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DECOLONIZING HOLIDAY DINNER WITH MARIAH GLADSTONE

BROOKS: HOW FAR DOWN DOES TROY DOWNING’S RABBIT HOLE GO?

One of Missoula’s Favorite Holiday Traditions

TURKEY TUESDAY 2017 This year’s flock of Hutterite turkeys is on its way to the Good Food Store. Raised without antibiotics or growth hormones at the New Rockport Colony near Choteau, these birds arrive just in time for next Tuesday’s festivities. So set your alarm and join us at 7:00 am for live music, free coffee & cider, Bernice’s pumpkin bread and holiday specials all over the store.

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News

Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Thanksgivings to remember ....................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Co-op out at Burns St., settling M2Green’s debt, and meet Mirtha Becerra.................6 Etc. So we’ve got a new website .................................................................................................7 News Decolonizing holiday food with Mariah Gladstone.........................................................8 News Cleaning downtown’s stormwater—before it hits the Clark Fork...................................9 Opinion How far down does Troy Downing’s rabbit hole go?...............................................11 Opinion Why game-farm venison needs a new name.............................................................11 Feature The dishes that Missoula’s top chefs crave year-round.........................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Braving the rough waters of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea ...............................18 Music The Texas-style truth-telling of Hayes Carll.......................................................19 Books Rosie King’s Time and Peonies.........................................................................20 Film The Florida Project: a rich movie about poor people ........................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Bacon-persimmon stuffing .........................................................23 Happiest Hour Pay what you want at God Shot.........................................................25 8 Days a Week If it’s not in our calendar, it’s probably not much fun.......................26 Agenda Laughing for food ...........................................................................................33 Mountain High The Turkey Day 3K and 8K................................................................34

Exclusives

News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42

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

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STREET TALK

By Alex Sakariassen

This is the Indy’s annual holiday food issue.

What’s the most unusual or memorable Thanksgiving you’ve had?

What’s the most important part of the holiday for you?

Jackie Stob: One time my grandma burned the turkey and we had to go to the Montana Club for dinner. Made to order: The family time. And the Hawaiian rolls. That’s another important part.

Whoever is making the meal, they have to make it with everyone in mind. Every family member has a special request.

Mike Finch: I always love going to Jackson to my grandparents’ house …

When Obama got elected, that was an interesting year. Some rifts in the family. Blood trumps politics: Family.

It’s just a great time to get together. It’s one of the few times I get to see my immediate family anymore.

Callie Morris: I haven’t really had any unusual Thanksgivings. Just family time at the cabin. Sensing a pattern: Food and family. The two “F”s. And cranberry sauce. It’s a staple for us. We make it from scratch.

Byron Weckworth: One year when I was away in graduate school, we all decided we were going to fry a turkey. We had a pretty substantial explosion because the turkey wasn’t completely thawed.

A slice of togetherness: For me it’s really centered around getting around a big table with friends and family and sharing that space. And, of course, Mom’s apple pie.

Kevin Christensen: Probably a Thanksgiving I spent with a friend of mine from Spokane.

Her family’s vegetarian, and her dad made all these vegetarian dishes … For me, it was a step away from what I was used to.

Five for five on family: Generic response—it’s gotta be the people you spend it with. Family’s always important.

Sometimes it’s just with friends, or other people’s families.

Asked Tuesday afternoon at Break Espresso

Sympathies?

They need more than a place to sleep at night just to turn around and go and drink and panhandle during the day (“The season’s first cold snap claims homeless man Timothy Lloyd’s life,” Nov. 9). That is not the answer. It’s a vicious cycle that won’t end.

Kat Taylor facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Fix it Other cities solve this. Let’s open our minds and hearts. This is horrible.

Jane Tremper East facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Smiles for all Working downtown the last 10 years, I knew both these men, who always had smiles to share.

Jeremy Watterson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Rain on the parade “It’s illegal to sleep inside the pedestrian bridge, and Wood says that city staff had confiscated a set of Lloyd’s blankets left there a few days before he died (he was able to replace them).” Wake up, Missoula—you all make a big stinking deal about some stupid parade, but this is all you need to know about how “inclusive” this community is.

Artemis Throckmorton facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Skewed priorities In this country there is no excuse for homeless people to freeze to death.

This country finds money for foreign nations and bringing refugees here, but doesn’t take care of those people that are so vulnerable.

Joan Lajoie facebook.com/missoulaindependent

All of the above?

Interesting (“Make Great Falls … Missoula?” Nov. 9). I wonder what the attraction is? Obscene property taxes?

Poor-paying jobs? High cost of homes? Traffic congestion? Failing university?

Tom Schussler facebook.com/missoulaindependent

The bright side Extremely close to mountains, multiple ski areas, diversity, community feel in a larger town, wonderful people, so much to do at all times of year. I’ll pay the high property taxes, no problem, just wrote the check yesterday, actually. We have a lot of growth and wonderful things happening. You have to know when and where to drive, but traffic really isn’t that bad. The people from out of town that don’t know how to drive here

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is the issue. [University] attendance is down, but they will bounce back. Poor-paying jobs? Any better than Great Falls? I highly doubt it.

You can look at any city and find the negatives if you want to. It’s all how you look at it.

Mandy D. Taylor facebook.com/missoulaindependent

On his own Gov. Bullock has called a special session of the Legislature. He is interested in some cuts and transfers in state government to shore up the shaky budget. Also included, however, will be “temporary revenue increases,” i.e., more taxes for working Montanans.

Referring to the tax increases in a recent news article, he stated, “In order to do

“No matter how you twist the facts, Gov. Bullock’s budget was his making. Now he must shimmy his way into correcting it without the locomotion of the Legislature.” that, though, I need to have a willing dance partner.”

I think the legislators should sit this dance out. He has had ample opportunity to get the budget realigned without a special session, and has been doing the tango across the state with groups that are concerned about their budgets.

I think this is the time in the dance card to eliminate more “vacancy savings” and be more creative to not cut funds that help our neediest populations.

Legislative Audit looked into vacancy savings during a performance audit in 2004. At that time, the vacancies had doubled in a 12-year period with more than a thousand unfilled positions in state government. Three hundred had been vacant for more than a year.

Thirteen years ago that would have amounted to a savings of between $21 and

$34 million for the biennium. What would it be now? How many “vacant” positions are there still in state government, allowing agencies to use the money without going through the appropriation process?

It’s time to do the jitterbug and shake out the millions of dollars in bloated budgets in order to allow good programs to continue functioning without cuts.

No matter how you twist the facts, Gov. Bullock’s budget was his making.

Now he must shimmy his way into correcting it without the locomotion of the Legislature.

We may have to swim into Helena for one vote to fix the fire funds and make small tweaks to others, but nothing else.

Will I go to Helena and vote for tax increases, no matter how “temporary” they are? No way!

The spotlight’s on you, Gov. Bullock.

Tax increases are your solution to getting us out of the mess? Time for the “pas seul.”

Solo it is with you in the limelight.

Sen. Dee Brown Hungry Horse

ACA now While some have sought to keep this sign-up period hidden (did somebody whisper “the White House”?), please know: The ACA (Obamacare) is still on! There has been no repeal, and its insurance plans, requiring annual enrollment, remain affordable for most.

The 2018 Open Enrollment sign-up period this year is half as long as it was.

You have from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15.

That’s now!

Benefits remain as before. These include required acceptance, regardless of pre-existing conditions, free preventive care, etc.

You are legally required to carry health insurance.

Insurers are still required to provide subsidies, if you qualify and sign up through the Healthcare.gov federal exchange. In fact, subsidies have risen, alongside premiums.

If you’re currently covered by an ACA plan, you may score a better plan for less by looking again at plan choices for 2018.

Shopping for the best plan for you can be even more valuable this year than before.

Unlike past years, automatic re-enrollment notifications will arrive in your mail after the current sign-up period. You may not like 2018’s terms for your current plan.

Shop now.

Certified Navigators are available to help you select a plan and sign up. See covermt.org Time’s limited, and health insurance is worth it. Don’t miss out!

Eric Mendelson Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, November 8 A Chinese online retailer agrees to buy $200 million of Montana beef and spend $100 million on a new meat-processing facility in the state. JD.com Inc. will buy $2 billion in American products in the next three years.

Thursday, November 9 A 911 dispatcher in Lake County receives a hoax call demanding ransom for five hostages the caller claims are being held in Polson. Polson schools are locked down for hours before police determine the call came from out of state.

Friday, November 10 Sen. Steve Daines tweets that he no longer endorses Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for an Alabama senate seat. Moore is accused of initiating sexual conduct with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32.

Saturday, November 11 Missoula’s Veterans Day ceremony is held at Fort Missoula while the courthouse undergoes renovations. The ceremony is the first since event founders Dan Gallagher and Dan Krieg died last December.

M2Green

Tax debt settled Broken promises. For Frenchtown Schools Superintendent Randy Cline, the past six-plus years have been full of them. When M2Green first purchased the old Smurfit-Stone mill site, the Illinoisbased company talked a big game about remediation, revitalization and job creation. Instead, M2Green accumulated a massive tax debt— $1,203,339.01—on nine parcels of land. And failure to pay has left Cline’s district hurting.

“Every time we thought we saw a light at the end of the tunnel with M2Green, it ended up being an oncoming train,” he told the Missoula County Commission Nov. 9, adding that the unpaid taxes have left Frenchtown Schools’ reserve fund depleted and set the district back in paying bonds associated with several major building projects in 2009.

The county’s fight to force M2Green to pay up came to a jarringly speedy resolution mere minutes after Cline’s testimony. Commissioners, who had filed suit against M2Green this summer, approved and promptly signed a settlement with Seattle-based Wakefield Kennedy for $967,632.51, approximately 89 percent of what M2Green owes

in back taxes, penalties and interest. According to Anna Conley, senior civil deputy attorney for Missoula County, that entire sum should be paid out no later than March 1, 2018.

Wakefield Kennedy is the Seattle-based LLC that originally loaned M2Green $17 million to purchase the site from Portland-based developer Tim Ralston in 2011. Conley told the Indy the county was approached by Wakefield after commissioners filed the M2Green suit, and that Wakefield’s settlement offer promised an optimal resolution for the county, given that M2Green has no known assets in Montana other than its Smurfit properties.

“We could have gotten a judgment that would have looked nice on paper and was meaningless,” Conley said. “Instead of a useless judgment, we got a real amount from a lender.”

What the county won’t get are the unpaid taxes remaining on a single parcel at the old mill site, which amount to slightly more than $222,000. That parcel borders the Clark Fork in an area that has prompted concerns about the presence of industrial waste. Conley said the parcel was excluded from the settlement at Wakefield’s request. She could only speculate as to why, but said that it likely had something to do with “concerns regarding contamination.” The settle-

ment dismissed the county’s M2Green suit, but left the door open for commissioners to seek the taxes on that last parcel.

Though the settlement brings the issue of M2Green’s tax debt to an end (and, by Cline’s calculation, will result in a much-needed $338,000 boost for Frenchtown Schools), it has no bearing on environmental issues at the site. Tests this summer by the EPA and Montana Department of Environmental Quality revealed low levels of dioxins and heavy metals in the site’s wastewater area. In early August, the Missoula Water Quality Advisory Council reiterated in a letter to both agencies that those toxins cannot be allowed to remain in the floodplain.

Alex Sakariassen

Not so new here

Meet Mirtha Becerra It’s dark and raining, and new Missoula councilmember Mirtha Becerra doesn’t yet have the key fob to get inside City Council chambers, where in 45 minutes she’ll sit through her first full meeting.

Waiting, she cheerfully makes small talk in the alcove. She eventually gets the attention of a city employee walking the hallway inside, and as he opens

Sunday, November 12 A 31-year-old Butte woman is arrested for allegedly firing a gun at a bouncer and another employee inside the Acoma Lounge after being told to leave at closing time. No one was injured. Sarah Baldwin is charged with two counts of attempted murder.

Monday, November 13 Former Florence physician Chris Christensen takes the stand during the fourth week of his trial on charges of negligent homicide, endangerment and distribution of dangerous drugs.

Tuesday, November 14 The state Legislature’s Republican majority expands the special session agenda to include a bill that would rescind a rule that makes it easier for transgender people to change the gender listed on their birth certificates.

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine.” — Excerpt from one of 400plus program prioritization unit reports uploaded to University of Montana servers on Nov. 14. This particular report is titled “blah.”

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[news] the door the two greet each other by first name.

However new Becerra is to her role, she’s already at home. She and her family moved back to Missoula in 2016 after a few years in Chile, where she grew up, but they’d lived here the prior decade and simply returned to their Westside home. And though new to the Council chair, Becerra brings to it a career in the former Missoula city-county planning office. She’s no stranger in City Hall.

That’s a plus in Ward 2, which has had trouble of late recruiting and keeping councilmembers. Becerra is the third person to occupy the seat this year, after Harlan Wells resigned in January and the woman appointed to replace him, Ruth Swaney, dropped out of her unopposed November election bid after it was too late to remove her name from the ballot or certify a write-in candidate.

Swaney’s resignation put councilmembers in the unusual position of conducting a vacancy appointment at the same time city voters were filling out municipal ballots.

Unlike recent uncontested elections in Ward 2, this month’s appointment attracted a swell of interest, with Becerra topping a field of nine candidates.

She applied for the earlier vacancy as well, but decided not to challenge Swaney in an election.

Swaney’s move from Montana gives Becerra a chance to re-enter public service from a new perspective.

She grew up in an agricultural area outside Santiago, Chile, moving to the U.S. at age 16 after graduating high school. Becerra studied urban planning before landing in Missoula with her husband. She worked in transportation planning and served as board president of nonprofit housing developer Homeword until 2013.

It’s no surprise, then, that the complexities of the city’s housing challenge roll off her tongue as though she’s been campaigning for months. “It’s a matter of trying to find the right ingredients for our recipe,” she says.

Becerra similarly tees up the night’s pair of bigticket agenda items—a gas station on Reserve and a dense townhome development—which she correctly predicts will be contentious. She’s already analyzed the staff reports (she used to write them) and judged their recommendations sound. But Becerra knows she has more factors to consider now that she’s on Council.

“Before, I was working for the city. This time I’m working with the city and representing my constituents,” she says.

Derek Brouwer

Sharing economy

Co-op out at Burns St. After 10 years operating out of its storefront in the Burns St. Center, the Missoula Community Food Co-op is closing its store by Dec. 1. The co-op stopped paying rent to its landlord, the North Missoula Community Development Corporation, in September, and currently has about $100,000 in outstanding debts, according to a dissolution vote notice distributed by the co-op board.

“It’s an odd position to have worked at the coop all these years and love the co-op, but at this point it’s not working,” says NMCDC community organizer Hermina Harold, who, as a UM student, did her social work practicum at the co-op.

The co-op was formed using the relatively unusual worker-owner model, which required members to work a three-hour shift at the co-op once a month in order to shop there, unlike the more common consumer-owner model, where shoppers are obligated only to buy in, not work. “I think there was a group of people that developed an initial prejudice against the model,” says NMCDC Executive Director Bob Oaks.

In July 2016, the coop opened shopping to nonmembers in an effort to boost its bottom line, but the experiment backfired.

“Our sales went down 30 percent when we opened to the public,” says board member Jessica Glebke.

“People felt that was the way to go, but that actually caused disengagement in our members.”

Members who usually scheduled their shifts to coincide with shopping trips stopped doing either, Harold says.

The increasingly widespread availability of organic food also cut into the co-op’s market share, says Glebke, noting the increase in Costco’s selec-

BY THE NUMBERS Townhomes slated for construction in the new 6.5-acre Hellgate Gardens development, which Missoula City Council approved Nov. 13 over objections from neighbors near Hellgate Elementary.

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tion of organics and the entrance of Natural Grocers into the Missoula market in the years since the coop opened.

“Missoulians love to rally around the cause of local food systems, but when they have to drive an extra mile or work three hours a month, that enthusiasm wanes a little bit,” Glebke says.

The co-op’s history is intimately intertwined with that of the NMCDC. “We ended up getting this property with the co-op in mind so we could develop this as a food and nutrition center,” Oaks says.

“We’d definitely like to see that continue with whoever the next tenant is.”

Harold says NMCDC has started reaching out to grocery stores to see if there’s any interest in the location, which she thinks could continue to serve the low-income neighborhood surrounding it.

“I don’t feel like we successfully started reaching out until we started getting the double SNAP program,” she says.

“The food co-op was the only year-round daily place you could access double SNAP dollars, and now that’s going away.”

The co-op will be open Friday through Sunday for the rest of the month to sell its remaining stock. On Nov. 28 at 6 p.m., members will gather in the store to cast their final ballots on whether to dissolve the co-op or return to its original buyers’ club model. Regardless of what they choose, the store’s closure is a keenly felt loss.

“Everybody’s put in a lot of work for a lot of years,” Glebke says. “It’s really heartbreaking for everyone to see the store close.”

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

ETC. The Indy has a new website. It launched last Thursday, and it probably looks familiar. It’s a platform we now share with the daily newspapers owned by our parent company, Lee Enterprises, and hundreds of other newspapers nationwide.

Indy General Manager Andy Sutcliffe says the switch has been in the works since Lee bought the paper in April.

“It was really one of the assets that came with the purchase,” he says.

Lee owns five daily newspapers in Montana, including the Missoulian and the Ravalli Republic.

The company uses a common design template across its markets in order to more quickly roll out new features, fixes and online products, Sutcliffe says.

One of the new site’s most beneficial features is a “responsive” layout that scales to mobile devices. A significant and growing portion of the Indy’s readership now accesses the paper online, and many of those readers are tuning in on their phones. Our old site was, shall we say, less than optimized for reading on a phone.

Sutcliffe says the new platform also offers other features that allow clients to buy more sophisticated web ads that appear on both the Independent and Missoulian sites.

Plus, it’s simpler to navigate and far less visually cluttered than the Indy’s former site— itself a redesign that launched late last year. We think the reading experience is vastly improved.

The URL—missoulanews.com—remains the same, and the Indy’s archive of online stories is searchable on the new site. And, unlike the Missoulian, we continue to enable comments on our online stories. You’ll find that you have to re-register to comment on the new site—sorry!— but please keep the comments coming. The site also has a new (to us) Letter to the Editor submission form. Click “Contact Us,” under “Services” at the bottom of the page. We hope you’ll use it.

Or, as always, get in touch at editor@missoulanews.com. We’ll be working out the inevitable kinks over the coming weeks, and if you find a glitch, we’d be happy to hear about it.

More important, we want to know what you think—good and bad—of our work. Because while the platform may change, the mission remains the same: telling the stories of Missoula. And this week is a better time than most to thank you for helping us do that.

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Indigenous dishes Mariah Gladstone decolonizes holiday classics

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Long before there was a Thanksgiving holiday, Native American tribes on this continent were celebrating the fall harvest. And the foods they were eating are still all around us, says Columbia University graduate and activist Mariah Gladstone. To reintroduce ways of using indigenous foods, Gladstone will be teaching a cooking class called “Decolonizing Thanksgiving” at the Burns St. Bistro as part of the North Missoula Community Development Corporation’s Real Meals workshop series.

Gladstone, who as a Blackfeet tribe member was named one of this year’s Champions of Change by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth, is currently working for Energy Corps in Whitefish, but also stays busy with food sovereignty advocacy.

“I started an online cooking show called Indigikitchen to teach people about traditional foods and to revitalize a lot of the knowledge that surrounds a lot of indigenous foods that for a variety of reasons have been disappearing over the last couple of generations,” Gladstone says. “I want to give people the skills to cook healthier food and to be able to recognize some of the food that exists in their environment that’s accessible and cheap.”

Since starting the series, she’s traveled extensively to speak about indigenous foods. In the last few months Gladstone has been to Kansas, Illinois and Puyallup, Washington, to teach.

When the NMCDC asked Gladstone to teach one of its Real Meals workshops, she seized the opportunity to take the late November date.

“I picked the slot closest to Thanksgiving in part to be able to reframe the harvest celebration as an indigenous event that’s been going on in a variety of ways around this continent for thousands of years,” Gladstone says. “So, to pick apart the Pilgrim and Indian narrative and just get back to a celebration of the harvest.”

Gladstone focuses on indigenous ingredients, which she defines as those that were present on the continent before 1492.

The menu will consist of a wild rice bowl made with roasted squash and cranberries,

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cedar tea (rich in vitamin C) and pumpkin seed brownies. By teaching people how to cook with these ingredients, she hopes to return knowledge to the community.

“So many Native Americans are living on food deserts, and grocery stores are few and far between, and often overpriced, and don’t have fresh fruits and vegetables,” she says. “There’s a lot of work being done on reservations to encourage gardening and teaching people to hunt again and butcher their own food. But then they get home and don’t know what

The brownies also happen to be gluten free, which makes them suitable to modern dietary restrictions in a way that many indigenous foods are. Current diets like Whole30 and paleo eating are a way into exploring the benefits of indigenous foods, she says.

“There has been a movement for whole foods, for paleo or local foods … [and] indigenous foods would often fall into those categories,” Gladstone says. “It’s interesting to me that paleo diets don’t embrace wild rice, despite that being a tradi-

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Gladstone teaching students in a Kalispell Middle School home economics class.

to do with it. So that’s where I was trying to fill in a gap.”

Gladstone mixes ingredients from North and South America, and from different tribes around the United States. Her approach aims to create a new, accessible cuisine inspired by indigenous ingredients.

“A lot of the recipes that I’m using are not necessarily traditional,” Gladstone says. “They’re mishmashes from a variety of different locations. When I do use traditional recipes, I try to recognize where that comes from.” The Potawatomi berry rice from one of her videos is an example of a traditional recipe, whereas the pumpkin seed brownies, which use chocolate, an ingredient native to Central America, are one of her modern creations.

tional food that people have been eating for thousands of years. If you’d decolonize paleo, then you’d get to indigenous foods.”

She mentions that Tanka Bars, a South Dakota Native-owned business that makes meat and berry bars descended from pemmican, was an early leader in the meat bar field, and has since been followed by other companies courting the meat-based energy snack market.

The class takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns St. Center. Attendance is free and childcare is provided. Advance RSVPs are required and can be made by calling the NMCDC at 829-0873. sshepard@missoulanews.com

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With nearly 100 years of service to Montana...

Garbage out Downtown’s stormwater is about to get cleaner

by Alex Sakariassen

Everything that happens in Missoula’s downtown alleys spills into the Clark Fork near the Caras Park viewing platform. Just hearing Travis Ross utter those words turns the stomach. Coffee and beer, cigarette butts, oil and gasoline—all these and more are carried on rainwater and snowmelt through downtown storm drains before exiting, unfiltered, from an outfall pipe mere feet from Brennan’s Wave. It’s a situation the Missoula Water Quality District, where Ross works as an environmental health specialist, and other local agencies have been working to improve since 2013.

out, and that’s what will happen. City crews will remove the sediment and the floatable stuff and dispose of that at the landfill.”

The system—known as a Stormceptor—is also designed with a bypass to ensure that stormwater doesn’t back up into the streets during high-flow events.

The water quality district and city engineers first met to discuss methods to address the downtown area’s stormwater discharge in 2013. But Ross says concern about the state of that water goes back at least a decade before that, when his office was conducting bacterial tests at the Caras

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Crews prepare to install a hydrodynamic separator in Caras Park.

“When we started this project, we got a lot of testimonials from folks that said they’ve gotten ear and nose and skin infections from recreating in that water,” Ross says. “We take that seriously.”

By the middle of December, the first major improvement will be complete.

Crews in Caras Park are already preparing to install a 12-foot-diameter device called a hydrodynamic separator, which will capture dirt and debris from downtown stormwater before it reaches the river’s banks. The new system will basically turn that stormwater into a “cyclone,” Ross explains, using the force of the water itself to separate various contaminants. Nutrientlaced sediment will settle to the bottom of the separator, while buoyant pollutants like cigarette butts and petroleum will be trapped at the top.

“The cleaner water gets discharged through the same pipe that it’s always gone through, by Brennan’s Wave,” Ross says.

“But the captured material can be sucked

Park outfall. Those samples showed appearances of fecal coliform that were “too numerous to count,” he says. “It actually overwhelmed the analytical method.”

Missoula won the bulk of the money for planning and implementation in 2015, when the Montana Legislature approved a $125,000 renewable resource grant through the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Several other agencies, including the Missoula Redevelopment Agency and Missoula’s new stormwater utility, put up another roughly $75,000. The project initially went out for bid in fall 2016, but Ross says construction costs came back too high. A second bid took place this spring, with the contract going to Belgradebased Battle Ridge Builders.

According to Ross, the city did not solicit funding from any nonprofits. But plenty were willing to lend written support to the project, including the Clark Fork Coalition. Science director John

DeArment says the separator is “low-hanging fruit” when it comes to water quality improvement, especially at a time when cities like Missoula are just starting to get a handle on more diffuse sources of pollution. Stormwater is “nasty stuff,” and nutrients and metals released into the river can cause all sorts of problems for aquatic species like trout.

“Add to that the fact that it’s being discharged at one of Missoula’s most popular urban riverfront use locations, right there at Brennan’s Wave,” DeArment continues.

“Actually, I’ve seen lots of kids playing directly in the outflow itself, in the stormwater. It’s just really nasty.”

While the Stormceptor is a major step in treating stormwater, there is one thing it won’t do: remove bacteria. That, Ross says, can only be accomplished through infiltration—slowly releasing cleaner water into the soil so nature’s filters can take over. The water quality district already has a conceptual plan for what Ross calls “phase two,” though details of that phase have yet to be discussed, and no funding plan is yet in place. Ross sees the Stormceptor as a teeup to that next step.

“If you’re going to infiltrate, you can’t plug up your infiltrative surface,” he says. “If you’ve run sediment through an infiltrative surface, you’re going to kill it in a year. It’ll just be plugged up with all the grit and sand and garbage that comes through downtown.”

Ross also sees the Caras Park project as an ideal opportunity for building awareness. There are roughly 40 other stormwater outfalls throughout Missoula, but few have as direct or visible a connection to the public. In fact, another grant application in 2015 for a nearly identical project near Bunkhouse Bridge was rejected after landing too low on the state’s priority list. Ross has stomach-churning photos from that site too, of deer carcasses and thousands of cigarette butts.

“We hope to get some education miles out of this,” he says.

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Last week, Republican senatorial candidate Troy Downing issued a lively statement in response to charges that he applied for Montana-resident hunting permits when he lived out of state. “It’s unfortunate the liberal Montana FWP deep state is on a witch hunt,” his campaign said, referring to A) the department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks and B) the theory that certain career civil service employees use their positions to secretly govern the United States.

Words have meaning, and I don’t think Downing should just throw them around. A witch hunt is when you know witches are out there, but you haven’t accused anyone yet. The phrase Downing is looking for is “witch trial.”

I agree with him, though: This witch trial is nothing but a frame-up.

That notorious instrument of the liberal deep state, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, is using its vast power to stop Downing before he can “knock Tester off his throne in the swamp,” as his campaign website puts it. This case has deep-state conspiracy written all over it.

From its headquarters beneath Helena’s picturesque Skull Mountain, the agency alleges that Downing illegally applied for resident hunting permits every year from 2011 to 2016. FWP claims he filed Montana income taxes as a nonresident in 2013 and 2014. He is the CEO of a real estate investment firm based in California. His property at the Yellowstone Club lists, as its owner’s address, a post office box in the San Diego area. A 2013 article in the Lone Peak Lookout describes him as a “part-time Big Sky resident” who enjoys “throwing grape-stomping parties at his working vineyard on his southern California property.” And in 2015, he and his son Dylan used the same Montana driver’s license number to purchase residential hunting permits within three minutes of each other.

Isn’t all this “evidence” a little too neat? Why does every so-called fact— drawn from multiple sources over sev-

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eral years—imply that Downing lives in the same location? It’s awfully convenient that all the “evidence” suggests he lives in “California.” Maybe that’s how residency works in the movies, but in the real world, nobody lives in just one place.

The question to ask when dealing with such an obvious conspiracy is, “Who benefits?” Someone considers Downing too dangerous for the Senate.

The obvious answer is Big Wildlife, but to unravel a mystery like this one, you

“Insiders know the Democratic Party is not capable of influencing elections in Montana. Sure, they’d like to—the same way a dog would like to order a pizza.” have to look past the surface. The Downing campaign did just that, observing in its statement that “it’s no surprise that a Democrat judge, appointed by Democrat Gov. Schweitzer[,] would release details of this case before Troy is afforded due process in the court of law.”

Democrats! Everyone knows they run both FWP and the Gallatin County Attorney’s Office, which ordered the release of records related to this case.

The Gallatin County attorney is the

same Democrat lackey who released Greg Gianforte’s mug shot only two months after it was taken, once a judge ordered him to. This explanation would make perfect sense to a political outsider like Downing, but insiders know the Democratic Party is not capable of influencing elections in Montana. Sure, they’d like to—the same way a dog would like to order a pizza. It’s just not happening.

That leaves but one explanation.

Who is close enough to Downing to know his every residence? Who has access to his driver’s license and the login credentials for his personal blog—which is titled, no kidding, “Troy’s World: Random Rants and Related Run-On Retarded Rhetoric” and refers to California as his home? Who is the only person who might be even smarter than Downing himself? His son, Dylan Downing.

Dylan got a residential permit at the same time his dad did. Presumably, Dylan had access to the family laptop.

He made it look like his father lived and worked in California and, I guess, filled out the residency information on the Yellowstone property. Distracted by the deep state, Downing overlooked the real threat to his campaign: the deep family. Now Big Wildlife and the Democrat judiciary are convinced he spent most of the past decade in California, when really he was in Montana this whole time.

The only other explanation is that he fudged the residency on his hunting permits and can’t admit it without blowing up his senate campaign. But that’s what Dylan wants you to believe.

I’m through the looking glass. I see the man behind the curtain, who pulls the strings that move the puppet to make him look like he’s washing the looking glass. Sure, it’s kind of funny. But like any puppet show, it’s also tragic and disgusting.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and what’s really going on at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Not so wild Why game-farm venison needs a new name

by Brian Sexton

Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to kill a nice blacktail buck. I had been hunting off and on through deer season, and I saw lots of does every time I went out. With a little patience I knew I would finally cross paths with a good buck and have a chance to punch my tag. I was feeling good about my chances after the weather in Oregon’s Coast Range turned wet and cold in October, so I headed out to public land near the town of Cave Junction.

By noon, the buck was dressed, skinned and hung out to cool and dry in my wood shed. My wife, Suzanne, needed to make a trip into Grants Pass, so I took over the supervising of our young daughters. Worn out from the morning’s work, I decided that a little TV time was in order, and within minutes a commercial ran for Arby’s new “venison sandwich.”

My 5-year-old asked, “Daddy, what’s venison?” I explained that venison is deer or elk meat. “Oh,” she said, “just like our deer?” Well, no, not exactly, I replied. In fact, it’s not even close.

An entire industry based on raising and harvesting traditional game meats has evolved over the past several decades. There are thousands of game farms in the country, and hundreds of them in the West. Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Texas and Wyoming—all provide venison to restaurants and grocery stores. But rather than roaming wild, these animals are raised behind tall fences as if they were domestic cattle or sheep, and they are butchered, packaged and sold in much the same manner.

We know that these game farms help spread the disease known as chronic wasting disease, or CWD, to herds of wild game. This deadly disease spreads most easily through captive populations, but it also makes its way into the wild, spreading both through contact, when wild animals touch game animals “through the fence,” and through domestic animals that escape.

The problem has been clear for a while, and many groups are working to find ways to stop the spread of the disease.

Technically, a deer or elk in the wild is the same as an animal raised in a pen. But the actual differences are immense. Imagine a wild turkey that scratches out a living in the forest, surviving on bugs and berries. It has no white meat to speak of; its meat is dark from the vascularization of well-developed muscles. Compare that to the

“Call me a snob, but I have to take a deep breath every time I hear someone say, ‘Oh, you hunt, I just love elk. I had it at a restaurant in Montana.’”

Thanksgiving birds we buy from the supermarket—monstrosities that are raised to boost their fat and juiciness content. Factory-farmed turkeys sport giant white breasts with pathetic wings that have never moved. Fenced elk also differ from their farm-raised kin. You can tell by their antlers: They are white in game-farm animals because they are never used, but in the wild they’re black, because the elk sharpen them on trees, the better to fight other elk.

Wild game is unique, and the experience of hunting an animal and bringing it home for meat makes it something that transcends “meal prep.” Call me a snob, but I have to take a deep breath every time I hear someone say, “Oh, you hunt, I just love elk. I had it at a restaurant in Montana.”

I guarantee that the elk that diner tasted, while probably delicious, was an inherently different beast from the animal my wife and I packed out of Nevada’s Jarbidge Wilderness last year.

What Arby’s is selling is a fantasy of wild animals running free until they are hunted down and turned into dinner. Arby’s is also selling the idea that its sandwiches connect ordinary people to someone like the charismatic hunter Steven Rinella, who has his own television show, without requiring any of the hard work it takes to kill, butcher and process a large animal. Arby’s might put a piece of meat between two pieces of bread and call it venison, but I don’t think that piece of meat deserves the name.

At least Arby’s venison is said to come from domestic red stag in New Zealand, so the company is not supporting an industry that spreads disease to wild deer and elk here in America. But it is normalizing the consumption of game meat in a national ad campaign without acknowledging any of the potential dangers involved in the game farming industry. Before they saw Arby’s TV ads, how many people even knew that they could buy venison?

It will be interesting to check whether the sales of game meat from online vendors flourish as a result of this ad campaign. Who knows: Maybe McDonald’s will get on board and offer us a special “Big Moose.”

Brian Sexton is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He manages a medical clinic in Grants Pass, Oregon, and also volunteers for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

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GOOD-NATURED WEIRDOS – Three teenagers from Rahway, New Jersey, who call themselves the Rahway Bushmen, have been discouraged from their signature prank: dressing up as bushes and popping up in Rahway River Park to say “Hi!” to unsuspecting passersby.

NJ.com reported in October that the Union County Police Department warned the Bushmen that they would be arrested if caught in action. The high school students started by jumping out to scare people, but decided to soften their approach with a gentler greeting. “We were trying to be harmless,” one of the Bushmen said. “It’s more or less an idea to try to make people smile.” But Union County Public Information Officer (and fun sucker) Sebastian D’Elia deadpanned: “It’s great until the first person falls and sues the county.” Or puts an eye out.

ANIMAL TROUBLEMAKERS – Pilots were warned of “low sealings” at Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport in Utqiagvik, Alaska, on Oct. 23 because of an obstruction on the runway: a 450-pound bearded seal. Meadow Bailey of the Alaska Department of Transportation told KTVA-TV that the city, also known as Barrow, was hit by heavy storms that day, and airport staff discovered the seal while clearing the runway. However, staff are not authorized to handle marine animals, so North Slope Animal Control stepped in, using a sled to remove the seal. Bailey said animals such as musk ox, caribou and polar bears are common on the runway, but the seal was a first. About two dozen car owners in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Snellville, Georgia, were perturbed in late October by what they thought was vandalism: Their cars’ side mirrors were being shattered, even in broad daylight. Finally, according to WSB-TV, one resident caught the real perpetrator: a pileated woodpecker who apparently believes his reflection in the mirrors is a rival. Because pileated woodpeckers are a protected species, neighbors had to get creative with their solution. They are now placing plastic bags over their side mirrors while the cars are parked.

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UNDIGNIFIED DEATH – Nathan William Parris, 72, met his unfortunate end when a cow he was trying to move turned against him at his farm in Floyd County, Georgia, on Oct. 25.

Parris was pinned against a fence by the recalcitrant cow, reported the Rome News-Tribune, which caused him severe chest trauma. First responders tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the Redmond Regional Medical Center emergency room.

IRONIES – Workers at a Carl’s Jr. in Santa Rosa, California, were busy filling an order for 165 Super Star burgers for first responders to the Fountaingrove area wildfires on Oct. 26 when a grease fire broke out in the restaurant. The fire started in the char broiler and then jumped to the exhaust system. Franchise co-owner Greg Funkhouser told The Press-Democrat the building was “completely torn up. ... We made it through the big one, only to get taken out by this.” When the person who placed the order arrived to pick it up, he saw six Santa Rosa Fire Department trucks in the parking lot and left, so Funkhouser handed out free burgers to “anyone around.”

A Henrietta, New York, gifts and oddities store earned its name on Oct. 24 when a garbage truck rolled between two gas pumps and across a road to crash into the 200-year-old building where the store had opened in June. Jeri Flack, owner of A Beautiful Mess, told WHAM-TV that her building is “wrecked in the front so bad that I can’t open back up.” Witnesses say the truck driver pulled into a spot at a Sunoco station across the street and got out to use the restroom. That’s when the truck rolled away and barreled into the business. Sunoco employee T.J. Rauber said, “I see a lot of crazy stuff up here, but I ain’t never seen nothing like that.”

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LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL – Burglary suspect and career criminal Shane Paul Owen, 46, of South Salt Lake, Utah, was on the run from police on Oct. 24 when he dashed into a vacant church. A Salt Lake City SWAT team held a standoff at the church for more than six hours—until Owen called 911 to say that he was locked in the church’s boiler room and couldn’t get out. “Can you hurry?” he asked the dispatcher. “I need to talk to them first so they don’t ... shoot me,” Owen pleaded. The Deseret News reported he was booked on outstanding warrants for retaliation against a witness, drug distribution and identity fraud.

EWWWWW! – Two doctors from the University of Florence in Italy have documented the case of a woman who has been sweating blood from her face and the palms of her hands for about three years. Roberto Maglie and Marzia Caproni wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that the unnamed Italian woman couldn’t identify a trigger for the bleeding, but said times of stress would intensify it for periods of from one to five minutes. After ruling out the possibility that she was faking it, the doctors diagnosed her with hematohidrosis, a rare disease that causes blood to be excreted through the pores. They were able to treat her, but couldn’t completely stop the bleeding. The cause remains a mystery.

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his Thanksgiving, we’re taking a break from doling out recipes. At this point, most home cooks are armed with their standbys and not looking to throw a new, untested dish into the mix. What diners need, then, are ideas for those nights out in the coming months.

We’ve asked a gang of Missoula chefs—including cover models Bob Marshall of Biga Pizza and Kim West of Tia’s Big

Sky—to pick out their favorite area dishes, those plates that make for a grateful palate, and the ones they’re most thankful for year-round. Let’s observe a moment of gratitude for the variety of favorites available to us from the down-home (a plate of fried appetizers at Double Front) to the upscale (grilled octopus at Red Bird). When you’re cleaned out of leftovers, here’s what to look forward to out on the town.

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APPETIZER Steamed clams with andouille sausage and fennel at Mission Bistro (Stevensville). Favorite of Noel Mills, James Bar

The Sampler at Double Front (which includes mac and cheese wedges and fried creamed corn bites). Favorite of Jim Anderson, Scotty’s Table

Chef Mills doesn’t hem and haw long regarding his go-to appetizer. Heck, he gets it every time he’s down in Stevensville, if not for the clams then for the Redneck-brand sausage. “It’s all mixed together in a broth,” Mills says. “And it comes with bread for dipping.”

Anderson is particularly nuts about the fried creamed corn, which he recommends you dip in maple syrup. “Usually if I go there, someone’s always like, ‘creamed corn? That’s awful,’” he says. “But fried creamed corn, how can you go wrong?”

The Sampler at Double Front

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Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes at Red Bird. Favorite of Theo Smith, Masala “I just really love crab cakes,” Smith says without hesitation, “and they do it amazingly simply, the way crab cakes should be.” He’s quick to add that the pickled vegetables Red Bird uses are a nice flavor complement.

SOUP Beef pho at Vietnam Grill. Favorite of Burke Holmes, the Notorious P.I.G. Holmes goofs around the category at first, saying he’s torn between brews from Draught Works and KettleHouse. Then he gets serious. “The beef pho is one of my favorite things to eat in town,” he says. “We’re lucky to have an authentic version of that dish in Missoula.”

BREAD Rye Loaf at Kiln Breads.

Favorite of Kim West, Tia’s Big Sky At Tia’s, home of roasted chicken and tacos, the rotisserie oven is always turning. Coincidentally, West shares a non-culinaryoven ceramics background with another food business in town.

“Kiln Breads, I think they’re doing amazing breads. They’re cooking the bread in the kiln. I think their rye, they just hit all the different flavors at the right levels,” West says. “They put such great energy into it, and the bread has such amazing texture.”

Cocodrillo at Le Petit Outre.

Favorite of Andrew Martin, Finn & Porter Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes at Red Bird

Beef Tartare at Plonk. Favorite of Burke Holmes, the Notorious P.I.G. Montana-raised tenderloin adorned with a one-hour egg, mustard cream, wasabi arugula, pickled onion, fried capers and potato crisps.

Holmes calls it a cool riff on a well-known dish, just edging out his other favorite, the foie gras torchon. Plus, Plonk scores bonus points in Holmes’ book for consistently solid service.

Le Petit may be an obvious choice, but Martin thinks the bakery deserves all the praise it can get. “I feel like Le Petit is one of those things that we take for granted in Missoula,” he says. “We are so lucky.” The Cocodrillo comes to mind first, what with its golden, crusty, sesame-studded exterior and a soft interior made from a blend of Montana semolina and bread flours. “It goes great with everything,” Martin says.

Beef Tartare at Plonk

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SALAD The Special at Biga Pizza. Favorite of Kim West, Tia’s Big Sky When West was asked for her favorite salad, she didn’t hesitate. “I love Biga’s salads. The combinations are always amazing,” she says. “I usually get the special, and the combinations on the special of the day are usually pretty dang good, and switch up all the time.”

What’s a particular aspect that stands out to her? “They do a champagne dressing with the candied pecans and the goat cheese.”

Mediterranean Grilled Octopus Salad at Red Bird. Favorite of Walker Hunter, Burns St. Bistro “When it comes to salads, I’m one of those people that will leave the house with every good intention of going out, getting a nice salad for a meal and feeling good about my choices, only to find myself staring down the barrel of a reuben with a side of onion rings 20 minutes later,” Hunter says. “There is one place, however, where the road to hell is paved with greens and delicious grilled octopus, and that place is Red Bird.” Prepared by chefs Matt Cornette and Dominick Martin, the Mediterranean Grilled Octopus Salad features potato, cucumber, fennel, arugula, fresh herbs, marinated Vegetable Giardiniera Red Wine Vinaigrette and, of course, the grilled octopus. “It is a delight,” Hunter says. “Tangy and fresh.”

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Loaded baked potato at Lolo Creek Steakhouse. Favorite of Walker Hunter, Burns St. Bistro

The Chrondo Burger at Flipper’s. Favorite of Theo Smith, Masala

When it comes to picking a side dish, Hunter is all about keeping it simple. His choice: The loaded baked potato at Lolo Creek Steakhouse. “It’s a classic,” he says. The potatoes are large with oil-crisp skins, topped with butter, sour cream, sliced green onions and crispy bits of bacon. Grill cook Luke Smith says the potato has been a staple side at Lolo Creek since it opened, and it reflects the restaurant’s meat-and-potatoes style. In other words, at the steakhouse, no one’s looking for some kind of fusion baked potato twist. “We keep it in perspective,” Smith says. “What we do, we do well, and we do it right.”

Normally, hot and creamy would be words we’d associate with Masala’s ever-popular butter chicken. But Smith flips them around on us in describing this Hip Strip casino classic—and he throws “crunchy” in for good measure. “It’s the unique decadence of onion rings, jalapenos and pepperjack,” Smith says. “It’s an amazing combination with spice to it.”

Kimchi from House of Ferments. Favorite of Bob and Cindy Laundrie Marshall, Biga Pizza “Chefs don’t have time to eat!” Bob says. But he admits he’ll wolf down full jars of kimchi in his car whenever he finds a minute. The kimchi comes from House of Ferments, a Hamilton-based company run by fermentologist Erin Belmont and production assistant Matt Galiher that makes fermented food and drinks. Belmont follows a kimchi recipe she learned from a Korean fermenter at a workshop. The ingredients come from farmers in Missoula and across the Bitterroot.

“I think that’s one of the most important things is starting with really quality ingredients,” Belmont says. She also says Bob Marshall has been one of her best advocates, helping her get her jars onto the shelves at the Good Food Store. “And one of my best customers,” she adds.

The Chrondo Burger at Flipper’s

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Greens and Beans at Scotty’s Table.

Favorite of Jenny Lynn Fawcett, Poppy bakery Poppy bakery owner Jenny Lynn Fawcett creates shimmering mirror cakes, elegant coffee cakes, tiny colorful cheesecakes and other rich desserts that look like art and taste like heaven. What is it like to be surrounded by so much sugar? Well, you eat your vegetables. Fawcett craves the Greens and Beans at Scotty’s Table, a tried and true vegetarian, non-dairy favorite made with panseared kale, hummus, quinoa, dried cherries, cashews, avocado and cashew vinaigrette.

“It’s an entree and a salad,” Fawcett says. “And it’s amazing.”

Greens and Beans at Scotty’s Table

Indian Gyro at Thomas Meagher Bar. Favorite of Bob and Cindy Laundrie Marshall, Biga Pizza The Thomas Meagher Bar has all the classic fare you’d expect from an Irish-style pub—Irish poutine, pasties, meat pie—plus, dishes from around the world and American items like burgers, nachos and wings.

But they also have vegetarian and gluten-free menus, and that’s where the Marshalls sate their hunger.

Cindy’s favorite dish is the Indian gyro. It’s made of flatbread filled with malai kofta (house-made paneer cheese, potato, green pea and chickpea balls), golden curry sauce, feta, mixed greens, tomato, red onion and cucumber. “It doesn’t feel vegetarian,” she says. “I’ve been craving meat since I’ve been eating vegetarian and it’s absolutely delicious.”

Ribs at the Notorious P.I.G. Favorite of Andrew Martin, Finn & Porter Ribs are hard to mass produce—at least the competition-grade racks that make your mouth water. Barbecue joints often have a bad habit of overcooking their meat. But a good rack, Martin says, won’t be falling off the bone, and will have some texture to it. The Notorious P.I.G. does it just right. “It tastes like he just made one rack of ribs, not 100 that day,” Martin says.

DESSERT Molten Lava Cake at the Depot. Favorite of Noel Mills, James Bar This is a longtime personal favorite of Mills’, and he wastes no time explaining why.

“It’s been consistent for years,” Mills says. “It’s a rich, almost flourless chocolate cake that’s liquidy in the middle. It’s like fudge when you cut it open.” Oh, Mills continues, and it comes with raspberry sauce.

Molten Lava Cake at the Depot

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Fighting for air Danny and the Deep Blue Sea offers a rough and realistic tale about love

by Erika Fredrickson

D

anny and the Deep Blue Sea is a love story, but it isn’t just any old love story. It’s not the classic Hollywood meet-cute where two beautiful people with middle-class wounds find each other and learn to be happy. It’s sad, but not the gorgeous, ohthe-humanity kind of sad that James Joyce writes about when people with large regrets watch snow fall on all the living and the dead. The 1984 play by John Patrick Shanley is the rough and uncomfortable tale of two unfixably screwed-up people meeting in a crappy bar in the Bronx.

There is never a moment during the play when the audience will wish to be these characters. Roberta is a coarse single mother who lives with her parents and has sunk into a pit of despair and shame over a sexual encounter she had with her father. Danny is like a beaten dog turned to beast—he’s so wound up and angry he can barely look at a person without throwing punches. These aren’t loners in the cool, James Dean way. They are societal castoffs whose first encounter is so weird and fierce that they might as well be sharks fighting over chum. My guess is that you’ve never seen a bar scene like this before, either on stage or in real life.

This production by Between the Lines Theatre stars Sophia Jensen as Roberta and Tyson Gerhardt as Danny. In May, Jensen played Nina in the company’s production of Stupid Fucking Bird, and she did a great job with that character. Like Roberta, Nina is screwed up, but her self-centered quest for fame and confidence in her own attractiveness provide her some leverage. Roberta believes she has nothing to offer the world.

Jensen doesn’t try to make her beautiful— there is no manic pixie dream girl buried beneath the pain (thank goodness)—but she’s able to draw out the parts of Roberta that matter, especially her startling tenacity, which you can’t help but admire, even if her choices seem doomed.

Gerhardt is an excellent match for Jensen. They occupy the stage with equal amounts of violence and desperation.

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Sophia Jensen and Tyson Gerhardt star in Between the Lines Theatre’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.

Gerhardt’s Danny moves his arms into a fighting stance as if he’s a marionette being manipulated by imaginary demons.

The clenched core of his character is also present in the way he speaks. Danny wants to seem detached, but he’s in constant fight-or-flight mode, and even a drunk passed out on a barstool nearby is, in Danny’s mind, out to get him.

It’s little wonder Shanley can turn a simple scenario in which two people meet at a bar and spend the night together into an experience as deep as the ocean the play’s title references. He’s written 23 plays, including the awardwinning Doubt, that have been translated into 15 languages and performed in 17 countries. But his roots are not far from those of his characters. He grew up

in the Bronx with a father who was a meatpacker (like Danny’s father) and he’s mentioned in interviews having a tumultuous relationship with his mother.

Whatever hard edge he developed doesn’t seem to have killed his exquisite knack for observation and putting his own experience on the page. In a 2004 interview with the New York Times, he talked about his upbringing in the Bronx, saying, “It was extremely anti-intellectual and extremely racist and none of this fit me. I was in constant fistfights from the time I was 6. I did not particularly want to be. People would look at me and become enraged at the sight of me. I believe that the reason was they could see that I saw them. And they didn’t like that.”

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Knowing that, it’s hard not to think about Danny and Roberta as renditions of their author. At one point, Roberta tells Danny that the ocean is only 20 blocks away, and then she delves into a monologue. I won’t quote too much of it—you should hear the whole thing aloud—but here’s a snippet: “When we got married, me and Billy, that was my husband, we smoked a ball of opium one night. It really knocked me out.

I fell asleep like immediately. And I dreamed about the ocean. It was real blue. And there was the sun, and it was real yellow. And I was out there, right in the middle of the ocean, and I heard this noise. I turned around, and whaddaya think I saw? Just about right next to me. A whale! A whale came shootin straight outta the water!”

This moment—telling a story about an opium dream she had years before— is about as good as it’s been for Roberta.

For Danny, the mere idea that the ocean is closer than he thought seems to be the best thing that’s happened to him in forever. Despite their tough exteriors and terrible qualities and low probability of ever finding worldly success, they have moments in which the truth of their situation and the promise of some better future are illuminated. And that’s something we can all hope for.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea continues at the Roxy Theater Thu., Nov. 16–Sun., Nov. 19. Visit theroxytheater.org for tickets and times. $20. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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More than luck The Texas-style truth-telling of Hayes Carll

by Ednor Therriault

As pop country continues to follow the nation’s inexorable slide toward functional illiteracy, it’s good to know there’s always been a sturdy lifeline to smart, authentic songwriting. And that line stretches all the way to Texas. From the bedrock of Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon and the other outlaws from the ’60s, the line runs through the likes of Rosie Flores, Rodney Crowell, Charlie Robison and a hundred other gifted prairie poets, right on up to Kacey Musgraves, who won a Country Music Award for a song about gender identity and smoking weed.

Hayes Carll sits firmly on that line as well, although he’s infused his traditional country sound with a few unexpected influences. East Nashville, the hip alternative neighborhood of Music City, seems to have had some sway on Carll’s dusty roots. His East Nashville buddy Todd Snider covered Carll’s “Stomp and Holler” on the Hard Working Americans’ 2014 debut. With lines like, “I’m like James Brown, only white and taller/ All I wanna do is stomp and holler,” this is a cut above the tiresome workin’ man blues that have been explored by so many lesser writers. Carll’s willingness and abil- Hayes Carll is a Texas storyteller with an East Nashville influence. ity to reach above the low-hanging fruit is one of the things that sets him and his Texas cohort 2011’s “KMAG YOYO.” And Lee Ann Womack apart. Take this line from the same song: “Every time snagged a Grammy nomination for her cover of his I get a little bit lucky, I gotta wake up from a poor “Chances Are” in 2015. But there was also a diman’s dream.” It’s a pithy little nugget, and Carll’s vorce, and in 2015 Carll took a step back to resongs are studded with them. Now imagine that line assess. His subsequent album, Lovers and Leavers, had emerged from a Nashville song factory (a hun- is not surprisingly circumspect. It’s full of spare baldred monkeys and all that)—that’s all the Big Ma- lads and midtempo reflections on a life that, if not chine would need for a chorus, a song, an album exactly the yellow brick road, is a path he’s made and a tour. (Dustin Lynch coming to a town near you his peace with. “I didn’t worry about checking boxes, making sure there was something here for with his Poor Man’s Dream Tour, y’all!)

Carll released a couple of albums on Lost High- everybody, or getting on the radio,” he writes on way after his 2002 debut on the tiny Compadre his website. “I just took some much needed deep Records label prompted comparisons to Texas song- breaths and let them out on tape.”

Like so many gifted artists who dove into writing godhead Townes Van Zandt. 2007’s Trouble Nashville’s deep end only to crawl out looking for in Mind yielded “She Left Me for Jesus,” the perfect antidote to Carrie Underwood’s corny “Jesus Take a hose to wash off the sludge (see Jack Ingram’s the Wheel.” In this hilarious, Jerry Jeff Walker-style “Midnight Motel”), Hayes Carll no longer seems to romp, you can hear the common voices shared by give the first shit about whether his songs satisfy Snider, Robison and a host of laconic young smar- anyone but himself. When you get right down to tasses who line their bird cages with creative writing it, that’s the only way to create a direct line between a songwriter and a beautiful truth. degrees and always have the finest weed.

Hayes Carll plays the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 17, So what’s Carll’s reward for this songwriting at 10 PM. $22/$20 advance. prowess? For this kickass pedigree of Lone Star gumption and grit? Well, there was that Americana arts@missoulanews.com Music Association Album of the Year award for

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Crushed sweets Rosie King grows poems like gardens

by Sarah Aswell

Out in the bushes Reading Rosie King’s second book of poetry, secrets were big as caves.

Time and Peonies, feels a little bit like spying on We made a ring of stones, the poet herself. After a few pages, it seems clear scorched potatoes, ate them black, that these poems spring directly from her life: her and smudged the library book on day-to-day, her family, her feelings, her history. how babies got born, After a few more, her world widens and details fill our fingerprints on every page. in, one by one and line by line. At this point, you We buried it in leaves, under snow begin to like her, to grab at the details from each all winter: our pact. poem and stanza that make up who she is and what her days look like, and puzzle them together. But The language is perfectly curated (you can see it’s not like reading her diary or a pile of her old letters. It’s more like walking through the quiet quickly how King probably excels both in the garden and on the page), each word rooms of her house when she’s wonderfully specific without ever away, running your thumb wandering into pretension, doing across the spines of the books in huge amounts of work, creating her library, or sitting in her garvivid images and scenes with just den (which seems nothing less a few pecks of the keyboard. than magical, by the way).

Many of the poems are about The author page at the back loss. Half a dozen are dedicated of the thin volume tells us the to and about recently departed basics: King was born in Sagifriends and family members. The naw, Michigan, attended Wellesmost powerful, “After This,” is ley College in the 1960s, and about a high school classmate she settled in Santa Cruz after she failed to speak with at their 55th earned her doctorate in literareunion, though he was recently ture. It also shows her picture: widowed and looked like he glancing over her shoulder caneeded comfort. After she reads sual in what looks like a sweatthat he’s died in a newsletter, he shirt, no makeup, and a head of visits her in a dream. bright, mussed curls.

Time and Peonies While so many poems are The poems tell you much Rosie King about mourning and the passage more: of her little beach house paperback, of time, all are filled with a quiet near Santa Cruz, where she Hummingbird Press 84 pages, $15 joy–something less like nostalgia spends time in her garden and and more like the appreciation tending to her fruit trees. Of her parents, both back when they were young (and be- of the present moment, even if it’s tinged with loss. fore she was born) and when they are elderly and A soft, feminine, modern-day zen. A few lines in the frail and need help. Of her past lovers and hus- poem “Again” seem to summarize King’s ongoing band, of the children she never had and the people mission on the page: “And I’m filled with courage again/with a crush of old sweetness/at how giving she loves.

Each poem feels like a micro-memoir. Tiny a moment can be as it vanishes.”

These giving moments tumble one after anbeautiful stories from King’s life, distilled down to a few dozen vital words and images, leaving the other throughout the book, illuminating King’s rereader feeling a gut punch of emotion in just 20 flective, mindful beachside life, inside and out. They or 30 lines. Some, like “And of Course You Know feel like her rooms, or even more like her possesAbout Your Dad,” which tells the story of her fa- sions, left in a trail for readers to follow. These aren’t ther’s first marriage, reach into families histories. pieces where you read one poem before you go to Others, like “Again,” capture single moments in bed, or one upon waking, like a small injection of ordinary days: like looking up from garden weed- literature into your day. This is a work to read like ing to watch two boys walking down the street, a memoir, or even to read like sliding into a life bouncing a dirty tennis ball between them. All being lived, right now, at this very moment.

Rosie King reads from her poems at Fact & conjure small, real moments with sparse economy, even for poetry, like this one from the be- Fiction Tue., Nov. 21, at 7 PM. ginning of “Cherry-Fire” about playing with a childhood friend: arts@missoulanews.com

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Willem Dafoe and Brooklynn Prince star in The Florida Project.

Behold the splendor of The Florida Project, an exhilarating new film from among the most promising filmmakers we have. Sean Baker’s been making movies since the early 2000s, but I and most everyone else first got a glimpse of the writer and director with his 2015 breakout feature Tangerine.

Shot entirely on location in Los Angeles on a couple of iPhones, Tangerine explores a day in the life of trans sex workers and their customers.

With this latest effort, Baker’s established himself as a special kind of filmmaker. His penchant for place-based, conversational narrative reminds me of Richard Linklater’s Slacker, combined with the strange characters of Harmony Korine, à la Kids and Gummo, and some early David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls) for gorgeous backgrounds contrasted with a tragic hyperrealism.

With The Florida Project, the previously low budget, guerilla filmmaker has been given a 35mm camera, some established actors and a wide distribution, and I’m pleased to report he hasn’t squandered the opportunity. The picture stars Willem Dafoe as Bobby, manager of a weekly motel in Orlando, Florida, where downtrodden tenants stay indefinitely and perilously for $35 a night. Chief among the guests are the young, tattooed mother Halley (Bria Vinaite), her precocious daughter Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and a rotating cast of her little kid friends.

The Florida Project offers a rare, painfully human exploration into a corner of society we rarely get to see in film: poor people. And why should it be so rare? Millions of Americans hang on to the fringes of society by the thinnest of threads, but nearly all of our stories star rich or middle-class people. Drug addicts and prostitutes are rarely afforded the luxury to sit around writing Hollywoodproduced screenplays, so what are we left with but

a disproportionate number of East Coast tales set in expensive apartments starring spoiled people with fake problems?

But here we are with a glorious exception, so I’ll go ahead and stop complaining. In Halley, we have a young mother in over her head. Her past remains a mystery, but we can reasonably guess that life up to this point has not been kind. As a result, she’s developed a tough-as-nails exterior. She manipulates, steals and generally grifts for money, all the while rebelling against any kind of authority and repeatedly spitting on hands that feed her. The DSM-V might say she has an overgrown case of Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and when it comes to Moonee, the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree. This is a fascinating case study in how dysfunction snowballs through generations, but be careful. It’s easy to judge these characters, but if you’re watching with an open mind, there’s a lot to admire and even love in Halley’s resilience and commitment to her family.

And then there’s the career-defining performance from Dafoe, an actor who never lets me down (Spiderman doesn’t count for some reason). In Bobby we have a man who really seems to have found his calling in a thankless job, serving the unsavory misfits who need him most.

As an aside: I don’t recommend watching trailers for films, unless you enjoy spoilers and/or being lied to. Spots for The Florida Project make this look like a light-hearted romp through the simplicity of childhood. In fact, at nearly two hours, this is a bleak story with a meandering structure that’s often a challenge to endure—but trust me: The emotional payoff is so incredibly worth your time.

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OPENING THIS WEEK COCO Inspired by Día de los Muertos, Pixar’s new film follows a young boy on his way to an otherworldly family reunion. I hope you have a box of tissues handy. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt and Edward James Olmos. Opening at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharohplex Wed., Nov. 22.

LOVING VINCENT He was a brilliant, passionate painter who changed the world of art forever. Now Vincent Van Gogh’s story is told through painstaking animation. Every single one of this film’s 65,000 frames is an oilpainting, hand-painted by hundreds of artists around the world. Rated PG-13. Stars Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan and Aidan Turner. Playing at the Roxy.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT When you’re living week to week in a cheap motel just outside of Disney World, sometimes you have to make your own fun. Thank goodness Willem Dafoe is there to kick around. Rated R. Also stars Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite. Playing at the Roxy (See Film)

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot races against time to uncover which of his 13 co-passengers is a murderer. Meanwhile, the list of suspects work to uncover how exactly you’re supposed to pronounce Hercule Poirot. Rated PG-13. Stars Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

JANE Jane Goodall loves every ape she sees, from chimpan-a to chimpan-z. Drawing from over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage lost in the National Geographic archives for half a century, see the influential scientist that drove the world bananas. Not Rated. Directed by Brett Morgan.

Playing at the Roxy.

JUSTICE LEAGUE DC Comics’ premier super-team assembles to avenge the death of Superman while discovering how many of their mothers are named Martha.

Rated PG-13. Directed by Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon, and starring Ben Affleck as Batman and J.K. Simmons as the reason Missoulians are legally obligated to see it in theaters. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE STAR Do you know what the story of the Nativity really needed? CGI camels voiced by Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry and Tracy Morgan. Rated PG. Also stars other people that should know better.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

WONDER A young boy with a facial deformity has to juggle not only being the new kid in school, but also starring in the third theatrical film in five months to have the word wonder in its title. Rated PG. Stars Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

ONE MIND (2015) Monastic life in China might not be the most exciting way to spend your days, but you’ll definitely get a lot of meditating done, that’s for sure. Not Rated. Directed by Edward A. Burger. Playing Sun., Nov. 19 at 3 PM at the Roxy.

“OK, gang. If we mess this one up we’re going to be replaced by the Elongated Man, Booster Gold, Snapper Carr and Aztek: The Ultimate Man.” Justice League opens at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS Total elapsed time between the original Bad Moms and this holiday-themed sequel: 15 months. Rated R. Stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Susan Sarandon. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. The tortoise lies on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun. But you’re not helping because they’ve finally made a sequel to Blade Runner and you’ve got to get tickets. I can’t wait to watch a hundred different director’s cuts of this one.

Rated R. Stars Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and Jared Leto. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

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DADDY’S HOME 2 It’s round two of dad vs. stepdad. I guess we’re all okay with Mel Gibson being in movies again.

Rated PG-13. Also stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and John Lithgow. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE HUSTLER (1961) A young pool shark is going to stop at nothing to beat Minnesota Fats for his world title. Unless, of course, there’s some booze to drink. Not Rated.

Stars Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie. Playing Wed., Nov. 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) If you want to be a successful stand-up comedian, you just need to work on your timing, revise your jokes and kidnap Jerry Lewis and hold him hostage in exchange for a spot on a late night talk show. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Rated PG, but this is a Martin

ONLY THE BRAVE The director of Tron: Legacy tells the harrowing true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the elite crew of firefighters who ended up battling one of the worst fire disasters in history. It’s a good thing none of us are sick of forest fires, right? Rated PG-13. Stars Josh Brolin, Taylor Kitsch and Jeff Bridges. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THOR: RAGNAROK Marvel Comics’ god of thunder dives directly into the Guardians of the Galaxy’s zany pool of space adventure, hoping we’ll all forget how boring his previous movies were. Rated PG-13. Stars Chris Hemsworth, his biceps and Tom Hiddleston. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.

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Let’s be honest: Turkey is nice, but the real point of Thanksgiving is the side dishes (and, you know, friends and family and giving of thanks and all that). On my table this year will be Brown Butter-Pumpkin Mac and Cheese, Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Garlic and Lemon, Balsamic Cranberry Sauce and this rich, savory bread pudding-like stuffing, featuring salty, crispy bacon, ripe persimmons, tart Granny Smith apples, crunchy almonds and all kinds of holiday love.

Serves 6-8 Ingredients 1 baguette, cut into 1-inch cubes extra virgin olive oil 3 cups vegetable, chicken or turkey broth 2 eggs 3 strips thick-cut, uncured bacon, diced 4 cloves garlic, chopped 1 red onion, diced 2 Granny Smith apples, cored and diced (leave the peel on) 1 Fuyu persimmon, diced 1 10-oz. box frozen spinach 6 fresh sage leaves, chopped salt and pepper to taste 1/3 cup sliced almonds Directions Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9x13inch baking dish with olive oil and set aside.

Place the bread cubes in a bowl and toss with 1/8 cup olive oil until well-coated. Spread on a baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until crisp and golden-brown. Leave the oven on.

In a large bowl, whisk together 1/2 cup of the broth and the eggs. Add the toasted bread cubes and allow to soak until ready to use.

Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat and fry the bacon until crisp and brown. Reduce heat to medium and add the garlic and onion.

Cook, stirring occasionally, just until onion is translucent, 2-3 minutes.

Add apples and persimmon to the pan and cook 2-3 minutes until apples soften. Add spinach and cook just until spinach has defrosted, 2-3 minutes.

Increase heat to medium-high and add the soaked bread cubes. Stir gently to incorporate.

Slowly add the broth, 1/2 cup at a time, until it has been absorbed (the stuffing will be very wet).

Add the sage, salt and pepper to taste and almonds and stir very gently, so as not to break apart the bread cubes.

Scrape stuffing into prepared pan and bake for 55-65 minutes, or until the stuffing is firm and the top is crisp (the inside should stay moist).

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Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh

meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open MonSat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Rumour 1855 Stephens Ave. • 549-7575 rumourrestaurant.com We believe in celebrating the extraordinary flavors of Montana using local product whenever it's available. We offer innovative vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, meat & seafood dishes that pair beautifully with one of our amazing handcrafted cocktails, regional micro-brews, 29 wines on tap or choose a bottle from our extensive wine list. At Rumour, you'll get more than a great culinary experience....You'll get the perfect night out. Open daily: restaurant at 4.00pm, casino at 10.30am, brunch sat & sun at 9.30am

Pay what you want at God Shot

HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: Whatever the heck you want. Coffee drinks, a sports beverage or a smoothie. I had a nice, thick breve on a cold and wet afternoon. God Shot is currently serving coffee from Hygge in Missoula, and they’ve also used Black Coffee and Helena roaster Caffeica as suppliers.

tomers figure it out for themselves at the register.

Whose crazy idea was this? God Shot is owned by wife and husband Natalie and Gunnar Boose, 21 and 23, respectively, both current students at UM. “The main idea was that it would kind of take away the current adversarial photo by Susan Elizabeth Shepard pricing method at a lot of Where you’re drinking it: At the places and replace it with a method that would Source health club at 225 S. Russell St. The enable consumers to pay what they thought was coffee-and-snack bar is in the lobby of the a fair price,” Gunnar says. “It’s kind of silly people gym, but it’s open to the general public, no are paying more and more for a coffee, but they don’t have a say in the matter.” For the record, I gym membership or workout required. paid $3.50 for my breve, and tipped $1.00.

What you’re paying for it: Whatever How’s that working out? God Shot the heck you want! For the time being, God Shot is a “Pay What You Wish” business, al- barista Drew says most people are paying a lowing customers to decide what they think fair price for their drinks, while Gunnar says their drink is worth. The bar, which opened it’s just the occasional smoothie that’s being this summer, started using the easy-to-swal- undervalued.

—Susan Elizabeth Shepard low pricing structure in early November. Cus-

Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins • 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for nonsushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

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SAT | 8 PM Donna the Buffalo plays the Top Hat Sat., Nov. 18.

Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20/$17 advance.

FRI | 7 PM “We should have just hired actors in ape suits.”

Jane opens at the Roxy Theater Fri., Nov. 17 at 7 PM.

SAT | 1 PM Francis Davis reads from West of Love at Shakespeare & Co. Sat., Nov. 18 at 1 PM. Free.

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THU | 11/16 | 8:30 PM Kuinka plays the Top Hat Thu., Nov. 16 at 8:30 PM. Free.

SAT | 8 PM EDM DJ Snails plays the Wilma Sat., Nov. 18. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $29.50/$27.50 advance.

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Missoula Art Museum hosts an informal tour and artist talk in conjunction with the national traveling exhibition Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: In the Footsteps of My Ancestors. 5 PM– 7 PM. Top House plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say "yes and" to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests.

725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM Former U.S. Ambassador Mark Johnson presents American Foreign Policy: Chaos or Continuity at Holiday Inn Downtown. 7 PM–9 PM. $8.

nightlife All those late nights watching game show reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30 PM– 10 PM. Two of society's rejects meet over a beer in a rundown Bronx Bar. That's also how my parents met. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea continues at the Roxy Theater. 7:30 PM. $20.

R.Ariel, whose music was described by Brian Eno as what nostalgia feels like, plays the ZACC Below. 8 PM. $5.

The Country Boogie Boys get your boots scootin' at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.

Dreamy Americana quartet Kuinka plays the Top Hat at 8:30 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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

9 PM. Free.

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Thursday

LA Design unveils the mixed media portraits of iconic Americans of artist Tanden Launder. 5 PM–8 PM. The Kimberlee Carlson Trio plays the Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas plays his homegrown folky tonk at Brooks and Brown from 6 PM– 9 PM. Free.

Dan Dubuque plays Missoula Brewing Company from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat features the tunes of The Salamanders for music lovers young and old. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Sarah Vap, the University of Montana Creative Writing Program's Distinguished Hugo Writer, presents a reading of her poetry in the Turner Hall Dell Brown Room at 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

nightlife The second UM Big Bands concert of the semester features a tribute to the music of legendary arranger, composer and trumpet player Thad Jones. Dennison Theater. 7:30 PM. $11. (See Spotlight)

Sarah Vap presents a reading of her poetry in the Turner Hall Dell Brown Room Fri., Nov. 17 at 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

Two of society's rejects meet over a beer in a rundown Bronx Bar. That's also how my parents met. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea continues at the Roxy Theater. 7:30 PM. $20.

Voodoo Horseshoes, Ocelot Wizard, Talus Orion and other bands with vaguely magical names play the VFW. 8 PM. $3.

Texas-based singer-songwriter Hayes Carll plays the Top Hat.

Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $22/$20 advance.

Milk Thistle and Kalub Swirvin are on the decks for I'll House You at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

They made an easier version of Whiskey Pong? The inaugural Beer Pong Tournament at Lolo Hot Springs lets you relive your glory days. 9 PM. $15 entry fee.

Spotlight into a musical family, Jones taught himself music at a young age before honing his skills playing in military bands during World War II. After the war, Jones made a name for himself performing and arranging music for the Count Basie Orchestra.

WHAT: Don't Git Sassy: The Music of Thad Jones Jones' creativity was quick to shine through, as the musician WHERE: Dennison Theater began to develop his own distinct voice and style. He formed the WHEN: Fri., Nov. 17 at 7:30 PM. Grammy Award-winning Thad HOW MUCH: $11/$5 students Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra (which continues to play to this day as the Vanguard Jazz Orgions of fans. Anyone watching these informal chestra) before moving to Copensessions might not have been aware of the in- hagen, Denmark where he founded credible influence this orchestra would have the influential Danish Radio Big on the world of music, but even if they did, it Band.

For the University of Montana's wouldn't be a huge surprise. Thad Jones has Jazz Studies Department's second big band been shaping jazz his whole life.

While his name might not be as well concert of the fall semester, all four of the UM known as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis or Big Bands play Jones' work, traveling through any of the other jazz legends he performed time with his music. with, any history of jazz would be incomplete “(The audience) will will get a chance to without the indelible work of Thad Jones. Born hear the history of big band music through

Who's that writing? Russ Nasset & The Revelators open the seventh seal of music at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

Buddy Jackson, Randall Scott Experience, Sunless and the Malt Liquor Shitzs set off a powder keg of punk rock at Monk's. 9 PM. $5.

Brrrrrrr. The Shiver plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

jazz man

Members of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra would get together on their nights off from performing music, and do what musicians do best. They jammed together, playing around and having fun away from their le-

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Jones's work,” says Director of UM Jazz Studies, Robert Tapper. “We rarely are able to have all four of our big bands play, but with Jones's long history, we can showcase the changing sound of jazz.”

—Charley Macorn

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Saturday The 2017 Zoo City Craft Fair lets you get a head start on your holiday shopping. Holiday Inn Parkside. 10 AM–5 PM. Francis Davis reads from West of Love, his collection of short stories at Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM. Free.

Swift Current provides the music for the Missoula Folklore Society Contra Dance at the Missoula Senior Center. All dances are taught and called.

No partner necessary. Workshop at 7:30 PM, dance at 8 PM. $9.

nightlife Singer-songwriter Chris Pumphrey plays originals with a smattering of Neil Young covers at Imagine Nation. 6 PM. Free.

Djebe Bara provides the soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

What are the chances he's named after Marlon Wayans' character in the Dungeons & Dragons movie? EDM DJ Snails plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $29.50/$27.50 advance.

This is the second buffalothemed band to play Missoula in two weeks. That's gotta be some kinda record, right?

Donna the Buffalo plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20/$17 advance.

Zootown Cabaret presents a musical theater review of Broadway songs, twists on Beatles favorites and contemporary hits at Missoula Winery. Doors at 7, show at 7:30. $12.

The drag kings and queens of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana celebrate the dawning of a new reign at the Badlander. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $5.

Leonard Higgins Puts Fossil Fuels on Trial, a mock trial featuring local actors and climate science and civil disobedience experts, opens at the University Center Theater.

7 PM. Free.

Two of society's rejects meet over a beer in a rundown Bronx Bar. That's also how my parents met. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea continues at the Roxy Theater. 7:30 PM. $20.

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

Free.

Megaton Gypsies explode at the Dark Horse. 9:30 PM. Free.

The Tomcats set up shop in the Union Club for an evening of music. 9:30 PM. Free.

Megaton Gypsies explode at the Dark Horse. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Sunday The Annual Holiday Exhibit at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula features a visit from Santa and a raffle. 12 PM–4 PM. Free.

Cafe Dolce celebrates the creative spirit with an art bazaar featuring the distinctly eclectic work of Missoula artists. 5 PM– 9 PM.

Montana Repertory Theatre presents the second installment of its 4 by 4 Play Slam, featuring four 24minute plays by local authors. The Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center. 2 PM. $5.

Learn the skills needed at an allabilities art class at Painting with a Twist. This week learn how to reproduce the mighty aspen.

4:30 PM–6:30 PM. $35.

Join The Dram Shop for an after hours tasting focusing on Belgian beers and their brewing process.

Seating is limited, so RSVP ASAP. 6:30 PM–8 PM. $20.

Two of society's rejects meet over a beer in a rundown Bronx Bar. That's also how my parents met. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea continues at the Roxy Theater. 2 PM. $20.

Retired army officer Elizabeth Barrs hosts a reading and discussion of Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian at Bayern Brewing. 4 PM. Free.

Live jazz at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Louie Bond & the Texas Playgirl pay tribute to classic country, jazz and swing at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Gruesome Playground Injuries continues another season of BetweenTheLines Theatre at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $20.

Master lute player John Lenti plays with the String Orchestra of the Rockies Sun., Nov. 19 at the Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $10–$30.

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David Horgan and Beth Lo at Rumour restaurant from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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The String Orchestra of the Rockies are joined by master lute player John Lenti at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $10–$30.

Every Sunday is "Sunday Funday" at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

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Monday Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there.

Every Monday from 6–8 PM. A candlelit vigil marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance at the UM Oval, followed by a roundtable discussion. 7 PM.

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bor when JFK was shot, huh?

The Absent Wilson Conspiracy plays Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM– 10 PM. Free.

DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM, show at 10.

Free. 21-plus.

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

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Tuesday

Manheim Steamroller performs at the Adams Center Tue., Nov. 21 at 7:30 PM. $102–$333.

Poet Rosie King reads selected works of poetry at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.

nightlife I think I saw Sting beat Hulk Hogan with this move at Starrcade '97. Mannheim Steam-

roller performs at the Adams Center. 7:30 PM. $102–$333.

Peter and the Starcatcher, the whimsical and pun-filled prequel to Peter Pan, opens at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. On average, how many turkeys are cooked for Thanksgiving each year? Answer in tomorrow's Nightlife.

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Wednesday Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room.

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week, raise a glass for EPI and its work improving science education. 5 PM–8 PM.

nightlife Jazz Night at the Top Hat features the tunes on Blue Moon from 7 PM–9 PM. Free.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answer-

ing trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill.

7 PM. Trivia answer: 46 million.

Thanksgiving becomes Thanksgoofing. Kyle Kulseth headlines Missoula's HomeGrown Comedy Food Drive at the Roxy.

7:30 PM. Admission is a donation of non-perishable food or cash to Missoula Food Bank.

Are you a DJ? Of course you are; it's 2017! Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an

evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM.

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

Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. I think we should rename that place the Thomas Mar Beagher.

8 PM. Free.

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Thursday The Turkey Day 8K and 3K makes you feel better about eating that extra piece of pie tonight. Travel along the Riverfront and Kim Williams Trails with other hungry runners.

Sprint over to runwildmissoula.

com for more info and registration. 9:30 PM. $30.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@

missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event.

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Agenda

percent of the people who came in were surviving on less than $2 a day. But the number of people volunteering at the food bank more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, and it distributed over 1.6 million pounds of food in 2016 and moved to a new building this summer.

And really, a can of food is a small price to pay to see Kyle Kulseth, John Howard and the Indy’s own Sarah Aswell and Charley Macorn, among others. If Charley had written this blurb, it would’ve been funnier.

—Margaret Grayson

Missoula is full of some damn funny people. In the six years since John Howard founded Homegrown Comedy with open mic nights at the Union Club, opportunities to test your wits—and your nerve—have sprung up all over the city. The Roxy Theater is home to monthly gatherings of funny folk, and this month you have a chance to give back a little while enjoying some laughs.

Despite a solid half hour of Googling food preservation when I was supposed to be working, I can’t think of any canned-food related jokes. Luckily, I’m not one of the performers at Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Food Drive.

Missoula’s best and funniest are putting on a show for a cause, where the price of admission is a can of food or a donation to the Missoula Food Bank.

The Food Bank’s needs have been increasing for years—in 2016, it saw a 9 percent increase in visits to the store and it says 16

Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Food Drive starts at the Roxy Theater on Wed., Nov. 22, at 7:30 PM. Admission is one can of food or a cash donation.

More info and a complete lineup on Facebook.

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munity Radio. 5 PM–8 PM.

The Missoula Medical Aid Salsa Ball features live music by Salsa Loca, dancing and an auction benefiting international medical aid. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7 PM–11 PM. $50.

A candlelit vigil marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance at the UM Oval, followed by a roundtable discussion about violence towards the transgender community. 7 PM.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22

Did you know there are 18 provisions in Montana's Declaration of Rights that have no parallel in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution? Learn all about them at a special presenation at Missoula Public Library. 10 AM–12 PM. Free.

Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room.

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for EPI and its work improving science education. 5 PM– 8 PM.

Leonard Higgins Puts Fossil Fuels on Trial, a mock trial featuring local actors and climate science and civil disobedience experts, calls to order at the University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 20 A dollar from every drink sold at Montgomery Distillery goes to support KFGM Missoula Com-

Kyle Kulseth headlines Missoula's HomeGrown Comedy Food Drive at the Roxy. Local comedians make you laugh while collecting food for local Missoulians. 7:30 PM. Admission is a donation of non-perishable food or cash to Missoula Food Bank.

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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H

appy Thanksgiving! The average human being (whatever that may be) burns through roughly 752 calories running an 8K race.

A slice of homemade pumpkin pie, on the other hand, weighs in at about 325 calories. One serving of green bean casserole (which for me is one too many) has 142 calories. Single servings of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce collectively contain 541 calories. A glass of red wine contains 125 calories, but if Uncle Steve shows up wearing his Make America Great Again hat, you can make that 250, no problem.

This Thanksgiving, before you sit down at the holiday table, work up an appetite running down

—Charley Macorn The Turkey Day 8K and 3K starts and ends at McCormick Park. 8 PM registration, 9:30 race time. Sprint over to runwildmissoula.org for more info and registration. $30.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16

MONDAY NOVEMBER 20

The Wild and Scenic Film Festival comes to the Roxy Theater. See 13 short films dedicated to Montana's public lands. 6 PM. $20.

Take an arbortist tour of trees on the University of Montana campus. Meet at 11 AM at the Griz statue on the Oval. $3 suggested donation.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18 Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula's Saturday morning runs at the Runner's Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

The Adult Tag League's Tag-tastrophe lets relive your childhood while stretching out those recess muscles. This week's meet-up takes place at Greenough Park. 12 PM, weather permitting.

Free.

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the Riverfront Trail and the Kim Williams Trail at the Turkey Day 8K and 3K Family Fun Run. Know that the calories you burn will be nothing compared to the sense of smug satisfaction you'll have as you reach for an extra slice of pie with absolutely zero guilt. You do the math.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23 The Turkey Day 8K and 3K makes you feel better about eating that extra piece of pie tonight.

Travel along the Riverfront and Kim Williams Trails with other hungry runners. Sprint over to runwildmissoula.com for more info and registration. 9:30 PM. $30.

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PIC ME! I’m a newly divorced woman trying some online dating sites.

Because I read your column, I understand how men prioritize beauty. I’m an attractive woman, but I often photograph terribly, and I’m thinking of spending some money and having a professional photographer shoot some pix in a studio. Would this be a good investment? I feel like I’d have a better shot if I had really great photos.

—Unphotogenic Being somewhat vain, I fear the candid camera. In fact, I not only favor the posed photo but tend to stick (rather aggressively) to a single pose—the one that doesn’t make people wonder whether I eat oats out of a burlap bag.

On online dating sites especially, appearance drives whom we choose or lose. Not surprisingly, marketing researcher Jonah Berger reports that “most online contexts,” including dating sites, “are dominated by posed photos,” as opposed to the candid kind—to the point where the main leisure activity in North America appears to be standing in a bathroom making duck lips for the camera.

Berger notes that people tend to assume that others will find them more likable and worth getting to know if they present “a curated, polished version of the self.”Yet in his research, it was the candid pix that made people more interested in “being friends with or going on a date” with the person pictured.Those he surveyed also reported feeling “more connected” to those in the candid photos and liking these people more overall.

“Candid photos made photo targets seem more genuine,” Berger explains.They “seem to provide a glimpse into what someone is truly like, an unvarnished perspective on how they look and behave when others aren’t looking.”

However, there are times when candids are less advisable. For example, Berger found that employers on LinkedIn were more interested in hiring someone who used a posed photo.

Sadly, it seems the candid “Here I am at one in the morning drinking my sixth glass of chardonnay” does not scream, “Hire MEEEEE!” But getting back to online dating, let’s temper Berger’s findings with what we all know:The hotter you look the more replies you’ll get on a dating site. So, because you’re somebody who often photographs “terribly,” your best bet is getting photos taken that appear to be candid.

You do this by having a photographer or friend

shoot you “in action”—in other words, appearing not to notice the big honking lens or the iPhone right in your face. Plan to shoot a ton of photos and at least a few will catch you looking babe-alicious. This should help you bridge the photogenic fairness gap—how there are those the candid camera loves and those it loves to make look like ringers for Winston Churchill.

WHO WILL STOP THE WANE? I’m happily married. My wife is beautiful. She used to put a lot of effort into her appearance, but she now wears sweats and T-shirts everywhere and she never wears makeup or does her hair. I felt really bad about this on our recent date night, when she just put her hair in a ponytail and wore a slouchy army jacket. I want her to keep making an effort to put herself together for me. How can I offer her constructive criticism without making her mad?

—Bummed Nostalgia is like crime-scene cleanup for your head: “My, what lovely new tiles. You’d hardly know there was once a triple murder in this kitchen.”

We’ve got tons of information back in storage in our long-term memory (picture rows of shelves and old steel file cabinets going on for, like, forever). However, we can only bring out and reflect on a few pieces of information at a time—probably four, according to memory researcher Nelson Cowan.

Predictably, we gravitate to memories of ourselves as, say, a beloved partner who made smart choices—as opposed to one who jumped in without looking and then upcycled the growing pile of red flags into dog beds to sell on Etsy.

You need a virtual drone cam to help you see the whole landscape at once, and it’s called “an index card.” On it, list all the bummer stuff about your ex that you need to keep in mind.

Maybe save a photo of it on your phone. This should help you keep those pesky upsides in perspective, like how he was always so attentive to detail—if that’s what you’d call smoking tons of pot and spending several hours monitoring the hair on his left arm.

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certain 2013 Dodge Ram, VIN 3C6TR5CT4DG527859, as described in Plaintiff’s Complaint, which property is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and for the further purpose of liquidating said property pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code (Mont. Code Ann. §§ 30-9A-101, et seq.). DATED this 12th day of October, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Molli Zook (Deputy Civil Clerk) MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-246 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD STEVEN POLINSKY, a/k/a Donald S. Polinsky, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to MARY LORRAINE POLINSKY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.C., 523 South Orange Street, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 24th day of October, 2017. /s/ Mary Lorraine Polinsky, Personal Representative THOMAS C. ORR LAW OFFICE, P.C. By: /s/ Thomas C. Orr, Esq. Attorneys for Mary Lorraine Polinsky, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-932 Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Michael Paul Hawthorne, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Michael Paul Hawthorne to Michael Paul Taylor. The hearing will be on 12/6/2017 at 11:00 a.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/25/17 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Casie Jenks, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-271 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUSAN ANN BABCOCK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they

are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau.The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict that during the next 10 months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no ... a tender revelation or a radical revolution ... a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon—but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is.That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next 10 months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years.You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival.You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself with devotion and ingenuity?”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles.

1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next 10 months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to

education.To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn.The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP been appointed as 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 Pamela Nybo, 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. DATED this 16th day of October, 2017 /s/ Pamela Nybo, Personal Representative DATED this 16th day of October,

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 36, 45, 92, 356, 372, 419, 503, 596, 671 & 715.

Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday November 27, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.All Sales final.

2017. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DP-17-283 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ROBERT R. TIETZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary Langlotz, jc/o Tipp Coburn Schandelson, PC, return

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 2218/Jennifer Foley/$275/vacuum 241/Attention To Details/$383/furniture SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT

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receipt requested, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 30th day of October, 2017. /s/ Mary Langlotz, Personal Representative TIPP COBURN SCHANDELSON, PC /s/ Raymond P.Tipp,Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-17-272 DEPT. NO. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ESTHER ANN IRENE CHESSIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Robert L. Chessin has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Robert L. Chessin, 133 Crestview Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23 day of October, 2017. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 59807 By: /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-275 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, di-

rector of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.”

– 19th-century composer Tchaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.” – filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio.

Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succinct nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies and much more.When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF W.F. (FORREST) CLARK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to LINDA JEAN FORD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 2271, Livingston, MT 59047 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 19th day of October, 2017. /s/ Linda Jean Ford, Personal Representative P.O. Box 2271, Livingston, MT 59047 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by LINDY M. LAUDER, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE,THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER IS/ARE: Grantor: John T. Giblin, III (“Grantor”) Original Trustee: Western Title & Escrow Successor Trustee: Lindy M. Lauder, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: John T. Giblin, III THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 4-1-A of Certificate of Survey No. 5752, located in the S1/2NE1/4 and the N1/2SE1/4 of Section 18, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust dated April 29, 2011, and recorded April 29, 2011, in Book 876 of Micro Records at Page 1281, under Document No. 201107066 records of Missoula County, Montana; and Substitution of Trustee dated October 3, and recorded October 3, 2017, in Book 987 at Page 616, under

Document No. 201720358, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $1,267.00 due under the Promissory Note dated April 29, 2011, as extended, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the December 1, 2015 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF OCTOBER 3, 2017, ARE: Principal: $96,916.16 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 7.5000% per annum. As of October 3, 2017, the interest balance is $13,194.24, and interest accrues at the rate of $19.91 per day. Escrow: $3,219.70 Late fees: $400.00 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale.THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS.THE DATE,TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: March 1, 2018 Time: 1:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 S. Fourth St., Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59807-7099 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated this 4th day of October, 2017. /s/ Lindy M. Launder LINDY M. LAUDER Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ) : ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on 4th October, 2017, by Lindy M. Lauder, as Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing in Lolo, MT My Commission Expires January 6th 2021 File No.: 034156000081

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on March 13, 2018, 01:00 PM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 8 of Hidden Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

More commonly known as 24600 Frenchtown Frontage Road, Huson, MT 59846. Richard Sales and Rene Sales, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Popular Financial Services, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on March 24, 2004, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 29, 2004 as Instrument No. 200408179, in Book 728, at Page 1369, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-3 Assignment Dated: December 31, 2013 Assignment Recorded: January 17, 2014 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201400771, in Book 924, at Page 694, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on February 27, 2017 as Instrument No. 201703479, in Book 975, at Page 537, of Official Records.The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning September 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $162,749.32, interest in the sum of $6,523.54, escrow advances of $4,396.74, other

amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,857.66 for a total amount owing of $175,527.26, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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 by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public procla-

mation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 26th day of October, 2017. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886

Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 48783 RIVERSIDE SELF STORAGE Will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent. SILENT AUCTION Begins at 11AM Tuesday November 28th, 2017, ends at 11:30AM - 3645 Clark Fork Way Missoula, MT 59808.Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, and other household goods. Buyers bid for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash/money orders accepted for payment. Units reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. ALL SALES FINAL.

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4423 Martindale Way • MLS# 21711691

1311 Idaho Street • MLS# 21712327

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Affordable 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom fully remodeled ADA accessible home that is ready for you! This adorable home features brand new stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops and new flooring throughout the entire property! The widened doorways, closets and bathroom shower really add extra space and character to this home.

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1311 Idaho St. is a three bedroom, two bath home situated on a fenced .224 acres. This 1930's home has had some updates throughout the home. This .22 acre lot is fully fenced, and also has a detached two car garage. Please contact Annelise Hedahl for more information or to set up a showing!

Annelise N Hedahl • ERA Lambros - Missoula 406-532-9200

Welcome home to 1859 Mount, the cutest home in Missoula! Gorgeous 2 bed and 2 bath home that is centrally located.. Nice fenced backyard with patio. Spacious kitchen, and dining area. All main level living. Cozy living room. Large bedrooms. Master bed has ensuite and walk in closet Pride of ownership throughout. Would make a great home or investment property. The layout is great, and the home has lots of storage.

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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bed, 1 bath, Cooper Street, $725, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333

1 bed, 1 bath, near Johnson/14th, $650, large apt in 4-plex, coin-op laundry, off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 1 bed, 1 bath, S. Russell, $700, DW, AC, laundry, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid.

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DUPLEXES 211 S. 4th Street East #1. 3 bed/1 bath, close to U, W/D hookups $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2300 McDonald #2. 1 bed/1 bath, new flooring and paint, close to shopping and parks $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 509 S. 5th St. E. #4. 2 bed/1 bath, two blocks to U, coin-ops, shared yard $725.

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OUT OF TOWN 11270 Napton Way 2C. 3 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central Lolo location, lots of interior updates. $925. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 PUBLISHER’S NOTICE EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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3625 Kingsbury. Pleasant View 3 bed, 3 bath on corner lot with 2 car garage. $269,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

1049 South 1st. 2 bed, 1 bath at the heart of it all. New roof & many other upgrades. $219,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2755 Lower Lincoln Hills Dr. - Easy jaunt to downtown It’s a nature paradise in town with a magical trail leading up to the fabulous home and land. 3 Bed 1 Bath $425,000 KD 240-5227

450 Speedway- Fantastic corner lot with an adorable sweet little bungalow, with fully fenced yard! Close to University, Hiking Trails, Downtown and More! $165,000. KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty

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901 Defoe. Update 3 bed, 1 bath on Northside with basement, wrap around deck & large yard. $214,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com (PHOTO) 6770 Roberta Drive Under Construction Now. 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, 1510 sq. ft. in Linda Vista’s newest phase.

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TOWNHOMES 2025 Mullan Heights #306. 2 bed, 2.5 bath facing the Clark Fork River. $227,500.Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com The Uptown Flats #303. UNDER CONTRACT. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

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Missoula Medical Aid works with rural and impoverished communities in Honduras as they seek to improve health and access to health care.

In October 1998 the most deadly storm to hit the Americas in two centuries, Hurricane Mitch, devastated much of Honduras. The owner and employees of Nightingale Nursing in Missoula, Montana, read about the disaster and went into action-they immediately organized and sent four medical and rebuilding brigades over the course of the next four months. In those first few trips, we began to form relationships with Honduran organizations, relationships that have become partnerships that turn our money and labor into efficient clinics and productive health-improvement projects.

In the world of international aid, we are a small organization. We have just two quarter-time employees, so the great bulk of our work is done by our volunteers and Honduran partners. This means your donation, because it is teamed with thousands of volunteer hours and the facilities, talents, and services of our Honduran partners, goes a long way.

Missoula Medical Aid raises money to support Save the Children's rural community projects that make homes and farms healthier and more productive. The idea is that people living in a healthier and more productive place will get sick less often.

We support farmers and rural cooperatives that improve family cook stoves, start small businesses, and help producers grow a wide variety of vegetables such as tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, cabbage and lettuce. We help with the purchase of dairy cows, so families are making, selling, and eating cheese.