who would take advice or suggestions well, and would be more concerned with “undoing” services that Mayor Engen has implemented to placate her donors and the antiEngen base.

John Taylor facebook.com/missoulaindependent.com

Top of the class The theory that one must be an academic to lead an academic institution is false (“With a new pick for president, UM can get back to business,” Oct. 10). Bodnar was first in his class at one of the USA’s more selective leading liberal arts universities, a “seven-percenter,” promoted ahead of his peers in the Army, and on the fast-track at GE. I think the Independent’s complaint is, “but he does not walk on water.”

Jeff Renz missoulanews.com

I saw an “Enough is Enough” sign outside some random McMansion the other day—gave me a good chuckle.

All things aside, that campaign slogan is horrible, the least Missoulian thing you could go for. Makes the candidate sound like a stressed out, exasperated parent yelling at her 12-year-old.

You can’t just send the whole city of Missoula to their room and ground us for a month.

Parker Beckley facebook.com/missoulanews.com

The wrong path Rick Bass is peerless as a passionate and articulate defender of the Yaak country, its flora and fauna. And there’s no doubting the intensity with which he believes that the Pacific

“As satisfying as it might be to Mr. Bass to say that the people using or promoting the trail are criminals, this is simply false.”

Northwest National Scenic Trail is a bad deal for the Yaak grizzlies (“Path of least resistance,” Oct 19). This does not excuse his misleading people about the legal status of the trail, its users, and its advocates.

The route of the trail through the Yaak country is not “proposed”—it is a fact, established by Congress in 2009.

Hiking this trail, putting signage on it and showing it on maps is not illegal or unauthorized. As satisfying as it might be to Mr. Bass to say that the people using or promoting the trail are criminals, this is simply false.

Indeed, better signage and better maps are the best remedies for the lost hikers Mr. Bass worries about.

Other significant details in his article are similarly misleading, and consequently direct the reader toward the wrong action item. There was a federal advisory council for the trail, but it was not convened to determine the

route of the trail through the Yaak country. Rather, its charge was to provide input to the Forest Service concerning the management of the trail along its already created corridor.

Some subcommittees of the advisory council considered recommending very minor route changes in the trail, usually to deal with safety issues or private land access. The Montana subcommittee did not adopt any recommendation that the route of the trail through the Yaak country be changed.

Even if it had, however, and even if the advisory council had accepted that recommendation, the location of the trail would not have changed. The Forest Service lacks the statutory authority to make the kind of change that Mr. Bass wants. Hundreds of letters to trail program manager McGrath will not change this.

Concerned Montanans are not without recourse, however. A management plan for the trail will be released in the next few years. It must, by law, include a carrying capacity that the trail must be managed to meet. Interested Missoulians should review this (and the rest of the plan) carefully, and if anyone thinks the plan is not in accord with the applicable science, they will have opportunities to make their views known, and to put their scientific evidence before the Forest Service. Our federal judges have long demonstrated a willingness to hold the Forest Service’s feet to the fire when it comes to making sure their management decisions match the available science. Missoulians can trust this process.

People have been through-hiking the trail for 40 years now, and so far as we know, never more than 100 have attempted it in any given year. Long before 4,000 through-hikers are annually walking the portion of the trail in the Yaak country, the Kootenai National Forest will surely be compelled by the science to institute a permit system of some kind—perhaps just like the system in use at the beginning of the trail, in Glacier National Park.

Alarmist rhetoric now is not going to bring about positive change, and factual distortions, while they might be entertaining, can never be the basis of good policy.

Charles H. Carpenter President Pacific Northwest Trail Association For more rebuttals to “Path of least resistance,” and the Yaak Valley Forest Council response, see this week’s Letters online at missoulanews.com.

missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [5]

[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, October 18 Montana is granted an exception to the federal REAL ID Act, meaning we’ll be able to board airplanes with the IDs we have for another year. The state will start offering REAL ID-compliant IDs in 2019, but they’ll cost extra.

Thursday, October 19 The Commissioner of Political Practices finds that Missoula mayoral candidate Lisa Triepke’s campaign failed to properly report its finances, including payments to and services provided by Spiker Communications.

Friday, October 20 It’s reported that during the first quarter of the fiscal year, Montana brought in more than $300,000 in tax revenue from medical marijuana. Providers grossed about $9.5 million between July and the quarter’s end in September.

Saturday, October 21 Senior UM football player Justin Strong is arrested in Pullman, Wash., for second-degree assault after a fight that lead to another man’s hospitalization for a fractured skull and a hematoma. No charges are immediately filed.

Extra credit

Writing to survive Just after fall classes began, Dave Shively, geography department chair, received four of more than 400 assignments sent out across the University of Montana. His task: explain why each of his “units”—a major, a graduate degree, a minor and a certificate—shouldn’t be cut. He had the month of September to do it.

“I didn’t log the time, but I worked every weekend continuously for the entire month in addition to regular responsibilities, and often evenings,” he says. “I would estimate I put in 80 hours of work.”

Shively didn’t spend so much time writing reports because he buys into the process, known as “Academic Program and Administrative Services Prioritization,” or APASP. He did it because there’s a lot on the line. In less than two months, UM’s outgoing leadership will use the information to decide how to balance the budget, i.e., what to cut. Shively’s programs and colleagues’ jobs are on the line. He and others felt the pressure.

“Ultimately the fate of the program rests on the credibility and the writing skills of the one person, and that’s a little worrisome, because

not all of us are brilliant writers,” says Charles Janson, associate dean and chair of the division of biological sciences.

Adding to the pressure has been APASP’s breakneck pace. Faculty generally agree that UM is attempting to cram a two-year process into seven months. Johann Lindig, a managing partner of the consultancy that helped train UM on the model, says that’s not strictly true: “It seemed to us at the time, in May, that UM had enough time to do a very rigorous process and not shortcut it,” she says.

However, UM appears to have shortcutted one part of the process that Lindig insists schools don’t. Authors need six to eight weeks to write their reports, she says, or else the quality of the information will suffer.

UM’s authors had roughly half that time— about three weeks, once all the university-provided data was available.

Authors say the data wasn’t always accurate.

One bad data point in the philosophy department made it appear that graduate students took almost nine years to earn master’s degrees, chair Paul Muench says.

Those navigating APASP have already acknowledged the process’s shortcomings. Shively says one person compared the task to building

a plane while it’s flying. He’s learned to accept it, in a sense. “You have to keep the plane in the air in order for everyone to survive,” he says.

Now that their reports are under review, authors say they’re anxious about how their writing will translate into budget decisions. The next gut check will come Nov. 1, when the 400-plus units are placed into prioritization “buckets.”

“It’s a black box, and it’s scary,” Vice President for Research Scott Whittenburg said at a recent task force meeting. “It is Halloween after all,” another member replied.

Derek Brouwer

No access

Lolo Peak trails closed Backcountry skiers eager for some pre-season turns in Missoula’s backyard this fall will be hard-pressed to get them. The intensity of the Lolo Peak fire left swaths of hillside south of Highway 12 blackened, the trees needleless and the ground ashy. And the Lolo National Forest has opted to keep three popular trails there closed until next summer, after spring moisture and trail work can give restoration a foothold.

Forest spokesman Boyd Hartwig says he wishes that wasn’t the case. But the severity of the burn

Sunday, October 22 Opening weekend for deer and elk season closes with more than 3,500 hunters having ventured out in southwest Montana.

They bring in 230 elk and 75 deer.

Monday, October 23 Missoula City Council decides to interview eight of the nine people who applied for the Ward 2 seat that will be vacated by Ruth Swaney, who’s moving to North Dakota. The council will vote on an appointee on Nov. 6.

Tuesday, October 24 A California woman admits in District Court that she passed around $45,000 in counterfeit bills across Montana in 2015 and 2016. Misty Nicole Marcum made counterfeit money by bleaching $1 bills and reprinting them as $100 bills. She faces up to 20 years in prison.

The size and unknown details of this contract raises numerous questions” —Parish Braden, spokesman for the House Committee on Natural Resources, speaking to the Washington Post about a tiny Whitefish company that received a $300 million contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical grid. The committee is examining the contract.

[6] Missoula Independent • October 26–November 2, 2017

[news] along Lolo Peak’s northern flanks has made the Lolo Peak, Mill Creek and Lantern Ridge trails susceptible to damage, particularly if used in the wetter fall or spring months. Al Hilshey, recreation specialist on the Missoula Ranger District, explains that bike tires, horseshoes and ski boots could leave ruts in the fire-softened soils before they harden again in summer, or even wear away the shoulders of trails. “We need time to allow the trail system to stabilize for the long term,� Hilshey says.

The extent of the work required on Lolo Peak will come into greater clarity in coming weeks, when the U.S. Forest Service expects to finalize its Burn Area Emergency Response report. Hilshey says part of that work will involve replacing drainage structures along the affected trails, a number of which were burned by the fire. Neither Hartwig nor Hilshey could recall a past fire on the Lolo National Forest that impacted a trail system to this degree. “This was unusual,� Hilshey says. “We’ve got three popular trails in this area, and a very intense fire that came through.�

Jeff Schmerker, an area skier who published a backcountry ski guide to western Montana this year, sums up the situation on Lolo Peak in one word: “Bummer.� He always viewed the trailhead as a “good place to get high in the alpine� for early season turns, since Mormon Peak Road doesn’t close until Dec. 1. In theory, Schmerker says, ambitious Lolo Peak skiers could pick out routes from the west or the south (according to Bitterroot National Forest spokesman Tod McKay, there are no lingering trail closures affecting his forest’s portion of the Lolo Peak area). But those skiers would be in for a pretty big day. “That would just be a herculean effort,�

Schmerker says. “And if they’re closing the trail because of soil stability, then I would think that they probably don’t want people up there anywhere.�

Though access to Lolo Peak is looking bleak until summer 2018, Schmerker is quick to point out that there are other options, including St. Mary Peak west of Stevensville and Trapper Peak further south. Hilshey, too, thinks that the abundance of soon-to-be-snowcapped mountains in

the region should keep early- and late-season skiers more than happy until Lolo Peak and its trail network has had time to heal. “The good thing,� Hilshey says, “is it’s temporary.�

Alex Sakariassen

Too damn high

Up and out of downtown Teala Anderson stands in the basement of her unit on Higgins Ave, where overhead planks blackened by fire and the remnants of a staircase leading nowhere betray just how long the building has been around. Part of the basement extends under the outside sidewalk, and it’s really a hard-hat area, Anderson says, gesturing at the crumbly ceiling above her storage space.

Anderson owns Small Wonders Futons, a handmade futon company that was, until Saturday, located in the Hammond Arcade building on Higgins. The structure, rebuilt in 1933 after most of the original building had burned, spans the block between the Wilma and Front Street.

It was managed by local businessman John Coffee and owned by his family for decades. Coffee died last fall, and this spring the building was sold to Nick Caras and a business partner and came under the care of Access Property Management.

Everyone agrees the building needs work, but several business owners say the new ownership comes with rent increases they just can’t stomach. Anderson and her company are leaving for a new location on West Broadway, and two other businesses are moving or have already moved out of the building, and out of downtown altogether.

Caras says rents in the Hammond building were low when he bought it, and that all of the departing businesses were offered leases at below-market rents. Some increases were “in-

BY THE NUMBERS Kegs consumed during Big Sky Brewing’s 7-show concert series this summer—a series attended by 25,750 concert-goers, according to a brewery Facebook post this week.

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evitable,� he says. He filled all the vacancies in the building within weeks. A clothing store, a cookie company and a leasing office will be moving in.

Caras declined to discuss rent increase specifics, but Anderson says her $1,500 rent would have been raised to $2,500.

Noteworthy, a stationary and printing business that’s been in the building since the business’ inception in 2008, marked its last day in that space on Saturday. Owners Amy Dolan and Taylor Valliant say they were offered a two-year lease with a 35 percent rent increase the first year and a 96 percent increase the second year. “We completely understand the need for building improvements and rent increases,�

Dolan says. “We don’t feel like small businesses should bear the brunt of the cost of maintaining these old buildings.�

Noteworthy will be moving into the former Food Bank building on 3rd Street, which Valliant had purchased before the Hammond building sale, but had not intended to move her storefront to. Amira Rug Gallery moved in with another furniture business on Kent Ave. The owners of all three of the stores say they don’t think downtown has the foot traffic to support the new rents, and they’re all concerned for the ability of retail businesses to survive there. “This is a question mark that’s bigger than these businesses leaving,� Dolan says. “How do we encourage entrepreneurship downtown?�

Margaret Grayson

ETC. So much attention has been paid to the supposed “free speech� scandal involving the University of Montana School of Journalism that almost everyone has missed the real point. The story that traveled up the right-wing flag pole was that J-school Dean Larry Abramson banned UNCWilmington professor Mike Adams from speaking on campus because Adams’ Christian-conservative views might “offend� UM students. Even the Missoulian saw fit to publish an astounding 4,700 words about the incident.

To be clear: Abramson has not defiled the First Amendment. Maria Cole, a major donor, independently invited a speaker for a lecture that the J-school hosts and Cole funds. Abramson didn’t want to sponsor Adams’ visit, but told Cole in an email that they “could still have a conversation with him if you want.�

After Cole took her frustration to the press, UM issued a statement clarifying that Adams was welcome to speak on campus, just not at the J-school event.

Abramson was right to balk at Adams, an insipid provocateur whose claims to fame include accusing a queer Muslim student at UNC of trying to “fit into as many victim categories as humanly possible,� then joking that the T in LGBT stands for Thespian.

UM students would learn more about free speech by hearing from, say, Malachi Robinson, a Missoula man who was convicted of disorderly conduct under the state’s “fighting words� statute for yelling “fucking pig� at a passing city police car. Fourteen years after his conviction, Robinson is homeless, according to his girlfriend. Adams has never been arrested for his opprobrious words. His only legal crusade was for academic promotion.

Let’s be clear about something else, too: Abramson’s handling of the situation appears to have been woefully inept. His email to Cole, in which he directed her to timestamped video clips of Adams speaking and noted Adams’ Christian faith, was presumptuous and condescending. It takes a delicate touch to assert control when an event’s financier is accustomed to selecting its speaker, and Cole hasn’t taken kindly to being challenged. She can be forgiven, however, for expecting better of the dean.

As a result of this bungled relationship with a donor, the J-school’s public image has been needlessly tarnished. Oh, and Adams will be coming to town anyway, Cole has said, date and location to be announced.

Adams’ lecture, whenever and wherever he delivers one, may or may not include any compelling ideas. It will surely get more attention than it deserves.

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missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [7]

[news]

Home groan Halloween costumes for facing Missoula’s demons

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

It shouldn’t just be the pumpkins and hay bales that are local for a Missoula Halloween—why not keep the costumes close to home, too? While none of these costumes are available in plastic packages, they depict the real horrors and bogeymen of our city. If citizens scream and cry when they see you in one of these, well, you’ve been warned.

Aggressive urban deer On Missoula’s edges (and even in its center—they’ve been seen lazily strolling just blocks from the Indy offices), deer are absolutely not afraid of people. Parents fear for their children’s safety, citing the aggression of bucks in mating season. And recently, one poor woman in the Rattlesnake had the traumatic experience of a deer crashing through the window of her minivan.

Costume: A brown deer suit and antler headband. Paint the antler points red to simulate dripping blood. Hang out on the curb downtown and then suddenly bolt in front of pedestrians.

Mountain Water legal bills Don’t go trick-or-treating at City Hall dressed like this! Missoula journalists have been stonewalled in their attempts to get the city’s legal bills. Clearly that’s just because the city is trying to protect us from something very scary buried in them.

Costume: A paper hazmat suit, stuck all over with invoice-sized sheets of paper. Keep sticking more pieces of paper to yourself all night long.

A Steve Daines tele-town hall Missoulians have been asking the senator to have a live town hall, or even a Facebook one, but he has declined to engage directly with the citizenry. Instead, he offers tele-town halls, where you get a message about being the 2,300th caller in the queue.

[8] Missoula Independent • October 26–November 2, 2017

Costume: A suit, an unmoving grin and a helmet of brown hair. If anyone asks what you’re supposed to be, recite a completely unrelated talking point and hand them your business card.

A never-ending haze of sickly yellow wildfire smoke vOf all the Missoula horrors we don’t want to see again, this summer’s smoke is the worst, most depressing,

A bathroom bill The Montana Family Foundation is still trying to get I-183 on the ballot for 2018.

They call it the “Locker Room Privacy Act,” an interesting name for legislation that aims to make people prove their sex.

Costume: Go stand by the restrooms in a public place. Ask for ID at the entrance. Tell people, “It’s just common sense!” Later in the evening, inevitably get caught while attempting to perform an act of sodomy in the “correct” bathroom for your gender.

The 2018 midterms With Steve Bannon throwing his attention to Senate races, the amount of money that’s going to be spent on Jon Tester’s seat is going to be insane. So will the amount of national attention paid to Montana, where reporters from the coasts perpetually come to discover that voters split tickets here. The congressional race is going to be equally insane as Greg Gianforte defends his seat against whichever energetic young Democrat emerges from the primaries. We’re still suffering a touch of PTSD from this spring’s special election and an unexpectedly spicy city election. The primaries for the 2018 elections are seven months away and the campaigning has already begun. Can we catch a break?

Costume: A bunch of microScarier than zombies, urban deer phones and network logos around are real. your neck. A pair of broken glasses. evil, life-force-sucking, summer-killing A stiff new Carhartt jacket and a prop manifestation of global warming. Mis- split-rail fence to lean against. soula’s going to be something of a laboratory for the terrors of weather And here are a few we don’t have extremes in the Rockies, and it’s truly the space to elaborate on, if you want something to dread. to DIY the costumes: A bike lane, Costume: Go to the fabric store A GMO Corn Maze, The enand buy the ugliest shade of yellow- rollment numbers at the Unibrown netting you can find. Bunch it versity of Montana, Ryan all up into a giant cloud around your Zinke’s wetsuit, Canvassing head. Walk up to people who are ex- Greg Strandberg. pecting to have a perfectly nice time and blow smoke at them. sshepard@missoulanews.com

[news]

Popping off Promoter says XXXTentacion is a ‘liability’

by Derek Brouwer

The promoter who booked accused paid X an $80,000 fee for the Missoula to do with what was causing the domestic abuser and rapper XXXTenta- show—which he says has yet to be re- protest,” McCormick says. cion for a Halloween show at the Adams turned—and yet the artist couldn't be Joe says his company promoted Center says he’ll never work with the bothered to personally explain the can- X’s recent summer tour, and that the “crazy” artist again after he canceled a cellation to fans.

Missoula show was the first of four upMissoula appearance last week, then XXXTentacion gained popularity coming shows that were abandoned punched an audience member while while incarcerated for home invasion last week. performing at a California hip-hop festi- and aggravated battery. Last month, X’s latest actions seem to have val over the weekend.

Pitchfork reported on the pattern of convinced the promoter that he’s a “Look how big that show was in abuse alleged in 142-page testimony by “liability.”

Cali, and look what kind of stunt he a former girlfriend. His trial is scheduled “Before I booked him, I knew he pulled,” says promoter Lafonte Joe of to begin Dec. 11. was crazy,” Joe says. Nonetheless, Joe Bonaphied Entertainment. “He’s was planning to expand his relationcrazy. I was actually in the process ship with the artist, saying that a of working on him coming back to $1.5 million, 15-show tour had been Missoula in February, but it’s not in the works, and noting that it’s his even worth it." job to book artists whose work is “hot.” Now he’s imploring disgrunVideo surfaced over the weektled Missoula fans to rethink their end of a physical altercation beadmiration for the rapper. tween the 19-year-old rapper, “They’re not seeing the busiknown as X, and an audience ness part of it. There’s a lot of member at the Rolling Loud music money involved,” he says. “When festival in Mountain View, Califoryou’ve got someone like X who’s nia, while the artist was crowd-surfyoung and doesn’t care at the level ing during his set. After the he’s at—just that incident in Cali audience member appears to initishows you something about the ate contact, the rapper proceeds to person.” punch him repeatedly as the man He continues: “Look what kind falls to the ground. In a subseof person you guys are mad that’s quent Instagram post, X described Rapper Jahseh Onfroy, aka XXXTentanot showing up. That could have his actions as self-defense. cion, who cancelled an Oct. 27 Miseasily been someone in the Mis“Yo, I ended up punching soula appearance. soula crowd that got punched.” someone because they punched me Bonaphied Entertainment has preSome University of Montana stuin my shit,” he wrote.

That X was even performing in Cal- dents were planning to protest the viously booked shows at the Adams ifornia was surprising, given the expla- show, and met with President Sheila Center, including recent appearances by nation, reported by the Missoulian, Stearns about it the day X’s cancellation Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne.

X’s purported agent, Cara Lewis, that the cancellation of his perform- was announced, according to the Misance at the Halloween Lit Party was due soulian. They argued that the univer- did not respond to an email request for to a prohibition on travel tied to his up- sity’s hosting of the event signaled a comment. An assistant at Lewis’ agency coming Florida trial on domestic vio- willingness to tolerate violent individu- declined to make Lewis available after lence charges, in which he is accused als when profitable. Bonaphied rented asking which artist the Indy was inquirof brutally assaulting his then-pregnant the Adams Center for the Halloween Lit ing about.

The Oct. 27 show will continue as Party show, and the university was not girlfriend. scheduled, with performances by Tyga, Bonaphied’s Joe says he spoke involved in its promotion.

Adams Center Director John Mc- Lil Pump and Famous Dex. with X’s agent, Cara Lewis, on Sunday, and she explained that the judge had Cormick says the university was in con“In all reality, X may be hot now, but pre-approved the artist’s travel for the tact with the promoter about the Tyga has hit records after hit records,” Joe protests, but he doesn't believe that led says. “He’s just new and these kids like him California event. for whatever reason.”

But her explanation did little to re- to X’s cancellation.

“I don’t know if the protest had anylieve the promoter’s frustration. Joe says his Yakima, Washington-based company thing to do with it. I think it had more dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [9]

[opinion]

Unopposed Engen needs a challenger, but Triepke isn’t it

by Dan Brooks

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This December the Missoulabased law firm of Worden Thane is leaving the Florence Building on Higgins for the new Stockman Bank building on Broadway and Orange. With our roots firmly planted in Montana, our team looks forward to serving Missoula and surrounding communities from our new offices for years to come.

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[10] Missoula Independent • October 26–November 2, 2017

There are no polls tracking the Missoula mayoral election, so for all we know Lisa Triepke might win. It’s hard to think that last week improved her chances, though. On Tuesday, Peter Friesen of the Missoulian reported that the candidate purchased two homes in May and June of 2016, when she was also receiving public assistance. Triepke applied for and received benefits from the Low Income Energy Assistance Plan and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan—the latter commonly known as food stamps—during her divorce, and she was still getting them when she bought a house in Missoula and a rental property in Gulf Breeze, Fla., for $150,000 apiece.

Two days later, the Missoulian reported that Triepke also bought a used car and a motor home during that time. Making good use of the passive voice, Friesen wrote that “the Missoulian was given records from the Montana Motor Vehicle Division” that documented the purchases.

Probably, these records appeared on the city desk amid the sound of reindeer on the rooftop and a mysterious disappearance of cookies from the break room.

Maybe, though, they came from the campaign to re-elect John Engen.

There can be no coherent theory of Missoula politics without Mayor Engen at its center. He is now running for his fourth term, having won a four-way election in 2013 with two-thirds of the vote.

The editorial board of the Missoulian formally endorsed him this week, in a statement that did not mention he used to work there. That is only fair play, since they did not disclose that Wes Spiker was working with the Triepke campaign when the paper ran his guest column praising her in September.

That column prompted a complaint from Rep. Ellie Hill Smith to the state commissioner of political practices, which found last week that the Triepke campaign had failed to file finance reports on time or with sufficient detail on multiple occasions. Commissioner Jeff Mangan noted that “the failure to fully and timely report and disclose cannot

generally be excused by oversight or ignorance”—an assessment that suggests Triepke wasn’t trying to deceive state authorities but didn’t fully grasp how the process was supposed to work.

That’s the problem in a nutshell, right there. There are legitimate criticisms to be levied against Engen’s administration, but Triepke is not the right person to levy them. Her campaign slogan, “Enough is enough,” captures not only the frustration she hopes to harness, but also her inability

“The mayor has not faced serious opposition—to his candidacy or to his policies—in a long time. It makes me wonder whether his talents are being fully expressed.” to channel it into something useful. Maybe voters have had enough of Mayor Engen, but what else is on offer?

I have my own complaints about how the mayor’s office has operated over the last few years. I think it’s commendable that Engen checked himself into a monthlong, inpatient alcohol rehabilitation program last fall, but it’s weird that we learned about it only after he came back.

When the Missoulian reported that we would have an interim mayor for an indefinite period owing to “undisclosed medical reasons” and left the story at that, it

was a sign that his office had gotten a little too secure.

The process by which the city acquired Mountain Water was another unsettling indicator. I’m glad we own our water system, but I’m disappointed that the legal bill came to 20 times what the mayor’s office originally estimated. The lawyers’ fees mount even now, and the city won’t provide detailed invoices showing how the money has been spent. This refusal of public accountability in its most literal sense implies that the mayor has become too comfortable in his position, in a way that might have discouraged him from being as careful as possible with taxpayer dollars.

Can you blame him? He won his last election by almost 50 points. His opponent this time around has stumbled into not one but three October surprises, in the Missoulian reports and the campaign finance reporting violation, and she has yet to secure an endorsement from any prominent figure she has not paid. Maybe we will all be shocked in two weeks, but I suspect the mayor will win again.

That’s not so bad. Engen is a good mayor, and Missoula has been a good place these last dozen years. My concern is that our electoral landscape does not give him an incentive to be better. The Triepke campaign has pointed out real problems facing the city, particularly with regard to affordable housing, but it has not offered concrete solutions or convinced me its candidate is the right person to implement them. That’s the problem with Missoula politics today.

I’m voting for John Engen this year, because there is no viable alternative. The mayor has not faced serious opposition— to his candidacy or to his policies—in a long time. It makes me wonder whether his talents are being fully expressed.

Maybe he would do more to please us if he were vying for our affection with someone else.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the value of a close election at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Subsidizing prey Predators deserve a place of pride on public lands

by George Wuerthner

It is a popular notion among some conservationists that the way to win acceptance for predators like wolves is to work with rural communities and ranchers. Gaining their support certainly helps wildlife managers justify killing packs or individual wolves whenever they prey on cattle.

But these control tactics have limited application. At best, they reduce conflicts in targeted areas and have no significant effect on the distribution or survival of native predators. At worst, they add to the delusion that widespread coexistence between predators and livestock is possible.

The killing of seven members of the Profanity Peak pack in Washington illustrates how a wolf pack paid the ultimate price for merely trying to eke out a living in a place where unfenced domestic livestock had been released to graze.

Hundreds of cattle were released on the allotment, and salt blocks used by cattle were placed near the den site. That led to wolf depredation on cattle followed by the killing of pack members.

A growing body of scientific research now shows that killing problem wolves often begets yet more conflicts. Whether the killing is done to protect livestock or for “sport” by hunters, it tends to skew wolf populations towards younger animals less skilled at hunting. Loss of individual pack members can also result in changes in a pack’s ability to hold a territory, pushing the animals into new areas where they are less familiar with native prey. Both outcomes often lead to livestock getting killed by wolves.

Even “predator friendly” operations harm native wildlife. When ranchers use noisemakers like boat horns or firecrackers, shoot at predators to scare them, or otherwise harass wolves and other predators, this hounding and stressing of our wildlife is considered legitimate. But why should conservation organizations pay for range riders or organize volunteers to harass public animals like wolves to protect someone’s private livestock?

In effect, these groups are saying that wolves, coyotes and other native wildlife do not have a “right” to live on public lands that are being exploited by ranchers. Cows, not native to the West, have preference.

If I were to harass elk on a winter range, force bald eagles away from their nests or in other ways harass our wildlife, I would likely risk a fine. If I were to go out into the midst of a herd of sheep grazing on public lands and

“As long as the dominant paradigm is that a rancher’s livestock has priority on public lands, we will never fully restore native predators to our lands.” start shooting guns or firing off firecrackers to stampede the herd, I would risk imprisonment. But when it comes to harrying wolves, somehow this kind of harassment has become legitimate.

The negative impacts of livestock on our native wildlife go even further than harassment or lethal control—something that none of the “collaborative” groups ever mention to their membership or the press. Just the mere presence of domestic livestock often results in the social displacement and abandonment of the area by native ungulates such as elk.

If one assumes that elk select the best habitat for their needs, then displacement to other lands reduces their overall fitness. And we cannot forget that on many public lands, the vast majority of forage is reserved and allotted to domestic livestock, leaving only the leftovers for native wildlife.

If we assume that one of the limiting factors for native wildlife is highquality forage, and that less nutritious feed means fewer elk, deer and bighorns, then we are literally taking food out of the mouths of our native predators.

When there is a conflict between private livestock grazing public lands and the public’s native wildlife, such as grizzlies, coyotes and wolves, just which animals should be removed?

That is a question that “collaboratives” never ask. It is always assumed that if predators are causing problems for ranchers, the predators, not the livestock, should go.

This assumption adds up to direct and indirect subsidies for the livestock industry. As long as the dominant paradigm is that a rancher’s livestock has priority on public lands, we will never fully restore native predators to our lands. That is why we need to reframe the narrative and recognize that domestic livestock are the “problem” for our native wildlife.

Next time one of these collaboration groups asks for your money, consider giving your funds elsewhere.

Look for organizations that challenge the dominance of livestock on public lands through grazing allotment buyouts or that promote the notion that public predators have priority on our public lands.

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missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [11]

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ALIEN INVASION – Bryant Johnson of Casper, Wyoming, was on a mission on Oct. 2 when police responded to a call about a man warning citizens of an alien invasion coming next year. KTWO Radio in Casper reported that Johnson told police he had traveled back in time from 2048, explaining that the aliens filled his body with alcohol and had him stand on a giant pad that transported him back to 2017—although he was supposed to arrive in 2018. He also asked to speak with the “president of the town.” Instead, Bryant was arrested for public intoxication.

FARM ANIMALS GONE WILD – The owners of a mischievous ass in Vogelsberg, Hesse, Germany, have been ordered to pay for damages after Vitus the donkey apparently mistook an orange McLaren Spider sports car for a carrot. When Markus Zahn left his $411,000 car parked next to a paddock on Sept. 16, 2016, he returned to find that Vitus had nibbled on its paint to the tune of almost $7,000 in damage. “The donkey had insurance, but the insurance didn’t want to pay,” Zahn told the BBC. Vitus’s rap sheet also includes biting a Mercedes.

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OOPS! – In Romania, it takes more than foul weather or a damaged field to stop football. On Sept.

24, a match between Bistrita Brosteni and Vanatorul Dorna Candrenilor was abandoned just 58 minutes in after all the teams’ balls ended up in the nearby Bistrita River, according to the Hindustan Times. Bistrita was winning 2-0 when they ran out of balls. Fans suggested they might find the balls at the Bicaz dam nearby.

CREEPS ON PARADE – Samantha the intelligent sex doll suffered a number of indignities at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, in early September. Sergi Santos of Barcelona, Spain, who developed Samantha, said men at the show acted “like barbarians. Two fingers were broken. She was heavily soiled.” Samantha, who talks, is also programmed to react when someone touches her.

Santos told Metro News that Samantha would have to undergo repairs and cleaning, but she “can endure a lot. She will pull through.”

–Metro News also reports that women in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, have contacted police about a mysterious man handing out provocative notes in the streets. The notes begin: “No offence intended. You are simply a female that caught my eye. ... I am looking for a possible private arrangement. If you understand my meaning.” The man has handed out several of the notes, one to a 14year-old girl at Middlesbrough Bus Station. Her sister called the phone number at the bottom of the note and said the voice “sounded foreign.” She went on: “It made me feel a bit uncomfortable and it set off my anxiety.”

DO NOT EAT! – Doctors thought a 47-year-old postman in Preston, Lancashire, England, who complained of a persistent cough might have cancer, as he was a long-term smoker whose X-rays showed a spot on his lung. But when they removed the mass, the BBC reported, they found the “long-lost Playmobil traffic cone” the patient had received as a gift on his seventh birthday. He told doctors he had regularly swallowed the small pieces as a child and believed he had inhaled the tiny cone. Happy ending: After the toy was removed, the man’s cough almost disappeared and his other symptoms improved.

CORPORATE SHENANIGANS – The Russian division of Burger King has asked the country’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to ban Stephen King’s horror movie It from showing in Russian theaters because the clown character, Pennywise, looks too much like Ronald McDonald, and therefore the movie is advertising for McDonald’s. However, the Hollywood Reporter noted, the movie opened in Russia on Sept. 7 and had already grossed millions of dollars by late September. A spokeswoman for the FAS, confirming that the complaint had been received, said, “We can’t be concerned with the content of the film,” but the agency would determine whether it contained advertising or product placement.

INEXPLICABLE – If you’re already shopping for your 2018 calendar, Metro News recommends you don’t overlook the Carponizer Carp Calendar, which features “12 beautiful carps with attractive women.

On high quality paper.” Oh, and the women are naked. Hendrik Pohler, 28, the calendar’s creator, was struck with the idea when he was fishing with a friend “and at the spot next to us were two hot girls fishing,” he told Maxim, which described the models as having “stiff, pained expressions.”

CRIME REPORT – Patrick Joseph Adams Jr., 36, of Great Falls, Montana, pulled the ultimate heist in July when he convinced two male friends and his girlfriend to help him “move out” of a house that wasn’t his. One of the friends was suspicious when he saw a wall in the home dedicated to military service, but didn’t remember that Adams had been in the service, the Great Falls Tribune reported.

That friend left before the move was complete, but the rest of the group loaded about $40,000 worth of belongings into a U-Haul, requiring two trips. Later that evening, the true homeowner of the burglarized house called police and reported the theft, and through U-Haul records police were able to track Adams down. He was charged on Sept. 28 with burglary and criminal mischief.

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missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [13]

emember that time when Qwest, the regional telecommunications company that owned the 30foot-high reflector panel on Waterworks Hill, threw up its hands and stopped trying to remove the hand-painted peace sign repeatedly tagged on its face?

That panel is gone now, though the peace sign lives on, tattooed directly into the hill, significantly larger. Missoula has changed in a lot of ways, but in a lot of ways it hasn’t.

It’s not hard to trace that Missoula spirit to the heart of the town, the University of Montana, the liberal arts institution that has fostered generations of artistic ingenuity, compassionate rallies and general weirdness.

Let’s just say Missoula loved the ’60s, man.

But nothing loved the ’60s more than the ’90s—the decade, it seemed, when mainstream America caught up with the counterculture and political awareness melded with political correctness. It’s no surprise that the passionate children of the ’90s became PTA warriors waging against oppressiveness in all its forms: bullying, exclusivity, marijuana laws…

This was highly evident in Missoula.

If you remember Missoula in the 1990s, you remember the causes, the protests, the bumper stickers, the hacky sacks and sandals.

The Festival of the Dead seemed to fit perfectly with Missoula. This was well before the city’s craft beer boom, back when sweet, earthy incense wafted onto the sidewalks from so many downtown shops. It was an era in which Missoula reveled in its countercultural identity, a politically precious blue dot in an imposing red sea. Missoula had no problem taking its stand, drawing lines in the organically composted soil.

So it makes sense that in the early 1990s Missoulians would create a festival

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in its own embracing image, simultaneously a multicultural invitation to the world beyond Missoula and a creative outlet for Missoulians.

The festival germinated in a conversation between two Missoula artists, Michael de Meng and Bev Beck Glueckert. Meng was still enamored of a trip he’d taken to Oaxaca, in central Mexico— especially a Mexican national holiday called Dia De Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a visually vibrant celebration centered on the confrontation and comprehension of death. The pair thought: Wouldn’t it be cool to do here what they do there?

The difficulty was obvious.

“We couldn’t do a Dia De Los Muertos, we didn’t have a significant Latino population,” says Glueckert, co-creator of the inaugural 1993 event. “We thought, we need to do a Missoula version and label it as a ‘multicultural celebration of life, death and the arts.’”

The idea was not to bring the Day of the Dead to Missoula, but to create a new and independent event in which people could participate in their own ways, reflective of communities throughout Missoula and Montana. For several years after the event’s launch, organizers invited speakers, lecturers and artists from the state’s varied cultures and religions to talk about life and death and art.

The event evolved, as events do, and because of the name, and because the parade falls on Nov. 2, the final day of the multi-day Dia De Muertos in Mexico, the Day of the Dead influence loomed larger every year. This year, Missoula’s 25th annual iteration of the festival, the parallels have become too close for comfort.

“Ask anybody on the street, what are they going to call it? They’re going to call

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it Day of the Dead,” says Rosalyn LaPier, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Montana.

LaPier is also a volunteer spokeswoman for community members and advocacy groups throughout the state that are challenging the festival as an appropriation of Mexican culture that has airlifted elements of the authentic Day of the Dead celebration and placed them in Missoula without appropriate acknowledgement of context, cultural evolution or impact.

“One of the main issues is that this does appropriate an indigenous religious

practice with its own traditions,” LaPier says. “A vast majority [of Montanans] see it as Halloween Part 2, a day to have a parade, dress up, paint their faces, listen to live music and drink.”

The debate has shaken the event to its foundation. It has also shaken Missoula’s self-conception as a wellspring of good intentions. As the language of appropriation matures and social media enables access to shared concern and dismay, what was once considered progressive and inclusive is now under fire as oppressive.

It was probably just a matter of time before communities of color would confront the cultural norms of a majoritywhite town like Missoula with their concerns, whether Missoula was ready or not.

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ace matters. Missoula lacks the ethnic diversity that so many Missoulians are eager to celebrate. According to 2016 U.S. Census estimates, or any cursory glance out the window, Missoula is mostly—92 percent—white. The Census reports that just over 3 percent of Missoula County residents identify as Hispanic, which is an umbrella designation that doesn’t necessarily refer to strictly Mexican or even South American heritage. Even so, that 3 percent is more than 3,300 people, making Hispanics the county’s largest minority group.

In 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization added Dia De Los Muertos to the “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” The event is a carefully thought out occasion that requires sensitivity in preparation, according to the UNESCO designation: “Great care is taken with all aspects, for it is believed that the dead are capable of bringing prosperity or misfortune upon their families depending on how satisfactorily the rituals are executed.”

Such sensitivity is lacking in the Missoula event, critics say. “Because people are not learning the history of the event, it becomes a caricature,” LaPier says.

Nobody (outside of social media blasts) is dismissing critics’ concerns about cultural appropriation. Festival organizers have in fact been receptive to the issues raised by LaPier and others. Festival coordinator Tarn Ream says the festival’s organizing committee has worked to definitively distinguish the Missoula festival from the traditional Day of the Dead. At the same time, Ream says, organizers have a responsibility to the Missoula community that has embraced the festival.

This year, the organizing committee canceled a long-running workshop inviting people to create sugar skulls, the colorful decorations that are perhaps the most iconic symbol of Mexican Day of the Dead observances. Last year, in response to similar concerns, the committee canceled festival-sanctioned face-painting booths prior to the procession. Organizers have also discussed moving the event, the procession in particular, to a different date, so as to distance Missoula’s Festival of the Dead from Mexico’s Day of the Dead, but ultimately decided not to.

Ream says there is a need for an event through which people can address

death, and that fall is an appropriate time to do that.

Indeed, multiple cultures worldwide feature ceremonies commemorating death in late summer and fall, among them Halloween in the United States, the Hungry Ghost Festival in China and Chuseok in North and South Korea. “Fall time is a good time, it’s an introspective time, things are dying all around us. There’s definitely an agreement we need to keep it in the fall,” Ream says.

coming derivative of its inspiration, which is where the appropriation debate comes in.

The Missoula Festival of the Dead encompasses a month of activities, most of which have no direct ties to traditional Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations.

Among them are writing workshops that invite participants to pen their own obituaries, art shows and a class in which participants can create their own urns.

To that extent, Glueckert’s vision of a Missoula-centric event is on full display.

Cultural appropriation—the dynamic by which dominant cultures adopt and adapt ideas or practices from a smaller, more vulnerable culture for any type of gain—is a difficult concept to pin down, and a thorny point of contention in contemporary identity politics. If you’re unaware of the terms of the debate, it could take a week of phone calls and interviews with at least half a dozen experts and passionate community members to even start to get an idea. If you don’t accept those terms,

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Then there is the procession, which is the Missoula Festival of the Dead’s most iconic event. This year’s procession is scheduled for Nov. 2 and is expected to feature dozens of community groups who have been welcomed to participate in any way that they choose. There is no entry fee, and aside from a general request that participants be culturally respectful, there is neither any authority nor mechanism for approving entries or messages.

“If anyone’s participation is offensive to another, I don’t know how to control something like that,” Glueckert says.

it’s likely that you’ve already dismissed the concept as an invention of the overly sensitive and politically correct.

And that attitude is among the things that make appropriation so harmful, says Judith Heilman, executive director of the Montana Racial Equity Project, based in Bozeman.

“They can do it and be seen as just so wonderful and brave and creative, with no reference back to the culture that actually created it,” Heilman says. “Meanwhile, those people who have been appropriated are vilified and subject to

n its original incarnation, Missoula’s Festival of the Dead focused on art, via death, and while it might have been a myopic hope, Glueckert says she envisioned a Montana-centric festival.

“We had an invitation to participate in any of the events, ‘Please come and bring your own expression, share with everyone,’” she says. “There was absolutely no control or jurying or censoring, no one was standing there to tell someone who can participate or not.”

By the same token, there was no oversight to keep the event from be-

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discrimination and oppression for [making their concerns public].”

“The way we deal with lack of diversity is to simply make things more colorful, as if everyone were on a flat playing field,” says Tobin Miller Shearer, an associate professor of history and director of African American Studies at the university. “We divorce the conversation from power dynamics.”

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ranted, it’s not hard to find a Missoulian of Mexican descent who genuinely appreciates the Festival of the Dead, procession and all, because it taps into the familiarity, even if removed by distance and practice, of home and family. It’s just as easy to find another who is uncomfortable seeing a family tradition replicated by people in a country that just voted to “build the wall.”

“If you went to a hundred people in Mexico and told them that they celebrate Day of the Dead here, I guarantee you most of them would say ‘Wow, that’s so cool,’” says Juan Hudorovich, who grew up in Mexico City and moved to Missoula about a decade ago. Hudorovich is also a parent of students at the Missoula International School, which offers a Spanish language immersion program and Day of the Dead presentations and activities during the week leading up to the holiday.

Hudorovich is a firm believer in the evolution of cultures. Appropriation happens naturally, he says, and can often help strengthen identity. In Mexico City, for instance, it’s more common for people to celebrate American Halloween than Day of the Dead, he says. And many Day of the Dead displays, in which favorite foods, drinks and toys of deceased family members are arranged, now include Americanized symbols of the fall season, like pumpkins.

Hudorovich, whose wife, Lynn, grew up in Ronan, says Missoula’s Festival of the Dead has little in common with traditional processions in Mexico.

Even so, he appreciates and welcomes the influence.

“Doing it is more a show of respect than not doing it at all,” Hudorovich says.

Hudorovich recognizes the good intentions behind the event. But intent is not always the same as what’s received.

Hudorovich draws a number on a piece of paper and hands it over. “I’m going to give you a 9,” he says, “but what do you see as you take it? You see a 6. That isn’t the same to you.”

Missoula’s Festival of the Dead was created to generate awareness, Hudorovich says. Call this the 9. If what we see is 6, we need more context. “Then

“The way we deal with lack of diversity is to simply make things more colorful, as if everyone were on a flat playing field.

We divorce the conversation from power dynamics.” we have to raise awareness by asking questions.”

There is no doubt that Missoula’s Festival of the Dead is steeped in the good intentions of the artists who participate, the procession-marchers holding candles and portraits of loved ones, and even a portion of Missoula’s Mexican population, as slim as it is. However, absent a continuous reconsideration of the festival’s events and constant re-evaluation of its evolution and purpose, Mis-

Wallace says the debate surrounding the festival should be considered healthy, and should happen regularly to help keep concerns at the forefront. Failure to communicate consistently could result in the creation of systemic oppression, she says.

“Systemic is when something is historically embedded, pervasive and seeped into our systems,” Wallace says.

“We’re set up to see it as normal. That’s why it’s hard to peel the layers off.”

reports similarly heated reactions from protesters.

And this is where the conversation about cultural appropriations tends to get thrown off-track. The language used to describe the issue—“racist” and “oppressive” are commonly deployed in descriptions of appropriation—is harsh and can seem especially unfair to people accustomed to seeing themselves as allies in the fight against racism and oppression.

“The oppressor is demanding the oppressed come to them, tell them how they are being oppressed, being subject to disbelief,” Heilman says. “That is oppression.”

Similarly, she stands firm in calling the festival and its organizers racist. The term, she says, is not restricted just to radicals who actively seek to exclude or harm people of color.

“Most people who are racists are great people,” Heilman says. “‘Racist’ is a very broad term. People get defensive because in their minds, they have a single image that racists are avowed members of the Ku Klux Klan. Then they get defensive, because who wants to be seen as that?”

“If you’re being called a racist,” Ream says, “it makes it difficult to hold a conversation.”

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soula may find that a dynamic of appropriation, if not outright racism, has been embedded into the festival, says Heidi Wallace, executive director of Empower Montana.

Empower Montana, a local nonprofit that seeks to give voice and leadership training to diverse Montana communities, attempted to facilitate a solution to concerns leveled at last year’s Festival of the Dead with a sparsely attended public forum. Wallace says she doesn’t want to see the festival end, but she does recognize concerns about some of the imagery it traffics in.

Peeling those layers is harder for some than for others. Pushback to criticism of the festival has grown heated.

LaPier says her concerns have been met with harsh criticism. Facebook commenters registering disagreement with her stance are frequently dismissive of her concerns, and sometimes worse.

“This is a huge issue online,” LaPier says. “We, who are bringing up our concerns, have become targets for death threats and racist comments. This is not bringing out the best of Missoula.”

Ream, who has been organizing the Festival of the Dead for about a decade,

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Ream has extended an invitation to any Hispanic volunteer to sit on the Festival of the Dead coordinating committee. She says she fully supports conversations about ingrained racism in the Missoula community, which she knows exists—“no doubt about it.”

That isn’t enough for critics. The two current Hispanic and Latinx festival committee members have been dismissed as “tokens,” Ream says. And Heilman, with the Racial Equity Project in Bozeman, is quick to describe the invitation for people of color to join the committee in no uncertain terms.

mid the muddle, it seems abundantly clear that the good intentions that animated the founding of the Festival of the Dead are due for reconsideration. The pushback that has bubbled to the fore this year is apparently overdue.

Good intentions aren’t always enough.

And sometimes they aren’t even good.

“If we place it in the historic framework of white liberalism, people have always hidden behind good intention,” says Shearer, the university’s African American Studies director. “It’s as if they are saying, ‘The results don’t matter, because we didn’t mean for it to happen.

As long as I had good intentions, the results would be fine.’”

But results do matter, Shearer says.

Cultural appropriation is real, and it’s not just a matter of hurt feelings. “It’s a matter of blithely using [appropriated culture] to pursue your own cultural ends,” Shearer says. And those cultural ends contain an economic element.

The Missoula Festival of the Dead is financially supported by a small group of donors, including individuals and local businesses that contribute anywhere from $50 to thousands of dollars. In total, the festival brings in about $9,000, Ream says. A big chunk of that is used to pay for art supplies and artists who teach the 18 different workshops (not including the canceled sugar skulls class) that are held throughout the month. The revenue is also used to pay for traffic barriers, the $150 parade permit and insurance for the procession, which can cost as much as $2,000. Any remainder goes to Ream, the coordinator, who otherwise volunteers her time.

As if to underscore the complexity of the racial conversation in Missoula, Shearer is a white man leading an

African American Studies program. He speaks about issues of race and racism with confidence, using terms like “liberal arrogance” to describe the defensive reactions to expressed concerns of racism.

“They are much more reactive, because they felt they had solved that problem,” he says.

Still, this doesn’t sound like Ream, who emphasizes that neither she nor the committee wants to deny the concerns of any person in Missoula. She’s led the Festival of the Dead for years, sometimes forging partnerships with organizations that contribute talent and labor. Today, she says, she can’t think of another person lined up to take over coordinating duties without her.

During an afternoon interview, Ream was visibly conflicted, and exhausted.

“There’s a lot of indecision here,” she said, extending another invitation for community members to join the festival planning committee. “We all see that change has to happen, and we’re all looking to see what that has to be.”

As far as coordinating the festival moving forward, she said, rubbing her eyes and releasing a sigh, “I have some decisions to make.” photo by Cathrine L. Walters

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Word play The squishy task of finding a good band name

by Erika Fredrickson

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get a lot of press releases for bands in my inbox, most of which I casually delete or set aside for later. But sometimes I’m compelled to yell out a band’s name to my co-workers because it’s either too good or too terrible to keep to myself. Chastity Belt was an instant favorite when I first heard it, albeit specifically because it’s an all-female band. I was nearly brought to tears (of joy and laughter) when I heard about the Missoulabased Bob Seger cover band Close, But No Seger. Integrity, though—I don’t dig it.

The metal band might be good, but I’ll probably never know because the heavyhanded blandness of the name falls so flat, I can’t bring myself to listen. I mean, you named your band Integrity to let us know you have integrity? In the immortal words of Kool Keith, “I don’t believe you.”

First of all, let me acknowledge that this is trivial subject matter. Clearly, it’s the music that matters most, and the quality of a band name is a little subjective. For instance, I am fond of I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness because it’s a full sentence (which is awesome) and it’s funny and it speaks to the formative gothiness of my youth. But I do understand it’s also maybe too ridiculous.

There are a lot of examples of band names that are good because the name describes exactly what you are going to hear. You can’t listen to the Australian band Dead and not hear the sound of decay in their music. When I talked about this with Jason McMackin, the bassist for Close, But No Seger and Total Combined Weight, he brought up Metallica first.

“However you feel about the band Metallica, the name Metallica is beyond perfect,” he says. “It looks like metal, it sounds like metal, it means metallic, it has the word ‘metal’ in it and it could be the name of a crack cadre of commandos in the baddest army on the planet.”

Of course there are plenty of great band names that don’t say much about the music at all, but still work really well.

McMackin’s favorites include ZZ Top, Weezer, Black Sabbath, Butthole Surfers, Wu Tang Clan, X, De La Soul.

“Band names that make me want to puke in no particular order?” he adds.

“Leftover Salmon, Goo Goo Dolls, Dave Matthews Band, Toad the Wet Sprocket and any gerund name band, like Breaking Benjamin, Smashing Pumpkins, Stabbing Westward and Counting Crows.”

You can come up with band names through the site Band Name Generator, which is a pretty fun way to do it. My randomly generated list included Hostile Crane and the Ketchup (silly), Soundboard Treatment (flat, doesn’t say anything), Creme Barber (gross), Super Trap (“Oh, you mean Supertramp?”) and Trap Island (not too bad).

Ultimately the generator just reveals how hollow a randomly selected band name can sound. But if there are rules for how to make a good band name, it’s hard to pinpoint. Caroline Keys and the Lane Splitters got their band name from an inside joke. The group was recording their first album at a studio in Portland, Ore., next to a motorcycle shop.

“All these motorcycles were piled up in the alley and several of them had a sticker on them that said, ‘Lane Splitting: because, fuck you,’” Keys says.

“Lane Splitting is an edgy thing nobody in my band would do, but they all ride motorcycles, so we started to jokingly call ourselves that.”

A lot of people, myself included, hear “lane splitter” and think of bowling (“Which is great!” Keys says) instead of a motorcycle tearing down the line between two lanes. But as it turns out, the

bowling and wild driving images kind of work together once you know them: Caroline Keys and the Lane Splitters play music that rides the line between sweet and salty.

“Good band names find a balance between saying who the band is, without saying anything specific, but also without being super esoteric or random words squished together,” says Travis Yost, Close, But No Seger frontman and known Missoula multi-instrumentalist and producer. “Bad band names give too much description. The words ‘blues,’ ‘funk,’ ‘swing,’ or ‘band’ should be avoided. Band names like Kathleen Turner Overdrive and Death Bed Spread are reserved for either joke bands or noise rock. Good band names keep the syllables between two and five, with hard consonants.” Yost’s favorite names include Red Fang, Presidents of the United States of America, American Falcon, Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age and Queen. Least favorites: Chicken Foot, the Cranberries and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Kate Morris, a playwright, poet and all-around creative badass, says that a band’s music is so tied to her view of it that it’s hard to untangle. Still, she says, the band name adds an extra layer to its aesthetic.

“The thing that gets me interested in a band name alone is image,” she says.

“They either have to have a fun concept that they’re playing with or there has to

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be a strong image that I identify with.”

Two examples she offers: Human Leather and Choir Boy, both synth bands whose names don’t immediately signify their genre but do, somehow, work. “Listening to them you think, ‘That is exactly what you should have titled your band,’” she says.

Band names are sometimes also of their time.

“Would we get behind a band name like Nirvana now?” Morris asks. “There’s been a huge Eastern religion boom [in the U.S.] over the last 20 years and we’re all acquainted with it.”

I think she’s right. The first Nirvana song I heard was when someone put “Negative Creep” on a mixtape for me in 1989. I wasn’t thinking about any pseudo-spiritualism like I might if I heard about them now. I was just feeling consumed by the guitar feedback and angst.

Even if someone hated the name Nirvana back then, the music and its legacy (whether you like it or not) has transformed it over time.

“It’s funny how a band name can seem goofy at first sight, but then after years it seems totally normal and good,” says Indy reporter (and music geek) Susan Shepard. “Like Yo La Tengo. Or Cat Power.”

Some of Shepard’s favorite names are Throwing Muses, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 because it’s “excessive yet weirdly whimsical just like the band itself,”

and Fugazi, because it sounds like the band and no one knows what it means.

“A good band name should give you an idea of the contents. Metal bands are pretty great at naming themselves, in part because they know their aesthetic lane: Wolves in the Throne Room, Pallbearer. So were pop bands in the 90s: the Spice Girls, Destiny’s Child, En Vogue. I don’t know how we’re supposed to know that One Direction isn’t a Christian rock band.”

One of Shepard’s pet peeves is that some bands just don’t bother checking (or caring) before naming themselves something that’s already been done (Game Theory, for instance).

And sometimes, a band name gets lost in the shuffle over the years. I only recently listened to the bombastic garage band Dr. Feelgood and fell in love with them, but it took me forever because whenever I saw the name, I thought of Mötley Crüe in its worst butt rock years. That’s just unfortunate—and maybe sloppy on my part—but not really anyone’s fault.

Some bands are both smart enough and lucky enough to get to the best monikers first. The Who and X had it easy. The rest of us have to wrestle with whether something like Gandalf ’s Staff Infection (which, as of this writing, is still available) really says what we want it to say about us. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

In between Indian Goat’s 1 evokes Spokane grit There’s a great essay Spokane writer Jess Walter wrote for McSweeney’s in 2011.

It’s basically a long list that compares Spokane to Seattle and Portland, and talks about the prevalence of grown men riding BMX bikes. For some reason, that’s what’s on my mind when I think of gritty ol’ Spokane, the home of Indian Goat, a twopiece rock band whose music crisscrosses heavy blues and doom. The songs have a well-worn feel, and also are pretty effective in how they groove along. Guitarist Garrett Zanol plays using a slide, bending notes in a way that feels like it’s adding new vocabulary. The riffs are typical derivations on descending classics like Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” but when you think about it, what stoner rock music isn’t and transparently exactly that?

On its latest release, 1, Indian Goat is comfortable occupying its sound, which is a pleasantly uncontemporary one. The addition of the slide guitar creates a fluid and bent dynamic that makes me think a little bit of the band Morphine.

It’s not exactly stoner rock or doom, and I think that’s what attracted me to it. It has an inbetween feel that swings well, and the crunching guitar tones and desperate singing solidify a vibe that’s all Lilac City, for better or worse. For me, it’s better. ( Josh Vanek) Indian Goat plays the Ghost Carrot Records Music and Art Festival at the ZACC Fri., Oct. 27, and Sat., Oct. 28. Visit Ghost Carrot Records on Facebook for festival info. $15 festival pass/$13 for a single day.

Pale People, The World Is Yours For their third full-length album, Missoula’s Pale People have continued doing what they do best: producing highly theatrical, oddball “Broadway punk” music that revolves around the slightly concerning imagination of lead singer and keyboardist Mack Gilcrest. Asking bassist Kurt Skrivseth to describe some of the songs from The World Is Yours garners hilariously weird answers, like: “This is a song about waking up to having all your neuroses and anxiety stripped away, using the architecture of a house as a metaphor for your mind,” and, “This song is based on the short story of the same name by David Foster Wallace, about literally being skull-fucked by the advertising industry.”

Each song is as weird and wonderful as its premise. Gilcrest’s operatic and imperfect vocals

pair well with his enthusiastic keyboard banging, while the talent of Skrivseth and new drummer Austin Graef is more than apparent in the background. With sounds and lyrics reminiscent of David Bowie, and influenced by the likes of Dresden Dolls and musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim, the album is hugely diverse but also cohesive—perhaps all drawn together by Gilcrest’s sensibilities and interests.

But, in a highly narrative and often wacky album, the standout track is both the simplest and most personal: “Crow Song,” a ballad about Gilcrest’s mother, who died of cancer when he was 14, shows both the band’s depth and growth.

(Sarah Aswell)

Omni, Multi-task Atlanta’s Omni play an exacting kind of sound in a genre name that may exist and of which I am most likely ignorant. On one hand, it’s a little like Television in that the playing is so good that the music has an alien feel—it’s not quite rock and roll, but similar enough to be disorienting. On the other, it’s more than a little like the newer band Parquet Courts and the mid-2000s band the Joggers, where you just have to kind of notice how good the playing is and appreciate that, even if the songs might be missing strong melodies that normally would pro-

vide the basis for instant attraction. The only difficulty is that it’s cold and detached music to its own detriment.

Normally, where you’d get thrown some kind of bone with the vocal parts, Multi-task is pretty much in monotone country for the whole record. It feels like it might be too cool for me. And no amount of great syncopated, singleguitar notes or awesome drums and bass work quite get me past that. (Josh Vanek) Omni plays the Union Hall Tue., Oct. 31, with Wilma Laverne Miner, Cairns and Carpool. $6.

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[books]

Bait and switch John Green’s Turtles takes an unexpected turn

by Sarah Aswell

Turtles All The Way Down starts with a mys- the page. But it’s more surprising how deftly Green tery: A billionaire businessman has disappeared, conveys the simple state of being human. Even if and there’s a $100,000 reward for anyone who can you’ve never struggled with mental health issues, locate him. Best friends Daisy and Aza set out to and even if being a teen is a fading memory, readfind him and collect the money—even if it means ing as Aza, Davis and Daisy navigate the world with such thoughtfulness and love makes this a great getting into some trouble along the way.

It’s a good premise for a young adult novel, book, not just a great YA book.

The teens’ occupation with philosophy and litand the beginning of the book feels like a very runof-the-mill YA read: It’s a light and semi-realistic erature can be a bit jarring and unrealistic at times jaunt in which one clue leads to the next, and of (please find me two 16-year-olds who text about course there are cute boys to fall for along the way. Shakespeare, Yeats and, literally, the universe), but somehow it all works. In fact, it But the book doesn’t stay that gives readers (teens or not) a lovely way for long. In full-on John Green world to occupy, along with lots of style, the adventurous-but-stale mysthoughts to ponder: Are we simply tery plot falls away into the backthe product of our circumstance? Is ground rather quickly, and we find it bestiality to sleep with a Wookie? ourselves in a much more subtle and In many ways, Green’s writing is real place: the mind of a 16-year-old reminiscent of older, classic Western girl, struggling with mental illness and literature, which isn’t so much trying to learn how who she is can be about the plot as it is about ideas: a separated from what she suffers from. series of revelations that the cast of It’s almost as if the big, formulaic plot characters work through together, of the missing billionaire was just to so well-written that you don’t miss sell the book to publishers, and then the action; in fact, thoughts become to teen readers, before a brilliant baitTurtles All the action. Really, the best scenes in and-switch to something that takes a the Way Down the book are not when the characlot longer to explain on the inside of John Green ters are illegally downloading info a book flap, but something that is hardcover, from a stop-motion camera or beautiful and meaningful and real.

Dutton Books for Young trudging through the sewers of InThis is the long-anticipated sev304 pages, $19.99 dianapolis; it’s when they are talkenth novel from Green, which comes after a five-year wait following The Fault in ing at Applebee’s, or driving in an old Camry, or Our Stars, a bestseller (and then blockbuster movie) looking up at the sky together.

Of course, the measure of a truly great book is about two teens with cancer who fall in love. The books have a lot in common: The main characters its end. What begins as a rocky and almost hackare all whip-smart and insightful—likely much more neyed beginning ramps up and blossoms with every so than your average teen, but as much as you hope page, and the climax is not about the missing billionteens are in their best moments. They are also all aire (whom we never cared about) at all, but about dealing with big issues: loss, illness, class differences a girl who isn’t sure how she can have her first kiss without her anxiety disorder ruining it. And just like and, of course, growing up and the future.

True to any great young adult novel (and most the best parts of the book, the climax mostly takes any young adult), there are two major relationships place inside Aza’s head, in a swirl of thoughts and at work: one between protagonist Aza and her first worries and feelings and impulses, where the reader boyfriend, the billionaire’s son Davis, and one be- might be surprised to be hanging on to each and tween Aza and her best friend Daisy, who is spunky every word. Finally, in the last few pages, what could enough for them both, but also a lot to handle. have easily been a formulaic happy ending (or a forGreen does a commendable job of balancing the mulaic sad ending) is astonishing in both its emotion weight of these two relationships evenly, along and structure. Five years was a long time to wait, but with Aza’s central occupation: learning to live with it’s Green’s best book to date.

John Green and Hank Green present a mulcrippling anxiety and obsessive compulsive disortimedia event on Turtles All the Way Down at der (OCD), which affects every aspect of her life.

Green has talked openly about his own OCD, the Urey Underground Lecture Hall Fri., Oct. so it’s no surprise that he handles the subject well. 27, at 7 PM. Sold out.

What is often a misunderstood disorder becomes crystal clear and personal and understandable on arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Starry sky overdrive Loving Vincent leans too hard on novelty

by Molly Laich

An oil painting of Douglas Booth starring as Armand Roulin in Loving Vincent.

It took more than 100 artists more than five years to create the 853 oil paintings that make up the animated biopic Loving Vincent. The film tells us all about the process in the opening credits, as if daring me not to write a good review. And listen, it’s not like I don’t feel guilty! We’re all aware by now of what a tremendous effort it took to bring to life 65,000 frames of Vincent Van Gogh’s legendary paintings. And for a few minutes there at the beginning, I felt sufficiently dazzled and enchanted. But eventually, the absence of a third-dimension wears on you, and before long you’re thinking, exactly how many more Starry Nights are left in this 94-minute movie, anyway?

Here’s the plot, in a nutshell. We begin one year after Vincent’s death. (I know! I also wish the already hopelessly enigmatic painter had been featured more prominently in his own damn movie.)

The painter shot himself in the tummy and slowly bled out, but not before penning a letter to his brother that was never sent, and anyway, the brother’s since died of syphilis. Still, the letter carries symbolic weight, and The Postman (Chris O’Dowd) asks his son Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) to deliver the letter to the deceased brother’s widow. From there, we get a Citizen Kane-esque series of interviews with the men and women who were around for Vincent’s last days, and was it really a suicide at all, etcetera.

The artist doesn’t get many speaking lines, but we do see him in some flashbacks, rendered in blackand-white oil painting, helpfully. The best is when he walks into a brothel to deliver a bit of something in a handkerchief to a prostitute—and Jesus Christ, it’s the ear! Sure, he was crazy at the time of the ear slicing, but by all accounts, he was doing much better at the end, so the crux of the mystery lies in this

flimsy question, delivered by The Postman: “How does a man go from calm to suicidal in six weeks?”

(It happens all the time, but never mind.)

Still, this is the first film of its kind! (The promotional material continuously reminds us.) It’s true with regard to the oil-painting piece, but we’ve seen the basic process before. It’s called rotoscoping, wherein you shoot live actors and then animate over the frame to create bizarre, dreamlike images, such as in Richard Linklater’s 2001 masterpiece Waking Life. What an exciting film that was, and not just because the visual storytelling technique offered something entirely original: The story mattered, too. The stream-of-consciousness, philosophical adventure in Waking Life continues to resonate with audiences long after the brain fatigues of the novelty of its squiggly images. There’s nothing enduring about Loving Vincent’s lame imperative to deliver a letter. We begin the film in adoration of all the work that’s gone into its production and perhaps a vague sadness that Van Gogh has died. By the end, it starts to feel like maybe, sometimes, death is better.

There exists a BBC short about the making of Loving Vincent, featuring one of the painters trained to reproduce Van Gogh’s precise strokes.

“I was only supposed to be in Poland for five weeks,” she tells the camera, with sick, desperate eyes. “It’s been more than five months…” How’s this for a spin-off idea: A real-life documentary directed by Charlie Kaufman featuring painters doomed to recreate Van Gogh paintings forever and ever… I mean, for the love of God, why did this need to be a feature-length production?

Loving Vincent opens at the Roxy Fri., Oct. 27.

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[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS Total elapsed time between the original Bad Moms and this holiday-themed sequel: 15 months. Rated R. Stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Susan Sarandon.

Opening Wed., Nov. 1 at the Missoula AMC 12.

JIGSAW The eponymous killer, thought dead since he took a bonesaw to the neck back in 2006’s Saw III, is the prime suspect in a new series of brutal deathtrap murders. Is he back from the dead, or is someone else carrying on his sinister work? Rated R. Featuring Tobin Bell, Matt Passmore and a screenplay by the guy who wrote The Hungover Games. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. I’ll save you a trip to Google, this is the eighth film in the franchise.

KEEP WATCHING When two deranged serial killers break into their home, a family has to stick together to make it out alive. Unbeknownst to the killers, there are hidden cameras throughout the home documenting their every move. Rated R. Featuring Bella Thorne, Chandler Riggs and a plot taken straight from Night Trap.

Opening Tue., Oct. 31 at the Missoula AMC 12.

LOVING VINCENT He was a brilliant, passionate painter who changed the world of art forever. Now Vincent Van Gogh’s story is told through painstaking animation. Every single one of this film’s 65,000 frames is an oil-painting, handpainted by hundreds of artists around the world.

Rated PG-13. Stars Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan and Aidan Turner. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) SUBURBICON Director George Clooney digs into the seedy underbelly of an idyllic suburban community in the late ‘50s.

Adapted from a screenplay by the Coen Brothers, and we all know how well non-Coens direct Coen scripts, right? Rated R. Stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE Getting through war was difficult enough, but for this group of soldiers returning home, the real battle is just beginning. Rated R. Stars Miles Teller, Haley Bennett and Amy Schumer. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

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.

COOL HAND LUKE (1967) A petty crook finds himself on a Florida prison farm.

I hope he’s got some good communication skills.

Rated PG, but a 1967 PG. Stars Paul Newman, George Kennedy and fifty hardboiled eggs. Playing Wed., Nov. 1 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

THE FOREIGNER Jackie Chan enters the fighting-terrorists-who-killed-hisdaughter 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 and the Pharaohplex.

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.

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.

HOUSE (1977) Not the William Katt movie about a haunted Vietnam vet, this Japanese film features more murder and mayhem than anything on this side of the Pacific.

Rated R, but I give it a WTF. Stars Kimiko Ikemgami, a hungry piano and the scariest cat you’ve ever seen.

Playing Sun., Oct. 29 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

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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.

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.

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Superspy Eggsy Unwin is back to battle the forces of chaos. This time he’s getting some help from his

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brash American counterparts. Rated R. Stars Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Channing Tatum. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

movies with exactly the same plot. Rated R. Stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson and J.K. Simmons. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

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 post-humous Oscar for this one. Not Rated. Also stars David Lynch, Tom Skerrit and Ron Livingston. Playing at the Roxy.

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.

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.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) A disparate group of people take refuge in an abandoned house when the dead begin rising from their graves and feasting on the flesh of the living. This film did for zombies what the novel Dracula did for vampires. Not Rated. Stars Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea and hordes of shambling horrors. Playing with Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the Roxy Tue., Oct. 31 at 7 PM. 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.

ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) Alternative title: What to Expect When You’re Expecting the Spawn of Satan. Rated R. Stars Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes and Charles Grodin. Playing Fri., Oct. 27 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

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 the heads of ladies. This one has a bunch of snow in it, which should help differentiate it from all the other

SUSPIRIA A ballet dancer-in-training arrives at a new school just in time for a student to be murdered. Also all the lightbulbs are red for some reason. Rated R. Stars Jessica Harper, Udo Kier and a killer soundtrack by Goblin. Playing Sat., Oct. 28 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) Where you gonna run to, where you gonna hide?

When you’re hanging from a hook, I’ll skin you alive.

Tobe Hooper’s strikingly beautiful and nightmarishly gross look at 1970s America might just make you consider giving up meat. Rated R. Stars Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns and the most stomach-churning set design ever put to film. Playing Tue., Oct. 31 at 8:45 after Night of the Living Dead at the Roxy.

TROPHY Since 1970 the world has lost 60 percent of all wild animals. This documentary explores what, if anything, can be done to stem these mass extinctions.

Not Rated. Directed by Shaul Schwartz and Christina Clusiau. Playing Mon., Oct. 30 at 7 PM 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!

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 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.

[dish]

Chocolate graves

by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

Preface: Please do not take me less seriously as a writer and chef because of the absurd cuteness of these little cups of deliciousness. I originally saw this clever idea in an old issue of Sunset Magazine, but it involved making custardy and time-consuming pots de creme and baking the cookies from scratch. I cut the time and effort down by making fresh (and much quicker) chocolate mousse. And while I generally stay away from packaged cookies, this recipe is made easier and is not compromised by store-bought Milanos (they’re just the most perfect gravestone shape) and crushed Oreos for chocolate cookie dirt. Serve these as the final course to a Halloween dinner party, perhaps featuring Brown Butter-Pumpkin Mac and Cheese.

Ingredients 1 25-oz. box chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreos or Newman-O’s) 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup water, divided 2 tbsp butter 3 egg yolks 2 tbsp sugar 1 half-pint heavy whipping cream, whipped (do not use aerosol prepared whipped cream) 6 Pepperidge Farms Milano cookies springs of mint for garnish (optional) Directions Use a food processor to crush the sandwich cookies (alternately, place them in a gallon-size ziplock bag, press the air out of the bag and seal it, then use a rolling pin to crush the cookies). This will be your graves’ “dirt.”

Next, use a microwave or double boiler to heat the chocolate chips, 1/4 cup water and the butter until the chocolate and butter are melted.

Use a small whisk or fork to stir until very smooth.

Let chocolate mixture cool for about 10 minutes.

Pour about 3 tbsp of the chocolate mixture into a small bowl and set aside.

Fill a large bowl about halfway full with ice and set aside.

In a small, heavy saucepan, whisk egg yolks, sugar and remaining water.

Cook and stir over low heat until mixture begins to thicken, about 2 minutes.

Remove from the heat; whisk in chocolate mixture. Set saucepan in ice and stir until cooled, about 5–10 minutes.

Fold in whipped cream until completely combined.

Place bowl of chocolate mousse in the refrigerator.

Use a rubber scraper to transfer the reserved chocolate into a pastry bag with a very fine tip. If you don’t have a pastry bag, use a plastic sandwich bag. Push the chocolate all the way into a corner and use scissors to snip the tiniest corner off (no more than 1/16th of an inch). Then use your bag of chocolate to pipe the letters “RIP” or anything else you like (it might be fun to pipe your guests’ initials) onto the top half of each Milano cookie.

Place the finished cookies on a clean plate and place it in the refrigerator to encourage the chocolate to set.

To assemble the graves, divide the mousse between 6 short glasses.

Top with a handful of the chocolate cookie “dirt” and push the end of a Milano tombstone into the dirt. Add a sprig of fresh mint if you like.

Serve immediately, or refrigerate for up to 4 hours.

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

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

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm

531 S. Higgins

541-4622

(Breakfast ‘til Noon)

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm

(Breakfast all day)

Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in.

Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation.

Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Ahh, Autumn in Missoula! There’s no better way to embrace the changing of the seasons than with a freshly baked pastry and a piping hot cup of joe from Bernice’s! Our carefully crafted coffee and espresso drinks are perfect for a stroll through the fallen leaves. From two different daily quiche flavors to our handcrafted bran muffins, scones and croissants, we’ve got your breakfast needs covered. Of course we’re known for our cookies, cupcakes and specialty cakes but did you know we serve lunch seven days a week? Soups, sandwiches and salads are available from 11-4 every day. And don’t forget: Halloween treats are coming! Keep an eye out for Monstrous Cupcakes and Cookies October 25 - 31 as well as our Festival of the Dead treats on Nov 1st and 2nd! Stop by, check out our new designs and treat yourself! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$

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. $-$$

OCTOBER

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. $-$$

COFFEE SPECIAL

Guatemala Antigua Italian Roast $10.95/lb.

BUTTERFLY HERBS

BUTTERFLY HERBS

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

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? $-$$$

Infused sake at Iza Asian Restaurant

HAPPIEST HOUR

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 MonSat 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! $-$$ Rumour 1855 Stephens Ave. • 549-7575 rumourrestaurant.com We believe in celebrating the extraordinary flavors of Montana using local product whenever it's available. We offer innovative vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, meat & seafood dishes that pair beautifully with one of our amazing handcrafted cocktails, regional micro-brews, 29 wines on tap or choose a bottle from our extensive wine list. At Rumour, you'll get more than a great culinary experience....You'll get the perfect night out. Open daily: restaurant at 4.00pm, casino at 10.30am, brunch sat & sun at 9.30am Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins • 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for nonsushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

photo by Derek Brouwer

What you’re drinking: One of those neighborhood secrets that sits right in front of you, if only you’d see it. This week, the sake at Iza Asian Restaurant, on the Hip Strip, is infused with mango chile. Last week it was spiced apple. Next week it might be more spiced apple. Depends on who you ask.

“They give us full rein to basically do what we want,” my server explains. The process of preparing the menu’s infused sake—seasonal flavors, year-round choices—sounds a bit like selecting the ambient music (the Decemberists on this Monday afternoon happy hour, when the restaurant is nearly empty).

What it is: Sake (pronounced sa-kay) is a Japanese drink made from fermented rice.

It’s produced more like beer and wine than distilled liquors, and is sipped, not shot. But it can look and even taste like vodka and, also like vodka, can be easily infused.

How it’s infused: Iza makes its infused drinks with Hakutsuru sake, a full-bodied, basic sake that interacts well with flavoring.

Depending on the recipe, infusion lasts anywhere from a day to a week. My batch of mango chile was made with boiled, dried mangos. Bits of red chile float in the resulting syrupy blend.

What it tastes like: It’s almost as thick as a Kern’s nectar. The kick is significant, but more nuanced than in most spicy beers. It’s as refreshing as a mimosa. One six-ounce glass will make you tipsy. Served cold in a stemless wine glass. Also served hot.

The details: $7.50 for a glass, $1 off during happy hour, 3-6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Served hot, $13. Iza Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave. —Derek Brouwer

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

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THU | 11/2 | 7:30 PM Singer-songwriter A.J. Croce plays the Dennison Theater Thu., Nov. 2 at 7:30 PM. $26.50.

SAT | 6 PM Collapsing Stars brings its Twin City Americana to Imagine Nation Brewing Sat., Oct. 28 from 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

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FRI | 7 PM Famous Dex plays the Halloween Lit Party at the Adams Center Fri., Oct. 27 at 7 PM. $48.50–$68.50

TUE | 8 PM The Jesus and Mary Chain plays the Wilma Tue., Oct. 31. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $37/$32 advance.

TUE | 10 PM Atlanta's Omni plays Union Hall Tue., Oct. 31 at 10 PM. $6

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Thursday nightlife 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.

Great Burn Brewing celebrates our brave Wildlands Firefighters with a potluck dinner from 5 PM–8 PM. All active wildland firefighters get their first beer for 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 Author Doug Ammons reads from his new book, A Darkness Lit by Heroes. Learn about the worst hard rock mining disasters in history at Fact and Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30—10 PM. Jesse Hall was pretty scary when I was living there in 2005.

The top half of Jesse Hall becomes a Tower of Terror with classic Halloween games, a costume contest and more.

7 PM–9 PM. Free and open to the public.

Playtest Survive Et Al Rocky Mountains, a new board game at Muse Comics & Games. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar from 8 PM—11 PM. Free.

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

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.

The Top Hat hosts the Montanamade blues riffs of Ticket Sauce at 10:15 PM. Free.

photo by William Muñozs

The Rocky Horror Show Live! returns to the Wilma Fri., Oct. 27, and Sat., Oct. 28, at 7 PM and midnight. $32–$47.

nightlife Enjoy made-in-Montana wine and the live local music of Jami Kidd and George Regan at Ten Spoon Winery. 6 PM. Free.

Ghost Carrot Records hosts a two-day festival featuring talented musicians and visual artists from across the country. Zootown Arts Community Center. Doors at 4:30 PM, show at 5:30. $13/day or $15 for both days.

Free Cycles Halloween party features the music of Locksaw Cartel and The Skurfs. 7 PM—10 PM. $1.

Acrobatic Conundrum’s Love and Gravity features six artists on a minimal stage with little else but their talents and hearts. Good thing they've got plenty of both to spare. MASC Studios. 6:30 PM. $15.

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It's astounding, time is fleeting.

Madness takes it toll. The Rocky Horror Show Live! brings Richard O'Brien's immortal tribute to sexual revolution and science fiction to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32—$47. It will make you shiver in antici...

nightmares while riding through historic Montana. Kiddos under 6 should stay at home. 7 PM. $5.

Did your ex finally change their Netflix password? Watch the first three episodes of Stranger Things season 2 at the University Center Theater with free popcorn and Eggo waffles. 7 PM. Free.

Here I go again! The music of ABBA tells the story of a young bride-to-be trying to discover the identity of her father on the Greek island of Kalokairi. Mamma Mia opens at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $25.

Bestselling author John Green is joined by his brother Hank for a multimedia discussion of John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down. Urey Underground Lecture Hall at 7 PM. Tickets are sold out.

Bet you wish you had cashed in your fishing boat proceeds, eh?

Daly Mansion's annual Haunted Hayrides return. Face your worst

Spend Halloween weekend with rappers Tyga, Lil Pump and Famous Dex at the Adams Center. 7 PM. $48.50—$68.50

Blessiddoom, Mahamawaldi, Chaos II Clarity, Switch Off Safety and Undun unleash a night of Halloween metal at the Dark Horse. 8 PM. $5.

Fox Den resident DJs Amory, Chris Sage and Brian Derham get your Halloween spinning with a monster mash of a dance party at

the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Letter B performs a special show featuring scorching covers of songs by Stevie Wonder and the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10:15. $5.

The Sunrise Saloon's Halloween hootenanny features a costume contest and the live music of JD and the Western Front Band.

9:30 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset and the Revelators open the seventh seal of musical goodness at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. ...pation! Catch The Rocky Horror Show Live! at a special midnight performance at the Wilma.

Doors at 11 PM, show at the witching hour. $32-$47.

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Saturday The Clark Fork Market closes up shop for another year in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM—1 PM. Join Five Valleys Audubon for an all-day outing to Browns Lake and the upper Blackfoot valley. Dress appropriately and meet in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot at 8:40 AM. Free. Call 406549-5632 for more info.

Big Sky Breakout's inaugural Halloween Bash features games, a riddle-based scavenger hunt and multi-tiered costume contests. Things kick off at 12 PM. Free.

Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater previews the dances it will be taking to Washington, DC. for the Capital Christmas Tree lighting on the lawn of the US Capital. The Top Hat. 12 PM. Free.

Love and Gravity brings six artists to a minimal stage with little else but their talents and hearts. Good things they've got plenty to spare. MASC Studios.

1:30 PM. $15.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Here I go again! Mamma Mia opens at the MCT Center for the Performing arts Fri., Oct. 27 at 7:30 PM. $25.

Have a cup of coffee with Missoula's police officers at Coffee With A Cop from 2 PM— 4 PM. Starbucks, 2121 Brooks. Free.

nightlife See that girl? Watch that scene. Mamma Mia continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 2 PM and 7:30 PM. $25.

Ghost Carrot Records hosts a two-day festival featuring talented musicians and visual artists from across the country. Zootown Arts Community Center. Doors at 4:30 PM, show at 5:30. $13/day or $15 for both days.

bath 7. Head to discobloodbath.net for a complete schedule of events. $10—$20.

Basses Covered uncovers an evening of music at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free.

Collapsing Stars bring its Twin City Americana to Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM— 8 PM. Free.

Over 50 bands and DJs assemble at five venues across Missoula for Montana's largest Halloween celebration, Disco Blood-

Bob Mislevic provides the soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM—8 PM. Free.

It's astounding, time is fleeting. Madness takes it toll. The Rocky Horror Show Live! brings Richard O'Brien's immortal tribute to sexual revolution and science fiction to the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 and midnight. $32—$47. It will make you shiver in antici-

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Spotlight

blood spattered

Hooper passed away this year, Halloween is the best time to revisit these horror staples.

And there's no better tribute than seeing these films on the big screen, lovingly presented in stunning new 4K restorations.

Night of the Living Dead completely changed culture's view of the zombie, moving away from the mind-controlled voodoo slaves to the shambling undead corpse that feasts on the flesh of the living.

Without Romero's work, we'd have no The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones would just be softcore pornography.

WHAT: Art House of Horrors Double Feature Texas Chainsaw might very WHEN: Tues., Oct. 31 starting at 7 PM. well be the disgusting granddaddy of all modern horror.

WHERE: The Roxy Movie monsters stepped out of the world of the supernatural, HOW MUCH: $5 per film. and into the world of deranged, flesh-and-blood humans, looking to spill the flesh and blood of innocent teens.

Both films changed the movie by borrowing money from the Mafia game for both their directors and the genre and paying his assembled cast partially in on the whole, but the underlying lesson is marijuana. Those resulting films, Night of the same as it was 50 years ago. Maybe the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw each of us has the ability to contribute to art Massacre not only changed the lives of and culture, assuming we actually go out those two young directors, but dramatically there and do it, which, honestly, is a pretty changed the way the world views both the scary idea. horror genre and independent filmmaking.

As both George A. Romero and Tobe —Charley Macorn In 1968, a young filmmaker, disappointed in the quality of the advertisement jobs and kids show gigs he was getting, assembled his friends and spent a few weeks making a cheap monster movie in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Five years later, halfway across the country, a documentary cameraman in Texas, likewise frustrated by the quality of work he was given, made his own

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Sunday nightlife

with music at 9:30 PM. Free.

See that girl? Watch that scene. Mamma Mia continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 2 PM and 7:30 PM. $25.

Dodgy Mountain Men hold a musical rendezvous at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. $5.

Daly Mansion's annual Haunted Hayrides return. Face your worst nightmares while riding through historic Montana. Kiddos under 6 should stay at home. 7 PM. $5.

Tango Missoula hosts an introductory class and milonga social dance on the fourth Saturday of each month. The beginner lesson starts at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight. It takes two to tango, but no experience or partner necessary. Missoula Winery. $10.

See that girl? Watch that scene. Mamma Mia continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 2 PM and 7:30 PM. $25.

The Kimberlee Carlson Trio play Draught Works Brewery from 5 PM—7 PM. Free.

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. War Pony and the Pool Boys bring cosmic coffeehouse soul to Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM—8 PM. Free.

Lolo Hot Springs annual Halloween Bash features the music of Night Blooming Jasmine, a costume contest and more. 9 PM—2 AM. Free.

Hear readings about death, dying and grief as part of the Festival of the Dead at Burns Street Bistro. Free. 6 PM—9 PM.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Combat Entertainment hosts the Not of This World Costume Party at 9 PM at the Dark Horse.

Free.

The Joe Below hosts an evening of experimental jazz, psych rock and some good ol' fashioned spooky folk with @tlas, Wrecks Goliath, Tomb Toad and Cardinal Kin. Doors at 7 PM. $5.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

The Union Club's Halloween Party features the music of Band in Motion and a costume contest. Festivities start at 9 PM,

Every Sunday is "Sunday Funday" at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW lets you live out your jukebox hero dreams.

9:30 PM. Free.

Dodgy Mountain Men hold a musical rendezvous at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. $5.

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Monday

Missoula music powerhouse Tom Catmull plays Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM—10 PM. Free.

Who you gonna call? Tortured Souls Investigations explain their methods of investigating the paranormal at Missoula Public Library. 6 PM—8 PM. Free.

Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6—8 PM. Is your kiddo the next Louis C.K.? Well first of all explain consent to them, and then head down to Missoula BASE for an all-ages comedy open mic. 6 PM. Free.

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

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, the granddaughter of prominent Irish nationalist, feminist and suffragist Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, talks about her grandmother's fight for justice in Turner Hall's Dell Brown Room. 7 PM. Free.

Special guests (or should I say ghosts?)

Bella Armonia Youth Chorale join UM Choirs for a Halloween Spook-tacular featuring the choicest of seasonal music.

UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11/$5 students.

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

nightlife

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

Missoula music powerhouse Tom Catmull plays Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM— 10 PM. Free.

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW lets you live out your jukebox hero dreams.

9:30 PM. Free.

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Tuesday nightlife Western Cider hosts A Nightmare on California Street, featuring drink specials and spooky tunes. 5 PM—9 PM. Where the heck is Joseph? The Jesus and Mary Chain plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $37/$32 advance.

Kitchen Dwellers emerge to play a Halloween show at the Top Hat with Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9 PM. $15.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Which state capital was almost named Pumpkinville when it incor-

porated on yesterday's date in 1864?

Answer in tomorrow's Nightlife.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party rises from the grave for a Halloween bash at the Badlander that will make you regret having to work Wednesday morning. 9 PM. $5.

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW lets you live out your jukebox hero dreams.

9:30 PM. Free.

Charlie B's Halloween party features the music of Mudslide Charley. 9:30 PM. Free.

Atlanta's Omni plays Union Hall with Cairns, Carpool and Wilma Laverne Miner. 10 PM. $6

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nightlife Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to the Montana Conservation Corps. 5 PM—8 PM. Join a group of poets for an evening of readings about life and death at the Union Club.

Sounds pretty important. 6:30 PM. Free.

Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill.

7 PM. Trivia answer: Helena, Mont.

The 2006 Tony, Grammy and Oliver Award-winning Best Musical about how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history comes to the Adams

Center. Jersey Boys starts at 7:30 PM. $51.50—$66.50 Take a chance on me. Mamma Mia continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7:30 PM. $25.

Valencia Nights at the VFW brings the best in house music to Missoula. 8 PM. Free.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon and belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Get up onstage at VFW's open mic, with a different host each week. 8 PM. Free.

I knew I should have had the lasagna. Trout Steak Revival plays the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

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Wednesday

The University Center Gallery hosts its opening reception for April Werle and Nick Gilbert's Flesh & Food. 4 PMﾖ6 PM. Free.

of laughter opens at the Roxy Theater. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $21. Visit playingmonopolywithgod.com for more info.

Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar from 8 PM—11 PM. Free.

The Missoula Festival of the dead culminates in a processional from the XXXXs down through Higgins to Caras Park.

Things kick off with pre-parade performances at 6 PM, parade starts at 7:30 PM. Free.

nightlife

Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk's. 9 PM. Free.

Big Sky Hot Club plays hard swinging jazz at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PMﾖ8 PM. Free.

Say "yes and" to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PMﾖ8 PM

Playing Monopoly With God, Melissa Bangs hilarious and powerful play about the birth of her daughter, a bipolar diagnosis and the transformative power

Take a chance on me. Mamma Mia continues at the MCT Center. 7:30 PM. $25.

Singer-songwriter A.J. Croce plays the Dennison Theater.

7:30 PM. $26.50.

Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30—10 PM. It's like if Wassily Kandinsky flipped you off. Rapper Abstract Rude plays Monk's. Google it.

Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:30. $10/$7 advance.

Electronic-funk duo The Floozies bring the Funk Jesus Tour to the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula's HomeGrown Comedy Stand-up Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event.

Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. I hope your Halloween is a real graveyard smash.

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Electronic-funk duo The Floozies bring the Funk Jesus Tour to the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance.

Agenda In 2009, one week after the 25th anniversary of her ordination as an Episcopal priest, Ann Holmes Redding was defrocked by her diocese because she is a Muslim. You cannot be, as the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island told her, both a Christian and a Muslim at the same time. Redding, however, strongly disagrees.

“I am both a Muslim and Christian,” she told the Seattle Times, “the same way I am both African American and a woman.”

Since being defrocked, Redding has continued to speak and teach about religion across the country. This week Redding comes to Missoula to speak about peace, interfaith issues and misinformation about Islam at the 12th Annual DiverseU. DiverseU, a campus-wide series of events focused on the topics of diversity, puts a cap on a day of workshops and panels with a banquet dinner and talk with Redding. Other standout panels include a screening of the documentary When They Were Here, about missing and

THURSDAY OCTOBER 26 Great Burn Brewing celebrates our brave Wildlands Firefighters with a potluck dinner from 5 PM–8 PM. All active wildland firefighters get their first beer for free.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1

Join the Nature Conservancy in a celebration of clean water and good beer while learning what you can do to help protect the two things Missoulians drink the most. Kettlehouse Northside. 5:30 PM.

The 12th annual DiverseU kicks by welcoming speaker Ann Holmes Redding to address misconceptions about Islam and Muslims in America.

UC Ballroom. 6:30 PM. Free, but RSVP at umt.edu/diverseu.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 27 The Trail Head's 14th Annual Women's Night raises breast cancer awareness while helping fund screenings for local women in need. 7 PM. $10 for the dudes, free for ladies.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28

murdered indigenous women, and a panel on free speech in the modern era.

—Charley Macorn DiverseU's Stand Together Banquet with Ann Holmes Redding starts at 6:30 PM in the University Center Ballroom. It's free, but RSVP at umt.edu/diverseu.

gomery Distillery. One dollar from every cocktail sold goes to help a different non-profit in the Missoula Area. 12 PM–8 PM.

The Chapter Meeting of the Western Montana Democratic Socialists of America takes place at the Missoula Public Library large meeting room.

3 PM–6 PM.

MONDAY OCTOBER 30 Every Monday is Moscow Monday at Mont-

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 DiverseU continues on the third floor of the University Center. Explore the complexities of the human experience and promote understanding from 10 AM to 5 PM. Free. Visit umt.edu/diverseu for a full list of events.

Standing Rock leader Ladonaa Brave Bull Allard gives the keynote address at Diverse U. Allard talks about founding the first resistance camps at the Dakota Pipeline Protest, Sacred Stone. University Center Ballroom. 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

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

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he end of 5K season is nigh. Fall always brings a deluge of “fun runs” and endless post-race Facebook posts. They run in tutus, or glow-in-the-dark t-shirts, or while covered in colorful dust or mud, or while clambering up an inflatable obstacle course. Afterwards, there is often a party. They look a little ridiculous. They look like they’re having a lot of fun.

Maybe it’s time to get in on the action. If you’re not a runner, you can wear something fun and chat with your friends to distract yourself from the 3.1 miles you’re slogging through. If you are a runner, then I don’t know. This would be like a warm-up for you or something. Whatever.

The Skeleton Skedaddle, a Halloween-themed 5K on Friday, is one of your last chances of the season before the cold weather makes running a truly lung-piercing experience.

The race benefits UM’s Physical Therapy Stu-

dent Association and comes with plenty of postrace perks, including a t-shirt, a costume contest, prizes for top finishers, and soup and cornbread for all. Was there ever a greater incentive?

Don your spookiest outerwear—the run starts just before sunset, so prepare for a chill. Bring your kids, because there’s a special shorter loop for them, too. And embrace the goofiness of jogging around a golf course in a Halloween costume.

You’re a serious runner running a 5K, damn it.

—Margaret Grayson The Skeleton Skedaddle starts at the University Golf Course on Oct. 27 at 6 PM, with the kid’s loop starting at 5:30. Packet pick-up runs from 4:45 to 5:45. Register at the race or online at runsignup.com. $30.

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AM. Free. Call 406-549-5632 for more info.

A 5K cross-country race at the University Golf Course takes runners through autumn leaves in fall twilight. The Skeleton Skedaddle starts at 6 PM. Register at runsignup.com/skeletonskedaddle5k. $25.

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Join Five Valleys Audubon for an all-day outing to Brown's Lake and the upper Blackfoot valley.

Dress appropriately and meet in the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot at 8:40

You're it! Relive your middle-school glory days at with a game of tag at Silver Park. All ages welcome. Wear your Halloween costume. 3 PM. Free.

Run Wild Missoula takes runners to Billings for the 2017 Montana Cup Run. Seats are limited, so register now. Caravan leaves at 5:30 PM. Visit runwildmissoula.org for more info.

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Documentation Specialist Set up customer accounts and patient files in computer system. Manage billing documents and verify insurance information for accuracy.

Run and work reports tracking paperwork to and from referring physicians, file, make copies of information for audits. Must have ability to take direction and follow instructions. Offers on the job training but candidates must have solid work history. Ability to use computers programs, have excellent problem solving skills and great communication skills.

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adding machine by touch. Monday through Friday, 9am-6pm. $13.00 per hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40580 Looking for two people to help me clean an office building in Missoula on Thursday nights starting at 5:30pm. Must pass a background check. Call Melody 2404501.

Earn $300-$1000 per month working part-time! The Missoulian is looking for reliable individuals to deliver the daily newspaper in the Missoula, Bit-

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HVAC-Entry Level Locally owned full service and installation heating and air conditioning company is looking to fill a full-time HVAC entry level position. Must have good communication skills, be able to pay attention to details and work independently. Duties include, HVAC duct cleaning. HVAC air conditioning & furnace tuneups. Valid driver’s license, with a clean driving record. Must be able to lift up to 80 lbs; work from heights and small crawl spaces.

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Rebel is a sweet and fun-loving dog is ready to go with you anywhere and everywhere. This handsome guy wants to let you know about an awesome adoption event we have coming up! We have partnered with Subaru for Fee-Waived Adoptions on Friday Oct 27th from 2-7 at the Humane Society of Western Montana and Oct 28th from 12-4 at Subaru on Stephens! Pete is super excited about this Fee-Waived Adoption event, but he’s even more excited to find his forever home! www.myHSWM.org

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By Amy Alkon PAY PAL An older male friend keeps paying for me—buying me meals and clothes. Am I making a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly made clear that I have no romantic interest in him. I’m a struggling artist, and he’s highly successful. We’re basically BFFs, talking and laughing every day. He occasionally jokes that I should be “giving up the sugar to the sugar daddy,” but I roll my eyes and say, “Hush!”

I think he’s teasing me, but could he be playing the long game?

—Worried Welcome to the “never say never” school of hope. My Chinese crested, Aida, is also enrolled—hoping with all her tiny purse-doggy might that rare metal-eating termites will make the kitchen table leg collapse, causing her to be caught in a brief but intense hailstorm of bacon.

There are some asymmetries between men and women in the effort required to get some action out of the opposite sex. Some men will engineer elaborate plots to try to wear a woman’s “nuh-uh, never gonna happen” into a “maybe just this once.” A woman, on the other hand, doesn’t have to plot. Assuming she’s reasonably attractive, she can probably just make extended eye contact with a man while eating a banana.

This difference reflects what evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains as men’s and women’s conflicting evolutionary goals. It’s in a man’s evolutionary interest to, as they say, shoot and scoot (possibly passing on his genes without putting out any further time, energy or resources). However, because women can end up all “baby on board,” they evolved to look for emotional commitment and the ability and willingness to “provide.” (A woman’s psychological bottom line: “Can this wild man be turned into a minivan purchaser with a dad bod?”)

Buss notes that these sex differences in evolved mating psychology show up in the different ways men and women try to deceive each other. Scammy men tend to exaggerate their “resources” (probably a sizable chunk of the Ferrari rental business) in hopes of suckering the ladies into the sack. Scammy women, on the other hand, tend to feign “willingness to have sex in order to secure nonsexual resources”—as in, “Sorry, Bob. I had my knees welded shut recently. I guess I forgot to mention that.

But thanks for the $300 dinner!”

In your situation, however, nobody’s deceiving anybody.You’ve repeatedly made clear that there will be no sexcapades. He’s got an amusing dining companion and a dear friend. When we care about people, we do nice things for them—offer them a

bite of our sandwich or our disposable income.

Sure, he’s probably still clinging to wisps of hope. But in time, he should accept that if the day comes when you suddenly grab him in your arms, it’ll be because he’s got a small piece of chicken caught in his windpipe and he’ll die unless you give him the Heimlich maneuver.

CHECK, MATE! I’m a 28-year-old guy, and I read your column on how men and women are clueless about who’s supposed to pay and when. I’ve had dates be insulted when I wouldn’t take their money and others insulted when I did. Is there an optimal strategy for the first few dates?

—Lost Meet the flexible feminist. She can do an hour and a half straight on why we need to “smash the patriarchy,” but when the check comes, she reaches in her purse and pulls out a tube of lip gloss.

As I pointed out in that column you mention, sociologist Janet Lever and her colleagues find one striking commonality between men and women: intense confusion about who should pay and when. For example, nearly 60 percent of women said they “always” offer to help pay, even on the first date. Meanwhile, 39 percent of women wish men would reject their offer to pay—but 40 percent say it bothers them when men don’t accept their money.

Argh, huh?

Because female emotions evolved to push women to feel bad when they’re with a man who shows no signs of being a “provider,” I think it’s wise for a guy to pick up the tab on the first few dates. The researchers concur, explaining that “men who fail to pay risk being viewed as lacking economic resources or as being uninterested, unchivalrous, or—worse yet— cheap.”

That said, your investment should be more symbolic than substantial, and you keep it that way by following my three-point advice for the first few dates: Make them cheap, short and local.

This means, for example, getting to know a woman over happy-hour drinks—as opposed to the kind poured by a sommelier (flanked by his two assistants) who comes to your table right after the team of loan officers helps you finalize your paperwork.

EMPLOYMENT Looking for full-time checker, fulltime produce clerk and full-time deli worker. Apply in person at Pattee Creek Market, 704 South West Higgins Mill Planer Operator Lumber company in Seeley Lake recruiting for an entry-level wood worker to operate the mill planer! Looking for careerminded candidates. Primarily pulling lumber from dry chain and stacking in piles sorted by length and grade. The chain puller pulls the lumber off quickly, piles the lumber neatly, and count layers accurately. Ability to differentiate grade marks and lengths. Ability to grasp and pull lumber off dry chain. Standing for extended periods of time and able to lift 75 pounds consistently. $16.08 per hour and up depending on previous experience. Full job description online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #39743 Production Control LC Staffing is working with a Missoula company to recruit team members to add to their production control team!

Company has earned a reputation for producing the finest quality tablet and capsule nutritional supplements. Opportunity for permanent position following successful probationary period.

Run processing equipment as assigned. Assist others as part of the team to ensure smooth and consistent flow of work. Work in a manner consistent with quality and quantity goals. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40320 Production Member Pre-finishing building materials company is recruiting for production member.

Duties include loading materials, painting boards by hand, and bundling units for shipment. Can be cross-trained on multiple pieces of equipment and processes. Be flexible and willing rotate job duties. Must lift 50lbs75lbs throughout the day.

Previous experience in a production environment is helpful. Will be exposure to various fumes, heat, cold, and irritants. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40548 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

Northwest Community Health Center (NWCHC) is looking add a team-oriented Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) to its dental department. Applicant must have a current Montana Licensure. Full Job Description and to Apply http://northwestchc.org/jobs/.

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SALES FVCC in beautiful Kalispell, MT has the following excellent opportunities to join its Executive Team. Vice President/Chief Financial Officer For more information about this position, and others, and to apply online visit: www.fvcc.edu/jobs AA/EEO

SKILLED LABOR Busy cabinet company hiring an employee for labor and gopher work. 406-777-5140

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Development/Marketing Director & Early Childhood Professional Development Specialist Visit: childcareresources.org/about-us to apply.

Inmate at MT State Prison in need of legal research. Send inquiries to Daniel Coburn AO #3002062 MT State Prison 700 Conley Lake Road Deer Lodge MT 59722.

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Busy cabinet company hiring in Missoula an employee for labor/grunt work and atypical gopher. Needs to be able to read a tape measure accurately. Also needs to be able to listen closely, take direction and have a measure of independent thinking.

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fied/registered MA required. New graduates considered. $13.50$20.25/DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40640

All newspaper carriers for the Missoulian are independent contractors.

EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT Affordable, quality counseling for substance use disorders and gambling disorders in a confidential, comfortable atmosphere. Stepping Stones Counseling, PLLC. Shari Rigg, LAC • 406-926-1453 • shari@steppingstonesmissoula.c om. Skype sessions available.

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Holotropic Breathwork workshop, Helena, Fri Nov 10 6-8p & Sat Nov 11 8:30a-8:30p. $200.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION Community and Planning Services has received a floodplain application from Darren Slominski to work within the LaValle Creek floodplain. The proposed project is located at 13255 Harpers Bridge Rd, in Section 31, Township 14N, Range 20W and includes the construction of a two 30’ X 60’ detached garages and two 40’ X 72’ agricultural buildings. The full application is available for review by appointment at Community and Planning Services at 323 W.Alder in Missoula.Written comments from anyone interested in floodplain permit application #18 - 04 may be received prior to 5:00 p.m., November 10, 2017. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Community and Planning Services, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

Frenchtown School Dist. #40 has an open School Board Trustee Position. A letter of interest must be received in the District Office by 10/31/17.

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 JUDI-

CIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17-260 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 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 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-17-261 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: GARLAND CLAYTON YOUNGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

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that LYMAN G. YOUNGER 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 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 Dept.

No. 2 Probate No. DP-17268 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EUGENE C. HEMGREN a/k/a EUGENE CARROLL HEMGREN, 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 Robyn Nickel, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o

Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 16th day of October, 2017, at Helena, Montana. /s/ Robyn Nickel PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S ATTORNEY BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Thomas H. Boone, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorney for Robyn Nickel, 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 abovenamed 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

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MISC. GOODS Large Round Hay Bales for sale.

Alfalfa & Alfalfa/Grass mix.

Also Barley Hay. Delivery available. 406-261-1767 or 406676-8228

AUCTIONS UNRESERVED Equipment Auction November 07, 8:00 am High River, Excavators, Graders, Snow Maker & much more. Consign to this auction call Century Auctions 4 0 3 - 2 6 9 - 6 6 0 0 ; centuryauctions.com

MUSIC GUITAR WANTED! Local musiTurn off your PC & turn on your life.

Bennett’s Music Studio Guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass lessons.

Rentals available. bennettsmusicstudio.com 721-0190

cian will pay up to $12,500 for pre-1975 Gibson, Fender, Martin and Gretsch guitars. Fender amplifiers also. Call toll free! 1-800995-1217 Songwriters, keyboard player, guitarist, seek bass player and drummer for weekly collaboration.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I share Vincent Van Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.� But I also think that the next twelve months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.� Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union to the love of your life, to God or Goddess, or to a symbol of your most sublime ideal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Yes, We Have No Bananas� is a silly novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series The Muppet Show, puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas� songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,� the climax of classical composer George Handel’s religious oratorio Messiah. I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next two weeks, you may have to navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,� superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news and official disinformation.To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.� By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch out for a fake pizza-delivery driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet sometime soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies. The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is the material object you want most but don’t have? This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume. about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? c How Probably none of the above, right? Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Did you get a chance to go to circus school when you were a kid?

learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next ten months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you yearn to learn.

Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is an excellent phase in your cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets and wash windows. But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past, and factcheck the stories you tell about yourself. So which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You never sing the same song twice,� said chanteuse Billie Hol“If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.�That’s an extreme e iday. statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How can you enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last ten months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind. Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.

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and impossible breakthroughs. Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes g redemptions the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. Not right. There is in fact CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are no such things as magic healings and miraculous

another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions and numinous encounters.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many years from now, in your last hours on earth, you will have Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been. And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You might be able to pass for normal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness. Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence. Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

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this 29th day of September, 2017. /s/ Brennan Mendenhall, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-17-269 Dept. 1 Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: LYNN FORREST FORBES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda A. Bentley 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 Linda A. Bentley, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 16th day of October, 2017. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney 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 16th day of October, 2017. /s/ Linda A. Bentley, Personal Representative Notice of Election Equipment Testing For Municipal General Election A test of the ES&S 850 Ballot Counters that will be used on Election Day (November 7, 2017) will start at 10 a.m. on November 2nd, 2017 at the Fairgrounds Home Arts Building (#35), 1101 South Ave W, Missoula, Montana.

Following this, a test of the ES&S AutoMARK ballotmarking system will take place at the Missoula County Record’s Center at 2147 Ernest Ave, Missoula, Montana.All tests are open to the public. If you have any questions or need any additional information contact the Elections office at 406-258-

4751 or via website at www.missoulavotes.com.

DATED this 12th day of September, 2017 /s/ Bradley Seaman Missoula County Election Supervisor 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

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1. Inform the election judge at your polling place that you wish to vote using the AutoMARK. 2. You will be issued a regular ballot.

3. Insert the ballot (with stub removed) into the ballot feed tray on the front of the machine.

4. The screen will display instructions and the ballot choices.

5. The following helpful options are available: a. Change contrast and font size for readability b. Audio headphones c. Braille keypad d. Connection for Sip n Puff personal device 6. Make your selections by using the touch-screen capability, or by using the keypad

7. After you have completed your selections, the AutoMARK will confirm your selections on the screen, and by audio if you select the audio option.

8. After verifying your selections, the AutoMARK will mark and print your ballot.

9. Return the marked ballot to the election judge.

10. If you need assistance anytime during the process, simply request it.

Sample Instructions on How to Vote FOR an OPTICAL SCAN BALLOT CountING System The following is a diagram for the 850 Ballot Counters that will be used to tabulate ballots on Election Day.

VOTE BOTH SIDES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CHECK BALLOT TO SEE IF THERE ARE ISSUES PRINTED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALLOT TO BE VOTED ON.

TO VOTE: 1. To vote, you must blacken the oval completely.

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2. USE BLACK INK TO MARK YOUR BALLOT. An Optical Scanner will count your ballot. If you use any other type of pen, it may not be counted correctly by the Scanner.

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OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR BALLOT: When marking your ballot you should NOT make an X or a check mark. You should NOT cross out, erase, or use correction fluid on the ballot and if you make an error, you should request a new ballot.

READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY! If you mark more candidates than you are allowed to mark for that position, it is considered an overvote. You may request a new ballot if you overvote in any race. If you do not correct your ballot, that race will not count because of the overvote; however, the remainder of your ballot will be counted.

DATED this 12th day of September, 2017 Bradley Seaman Missoula County Election Supervisor Publication Date: October 29th, 2017

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 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 B-1 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

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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 performance 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 accru-

ing 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 Pew Corporation is accepting proposals from all qualified DBE, DVBE, MBE, WBE, SBE, LBE, owned business concerns for the construction of Lee Gordon Place a seven unit townhome project, located at 203 E. Front St., Missoula, MT 59802. This project is in whole or part being funded with federal funds through the Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) that is administered by the Mon-

tana Department of Commerce. HOME requirements governing the grant require that, to the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 233. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 11/7/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 11/9/2017 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.

arising in connection with this HOME-assisted project be extended to lower-income residents. Further, to the greatest extent feasible,

NOTICE 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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GARÇON• Garçon is a 13 year male Jack Russell Terrier. He is not only the shelter's old-timer, but also our longest-term canine resident. He is a very happy and well-trained old chap. He came to us when his previous owner's health issues became too advanced to also care for a senior dog. Garçon does not particularly like other dogs or cats, but he loves people of all ages.

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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DAISY• Daisy is a 2 year old female American Pit Bull Terrier. She loves all people and enjoys kids. Daisy needs a cat free home, and is a bit picky about what kind of dogs she wants to hang out with. Daisy is an energetic dog that would love to have a fenced yard in her new home so she always has a place to play. Once she has had her exercise, Daisy is content to lounge on the couch for the rest of the day.

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.

MOOSE• Moose is a polite young boy that loves the outdoors! This gentle fella would love to be outside all day, either on walks around the neighborhood or just hanging out in the yard.

Moose is very friendly with new friends, including kids! He's a smart guy that is looking for an active home. If Moose is the guy for you, give us a call at 406.549.3934 to learn more!

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!

SUZIE• Suzie is a happy dog, as you can see with her big goofy smile! This smart girl loves to play indoors and outdoors, just as long as she's with her person! Some of her favorite activities include hiking in the mountains, playing with other dogs, and cuddling with her people. Suzie has lived with small children and other dogs, and she gets along with everyone!

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FANNIE• Fannie is on the search for endless pets. This sweet girl is shy at first, but as soon as she feels your hand on her, she comes out of her shell. She loves the attention and will let you pet her as long as you like. Her sweet purr tells you just how much she is enjoying your time together. Come give Fannie some love during our open hours! missoulanews.com • October 26–November 2, 2017 [43]

RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bed, 1 bath, Cooper Street, $725, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, 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 street parking W/S/G 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

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

1315 E. Broadway #10. 3 bed/2.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, carport, pet? $1075. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bed, 1 bath, Downtown, $795, coin-op laundry, off-street & carport parking,W/S/G Paid. No pets.

No smoking. Gatewest 728-7333 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

Studio, 1 bath, near Good Food Store, $595, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parkIng, HEAT Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

MOBILE Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $495/month. 406-273-6034

DUPLEXES

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 Management 542-2060

237 1/2 E. Front St. “A” Studio/1 bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops on site $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

2300 McDonald #1. 1 bed/1 bath, new flooring and paint, close to shopping and parks $650. 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

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

Beautiful, sunny completely remodeled high-end finishes, hardwood floors, stainless appliances, quiet 2 bedroon, large Lower South Hills apt. Carport, hookups, G/W/S. $900/month. 1 month deposit. 406-531-8119

509 S. 5th St. E. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, two blocks to University, sunroom, coin-ops, HEAT PAID $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

HOUSES 1863 S. 5th St. E. 3 bed/2.5 bath, brand new, energy efficient, central location. $1500 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 4100 Mullan Road Condos. 2 bed, 2 bath, fireplace, views. 1127 sq.ft. $1250/month. 406-868-3630

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

FIDELITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7

251- 4707 Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $825/month Visit our website at

fidelityproperty.com

GardenCity Our goal is to spread recognition of NARPM and its members as the ethical leaders in the field of property managment westernmontana.narpm.org

Property Management 422 Madison • 549-6106 For available rentals: www.gcpm-mt.com

Grizzly Property Management "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

2205 South Avenue West 542-2060• grizzlypm.com

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Finalist

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No Initial Application Fee Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing Since 1971

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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 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

1728 Ernest. Updated 4 bed, 2 bath with basement, large fenced backyard & single garage. $315,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@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 2725 Lower Lincoln Hills Dr. Energy efficient amazing home in Rattlesnake’s Lincoln Hills. High

1203 Poplar $345,000

ceilings in this Passive Solar home which is filled with so much natural light. KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 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 2405227 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 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 239-8350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

Sunny, bright & beautiful remodeled 3 bed, 2 bath at Mount Jumbo Trailhead.

Skylights, concrete countertops, oak floors, stone fireplace & lovely wood trim throughout. Huge backyard & double garage.

MLS #21712316 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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

816 West Hallmark. 3 bed, 2 bath with covered deck, UG sprinklers & double garage. $269,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

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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 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

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

"And?"--people in conjunction.

MANUFACTURED For Sale 2- 2012 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $43,900 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663

LAND 13221 Old Freight. Approximately 11 acres near St. Ignatius with incredible Mission Mountain

ACROSS 1 Honolulu's island 5 One dimension of three 11 Late Playboy founder, familiarly 14 Closing ___ (surrounding) 15 Escapee's shout 16 Dir. of this entry 17 Musician Wainwright fully understandable?

19 Greek letter after pi 20 Cozy reading corner 21 Schadenfreude, for one 23 Streamed service, often 25 Actor Quinn in the act of helping?

27 Totals (up) 28 Covetous feeling 29 Peat ingredient 30 Also 31 Former U.N. secretary general Kofi ___ Annan (because "___girl" is so cliche) 32 Bambi's mother, e.g.

34 Baseball's Dwight prepared?

38 Big T-shirt sizes, for short 39 Hit the horn 40 Fuel economy org.

43 Potent opener?

46 Start up a computer 47 Self-involved 48 Composer Franz Joseph's search?

51 Rick's TV grandson 52 Anybody 53 Some pet hotel visitors 54 Frost in the air 55 CEO Buffett's time of quiet?

60 Oar wood 61 At least 62 Hunchback of horror films 63 Some ice cream containers, for short 64 Thelonious Monk's "Well You ___" 65 "Can't say I've seen it"

DOWN 1 Canola, for one 2 "I'll take that as ___" 3 Elvis classic of 1956 4 Nullifies 5 Clickable text 6 Letters associated with Einstein 7 Org. with Lions and Jaguars 8 Covetous 9 First side of a scoreboard, generically 10 Everglades wader 11 Manufacturer of Gummi Bears 12 Repeats 13 Outward appearances 18 "Hollywood Squares" win, perhaps 22 Made docile 23 Distillery tank 24 Altar reply, traditionally

25 Poker pot part 26 Sir Walter Scott novel 28 Approx. takeoff hrs.

31 They're retiring AIM at the end of 2017 32 Body shop removal 33 Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut's state quarter) 35 Nitrous ___ 36 Piece for Magnus Carlsen 37 Way in the past 41 Poe's "The ___ and the Pendulum" 42 By ___ means necessary 43 Response to an impressive put-down 44 Little Red Book follower 45 Oreads, naiads, etc.

46 "Cold one, over here" 47 Elect 49 From ___ (henceforth) 50 Drum kit drum 51 Treasure hunter's assistance 53 Online tech news resource 56 Fishing pole 57 Directional ending 58 Police officer 59 Before, in old poems

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REAL ESTATE

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.

Tungsten holdings.com (406) 293-3714

COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 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 visit 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 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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2900 ST. MICHAEL DR $1,400,000 4 bedroom, 5 bath home situated on 4.2 park like acres with spectacular views, vaulted ceilings and an abundance of natural light. Indoor pool with beautiful tile work and spa.

2 bedroom, 1 bath guest house.

Call Matt Rosbarsky at 390-9023 for more information.

UNDER CONTRACT 2161 South 10th Street • $269,900 Large 4+ bed, 3 bath across from Franklin Park with Rattlesnake views. New furnace & water heater. Lots of shade trees.

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