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w w w. p o r t i c o r e a l e s t a t e . c o m [2] Missoula Independent • November 27–December 4, 2014
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News
Voices/Letters Redistricting and safe passage for bicyclists............................................4 The Week in Review Brawl of the Wild, same-sex marriage and turkeys ......................6 Briefs Glamping, abuse settlement and a golden parachute..........................................6 Etc. Remembering Bill Ohrmann ....................................................................................7 News Adventure racer Elizabeth Moore considers a comeback......................................8 News VA woes continue to plague mental health services..............................................9 Opinion Same-sex marriage will forever change heterosexual couples.......................10 Opinion Tester betrayed Indian Country with his Keystone vote ................................11 Feature The Indy’s annual holiday gift guide ...............................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts How to outfit the musician on your gift list...........................................................20 Music Johnny Marr, Familiar Friends and CoupR’s .......................................................21 Books Emlen’s Animal Weapons explores natural arms races .....................................22 Film Funny people make dumb jokes in Horrible Bosses 2 .........................................23 Film Who wins in 2001 vs. Interstellar?........................................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ......................................................25 Flash in the Pan How to eat mussels ...........................................................................26 Hangriest Hour Kettlehouse’s Golden Growler ..........................................................28 8 Days a Week We’re asking Santa for a puppy............................................................29 Mountain High Turkey Day 8K.....................................................................................37 Agenda World AIDS Day ................................................................................................38
Exclusives
Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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missoulanews.com • November 27–December 4, 2014 [3]
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STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Monday, Nov. 24, near the corner of Higgins and Broadway. What are you asking for from Santa this year? Follow-up: What’s the best holiday gift you’ve ever received?
Chaz Rourke: Probably a Costco gift card. I’ll probably put it toward a new flatscreen TV. A big dill: I was in Iraq and my mom sent me a whole box of Tim’s Cascade Style Dill Potato Chips, my favorite chips in the world.
Tahj Kjelland: I’m asking for pictures of my son from over the years. I want photos of him from when he was young that I can frame because he’s growing up so fast. Throwback: A Commodore 64 back in, like, 1987. I played video games on it. My favorite was “Dig Dug.”
Emily Bentley: My husband and I are not giving each other presents this year, we’re giving money to the Missoula Food Bank instead. Precious moments: It was watching my son open Christmas presents for the first time and playing with the wrapping paper.
Ben Simon: Big lumps of coal for the Republican Party. Quality time: One year my brother gave me airfare to visit him in California.
Megan McNamer: Something frivolous and foolish. I don’t know what it’s going to be, but I usually get it. My sons are very good shoppers. It’s in the driveway: A pink scooter from my husband. It was 100 percent a surprise.
[4] Missoula Independent • November 27–December 4, 2014
By the numbers
Just passing by
Dan Brooks’ recent column on the effect of legislative redistricting on the House race between Rep. Kimberly Dudik and Gary Marbut misses two critical factors (see “Battle lines,” Nov. 13). Most importantly was Missoula’s County’s low 49 percent voter turnout and Mr. Marbut’s decision to change his “political spots” and run as an Independent. There’s no argument redistricting did change the Missoula County legislative districts, just as every legislative district in the state changed. The most significant change to Missoula was the county gained an additional House seat, increasing its delegation from 10 to 11 representatives. In 2012, eight Democrats and two Republicans were elected. In 2014, after redistricting, nine Democrats and two Republicans were elected from Missoula County. In 2014, 42,607 Missoula County voters cast a ballot. This compares to 2012 when 58,313 votes were cast, a decrease of 15,706 votes. The county 2014 vote total was down 27 percent, despite the fact the county grew in population. In the Dudik/Marbut race the district vote total was down 39 percent. While Rep. Dudik’s district did change in redistricting, it still retained core areas of the previous district. It was not so much the voters in Rep. Dudik’s district changed as that voter turnout for the district decreased by more than 2,000 votes between 2012 and 2014. In 2012, 5,691 people voted in the Dudik/Marbut House race. In 2014, the total vote was 3,448, a decrease of 2,243 voters. In 2012, Rep. Dudik had 3,792 votes to Marbut’s 1,899. In 2014, she had 1,748 votes, a decrease of over 2,000 votes, to Marbut’s 1,700 votes. Mr. Marbut made a political calculation to try to improve his chances of winning by running as a new, improved “Independent” candidate. In the end the voters didn’t buy his ploy and returned the very capable Rep. Dudik to the Legislature. Elections aren’t complicated. They are won by who shows up to vote. Montana’s 55 percent 2014 voter turnout was the third lowest statewide voter turnout since 1920. More than 118,000 voters who voted in 2012 did not vote in 2014. That does change the outcome of elections. Joe Lamson 2010 Districting Commissioner Helena
Like most states, Montana has what’s called a “Safe Passing Law” aimed at motorists who approach a bicyclist from behind and have to pass. Regrettably, the law is vague and not understood by many drivers. It states, “An operator of a motor vehicle may not overtake and pass a person riding a bicycle unless the operator of the motor vehicle can do so safely without endangering the person riding the bicycle.”
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“It was not so much the voters in Rep. Dudik’s district changed as that voter turnout for the district decreased by more than 2,000 votes.” Reading this statute begs the question, “How to do it?” From the motorist’s standpoint, envision a situation where a motor vehicle is approaching a bicyclist from behind on a high-speed roadway. A motorist has a brief moment to decide what to do. If the roadway has a wide shoulder without a rumble strip forcing a bicyclist into the traffic lane, the bicyclist will most likely be riding on that shoulder and make the motorist’s decision easy—simply slow slightly and carefully continue on in the traffic lane. Unfortunately, many rural highways do not have wide shoulders or has a shoulder with a rumble strip, which forces the bicyclist into the traffic lane. In these cases, most bicyclists will be riding in the traffic lane. Most traffic lanes aren’t wide enough for a motorist to make a high-speed pass
without crossing the center line or changing lanes. So, the motorist should slow and watch for a safe passing opportunity with no oncoming traffic and briefly cross the center line to safely pass the bicyclist, leaving a minimum of five feet clearance. By comparison, if a motorist comes up behind a farm tractor, he/she never considers the option of trying to pass without crossing the center line. All drivers should do the same with all slow-moving vehicles, including bicyclists. This is why experienced bicyclists ride deep into the traffic lane instead of as far right as possible—to essentially eliminate the motorist’s option of thinking he/she might be able to squeeze through without crossing the center line. Research supports the practice of a bicyclist riding two feet or more into the traffic lane to force motorists to cross the center line. The vast majority of bicycle/motor vehicle accidents are sideswipes; almost none are bicyclists being hit from behind by a motor vehicle. Sideswipes happen when a motorist (especially those with large vehicles or pulling a trailer) tries to pass without crossing the center line and giving the bicyclist enough clearance. In short, share the road, not the lane. From a bicyclist’s standpoint, the safest place to ride is about one-third of the way into the traffic lane and riding in a straight line that’s predictable to the motorist. It’s also the bicyclist’s responsibility to be as visible as possible by “being bright” and wearing highly visible clothing. The vagueness of the current safe passing law makes it difficult to enforce. In normal practice, the only time law enforcement has a decent chance of proving a motorist made an unsafe pass is if there is an accident—not a good situation for bicyclists. That’s why Bike Walk Montana is going to the legislature again this year to try to get a better safe passing law that requires motorists to give a bicyclist a minimum of five feet clearance when passing. We had such a bill in last session, but it failed by a close floor vote after clearing committee. Hopefully, we can, with your support, get the new law passed in the upcoming legislative session and make our roads safer for all users. Bill Schneider Bike Walk Montana Helena
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missoulanews.com • November 27–December 4, 2014 [5]
[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Joe Weston
Wednesday, November 19 Federal District Court Judge Brian Morris overturns Montana’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, ruling that it violates “the constitutional right of same-sex couples to equal protection of the laws.”
Thursday, November 20 Various media groups file a motion asking the First Judicial District Court in Helena to hold the Montana House Republican Caucus in contempt for holding a secret meeting on Nov. 13, allegedly in violation of state law.
Friday, November 21 The Montana University System’s Board of Regents approves the construction of the Washington-Grizzly Champions Center, a new $14 million athletic facility. Though donations will cover most of the cost, UM will borrow up to $5 million to fund the project.
Saturday, November 22 In the wake of the big Griz win in the Brawl of the Wild, Missoula police work to control celebrating fans and partygoers, responding to a kegger on South Third Street and 13 reports of disorderly.
Sunday, November 23 The Lake County coroner releases the results of an autopsy of RaeLynn Charlo, revealing she died of a single gunshot to the head. Charlo’s husband, Adrian McElderry, initially reported she had committed suicide. He has since been charged with homicide.
Monday, November 24 Missoula County Public Schools reports a mountain lion sighting near Hawthorne Elementary School. In response, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks recommends adults supervise children to and from the school.
Tuesday, November 25 For Turkey Tuesday, the doors of the Good Food Store open early, at 6:30 a.m., and hundreds of shoppers file in to buy birds raised cage-free on the New Rockport Hutterite colony, near Choteau.
University of Montana safety Matt Hermanson takes down Bobcat Chad Newell just short of the end zone during the Grizzlies’ 34-7 victory in the 114th Brawl of the Wild. The win helped UM secure an at-large invitation to the FCS playoffs, where it will host the University of San Diego Toreros on Nov. 29.
Health care
Hospital sale questioned As the Montana Attorney General vets the pending sale of the nonprofit Community Medical Center to a for-profit operation from out of state, more details about the proposed transaction are being made public. Among those details is a $1.2 million severance package for hospital CEO Steve Carlson once the deal closes. In March, Carlson and the Community Medical Center Board of Directors announced that they intend to sell Community to RegionalCare for $67 millon. RegionalCare, which owns the Billings Clinic and seven other hospitals, is funded by global private equity firm Warburg Pincus. During a public forum held last week by the AG’s office at Hellgate High School, the severance package didn’t come up. But Carlson and the hospital board did take a significant amount of heat from locals concerned about the proposed deal. Retired obstetrician John Browne called it “the biggest scam” and suggested Carlson and his “cronies” resign for orchestrating it. Browne, who also spoke with the Independent after the forum, wonders how
Community, a hospital built with grassroots fundraising and taxpayer-supported bonds, could be sold to a for-profit entity. He and other opponents also worry about how the transaction could affect medical care and Community’s annual charitable giving. RegionalCare CEO Marty Rash responded to concerns at the forum, specifically saying the for-profit entity would continue providing charity care on par with Community’s past commitments. In 2013, Community donated $17.7 million in total charity care. “We do want to be viewed as a good corporate citizen,” Rash said. Sale supporters, including Carlson and Community Board of Directors Chairman Scott Stearns, argued further that a rapidly changing health care environment, including declining government reimbursements, rising costs and fewer hospital admissions, made it difficult for a stand-alone hospital to survive. “We don’t have a system supporting us,” Stearns said. “We’re all by ourselves.” Proponents say pooling resources with RegionalCare and Billings Clinic will help keep costs low. RegionalCare has also committed to providing $40 million during the next 10 years for physician recruitment.
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Church abuse
Settling for a settlement It sounds like a lot: $16.4 million. That’s the amount the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena has now proposed to pay those who filed suit over childhood sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of clergy and lay workers in western Montana. For those who have been involved in the long process of trying to redress the diocese’s wrongs and provide compensation for its victims, however, the planned payout isn’t enough to provide justice.
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As for Carlson’s severance package, Community Vice President of Planning and Marketing Mary Windecker says agreements like this are standard. “It incentivizes the CEO to stay until the transaction is complete,” Windecker said in an email to the Independent. “This is important as it protects the economic value of the asset (Community Medical Center) by reducing uncertainty or risk associated with a CEO leaving after a sale is announced but before the sale has been concluded.” Jessica Mayrer
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[news] According to Bryan Smith, a lawyer representing 95 of the 362 claimants involved in a class-action lawsuit against the diocese, “The monetary amount certainly is not what we had hoped for, but the reality is that this diocese did not have the assets that a lot of other dioceses throughout the nation have to be able to fund a settlement.” The diocese is so low on funds, in fact, that only $2 million of the settlement will come directly from its coffers. According to a bankruptcy reorganization plan the diocese filed on Nov. 17, various insurance carriers will provide the balance of the settlement money. The court will appoint a retired judge to decide how payments are broken down, based on the severity of the abuse and the effect of the abuse on victims’ lives, among other factors. The plan guarantees a minimum payment of $2,500. In addition to the financial settlement, the diocese will make a number of non-monetary commitments designed to offer apology and prevent future abuse. While those commitments haven’t been finalized, Dan Fasy, another lawyer representing abuse survivors, anticipates they will be similar to those outlined in a 2011 settlement with Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits agreed to publish the names of abusers online, send letters of apology to victims and adopt a “whistle blower policy” for reports of abuse, among other measures. Smith says “there’s deep sense of conflict” among his clients about how the case is being resolved, though they are “happy to have closure.” “The fact that they will suffer for the rest of their lives with the trauma of the abuse—that’s not going to go away,” Smith says. “But at least the legal chapter can be closed and, hopefully, help them heal.” The Diocese of Helena declined to comment until the bankruptcy court has approved the reorganization plan. Smith expects that to occur, and for money to be disbursed, as soon as spring 2015. Ted McDermott
LGBT
Wedding bells Minutes after a federal judge tossed out Montana’s ban against same-sex marriage last week, Missoula County Clerk of Court Shirley Faust jumped into action. “My first thought,” Faust says, “was, ‘How do we make this work?’” Faust’s office is responsible for issuing marriage licenses in Missoula County. When District Court Judge Brian Morris ruled Nov. 19 that denying gay couples the right to marry violates constitutional assurances to equal protection, it created certain logistical challenges for Faust. For one, the marriage licenses themselves only provided space for the names of a “bride” and “groom.”
After consulting with the Missoula County Attorney’s Office, Faust directed her staff to cross out gender references and quickly begin issuing licenses. Roughly two hours after Morris’ decision, Missoula County issued its first same-sex marriage license. Over the next 24 hours, couples held marriage ceremonies on the Missoula County Courthouse steps and drew supportive honks and cheers from passersby on West Broadway. Just as the couples wasted no time, neither did Montana Attorney General Tim Fox. He filed a notice of appeal with the Ninth Circuit within hours of Morris’ decision.
While Fox’s arguments aren’t due to the Ninth Circuit until Feb. 27, his office has historically argued that states have been left to regulate marriage as they deem appropriate. He argues Montana has a compelling reason to restrict marriage—procreation. “Regulation of opposite-sex relationships through marriage increases the likelihood that children will be born into stable environments where they will be raised by both their mother and father,” the AG argued in past legal filings. It’s unlikely that Fox’s appeal will gain traction with the Ninth Circuit, which in September ruled gay marriage bans unconstitutional. As Fox notes, however, appeals courts aren’t in agreement; the Sixth Circuit earlier this month found gay marriage bans do pass legal muster. The U.S. Supreme Court, meanwhile, has yet to address inconsistent rulings, leaving the issue ultimately unresolved. Jessica Mayrer
Lubrecht
Glamping a no-go In the nearly 10 years since the Resort at Paws Up first added luxury tents to its roster of accommo-
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dations, “glamping” has taken the lavish vacation world by storm. The trend—defined by spacious canvas tents, claw-foot bathtubs, electricity and butlers— has caught the attention of Fodor’s, Men’s Journal, even celebrity blogger Gwyneth Paltrow. And as demand increases, the 37,000-acre resort continues to expand its operation accordingly. According to Paws Up public relations representative Carla Tracy, “the June 2005 debut of the highly acclaimed Tent City, Paws Up’s luxury camping facility, was so successful that the property continued to add camps nearly every year.” Paws Up erected its fifth and most palatial tent camp yet along the Blackfoot River in summer 2013, and added en-suite bathrooms to an existing camp. But, as the Independent recently learned, the resort took a different tack in 2014. Jim Burchfield, dean of the University of Montana’s College of Forestry, confirms Paws Up approached him this spring about establishing another tent camp on the nearby Lubrecht Experimental Forest. “They wanted to expand their number of tent camps, which are really quite luxurious, on the area adjacent to their land that’s close to the Blackfoot River,” he says. “We felt like that kind of development was more impact than we wanted to see on Lubrecht.” Burchfield says Lubrecht “took some time to think about it, consider what it might mean,” but ultimately turned down the proposal mid-summer as it “didn’t seem to meet the overall objectives of Lubrecht.” Paws Up did not respond to questions about the proposal. Lubrecht has developed a close relationship with Paws Up over the years, issuing special use permits for guests to access the property and allowing grazing in certain areas for Paws Up cattle. The tent camp expansion may have been too high impact, but Burchfield says he’s always entertaining proposals to see if they mesh with the forest’s mission of public education and research—from Paws Up and others. “We just want to be good neighbors,” Burchfield says of Paws Up. “We want to make sure that we are able to sustain the things that we want to do and are available for their guests if they want to learn from the forest that’s adjacent to them.” Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Bill Ohrmann never lived in the bohemian neighborhoods of New York or Paris and he never studied at a prestigious art school. He did spend time on a C47 cargo plane in the South Pacific during World War II, making watercolors to distract himself and his comrades. Afterward, and for the past several decades, Ohrmann lived with his wife, Phyllis, on their Drummond ranch, working the land and making sculptures and paintings that would eventually—by the time he was in his 80s—turn him into a local legend. If you’ve ever driven down Highway 1, you’ve seen Ohrmann’s work. There’s the “Usually Open” sign and, of course, the lifesize metal animals looming in the yard. Inside the Ohrmann Museum, hundreds of his paintings depict the darkest truths of humanity and the brightest glimmers of hope. Technically, his use of color and light is stunning. But it’s his commentary that always drew the most attention. “Well, I’ve got something here to offend everyone,” Ohrmann told the Indy with a devilish grin back in 2009. If his WWII works were distractions, these paintings were meant to address the task at hand. He created utopian landscapes, displayed a deep love for wildlife and developed more than a few dark depictions of history with themes of environmental exploitation and religious hypocrisy. “Dad just cut right to the chase,” says John Ohrmann, Bill’s son. “If he wanted to say something about the hypocrisy of religion, he showed a Native American who was being tortured by soldiers and a priest standing over him not doing anything. Then, there was no doubt what Dad was getting at.” Bill Ohrmann died last week at the age of 95. It’s a big loss for his family and friends, and it leaves a tremendous hole in Montana’s art community. John says the museum will stay open as much as the family can manage, but there’s no talk of changing the sign out front. In his last interview with the Indy, Bill lamented the extinction of the mammoth, the dodo and other species, many of which he’d resurrected through his metal work. In a way, he gave them new life on his ranch and in his museum, and kept their memory alive. Now we get to do the same with the artist. We’re lucky to still have his work to admire, reminding us of the ways we’ve failed but also how we might, someday, find redemption.
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Tough hill to climb Adventure racer Elizabeth Moore considers a comeback by Ryan Newhouse
Moore describes her team-building and 2006, and when racing was a bigger There was a time Elizabeth Astrid Moore hardly recognized herself. The experience as “speed-friending.” A group part of her life. In addition to Primal Missoula resident had just finished a five- of people who had never met in person Quest and the Ukatak, she also completed day winter expedition race known as Raid arrived in Moab and, for 22 hours a day, the four-day Appalachian Extreme AdvenInternational Ukatak, which she com- talked and ran, or talked and paddled, or ture Race, the four-day Beast of the East, the nine-day Four Winds USA Supreme pleted in 2003 in weather 40 degrees talked and biked. To train for expedition races Moore and the multi-day Sea 2 Summit race in below zero. “I’ve never experienced not having says it’s not about the miles one puts in, Vancouver. But that does not mean Moore freckles before,” she says. “Because of the it’s about the hours. “I have to get out for is not still having adventures. “I have an affliction,” she admits. “I extreme cold my face molted off. I had no hours every day to train. Luckily, I’ve alfreckles for a day. I looked in the mirror ways been a morning person,” she says. don’t know what it is … I thrive in this element, and it doesn’t get and didn’t recognize the any better for me, but it’s woman looking back at me. different now. Some goals “That was probably the are harder.” most dangerous thing I Moore is now just over have done,” she says. “I had 40 and raising a family with no feeling in my fingertips her husband. Her girls are for months after the race, 6 and 2, and she runs her and they felt prickly for a own photography business. year.” For First Friday on Nov. 7, Today, with her freckMoore had a show at Glales returned, the mother of cier Sotheby’s International two has some serious thinkRealty called “365,” for ing to do. She’s been on an which she chronicled the eight-year break from expe40th year of her life by takdition racing, but since registration opened on Nov. 1 ing one photograph per for Primal Quest 2015, set day for the entire year. in Lake Tahoe, Moore is deFor Moore to make Priciding whether to return to mal Quest 2015 a reality, it the sport. It’s not an easy will take more than commitchoice. ment and family support, The Primal Quest expewhich she says she has in dition race had been on a droves. There is the fact that five-year hiatus since 2009. registration is $8,000 per It was not held in 2005, after team, making sponsorship a a noted racer died on the necessity. For training, she course the previous year. It knows that she can carve returned in 2006, 2008 and out two hours before the 2009 before taking its exrest of the family wakes up tended break and assessing each morning, but identifyphoto courtesy of Elizabeth Moore all safety concerns. This ing the remaining hours year’s event, scheduled to Veteran adventure racer Elizabeth Moore has taken five years will take long-term planstart Aug. 22, will cover 400- off from the sport to raise her family, but is now considering ning. The parts she knows plus miles and involve a return for Primal Quest 2015. she can fit in involves biking “trekking, mountain biking, kids to and from school, or stand up paddle boarding, flat water pad- Forget CrossFit, circuit training or heavy carrying them up local hills. dling, down river paddling, ascending and lifting—for Moore, it’s simply running, bik“I don’t want to be the person who ing and paddling for long periods of time. makes plans and not follow through, so rappelling and caving.” Moore competed in Primal Quest If she gets on a Primal Quest team, her I have to be sure of my decision,” she 2006 in Moab, Utah, as part of Team daily training schedule will look as if she’s says. “No matter if I do Primal Quest Nemo. One of three women on the four- simultaneously training for a marathon again, or any other big personal enperson team, Moore spent 10 days pro- and a 100-mile mountain bike race, plus deavor, the most important job I’m doing pelling herself, her gear and sometimes additional rope work and paddling. now is instilling a love for the outdoors “I’ve never raced with anyone locally,” in my children by getting them out in it her teammates over 450 miles of terrain, cliffs and water, at times in temperatures she says, “but it’s not that I wouldn’t want as much as I can. I hope to be the best exto. I’d love to find some local people to ample I can be. The wide-eyed wonder that reached 125 degrees. “I had a total of 19 hours sleep over train with, but I’ve always just done my and excitement they have during our the course of 10 days,” says Moore. “Peo- own thing. Now with kids, however, sched- ‘everyday adventures’ gives me more joy ple hallucinate. You sleep 20 minutes uling might be the hardest part of training.” than I can even quantify.” Life is different for Moore than when here, 20 minutes there. Besides childshe was racing regularly, between 1999 birth, it’s the hardest thing I’ve done.” editor@missoulanews.com
[8] Missoula Independent • November 27–December 4, 2014
[news]
Squeezing the lemon VA woes continue to plague state’s mental health services by Alex Sakariassen
As more stories of troubling deficiencies at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have reached the public over the past year, Drummond resident Norris Amundson has been trying to piece together the answer to a question. He’s spoken to fellow veterans, contacted the VA, called the offices of politicians like Sen. Jon Tester, all in an effort to learn for himself how the VA’s shortcomings might be impacting those dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s a “whole can of worms” that needs to be opened and exposed, he says, to make the government more proactive about helping vets in crisis. “The old saying is, ‘The squeaky wheel gets the grease,’” Amundson says. “Well, I’m squeaking.” Amundson’s curiosity stems from his own bureaucratic troubles with the VA. A Vietnam veteran, Amundson claims his VA pension was terminated in spring 2012 shortly after his wife died from lung cancer. She’d been a dependent on his benefits, he says, and in the grief following her loss he had apparently failed to file certain paperwork—a situation that resulted in him living the past two and a half years with his Social Security as his only source of income. His problems are “piddly” compared to what other vets are facing, he says, particularly younger vets seeking mental health services from a taxed agency. “I have my wish list for the VA, and one is to do outreach,” he says. “If they find vets are in a pickle, if they find vets are in a circumstance of personal crisis, then they should reach out to them and counsel them and say, ‘What can we do to make your life better?’” The impacts of VA deficiencies on veterans facing mental health crises were the focus of a more than three-hour hearing on Capitol Hill just last week. Members of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, including Tester, grilled a trio of VA officials on exactly what the agency is doing to increase counseling staff, reduce wait times for treatment and address staggering suicide rates among young veterans nationwide. Despite passage of a $16.3 billion VA reform plan by Congress earlier this fall, Mental Health Services chief consultant Harold Kudler failed to offer any specifics on how new funding would impact recruitment of new mental health practitioners. “We will be able to squeeze a little more juice from the lemon that exists,” Kudler said. “But … there isn’t enough juice in the lemon to cover all the capacity that’s needed to meet the needs of veterans.” Kudler did offer assurances that the
agency is working to reduce wait times for treatment and establish “warm” entry points into the system. Lengthy wait times are perhaps the greatest sticking point in the current VA controversy. Veterans across the country face as much as a 30-day delay for mental health appointments; according to an audit released by the VA inspector general this May, Montana’s Fort Harrison ranked 121 out of 128 VA facilities for both primary care and mental health wait times. Chris Poloynis, a Vietnam vet who offers peer-to-peer support in Missoula, says frustration with the system is “widespread.” “[The VA] were not prepared to have this many people with this type of economic horizon we’re living in,” Poloynis
build a rapport, build trust,” she says. “It’s a really tough thing to ask for help for a lot of people, especially veterans. That’s not really the military mentality.” Nonprofits have also stepped up to fill the gaps. Last year marked the 10-year anniversary of the Wounded Warrior Project, which now has field staff throughout the country. Smaller organizations have taken shape around certain activities, from the fishing-therapy based Warriors and Quiet Waters in southwest Montana to Missoula’s own X Sports 4 Vets. The latter was founded in 2010 with a focus on bringing veterans together for rock climbing, mountain biking and whitewater rafting. “We never said we were counselors, we never said we were mental health pro-
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
In light of his own recent difficulties with the VA, Vietnam veteran Norris Amundson of Drummond has grown increasingly concerned about how the agency’s deficiencies are affecting younger veterans with PTSD.
says. “They’re punting the football here and there, passing it here, trying to do this and that ... Problem is, it’s staying the same because we have too many veterans and still the same amount of providers that we had prior to 2001.” He puts the figures in context: Roughly 22,000 veterans in western Montana—many struggling with PTSD—are served by less than a half-dozen VA mental health practitioners. Plans to expand Missoula’s VA clinic are currently stalled. To help meet demand, the VA’s efforts are bolstered by other local services, Poloynis says. The Western Montana Mental Health Center takes referrals from the VA and clinical supervisor Katherine Isaacson says the center’s network is extensive, with appointments and crisis services available in communities from Libby to Livingston. “Even that first point of contact, whether that’s a phone call or a face-to-face contact, anything, automatically we want to
fessionals, but we understand because we’re living it,” says Afghanistan veteran and X Sports 4 Vets spokesman Steve Hale. “Sometimes that’s enough to put things at bay until they can actually get in and talk with somebody.” Hale says that while deficiencies and suicide rates may be all over the news, the questions voiced by Amundson and echoed all the way to Washington, D.C., have been issues for years. Fortunately, Hale adds, the latest wave of conflicts have prompted communities to step up where the government has fallen short. “The VA was in crisis, as far as administering services, way before people started coming home,” he continues. “They were dealing with the backlog of veterans from Vietnam and Korea … Basically it became apocalyptic when [Afghanistan and Iraq vets] started coming home. It’s going in another cycle again.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
Last defense Same-sex marriage will forever change heterosexual couples by Dan Brooks
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Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris overturned the 2004 amendment to the Montana Constitution stipulating that “only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.” Gay marriage is legal in Montana now, which can mean only one thing: heterosexual marriage has lost its last defense. Even before Morris’ ruling, the practice of men marrying women was perilously undefended. Over-the-counter birth control and landlords willing to rent to bachelors had destroyed some of marriage’s most important fortifications, leaving it alarmingly vulnerable to personal choice. Now that no law prevents us from marrying people of our own sex, men and women have lost their last incentive to start families together. The concept of “husband and wife” will soon join spontaneous generation and bicycles with one really big front wheel on the ash heap of history. Letting gay people marry makes straight marriage harder for everybody else. That’s just common sense. Yet the federal courts have insisted on making the right of a few people to choose their spouses more important than the right of the rest of us to tell them what to do. It’s the tyranny of the minority, as the Montana Family Foundation explained: “The decision … strikes at the heart of two foundational institutions that have made our state and nation truly exceptional: the ballot initiative process that allows for self-governance by the people, and the family,” President Jeff Laszloffy said. “I am heartbroken for the people of Montana, who have had the redefinition of marriage forced on them by an out-ofcontrol federal judiciary.” Can you imagine how terrible it must feel to have the government force its definition of marriage on you, making it impossible to commit to someone you love? Of course you can, because it’s happening right now. Without constitutional protection, heterosexual marriages across Mon-
tana are flying apart, just as Laszloffy and his allies predicted. Yesterday I saw a cat marry a banjo. They wrote their own vows. Such cacophonies will plague our streets now that the cornerstone of heterosexual marriage has been literally blown out from under it by letting men marry men and, to a lesser extent, women marry women. That’s disgusting, except when it involves a relatively
“The concept of ‘husband and wife’ will soon join spontaneous generation and bicycles with one really big front wheel on the ash heap of history.” small subset of the lesbian community, and even then the Bible forbids it. But what is the Bible without the constitution of Montana to protect it? Just another book for two mustachioed cowboys to lay their hands on and swear. The sad fact is now that our ban on gay marriage has been overturned, men have no reason to marry women and vice versa. I remember when I was 12 and my friends and I were just starting to take an interest in girls. In the weeks before our first junior high dance, all we could talk about was which of our crushes were going to be there. “Let’s forget about girls,” my friend Bruce said, “and concentrate on how we’re going to decorate the gym.” It sounded like a great idea to us, and we all
set to work hanging up streamers and carving ice sculptures, taking our shirts off so we wouldn’t get glitter on them. Then our gym teacher came in and set us straight. He explained that we were all gay, especially Bruce, and instructed us to find girlfriends immediately. Thanks to his timely intervention, we went on to lead normal lives—especially Bruce, who had four children and became active in his church before his untimely death due to alcoholism. I say to you, heterosexuals of Montana, that we need our government to be more like a junior high gym teacher. It should tell us how to be normal, and it should give us the security in our choices that comes from knowing everyone else is doing the same thing. But the sad fact of the matter is that straight marriage is over. Now that gay marriage is legal in Montana, traditional matrimony has lost its last defense, and there is nothing left to do but watch nature take its course. This time next year, I expect we will see the last remaining husbands and wives throw off their vows to marry their college roommates and personal trainers. That’s what the opponents of gay marriage predicted, and I imagine that over the next few months, we will all have to admit that they were right. Either that or heterosexual marriage will continue unchanged. That’s pretty much inconceivable, though, since all these experts on the subject—a whole foundation dedicated to Montana families!—predicted dire consequences. If last week’s decision turns out to affect straight marriage not at all, I guess those people will have to admit that they had some other reason for not wanting gay people to get married. I can’t think of what that reason could be, though. Hopefully, I never will. Dan Brooks writes about politics and culture but never, ever what happened in gym class with Bruce at combatblog.net. His column appears weekly in the Independent.
[opinion]
Snake eyes Tester betrayed Indian Country with his Keystone vote by Migizi Pensoneau
Last week, following a vote in the U.S. House that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe described as “an act of war,” the Senate failed to authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. When the vote closed, an honor song rang out over the Senate gallery. Greg Grey Cloud, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, sang in recognition of the 41 senators who voted against the looming threat that Native people have dubbed the “black snake,” a menace to the environment, private property rights and tribal sacred sites. I was shocked and saddened that Jon Tester wasn’t among them, that Montana’s senior senator and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs failed to stand with us at such an important moment. I’m not what you’d call politically minded. I have opinions, sure, and an Indian with an opinion is a de facto activist, but the first time I registered to vote in anything other than a tribal election was to cast my vote for Tester in his 2012 reelection bid. He was a strong supporter of the Keystone XL expansion even then, but I hoped he’d learn more about the project and change his mind. His staff seemed willfully ignorant that his support of the pipeline presented any conflict between his labor and Indian constituencies; I knew better. Native people, my family among them, have spoken out against the expansion of the pipeline since it was first proposed in 2008. We stand in solidarity with our First Nations relatives in Canada who have led the fight against the exploitation of the tar sands, and in recognition of the threat the black snake poses to our groundwater, air and sacred sites. And our movement is gaining momentum. Just last spring, thousands of farmers, ranchers and tribal communities located along the length of the pipeline’s proposed route came together as the Cowboy Indian Alliance to march on the National Mall and ask President Obama to reject the pipeline. In September, celebrities like
Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio joined our efforts at the People’s Climate March in New York, where they carried banners opposing the pipeline, and stood in solidarity with 400,000 Native and nonNative people on both sides of the border. Just as our fight has gained traction, so has Tester’s political career. In February, once former Sen. Max Baucus was confirmed as ambassador to China, Tester became chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, taking on an even larger responsibility to all 566 federally recognized tribes. When he as-
“I was shocked and saddened that Jon Tester failed to stand with us at such an important moment.” sumed this new role, Indian Country lauded his record and counted his leadership a victory. But last week, while we were celebrating another victory, Tester’s press release expressed only disappointment. Citing job creation and energy security, it described the pipeline as a “common-sense opportunity to move this country forward.” Nowhere in the 100-word statement did he mention his responsibilities to Native people, and I find it hard to believe that he remains ignorant to our position, especially after Mr. Grey Cloud’s song. I ask Sen. Tester to do a little research before prioritizing hypothetical, short-term employment over natural resources, private property rights, sacred sites and his commitment to Native people. According to a U.S. State Department report, the Keystone XL expansion would create only 35 permanent
positions, less than the amount of senators who supported the bill. As to the estimates on short-term construction employment, one needs look only to the wide variance between TransCanada’s ever-changing estimates and various outside studies; the consensus falls somewhere between 2,500 and 20,000. The truth is, it’s impossible to predict how many jobs will actually be created. The only thing we know for certain is the lion’s share will create short-lived boomtown effects with high unemployment following the project’s completion. The only part of the proposal Tester seems to have taken a critical look at is the potential impact to private property rights. TransCanada’s three previous stages of Keystone construction have shown the company to be abusive of private landowners and the eminent domain process; horror stories of seized family farms and TransCanada’s misrepresentations abound. For a Montana farmer, Tester is putting a lot of faith in a company that has not earned it. For someone who claims to be a Washington outsider, he’s banking even more on Congress’ ability to regulate such a dubious partner. This isn’t just an Indian issue, of course. Tester was elected to serve the people of this state, many of whom have been seduced by the pipeline’s false promises. But in taking the committee leadership role, Tester assumed a greater responsibility to Indian Country than any other senator. As such, he has a duty to be well informed and honest with these constituents. And Montana, as well as Indian Country, deserves better than to be a stepping-stone in a political career. Tester has some work to do if he wants to keep the support of those who reelected him and make good on his claims of service to Native people. Even if he does, it’ll be a long time before he earns an honor song of his own. editor@missoulanews.com
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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Alan Knight, 47, denied robbing his neighbor in Swansea, Wales, and avoided prosecution by pretending to be “quadriplegic and in a comatose condition, bed-bound at home” after a neck injury, authorities said. They uncovered the ruse by tracking his supermarket loyalty card. Surveillance footage of Knight walking and driving confirmed their suspicion. (South Wales Evening Post) Daniel Rice, 21, wanted for theft in Iowa, was captured in rural Rock Island County, Ill., after he called the sheriff’s office there to report being pursued by as many as 30 coyotes. Deputies who found him recognized him as a wanted fugitive and returned him to Muscatine County authorities. (Moline’s WQAD-TV) RISKY ART – City officials removed a $559,000 sculpture from outside a recreation center in Calgary, Alberta, after it caused the sun to singe an art lover’s jacket. “It’s a beautiful, shiny object, and that, I think, is part of the problem,” Sarah Iley, the city’s art and cultural manager, said. The steel artwork, titled “Wishing Well,” has hollow hemispheres for people to enter and send it text messages, which it translates into a light and sound display. Iley said the mirrored concave interior directed an intense, narrow ray at the visitor’s jacket. The incident prompted officials to return the sculpture to the artist to fix it. (Calgary Herald) WAY TO GO – Truck driver Gary Anderson, 58, died at a construction site in Jersey City, N.J., after being hit on the head by a one-pound tape measure that fell from a worker’s tool belt on the 50th floor. A public safety official said Anderson wasn’t wearing a hard hat. (Associated Press) Soccer player Peter Biaksangzuala, 23, died after scoring a goal playing for India’s Bethlehem Vengthlang team by celebrating with a backflip. He broke his spine and spent five days in intensive care before succumbing. (Britain’s The Independent) When a twin-engine plane taking off from an airport in Wichita, Kan., lost power, it crashed into a building that FlightSafety International uses to train pilots. Investigators reported three of the four people killed were inside a flight simulator, which duplicates flying situations without the risks of actual flying. (Wichita’s KSNW-TV) TRAFFIC COURT – After their 15-year-old daughter was killed when the driver of the SUV she was riding in lost control while going nearly 90 miles per hour, Ronald and Tammy Coburn sued Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation. They claimed it contributed to the girl’s death because road signs didn’t adequately warn of curves ahead. A Luzerne County jury sided with the parents and assigned 10 percent of the responsibility to PennDOT and the other 90 percent to driver Scott Smith. (Moosic’s WNEP-TV) Thailand’s ruling junta said it would pay traffic police officers to refuse bribes. “We want to change perceptions and practices and to reward those who show they are clean,” Police Major General Adul Narongsak said after awarding two officers $310 for refusing a $3 bribe. “We encourage people to take photographs as evidence.” (Reuters) PLAYING DOCTOR – Walter Fisher filed a $100,000 lawsuit against Ontario’s William Osler Health System, which oversees Brampton Civic Hospital, as well as his doctor and several people and companies connected with the television show “Saving Hope.” Fisher said a man and woman watching the doctor perform his rectal exam were wearing medical attire but, he later learned, were really actors on the show. While lying on his back, “he could feel more than one set of hands on him,” Fishers’ lawyer said. (Toronto Sun) NEGATIVE ALTITUDE – Ivan Trifonov, 70, became the first person to fly a hot air balloon underground. The Austrian pilot descended to the bottom of Croatia’s 675-foot-deep Mamet Cave after maneuvering through the 200-by-230-foot entrance. “I don’t believe this is going to be repeated by anyone ever again,” Trifonov declared after his 25-minute flight. (Britain’s The Guardian) STALKER OF THE WEEK – Firefighters used jackhammers to partially dismantle a brick chimney where Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, was trapped eight feet down for two hours. Rescuers in Ventura County, Calif., lubricated the chimney with dish soap, then pulled Nunez-Figueroa from the chimney and lowered her to the ground with a ladder truck. Sheriff’s Capt. Renee Ferguson said the woman had dated the homeowner multiple times after they met online but her “intent was unclear.” (Los Angeles’s KTLA-TV) OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS – Even though the number of British sperm donors has been increasing since 2004, they haven’t kept up with demand. As a result, Denmark and the United States have become major suppliers of sperm to British women. (BBC News) ANTISOCIAL MEDIA – The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that parents could be held liable for their children’s Facebook postings. The decision involved parents who didn’t force their son to delete a fake and defamatory Facebook profile targeting a classmate after his school notified them the victim’s parents had complained. (The Wall Street Journal) FIREBUGGERY – A British schoolgirl assigned to gain work experience at a hardware store set it on fire, causing $1.6 million worth of damage, but her attorney insisted his client hadn’t “intended to harm anyone” but “got a bit bored.” John Mohammed told Warwick Crown Court the girl “thought it would cause some disruption, sufficient for her to be able to go home.” (Britain’s The Express) SNEAKY SMALL – Pennsylvania authorities charged Eric C. Opitz, 45, with fraudulently obtaining human growth hormones by claiming they were prescribed for treatment of pituitary dwarfism. Children with that condition typically don’t reach 5 feet by the time they’re adults. Opitz is 6-feet-3 and weighs 450 pounds. (NJ.com) SPACE INVADERS BEWARE – The U.S. government changed its mind about dismantling old nuclear weapons scheduled for retirement next year, deciding they’re an “irreplaceable national asset” that should be saved to “use in planetary defense against earthbound asteroids,” according to the National Nuclear Security Administration. The plan is one of several ways the Obama administration has focused on asteroid defense. (The Seattle Times) ELECTRONIC DETECTION – When a witness notified authorities of a kidnapping in Philadelphia, police checked surveillance video at the scene that showed a man pulling a 22-year-old woman toward a car bearing a used-car dealer’s name. The dealer sells to customers with poor credit and routinely installs GPS devices so the vehicle can be easily located if it needs to be repossessed. “We called the dealership, and within five minutes they had the location,” sheriff’s Capt. Jayson Crawley said. Federal agents surrounded the car in Jessup, Md., and arrested Delvin Barnes, 37. The abducted woman was uninjured. (Associated Press)
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f it seems as if the holiday season has been creeping up the calendar, earlier and earlier every year, you’re not imagining things. Christmas music is already filling the airwaves. Many of the decorations are already hung around town. We caught bits of both Elf and Christmas Vacation on cable over the weekend. And don’t even get us started on the hysteria surrounding Thanksgiving Day sales, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. At least Small Business Saturday provides something of a guilt-free alternative. Not ones to get left behind, we’ve also decided to jump on the pre-December holiday bandwagon by publishing our annual gift guide a week early. You’ll find the usual emphasis on local businesses and artists, as well as a few wildcard selections. More importantly, we’re hoping you find something inspiring, engaging, uplifting or otherwise apt for every name on your gift list. It may be early in the season, but there’s nothing wrong with getting a bit of a head start.
by Independent staff
project has become one of his best sellers. The buckles are forged from stainless steel in the shape of Montana. Some are even emblazoned with “406”—perfect for the loved one with lots of area-code pride. How much: $65 Where to find it: Exclusively at Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine St.
Shotgun lights Montana belt buckle You might not know Missoula metalsmith Nathan Kimpell’s name, but odds are you’ve seen his work. He’s fashioned custom signs for local businesses like Black Coffee Roasting Co. and Elements Board Shop. The metal stools, patio gate and sink at the new Top Hat? All his. But Kimpell’s also been experimenting with belt buckles in recent years, and says what started as something of a side
Nothing says it’s the holidays in Montana like a glowing strand of shotgun shells strung around your Christmas tree. The colorful and inventive lights, made by artist Rick Williams, might be the perfect gift for the gunloving conservationist in your life, since the concept takes otherwise useless gun waste and repurposes it into something festive. Williams says he isn’t the first to make decorative lights out of bullet shells, but the avid skeet shooter liked the idea so much he couldn’t resist trying it him-
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self. “All bullets were shot in Montana, but no animals were killed in the making of these lights,” he assures. “Just clay pigeons.” You know? Screw it: These are the kind of lights you can leave up all year round. How much: $19 for a strand of 20 lights, $35 for a strand of 50. Where to find it: The Artist’s Shop, 127 N. Higgins Ave.
Stash containers Everyone has something to hide, which makes stash containers the perfect holiday gift. At the Import Market, you can score containers that look like everyday items—a can of Arizona iced tea, a bottle of Ajax, a tin of
roasted peanuts, even a full Dasani water bottle—but that actually have a secret compartment for tucking away “treasure” (wink, wink). Until we legalize it, or we never need to hide anything ever again, these containers serve a vital function. How much: $17 Where to find it: Import Market, 201 W. Broadway
Neko Case mug When Neko Case played the Wilma back in May, the show sold out in a hurry. What better way to please the Neko Case fan on your list than with a memorable homage to the singer? Local artist Alison Dillon offers her painting, “Madonna of the Wasps,” as a mug in 11- and 15-ounce sizes.
POWsurf board After years of staying five steps ahead of the water sports curve in western Montana, the good dudes at Strongwater have trained their surfing savvy on a denser kind of precipitation. This year the shop began marketing custom surf boards specifically designed for riding backcountry powder. Forget snowboarding; not Point Break enough. These boards, handcrafted for Strongwater by McCollum Custom Longboards from birch and bamboo, have no bindings, require no special boots and are guaranteed to make you look even cooler than Keanu Reeves. Given Strongwater’s track record, POWsurfing could be the next evolution in Montana winter sports. If not, at least hanging 10 on a mountain is finally possible. How much: $450 Where to find it: Strongwater, 614 S. Higgins Ave. only does the design conceal the device’s true purpose, but it also makes the user look like an asthmatic, the least likely demographic to be toking up. Genius. And since it’s a vaporizer, it doesn’t produce smoke, severely cuts down on smell and goes easier on your lungs. How much: $135 Where to find it: Piece of Mind, 123 W. Main St.
Polebridge Mercantile baked goods (The print is also available on iPhone cases, T-shirts, throw pillows and more, in case something else suits your fancy.) How much: $15, plus shipping Where to find it: society6.com/alisondillon
Puffit Portable Vaporizer The Puffit Portable Vaporizer is a weed—excuse us, tobacco—vaporizer that looks like an asthma inhaler. Not
If there’s one complaint about this legendary bakery, tucked way up near the northwest corner of Glacier National Park, it’s that the remote locale makes buying the best bear claws this side of the divide that much harder. Well, cross that complaint off the list. The Merc, as it’s known, fills holiday orders for everything from those famous huckleberry bear claws to a wide selection of homemade pies, dinner rolls and other sweet treats—and they’re available for pickup in downtown Whitefish. While we will forever look forward to summer road trips to Polebridge, it’s a Christmas miracle that a part of Polebridge can come at least a little closer to us during the holiday season. How much: $6 - $35 Where to find it: polebridgemerc.com/holiday-special-ordermenu
Uncle Milton’s Nat Geo Wild Pet’s Eye View Camera
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Underoos Readers of a certain age no doubt remember these superhero-themed undergarments. In fact, if you’re anything like us, your memories involve wanting to wear your Underoos to school, over your regular clothes. Or, perhaps, you recall prolonged fights with Mom and Dad about peeling off these pjs so they could finally get a muchneeded spin in the washing machine. Well, they’re back. In adult sizes. With myriad styles—He-Man! Wonder Woman! The Man of Steel! And, in a brilliant bit of marketing, they’re displayed in what looks like the original, ’80s-era packaging for the full nostalgia effect. How much: $20 Where to find it: hottopic.com
The Ripple
Who says you need opposable thumbs to operate a camera? Not Uncle Milton, maker of the Nat Geo Wild-branded Pet’s Eye View Camera. This digital camera clips onto your dog’s, cat’s or Gila monster’s collar and automatically takes pictures at 1-, 5- or 15-minute intervals, depending on your settings. The camera can hold up to 40 snaps, each one a 640 x 480 resolution image from the perspective of your pet. How else are you going to really know what it looks like to sniff another dog’s butt? How much: $29 Where to find it: Naturalist’s Mercantile, 131 E. Main St.
Among the list of people who might need The Ripple: moms and dads, grandparents, college students, kids, partygoers, people who eat outside at barbecues, people who eat in front of the television, and, well, probably anyone who likes to eat soup and a sandwich together. Yep, that about covers it—and it probably covers your entire gift list. Montana artist Kevin Scharfe created this patentpending detachable bowl-and-plate combo as a way to carry around chips and dip or soup and a sandwich or whatever other foods would normally require an awkward balancing act. It’s got that futuristic “Jetsons” feel to it and a name that sounds like an X-Men superhero, so you can’t really go wrong. How much: $19.99 Where to find it: The Green Light, 120 East Broadway (temporary location)
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Gumball Poodle high tube socks This hilarious hosiery is a perfect stocking stuffer for that hard-to-shop-for person on your list. We all know someone who loves vodka, kale, bacon, tofu, meat, weed, rednecks, country music, punk or beer, and those are just a few of the things these functional and fashionable socks promote. In fact, most of our friends like at least two of those things, so here’s a tip: mix and match to let your loved one show some added cultural depth. How much: $9.99 Where to find it: Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine St.
trails he hiked, their distances and elevation changes, as well as helpful advice like whether or not to bring the kiddos. Best of all, this piece of art, er, map includes no pesky fold marks. How much: $19.95, now on sale for $14.95 Where to find it: hike734.com
Glacier National Park wall map In 2011, Kalispell’s Jake Bramante hiked all of Glacier National Park’s 734 miles of hiking trails in one season. He accomplished in five months what most people dream of doing in 50 years. His website features tales from his journey, beautiful images and specific Glacier trail info, but why read online what you could display in your office? Bramante designed a new topographic map that identifies the
Drones aren’t just for the government anymore. In recent years, the technology has become less expensive and significantly easier to use, opening up a world of possibilities to adventurers, artsy types and those who want to spy on their friends. But just don’t call ’em drones—that word kinda creeps some folks out. Instead, let’s focus on “unmanned aerial devices” like the Estes Proto X SLT Nano Quadcopter, which is best for indoor use, or the more robust Blade 350 QX, which comes camera-ready with a mount for your GoPro. How much: $39.99 for the Proto X, and $499.99 for the Blade 350 Where to find it: The Treasure Chest, 1612 Benton Ave.
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company that brands its products as “Montana Guide Tested, Montana Guide Approved.” In addition to oar locks, seats and rod holders, MRF offers metal beverage holders that fasten directly to raft frames. It’s a completely adjustable accessory that will ensure an end to the days of Double Haul IPA sloshing around in the bottom of a boat. How much: $25 Where to find it: montanaraftframes.com
days, trading in the retirement home stigma for table cred at breweries and cafes across the country. Some have even received a pop culture facelift, as in the case of Zombie Cribbage, billed as the “classic parlor game that just won’t die.” Game manufacturer Forrest-Pruzan Creative has replaced the old-school simplicity of wooden pegs with the grotesque shambling forms of the undead and opted to give traditional playing cards a gore-ific twist. The set even comes with optional “zombie rules,” though cribbage purists can choose to ignore them. Sure, the zombie genre
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SYNEK draft system
Air plants For the well-intentioned but forgetful plant lover in your life, Mother Nature—via Habitat Floral Studio—brings you air plants, perennials that require no soil, no food and very little care. Their Latin name is tallandsia, but their common name comes from the fact that all they really need to survive is air, which shouldn’t be hard to find, and some occasional water. You can grow them in a special glass orb or a hanging clay cradle, but air plants don’t actually need any special kind of container. All they require is a daily misting of water or a 45-minute soak every week or 10 days. And if your aspiring green thumb can’t manage that, maybe get him or her a pet rock. How much: $2.99-$14 Where to find it: Habitat Floral Studio, 211 N. Higgins Ave.
Ever looked at your Keurig coffee maker and wished it could dispense cold, fresh craft beer too? Okay, probably not, but the concept of a countertop beer tap has finally taken shape thanks to a visionary in St. Louis named Steve Young. This year, Young launched a Kickstarter campaign for the SYNEK draft system, a self-refrigerated unit that houses a pressurized bag of brew. The system enables owners to fill a gallon-size bag—the equivalent of two growlers—from any tap or homebrew kettle and keep it fresh for up to a month. Young wound up nearly tripling his fundraising goal, and has since reached out to hundreds of breweries nationwide to plug the product (New Belgium is reportedly on board). SYNEK is still in its infancy, with the first set of systems scheduled for release in March. But the company is taking pre-orders now, allowing craft beer enthusiasts to get the jump on the future of at-home beer consumption in time for the holiday season. How much: $299 Where to find it: syneksystem.com
River raft beverage holder One of the greatest challenges in raft fishing is figuring out exactly where to put your beer. With all that casting, netting and rough water, a precariously perched beverage will undoubtedly tip. Enter Husonbased Montana Raft Frames, a
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For those who want to make their tail-wagging best friend a little more comfortable, the raised feeder allows dogs to eat their kibbles without bending all the way to the floor—kind of like an ergonomically correct trough. Kalispell’s Eugene Ost and his assistant carpenter/wife, Kelly, custom-build these luxury feeders. That means you’ll need to measure your sweet little mutt, but that’s a small price to pay to make your pup feel perfect. How much: $130 Where to find it: On Etsy at Mtrusticwoodwork
is starting to feel a bit played out, but it’s subtle touches like this that can help draw a 21st century audience to a 17th century game. How much: $19.95 Where to find it: Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave.
Leather bike frame strap
Downtown Missoula gift card Stuck with someone on your gift list? Want to support local businesses? This is your easiest solution. The downtown Missoula gift card is redeemable at more than 150 restaurants, bars, breweries and retailers across the city. Participating restaurants include Five on Black, Iza and Plonk. Retailers include Hide and Soul, The M Store and Open Road Bicycles. Tom Aldrich from the Missoula Downtown Association notes that the card is more than just a cool gift for just about anyone, it’s an investment in Missoula. “Last year the cards pumped over $160,000 back into the local community,” Aldrich says. How much: Between $10 and $300 Where to find it: Missoula Downtown Association offices, 218 E. Main St., Ste. C, or online at missoula downtown.com
Zombie Cribbage Classic board games are making a comeback these
You’ve seen them: Those cyclists who manage to have a coffee in one hand and a bagel in the other while effortlessly pedaling down the street and, somehow, around corners. For the rest of us who need to grip the handlebars, we recommend a nifty and classy way to transport your favorite beverages and other things around town. This leather strap attaches right to your bike’s frame and will easily transport a bottle of wine or yoga mat. Wanna go bigger? They make a growler carrier, too. All items are handcrafted with traditional tools by Cicada Leather Co. Custom personalization is also available. How much: $35 for the wine carrier, $75 growler carrier Where to find it: CicadaLeatherCompany.com
Veggie Baby finger paint and crayons It is absolutely amazing what a kid will eat. Basically, anything that an infant or toddler can grasp with tiny, uncoordinated fingers will eventually make its way toward his or her lips. This means that, unfortunately, arts and crafts tend to pose something of a hazard. But not if you’re using We Can Too products. The mom-created company makes finger paint and crayons made of organic fruits and vegetables. In other words, the green actually includes spinach and the orange consists of pumpkin and the red involves beets. Now, the littlest ones on your gift list can get a jumpstart on becoming the next Jackson Pollock. How much: $12 for the crayons, $30 for the finger paint Where to find it: La Stella Blu, 612 S. Higgins Ave.
Five-punch Roxy Theater movie pass There’s always something fun screening at the Roxy Theater. Montana-made documentaries, Tim Burton retrospectives, weekly viewings of classic “X-Files” episodes— the choices can be overwhelming. So help your beloved cinema buff avoid the headache of narrowing down those options by putting five tickets in their hand at once. The Roxy’s five-punch movie pass is good for any regular screening (festivals and special events are not included) and will make waits at the box office a thing of the past. How much: $20 to $30, depending on age Where to find it: Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave.
Freeload DVD/LP combo The Missoula-made documentary Freeload explores the lives of trainhoppers who skip out on society’s rules to live free and ride around the country. If the counter-culture-aficionado on your list missed the packed screenings at the Wilma and the Roxy, it’s now available on DVD. Pair it with the experimental noise soundtrack, composed by Missoula musician Bryan Ramirez, for the full experience. How much: $13 for DVD, $15 for LP Where to find it: Ear Candy carries the LP at 624 S. Higgins Ave., and highwaygoat.com stocks the DVD
Antler dog chews We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve come home to shredded Chacos or pieces of furniture thanks to our beloved mutt. The fact is, some dogs chew, so instead of leaving them alone with a plethora of precious gnawable objects, why not give them something a little more challenging? Elk and deer antler chews are long lasting and a natural alternative to rubber chew toys (and everything else in your home). Antlers are naturally shed in late winter, hunted and gathered, then cut and sanded into manageable sizes for your pooch. They won’t splinter, are full of natural minerals and vitamins, and best suited for those aggressively chomping canines in your life. How much: $20 - $36 Where to find it: Station 26, 312 N. Higgins Ave.
shoe. While it sounds pretty simple, this device will do a lot to ensure that drivers can see—and avoid— the runner, walker or cyclist in your life. And with daylight in such short supply around here, visibility is in high demand. So, therefore, should be the LightSpur. How much: $20 Where to find it: Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins Ave.
Party Truffle Are you a pie person or a cake person? Well, you might toss both of those traditions out the window once you realize there’s such a thing as a party truffle. The giant, two-pound truffle from the Sweets Barn is divided into slices and comes in a variety of flavors, including dark chocolate, huckleberry, pumpkin pie and sea salt caramel, plus the more unusual Darjeeling mascarpone and lemon wasabi. It’s the kind of thing that makes a true candy lover’s eyes pop. For everyone else, it’s just one glimmer of hope that the tradition of holiday fruitcake will finally die.
Earlywood kitchen utensils
Montgomery Distillery gift basket Nothing says Happy Holidays like booze, and nothing says you were really good this year like booze from Montgomery Distillery. Custom gift baskets can include anything from the distillery’s broad selection, including bottles of vodka or gin, barware, bitters and mixers, hats, Tshirts, hoodies or drink tokens for the distillery’s Front Street tasting room. If you’re lucky, whomever you give it to just might invite you over to share a drink. How much: Depends on what you select, but typically between $40 and $100. Where to find it: Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St.
Where to find it: Rockin Rudy’s and REI carry GoToobs. Find sriracha at any grocery store’s condiment or ethnic foods aisles.
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Portable hot sauce If you know a sriracha addict, you likely have heard him or her complaining when you sit down in a restaurant that doesn’t carry sriracha. You can find keychain sriracha containers online, but they can be pricey novelty products. Make your own portable-size sriracha in a snap by grabbing a silicone, BPA-free GoToob and loading it up. The srirachaphile on your list will probably hug you. How much: $6-$8 for GoToob, $3-$4 for sriracha
The Red Lodgebased Earlywood has been operating since 2011, and its smooth, elegant designs have already become highly coveted for Montanans who are passionate about their kitchens. Earlywood’s utensils and cutting boards come in a richly colored array of blondwood, ironwood, Mexican ebony and hard maple. These utensils are meant to become heirlooms, and the company backs up that promise with a commitment to the future. Its 100-to-1 program promises that 100 trees will be planted for every one used for its products. How much: $26 for three-tablespoon coffee scoop Where to find it: HOUSE Design Studio, 133 N. Higgins Ave.
How much: $35 Where to find it: Sweets Barn Downtown, 119 S. Higgins Ave., or the Sweets Barn in Lolo, 11380 US Highway 93 S.
LightSpur This unobtrusive, lightweight LED light hooks around the back of your
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Behring Made knife Function meets art with Behring Made knives. Each piece is individually crafted—forged, stamped and sharpened—right here in Missoula. Kitchen cutlery? Done. Trout knives? Check. Pack axes? You bet. And if you don’t see the style you want? The Behring Made website guides customers through how to build their own. Since a sharp object is one of the most useful tools you can have in the backcountry, you might as well get something that’s oneof-a-kind. How much: $175 and up Where to find it: behringmade.com
Electro-sex toys What better time than the holidays to give your sex life a little jolt of energy? Erotic electrical stimulation causes genital muscles to contract. Historically used in the BDSM community and considered somewhat niche, local sex shops now offer a range of electro-sex toys, from electrodes to the “Deep Intruder” dildo, which can serve as a conduit. That means just about anyone can now explore this fetish. “People who are into it,” says one Fantasy for Adults Only staffer, “are really into it.” How much: $50 for a starter package. The Deep Intruder runs an additional $64.95. Where to find it: Fantasy for Adults Only, 210 E. Main St. and 2611 Brooks St., or Adam & Eve, 1401 West Broadway
Adventure Cycling Association membership The folks at the Missoula-based Adventure Cycling Association certainly know how to help local cycling enthusiasts treat each other during the holidays. From now through December, the nonprofit is offering new and renewing members the opportunity to gift someone a membership at half price. ACA membership comes with a host of benefits—gear and hotel discounts, magazines, even access to the organization’s numerous guided cycling tours. Beginners and accomplished cyclists alike can sign on to trips of varying difficulties across the U.S., Canada and
How much: $11.50 per week or month, plus shipping Where to find it: Black Coffee Roasting Co., 525 E. Spruce St., or blackcoffeeroastingco.com
Rez Made “Manifest Sovereignty” T-shirt These shirts from Missoula-based Rez Made make a statement, and they do it in style. They take the Euro-American idea that white people were destined to conquer North America, turn that idea around and apply it to the drive for indigenous peoples’ right to independence—all on preshrunk, 100 percent ring-spun cotton. There’s a men’s version, a women’s version and a women’s scoop
Puerto Rico. ACA will also send the recipient a gift card with your name on it. Oh, and it’s tax-deductible too. How much: $40 regularly, $20 for existing ACA members Where to find it: adventurecycling.org
version, each available in a number of colors, including black, blue and pink. How much: $25 Where to find it: rezmade.com
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A good pair of boots is essential to Montana living. The newly arrived stock of Scandinavian-made Ilse Jacobsen boots at Betty’s Divine is highly practical, with waterproof outer layers and insulation rated to 40 degrees below zero. And with a simple, iconic design in 20 different colors, they’re also perfect for stylishly tromping through whatever the polar vortex throws our way. How much: $155-$195 Where to find it: Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave.
Dilemma: Your friend needs a good cup of coffee before feeling motivated to leave the house. Solution: Missoula’s organic Black Coffee Roasting Co. offers a subscription service that delivers a 12-ounce bag of your favorite coffee roast (or a surprise blend) straight to your door up to four times a month. This would also be a great gift to send those out-of-town relatives who can’t get to Black Coffee as often as they’d like.
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Ilse Jacobsen rubber boots
Gift certificate to “Bob Ross Night” At Bob Ross Night at the Zootown Arts Community Center, participants drink wine while they paint along with a Bob Ross video. It’s as much a chance to learn painting skills in a fun environment as it is to appreciate the late PBS instructor whose big hair sparked smiles and whose sweet demeanor garnered him comparisons to Fred Rogers. The monthly class is enormously popular, so would-be participants are encouraged to sign up early. And if you’re looking to broaden someone’s
horizons beyond Ross’ happy accidents, know that a gift certificate from the Zootown Arts Community Center can be used for any of the nonprofit’s classes, as well as in the gift shop. How much: $25 per month for Bob Ross Night, but gift certificates can be purchased for any amount. Where to find it: Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. Register your participant for Bob Ross Night at zootownarts.org editor@missoulanews.com
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Power to the gearhead Relatively affordable, geek-out gifts for the musician in your life who has everything else by Erika Fredrickson
Rattlesnake cables
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ssuming you’re someone who listens to music, chances are you’ve found yourself debating the definition of classic rock or the tenets of punk, the clarity of vinyl or at least the top 10 albums of all time. But musicians tend to be an even geekier bunch, delving into the ins-and-outs of equipment for as long as you’ll let them. Missoula boasts great instrument shops and luthiers to satisfy that gearhead itch, but these days our musicians have increasingly more access to locally handmade gear—down to the cables, mics and amplifiers. And that means that even if the musician in your life already has 10 guitars and a roomful of keyboards, you can still surprise him or her with some essential but exciting equipment you can’t get at a box store anywhere else in the world. Believe us, they’ll be talking—and talking and talking—about these gifts for years to come.
Rattlesnake Cable Company Hank Donovan plays guitar in The Magpies and he’s also known around town as a computer/gear genius. That combination makes him the perfect innovator for the kind of high-end equipment cables that musicians find exciting. And that’s a feat because cables are not usually something even the nerdiest musicians spend a lot of time talking about. “A cable is one of the most overlooked things,” Donovan says. “You can spend $1,000 on an amp and you can spend $1,000 on a guitar—but then you go get a $10 cable. That’s the weak point in your chain. Your cable is going to break and it’s going to be noisy. But it should be an investment, not an accessory. It’s a vital portion of your gear.” Donovan began making cables to solve his own
equipment problems, and started Rattlesnake Cable Company in 2012 after he realized other musicians, including bassists and keyboardists, were looking for the same solutions at affordable prices. To make them durable, Donovan uses a woven shielding that can withstand all the abuse cables usually endure: getting stepped on, lugged in and out of tour vans and being soaked in beer. The sound quality is different, too. In general, the longer a cable is the muddier the sound gets, but Donovan’s low capacitance cables use copper that keeps the sound clear at almost any reasonable length. Chris Bacon, keyboardist for MASS FM, says he completely replaced his old gear with Rattlesnake cables. He worked with Donovan to figure out exactly what he needed. “I run keyboards through guitar effects and amps and I’ve always struggled with constant hums and sounds I didn’t like,” he says. “Getting his cables quieted it way down. And obviously they look cool. The colors I picked out are all over the map: tweed, green, white, red, blue, pretty much every color he’s done. Usually you’re like, ‘Okay, give me that cable, who cares?’ But this makes it fun.” How much: custom cables cost on average between $50 and $70. Where to find it: rattlesnakecables.com.
Kochel mics and stomp boxes Sean Kochel is best known for the guitars he makes out of reclaimed wood, which are often on display at the farmers market and holiday craft fairs. What you might not know is that Kochel also makes microphones out of metal beer cans. At first it sounds like a gimmick that can’t pos-
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sibly meet the expectations of a serious singer. But Kochel’s invention of metal cans—the kind used by breweries up until the 1960s—and crystal elements pulled from old rotary phones gives the mics a spooky old-timey quality that’s coveted among Americana and garage bands. “It’s really popular with harmonica players or oneman-band guys singing the blues,” Kochel says. “It gives it that throwback sound, like an old recording.” Kochel also makes stomp boxes, mostly from the scraps he doesn’t end up using on the guitars. The wood is actually old—some of it from demolished homesteader cabins or 1890s railroad ice houses—so these have a vintage style like everything he makes. “I push the repurposing,” Kochel says. “I like to create an aesthetic of days gone by.” Local musician Travis Yost says the boxes have a “rough hewn look” that makes him feel good about stomping his boot on it. “It’s shape is better than most,” he says. “I typically drag my feet when buying new musical tools, but I didn’t think twice about [getting one]. He even drove to drop it off at my front door. Talk about feeling like a rock star!” How much: beer can microphone $175, stomp boxes $45. Where to find it: kochelguitars.com
41st Amplifiers There’s a big market for boutique hand-wired amplifiers, but they tend to be prohibitively expensive. Kyle Kienitz and Max Russell started 41st Amplifiers in Missoula to combat that problem. Kienitz says, “We’re trying to make an amp that’s affordable for a musician who is on a musician’s budget and still retaining the quality that you’d get with a bigger boutique amplifier.”
The amps are split up according to how big they are and how loud they can get. The smallest is a five-watt amp good for practice and coffee shop gigs, while the 20-watt amp serves the needs of most bands playing a moderate-sized bar or club. (Metal and hard rock mavens need not worry—there’s also a 40-watt amp that can deal with heavy volume and extra power.) The company just sold its first two amps to a couple of local musicians, but a lot of guitar players have tried them out to rave reviews, including Rooster Sauce’s Chris Knudson. Kienitz and Russell, both musicians, got their idea for amps while working at Outlaw Music together. The prototype took a year to refine but now they’ve got four amps to choose from with cool names like The Derringer, The Bayonet, The Panzer and The Well. What people notice first are the stunning pine cabinets they come in, created by local carpenters Bad Goat Forest Products with faceplates by Nat Cundy King Design and Sign. But Kienitz and Russell are adamant that the tube amps serve their function as transporters of good sound—in a way that makes sense for the average musician. “Our slogan is tube amps for the people,” Kienitz says. “What we’re building is for all levels of guitar player. It’s not just for professionals or people playing gigs, it’s for someone just starting out or someone who has been playing their whole life. We are trying to be as accessible as possible.” How much: Between $499 and $1,299. Where to find it: 41stamplifiers.com efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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eling down a well-worn path of ’80s-era pop rock with nothing more to offer. But then I remembered—oh, yeah—Marr basically blazed that trail in the first place. He can walk it whenever he damn well pleases, and apparently I will still gladly listen. What the album lacks when it comes to providing a “new sound” or “fresh innovation,” it more than makes up for by being high-quality, skilled and sparkling. From an original creator, as a movie trailer voiceover might say. Marr is in his own personal playland here, and I feel privileged to visit. If you don’t believe me, try listening to the album’s single, “Easy Money,” without being just plain thrilled about it. (Sarah Aswell) Johnny Marr plays the Top Hat Mon., Dec. 1. Doors open at 7 PM, show at 8. $30 at tophatlounge.com.
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Here’s your philosophical question of the day: What would The Smiths have sounded like without Morrissey? The answer is not one hand clapping or the deafening sound of silence. It’s the sound of Johnny Marr, The Smiths’ lead guitarist and co-songwriter. While many people, including myself, often lazily refer to “The Smiths” and “Morrissey” interchangeably, Marr’s new solo album Playland has forced me to issue an official correction: The Smiths were way more of a dual effort than I thought, and Marr deserves tons of appreciation and attention after a career consisting mainly of collaborations and guest spots. Playland is bright, professional, exacting and downright pleasurable rock and roll. For a short moment, perhaps during one of the more formulaic tracks on the album, I thought Marr’s second solo effort might be trav-
Familiar Fiends, Monster The quiet in my apartment after Monster is alarming. I turned up the new Familiar Fiends album midway through “Thar Be Monsters!,” and it stayed up until the end. It was a quick half hour. I can’t say it expanded my notions of a certain kind of rockabilly fuzz punk—the band has “Familiar” in the name, after all— but it reminded me of something I was glad to know. Somewhere inside the triangle determined by The Cramps, The Misfits and the B-52s, there exists a microgenre of post-punk retro pop that Monster evokes perfectly. The Groovie Ghoulies are in this genre, although Familiar Fiends—which includes ex-local Paul
Copoc, formerly of Two Year Touqe—don’t sound like them. Someone with a leopard-print tattoo could explain it better, but my point is that Monster satisfies the conventions of a narrow genre without boring. That’s a trick, and I credit good songwriting. There are a bunch of high-energy rockers on this album, and they make what could have been a halfhour exercise in the peddling of influences into a gem. For Familiar Fiends, style is less a curtain to hide behind than a lens to focus their Plutonic ray or whatever. They do something familiar uncommonly well. (Dan Brooks)
CoupR’s, Burnin’ Up Pressing play on Burnin’ Up, the new best-of album from the CoupR’s, is like opening an old yearbook. You get to snicker at the fashions of someone else’s youth—the compressed ’80s snare on two and four, those keyboard undertones that make every song sound like it was recorded under a full moon—but you also feel a kind of reverence. This was back before anything bad happened, when old people were young. There they are, singing about how girls should call them and the struggle to be good in earnest, reverb-heavy 1980s tones. Thirty years later, their hope takes on an element of Greek tragedy.
Especially during the guitar solos, Burnin’ Up definitely finds some tragic expressions of hubris when it ventures into Crüe-style pop metal. But what’s most striking about this greatest-hits compilation from a long ago Bitterroot Valley band is not that it sounds so dated. It’s that it sounds so good. Like Huckleberry Finn or acid wash, you must approach it as a product of its time. But the CoupR’s show real feeling and strong pop craftsmanship in a way that helps the modern listener understand why people loved that sound. The 1980s are gone. The CoupR’s’ pop remains. (Dan Brooks)
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Crab wars Emlen’s Animal Weapons explores natural arms races by Kate Whittle
It’s tough for elephants to get laid. Female ele- species relies on speedily snapping up their dinner, but phants carry a fetus for two years, nurse the baby for short jaws are more useful if a species needs strength, two more, and then go into estrus for only five days. as Emlen explains in his chapter on teeth. Felines have As a result, writes scientist Douglas Emlen in his debut short, powerful jaws and flexible forearms that allow Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle, male ele- them to grapple with prey; Emlen considers this as he phants fight fiercely for access to breeding females, and encounters a mountain lion in the woods behind his only the oldest, toughest elephants with the biggest house in the Missoula area. “Big cats rarely choose to hunt humans, but they can be devastatingly efficient tusks win. Elephant battles aren’t so different from medieval when they do. I was lucky I retreated.” (He includes a knights’ jousting, Emlen says, since noblemen often photo of the big cats, too.) Emlen occasionally lapses into somewhat dry textwaited years and competed in tournaments to show off their prowess to potential wives. Back then, eligible book-style explanations of basic scientific concepts, but these are brief and lead women were scarce into his sometimes-asand death in childbirth tonishing stories from was common. “Tournastudying in the field, ments afforded knights like canoeing next to with opportunities to enormous container demonstrate their ships in the Panama strength and courage Canal and slicing his in front of noblethumb to the bone with women, and everya machete in a jungle. thing about these “We were miles away spectacles reeked of from civilization with sexual selection,” no easy way to get to a Emlen writes, even hospital,” he writes down to the coats of matter-of-factly. “So we arms, which “provided sterilized the wound information on the gewith rum and sutured it netic quality of a with ants.” male—his bloodline.” Emlen’s tone is Emlen makes all light and apolitical, but sorts of other fascinatit nonetheless comes ing and cheeky comoff as darkly comic parisons in Animal when he explains just Weapons, an intriguing how similar nuclear bit of pop science that arms races are to crabs dissects similarities befighting on a beach. tween human and aniLike animals, governmal weapons, on all ments must allot rescales of life. The text is sources first to basic livened by Helena illusAnimal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle necessities, like infratrator David Tuss’ deDouglas Emlen hardcover, Henry Holt & Co. structure and educatailed images of 288 pages, $30 tion, and then funnel antlered and horned additional resources creatures, from fighting into weapons development to threaten other nations ants to freaky anglerfish. Emlen, a University of Montana biology professor, with. “An arms race between states erupts in the same begins the book by explaining that despite his Quaker way a contest between crabs escalates; neither yields, heritage, he’s always been obsessed with weapons of all pushes give way to grabs and jabs, grappling to smashkinds. One of the first critters Emlen studied was dung ing, and then pounding, and then unrestricted war.” States are like crabs on a beach, yes—it’s just that beetles, which can bear impressive horns for their body size. He remains just as awestruck with beetle battles their weapons are infinitely larger, and, as Emlen distoday, he says, and later gleefully mentions how at one cusses in a chapter on nuclear weapons, states possess research station, he and other scientists would paint the power to wipe out life as we know it. Sometimes, numbers on the backs of rival males, pick sides and like the saber-toothed tiger, large weapons become a deadly hindrance. cheer them on as they tussled. All told, Animal Weapons offers dozens of small lesAnimals with outlandish weapons, like horns or antlers, are relatively unusual in the great diversity of sons on the intricacies of life on earth, and a bigger one wildlife, and can teach us a lot about how natural selec- about how we forget that humans are just animals, too. tion puts limits on how far a species can go. Big canine It’s a pleasure to read and packed with interesting tidteeth can be an advantage, for instance, until they grow bits, whether your interests swing toward military hisso large it makes the rest of the body structure unwieldy, tory or naturalist trivia. as is what happened with the saber-toothed tiger. The physics of levers make long jaws advantageous if a kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Safely outrageous Funny people make dumb jokes in Horrible Bosses 2 by Scott Renshaw
“Don’t worry, my coffee table tap dance performance is only an hour.”
In the opening scene from Horrible Bosses 2, our returning protagonist trio—Nick ( Jason Bateman), Kurt ( Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day)—appear on a happy-talk morning news show to promote their entrepreneurial idea, a showerhead that includes a shampoo dispenser. Kurt stands in a makeshift shower in the studio to demonstrate the device, but darn it, the water won’t work. So Dale goes behind the pebbled-glass shower to manually pump the water—in such a way that it appears he is performing a pleasurable act on his friend. If that sounds like a hilarious gag—one that you didn’t think was exhausted already after three different Austin Powers movies employed slight variations on that same theme—then boy, are you the audience for Horrible Bosses 2. Because here’s a comedy built on a theoretical notion of outrageousness that actually paints within the narrowest possible notions of outrageous. Did they just go there? Well, of course they did. Unlike the murder-based plot of the original film, this one involves crime with a slightly less permanent intended consequence. Seeking to raise funds for their business, our heroes turn to venture capitalist Bert Hanson (Christoph Waltz) and his son, Rex (Chris Pine), to get them started. But when Bert deliberately screws them on their deal—forcing them into a foreclosure where he can swoop in and cash in—the friends turn to an option that conveniently combines revenge with fiscal practicality: kidnapping Rex and using the ransom money to save their business. Because it’s part of the sequel package, Horrible Bosses alumni Kevin Spacey (as Bateman’s now-jailed ex-boss), Jennifer Aniston (as Day’s sex-addict man-eating ex-boss) and Jamie Foxx (as shady underworld contact “Motherfucker” Jones) also return, for reasons with varying degrees of plausibility. But it’s really all about the chemistry between Bateman, Sudeikis and Day—and while everyone’s mileage may vary, especially where Day is concerned, there’s a terrific chemistry at work between them. Their overlapping nervous chatter has an almost musical quality, a three-part harmony of idiocy
that’s greater than the sum of the actors’ individual parts. Throw in Pine’s terrific work as a kind of paradigm of the entitled Scion douchebag—the guy has comedic chops that he’ll probably never get to exploit to the fullest because of his leading-man looks—and there’s enough energy here to provide plenty of laughs. What Horrible Bosses 2 doesn’t bother bringing to the table is all that much creatively funny stuff for them to do. Co-writer/director Sean Anders (Sex Drive, We’re the Millers)—taking over from director Seth Gordon and a writing team including John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein—goes all-in on the gay panic humor after the aforementioned shower sequence, with gags predicated on prison rape and being horrified at being misunderstood to be gay and so on and so forth. The climax involves an extended car chase with a couple of genuinely solid joke concepts, but the humor is predicated largely on the stars’ frantic responses to situations that aren’t particularly interesting. It’s a movie dependent on mistakenly equating the hilarity of a scene with how loudly everyone in that scene acts. But the bigger problem is Horrible Bosses 2 is of that comedy subgenre that poses as “transgressive,” yet is in many ways deeply conservative. It may be naughtysounding when the movie drops a punch line about sexual gratification through excretory functions, or a guy is berated for having “no balls,” or when you get a handful of those gay-panic jokes, but it’s not risk-taking. They’re jokes you would have laughed at in middle school, thrown into an R-rated package. That doesn’t mean you’re not going to laugh at some of those jokes. There’s just a difference between a funny movie and funny people in a movie—and that distinction is a script that makes more than a token effort. Horrible Bosses 2 counts on you chuckling at the suggestion that one guy is jerking another guy, when it’s spending just as much time simply jerking around. Horrible Bosses 2 opens at the Carmike 12 Thu., Nov. 27. arts@missoulanews.com
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Risk takers Who wins in 2001 vs. Interstellar? by Molly Laich
Let me start by acknowledging that the comparisons I’m about to make between Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar might raise some hackles. But, I would argue that Interstellar invites the scrutiny with several overt allusions to its predecessor. It knows that we know, and that crazy Nolan, in his dogged desire to placate the audience, can’t resist the wink. Game on. Interstellar depicts a near-future Earth on the brink of extinction. The film isn’t saying, but my guess is, based on an old man’s expository musings of a childhood filled with burgeoning technology (iPhones), that it’s been at least 60 years since our yesterday. There are vast food shortages and dust storms reminiscent of a 1930s Depression-era America. Matthew McConaughey and his family are government-mandated farmers just trying to get by, when a series of fortuitous events sends McConaughey on a space mission from a now secret NASA intent to find a new home for the inhabitants of a quickly dying Earth. From there the film plummets into a space adventure of confounding, uneven scope and beauty. It’s a film with an audacious thesis. To put it tritely: Love conquers all. Nolan wrote the script with his brother, Jonathan, and they had a lot of work to do. The film’s theories about interstellar space travel are based on the real-life work of astrophysicist Kip Thorne, and they are theories Nolan really wants his audience to understand. To its credit, the script does a mostly admirable job of that “Star Trek”-esque convention of explaining impossible theoretical concepts with laughably simple analogies. Still, we’re meant to believe these are astronauts talking to astronauts. When the team botches their mission on a waterlogged planet that results in 23 years passing on Earth, Anne Hathaway somberly tells a devastated McConaughey, “You knew about relativity.” It’s laugh-outloud stupid. Now think back to the wordless scene from 2001 where the flight attendant walks upside down through a spherical doorway to show the realities of falling through space. The missions in both films bring along some artificial intelligence. Interstellar has an AI robot named
Fake landing?
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TARS. He’s benevolent and hilarious, and he’s seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. TARS makes a joke about “throwing them out the airlock,” which Kubrick’s HAL 9000 actually did. I can’t think of a time when anyone in a Kubrick film ever deigned to make a joke. It takes guts to be so unfunny. Here the comparison gets into apples and oranges territory. HAL 9000 is an unforgettable and menacing villain, but there’s something about TARS. The moment he picks up a fallen astronaut and hurries her back to the ship conveyed such a humanlike love and urgency; it’s unlike anything I’ve seen, an image I suspect will persist long after the rest of the film fades. Finally, there’s the bizarre reference Nolan throws in about this future dystopia where the U.S. government holds the official position that the Apollo moon landings were staged propaganda, a point that McConaughey vehemently refutes. If you haven’t yet explored the conspiracy theories that Kubrick staged the Apollo missions, I’d say it’s worth looking into. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of this inclusion. Is Nolan poking fun or defending Kubrick’s legacy? The truth is, 2001 represents one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century. It’s a film whose visuals redefined what was possible in cinema, with a story that spans millions of years. It tackles questions as big as “Who are we?” and “How did we get here?” with an odd grace filmgoers still marvel at and puzzle over some 46 years later. It’s scarcely possible for a film made today to rival the impact 2001 has had on its audience. Kubrick wanted to include Saturn in his movie but back then they couldn’t get the rings right. Today moviegoers take an image like that entirely for granted. Let me put the comparisons to rest another way: 2001: A Space Odyssey demands multiple views to be understood. I suspect the same is true for Interstellar, but here’s the difference—do you really want to rewatch Interstellar? Interstellar continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA Explore the life and times of Hindu swami Paramahansa Yogananda and his success in bringing yoga and meditation to Western audiences in the 1920s. Screening at the Roxy Fri., Nov. 28-Sun., Nov. 30 at 7 and 9 PM, with additional Saturday matinee at 4 PM, featuring chai and dinner from Masala food cart. BEETLEJUICE Day-O! The dead pester the living and Michael Keaton hams it up in the 1988 classic. Starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton. Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Dec. 3 at 7 PM and Sun., Dec. 7 at 5 PM to kick off the Tim Burton best-of series. HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 Three buddies plan to kidnap an investor’s son to try to succeed in business. Starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. (See Film.) LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE Pedro and Tita celebrate a forbidden love and mad kitchen skillz. Starring Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos and Regina Torné. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Dec. 3, at 7 PM. PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR The goofy flightless avians hatch a plan to prevent the evil Dr. Brine from carrying out his plans. Featuring the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. Now that’s the spirit. Beetlejuice screens at the Roxy Wed., Dec. 3, at 7 PM.
NOW PLAYING BEYOND THE LIGHTS A rising young singer breaks free of her mold, with the help of a hunky young cop. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker and Minnie Driver. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. BIG HERO 6 A lovable puffy robot teams up with friends to rescue the city of San Fransokyo. Featuring the voices of Ryan Potter, Jamie Chung and Alan Tudyk. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
sense of purpose, celebrate la dolce vita and (probably) get it on. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer and Marcia Gay Harden. Rated PG-13. Wilma. HORNS A young man’s girlfriend dies mysteriously, and then he wakes up with supernatural prongs growing out of his head. Based on the thriller novel by Joe Hill. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple and Max Minghella. Rated R. Wilma.
DUMB AND DUMBER TO Harry and Lloyd are back with more highly intellectual antics, when the middle-aged doofuses go off in search of Harry’s long-lost daughter. Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, with the Farrelly Brothers directing. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Katniss Everdeen meets President Coin and decides whether to lead a rebellion. At this time, I would like to note that I am Team Gale. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
ELSA & FRED Two bummed-out older folks find renewed
INTERSTELLAR Space explorers use a wormhole to make the
first-ever galactic voyage. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Twitter review, “They explore a planet near a Black Hole. Personally, I’d stay as far the hell away from BlackHoles as I can.” Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. (See Film.) MET LIVE: BARBER OF SEVILLE The 2009 rendition of Rossini’s operatic comedy stars mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Rosina and Peter Mattei as the eponymous barber. Screening at the Roxy Tue., Dec. 2 at 6:30 PM. Visit mtlive.org. PONYO A plucky, personable goldfish befriends a young boy before she accidentally unleashes a sea of trouble. Screening at the Roxy Sun., Nov. 30 at 4 PM, to round out the Hiyao Miyazaki retrospective. THE SKELETON TWINS Estranged twins reunite after both narrowly es-
caping death on the same day. Starring Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Luke Wilson. Rated R. Wilma. THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY A glamorous couple visiting Greece in the 1960s gets tangled in a sinister web of infatuation and paranoia. Rated PG-13. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. Wilma.
Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. 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. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Why, and how, to eat mussels by Ari LeVaux The lowly mussel is making a comeback lately, for many good reasons. Mussels are tasty, cheap and virtually guilt free—an increasingly rare quality among animal proteins. The environmental consequences of meat eating are enough to give pause to most any carnivore with a conscience. Cows fart and burp methane, which is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. Pig waste is polluting waterways. Nearly a third of the earth’s ice-free land is devoted to the raising of animals for eating and milking—or to farmland on which animal feed is grown. Vegetarianism, many argue, is the only responsible way to eat. But we love our animal protein. Some say we need it. There are loopholes in this vegetarian guilt trip. If you live in a place where animals are sufficiently abundant that they can be hunted without pressuring the populations, you can eat wild game. You could eat bugs, of which there appears no shortage, although that’s not the kind of extra protein most people have in mind. Someday soon you might be able to sink your teeth into lab-grown meat, but today that option remains prohibitively expensive. What does that leave us? Mussels, that’s what. Mussels are one of the cheapest and tastiest forms of animal protein available, and their environmental resume is impressive. They require no feed, as they filter algae, plankton and other microscopic nutrients from the water. Diseases are few, making the use of antibiotics virtually nonexistent. And the fact that mussel shells are made of calcium carbonate means they absorb carbon from the environment. This is true of other shellfish as well, including clams, oysters, snails and scallops. But mussels contain the highest percentage of carbon per dry weight, in both their shells and soft tissues, of any shellfish. But while mussels might be part of the solution to high atmospheric carbon dioxide, they’re also victims of the problem. One consequence of high atmospheric CO2 is it lowers the pH of the oceans, making the water more acidic, which messes with the mollusks. Off the coast of Washington state, where ocean acidification has been observed, mussel beds have been replaced by acid-tolerant algae. A study published in Nature Climate Change and reviewed in Scientific American found that lower ocean pH saps the legendary strength of the mussel’s byssal threads, often referred to as “beards,” which connect them to the rock, ship or whatever substrate to which they are attached. “The shellfish industry, already adjusting to the fact that acidifying oceans hurt the abilities of sea creatures like oysters to make their shells, is also likely to experience losses when mussels lose their ability to cling,” notes Scientific American. “If the mus-
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sels’ byssal attachments are weakened, they are more likely to fall off the rope when it gets pulled up.” This rope refers to the cultivation method most commonly used for mussels, in which the bivalves are grown on ropes dangling in the water. Some mussels are grown on seafloor beds, a less desirable method because dredging is necessary to harvest them. This practice is disruptive to the ocean floor, according to Seafood Watch, which rates farmed mussels a “Best Choice,” and recommends seeking suspended culture mussels, which are the most common. An order of mussels served in a wine sauce can be the most affordable meal option at many a restaurant. But before you place that order, it’s worth heeding the cautionary words of Anthony Bourdain, from his book Kitchen Confidential. “I don’t eat mussels in restaurants unless I know the chef, or have seen, with my own eyes, how they store and hold their mussels for service,” he writes. “I love mussels. But, in my experience, most cooks are less than scrupulous in their handling of them. More often than not, mussels are allowed to wallow in their own foul-smelling piss at the bottom of the reach-in.” All it takes is one bad mussel to ruin a whole meal. When cooking mussels at home, you can take precautions to avoid that one bad mussel, and these measures start at the store. If you notice a lot of open shells in the mussel pile behind the seafood counter, it might be an old batch. If you still decide to go for it, make sure the fishmonger picks through them and removes any open ones, or mussels with broken shells. Smell them before you pay—they should smell like the ocean, not fish. Keep them cool until cooking time. Some people recommend purging mussels before cooking, to remove grit from their bellies. This is commonly done by soaking them in saltwater with cornmeal, which they supposedly eat, while expunging the grit from their bellies. There is conflicting evidence over whether the cornmeal even works. In any case, cultivated mussels are purged before being shipped, so purging is only necessary with wild mussels. For a simple preparation of the type that’s most commonly served in restaurants, start by sautéing a minced shallot and a few cloves of garlic in olive oil in a pot or deep pan. Add a half-cup of dry white wine and let it boil for a minute to evaporate the alcohol. I like to add a few cherry tomatoes here, but it isn’t necessary. Add your mussels and a handful of chopped parsley, and cook for about five minutes, covered, until the mussels all open. (Any mussels that refuse to open should not be eaten). Add another handful of parsley, mix it all around, and serve, jus and all, with bread. Eat it with an air of piousness. You are, after all, saving the world. Or at least you aren’t wrecking it as much as you could be.
[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice’s is rockin’ out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain’t all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly fall mornin’ while nibblin’ a Raspberry Cheese Danish. Or order any one of our delicious fruit pies with a dozen dinner rolls for Thanksgiving. Bernice’s…a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 42 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. $
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. 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. $-$$ Eagles Lodge #32 Missoula 2420 South Avenue • 543-6346 Tailgate with us before each Griz home game, and get a FREE ride to the game on our shuttle. Soup, salad and burgers served for lunch Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 2:30pm. Don’t forget to stop in for our Thursday Night Matadors & Friday Night Burgers, 6:00 to 8:00pm both nights. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday night and admission is always FREE! El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 FREE DELIVERY DOWNTOWN. Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted 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 $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ 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 $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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Kettlehouse Golden Growler HANGRIEST HOUR What it is: A small investment in a lifetime of discounted Kettlehouse beer. A Golden Growler costs $100, but it entitles you to $5 fills, plus a complimentary glass of beer with each fill, for the rest of your life. A couple of rules to keep in mind, though: barrel-aged and imperial brews are off limits, and these growlers can only be filled once a day. Do the math: With a Golden Growler, you’ll save $3 per fill and pay off your investment in 34 fills. And when you factor in the free beers that would otherwise cost you $4 each, the savings are even better. What’s the catch: There isn’t one. Kettlehouse knows they’re giving you an incredibly good deal. That’s why they’re doing it, according to Zeb Harrington, the brewery’s operations manager. “We just wanted to kind of build on their excitement about getting beer at the Kettlehouse,” Harrington says. “And we want to give people a reason to come in here and make this their stop.” Why does the Golden Growler name sound familiar? Yes, loyal Indy readers,
the paper did once perform a taste test and scoring of local beers called the Golden Growlers. Thanks for reading—and remembering. How to get one: Golden Growlers go on sale at 1 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 28, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis until they’re gone. There’s a limit of two per person. While you wait: With so much at stake, there may be long lines on the 28th. To keep you entertained, Kettlehouse will have food, raffles and maybe even live music from 1 to 4 on Friday. Where to be: The sale will go down at both Kettlehouse locations, on the Northside at 313 N. First St. W. and off the Hip Strip at 602 Myrtle St.. —Ted McDermott Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am2am. $-$$ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) • themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3? (Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 South Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh
meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Parker’s Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare. Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers! Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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FRIDAYNOV28 Duck out of the chill and Russ Nasset and the Revelators will warm things up right quick at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9-10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240. Oh, you ain’t going away hungry from the Ovando Old West Christmas Fest, wherein artists, cowboys and cooks put on a shindig with arts ‘n crafts, horse-drawn wagon rides touring town and the Outlaw Shoot-Out throughout the day. Find plenty of frybread, pies and other goodies along the way, plus Cowboy Claus will ride into town. Nov. 28-29. Call 793-0018 to learn more. (See Spotlight.) You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library from noon-2 PM Fridays. The Women’s Circle Group Acupuncture at Mountain Sage Acupuncture Clinic, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 1, focuses on women’s health issues and sounds comfy and nice. 2–5 PM, last appointment at 4 PM. Sliding scale treatments $20-40 with a first time administration fee of $10. Call (503) 593-7073.
nightlife Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM, with a rotating group of live, local musicians. No cover. Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to the Emerald Isle with the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover. Clean out the fridge and prance the night away at the Thanksgiving Leftovers dinner and dance at the Golden Age Club, 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. Potluck dinner, with any holiday entree, salad or dessert, at 6 PM, with dancing to follow at 7 PM and tunes from the Don Welch Band. $3. Best seat in the house. Brothers Gow play the Top Hat Thu., Dec. 4, along with Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails. 9:30 PM. No cover.
THURSDAYNOV27 Today, of course, ‘tis Thanksgiving. School and government agencies are closed. Calapatra is thankful for many things t h i s y e a r, i n c l u d i n g k i t t i e s , t h e A P Stylebook Online, knitted hats, the collected works of Alkaline Trio and, of course, our dear readers.
The Women’s Club opens the gym to everyone (including dudes) for the Thanksgiving Morning Turkey Trot, with free classes including Ripped, cycling and Zumba from 9-11 AM. (Pool won’t be available.) Donation of one non-perishable food item for entry; come in through the double-doors to the entrance on Bow Street. The fourth annual Queergiving invites folks from the LGBTQIA spectrum and allies to spend the holiday in a welcoming, supportive
atmosphere at the Western Montana Community Center, 127 N. Higgins St., Ste. 202. 3-6 PM. Potluck contributions welcome. Free.
nightlife Thursday night is far too dignified these days, kids, and so the Dead Hipster DJs have returned to set things to rights with the bumpin’ dance par-tay at the Badlander. $3, with $1 wells from 9 PM-midnight like you always dreamt of.
Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733. Sing a happy tune at the Evaro Bar’s Friday night karaoke and you just might win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, free to sing. 17025 US Highway 93 North. DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.
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[calendar] Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. Take note Monk’s is closed on Thanksgiving, but will host the party on Fri., Nov. 28. Cure that cabin fever and do the wobble-gobble at nite at the Fox Den DJs’ Foxxy Friday, going down at the Badlander starting at 9 PM. No cover. Let them eat birthday cake shots at the Black Friday Party with Whiskey Hooves and co. providing pirate-revelry all night in honor of Shandielle A’s birthday. Stage 112. 9 PM. $3.
SATURDAYNOV29 Cruise on up to the Nine Mile for its annual community holiday fair, which opens at 10 AM with coffee and rolls for breakfast, an array of handmade arts and crafts on display, turkey shoot with Sapphire Mountain Men at 11 AM and lunch starting at noon. Nine Mile Community Center, 25620 Nine Mile Road in Huson. Closes at 4 PM. If your gift wrapping abilities look more like a squirrel gnawed on some paper than a Martha Stew-
Oh, you ain’t going away hungry from the Ovando Old West Christmas Fest, wherein artists, cowboys and cooks put on a shindig with arts ‘n crafts, horse-drawn wagon rides and the Outlaw Shoot-Out throughout the day. Find plenty of frybread, pies and other goodies along the way, plus Cowboy Claus will be ride into town. Nov. 28-29. Call 793-0018 to learn more. The new Missoula Winter Public Market features all manner of produce, meats, eggs, honey and treats, plus coffee and craft vendors. 800 S. Third St. W. Open Saturdays, Nov. 8-Dec. 27, and then every other
nightlife Snap outta that turkey coma, put on some pants and swing on by Draught Works to hear tunes from John Adam Smith, 6-8 PM. No cover. The Owen Ross Duo with Sam Ore plays jazzy tunes at the Red Bird Wine Bar, inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover. The Captain Wilson Conspiracy fills the air with jazzy ambiance while the rank and file fills it with intrigue at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St. 7-9 PM. No cover.
Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. Two-fer-one Absolut vodka drinks until midnight. No cover. DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free. The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays. 7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM. Escape the in-laws for a bit and do the turkey trot when Band in Mo-
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Purple haze. The Magpies play the Top Hat Sat., Nov. 29, along with VTO and Vera. 10 PM. No cover.
Escape the in-laws for a bit and do the turkey trot when Band in Motion plays tunes at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 9 PM or so. No cover. John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406721-2416 or just show up. Act like Madonna, but listen to Merle when Nashville 406 plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover. Zeppo MT kicks up Friday nite a notch with old-school rhythm ‘n blues revue at the Top Hat, starting at 10. No cover.
art-approved decoration, the Hip Strip businesses have your back with gift wrapping from 11 AM-5 PM on Saturdays. Nov. 29 is at the Sustainable Business Council, 415 N Higgins Ave No. 119, Dec. 6 at the Roxy, Dec. 13 at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Dec. 20 at the Senior Citizens Center. Donations go to each nonprofit. Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9-10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 5417240. Get musical while finding your flow when Brian Baty leads a live music Vinyasa yoga class, which features music by Nathan Zavalney, every Sat. from 9:30–10:45 AM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10/$8 students drop-in. Visit yogainmissoula.com.
Saturday, Jan. 10-April 25. 10 AM-2 PM. Visit facebook.com/mslawinterpublicmarket. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Relay for Life Arts and Crafts Fair presents a slew of goodies, from chocolates to jellies to jewelry to paintings, in the Head Start Building, 1001 Worden Ave. 11 AM-3 PM. Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.
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Cut loose with the Wild Coyote Band, playing a country-fried dance party at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. (near Mount and Russell) every Saturday from 7-11 PM. $7. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents a festive rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Mark Metcalf, who you may remember from such shows as National Lampoon’s Animal House and “Seinfeld.” Performances at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center Nov. 25 and 29 at 7:30 PM, Nov. 30 at 2 and 6:30 PM, Dec. 2-5 at 7:30 PM, and Dec. 6 at 2 and 7:30 PM. $10-$20; visit umt.edu/theatredance. Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733.
tion plays tunes at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 9 PM or so. No cover. Escape the family by chilling with Lige Newton and, funny enough, The Whole Family (featuring members of Good Old Fashioned.) Stage 112. 9 PM. No cover. Act like Madonna, but listen to Merle when Nashville 406 plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover. Reach for the top shelf hooch when the Bottom Feeders put on a show at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover. Is the mysterious new band IV3 actually a Dave Grohl side project? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s by showing up at the Palace at 10 PM for the free show. (Please look up “joke” in the dictionary before calling me, people.)
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in harmony The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews as a governess who falls in love with the father of her seven students, has been beloved since it came out in 1965. According to IMDB trivia, the 174-minute film was so WHAT: Sound of Music sing-along WHO: Missoula Community Chorus WHERE: The Roxy WHEN: Sun., Nov. 30, at 1 and 6 PM HOW MUCH: $10-$15
popular in South Korea that a theater owner wanted to show it more times a day—so he shortened it by cutting out all the musical numbers. You can bet the Missoula Community Chorus would never dream of doing such a thing when it hosts its third annual sing-along featuring Sound of Music at the Roxy on Sunday. This follows up last year’s White Christmas spectacular. There are prizes, a costume contest, Austrian-style concessions and a photo booth, followed by screenings of the classic
If Missoula’s Magpies survive the fearsome mini-tour to Great Falls, they’ll fly right on in to the Top Hat to rawk out, along with VTO and Vera. 10 PM. No cover.
SUNDAYNOV30 It ain’t over ‘til the whole darn choir sings in praise at the UM School of Music’s rendition of Handel’s Messiah. Dennison Theatre, 7:30 PM. Free. Visit choralfestival.org.
film, complete with bouncing subtitles, so everyone can sing along with ease to tunes like “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” and “My Favorite Things.” (You also might prepare ahead of time by going online and checking out Entertainment Weekly’s “The Sound of Music: We Rank Every Song,” which is an amusing list that declares “Something Good” to be the worst song in the musical.) The Missoula Community Chorus is a nonprofit, non-auditioned group that welcomes anyone who loves to sing, regardless of ability. So whether you’re an off-duty opera star or just a shower-singing sensation, feel free to bring the whole family to the Sound of Music sing-along and belt it out. —Kate Whittle
Whether the thrill of the sport or the thrill of Tom Brady’s backside lures you, the Top Hat has sports fans covered with a big-screen showing of the Packers vs. Patriots game. 2:25 PM. No cover, all ages.
at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center Nov. 25 and 29 at 7:30 PM, Nov. 30 at 2 and 6:30 PM, Dec. 2-5 at 7:30 PM, and Dec. 6 at 2 and 7:30 PM. $10-$20; visit umt.edu/theatredance.
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The delightful Ms. Caroline Keys and co. get Sunday Funday rolling in style at Draught Works, with tunes from 5-7 PM. No cover.
The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents a festive rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Mark Metcalf, who you may remember from such shows as National Lampoon’s Animal House and “Seinfeld.” Performances
Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs, plus a selection of local
The hills of Mount Sentinel shall come alive with music when the Missoula Community Chorus hosts the Sound of Music Sing-Along soiree at the Roxy, with a photo booth, costumes, prizes, Austrian food and subtitled screening of the Julie Andrews classic. $12/$10 in advance for the 1 PM matinee. $15/$13 in advance for the 6 PM show. Advance tickets at singalongmissoula.com and Rockin Rudy’s. (See Spotlight.) Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their acoustic instrument, or just sit a spell and listen. 24 PM. Call John at 381-2483. Free.
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[calendar] coffees and tees for your apéritifs. Music starts at 8 PM. Free. Mark the Sabbath with some Black Sabbath or whatever else twangs your heartstrings at the Sunday Funday evening karaoke at the Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., featuring $1 domestic drafts and wells. Free.
MONDAYDEC01 USC professor Robert English chats about “Ukraine, Russia and the West: Crisis, Causes and Consequences,” part of the President’s Lecture Series. Dennison Theatre, 8 PM. Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Therapeutic Yoga for Wellness meets for a dose of gentle asanas to ease your anxiety, chronic fatigue or other maladies. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Noon-1 PM. $40 for six classes/$9 drop-in. Call 721-0033. Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25. Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707. Keep those neurons firing with the Young Artist After-School Program at the ZACC, which teaches art history and fundamentals through the course of the year. Ages 6-11 meet Mondays & Wednesdays from 3:25-5:30 PM,
ter at Red Willow on Mondays from Nov. 17-Dec. 28, 6:15-7:30 PM. $40 for four-week series.
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Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
The annual Old West Christmas Fest swells the metropolis of Ovando (population: 71, according to the U.S. Census) when it invites folks to come on down for all sorts of festivities. Ovando might be small, but it certainly has its municipal priorities in place, since its designated Organizer of Frivolous Affairs, Kathy Schoendoerfer, orchestrates the whole deal. WHAT: Ovando Old West Christmas Fest
Hang out with Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man and discover what truths are out there at the Roxy’s screening of selected “The X-Files” episodes from throughout the series. Mondays at 7 PM. $5. Treats from Tandem Doughnuts will be on hand.
WHERE: Ovando, 50 miles east of Missoula on Highway 200 WHEN: Fri., Nov. 28-Sat., Nov. 29 HOW MUCH: Most events free
Throughout the day on Friday and Saturday, the Ovando School gym holds a craft fair with everything from “African basketry to wildlife gifts.” If you stroll to the town museum, writers Donna Love and Tanya Fyfe will be signing and reading their books. Or wander to the fire hall for gingerbread house making. Things won’t be too bucolic, though, since various troublemakers and Too Tall Tom Black will be drawing pistols and throwing axes for the Ovando Outlaw Shoot-Out. The press release notes that this doesn’t “sound all that festive and holiday-ish; but what the heck! They’re a lot of fun!”
Thursdays 2:30-5. Ages 12-16 meet Fridays 3:45-5:30. $12 per day/$10 for members, with options to enroll for one class or a month’s worth. Visit zootownarts.org/youngartists to register. Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at
Should one get hungry on this venture, you can find grub like Navajo tacos and frybread, sandwiches and soup, pub-style offerings at Trixi’s Saloon and smatterings of pies, cheesecakes and espresso throughout the craft fair in the gym. And as fitting for any Christmas celebration, Cowboy Claus, the Western cousin to Santa, will ride into town on his steed at 1 PM each day to greet ranching kids and city folk alike. It doesn’t take a big town to offer up a whole lot of holiday spirit. —Kate Whittle
the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.
nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.
Let’s get physical, physical, at the Zumba Fitness Classes at Lolo School cafeteria. Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-7 PM. $2/free for Lolo residents. Register by calling Kathy at 273-0451. The Restorative Yoga for Providers course aims to help caregivers from a variety of professions breathe deep and relax. Meets at the Learning Cen-
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Johnny Marr, who you may remember from such outfits as The Smiths and Modest Mouse, plays the Top Hat along with Meredith Sheldon. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30. 18plus. Check out tophatlounge.com. The Open Aid Alliance marks World AIDS Day with a screening of “The Normal Heart,” about the HIV/AIDS epidemic at the Crystal. 7 PM. Free, but donations of nonperishable food requested to go to the YWCA women’s shelter. (See Agenda.) Whisper sweet nothings while the Captain Wilson Conspiracy keeps a jazzy watch at Red Bird Wine Bar, inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org.
FIVE VALLEYS BOWL, A GREAT ENVIRONMENT FOR BUSINESS, FAMILY OR CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS TO SCHEDULE CHRISTMAS PARTIES. WE HAVE 24 LANES, TWO BARS, AND A FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANT TO ACCOMMODATE YOUR GROUP. CALL 549-4158 TO RESERVE YOUR TIME.
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Woman of mystery. The Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio plays Draught Works Brewery Thu., Dec. 4. 6-8 PM. No cover.
Rock the mic when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free. Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: What was the first radio station in the nation to start playing Christmas music this year? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning tunes and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM-1:30 AM. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
TUESDAYDEC02 All-around fun-guy Larry Evans reads from his latest celebration of fungi, A Field Guide to Tropical Amazon Mushrooms. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Dance cuz everybody’s watching at the American Cabaret Style bellydance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. This class is great for beginners and experienced dancers alike. 6–7 PM. Visit madronadance.wordpress.com. You’ll be seeing stars at Bingo on Broadway, with cash prizes, $3 Sam
Adams pints and food specials. Broadway Inn, 1609 W. Broadway St. 8 PM. $6 buy-in.
corner of Third and Reserve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.
Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.
Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM twostep and 8 PM country cha-cha.
Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. Now meeting at the Commons Room at Dearborn Condominiums, 2101 Dearborn Ave. All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955. Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40. Students must have doctor’s okay.
nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at the Ewam Buddhist Center, S. Third Ave W. 5:30-6:30 PM. Call Clare at 721-8224. It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the
Yes we CAN at the Climate Action Now student group meetings, every Tuesday night at the UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth St. 6 PM. Visit umt.edu/umflat. Beat the seasonal frenzy when the Holiday Stress Relief Class presents a relaxing series of mini-retreats, where you’ll learn self-hypnosis relaxation tools with clinical hypnotherapist Patrick Marsolek. 210 N. Higgins, Suite 207. Meets on Tuesdays from 6-7:30 PM, Dec. 2-16. $35 for all three classes. Call 443-3439 or visit innerworkingsresources.com/StressRelief to register or learn more. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents a festive rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Mark Metcalf,
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PM. First Tuesday of the month. Dec. 2 features the Beet Tops providing tuneage. No cover. The Eat My Shorts 80s Dance Party, in honor of a couple gal’s birthdays, grooves like it was nineteen-eighty with DJs Energy Release Proponent and Stripclub Soundtrack. Real Lounge, 112 Front St. 8 PM. No cover. (Trivia answer: Cape May, N.J. station Easy 93.1, which started playing holiday music on Oct. 17.) Impress your friends! Crush your enemies! Or at least strum a guitar tunefully, same diff, at Stage 112’s Open Mic, hosted by Joey Running Crane. 9 PM. No cover. Call him up at 229-0488 to get a slot. Strum some post-trivia victory chords at the Singer-Songwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Tue., Dec. 2 features the music stylings of Hunter and the Gatherers and Micah Nielsen.
WEDNESDAYDEC03 Mozart doesn’t have the only requiem game in town, so check out Gabriel Faure’s Requiem, performed with the University Choir, Chamber Chorale and Symphony Orchestra, with guest appearance from the Women’s Chorus. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 for seniors/$5 students. The Reflective Morning Movement invites one and all to get a contemplative start to the morning. Things begin with a few minutes of silent meditation followed by music and movement at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., at 7 AM on Wednesday mornings. $5 suggested donation. Contact Jody for more info at 529-5849. Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow. Wednesdays, 7:30-8:15 AM. Previous
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[calendar] experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/$8 drop-in. Spice up your lunch hour with tunes from Michael Zarling, playing the UC Atrium from noon-1 PM. Free, all ages. Learn the tricks and techniques of your dang fancy new device at the My iPad class, which offers instruction on navigation and apps. Missoula Public Library, 12:30 PM. Registration required, so call 721-BOOK. (And remember to bring your own iPad.) Cheers all around at the Community uNite at the Northside Kettlehouse, where pints purchased from 4-8 PM will help support MUD and its nonprofit mission to foster sustainability and DIY ethics.
nightlife The Growl For Good pint night benefits the good eggs at Garden City Harvest. Laughing Grizzly, 2300 W. Broadway, 5-8 PM. Free to attend. You don’t wanna get left out in the cold this season, so check out Dudley Improta’s one-hour introduction on avalanche awareness and safety at the North Underground Lecture Hall. 6 PM. Free. B-29, you’re doing fine, I-30, dirty gertie, N31, get up and run, G-32, buckle my shoe, O-33, come in for tea. What’s that spell? Yell it with me: BINGO! Every week at the Lucky Strike bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Runs 6:30-9:30 PM, followed by karaoke with whiskey specials. (Bingo Lingo not necessarily included.) Win $50 off your bar tab by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM, plus specials on wings, pizza and pitchers. Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night, featuring a rotating lineup of local jazz enthusiasts. 7 PM. Free, all ages. Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials. 7:30-10:30 PM. No cover. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents a festive rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Mark Metcalf, who you may remember from such shows as National Lampoon’s Animal House and “Seinfeld.” Performances at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center Nov. 25 and 29 at 7:30 PM, Nov. 30 at 2 and 6:30 PM, Dec. 2-5 at 7:30 PM, and Dec. 6 at 2 and 7:30 PM. $10-$20; visit umt.edu/theatredance. I’ll bring the peanut butter, y’all bring that sweet jaaaaam to the Soul Kitch’n Blues Boogie sesh at the Dark Horse, starting at 9 PM. $50 prize for best act each week. No cover.
THURSDAYDEC04 Check out some up-and-coming artists and take home something useful at the annual Art Annex Holiday Sale and Juried Show, with ceramics and sculpture from the UM Emerging Ceramic Artists and Student Sculpture Association. Find it in the Art Annex on Thu., Dec. 4, with opening reception from 4-7 PM, and Dec. 5 and 6 from 9 AM-7 PM. Indulge that festive spirit at the Holiday Art Fair in the University Center, with artists from around the northwest peddling textiles, photography, pottery, jewelry and more. Thu., Dec. 4-Fri., Dec. 5 from 9 AM-6 PM, and Sat., Dec. 6 from 10 AM-4 PM. Free to browse.
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Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org. Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Thu. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Drop-ins welcome. Call 360-1521.
nightlife Mary Place and Blue Moon heat up the afternoon with tunes at the Union Club every Thursday from 5:30-8 PM. No cover. Regulate elemental and organ spirits at Xi Xi Hu, the walking qigong form developed in China in the 1960s. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Thursdays, Dec. 4-Dec. 18, from 6-7:30 PM. $40 for three-week series. Call 721-0033 to learn more. Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio parks at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., for a hoppy good time and tunes from 6-8 PM. No cover. Andrea Harsell brings her graceful tunes to the Top Hat dinner show, 6-8 PM. No cover. Inner Harmony Yoga hosts a screening of Unmistaken Child, the 2008 documentary about a monk’s search for the reincarnation of his master. 214 E. Main St. Suite B. 7 PM. Free. Bring a cushion or beach chair to sit on the floor. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents a festive rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Mark Metcalf, who you may remember from such shows as National Lampoon’s Animal House and “Seinfeld.” Performances at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center Nov. 25 and 29 at 7:30 PM, Nov. 30 at 2 and 6:30 PM, Dec. 2-5 at 7:30 PM, and Dec. 6 at 2 and 7:30 PM. $10-$20; visit umt.edu/theatredance. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Thursday night is far too dignified these days, kids, and so the Dead Hipster DJs have returned to set things to rights with the bumpin’ dance par-tay at the Badlander. $3, with $1 wells from 9 PM-midnight like you always dreamt of. Twirl your Christmas cutie when Dark Horse Country Band plays dancing tunes throughout the evening at the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 9. No cover. Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free. San Diego-based funk-rock outfit Brothers Gow brings some sunny cheer to the Top Hat, along with Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails. 9:30 PM. No cover. Let the Little Drummer Boy Challenge begin. Submit your seasonal and weekly calendar events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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holidays, including the Turkey Day run on Thanksgiving Day. For competitive types, the run includes a chiptimed 8K, but you can also take it easier for the untimed 3K family fun run. Whether you’re first or last over the finish line, it’ll make the holiday’s pumpkin pie taste all the sweeter. —Kate Whittle The Turkey Day 8K and untimed 3K family fun run takes off from McCormick Park and runs along the Kim Williams Trail. Thu., Nov. 27, at 9:30 AM. Fun run is free, but donations to the food bank are encouraged for entry. Check out runwildmissoula.org.
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Fingers crossed and powder permitting, ski season starts today at Big Sky Resort and elsewhere. Check out bigskyresort.com.
As the earth tilts on its axis, the Montana Dirt Girls switch gears to host weekly hikes in the Missoula area, Tuesday evenings at 6 PM, November through March. Find out locations and info by signing up for the mail list at mtdirtgirls.tripod.com.
Keep an eye on that timer for Great Falls’ Burn the Bird Thanksgiving Day 5K and 10K, which begin on the River’s Edge Trail behind the FWP office. No refunds or weather cancellation, mind you. Check out racemt.com/BTB.htm. If you’re home in Butte, America this holiday, get out of the house and step quick at the Silver Bow Montessori Turkey Trot , a 1-mile and 5-K road race starting at the Hennessy Market. Check out silverbowmontessori.org. Bozeman’s Huffing For Stuffing includes a 10K and 5K run/walk starting at the Museum of the Rockies; online registration closes on Nov. 24. Jog on over to huffingforstuffing.com.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29 You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.
MONDAY DECEMBER 1 The West Central Montana Avalanche Center presents an introduction about avalanches with gnarly footage, slides and discussion on how to recognize dangerous conditions. 6:30 PM at REI in Missoula. Free. Space is limited, so head over to rei.com.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3 UM geosciences prof and volcanologist Ian Lange presents the hot topic of “Volcanoes and Climate Change” at the Montana Natural History Center. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation/free for MNHC members.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 4 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org. Combine conifers into festive decor with the Holiday Wreath Workshop at Montana Natural History Center, where you’ll also learn about identification tips and local species of evergreens as you work. 5:30-7:30 PM. $10/$5 for MNHC members. Registration is required, so call 327-0405 to sign up. Stretch those sore calves at Thursday Evening Yoga for Runners, which meets from Thursdays 6-7 PM through Dec. 4 at the Runner’s Edge basement classroom, 304 N. Higgins Ave. Mats provided. $92/$85 for members. Email runyogamissoula@gmail.com or visit runwildmissoula.org to learn more. calendar@missoulanews.com
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Today, HIV-positive people with access to good medical care don’t have to think of their diagnosis as a death sentence—but that leaves out many underserved, impoverished people around the world and in the United States. The fight against AIDS continues, and as part of that, World AIDS Day, every Dec. 1, honors those lost to the epidemic and spreads awareness. Missoula’s Open Aid Alliance marks the day with a screening of The Normal Heart. It’s based on activist Larry Kramer’s 1985 stage play, which Time called an “alarm bell for a fire blazing.” The film stars Mark Ruffalo as a writer trying to expose the emerging AIDS crisis in the gay community of 1981 New York, and Julia Roberts as a doctor dealing with men afflicted by then-unknown causes. Ruffalo was nominated for an Emmy for his emotional performance, and the film won Best TV Movie at this year’s Emmys. The HIV virus, as we know now, can infect anyone, and it is present in Montana. The Open Aid Alliance works throughout the year to help people get tested and access services. And the Alliance folks are such good eggs that they’re putting on this film screening and requesting food donations for another
The Normal Heart cause: the YWCA’s safe-housing program for women. —Kate Whittle The Open Aid Alliance marks World AIDS Day Mon., Dec. 1, with a screening of The Normal Heart at the Crystal. 7 PM. Free, but donations of nonperishable food requested to go to the YWCA.
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Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.
Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.
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Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.
Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.
The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at the Ewam Buddhist Center, S. Third Ave W. 5:30-6:30 PM. Call Clare at 721-8224.
Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.
Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, where you’ll roleplay stressful situations and practice responding calmly. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free.
The Restorative Yoga for Providers course aims to help caregivers from a variety of professions breathe deep and relax. Meets at the Learning Center at Red Willow on Mondays from Nov. 17-Dec. 28, 6:15-7:30 PM. $40 for four-week series. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays. USC professor Robert English chats about “Ukraine, Russia and the West: Crisis, Causes and Consequences,” part of the President’s Lecture Series. Dennison Theatre, 8 PM.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3
Cheers all around at the Community uNite at the Northside Kettlehouse, where pints purchased from 4-8 PM will help support MUD and its nonprofit mission to foster sustainability and DIY ethics. The Growl For Good pint night benefits the good eggs at Garden City Harvest. Laughing Grizzly, 2300 W. Broadway, 5-8 PM. Free to attend.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 4 UM professor and Har Shalom rabbinic intern Laurie Franklin discusses “Black Fire on White Fire: Sacred Text in Jewish Tradition,” at the UC Theater, 5:307:30 PM. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 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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entails, including your need for some unapproved lone fun. If, for her, this isn't so much about time as it is about feeling important to you, you could pledge to be extra-affectionate when you're together—hug her, kiss her, sweetie-talk her—and set aside a designated day every week to spend together (as a number of comedy couples do). If she can opt for quality over quantity, you should be able to retire from your brief career as a failed liar—or at least put lying in its proper place: getting out of your driveway in the morning without starting a blood feud with the neighbor and keeping holiday dinners with the family from ending with somebody's face pressed between the plates of the George Foreman grill.
SHRIEKING BEAUTY Our neighborhood bar started having karaoke night on weekends, and my wife always wants to go and sing. I love her, and she's a great person, but she's an absolutely terrible singer, and I'm embarrassed for her (and a little for myself) every time she gets up there and belts one out. Does love mean being honest with your wife about her singing voice? —Broken Eardrums Your wife is one of the few karaoke singers who manages to surprise the audience—making people turn around to see whether someone's singing "Blackbird" or being pecked to death by one. This actually isn't a bad thing. "Karaoke" is Japanese for "y'all better be drunk, because I'm trying my luck at Donna Summer." Great karaoke isn't about doing it right; it's about doing it proud. So you show your love for your wife by whooping up the audience—clapping and cheering as she misses all the high notes (singing from the heart but with the vocal stylings of a diseased spleen). While you're at it, consider yourself lucky. People with a healthy sense of confidence make the best relationship partners—if somewhat costlier ones, like when you need to get your house professionally soundproofed so the neighbors will stop reporting you for animal cruelty. Interestingly, the satanic rituals involving a flock of chickens and a nail gun always seem to take place when your wife is in the shower.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I have two encyclopedias of dreams, and they disagree on the symbolic meaning of mud. One book says that when you dream of mud, you may be facing a murky moral dilemma in your waking life, or are perhaps dealing with a messy temptation that threatens to compromise your integrity. The other encyclopedia suggests that when you dream of mud, it means you have received an untidy but fertile opportunity that will incite growth and creativity. I suspect that you have been dreaming of mud lately, Taurus, and that both meanings apply to you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are there certain influences you would love to bring into your life, but you can't figure out how? Do you fantasize about getting access to new resources that would make everything better for you, but they seem to be forever out of reach? If you answered "yes," it's time to stop moping. I'm happy to report that you have more power than usual to reel in those desirable influences and resources. To fully capitalize on this power, be confident that you can attract what you need.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Should you cut back and retrench? Definitely. Should you lop off and bastardize? Definitely not. Do I recommend that you spend time editing and purifying? Yes, please. Does this mean you should censor and repress? No, thank you. Here's my third pair of questions: Will you be wise enough to shed some of your defense mechanisms and strip away one of your lame excuses? I hope so. Should you therefore dispense with all of your psychic protections and leave yourself vulnerable to being abused? I hope not.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I know you're beautiful and you know you're beautiful. But I think you could be even more beautiful than you already are. What do you think? Have you reached the limits of how beautiful you can be? Or will you consider the possibility that there is even more beauty lying dormant within you, ready to be groomed and expressed? I encourage you to ruminate on these questions: 1. Are you hiding a complicated part of your beauty because it would be hard work to liberate it? 2. Are you afraid of some aspect of your beauty because revealing it would force you to acknowledge truths about yourself that are at odds with your self-image? 3. Are you worried that expressing your full beauty would intimidate other people?
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Helsinki, Finland is growing downwards. By cutting out space in the bedrock below the city's surface, farseeing leaders have made room to build shops, a data center, a hockey rink, a church, and a swimming pool. There are also projects underway to construct 200 other underground structures. I'd like to see you start working along those lines, Virgo—at least metaphorically. Now would be an excellent time to renovate your foundations so as to accommodate your future growth.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Pantone Color Matching System presents a structured approach to identifying colors. It's used as a standard in the printing industry. According to its system of classification, there are 104 various shades of grey. I suspect you will benefit from being equally discerning in the coming weeks. It just won't be possible to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys. You'll misunderstand situations that you try to simplify, and you'll be brilliant if you assume there's always more nuance and complexity to uncover. Don't just grudgingly tolerate ambiguity, Libra. Appreciate it. Learn from it.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I am not necessarily predicting that you will acquire a shiny new asset in time for the solstice. Nor am I glibly optimistic that you will get a raise in pay or an unexpected bonus. And I can offer only a 65-percent certainty that you will snag a new perk or catch a financial break or stumble upon a treasure. In general, though, I am pretty confident that your net worth will rise in the next four weeks. Your luck will be unusually practical. To take maximum advantage of the cosmic tendencies, focus your efforts on the one or two most promising prospects.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who is sometimes called "the father of modern science." He expressed his innovative ideas so vigorously that he offended the Catholic Church, which convicted him of heresy. For us today, he symbolizes the magnificence of rational thought. And yet Galileo also had a weird streak. For example, he gave lectures on the "Shape, Location, and Size of Dante's Inferno," analyzing the poet's depiction of hell. In the course of these meticulous discourses, Galileo concluded that Satan was more than fourfifths of a mile tall. In this spirit, Sagittarius, and in accordance with current astrological omens, you are temporarily authorized to de-emphasize the constraints of reason and logic so that you may gleefully and unapologetically pursue your quirky proclivities.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): While in his early twenties, actor Robert Downey Jr. appeared in the films Less Than Zero and Weird Science. That got him semi-typecast as a member of Hollywood's Brat Pack, a group of popular young actors and actresses who starred in coming-of-age films in the 1980s. Eager to be free of that pigeonhole, Downey performed a ritual in 1991: He dug a hole in his backyard and buried the clothes he had worn in Less Than Zero. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ceremony to help you graduate from the parts of your past that are holding you back.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In her book Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem offers a challenge: "Think of the times you have said: 'I can't write,' 'I can't paint,' 'I can't run,' 'I can't shout,' 'I can't dance,' 'I can't sing.'" That's your first assignment, Aquarius: Think of those times. Your second assignment is to write down other "I can't" statements you have made over the years. Assignment three is to objectively evaluate whether any of these "I can't" statements are literally true. If you find that some of them are not literally true, your fourth assignment is to actually do them. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform "I can't" into "I can." PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Dogs don't know where they begin and end," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her book The Wave in the Mind. They "don't notice when they put their paws in the quiche." Cats are different, LeGuin continues. They "know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open . . . It's a cat's way of maintaining relationship." Whether you are more of a dog person or a cat person, Pisces, it is very important that you be more like a cat than a dog in the coming weeks. You must keep uppermost in your mind exactly where you begin and where you end.
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Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Ryan Diego Simon-Carl to Ryan Diego Simon. The hearing will bee on 12/18/2014 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 11/10/2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Heather Olean, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-14-229 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN M. BAUGH, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Louis Flowers has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 20 day of October, 2014. /s/ Louis Flowers, Personal Representative of the Estate of John M. Baugh, Jr. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 CAUSE NO. DR-14-659 SUMMONS IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: JOANNA KNUDSEN, Petitioner, and MIGUEL ANGEL RIVERA, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: YOU, THE RESPONDENT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the above named Court, a copy of which is served upon you with this Summons, and to file your answer and serve a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner within twentyone (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. WITNESS my hand and the seal of this court this 29th day of September, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT (COURT SEAL) By: /s/ Maria A. Cassidy, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA
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PUBLIC NOTICES COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-14-1144 SUMMONS ESTATE OF DOROTHY BARMEYER AND GEORGE H. BARMEYER TESTAMENTARY TRUST, Plaintiffs, vs- MISSOULA COUNTY; JOHN A. CHAPMAN AND JANE CHAPMAN, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to Plaintiffs’ ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiffs’ title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: JOHN A. CHAPMAN. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff ’s attorneys within Twenty-One (21) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, to wit: That part of the SW¼NW¼ of Section 3, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, M.P.M., and more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at corner number 1 of “Tract C” as shown on the deed exhibit on file in the Clerk and Recorder’s office in Missoula County, thence S.89°15’W., a distance of 530.0 feet to the ¼ corner common to Sections 3 and 4; thence N.0°47’W., a distance of 2492.82 feet to the standard G.L.O. closing corner for Sections 3 and 4; thence beginning at the herein before mentioned corner number 1 of “Tract C”; thence 89°15’E., a distance of 790.0 feet to corner number 2 which is also the SE1/16 corner of SW¼NW¼ of said section; thence N.0°48’W. a distance of 253.56 feet to corner number 3; thence N.47°51’W., a distance of 197.47 feet to corner number 4; thence N.86°44’W., a distance of 317.44 feet to corner number 5; thence S.51°19’W. a distance of 190.03 feet to corner No. 6; thence S.47°46’W., a distance of 200.45 feet to corner number 7; thence S.9°16’W., a distance of 163.12 feet to corner number 1 and place of beginning. Recording reference: Book 155 of Deed Records at Page 377. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court, the 21st day of October, 2014. /s/ SHIRLEY
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FAUST Missoula County Clerk of Court (COURT SEAL) By: /s/ Kersten Seilstad Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-14-1144 SUMMONS ESTATE OF DOROTHY BARMEYER AND GEORGE H. BARMEYER TESTAMENTARY TRUST, Plaintiffs, vs- MISSOULA COUNTY; JOHN A. CHAPMAN AND JANE CHAPMAN, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to Plaintiffs’ ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiffs’ title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: JANE CHAPMAN. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff ’s attorneys within Twenty-One (21) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, to wit: That part of the SW¼NW¼ of Section 3, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, M.P.M., and more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at corner number 1 of “Tract C” as shown on the deed exhibit on file in the Clerk and Recorder’s office in Missoula County, thence S.89°15’W., a distance of 530.0 feet to the ¼ corner common to Sections 3 and 4; thence N.0°47’W., a distance of 2492.82 feet to the standard G.L.O. closing corner for Sections 3 and 4; thence beginning at the herein before mentioned corner number 1 of “Tract C”; thence 89°15’E., a distance of 790.0 feet to corner number 2 which is also the SE1/16 corner of SW¼NW¼ of said section; thence N.0°48’W. a distance of 253.56 feet to corner number 3; thence N.47°51’W., a distance of 197.47 feet to corner number 4; thence N.86°44’W., a distance of 317.44 feet to corner number 5; thence S.51°19’W. a distance of 190.03 feet to corner No. 6; thence S.47°46’W., a distance of 200.45 feet to corner number 7; thence S.9°16’W., a dis-
MNAXLP tance of 163.12 feet to corner number 1 and place of beginning. Recording reference: Book 155 of Deed Records at Page 377. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court, the 21st day of October, 2014. /s/ SHIRLEY FAUST Missoula County Clerk of Court (COURT SEAL) By: /s/ Kersten Seilstad Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated November 30, 2011 Grantor: Amy Cool 14430 Frontage Road Missoula, MT 59808 Original Trustee: Charles Peterson 38 Second Avenue East Dickinson, ND 58601 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee and limited agent for U. S. Bank N.A. and its successors and assigns P. O. Box 2026 Flint, MI 48501-2026 Current Beneficiary: U. S. Bank National Association 4801 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 Successor Trustee: Kristina K. McMullin Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded December 2, 2011 under Document No. 201120292, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 11th day of February, 2015, at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana, KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantor, and all of her successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract 6-A of Certificate of Survey No. 4709, located in the S 1/2 of Section 1, Township 14 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of her successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Note in the amount of Six Hundred Ninety-Nine and 63/100 Dollars ($699.63) for the months of October, 2012 through September 30, 2014; together with interest which continues to accrue at the rate of 3.75 percent (3.75%) per annum; together with the escrow balance of Seven Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-Eight and 28/100 Dollars ($7,458.28). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is
the principal balance of One Hundred Forty Nine Thousand Two Hundred TwentyNine and 67/100 Dollars ($149,229.67), plus interest thereon at the rate of 3.75% from and after the 1st day of September, 2012 to September 30, 2014, in the amount of Eleven Thousand Six Hundred Thirty-Six and 78/100 Dollars ($11,636.78), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate as provided in the Note, plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 2nd day of October, 2014. /s/ Kristina K. McMullin, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA ):ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 2nd day of October, 2014, by KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, Successor Trustee. /s/ Jill S. Malone, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 10.30.2014 November 20, November 27, December 4, 2014 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/19/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200822676 Bk: 827 Pg: 461, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Jack E. Jarvey, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 and the East 20 feet of Lot 6 in Block 16 of Low’s Addition, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 23, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $55,254.65. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $53,323.43, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s se-
curity interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Benefici-
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EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 102, 194, 288 and 479. 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 December 1, 2014. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday December 4, 2014 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.
PUBLIC NOTICES ary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.111491) 1002.273288-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/31/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200714360 Book 798, Page 1446, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Roy D. Loewen and Karen C. Loewen was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 3240, located in the Southwest quarter (SW) of Section 21, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 26, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $177,425.32. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $168,002.82, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Mis-
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soula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 4, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.111650) 1002.273523-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/12/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200811160 BK: 819 Pg: 137, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Gary R. Bush and Debbie Bush, Husband and Wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the Westerly portion of Tract 8, Roseland Orchard Tracts No. 3, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Parcel A of Certificate of Survey No. 193. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of
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PUBLIC NOTICES Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 14, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $234,017.72. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $224,080.64, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 19, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.111761) 1002.274187-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/10/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200808297 Bk: 817 Pg: 0074, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Robert D. Hughes was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was
Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 2 of Elms Addition No. 1, to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201209706 Bk: 894 Pg: 783, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 8, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $247,954.40. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $214,379.36, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not
MNAXLP then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.110954) 1002.273828-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/25/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200925016 BK 849, PG 264, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Earl E. Morgenroth, an unmarried man was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The W 1/2 of Tract 4 of South Meadows Tracts, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. More accurately described as: The West one-half of Tract 4 of South Meadow Tracts, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. Also known as Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6377. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s death and is grounds for acceleration on the Deed of Trust under paragraph 9 (a) (i) A borrower dies and the Property is not the principal residence of at least one surviving Borrower. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due in full. As of October 8, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $617,984.60. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $614,921.78, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse,
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200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 18, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.109087) 1002.274228File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/20/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200512191 Bk: 753, Pg: 135, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Di Anne M. Price, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit B-2 located in Toole Avenue Condominiums, a Residential Condominium, situated on the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana to wit: Block B of McCormick Addition No. 2, Block 6, Lots A, B, and C, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Together with a 8.33% interest per unit in the common elements and a exclusive right to use the Limited Common Elements appurtenant to each unit as said common elements and Limited Common Elements
are defined in the Declaration of Condominium, Conditions and Restrictions for Toole Avenue Condominiums. And subject to the Declaration of Condominium, Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions for Toole Avenue Condominiums recorded August 20, 2004 in Book 738 at Page 431 and Condo 00070 Micro Records and the Bylaws for Toole Avenue Condominiums Owners Association, Inc. recorded on August 20, 2004 in Book 738 at Page 434 of Micro Records Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 8, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $72,300.29 This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $61,099.08, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in
Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.104743) 1002.274185-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 26, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 21A of south Missoula, Block 77, Lots 21A & 22A, an amended subdivision Plat in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. Laramie D Loewen, as Grantor(s), 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 Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 17, 2005 and recorded on August 22, 2005 in Book 758 , Page 963 as Document No. 200521786. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A. successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. F/K/A Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1190.49, beginning April 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 8, 2014 is $194,055.70 principal, interest at the rate of 5.75% totaling $61,584.09, late charges in the amount of $178.56, escrow advances of $16,143.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,722.51, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.57 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of
Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 16, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham On this 16 day of September, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Boa Vs Loewen/laramie 42048.241
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REAL ESTATE HOMES 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $300,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 11864 O’Keefe Creek. 5 bed, 3 bath on 20 fenced acres with tack shed, hay barn & horse stalls. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
1297 Big Flat. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Montana Craftsman on 7+ acres with fenced pasture & pond. $489,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2101 South 14th West. 4 bed, 2 bath with mother-in-law apartment & double garage. $239,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
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2116 West Kent. Charming 2 story, 3 bed, 1.5 bath home with single garage. Low-maintenance front yard & garden in back. $172,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2234 Roy. Immaculate 2 bed, 1 bath with patio & 2 car garage.
$209,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 2904 Queen Street. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style with full basement & 2 car garage. $319,900. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 2970 Sandalwood Court. 4 bed, 2 bath in Big Flat neighborhood with Clark Fork River access. $582,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $275,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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720 West Sussex. 5 bed, 2 bath ranch style home with many upgrades. $239,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com
4114 Melrose. 3 bed, 2 bath Pleasant View home with fenced yard, patio & double garage. $245,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com
9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apartment on 5 view acres. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
4276 Hermione. 3 bed, 2 bath in Canyon Creek with 2 car garage. $212,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com
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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4700 Nicole Court. 6 bed, 4 bath high-end Linda Vista home with 3 car garage and Missoula views. $419,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $249,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
5614 Gharrett. 4 bed, 3 bath with deck, Bitterroot views & 2 car garage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
604 Overlook. 3 bed, 2 bath in Farviews with fireplace, metal siding, patio & 2 car garage. $232,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com
3411 Paxson. 4 bed, 2 bath recently remodeled with fenced yard & double garage. $275,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com
655 Woodworth. 3 bed, 3 bath 1940’s bungalow two blocks to UM. $355,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com
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4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $168,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com
More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-5428644 We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
TOWNHOMES 1420D Stoddard. 2 bed, 1.5 bath Westside condo with front porch, fenced yard & garage. $158,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 1823 H Montana. 3 bed, 2.5 bath near Good Food Store & Source Gym. $145,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 2200 Garland #29. 2 bed, 1 bath in South Hills. $95,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate
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5510 Creekstone #1. 2 bed, 1.5 bath Grant Creek condo with patio & parking. $139,500. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #15. $150,000. A rare, spacious 3 bedroom unit in the awesome Burns Street Commons! This upstairs corner unit is all on one level with a secure private entrance and a balcony. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #3. $79,000. 1bed/1bath. Energy efficient, affordable, and next to Burns St Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Clark Fork River Condo 1401 Cedar Street #16. $122,500. Charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhouse set on the Clark Fork River. What an amazing home! KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com
REAL ESTATE Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns #10. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom unit for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
LAND 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis. 1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Edgewood. 3.53 acres on back side of Mount Jumbo in East Missoula. $89,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
COMMERCIAL 101 Church Street, Stevensville. Currently Mission Bistro Restaurant, but zoned for commercial or residential. $255,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 532-
9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 12336 Frenchtown Frontage Road. 3 bed, 3 bath on 4+ acres with front porch, deck & UG sprinklers. $345,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 15080 Big Horn, Huson. Montana Dream Home near Clark Fork River. 4 bed, 3 bath on over 6 acres. $550,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com
50947 Lake Mary Ronan Rd, Dayton • $245,000
2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2039 Nighthawk Trail, Victor. 3 bed, 2 bath on 20 acres near Fred Burr Trailhead off Bear Creek Road. $675,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229. tory@montana.com 377 Grizzly Drive, Seeley Lake. 3 bed, 2 bath cabin on 2 +/acres with Clearwater River frontage. $189,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com
Real Estate is not always Black & White Call Rita Gray 406-544-4226 ritagray@lambrosera.com
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REAL ESTATE
17430 Six Mile, Huson $250,000 Historic 3 bed, 1.5 bath on 12+ acres. Sunny country kitchen, wraparound porch,
4700 Nicole Court $419,500 High-end, custom 6+ bed, 4+ bath in Linda Vista with great views near two parks & a playground. Perfect for a family
663 Phillips $150,000 Former MUD site on Historic Northside. 1 bed, 1 bath with clawfoot tub, bright country kitchen. Sheds, greenhouse & great soil!
Homes 4700 Nicole Court Custom Home, Prime 'Hood............................................................................................$419,500 633 Phillips Northside Sweetness ...................................................................................................................$150,000
Homes With Land
Townhomes/Condos
406 Aspen View Rd. Polaris Amazing Home and Area ...$345,000 1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Unit, One Level .....$150,000 2348 River Road 2.23 Acres in Town.................$535,000 1400 Burns Last 2 Bedroom Unit..................$119,000 17430 Six Mile Stunning Setting, 12.51 Ac. ............$250,000 1400 Burns Last 1 Bedroom Unit ..................$79,000º Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views!....... $162,000 Uptown Flats #210 Modern 1 Bed .............$149,000 2309 Grant Commercial Building & Land ........$155,000 Uptown Flats #312 Efficient 1 Bed..............$151,900 9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres $375,000 1401 Cedar St. #16 Next To River Trail Income Restrictions .......................................$122,500
Commercial: Land
East Missoula Building Lot With Trees ...................$55,000
604 Overlook • Farview $232,000
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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4158 Petty Creek. 3 bed, 4 bath log-sided home on 40 acres with 1400’ of Petty Creek frontage. $495,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 435 Ernest. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style home, south of Florence on 5 acres, fenced and crossfenced for horses. Attached double car garage, 44 x 32’ shop with office, small tack room and barn. $310,000. MLS# 20146167. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000. Prudential Montana. For more
info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL
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6850 Faithful Way, Lolo. New 3 bed, 2 bath on 1+ acre in Sapphire Acres. $349,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-3605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
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Easy Access to the highway and the river. 17430 Six-Mile, $250,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com The people to call for properties around Philipsburg, Georgetown Lake, Rock Creek & More! Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-8593522. pintlarterritories.com
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