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News

Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Your best—and worst—gifts ever .............................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Cash not cans, unionizing social work, and Seth Bodnar’s great train escape .............6 Etc. The future of campaigning is on Facebook.........................................................................7 News How license suspensions become poverty traps.............................................................8 Opinion Did Bullock really not know Republicans would bargain in bad faith? ..................11 Opinion Hunters can—and should—resist the gun lobby ......................................................11 Feature The Indy’s 2017 decision-tree gift guide .............................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Chloe Gendrow debuts Glow...............................................................................18 Music Giano Cromley’s What We Build Upon the Ruins ............................................19 TV Mindhunter: Netflix delivers the serial killer show we always wanted ..................20 Film What’s not to like about Lady Bird?....................................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 What’s Good Here Return to ramen at Sushi Hana ...................................................23 Happiest Hour The restorative powers of Black Coffee’s Golden Milk .....................25 8 Days a Week If it’s not in our calendar, it’s probably not much fun.......................26 Agenda Karaoke for a cause.........................................................................................33 Mountain High Bugs and beers..................................................................................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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[voices]

STREET TALK

By Susan Elizabeth Shepard

The Independent Gift Guide is in this week’s issue.

What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?

What’s the worst gift you’ve ever given?

JJ Blood: A trip to Barcelona. I got that from a friend. It was over Christmas during college. Jesus is Just Alright: This is embarrassing. I gave a “Jesus is My Homie” shirt to a Christian group, like as a gag gift kind of thing, and I don’t think it went over really well. My mother-in-law works at this nonprofit, and she invited us to the Christmas party and we had to bring a gift, like a white elephant exchange.

Isabel Judice: My parents took me to Hawaii one year. It was definitely the best gift, hands down. Not that kind of stocking: I re-gifted a pair of socks someone bought me to my brother.

And I’m pretty sure he didn’t talk to me for like three days.

Liza Crockett: My dad got me my first gun, so that was the best one. He got me a Winchester .243. Not so sweet: I regifted a package of Skittles to this guy I was dating at the time that I was just about to break up with, but I was waiting to break up with him until after Christmas, so I didn’t want to spend the money on a gift.

Rollie Morrell: Best gift I ever got was when I was in Korea. I got a package from home, a whole box of my favorite cookies, Toll House chocolate chip. I pigged out on that. Better a bad gift than no gift? Probably nothing, would be about it.

Down on Downing He’s endearing himself so much going after an organization that has respect in Montana for keeping our forests in the best condition that they can (“Only Troy Downing knows how far the rabbit hole goes,” Nov. 16). They’re not a political organization, despite how much this guy wants to make them one. So yeah, keep peddling your BS, mister. Voters are watching.

Jake Sorich facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Co-op autopsy There were people involved that wanted to better the place (“After a decade at the Burns St. Center, the Missoula Community Food Co-op is closing shop,” Nov. 16). I was a member and tried too hard to flip around the thinking with the Double SNAP dollars. You can’t force someone to buy an avocado if they don’t know what one is (true story, also have one about yellow zucchini) or a watermelon with seeds even if it is grown locally. Accept that a person who eats Hamburger Helper is going to continue eating it, but maybe let’s add in some veggies! Or eat a better frozen pizza. But alas, you can’t change a board that’s so set in their ways they won’t listen to new ideas.

Aimee Miklovic facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Co-op recipe It was a heavy case of founders’ syndrome. The SNAP access is awesome, but a little too late. Three grocery chains here now hand out a free produce item to every child when they walk through the door, because our food co-op started doing it. They also pay regular employees with benefits.

Our local community gardens (who pay directors) donate a bag of produce to each preschool child every Thursday with a featured recipe. That’s how you get everyone to eat produce and start thinking about what they put in their bodies without liberal snobbery and idealism.

Angelita Martinez facebook.com/missoulaindependent

More on the mayor Andy Vigil: A big picture frame that my kids made for me. It was like a family photo, they went out and found their own pictures and put a collage together in a big picture frame. Isn’t the real bad gifter the original one? It was a set of bowls someone gave me for a Secret Santa, and I regifted it.

Asked Monday morning at Southgate Mall

The recent mayoral election in Helena has made history. I’ve seen and read about it on national news, yet our local sources seem to have not covered it at all. I feel sad, angry and ashamed that the Indy has not done its part in covering such important and historic Montana news.

Jessica Catron missoulanews.com

Winning Election Day. As I woke this morning I ruminated on the last 10 months and my campaign. I’ve faced many challenges in

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my life, some by choice, some not. The decision to run for Missoula City Council was easy for me. The actual process was not as easy. It has been a steep learning curve not unlike pursuing a degree, being self-employed or raising a child on my own. But as I have learned over the years, most things that are worthwhile are not easy. Although I did not receive the most votes, I value every one of the 1,129 votes I did receive.

One of my main motivations for this Herculean effort was to demonstrate to my 9-year-old daughter how we as individuals can make a positive impact in

“You can’t force someone to buy an avocado if they don’t know what one is…

Accept that a person who eats Hamburger Helper is going to continue eating it, but maybe let’s add in some veggies!”

our world. Three weeks ago, out of the blue, she looked up at me and said that she was proud of me for running for Council. It was that moment that I realized that I had achieved my main goal. I had won.

One of the many daunting challenges was getting out and knocking on my neighbors’ doors. I met many, many lovely people. People with diverse points of view who shared them with me. Smart people with good ideas on how we can improve our neighborhood, our city, our world. People who are already doing the good work that makes Missoula unique. The result of doing

this has helped me increase my sense of community. I feel stronger and less isolated. I have won.

By exposing myself and my life to public scrutiny I have been able to shed many fears and apprehensions. I have grown as a person. I have been able to examine myself and my relationships not only with people but with the world around me. I have won.

I have discovered new friends, rediscovered old friends and developed new relationships beyond partisan boundaries. My campaign could not have come this far without the guidance, support and wisdom of many folks. I am humbled and truly grateful for those who believe in me. When we work together, amazing things can be realized.

I have won.

Chris Badgley candidate, Ward 4

No thanks, CoreCivic A corporation that runs a private prison in the state of Montana recently offered the state $30 million to “help out” with the state’s budget shortfall.

However, when we look at this “deal,” the proverb, “If an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is,” applies here.

A budget crisis is not the time to be pushing an unrelated, sweetheart deal with CoreCivic, which operates private prisons across the country. That’s bad enough. Simply put, private prisons are a bad investment. In their quest for profits, they pay guards poorly, offer subpar healthcare to prisoners and provide little in the way of retraining and education to prevent inmates from offending again. Private prisons have a profit incentive to keep prisoners as long as possible, which is probably why they have higher rates of violence than public facilities. Private prisons aren’t just morally wrong, they also provide worse results at a higher cost.

In recognition of this, the state of Montana wants to buy out CoreCivic’s 600-bed private prison in Shelby and has been paying money into an escrow account in order to do just that. The $30 million balance of that account is sufficient to complete the sale when the current contract with CoreCivic expires in 2019.

That is the $30 million that CoreCivic is “willing to contribute” to the state. That $30 million is our money.

Their price for giving us our money back? We would have to renew their contract on terms favorable to them.

This is more than a no, it’s a heck no.

Rep. Tom Woods candidate for U.S. Congress Bozeman

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WEEK IN REVIEW

Wednesday, November 15 Montana legislators work late to finish the special session with a balanced budget.

The plan includes $76 million in spending cuts and a $30 million charge on the state workers’ compensation fund’s investment portfolio. Within a week, the fund sues to block that charge.

Thursday, November 16 After Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is accused of groping a woman in 2006, Sen. Jon Tester donates $25,000 that his campaign received from Franken to the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.

Friday, November 17 Court documents requested by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle show that Greg Gianforte falsely told investigators that Ben Jacobs, the reporter Gianforte was convicted of assaulting in May, attacked him first and was “trying to create a story.”

Saturday, November 18 More than 100 people turn out to protest a presentation on land management in Hamilton by Karen Budd-Falen, a candidate for director of the Bureau of Land Management. Opponents say Budd-Falen supports privatizing public lands.

The hunger

Cash, not cans It’s food drive season for the Missoula Food Bank, and after school on a Thursday the warehouse is full of kids who are, as Food Bank Director Aaron Brock puts it, “literally swimming” in donated food as they sort it out of giant bins.

Surrounding them, however, are neatly organized pallets of identical food items. The Food Bank buys a large amount of its stock in bulk, at discounts, from the same suppliers that grocery stores buy from. This summer it purchased seven pallets of peanut butter during a sale, saving thousands of dollars. Brock said he expects to spend more than $500,000 on food this year.

Brock stresses that all donations are helpful.

But he also says the nature of Food Bank donations has shifted, in part due to efforts by Food Bank leaders to educate people on the most efficient ways to give.

“Over the past 15 years, the ratio of food and dollars has really switched,” Brock says. “We think there really were intentional conversations that we had with big donors, basically saying, ‘All donations are wonderful, but if your

goal is to maximize the amount of food on our shelves, we can buy more than you can.’”

A quick Google search reveals plenty of opeds encouraging people to donate money to food charities instead of cans. Feeding America, a national food-bank network, uses the “Food Drive” page on its website to gently suggest that wouldbe organizers plan cash fundraisers instead.

In the last fiscal year, the Food Bank received $1.3 million in cash donations and 2.4 million pounds of food. Food still makes up the majority of donations, but that’s mostly due to grocery rescue, whereby the Food Bank picks up leftover stock that grocery stores can no longer sell.

The number of people the Food Bank serves has been steadily increasing. Last year also saw a 131 percent increase in volunteers, and Can the Cats, the Food Bank’s largest food drive of the year, and a competition with Bozeman, brought in record food and cash donations in both cities. Missoulians donated 391,000 pounds of food for the win.

Brock says food donations still provide important variety for the Food Bank’s shelves, giving shoppers more options. And for some organizations, collecting canned food and watching it pile up can build a sense of community in an office or a school.

“I’ve gotten to know people who’ve said, ‘I know you can buy more cereal with $100 than I can, but it’s so fun for me to go with my kids and pick out a cereal that we then bring,’” Brock says. “Well, how can you do anything but celebrate that?”

Margaret Grayson

Power in numbers

Case managers unionize It’s been nearly six months since the first waves of anxiety over state cuts to Medicaid swept through Missoula’s behavioral health community. Even after last week’s special session, however, case managers still have no clear picture of how Montana’s budget crisis will affect them. What they do have—at least at one regional not-for-profit—is a newly unified voice.

On Sept. 20, case managers at the Western Montana Mental Health Center voted to unionize, a development that shop steward and six-year WMMHC case manager Cheryl Nguyen-Wishneski attributes largely to fear over the impacts of state budget cuts. Nguyen-Wishneski says case managers first got together in a state of shared shock midsummer to discuss their options, after they were informed of impending layoffs in their department.

Sunday, November 19 Missoulians speculate about the future of UM football coach Bob Stitt after a Saturday loss to MSU cost the Griz a shot at the playoffs. The next day, the athletic department confirms that Stitt’s contract won’t be renewed.

Monday, November 20 Former Florence physician Chris Christensen is convicted of 22 felonies, including two counts of negligent homicide. Two people died of overdoses of drugs prescribed by Christensen, who faces up to 405 years in prison.

Tuesday, November 21 The trial of climate activist Leonard Higgins, who shut off an oil pipeline valve near Big Sandy in 2016, begins in Fort Benton. Higgins, from Oregon, is charged with criminal mischief and trespassing and faces up to ten years in prison.

We pay pretty fairly, plus we pay in a lot of beautiful sunsets, which I know only goes so long.” —University of Montana Athletic Director Kent Haslam, speaking to the job’s perks, during Monday’s press conference announcing that football head coach Bob Stitt’s contract is not being renewed.

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[news] She adds that the new union also includes community rehabilitation aides, who frequently work in tandem with case managers for highneed clients. “Pay was going to go down, workloads were going to go up, and that’s what was presented to us,� Nguyen-Wishneski says of the explanation she and other case managers were given for how WMMHC would absorb a 37-percent cut to Medicaid reimbursement for case management.

The union has yet to finalize a collective bargaining agreement with WMMHC. NguyenWishneski says that on the advice of Missoula Area Central Labor Council President Mark Anderlik, union members opted to first proceed with negotiations focused narrowly on how layoffs are handled.

Jodi Daly, the center’s CEO, says she empathizes with the fears that prompted the union’s formation, though her account of the inciting events differs. Daly says there were no firm plans for widespread layoffs in case management, only talk of “innovative ideas� to repurpose staff. “It was a possible RIF [reduction-in-force]. I think the communication came out wrong,� Daly says, adding that no cuts were actually presented to WMMHC administration for authorization.

Daly announced her impending resignation Oct. 13. A search committee has already whittled the applicant pool to two finalists, she says, and both will be in Missoula for interviews early next month. According to Nguyen-Wishneski, the union’s request to participate in the search was denied.

Nguyen-Wishneski hopes that the union, in addition to channeling anxiety over the affects of the budget crisis, can begin to tackle the issue of case manager retention—a longstanding problem she attributes to stagnant pay. WMMHC uses Medicaid dollars from case management to bolster budgets in other departments, and Nguyen-Wishneski says keeping a bigger piece of that pie in case management could fund pay increases and better benefits, encouraging new hires to view the position as more than an entrylevel job, thereby creating more stability for clients. “There should be awareness when you work in community mental health [that] you don’t do this

to get rich,� Nguyen-Wishneski says. “But we can at least share the wealth a little more equitably.�

Alex Sakariassen

Jumping train

Bodnar’s nick of time Seth Bodnar wasn’t looking to leave General Electric the first time he applied to work at the University of Montana. “There are almost no opportunities for which I would consider leaving my current position,� Bodnar wrote in his Feb. 2016 cover letter to consultants conducting the search for the School of Business Administration dean.

He turned down that deanship, but an offer this fall to become UM’s next president, extended formally Nov. 16 by the Board of Regents, was enough to woo the young executive away from one of the country’s most storied companies.

A lot has changed in 18 months. And news that broke days before the regents approved his contract suggests that Bodnar is jumping off GE’s train division just before it goes off the rails.

On Nov. 13, new GE CEO John Flannery announced that the company plans to sell or spin off the transportation division where Bodnar spent most of his six-year business career.

The move is part of the new leader’s effort to appease antsy investors who have punished the underperforming corporate giant with a 40 percent drop in stock price so far this year, even as the rest of the Dow has soared to record heights. The announcement came just weeks after a poor thirdquarter earnings report that Flannery told investors was “completely unacceptable,� according to national news reports.

But change has been in the air at GE for some time. Pressured by activist investors, former CEO Jeff Immelt promised in March to cut expenses by $2 billion in two years. When Flannery took the helm in June, he set out to change the company’s culture and performance, first eliminating the

BY THE NUMBERS Wins logged by the Grizzlies under coach Bob Stitt. The team lost 14 games, including two consecutive Brawls of the Wild. Stitt was fired Nov. 20.

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company car and bonus programs for hundreds of executives, the Wall Street Journal reported.

GE’s $5 billion transportation, i.e. locomotive, division—its smallest—has been on the “divestiture bingo card� of “every GE follower,� as Bloomberg columnist Brooke Sutherland put it recently. GE’s decision to part ways with the division is a response to the rail industry’s general outlook and the sprawling conglomerate’s need to narrow its focus, Flannery told investors.

Bodnar has managed parts of GE Transportation since 2013, rising into roles on its 18-member executive leadership team as its chief digital officer and then, just in September, senior executive of strategy and business transformation. His focus has been on adapting the locomotive business for the 21st century through software that improves rail efficiency.

Transportation CEO Jamie Miller described Bodnar as a “transformational leader� at the company upon his October selection as UM president. A few days later, Miller was promoted to GE’s chief financial officer.

Bodnar says he decided to apply for UM’s presidency in early 2017 “really photo courtesy UM irrespective of anything at GE,� and that the uncertainty around his division’s future didn’t arise until later. “There really wasn’t any indication that they were thinking about selling the transportation business or spinning it off,� he says.

Bodnar is slated to assume the presidency Jan. 1. One of his first tasks will be to decide what to do with a forthcoming “implementation outline� for contentious cuts to academic programs and services across campus.

Derek Brouwer

ETC. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re much more active on Facebook than Twitter.

That’s because more people use Facebook. Facebook is for real people and Twitter is for Russian bots, famous people and the media, who were all over it during the special session, along with #mtpol buffs posting about the #mtleg.

If there’s one thing Missoula politics learned from the national stage last year, it’s that Facebook is where you take your arguments to the people. Specifically, the kinds of people who, in 2017, still don’t know what The Onion is and can’t tell the difference between John Engen, mayor of Missoula, and Jon Engen, some Norwegian guy who once lived in Montana.

Meanwhile on Twitter, the Indy staff interacts with some readers, but a whole lot more often with other journalists and various insiders. It is an excellent place to kick around ideas, but not to feel the pulse of the community at large. Twitter users are a smaller group than Facebook users nationally, and Missoula is no exception (you’re definitely missing out if you don’t watch @derekwbrouwer mix it up on Thursdays, though).

On either platform, anyone is able to pay a few bucks to promote posts to a chosen demographic (say, Missoula residents who are eligible to vote). However, according to the Commissioner of Political Practices’ Bennett v. Vent Missoula decision last week, paying to promote posts that support or denigrate a particular candidate unequivocally crosses into “electioneering� territory. The Vent Missoula page administrator was spared any sanctions for its paid posts containing negative content about Mayor John Engen because this was the first social media decision issued by the COPP, but Commissioner Jeff Mangan says that in the future, ignorance of Montana campaign law won’t be a compelling defense.

One lesson: If you’re going to violate campaign finance law, make sure to do it in a novel way that no one has done before, and you can reasonably hope for an “excusable neglect� dismissal.

Although Vent Missoula didn’t get the election result it might have liked, such Facebook activity now serves as a road map for the sorts of social media strategies that will be used by local politicians and campaign managers in the future. Now they know the contours of enforcement. They already knew where their audience was.

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Driving into a hole How license suspensions become poverty traps

by L J Dawson

For Nick Feistner, 28, a mechanic who lives outside Missoula, a forgotten $20 speeding ticket turned into a three-year stint of joblessness and homelessness.

Four years ago, Feistner was stopped in St. Ignatius and ticketed for speeding.

He failed to pay the fine and, three months later, got pulled over again, in Lake County, this time for not displaying a front license plate. That officer told him his license had been suspended, and Feistner was hit with almost $1,000 in tickets, including a $500 fine for driving with a suspended license.

He continued to work in Missoula for four months after that ticket, during which the burden of the fines caused him to fall behind on rent and lose his home. Meanwhile, the suspended license caused issues at work.

“I couldn’t test drive a car after I finished repairing it,” Feistner said.

He moved into a motorhome behind the shop and continued to work for three weeks before he found a Craigslist ad for a piece of land where he could live and work outside of Clinton. His own business, a mobile mechanic service providing roadside assistance, withered because he couldn’t drive to respond to calls.

“I couldn’t do anything,” he said. “I couldn’t work.”

License suspensions can carry huge consequences for people living far from work without access to adequate public transportation, according to Phil Telfeyan, the lead attorney in a civil action lawsuit brought against the state in August by Equal Justice Under Law, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The suit claims the state is “running a wealth-based driver’s license suspension scheme that traps some of the state’s poorest residents in a cycle of poverty.”

Telfeyan says about 39 states have laws that suspend licenses for unpaid court debts.

“The consequences for a minor infraction … are different depending on your wealth status,” he says.

From October 2016 through September 2017, 739 people were cited for

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driving with suspended or revoked licenses in Missoula County, an increase of almost 67 percent over the same period in 2012-2013. Infractions such as failure to provide insurance at an accident, DUI convictions and falsifying information for a driver’s license can result in a license suspension, according to Montana’s Department of Motor Vehicles website. A failure to pay court-imposed fines or child support and failure to appear in court can also result in license suspensions.

“I wasn’t pulling my weight,” he says of those responsibilities, and after several years, he says, he “finally threw up my arms” this fall and started driving again to look for work. He decided he’d suffer the consequences if he was pulled over again with a suspended license.

Last month things changed. Feistner contacted Equal Justice Under Law after a friend sent him an article about the organization’s class action suit. Feistner contacted the attorneys, believing his license was still suspended. After giving them his case num-

photo by LJ Dawson

Nick Feistner stands in front of the Missoula mechanic shop where he now works. Feistner stopped working at the shop in 2014 after his driver’s license was suspended. After finding out his license was reinstated last month, he was rehired.

Legally unable to drive in 2014, Feistner nonetheless drove from Missoula to Polson to appear in Lake County court.

But he began to miss appointments and racked up three charges of failure to appear in court. The punishment for failure to appear is an indefinite driver’s license suspension.

Feistner was trapped in a cycle. He couldn’t legally drive to court appointments more than an hour from his home, which led to resuspension of his license, which forced him to drive illegally to Helena to pay his license reinstatement fees.

So he finally stopped driving.

Feistner said his judges took a “tough luck” attitude toward his situation. Unable to commute to a job and earn money, Feistner fell behind on his child support payments.

bers, they discovered that his license had been reinstated, according to Telfeyan.

Feistner can now legally commute to work at the mechanic shop in Missoula, which re-hired him. He plans to revive his mobile repair business in January and hopes to move back to Missoula in the spring, four years after he first lost his license, his job and his home.

According to Missoula assistant municipal judge Sam Warren, the root of the issue is drivers who can’t afford the expense of owning a car. Warren says he often sees people in court with suspended licenses due to missed court appearances or unheeded traffic tickets.

“It tends to be a hole they get in and just keep digging,” Warren says. editor@missoulanews.com

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Bullock’s folly Who didn’t see that Republicans would bargain in bad faith?

by Dan Brooks

Last week, during a special session of the state Legislature, the Senate passed a bill to block new rules that would make it easier for Montanans to change the genders on their birth certificates. Currently, the Department of Public Health and Human Services requires a court order proving the holder of the certificate has undergone gender confirmation surgery. The proposed change would allow the department to also accept sworn affidavits asserting that a person has undergone gender transition or has an intersex condition, as well as government-issued IDs. The new rule also would also change the word “sex” to “gender” on official forms.

The department held a public hearing on the rule changes in October, and the public was generally in support. Most people do not care about the difference between the words “gender” and “sex.”

Those who do tend to support the people’s right to define their own gender.

One exception to this general rule is the Montana Family Foundation.

You may remember this research and educational organization from last session, when it promoted a bill to require Montanans to use the bathrooms and other public facilities that correspond with the sex on their birth certificates.

This plan would have improved society by making us bring legal documentation to the pool. When it failed to pass the Legislature, the Montana Family Foundation organized a ballot initiative to do the same thing.

The foundation’s president, Jeff Laszloffy, is a normal adult man whose main concern is conclusively determining what everyone’s gender is. He objected to the rule change at DPHHS, arguing that it would cost the state too much money.

Like his worry that letting people choose their bathrooms would let men assault young girls by claiming to be women, this objection is grounded in concern for others’ wellbeing, and not in some pathological desire to persecute 0.3 percent of the population.

Anyway, God commands Laszloffy to supervise our birth certificates, but the

state constitution leaves it to DPHHS. That department must submit to the Legislature, however, and during last week’s meeting to address the budget shortfall, Sen. Albert Olszewski, R-Kalispell, proposed a bill to stop DPHHS from changing its birth certificate rules. The Senate passed it along party lines, 29 votes to 19.

Fortunately, the House declined to take it up before the session expired, and SB 10 died amid the silence it deserved.

“What did Gov. Steve Bullock think would happen when he called back into session a Legislature dominated by Republicans and gave them a $227 million shortfall to bargain with?”

The astute reader may notice that SB 10 did not pertain to the state budget.

The fiscal note attached to the bill found that it would neither cost nor save money, as I’m sure Laszloffy was relieved to learn. Given that this legislative session was convened on an emergency basis to fix the budget, and knowing that SB 10 affected said budget not at all, one must ask why Republicans in the Senate wasted their colleagues’ time by passing it in the first place.

Such questions are either impossible to answer or very simple, depending on whom you ask. A more interesting question, though, is what Gov. Steve Bullock— who supports the rules change at DPHHS—thought would happen when he called back into session a Legislature dominated by Republicans and gave them a $227 million shortfall to bargain with.

This is not a question of whether Republicans should have exploited this situation to persecute transgender Montanans. This is a question of whether a canny politician might have guessed that they would. Gov. Bullock convened his party’s representatives and a substantially larger number of his political opponents to negotiate a budget package that just had to pass.

That’s like going to the used-car lot and telling the salesman that you want a good deal, but in the interest of transparency, he should know that you have no way of getting home.

It’s not a clever way to negotiate, is what I’m saying here. It reflects a larger pattern of failure on the part of Montana’s Democrats to wield what power they have. By summoning the Legislature, Bullock relinquished some of his power as chief executive—over DPHHS specifically, and over the state’s budgeting priorities more generally.

This misstep looks like an instance of bad politicking, but SB 10 shows how bad politicking can have moral ramifications. Trans Montanans are a minority who depend on a minority party to protect them from persecution—persecution that comes from well-funded organizations like the Montana Family Foundation and from bigoted lawmakers like Olszewski. Last week reminded us that such people are doing whatever they can think of to push their agenda.

Bullock and the Democratic Party owe it to trans Montanans to think a little harder, too.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the natural human concern with everyone else’s gender at combatblog.net.

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[opinion]

Bear voices Hunters can—and should—resist the gun lobby

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by Greg Luther

It’s general deer and elk season in Montana, or open rifle, as it’s sometimes called. I spent the weekend miles from cell and internet reception, walking through the mountains in search of deer and elk, a rifle strapped to my shoulder. Part of the appeal of hunting is the idea that you’ve escaped from civilization, but that notion can be dangerous if you forget you’re still part of the world.

I got into town late Sunday night and didn’t learn until morning that a man with a rifle had killed 26 people at a church in Texas. And it’s been just under two months since the slaughter in Las Vegas. There was also a mass shooting at a Walmart in the Denver suburb of Thornton and probably others I didn’t read about.

As a sportsman, I have to say that it’s long past time for us to stand up in support of stricter gun control laws. It’s not just about mass slaughter. Here in the West, we suffer from high rates of death by firearm because we live in a so-called suicide belt, with death by firearm the primary cause. In the United States, more people kill themselves with guns than by all other intentional methods combined. Even when you control for factors like mental illness, higher rates of gun ownership mean higher rates of suicide.

Let’s be frank: Hunters know that high-capacity magazines and semi-automatic rifles are unnecessary for our sport. These guns are weapons of war, designed to kill human beings. You could say the same about handguns.

My dad often talks about carrying a sidearm for protection while hunting in serious grizzly bear country, but I tell him not to bother. Studies have shown that bear spray is more effective anyway, and there’s a good deal less collateral damage likely to be caused.

The National Rifle Association would have gun owners vote in unison, speaking with a single voice and thinking with a hive mind, all ginned up on fears of home invasions and govern-

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ment overreach. Any threat to the right to bear arms incurs the organization’s political wrath, and the career of any weak-kneed legislator who dares support gun control is likely to be brief.

The NRA may be powerful, but it’s not invincible. There’s a growing body of hunters who live by a different ethic, wilderness hunters who want to explore and protect our country’s wildest places and harvest lean, organic meat.

“The NRA may be powerful, but it’s not invincible.

There’s a growing body of hunters who live by a different ethic.”

We’re capable of drawing finer distinctions on the issue of gun control and supporting regulations that produce measurable results.

Let’s not, in our silence, allow ourselves to be painted over with the NRA’s broad, blood-soaked brush. In doing so, we lend our voices to a lobby that is more interested in protecting its bottom line than in saving innocent lives.

The evidence is clear on both of those counts. First, gun control does save lives. In 2016, the Epidemiologic

Review undertook a meta-analysis that looked at data from 130 gun control studies. It didn’t look at single kinds of restriction but at a variety of measures, including licensing and buy-back programs. Its findings were clear: “The simultaneous implementation of laws targeting multiple firearms restrictions is associated with a reduction in firearms deaths.” Fewer people, then, will die if we restrict guns.

Second, the NRA, an organization that used to receive the vast majority of its funding from sportsmen, relies more and more on donations from the firearms industry. The estimates vary, but from 2005 to 2011, the firearms industry donated somewhere between $14.7 and $38.9 million to the NRA. In exchange, the NRA lobbies, markets and handles much of the public relations for the gun industry, peddling the kind of misinformation that stokes fear and drives gun sales.

Gun control faces many obstacles, whether it’s our political paralysis in the face of deep social problems or the influence of the firearms industry and its ability to manipulate us through advertising and misinformation. But we still have our voices, if only we have the courage to find them and speak up. We can’t be cowed by party lines or corporate influence.

We hunters pride ourselves on selfsufficiency, so let’s work from the ground up. That means looking at the facts, talking about it around the campfire, voting for candidates who aren’t in the NRA’s pocket, and donating dollars to organizations that help protect the things that actually are under threat— like our public lands.

Despite what the NRA might have us believe, hunting is not under attack, but our freedom from violence is.

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Greg Luther is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ).

He is a freelance writer in Missoula, Montana.

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WALK OF SHAME – A presumably humiliated opossum “ran off” in late October after three Pennsylvania men posted photos on social media of themselves giving it beer and kissing it. The Pennsylvania State Game Commission was unamused by the antics of Michael Robert Tice, 18, of Newport; David Mason Snook, 19, of Reedsville; and Morgan Scot Ehrenzeller, 20, of McAlisterville, and charged them on Nov. 2 with unlawful possession of wildlife and disturbing wildlife.

According to TribLive, Tice kissed and held the animal while Snook poured beer on its head and into its mouth. The men couldn’t be reached for comment.

BE KIND TO ANIMALS – Donna Byrne, 53, of Polk County, Florida, was charged with driving under the influence on Nov. 2, but it was her mode of transportation that earned her an animal neglect charge. Byrne was riding her horse, Boduke, down a busy road in Lakeland in the middle of the afternoon. When officers reached Byrne, she was staggering and had red, watery eyes—explained by her breath alcohol level, which was more than twice the legal limit, Polk County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Brian Bruchey told the Orlando Sentinel. Boduke got a ride to the sheriff’s Animal Control livestock facility, but Bruchey said he’d most likely be returned to Byrne, whose rap sheet includes cruelty to animals and drug possession.

In Darmstadt, Germany, police detained a 19-year-old man on Nov. 7 after they noticed “a significant bulge in his trousers” and discovered he was carrying a baby python in his pants. The unnamed man was carrying on a loud, drunken argument with another man when police were called, reported The Guardian. Officers took the man and the snake to the police station, where the snake was put in a box, and authorities considered whether the “non-species-appropriate transport” could be a violation of animal protection laws.

NAKEDLY WEIRD – A family of three were taken from their home and forced into a car on Nov. 7 in Leduc County, Alberta, Canada, by five naked people. The man, who was placed in the trunk, quickly escaped, and his wife and baby also managed to get away, according to The Canadian Press. A passing truck driver picked up the three victims, but then the naked kidnappers’ car rammed his truck from behind, sending it into a ditch. Royal Canadian Mounted Police caught up with the criminals; of the five, two were minors and were not charged. The adults faced charges of kidnapping and resisting arrest. The RCMP gave no explanation for why the five kidnappers were naked, but posited that drugs or alcohol may have been involved.

SMOOTH REACTIONS – Tempers flared in Minot, North Dakota, before 33-year-old Cornelius Marcel Young was charged with terrorizing after attacking his fiancee’s brother at a trailer park on Nov. 3. The Minot Daily News reported that Young yelled at the brother, punched him in the face and knocked him into a wall after he had turned up the thermostat in the trailer, according to a Minot Municipal Court affidavit. When the brother threatened to call police, Young brandished a knife, as his fiancee jumped on his back and bit his ear “to distract him.” Two children were in the trailer during the fight but were uninjured.

OW OW OW! – A Chicago wiener stand was the scene of a crime gone south on Oct. 31 when Terrion Pouncy, 19, accidentally discharged his gun, which he was trying to conceal in his pants, and shot himself in a most sensitive location. The Chicago Tribune reported police were called to the Original Maxwell Street Polish at about 6 a.m., after a hooded man threatened employees with a small-caliber pistol. One of the employees gave him money from the cash register, according to the complaint against Pouncy, after which the robber stole the man’s cellphone and wallet, and ran outside, stuffing the gun in his pants, but it went off twice, striking his “groin” and thigh. Pouncy kept running and eventually called 911 to report that he’d been shot. He was charged with two counts of armed robbery with a firearm, but couldn’t appear for his bond hearing, as he was recovering at a local hospital.

COMPELLING EXPLANATION – The Stardust Ranch in Rainbow Valley, Arizona, has a lot to offer potential buyers: Just an hour west of Phoenix, the property boasts a 3,500-square-foot home with a pool, 10 acres, barns, a gated entry ... and two portals to another dimension—one at the back of the property and one in the fireplace. Owner John Edmonds and his wife bought the property, now listed at $5 million, 20 years ago to run a horse rescue, but he says he’s killed more than a dozen extraterrestrials on the property (using a samurai sword) and has suffered many injuries in his encounters with them. Edmonds told KPNX TV in October that aliens tried to abduct his wife: “They actually levitated her out of the bed in the master chamber and carried her into the parking lot and tried to draw her up into the craft.” (She won’t enter the room anymore.) Listing agent Kimberly Gero notes: “This isn’t the type of property that you can just place in the MLS and wait for a buyer to come along.”

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t happens this time every year. You wake up the morning after Thanksgiving with a tryptophan (or worse) hangover and the suddenly oppressive desperation of a now-looming raft of gift-giving obligations (or, if you’re emotionally well adjusted and cradled in the arms of rewardingly reciprocal relationships: opportunities to share joy). You probably know by now whom you’re getting gifts for, but at this point you probably don’t have the slightest idea what to

get them. This year’s Indy decision-tree gift guide aims to get you from whom to what with individualized flow charts for your relatives, friends, significant others, acquaintances and co-workers. Just start at the top and follow the prompts until you arrive at a gift. Problems solved. Now you’ve got a whole month to acquire and wrap. That’s plenty of time. You can start this weekend, if you’re into that sort of masochism, or maybe next week. Sometime, in any case, after you finish this nap.

by the Indy staff

SIGNIFICANT OTHER Is this your first holiday together?

Yes High maintenance relationship?

No Low maintenance relationship?

Live together?

No joke?

Outdoorsy

Don’t live together?

Joke gift?

Is this gift really for you?

Tweeders check all the boxes for those who are outdoorsy and also care about saving the environment, buying local and looking fashionable. The old-timey gaiters are made from upcycled men’s wool suit coats and are part of a collection by ReCreate Designs, based just north of Missoula. Your partner will get so many compliments, and that makes you look good, too. $48 at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins Ave.

The handmade leather rollup tool case can be used for lots of different tools, including paintbrushes and other art implements or makeup and face-painting stuff. It’s made by Missoula visual artist and designer Gretel Stoudt of repurposed leather and thread. $32 at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins Ave.

Deadly diseases are threatening the world and only you and your partner can save everyone. Pandemic, a cooperative 2- to 4-player board game, allows you to spend more time with your special someone and work together toward a common goal—all within the coziness of the great indoors. $39.99 at Retrofix Games, 833 S. Higgins Ave.

Want to spend more time together?

No

Socks are the ultimate in low-maintenance, practical gift-giving, but if you happen to have a significant other who has a twisted sense of humor, Blue Q is the way to go.

The socks include sassy messages like: “Fuck off I’m reading,” “My favorite salad is wine,” and “Bite me.” Or you can use them as tools of mild passive-aggression and chiding when you buy your partner socks with messages like, “Cute but psycho, but cute” and “Adult in training.” $10.99 at Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine St.

Yes No

Trying to spice things up?

Indoor

The We-Vibe collection features sex toys that are submersible in water and can be controlled by you or your partner via an app from anywhere in the world. The toys have been out since 2014, but are newly available at Adam & Eve. A local rep at the store recommends the We-Vibe sync for couples because it can be synced to music or you can create your own personal “vibe” rhythm. And the Big Gay Review gave the collection an 8/10. $200 at Adam & Eve, 3209 Brooks St.

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No Yes

If your significant other needs some healthy alone time, 120 minutes in a sensory deprivation tank is one way to make that happen. The tanks at Missoula’s Enlyten Lab provide a no-light, no-gravity, no-sound experience in which your partner can unplug from the world and perhaps even gain some mental and physical relief. And with your partner submerged in a tank, that gives you two hours of your own to while away any way you please. $90, at Enlyten Lab, 521 S. Higgins Ave.

With the Qalo silicone ring, you can propose to your partner, renew your vows or just offer it up as a promise to spend more time together. The silicone ring is the perfect gift for the active Montana lifestyle. If you already have a nice wedding band, this ring is good for swapping in when you head out into the wilderness together. $19.99$24.95 at Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine St.

RELATIVE Is this relative an adult or child?

Adult

Child

Immediate family?

Child, or tween and older?

Yes

No Detail oriented control freak?

Tween +

Rugrat

Do they need company?

They rearrange the silverware

How do you feel about their parents?

Super chill actually They’re plenty social They’re saints A little uptight, TBH

They send a lot of weird texts Do they love Montana?

No

Yes

Are they your favorite?

Yes eh

For the relative who is leaving the state, or doesn’t live here but loves it anyway. Cloth and Crown carries these Montana silhouette necklaces in several styles and metals, starting at $78. They also have cuff bracelets with the Missoula coordinates available from $88. Cloth and Crown, 329 N. Higgins Ave.

These fine, Missoula-made Goertzen leather bags can tote everything from fishing equipment to sensitive files.

This is a gift to last, and therefore for those family members you hold in the fondest regard. $125-$350, depending on style. Customized brass nameplates available at no additional charge. Available at the Goertzen store at 707 Ronan St. or online at goertzenae.com

OK, you can’t actually give someone a live animal—that’s a terrible idea. But you can make a donation in their name to the Western Montana Humane Society, pay for a spot in the Holiday Crash Course dog training class or make them come with you to volunteer and see if they don’t come out with a new pal. Options available at myhswm.org

DAYSPA says that not only does the anise oil in this Body Basics Hunting & Fishing soap hide human scent from wildlife, it’s also attractive to trout. Plus, the recipient will smell like a delicious and slightly exotic baked good. $7, available at the Green Light and the Good Food Store and at dayspabodybasics.com.

This single-purpose/multifunction Rösle Breakfast Knife will appeal to the most detail-oriented member of your clan.

It’s a knife made just for breakfast!

“The sharp wavy edge cuts salami, cheese, tomatoes neatly and without effort,” says the packaging. $30 at Red Rooster, 333 N. Higgins Ave.

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FRIEND Is this a close friend or a Facebook friend?

Facebook friend

Close friend

Is this your frenemy?

Have they ever saved your life?

Yes

Yes

No

Could you be more than friends?

No

You owe them big, and how better to pay up than a gift the Dram Shop wryly refers to as “the Juggernaut.” This 128-ounce amber-glass growler has plenty of space to store your BFF’s favorite brew. Depending on what beer that happens to be, a fill-up will run between $15 and $30, which isn’t much at all when you consider you’re still drawing breath. $14 for the growler at the Dram Shop, 229 E. Front St.

Face it. You’re not even sure why you tolerate this person, beyond our universal need for an antagonist in our own life stories. But you’re a nice person. Sort of. So get them a gift card to Olive Garden. No matter how much—or how little—you put on it, they still have to drive three hours to Bozeman for their meal.

Damn, maybe you’re the antagonist… Up to $250 (like you’d spend that much) at olivegarden.com Yes So, have you ever saved theirs?

No

Yes

You never know when you might have to. Fortunately, the Trail Head carries a line of first-aid kits from Adventure Medical Kits. They range from basic boo-boo fixers to full-on multiday backcountry supplies for six people. One thing’s for sure: With a bag full of bandages, moleskin and antiseptic wipes, you’ll both be ready no matter who needs saving. $10.49 to $64.99 at the Trail Head, 221 E. Front St.

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No Strictly speaking, you’ve probably already done your duty. But if you want to give them a gentle reminder what life and friendship mean, consider a tiger jaw aloe plant or any of the other succulents carried by downtown floral shop Habitat. Throw in a pot for the little guy for $10.50. $7.50 per succulent at Habitat Floral Studio, 211 N. Higgins Ave.

What are you waiting for, then? Montgomery Distillery and the Roxy Theater have a special date night discount deal: two cocktails and two movie tickets any night of the week. And if things get awkward, just shrug and say you wanted to hang out as chums. $20 at Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., or the Roxy, 718 S. Higgins Ave.

COWORKER Do they make your job…

…Harder?

…Easier?

Are they your boss?

Do you have a crush on them?

Are they a Millennial?

No

Did they get you a present last year?

Yes

No

Good. No harm in getting ’em something nice, then. And since just about everyone at work drinks coffee, or at least tea, you’re unlikely to miss any mark with a mug of distinction. The Red Lodge Clay Center has oodles of them, none exactly like another, by a whole slew of accomplished ceramicists. This one,

by Bitterrooter Eva Champagne, costs $50.

Available at redlodgeclaycenter.com.

It really doesn’t matter if your boss makes your life harder or easier—you’ve got to pony up if you expect to survive to see next year’s Christmas party. Especially if you’re on their Christmas list.

And especially if your boss is a millennial—that kid’s probably already angling to replace you with a roommate. Nobody likes a suckup, so keep it simple. Canada’s Wandering Bison makes hand-poured soy candles in “adventure-inspired” scents that don’t cloy. We like Lookout, a coffee-and-tobacco combo, but there are options for every nose. Available at Rockin Rudy’s ($16.99) and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation ($15.95).

Yes

Yes

Are they retiring this year?

No

No, you don’t. You understand that, right? You do not have a crush, and under no circumstance do you want to communicate that crush (which you definitely don’t have) to the object of your workaday affections, who—trust us— does not want to know. What you want here is aggressive neutrality. Nothing says aggressive neutrality like gift certificates. Interestingly enough, the Indy has iDeals, a rotating selection of 20- to 60-percent discounts available at missoula.kostizi.com. The offers are always changing, but at press time we’d recommend the 40 percent off at Taco Sano for your never-gonna-know paramour. It is empirically impossible to misinterpret a burrito.

Seriously? Nothing at all? Be the bigger wage slave and get ’em a pass to Flying Squirrel, Missoula’s new indoor trampoline park, opening soon. There’s no better way to passive-aggressively communicate your sincere wish that they go take a flying leap. (Also, they might lighten the eff up.) Check @FlyingSquirrelMissoula on Facebook for opening dates and rates.

Is their salary exploitative?

Shame on you, then. Don’t skimp at Christmas when the whole office has been skating on cheap labor all year. Earlywood utensils are crafted in Red Lodge of heirloom-caliber hardwoods, and they’re an inexpensive way to infuse a dose of everyday tactile quality into the poor kid’s particleboard life. Plus, since you don’t pay them enough to eat out, they really ought to cook at home more. The Trifecta will help, and that flat saute stick is killer in an Instant Pot. Millennials use Instant Pots, right? $35 at earlywooddesigns.com

Bonner’s own Ruana Knife Works has been making high-quality functional and collectible knives since 1952. They’re gorgeous, and a helluva gift for an esteemed coworker who won’t be around this time next year. There’s a whole line to choose from, or order custom if you really know your target, but you won’t go wrong with the Steelhead, an antler-handled 3½-inch trout-and-bird blade. $352. Best—obviously—for doctors and lawyers and other moneyed sorts. Available at ruanaknives.com.

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ACQUAINTANCE Do you see them often?

No

Yes Do you live near them?

Why are you getting them a gift?

No

Perceived obligation

Yes. They like plants, right?

Yes. Do they…

Do they provide you a service?

No

…Wear them?

…Drink them?

Yes You’ve got to get them something—to be polite, you know—though you have no idea what they like. Except you do. They like gourmet kettle corn. Because everyone does. Caramel Apple Crisp, Huckleberry, Utopia—you can’t go wrong with any flavor at KornUtopia. It’s basically crack (attorney’s note: it’s not actually crack). KornUtopia, 617 S. Higgins. $6$6.50/5-cup bag.

Living Air Ware earrings are, uhh, earrings made of, uhh, air plant pups. The pups (technical term) are seated in little clay pots. They look, uhh, unique. Almost as unique as your roommate, who is steadily turning your apartment into a terrarium. (It’s a millennial thing.)

Rockin’ Rudy’s, 237 Blaine St. $22.99.

Angling for a favor True, alcohol is the gift that’ll get you what you want. But remember the old saying about giving a man a fish. Don’t just give them that bottle of wine—give them the tool to open it. That analogy didn’t work, but whatever. Give them Corkpops! Press the button, and the cork pops out. One cartridge will open 60 bottles. See what we mean? Liquid Planet, 223 N. Higgins Ave. $22.99.

Is it your mail deliverer?

No

Is it your child’s teacher?

No

Fear what they could do to you We won’t ask why. It doesn’t matter.

Just run over to Montgomery Distillery and pick up a bottle of their proprietary Sunday Morning Bloody Mary mix. Nothing cures bad vibes like a Bloody Mary on a Sunday morning, and by the time they finish this bottle of concentrate, the two of you will be best buds. Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. $16.

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Yes

Yes

A magnetic tea infuser is like a Pikmin (Google it) for your tea (and your blossoming acquaintance). Steep the tea with the very normal-looking infuser, then pluck it from the cup using the very cartoonish magnetic flower. $15 at Lake Missoula Tea Company, 136 E. Broadway St.

Here’s the thing: Federal employees can’t accept bribes, cash or alcohol. Instead of some trinket under the $20 limit, go with a locally made thank-you card from Noteworthy. Write why they’re great at their job, and it could end up in their personnel file, to boot. Don’t forget to apologize for your barking dog. Noteworthy, 219 S 3rd St. W. $5.

PSA: Teachers don’t want actual apples. They want something practical. And you want to give them something cute. The solution: Memo Notes Fruit Slices, a post-it pad shaped like an apple. You’re welcome. Rockin’ Rudy’s, 237 Blaine St. $4.99.

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 GARÇON• Garçon is a 13 year male Jack Russell Terrier. He is not only the shelter's old-timer, but also our longest-term canine resident. He is a very happy and well-trained old chap. He came to us when his previous owner's health issues became too advanced to also care for a senior dog. Garçon does not particularly like other dogs or cats, but he loves people of all ages.

DEMPSEY• Dempsey is a 3 year old male Pit Bull/Lab mix. He loves playing with other dogs and getting human attention. Dempsey enjoys playing with plush toys, has no idea how to fetch, will perform a few basic commands when treats are readily available. However, extended time in the shelter has caused him to forget some of those good habits.

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

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 ANNABELLE• Annabelle needs a very special someone to adopt her. She's snuggly, loving, active, and playful but she can be fearful of certain people and dogs. Like many small dogs, when she is scared she may act tough and bark.

We know there is someone out there with the time and patience for this little girl. Her adoption includes a free private lesson at the shelter to help her start off her new life on the right paw.

CLEVELAND• Cleveland is looking for a cozy purse to be his ride as he accompanies you throughout your day. This sweet tiny nugget will curl up in your lap and rest his head on you to show you just how much he loves you. If you are looking for a little guy to bring with you everywhere you go, come visit Cleveland!

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WILSON• Wilson would love to come along

for car rides, hikes, leash walks, and all sorts of adventures. Wilson will bond quickly to his person and may not want to share them. For this reason, we are looking for a home without a big family that Wilson might worry about! We don't know if he has any experience on a ranch, but we think he might enjoy some extra space!

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The only light Chloe Gendrow on growing up and Glow

by Ednor Therriault

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hat a difference a year makes.

In October 2016, I sat down with Chloe Gendrow (the G is soft) and chatted about Growing Pains, the EP she’d released earlier that year. The 20-year-old University of Montana student picked at a platter of sweet potato fries, her short nails sporting chipped black polish. She recalled struggling in high school to find her musical identity.

“I wanted to be known as the girl with the guitar,” she said, and popped an orange fry into her mouth. “Now is the time to work harder. Anybody can sing.

What’s going to set me apart is the depth of the lyrics.”

By the time the four-song EP was released, she was over it and itching to go it alone on her next project.

On a recent morning, I catch up again with Gendrow, this time inside Electronic Sound & Percussion, where she describes her latest move toward creative independence. “I always had other people make music,” she says. “I would sit down and I would tell them, this is what I want, etc. I don’t want to boss people around anymore. I wanted to be able to do it on my own, so that if there’s anything I don’t like, I don’t want to blame anybody but myself.”

She learned her way around recording software by watching Reid Graham, who created the electronica/techno beats on Growing Pains. Her own loops and beats provide the laid-back tracks for the nine songs on Glow, her full-length debut, which she’s releasing this week.

“I figured out Logic Pro this year. It’s been a revolution.”

“I’m too young to be so cynical,” Gendrow sings on “Young Forever,” Glow’s second track. “But all these twentysomethings are acting so typical.” As synth washes seep in, her breathy voice stays firmly in front of the mix, playing leap-frog with a languid hip-hop beat. She sounds a lot like Lorde, or maybe Lana Del Rey after the codeine wears off. Lots of vocal fries, slurred phrasing, much of it delivered with a certain style of pronunciation popular among the current crop of female alt-pop singers. When asked who she’d compare her sound to, Gendrow gets flustered.

photo by Amy Donovan

Chloe Gendrow’s full-length debut showcases a songwriter on the rise.

“I have a hard time describing it to people.”

It’s easier for her to list her influences: Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and other Gen-X heroes sit alongside the Mamas and the Papas, the Beatles and Jefferson Airplane—the music she heard growing up.

She praises her parents not only for their musical tastes, but for giving her the backbone it takes to survive in a mendacious, male-dominated music industry.

“I have damn good parents,” she says. “They made me stick up for myself.”

She taps a snare a few times with her fingers, which today are tipped with purple nail polish that’s more gone than there, and laughs. “I used to play these,” she says. “I was in eighth grade band. I thought I was going to be the only girl among all the guys. I thought: I don’t have to play the flute, I don’t have to play the clarinet. I can play the drums.

So I did that, and it was so much fun. I felt really cool.”

But it was the guitar that captivated

the Missoula native. When she was 14, her dad offered her his well-used classical guitar, and she’s been playing it ever since. Her eyes drift longingly from one gleaming, steel-string acoustic to another hanging on the racks.

“I’m not the most amazing guitar player, but I manage,” she says.

Her fascination with sound loops supplants her love of the guitar on Glow, however, as only a couple of the songs feature the instrument.

Sitting on an amp, she holds a guitar across her lap and absently strums while touching on the emotional upheaval of the last two years, which provided fodder for the new album.

“It’s been insane,” she admits. “It feels like I had an epiphany this year. I feel like I grew up a lot. I’m not nearly as naive as I used to be, but I find a lot of bliss in being ignorant about certain things. It was one of the most introspective times of my life. I don’t even feel like I’m the same person I was when I talked

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to you a year ago. My style has grown so much. And I’ve changed so much.”

That boost in confidence is apparent in the music, but it’s not rooted in the bravery it takes to bare one’s soul in a pop song. Autobiography is not her thing. For Gendrow, the key to intimacy is not confession, but empathy.

“I feel like I haven’t really had my heart broken, but I’ve become way more observant of things going on around me that are heartbreaking,” she says.

“Like my friends go through so much stuff and they filter that through me. It’s been a lot of listening to their stories and listening to other people’s stories in my life and recreating that through my songs.”

Some of the songs are hypothetical situations, but they’ve caused her friends and acquaintances to wonder, asking her, “Oh my god, are you and your boyfriend still together? Is everything OK?” “Just because I don’t post about it all the time, it doesn’t mean that we’re not

together,” she says. “I like to keep that stuff private. But I feel like I’ve created this imaginary world with this album.

Maybe I haven’t necessarily lived every single story that’s told in it, but I’ve imagined myself living it.”

The world Gendrow would love to live in for real is that of a Nashville songwriter. She’s visited there a couple of times, played a few open mics, and says she could see making a go of it there, hopefully writing for other artists. She recalls how the theme of Glow presented itself to her one muggy summer night. “I was hanging out on the back porch of our Airbnb one night and I saw these lightning bugs,” she says. “In the midst of the dark, they are the only light. I was like, ‘Holy shit, that’s a really good analogy for life.’”

Chloe Gendrow plays the Top Hat for her album release show Thu., Nov. 30, at 10:15 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

[books]

Building character Cromley’s lean stories need better women

by Sarah Aswell

Giano Cromley’s first book of short stories be- straight and narrow or learn from his past mistakes. gins with a quote from Cloud Cult: “When the an- But just as the tale crescendos, a twist ending and gels come, they’ll cut you down the middle, to see an overly symbolic last paragraph knock readers if you’re still there.” It’s an apt quote for the col- out of the world and leave them wishing for a less lection, in which all 11 stories center on men and structured and moralistic ending.

The pieces that are the most successful are the boys who are shown a piece of their true identity because of a crisis in their life—sometimes of their ones where Cromley lets the story, and not the stoown creation. They are painful realizations, but ryteller, do the heavy lifting. “Ling,” about two also epiphanies that come with a tinge of hope: friends who spend the night fishing, accomplishes that knowledge of yourself can help make you bet- just that, while accurately capturing the thoughts ter, no matter how agonizing the way you discover and feelings of a teen on the cusp of starting his own life. “Homefront” is also one of the more sucthe information. cessful stories, in which a man Cromley grew up in Billings returns to his hometown after and after attending Dartmouth the death of his mother and has College and working as a to confront his estranged speechwriter for Senator Max brother as well as his own past Baucus in Washington, D.C., got actions. These are tales where an MFA at the University of MonCromley lets his characters learn tana’s creative writing program. and explore on their own withCurrently, he lives in Chicago, out relying on heavy-handed where he teaches GED and ESL symbols, surprises or sentimenclasses. Many of his stories seem tality to induce emotions in the inspired by his life—one about reader. a boy fishing in the Yellowstone, Another issue: The book another about an inner-city literlacks strong female characters. ature teacher who is searching While the men in each story seem for a missing student. to live in complex emotional All of the stories are deftly worlds, the women often only appaced and run as if on rails: The book is supremely readable and What We Build Upon the Ruins pear as naggers: people who are Giano Cromley pressuring the men to be normal, not a line goes wasted. CromPaperback, Tortoise Books to be responsible, to feel the right ley’s strength is in creating 162 pages, $12.99 things. Literally, many women in worlds in just a few pages, efficiently setting up characters, plots and conflicts the book spend their time repeatedly calling the men with no fat for trimming. Even though the book is in the book, nothing more than voices, reminding a collection of disconnected short stories—save for them that their child is sick, or reminding them to three that appear at the beginning, middle and buy a bottle of wine for dinner with friends. These end—the stories nest well together, and the book women all seem cut from the same cloth: hardened by responsibility, representing social mores and can easily be read in a few sittings.

The weakness of the collection mostly lies in completely unmoved by the men’s inner emotional the stories’ endings. A number of the pieces have struggle. Since we know Cromley is able to create O. Henry-like surprise endings (which I won’t give complex characters, I hope that in his next book, he away), while others have an ongoing gimmick: for can do so with the women as well as the men. Cromexample, one of the shortest stories is an online re- ley’s prose is clean and technically strong, reminisview for a vacuum cleaner that is really the story of cent at times of writers like Denis Johnson, Amy a failed relationship. While there’s a place for these Hempel or Cormac McCarthy. If he focuses on more types of twists and tricks, they don’t feel well exe- subtlety and writes his female characters with more cuted here, and all come off feeling corny or complexity, like Ian McEwan or Kazuo Ishiguro (or almost any female author), his second collection forced.

One of the book’s best stories, “Eureka, Cali- could be truly notable. In fact, treating his female fornia,” follows a man nicknamed Trigger as he is characters with more time and thought could even forced to confront his past six months after help solve his primary problem of overly wrought abruptly leaving town and starting over. The story and forced endings. moves well and Trigger feels very real: He’s a man with good intentions who can’t seem to stay on the arts@missoulanews.com

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[tv]

In discovery Mindhunter is the serial killer show we wanted

by Molly Laich

Holt McCallany, left, and Jonathan Groff star in Netflix’s Mindhunter.

What an imperfect but mesmerizing story we have in the Netflix original series, Mindhunter.

Jonathon Groff and Holt McCallany star as Holden Ford and Bill Tench, based on real life FBI agents who, in the 1970s, pioneered a system for criminal profiling that specializes in the pathology of serial killers. VW bugs, marijuana, prison interviews with maniacs followed by sober conversations in dimly lit diners while violent crime rages outside in every direction—all of our favorite things!

Joe Penhall is the show’s creator, but it’s that unmistakable David Fincher (Gone Girl, Fight Club, Se7en) finish that keeps us hooked. He directs the first and last episodes and has an executive producer credit. Even the dialogue feels like Fincher somehow, which further testifies to his distinct style, considering he never writes his own stuff. The characters in Mindhunter rarely answer each other.

Rather, they take turns building a monologue, which is itself a working discovery.

Mindhunter has the scaffolding of your standard buddy-cop procedural, with an added layer that these men are forging their own path through change-resistant waters. We take for granted expressions like “serial killer” and “deviant behavior,” but these concepts haven’t been sitting around since the dawn of time; somebody had to invent them, in a basement at Quantico, apparently. Holden and Bill begin their work on the road, educating local law enforcement about their burgeoning discoveries in forensic psychology. From there, the two begin their interviews with America’s most accomplished killers. Chief among these encounters are the agents’ talks with Edmund Kemper (Cameron Britton), who murdered his grandparents, several college students and his mother—but more than that, he cut off his victims’ heads and had sex with their neck. The show invites us to reconcile these horri-

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ble facts with Kemper’s gentle, polite demeanor, contrasted further with his giant countenance, and boy oh boy: This is where Mindhunter really shines.

Besides all that, we have the domestic dramas of the detectives’ personal lives to contend with.

Holden’s a plucky, sincere, straight-laced agent with a hippy girlfriend named Debbie (Hannah Gross) doing post-graduate work in sociology. Is Debbie’s subtle undermining of everything Holden says and does meant to come off as challenging or just mean? (It’s unclear to me whether we’re supposed to like her, but I know I don’t.) Bill’s been at the job a little longer; he has a loving wife at home (Stacey Roca), with whom he could stand to communicate better, and an adopted son. (Bill says: “It’s not going well.”) Rounding out the team we have the academic Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), whose personal life I will leave to you to discover somewhere around the show’s midway point.

Bill and Holden do their work in spite of upper level suits at the bureau who hate change and don’t get the point of talking to killers like they’re humans. Always when it comes to how we regard criminals, we must contend with people who see the issue in black and white. “Charles Manson is a massmurdering nutbar,” the old school police officers seem to say. He must have been born this way, and killers like him deserve to rot in prison, or worse.

From this vantage point, any attempt to understand the killers gets confused with sympathy. But why can’t it be both? This resistance to change sits at the heart of Mindhunter, and maybe it really did go down that way, but all of that pales in comparison to the revolting yet charismatic killers we came here to see. You’ve really done it this time, Netflix. Season 2 can’t come fast enough. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Sweet spot Lady Bird shines with awkward truth

by Molly Laich

Saoirse Ronan, left, and Laurie Metcalf star in Lady Bird.

The quirky, voluminous actress and screenwriter Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha, Mistress America) has really hit a slam dunk out of the football field this time in her directorial debut, Lady Bird. Everyone agrees. The film’s currently at 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, probably because the actors bring such heart and sincerity to their roles, which are sensitively written and dripping with awkward truth.

The man I saw Lady Bird with last night couldn’t understand why I left the theater so despondent. “I really liked it,” he said. “Didn’t you?” Of course I “liked” it, but I am a film critic, tasked with a mightier purpose. I need better adjectives than “like!” I weep, for what more is there to say? Do I make a big deal about the lady director, or should I just overuse the expression “coming-of-age?” Let’s shoot for neither and see what happens.

The movie stars Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) as a high school senior named Christine who makes everybody call her “Lady Bird,” since the names we’re given at birth are arbitrary and have little to do with who we think we really are, amIright? She loves her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf ) and at times, they really seem to get along, but it’s complicated. Marion’s an overworked nurse on a psychiatric ward who frets often about money and their lowly economic status in general. That Lady Bird pines to leave Sacramento, California, to pursue college at an expensive liberal arts school in New York City really sticks in Mom’s craw. They can barely afford in-state tuition, Marion laments, and her grades aren’t good enough, and just who does “Lady Bird” think she is, anyway? It’s an awful dynamic to witness, honestly. How can a mother be so obtuse? But I guess Lady Bird’s no picnic herself, plus change is hard, and as the story unfolds, we remember the lesson that when it comes to bratty behavior, everybody has their reasons.

Rounding out the family unit we have Lady Bird’s soft-spoken, Santa Claus-like father, played by the brilliant playwright/screenwriter and apparent actor Tracy Letts (rent Killer Joe today!). Also sharing one bathroom in their crowded home is an older brother named Miguel ( Jordan Rodrigues) and his live-in girlfriend Shelly (Marielle Scott), both of them covered in piercings and lamenting a world that only lets them bag groceries, despite their college degrees.

Lady Bird has a super nice, chubby best friend named Julie (Beanie Feldstein). The girls try out for the school play at their all-girl Catholic school as a way of exorcising their dramatic wiles, plus the play joins forces with the nearby boys’ academy. How else are they gonna meet fellas? The plot thickens just a little when Lady Bird locks eyes with fellow thespian, Danny, and look who’s playing him: It’s Lucas Hedges, fresh off his Oscar-nominated performance in last year’s Manchester by the Sea. (Look out for him as well in the upcoming feature, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Far be it from me to give away the richness of Danny’s emotional arc here; just get ready for some feelings.

Besides the mother-daughter conflict, the movie expresses a love-hate relationship with Sacramento, which Lady Bird describes as “the Midwest of California.” ( Yes, I grew up in the Midwest.

And no, my feelings are not hurt in the slightest.)

More than anything, Lady Bird is deft at juggling a lot of characters through a well-paced story, each with their own lesson to impart. It’s funny and poignant, with storylines for everyone to relate to.

There’s just no getting around it: We are doomed to like this movie.

Lady Bird opens at the Roxy Fri., Nov. 24. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES (1987) A frustrated businessman and an affable earring salesman have to overcome the insanity of holiday travel to make it home in time for Thanksgiving. Rated R. Stars Steve Martin, John Candy and two pillows. Wait, those aren’t pillows! Playing Sun., Nov. 26 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

OPENING THIS WEEK LADY BIRD Applying to college, auditioning for the school play and throwing yourself out of a moving vehicle to avoid a conversation with your mother.

High school never changes, does it? Rated R. Stars Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Odeya Rush. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film.)

SLAP SHOT (1977) After learning that both his small town’s mill and minor league hockey team will be shuttering their doors, an aging coach recruits a trio of goony players to turn things around. Rated R. Paul Newman and the Carlson Brothers star in the greatest hockey movie ever made.

That’s right, even better than MVP: Most Valuable Primate. Playing Wed., Nov. 29 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

NOW PLAYING ALMOST SUNRISE In this documentary, two Iraq War veterans, fearful of succumbing to the epidemic of veteran suicide, embark on a 2,700-mile walk across America as a way to confront their inner pain. Not Rated. Directed by Michael Collins.

Playing Mon., Nov. 27 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

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.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) A chance encounter with a UFO causes a man to lose his family and ruin his mashed potatoes. Rated PG, but seven years before we started using the PG-13 rating. Featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon and a tune that will be stuck in your head forever. Playing at the Roxy Sat., Nov. 25 at 8 PM. 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. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharohplex.

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.

“Well, you successfully beat the crap out of the Mighty Ducks. Emilio Estevez is not happy about all the concussions you gave those kids.” Slap Shot celebrates its 40th anniversary at the Roxy Wed., Nov. 29 at 7 PM.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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 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.

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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.

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.

PATHER PANCHALI (1955) The story of an Indian family shows the joys and sorrows that come with day-to-day life.

Not Rated. Directed by neorealism legend Satyajit Ray, and featuring a 4K restoration that was painstakingly reassembled from the scraps of the original negatives thought unusable after a tragic fire.

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.

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.

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.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

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Return to ramen

by Clare Menahan

WHAT’S GOOD HERE

Mondays at Sushi Hana are “$1 Not Just Sushi Night,” ideal for sushi lovers like myself, but also for sushi skeptics who can try tempura sweet potatoes, shiitake mushrooms and broccoli before working their way up to chicken egg rolls, unagi (barbecued eel) or spicy yellowtail maki (three pieces for a dollar!) without breaking the bank.

Which could explain why the place is so packed.

Sushi Hana originally opened off Reserve Street in 1998, but has since changed locations and owners. Now it’s run by Japanese native Yuriko Hagen, a Sushi Hana dishwasher-turnedchef. And she’s dishing out something new since taking over the place two years ago: housemade ramen. If you’re like most people, the last time you had ramen was in college when you were also shooting tequila, eating mangos off makeshift Frisbee plates and possibly making other poor

choices. That ramen is not this ramen. Order Sushi Hana’s handmade, meatier, nuttier, flavorful ramen dishes, like Miso Butter (which comes in regular or spicy), Tonkotsu or Ginger Soy. It’ll set you back $11 or $12, depending on which option you choose, but trust me, those two slices of braised pork belly that come with the dish are worth their weight in gold. Also included: half a soft-boiled egg, snow peas, onion and a pat of butter added to the broth to enhance all the flavors.

The broth is built around a “legit Japanese 5-spice from Japan,” although there’s also definitely a whisper of Sriracha.

“You can make it vegetarian or vegan, but we’re trying to keep things as authentically Japanese as possible here,” says Matt Maddox, ramen aficionado and the Indy readers’ Best Waiter of 2017. “So, if you don’t like noodles, this is not the dish for you.”

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Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 You work hard enough to prepare your Thanksgiving Day meal. Let Bernice’s take care of dessert. Our scratch-made pies, cheesecakes, rolls, and sugar cookies are the perfect finishing touches to make this year's feast complete! Be sure to grab a bag of our signature coffee too...dark, rich with notes of chocolate. Just what you need for a pajama day this season! Visit our website to view our extensive selection. www.bernicesbakerymt.com. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery.

Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar & Grill is the place to relax and unwind while enjoying our New Feature Menu. Great selection of Montana Brews on tap! Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour every day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials changing daily. Thursday Trivia from 7:30-9:30. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and

botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner.

Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile!

No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$

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[dish] Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune.

Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

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. $-$$

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

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. $

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. $$-$$$

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.

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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! $-$$

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. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 • tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

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

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What you’re drinking: Not a pumpkin spice latte—you can get those anywhere. Try instead the velvety and magical Golden Milk from Black Coffee Roasting Co. According to my barista, it is “all the rage,” and if you follow any insta-famous healthy-living foodies, you’ve seen this popping on your feed.

Why you’re drinking it: You had too much fun the night before and need something to soothe your stomach. You have inflamed joints. Or you’re into spice and curious to taste what BCRC can do with cayenne.

What it is: A mainstreamed version of a traditional Ayurvedic recipe from Asia. It’s a blend of ground turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, black pepper, honey and cayenne, swirled with coconut milk to balance the spice and blended into something delicious.

What it does for you: The turmeric is an anti-inflammatory, the pepper adds heat and helps absorption, and the cardamom supports digestion. It’s a seasonal treat, but to all you PSLers out there, tread carefully— this isn’t a chain coffeeshop drink. You may not be able to handle the mysticism of its curative powers. I’m still waiting for those to manifest, but I’m also still drinking Golden Milk.

The Details: $3.50 for a 12-ounce, $4 for a 16-ounce and $4.50 for a 20-ounce.

At Black Coffee Roasting Co., 525 E. Spruce St. —Callahan Peel Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

2230 McDonald Ave, Missoula, MT 59801 Sunday–Thursday 2–9PM Friday & Saturday 12–9PM

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SAT | 6 PM Luke Dowler plays Imagine Nation Brewing Sat., Nov. 25 at 6 PM. Free.

THU | 11/30 | 10:15 PM Chloe Gendrow celebrates the release of her new album with a performance at the Top Hat Thu., Nov. 30 at 10:15 PM. Free.

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WED | 7 PM Mo Troper and the Assumptions play the ZACC Below Wed., Nov. 29 at 7 PM. $5.

FRI-THU | 7:30 PM Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theater in the PARTV Center Fri., Nov. 24–Thu., Nov. 30. 7:30 PM. $20. photo by Cathrine L. Walters

SUN | 8 PM Clyde Carson plays Monk's Sun., Nov. 26. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15.

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Thursday With Thanksgiving kicking off this week, make sure to check with venues before attending recurring events.

The Turkey Day 8K and 3K make 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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Saturday The Downtown Craft Fair lets you shop for even the most grinchy of relatives. The Public House. 10 AM–4 PM. Want to win free beer for a year? Golden Saturday at the KettleHouse. Visit kettlehouse .com for a full schedule of events at both locations.

Western Cider's Winter Mercantile features art, clothes and cozy glasses of mulled cider.

12 PM–4 PM. Meet Santa and his pack mules at an Old-Fashioned Forest Service Christmas at the National Museum of Forest Service History. 1 PM–4 PM. Keith Graham and Neil Chaput de Saintonge sign copies of their book about the last oneroom schools in Montana at Fact & Fiction. 1 PM–3 PM. Free. (See Spotlight) Singer, producer and podcaster Luke Dowler plays Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

John Floridis provides the postholiday tunes at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 2 PM and 7:30 PM. $20

nightlife Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Band in Motion keeps on moving at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Local rockers Magpies, Mass FM and Wilma Laverne Miner play the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

Tom Catmull's Last Resort plays the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 24 at 10:15 PM. Free.

nightlife 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

at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Danny Savage blends folk and goth music at the Break Espresso. 5 PM–9 PM. Free.

Andrea Harsell hosts a stomptastic dance party at Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat from 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20

Andre Floyd provides the bluesy tunes at Ten Spoon Winery at 6 PM. Free.

Còmo Se Va, Rooster and Rising San help you dance off that Thanksgiving dinner with a show

"It sure is cold up here. Let's go to Tim Hortons." Northern Lines plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk's. 9 PM. Free.

Spotlight Currently the Big Sky State has more than 60 one-room schools, stretching from our northwestern border with Canada to the southeastern border with Wyoming and South Dakota.

Photojournalist WHO: Keith Graham and Neil Chaput de Saintonge Keith Graham and photographer Neil Chaput de WHAT: Signing of Chasing Time: Last of the Active Saintonge travelled across One-Room Schools in Montana the state to the small buildWHERE: Fact and Fiction Books ings where young Montanans continue to be WHEN: Sat., Nov. 25 from 1 PM–3 PM. educated, and photographed the students, teachers and parents as having, per capita, the healthiest pets, the they went through their day. The most bars and the drunkest drivers. But one results of this journey is the book honorific that Montana can call its own, even Chasing Time: Last of the Active One-Room without that per capita caveat, is we still have Schools in Montana.

“I admire everyone who keeps these the most one-room schools in the United schools open, active and engaged,” Graham States.

TGIGF! Gladys Friday plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Tom Catmull's Last Resort plays the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

time bandits

Thanks to the coupling of our state's ginormous size and sparse population, Montana may as well be renamed the Per Capita State.

This is why we can claim such honorifics as

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says in the book’s press release. “My hope is that they don't vanish altogether, but remain a strong, viable presence. I cannot imagine Montana's landscape without them.”

—Charley Macorn

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 2 PM. $20.

Look at all those double consonants! Revelators frontman Russ Nassett plays a solo show at Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM.

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Sunday

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.

nightlife

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk,

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

Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show

Spotlight Why aren't there more Thanksgiving movies? All of the other major American holidays are stuffed to the stockings with dozens of classic films, while Thanksgiving ends up WHAT: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

nightlife

WHERE: The Roxy

Rapper Clyde Carson performs at Monk's. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15. 18plus.

WHEN: Sun., Nov. 26 at 7 PM.

Every Sunday is "Sunday Funday" at the Badlander.

Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday.

9 PM.

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.

HOW MUCH: $8

with the short end of the wishbone. Halloween, as we saw last month, has an increasingly deep filmography full of ghosts and murders. And Christmas may as well be its own genre of film, given the avalanche of sickeningly sweet Hallmark specials and new adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol we get every year. But Thanksgiving historically

soul, reggae and hip-hop at the at 10. Free. 21-plus.

holy daze continues to be the odd turkey out.

I think maybe we don't get a lot of films about this holiday because John Hughes already made the perfect Thanksgiving movie in 1987.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, celebrating its 30th birthday this year, nails the spirit of Thanksgiving better than any Hallmark special or Die Hard movie nails Christmas. The perfectly exasperated Steve Martin and the always-missed John Candy are at the very top of their game as two strangers who are stuck relying on each other to get home in time for the Thanksgiving dinner. Along the way they deal missing rental cars, delayed flights and an antagonistic Kevin Bacon, all the familiar stresses that 48.7 million Americans face on their yearly holiday travels. But at the end of

the day, and probably the main reason this movie cements itself in the pantheon of great holiday films, it's about being grateful for what you have, and giving to those who have less.

—Charley Macorn

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Take an intensive Belly Dance Booty class at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 6:30 PM–8 PM. $60 for three classes. Register at sonajoy.com.

The University of Montana School of Music presents the annual Fall Percussion Concert featuring a variety of percussion works at 7:30 PM. $11.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. What percentage of Americans eat turkey for Thanksgiving each year? Answer in tomorrow's Nightlife.

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Tuesday

Eric Schluessel, director of East Asian Studies at UM, presents Perfecting the Surveillance State: New Developments in Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland. 12 PM. The Mansfield Center.

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 Watson's Children's Shelter. 5 PM– 8 PM.

The Women's Comedy Happy Hour at the Badlander lets you learn the skills behind stand-up in a open and supportive setting. 6 PM. Free.

nightlife Mo Troper and the Assumptions bring their power-pop melancholy to the ZACC Below. 7 PM. $5.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7

PM. Trivia answer: 88 percent.

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20 Revival Stand-up Comedy Open Mic mixes established voices and new talent at the Badlander. This month's headliner is Dan Brooks.

Yes, that Dan Brooks. 7:30 PM. Free.

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

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. 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. Did I spell that right? Is it Thomas Mar Beagher?

8 PM. Free.

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Thursday Renting can be hard, especially if you've never done it before.

Renter-Palooza at the Native American Center helps you know your legal rights when it comes to signing a lease. 10 AM–5 PM. Free.

nightlife Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for your dancing pleasure. 8:30 PM. Free.

The VFW hosts Discobox every Thursday. Dance the night away to the best in house and techno music. 9 PM. Free.

The University Center Gallery opens Transmission Park, a new exhibit by Jesse Blumenthal, with an opening reception from 4 PM–6 PM.

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.

Big Sky Culinary Institute hosts a hands-on cooking class at Missoula Food Banks Learning Kitchen. Register online at missoulaclasses.com.

5 PM–7 PM. Free.

These crayon names are getting out of hand. Red Onion Purple plays Draught Works 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

Red Onion Purple plays Draught Works Thu., Nov. 30, from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar

tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

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.

The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for a night of music. 9:30 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Chloe Gendrow celebrates the release of her new album Glow with a free show at the Top Hat at 10:15 PM.

We want to know about your event!

Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Happy Hold Your Tongue At Dinner Day, everyone!

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Agenda When Daisuke Inoue invented the first karaoke machine back in 1971, the humble son of a pancake vendor had no idea that one day his invention would go on to spawn a multi-billion dollar industry. If he did, he probably would have filed a patent. Last year alone, the global karaoke market generated an estimated $10 billion. That's quite the chunk of change. It makes perfect sense, though.

Karaoke hits two very big demographics; drunk people and folks with egos. With this ability to generate so much cash, karaoke makes a great basis for a fundraiser.

Karaoke for a Cause returns to the Badlander. Entry is free, but a tip jar at the front of the stage raises funds for Planned Parenthood of Montana. Did someone absolutely nail Total Eclipse of the Heart? Throw in a couple of bucks. Is someone butchering your favorite song? Throw in some money anyway to reward them for having good taste, if nothing

MONDAY NOVEMBER 27

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29

Imagine Nation hosts a moderated community conversation on issues related to sexual violence and toxic masculinity in our community. 6:30 PM–8 PM.

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 Watson's Children's Shelter. 5 PM–8 PM.

Join the Poverello Center's Medical Respite Coordinator for a Medical Respite Lunch and Learn.

Learn about the program and the people it serves. A tour follows. 12 PM. RSVP at volunteerpov@montana.com.

Fifty cents from every pint sold at Missoula Brewing Company goes to support a local charity at Giving Bock Night. This week hoist a glass for the Mule Deer Foundation. 5 PM–8 PM.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28 The weekly meeting of the Local Indigenous Network Collective meets at the Payne Center Native American Center at 6 PM. Free and open to the public.

else. On top of that, the Badlander will likewise be donating one dollar from every pitcher of PBR sold. The money basically raises itself, all it needs is you there to live out your jukebox hero fantasies.

—Charley Macorn Karaoke for a Cause: Planned Parenthood starts at 10 PM on Wed., Nov 29 at the Badlander.

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is Giving Tuesday, where non-profits across the country raise funds. Visit givingtuesday.org for a full list of local, regional and statewide causes that need your help.

Missoula Moves to Amend hosts a free screening of the documentary Legalize Democracy at Missoula Public Library. 7 PM. Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train to Karaoke for a Cause at the Badlander. One dollar from every pitcher of PBR sold goes to Planned Parenthood of Montana. 10 PM. Free.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 Share a cup of coffee with one of Missoula's finest at Coffee With A Cop at The Dog and Bicycle Bakery Cafe. 8:30 AM. Renting can be hard, especially if you've never done it before. Renter-Palooza at the Native American Center helps you know your legal rights when it's vitally important. 10 AM–5 PM. Free.

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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F

ly fishing may seem like a sport best suited for summer months—it often involves standing waist-deep in a river, for one thing— but the most dedicated fishermen and women will be out there casting even as snow begins to fall. But, like any good outdoor pastime, fly fishing comes with an indoor component for the days you just can’t brave leaving your house: fly tying. Sure, today you can buy flies to suit nearly any type of fish, but tying them yourself is a way to get into the nitty-gritty of fishing, and feel like you really earned that catch.

Does all that painstaking detail work seem a little daunting? IFlyFishMontana has you covered. The Missoula-based fly-fishing website and the Missoulian Angler Fly Shop are hosting another Bugs and Beers Fly Tying Workshop on Monday. There’ll be pizza, beer, guidance from

experts and even tying materials for the first 16 people who show up.

IFlyFishMontana also lists conservation as one of its missions, and each fly tying event has featured a local conservation group and a raffle to benefit that group. Plus, who could pass up an opportunity to monologue about that monster trout that just barely got away last season? It’s still out there somewhere. With the right fly, this just might be the year.

—Margaret Grayson Bugs and Beers Fly Tying Workshop starts at Great Burn Brewing on Monday, Nov. 27 at 6 P.M. Free admission, with fly tying supplies provided to the first 16 participants.

TRAP-RELEASE WORKSHOPS are FREE and OPEN to the Public

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Nov. 26 SUN 1–3PM St. Anthony’s Parish Center 217 Tremont St.

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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.

Bugs and Beers Night at Great Burn Brewing lets you tie flies for fishing while learning from local conservationists. 6 PM. Free.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28 The University of Montana ice fishing club, the Ice Holes, host a preview of ice fishing gear on the UM Oval. 8 AM–2 PM.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 27

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29

The Mule Deer Foundation hosts a membership drive and silent auction at Beer For Deer at Missoula Brewing Co. 5 PM–8 PM.

Need a new way to get around? The City of Missoula bike auction starts at 4:30 PM at Gardner's Auction.

BULLETIN BOARD First Friday Kids Night! Is December 1st. Join us from 5-7pm for a fair trade shopping night for children of all ages.

Parents drop their children off at the store to do their family’s holiday gift shopping. It is a fun night for the kids, who learn about fair trade items, and the

excitement around choosing that special something for their loved ones.We hope to see you and your family there!

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EMPLOYMENT

ROMANCING THE GRINDSTONE I’m a 32-year-old woman with a really intense job that I love. I work long hours every week, and I often work weekends, too—by choice. I don’t want kids, but I’d love to have a relationship. I just worry that guys will want more of me time-wise and energy-wise than I can give— which is basically some nights (into mornings) during the week and on weekends—and will feel neglected and resentful.

—Work First Understandably, not everyone is into the sort of relationship where a sleepover entails setting up a yurt inside their partner’s office.

Like you, I’m pretty fiercely “work first.” Because of that, I don’t cook; I heat. I’m annoyed by my body’s demands for sleep. Every night!

And my home seems less like a home than ... well, as my boyfriend said—stepping over the endocrinology research papers and corresponding Post-its laid out all over my bathroom floor: “It looks like an academic crime scene.”

You and I are actually somewhat unusual as women who see a “healthy career-life balance” as a threatening crimp in the work that means so much to us. In fact, it turns out that there are some pretty strong sex differences in ambition.

(Ladies, please put down the pitchforks!) This isn’t to say women aren’t ambitious. Plenty of women are; it’s just that women, in general, more often want “normal” lives—with, say, a job they enjoy but go home from before the owls start pouring each other nightcaps.

There’s a great deal of research that reflects this. In a 2015 study, economists Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer surveyed young lawyers on their level of ambition: “When asked to rate, on a scale from 1 to 10, their aspirations to become an equity partner in their firm, 60 percent of male lawyers answered with 8 or more, compared to only 32 percent of female lawyers.”

However, there’s an assumption that women should want to join the cutthroat race to the corner office. Psychologist Susan Pinker criticizes this as the “male standard” being forced on women. In her 2008 book The Sexual Paradox, Pinker points to countless studies that find that women tend to be more motivated by “intrinsic rewards”—wanting to be happy more than they want to be on top. As an example, she profiles “Donna,” who quit her prestigious job as a tenured professor in a computer science department for a lower-status job (tutoring faculty

at another university) that allowed her more one-on-one engagement with people. Pinker explains, “Donna decided to opt for what was meaningful for her over status and money.”

Like you, I don’t want kids. (I describe them as “loud, sticky and expensive.”) However, Pinker notes that there’s “plenty of evidence that many more women than men”—including women at the top of their game—put family before career advancement. She tracked down “Elaine,” the author of an op-ed titled “My glass ceiling is selfimposed,” about why she’d declined a promotion that would have put her third from the top in a company with 12,000-plus employees in more than 60 countries.

The president of the company was dumbfounded. But Elaine wrote that she was happily married, with children (and grandparents nearby).The promotion would have required relocating, and that would have destabilized her family. She concluded her piece with the observation that “many companies ... would like nothing more than to have more senior female executives, but not all females are willing to give up what it might take to get there.”

These sex differences in ambition make evolutionary sense. Because women evolved to prioritize finding high-status “providers,” mateseeking men evolved to duke it out to occupy the spot of Ye Olde Big Man On Campus. Sure, these days, mover-and-shaker men typically seek women on a par with them in intellect and education. However, men are still vastly more likely than women to date the hot barista—probably because, over evolutionary history, men evolved to prioritize signs of health and fertility in women (aka“Ye Olde Big Perky Breastesses”).

Getting back to you, though guys are likely to be surprised that a woman would be so jobobsessed, there are those who’ll be good with the limited amount of girlfriendhood you have to provide. Zeroing in on them just takes disclosure—on your online dating profile and when you go on dates. Giving clear forewarning is the right thing to do for anyone with any unusual or obsessive pursuit—whether it’s a sex fetish, spending all one’s time and disposable income tracking Sasquatch, or building a nuclear reactor in the basement. As for you, sure, you do eventually see yourself leaving the office—but probably in a vintage Japanese cloisonné urn.

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Strict adherence to the safety rules are a must. Previous experience with logging machinery is preferred. Monday through Friday day shift starting at $12.00 per hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #40682

PROFESSIONAL National conservation organizationseeks a full-time Tree Planting Coordinator to support the executionof a campaign to plant 50 million trees on National Forests.Duties include: developing and stewarding mid-range fundingpartnerships; tracking the financialstatus of reforestation projects; maintain project data and records, report financial and programmatic results, and field inquiries from funding partners and the public. Candidate should beable to perform basic financialcalculations, have excellent written and oral communication skills,interpersonal skills, and prioritization skills. Candidate musthave a Bachelor’s degree and three-years’ experience in program management.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-598 Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Salinsiri Phunghan, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Salinsiri Phunghan to Salinsiri Cole. The hearing will be on 12/20/2017 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: November 14,2017, /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk of Court 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.

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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 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 re-

ceipt 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, 2017. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-17-286 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JACK TURNER MEENACH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Raymond P. Twite has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 14 day of November, 2017. /s/ Raymond P. Twite, Personal Representative for the Estate of Jack Turner Meenach /s/ Kevin S. Jones,Attorney for Personal Representative 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

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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-17-275 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE 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 PUBLIC HEARING PETITION TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP OF IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held on the 30th day of November, 2017 beginning at 2:00 p.m. in Room Annex 151, Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, on a petition to transfer ownership of a bridge over the Swan River at the outlet of Lindbergh Lake to the Lindbergh Lake Homeowners Association. (To view the petition recorded in Book 987 Page 1194, visit www.missoulaproperty.us or contact the Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, 1st floor) AND THAT all interested persons should appear at the above mentioned time and place to be heard for or against said petition. Written comments will be accepted by the Commissioner’s Office, located at Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, prior to the hearing day. BY ORDER of the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana. /s/ Tyler Gernant Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-4752 Date: November 17, 2017 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 PRES-

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In alignment with the current astrological omens, I have prepared your horo-

scope using five hand-plucked aphorisms by Aries poet Charles Bernstein. 1. “You never know what invention will look like or else it wouldn’t be invention.” 2. “So much depends on what you are expecting.” 3. “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.” 4. “The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful.” 5. “Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It may seem absurd for a dreamy oracle like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac’s top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don’t already know? Well, maybe you’re not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your long-term financial plans. It’s possible you haven’t guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019. And maybe you don’t realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth into your life by raising your generosity levels.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I used to have a girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas. The poor woman had been raised in a fanatical fundamentalist Christian sect, and she drew profound solace and pleasure from rebelling against that religion’s main holiday. One of her annual traditions was to buy a small Christmas tree and hang it upside-down from the ceiling. She decorated it with ornamental dildos she had made out of clay. While I understood her drive for revenge and appreciated the entertaining way she did it, I felt pity for the enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than mocking the old ways, wouldn’t her energy have been much better spent inventing new ways? If there is any comparable situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment to the negative emotions that arose in response to past frustrations and failures. Focus on the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): So begins the “I Love To Worry” season for you Cancerians. Even now, bewildering self-doubts are working their way up toward your conscious awareness from your unconscious depths.You may already be overreacting in anticipation of the anxiety-provoking fantasies that are coalescing. But wait! It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m here to tell you that the bewildering self-doubts and anxiety-provoking fantasies are at most 10 percent accurate.They’re not even close to being half-true! Here’s my advice: Do NOT go with the flow, because the flow will drag you down into ignominious habit. Resist all tendencies towards superstition, moodiness and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing beloved songs with maximum feeling.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your lucky numbers are 55 and 88. By tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction. These catalytic codes could wake you up to a useful secret you’ve been blind to.They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success.You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What exactly is the epic, overarching goal that you live for? What is the higher purpose that lies beneath every one of your daily activities? What is the heroic identity you were born to create but have not yet fully embodied? You may not be close to knowing the answers to those questions right now, Virgo. In fact, I’m guessing your fear of meaninglessness might be at a peak. Luckily, a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around the corner. Be alert for it. In a metaphorical sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will strengthen your center of gravity as it reveals lucid answers to the questions I posed in the beginning of this horoscope.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We all need teachers. We all need guides and instructors and sources of inspiration from the day we’re born until the day we die. In a perfect world, each of us would always have a personal mentor who’d help us fill the gaps in our learning and keep us focused on the potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don’t have that personal mentor, we have to fend for ourselves.We’ve got to be proactive as we push on to the next educational frontier.The next four weeks will be an excellent time for you to do just that, Libra.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is your last warning! If you don’t stop fending off the happiness and freedom that are trying to worm their way into your life, I’m going to lose my cool. Damn it! Why can’t you just accept good luck and sweet strokes of fate at face value?! Why do you have to be so suspicious and mistrustful?!

Listen to me:The abundance that’s lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke. It’s not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Journalist James A. Fussell defined “thrashing” as “the act of tapping helter-

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s observe a moment of silence for the illusion that is in the process of disin-

skelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find ‘hidden’ keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program.” I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks.Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.

PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP ENT 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

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.

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

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 28, 83, 141, 142, 179. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 12/4/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 12/7/2017 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment.

Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.

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.

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tegrating. It has been a pretty illusion, hasn’t it? Filled with hope and gusto, it has fueled you with motivation. But then again—on second thought—its prettiness was more the result of clever packaging than inner beauty.The hope was somewhat misleading, the gusto contained more than a little bluster, and the fuel was an inefficient source of motivation. Still, let’s observe a moment of silence anyway. Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the upcoming weeks will be a favorable time for you to engage in experiments befitting a mad scientist.You can achieve interesting results as you commune with powerful forces that are usually beyond your ability to command.You could have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules.What pleasures have you considered to be beyond your capacity to enjoy? It wouldn’t be crazy for you to flirt with them.You have license to be saucy, sassy and extra sly.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A snail can slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained experts, specialists in the art of mind over matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of hot coals without getting burned. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, you now have the metaphorical equivalent of powers like these. To ensure they’ll operate at peak efficiency, you must believe in yourself more than you ever have before. Luckily, life is now conspiring to help you do just that.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP 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 598077099 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.: 034156-000081 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on March 13, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Sara Lerback, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and Anthony Lerback, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mountain West Bank, N.A., beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated July 7, 2008 and was recorded on July 7, 2008 as Instrument No. Book 822 of Micro Records at Page 658, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.The Deed of Trust

encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 2045 CHICKADEE DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59808 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 9, BLOCK 4, EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC.The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments totaling $88,959.62 beginning March 1, 2012 through October 5, 2017; plus late charges of $3,402.46; fees of $1,365.00; plus paid recoverable balance of $7,556.29; less unapplied funds credit of $847.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $163,792.95 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.37500 percent per annum beginning February 1, 2012; plus escrow balance of $12,037.40; plus late charges of $3,402.46; plus corporate advance of $1,365.00; plus expense advance of $7,556.29; plus additional escrow of $954.29; less unapplied balance of $847.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable.

Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the

Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: October 25, 2017 /s/ John A.“Joe” Solseng John A.“Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on January 19, 2018, 09:00 AM 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 117 of MANSION HEIGHTS, Phase III, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as 245 Mansion Heights Drive, Missoula, MT 59803. Andrea L. Moore, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on September 16, 2008, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on September 22, 2008 as Instrument No. 200821789, in Book 826, at Page 973, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: New Penn Financial LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Assignment Dated: June 29, 2017 Assignment Recorded: June 29, 2017 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201712792, in Book 982, at Page 50, 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 May 11, 2017 as Instrument No. 201707944, in Book 978, at Page 802, 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 December 1, 2015, 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 obli-

gation is the principal sum of $313,552.31, interest in the sum of $33,751.17, escrow advances of $0.00, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $19,993.23 for a total amount owing of $367,296.71, 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 asis, 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 proclamation 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 1st day of September, 2017. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 49518 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

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP 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 proclamation 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

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Units reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. ALL SALES FINAL.

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