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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk To Hauck, or not to Hauck? .....................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Who keeps tips, a new bud boutique, and the city’s own ambulance ..........................6 Etc. The other white people........................................................................................................7 News Golden years? A Griz coach almanac ................................................................................8 Opinion Is it possible that Art Wittich has suffered enough?..................................................10 Feature Travis DeCuire has UM’s men’s basketball team poised for big things ..................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Elisa Harkins turns herself in to the authorities for MAM’s Our Side..................18 Music Julien Baker, Big Gigantic, Bjork.......................................................................19 Music The joy and impending doom of John Brownell’s Protest Kids .......................20 Film Three Billboards is a treasure trove of characters...............................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Curried vegetable pot pies .........................................................23 Happiest Hour The secrets of Hidden Legend Winery’s mead..................................25 8 Days a Week Think of it as an itinerary for people who have more fun than you do..26 Agenda RMSP shoots portraits for those in need........................................................33 Mountain High Pop-up art for clean water.................................................................34

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

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STREET TALK

by Derek Brouwer

Last week, Bob Stitt was fired from his job as the Grizzlies football coach.

Did he deserve to go?

Former Griz coach Bobby Hauck interviewed for the job this week.

Do you think the University of Montana should rehire Hauck?

Ed Majeske: I don’t follow it that closely, but I’d say probably not. If I had a rough couple weeks at work, I wouldn’t want to get canned because of it. Beats me: Did we fire him the last time? I guess it depends what he’s asking.

Game is game It would be nice if this guy actually had some expertise other than he shot a little blacktail deer in Oregon. Venison is venison (“Game-farm venison isn’t real venison. It needs a new name,” Nov. 23). Secondly, Montana does not have any game farms.

Thirdly, what’s wrong with serving New Zealand venison? It’s delicious! And why not introduce people to the benefits of lean venison meat without the gamey taste that is an acquired taste? New Zealand venison is enjoyed around the world. The author should stick to managing his medical clinic in southern Oregon.

Richard Huffman facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Deer Arby’s...

Indeed: “crap.” Because it’s Arby’s, and that food is just nasty.

Kat Taylor facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Jerry Mace: No, he wasn’t given enough time. Fans are too stupid on the issue of how long it takes to build a program to be sustainable. Bobby Hauck didn’t do well in his first few years. It was a bad idea in the first place to take fan influence over the coaching decision.

There’s a quote: No, there is not enough space in our prisons to fill with the players that he’ll bring.

Silo #2 I use Facebook for everything but politics and news (“When it comes to electioneering, the future is on Facebook,” Nov. 23). I follow journalists on Twitter and get news and political theater there.

Bethany Williamson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

All park and no play

John “Lefty” Garno: I do believe he deserved to get fired. He was running a trick offense, and it wasn’t working.

The defensive wasn’t playing well under him. Bring him back: Absolutely, and I think everybody has in their mind that that’s who was going to get the job. Personally, I’ve known Bobby since he went to college here. We went to college together. He’s a great coach, he’s a great guy.

Nat Riley: I don’t know. That would be judgmental of me because I don’t know anything. That’d be like uneducated voting. And here comes the vote: I’m not knowledgeable enough of that to provide a correct answer, but I’m going to say yes, he would be better.

Lowell needs a playground. I am sure this might surprise some who rightly feel it already has an awesome playground (and Westside Park is amazing), but as no children are allowed on the playground when Lowell students may be present (8 a.m. until 5 p.m.), there is no opportunity for a child on the Westside to play in their park, built and funded by the local community, and on city land, unless they wish to play before sunrise or after sunset. This is troubling to me, in a time when we should be encouraging children of all ages to get outside and play, that we take away the best option on the Westside (leaving only the small parks across busy streets next to the two homeless shelters in the area, with limited to no play equipment). Luckily, this is not an issue for any other schools, where Missoula County Public Schools has built their own playgrounds on school property.

Only Lowell must steal the city park from the neighborhood kids during all daylight hours. If only this issue had been addressed when the school was being refurbished, but, alas, I hope it is not too late for a playground or a compromise to be worked out.

Tim Radle Missoula

Tax broke Asked Tuesday night at the Press Box

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We’re being betrayed. The main purpose of the tax bill is to slash corporate

taxes from 35 percent to 20 percent. Bottom line is that for every $60,000 in profits, corporations get to hide an extra $9,000 in offshore accounts. Meanwhile, a hardworking Montana family making $60,000 keeps a paltry $1,182 more. Why should corporations be given a huge tax break? At a Wall Street Journal meeting in mid-November, a majority of CEOs admitted they won’t spend their newfound gains creating jobs or increasing salaries.

“This tax bill is a windfall for millionaire Rep. Gianforte. He’s lying when he says the bill is good for the rest of us. So is his sidekick Sen. Daines. Make sure they know that you know: They’re not representing you when they vote for this tax bill.”

I suggest “bubble up.” Give the middle class meaningful tax relief to spend on the goods corporations make. Employ workers to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges to get corporate goods to market.

This bill is a windfall for millionaire Rep. Gianforte. He’s lying when he says the bill is good for the rest of us. So is his sidekick Sen. Daines. Make sure they know that you know: They’re not representing you when they vote for this tax bill.

Pat Tucker Hamilton

Conflicting interests Karen Budd-Falen is a poor choice to become the director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). She has made a career of pushing for major changes to federal authority on public lands and is an outspoken advocate of transferring public lands into private hands under the guise of paying for fire-suppression costs.

Considering that Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke has voiced opposition to public land seizures, and is a proponent of not selling off public lands, having a BLM director in direct opposition to these values would be a conflict of interests.

Budd-Falen has tried to bring lawsuits against BLM employees for merely doing their jobs and has tried to use “racketeering” against employees trying to implement longstanding laws as part of their sworn duties. She is an outspoken opponent of the conservation laws that she would be sworn to protect as director of the Bureau of Land Management.

We need a director who holds the public lands to the same value as “we the people” and will work to defend them, not transfer them to private hands.

Kelly Williamson Missoula

Free a dog Even though this is 2017 and not 1895, trapping is still a part of our public landscape. This cruel, barbaric practice continues, despite much public opposition. Dogs and other unintended species continue to be trapped, to suffer and to die. If a dog owner hopes to release their beloved companion from a trap, they may not be able to do so unless they have the knowledge of how to release the trap mechanism. In the interests of public safety and humane animal treatment, trap-release workshops are being held soon in Missoula and in other locations around the state, including Sunday, Dec. 3, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., at the Humane Society of Western Montana, 5930 Highway 93.

The workshop is free and no registration is necessary. It is trapping season.

Please use caution and vigilance when using public trails, waterways and lands.

Gain the knowledge you need to keep your pet safe from traps by attending a workshop.

Peg Brownlee Florence Correction: In our Nov. 16 story, “Chef ’s Choice,” the Red Bird chefs who make the octopus salad were misidentified. Jim Tracy is the owner and head chef. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, November 22 A federal judge rejects a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the Keystone XL pipeline.

The suit was filed by six environmental groups, and the pipeline owners and the Trump administration had moved to dismiss it.

Thursday, November 23 On Thanksgiving Day, Montana experiences record high temperatures, reaching over 70 degrees in eastern parts of the state. Near Malta, firefighters spend six hours putting out a small wildfire. Bless this food, and may climate change spare us all.

Friday, November 24 Gov. Steve Bullock signs six bills passed by the Montana Legislature during a recent special session to address the state’s budget deficit, and allows three to become law without his signature. He vetoes one bill that would have furloughed state employees.

Saturday, November 25 46-year-old Jill Jenkins of Missoula is struck by a car and killed at the intersection of S. Russell Street and McDonald Avenue. Officials are still investigating, but the death has been ruled accidental.

Tipping points

Judge rules for server A judge has upheld an award of more than $19,000 to a former server at The Keep who alleged the fine-dining restaurant in Missoula’s South Hills operated an illegal tip pool.

In a ruling likely to make other Montana restaurateurs nervous, Missoula County District Court Judge Dusty Deschamps agreed with a state hearing officer that The Keep violated state employment law by requiring its servers to “tip out” a portion of their gratuities to back-of-house staff such as cooks.

“Montana law is clear: an employer does not have any legitimate right to control the tips an employee receives from a customer,” Deschamps wrote in a September ruling. “Once a tip is left behind by the customer, that tip is the property of the employee who receives it.”

The ruling affirms the state Department of Labor and Industry’s longstanding, but not court tested, interpretation of the Montana Wage Protection Act. Employees must file a wage claim with the department to recover withheld tips.

That’s what former Keep server Amy Graham did in 2015, when she was fired from the restaurant the day after questioning its tip pool policy with co-

owner Melissa Mooney. A state hearing officer ultimately awarded Graham $12,429 in unpaid wages and another $6,836 in penalties. The Keep objected that the determination could open the company to more than $200,000 in wage claims for a policy enacted by a previous owner in 1993, and appealed to district court.

Now the restaurant owes an additional $7,300 for Graham’s legal fees, according to a Nov. 1 judgment.

The Keep’s tip-pooling practice is thought to be common throughout the state, as the Indy reported earlier this year. The state DLI holds that tip pools are valid only when agreed upon and entered into by staff through voluntary signed agreements.

Nationwide, tipping law has been in flux. An Obama-era rule in 2011 attempted to clarify that the Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits restaurants from controlling tips in states like Montana, where tips don’t count toward minimum wage. Federal courts have since split on the rule’s legality, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown. In October, however, the Trump administration introduced plans to rescind the Obama-era rule and make tip pools legal again.

But the shifting federal legal landscape may not be all that relevant to cases in Montana, if De-

schamps’ ruling that state law offers additional worker protections stands.

In an email, Keep attorney David Lighthall, of Carey Law Firm, says the owners are “contemplating” appealing the issue to the Montana Supreme Court. He points out that courts in California have interpreted a similar state law there in favor of tip pools.

Derek Brouwer

Weed biz

Boutique buds The chairs gave it away. Two of them flanked the door inside the small Third Street boutique, armless and brown and patterned with marijuana leaves. Shelves on the walls housed a collection of coffee mugs, journals, stickers and glass pipes.

Glass bottles with wood stoppers sat in a display on the counter, the green buds inside partly obscured by labels bearing strain names like Jedi Kush and Moose ‘N’ Lobsta.

Emmie Purcell and Brian Monahan have been waiting eight months to flip the switch on the “open” sign they’d purchased for Greenhouse Farmacy, Missoula’s newest medical pot dispensary.

On Nov. 25, they did just that, ushering in a wave

Sunday, November 26 Big game hunting season ends, with hunters in west-central Montana bringing in 999 animals, a 6 percent increase from last year, even though 8 percent fewer people went hunting.

Monday, November 27 The U.S. Capitol Christmas tree, an 80-foot-tall Engelmann spruce cut from the Kootenai National Forest, arrives in Washington. The tree will feature over 3,000 ornaments and a copper star, all from Montana.

Tuesday, November 28 The Montana Supreme Court creates a new Asbestos Claims Court to oversee more than 540 pending cases relating to asbestos exposure in the Libby area from the W.R. Grace mine. The cases couldn’t be tried until the mine’s bankruptcy filings were complete.

When Congress took on tax cuts, we promised to create more high paying jobs and to grow the economy. I want to see changes to the tax cut bill that ensure main street businesses are not put at a competitive disadvantage against large corporations.” — U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, in a Nov. 27 press release announcing his opposition to the Senate tax bill as drafted at the time.

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[news] of family, friends and at least one potential patient looking to get a medical use card. “We’re in a fantastic time in Montana where we can be on the ground level of this whole new budding industry,� Purcell said, pun intended.

Purcell and Monahan are hardly strangers to either the industry or the state. Montana natives both, they got their start as medical providers at the onset of Montana’s green rush in 2010, Monahan explained, and had planned to open a dispensary before the post-Legislature crash of 2011. The duo then moved to Oregon, where Purcell wound up as the co-owner of a Hood River dispensary that was among the first to offer sales of recreational weed in 2015. Now the two hope to apply their knowledge as Montana crafts a regulatory framework heading into 2018. “I feel as though, like a lot of industries in Missoula, there’s a bar that’s set, and then there’s a bar that can be set,� Monahan said. “I feel like Missoula is ready for new growth.�

Greenhouse Farmacy isn’t waiting on the state’s new rules to shape its philosophy. Sustainability is a big word around the shop—even the countertop is reclaimed wood from the Missoula Mercantile.

Greenhouse is also one of the state’s only Clean Green Certified dispensaries, an industry certification recognizing organic and sustainable practices.

Greenhouse uses nematodes and ladybugs in lieu of pesticides, Purcell said, and plans to keep its edibles sugar- and dairy-free—just as soon as they find the right baker for the job. “You’re not going to see edibles [here] until we can find that happy medium,â€? Purcell said, adding that the shop’s primary focus is the non-psychotropic cannabis compound CBD. As Greenhouse’s grand opening afternoon wore on, several young people stopped in brimming with questions about dosages and the vape cartridges advertised on the shop’s chalkboard menu. When the shop was empty again, Purcell and Monahan began talking about phase two: a community space for events aimed at broadening Missoula’s understanding of cannabis. Purcell already has her mother’s book club on the schedule next spring, having spoken to the group about medical marijuana this fall. “Here’s the Silver Tsunami coming in with arthritis and fibromyalgia ‌ but none of them even

knew about CBD,� Purcell said. “They didn’t know they could use a lotion or a salve. It’s not just about smoking weed.�

Alex Sakariassen

City on call

Buying an ambulance By the end of 2017, Missoula Fire Chief Jason Diehl anticipates his department will have logged close to 9,000 calls. He pulls up some old figures for comparison: just over 3,800 in 1996, around 5,500 in 2006, nearly 8,200 last year. He estimates that 75 percent of those calls, on average, are related not to fire, but to medical emergencies.

The stats are at Diehl’s fingertips because for the past several months he’s been pitching city officials a proposal to allow the fire department to purchase its first ambulance. On Nov. 20, his argument won out.

The Missoula Public Health and Safety Committee unanimously approved the project, and Diehl promptly placed the order with Billings-based Sawtooth Emergency Vehicles last week. The ambulance costs $173,000, and the committee approved an additional $75,000 for associated expenses, all of it drawn from municipal fire impact fees. The department will also have to secure licensing from the state to transport patients.

Diehl expects the ambulance to be in service by spring, though purely in a reserve capacity with existing staff. “It’s something we’re going to definitely grow into and constantly analyze and reassess what’s working with it,� Diehl says. “But I didn’t come into it expecting we’re going to hire another eight to 10 firefighters to staff this thing 24/7.�

Diehl didn’t arrive at the proposal lightly. In fact, he says, the department’s lack of an ambulance has “always been on my mind.� Fire departments in Bozeman and Great Falls have reserve ambulances. What brought the issue to a head for Diehl was an increase in reports from staff of long waits for ambulances. A few months ago, several of his firefighters wound up transporting a patient to the hospital in the back of a fire engine.

BY THE NUMBERS Estimated combined membership of Montana public employee unions MEA-MFT and MPEA, which have announced plans to merge. That’s about half the estimated 50,000 Montana workers who were members of any union in 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

25,000

“There was no ambulance responding, no ambulance even attached to the call,� Diehl says. “That’s kind of been the trend, and I’ve talked to the ambulance company about that. Some of it is just the way it is.�

Diehl in no way faults Missoula Emergency Services Inc., the private company that provides all ambulance services within the county. MESI covers a far greater geographic area than the fire department, he says, and has continued to meet its contractual obligations with the city in the face of ever-increasing callouts. Diehl says the expanding need is due almost entirely to growth—and to an aging population. “We have a lot of assisted living and senior care facilities that have been built in Missoula in recent years,� he says. “Those facilities drive a lot of our call volume.�

Though the Missoula Chamber of Commerce had raised concerns that the proposal would set the city up to directly compete with a private-sector contractor, any objections were put to rest before the Nov. 20 meeting. Diehl says the ambulance will actually benefit MESI. MESI is required to assign an ambulance to all fire incidents–a service general manager Don Whalen says comes at no charge. Once operational, the department’s own ambulance could cover those duties, Diehl says, freeing MESI resources to continue responding to medical—and revenue-generating—calls.

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. On Saturday, the New York Times ran a profile of an Ohio Nazi. “Weddings are hard enough to plan for when your fiancĂŠ is not an avowed white nationalist,â€? reads one much-mocked sentence. The backlash to what some readers saw as an overly sympathetic portrait of an avatar of hate was so large and immediate that the Times had to add an editor’s note to the story, and the writer found it necessary to explain himself in an aside.

The Nazi in question is one of the founders of the Traditionalist Workers Party, whose mission statement reads, in part, “Immigration into the White ethno-state shall be limited to members of the White European Race, which is defined as White Caucasians who are the descendants of indigenous Europeans.�

One thing about Nazis: they’re always talking out of their asses. “White European Race� isn’t a static category of people. Its meaning is always shifting depending on the needs of those who want “whiteness� to retain power. The quest for a racially pure homeland is toxic, violent, ahistorical and deeply stupid.

The Times’ Ohio fascist espouses a fantasy version of white racial purity. But what about white people who celebrate a culture tied to an actual heritage? We can’t think of anything whiter than a Nordic Happy Hour, co-sponsored by the local Finlandia Foundation, at a locavore restaurant in Montana, for instance. When this Finnish/Norwegian/Swedish dinner took place at the Burns St. Bistro a few Fridays ago, the line was out the door and diners were turned away.

What kind of stuff are these folks into? “We hope to enrich our community by promoting diversity, acceptance, and equality on the local level, something we firmly see as core Nordic values,� reads the Finlandia Foundation website.

They’re pushing inclusivity, saunas, Swedish meatballs, butter cookies, Marimekko and baby boxes—the egalitarian Finnish practice of giving each and every expecting mother in the country, regardless of income, infant supplies in a box that doubles as a safe crib.

Everyone who benefits from whiteness is a participant in the same racist power structures that help Nazis nurture their batshit ideas. But the fictions they peddle as some sort of natural order are flat inaccurate. The “white European race� has no basis in history or fact. Scandinavia is as full of indigenous peoples as Montana—a couple of super-white places that were never homogenous after all.

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At what cost Does Missoula really want a return to Hauck?

by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

It took less than a week after Griz football head coach Bob Stitt’s firing for it to start looking like 2009 in Missoula all over again, as Bobby Hauck, currently coaching special teams at San Diego State, flew to town to interview for his old job. Neither the Griz nor Hauck have accomplished apart what they accomplished together—a string of conference championships, consecutive title game appearances—but can you turn back the clock? Do you even want to, given the legal and moral tumult of the Hauck years? Let’s revisit the last four Griz coaching regimes before we recap what the Griz are looking to regain.

Bob Stitt, 2015–2017 Hailed as an offensive genius, Stitt’s arrival in Missoula (from the Colorado School of Mines) was accompanied by national media attention. His first season was promising, starting with a dramatic win over a top-ranked North Dakota State team and ending with a second-round playoff loss to the very same Bison. Then the Griz went 6–5 and 7–4, missed the playoffs and lost to the Cats in consecutive years. Like they say, sometimes Stitt happens and sometimes the Stitt happens to you.

Scandals and arrests: In the fall of 2015, three players were part of a group arrested for drunkenly breaking into a house in the Rattlesnake that they thought was empty.

Playoff appearances: 1 Griz-Cats: 1–2 Mick Delaney, 2012–2014 Brought back from a brief retirement after the semi-abrupt firing of Robin Pflugrad in 2012, the then-69-year-old Delaney did a more than respectable job handling a program emerging from NCAA sanctions and scandal. He retired after the 2014 season.

Scandals and arrests: One player arrested for buying drugs at Disco Bloodbath. A tight ends coach and a player got involved in a bar fight downtown.

Playoff Appearances: 2 Griz-Cats: 2–1

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“I know he’s going to be a very strong candidate, there’s no doubt about it.” Montana Athletic Director Kent Haslam says of Hauck, pictured.

Robin Pflugrad, 2009–2012 Pflugrad was Hauck’s heir apparent, moving up from wide receivers coach after Hauck’s departure. Although he imposed stricter disciplinary measures on the team, like shutting down a long-running initiation party, Pflugrad presided over the massive meltdown that resulted when sexual assault allegations were brought against multiple players. He may have unfairly borne the brunt of the Hauck era’s recruiting and team-culture missteps.

Scandals and arrests: Pflugrad was the coach when rape charges were brought against players Beau Donaldson and Jordan Johnson. The NCAA also levied sanctions on the program over rules violations, including boosters paying bail and providing free legal representation for arrested players.

Playoff appearances: 1 Griz-Cats: 1–1

Bobby Hauck, 2003–2009 Hauck took the Griz to three national title games and changed the tenor of the program, professionalizing and toughening it. After years of success, he left after the 2009 season to become head coach at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His departure came at the end of a two-year run of players being involved in violent crimes. Hauck brought national media scrutiny to the program for freezing out UM’s student newspaper, the Montana Kaimin.

Scandals and arrests: Several instances of multiple players involved in violent assaults. One player charged with murder. (He was later acquitted after spending 25 months in a Los Angeles jail.)

Playoff appearances: 7, three in the national championship game.

Griz-Cats: 5–2

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That takes us back to 2009, before players are being arrested on sexual assault charges, but well into a string of arrests on felony charges. Depending on your point of view, Hauck symbolizes either a string of successes or an anchor to a past the university is still trying to live down.

ESPN magazine writer, former Griz player and former Kaimin reporter Kevin Van Valkenburg expresses serious doubts that a Hauck return would benefit the program.

“I’m pretty disappointed that Missoula fans have so quickly forgotten the mess that resulted from Hauck’s tenure,” he says. “As we kind of examine why the University of Montana is having so many enrollment problems, I think you can really tie that back into that Hauck era, when all those sexual assaults happened, and those are, in my understanding, mainly kids that Hauck recruited. And the sort of black cloud that cast over the university, I think, really was a huge driver in the enrollment drop.”

Montana Athletic Director Kent Haslam declines to comment on the Hauck interview, but asked why the university might consider bringing the former coach back, he was willing to revisit Hauck’s successes.

“Certainly he was very successful here and he won a lot of football games,” Haslam says. “He’s an excellent coach and a Montana native and a University of Montana alum, and understands what this university is all about, and I know he’s going to be a very strong candidate, there’s no doubt about it.”

An informal survey of headlines from Hauck’s last two years in Missoula produces a total of 12 player arrests in a span of 18 months on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to murder. A Missoulian story published Monday night lists 10 player arrests under Hauck, and at least three arrests of Hauck-recruited players in the years just after he left. His UNLV teams didn’t seem to have had the same issues, making Hauck the first person in history to reduce his exposure to crime by moving from Missoula to Las Vegas.

It was an incident that went unreported to the police that blew up into a national sports story, however. In September 2009, the Kaimin reported that Griz players had been involved in an assault on another student. When student reporter Tyson Alger asked Hauck for comment on the incident, he replied “You’re done for the day. And you’ll be done for the season if you keep bugging

me about this thing that I’ve answered four fucking times.”

Alger now covers University of Oregon athletics for the Portland Oregonian. Over the phone this weekend, Alger recalled the original story that earned Hauck’s ire. “It was well sourced, and I still stand by it 10 years later,” Alger says.

“We asked him to comment four or five times, and they didn’t want to talk about it, but when you’re writing a story like that you’re trying to get both sides.”

What might have remained a local story just a few years earlier was suddenly all over sports media thanks to the emergence of Twitter. Sports Illustrated, ESPN

Still, Hauck is hardly the only option. Van Valkenburg mentions Syracuse offensive coordinator Mike Lynch, who played for the Griz in the ’90s, as an interesting potential hire.

“I just feel like what Grizzly football needs is to be interesting and dynamic again, and not a retread with someone who’s going to start a battle and go to war with anyone who questions his authority,” Van Valkenburg says. He also points out that during his semester as a journalism school Pollner professor in 2015, he saw that Kaimin reporters didn’t have an easy time with Stitt either, and suggests that incoming university

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and Deadspin all published takes on Hauck’s stonewalling.

Tyson was jarred by suddenly becoming a part of the story. “As a reporter, our job is to tell what’s happening, so that turned into a kind of uncomfortable situation for me,” Alger says. “It kind of made it out to be us versus them, when we were just trying to tell the news.”

Despite all that, Alger understands why fans and boosters would want Hauck back. “Say what you will about the guy, he was incredibly successful there,” Alger says. “He knows how things work at Montana, and I think he’s a good football coach who knows the area, knows the landscape of Montana football.”

President Seth Bodnar would do well to improve transparency with the press across the board.

One thing, though, is certain: The university, the conference and the division have changed dramatically since 2009. “The landscape’s completely different. I think the culture within the athletic department is different,” Haslam says. “New leadership is coming in with the new president, and a lot of things are changing at the University of Montana.” Whether the football team will change with it, or look instead to its past, might be Haslam’s next call. sshepard@missoulanews.com

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Longtime readers of this column know that it has depended on Art Wittich in the same way the first Americans depended on the buffalo. It’s a clichĂŠ, but this column really does use every part of the former Republican state representative and senator. From his tenure as chair of the House Health and Human Services Committee—during which he vigorously opposed all services and most humans— to his leaked plans to “purgeâ€? moderates from his own party, to the time he accidentally filed for election in the wrong district in a way that allowed him to switch, after the deadline, to a place where he could run unopposed, he has been a staple of our diet. As an opinion columnist, I couldn’t ask for better: a man who consistently pursues arguments I disagree with, delivering outlandish quotes along the way, while looking like the hard-ass assistant principal from your high school.

Peak Wittich happened between 2014, when state Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl accused him of breaking campaign finance laws during his 2010 primary contest, and 2017, when the Montana Supreme Court upheld a jury’s finding that he had, in fact, done that. It was bittersweet. The investigation, and Wittich’s vociferous defense, were the culmination of his political career. It was like the finale of a fireworks display when they shoot everything off at once, in that it was both spectacular and tinged with regret that the show was drawing to a close. To mix a metaphor, it was that era of the buffalo when dandies started shooting them from trains.

All this is to say that I was sad to see Wittich fade from politics. Motl wanted a judge to remove him from office for his refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing, but that question was obviated when Wittich lost his bid for re-election in June 2016.

His side of the war within the state GOP was routed, and he settled back into practicing law in Bozeman and being mean on Twitter. Then, at the end of October, Chief Disciplinary Counsel

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Michael Cotter filed a professional complaint against Wittich, arguing that his campaign finance violations constituted professional misconduct and he should be disbarred.

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel operates under the supervision of the Montana Supreme Court, but it functions as a professional organization more than as an arm of the state. Last week, Wittich’s attorney, Mark Parker, asked the

“Wittich’s attorney argued that the remedies for campaign finance violations are outlined in statute and do not include revoking his client’s professional license. I am shocked to say that I agree.� court to dismiss Cotter’s complaint, arguing that the remedies for campaign finance violations are outlined in statute and do not include revoking his client’s professional license. I am shocked to say that I agree.

That is not a legal opinion, of course. Like almost all legal matters, this one looks murky to me. It’s true that if Wittich were a dentist who illegally accepted campaign contributions from a national anti-union group, we would not

be looking to take away his license to practice dentistry. As officers of the court, however, attorneys hold one another to a higher standard of ethics than members of other professions. And although it operates under the auspices of the state supreme court, the ODC is not an instrument of state power. If the American Dental Association were trying to boot some rogue dentist for secretly taking money from Big Toothbrush, we laypersons would not pretend to have an opinion. We should probably let the lawyers settle this among themselves.

Still, it feels like the ODC is pursuing Wittich into private life for what he has already been punished for in public. Seeing him lose an election before he could be removed from office might have felt like watching the Hamburglar get hit by a bus on his way to court, but there remains the matter of his $68,000 fine.

There is also the ignominy and the utter desolation of his political career.

Wittich went from senate majority leader to punchline in less than five years. His sharp tongue and hard-right views made him a villain of the weekly news, but in its broader arc, his story is tragic. He swept a four-way primary in his first election and rode a wave of Tea Party enthusiasm to one of the most powerful positions in the state. He got everything he wanted, and he lost it within the warranty period of a new car—mostly for stuff he did in that first primary. I don’t like how he wielded power, but I suspect that losing it felt worse than any punishment we can levy.

Is the ODC within its rights to disbar him? Probably, yeah, for all I know.

But what will that change? One of the most prominent heels in Montana politics will be reminded, again, that he shouldn’t have done what he did seven years ago. With due respect to the ODC, I suspect Art Wittich thinks about that a lot already.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and sympathy for the hardasses at combatblog.net.

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[offbeat]

FAMILY VALUES – Members of the Spann family of Comanche County, Oklahoma, keep running afoul of that state’s incest law, with the latest dust-up over the marriage of 26-year-old Misty Spann and her 43-year-old mother, Patricia, in March 2016. The two had been separated after Patricia lost custody of her young kids, but when they resumed contact a few years ago, Patricia told investigators, “they hit it off.” KFOR reported that Patricia also married one of her sons in 2008, but two years later that marriage was annulled. Another son reported to KSWO-TV that Patricia tried to start an inappropriate relationship with him, but he shut her down. In early November, Misty received a 10-year deferred sentence and will serve two years’ probation. Her mother/ex-wife (their union was annulled in October) will be sentenced in January.

NERD ALERTS – Since Twitter announced that it would allow 280-character messages rather than its original 140, a whole new world has opened up for the game-addicted among us. Gizmodo reports that tweeters are using the expanded tweetspace to play board games such as chess, Connect Four, Shogi and Go. Games are even being customized; one tweet enthuses about “Marine biology twitterchess. With a new marine biology fact every time a piece is moved, and a scientifically accurate death scene when a piece is taken.” Uh, ok.

A sharp-eyed Google Earth user from Leeds, England, searching for Longcross Studios in Surrey, came across a “Star Wars” fan’s dream: the Millennium Falcon, nestled inside a ring of stacked shipping containers and covered with a tarp. Andi Durrant tweeted about his find on Nov. 8. The spaceship was used in filming “Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi” at Longcross; that movie is set for release Dec. 15.

SWEET! – Becky Reilly of Omaha, Nebraska, was forced to call in a roofing company after discovering thousands of honeybees had invaded her home’s attic, producing so much honey that it was dripping down the side of the house. “We heard a loud and rhythmic buzzing, and it was somewhat terrifying because we knew what it meant,” Reilly told KETV. Jason Starkey of Takoda Green Roofing said he removed about 40 pounds of honey on Oct. 26 before moving the bees and tackling the damage, which he called “horrible.” Local beekeeper John Gebuhr moved the bees to his garage, but he is pessimistic about their survival through the winter. But Reilly’s friends and neighbors are thrilled: They’re getting honey for Christmas!

INAPPROPRIATE – An Indonesian museum, De Mata Trick Eye Museum in Yogyakarta, has been forced to remove an exhibit that encouraged visitors to take a selfie with a waxwork of Adolf Hitler. The figure, which stood in front of a giant image of the entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp, had been on display since 2014, and the museum said it was one of the most popular displays. Metro News reported that the museum originally defended the exhibit as “fun,” but when the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles demanded its removal, the museum complied, taking it down on Nov. 10.

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EWWWW! – Sean A. Sykes Jr., 24, of Kansas City, Missouri, has discovered one way to avoid the justice system. Sykes was detained in a Sept. 1 traffic stop, but he denied any knowledge of the drugs and handguns found in the car, The Kansas City Star reported. As he was being questioned at the police station, the detective wrote in his report, Sykes was asked his address. In response, he “leaned to one side of his chair and released a loud fart before answering with the address. Mr. Sykes continued to be flatulent and I ended the interview,” the detective wrote. Charges were not filed at that time, but Sykes was pulled over again on Nov. 5 and was in possession of marijuana, crack cocaine and a stolen pistol.

He was in custody awaiting a bond hearing.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – A loss prevention officer at a Vero Beach, Florida, Walmart happened to catch 25-year-old Cheyenne Amber West and another woman as they carried out some complicated maneuvers in the electronics aisle on Nov. 6. The officer told the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office that West and her friend chose a computer, video game controllers and other items worth a total of almost $2,000, then covered the bar codes with stickers taken from less-expensive clearance items.

They then moved to the self-checkout lane, where their loot totaled just $3.70. “I am just trying to get gifts for my son that I cannot afford,” West told officers. “The computer is for my husband. Since he just got me a Coach purse, I figured he deserved something nice as well.” Treasure Coast Newspapers reports that West was charged with felony grand theft and felony shoplifting and was released on $3,000 bail. The other woman was not charged.

Rondell Tony Chinuhuk, 32, of Anchorage, Alaska, had the pedal to the metal on Nov. 7 when he nicked a motorized shopping cart from a Safeway store in Fairbanks. But the battery-operated Mart Cart tops out at 1.9 miles per hour, so even after a 10-minute joyride, he had barely left the parking lot. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that Chinuhuk was charged with felony second-degree theft.

A NEW TWIST ON YARD WORK – Council officers for the village of Blubberhouses in North Yorkshire, England, stumbled upon seven trash bags full of cannabis plants at the side of a road on Nov. 12, according to the BBC. They contacted the North Yorkshire Police, whereupon Constable Amanda HanuschMoore tweeted a photo of the bags and invited the owners to “come and speak to us at Harrogate Police Station, we’re more than happy to discuss!”

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ravis DeCuire has seen enough. The University of Montana men’s basketball coach stood in his usual stance throughout an early season practice—hands firmly on hips, head tilted down, a hard glare as players ran drills— and only occasionally jumped in with a suggestion or correction. But when another defensive mistake leads to another easy basket, DeCuire steps in.

“You’re too soft!” he yells, not at a particular player but at the whole squad.

“You’re not in the right spot. You’re not fighting to get to the right spot. Now I’ve got to work you harder.”

Without further explanation, all 14 players line up for a timed sprint. DeCuire blows his whistle and, as the team runs, the coach stomps along the sideline, taking this opportunity to bark his displeasure over the squeak of sneakers and heavy breathing of his players.

“Why do you think we had you run the drill at the beginning of practice? Why do you think we studied this on film?”

The way he walks the sideline now is similar to how he stalks the bench during games: reserved and focused, measured, until he sees something that stirs

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him into an animated burst. During games, these moments tend to show DeCuire edging farther and farther onto the Dahlberg Arena floor. Hardly a game goes by when he doesn’t receive a warning for leaving the designated coach’s box. Now, he’s mad enough to be walking among the running players, looking them straight in the eyes as they reach the finish.

“One thing leads to another,” he continues as they start a second sprint. “One thing leads to another and then another.

We’ve got to do everything right. We’ve got to do every little thing right or else what we’re working for will not happen.”

What DeCuire and this year’s team are working toward is a mix of redemption and validation. It’s not a make-orbreak season for the Griz, but 2017–2018 does carry the sort of urgency that can lead the coach to halt a practice mid-drill and remind his players what’s at stake.

“Every little thing,” he repeats as they finish the second sprint. “It all adds up, guys. Everything you do adds up.”

DeCuire, now in his fourth season at UM, took the reins at his alma mater with a decorated résumé and his name already in Montana’s record books. The school’s

all-time and single-season assists leader as a point guard in the early 1990s, DeCuire went on to climb Montana’s lauded coaching tree, working as an assistant under former Griz mainstay Blaine Taylor at Old Dominion University and then alongside Mike Montgomery, another former Montana legend, at the University of California, Berkeley. Once he returned to Missoula for his first Division I head coaching job, becoming the school’s first-ever black head coach in any sport, DeCuire followed the script perfectly. He sprinted to two straight 20win seasons, becoming the first coach in Montana history to achieve that feat, and caught the eye of bigger programs looking to nab the next great Griz coach.

But in each of those first two seasons, DeCuire fell short of the program’s ultimate annual goal—an NCAA tournament appearance—with losses in the conference championship game. Then, last year, the Griz took a significant step backward and finished a disappointing 16-16, losing in the conference quarterfinals despite an impressive, if disjointed, collection of individual talent.

This year’s team returns most of that talent, including all-conference point

Travis DeCuire has the Montana men’s basketball team poised for a big season, but only if they can take care of the little things first

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guard Ahmaad Rorie and the supremely athletic Michael Oguine, and adds to it eight new players, including 6-foot-8, 255-pound transfer Jamar Akoh and celebrated Texas freshman Karl Nicholas. (A ninth new player, Washington transfer Donaven Dorsey, underwent preseason hip surgery and will miss the season.)

The 2017–2018 Griz have depth and balance that didn’t exist in the past—and, with such a promising-on-paper roster, higher expectations.

“We think we can be good enough to compete for a conference title,” DeCuire says after practice. “We have a list of guys who have experience and who we know what to expect. … We also have a list of new guys who are going to need to play with them, that we need to blend, and they make us unpredictable. It makes us unpredictable to opponents, but it also makes it unpredictable for us.”

Coaches tend to dislike unpredictability on their own team. It’s what makes DeCuire explode during practice over a repeated mistake. It’s what prompts a 20-minute lecture during sprints. It’s also what could make the difference between finally delivering a Big Sky championship and getting mired at

.500 again. DeCuire doesn’t want the little things to get in his team’s way. He’s seen that happen too often at key points of his own career.

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alk to anyone who knows DeCuire— current or former players, fellow coaches, old teammates—and one word surfaces in short order: intensity. His passion is evident in his sideline demeanor and during practices, and it’s a trait that tracks back to his earliest days as a player growing up in the Seattle area.

“Travis is about as fierce a competitor as I’ve ever coached,” says Ed Pepple, the winningest coach in Washington prep history, who earned 952 victories over 49 years, including 42 years at Mercer Island High School. “He’s a winner. He’s a leader. He’s hard-nosed. He’s always been the sort of person who refuses to lose.”

DeCuire attributes his competitive nature to his father, Nile DeCuire. A former standout defensive back for the Washington State football team in the early 1970s, Nile took an active role in his son’s athletic pursuits. He was an assistant coach on Travis’ basketball teams from fourth through sixth grade, the

head coach in seventh and eighth grade, and he continued to coach Travis’ summer league teams during high school.

“In life, he taught me how to compete,” Travis says. “He taught me what it means to fight for success, and I continue to fight for that.”

Nile knew football better than hoops, so he surrounded his son with basketball minds. Family friend and Seattle-area standout guard Tom Battles, whom Travis always referred to as his uncle, taught the younger DeCuire the finer points of playing point guard. Travis developed a deft handle on the ball, started to perfect his pinpoint passes, learned to be a lock-down defender and became an overall student of the game.

He also developed into something of a showboat—he describes his younger self as “flashy, probably too flashy”—and garnered the nickname “Tricky” because, he says, “I hardly ever looked at the guy I was passing the ball to.” When it came time for Travis to attend high school, it was Nile who steered him away from closer schools with winning traditions and toward the stricter environment and stronger academics at Mercer Island.

“He was very hands-on,” Travis says of his father. “... In his own little way, I think he manipulated my basketball path.”

Mercer Island and Pepple proved to be an adjustment for DeCuire. A fierce disciplinarian and former Marine, Pepple didn’t allow DeCuire’s showboating. He did, however, provide a foundation of success and a national platform for DeCuire’s skills.

“Everything with him was about results,” DeCuire says. “You had to do things the right way. I tried to use my athleticism to cut corners. I played a certain way growing up and it didn’t necessarily fit his system, so I had to learn to concede that to be a part of something special.”

Something special seemed imminent during DeCuire’s senior year. Following a strong junior season, he’d attracted the interest of four or five Pac-10 schools and was leaning toward an offer from Washington State, his father’s alma mater. Mercer Island also entered the season with a Top 15 national ranking and received an invitation to the Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The tournament included top teams from around the country, including heralded recruits—and future NBA stars—Jimmy Jackson, from Ohio, and Kenny Anderson, from New York. DeCuire saw the tournament as his chance to put his name among the nation’s best.

But the day before the semifinal against Jackson’s team, DeCuire fell asleep in the team hotel while his teammates went shopping. He’d asked his roommates to wake him up, but no one

did, and DeCuire missed the bus to a team function. As punishment, Pepple suspended DeCuire for the first quarter of the semifinal—a move that DeCuire says raised question marks among recruiters about his character.

“You know, it might’ve been unfair,” Pepple says now. “His dad was furious at me, and I don’t blame him. I mean, I was furious. I didn’t have anyone to guard Jimmy Jackson.”

Jackson went off for 12 first-quarter points, Mercer Island lost the game and DeCuire’s Division I prospects lost momentum. Both he and the team rebounded with another strong regular

sense of loyalty among those who helped him reach his current success, as well as those he’s influenced as a teammate and coach along the way.

“He’s been a mentor of mine my whole life,” says current Griz assistant coach Rachi Wortham. “A lot of it is about basketball, of course, but there’s more to it. He’s provided me with a lot of real-life thoughts, ways to … carry yourself. He’s the type of person who creates relationships beyond just basketball.”

Wortham, who also grew up in the Seattle area, has known DeCuire since DeCuire coached him in ninth grade. The way Wortham tells it, he basically had to

did … He looked out for me, and he’s been doing that ever since. ” DeCuire says he’s lost track of how many of his former players have become coaches, but he acknowledges that once someone comes under his wing, they tend not to leave. That consistency is true in the other direction as well. Asked about his own mentors, DeCuire lists his father, coach Pepple and former Griz player and coach Blaine Taylor. All three played a part in DeCuire’s circuitous route to Missoula.

When scholarship offers dried up for DeCuire following his senior year scuffle, his only choices were nationally ranked

Meanwhile, Taylor, then an assistant coach for Stew Morrill at Montana, was searching for a point guard to recruit to Missoula.

“I was at an event in Pomona [California],” Taylor says, “and one morning I ran into Ed Pepple and asked him, ‘Whattaya got for me?’”

“I was in the pool!” Pepple recalls.

“Every morning I’d swim laps and this one morning, I finish my laps and see this big guy jump in the water and swim over to me. It’s Blaine Taylor. We had the whole conversation in our bathing suits.”

Pepple told Taylor about DeCuire, who was then 1,150 miles away in Seat-

Travis DeCuire, now in his fourth season as UM’s head coach, is known for bringing the same level of intensity from his playing days to the sideline.

“I’ve seen coach blow a gasket quite a few times,” says Fabijan Krslovic, the only senior on this year’s roster, “but I realize now it’s usually for a good reason. That passion is based in making me a better player and us a better team.”

season campaign and appeared the favorite for a state championship, but things came undone during a late-season rivalry game. With Mercer Island comfortably ahead, DeCuire says, an altercation broke out with him in the middle.

Punches were thrown and the star point guard was suspended again.

“At that point, all of my Division I offers were gone,” he says.

“It was hard,” Pepple says. “I think maybe it was a learning lesson. You can’t put all of your faith in a teammate to wake you up. You can’t lose your composure. You can’t let those things get in the way of you and your team’s bigger goals.”

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ntensity isn’t the only trait that tends to dominate descriptions of DeCuire.

Over the years, he’s commanded a deep

force his way onto DeCuire’s radar. When the coach was putting together a traveling summer league team, he invited five players from Wortham’s high school to try out. Wortham wasn’t among those who received an invitation, but he tagged along anyway because, as he says, “I didn’t know any better. I was shorter than the other guys, maybe not as good, but I believed in myself and I guess you could say I believed I was a leader among the group.” DeCuire recognized Wortham’s contributions beyond the court and, even though he wasn’t one of the 12 best players, Wortham eventually made the team.

“When it was all said and done, he recognized my qualities as a leader,” says Wortham, who went on to win a Big Sky title at Eastern Washington in 2004. “He didn’t have to do that, he didn’t have to let me hang around on that team, but he

junior colleges, some late interest from the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, and Division II Chaminade University in Hawaii. The latter hosted the Maui Invitational, a televised early-season tournament that attracted top D-1 schools, so DeCuire went to Hawaii figuring he could at least showcase his talents and maybe parlay the opportunity into a better offer down the road.

“Terrible,” he says flatly of the experience. “The only losing season I ever had in my life.”

Chaminade went 8–18. DeCuire put up decent numbers (he led the team in scoring with 10.9 points per game), but the team never gelled and his exposure was limited. After the school year, DeCuire returned to Washington to play summer league, determined to leave Hawaii as soon as possible.

tle. With Morrill’s blessing, Taylor hopped a flight to see DeCuire play— only to immediately regret his decision.

“I arrive in Seattle,” Taylor says, “get to the game, and I remember walking into the gym and there’s this guy on a breakaway layup who bounces it off the floor, off the backboard, gets all tangled up in a mess and tries to dunk it, and I’m thinking, well, that can’t be him.”

Taylor laughs now at his introduction to “Tricky” Travis DeCuire. He watched a few more games and eventually saw the traits that had prompted Pepple’s recommendation. He also took the time to talk with the cocky guard.

“If you got to know the kid at all, he’d look you in the eye and he had that deep baritone voice and he just had that little something extra,” Taylor says. “You can sense a kid’s passion for the game,

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his understanding of the game. He had an aptitude.”

For DeCuire, Montana represented a return to winning. Morrill’s teams had done well in the Big Sky, but they’d failed to secure a conference title. Taylor detailed some of the recruits coming in and how DeCuire could help put the Griz over the top. It didn’t hurt that Montana’s athletic director at the time, Bill Moos, had been a teammate of Nile DeCuire at Washington State.

“Hell, Bill held Travis as a little baby,” Taylor says. “You can’t ask for a better deal as a recruiter. He had other offers, I think, but once we got him to visit, I thought we had him.”

“He sold me on a dream,” DeCuire says of Taylor. “I had always won. After that year [in Hawaii], I just wanted to get back to winning.”

Sure enough, in DeCuire’s first year on campus, the Griz won the Big Sky, later losing to eventual Final Four team UNLV in the NCAA tournament. As a redshirt transfer, DeCuire could only practice that season, but Montana had returned to the sport’s highest level and was poised to repeat in 1991–1992 with DeCuire in the rotation. The success also brought change: Colorado State hired Morrill away, and Taylor took over as Montana’s head coach.

The team hardly missed a beat under Taylor. Montana finished the season 27–4, again making the NCAA tournament. DeCuire played nearly 20 minutes a game and led the Big Sky in three-point shooting percentage. His experience, coupled with the bulk of the roster graduating, meant DeCuire would return for his junior season as the focal point and captain of Montana’s team. It turned out to be more responsibility than he knew how to handle.

“He just had that little something extra. …

You can sense a kid’s passion for the game, his understanding of the game. He had an aptitude.” understands his community. He understands his family. He understands the kids that he works with. His relationships are true relationships.”

DeCuire’s ability to communicate with players is partly why he carries the label of a players’ coach.

“I’m about as intense as they come,” he says, “but I also try to be compassionate. I care about my guys. I try not to beat them up.”

By his own definition, being a players’ coach also means he doesn’t try to force his players into a rigid system, as Pepple did to him. Rather, DeCuire tailors his system to his players’ strengths and weaknesses.

“I don’t want to make everyone into squares and triangles [on a chalkboard],” he says. “To me, a players’ coach is someone who has a good feel for what’s best

for each individual player. He allows them to play to their personality, to play the game they’re comfortable playing. At the same time, he helps them identify their strengths and weaknesses so they see them—and that goes for both off the court and on the court.”

The lesson applies to DeCuire’s own junior year at Montana. At first, he describes it simply as “hard.” The more he considers it, though, the more he starts to assess what he did wrong, and why, and how he could’ve been better. The Griz went a respectable 17-11 and DeCuire, who led the team in minutes played and assists, earned all-conference honorable mention. But ultimately, the team—and DeCuire—fell short of their goals.

“I didn’t accept [my role],” he says now. “I thought that putting guys on my back and scoring was who I should be. I

didn’t realize how easy it was to make shots when you’re not the guy they’re keying on. I think I downplayed my value as a passer. I look back at it with regret, because I wasted a year when it comes to my assists, my strengths, and I think it affected what was there for me after I finished playing.”

Taylor doesn’t disagree.

“When he’s asked to defend the way he does and dime [pass] the basketball, he was at his absolute best,” Taylor says. “But then you ask him to be the captain, make sure everyone gets to class, make sure everyone is working in the weight room, advise the club when we lose and keep everyone level-headed when we win, and then you also ask him to score the ball more? You worry if it’s going to wear him thin. I think that’s what happened.”

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eCuire doesn’t often mince words.

Like most good coaches, he’s direct and clear. He’s also honest in his assessment of a player, play, team or season— even when the assessment involves him.

That openness isn’t limited to the court, and it’s one reason that many of the team’s current players chose Missoula.

“When I came to visit, part of what attracted me was that he was just down to earth,” says Jamar Akoh, a transfer from Cal State-Fullerton. “He tells you how it is and then that’s how it is. He’s true to his word.”

“He’s real,” says point guard Ahmaad Rorie. “We talk a lot of basketball, but he asks about my family, we talk about my grades, we talk about life. That’s real big for coach, and it always has been.”

“He’s the most relational person I’ve ever been around,” says Wortham. “He

DeCuire admits to taking a different approach with this year’s team, which features a challenging mix of veteran talent and eight new faces. “Everyone defines success by banners and rings … I want to think beyond that,” DeCuire says. “For me, success is when each individual player takes his individual goals, his dream, and puts them aside for what’s better for the whole.”

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DeCuire returned for his senior year with a better sense of his strengths and weaknesses. He was still a team captain, floor general and defensive leader, but he looked to share the burden and better serve his teammates. During the 1993– 1994 season, a typical DeCuire stat line might involve one or two shots from the field, double-digit assists and an opponent’s leading scorer shut down. The Griz improved to 19–9, and by the end of the year, DeCuire had dished out 199 assists, giving him 435 for his career— both school records.

“I had fun with it,” says DeCuire. “I could just be me.”

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t banquets and in interviews, Blaine Taylor has a line to describe the pressures of playing and coaching at Montana.

“It’s like the old line from ‘New York, New York,’” he says. “If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. That’s Montana basketball.”

Taylor uses the line to help explain how Montana, of all places, cultivated one of the sport’s most illustrious coaching trees. It’s not easy to recruit top players to Missoula, he says, nor is it easy to schedule quality opponents at Dahlberg Arena during the winter. Yet over the years, Montana has produced some of college basketball’s most successful coaches.

The tree’s roots start with Jud Heathcote, who went from Missoula to Michigan State University, where he won the 1979 National Championship with the help of a guard named Magic Johnson.

Heathcote’s former assistant, Mike Montgomery, coached eight seasons at Montana before jumping to Stanford, then to the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and finally to Cal. Montgomery’s exit from Montana opened the door to Morrill, who, after a stint at Colorado State, became the all-time winningest coach at Utah State. Then there’s Taylor, who went on to four NCAA tournaments with Old Dominion University. In more recent years, Larry Krystkowiak led Montana to two consecutive March Madness berths before leaving for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and, now, the top job at Utah in the Pac-12. Wayne Tinkle took over for Krystkowiak at Montana and, after two NCAA berths of his own, followed Coach K to the Pac-12 by earning the head coach position at Oregon State.

DeCuire’s path to succeeding Tinkle in Missoula touches almost every branch of the Montana tree, as well as his earlier days in Washington. In fact, DeCuire’s coaching ascent is a lesson in making and maintaining connections.

“It’s like one long version of that movie Pay it Forward,” says Taylor.

After graduating from Montana with a business degree, DeCuire played one season overseas in Australia before realizing that he wanted to pursue coaching.

His first stop was at Mercer Island on Pepple’s staff. One of DeCuire’s roles involved coaching the freshman team, which included Matt Logie, Pepple’s grandson and a former Mercer Island ball boy. Logie considered DeCuire his favorite player while growing up, and used to follow him around on road trips, “probably annoying the heck out of him, to be honest,” Logie admits. “But I was the coach’s grandson, so what was he going to do?”

Logie remembers DeCuire as a passionate and driven coach—and even tougher to play against. By the time Logie made varsity, his childhood idol had taken the head coach position at rival Sammamish High School, where he won two conference titles.

“I tease him that he stole a little bit of our family knowledge and used it against us,” Logie says.

Today, Logie is in his seventh season coaching Division III Whitworth in Spokane. The Griz opened the 2017– 2018 season by beating Logie’s squad 72–60 at Dahlberg Arena. Ed Pepple, now 84, watched the game from the Whitworth bench.

At the same time DeCuire started to establish himself as a high school coach, he launched a nonprofit in Seattle aimed at helping young athletes in need. The Fastbreak Basketball Association, which included a traveling Amateur Athletic Union team, gave DeCuire the chance to teach life lessons he had learned the hard way—about recognizing strengths and weaknesses, about how the little things add up—and also created a pipeline of teenagers willing to follow his lead. FBA is how Wortham first met DeCuire.

Following his stint at Sammamish, DeCuire took over a last-place program at Green River Community College just south of Seattle for the 2001–2002 season and, a year later, led them to a conference championship and their first 20-win season in more than 20 years.

One of his assistant coaches was Tom Battles, the family friend who helped teach him the point guard position.

Blaine Taylor, then at Old Dominion in Virginia, says he had been keeping tabs on DeCuire. In 2003, after Krystkowiak left Taylor’s staff, Taylor looked to fill the position with someone else who understood his background.

“Most of the staff was from the East Coast,” Taylor says. “I wanted someone familiar with Montana basketball, some-

As a player, DeCuire earned the nickname “Tricky” for his propensity to dish no-look passes. He describes his playing style as “flashy, probably too flashy,” but still ended his career as Montana’s all-time and single-season assists leader.

one familiar with me, someone who knew where I went to high school, someone who knew the foundation of what I teach.”

DeCuire spent five seasons with Taylor, helping lead the Monarchs to a 117– 53 record and two NCAA tournament appearances. Taylor put DeCuire in charge of monitoring academics and, later, recruiting, where his gift for communicating with players shined.

“The only thing that limited Travis in recruiting was that we only had 13 scholarships,” Taylor says. “If he could’ve had his way, we’d have 50 guys on full rides, because he could attract kids from everywhere.”

Taylor, who refers to DeCuire as “the son I never had,” now works as an assistant at UC Irvine. On Dec. 17, he’ll have the “really uncomfortable feeling” of sitting on the visiting bench at Dahlberg Arena when the Anteaters play Montana.

In 2008, DeCuire finally made his way back west when Mike Montgomery, at Taylor’s suggestion, added DeCuire to his staff in Berkeley. For six years, includ-

ing four as Montgomery’s associate head coach, DeCuire helped Cal to four NCAA tournament appearances.

In 2014, when Montgomery announced his retirement, he publicly recommended DeCuire as his replacement.

The school balked at hiring someone without any major college head coaching experience, and instead lured Cuonzo Martin from the University of Tennessee.

DeCuire’s future was in limbo until, a month later, Oregon State announced the hire of Wayne Tinkle from Montana.

It took less than two weeks for Griz athletic director Kent Haslam to fill the position. On May 31, 2014, DeCuire returned to his alma mater as head coach.

“As soon as I started to visit with him,” Haslam said at the time, “it was very apparent that he was the right guy for this job.”

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or all his flash on the court, DeCuire doesn’t much like attention as a coach. When first approached about an

interview for this story he reacted with surprise. “Me? You sure you don’t want to just talk to the team?” An old website built when DeCuire was looking to land his first head coaching gig and detailing his coaching values—it’s still online, although it hasn’t been updated for at least five years—features a quote from Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu on the homepage: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

It’s silly to think that DeCuire would escape recognition if this year’s Griz team regains a spot atop the Big Sky, but the coach’s thinking does offer a window into how he’s approaching the current season. With a deep roster split between established veterans and new faces, DeCuire needs to simultaneously build chemistry, define roles and manage egos.

“Everyone defines success by banners and rings, how many guys you put in the NBA and how many all-conference guys you have at the end of the year. I want to think beyond that,” DeCuire

says. “For me, success is when each individual player takes his individual goals, his dream, and puts them aside for what’s better for the whole. What sacrifice does he make for our group? If each guy does that, your chance of success is pretty high. And your level of success is defined by how many guys do it and fully commit to it.”

Early in the season, DeCuire got a glimpse of the level this team could reach. On Nov. 13, the Griz traveled to Pittsburgh and won 83–78 in overtime.

It was Montana’s first win against a “Power 5” school since 2010, and the first time it had beaten an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent since 1966. Michael Oguine scored a career-high 29 points and Ahmaad Rorie added 18, while fellow starters Bobby Moorehead and Fabijan Krslovic combined for 20 points and 15 rebounds.

Just as important as those headlines were the details farther down the stat sheet. Most notably, Sayeed Pridgett, a Swiss Army knife sophomore capable of playing point guard or guarding a power forward, and who started 11 games last year, came off the bench to score 12 points and grab eight rebounds while playing almost the entire second half and overtime. His selflessness and ability to fill multiple roles could be a key to Montana’s season.

After the defining win of his Montana tenure, DeCuire kept the game in perspective. In the postgame press conference, he acknowledged that the victory was exciting for fans, good for recruiting and a sign that his team was maturing.

Ultimately, though, he said it was simply “part of the process.”

DeCuire used a similar phrase before the season started. Even as he explained his own process-oriented definition of success, he said the team’s goals were different this year. Yes, the Griz aim to reach the NCAA tournament.

How they approach that goal is what’s changed.

“Last year, we set goals at the beginning of the year. The year before that, we set goals at the beginning of the year,” he said. “We were always working toward that ultimate goal, so if you lose a game you go into a depression. It was always about a championship instead of just enjoying the process and enjoying the moment. So right now, we’re not going to talk about the championships.”

He prefers to focus on the little things, doing each one right, and hope that, in the end, they all add up this time.

The Griz next host Cal State Northridge at Dahlberg Arena on Dec. 3. editor@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Fake-out In MAM’s Our Side, Elisa Harkins turns herself over to the authorities

by Erika Fredrickson

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n a video piece titled “Fake Part I,” Elisa Harkins perches on a white pedestal in the middle of a crowded gallery singing into a microphone. The scene almost evokes a lounge act, the way Harkins gracefully sweeps her legs to the center of the platform and leans back as if on a grand piano. It’s an entertaining spectacle, but unlike a performance from a Hollywood crooner, the meaning and tenor of the performance aren’t easy to pinpoint. Harkins is barefoot and dressed in a white dress and Cherokee headdress (normally reserved for men), both of which seem to be created from authentic designs, but glossily reproduced. The music carries similar juxtapositions of old and new: It’s a melody derived from 1820s Native American sheet music, which Harkins rearranged as a synthfilled electronic song and added her own lyrics. “Die. Don’t die,” she sings, over and over. She rolls across the pedestal and eventually stands to shimmy along with the beat. “Get the money,” she sings.

The audience bobs along, though with some uncertainty. It seems like a moment to enjoy, but the title, with the word “fake” in it, and the fact that Harkins is a performance artist, offer clues that there’s more to think about here. Underneath the sheen are complex issues that are as emotionally charged in Missoula as anywhere else, starting with: What’s authentic about this experience? What’s fake?

The “Fake Part I” video, filmed in 2014 at the Mint Gallery in Valencia, California, is part of a group exhibition at the Missoula Art Museum called Our Side. Our Side features work by Harkins, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Marianne Nicolson and Tanis S’eiltin—all First Nations contemporary artists—and was curated

by Wendy Red Star, a Crow artist who grew up in Billings and now resides in Portland, Oregon. Red Star is known for creating work that confronts romanticized characterizations of Native Americans, and the artists she’s chosen for this show seem to be breaking down the mostly non-native expectation that Native American art should look a certain way. Harkins’ story—like those of the other artists—doesn’t fit into a tidy box.

“Fake Part II” is a performance art piece in which Elisa Harkins calls the Indian Arts and Crafts Board to turn herself in for making inauthentic Native American art.

She is Cherokee/Muscogee, was adopted into a non-native family and grew up in Miami, Oklahoma. When she was younger, she didn’t think much about her identity, or what being part of an indigenous community might mean.

“I didn’t really know about indigenous artists,” she says. “I didn’t know about Jimmie Durham. I didn’t know that you needed a [Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood] card or you needed to be enrolled. Growing up, no one ever asked me what my tribal affiliation was or my blood quantum. They’d just say, ‘What are you?’ And I’d say ‘Oh, I’m

Cherokee and Muscogee Creek. But in the art world, it’s a really hot-button topic, and especially right now it’s coming to a boiling point.”

“Fake Part I” addresses Harkins’ struggle with the idea of her own authenticity, but it’s “Fake Part II,” that really puts a fine point on it. That video, which is also part of MAM’s exhibit, almost seems like a comedy sketch: Harkins, wearing a graffiti T-shirt, sunglasses and baseball cap, calls up the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (1-888-ART-FAKE) to turn herself in for her “inauthentic” performance in “Fake Part I.” It’s a piece that

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makes fun of the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act, a law that was intended to quash mass-producers of fake Native American art and other cultural appropriators. But Harkins turns it into a story about what it means to feel like an outsider in her own culture in a way that’s heartbreakingly sincere.

“I think it’s very complicated,” she says. “If you really look at the fine print, the act is really dissuading people, based on blood quantum and enrollment, from identifying with their culture, and it also sort of eliminates the culture by doing that.”

The way Harkins executes her art— through dance and electronic music— stems from early experiences. In high school, she studied under Moscelyne Larkin, a ballerina in the internationally renowned all-Native American dance company the Five Moons, which includes one of the most famous Native American ballerinas. In 2010, she was in a bike accident that caused severe injuries. “I had so many fractures in my head, it was like an egg dropped and broke,” she says. “My mouth was wired shut and I just was sitting with my laptop and I couldn’t do anything else. Somehow, I had the idea to take this Cherokee flute music, and I started playing around with it.”

A few years later, she enrolled in graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts, where she combined electronic music production with performance. For her upcoming performance at MAM, Harkins, who is now enrolled with the Muscogee tribe, will sing in Cherokee and English along with ceremonial songs that she’s put to disco beats. She says that her art pushes boundaries, even within Native American art communities, and that she’s been largely well-received. For instance, one day at the 4 Winds 7 Clans Gallery in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she met some women making traditional Cherokee baskets and finger-woven felt. She showed them her YouTube channel and the video of her on the white pedestal singing and dancing in a headdress.

“They thought it was awesome,” Harkins says. “They were like, ‘What are you doing? You have a headdress on! Oh my gosh!’” she laughs.

“I think people are generally really supportive. I encourage people to be critical and have a dialogue with me about these things. But I definitely have a position when it comes to these politics.”

Elisa Harkins performs at MAM Fri., Dec. 1, at 6:45 PM, followed by an artist panel discussion featuring Wendy Red Star. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Lights on Julien Baker is a quietly rising star Julien Baker’s sophomore album, Turn Out the Lights, begins when Baker walks into a creaky old room, opens a creaky piano and starts to play a sparse tune. Forty minutes later, the Memphis-based 22year-old belts out the last word of her last song—the word “stay”—with such power it leaves you shivering, then closes the piano lid with as little bravado as when she opened it.

It’s an album that quietly but powerfully announces the arrival of a new indie singer-songwriter powerhouse of the likes we haven’t heard, maybe even in a few decades. Coming after her 2015 selfreleased nine-track solo album, Sprained Ankle, this new effort continues Baker’s special brand of what

we’ll call emo folk, which sounds terrible but is totally the opposite. Baker, who identifies as queer and Christian, writes simple songs about big questions: why she’s here, who she is and how she can feel better.

Confronting issues like substance abuse, self-hatred and depression, she often seems to be singing directly to God, in stripped down arrangements that are often only her and her guitar or piano in an empty room. You should go see her Wednesday, so you can hear her in an intimate venue so early in her career. In a few years, you’ll be able to say: I saw Julien Baker back when she played the Top Hat! (Sarah Aswell) Julien Baker plays the Top Hat Wed., Dec. 6, at 7 PM. $15.

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Big Gigantic, Brighter Future I have historically associated Big Gigantic with those of my friends who do a lot of molly. But I listened to the electronic duo’s new album, Brighter Future, in its entirety while sitting at a desk and not doing any drugs (the Indy newsroom isn’t as lit as you might think), and it was pretty damn fun.

Big Gigantic may play plenty of festivals, but the duo isn’t just hanging around to push a button and cue the bass drop. Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken bring in serious skills on live horns and drums (Lalli, a saxophonist, has a master’s degree in jazz!). While there are enough synth basslines to keep the EDM-heads happy, Brighter Future is undeniably musical and littered with interesting guests.

“The Little Things,” the group’s first single from the album, features Scottish singer-songwriter Angela McCluskey—who’s pretty awesome in her own right, by the way. She sets the tone for an album that leans heavily on soulful contributions by female vocalists, including Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman who lend vocal character to Big Gigantic’s upbeat fare. And just in case you were thinking you had this album all figured out, Wacka Flocka Flame, Pell and Logic also make appearances to set you straight. (Margaret Grayson) Big Gigantic plays the Wilma Thu., Dec. 7.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $28/$25 advance.

Björk, Utopia We are in luck: Björk is in love.

After releasing the dark, inaccessible Vulnicura two years ago, which was about her painful break-up with artist Matthew Barney, the odd, experimental Icelandic singer-songwriter has emerged feeling good again. And giddy. How giddy is Björk? Let’s just say that her 10th studio album is called Utopia and it opens with the sounds of exotic Icelandic birds singing backed by a women’s flute choir. Björk’s voice soars, one moment singing about the beauty and mystery of the world, the next about how fun it is to text favorite song links to your crush. Like much of her past cat-

alogue, Utopia is architecturally huge. Unlike her previous music, it’s airy and happy, like a person suddenly aware of all of the open doors around her.

And let’s face it: We all desperately need an escape to utopia right now. Björk doesn’t return to her indie pop roots on this record, and there’s not really a “single” anywhere on the 71-minute album, but she does deliver a complete landscape to us. It almost acts like a meditation, a walk in the clouds, where you can feel like you have a crush and your crush likes you back, if only for an hour or so. (Sarah Aswell)

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[music]

Still running The joy and impending doom of John Brownell’s Protest Kids

by Josh Vanek

If you’ve been around Missoula’s music scene any time during the past three decades, you’ve probably come across a John Brownell band. The singersongwriter/guitarist fronted the Oblio Joes, a beloved band that went through a couple of lineups and produced a great tape, split 7-inch with hardcore heroes Humpy, and a handful of excellent CDs. Oblio Joes were one of the few groups not really inspired by the punk and metal bands that regularly played Missoula’s famous underground rock venue, Jay’s Upstairs, and they helped broaden that audience’s tastes beyond hard, fast and loud sounds. Between Brownell’s calm-but-paranoid lyrics and Dan Strachan’s powerful, animated drumming, it was hard not to love them. The Oblio Joes split up somewhere in the mid-aughts. They later drifted almost en masse into Secret Powers, a frenetic, ELO-inspired, keyboard-fronted group with Ryan “Shmedly” Maynes at the helm.

Protest Kids are Brownell’s latest group featuring Strachan, guitarist Ryan Farley and bassist John Fleming. The band’s decades together allow them to play seamlessly, and Brownell’s lyrical themes, including escape, the apocalypse, relationships and booze, run reliably through the songs. Past musical devices like full stops and quiet parts juxtaposed to jauntier stuff are still abundant, as well as cheeky rhymes and amazing pop hooks. The music’s a little more buttoned-down than most pop or rock and roll, but not so cerebral or earnest it hurts either.

In the 1990s I was positive that the Oblios were trying to channel the Flaming Lips (something about the Oblio Joes’ super hit “In Love and Insane” made me think of the Lips’ Hit To Death In the Future Head LP), but now I see they were just a young band working out their sound. The remaining similarity seems to be that both Wayne Coyne and John Brownell live in their own distinct musical worlds, and we’re better off for it. Since April, they’ve released three EPs on Bandcamp as part of a series called We Are the Technology. “Joy,” off of We Are the Technology II, evokes some of Oblio Joes’ best material. We Are the Technology I’s standout track is the hooky “Vodka Sunrise.” That Brownell is still here making great music is a testament that Missoula is a place where friendships and original rock and roll can thrive. On the occasion of Protest Kids’ most recent release, We Are the Technology III, I asked Brownell a few questions.

You write about themes like escape, impending doom, booze, Detroit and women, and those have been your go-tos for the past 25 or so years. What am I missing?

John Brownell: I mean, what else is there? I

photo by Amy Donovan

Protest Kids include, from left, John Fleming, Ryan Farley, John Brownell and Dan Strachan.

suppose you are onto something. Several years back, my therapist asked me to bring him printouts of all of my lyrics. It felt pretty awkward to me, but we spent several sessions in a row where he’d make me read them out loud and he’d raise his eyebrows or murmur or chuckle. Imagine his reaction to shit like “It’s a very short list of the people I hate: the whole fucking human race!” But in the past I never really thought about lyrics much beyond the surface of, I don’t know, the words sound cool together and are fun to sing. I also used to read Fortean Times obsessively and it affected my writing more than it should. So anyway, what were we talking about?

What do you draw inspiration from?

JB: Strange science. The psychedelic experience. Tape Op magazine. The kids these days. Heart surgery. Cancer. Honestly, watching family and friends struggle. That shit is hard and I’ve seen a lot of it recently. I guess that is another function of getting old.

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Talk a little about playing with Dan, Fleming and Ryan. In the case of Dan, you’ve had a musical partnership for 25 or so years, correct?

JB: I met Dan in fall of 1992 so, yeah, we are hitting 25 years since we started playing music together. We met Fleming back around that same time and the three of us have been like brothers ever since.

Farley has a great voice, an ear for harmonies, and it seems like our vocals just fit really well together. He was also a big Oblio Joes fan. Making music with these guys is just so uncomplicated and fun. We all come from similar places musically and we have all played together in the past. There are no hard creative differences, no unrealistic expectations, no dictatorship. When I bring in a song in its raw form, generally everyone else gets it right away and jumps in. It just works and I have a lot of fun.

What do you hope to get done, musically or otherwise with this band. Is it goal-oriented, or a continuation?

JB: Honestly, for me—and I think to some extent the other guys—this band is about being determined to not stop making music. After Secret Powers stopped playing, we took a short break and I decided I wanted to start an old person’s “jam club.” It’s kind of like book club, but you play music with other aging hipsters. My thought was that this would likely be kept to the garage or basement or wherever. Instead, I started writing a bunch of songs and “jam club” turned into band rehearsal.

So, I would say there is no specific goal other than having a no-drama, supportive and fun place to hang, make music and ignore the fact that we are getting old. Being able to put out records that I am proud of is a huge bonus. Also, I’m really excited to finally put out a vinyl LP. That is like a 25-year goal finally being realized!

Check out Protest Kids at protestkids.com. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Deep Missouri Three Billboards features satisfying characters

by Molly Laich

Frances McDormand stars in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

I consider it my right and responsibility to convince you that for the love of cinema, everyone with taste should make a particular point of seeing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. This is the third and best feature from UK writer and director Martin McDonagh, whose previous pictures include In Bruges (2008) and Seven Psychopaths (2012), both of them spirited place-based narratives with variably successful executions. With Three Billboards, McDonagh has hit his stride, particularly with the screenplay. McDonagh’s characters achieve complexity and depth that most writers don’t even know how to imagine, let alone create, and he does it with brilliant thrift. Just watch how the characters turn on a dime from vile to sympathetic and back again.

Frances McDormand stars as Mildred, a single mother who lost her teenage daughter to rape and murder in the hopelessly Midwestern town of Ebbing. Seven months later, the murder is still unsolved, and Mildred commissions a series of three billboards on a rarely traveled road to highlight the murder in graphic detail. Specifically, the billboards implicate police chief Willoughby ( Woody Harrelson) for failing to uncover any leads.

You might assume that the story unravels from there into a whodunit murder mystery, all “everyone’s a suspect”—but it’s nothing like that. Three Billboards is a movie about people, the choices they make, what motivates those choices and all the many ways they will try, succeed and fail at loving one another. The unsolved murder’s just a cloak of grief hanging sadly in the background.

It’s obvious and true that McDormand shines in her role as a revenge-obsessed mother. And she gets the lion’s share of the script’s colorful language, for example (is it necessary to print this in its entirety, or simply my pleasure?): “This didn’t put an

end to shit, you fucking retard; this is just the fucking start. Why don’t you put that on your Good Morning Missouri fucking wake up broadcast, bitch?” Still, there’s a soft heart under all that gristle.

Mildred on her own would be enough, but it’s the treasure trove of supporting characters that make Three Billboards such a special and entertaining experience. We have John Hawkes as Mildred’s sleazy ex-husband and Lucas Hedges (Lady Bird) as the surviving son, each of them dealing with the death in a way that doesn’t involve posting giant billboards.

Peter Dinklage shows up as a potential love interest for Mildred, but it’s not quite what you think.

Willoughby’s got a hapless deputy named Dixon in tow, played by Sam Rockwell with a perplexing blend of ignorance, cruelty and sincerity—as award season approaches, you can expect acting nominations for McDormand and Rockwell, at the very least.

But wait, there’s more. We’ve got Caleb Landry Jones as the billboard ad salesman with heart and snark in equal measure. (Seriously, he’s 2017s character actor MVP. Look for that striking face in Get Out, American Made, Twin Peaks and The Florida Project.)

And hey, wow, does anybody remember Brendan Sexton III, Dawn’s bully boyfriend in Welcome to the Dollhouse, a rapist in Boys Don’t Cry and my number one indie film teenage crush? The typecasting persists, but I’m just happy to see him alive and well.

Any hints of sentimentality in Three Billboards are quickly redeemed with the reminder that life is bleak and terrible, as evidenced by its savage and super satisfying bursts of violence. Is this what Missourians are really like? I kind of doubt it (this is a British filmmaker), but hey, it would be cool if they were!

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri opens at the Roxy Fri., Dec. 1. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] Johnny Depp and Judi Dench. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Months after her daughter’s unsolved murder, a mom erected three signs to make sure the cops heard her. Burma-Shave. Rated R. Stars Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film)

ROMAN ISRAEL, ESQ He might be short on interpersonal skills, but this legal eagle has the chops to become top law dog.

Unless, of course, he finds some deep dark secrets in his law firm. But what are the chances of that happening? Rated PG-13. Stars Denzel Washington, Colin Farrel and Carmen Ejogo. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

NOW PLAYING

THE STAR Do you know what the story of the Nativity really needed? CGI camels voiced by Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry and Tracy Morgan. Rated PG. Also stars other people that should know better. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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

Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

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

COCO Inspired by Día de los Muertos, Pixar’s new film follows a young boy on his way to an otherworldly family reunion. I hope you have a box of tissues handy.

Rated PG. Stars the voices of Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt and Edward James Olmos. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharohplex.

TOMORROW (2015) Yesterday we believed in the American Dream.

Today we realize that dream has had catastrophic consequences for developing countries. What do we do now? Not Rated. Directed by Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion. Playing Wed., Dec. 6 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

DADDY’S HOME 2 It’s round two of dad vs. stepdad. I guess we’re all okay with Mel Gibson being in movies again. Rated PG-13. Also stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and John Lithgow. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

DOLORES She’s a rebel, a feminist and a mother. She’s also one of the most influential activists in American history. So why doesn’t anyone know who she is? Not Rated. Directed by Peter Bratt. Playing Thu., Nov. 30 at 7 PM at the University Center Theater.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT When you’re living week to week in a cheap motel just outside of Disney World, sometimes you have to make your own fun. Thank goodness Willem Dafoe is there to kick around. Rated R. Also stars Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite. Playing through Thu., Nov. 30 at the Roxy JANE Jane Goodall loves every ape she sees, from chimpan-a to chimpan-z. Drawing from over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage lost in the National Geographic archives for half a century, see the influential scientist that drove the world bananas. Not Rated.

Directed by Brett Morgen. Playing through Thu., Nov. 30 at the Roxy.

“War. Huh. Good god, ya’ll. What is it good for?” A Very Long Engagement plays at the Roxy Mon., Dec. 4 at 7 PM. JUSTICE LEAGUE DC Comics’ premier super-team assembles to avenge the death of Superman while discovering how many of their mothers are named Martha.

Rated PG-13. Directed by Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon, and starring Henry Cavill’s CGI upper lip and J.K. Simmons as the reason Missoulians are legally obligated to see it in theaters. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

LADY BIRD Applying to college, auditioning for the school play and throwing yourself out of a moving vehicle to avoid a conversation with your mother. High school never changes, does it? Rated R. Stars Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Odeya Rush. Playing at the Roxy.

LAST STAND: THE VANISHING CARIBOU RAINFOREST Seriously, are there any ecosystems that humans

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aren’t screwing up beyond repair? Not Rated. Directed by Colin Arisman. Playing Thu., Dec. 7 at 6:30 PM at the Roxy.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) All it takes to grow a plant is some sunlight, a lot of love and the flesh and blood of dead humans. This flower shop assistant’s green thumb is about to turn red. Rated PG-13. Featuring Rick Moranis, a script based on a cheesy old Roger Corman movie and the voice of Yoda behind the camera. The Roxy hosts a sing-along to this classic musical Fri., Dec. 1 at 7 PM and Sat., Dec. 2 at 4 and 6 PM. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot races against time to uncover which of his 13 co-passengers is a murderer. Meanwhile, the list of suspects work to uncover how exactly you’re supposed to pronounce Hercule Poirot. Rated PG-13. Stars Kenneth Branagh,

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (2004) Your fiancé was court-martialed for shooting himself in the foot in the trenches of World War I and sentenced to death. Guess it’s time to head to the front to see if he’s actually dead. Rated R. Stars Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel and Dominique Pinon. Playing Mon., Dec. 4 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

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

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

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

[dish]

Curried vegetable pot pies

by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

Ingredients 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp flour, divided, plus more for rolling 1/2 very cold stick butter, cut into pieces salt 1/8 cup ice water 2 russet potatoes, scrubbed and diced 1 tbsp olive oil 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 onion, diced 1/2 tsp curry powder 1 tsp chili powder (more or less to taste) 3 fresh sage leaves, chopped 3 carrots, diced 1/2 cup frozen green peas 1/2 cup half-and-half salt and pepper to taste 1 egg

for 10 minutes, or until a fork easily pierces them.

Drain and set aside.

In a food processor, combine 1/2 cup flour, the butter and a pinch of salt. Pulse until mixture resembles small peas. Slowly stream 1/8 cup ice water with machine running, just until dough comes together (you may need slightly more or less—just pay attention to the dough). Remove dough from machine, dust ball lightly with flour, place in a bowl and immediately refrigerate for 15 minutes.

While dough refrigerates, heat olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook garlic, onions, spices and sage until fragrant, about 2– 3 minutes. Add carrots, peas and cooked potatoes.

Stir gently.

Add half-and-half and 2 tbsp flour to the pan.

Stir to combine. The vegetables should now be cooking in a fragrant, creamy sauce. Cook for 2–3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper to taste and remove from heat. Set aside.

Divide refrigerated dough into four pieces and roll out on a floured surface into four circles that are roughly the size of your ovenproof bowls or ramekins. Roll dough into an 8-inch circle if you are making one big pot pie.

Divide the vegetable filling among your ovenproof bowls (or place in your pie pan). Drape dough over each bowl and cut a slit in the middle to allow air to escape.

Beat egg together with 2 tbsp water and use a pastry brush to brush over the dough.

Bake pot pies for 25–30 minutes. Cool slightly before serving.

Directions Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Get out four ovenproof bowls or ramekins. Alternately, if you are making one big pot pie, get out an 8-inch pie pan.

Boil the potatoes in a pot of lightly salted water

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

A few days ago, my friend Samer requested via BrokeAss Gourmet’s Facebook page that I develop a budget-friendly chicken pot pie—a dish he finds generally too expensive to make. Normally I’m not much of a fan of pot pies, but I am always up for a challenge and I must say I was extremely pleased with how these turned out. I kept them vegetarian, but adding two boneless, skinless chicken breasts to your shopping basket should be very doable.

Just chop them and add them when you cook the vegetables.

Serves 4

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

Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation.

Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$

“PROST!”

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358

Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com DECEMBER

COFFEE SPECIAL

Yuletide Blend

Gifts worth waiting for

$10.95/lb.

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232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

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Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

You work hard enough to prepare your Thanksgiving Day meal. Let Bernice’s take care of dessert. Our scratch-made pies, cheesecakes, rolls, and sugar cookies are the perfect finishing touches to make this year's feast complete! Be sure to grab a bag of our signature coffee too...dark, rich with notes of chocolate. Just what you need for a pajama day this season! Visit our website to view our extensive selection. www.bernicesbakerymt.com. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$

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

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $

Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins • 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for nonsushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts.

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Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 • tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

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

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photo by Carly Vester

What you’re drinking: Mead! The family behind Hidden Legend Winery in Victor will happily line up a flight of their award-winning meads for tasting room visitors. This honey wine’s alcohol content can skyrocket to more than 30 percent ABV, so choose your sipping adventure wisely. I sampled the Pure Honey Mead, the tart Apple Mead, the signature King’s Mead, the cough syrup-like Honey Cherry Mead, Huckleberry Mead, Spiced Mead and Carbonated Mead. Yes, carbonated mead, a light, fizzy, cider-like beverage at 8 percent ABV with a smirking Viking on the label.

What’s in it: From birth to bottle, this ancient drink takes about 90 days to make. Unlike wine, it isn’t aged. Each 750ml bottle contains ¾ cup of honey and, depending on the flavor, can be chock full of fruit. Try the Huckleberry Mead, featuring two pounds of berries per fermented gallon (and all Hidden Legend mead

berries are handpicked in local orchards). The overall effect is a balancing act between a good pinot and a smooth rosé. Tasting room rumor has it that a standard-size crockpot can hold up to six bottles, and warm mead is an excellent curative after a day in the cold.

Mead? In Montana? Hidden Legend has bragging rights as the only mead maker in the state. The family-run operation dips all of its bottles in wax and hand-seals and labels each bottle manually.

Where to Find It: The Hidden Legend Winery tasting room (1345 U.S. Highway 93 North, No. 5) is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Look for the winery sign off of Highway 93 as you enter Victor. Tastings are free. A spit bucket is available for the faint of heart.

—Carly Vester

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

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SAT | 8 PM Big Head Todd and the Monsters play the Wilma Sat., Dec. 2. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50.

FRI | 8 PM NGHTMRE plays the Wilma Fri., Dec. 1. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50/$25 advance.

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WED | 8 PM Julien Baker plays the Top Hat Wed., Dec. 6. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15.

FINANCES FINGERTIPS TUE | 8 PM DJ Deorro performs at Monk's Tue., Dec. 5 at 8 PM. $30/$20 advance.

Give us a call or visit us online.

800.852.5316

SAT | 10:15 PM Yak Attack plays the Top Hat Sat., Dec. 2 at 10:15 PM. $5.

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The University Center Gallery opens Transmission Park, a new exhibit by Jesse Blumenthal, with a reception from 4 PM–6 PM. Big Sky Culinary Institute hosts a hands-on cooking class at Missoula Food Bank’s Learning Kitchen all about ground beef.

Register online at missoulaclasses.com. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

These crayon names are getting out of hand. Red Onion Purple plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

nightlife I think it might have fought Mothra at some point. Butter Beehemoth plays the VFW from 7 PM–9 PM. Free.

A new winter lecture series about bicycles and other sustainable transportation starts with presentations by Ally Mabry and Russ Roca at Free Cycles. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20 Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The VFW hosts Discobox every Thursday. Dance the night away to the best in house and techno music. 9 PM. Free.

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

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

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The Missoula Festival of Trees returns for another year of yuletide fun. Visit missouladowntown.com for a full list of events. First Interstate Bank Skyview Suite.

Take a lantern tour of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula featuring living history re-enactors.

Tours start every half an hour starting at 5:30 PM and ending at 7 PM. Space is limited. RSVP by emailing fortmissoula@missoulacounty.us. $10.

nightlife Larry Hirshberg kicks off December with a performance at Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter Andrea Harsell plays a solo show at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Yeah, I got some time. Zoola Writers present Time for a Quickie, five short plays by local

dramatists at the Roxy Theater.

6:30 PM and 9 PM. $15.

Missoula BASE hosts an evening of family-friendly improv, sketch, dance and stand-up comedy. All that plus locally brewed kombucha. It doesn’t get more Missoula than that. 6:30 PM. Donations.

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NGHTMRE plays the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50/$25 advance.

Peter and the Starcatcher continues at the Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20 Charles Dickens’ immortal classic about a guy being haunted out of being a dick opens at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. A Christmas Carol starts at 7:30 PM. $20–$25.

Pete Fromm, the University of Montana 2017 Distinguished Kittredge Writer, reads his prose at 7 PM in the Dell Brown Room in Turner Hall. Free and open to the public.

Bare Bait Dance and The Roxy Theater co-present the 5th Annual Kinetoscope International Film Festival. Featuring award-winning dance cinema from all over the world, each screening will also showcase live multimedia performances featuring the BBD company. 8 PM. $19/$17 advance.

Get out of skid row and head to the Roxy for a sing-along to 1986’s killer plant classic Little Shop of Horrors. Proceeds benefit Missoula Community Chorus. 7 PM. $11.

Come support the local battered women’s shelters in Missoula when Monk’s hosts Who Runs the World? Music from Neicia, Hot Pantz and Hauli. 9 PM. Donations.

First Friday La Stella Blu hosts art by students at Rattlesnake Elementary School. 5 PM–8 PM. Ed Wrzesien's photography exhibition, Breathing Space, explores the beauty of backroad Montana. See his work at Zootown Brew. 5 PM– 8 PM.

Wild Rockies Field Institute's First Friday hosts Stephanie Fisher's photo essay on energy in Montana, taken on a 700-mile bike tour of the state. 5 PM–8 PM. Bathing Beauties Beads invites you to make a piece of jewelry which will be sold to benefit Missoula Food Bank. Stop by between 5 PM and 8 PM.

See art from dozens of local artists at Black Coffee Roasting Company. 4:30 PM–6:30 PM.

Valencia Nights at the VFW features DJs and dancing.

10 PM. Free.

Bodhi Henna sets up shop in Good Medicine from 5 PM–8 PM.

Lake Missoula Tea Company hosts the abstract art of Ashley Meyora and music of John Kratz.

5 PM–8 PM.

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War Pony & the Pool Boys, Tahj and Brute Finesse bring a night of bluesy rock and roll to the VFW. 10 PM. $3.

A collection of birds and landscapes, beautifully recreated in oil, serve as the centerpiece to Nature by Laura Blue Palmer, opens with a reception at the Artists' Shop. 5 PM–8 PM. Gallery 709 inside Montana Art and Framing presents an opening reception for The Art of Refinement–Oil Paintings by Dennis Sloan from 5 PM–9 PM. Environment Montana hosts an art show highlighting the clean rivers, streams and lakes of Montana. Strongwater. 614 S. Higgins. 6 PM–9 PM.

The Montana Natural History Center hosts the felt bird sculptures of Claudia Paillao. 4:30 PM–6:30 PM.

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

20 Grand’s funky grooves provide the soundtrack at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. Free.

Flower hosts the abstract art of Keith Levi from 5 PM–8 PM.

Downtown Dance Collective hosts the eclectic mixed-media landscapes, animals and people of Erin Huffman. 5 PM–9 PM.

The artwork of Jayne Piazza and the jewelry of Chelsea Martini headline the festivities at Engel & Völkers Western Frontier. 5 PM–8 PM.

DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad are on deck for Drop Culture’s 4th Anniversary Party at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. Free.

Share holiday cheer and your support of the river at Clark Fork Coalition's holiday party.

Music, food, drinks, and a raffle await. 5 PM– 9 PM.

Double your fun! The refurbished and recycled guitars of Chris Knudson and the wildlife paintings of Lynsey Douglas serve as the centerpiece at Betty's Divine. 5 PM–8 PM.

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

The Sunrise Saloon’s Ugly Sweater Party features the live music of the Lolo Creek Band and some of the ugliest sweaters this side of Great Falls. 9:30 PM. Free.

you'll find something for that special someone in your life. 5:30 PM–9 PM.

Get in the holiday spirit with handmade ornaments at 4 Ravens Gallery. 5 PM–8 PM.

The playful paint collages of artist April Werle opens at Clyde Coffee with a reception from 5 PM–8 PM.

If another Dust Bowl hits, those folks are toast. Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Nature, a new exhibit by Laura Blue Palmer opens at The Artists' Shop Fri., Dec. 1 with a receptition from 5 PM–8 PM. Celebrate the season with Five Valleys Land Trust's holiday party. All are welcome. 5 PM– 7 PM. The artwork of Kelly Loder and Candice Rhea displays at the Loft. 5 PM–8:30 PM. The Clay Studio's Holiday Exhibition features art work from residents past and present, meaning

Flavor as an Art, featuring music by Travis Yost and artwork by Carrie Pichler and Pat Hopfauf, opens with a reception at the Montana Distillery. 5 PM–8 PM.

The Art Hang Up features the work of Kalispell architecture artist Seth Capon from 4 PM–8 PM. WaterMaps, a multimedia installation by Jolene Brink and Linds Sanders opens with a reception at E3 Convergence Gallery. 5 PM– 9 PM. The Zootown Arts Community Center's annual Holiday Open House features artwork by the ZACC's staff. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM.

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Little Shop of Horrors at the Roxy.

Benefits Missoula Community Chorus. 4 PM and 6 PM. $11.

Travis Yost at Imagine Nation Brewing at 6 PM. Free.

I think dogs should vote! The Crazy Dog Band play Blacksmith Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Dan Henry provides the rocking tunes at the Montana Distillery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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I’m thinking Todd and I were both teased in high school for the same thing. Big Head Todd and the Monsters play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50.

Blistered Earth, the ultimate tribute to Metallica, plays the Dark Horse Bar. I think the ultimate tribute to Metallica is pretending St. Anger never happened. 8 PM. $5.

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

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Get in the holiday spirit at the 15th Annual Parade of Lights. 6 PM. Visit missouladowntown.com for a full schedule.

Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale celebrates the season with Holiday Pops at the Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $15$50.

Zoola Writers present Time for a Quickie, five short plays by local dramatists at the Roxy Theater.

6:30 PM and 9 PM. $15.

The Kinetoscope International Film Festival continues at the Roxy Theater. 8 PM. $19/$17 advance.

Portland electronica band Yak Attack is back to enact jam-packed tracks at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM exact. $5.

turing living history re-enactors.

Tours start every half an hour starting at 5:30 PM and ending at 7 PM. Space is limited. RSVP by emailing fortmissoula@missoulacounty.us. $10.

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JD and the Western Front at Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

Mudslide Charley rushes into the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Come in and know me better, man! Catch a matinee of A Christmas Carol at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 2 PM. $20–$25.

Take a lantern tour of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula fea-

nightlife Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale celebrates the season with Holiday Pops, featuring music from around the world at the Dennison Theatre. 2 PM

Bah! Humbug! A Christmas Carol continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 6:30 PM. $20–$25.

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

The Kinetoscope International Film Festival continues at the Roxy Theater. 2 PM and 8 PM. $19/$17 advance.

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Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

Montana Drag Community. A panel discussion featuring drag performers and academics precedes the exhibit. 7 PM. Free.

(See Spotlight)

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

David Horgan and Beth Lo perform jazz at the Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM. Free.

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

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

10 PM. Free. 21-plus.

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Tuesday The Iron Griz hosts a tasting of high-end wines that don’t come with an aggressive price tag.

Stop by anytime between 5 PM and 7 PM. $20.

Partners In Home Care Hospice invite the community to the 30th Anniversary Tree of Life Ceremony to honor and remember those who have died. A tree lighting at Rose Memorial Park at 6 PM is followed by a ceremony at St Paul Lutheran Church at 6:30 PM.

nightlife House DJ and Teen Wolf guest star Deorro plays Monk’s. 8 PM. $30/$20 advance.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. The Gold Rush of 1849 kicked off after which U.S. president confirmed the discovery of gold in California on today’s date in 1848? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

Take an early morning bike ride and then brew a good cup of joe with the early birds of Coffee Outside MSLA. Beans will be provided, but bring your own brewing method to make a cup of coffee with other caffeine-loving cyclists. Meet at Caras Park.

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Wednesday Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass of beer for Montana Food Bank Network.

5 PM–8 PM. Aran Buzzas bring his homegrown folky tonk to Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

nightlife Singer-songwriter Julien Baker plays the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15.

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

7 PM. Trivia answer: James Knox Polk.

A Christmas Carol continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Are we sure it isn’t just an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese or a fragment of underdone potato? 7:30 PM $20–$25.

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

Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. Did I spell that right? Is it Thomas Mar Beagher? 8 PM. Free.

Are you a DJ? Of course you are; it’s 2017! Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM.

Huge colossal? Considerable enormous? Nope. Big Gigantic plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28/$25 advance.

A Christmas Carol continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Are we sure it isn’t just an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese or a fragment of underdone potato?

7:30 PM $20–$25.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Mix a glass of red with the bluesy jazz of Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

Valencia Nights features house music at the VFW. 8 PM. Free.

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“Here's a quarter, go call the Ghostbusters.” A Christmas Carol opens at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Fri., Dec. 1 at 7:30 PM. $20–$25.

It’s not small... no, no, no. Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s.

9 PM. Free.

walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the

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

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Spotlight

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Thirty years ago, the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana, helped by performers in Washington, was founded in the Big Sky State. Since then, the ISCSM has produced dozens of drag shows through the state

States with a find out about small Montana Montana's component,” long history of Barber says. drag perform“When I started ance,” says to talking to perdrag performers around former and the state, howUniversity of e v e r, p e o p l e Montana Hisbecame very tory Grad stuexcited.” The findent Johnny ished exhibit Barber. BarJohnny Spritzer focuses on Monber, who has tana's history of been performing for almost a decade in and d r a g . M e m o r a b i l i a i n c l u d e s around Montana, researched, de- crowns and tiaras, make-up and signed and created The Art of wigs. The exhibit opens with a reDrag: Performance Memorabilia ception and panel discussion feaFrom the Montana Drag Commu- turing a mix of academics and nity, a new exhibit opening at drag performers to provide context on a fabulous part of MonMansfield Library.

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WHAT: The Art of Drag: Performance Memorabilia From The Montana Drag Community WHERE: Main floor of Mansfield Library WHEN: Mon., Dec. 4, at 7 PM HOW MUCH: Free

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Agenda If the old adage about how a picture is worth a thousand words is true–and based on my Twitter feed, it certainly is– then the opposite must also be true. Photographs are what we use to create memories, communicate with our friends and family and serve as a memorial after we're gone.

In 2008, Nashville-based photographers Jeremy Cowart and Kyle Chowning were trying to find a way to use their talents behind the camera to give back to their communities.

They realized that by offering free studio portraits to people who otherwise couldn't afford them, they could provide something no one else could.

In the intervening years, Cowart and Chowning's project, Help-Portrait, has spread across the globe. On the first Saturday in December, photographers across the country, as well as in over 67 countries around the world, offer free studio portraits. Volunteer photographers, hair stylists and editors work to create a one-of-kind portrait, completely free of charge. In Missoula, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography hosts Missoula's Help

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

FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 Come support the local Battered Women's Shelter in Missoula when Monk's hosts Who Runs the World? Music from Neicia, Hot Pantz and Hauli.

9 PM. Donations. photo courtesy Caitlin Barrett

Portrait. RMSP's previous years hosting the event have generated huge turnouts, and this year the organization hope’s it’ll be its biggest yet. “There's something to offering portraits to the less fortunate,” says RMSP Student Services Associate Bob McGowan. “It's so worthwhile seeing people's faces when they get their portraits.” Now that's something worth a thousand words..

—Charley Macorn The Annual Help-Portrait takes place at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography from 9:30 AM to 5 PM on Sat., Dec. 2. Visit help-portrait.com for more information.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 2 Hellgate Elementary PTA host its craft fair in the Middle School Gym and Commons Area from 9 AM to 3 PM. Food trucks, crafters and more.

Enjoy home-made lefse, krumkake, sandbakkels, pepperkaker, fattigmann and other delicious foods that make my spellchecker explode at the Sons of Norway Nordic Pines. 9 AM–4 PM. Free.

Fact and Fiction hosts the annual First Night Missoula Book Fair. A portion of sales will be do-

nated to Missoula’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration of the arts. 10 AM–6 PM. The Missoula Festival of Trees returns for another year of yuletide fun. Visit missouladowntown.com for a full list of events. First Interstate Bank Skyview Suite.

MONDAY DECEMBER 4 Giving Bock Night at Missoula Brewing Company donates 50 cents from every beer sold to a local organization. This week hoist your glass for the Montana Food Bank Network. 5 PM–8 PM.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 5 Partners In Home Care Hospice invite the community to the 30th Anniversary Tree of Life Ceremony to honor and remember those who have died. A tree lighting at Rose Memorial Park at 6 PM is followed by the a Ceremony at St Paul Lutheran Church at 6:30 PM.

TURSDAY DECEMBER 7 Celebrate two years of Climate Smart Missoula's work to address climate change in our community with a celebration at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM.

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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don’t know if you all heard, but Thanksgiving is dead. Long live Christmas. Businesses are stringing up twinkle lights and blasting Mariah Carey, and while the shopping and eating and general merriment is fun, it’s also easy to go a little stir crazy. If the beginning of the season has you a little bah-humbug, maybe you should redirect your focus to a cause. Even when they’re covered in snow, Montana’s wild spaces still need stewardship.

Environment Montana is hosting a pop-up art exhibit at Strongwater showcasing both Montana’s waterways and the pollutants that threaten them. The group credits the Environmental Protection Agency with providing vital protections to the state’s aquatic landscape, but also says the EPA work and mission are threatened

by budget cuts. The show aims to highlight the important work the EPA has done for Montana and advocate for continued protection of water.

First Friday will also bring holiday parties from the Five Valleys Land Trust and the Clark Fork Coalition (the latter with the requisite phenomenal raffle prizes—if I don’t win a year’s worth of Le Petit bread, I’m going to fight the person who does). Make the rounds, sample the appetizers and remember how much you love this state’s outdoor wonders. That’s the spirit.

—Margaret Grayson Environment Montana’s Art Show: Clean Montana Waters starts Fri., Dec. 1, at 5 PM at Strongwater, 614 S. Higgins Ave. Free.

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 A new winter lecture series about bicycles and other sustainable transportation starts with presentations by Ally Mabry and Russ Roca at Free Cycles. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 2 Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula's Saturday morning runs at the Runner's Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

Keep canned food donations rolling in for the Missoula Food Bank by competing in the UM Log Rolling Tournament. University of Montana Grizzly Pool. 1 PM. Bring two non-perishable food items for entry.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6 Take a bike ride and then brew a good cup of joe with the early birds of Coffee Outside MSLA. Beans will be provided, but bring your

own brewing method to make a cup of coffee with other caffeine-loving cyclists. Caras Park.

7:15 AM. Off the Record, a gathering of Western Montana's hard working outdoor writers, photographers and media creators meet at the Union Club for a few pitchers of beer and chat about outdoor storytelling. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

TURSDAY DECEMBER 7 Get a free wax for your skis or snowboard when you purchase a cider at Western Cider between 4 PM–8 PM. Emily Jensen leads a workshop to help women become more confident when working on their bicycle at Free Cycles. 6 PM–8 PM. BYOBike.

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative hosts a conservation film double feature at the Roxy, followed by a panel of wildlife biologists and other experts. 6 PM. $9.

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REIGN OF TERRIER I know humans are typically your subject, but this is a relationship question, so I hope you’ll consider answering it. I have a new puppy (an 8-pound terrier mutt). I eventually want her to sleep in bed with me. However, she’s not toilet-trained yet, so I “crate” her at night in the laundry room (in a small dog cage). She cries all night. It’s heartbreaking. Please help!

—Sleepless In Dogtown We call dogs “man’s best friend” and treat them just like our human best friends—if at 11 p.m. you say to your BFF, “Wow, wouldja look at the time,” gently remove her beer from her hand, and usher her to her cage in your laundry room.

Crate training, recommended by vets, breeders and the American Kennel Club, involves confining a dog to a “den”—a cage or gated-off area—with her bed and her favorite toys to dismember. However, the crate is not supposed to be used for punishment—as a sort of Doggy San Quentin—but, say, for times you can’t watch her to keep her from using the $3,000 leather couch as a chew toy or the antique Persian rug as an opulently colored handknotted toilet.

The problem you’re experiencing in crating your dog at night comes out of doggy-human coevolution. Anthrozoologist John W.S. Bradshaw explains that over generations, we humans bred dogs to be emotionally dependent on us.

Not surprisingly, dogs miss their owners, sometimes desperately, when they are separated from them—and other dogs don’t seem to fill the emotional void. In one of Bradshaw’s studies— of 40 Labrador retrievers and border collies— “well over 50 percent of the Labs and almost half of the collies showed some kind of separation distress” when left alone.

Fortunately, puppies can be trained to understand that you picking up your car keys isn’t human-ese for “Goodbye forever!” Bradshaw’s advice in Dog Sense: “Pick up keys, go to door, praise dog.” Next: Pick up keys. Go out door.

Come right back in. Praise dog. Next: Go out for increasingly longer intervals—and “go back a stage” (timewise) if the dog shows anxiety.

And good news for you:You probably don’t have to spoon with your dog to keep her from feeling separation distress at night. My tiny Chinese crested now sleeps (uh, snores like a cirrhotic old wino) on my pillow, resting her tiny snout on my neck. However, back before she

had her bathroom business under control, I went through the crying-at-night-in-the-crate thing (actually a gated alcove by my office).

I felt like the second coming of Cruella de Vil. Then I remembered something about dogs: They have a sense of smell on the level of superhero powers. Maybe my dog didn’t have to be in bed; maybe near bed would do. I snagged a big see-through plastic container (maybe 4 feet long and 3 feet high) that my neighbors were tossing out. At bedtime, I put it next to my bed and put my dog in it with her bed and a pee pad.

She turned around three times, curled up and went to sleep—after giving me a look I’m pretty sure said,“Hey, next time you’re gonna throw me in ‘the hole,’ gimme some notice, and I’ll menace the mailman and chase the neighbors’ bratty children with a sharpened Nylabone.”

FUR WHEELIN’ I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do. What’s going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I’d hope my family would have me committed.

—Disturbed “Release the hounds!” does lose some of its punch when it’s followed by “... as soon as you can unzip them from their polka-dot stroller.”

Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man-purses. However, you’re right; dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing. As for why this is, think Field of Dreams:“If you build it...” and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won’t have to leave their old, tired and/or disabled doggy home alone.

As for what pushing a doggybuggy says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a “costly signal.”This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price—which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real. An example of this is conspicuous waste—signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners. Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, “We want sensitive men!—though not, you know,‘put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller’ sensitive.”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope that everything doesn’t come too easily for you in the coming weeks.

I’m worried you will meet with no obstructions and face no challenges. And that wouldn’t be good. It might weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving skills to atrophy. Let me add a small caveat, however. It’s also true that right about now you deserve a whoosh of slack. I’d love for you to be able to relax and enjoy your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes, you are at peak strength and alertness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You were born with the potential to give the world specific gifts—benefits and blessings that are unique to you. One of those gifts has been slow in developing. You’ve never been ready to confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried to bestow it in the past, it may have caused problems.

But the good news is that in the coming months, this gift will finally be ripe.You’ll know how to deal crisply with the interesting responsibilities it asks you to take on. Here’s your homework: Get clear about what this gift is and what you will have to do to offer it in its fullness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Unbirthday, Gemini! You’re halfway between your last birthday and your next. That means you’re free to experiment with being different from who you have imagined yourself to be and who other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational quotes to help you celebrate. 1. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw. 2. “Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.” – W. Somerset Maugham. 3. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest that you take a piece of paper and write down a list of your biggest fears.Then call on the magical force within you that is bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to keep those scary fantasies in their proper place. And what is their proper place? Not as the masters of your destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you from living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that keep you from taking foolish risks.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book Life:The Odds, Gregory Baer says that the odds you will marry a millionaire are not good: 215 to 1.They’re 60,000 to 1 that you’ll wed royalty and 88,000 to 1 that you’ll date a model. After analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I suspect your chances of achieving these feats will be even lower than usual. That’s because you’re far more likely to cultivate synergetic and symbiotic relationships with people who enrich your soul and stimulate your imagination, but don’t necessarily pump up your ego. Instead of models and millionaires, you’re likely to connect with practical idealists, energetic creators and emotionally intelligent people who’ve done work to transmute their own darkness.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What might you do to take better care of yourself in 2018,Virgo? According to my reading of the astrological omens, this will be a fertile meditation for you to keep revisiting. Here’s a good place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what makes your body operate at peak efficiency and what keeps your soul humming along with the sense that your life is interesting. Here’s another crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself. With that as a driving force, you’ll be led to discover the actions necessary to supercharge your health. P.S. Now is an ideal time to get this project underway.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are themes I suggest you specialize in during the coming weeks. 1. How to gossip in ways that don’t diminish and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing your attractive mysteriousness. 4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and profit. 5.

How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life that have been at odds with each other.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I predict that in the coming months you won’t feel compulsions to set your adversaries’ hair on fire. You won’t fantasize about robbing banks to raise the funds you need, nor will you be tempted to worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be close to zero.The monsters under your bed will go on a long sabbatical. Any lame excuses you have used in the past to justify bad behavior will melt away. And you’ll mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarranted anger. In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be pretty evil-free for quite some time. What will you do with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it wisely!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is love?” asks philosopher Richard Smoley. “It’s come to have a greeting-card quality,” he mourns. “Half the time ‘loving’ someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling in the heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the moment the person has some concrete need or irritates us.” One of your key assignments in the next ten months will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and shriveled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiful soul.You are primed to cultivate an unprecedented new embodiment of mature, robust love.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know that unfinished task you have half-avoided, allowing it to stagnate?

Soon you’ll be able to summon the gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you’ll also be able to carry out the glorious rebirth you’ve been shy about climaxing.To gather the energy you need, reframe your perspective so that you can feel gratitude for the failure that has made your glorious rebirth necessary and inevitable.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In an ideal world, your work and your character would speak for themselves.

You’d receive exactly the amount of recognition and appreciation you deserve. You wouldn’t have to devote as much intelligence to selling yourself as you did to developing your skills in the first place. But now forget everything I just said. During the next ten months, I predict that packaging and promoting yourself won’t be so #$@&%*! important.Your work and character will speak for themselves with more vigor and clarity than they have before.

PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP R. TIETZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary Langlotz, jc/o Tipp Coburn Schandelson, PC, return receipt requested, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 30th day of October, 2017. /s/ Mary Langlotz, Personal Representative TIPP COBURN SCHANDELSON, PC /s/ Raymond P.Tipp,Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-275 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF W.F. (FORREST) CLARK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LINDA JEAN FORD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 2271, Livingston, MT 59047 or

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filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 19th day of October, 2017. /s/ Linda Jean Ford, Personal Representative P.O. Box 2271, Livingston, MT 59047 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PETITION TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP OF IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held on the 30th day of November, 2017 beginning at 2:00 p.m. in Room Annex 151, Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, on a petition to transfer ownership of a bridge over the Swan River at the outlet of Lindbergh Lake to the Lindbergh Lake Homeowners Association. (To view the petition recorded in Book 987 Page 1194, visit www.missoulaproperty.us or contact the Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, 1st floor) AND THAT all interested persons should appear at the above mentioned time and place to be heard for or against said petition.

Written comments will be accepted by the Commissioner’s Office, located at Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, prior to the hearing day. BY ORDER of the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana. /s/ Tyler Gernant Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-4752 Date: November 17, 2017

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

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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on March 13, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Sara Lerback, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and Anthony Lerback, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mountain West Bank, N.A., beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated July 7, 2008 and was recorded on July 7, 2008 as Instrument No. Book 822 of Micro Records at Page 658, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 2045 CHICKADEE DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59808 and being more fully described as follows: LOT9, BLOCK 4, EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 3,A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, in-

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There used to be a booth at a Santa Cruz flea market called “Joseph Campbell’s Love Child.” It was named after the mythological scholar who wrote the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

The booth’s proprietor sold items that spurred one’s “heroic journey,” like talismans made to order and herbs that stimulated courage and mini-books with personalized advice based on one’s horoscope. “Chaos-Tamers” were also for sale.They were magic spells designed to help people manage the messes that crop up in one’s everyday routine while pursuing a heroic quest. Given the current astrological omens, Pisces, you would benefit from a place that sold items like these. Since none exists, do the next best thing: Aggressively drum up all the help and inspiration you need.You can and should be well-supported as you follow your dreams on your hero’s journey.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP terest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments totaling $88,959.62 beginning March 1, 2012 through October 5, 2017; plus late charges of $3,402.46; fees of $1,365.00; plus paid recoverable balance of $7,556.29; less unapplied funds credit of $847.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $163,792.95 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.37500 percent per annum beginning February 1, 2012; plus escrow balance of $12,037.40; plus late charges of $3,402.46; plus corporate advance of $1,365.00; plus expense advance of $7,556.29; plus additional escrow of $954.29; less unapplied balance of $847.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: October 25, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A.“Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on January 19, 2018, 09:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 117 of MANSION HEIGHTS, Phase III, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as 245 Mansion Heights Drive, Missoula, MT 59803.

Andrea L. Moore, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart

Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on September 16, 2008, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on September 22, 2008 as Instrument No. 200821789, in Book 826, at Page 973, of Official Records.

The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: New Penn Financial LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Assignment Dated: June 29, 2017 Assignment Recorded: June 29, 2017 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201712792, in Book 982, at Page 50, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on May 11, 2017 as Instrument No. 201707944, in Book 978, at Page 802, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning December 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $313,552.31, interest in the sum of $33,751.17, escrow advances of $0.00, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $19,993.23 for a total amount owing of $367,296.71, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed, without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s

Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 1st day of September, 2017. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 49518 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on March 13, 2018, 01:00 PM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 8 of Hidden Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as 24600 Frenchtown Frontage Road, Huson, MT 59846.

Richard Sales and Rene Sales, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Popular Financial Services, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on March 24, 2004, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 29, 2004 as Instrument No. 200408179, in Book 728, at Page 1369, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certifi-

cates Series 2004-3 Assignment Dated: December 31, 2013 Assignment Recorded: January 17, 2014.Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201400771, in Book 924, at Page 694,All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on February 27, 2017 as Instrument No. 201703479, in Book 975, at Page 537, of Official Records.The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning September 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $162,749.32, interest in the sum of $6,523.54, escrow advances of $4,396.74, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,857.66 for a total amount owing of $175,527.26, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed, without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled.The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee

and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 26th day of October, 2017. /s/ Benjamin J. Mann Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 48783 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on March 20, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 5689, located in the East half of Section 1, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, and the Southwest Quarter of Section 6,Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Excepting Therefrom Tracts A-1, C-1, Portion “A” and Portion “B” of Certificate of Survey No. 5891, located in the East Half of Section 1,

Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

The remaining property is more fully described as Tract B-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 5891, located in the East half of Section 1, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, and the Southwest Quarter of Section 6, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

Scott G. Cooney, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, by Trust Indenture dated March 16, 2007, and recorded that same date in Book 793, Page 1088, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The original Trust Indenture included all of Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 5689.

Partial reconveyances subsequently were recorded, releasing what is now Tracts A-1, C-1, Portion A and Portion B of Certificate of Survey No. 5891.

A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded June 30, 2017, in Book 982, Page 163, Document No. 201712905, records of the Missoula

County Clerk and Recorder.The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1,321,167.69, plus interest totaling $81,015.60, late fees of $5,599.05, and expenses of $15,560.60, for a total amount due of $1,423,342.94, as of November 14, 2017, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing interest and costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and pro-

visions of this Notice. DATED this 15th day of November, 2017. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA))ss. County of Missoula) On this 15th day of November, 2017, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the

within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp NOTARY PUBLIC for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires May 07, 2021 (SEAL)

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