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Voices/Letters Climbing, library and the environment ..................................................4 The Week in Review Errant snap, Denise Juneau and Al Roker....................................6 Briefs Frenchtown Club, woodchips and school funding ..............................................6 Etc. About that medical school in Missoula ....................................................................7 News After opening Darby’s first taproom, newcomer is elected mayor .......................8 News Missoula groups advocate for former inmates ......................................................9 Opinion Why the Griz arrests, and how they were handled, felt so wrong. ................10 Feature Artistic rule-breakers ........................................................................................14
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[voices] by Skylar Browning
Asked Tuesday afternoon at the University of Montana’s Gallery of Visual Arts and inside the School of Arts. The gallery hosts the 21st Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition beginning Thursday, Nov. 12, with an opening reception at 5 p.m. Is there an artist who could be considered unconventional or a rule-breaker that’s influenced your own work? Followup: Do you prefer to color inside the lines, outside the lines or off the page entirely? Cathryn Mallory: The first person who comes to mind in our community is Jack Metcalf. (Editor’s note: Good answer! Read more about Metcalf on page 16.) Outside of our community, it’s hard for me to pinpoint a specific name, but I’m inspired by artists who utilize alternative materials and aren’t afraid to exhibit outside the traditional gallery space. A different space: Oh, off the page entirely.
Two for one Van Peele reveals his true agenda for Mill Creek (see Letters, Oct. 22). He seems to imply bolts have feet that cause erosion! And where will the climbers go, into thin air like the wildlife that once foraged on his private property? Mr. Milner’s idea of collaboration (see Letters, Oct. 8) appears to be: make that suggestion, then within your own group complete the prospect with no experience, expertise or want, then sneak in the back door with an insider! Callin’ the kettle black? Oh, and actually research data on goats. Want to really help save habitat, get after the county commissioners to stop developments at the canyon mouths in critical winter range. Like yours. Rick Torre Philipsburg
Under one roof Dave Tarullo: Banksy. It’s definitely influential work and I appreciate his expression on, essentially, what art is. If an image is out in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. No discrimination: Color belongs in all places.
Katherine Powell: I would say my good friend Jamey Braden von Mooter. I’ve known her for so long and seen her work evolve from fabricbased to more performance-based with fabric … Her work inspires me. By the book: I would color inside the lines because I have a very aesthetically driven impression of art, at least initially.
Nahtanha Voss: I can’t name a particular artist off the top of my head. But I’m drawn to an artist’s process and those who don’t use a common medium like paint. Off script: Off the page entirely.
For more than 25 years, I’ve worked across industries like accounting, banking, insurance, technology and economic development, helping business owners make strategic connections between human impact and bottom-line profitability. My business background informs why I’ve chosen to get involved with the campaign for a new Missoula Public Library in Downtown Missoula. The collaboration behind the “Under One Roof ” campaign will lead to a single modern location for the library, the spectrUM science museum, MCAT and The Children’s Museum—partnerships that are in the best interest of our community’s bottom line. As more people choose Missoula as their home, our public facilities must be ready to accommodate that growth with open arms. Missoula’s library was built in 1974 to last 30 years, and it’s now been 41. The library is overcrowded and in need of a major overhaul to meet the modern demands of the more than 1,500 people who pass through its doors each day: single moms trying to save money by lending rather than buying books, movies and DVDs; budding entrepreneurs whose businesses are still too small to be able to afford commercial rental space; and job seekers without home Internet who are expected to apply online. For Missoula to be a competitive force in the economic world, we need exceptional public facilities in our city. The new library will offer so many important things to continued growth: free meeting space for local groups, ultra-fast Wi-Fi and safe after-school programming for kids. Please sign up for a tour to see the many ways the library benefits our com-
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munity and the vision for building a modern facility to benefit generations to come: missoulapubliclibrary.org/about/tour. Colleen Rudio Missoula
Misguided attack The recent Environmental Protection Agency Clean Water Rule affirming that headwater streams and tributaries feeding Montana’s rivers merit protection from pollution is critical because it helps put money in the pockets of Montanans and strengthens our economy. Unfortunately this common-sense rule is under attack in Congress and elsewhere, and Montanans must loudly defend it.
“The rule merely ensures that these waters get the protection they once had and what they— and we—deserve.”
We’re concerned about the attacks because our businesses, our employees and the taxes we generate depend on clean water. Yet opponents of the rule are ignoring our contributions. Each year nearly 4 billion new dollars come into the Montana economy from visitors to our state. According to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, angling annually generates $907 million for our economy, much of it from nonresidents. Most of the 11 million visitors to Montana each year drive our roads, generating significant gas taxes that support the Montana companies who maintain our state’s highways. Many visitors come here for our clean, clear rivers and high mountain lakes and streams. Such high-quality waters do not exist in the home states of many of our visitors. Montana’s tourism industry employs around 45,000 people. The small business owners supporting these jobs pay taxes that support schools and utility services that help lessen the load of tax payments of others in their communities. Without protections
embodied in the Clean Water Rule clarifying that headwater streams and tributaries, the source of critical late-season flows for our rivers and spawning habitat for our wild trout, the tourism economy will suffer. And so will Montana’s economy. In this year, one of the driest on record when rivers suffered and irrigators scrambled for water, it has made no sense to us that anybody, let alone some of our political leaders, would be fighting to increase opportunities for polluting our diminishing sources of water—sources that are essential for drinking water, agriculture and tourism. Yet, that is exactly what is happening. The U.S. Senate recently considered measures to toss the Clean Water Rule. One died, one lives. The only member of Montana’s delegation opposing these ill-conceived measures was Sen. Jon Tester. Some state attorneys general, including Montana’s, have gone to court to prevent this protective rule from being implemented. This is disappointing because this is the elected position that is supposed to uphold Montana’s Constitution, including our right to a clean and healthful environment. All Montanans who rely on clean water for their livelihoods, as well as for drinking water, should oppose the attempts to kill the rule. And they should demand Montana’s full congressional delegation, governor and attorney general do the same. Forty-three years ago a huge, bipartisan majority in the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Water Act. For more than 30 years it provided protection for the headwater streams and wetlands that opponents of the rules now want to open up for pollution and dredging and filling. After the U.S. Supreme Court in two rulings confused the picture over whether headwaters and a few wetlands deserve protection, industries demanded clarity. And the EPA provided it with the rule. Now these industries and some politicians want to return to the uncertain legal atmosphere they said they disdained. Montanans should know this: The rule merely ensures that these waters get the protection they once had and what they—and we—deserve. For the sake of Montana’s economic well-being, our political leaders need to understand this. Chris Schustrom, Whitefish Juanita Vero, Greenough Ric Smith, Polson Eddie Olwell, Stevensville
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, Nov. 4 Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau announces her campaign for U.S. House of Representatives in 2016 as a Democrat, challenging Republican incumbent Ryan Zinke.
Thursday, Nov. 5 Gov. Steve Bullock signs a proclamation declaring Elouise Cobell Day, in honor of the Blackfeet woman who initiated a class-action lawsuit against the federal government for payments owed to Native Americans.
Friday, Nov. 6 Olajide Adel Fletcher appears in Missoula County Justice Court on charges of being a fugitive after a deadly shooting in Washington state. Missoula police fired three shots while apprehending Fletcher and an accomplice at a West Broadway hotel the day before.
Saturday, Nov. 7 In one of college football’s wilder finishes this season at any level, the Griz beat Idaho State, 33-27, after the Bengals muffed what would have been the game-winning overtime field goal and Eric Johnson returned the ball for a touchdown.
Sunday, Nov. 8 Weatherman Al Roker of “The Today Show” stops in Missoula as part of his second annual “Rokerthon,” which seeks to set a Guinness World Record by reporting the weather from all 50 states in one week.
Monday, Nov. 9 Hawthorne, C.S. Porter and Big Sky schools take extra security measures after a reported attempted burglary at a residence near the intersection of 26th and North. At press time, no arrests had been made in the incident.
Tuesday, Nov. 10 The University of Montana hosts the final day of the Not In Our State Sexual Assault Summit, which includes documentary screenings, workshops on providing assistance for survivors and a speech from Gov. Steve Bullock.
A hunter looks toward the Highland Mountains southwest of Butte during the state’s third weekend of general rifle season. White-tailed deer harvest has been the strongest across most of Montana, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, especially in west-central Montana. Check stations there report the highest harvest levels of white-tailed deer since 2008.
Bars
Frenchtown Club to live again Bartender Ben Martello can often be found at the Silver Dollar, slinging cans of Bud Light and PBR to a boisterous group of regulars. But soon he’ll be spending most of his time at the Frenchtown Club, which has been closed for the past two years. Martello bought the smalltown tavern in September with plans to do a “minor facelift” and rename it Benny’s Frenchtown Club. “A poor choice,” Martello cracks when asked why he bought the property. He goes on to explain that he’s most comfortable behind a bar, since his family has owned the Silver Dollar since 1935 and he’s worked there for 20 years. “Someone once told me, ‘You’ve gotta do what you know,’” Martello says. He also holds down a day
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job as an insurance agent for PayneWest, and in his experience, “People would much rather buy a beer than an auto policy.” Frenchtown Club closed in 2013 after the Montana Department of Revenue cited then-owner Mikell Erving with three license violations, including serving to a minor and failure to make lease payments. A July sales listing posted on Craigslist priced the property at $325,000. Martello says he sees an opportunity to make Benny’s Frenchtown Club a gathering place for the community where he grew up. “Just a place where you can go in after a football game or basketball game or whatever event and have a pitcher of beer,” he says. “Nothing special, but it’s going to be clean and the service is going to be friendly.” He’s seeking a full liquor license, and once things are up and running, hopes to serve food as well.
Mary Ann Dunwell, public information officer for the Montana Department of Revenue, says the state Liquor Control Board has received Martello’s request for a liquor license and has 90 days to issue a decision. Martello says he hopes to open Benny’s Frenchtown Club in December, pending approval of his liquor license. Kate Whittle
Education
A long fight coming Seven months ago, Republican Sen. Llew Jones and MEA-MFT President Eric Feaver met to discuss the lawmaker’s proposal to create a tax credit for donations to public schools and private school scholarship organizations. The latter concerned Feaver and most other public education advocates, who have long maintained the Mon-
[news] tana Constitution bars lawmakers from funneling public dollars to private—and especially religiously affiliated— schools. But Jones and Feaver were friendly colleagues, so Feaver asked him to add a line in his bill stating that it would be administered in compliance with the relevant portions of the constitution, and Jones obliged. Whatever mutual understanding the pair had at the time appeared to be gone this month when, at a Nov. 5 rules hearing over the new law, Feaver and Jones compared the gulf between their interpretations of the clause to a debate over the color of the sky. That Jones’ bill even became law was a breakthrough for “school choice” advocates, who for years tried and failed to bolster private K-12 education through legislation. Even when a tax credit program finally passed both chambers in 2013, it was vetoed by Gov. Steve Bullock. If anyone can break the political gridlock, it’s Jones, a veteran lawmaker from Conrad respected in public education circles for brokering complex funding bills. By giving incentives for both types of schools, Jones’ novel tax credit bill peeled the Montana Rural Schools Association from the otherwise united public education coalition. That’s not to say Jones ever sought to inspire grand compromise. He prefaced the bill’s committee hearings by saying he simply wanted to see the issue have a day in court, where its constitutional muster could be tested at last. Jones says he agreed to Feaver’s amendment because it made opponents more “comfortable,” even though he understood it as a token gesture that wouldn’t change the bill’s meaning. Feaver, on the other hand, says now the amendment was intended to “really narrow the impact of this bill that we were pretty sure was going to pass” by disqualifying parochial schools from the program. In May, Bullock let SB 410 become law without his signature. Then, at the urging of the public education lobby, his administration drafted a rule doing just what Feaver wanted. The rule, if finalized later this month, would effectively neuter the bill, because in Montana private school and religious education are nearly synonymous. Almost nine in 10 private school students attend a parochial Christian school, an analysis of state records indicates. ACE Scholarships, the preeminent private school scholarship group spearheaded by Greg Gianforte, awarded around 93 percent of its aid, over $1.1 million, to parochial schools in 2014-15, an analysis of the non-
profit’s data shows. The schools vary substantially, but some, like Valley Christian in Missoula, require biblical coursework and make “homosexual activity” grounds for expulsion, according to the school’s student handbook. Jones calls the administration’s move an overreach, saying the bill’s constitutionality is for a court to decide. Bullock’s office, in a statement, says the rules “simply implement the language of the bill.” Feaver agrees. “I think Llew is a real smart legislator, and he has owned the last two legislatures pretty clearly,” Feaver says. “I cannot explain why (the rule) is not what he intended. He can turn on a dime, though.” Derek Brouwer
Business
Woodworker chipper Kalvin Kovatch knows what to do when the chips are down: turn them into something useful. Kovatch has manufactured posts and rails at Roundwood West near Seeley Lake for 16 years, riding the ups and downs of the timber and construction industries. Since the recession, he’s cut his staff from four workers to just him, his wife and one summer employee. He now buys 40 truckloads of lodgepole trees a year instead of 200. But being a tinkerer, he’s always looking for ways to squeeze all the value out of what wood he can get. This year, he’s found one more way to do that: squeezing his waste woodchips into 8-foot mesh sleeves to make wattles, which resemble bendable logs. Anyone who has seen long, narrow bundles of straw protecting streams or wetlands in road-construction areas is familiar with wattles. The wattles made with straw are cheap, making them ideal for short-term projects. But they can contain a variety of seeds, and require stakes to hold them in place. Woodchips have the advantage of being slightly heavier and seed-free, so wood wattles can be used for wildfire restoration or other public-land projects. But that’s not Kovatch’s primary market.
BY THE NUMBERS Reported worth of Weyerhaeuser after the forest product company merges with Plum Creek Timber Co., according to a press release announcing the deal. Plum Creek owns 770,000 acres in Montana and operates mills in Columbia Falls and Evergreen.
$23 billion
Having grown up west of Great Falls, Kovatch knows that farmers struggle to keep irrigation-pivot wheels from gouging ruts in their fields. If ruts get too deep, a pivot sensor turns the water off because the structure is strained. “If you’re in eastern Montana and you’re buying water shares and your pivot’s off for the whole night, that’s a big deal,” Kovatch says. “There are thousands and thousands of pivots out there. It’s a huge market— we’re just the first to get into it.” Potato farmers in Idaho have tried filling their ruts with either sandbags or railroad ties. But railroad ties aren’t always easy to get, and heavy sandbags sink into the ground after a few months. Kovatch designed his wattles to match the width of the wheel ruts. When he tested them under pivot wheels, the wattles compressed slightly and then sprang back. They also hold their form when they get wet, unlike straw. Frustrated with using gravel, Wayne Slaght, Kovatch’s uncle, agreed in May to try a few experimental wattles in some bad spots on Two Creek Ranch, a property he manages near Ovando. “It works good because the tire doesn’t touch the dirt anymore so it can’t keep digging in,“ Slaght says. “They stay in the ruts, so I’m hopeful it will be a one-time deal.” In September, Kovatch’s brainchild became the first woodchip wattle certified by the Montana Department of Agriculture as weed-free for use in farm fields. “We missed the market this year, but we’re aiming for next spring,” Kovatch said. Laura Lundquist
ETC. On Nov. 6 the Missoulian reported that city leaders are trying to woo a for-profit medical school to open its doors in Missoula. The proposal was announced by Missoula Economic Partnership President James Grunke, joined by Mayor John Engen, at the group’s investor breakfast. The pair highlighted the school’s potential economic benefits, which they pegged at $45 million annually, the newspaper wrote. That’s certainly a pretty penny, but the announcement raises more questions than a sick child’s parent. Engen and Grunke are in conversation with Manipal Education Americas, a well-established multinational company based in India looking to open its first medical school in the United States. The company reportedly hopes to enroll 150 medical students annually by 2018 and has been eyeing locations such as the downtown Missoula Mercantile building. Manipal wants to call it the “Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine.” Therein lies the first problem. Another company has already signaled its interest in building a similar school in Bozeman, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported just two days before the MEP breakfast, and officials at Montana State University are cheerleading it. While Manipal’s proposal is still just talk, a New Mexico entrepreneur has put at least a bit of ink to his interest in Bozeman. On Oct. 12 Daniel Burrell’s private investment group filed paperwork with the American Osteopathic Association stating it intends to apply for accreditation. The name on the document? The Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine. For its part, Manipal put out a call for a “Founding Dean” on job-search websites in July, but the description included a typo and, on at least a few of the sites, listed the job location as Billings. The postings are no longer active. Since it seems unlikely Montana can support two medical schools, the parallel efforts look more like a turf war. While the economic benefits have enticed Engen and Grunke to enter the fray, deeper concerns still remain. Can Manipal’s school turn out high-caliber graduates? Will its customers be the same students who might be inclined to practice in rural Montana towns? Most notably, both Missoula hospitals have said nothing. In addition, Engen’s sales pitch pointed out the University of Montana boasts a strong life sciences program, yet UM says it has no position on the school. Investor breakfasts notwithstanding, their collective silence registers as a poor prognosis.
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Brew coup After opening Darby’s first taproom, newcomer is elected mayor by Derek Brouwer
As the sun sets on the south end of the little more integration, and more activities ing, plus one weekly “weird beer” infused Bitterroot Valley on Nov. 6, the town of Darby that focus on community, community with unconventional ingredients, such as an entire pecan pie. Bandit Beer doesn’t is alight and a wooden bull is ablaze. A cou- engagement.” ple hundred residents have turned out to Residents responded first by drinking have a flagship style, instead opting to exwatch flames stride along the bull’s back and McDowell’s beer. Eleven months later, they periment with 73 recipes to date, each of up its horns, transforming the 20-foot animal elected him mayor. McDowell ousted in- which is filed in a manila folder McDowell effigy into a roaring bonfire. The celebration cumbent Evelyn Savochka by a margin of proudly plops onto the bartop. outside the rodeo grounds—held to mark the 16 votes. Voter turnout for the race was An inventive brewing program has installation of another, permanent bull sculp- twice that of recent municipal elections, at helped distinguish Bandit from other brewture—is one of Darby’s largest gatherings of 64 percent. eries in the Bitterroot, attracting tourists and the year. McDowell ran as the outsider candidate, giving locals a reason to return by resisting At the edge of the crowd, J.C. McDowell, and by most measures he is. His family beer snobbery in favor of curiosity. On a rethe newly elected mayor, sips a beer and chats moved to Darby a couple years ago to settle cent Saturday afternoon, Darby resident Jake Leatherman sits among with friends. His baseball cap is ina young traveling couconspicuous amidst a canopy of ple, a group of older locowboy hats, and at McDowell’s first cals and several men in public appearance since the Nov. 3 camouflage. The brewvote, his presence goes largely unery “has made a huge noticed. Nonetheless, locals are talkimpact,” Leatherman ing about him, or rather how says. “I think it has just McDowell’s absence might mean he brought more people is pouring beer over at Bandit Brewout of the woodwork. It ing, the nearby nanobrewery he has just been great for owns. If that’s the case, one group the community.” figures, they’d better hurry over or As mayor, McDowthere won’t be a seat. ell says he’s looking for Since opening almost a year ways the town can nurago, McDowell’s brewery has been photo by Derek Brouwer ture a similarly inclusive, the talk of this town of 700 people inviting atmosphere, and, on many weekends, where Bandit Brewing owner J.C. McDowell brews a new beer on a much of the talking takes place. The Saturday afternoon. McDowell was elected mayor this month particularly as a means of economic survival. brewery and the tasting room are after opening Darby’s first taproom. Recreationalists already tucked together inside a former maintenance garage a couple blocks off down after an unstable period caused by the pass through Darby to hunt, fish and ski, and Darby’s main—and only—drag. A tiny, eccen- 2008 economic recession, when McDowell “if we can create reasons for people to stop, tric newcomer to the Montana craft brewing says he worked as a real estate developer in then everybody benefits in the community,” scene, Bandit Brewing produces less than 30 Atlanta, Ga. But the brewery, an outgrowth McDowell says. barrels a month—thought to be the fewest in of his rekindled interest in homebrewing, The tap wall behind McDowell underthe state. Its tasting area is small enough to helped McDowell become enmeshed in the scores his point. It’s covered with dollar be warmed by a vintage wood stove installed Bitterroot. “We found out that as a commu- bills, more than 100 so far, signed by cusby the building’s former owners, R&R Con- nity tasting room, a community gathering tomers as far away as Saipan, Belize and ner, Inc. logging contractors. spot, people would come in and they would Australia. The mosaic sends a different mesThe brewery quickly has become a so- talk about their concerns, talk about the is- sage than visitors to Darby may be accuscial hearth in a community that still strug- sues at hand, what was going on in their tomed to, a town where Main Street is known for the surveillance cameras its longgles to find purpose since the timber lives,” he says. harvests came to a stop 15 years ago. McDowell says his brewing strategy, time marshal has installed to nab thieves While the remaining bars on Main Street which he describes as creating “immensely and speeding motorists. On one of the bills, retain the gritty feel of a logging town, drinkable beer,” is designed to match the a customer has colored a cowboy hat over Bandit offers communal seating, live brewery’s civic role. Recipes are flavorful George Washington’s head. Across the top, music and a family-friendly atmosphere. but smooth, brewed with customers’ famil- it reads, “The United States of Bandits.” “I think that’s what the community re- iarity toward light beers in mind. At any ally wants,” McDowell says. “They want a given time, 10 styles are available for tastdbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Ban the box Missoula groups advocate for former inmates by Kate Whittle
After spending 15 years incarcerated for first year of being released. President Barack Missoula City Council to consider such a crimes committed as a 15-year-old, Levi Obama—who is the first sitting president to measure for municipal employees. Rantz says removing the felony box is Daniels was released in April 2014. Then visit a federal prison—announced on Nov. came the hard part—he had to figure out 2 that he’d be issuing an executive order just one of the first steps to helping former asking federal employers to remove the inmates reintegrate into society. Other barhow to start an adult life from scratch. “I had no work history when I came felony check-box from job applications. riers include finding housing, since many out of prison, no credit history. I have five Studies have shown that if a potential em- property management companies won’t felony convictions, and for somebody to ployer learns of an applicant’s felony status rent to someone with a felony conviction. take a chance on me like that is a pretty big later in the hiring process, they’re more Rantz believes it’s also important for former likely to hire that person than if they knew inmates to get education and training to bedeal,” Daniels says. come qualified for better paying positions Daniels explains that his crimes, which it right away. include burglary, were the result of a “misLiz Rantz has worked for the Montana than just minimum-wage part-time work. “It’s not that we don’t want people to guided youth.” Though he understands Department of Corrections and the Missoula why potential employers turned him down, he wanted the chance to prove himself. A few months after getting out of prison, Daniels interviewed at Dave Taylor Roofing where he was up front with owner Bob Duncan about his past. Duncan says he’s willing to hire people with checkered histories, as long as they demonstrate a dedication to change. “I said, ‘Okay, are you ready to get your life together now?’” Duncan recalls of the interview with Daniels. photo courtesy of Kathryn Decker “And he turned out to be one of the best em- Missoula Partners for Reintegration and other groups are hoping that local employers will ployees I have. He’s ex- join the national movement to remove the “felony box” from job applications. tremely trustworthy, he’s very honest, and he’s just a hard County Detention Facility as a medical direc- know that a person’s a felon. Ideally an [inworker, and everything he does he goes at tor for a combined 20 years and is helping terviewer] becomes comfortable enough it wholeheartedly, and he’s a great model organize the community discussion series for saying, ‘Now, there’s three years here that employee.” aren’t accounted for, what happened?’” she Missoula Partners for Reintegration. Local advocates are hoping that more “Aside from all the injustices of the jus- says. “But it’s a question of being discrimistories like Daniels’ will be shared at an up- tice system, which is a huge topic in itself, nated against just when they’re walking in coming community discussion hosted by most offenders who are put away for any the door.” Missoula Partners for Reintegration, a coali- length of time at all get out eventually,” The community discussion on hiring, tion that seeks to help former inmates find Rantz says. “And as a society we don’t wel- “Why It Can Be Good to Hire Someone on housing and employment. Daniels has al- come them back very well.” Probation or Parole,” takes place Thu., Nov. ready given a presentation at a previous Some major employers, including Tar- 12, from noon to 1 p.m. at Missoula City meeting that focused on housing issues. get and Home Depot, have already chosen Council chambers. Nationwide, 60-75 percent of former to remove the felony box from job applicainmates don’t find employment within their tions. Rantz is hoping to eventually push kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
Modern justice Why the Griz arrests, and how they were handled, felt so wrong by Dan Brooks
The Saturday before last, three Griz football players and two more University of Montana students were arrested on felony burglary charges at a home on Pattee Canyon Drive. They climbed a ladder to get inside the house, which was under construction and appeared to be unoccupied. In fact, it contained a frightened family who called 911 when they woke at 3 a.m. to find enormous men entering their home. The students and student-athletes were scheduled to appear in Missoula Justice Court the following Monday, but by noon the county attorney had intervened. Kirsten Pabst delayed charges until the next day, pending a full investigation, then delayed again until Wednesday afternoon, when the students were charged with misdemeanor trespassing. That was a just decision. It seems excessive to put felonies on big, dumb college students for horsing around in what they thought was a construction site. There is burglary and there is burglary, and the kind where the house isn’t finished and nobody takes anything but some beer is not the kind we think of when we hear the word. Yet there is something unsavory about the speed with which the county attorney intervened. I am tempted to ask whether five 19-year-old American Indians would have gotten the same treatment. But that is not a fair question. A fair question is whether there was any good way for Pabst to do justice in this situation. To the impartial observer, it was an almost comically perfect snafu. Felony burglary is obviously too much to describe what those kids did. Somebody had to lessen the charge. But the person whose job it was took office amid a massive controversy over whether she had done just that kind of thing, unjustly, for football players in the past. Also there was a family in that house, and they were scared—at least they sounded that way when the home-
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owner spoke to the Kaimin, on condition of anonymity. “One of the guys was standing in the doorway and he was as big as the door, so I thought it wasn’t in my best interests to confront him,” he told the student newspaper. Shortly thereafter, the homeowner stopped speaking to the press entirely. He is too smart to attach his family’s name to any story involving crime and Griz athletics. I don’t blame him, even if his si-
“It felt like an example of how crooked this town is. We’re plenty crooked, I suspect, but mostly we are ashamed.”
lence created a 48-hour period when local media could only report that three football players had been arrested for burglary and, based on the county attorney’s delay, probably wouldn’t be charged with it. Those first stories included more information about player stats than information about the crime. It was a situation that made no one look good: not the professional media, which got scooped by journalism students; not the county attorney, who had to go to the mat for the university athletic department before noon on a Monday; not the football program, which tallied another felony arrest if
not felony charges; and not the little mountain town that made a father scared to give his name to reporters because the crime against his family was committed by Griz players. Yet many people in this story did the right thing. Pabst was right to reduce the burglary charges to trespassing. The homeowner was right to remove himself when he realized he had suffered idiot hijinks rather than a four-man B&E. So why don’t we feel good about it? I submit that the pervasive feeling that there was no good way to do justice in this case is how we know we have done justice poorly in the past. Remember when several prominent members of our community leveraged their careers and reputations to prove that quarterback Jordan Johnson did not rape a woman? Or when a nationally recognized author wrote a whole book about how other UM students, including some football players, probably did? Do you remember when the U.S. Department of Justice investigated the university, our police and the county attorney’s office and when we resolved to put that sordid chapter of Missoula history behind us? That was about six months ago. Evidently we have yet some healing to get done. I say “we” because we are all responsible for this state of affairs. The most wrong thing anybody did last week was steal a case of beer from a house under construction, but it felt like an example of how crooked this town is. We’re plenty crooked, I suspect, but mostly we are ashamed. We let things reach a point where we don’t trust anyone—not the football team, the university, the prosecutors, the media, nobody. We’ve come to a place where not even justice feels good. And we all have to live here. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and certain types of nonHawkeye football at combatblog.net.
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Thursday, November 19:
• $1.00 Not Just Sushi Night at Sushi Hana. 5:00 – 9:00pm. • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Leek “Scallops” with Wild Mushrooms & Black Jasmine Rice. With Emily Walter, Good Food Store Cooking School Manager. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Moscow Monday at Montgomery Distillery. $1.00 from each cocktail sold will go to a local nonprofit. 12:00 – 8:00pm.
• Good Food Store Cooking Class. Taleggio Mac & Cheese with Asian Pulled Pork Salad. Presented by The Trough’s Chef Suzanne Phillips. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Foodie Trivia at Brooks & Browns, 7:00 – 10:00pm. Great prizes!
Tuesday, November 17: • Sake Pairing at Sushi Hana! Presented by Monica Samuels, who has an exceptional understanding of pairing sake with food. Monica will take your thoughts about sake to a different level while the new owners share some of their refreshed menu. $40/person with reservation only. Limited seating; call 549-7979. • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Clam & Mussel French Stew. Presented by Pearl Cash, Chef/Owner, Pearl Café. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Mule-Tastic at Montana Distillery. $1.00 from each cocktail sold will go to a local nonprofit. 12:00 – 8:00pm. • American Whiskey Tasting. Presented by Grizzly Liquor. $20 full tasting; $15 for three. At the Golden Rose, 123 W. Broadway. Whiskey lineup includes: Rowan Creek, Ezra 12 yr. Single Barrel, Jesse James, Highwood Rye, Stillbrook, Jefferson Reserve Goth Cask, 4 Roses Single Barrel. 5pm – 8pm.
Wednesday, November 18: • Savor Local Food: Meet Your Farmers & Ranchers, at Buttercup Market (1221 Helen Avenue). Gather information about land stewardship/conservation, while enjoying food samples and beer & wine samples. Free event with nominal charge for samples. Presented by Buttercup Market & Café, Oxbow Cattle Company, Western Montana Growers Cooperative, and Community Food & Agriculture Coalition. 6:00 – 8:00pm. • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Potato Gnocchi with Gorgonzola & Walnuts. Presented by Red Bird Chef Matt Cornette. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Grammy-Award-Winning Snarky Puppy live at The Wilma, 8:00pm. Tickets: $26 advance; $30 DOS available at Rockin Rudy’s and thewilma.com. • $1.00 Sushi Night at Sushi Hana. 5:00 – 9:00pm.
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Friday, November 20: • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Acorn Squash & Apple Stew. Presented by Red Bird Chef Matt Parris. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Foodie Flix at the Roxy! Double Screening of Roxy Film Academy’s “What I Bring to the Table” starring local students in cooking shows using kid-friendly, locally sourced recipes, followed by Magnolia Pictures “A Place at the Table.” 5:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior; $5/child “Chef,” starring Jon Favreau , Robert Downey Jr., John Lequizamo and Scarlett Johansson, is the story of a chef who loses his restaurant job and starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. Rated R. 9:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior • Malarkey at Ten Spoon Vineyard: Venture up the Rattlesnake and enjoy wine by the glass or flight (4 small tasters), antipasto plates by Biga Pizza (or bring your own picnic), free bread sticks, and live music by Malarkey. Tasting Room open 4:00 – 9:00pm; Music 6:00 – 8:30pm.
Saturday, November 21: • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Rosemary & Gorgonzola Waffle with Bacon Whipped Cream. Presented by The Starving Artist Café’s Chef Hannah Freas. 10:30 am; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Foodie Flick at the Roxy! A special kids’ matinee showing of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the 2005 remake of the classic, starring Johnny Depp, Freddy Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter. Rated PG. 3:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior; $5/child.
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ANNALS OF JUSTICE - A 2015 decision of the Georgia Supreme Court has created a puzzle for drunk driver enforcement. In Georgia (and other states), blood alcohol tests are “voluntary” (to bypass the issue of whether drivers can be forced, or even pressured, to endure a test that ultimately helps to convict them), but the Georgia court has ruled, against custom, that a “consenting” driver might be “too” drunk to appreciate the consent—in which case, the test results would be inadmissible in court. Equally awkward, prosecutors would be forced to argue that the drunk driver—too drunk to handle a motor vehicle—was still sober enough to give knowledgeable consent. Atlanta’s WSB-TV reported in October that judges statewide are grappling with the issue. RECENT INSTANCES OF FAMILIAR WEIRD BEHAVIORS - Funerals and burials, in the United States and elsewhere, are no longer always so staid. Most famously, one man was, per his instructions, lowered to the ground inside his beloved Cadillac. In October, after Mr. Jomar Aguayo Collazo, 23, was killed in a shootout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the family outfitted his body in his favorite blue tracksuit and propped him up at a table in his mother’s tavern (“playing” dominoes and holding a drink and a condom)—as friends and relatives passed by to pay their respects. The list of all-time extreme body modifiers would start with the late Dennis “Stalking Cat” Avner (who incrementally cut, chipped, tattooed, pierced and implanted his body to make himself a human feline) and the similarly obsessive Erik “Lizardman” Sprague, who at one time toured with the Jim Rose Circus. Newer to the scene is Britain’s Ted Richards, 57, working to become a human parrot. With 110 colorful tattoos, 50 piercings and a split tongue, he currently seeks a surgeon to turn his nose into a beak. Even without the beak, though, Richard says becoming parrotlike “is the best thing that has happened to me.” COLLEGE “INCLUSIVENESS” TO THE NEXT LEVEL - “Service” animals (mostly guide dogs) are ones that have been specially trained to provide help for people with disabilities, but untrained “comfort” animals are also privileged for those diagnosed with panic attacks or depression. In an October report on college students hoping to keep their pets in no-animal dorms, The New York Times noted that school officials have entertained student requests for the “comfort” of (besides dogs and cats) lizards, potbellied pigs, tarantulas, ferrets, guinea pigs and “sugar gliders” (nocturnal, flying, six-ounce Australian marsupials). Informal Justice Department guidelines rule out only animals that are aggressive or destructive or that trigger other students’ allergies. RAISED RIGHT OR SNITCH-IN-TRAINING? - In September, Audrey McColm, 25, traffic-stopped in Randolph County, Ind., for driving erratically, became the latest parent ratted out by her child. When Mom denied having been drinking, her daughter, 7, blurted out, “Yes, you have, Mom.” McColm registered 0.237, had nearly hit another officer’s car head-on and was so hammered that she “urged” a different officer to “shoot her in the head.” CROCHETED OFFICIALS - In October, The Washington Post and the New York Post separately reported recent episodes of government agencies keeping high-earning employees on the payroll for more than a year, with no job assignment, because the agencies were unable to adjudicate their misconduct cases. Almost 100 shelved Homeland Security employees turned up in a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act request, and one information technology analyst warehoused by the New York City employee pension fund said she had earned $1.3 million over 10 years doing absolutely no work for the city. “I watched movies,” said Niki Murphy. “I crocheted— right in front of (supervisors).” SIGNS ONLY DO SO MUCH - Drivers who blindly follow their vehicle’s satellite navigation with disastrous results are almost no longer weird, but a truck driver’s mishap in Ashton, England, in October still seemed worthy of reporting—in that he was working for a company called Dachser Intelligent Logistics when his tractor-trailer got stuck in a narrow alley (directed there by the satnav, in violation of all common sense). (Bonus: It was not the first time sat-nav had misdirected a vehicle into the same alley; the town had even placed a formal traffic sign at the approach to the alley: “Do Not Follow Sat Nav Next Left.”) UPDATES - In October, the federal government finally unloaded the two New Hampshire properties it seized in 2007 from dentist Elaine Brown and her husband (after a nine-month standoff following their vow to die rather than pay their back taxes to the IRS). Their 100-acre “compound” became a magnet at the time for an array of “sovereigns” and tax-resisters, who were rumored to have booby-trapped the property to ward off law enforcement—and the 2015 auction only partially guaranteed that the property was free of hidden explosives. (News of the Weird’s 2007 story included Dr. Brown as one of three U.S. dentists who, independent of each other, had become obsessed about federal taxes. The Browns are serving 30-year prison terms.) Thanks this week to Charles Zipperlen and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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month ago, the Indy wrote about how artists in Myanmar have had to break rules in order to express themselves—sometimes to the point of being reprimanded or imprisoned. In places where censorship is not so much an issue, artists break con-
vention as a means of expression necessary to evolution. They push boundaries, challenging both themselves and audiences in hopes of a breakthrough, a new perspective or perhaps something even more. Their experiments don’t always work, but their failures tend to be just as spectacular as their successes. And when these artists do succeed, they’re capable of changing the entire arts landscape. Missoula has a long tradition of artistic rule-breakers, and the Indy’s covered many of them before: Experimental performance artist and dancer Tricia Opstad, the Zombie Tools guys, fantastical writer/playwright Josh Wagner (who wrote a piece for this feature) and former local Dane Hansen, aka Bad Naked, who has been known to throw hot dogs while jumping around in his underwear during a performance. That’s just a few recent examples. We spoke with five others who are continuing in the tradition, from a carpenter redefining the idea of functional art to an elusive band of blackmetal rebels. They are artists we can count on to color outside the lines and, hell, maybe even off the page entirely.
Abe Coley Freestyling life art Abe Coley is a Renaissance type with a trickster attitude. In 2011, he talked six venues around Missoula into featuring him in their First Friday shows. The exhibit, Megalobamboozlementarianism: Abe Coley for Dictator of West Montanastan, was his attempt to take over downtown for a night. The paintings he was making back then represented Coley’s penchant for playful works that also tend to cause people unease, like one he made of a sexually ambiguous person cupping their crotch. These days, Coley has put aside painting to make what he calls “life art.” On a 6.5-acre plot of land up Pattee Canyon, Coley creates structures that straddle the line between functional and artistic. “Welcome to Pattee Canyon Beach,” he says. “I’ve been busy as you can see.” The most conventional building he made is a small, straw-bale cabin, which he heats with used veggie oil from restau-
rants around town. Just off the cabin’s deck, however, is something much odder: an outdoor bed shed that consists of a mattress sheltered on one side by a cattywampus configuration of wood planks. Coley built it in a day. It looks haywire for a building, but deliberate as a work of art. “The only thing that really matters is that it’s not going to fall down or be dangerous to people,” Coley says. “As long as those two conditions are met with the things I build, I like to make them interesting from that point on.” Across from the bed shed is a large garden and chicken coop fitted on one side with metal filing cabinets with the back ripped off. The cabinets are adorned with band stickers. The chickens can nest inside the drawers and lay eggs and Coley can access the eggs from outside the coop by opening the drawers. On the other side of the garden fence is a small greenhouse
photo by Amy Donovan
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Coley made from old doors and a passive solar food dehydrator he made from scrap wood. Nearby is a sauna he made from discarded wood pieces. Next to that is a spring-filled pond, a composting outhouse and an open-air wood-fired bathtub. (“It’s best during a blizzard,” he notes.) As in ceramics, these structures are equal parts aesthetic and practical. Sometimes Coley tears his works down and tries something different. “I enjoy the act of creating even more than the buildings themselves,” he says. “To me, this is art. I like building things that people can see from the road and wonder what the heck it is, until I finally show them. I use Facebook as my gallery. If I achieve a strong response from people, I know that I’ve got a good aesthetic quality going on.” Coley didn’t build the rental property’s main cabin, but he did nail some of his old paintings to the side of it. The grass surrounding the garage, the only other thing he didn’t build, is full of scraps. “An artist has their studio and this is like my studio,” he says of the scrap pile. “I keep it all sorted fairly well. Here’s alu-
photo by Amy Donovan
Abe Coley builds functional art on land he rents in Pattee Creek Canyon. “To me this is art,” he says. “I use Facebook as my gallery.”
minum. Here’s bits of plywood. There’s a stack of animal cages. A fleet of bikes and bike parts that I can turn into gate wheels. Look at that pile of hoses!”
Zebulon Kosted Chaos and destruction On a quiet evening, I’m sipping Evan Williams on the rocks in a nearly deserted Golden Rose. My phone lights up with a text message from a strange number, telling me to walk across the street from the bar to a parking lot where I’ll find a masked man waiting for me outside a silver truck. I drain my glass and pull on my coat. In the parking lot, I find the truck and the man, as promised. He’s dressed in a black military-style uniform and wearing a ski mask. He ties a blindfold over my face and
helps me climb into the backseat of the truck without speaking a word. Then we are off, destined for my prearranged meeting with the entity known as Zebulon Kosted. They’ve agreed to be interviewed, but only under a restrictive set of rules that I’ve agreed to abide by. If you believe various descriptions on the Internet, Zebulon Kosted is a Missoula-based experimental black-metal band, founded by Rashid Abdel Ghafur in 1999 and assisted by a rotating lineup of other musicians. In recent years, Ze-
image courtesy of Zebulon Kosted
Zebulon Kosted, reportedly depicted in this supplied image, is an elusive black metal group whose aim is “to obscure and diminish empire.”
Coley’s main source of income is building things for people, but he often does it in a peculiar way. For one friend, he made a fence that incorporates a fallen
tree. The final product looks like a sculpture—the tree growing through the fence. Coley’s creations come from a lifetime of working with wood. He says
he learned to be a carpenter from his dad. “If you count my grandmother,” he says, “who built a treehouse for the kids and did all kinds of stuff around the house while my grandpa was away in World War II, I’m a fourth generation carpenter. When I was 3-years-old, my parents bought a 120-year-old farmhouse out on Mullen Road that was two weeks away from getting bulldozed into a pile and set on fire. And so I’ve grown up my entire life building things and taking them apart.” Coley also plays in an improv rock band called Teens from Alberton, along with Julie Tompkins (of Zebulon Kostad) and Jasmine Randa. He calls the band’s music “groovy chaos.” It’s a description that also fits the structures he builds: often improvised, sometimes dissonant but with built-in harmonies, too. “What I do is pretty freestyle,” he says. “I usually have to have an idea in my head before I build. You can’t just start building randomly.” He stops and thinks about it. “Well, maybe you could, but you might wind up with a sculpture instead of a building. For me, there’s only a slight difference between the two.” (Erika Fredrickson)
I ask if the trio represents Zebulon bulon Kosted has released full-length al- question, his companions take turns whisbums where Ghafur howls Gollum-esque pering to him, before he responds with a Kosted. “There are many of us, none of us are vocals over blast-beats and industrial single answer. “I am One, this is Two, this is Three,” Zebulon Kosted,” responds One. sound effects. At an Oct. 17 show at the One describes Zebulon Kosted as a ZACC, Zebulon Kosted performed in a he says, motioning to his companions. tool to “obscure and diminish empitch-dark venue, calling the pire and to bring forth the abshow “Blackout.” Learning any stract,” and says Zebulon Kosted other details about Zebulon seeks to fight for oppressed peoKosted in the interview would ples and address the gap between prove challenging. the haves and the have-nots in a While my masked chaufcorrupt world. feur drives, an eerie, ambient I ask whether Zebulon Kosted noise track of undoubtedly is an expression of art. “It is a form Norwegian origin plays on the of chaos and destruction,” One restereo. The truck’s heat is swelsponds. tering. After 15, maybe 20 minAt a loss, I follow up by asking utes, I hear the crunch of gravel whether art should be entertaining. under tires and we slow to a “For those who don’t understand it, stop. The masked man guides they would find entertainment in me out of the truck to a door, clowns and sheep. Of which we are where I remove my blindfold not,” he says. and step inside a small, dimly We talk like this for a while, lit wooden sauna. with One delivering increasingly There, the masked man takes a seat beside two others, Oro Y Plata, released in 2014, is one of several Zebulon inscrutable non sequiturs. As a who are also dressed in black Kosted albums that features their experimental sound. final statement, One says, “It is time for people to understand that military-style uniforms, their The man who calls himself One bears they do not understand what they believe faces concealed. Behind them, a black banner displays the stark white “ZK” logo. a resemblance in size and voice to Ghafur. themselves.” With that, I am ushered back into the Each member of the trio wears a white The woman seated to his right, who wears armband bearing the same insignia. I can an opaque veil with a narrow eye-slit, truck and shortly returned to the breezy hear the sound of water trickling outside. whispers in low-pitched tones similar to parking lot from whence I came. I am left The man seated in the center is the Julie Tompkins’, who has collaborated with more questions than answers, which only one who speaks to me throughout with the band in the past. I have no idea is probably just as Zebulon Kosted inthe entire interview. Each time I ask a whom the third party, my driver, might be. tended. (Kate Whittle)
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ladypajama Now I’m a mini god
ings. Her small pieces of art are always prevalent at local craft fairs. For Christmas one year she made cards depicting a skinny Santa Claus with his middle finger up and “Fuck You, Xmas” scrawled above his head. “People loved it,” she says. “I think everyone gets sick of the same old holiday cards.”
Jack Metcalf One night stand
nate costumes sporting the show’s sponsors like it was a NASCAR race. A Synthetic Spring both explored the idea of insincerity and commercialism and also let people
didn’t even dent my sticker collection,” she says.) A talk bubble spills from the person’s During high school, Katie Ludwick you make something mean whatever you mouth with a question mark inside it. Toand her friends spent hours on end mak- want it to mean.” ward the bottom of the collage, ladypajama Ludwick ended up majoring in jouring art and journaling. They’d pass their has written, “Who Should I Be?” journals back and forth, drawing pictures nalism, with an emphasis in design. She In person, ladypajama is raw—exusays it was hard, but she kept creating art and writing stories for each other. berant about the art world but also defiant “It was a social thing,” she says. when it comes to what others expect Ludwick also put out an underof her. The people and monsters she ground newspaper during that time, creates seem both playful and an alternative to the high school coarse. Her style looks a lot like kids’ paper called, aptly, The Other Newsscrawl, but with enough deliberate paper. “My brother had done it and detail to betray the artist’s intent, passed it down to me,” she says. technically and emotionally. “When he and his friends wrote it “At the art fairs, people will be they were more satirical. We were like, ‘Oh, look, someone packaged more like, ‘Smash the state!’” up their kid’s art!’” she says. “That Ludwick did go to college, at the doesn’t bother me. I hold little kids University of Montana, but she in the highest esteem because they wasn’t impressed with it. She knew are making art from their soul.” she didn’t want to get a degree in She pulls out a blue marker and photo by Amy Donovan art—“That’s dumb,” she says— slashes a line across a blank piece of though she admits it probably would Ladypajama is exuberant about the art she makes but defiant when it comes to other paper. have been interesting to focus on people’s expectations. “I feel like people know my art so well that it’s being accepted,” “I just made that mark,” she she says. her craft. She liked writing but she says. “I did that. That’s how it is and she started making zines, and that’s hated the literature classes. Right now, ladypajama focuses on two when you are a little kid. I changed this “Those classes were always like, ‘What what got her through. different types of art. One is the stark, fine- paper and now I’m a mini-god. That magic Thus ladypajama was born. Ludwick’s line illustrations she turns into cards or is the best part of art.” does this author mean?’ and I wanted to say, ‘They meant just what the fuck they alter-ego and pen name has become well- uses in her zines. The other is more collage. Ten years ago, ladypajama was much said!’” she says, laughing. “Right? I’d get recognized around Missoula. Her zine, Blah One of her most striking pieces is of what more underground. She’s had longtime so mad. People would always take what- Blah Blah, is a monthly publication of some- looks like a person in a feathery black cloak support at the Zootown Arts Community ever out of their asshole and string it times funny, sometimes startling thoughts against a backdrop of hundreds of stickers Center and she wrote and drew for around. It reminded me of church where accompanied with pen-and-marker draw- featuring hearts, animals and skulls. (“It Slumgullion, a zine created by artist and ac-
Double-bass jazz composer Charles Mingus is known for many acts of defiance, including one time in the early 1950s when he convinced the young children of his bandmates to play instruments behind a curtain. Without being able to see them, the audience assumed the children were seasoned avant-garde jazz musicians. This was Mingus’ way of mocking a trending genre that frequently relied on free-flowing and discordant sounds. But according to stories about that night, everyone had a good time. Does it matter who is behind the curtain if the music makes you happy? This is a story Jack Metcalf told me on a rainy Monday afternoon as he prepared for a First Friday art exhibit at his gallery space, Real Good. The show, E-I-E-I-O, featured the art—or, to some, the scribblings and recorded gibberish—of his 2-year-old son. It might seem silly to hold an exhibition for a toddler, but Metcalf has a knack for taking absurd ideas and turning them into curated experiences that, more often than not, ensure a good time. Metcalf also guarantees a fleeting experience. Either you saw E-I-E-I-O or you didn’t. The exhibit has already come and
tivist Debby Florence, in collaboration with Courtney Blazon. But while Blazon became a popular local artist, ladypajama kept a lower profile. That’s changed in recent months. Radius Gallery displayed her pieces for its holiday show last year and will show some of them again this year. Butterfly Herbs hosted her solo exhibit over the summer. She also painted a mural on the wall inside the new Hip Strip cafe, Clyde Coffee. “I feel like people know my art so well that it’s being accepted,” she says. “I don’t know if people actually like it so much as they’ve gotten used to it. I am super prolific.” Like Blazon and a few other indie artists, ladypajama has stuck to her guns, letting the community decide when and if to embrace her. She says she’s gotten better, technically, but other than that, she’s still doing things the way she always has. “I try to make it so it’s coming from my soul instead of it being contrived to just make something someone is going to like,” she says. “Finding that line and not going over it, it’s kind of hard. You want people to like them, but that’s the antithesis of my art. I want it to be an extension of me, an emotional release. I don’t want to lose that.” (Erika Fredrickson) Work by ladypajama will be featured at VonCommon’s opening reception for its new space at 1909 Wyoming St., Ste. 7, on Fri., Nov. 13, at 6 p.m.
works from artist Brett Hargesheimer. He brought in a dance company, an electronic gone. Unlike many galleries that throw music DJ and a country-western band, inFirst Friday events and then keep their exstalled a photo booth, set up a screen-printhibits up for a month, Metcalf ’s ing press and offered door shows are one-night-only affairs. prizes. He called the show SeMetcalf has gained a reputamantic Ascent. tion for these elaborate one-off He didn’t really tell anyone experiences. Recent First Fridays at MAM what he was doing, and have included karaoke and not everyone was happy about “horse racing,” which involved that, he admits. dressing up his pet rats as horses “I snuck my way in through and letting them loose on a track. the backdoor on that one,” he The first time I met Metcalf says laughing. But it worked— he was in graduate school at UM the show was considered a huge working on a show that feasuccess with one of Artini’s tured images of Tijuana zebras largest crowds. and a rolling paper contraption As wild and entertaining, where he’d record his dreams conceptual and weird as Metand then run them through a calf ’s shows can be, he always paper shredder. He likes to seems to have a larger idea in make things appear and disapmind. Everybody has a good photo courtesy of Athena Lonsdale pear. A year later, in another time, but behind the curtain over-the-top move, he created Jack Metcalf’s art shows are highly entertaining, but he always has a larger conceptual idea there is more than meets the eye. underneath the surface. an installation called A Synthetic “I like work that is pushing Spring at the Crystal Theater. The details revel in it. The event sold out quickly, but soula Art Museum’s Artini event. When the boundaries,” he says. “If you can have were stunning: He took bottled water, Metcalf didn’t entertain the idea of accom- MAM asked him if he had ideas for how to this bizarre quality but also express a bigpencils and fortune cookies and labeled modating another night. As a printmaker, fill their Carnegie Gallery with art, he said, ger idea, it challenges people. It’s like dateach with the brand of “Jack Metcalf.” He he sees his shows in a similar fashion—you “Yes.” Then he went all out. He pasted giant ing. Somebody might be visually attractive created a life-size cutout of himself smiling make one piece and it’s precious; print cutouts of Newt Gingrich on the walls and but if they don’t have a personality it doeslike a cheesy salesman and designed or- more and the creation loses its luster. populated the room with large, colorful n’t matter.” (Erika Fredrickson)
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Metcalf is like Willy Wonka, a carnival announcer and a fine artist all rolled into one. While he was still in graduate school, Metcalf served on the board for the Mis-
Allison Goodnight What art looks like when you’re okay Some people make art out of things, others make art out of themselves. Allison Goodnight does both. She looks a little like she walked out of a painting: Bright, handmade outfits of every spoke on the color wheel. Kaleidoscopic hair and silver vintage grandma glasses. A stud in each cheek, a septum ring, lip ring and a bridge bar between her eyes. She has a wide range of tattoos. She has a luminous smile for everybody. “I see myself as neurotically optimistic,” she says. There’s a common cliché that all artists are sullen, moody and depressed, and that “real” art must come from a place of inner torment and emotional pain. If you aren’t suffering then you’re doing it wrong. The myth goes back to somber Parisians, Van Gough’s ear and the Renaissance revival of the saturnine genius and her melancholic temperament. Of all the artists I’ve met who prove the lie in this ridiculous theory, Goodnight is the most emblematic. Goodnight grew up in Columbia Falls. She attended Flathead Valley Community College where she studied photography, but after a year, she decided to try something new. When she arrived
photo courtesy of Allison Goodnight
Allison Goodnight is a tattoo and visual artist who rejects the idea that those who make art must be dark and brooding.
in Missoula, she started dabbling in sculpture. “I cut up Barbies,” she recalls, “turned them into centaurs … filled their stomachs with clock gears. I made shadow boxes, mummified dead birds.” Seems a little morbid for someone with such a sunny exterior, but Goodnight’s relationship with positivity is anything but naive. She tells me about the kind of depression she used to go through when she was younger. “Back then art was definitely a therapy tool for me,” she says. “Once I finally got in control of my life I started to wonder, what does art look like when you’re okay?” There’s no doubt that pain can help shatter complacency and lead to insight, but cynicism can also blot out whole universes of experience and imagination. “The worry of optimism is whether you’re just in denial,” she says. “So there’s always a check to make sure which side you’re leading with.” These days Goodnight’s work—mostly paintings and colored pencil pieces—has evolved into something warm and comforting, but no less strange. I’ve seen a bouquet-headed lady riding a zebra ballerina, a medusa figure with a long blue neck knitting what I’m pretty sure is meat. She tries to express totality in process, growth
in the cycle of beauty and decay. Her work still hangs in several Missoula venues, but her main canvas now is human skin as a tattoo artist at Lacy Zee’s Ink and Paint Club in the Ceretana Art Gallery. As we are talking, Allison is walking through deep woods. I’m still trying to get a handle on the source of what seems like perpetual positivity. “I tend to see the best in people,” she says. Then she pauses. She says she doesn’t want me to think this is just her optimism imposing a rose-colored version of the truth. She’s insistent on this point. “Actually, I think it’s that people show me a really lovely side of themselves most of the time.” I ask her if the interview feels like therapy. “There are spiders here,” she says, “so I can’t lie down.” Then she laughs. A laugh that is both jubilant and slightly creepy. It seems like Goodnight presents herself as a bright, glowing work of art because that is who she’s made the deliberate choice to be. If you look closely you may see some dark, melancholic strands mixed in with the rainbow hair and effervescent disposition, but those signify just a small part of the artistic process. The rest is joy. ( Josh Wagner) arts@missoulanews.com
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Prix Fixe Menu Iron Griz
Buttercup Market
515 South Ave E., 728-5106
750 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
1221 W. Helen Ave., 541-1221 $
750 Serving 11:00am – 2:00pm
Meatloaf patty melt – meatloaf slice topped with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese served on house-made sourdough bread.
2 tacos made from grass-fed Oxbow Cattle Company brisket that is braised in Imagine Nation Brewery Ubuntu Robust Porter, topped with organic black beans, house-made queso fresco, sliced Hakurai turnips, bell peppers and cilantro from Western Montana Growers Co-Op and served with Casa Pablo’s chips & Buttercup salsa & sour cream
15 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
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Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required!
Prix Fixe Menu Pearl Café
30 Serving 5:00pm – Close 1st Course: Winter caprese salad with roasted tomatoes, mixed greens, mozzarella and pesto vinaigrette or cannellini bean and rosemary soup with red pepper puree 2nd Course: Braised pork shank in red wine and mushroom sauce with creamy polenta, sauteed greens and parsnip ribbons 3rd Course: Marsala and chopped chocolate mousse with almond cookie
The Starving Artist Café & Art Gallery
5 Serving Mon. – Sat. All Day
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112 N. Pattee St., 543-7512
750 Serving 5:00pm – 9:00pm
$
750 Serving lunch 11:30am – 3:00pm Mon. – Sat.
Mini sampler plate: 2 Tokyo wings 1 beef or veggie lumpia Side of rice
15 Serving dinner 5:00 – 9:00pm Sun. & Thur.; 5:00pm – 9:30pm Fri. & Sat. Tokusei: One California roll and 8 Nigiri, served with miso soup and sunomono salad or Choose from one of our Tempura dishes: chicken & vegetable, seafood & vegetable, shrimp & vegetable, or gourmet vegetable. Served with miso soup and sunomono salad.
100 Madison St. (in the Doubletree Hotel), 542-4660 1st Course: Pickled golden beets, arugula, feta and pepitas with an apricot vinaigrette 2nd Course: Duck a l ’orange served with parmesan saffron risotto and roasted brussels sprouts and carrots 3rd Course: Chef Jess’s dessert
Hafa at Stage 112
Any daily lunch special, served with miso soup and sunomono salad
Finn & Porter
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Choose any two of the following: • Any half cold sandwich selection • Cup of soup • Small house salad • Small deli salad
30 Serving Mon. – Sat. 5:00pm – 9:00pm
403 N. Higgins Ave., 549-7979
Waffles & coffee! Any of our NEW waffles made in-house are up for grabs, as well as delicious, locally roasted drip coffee.
$
750 Serving 9:30am – 5:00pm
$
Sushi Hana
3020 S. Reserve St., 541-7472 $
All prices are per person
1st Course: Insalta Mista – mixed vegetables, fresh greens, red wine vinaigrette 2nd Course: Chicken Parmesan – house-made pasta, tomato ragù 3rd Course: Tiramisù – espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, cocoa
$
Good Food Store 1600 S 3rd St W., 541-3663 $
200 S. Pattee St. (in the Holiday Inn Downtown), 532-2056 $
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm Choose an appetizer: • Calamari with a vodka red sauce • Chilled broccoli, carrot and bacon salad tossed with a house-made slaw dressing Choose an entree: • Hand-cut bacon-wrapped filet mignon loaded with crab, drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with rosemary roasted Yukon potatoes and grilled asparagus • Roasted quail stuffed with wild rice, wild mushrooms and mandarin orange with an orange reduction, served with seasonal vegetables Choose a dessert: • Huckleberry cheesecake with a flourless chocolate torte “bow-tie”, drizzled with huckleberry reduction • Monkey bread, an individual gourmet glazed cinnamon pull-apart
Savor Bitterroot
1300 S. Reserve St., 543-9393
111 N. Higgins Ave., 549-2906 $
Brooks & Browns
Carvers Deli
Red Bird
231 East Front St., 541-0231 $
Choose one from each course: 1st course: • Grilled flatbread – created daily with an assortment of farm-fresh toppings • White truffle pub chips – hot pub chips with white truffle salt • Cup of today's soup – our soups are made fresh daily with lots of local ingredients 2nd course: • Grilled pork loin – tender, moist pork loin from Smith Farms in Whitehall, MT, with house-made applesauce • Quinoa-stuffed Portobello – grilled mushroom filled with a mixture of quinoa, parmesan, and sautéed greens • Wagyu beef burger – 1/3-pound Wagyu beef patty and your choice of cheese on a homemade bun 3rd course: • Huckleberry cheesecake – our Montana Huckleberries are paired with fresh cheesecake baked in the campus bakery • Seasonal fruit indulgence and whipped cream – ask your server for today's selection. • Chocolate flourless torte – this is a gluten-smart dessert that contains no wheat flour. It does contain plenty of chocolate and house-whipped cream.
750 Serving 11:00am – 9:00pm • Turkey cranberry panini • Kale slaw • Chocolate pumpkin cookie
2106 Clements Rd., 721-3322
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50 Serving 8:00am – 8:00pm • Half market club sandwich with roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, avocado, provolone, greens, tomato with house-made fire-roasted red bell pepper and artichoke aioli • Cup of soup – choose from one of our many savory soup options
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Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton, 363-7468 $
15 Serving 5:00pm – 8:00pm 1st course: Fall salad – roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, almonds, blue cheese, caramelized shallots & apples, tossed in house-made honey-beet vinaigrette 2nd course: 6oz sirloin steak topped with porter-herb butter, roasted fingerlings and ginger roasted carrots
Taste of Paris 109 N. 4th St., Hamilton, 369-5875 $
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 11:30am Maple Syrup & Butter Crepes with a Latte
$
15 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm Ham & Brie Sandwich (Baguette or Croissant) and Soup Served with ham (“Jambon de Paris”) and double cream Brie cheese, with French Onion Soup or soup of the day • Chocolate Mousse for dessert.
The Trough at the Olde Dairy $
All prices are per person
$
30 Serving 5:30pm – 8:00pm • Taste of Paris House Salad: Crown of cucumber stuffed with spring mix, seedless grapes, dried cherries, sautéed pecans and crumbled blue cheese, dressed with our fresh raspberry vinaigrette. • Scallops: Delicate pearl scallops and button mushrooms in a light wine creamy sauce, served with rice and fresh tomatoes. • Fresh cream puff filled with “crème pâtissière”, topped with our house chocolate sauce and Chantilly whipped cream
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Prix Fixe Menu Iron Griz
Buttercup Market
515 South Ave E., 728-5106
750 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
1221 W. Helen Ave., 541-1221 $
750 Serving 11:00am – 2:00pm
Meatloaf patty melt – meatloaf slice topped with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese served on house-made sourdough bread.
2 tacos made from grass-fed Oxbow Cattle Company brisket that is braised in Imagine Nation Brewery Ubuntu Robust Porter, topped with organic black beans, house-made queso fresco, sliced Hakurai turnips, bell peppers and cilantro from Western Montana Growers Co-Op and served with Casa Pablo’s chips & Buttercup salsa & sour cream
15 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $30, $15, $7.50, or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.
Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required!
Prix Fixe Menu Pearl Café
30 Serving 5:00pm – Close 1st Course: Winter caprese salad with roasted tomatoes, mixed greens, mozzarella and pesto vinaigrette or cannellini bean and rosemary soup with red pepper puree 2nd Course: Braised pork shank in red wine and mushroom sauce with creamy polenta, sauteed greens and parsnip ribbons 3rd Course: Marsala and chopped chocolate mousse with almond cookie
The Starving Artist Café & Art Gallery
5 Serving Mon. – Sat. All Day
$
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112 N. Pattee St., 543-7512
750 Serving 5:00pm – 9:00pm
$
750 Serving lunch 11:30am – 3:00pm Mon. – Sat.
Mini sampler plate: 2 Tokyo wings 1 beef or veggie lumpia Side of rice
15 Serving dinner 5:00 – 9:00pm Sun. & Thur.; 5:00pm – 9:30pm Fri. & Sat. Tokusei: One California roll and 8 Nigiri, served with miso soup and sunomono salad or Choose from one of our Tempura dishes: chicken & vegetable, seafood & vegetable, shrimp & vegetable, or gourmet vegetable. Served with miso soup and sunomono salad.
100 Madison St. (in the Doubletree Hotel), 542-4660 1st Course: Pickled golden beets, arugula, feta and pepitas with an apricot vinaigrette 2nd Course: Duck a l ’orange served with parmesan saffron risotto and roasted brussels sprouts and carrots 3rd Course: Chef Jess’s dessert
Hafa at Stage 112
Any daily lunch special, served with miso soup and sunomono salad
Finn & Porter
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Choose any two of the following: • Any half cold sandwich selection • Cup of soup • Small house salad • Small deli salad
30 Serving Mon. – Sat. 5:00pm – 9:00pm
403 N. Higgins Ave., 549-7979
Waffles & coffee! Any of our NEW waffles made in-house are up for grabs, as well as delicious, locally roasted drip coffee.
$
750 Serving 9:30am – 5:00pm
$
Sushi Hana
3020 S. Reserve St., 541-7472 $
All prices are per person
1st Course: Insalta Mista – mixed vegetables, fresh greens, red wine vinaigrette 2nd Course: Chicken Parmesan – house-made pasta, tomato ragù 3rd Course: Tiramisù – espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, cocoa
$
Good Food Store 1600 S 3rd St W., 541-3663 $
200 S. Pattee St. (in the Holiday Inn Downtown), 532-2056 $
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm Choose an appetizer: • Calamari with a vodka red sauce • Chilled broccoli, carrot and bacon salad tossed with a house-made slaw dressing Choose an entree: • Hand-cut bacon-wrapped filet mignon loaded with crab, drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with rosemary roasted Yukon potatoes and grilled asparagus • Roasted quail stuffed with wild rice, wild mushrooms and mandarin orange with an orange reduction, served with seasonal vegetables Choose a dessert: • Huckleberry cheesecake with a flourless chocolate torte “bow-tie”, drizzled with huckleberry reduction • Monkey bread, an individual gourmet glazed cinnamon pull-apart
Savor Bitterroot
1300 S. Reserve St., 543-9393
111 N. Higgins Ave., 549-2906 $
Brooks & Browns
Carvers Deli
Red Bird
231 East Front St., 541-0231 $
Choose one from each course: 1st course: • Grilled flatbread – created daily with an assortment of farm-fresh toppings • White truffle pub chips – hot pub chips with white truffle salt • Cup of today's soup – our soups are made fresh daily with lots of local ingredients 2nd course: • Grilled pork loin – tender, moist pork loin from Smith Farms in Whitehall, MT, with house-made applesauce • Quinoa-stuffed Portobello – grilled mushroom filled with a mixture of quinoa, parmesan, and sautéed greens • Wagyu beef burger – 1/3-pound Wagyu beef patty and your choice of cheese on a homemade bun 3rd course: • Huckleberry cheesecake – our Montana Huckleberries are paired with fresh cheesecake baked in the campus bakery • Seasonal fruit indulgence and whipped cream – ask your server for today's selection. • Chocolate flourless torte – this is a gluten-smart dessert that contains no wheat flour. It does contain plenty of chocolate and house-whipped cream.
750 Serving 11:00am – 9:00pm • Turkey cranberry panini • Kale slaw • Chocolate pumpkin cookie
2106 Clements Rd., 721-3322
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 8:00pm • Half market club sandwich with roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, avocado, provolone, greens, tomato with house-made fire-roasted red bell pepper and artichoke aioli • Cup of soup – choose from one of our many savory soup options
All prices are per person
Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton, 363-7468 $
15 Serving 5:00pm – 8:00pm 1st course: Fall salad – roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, almonds, blue cheese, caramelized shallots & apples, tossed in house-made honey-beet vinaigrette 2nd course: 6oz sirloin steak topped with porter-herb butter, roasted fingerlings and ginger roasted carrots
Taste of Paris 109 N. 4th St., Hamilton, 369-5875 $
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 11:30am Maple Syrup & Butter Crepes with a Latte
$
15 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm Ham & Brie Sandwich (Baguette or Croissant) and Soup Served with ham (“Jambon de Paris”) and double cream Brie cheese, with French Onion Soup or soup of the day • Chocolate Mousse for dessert.
The Trough at the Olde Dairy $
All prices are per person
$
30 Serving 5:30pm – 8:00pm • Taste of Paris House Salad: Crown of cucumber stuffed with spring mix, seedless grapes, dried cherries, sautéed pecans and crumbled blue cheese, dressed with our fresh raspberry vinaigrette. • Scallops: Delicate pearl scallops and button mushrooms in a light wine creamy sauce, served with rice and fresh tomatoes. • Fresh cream puff filled with “crème pâtissière”, topped with our house chocolate sauce and Chantilly whipped cream
missoulanews.com • November 12–November 19, 2015 [19]
[arts]
What matters From Missoula to the national stage, playwright Claudia Alick shines a light on civil rights and racial injustice by Erika Fredrickson
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here are hundreds of ways Claudia Alick is entertaining. On her Soundcloud show, “Hold On Wait For It,” she and her sister, Maia Mills-Low, jump seamlessly from talking about how best to mainline sugar (honey stick or alcohol) to the wonders of watching “Dr. Who” on VHS (Alick’s seen every episode.) All the while they weave in heftier topics: Alick feels guilty that she never called out Bill Cosby on social media, even though she’d heard about the rape accusations for years. It’s a whirlwind of straight talk and wit, pop culture and politics, offered as casual conversation. At one point, in reference to Cosby and the lack of African-American mega-stars in the industry, Alick says, “I’m pretty sure there were 400 Bill Cosbys, but they just died of poverty before they could become Bill Cosby.” Alick, who grew up in Missoula, has a lot of practice with the spoken word. She’s the associate producer for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a playwright, a poetry slam artist, blogger and a social activist. She was recently named by American Theater Magazine as “one of 25 theater artists who will shape American Theater in the next 25 years.” She’s currently deep into her most ambitious project: Along with Dominic D’Andrea, the artistic director for the One-Minute Play Festival, Alick has produced a project titled Every 28 Hours—a compilation of 90 new and original oneminute plays in response to the civil rights movement embodied by Black Lives Matter. The show will be produced in cities across the country. “I was very intrigued by the community collaboration aspect of the work that Dominic does,” says Alick, speaking from her home in Ashland. “A lot of the work I do is also about taking lots and lots and lots of voices and putting them into one project. I took [the One-Minute Play Festival’s] model and exploded it. I said, ‘Hey, Dominic, what if instead of you collaborating with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival what if we have you collaborate with us and, like, 30 to 40 other theaters in the country?’ He said, ‘Yeah! Why not?’” Even though Alick has engaged in the civil rights movement in her own space, she wanted to root the project in a place representative of the movement: Ferguson, Mo. Phase one of the project entailed reaching out to a diversity of playwrights (Pulitzer and Tony winners, included) to have them each create a one-minute play. “One of the things important to me was we didn’t curate what people wrote,” Alick says. “We told them to write us anything that is inspired by the current civil rights movement. But we did try to curate identities. We got a trans writer because ‘trans lives matter’ is part of the conversation, too, and we made sure we had Native writers and Latino writers.”
Claudia Alick is a theater producer who recently solicited playwrights from around the country to pen one-minute plays in response to Black Lives Matter for Every 28 Hours.
For phase two, Alick, D’Andrea and 20 sponsored actors and playwrights from participating companies—including from New York’s Theater of the Oppressed—arrived in St. Louis and spent three days there. The intensive allowed them to engage with artists and activists and learn the history of the city, from the Missouri Compromise all the way to the social and political makeup that defines Ferguson today. On the last night, Alick’s crew collaborated with St. Louis theater-makers to perform a reading of the oneminute plays—some of which they wrote while they were there. “We had this really beautiful conversation where a police officer was so inspired that she was apologizing and then she got up and hugged [playwright] Elizabeth Vega right in front of me,” Alick says. “It was wild.” The next phase will be supporting the 40-some theaters across the country to produce Every 28 Hours, individually. Then, come October 2016, Alick and her partners will coordinate simultaneous productions across the U.S. It is not scheduled for Missoula. Alick’s work is inextricably linked to growing up in Missoula, though she doesn’t always explicitly address it in her work. She still has family here—her sister, Mills-Low, for instance, was a part of the local theater
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scene until she moved to Seattle, and their father, Claude Alick, is a Missoula writer and a beloved former bartender at the Golden Rose. As a student at Hellgate High School, Alick started the Black Student Union. It was abandoned after she graduated, but during her time with it she pushed for awareness. She helped lead an experiment at the high school to talk about race where students wore different colored shirts so they could imagine the experience of being marginalized. She and the union also contacted members of the Ku Klux Klan to come talk with Hellgate students. “There was a reason I was doing all of that work,” she adds. “I go back to Missoula every year because I love it there. But my experience was also informed by racism in all of the different forms it comes in— somebody throwing a bottle at my head, having a horrible hate-filled pamphlet on my doorstep or just having a teacher assume I wasn’t going to be good enough. Implicit bias, extreme racism—all of these come together to create the American Experience.” Alick wrote a one-minute play for Every 28 Hours titled “All Convenience,” in which actors try to decide what to do as a Kwik-E Mart burns down. “One of them is discussing whether the fire is dangerous and another wants to study the particu-
lates,” Alick says. “All the while the store is burning. Finally someone gets a hose. And the joke is: All convenience stores matter.” Alick wanted to called the project Every 28 Hours as a nod to the statistic that every 28 hours an unarmed black person is killed by a police officer. That number, which came from a report authored through the Malcolm X Grassroots Project, has been contested in media outlets. The methodology might be wrong. The number might be 32, not 28. Whatever the case may be, Alick says, the point is, again, being missed. “I think that’s part of what the plays are about,” she says. “It’s about the conversation the United States is having to grapple with. Because, I mean, every 28 hours? Every 48 hours? Every 98 hours? How many hours does it need to be? It’s nice to be able to do these plays because we are making visible the national wound that, if you are a person of color, you have never been not aware of. And black people can see, brown people can see, how this is hurting all of us.” Visit osfashland.org for more info on the project and to donate. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Elemental force Big John Bates brings out the devil Rockabilly enjoys a tradition of dark subject matter, probably because the music is a conduit for dark forces. If you listen to enough Cramps albums, you will start wearing black lipstick and eventually cheat on your boyfriend. If you are a dude, you will drink to forget a murder in the woods. These are only broad trends, of course, but the principle holds: rockabilly is evil. On From the Bestiary to the Leathering Room, Big John Bates makes the darkness explicit. It’s all grounded in that campy rockabilly sound with solid basslines providing the foundation for tilting, sometimes frantic melodies. Around this edifice swirl the bats.
Bates sings outside his range in tight-throated bellows reminiscent of Nick Cave. Bassist Brandy Bones sings more comfortably in the high range, and the two together sound like warring elemental forces. It’s a sound suited to music about gothic themes, at once sinister and a little funny. Occasionally, the sludge gets a little thick, as on “God Forgives I Don’t.” Like the larger genre, Big John Bates is at its best when it stays nimble, with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Rockabilly is the devil’s music, sure, but we all enjoy the devil when he comes to party. (Dan Brooks) Big John Bates plays Stage 112 Fri., Nov. 13, at 10 PM, with The Skurfs and Pale People.
Richard Thompson Trio, Still Royalty will be among us this week when the Richard Thompson Trio comes to town. Or, depending on when you ask, the court jesters. During the early evolution of British folk, back in the 1960s, this was the kind of music met with resistance from musicians who preferred to stick with the a cappella tradition. Even a solo acoustic guitar was greeted with disdain. I imagine Ewan MacColl, legendary balladeer and face of traditional British folk music at that time, must have been tearing his hair out upon hearing Thompson’s first folk-rock band, Fairport Convention. Fairport ended up becoming influential and is still active, approaching its golden jubilee, but Thompson exited the fold in 1971. Since then, he’s created a beyond-prolific career, both as a solo artist and in collab-
oration with former wife, folk-rock singer Linda Thompson. The latest Thompson release, Still, lends confirmation that Thompson is still a rare breed. He continues to captivate with a potent elixir— equal parts bitter truth, humility, humanity and some bitchin’ and untouchable guitar playing. Tracks like “Josephine” and “Where’s Your Heart” prove Thompson’s inspiration is intact and relevant as ever. He remains rooted in folk but proves he understands different avenues of music from both sides of the Atlantic. He’s royalty, yes, but he’s far from antiquated. (Bryan Ramirez) Richard Thompson plays the Wilma Mon., Nov. 16, at 8 PM. Doors at 7. $32/$28 advance at thewilma.com.
Toranavox, Toranavox On Toranavox’s eponymous album, guitarist Ken Minami and drummer Eli Halfi make epic rock tinged with metal and marinated in prog. All of that is mixed with threads of Old-World melodies and lyrics sung in Japanese, Hebrew and English, which makes sense since Halfi is Israeli, Minami is Japanese and they live in Brooklyn. The vocals—no matter the language—seem to jump between aggressive gang growls and desperate yelling that sounds a lot like yearning. “Beautiful” and “Changes” carry some of the drifting tunes you’d hear filtering through the speakers of one
of those secretly delicious Asian restaurants tucked inside a shopping mall— except as covered by a heavy-rock band. “Hello” is styled like a Rush song, if Rush hailed from the Middle East. If I liked Rush, that would probably raise it above Adele’s song of the same name—but, alas. Regardless, I like Toranavox for the peculiar noise they bring to the table. They have a fascinating blend of emotion and flavors, which I imagine will only be multiplied in a live setting. (Erika Fredrickson) Toranavox plays the VFW Sun., Nov. 15, at 8 PM with New Old Future and Rock and Roll Girlfriend. $5. All ages.
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Sunny outlook After 20 years, Shellshag still loves to party by Kate Whittle
Tuesday, November 17, 6:30pm Presented by Monica Samuels, who has an exceptional understanding of pairing sake with food. Monica will take your thoughts about sake to a different level while the new owners share some of their refreshed menu.
$40/person with reservation only Limited seating; call 549-7979 Brooklyn’s Shellshag features John Driver and Jen Shagawat.
You can learn a lot about a band while hanging out with them at a truckstop strip club. I first met the two-piece Brooklyn punk band Shellshag when I climbed into a crowded 15-person passenger van on a hot, smoky afternoon in August. It was in the midst of Total Fest, that now-defunct annual all-ages festival of indie, punk and metal. I’d offered to play tour guide for my friends in Seattle band Dead Bars, and they asked if Shellshag could tag along. The cheery duo introduced themselves as Shell (singer/guitarist John Driver) and Shag (drummer Jen Shagawat). We were all looking to find some hair of the dog and escape the wildfire smoke, and I proposed seeking out the cool, dimly lit aura of happy hour at Fred’s Lounge. Jen and John chatted casually while sipping $1 draughts of Coors Light at the tip rail for the better part of an afternoon. They quickly befriended the staff and even convinced two of the Fred’s dancers to pose for photos holding the Shellshag LP Rumors in Disguise. In case you don’t believe me, there’s proof on Shellshag’s Instagram feed. At one point, standing in the parking lot, I looked out on the smoky haze and apologized to the group for the crappy weather. “No, it’s beautiful,” Jen said, taking a drag off her cigarette. “Look at all the space you have.” Eventually we piled back in the van and made our way downtown, and that evening, Shellshag played their Total Fest set in the Palace Lounge. I was already familiar with a little bit of their backstory. They started playing together almost 20 years ago,
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and their catalogue, mostly on Don Giovanni Records and their own label, Starcleaner, is full of low-key punk rock featuring chunky riffs and melodies that linger in your head. Their fifth full-length, Why’d I Get So High, came out in early October and features a slew of cool guests, such as Marissa Paternoster from Screaming Females. Shellshag’s records are relatively laid-back, stoned rock-and-roll. I was not, in all honesty, expecting to be blown away by their live set. But when they take the stage, Shellshag turn into a force to be reckoned with. All those chunky riffs and groovy drums translate into a compelling argument to dance around like crazy, particularly if one has been drinking dollar beers all day. At Total Fest, I volunteered myself as a go-go dancer and boogied around behind Jen’s drum kit during most of their set. At one point, being the graceful lady I am, I tripped and fell into a hole in the Palace floor and had to be rescued by John. They were extremely good-natured about the whole thing, even though they would have been quite justified in kicking my butt offstage. Come to think of it, watching Shellshag’s show is a little bit like an afternoon spent at a highway strip club: Kind of weird, kind of amazing and definitely unforgettable. Shellshag plays the VFW Mon., Nov. 16, at 9 PM, along with Midnight Hotdog and Hermanas Y Hermanas. Cover TBA. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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First impressions Ranking Bond’s opening sequences after Spectre by Skylar Browning
Just a hop, skip and a jump.
The beginning of Spectre produces the best pretitle sequence in the esteemed history of the James Bond franchise. There’s not even a close second. Say what you want about the rest of Spectre, which premiered atop the box office last weekend despite mixed critical reviews. The 24th Bond film—and fourth featuring Daniel Craig in the leading role—fails in a lot of the areas recent efforts got right. Nods to Bond’s past feel forced. One-liners fall flat. At least two of 007’s signature seduction scenes come across as unearned and (gasp) unsexy. Spectre is no Skyfall. But the opening scene has everything. Set in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead parade, it starts with Bond in a skeleton-decorated suit working his way through the revelry with a gorgeous woman on his arm. About 10 minutes later, the sequence closes with a fight inside a helicopter spiraling above the city’s crowded main square. There’s violence, humor, culture and sex appeal, all in crowd-pleasing excess. It’s exactly what Bond fans crave and enough to distance Spectre from, say, Quantum of Solace. With Spectre now assuming the mantle of best Bond beginning ever, it’s worth looking back at the iconic scenes that came before and helped put the franchise’s cold open into a category all its own. These selections round out the rest of our top five. 5. GoldenEye (1995) The opening to Pierce Brosnan’s debut as 007 announced the franchise’s return to form. The key was Bond’s plunge from 750 feet above a hydroelectric dam on the Swiss-Italian border. The leap set a world record for bungee jumping from a fixed object and was voted in 2002 by British film fans as the greatest stunt in movie history. (Stagecoach finished second.) At the time, it’d been six years since Bond last appeared on screen—and even longer since he successfully wooed audiences. All of that went away with one step off the top of that dam.
4. Casino Royale (2006) Similar to Brosnan’s debut, Craig’s first film needed to make a strong first impression. Director Martin Campbell went bare bones, opening with a black-and-white flashback (and a flashback within that flashback) to Bond’s first and second kills. It’s brutal and stylish—the characteristics that best describe Craig’s successful tenure as 007. 3. Goldfinger (1964) Dr. No (1962) didn’t have an opening sequence. From Russia With Love (1963) started with a thrilling game of cat and mouse under darkness—but didn’t include the real Bond. Goldfinger, however, set the stage for future films with Sean Connery emerging from nearby docks to wreak havoc on a Latin American oil depot doubling as a hidden heroin operation. But before Connery escapes back to Miami he attends to “some unfinished business�—a curvaceous dancer in a nearby club. 2. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Fans of a certain age will always remember this film for its opening ski chase. While laying in bed with a blonde, Roger Moore receives an emergency tickertape message on his watch to return to London immediately. “But James, I need you,� pleads the woman. “So does England,� he says, somehow not looking ridiculous as he exits the cabin wearing a skintight yellow ski suit and carrying an enormous red backpack. Bad guys quickly commence a downhill pursuit that ends with one of the best images in more than 50 years of Bond films: Moore skiing off a cliff, flailing in the air and apparently plummeting to his death before opening an enormous Union Jack parachute to safety. Spectre continues at the Carmike 12.
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All veneer The Assassin kills any sense of drama by Molly Laich
“Tree of life? Try, tree of death.”
It’s not every day we get such a breathtaking portrait of ninth century China under the end days of the Tang Dynasty, and with such hollow insides! Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s martial arts epic The Assassin is so beautiful, it’s obscene. It’s so gorgeous and still and awe inspiring in its landscapes, costumes and interiors that no one seems to notice or care how thoroughly it bores, confuses or fails to move us on any level other than visual. Shu Qui stars as Nie Yinniang, who’s been raised since age 10 by a nun named Jiaxin to be an assassin of corrupt government officials. We see Yinniang kill a man on a horse in an artful and elegant way, and we know she’s not a thing to be trifled with. In every film about warriors, the warrior we rally behind is the deadliest of all. If ever two best warriors from two different films met in some neutral universe, who could possibly lose? Except that every hero has a flaw, and it turns out that Yinniang struggles with mercy and compassion. When she finds herself unwilling to kill one of her targets in front of his son, her master seems displeased and sends her on a mission substantially more trying: She must go to the distant province of Weibo in Northern China and assassinate their military leader, Tian Ji’an, a cousin to whom she was once betrothed. Much of this backstory is whispered to us instead of seen, but did I mention how beautiful? A writer quickly runs out of synonyms for “pretty” in her eagerness to verbally fellate this movie. Every frame of The Assassin could hang proudly on a wall. The noblemen sit on ornate thrones in houses made of heavy drapes, and everyone is wearing slippers.
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While noblemen wait patiently to be assassinated, they have grand assemblies that look something like dinner theater. The men are poised for entertainment. They sit cross-legged on the floor and eat ramen with chopsticks. On stage, women in elaborate costumes spin around and a band consisting mostly of flutes and percussion instruments plays them on. The audience sips from their tea in unison and everyone has their hands calmly folded in their lap. The Tang Dynasty seems to me an enviable time, when society had rules and everyone effortlessly knew how to behave at a party. I called it a martial arts movie at the start because that’s what the packaging tells me, and don’t get me wrong—the sudden bursts of hand-to-hand combat are mesmerizing, swift and convincing. It’s just that these fight scenes make up maybe three or four total minutes of the nearly two-hour running time. The rest we spend with bated breath, counting the seconds between dull lines delivered with painful, humorless reverence. The silence in this film is meant to be tranquil and contemplative, I think, and I faded in and out of that feeling, but an engine can only run on fumes for so long. The Assassin opened to sweeping critical acclaim at the Cannes Films Festival, and it will represent Taiwan at the 88th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. In light of these facts, my plain dislike of it makes me think I’m missing something. Have I been spoiled by Tarantino-style fast editing and westernized, comprehensive storytelling? The short answer is yes. The Assassin opens at the Roxy Fri., Nov. 13. arts@missoulanews.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK THE 33 It took five years, but they finally made a movie based on the Chilean mining accident in which 33 men were trapped for 69 days 2,300 feet underground in the 121-year-old San José copper–gold mine. Too many numbers! Antonio Banderas portrays Mario Sepúlveda, the leader of the group. Rated PG-13. Showing at Carmike. AIRPLANE! I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley, this 1980 classic manages to spoof just about every other film. Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen. Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy Sat., Nov. 14 at 10 PM. THE ASSASSIN (NIE YINNIANG) A young woman in ninth century China is trained to become a superb assassin and kill her lover in legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest martial arts film. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy. (See Film.) LOVE THE COOPERS With a tagline like “You can’t regift family,” this film is probably the perfect start to the holiday movie season. Family plus holiday usually equals chaos, but with John Goodman and Diane Keaton as your parents, it’s a lot funnier. Rated PG-13. Showing at Carmike. MY ALL AMERICAN In the tradition of Rudy—in fact, from the same writer—comes the too-small-for-football tale of Freddie Steinmark. Rated PG. Playing at Carmike. PRESIDENT WITHOUT A CAUSE This short film is a bizarre amalgamation that marries the Americas of 1777 and 2015 in a way that hopes to get you laughing. Written and directed by Missoula’s own Austin Valley, President Without a Cause offers a take on our first president we guarantee you haven’t seen before. Playing Sat., Nov. 14 at 9 PM. (See Spotlight.)
NOW PLAYING BRIDGE OF SPIES Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks in this Cold War thriller based on the true story of a prisoner swap with Russia for the pilot of a downed Amer-
He’s the coach we deserve, but not the one we need right now. My All American opens Fri., Nov. 13, at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. ican U-2 spy plane. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex. FANTASIA - 75TH ANNIVERSARY Considered by many to be the pinnacle of classic cell animation, Fantasia is back for a 75th anniversary showing. See the visual spectacle at the Roxy Sat., Nov. 14 and Sun., Nov. 15, at noon and 3 PM. GOOSEBUMPS R.L. Stine’s imaginary demons come to life and cause a major amount of annoyance. Stars Jack Black. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, Showboat. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez provide the vocal fireworks as Dracula tries to bring out the monster in his grandson. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike, Showboat, Pharaohplex. LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS The Roxy continues its Lord of the Rings series with
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Just when Sam and Frodo are closing in on Mordor, Saruman and his hordes of Isengard screw things up, and it’s up to a slew of rugged men and hirsute elves to save the day. Rated PG-13. Thu., Nov. 12 at 7 PM, and Sun., Nov. 15, 3 PM. THE MARTIAN Left for dead on the Red Planet, Matt Damon attempts to survive until a rescue mission can come for him. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaoh, Showboat. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TANNHÄUSER Broadcast in HD, the Metropolitan Opera performs Wagner’s Tannhäusen. Showing at the Roxy Tues., Nov. 17 at 6 PM. THE PEANUTS MOVIE Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and, of course, Snoopy join the rest of the Peanuts gang as they make
their computer-animated debut. Rated G. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex. SPECTRE Daniel Craig returns as 007. While working to uncover a sinister organization, James Bond reveals the ugly truth about SPECTRE. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex and Showboat. (See Film.) Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault and Gaaby Patterson. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Double Screening of Roxy Film Academy’s “What I Bring to the Table” starring local students in cooking shows using kid-friendly, locally sourced recipes, followed by Magnolia Pictures’ “A Place at the Table.”
Noodles for world peace by Gabi Moskowitz
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Monday, November 16: Leek “Scallops” with Wild Mushrooms & Black Jasmine Rice. With Emily Walter, Good Food Store Cooking School Manager. Tuesday, November 17: Clam & Mussel French Stew. With Pearl Cash, Chef/Owner, Pearl Café. Wednesday, November 18: Potato Gnocchi with Gorgonzola & Walnuts. With Red Bird Chef Matt Cornette.
Thursday, November 19: Taleggio Mac & Cheese with Asian Pulled Pork Salad. With The Trough’s Chef Suzanne Phillips. Friday, November 20: Acorn Squash & Apple Stew. With Red Bird Chef Matt Parris. Saturday, November 21: Rosemary & Gorgonzola Waffle with Bacon Whipped Cream. With The Starving Artist Café’s Chef Hannah Freas.
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I really think noodles may be the key to world peace—or, at least, dietary restriction peace. There is a pasta or noodle dish for everyone. Big-time carnivore? Go with spaghetti and meatballs. Vegan? Try linguine with creamy avocado pesto. Low carb? Shirataki noodles for you. Oh, you’re paleo? Better whip up some zucchini noodles. Gluten-free but desperately missing wheat noodles? Try some brown rice pasta. These days there are so many different dietary restrictions to be aware of when you’re cooking for others, it can feel impossible to please everyone. But, I’ll tell ya, this recipe comes pretty darn close. Inspired by San Francisco cult favorite Burma Superstar’s outrageously delicious Superstar Vegetarian Noodles, it’s a toothsome noodle dish with a plethora of flavors that meld together in harmony, bound together by an ultra-simple sauce It’s not low-carb (though it can be, if you use shirataki noodles and omit the potatoes), but it is vegan, glutenfree (if you use gluten-free noodles), has no added sugar and is loaded with tons of delicious, flavorful toppings. Meat lovers can feel free to add a bit of grilled chicken or shrimp (though it doesn’t need it), and it’s substantial enough to qualify as a main dish for vegetarians. Even better, the flavors improve if the dish sits for a bit, so you can feel free to make it in advance. If I know I am going to have a busy couple of days, I’ll make a batch and keep it in the fridge so I can grab a quick bowl when time allows. I like to make it with brown rice pasta—the delicately nutty flavor it imparts to the dish is fantastic. But I’ve made it with rice vermicelli, shirataki, wheat noodles, even soba, and it’s always been addictively delicious.
Ingredients 8 oz. dried fettucine (gluten-free pasta or rice noodles will also work) ($2 for 16 oz.) 1 medium potato, peeled and diced ($0.50) 3 tablespoons vegetable, coconut or olive oil, divided (pantry) 6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced (pantry) 12 oz. extra firm tofu, drained and cubed ($1.50) Salt to taste (pantry) 1/8 cup Asian chili sauce ($2.50 for 8 oz.)
BROKEASS GOURMET 1 cup thinly sliced green cabbage (about ¼ medium cabbage) ($1.50 for half of a cabbage) 1 carrot, shredded ($0.50) 1 handful fresh cilantro, roughly chopped ($1 for a bunch) (Recipe serves 4; estimated cost: $9.50) Directions Cook the pasta in salted boiling water according to package directions. Drain, rinse and set aside. In a small pot, bring some salted water to a light boil. Add the diced potato and cook until tender, about five minutes. Rinse, drain and set aside. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a medium frying pan over medium heat. Add the sliced garlic and cook until very lightly golden brown and crisp (watch to ensure it doesn’t burn). Fish the garlic out of the hot oil and drain it on a paper towel. Add the cubed tofu to the hot oil, turn up the heat to medium-high, and cook until the tofu is lightly crisp, tossing in the pan a few times. Once the tofu has finished cooking, drain it on a paper towel and salt lightly. In a small bowl, combine the remaining tablespoon of oil with the Asian chili sauce (add more if you want it to be super-spicy). Return the cooked noodles to their cooking pot and toss thoroughly with the chili sauce-oil mixture. To the noodles, add the potatoes, garlic, tofu, carrot and cabbage. Toss gently a few times to incorporate. Serve the noodles topped with the cilantro and pass extra chili sauce at the table for those who clamor for heat. 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. She is also the producer of “Young & Hungry,” an ABC Family comedy inspired by her life and writing.
[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice's is rockin' out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain't all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly fall mornin' while nibblin' a piece of Bernice's already famous Pumpkin Coffeecake. Or order any one of our delicious pies with a dozen parkerhouse rolls for Thanksgiving. Place that order early. The earlier the better. Bernice's…a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice $-$$
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.
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. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$
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The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and (call ahead) gluten-free options, plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and delicious! Get your healthy, hearty lunch or dinner here. Wi-Fi, Ping Pong, Soccer on the Big Screen, and music from Argentina and South America. Ask about our Take & Bake and Catering too! Mon - Wed 11a - 6p, Thur Sat 11a - 8p. Downtown Missoula. $ 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 $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$
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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. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$
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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 $-$$ The Iron Griz 515 South Ave. E. 728-5106 irongriz.com Located at the base of Mt. Sentinel in the UM Golf Course Clubhouse, the Iron Griz proudly serves delicious, affordable, local foods. Montana food producers, partnering with the UM Farm to College Program, supply our kitchen with the freshest, highest quality meats, produce, locally brewed beer and wines. $-$$ 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. $$-$$$ 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. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$
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Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Ste N 317-1829 romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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THURSDAYNOV12 Greensky Bluegrass blow the borders off the genre’s constraints with rock- and roots-flavored tunes at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20/$18 advance at The Wilma, Rockin Rudy’s or thewilma.com. Stacks of books are for sale by the inch at the Friends of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula used book sale at Heritage Hall. Thu-Sat, 10 AM to 5 PM and Sun. 10 AM to 2 PM. Indigenous peoples have tied legends from their heritage to celestial objects for thousands of years. Hear some of these stories at Stories Under the Stars, which runs monthly through the fall. Star Gazing Room at the Payne Family Native American Center, 4–6 PM. Free.
nightlife The annual Juried Student Art Exhibition opens at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts. Reception 5–7 PM, award presentation at 6 PM. Ten Skip Stone play their brand of acoustic, ahem, rock at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM, free. Folk heavy hitter John Floridis wins ‘em over at Lolo Peak Brewery. 6–8 PM, free. A Night at the Museum will feature America Over There, about America’s involvement in WWI. Also, music from Sylvie and Angelina Johnson. Miracle of America Museum, Polson. Free, open to the public. 6:30 PM. Little Big Town bring their chart-topping, harmony-rich country to Missoula for a stop on their Pain Killer Tour. Adams Center, 7:30 PM. $25–$35 at griztix.com. A litter of musicians. Snarky Puppy plays the Wilma Wed., Nov. 18. Doors at 7:30 PM. $30/$26 in advance.
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[calendar] of the play Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign at the Roxy. 7 PM. Free. It’s time to get down. Way down at DJ Dance Night at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM. No cover. Jerry Joseph plays music from his album Istanbul/Fog of War, which was written while he was volunteering at the underground co-ed Rock School Kabul. Doors at Top Hat open at 8, show starts at 9. Tickets $10. The Polyphonic Spree tests the Top Hat’s stage capacity when they crank up their ginormous psychedelic rhythm machine. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. 18-plus. $25/$20 advance at the Top Hat or tophatlounge.com.
Paleontologist extraordinaire Jack Horner teams up with science media star Hank Green for an entertaining program. Beverages from the Dram Shop and munchies will be available. Montana Natural History Center, 7 PM. $60 at eventbrite.com. Mark Duboise delivers some country spirit at the Eagles Lodge at 8 PM. Girls Night: The Musical tours through with a story of five friends on a wild and hilarious night out. At the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 8 pm. Tickets at whitefishtheatreco.tix.com.
full length album Octagon. Door at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. The Dead Hipster crew and their I Love the ‘90s dance extravaganza feature OG member Mike Gill in town to help shake things up at 9:30 PM. $3.
nightlife Kimberlee Carlson Quartet plays smooth jazz that will hit your ear like a mink Q-Tip at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.
Vancouver B.C.’s Big John Bates play Stage 112 from their new album From the Bestiary to the Leathering Room with Pale People and The Skurfs. 10 PM. $10/$8 advance. (See Noise.)
Come see talented teens perform for the Zootown Idol fundraiser hosted by Providence Montana Health Foundation Junior Board, which raises funds for the First Step program. $5. 8 PM. (See Agenda.)
The Letter B is an eclectic bunch, and they’re mixing up the genres at the Badlander. 10 PM, no cover.
Bare Bait Dance presents Happier with a Hoover a humerous look on
See Total Fest alumni Free Music, Critical Failure, Shahs and Holy Totem at the VFW. Show starts at 9 PM. $5, but spend more. All the way from Washington— state, that is—Dakota Poorman Band play their own country and tasty covers at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM, free. Band In Motion will change your luck to good on this Friday the 13th at the Union Club. 9:30 PM, no cover. Ben Daniels Band warms up at the Top Hat for his father Jeff’s sold out show tomorrow at the Wilma.
Dusk play their twin guitar rock ‘n’ roll at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM, no cover. Flaural, Spirit Award, Holy Totem and FUULS take the stage at the Real Lounge for a night of rock. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5. 18-plus.
FRIDAYNOV13 UM’s first comic fan convention Chibi Chibi Comic Con, runs Fri.– Sun. on the third floor of the University Center. $7 day pass/ $12 three-day pass. Those with Griz cards pay $5 day pass/ $10 threeday pass. 12 and younger are free.
nightlife Urban Rootz Salon hosts an art show featuring new artist Kaley Burke, Steve Betts with guest artist Madi Betts. 5 PM. 3101 S Russell St. Missoula native Erin K. Huffman returns from Maui to open an exhibit of her work that shows the motion and color of nature. Opening reception is 5:30–8:30 PM. The creative cats of VonCommon open their doors to the public for a special presentation of arty shenanigans and a tour of their new studio space, conveniently located across the street. Head over to 1909 Wyoming St. 6 to 9 PM. Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat – a time where parents, and their kids, can socialize, listen to music, eat great food and have fun. This week: The Salamanders play from 6 PM to 8 PM for free! Party with a Purpose at Missoula Free Cycles as they raise funds for local and global action. Party runs from 7-11 PM, with donations accepted. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Rise Now, which builds playgrounds in Mexico out of recycled tires.
“Let’s use our heads—or hats.” The Grouch and Eligh perform at the Top Hat Wed., Nov. 18, along with Chali 2na and The ReMINDers. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20/$18 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s or 1111presents.com.
Missoula HomeGrown Comedy presents Todd Lankton & the Family Band, an improv show at the Crystal Theatre at 8 PM. $10. Blistered Earth pay tribute to Metallica’s classic 1984 album Ride the Lightning in its entirety. Missoula’s own Judgment Hammer opens. Show starts at 9 PM. $5 cover. Get your groove on in one of Missoula’s favorite dance spots when Band In Motion plays the Union Club. 9 PM, no cover. Seattle’s Polyrhythmics celebrate the impending release of their third
SATURDAYNOV14 The Snake? The Mongoose? Easy, fella, it ain’t that kind of drag show. The infamous ISCSM Drag Show is at the Palace. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over. The Missoula Insectarium hosts an Insect Food Tasting, where you can sample such tasty snacks as cricket flour brownies. $4. Free for ages 3 and under. 218 E. Front St., 10 AM-5 PM.
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feminine fixations, at River Street Theater in Hamilton. $12/$10 seniors/$8 students at Chapter One Bookstore or at the door. Call 363-1203 for more info.
Washington band The Rustics join them. Show starts at 10:00 PM. Free.
Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
Hear rare music featuring St. Louis violinist Lorraine Glass-Harris and Missoula harpsichordist Aneta Panusz at University Congregational Church at 7:30 PM. $25/$15 students at Rockin Rudy’s.
My Body Sings Electric bring their dynamic pop to the Real Lounge. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $10/$8 advance at 1111presents.com.
The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities who are interested in contact improvisation. Every
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so bangin’ Like a scripted “Drunk History,” President Without a Cause tells the “true story” of America’s first president, George Washington, and his not-often-focused-upon reputation with the ladies. There are some historians who agree Washington was a skirt chaser.
Martha. In telling his version, writer and director Austin Valley exhibits as little care for genre boundaries as Quentin Tarantino. He paints a picture of 1777 America replete with cellphones In his book Presidential Sex: and gangs in leather jackFrom the Founding Fathers to Bill ets where everything Clinton, Wesley O. Hagood writes takes place in Missoula. At the center is a president with all the charm of WHAT: President Without a Cause your average 21st century d-bag, glamouring Sally WHO: Filmmakers Austin Valley, Ian St Onge and Kyle McAfee Fairfax by telling her she’s “so bangin’.” WHEN: Sat., Nov. 14, at 9 PM Starring MissoulaWHERE: The Roxy HOW MUCH: $6
that Sally Fairfax was the great love of President Washington’s life, which says a lot about poor
Sunday, 3:15–5 PM. Downtown Dance Collective, $5.
nightlife Tom Catmull plays songs about men, women, dogs, cars, all the usual stuff that complicates our lives. Draught Works Brewery, 5-7 PM. Free. Hear Emmy award winning actor Jeff Daniels play the Top Hat. Daniels’ music has been likened to that of John Prine and Arlo Guthrie. Show starts at 7:30 PM. Sold out. Brookyln’s Tornavox are joined by New Old Future and the debut of local band Rock and Roll Girlfriend. ZACC Below, 8–11 PM. $5, all ages. Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep, sister. Milo, Safari Al, Milky Way and more converge for a night of rhythm and libations at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over.
MONDAYNOV16 Punk band Newlyweds are playing at the Top Hat as part of the Missoula Mash Up concert, a show presented by UM’s Entertainment Management program. This 18+ show starts at 7:30 PM and is free.
based actors Ian St Onge as Washington and Kyle McAfee as Jefferson, President Without a Cause will be screened at the Roxy along with other shorts, including M Squad, which won the 2015 MCAT Do It In 72 film contest, and a
screening of of the 2003 feature length stop-action epic Star Wars: The Bovine Prophecy, also written by Valley. That movie was shot on VHS tape and features storm troopers and ketchup blood. The plot involves villains looking for a cow, because a prophecy says it will birth their new emperor. Meanwhile, the Jedis try and stop them in between partying hard. Now there’s a storyline that seems closer to reality. Why didn’t George Lucas think of that? —Gaaby Patterson
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Come to the Top Hat’s Raising the Dead night to hear some Dead, mingle with other Deadheads, prove your knowledge playing dead trivia, eat some great food and enjoy happy hour. Starts at 5 PM. Free.
Put on your dancing shoes and get yourself down to the Top Hat for a Square Dance, featuring live oldtime stringband music. All dances are taught and you’ll learn as you go. Free and open to the public. Do-si-do starts at 8 PM.
Richard Thompson is a rare beast who excels at both songwriting and guitar. The Richard Thompson Trio plays The Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32/$28 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or thewilma.com. (See Noise.) NextDoorPrisonHotel is the duo of John Sporman and Travis Yost. Check out their interesting sound constructions at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7–10 PM. Free. Total Fest veterans Shellshag are joined by Midnight Hotdog and Hermanas y Hermanas for a good old fashioned punk show at the VFW. 9 PM, $5. (See Music.)
TUESDAYNOV17 Ralphie May has risen from the ranks of wannabes on “Last Comic Standing” to selling out 3,000 seat venues. The plus-size comedian brings his hilarious social commentary to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20–$40 at ticketfly.com. All ages.
Open Mic Night at Stage 112 hath returned. Pluck your stuff starting at 9 PM or just come to cheer on your friend’s new Against Me cover band. Features a $2 tallboy drink special. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials. The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@ live.com.
WEDNESDAYNOV18 A massive night of hip-hop gets underway with the dynamic duo of the Grouch and Eligh, Chali 2na and The ReMINDers. Top Hat, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20/$18 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or 1111presents.com. Teen Artist Workshop at the Missoula Art Museum: Secondhand Secrets with MaryAnn Bonjorni. All
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materials, pizzas and snacks provided, 4-6 PM, Free.
nightlife This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Grammy winners Snarky Puppy bring their innovative yet classic approach to jazz to the Wilma. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $30/$26 advance, available at thewilma.com. String theory. Jeff Daniels Band plays the Top Hat Sun., Nov. 15. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Show at 7:30. Sold out.
Karaoke every Wednesday with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge at 8:30 PM.
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THURSDAYNOV19 The Upright Citizens Brigade shows Missoula their improvisational prowess at the University Center Theater. The group’s alumni includes SNL’s Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz. 7:30 PM.
nightlife Black Mountain Moan plays hardstompin’ Southern blues at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free. Kimberlee Calson Jazz Trio features Ron Meissner on guitar and Pete Hand on upright. Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. Way Cool Music promises tunes from Alison Krauss to the Zombies and everything in between during their set at the Montana Distillery, corner of Woody and Railroad streets. 6-8 PM. University of Montana alum Matt Pavelich reads from his new collection of stories Survivors Said. 7 PM. Camp Daze and KBGA team up at Free Cycles for a night of big hugs and good music featuring Seattle’s iji,
Ancient Forest, Multi Rachel, BOYS and Grandmother Witch. 7:30 PM. It’s time to get down. Way down at DJ Dance Night at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM. No cover. It’s an embarrassment of bluegrass riches when Head for the HIlls and Trout Steak revival do the pickin’ at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 adv. at tophatlounge.com. Wildhoney from Baltimore play it fast and rough with their pop, but without the machismo overlay. The Real Lounge, doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $10/$7 advance at 1111presents.com. 18 and over show.. If you want your event listed in the Calendar, submit your info two weeks in advance to Mr. Calendar Guy. Email to calendar@missoula news.com and don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online at missoulanews.com.
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he Banff Film Festival’s World Tour brings you exotic landscapes and extreme sporting adventures all from the comfort of the beautiful new seats at the Wilma. That’s the kind of outdoor undertaking an indoor girl like me can groove on. The listing of short films currently being shown on the Banff World Tour reads exactly like a world tour: in African Fusion American climbers Alex Honnold and Hazel Findlay tackle the majestic and dangerous South African landscape, and in Cerro Torre we see the summit of the formidable Cerro Torre, which took climber David Lama two years to conquer but which we experience in under an hour. The view from the top had the power to make me queasy just sitting in front of my computer.
The first film I investigated was 14.c about 14year-old rock climber Kai Lightner, who pursues his passion all while tethered to his very devoted single mom. While the landscape of this short might be focused on dusty, sweaty rock climbing gyms where Kai wins competition after competition, its message seems to be beautiful enough to compensate for the lack of scenery: if Kai could discover his dreams of being a world-renowned rock climber as a 6-year-old in Fayetteville, North Carolina, anything is possible. —Gaaby Patterson The Banff Film Festival World Tour shows at the Wilma Sun., Nov. 15, at 7 PM. $16/$15 advance.
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Party with a Purpose at Missoula Free Cycles as they raise funds for local and global action. Party runs from 7-11 PM, with donations accepted. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Rise Now, which builds playgrounds in Mexico out of recycled tires.
Before you hit the slopes you want to make sure your equipment is ready. Join the experts at Missoula’s REI from 6:30 to 8:30 PM for Ski and Snowboard Tuning Basics. This introductory class will prepare you to care for your gear from nose/tip to tail. Free, but reserve your spot online at rei.com/stores/missoula.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 Bundle up, my babies, and cheer on the Montana boys as the Griz take on Eastern Washington in Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Kickoff is at 1 PM. For tickets, visit griztix.com. Meet with energetic beer-drinkers for the BOP November social, where you’ll meet up to run or walk at Larry Creek Trails south of Florence, and then venture over to Blacksmith Brewing in Stevensville. Check out runwildmissoula.org for all the deets.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 Have a crunchy snack at Bugs and Brews, the evening lecture series at the Missoula Insectarium. This month features Marirose Kuhlman chatting about her research at the MPG Ranch on the native bees of Montana. 218 E. Front St., second floor. 6:30-8:30 PM. $5 includes two drink tickets.
Cross-Country Skiing Basics Class will help you free your heel and your mind will follow. Join the experts at Missoula REI from 7 to 8:30 PM as they share information and tips for getting into cross-country skiing. Class is free, but make sure to reserve a spot at rei.com/stores/ missoula.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 Missoula Urban Development hosts Cider Pressing and Fermenting with Joshua Lisbon, hard cider extraordinaire. Learn to use the MUD cider press and get a hands-on rundown of how to make your apple juice snappy. From 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the MUD site, 1527 Wyoming St. If the weather’s mean, the party moves indoors to 2934 South Third St. West.
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While the fifth Annual Zootown Idol can be thought of as just another cool thing for teenagers to do in Missoula—what 16-year-old wouldn’t get excited to play Idol for the night?—at its heart it is something much bigger. Zootown Idol was started in 2011 by the Providence Center’s Junior Board, a collective of Missoula area high school students whose “mission is to learn how to organize and manage a nonprofit that serves a population in need.” Idol is their biggest fundraising event of the year and all proceeds go directly to St. Patrick Hospital’s First Step program, which is a resource service for victims of rape and sexual abuse. Last year the Junior Board gave over $10,000 to First Step. When I was in high school, my altruistic pursuits only went as far as letting someone bum a cigarette off me. Unless you count my affinity for stray boys. My insistence on getting them to fulfill their potential could be seen as charity in the right light. Since I was about as far from the kids on the Junior Board as possible, I’m afraid I don’t have any perspective on “normality,” but I think these kind of kids are a rare breed. By attending Zootown Idol, you not only support the brave teenagers standing on the stage but
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also the kids whose mission it is to give to those in need. I am certain there were kids like this when I was in high school. I just wasn’t one of them. Maybe I can raise a Junior Board kid to make up for things. —Gaaby Patterson Zootown Idol takes place at the Wilma Sat., Nov. 14., at 7 PM. Doors open at 6. $5, with all proceeds going to First Step.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12 Second chances could be in order. Partners for Reintegration are holding a discussion on why it can be good to hire someone on probation or parole. Missoula Council Chambers, noon–1 PM. (See News.) The Fellowship Club welcomes all who seek to promote individual and collective well-being. They meet every second Thursday in the West Meeting Room of the Bitterroot Public Library. Free and open to the public. For more info call 363-1670, or email jacostant@gmail.com.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 Carnival fundraiser for Addie Moser of Missoula who has Gorham’s disease, a very rare bone disease that requires ongoing medical treatments. 6:00 - 7:30 PM. $10 per person/$25 per family. For more info: www.helpaddiemoser.com/addies-story.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. The group meets on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129
W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Local leaders host Climate Change: Why People of Faith Should be Engaged, and How We Can Make a Difference. Speakers will include Rev. Joseph Carver, pastor at St. Francis Xavier Church; Dan Spencer, author of the forthcoming Earth Ethics; Len Broberg, Environmental Studies professor; and Caroline Lauer of Climate Smart Missoula. University Center Theater, 7 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 The Mansfield Center’s Brown Bag Lunch Series continues with “Peaceful Islam, or, Much Ado About ISIS,” with Abdelilah Bouasria, of UM’s Defense Critical Language and Culture Program. University Center, Room 326/327. Raise a pint to Women’s Opportunity & Resource Development at the Charity Pint Night hosted by Great Burn Brewing, where 50 cents of each pint sold between 5-8 PM benefits the local nonprofit.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 Some dust just might get in a few cowboys’ eyes at the Missoula’s ninth annual Adoption Celebration, where local families will celebrate finalizing their adoption. Hosted by MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 11:30 AM-1 PM, with lunch and entertainment included. RSVP at 549-0147.
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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THE ALONE RANGER Sometimes, when my boyfriend is upset, he wants comforting, just like I would. He'll vent or lay his head in my lap, and I stroke his hair. But sometimes, he just sits on the couch and says nothing. How do I know what he needs, and how do I feel better about it when it isn't me? —Man Cave Confusion Just like women, men often verbalize complex emotions—for example, "I want sausage and pepperoni on that." The truth is, men have feelings; they just don't hang them out to dry on the balcony railing like big cotton granny panties. Developmental psychologist Joyce Benenson, who studies sex differences, notes in "Warriors and Worriers" that men, who evolved to be the warriors of the species, typically express emotions less often and with less intensity than women. Men are especially likely to put a lid on fear and sadness, emotions that reflect vulnerability—though it's also the rare man you'll hear chirp to his buddy, "OMG, those are, like, the cutest wingtips!" Men's emotional coolness is an evolved survival tactic, Benenson explains. "Emotions communicate feelings to others. They also affect our own behavior." In battle, "a person who loses control of his emotions cannot think clearly about what is happening around him. Revealing to the enemy that one feels scared or sad would be even worse." Women, on the other hand, bond through sharing "personal vulnerabilities," Benenson notes. Men and women do have numerous similarities -- like having the adrenaline-infused fight-or-flight reaction as our primary physiological response to stress. However, psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women also have an alternate stress response, which she named "tend-and-befriend." "Tending" involves self-soothing through caring for others, and "befriending" describes "the creation of and maintenance of social networks" to turn to for comforting. (And no, she isn't talking about Facebook or Instagram.) So, as a woman, you may long to snuggle up to somebody for a restorative boohoo, but for a man, opening up about his feelings can make him feel worse—and even threatened. The problem is we have a tendency to assume other people are emotionally wired just like us. Being mindful of that and of the evolutionary reasons a guy might need to go off in a corner to lick his wounds might help you avoid taking it personally: "I'm upset about how you're upset!" (Great! And now his problem has a problem.)
It would be helpful if an upset man would hang a "Do not disturb" sign on his face when he just wants to drink a beer (or four) and watch "South Park." You could try to read his body language—like crossed arms and stiff posture saying "go away." But if his body isn't speaking up all that clearly, you could say, "I'm here if you wanna talk—or if you don't." If it's the latter, stock the fridge; make him a sandwich; make him some sex. In other words, comfort him in the way a clammed-up guy needs to be comforted. It beats being the girlfriend version of the enthusiastic good Samaritan who, on a slow day, forces little old ladies across the street at gunpoint.
WAKING UP RUSTED My girlfriend loves to "spoon" when we sleep. She says it makes her feel safe and loved. I have recently developed spinal problems and have to sleep on my back like a corpse with this weird neck pillow. I'll put my hand on her thigh to make her feel connected, but it's not really cutting it. I suspect this reminds her of her marriage falling apart and her now ex-husband sleeping on the other side of the bed with a bunch of pillows between them. —Ouch Sometimes a person's need feel to safe and loved has to be forgone for the other person's need to not be an Oxy-addicted hunchback at 45. You can surely understand where she's coming from. Nothing like going from sleeping lovingly intertwined with somebody to feeling as if you're sleeping next to an open casket. This may feel even worse for your girlfriend if she does associate physical distance with emotional distance, having had an ex who built a Berlin Wall of pillows between them and would only have been farther away in bed if he'd slept on the floor. What you can do is promise to make it up to her with extra affection when you're out of bed—and do that: Go to cuddlesville when you're watching TV together; shower with her; put your arms around her and kiss her head while she's washing a mug. (P.S. This is also a smart practice for men who don't sleep on a foam log.) Love does involve making sacrifices, but one of them probably shouldn't be no longer being able to feel your toes.
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PROFESSIONAL Agfinity Incorporated at Eaton, CO, is seeking a qualified CEO / General Manager. This is a multilocation energy, feed, grain, agronomy, and TBA cooperative with sales of $300 million. Business degree and or successful agricultural business management experience desired. To Apply: http://tinyurl.com/nkz4c48 / For more info contact Larry Fuller, 701-220-9775 or Email larry.fuller@chsinc.com CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED from the Missoula area. • Must be present to apply • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-4937876 9am-5pm M-F. Copy Coordinator Adventure Cycling Association seeks a well-organized and detail-oriented person to fill the role of Copy Coordinator. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced editor and writer with initiative to join Adventure Cycling. Seeking a team player who works well in a fast-paced environment, meets deadlines, and works well under pressure. The position is based at Adventure Cycling’s headquarters in beautiful and bike-friendly Missoula, Montana. The Copy Coordinator, in close coordination with the Design & Media Director and other Adventure Cycling Association staff, performs duties associated with both incoming and outgoing copy pertaining to all organizational collateral, media, and messaging. These include Adventure Cyclist magazine, Cyclosource sales catalogs, Adventure Cycling’s annual tours catalog, and all associated digital, electronic, and online counterparts, as well as Adventure Cycling’s website, online, and social media content. Please submit application materials to Adventure Cycling – Copy Coordinator (adventurecyclist.submittable.com /submit/2ed35b2e-2d8e-41ffa345-1c401043a43d). We will begin reviewing resumes and requesting interviews November 9, 2015. FLATBED DRIVERS NEEDED • Home weekly to Biweekly • Top pay • Full benefits • New equipment • 2 years exp. required • Clean driving record 1-800-700-6305
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Iron Works Fabricator Employee will be prepping parts (deburring & machining) on assembly line. Additional duties will include welding. Employee will be standing for duration of shift. Bending and lifting #75. Appropriate PPE to be provided. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26714 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546 Two Full-time Diesel Mechanics needed at established dealership with new shop. Must have diesel repair education and experience. Willie’s Farm Repair, Scobey, MT 406-487-5338
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, take special notice of the jokes and humorous situations that prompt you to laugh the loudest. They will provide important clues about the parts of your life that need liberation. What outmoded or irrelevant taboos should you consider breaking? What inhibitions are dampening your well-being? How might your conscience be overstepping its bounds and making you unnecessarily constrained? Any time you roar with spontaneous amusement, you will know you have touched a congested place in your psyche that is due for a cleansing. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For each of the last 33 years, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Los Angeles has selected a “National Hero Dog.” It’s an award given to a canine that has shown exceptional courage in helping or rescuing people. In 2015, the group departed from tradition. Its “National Hero Dog” is a female cat named Tara. Last May, she saved a four-year-old boy by scaring off a dog that had begun to attack him. I’m guessing you will soon have an experience akin to Tara’s. Maybe you’ll make a gutsy move that earns you an unexpected honor. Maybe you'll carry out a dramatic act of compassion that's widely appreciated. Or maybe you'll go outside your comfort zone to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Andy Warhol had an obsession with green underpants. In fact, that’s all he ever wore beneath his clothes. It might be fun and productive for you to be inspired by his private ritual. Life is virtually conspiring to ripen your libido, stimulate your fertility, and expedite your growth. So anything you do to encourage these cosmic tendencies could have an unusually dramatic impact. Donning green undies might be a good place to start. It would send a playful message to your subconscious mind that you are ready and eager to bloom.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) tried to earn a living by selling pencil sharpeners, but couldn’t make it. In frustration, he turned to writing novels. Success! Among his many popular novels, 27 of them were about a fictional character named Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the movies based on Burroughs’ books was Johnny Weissmuller. As a child, he suffered from polio, and rebuilt his strength by becoming a swimmer. He eventually won five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, Gemini. It's a favorable time for you to turn defeat into victory.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have the answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as if there were different or better answers to be had. Moreover, you’ve been offered blessings that could enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you’re barely taking advantage of them— apparently because you underestimate their potency. Here’s what I think: As long as you neglect the gifts you have already been granted, they won’t provide you with their full value. If you give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I demand unconditional love and complete freedom,” wrote Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. “That is why I am terrible.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: Avoid being terrible. Can you do that? I think so, although you will have to summon unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence and collaborative ingenuity.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to cartoon character Homer Simpson, “Trying is the first step towards failure.” I don’t agree with that comic advice. But I do think the following variant will be applicable to you in the coming weeks: “Trying too hard is the first step toward failure.” So please don’t try too hard, Libra! Over-exertion should be taboo. Straining and struggling would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive. If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, make sure that your default emotion is relaxed confidence. Have faith in the momentum generated by all the previous work you have done to arrive where you are now.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Elsie de Wolfe (1859-1950) was a pioneer in the art of interior design. She described herself as “a rebel in an ugly world.” Early in her career she vowed, “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful,” and she often did just that. In part through her influence, the dark, cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to rooms with brighter light, softer colors, and more inviting textures. I’d love to see you be inspired by her mission, Scorpio. It’s a good time to add extra charm, grace, and comfort to your environments.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the age of 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to his father Herman. As he described the ways that his dad’s toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed his maturation process, he refrained from lashing out with histrionic anger. Instead he focused on objectively articulating the facts, recounting events from childhood and analyzing the family dynamic. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you write a letter to your own father -- even if it's filled with praise and gratitude instead of complaint. At this juncture in your life story, I think you especially need the insights that this exercise would generate. (P.S. Write the letter for your own sake, not with the hope of changing or hurting or pleasing your dad. You don't have to give it to him.)
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Shizo Kanakuri was one of Japan’s top athletes when he went to compete in the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Partway through the event, fatigued by sweltering heat, bad food, and the long journey he’d made to get there, Kanakuri passed out. He recovered with the help of a local farmer, but by then the contest was over. Embarrassed by his failure, he sneaked out of Sweden and returned home. Fast forward to 1966. Producers of a TV show tracked him down and invited him to resume what he’d started. He agreed. At the age of 74, he completed the marathon, finishing with a time of 54 years, eight months. I think it's time to claim your own personal version of this opportunity, Capricorn. Wouldn't you love to resolve a process that got interrupted?
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In most sporting events, there’s never any doubt about which competitor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants and spectators know who has more points or goals or runs. But one sport isn't like that. In a boxing match, no one is aware of the score until the contest is finished—not even the boxers themselves. I think you're in a metaphorically comparable situation. You won’t find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the “game” is complete. Given this uncertainty, I suggest that you don’t slack off even a little. Keep giving your best until the very end.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One night as you lie sleeping in your bed, you will dream of flying through the sunny summer sky. The balmy air will be sweet to breathe. Now and then you will flap your arms like wings, but mostly you will glide effortlessly. The feeling that flows through your body will be a blend of exhilaration and ease. Anywhere you want to go, you will maneuver skillfully to get there. After a while, you will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots. Whether or not you remember this dream, the next day you will work some practical magic that begins to Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
[C4] Missoula Independent • November 12–November 19, 2015
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15205 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEWIS EUGENE HASBROUCK, aka LEWIS E. HASBROUCK, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Susan O. Johnson, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of October, 2015 /s/ Susan O. Johnson Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ Steve Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV15-109 Dept. No.: 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of James Jerome Woody, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from James Jerome Woody to James Jerome Silber. The hearing will be on 11/19/2015 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/5/2015 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-15-184 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MADELYN DILWORTH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Successor Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this
notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dennis Knight, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 1st day of November, 2015. /s/ Dennis Knight, Personal Representative DATED this 5th day of November, 2015. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-15206 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN DAVID HOLDEN ALSO KNOWN AS JOHN D. HOLDEN Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice of said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kathleen F. Holden, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, Montana 598079197, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 15th day of October, 2015. /s/ Kathleen F. Holden, Personal Representative, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, MT 59807-9197 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Probate No. DP-15216 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY B. SWANSTROM, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Stephen H. Swanstrom, c/o Worden
MNAXLP Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of October, 2015. /s/ Stephen H. Swanstrom WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Ross P. Keogh MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-207 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF Catherine Marie Price , Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Claudius C. Alick, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 15th day of October, 2015. /s/ Claudius C. Alick c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-204 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK SHELBY BERNATZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Julie Anne Bernatz Coley and Lindsay Olivia Bernatz Beighle have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Co-Personal Representatives, c/o Aaron M. Neilson, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 14th day of October, 2015. /s/ Julie Anne Bernatz Coley /s/ Lindsay
Olivia Bernatz Beighl /s/ Aaron M. Neilson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-15-196 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD D. BROWN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mark W. Brown, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mark W. Brown, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of October, 2015. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 1st day of October, 2015. /s/ Mark W. Brown, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-15-214 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JUDITH ELIZABETH HIMBER , Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jody E. Himber, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 28th day of October, 2015. /s/ Jody E. Himber c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 4 Cause No.: DP-15-215 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MARGARET ANDERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joseph R. Anders, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of October, 2015. /s/ Joseph R. Anders, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Joseph R. Anders, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP15-201 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EMMY NILSEN TANDBERG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rolf Tore Tandberg has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate on October 9. 2015. 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 Rolf Tandberg, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 6109 Linda Vista Blvd., Missoula, MT 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/22/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201012161 BK: 861 Page 1250, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Diane E. Gray, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 THEODORE•
Theodore is a 2-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. This sweet fellow loves big plush ball toys and will carry them everywhere he goes. Theo might take a little time to form a bond with a new owner, but once he does, the affection never ends. He definitely needs a cat-free home, and doesn't get along with most other dogs. Theodore would make a great family dog as well as outdoor adventure buddy.
LENA•Lena is a 6-year-old female Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix. Lena loves people, but really does not enjoy dogs or cats. She would need to be in an only-pet household, but would love to have a few older kids to play with. She is a lover, and despite her age, has short bursts of being very playful. Lena has been adopted and returned to the shelter twice in her lifetime. FINNLEY•Finnley is a 3-year-old Chocolate Lab mix. He is a very intelligent dog and knows many commands and hand signals. Finnley understands the commands "Come" "Sit" and "Kennel." He would make a great prospect as a hunting dog, but will chase deer, so he needs a securely fenced yard. He'd do best in an active home with only adult owners. Finnley has been in and out of the shelter since August.
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ZOEY•Zoey is a 3-year-old female Black and White Tuxedo cat. She is a very playful and curious girl. Zoey demands having the run of the whole house and is definitely the start of the show. Her playful ways turn into a bit of an attitude when she hasn't had enough time out of her kennel. She doesn't enjoy being confined, which means she is not having the time of her life at the shelter.
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SCARLETTE•Scarlette is a 5-7 year-old female Brown and White Tabby cat. She was abandoned on our shelter porch in August. At that time, Scarlette was very thin and scared. She is now up to a healthy weight and has become more comfortable around people. Scarlette would prefer a quiet home that allows her to continue to come out of her shell in her own time. MEADOW• Meadow is a 2-4 year-old female Brown Tabby. Meadow is not the most social cat at the shelter and would prefer a home that provided her little human interaction. Meadow was found as a feral cat with kittens. She was taken in while the kittens nursed and were weaned. Once her kittens were grown, she was spayed and brought in to the shelter to find a home.
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PINK• Pink is a beautiful lady who was recently transferred to us from another facility. Talkative, young and a true explorer, Pink loves people and gets along with most dogs. Pink is looking for an active family with a tall fence. Friendly, social and active, Pink would love to go Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store to a home with canine siblings. To hone in her www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 skills and manners as a lady, she would also love South Russell • North Reserve to be enrolled in our Basic Manners class.
PRINCE•Prince is an active, friendly guy who is looking for an active and patient family. Due to his high energy levels, Prince would excel in a home with adults. He himself is active, smart and friendly and loves playing fetch, going on car rides and going on walks and hikes. If you are looking for an active boy who will be lots of fun to hang around, come meet him today!
SOFT PAWS• Soft Paws is a sweet and mellow tabby. She may seem shy at first but warms up quickly and loves to be pet and brushed. This friendly kitty also loves her toys and her Temptations cat treats. Come meet Soft Paws at the Humane Society of Western Montana!
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[C6] Missoula Independent • November 12–November 19, 2015
PUBLIC NOTICES Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 in Block 1 of New Meadows, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 23, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $110,083.44. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $105,463.07, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually in-
curred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.114489 GRAY, DIANE E.) 1002.283402-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097 Bk: 788 Pg: 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201200002 Bk: 887 Pg: 879, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-WF1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 24, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $612,829.71. This amount includes the outstanding princi-
MNAXLP pal balance of $365,584.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 3, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17612 MILLER, MATTHEW M. and REBECCA L.) 1002.99556-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula
County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 1 of Scenic View Estates No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Christopher Lee Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Federal Savings Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 10, 2013 and recorded July 10, 2013 in Book 915, Page 1215 under Document no. 201313449. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,087.99, beginning July 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 31, 2015 is $221,276.53 principal, interest at the rate of 4.12500% totaling $9,127.68, escrow advances of $2,867.27, suspense balance of $-43.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,999.30, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.01 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real
property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the
sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in
interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a
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PUBLIC NOTICES bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 24, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 24 day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Diana Steinmetz Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/16/16 Chase V Williams 42073.019 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 2 of Seeley Lake Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Greg Triepke and Karla Triepke, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to New Century Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 11, 2005 recorded April 18, 2005 in Book 750 Page 1484 under Document No 200508851. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for HSI Asset Securitization Corporation Trust 2005-NC1, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005-NC1. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared
a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,287.07, beginning January 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 7, 2015 is $173,331.34 principal, interest at the rate of 8.38% totaling $23,139.57, escrow advances of $8,551.62, suspense balance of $-469.85 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,106.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $39.44 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the
MNAXLP entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATIO OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 26, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 26th day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Diana Steinmetz Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/16/2016 Select V Triepke 42085.115 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2 in Block 2 of NEW MEADOWS, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 13 of Plats at Page 16 Christopher S. Hewitt and Stephanie M. Hewitt, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 26, 2005 and recorded on August 31, 2005 in Book 759, Page
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426 as Document No. 200522819. The beneficial interest is currently held by United Guaranty. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $346.59, beginning 10/7/2009., and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 21, 2015 is $28,276.32 principal, interest at the rate of 12.75% totaling $18,139.02.13 plus accruing interest at the rate of $9.88 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the
sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATIO OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 27, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 27th day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Law Offices Of Goldberg & Oriel V Hewitt 42119.001 PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with Sec. 106 of the Programmatic Agreement, TMobile West, LLC proposes to install antennas onto a new antenna structure at Point Six Road Missoula, MT 59802 . Please direct comments to Gavin L. at 818-898-4866 regarding site M T 0 1 0 7 4 D . 11/5CNSB#2810363 11/12/15
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LAND FOR SALE NHN Edgewood. 3.53 acres on backside of Mount Jumbo.
$79,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambros.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views.
$199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com
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NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $145,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, unzoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587
$183,000 3 bed 2 bath located in quiet neighborhood featuring a south-facing backyard, hand-laid brick patio, pergola & beautiful landscaping perfect for entertaining.
6982 Alisha • $369,000 Quality brand new Martz constructed 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car garage in Upper Linda Vista.
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OUT OF TOWN 14980 Big Horn, Huson. 3 bed, 2 bath on 5 acres. $425,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
2337 South 3rd West #1 • $189,000 • Two story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath. 1152 sq.ft • Open floor plan, wood floors, gas fireplace • New carpet & interior paint • Private fenced yard & single garage • HOA fee ($90) covers exterior maintenance, front yard care & snow removal
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AUCTION A UCTION By B y Or Order der of the Court Court Appoint Appointed ed Receiver Receiver
Case # DC DC-13-12415, -13-12415, in the District District Court Court of Dallas County, County, Texas, Texas, 14th Judicial Dis District trict
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18th @ 7:00 PM Sale Site: Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N Reserve St, Missoula
CIRCLE H RANCH 12 Lots & 602 Acres
Offered Individually - Located off Butler Creek Road
Gated Community 1% Br Broker oker Private Roads Co-Op C o-Op Available Available Private Water System Protective Covenants 3,000 SF min. with Architectural Review
WEST POINTE SUBDIVISION
Selling as a Whole - Located off Butler Crre eek Ro Road
25 Improved Lots with Infrastructure 30 Residential Lots with Entitlements 10.63 Acres Common Area 39.10 Additional Acres
LY - 2 HOMES IN ALSO SELLING INDIVIDUALL WEST POINTE SUBDIVISION 6544 MacArthur Drive - 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Baths 6465 MacArthur Drive - 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Baths Jeff L. Moore, NAI Crowley MooreLicense # RRE-BRO-LIC-9403 and Randy Wells, Auctioneer, Realty Auction Services, LLC
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