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GO HIBIKI’S ETHAN UHL ON LIFE IN A MISSOULA PUNK BAND BROOKS: THE WEAPONIZATION OF MONTANA’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS

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cover illustration by Kou Moua

News

Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Birds for watching, birds for eating.........................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Counting crows, et al., case manager layoffs, and Daines gets ratioed .........................6 Etc. The Dems’ dark money........................................................................................................7 News What Congress’ tax bill could mean for Montana............................................................8 Opinion Weaponizing state campaign finance laws ..................................................................9 Opinion Does the Colorado River have a right to life? ...........................................................11 Feature Miracle on Slant Street: a Missoula holiday fable .................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is fantastic—but it’s just a fantasy.............................18 Books A perfect stroll through Glacier National Park’s history ..................................19 Music Go Hibiki’s Ethan Uhl talks about life in a Missoula punk band ......................20 Film Star Wars: The Last Jedi is for lovers ...................................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Got leftovers? Make chicken (or turkey) pho.............................23 Happiest Hour Kris Kringle Coco at Montana Distillery ............................................24 8 Days a Week Because your calendar isn’t already packed this week ..........................26 Agenda Let your blood flow ........................................................................................33 Mountain High Drink beer and run for it ..................................................................34

Exclusives

News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................36 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................37 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................41 This Modern World.....................................................................................................42

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

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[voices]

STREET TALK

by Derek Brouwer

Last weekend, the Audubon Society held its annual Christmas bird count across North America, including Missoula.

What’s the last bird you remember seeing?

What’s your favorite bird to eat or hunt?

Blaize Huntley: A Seahawk doesn’t count, does it? I saw two bald eagles on my drive over here.

They were kind of going at it. It was kind of distracting while I was driving, but it was really cool. Duck dynasty: Duck, for eating and hunting. I like the fattiness, how good it tastes.

Tony Zook: I saw a beautiful owl while driving into my driveway two or three days ago. It landed right on a car. My wife and I stopped and got out and looked at it. My wife did tell me the name of it, but I can’t remember it now. Pick one: I don’t really hunt. I’d probably say a turkey to eat. I’ve had some good duck, too. And pheasant. I’ll have to go with turkey, though.

Roof of the problem

As housing gets less affordable, more and more hard-working Montanans are looking for alternatives (“Where the city’s proposed RV ordinance hits the road,” Dec. 14). Unfortunately, camp spaces fill up, especially in the winter, or are not affordable, so they park where they think it’s safe. Something needs to be done about the lack of affordability of housing in this town. Building more apartments does not help anyone but the developer and property management companies. Therein lies another story…

Kathy Smith facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Friends in need

Thank you to WMMHC for helping me when I had severe depression and was homeless (“Western Montana Mental Health Center lays off case managers,” Dec. 14). You folks (when you had the funding) helped me get my life back. Please contact your legislators to explain the importance of funding for mental health clients.

Micki Howell facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Patterns of abuse

Sandi Nelson: I definitely saw some crows when I was walking from my home to downtown, hanging outside Fresh Market.

Elmer’s choice: I like duck. It’s one of the game birds that isn’t too gamey.

Jordan Cox: There was a woodpecker in my tree this morning. He’s always there, and you can hear him. Sometimes he bangs on the tin roof. It came first: Probably just chicken. Is that too boring?

Rob Domenech: A golden eagle that my crew captured and banded on the MPG ranch in Florence. I run a small nonprofit research and education organization where we do raptor research and education programs. We have four people down there working full time to capture, band, tag and take blood samples from bald and golden eagles. Pecking order: Maybe Good Food Store rotisserie chicken or mom’s roast chicken.

Asked Tuesday afternoon at Southside Kettlehouse

Saturday morning, I read an article in the Independent by Dan Brooks, who included the following quote in his piece: “The administrator of Griz fan forum Maroonblood.com posted a picture of [Lisa Davey] next to the comment, ‘Now seriously tell me this face hasn’t (performed a sex act) for food a few times in her life?’” (“Brooks: For Bobby Hauck, past is past. Except the winning. He’s definitely bringing winning back.” Dec. 7).

As a female, and because of my profession, I have heard hundreds of stories (and lived my own) like Ms. Davey’s, and each time they squeeze my heart and steal my breath. Our UM grad student, Lisa Davey, felt strongly enough about not re-hiring Mr. Hauck that she started a petition to make her viewpoint known and to create a platform where other students could join her. Universities everywhere invite students to share their opinions in all kinds of ways, including the way Lisa Davey shared hers.

Instead of respectful, considered disagreement with Ms. Davey, the Maroonblood comment (and others) posted in Griz fan forums followed a pattern I see repeated so often. In my experience, three abuses of power are used to oppress women. Ms. Davey’s case is an example. She was l. personally

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vilified, and 2. sexually harassed to shame and embarrass her, and if I understand correctly, 3. threatened with retaliatory violence. Because violence doesn’t always start or stop with threats, Ms. Davey may be in danger.

These three strategies of power are used frequently against women and are taught, reinforced and endemic within our culture. Some men

“We need a tightly knit fabric of hands and hearts working together to stop sexual harassment, predatory behavior and assault— everywhere it occurs or threatens to occur. This is the only way our students (and university) can flourish.”

feel free to use this power against women. And women are conditioned to fear, both from their own experiences and from watching varying degrees of terrible things happen to other women (and girls). To me, this is at the crux of the #metoo movement. It takes tremendous courage for women to speak out against abuse of power, particularly when that power is so skilled at causing great harm with little or no consequence.

I spent the weekend thinking about all of this. In bringing my appreciation for Ms. Davey (and thousands of other women everywhere) back to the university I love, and to the work that defines much of who I am as a person, I am reminded that we are not an island. Our university is a direct extension of the broader culture. And no matter how hard we work to do everything we can to make our campus a safe place for every student—every student—we are strongly influenced and affected by our community (including our Griz fans), by our state and by our nation. In this broad context, we cannot pursue our students’ safety alone. We need a tightly knit fabric of hands and hearts working together to stop sexual harassment, predatory behavior and assault— everywhere it occurs or threatens to occur. This is the only way our students (and university) can flourish.

When our students flourish in safety, they are free to pursue their goals and dreams—in academics, in sports or however our students wish to distinguish themselves, including having the freedom to safely speak out in protest on behalf of something that matters deeply to them.

Drew Colling, MS LCPC Director, Student Advocacy Resource Center (SARC) and Campus Assault Prevention Coordinator The University of Montana

CHIP away?

Right now, my husband and I have health insurance for ourselves and our two children through my employer.

But if I lose my job, decide to change professions or start my own business, we’d be very hard pressed to obtain health insurance independently. Without the renewal of CHIP, working families like mine will have fewer options to explore new or better career possibilities—and this will gradually strangle the growth of small businesses and hurt Montana’s economy.

I don’t have to depend on CHIP right now to clearly see that it benefits the health of kids that are my neighbors, friends and our community. It is clear that without it, families just like mine will suffer. Renewing funding for CHIP is the right thing to do, for the health and safety of all children across Montana. Parents should be able to access health care for their children regardless of their financial position. I don’t need CHIP today, but this isn’t about me. This is about our children’s future.

Leigh Greenwood Missoula

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[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, December 13 Solar companies and the Montana Environmental Information Center sue the state’s utility regulators over rules they say will harm solar energy projects. The Public Service Commission responds that the lawsuit lacks merit.

Thursday, December 14 Michigan State Police contact Missoula authorities after a box containing the bones of three children is found in a Missoula shed.

Michigan authorities are reportedly investigating whether the remains may be linked to the 2010 disappearance of three brothers.

Friday, December 15 Afternoon storms finally bring snow to the valley, the first to stick since Nov. 17, and foreshadow more winter weather in the week leading up to Christmas.

Saturday, December 16 The Roxy screens the best worst movie ever made, The Room, to a sold-out crowd. A few fans in costume lead the audience’s jeering, but no one remembers to bring a football.

Anyway, how’s your sex life?

Layoffs

Case managers protest

Debbie Solberg stood in the slush on the shoulder of Russell Street Monday morning, and the sign in her hand cut right to the point: “Honk.” On either side of her stretched a line of fellow picketers—about 15 in all—gathered to protest the recent layoffs of case managers and community-based rehab aides (CBRs) at Western Montana Mental Health Center.

“Two weeks before Christmas,” said Solberg, who, like the others, was informed Dec. 14 that she’d be jobless after Jan. 2. “Yeah, Merry Christmas.”

The layoffs are WMMHC’s way of absorbing a 37percent cut to Medicaid reimbursements for targeted case management, which the Legislature enacted this year in hopes of balancing the state budget. In a statement Monday afternoon, WMMHC said it was “devastated” at having to cut case managers, and outlined the many ways it attempted to dissuade lawmakers from slashing Medicaid.

“Unfortunately, the cuts were made anyway,” the center’s statement said, “and we are now in a place that none of us wanted to be.”

The case managers and CBRs gathered outside WMMHC’s Missoula offices Monday morning would have preferred not to be there either. Anticipating the

likelihood of layoffs, they unionized in September, and had spent the months since attempting to bargain about how terminations would be handled. On Dec. 8, the union filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the center alleging refusal to bargain. Multiple WMMHC staffers have told the Indy that a bargaining meeting is scheduled for Jan. 2, and that a federal mediator will be present.

“The picket’s about the layoffs of case management in the mental health industry, and the lives of the clients that they serve,” Lisa Leon, a CBR and shop steward for the union, said Monday.

The layoffs affect not only WMMHC staff and their families, but as many as 200 clients with varying behavioral health needs. Leon and others are attempting to get as many of those clients as possible signed up for case management services through other organizations, like the Sunburst Community Service Foundation.

“As case managers, we have the ability to pick up the pieces and move on,” said case manager Sara Ball.

“Clients need us in order to do that.”

A few of those clients were incensed enough to join the picket. Amid honks from morning commuters, Angelena Lewis held a sign that read, “I need my team.”

Lewis said her life has improved considerably since she started with WMMHC nearly 10 years ago, to the point that she now has her own apartment. Her case manager

and CBR have given her the kind of structure and support she didn’t have growing up, she added, “lighting the fire underneath me.” To suddenly be faced with losing that assistance has made Lewis “frustrated and angry.”

“Without them, I’d be nowhere,” she said. “I’d be living out on the street.”

Alex Sakariassen

Twitterdom

Ratioing Daines

Aside from the occasional tele-town hall, Sen. Steve Daines has rarely made himself available in person to his constituents this last year. That leaves his social media channels as one of the few places where people can speak to him, or at him, as the case might be. It turns out that this means Daines’ tweets often fall victim to “the ratio.” Entering the lexicon via an Esquire story titled “How to Know If You’ve Sent a Horrible Tweet,” by writer Luke O’Neil, the ratio is when a tweet gets many more replies (in general, more than twice as many) than likes or retweets.

Ratio expert and Deadspin editor David Roth explained to the Independent what makes for a ratioed tweet. “It’s something that’s wrong in a way that makes people mad,” Roth says. “In order to get a real proper

Sunday, December 17 A fire reported at 10:30 p.m. destroys the Nine Mile Steakhouse, a restaurant near Huson that was under new ownership. The Frenchtown Rural Fire District and nearby departments assign more than 30 firefighters to the scene.

Monday, December 18 Case managers and rehabilitation aides picket outside Western Montana Mental Health after learning they would be laid off to cut costs.

Tuesday, December 19 A former Bureau of Indian Affairs officer in Lame Deer pleads guilty to coercing a woman into sex. Dana Michael Bullcoming entered a woman’s home in 2015 and threatened to call social services when she admitted to being drunk. She became pregnant as a result of the encounter.

While, to the best of my knowledge, citations and fines have only been issued to a couple of people with regards to urban camping, this is an important incentive to get people to comply, to get people to court to address the violations that have come up.” – Development Services Director Mike Haynes to Missoula City Council before its unanimous Dec. 18 vote to tighten the city’s ban on living in RVs on public property.

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[news] ratio going, you have to be offensively wrong and, in general, you have to have a high enough profile that people think it’s worth it to tell you to shut up.�

So it’s evidence of Daines’ importance that such a high percentage of his constituents on Twitter go after him. A sample of replies shows that more than half come from Montana citizens, among them publicly identifiable community members. Brint Wahlberg is one of them. The Missoula real estate agent and business owner is a real person using his real name on Twitter who tweeted his disapproval of the tax bill at Daines.

Wahlberg said he wouldn’t be surprised if politicians dismissed Twitter comments, as opposed to those on Facebook, where users can identify themselves as constituents. “I think the conversation when I reply on Twitter is for other followers and readers to see what I’m saying, to engage in conversation rather than having the politicians respond,� Wahlberg says. “I would attempt to genuinely engage if I could. I’d probably be pretty surprised if he responded.�

Wahlberg seems pretty representative of Daines’ Twitter mentions in tone: clearly unhappy, but not obscene or threatening.

As an example of Daines’ engagement on Twitter, one of his spokespersons passed along a link to a story on The Hill about Daines’ bet with journalist Sean McElwee over Greg Gianforte’s margin of victory in Montana’s congressional special election. Daines lost and paid up, sending McElwee $20 via Venmo. “I used the money to bet on Doug Jones winning the Alabama Senate election,� McElwee wrote in an email to the Independent. As for Daines’ style on Twitter, he says, “I have pretty deep disagreements with Daines on most issues, but I have respect for anyone willing to put their takes up for a bet. I’d have tremendous respect for him if he reconsidered his position on this disastrous tax bill.�

It’s that tax bill that has made Daines’ December so rich in ratios. The legislation will personally benefit Daines, who, like many members of the Senate, is a multimillionaire receiving a taxpayer-funded salary.

Daines has been ratioed at least nine times so far in December, mostly over tax bill tweets, and once for tweeting about how primary loser Luther Strange would have won Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat. For comparison’s sake, Jon Tester was on the wrong side of the ratio just once in all of 2017. Time will tell if that proves an effective predictor of poll results.

“Even by the standards of Twitter behavior, it’s stupid to yell at a politician’s Twitter account,� says Deadspin’s Roth. “Like you know that it’s stupid when you do it, it’s just something that you do because you don’t feel like there’s any other way to communicate that feeling.�

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

No partridges?

Counting crows, et al.

Jim Brown has lived in Missoula since 1965, when he began working for the Forest Service Fire Sciences Lab. In 1976, he helped found Five Valleys Audubon.

On Saturday morning, he led a group into the field for the 118th Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count, an international citizen science project that is compiled into a data set at Cornell University.

To call it citizen science undersells the expertise of this particular group, which in addition to Brown includes Sneed Collard, an award-winning author of science-based books for young readers, and his son Braden, a freshman at Hellgate High who picked up binoculars after seeing the 2011 birding comedy The Big Year. Next year, Sneed will publish a memoir of his and Braden’s own big year in 2016, Warblers and Woodpeckers—A Father-Son Big Year of Birding.

Further adding to the group’s bona fides are Andrea and Don Stierle, chemistry research professors at the University of Montana who are internationally known for their work isolating medicinal compounds from organisms that live in the extreme acidity of Butte’s Berkeley Pit. Two years ago, the group spotted a Fieldfare thrush—the only group in the United States to see one, Andrea says—and birders flocked to Missoula from all corners to see the bird, which is rarely sighted in North America.

Friday’s snow had stopped and the overcast skies meant no sun glare. The 10 birders stopped several times on the way to their main count area. At one promising cattail marsh, Brown played bird calls from an app on his phone. A hoped-for Virginia rail failed to show itself, but three marsh wrens were added to the count.

The birders spent most of their day on private

BY THE NUMBERS

$4.2 million Maximum 2016 income earned by Sen. Steve Daines that’s subject to a deduction for real-estate partnerships—derided by critics as the “Corker Kickback�— in the federal tax bill. International Business Times reports that Daines would gain more benefit from the provision than any senator besides Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker.

property in the Grass Valley, hiking about five miles round-trip across uneven frozen mud, and by the end of the day, they had 44 species on their list. The most common sighting? 151 mallards. The least common? prairie falcon, pileated woodpecker, redhead duck, northern shrike and Cooper’s hawk, at one each. Two short-eared owls were counted. “Often we are the only group to see a short-eared owl,� Brown said, stepping aside from his scope so others could have a look. “This is exciting!� said birder Hedwig Wright.

A duck hunter was in a blind near a pond in the field and for a moment, the decoys appeared to be actual ducks. “It’s hard sitting out there all day,� Wright said. “I used to hunt, too.� In fact, the Christmas bird count has its roots in a bird-shooting contest of the 1800s, in which groups would compete to see how many birds they could kill.

Brown said later that there were four species that only this Missoula group saw: marsh wren, prairie falcon, short-eared owl and redhead duck. Every bird logged becomes part of the data set referenced by researchers. “When people report over this whole broad area, you come up with some meaningful data about species that are going downhill, you can see trends and identify species that are having trouble,� Brown said later by phone. “It’s an index to climate change, because we’re seeing more species are staying farther north than 30 years ago.�

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

ETC. One Montana political party sent hundreds of thousands of attack mailers in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, costing more than $400,000, without publicly reporting which candidates the mailers targeted or which they sought to benefit.

Among the mailers were 100,000 titled “Tax on Montanans� (cost: $48,000); 100,000 titled “Tax and SS� (also $48,000); and an unknown number labeled “Sandefur women� for $29,469.

Which party do you think sent them?

It was the Democratic Party, though readers who assumed Republicans must be behind any campaign finance shenanigans can be forgiven.

After all, the Democrats have spent the better part of this decade casting dark money as one of democracy’s big boogeymen (and rightly so). The state party’s two most important figureheads, Sen. Jon Tester and Gov. Steve Bullock, have both shown legislative leadership on the issue, with Bullock championing the rewrite of state campaign disclosure laws in 2015 that, his office claimed, made them the most stringent in the country.

So it’s both ironic and disappointing that the Montana Democratic Party would run afoul of a basic aspect of the law its governor helped write.

In a ruling this month, Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff Mangan found that the party failed to include information about the targets of more than two dozen independent expenditures, and failed even to list Montana Supreme Court Justice Dirk Sandefur as a candidate it was supporting.

The party responded by portraying its failure to adequately disclose spending as a clerical error, and then blaming that clerical error on a “deficiency� in the state’s software for filing reports.

There’s some truth to the excuse. Mangan found that the party tried to enter all its information in a single box, instead of dividing it into the appropriate fields, which caused most of the information to be cut off by the software’s word limits.

That explanation sounds plausible and, to those inclined to support the party, entirely innocent. But Mangan also pointed out that the party had managed to use the software correctly on plenty of other occasions. Whether the result of careless bookkeeping or petty gamesmanship, the party’s misstep is not trivial. The whole point of the Disclose Act is to provide transparency, in real time, about who is spending money on what and to whose benefit or detriment.

You’d expect the party that pushed for the law would be a model for how to comply with it.

Instead, the Democrats are making excuses.

Elizabeth Neff

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Bill now, pay later How ‘tax reform’ could affect Montanans

by Alex Sakariassen

When Tandem Doughnuts debuted its gluten-free, vegan fare at the Clark Fork Market in 2012, the company consisted solely of founders Beth Gherlein and David Tyson. In the five years since, Tandem entered the wholesale world, grew to five employees, and is, according to Gherlein, finally on the cusp of financial stability.

“I really feel like it’s this year that the business has reached this turning point,” she says. “We got picked up by a regional distributor that is selling our bread in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, and that’s been a big deal for us. We’re in the process of trying to get funding and find a space to have a retail shop.”

It’s the kind of small-business story Montana politicians love to tout. But they may not get a chance to following this week’s passage of the Republican tax bill. Gherlein says parts of the bill that purport to help small businesses won’t help Tandem at all. Other provisions, namely elimination of the individual insurance mandate established by the Affordable Care Act, could force Gherlein and her husband to shutter the bakery entirely.

“If the private insurance market goes crazy and health insurance becomes really expensive”—the Congressional Budget Office says average premiums would go up about 10 percent a decade without the individual mandate—“I just won’t have a way to afford it,” Gherlein says. “I have a daughter who is on CHIP, and CHIP expired in the fall and has yet to be re-upped … If we long-term can’t get affordable health care access, then it’s difficult for us to stay in business.”

Concerns about the tax bill have dominated headlines for weeks. More than 350 people rallied outside the Missoula County Courthouse Dec. 6 in opposition to the legislation, at an event organized by the group Missoula Rises.

Based on national coverage and feedback from numerous tax specialists, the bill’s impacts on Montanans would be widespread, affecting individual taxpayers as much as small businesses.

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For example, in early November the Los Angeles Times published a lengthy piece about the bill’s elimination of a tax deduction for personal losses to wildfire and other natural disasters. At the time, the provision was contained in the House version of the tax bill, and it prompted swift backlash on social media and from prominent Western Democrats.

California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris criticized their Republican colleagues for eliminating the deduction, releasing a joint statement highlighting

“It’s not improving equity. In fact, it’s making it worse.”

the damage the 2017 wildfire season wreaked on their state: 43 lives lost and nearly 8,900 structures destroyed. The negotiated passed Tuesday night eliminates the deduction unless the disaster in question is federally declared.

Julie Sirrs, a Missoula attorney who specializes in tax law, encourages Montanans to focus on two other portions of the tax bill that could affect them significantly. The first is a $10,000 cap on itemized deductions for state and local income and sales tax. That cap, Sirrs says, will likely result in wider use of the standard deduction and, she anticipates,

a flagging interest in donating to nonprofits. Her second area of concern is the bill’s elimination of the $4,000 personal exemption in favor of a $2,000-ayear child tax credit.

“Anyone who itemizes their taxes and anyone who has children would want to take a close look to try to figure out to what extent they might be harmed by this bill,” Sirrs says.

Amanda Dawsey characterizes the tax bill as “the height of picking winners and losers.” An associate professor of economics at the University of Montana, she takes issue not only with the provisions listed above, but with the bill’s broader implications. Individual income tax rates may shrink in the short-term, she says, but the bill’s modification to how inflation is indexed will lead to increases for those same taxpayers over time.

“It’s not improving equity. In fact, it’s making it worse.” Dawsey says, adding that short-term federal cuts are likely to result in decreased state revenue even as Montana grapples with a budget crisis.

With the bill yet to be signed at press time, the most tangible effect of the tax bill on Montana to date may be the debate its mere existence has stirred. At Tandem, Gherlein felt motivated to speak up not just for her business, but for all momand-pop outfits in the state.

“I feel frustrated, because I’ll hear in the news things that representatives say about small business, and it seems like they’re not talking about me,” Gherlein says. “They say ‘small business,’ but it doesn’t seem like it’s really about people who are making less than $50,000 a year and have less than 10 employees. I feel misrepresented.”

Rep. Greg Gianforte and Sen. Steve Daines voted for the bill Tuesday. Sen. Jon Tester voted against it. On Dec. 19, Daines told Fox News, “It’s such a great bill. This is a tremendous Christmas present for the American people. It’s a great way to end the year.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

[opinion]

Question of motive Do Montana’s campaign finance laws still work?

by Dan Brooks

Because many of us attend parties during the holiday season, I must warn you not to try to understand Jake Eaton’s political practices complaint against Gene Jarussi if you have even the slightest hangover. Like almost everything related to campaign finance law in Montana, Eaton’s allegations are a headache amplifier.

The essence of Eaton’s complaint is that Jarussi and his wife, Karen, operated a political action committee that benefited the 2016 re-election campaign of Rep. Jessica Karjala, D–Billings, during the same time that Karen served as a “paid agent” of the Karjala campaign. Such coordination would violate Montana law, which applies different fundraising and reporting requirements to PACs and the candidates they support.

According to Eaton’s complaint, the Jarussis traveled to San Antonio to conduct a videotaped interview with a former classmate of Karjala’s opponent, Robert Saunders, in which the classmate said Saunders made racist remarks when they were attending Patrick Henry College. Eaton says the Jarussis should have reported at least part of their expenses for the trip as contributions to the Karjala campaign.

At this point, I assume most of you have begun flipping through the paper in search of Ziggy comics. The substance of Eaton’s allegations is technical and boring. The context, however, is a lot more interesting.

Gene Jarussi served as a special attorney in a series of campaign-finance cases that the former Montana commissioner of political practices, Jonathan Motl, brought against Republican organizations over the past few years. Eaton is a witness in one such case against the Montana Growth Network. In July, a judge sanctioned Eaton’s wife, Billings attorney Emily Jones, and ordered her to pay about $15,000 in legal fees to Jarussi, after determining that she had illegally told other witnesses to withhold evidence.

It’s possible that Eaton may have more than just a citizen’s interest in seeing the Jarussis brought to law. His political practices complaint against the opposing coun-

sel in his wife’s defense of his fellow Republicans against political practices complaints could be politically motivated. But the Jarussis’ explanation seems suspect, too.

Speaking to John S. Adams for a story in the Montana Free Press, Gene Jarussi said the couple traveled to San Antonio to visit a sick relative. They just happened to be there when Karjala sent his wife a Facebook message about Saunders’ former classmate, whom Karen says they interviewed “on our own behalf, to satisfy our own curiosity about Saunders’ background and character.” They were presumably also acting in their capacity as curious voters

“The parties in the Jarussi-KarjalaEaton case are arguing about the letter of the law while they twist its spirit to the extreme.” when they gave a video of the interview to the Billings Gazette.

This explanation could be true. Who can say why the Jarussis went to San Antonio, or what Gene thought when Karen got a message from Rep. Karjala about how a woman in town had a damning story to tell about her opponent? Consideration of their behavior alone leaves coordination indistinguishable from curiosity. The question is not what the Jarussis did, but why they did it. That’s a recurring flaw in Montana’s vague and increasingly weaponized campaign finance laws.

From a voter’s perspective, a political action committee that supports one

candidate is functionally the same as a campaign. But the distinction makes all the difference under current law. Campaigns face strict fundraising and reporting requirements, which are looser for PACs and other legal entities that operate at varying degrees of remove from the candidates they support.

These laws encourage political operatives and donors to form bogus “social welfare organizations” that are campaigns in all but name. The stipulation that PACs not “coordinate” with the candidates they were created to support encourages hypocrisy. The law calls on people like the Jarussis to deny what they are evidently doing, creating a campaignfinance landscape in which everyone is guilty and innocent simultaneously.

The parties in the Jarussi-Karjala-Eaton case are arguing about the letter of the law while they twist its spirit to the extreme.

The voter who reads about it might be forgiven for concluding that the whole thing is politics, and that campaign finance law is a cudgel to be wielded by whichever party controls the Political Practices Commission. That’s what Republicans said when Motl was doing the best job of any commissioner in memory. That’s what Eaton said when he filed his complaint against Jarussi.

“Since it has become the practice of the Commissioner’s office to appoint Democrat lawyers to pursue cases against Republican officeholders and organizations,” he wrote, “I would hope that the Commissioner would continue to apply the same practice and appoint a Republican lawyer to pursue this case.”

That’s a sign Montana’s campaign finance law has become an instrument of politics rather than a check on it. In this second Gilded Age, it’s important to keep money from influencing our elections as much as we can. We ought to find a better way to do it, before the corruption spreads.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and baldfaced hypocrisy at combatblog.net.

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[opinion]

Living waters Does the Colorado River have a legal right to life?

by Reed D. Benson

When environmental activists filed a lawsuit asking a federal court in Denver to declare that the Colorado River has a legal right to exist, the media took notice of a case that was seemingly doomed to go nowhere. And, in fact, the plaintiffs, under pressure from Colorado’s attorney general, recently withdrew their case.

But the notion of a river suing the government for failing to protect the river’s rights was a “man bites dog” story that got attention, appearing in outlets from the New York Times to High Country News.

This was no ordinary lawsuit. A typical environmental case involves a challenge to some action by a government agency. This case, by contrast, asked the court to recognize a new status for the Colorado River, and declare that a river has legal rights of its own. A lawsuit this unconventional was sure to be mocked by some, and this one drew its share of ridicule. I didn’t see it as laughable, but it had almost no chance of success in court.

Although the law was against them, the plaintiffs had a serious point about the overworked Colorado, the great river of the Southwest. It provides drinking water for 40 million people (including me), as well as irrigation water for farms in two countries. This iconic river flowed wild and free less than a century ago, but several large dams have changed all that, and for the past 45 years it has rarely reached the ocean.

In short, the plight of the mighty but depleted Colorado is no laughing matter.

The lawsuit that sought to protect it, however, had much to overcome. For starters, the person bringing a case in federal court must have “standing” to sue. This requires, primarily, that the person suing have a personal stake in the case and that a court be able to remedy that person’s harm if she wins. Without the

right kind of person to bring the case, the court can’t accept it.

In an early environmental case, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas issued an eloquent dissent, arguing that people should be able to sue in the name of wild places they seek to protect. If a corporation can be a legal person for this purpose, he wrote, so should a river, which he called “the living symbol of all the life

“No federal or state law gives a river a right to exist.

At best, laws protect a river from harm caused by new development.”

it sustains or nourishes,” including human life. But that view never caught on in U.S. law, and the Supreme Court has only moved further away from that kind of thinking.

Even if the Colorado River had gotten into court, it was virtually certain to lose. Water law in the U.S. has never recognized a river’s fundamental right to exist. To the contrary, the

law gives people and institutions the right to take water from the river, and these rights often mean there is little or nothing left for the river itself.

States have rights to water under interstate compacts; water providers and users have rights to water under state law and/or federal contracts; and tribes have rights to water under court decrees or settlements. Several Western states offer limited legal recognition for environmental flows, but no federal or state law gives a river a right to exist. At best, laws protect a river from harm caused by new development.

There may be no river with less of a right to exist than the Colorado.

This great interstate and international waterway has been over-promised since the 1922 Colorado River Compact divided up its water supply based on an inflated assumption of annual flows. Today, the Colorado’s management relies on decisions made by multiple sovereign entities, including the U.S. government and seven Western states. Giant federal dams, operated mostly for water supply and hydropower, have drastically altered the natural system. This legal, institutional and physical system protects human uses of the Colorado rather than the river itself. As historian Donald Worster once put it, the Colorado was “a part of nature that had died and been reborn as money.”

This short-lived lawsuit was never going to bring the river back to life, but it drew needed attention to its problems. Other nations, including New Zealand, have taken steps to recognize the legal rights of their rivers, and U.S. law has evolved regarding the rights of people. Someday, a river in this nation may have a right to life.

Reed D. Benson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a law professor at the University of New Mexico.

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HAIR TRIGGER – Timothy Colton, 28, is cooling off in the Clark County (Nevada) Detention Center after being charged with arson and the attempted murder of his 66-year-old mother, who has limited mobility. The Nov. 27 altercation apparently started over a laundry dispute, but North Las Vegas police said Colton became aggressive and threatened to kill his mother and burn the house down.

Fox News reports that Colton set fire to the front door and then ran away to hide under a car in a nearby parking lot, where officers found him. Police said he was “kicking the back seat door and hitting his head on the plastic partition between the front and rear seats” in the patrol car during his arrest. He was being held on $100,000 bail.

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But after reviewing his security camera footage, he discovered the poop perp was in fact a contract delivery driver for Amazon, driving a U-Haul truck. Bautista watched as the female driver squatted by the side of the truck, partially concealed by the open door, and left her mark. Bautista called Amazon to complain, and a supervisor arrived hours later to bag up the evidence. The next day, Bautista got another package from Amazon, but the delivery person “tossed the package ... instead of walking up the driveway,” Bautista told FOX40. He said the package contained a “fragile porcelain figurine,” but it didn’t break. Maybe the delivery person was afraid of stepping in something?

ON THE NAUGHTY LIST – A man in Australia couldn’t wait for Santa to deliver his Christmas wish: a 5 1/2-foot-tall “Dorothy model” sex doll. So, according to the Victoria Police Kingston Crime Investigation Unit, he broke into an adult entertainment store in Moorabbin on Dec. 4 by cutting through a fence with bolt cutters and smashing his way through the door. After quickly loading Dorothy into the back of his van, he took off. Security cameras caught the event, but the thief was disguised with stockings and a balaclava pulled over his head.

A mall Santa working the weekend shift in late November got more than he bargained for at Dufferin Mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when an unnamed woman unloaded a sleigh-full of obscenities on him, saying, “Do you have a sleigh? No? ... You’re not magic! You’re not even real! I heard about it when I was a young kid!” A bystander with a cellphone captured the tirade on video, reported the New York Post, and true to his spirit, St. Nick kept his composure and tried not to engage with the elf-hater. A mall spokesperson said the woman left without further incident.

THE PASSING PARADE – Faye Preston of Hull, Yorkshire, England, loves her neighborhood— even the homeless folks who gently ask for change, or, in Preston’s case, make love in her driveway. She stepped out one night in November to smoke a cigarette and saw a couple under a blanket in her drive, and decided to let them be. But when she went out the next morning, “They were having actual sex on my driveway. The movement going on under the cover was unmistakable,” Preston wrote in the Hull Daily Mail. Still, she was worried about running over them, so she called police, who eventually removed them. “If I was homeless, I’d come here too,” Preston wrote. “Where else can you go for a posh meal, followed by cocktails in a swanky bar and finish the night stepping over some frisky homeless people fornicating on your driveway?”

A MESSAGE FROM GOD? – An 18th-century statue of the crucified Jesus that was removed for restoration from the church of St. Agueda in Burgo de Osma, Spain, held a surprise in a most unusual spot. As historians removed from Jesus’s backside a section of the carving meant to look like a cloth, they discovered two handwritten letters dated 1777 and signed by Joaquin Minguez, then-chaplain of the cathedral. Minguez details life in the community, including harvest reports and diseases, and tells about the sculpture’s artist, Manuel Bal. Historian Efren Arroyo told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo it appears Minguez intended his letters to be a sort of time capsule.

The original letters were sent to the Archbishop of Burgos for archiving, but copies were returned to Jesus’s hindquarters to honor Minguez’s intent.

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was the week before Christmas, and I was high in my garret, the lights of Missoula winking cheerily below. A mixture of sleet, graupel and freezing rain pattered cheerily against one window pane, and the cat scratched cheerily against the other. I was composing my annual holiday letter, a seasonal tradition by which I remind family and close friends to leave me alone. Dear Sir or Madam, I began, pausing to chew the end of my feather pen. Typically, the rest

flowed easily from there, but on this blustery winter’s eve I paused, for the moment at a loss.

My eyes drifted absently about the room. There were my beloved things, more precious to me than any so-called family: my astrolabe, my bookshelf with its complete works of L. Ron Hubbard and collection of rare 20th-century pornography, and the sacks upon sacks of saffron I received for my role in arranging the sale of the Independent. There was my humble bed and humble oil painting of myself. And here was I, sur-

rounded by everything I needed and yet possessed, in this hibernal hour, by a nameless melancholy.

I resolved to clear my head with a brisk walk around the grounds. Pulling my nightcap over my ears and gathering my dressing gown about me via the system of dressing-straps I had ordered through the mail, I descended the stairs.

My heels clacked on the wooden slats, reminding me to put on my shoes. I blocked the cat from slipping in as I opened the door, silently congratulating myself on giving him the gift of self-re-

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liance. Then I was in the yard, relishing the crisp night air and the moonlight on my skin in the few minutes before I started to burn. Wintry mix fell gently on the birdbath, the hibachi and the pile of scrap lumber, mattresses and Subaru head gaskets left by the previous tenant.

The world in solemn stillness lay, until it was interrupted by the oafish voice of my neighbor, River.

“Happy Wednesday!” he shouted.

“What are you up to this weekend?”

His goatee was flecked with Cold Smoke from a growler he cradled in one

arm. His other arm waved merrily, rustling the down of his jacket as he tromped across the lawn. His boots were laced in red and green, and he wore atop his customary ball cap a red felt hat trimmed in white fur, with his sunglasses perched atop that, presumably since it was dark. I wasn’t sure whether River was his real name, and I hoped never to find out. Again I cursed myself for renting a garret with a shared yard, instead of the disused observatory I saw on Craigslist Butte. I turned to face the other direction, pretending to study some bird or

another in a tree across the street, but he persisted in spewing the native gibberish to which I had grown accustomed.

“How about this inversion?” he said, offering me a pull from his growler. When I demurred, he remarked that he hoped it might snow soon. I grunted noncommittally and edged toward the refuse pile, where I began to separate the lumber from the mattresses. Perhaps, given enough of what my nurse called social cues, he would become discouraged and leave me alone.

“I’m so stoked for the Bowl to open,” he said. “You know what we should do? We should throw a combination ski season-holiday party. Like a Brooks-River kind of thing!”

I hefted the largest of the mattresses and set it on its edge between us. This had the effect of muffling his jabberings, and I jammed some of the sturdier pieces of wood alongside to hold it up. Then I heard him exclaim from the other side, as though struck by a genius idea. His boots crunched on the frozen grass.

“Riverbrooks!” he said, peering around the edge of the mattress. “What do you say?”

I told him I was busy that night. Selecting another mattress from the pile, I arranged it endwise to the first, hoping to discourage him from pursuing our conversation by lengthening the chase. I was not successful.

“Whatcha got there?” River asked affably. “Makeshift wall?”

Casting about for some solution, I had an inspiration of my own: I would hit him with a two-by-four. Then I had an even better idea. Continuing to pile refuse between us, I told him that I could not throw a party with him, because my religion forbade me from celebrating Christmas or any other holiday. As a reformed Coptic Zoroastrian, my faith instructed me to observe the season only by constructing this wall. The disappointment in his eyes told me I was on the right track, so I added another fib for good measure— what seasoned avoiders of camaraderie with their neighbors refer to as the coup de grace.

“Frankly,” I said with a reproachful look, “I’m surprised you don’t respect my beliefs.”

That did it. I had seen the “Coexist” sticker on his Outback, and I knew he was the type to take such admonitions seriously. With apologies for disturbing my ritual, he tromped across the lawn and back into his house, pausing only to refresh himself with a draught of Cold Smoke along the way. After his door swung shut, I abandoned my wall-building and returned to my garret, congratulating myself on my quick thinking.

No sooner had I kicked off my shoes, switched to my indoor dressing gown and mixed a quick nightcap of Everclear and Tylenol PM, however, than I heard a rummaging noise outside. A look out the window confirmed it: rummaging! It seemed a tramp had discovered my impromptu wall and was in the process of making off with a mattress.

“You there!” I shouted from the window. “Mendicant!”

He dropped the mattress and looked up with a twinkle in his eye. In the moonlight I saw he wore an old slouch hat of the kind seen in certain historical re-enactments, with a pince-nez atop the brim. His clothes, too, had an anachronistic quality: He wore hobnailed boots wrapped ’round with belts to hold them together, baggy trousers, and a waistcoat with a watch chain running from one button into his pocket. His coat was blue and

black and brown, mottled further by the first flakes of snow now collecting on his shoulders. Seeing me in my high window, he shook off the snow and went running for my back door. Before I could reach my Life Alert bracelet, I heard the sound of boots and buckles on the stair, and then the tramp was in my very house!

Reader, I fairly swooned. Who knew what fate awaited me? Conversation at the very least, and probably some kind of bum crime—he would knock me unconscious with a bindle stick, perhaps, or disembowel me with his harmonica. But the strange old tramp did no such thing. He merely flopped down on a sack of saffron, insensate to the yellow cloud it produced, and looked curiously around the room as he pulled off his fingerless gloves.

“Nice garret,” he remarked.

“I assure you it reflects my importance,” I said stiffly, “and influence with the local police. Have you any idea what time it is?”

At this, the tramp pulled back the lapel of his jacket and began hauling on his watch chain, producing a remarkable length from his pocket until he reached the end, which was connected to a sandwich. He munched placidly, seeming to have forgotten my question.

“I knew a swell like you once,” he said, gesturing to my oil portrait and un-

patched gown. “Three of them, as a matter of fact.” I nodded, trying to convey interest as I edged toward a heavy brass candlestick. But the tramp said something that froze me in my slippers. “The year was 1889,” he said. “It was a cold year, just like this one, but not too cold, just like it is now.” And the strange old tramp settled in to tell me his strange old tale.

“Back then,” he said, “the town stopped at the Clark Fork river. It wasn’t called the Clark Fork river then; it was called the Clark Fork Bath, Lavatory and Periodic Vomitorium. That’s how it was known to the tramps of nineteenth-century Missoula, anyway, who made up the majority of the city then, just as we do now.

The swells”—this was the tramp’s word, not mine—“had on the north bank their hotels and their general stores and their mercantile which would stand forever, and the whole town seemed pretty well bought-up.

“This state of affairs chafed a couple of the swells, two lawyer-speculator types named W.J. Stephens and W.M. Bickford.

Stephens and Bickford conceived a plan to start their own town, with them the ones who owned everything, so they purchased a tract of land about a half-mile south of the the river. They called it South Missoula. At that time, the only feature in that area was a wagon road that ran from the bridge southwest to Fort Missoula.

They took to widening this road and improving upon it and named it

Stephens Street after Stephens, who owned the land to the northwest. Bickford, who owned the land to the southeast, built up his own road which he also named after Stephens, but Asshole Avenue never caught on.” Here I shot the tramp a questioning look, but he bade me silent with a wave of his hand.

“Once they had their Stephens Avenue,” the tramp continued, “the two lawyers set to dividing their land into parcels, for to sell off to whatever homesteaders would buy. They lined up the parcels with Stephens Avenue, so the roads ran northwest and southeast— catawampus to what they had in old Missoula or, as Stephens and Bickford had taken to calling it, Garbage Town. Old W.M. and W.J. looked to be in clover, with South Missoula on the grow and them set to be kings of it, but then trouble rose up in the shape of a swell even more uppity than they were. His name was Judge Hiram Knowles.

“Judge Knowles, who was known to certain upstanding members of the community”—here the tramp pulled back the lapel of his jacket and blew on his fingernails, yellowing them considerably—“as a real stick, bought the land between the river and South Missoula. He did not care for the idea of parceling out his tract catawampus to the old town and cardinal directions, so he laid his streets out straight, east-west and north-south, like one does. Where his parcels and roads met the parcels and roads of Stephens and Bickford, there were triangles and unexpected oncoming wagons and other deviations displeasing to both traffic and the eye. On a summer evening, when the weather was right, Knowles and Stephens and Bickford would stand at these intersections and blackguard one another. It was a sight to see and a sound to listen to, although it offended the mothers come Christmastime.

“As the town grew,” the tramp continued, “so did the confusion at these intersections. Yet Judge Knowles and the lawyers would not relent. They went on building up their land and lengthening their roads, one at cross

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“What is the purpose of this inane parable,” I cried, “save to pass a few minutes soaking up my precious house-heat?”

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purposes to the other, and each party insisting his was the only sensible way. Finally, the situation came to a head. South Missoula and Judge Knowles’ land could not continue to grow contrary to each other. So you know what they did?”

“Settled their differences and resolved to live in peace?” I said.

“No!” he shouted, rattling his hat. “Knowles was a judge, and he got his friends in city government to rebuild the bridge so it lined up with Higgins Avenue, not Stephens. Then he tried to get them to annex South Missoula. Stephens and Bickford didn’t like it, but the city put it to a vote, and Knowles and his side won.”

The tramp leaned back on his saffron sack and laced his fingers behind his head, as though having delivered a work of moral instruction. I failed to see his point, however, and hastened to tell him so.

“What is the purpose of this inane parable,” I cried, “save to pass a few minutes soaking up my precious house-heat?” I expected him to be chastened, but the tramp only smiled absently and hoisted himself from my sacks.

“Behold!” he said, and led me to the window.

Outside, in the dwindling moonlight and accumulating snow, my neighbor was constructing his own wall of mattresses and scrap wood. Where mine ran sensibly toward the street, however, on what I had always thought of as the dividing line between our two halves of the yard, his wall ran at a 45-degree angle to mine.

“All he wants is to share your holiday tradition,” the tramp whispered, filing my ear with the scent of ham, “even after you treated him so rudely.”

“But his wall makes no sense,” I protested. “It serves no purpose—and even if it did, why must it take that stupid angle?”

“That’s how this town has always worked,” the tramp said with glee. “No matter how we disagree, no matter how we try in vain to convince one another, in the end, we all live here together.”

“No,” I said hoarsely, but my voice caught in my throat. It was all too terrible to imagine.

“And,” the tramp added, his eyes glinting, “real estate developers exercise inordinate influence over local government.”

“No!” I cried as he cackled and threw up the sash. Pausing only to snatch my cocktail from the side table, he leapt through the window to the lawn below, where he lay face-down for several seconds.

My former drink sat upright in his limp hand, miraculously unspilled. Then the tramp sprang up, downed the cocktail in one gulp and sprinted off giggling through the snow, wishing me happy holidays as he went.

A wave of vertigo overcame me as I turned from the window. These strange events were too much for my fragile constitution to bear. Had they even happened? Surely they were a product of my imagination, and yet they seemed so real. I had not felt so feverish a combination of terror and unreality since I ate a tin of discount oysters and wandered into the carousel. The room wheeling about me, I collapsed into bed and a deep, velvet sleep.

I woke the next morning drenched in what I hoped was sweat. The room was frigid, and I padded gingerly across the floorboards to close the window. Looking out across the lawn, I saw a blanket of fresh snow. No track marked the tramp’s passage, and the lumber and mattresses lay under a dusting of powder in their customary heap.

Had it all been a dream?

Foreboding stole over me. I selected a fresh dressing gown from the rack and made my way downstairs. The crisp winter air burned my nostrils as I tromped across the lawn to inspect the pile. River saw me from his kitchen window and came outside.

“Happy Thursday!” he called. “What are you up to this weekend?”

I ignored him, possessed by a nameless intuition. Behind the pile, in a sheltered spot between the mattresses and the back fence, lay the motionless body of a man. His coat was mottled

blue and black and brown, and when I rolled him over, I saw the watch chain disappearing into the pocket of his waistcoat. His face, scoured by the elements, wore the impassive mask of death.

“He was a ghost all along!” I exclaimed.

“No,” River said, “I think he needs to go to the hospital.”

This interpretation seemed the stuff of fairy tales, but my neighbor convinced me that despite his oldtimey clothes, the tramp was indeed a living person who needed medical attention. We bundled him into the rear of the Outback. I got in the back seat as befits a gentleman, and River drove us to the hospital.

We passed a tense hour in the waiting room, as the various

doctors and nurses ministered to the tramp and River filled the time by asking me what I planned to do that weekend. Finally the doors swung open, and an orderly emerged pushing the mysterious tramp in a wheelchair. He wore a paper gown, and his anachronistic garb was stuffed into a plastic bag on his lap.

Although he looked pale and seemed oddly out of place in his modern, paper clothes, his eyes bore the same unmistakable twinkle as my visitor from the night before.

“Could my fever dream have been real after all?”

I gasped. A cluster of nurses turned to look at me, and the orderly spoke sternly.

“Your friend suffered toxic shock from an apparent overdose of ”—he paused to examine the chart— “Everclear and Tylenol PM. He’s lucky to be alive.”

But he was not the lucky one, dear reader. I was, for I had learned that the true meaning of the holidays lies in fellowship and mutual assistance. Also, I lived indoors. As I left the hospital with River and the tramp— who was named Terrence, I think, or possibly Donnie—my heart swelled with gratitude and a feeling for my fellow citizens that, if not love per se, approached the area of grudging acceptance. Did we not all live in the same town, as my strange visitor reminded me? And were we not all at the mercy of developers?

We did, and we were, and we remain so to this day. editor@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • December 21–December 28, 2017 [17]

[arts]

The funny truth The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is fantastic—but just a fantasy

by Sarah Aswell

D

uring the pilot episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the titular character stumbles onto stage at an open mic drunk and in a nightie, and tells the audience the story of her husband leaving her earlier that evening. At the end of her set, she flashes her breasts as part of a joke and is ushered off stage, but the audience loves every second—and she is immediately discovered by a woman working behind the bar who has never before seen such raw talent.

I watched this scene with a big swirling mix of emotions. First and foremost, I was ecstatic to be watching a show centered on a female comedian— and a show that is doing wonderfully with critics and audiences. Secondly, I was impressed with almost everything about the show’s execution, from the set pieces to the writing to the acting.

Thirdly, though, I couldn’t shake the feeling: This is so not real for, like, a million reasons.

For the last few weeks, almost every day, someone asks me whether I’ve seen the show and what I think. It makes a lot of sense and I don’t really mind: The show is about housewife with young kids who breaks into the stand-up comedy world, and I’m a work-at-home mom with young kids who moonlights as a stand-up comic for fun. Everyone wanted to know: Is it good? Is it funny?

Is it true?

I was curious, too. The series, which takes place in late 1950s New York City, is the newest project of Amy ShermanPalladino, who is best known for creating and producing Gilmore Girls, with its cast of smart and fast-talking women.

Her newest show continues on that path, following Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a deeply likeable Upper West Side 20something who is always half a second away from a witty aside.

What happened when I watched the series was probably a lot like what would happen if you watched Law & Order with your friend who’s a detective. I had trouble escaping into the world of Mrs. Maisel because I knew too much about the real world of comedy, and too much

Rachel Brosnahan stars in Amazon’s new series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

about the much less bright and bubbly story of female comedians trying to make it in 1950s America.

For example, to return to the scene of her first stand-up act: I’ve seen a lot of comics go up for the first time, and I’ve never seen it go remotely well when someone’s drunk and ill-prepared. I’ve even seen someone flash their boobs, and that also didn’t go over super well, either. The myth of the stand-up who is great from day one and discovered on day one is a wonderful story, but one that trivializes the extremely hard work (and years of it) that goes into creating every minute of solid stand-up.

That, of course, can be easily forgiven, just as we suspend our disbelief that Dirty Dancing’s Baby can learn the mambo in a matter of days (and a single montage) well enough to look professional. What I had a bit more trouble forgiving was the rewriting of a very hard history for female comics. The show’s creators say that Midge is inspired by the token lady comediennes of the time, most notably Joan Rivers and Totie Fields. But Rivers and Fields (and I’ll add Phyllis Diller and Elaine May to the list)

had very different paths to fame than a bottle of wine and a robed stage crash— both committed their lives, from a young age, to comedy writing and performance, and fought tooth and nail to do what they loved. Unlike Midge, who spends Season 1 waffling about what she wants out of life, the real women of 1950s stand-up put every ounce of effort into breaking the glass ceiling of comedy, and also put up with amazing piles of sexism that attacked everything from their appearance to their comedy bits to their personal lives. They were called too strong, too weak, too ugly, too sexy, too weird, too forward, too quiet, too loud— all while they performed at clubs night after night with everyone against them.

All of them gave up huge segments of their lives—families, children, their reputation, their health—just for a chance to make it in the funny business doing what they love.

Even trying to read about the trailblazers of Rivers, Fields, Diller and May today is difficult. For example, Kliph Nesteroff ’s book The Comedians, which has been called the definitive history of American stand-ups, dedicates an aston-

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ishingly small amount of space to female comedians—and the space it does give to these women is extremely ill-used. Fields is indexed only once in the book, in the context of being jealous of Rivers. May, who was a trailblazer not just for women, but for improvisational comedy, gets a few cursory mentions, but rarely about her successes: “She was a very strong fascinating, brilliant woman,” playwright Ted Flicker is quoted as saying in the book, “but I would just as soon stick my dick in a garbage disposal.” Not only do we solely get to hear about May through men’s voices (both Nesteroff ’s and Flicker’s), but we hear about her fuckability instead of her comedy.

Of course, we can’t forget that Mrs. Maisel is obviously fictional. And the colorful sets and costumes and tone of the series (and even that signature rapid-fire dialogue) make it clear that we are in a fantastical version of 1950s New York. No one has ever claimed that Midge’s rise was true or realistic, but I fear that many viewers might not think about the real struggles of the female comedian, both then and now. Even if Midge faces more challenges and sexism in seasons to

come, I doubt that the story could possibly be as tragic or ugly or unfair as, say, Totie Fields’—which might be why it largely remains untold.

On the same night that I binged the first few episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, I also watched an HBO comedy special, Michelle Wolf ’s Nice Lady. Wolf came up on the backs of comedians like Rivers and Fields—and in many ways we are in a whole new wonderful world of comedy by and for women. At the same time, though, many of Wolf ’s jokes are about how far we have to go when it comes to feminism, sexism, equal pay and women struggling to “have it all.”

After watching the two back-to-back, I think we might learn much more from watching Wolf, a real woman who is still fighting the good fight to be taken seriously as a woman in comedy, than we are watching Mrs. Maisel, who is a fun but fantastical vision of what we wished it were like to be a trailblazing female comedian. And to top it off: Wolf is much, much funnier to boot. The truth—even when it’s painful—always is. arts@missoulanews.com

[books]

Reading Glacier A perfect stroll through the park’s history

by Chris La Tray

The book ends with a half-dozen contributions David Stanley first encountered Glacier National Park in the early ’60s when, at 18, he landed a sum- concerning the park in modern times. In between mer job on a trail maintenance crew. That would be are scores of stories divided among sections perthe first of six summers doing what he describes as taining to Visitors, Characters, Adventurers and An“the most physically challenging job” he ever held. imals. Ed Abbey’s essay “Fire Lookout,” from his He went on to a career in academia and retired as 1977 summer inhabiting the Numa Ridge lookout, an English professor at Westminster College in Salt is noteworthy, if only for his call to limit automoLake City, where he still lives. American literature bile access to the park. This is a conversation hapand folklore was Stanley’s specialty, but he also pening with even more hand-wringing today. The chaired the Environmental Studies Program at West- ever-cranky Abbey writes: “All through the summer minster. In that latter position, he bumper-to-bumper traffic crawls taught classes dealing not only up and down the Going-to-thewith the literature of the natural Sun highway. I’ve said it before world, but also the history of and I’ll say it again, we’ve got to wilderness in general, the moveclose the parks to private cars if ment toward its preservation and we want to keep them as parks.

America’s national parks.

The parks are for people, not Stanley never stopped visitmachines. Let the machines find ing Glacier. A result of his intertheir own parks. Most of America est is a new book he edited, The has been surrendered to them alGlacier Park Reader, which was ready, anyway. New Jersey, for released in September. It is part example. Southern California.” of the National Park Readers seThe center of the book conries being published by the Unitains photographs from Glacier versity of Utah Press, which through the years. One of the Stanley also initiated. best parts of this section, indeed The Reader is an anthology The Glacier Park Reader of the entire book, is a selection of stories encompassing the Glaedited by David Stanley of more than 20 plates of handcier experience, with contribupaperback, written and illustrated postcards tions spanning from 1910 to The University of Utah Press that the legendary cowboy artist 2015. Stanley has gathered his 384 pages, $19.95 Charles M. Russell sent to friends material from a broad array of sources: magazine articles, essay collections and and acquaintances. Russell and his wife, Nancy, other anthologies. Many of the contributors may built a cabin on the shore of Lake McDonald in be unfamiliar to the casual natural history audi- 1905, five years before the park became a park, and ence, but several classic names stand out: John would summer there every year until 1920. In our Muir, George Bird Grinnell, Dorothy M. Johnson, modern era of outdoor photo porn that comes to Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams are all us live via social media at any hour or season, Rusfound between these covers. If even these names sell’s illustrations are a delight. The accompanying are unfamiliar, then the Reader is an excellent in- notes are, as well. They wax poetic on the beauty troduction to some of the finest writers of the West. of his surroundings, but also display a wry sense Stanley has divided his anthology into seven of humor through poking fun at people he obsections based on subject. For example, after his serves. It is a shame that much of his corresponintroduction—a mostly concise overview of the his- dence from Glacier has been lost, because what we tory of the park—the book begins with five stories have here is so entertaining.

The Glacier Park Reader is an excellent book to from and about Native people. A highlight of this section is the story “The Last Great Battle of Eagle read while preparing for a trip to the park. Or, even Head,” originally published in 1978. It is a story better, take it along into the backcountry for reading told by the Blackfeet warrior Eagle Head to his while basking in the glory of your surroundings. It’s grandson, George Comes at Night. Eagle Head tells a book that can be picked up and read from at ranthe tale of climbing Chief Mountain, an iconic land- dom, which is probably the best way to experience mark sacred to the Blackfeet, where many young it anyway. For lovers of the outdoors, and of Glacier Natives have sought visions. The story remains the Park in particular, this book is perfect. only published narrative of a vision quest on Chief Mountain as related by a Native American. arts@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • December 21–December 28, 2017 [19]

[music]

Fire in the belly Go Hibiki’s Ethan Uhl talks about life in a Missoula punk band

by Josh Vanek

Missoula’s Go Hibiki is the kind of come-outswinging band that hooks you before you get too jaded. It’s the sort of punk combined with killer melodies and powerful performance that made the Replacements so great. Singer and guitarist Ethan Uhl’s blown-out vocals recall the pack-a-day earnestness of 1990s East Bay favorites Jawbreaker. And the band, which includes bassist Rob Cave, drummer Alasdair Lyon and guitarist Elizabeth Taillon-Rogosienski, also references things I have to Google, which says more about my lack of video game and bad-movie knowledge than anything about the members. All together, it’s hard to deny the fire in Go Hibiki’s belly.

Uhl started playing in bands in high school, including in the Whoopass Girls, starting in 2009, and post-Goddammitboyhowdy group King Elephant.

And he has, over the years, developed a sound and style that’s all his own. In the Years Spent, Go Hibiki’s new six-song EP, meets my top criterion for punk music: done before you realize it, or want it to be. The record has the urgent feel of a well-seasoned and chemistry-synced band nailing a great set of songs, and a nailed recording, engineered by Christopher Baumann at Black National studio.

Lyrics like, “Putting all my quarters into Centipede\down at Taco Del Sol\they’re probably sick of me,” from “Dr. Mischief, the King of Time,” lure you in with specific place references and subtle, and thus more memorable, rhyme.

The Indy caught up with Uhl to talk about the new album and the pros and cons of being a Missoula-based band.

How’d you end up starting Go Hibiki?

Ethan Uhl: I had seen Sunraiser—Rob and Alasdair’s other band—a lot. I saw them when they were called Mountain Shark and had no guitar player, and always really loved Alasdair’s voice and Rob’s energy and creative bass lines. I also had seen Elizabeth play solo a couple times and was just dumbfounded by how talented a singer and guitar player she is. At first I just asked Rob and Alasdair to be in a new band with me, which I was going to try to make a hardcore punk band. Alasdair and I both really loved the idea of having more voices in the band, and Elizabeth was the perfect fit.

What does the band want to get done? What’s your idea of success with this band?

EU: All of us have a real passion for making and playing music, and we’re just trying to get to a point where there’s nothing in the way of that. Besides becoming katrillionaires playing rock and roll, the true goal for me is reaching people and helping them to realize that music is a fun and rewarding thing to

photo by Amy Donovan

Go Hibiki features, from left, Elizabeth Taillon-Rogosienski, Alasdair Lyon, Rob Cave and Ethan Uhl.

pursue. I’ve had people talk to me and say that the Whoopass Girls got them into punk, or some of my solo stuff got them to make music as well, and that’s my favorite thing.

You toured recently, correct? What was that like?

EU: We did! It was a relatively small tour, but it was a great experience. We were gone about a week and met a lot of great bands across Montana. We spent a couple days at a cabin and watched kung fu movies and ate Korean food and saw so many amazing bands who were comprised of good people. All around it was a great kind of “test run” tour for us!

I’m really impressed with In the Years Spent. I think it’s a great performance and recording. What’s next?

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EU: Thank you so much! Currently we’re writing a 10-song release that we’re showing to a couple record labels. We’ve played a few of the songs live and have gotten great responses about them. Hopefully a bit before the whole album drops, we’ll have a music video for our song, “Who is Me?” and then we’ll go on a little bit longer of a tour trying to promote it. I’m really excited for everyone to hear the new stuff.

What advantages come with being a Missoula band? What’s tough about it?

EU: I really like that there’s such a diverse set of genres in town, and that we all form a kind of ragtag collective scene. I feel like if I were to live in a bigger city, I’d never come out to see a band like Eat Strike or Wrinkles or Tiny Plastic Stars, but I really

love them and am glad I get to see them. It’s also nice to have a chance to open for bigger acts without having to go through a promoter or some other weird kind of stuff that would happen in a bigger scene.

On the flip side, it’s definitely tough to find people that would be really into our stuff in a smaller community like Missoula. There are cities with much larger audiences and more opportunities and sometimes, it’s really frustrating to play a show and have a total of two or three people show up. I can’t imagine not being here, though. I really feel a strong connection to Missoula.

Visit Go Hibiki on Bandcamp to hear In the Years Spent. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Feel the force The Last Jedi is for lovers

by Molly Laich

Daisy Ridley stars as Rey in the latest Star Wars movie.

Unlike many of you curmudgeons, I loved Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I loved the eighth installment of this beloved franchise the way a mother accepts her child unconditionally, in a true, tender and uncomplicated way.

You know the timeline by now, but let’s review. We have the original films from the 1970s, where they sprawled out in our hearts and minds unencumbered for decades. The original creator, George Lucas, came along in the ’90s and mucked them up with CGI and we were mostly furious, but still rapturous with excitement at the idea of three new films. Everyone with taste agrees that the prequels are dreadful, but it’s cathartic and beautiful how we’ve all come together on this point. So strong is our collective ire at Jar Jar Binks that it transforms into a kind of love for one another.

More than that, Episodes 1-3 instructed a whole generation on the merits of film criticism, that there’s a difference between a good movie and a bad one.

JJ Abrams got the ball rolling again in 2015 in a solid return to form with The Force Awakens. For me, it doesn’t get better than the opening battle scene filled with chaos and real explosions, and then a storm trooper takes off his helmet in a moment of existential crisis—are you kidding us! If anything, viewers complained that Abrams played it too safe, with frequent nods to the fans and its structure so parallel to A New Hope, as it were.

In fact, Abrams gave us the gentle re-introduction we needed, and it paved the way for writer and director Rian Johnson to take the story in strange new directions.

What audacity to build up the preciousness of the Jedi institution only to burn it brazenly to the

ground. Were you not invigorated by the future possibilities of the erotic gray matter between Rey and Kylo Ren’s union? How did you feel the moment Kylo Ren split the supreme leader in half? Did you not think of Carrie Fisher and weep when Leia Organa floated frozen through space, or when a damn-near enlightened Luke Skywalker tells his sister no one ever really leaves us, or when Rose reminds Finn and the audience that rebels will win not by fighting against what we hate, but rather saving what we love?

If I had any complaints (which I don’t!) they would have to do with pacing. At two and a half hours, this is the longest Star Wars picture to date, and I wondered if they’d tried to pack too much in. But don’t forget, we’re meant to watch these films over and over. What seems overwhelming on a first viewing will pay dividends later.

Most of the time I favor depraved, adult pictures that I write about in lonely isolation, but this is different. I love Star Wars because you love Star Wars. It’s a cinematic experience we all have in common. I saw The Last Jedi on opening night in a sold-out theater at a 10 p.m. showing, regrettable only because it meant an audience full of mostly adults who clapped tepidly at the ending, as if they wanted to check in with their PR person first to confirm that their warm feelings had merit. In one thrilling moment, Luke disappears and reappears again and a little kid in the theater let out a weird, excited squawk. This is the way you watch Star Wars, people! Stretch out with your feelings!

Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues at the AMC 12. arts@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • December 21–December 28, 2017 [21]

[film] JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE It took them 22 years, but Jumanji is finally getting a sequel without any of the original cast.

Didn’t they learn their lesson with Zathura?

Rated PG-13. Stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK DARKEST HOUR As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe, the new Prime Minister of Great Britain has to make the hardest decisions of his life. Rated PG-13. Stars Gary Oldman, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas all trying to win Oscars.

Oldman sure loves being in movies with the word Dark in the title, doesn’t he? Playing at the Roxy.

JUSTICE LEAGUE DC Comics’ premier super-team assembles to avenge the death of Superman while discovering how many of their mothers are named Martha. Rated PG-13. Directed by Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon, and starring 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.

DOWNSIZING There are a lot of really good reasons to get a divorce. Your husband irreversibly shrunk himself to 5 inches as part of a program to solve overpopulation, for example. Rated R. Stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig and Neil Patrick Harris. Playing at the AMC 12.

FATHER FIGURES It’s kinda like Mamma Mia, but instead of Amanda Seyfried trying to figure out if Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth or Stellan Skarsgård is her real father, it’s Owen Wilson and Ed Helms doing the same with Terry Bradshaw, Christopher Walken and J.K. Simmons. Rated R. Also stars Glenn Close, Ving Rhames and Katt Williams. Playing at the AMC 12.

PITCH PERFECT 3 After winning the world championship, The Bellas discover there aren’t any job prospects for a cappella singers outside of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, and that show ended in 1995. Rated PG-13. Stars Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and John Lithgow. Playing at the AMC 12.

NOW PLAYING 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.

DIE HARD (1988) Yippee ki-yay, festive revelers! You think spending the holiday with your family is rough, this

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.

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI A bold and evil empire takes what it wants and destroys those who stand in its way. Who will oppose this tide of darkness? So far it’s already Even at a tiny size, two bullhorns is way too many. Kristen Wiig and Matt Damon star in Downsizing, bought Marvel, 20th Century Fox and Star opening at the AMC 12.

Wars. Rated PG-13. Stars Daisy Ridley, Mark cop is trapped in a skyscraper with an army of Zendaya. Showing at the Missoula AMC 12 Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. (See Film) dangerous crooks. Rated R. Stars Bruce Willis, and the Pharaohplex.

Alan Rickman and Reginald VelJohnson. Playing Thu., Dec 21 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

GREMLINS (1984) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, A young man doesn’t follow the instructions on MISSOURI FERDINAND his Christmas present and very nearly destroys his Months after her daughter’s unsolved murder, He might look like a ferocious beast, but this whole town. Rated PG, but is the main reason we a mom erected three signs to make sure the big-hearted softy just proves you can’t judge a now have the PG-13 rating. Stars Zach Galligan, cops heard her. Burma-Shave. Rated R. Stars bull by its cover. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Phoebe Cates and Victor, Montana’s own Hoyt Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and John Cena, Kate McKinnon and Gina Ro- Axton. Playing Sat., Dec. 23 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

Sam Rockwell. Playing at the Roxy. driguez. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

George Bailey never thought about how many THE GREATEST SHOWMAN lives he’s impacted until he wanted to end it P.T. Barnum might be best known for coining all. Luckily a wingless angel is there to show Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the phrase “There’s a sucker born every him how important just one life is. Rated PG. the arts section of missoulanews.com to minute,” but the life of the famed circus Stars Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymore and find up-to-date movie times for theaters in founder still has a few surprises up its sleeve. Donna Reed. Playing Sat., Dec. 23 at 2 PM and the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

Rated PG. Stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and 7 PM at the Roxy.

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[dish]

Chicken (or turkey) pho

by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

I’ll spend this weekend drinking wine, eating, laughing, snuggling, eating, hugging, reminiscing, lounging, eating, and also eating. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

That said, this week’s approach to food is going to have to be a little lighter if I am hoping to continue to wear my pants through the holiday season.

With that in mind, I decided to make pho—the spicy, deeply flavorful, soul-hugging soup of Vietnamese origin, in which noodles swim (I used lowcalorie shirataki noodles—usually found near the tofu in most grocery stores—to further atone for this week’s caloric intake, but rice vermicelli is what is traditionally called for), and atop which fresh toppings like scallions, bean sprouts and cilantro dance, waiting to be stirred in.

Note: This soup also happens to be a fantastic way to use up leftover turkey. Simply use the turkey carcass to make the broth, and shred cooked turkey meat to use in place of the chicken called for.

Serves 4 Ingredients 1 tbsp vegetable or coconut oil 2 tsp Chinese 5-spice 2 chicken legs (drumsticks and thighs), skin-on 5 cloves whole garlic, (peel-on), smashed 1 1" piece ginger, finely minced 1 whole onion, (peel-on), quartered 2 stalks lemongrass, coarsely chopped juice of 1 lemon 1 tbsp honey 2 tsp Asian chili sauce (or more to taste) 2 tbsp Asian fish sauce 2 1/2 tbsp (plus more to taste) soy sauce freshly ground pepper 1 lb rice vermicelli or shirataki noodles optional garnishes: fresh cilantro, sliced jalapeño, sliced scallions, hoisin sauce, lemon wedges, mung bean sprouts

Directions Heat the oil in a large soup pot over mediumhigh heat.

Add the Chinese 5-spice and cook, stirring constantly for 1 minute.

Add the chicken legs and brown on both sides, about 3 minutes each.

Add the garlic, ginger, onion, lemongrass, lemon juice, honey, chili sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, pepper and 2 1/2 quarts of water.

Cover, bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. Allow to simmer for 10-12 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through.

Once the chicken is fully cooked, fish it out using tongs and run under cold water to cool it down.

Slide the skin off the chicken pieces and use a fork or your fingers to slide the tender chicken meat off the bones, reserving the chicken bones, skin and gristle.

Return the bones, skin and gristle to the pot, cover and simmer for another 45 minutes.

Strain the broth and return to its pot.

Taste for seasoning and adjust as necessary.

Increase heat to high and bring broth to a boil.

Add the noodles and boil until cooked through, about 5 minutes.

To serve, use a ladle to portion broth into bowls.

Use tongs to add noodles to each bowl.

Divide the chicken pieces between the bowls, and serve immediately.

If desired, garnish with any of the optional garnishes.

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[dish]

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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. $-$$

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. $-$$

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. $-$$

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. $-$$

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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

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. $-$$ 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

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[dish] 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.

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

Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available.

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

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

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

Kris Kringle Coco at Montana Distillery

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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 Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 • tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!

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

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What you’re drinking: Fancy, festive hot chocolate made with the spirits of Christmas.

spirit at the 2016 Los Angeles International Spirits Competition.

Why you’re drinking it: We’re not talking about the ghost of Christmas past, but the real spirit of the season: alcohol. The big secret we all keep about our celebration of Jesus’ birth, aside from the fact that Santa’s elves are really just poor child and women laborers in Asia, is that we rely on booze to get through it. We keep this secret safe by spiking our drinks, and no beverage provides a better vehicle for holiday self-medication than hot cocoa.

What it tastes like: The vodka is sweet, smooth and warm, making it a perfect pairing for hot chocolate. The drink is topped with peppermint, whipped cream and a candy cane that hangs over the rim of the glass. Bartenders make the chocolate syrup in-house from Hershey’s chocolate. The homemade flavor shines through, especially to a Pennsylvania kid who grew up on chocolate milk mixed with Hershey’s syrup. I’m practically transported back home when the bartender pipes up after my first sip: “Is it chocolately enough for you?” she asks. It’s the same question my grandmother always asked.

What’s the spirit: The 84-proof present beneath this cocoa’s chocolate-andwhipped-cream gift wrap is Montana Distillery’s signature Woody St. vodka, which is made from sugar beets and managed to be the only American-made, micro-distilled

The details: Find the Kris Kringle Coco at Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St. $7.

—Derek Brouwer

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

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THU | 12/28 | 6 PM Travis Yost provides the tunes at Draught Works Brewery Thu., Dec. 28 from 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

FRI | 10:15 PM Jameson and the Sordid Seeds play the Top Hat Fri., Dec. 22 at 10:15 PM. Free.

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SAT | 2 & 7 PM Give an angel its wings at a screening of It's a Wonderful Life at the Roxy Sat., Dec. 23 at 2 PM and 7 PM. $8

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The 20th Annual Great University of Montana Christmas Cookie Cook-Off lets you spend an afternoon baking cookies in the Lommasson Center Food Zoo. Half are for you, and half will be donated to people in need. 1 PM–4 PM. Free.

Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes artist James Corwin for a painting class. Enjoy wine, beer and snacks while painting along with Corwin. This week learn to paint a bison. Or a buffalo. I honestly still don't know the difference. 5:30 PM. $47. Register at missoulamtcoc.com.

nightlife Singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas plays his homegrown folky tonk at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Say "yes and" to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abili-

Who is that I hear a-wassailing?

Jodi Marshall and the Bookends carol at Missoula Public Library.

11:30 AM–12:30 PM.

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Awesome Possums blossom at the Top Hat's Family Friendly Friday. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar from 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

I knew Santa Claus was coming to town, but I had no idea he'd be on a Zamboni. Skate with the big man himself at Glacier Ice Rink. 3 PM–5:30 PM. $6 adults/$4 kiddos. Skate rentals start at $3.

Valencia Nights features the best in house music at the VFW every Thursday. 8 PM. Free.

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Join in on the reindeer games at the Sunrise Saloon's Rocking Country Dance Party at 8:30 PM. Free.

In 1984, the Motion Picture Association of America, those high-sheriffs of movie morality, introduced the new

ties, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM 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.

Zepeda, Ocelot Wizard and Bradley Warren Jr. play the VFW. 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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WHAT: Gremlins WHEN: Sat., Dec 23 at 8 PM. WHERE: The Roxy Theater HOW MUCH: $8

PG-13 rating. This addition to the G, PG, R and X-ratings system that had been in place since 1972 was a direct response to the public's reaction to two

Missoula music powerhouse Tom Catmull plays Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free.

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

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

Dusk provides the tunes at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Jameson and the Sordid Seeds play the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

rating game blockbuster films that pushed the limits of PG without diving headfirst into the deep end of the R pool. Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, with its scenes of hearts being ripped out of chests and child slavery, in an otherwise fun family romp, drew incredible heat from parents of terrified children. But it wasn't until Joe Dante's Gremlins, a film also produced by Spielberg and eleased exactly one month after Temple of Doom that the MPAA realized they had to do something about their rating system.

Gremlins, a movie about young

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DJs Geeter Tron, BK Love and Tek Stiile are on deck for Sunshine Room at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.

man whose inability to follow the instructions that came with his Christmas gift leads to murder and mayhem, walks the same ratings-defying line Temple of Doom did. It's a black comedy expertly disguised as a heartwarming Christmas movie. The Christmas music, lovable and eccentric characters and a positive message are just tinsel on a tree made up of terror, gore and Phoebe Cates’ scene-stealing monologue about why she doesn't believe in Santa Claus. It's a holiday classic that changed the way movies are made and rated.

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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.

celebrates a Festivus for the rest of us, Jerry. Enjoy a clam boil while airing your grievances from 6 PM–9 PM. Seating is limited. RSVP by calling 406-5430719.

Eve's Eve Soirée at Grain features mulled wine, holiday treats and sustainably made goods.

Above the ZACC. 12 PM–5 PM. Free.

Tango Missoula hosts an introductory class and milonga social dance on the fourth Saturday of each month. The beginners lesson starts at 8 PM followed by dancing from 9 PM to midnight.

It takes two to tango, but no experience or partner necessary.

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Looking for a gift for your favorite calendar editor? The LateBird Holiday Bazaar opens at Imagine Nation Brewing for you last-minute gift-getting. 2 PM–7 PM. Free.

nightlife TopHouse plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Carla Green Jazz provides the tunes at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Basses Covered uncovers an evening of music at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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Radius Gallery hosts the last day of its Holiday Show by keeping its doors open on Christmas Eve. 11 AM–3 PM.

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

Twenty-one! Time to pay off that bookie! Double Down Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free.

Brrrrrrrrrr. The Shiver plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

It's never too late to sing the Monster Mash. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW let's you live out your jukebox hero dreams. 9:30 PM. Free.

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

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May your day be full of joy and peace. Also, you still haven't gotten me a present yet. Jerk.

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Get a new ugly sweater from Auntie Charlotte? Wear it to Missoula Brewing for a discount on your beer. 4 PM–8 PM. Journey to the Emerald Isle every week with the traditional Irish music of The Craciers at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Unity Dance & Drum's African Dance Class with Tarn Ream and live musicians meets every Tuesday at the Missoula Senior Center. All levels and ages welcome, and drop-in dancers are welcome any time! 7 PM. $10 per class.

The Rocky Mountainaires Mens Barbershop Chorus rehearses every Tuesday at River Valley Church. Call Tom at 406-2532811 for mor info.

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Why don't we call it the Thomas Meagher Beagher? Trivia at the

The Craciers play at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Thomas Meagher Bar every Tuesday. 8 PM. Free.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free.

What actress made her show busi-

ness debut at 2 years old on today's date in 1924? Answer in tomorrow's Nightlife.

Missoula Music Showcase features local singers and songwriters each week a the Badlander. 9

PM. Free.

It's never too late to sing “The Monster Mash.” Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW let's you live out your jukebox hero dreams.

9:30 PM. Free.

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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.

Travis Yost provides the tunes at Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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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

Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company's Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for Run Wild Missoula. 5 PM–8 PM. Bluesman Pat McKay plays Great Burn Brewing from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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

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: Judy Garland.

Revival Stand-up Comedy Open Mic mixes established voices and new tal-

nightlife Comedian Michael Beers headlines the Revival Comedy Stand-up Open Mic Wed., Dec. 27 at the Badlander at 7:30 PM. Free. ent at the Badlander. The headliner is 2017 Montana Comedian of the Year Michael Beers. 7:30 PM. Free.

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

Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the

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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. 8 PM. Free.

Win $50 in cash at The Eagles' Karaoke Contest. Have you considered singing a song by the band The Eagles? I bet they'd like that. 8:30 PM. Free.

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. Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar from 8 PM– 11 PM. Free.

Valencia Nights presents the best in house music at the VFW every Thursday. 8

PM. Free.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's not small. No, no, no.

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

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.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Happy Hogswatch to all!

Agenda I think we can all agree that 2017 has been a dumpster fire of a year. But as we gaze across the horizon to the mysterious and cyclopian shores of 2018, wondering just how bad things are going to get, one important question springs to mind. Did I do enough in 2017? In a year stuffed with marches, fundraisers and food drives (not to mention having to call Congress every other week to beg for our lives), it's easy to get overwhelmed with the idea that there's more that can be done to stem the overwhelming dread the lateteens continue to drown us in. With just over a week left in the year, there's still time to give of yourself to help strangers in need. It's easy, too. All you need to do is give some blood.

Red Cross of Montana is hosting blood drives across Missoula this week, giving you the chance to do your part in combatting 2017's miasma of darkness. Blood drives at Community Medical Center, St. Patrick Hospital, Ace Hardware, AMC Missoula 12 and

Best Buy among others give you a plethora of chances to finish the year by helping those in need, and getting ready for whatever comes out of 2018.

—Charley Macorn Visit redcrossblood.org for a full schedule of Blood Drives in Missoula and Western Montana.

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The Red Cross hosts a blood drive at Community Medical Center. Visit redcrossblood.org to schedule a time to donate. 10 AM–3 PM.

Albertson's Eastgate hosts a community Blood Drive from 10 AM–2 PM. Free t-shirts for all donors. Now you have my interest.

The 20th Annual Great University of Montana Christmas Cookie Cook-Off lets you spent an afternoon baking cookies in the Lommasson Center Food Zoo. Half are for you, and half will be donated to people in need. 1 PM–4 PM. Free.

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

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for Run Wild Missoula. 5 PM–8 PM.

A portion of sales at Five on Black go to benefit ENDVR Sustainability Council. 4 PM–8 PM. The 2017 Missoula Homeless Persons' Memorial remembers our homeless friends, family and neighbors that passed this year. Caras Park 5:30 PM.

Learn how to have effective and simple conversations with your coworkers about forming a union at Union Organizer Training at the Union Club.

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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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Mountain High kay, so you goofed up a little bit and asked for a second serving of pie at Thanksgiving.

You've tried to maintain strict discipline when it came to abstaining from the mountain of festive treats that descend upon offices leading up until Christmas, but, come on: free work cookies!

Your New Year's Resolution to stop being so much of a C.H.U.D. is still just over a week away from officially starting. That's when you'll get your life together, you've told yourself every December since you put on your freshman 15. In the meantime, what can you do that keeps you healthy, while still dipping your toe into the festive revelry that comes with the season? How about a beer and a run?

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 21 Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. Blaze Dodgeball lets you relive your gym class glory days at Missoula Indoor Sports Arena. $10/person or $40/team. 9 AM. Missouaindoor.com for registration and more info.

Ascend the Southeast Ridge of Saint Mary's Peak with the Rocky Mountaineers. Email Forest Dean at mtnear1@gmail.com for more info and registration.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 27 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

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Run finishes out the year with another casual fun run/walk open to runners of all abilities. This month, the Beer Run starts at Northside Kettlehouse at 6 PM. And while you might not want to get out during the winter, a portion from every pint sold goes to support Run Wild Missoula.

—Charley Macorn The final Last Wednesday Beer Run of the year starts at 6 PM at Northside Kettlehouse. Visit runwildmissoula.org for more information and a schedule of upcoming events.

with other caffeine-loving cyclists. Caras Park.

7:15 AM. Ski School Holiday at Snowbowl kicks off three days of ski programming for kids of all ages.

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A portion of every pint sold at the KettleHouse goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for Run Wild Missoula. 5 PM–8 PM.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 28 Ski School Holiday at Snowbowl continues.

Visit montanasnowbowl.com for more information.

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DESTINY’S PROBLEM CHILD

I saw this gorgeous girl at the coffeehouse at the mall two months ago. It was totally love at first sight. I keep hanging out there hoping to see her again. Am I nuts, or does love at first sight really exist?

—Smitten It’s so special when a man tells a woman he’s deeply in love with her—except when her response is “Excuse me, but have we met?”

Love at first sight sounds so romantic.There are those couples who claim they had it—causing mass nausea at dinner parties when they look into each other’s eyes and announce, “From the moment we saw each other, we just KNEW.” Uh, or did they? A Swiss psychology grad student, Florian Zsok, ran some experiments to see what love at first sight is actually made of.

Zsok and his colleagues were looking for the three elements that psychologist Robert Sternberg theorizes interact to produce love: intimacy, commitment, and passion (made up of physical arousal, desire, excitement and longing).

They surveyed participants online and in a lab setting—asking them how they felt about people in photographs—and in three dating events, getting their reactions to people they’d just met.

Of the 396 participants, love at first sight “was indicated 49 times by 32 different individuals.”

(That rare and wonderful lightning struck twice or maybe three times for some.) And here’s a shocker: “None of the instances of (love at first sight) was reciprocal.”

Not surprisingly, none of the participants who said they’d felt love at first sight had the elements of intimacy or commitment as part of their experience. The one element they did have? Passion—in the form of “physical attraction.” Basically, the researchers empirically confirmed what some of us intuitively understand: “Love at first sight” is just a classier way of expressing the sentiment yelled from passing cars, “Hey, miniskirt! You’re late for your visit to My Penis Avenue!”

As for couples who insist they had love at first sight, the researchers believe they could be retrospectively repainting their first meeting to make their relationship feel more special.The reality:“We just knew” is “we just got lucky” (stated in a way that makes frustrated single people long to commit hara-kiri with the nearest shrimp fork).

Reminding yourself that you just have the plain old hots for this girl is probably the best way for you to do what needs to be done—shift to some other activity (Masturbate! Play video games!) when the impulse strikes to stake out Coffeeland. Getting stuck on a total stranger this way probably makes it impossible to behave

normally in their presence—or want to look closely enough to see who they really are. As alluring a concept as love at first sight is, in practice it tends to work out best with inanimate objects—a painting or an antique chair (something that doesn’t make big wet smacking sounds when it chews or take so long to text you back that you buy it a burial plot).

CHARLES (DARWIN) IN CHARGE

My family enjoys your weekly column, but we’re wondering why you can’t give advice without launching into evolutionary explanations. We aren’t always instinct-driven animals like elk or migrating salmon.

—Evolutionary Overkill It isn’t so bad being a salmon. Salmon just wake up one day and swim like mad upstream.

There’s no existential fretting, “What does it all mean? What will I do with myself after grad school? Am I a bad fish if I sometimes long to put grain alcohol in the sippy cup of that brat screaming on the beach?”

Meanwhile, back in humanland, research in cognitive neuroscience (by Michael Gazzaniga, among others) and in social science finds that we humans aren’t the highly rational independent thinkers we like to believe we are.

In fact, as evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby put it, “our modern skulls house a stone age mind”—adapted to solve hunter-gatherer mating and survival problems. This 10-million-year-old psychology, still driving us right now, today, is often a mismatch with our modern environment.Take our sugar lust, for example. This made sense in an ancestral environment, where eating a couple of berries might have helped prevent malnutrition.Today, however, we can drive to Costco and have some guy load a pallet of doughnuts into our SUV while we burn .0003 of a calorie watching him.

Understanding the origins of our motivation is not “evolutionary overkill” but our best shot for possibly controlling our behavior—or at least forgiving ourselves when we fail miserably. As my First Amendment lawyer friend Ken White (@Popehat) tweeted about S’mores Girl Scout Cookies: “I thought they were kind of meh at first but by the third box I ate in the garage they were growing on me.”

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The obligations secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Notes secured by the Trust Indenture have not been made as required. As of November 16, 2017, the sum of $6,955.86 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $56,486.98, with interest accruing thereon at a rate of 6.95% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $10.20. In addition, Grantors are in default for failing to pay taxes before becoming delinquent.

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No. 4278, located in the Northwest one-quarter of the Northeast onequarter of Section 20, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.Thomas B.Asbridge and Terran Asbridge, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated thereon, if any, to Insured Titles, LLC, PO Box 4706, Missoula, Montana 59806r, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, which was designated as beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated May 18, 2006 recorded May 24, 2006 in Book 774 at Page 1270 of Micro

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AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE This Amended Notice replaces the November 28, 2017 Notice of Trustee Sale recorded at Book 989 Page 1290, Records of Missoula County Clerk and Recorder, Missoula County, Montana, on November 29, 2017. Pursuant to § 71-1-301, et seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on the Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 11:30 a.m., at Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A of Certificate of Survey

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your life in the first half of 2018 will be like a psychological boot camp that’s de-

signed to beef up your emotional intelligence. Here’s another way to visualize your oncoming adventures: They will constitute a friendly nudge from the cosmos, pushing you to be energetic and ingenious in creating the kind of partnerships you want for the rest of your long life. As you go through your interesting tests and riddles, be on the lookout for glimpses of what your daily experience could be like in five years if you begin now to deepen your commitment to love and collaboration.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll soon have a chance to glide out into the frontier. I suggest you pack your bag of tricks. Bring gifts with you, too, just in case you must curry favor in the frontiers where the rules are a bit loose. How are your improvisational instincts? Be sure they’re in top shape. How willing are you to summon spontaneity and deal with unpredictability and try impromptu experiments? I hope you’re very willing.This may sound like a lot of work, but I swear it’ll be for a good cause. If you’re well-prepared as you wander in the borderlands, you’ll score sweet secrets and magic cookies. Here’s more good news: Your explorations will position you well to take advantage of the opportunities that’ll become available throughout 2018.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): These days it’s not unusual to see male celebrities who shave their heads. Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Seal, Tyrese Gibson and Vin Diesel are among them. But in the 20th century, the bareheaded style was rare. One famous case was actor Yul Brynner. By age 30, he’d begun to go bald. In 1951, for his role as the King of Siam in the Broadway play The King and I, he decided to shave off all his hair. From then on, the naked-headed look became his trademark as he plied a successful acting career. So he capitalized on what many in his profession considered a liability. He built his power and success by embracing an apparent disadvantage. I recommend you practice your own version of this strategy in 2018.The coming weeks will be an excellent time to begin.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the Northern Hemisphere, where 88 percent of the world’s population re-

sides, this is a quiescent time for the natural world. Less sunlight is available, and plants’ metabolisms slow down as photosynthesis diminishes. Deciduous trees lose their leaves, and even many evergreens approach dormancy.

And yet in the midst of this stasis, Cancerian, you are beginning to flourish. Gradually at first, but with increasing urgency, you’re embarking on an unprecedented phase of growth. I foresee that 2018 will be your Year of Blossoming.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you’ve had an unfulfilled curiosity about genealogy or your ancestors or the riddles of your past, 2018 will be a favorable time to investigate. Out-of-touch relatives will be easier to locate than usual.

Lost heirlooms, too.You may be able to track down and make use of a neglected legacy. Even family secrets could leak into view—both the awkward and the charming kinds. If you think you have everything figured out about the people you grew up with and the history of where you came from, you’re in for surprises.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Most of us regard our ring fingers as the least important of our digits. What are they good for? Is there any activity for which they’re useful? But our ancestors had a stronger relationship with their fourth fingers.There was a folk belief that a special vein connected the fourth finger on the left hand directly to the heart. That’s why a tradition arose around the wedding ring being worn there. It may have also been a reason why pharmacists regarded their fourth fingers as having an aptitude for discerning useful blends of herbs. I bring this up, Virgo, because I think it’s an apt metaphor for one of 2018’s important themes: A resource you have underestimated or neglected will be especially valuable—and may even redefine your understanding of what’s truly valuable.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In fairy tales, characters are often rewarded for their acts of kindness.They may be given magical objects that serve as protection, like cloaks of invisibility or shoes that enable them to flee trouble. Or the blessings they receive may be life-enhancing, like enchanted cauldrons that provide a never-ending supply of delicious food or musical instruments that have the power to summon delightful playmates. I bring this up, Libra, because I suspect that a similar principle will be very active in your life during 2018.You’ll find it easier and more natural than usual to express kindness, empathy and compassion. If you consistently capitalize on this predilection, life will readily provide you with the resources you need.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and note and elected to sell the interest of Thomas B. Asbridge and Terran Asbridge, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Timothy D. Geiszler, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings.The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Trust Indenture and note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATE this 1 day of December 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 1st day of December 2017,

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE LANDEE N. HOLLOWAY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2017-3164 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION

PROFESSIONAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC., Plaintiff, v. GINGER N. WERSONICK, et al., Defendant.

TO: Ginger Wersonick, 1661 Shindig Dr., #203 Missoula, MT 59808 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney,Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer.

DATED this 13th day of December, 2017. By: /s/ Landee N. Holloway Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-1134 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Tobi Lynn Whiteman Runs Him, Erin Birdinground, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Tobi Lynn Whiteman Runs Him to Tobi Jo Not Afraid.The hearing will be on 01/02/2018 at 11:00 a.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: November 22, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Cady Sowre, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-1135 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Rio Bailey Lafranier, Erin Birdinground, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Rio Bailey

Lafranier to Rio Bailey Not Afraid.The hearing will be on 01/02/2018 at 11:00 a.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: November 22, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Cady Sowre Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-1136 Dept. No.: 4 Karen Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Tyler Regar, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Tyler Albert Regar to Tyler Albert Shumaker. The hearing will be on 01/09/2018 at 3:00 p.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 11/29/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17-1139 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Amanda Kannianen Allison, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Amanda Kannianen Allison to Amanda Sisu Kannianen. The hearing will be on 01/03/2018 at 11:00 a.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 11/24/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate Case No. DP-17-285 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of GENE BOUCHER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Steven L. Boucher has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Like all of us, you go through mediocre phases when you’re not functioning at

peak efficiency. But I suspect that in 2018 you will experience fewer of these blah times. We will see a lot of you at your best. Even more than usual, you’ll be an interesting catalyst who energizes and ripens collaborative projects.

You’ll demonstrate why the sweet bracing brightness needs the deep dark depths, and vice versa.You’ll help allies open doors that they can’t open by themselves.The rest of us thank you in advance!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The blunt fact is that you can’t be delivered from the old demoralizing

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pattern that has repeated and repeated itself—until you forgive yourself completely. For that matter, you probably can’t move on to the next chapter of your life story until you compensate yourself for at least some of the unnecessary torment you’ve inflicted on yourself. Now here’s the good news: 2018 will be an excellent time to accomplish these healings.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2018, one of your primary missions will be to practice what you preach; to walk your talk; to be ambitious and masterful in all the ways a soulful human can and should be ambitious and masterful. Live up to your hype in the coming months, Capricorn! Do what you have promised! Stop postponing your dreams! Fulfill the noble expectations you have for yourself! Don’t be shy about using exclamation points to express your visions of what’s right and good and just!

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, when I started my career as a horoscope writer, my editor counseled me, “Always give priority to the Big Three. Romance, money and power are what people care about most.” After a few months, he was disgruntled to realize that I wrote about how to cultivate psychological health and nourish spiritual aspirations as much as his Big Three. He would have replaced me if he could have found another astrology writer whose spelling and grammar were as good as mine. But his edict traumatized me a bit. Even today, I worry that I don’t provide you with enough help concerning the Big Three. Fortunately, that’s not relevant now, since I can sincerely declare that 2018 will bring you chances to become more powerful by working hard on your psychological health ... and to grow wealthier by cultivating your spiritual aspirations ... and to generate more love by being wise and ethical in your quest for money and power.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What binds you? What keeps you closed down and locked up? I urge you to ponder those questions, Pisces. Once you get useful answers, the next step will be to meditate on how you can undo the binds. Fantasize and brainstorm about the specific actions you can take to unlock and unclose yourself.

This project will be excellent preparation for the opportunities that the coming months will make available to you.

I’m happy to announce that 2018 will be your personal Year of Liberation.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed, return receipt requested to: Steven L. Boucher, Personal Representative, Estate of Gene Boucher, c/o Katherine Holiday, Esq., Carmody Holiday Legal Services, PLLC, PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 or filed with the Clerk of Court. DATE: December 8, 2017. Respectfully submitted, Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC /s/ Katherine C. Holiday MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Cause No.: DP-17-244 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CHRISTOPHER L. MALONEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Charmaine Santorno, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 414, Lolo, Montana 59847 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 14th day of December, 2017. /s/ Charmaine Santorno, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 John W. Larson Cause No.: DP-17-299 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: GLENN A. HACKER, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joanna M. Gutierrez has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joanna M. Gutierrez, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28 day of November, 2017. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 14th day of November, 2017. /s/ Joanna M. Gutierrez, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-308 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHARON R. JOHNSTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that RICHARD ESTABROOK has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate on December 5, 2017.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to RICHARD ESTABROOK, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 58 Lime Kiln Rd., Butte, MT 59701, or filed with the Clerk of

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by LINDY M. LAUDER, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTORS, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST,ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTORS, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER IS/ARE: Grantors: Bridget Laird and David F. Batchelder (“Grantors”) Original Trustee: First American Title Co. Successor Trustee: Lindy M. Lauder, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: Bridget Laird and David F. Batchelder THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: TRACT 3A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 6014, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN AND BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 17 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust to secure an original indebtedness of $175,000.00, dated June 15, 2015, and recorded June 15, 2015, as Document No. 201509838, Book 945, Page 721, records of Missoula County, Montana; and Substitution of Trustee dated October 31, 2017, and recorded November 3, 2017, in Book 988, Page 1290, under Document No. 201722432, records of Missoula County, Montana.

THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $1,477.29 due under the Promissory Note dated June 15, 2015, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for a portion of the August, 2017 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF APRIL 11, 2017 ARE: Principal: $159,585.96 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 6.000% per annum. As of October 30, 2017 the interest balance is $1,390.35, and interest accrues at the rate of $26.23 per day. Late fees: $50.00 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantors or successor in interest to the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE

DATE,TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: March 29, 2018 Time: 1:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 S. Fourth St., Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59807-7099 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

Dated this 7 day of November, 2017. /s/ Lindy M. Lauder LINDY M. LAUDER Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on November 7, 2017, by Lindy M. Lauder, as Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6th 2021 File No.: 034156-000090 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on April 24, 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 2 of Section 1,Township 13 North, Range 23 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book 337 of Micro at Page 2408 as known by street and number as: 3080 Petty Creek Road, Alberton, Montana 59820. More commonly known as 3080 Petty Creek Road,Alberton, MT 59820. Margaret Morgan Bailey and Donald L. Bailey, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to World Alliance Financial Corp., by Deed of Trust on January 29, 2009, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on February 3, 2009 as Instrument No. 200902137, in Book 832, at Page 1168, of Official Records.The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Assignment Dated: August 25, 2010 Assignment Recorded: September 20, 2010 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201018109, in Book 866, at Page 202, 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 December 1, 2017 as Instrument No. 201723957, in Book 990, at Page 15, 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 May 24, 2017, 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 $330,090.25, interest in the sum of $1,095.35, escrow advances of $548.93, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $2,166.54 for a total amount owing of $333,901.07, 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 11th day of December, 2017. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 50810 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 22, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The East 5 feet of Lot 34, all of Lots 35 and 36 in Block 50 of Car Line Addition, and the West 5 feet of Lot 37 in Block 50 of Car Line Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH the South 8 feet of the vacated alley lying adjacent and North of the herein described lots. AND TOGETHER WITH an easement for common driveway as described in Book 340 of Micro Records at Page 1320.

RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 606 of Micro Records at Page 1775.

Patrick Hays and Beverly Hays, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Heritage Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 11, 2004, and recorded on March 12, 2004 as Book 727 Page 1509 Document No. 200406534.

The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning December 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 27, 2017 is $58,533.34 principal, interest totaling $17,152.59 escrow advances of $11,428.90, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged

against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 3, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 3rd day of November, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 US Bank National Association vs Beverly Hays Patrick Hays 100072-2

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450 Speedway Ave • MLS# 21712348

4 bedroom 2 bath home located close to the University and downtown. Home needs some TLC. Jennifer Ogren • PureWest Real Estate 406-541-4000

Small, older home in central Missoula. Fenced yard. Several sheds.

Jack Wade • ERA Lambros 406-532-9200

Fantastic corner lot with an adorable sweet little bungalow, and a fully fenced yard!

KD Dickinson • Portico Real Estate 406-240-5227

RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bed, 1 bath, Downtown, $595, coin-op laundry, off-street & carport parking, W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 1 bed, 1 bath, Johnson & W. Central, $700, A/C, D/W, wood laminate flooring, newer building. W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

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

1-2 bed, 1 bath, $700-$895, newer complex, balcony or deck, A/C, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking. S/G paid.

NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

1 bed, 1 bath, Schilling & 12th, $725, 4plex, recently remodeled, W/D hookups, Very nice. W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatwest 7287333

1315 E. Broadway #10. 3 bed/2.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, carport, pet? $1075. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bed, 1 bath, near Good Food Store,

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2 bed, 1 bath, S 3rd W, $895-905, A/C, DW,W/D hookups, flat top stove, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333 2 bed, 1 or 2 bath, Cooper Street, $895, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 2 Bed, 1.5 Bath Townhouse, Russell & W. Railroad, $850, D/W, newer appliances, W/D in unit, Covered carport & offstreet parking. S/G paid. Gatewest 7287333

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210 Grant St. #4. 2 bed/1 bath, close to Milwaukee Trail, W/D hookups, DW $825. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

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509 S. 5th St. E. #4. 2 bed/1 bath, two blocks to U, coin-ops, shared yard $725.

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303 E. Spruce #5. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops, cat? $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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438 Washington St. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops, cat? $750 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

1863 S. 5th St. E. 3 bed/2.5 bath, brand new, energy efficient, central location. $1500 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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DUPLEXES 2 bed, 1 bath (duplex) w/ garage, near Good Food Store, newly remodeled, front & back yard, W/D hookups & off street parking. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 211 S. 4th Street East #1. 3 bed/1 bath, close to U, W/D hookups $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2300 McDonald #2. 1 bed/1 bath, new flooring and paint, close to shopping and parks $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

Studio house for , $500. a Month, including utilities 406-830-0515

ROOMMATES Female college student looking for roommate January-May to share Missoula Northside town home: 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 2 level unit with washer/dryer. $400/month plus utilities.

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1702 Bancroft. 2 bed, 1 bath brick cottage with single garage and nicely landscaped fenced yard. $215,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 1728 Ernest. Updated 4 bed, 3 bath with attached one car garage & large fenced backyard. $305,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

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239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 450 Speedway- Fantastic corner lot with an adorable sweet little bungalow, with fully fenced yard! Close to University, Hiking Trails, Downtown and More! $165,000. KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 901 Defoe. Update 3 bed, 1 bath on Northside with basement, wrap around deck & large yard. $214,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

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bring 28 years of real estate experience, knowledge of financing, honesty and integrity to my business to help buyers and sellers make sound decisions for their future.

My career in real estate is a lifestyle for me, rather than a job that I go to everyday. I balance my life with my love of the outdoors that includes hiking, canoeing, camping, backpacking and skiing. Here in Montana we love the seasons and utilize them to the fullest. We are truly lucky to live in a beautiful place and an amazing town! My motto for my clients is “You gotta love where you live!” And Missoula offers all the requirements to love where you live.

1 Actor Oscar of "Ex Machina" 6 Like some potato salads 10 Rating unit 14 "That Girl" actress ___ Thomas 15 Felt bad about 16 It works in the wind 17 Carrie Underwood's 2005 debut album 19 Apple that turns 20 in 2018 20 The next U.S. one will be in 2020 21 Donizetti work, e.g.

22 "___ you serious?"

25 66, for one (abbr.)

26 Uncooked 28 Where pagers were worn 29 Showtime series about a killer of killers 31 Cash, slangily 33 Figure at the pump 34 Slippery, as winter roads 35 "One" on some coins 38 Go pop 39 Word that I guess is hidden in the theme answers, but whatever

40 Scribbled down 41 Picked-over substances 42 Animal in the Bacardi logo 43 Magna ___ (1215 document) (var.)

44 Field docs 46 "Annie" star Quinn 47 Low digit?

49 Stamp pad stuff 50 Montana hrs.

51 Like some wines 52 One of the Coen brothers 54 Overdid the acting 57 Footfall 58 Dwelling with a skeleton of timbers 62 Type of year 2020 will be?

63 Letterman's rival, once 64 Earliest stage 65 What turns STEM to STEAM? 66 See 3-Down 67 Cold weather range

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1 Contacts via Skype, maybe 2 ___ TomÈ and PrÌncipe 3 66-Across's location 4 Current "Match Game" host Baldwin 5 Making sense 6 Get rid of 7 Spiritual advisor of sorts 8 Makes a lot of dough 9 Fabric measures (abbr.)

10 Leave out 11 Long-standing, like many traditions 12 Pong creato 13 Sum up

18 ___ nous (confidentially) 21 Be indebted 22 Marinade in some Spanish cuisine 23 Make a comeback 24 Health problem on some summer days 27 Random quantity 30 CafÈ au lait container 31 Regimens that may be faddish 32 Out in the country 36 Say 37 John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen ___" 39 Holy fish?

40 Glowing brightly 42 Coal receptacle 43 Rigid social system 45 "You're a better man than I am, Gunga ___!": Kipling 47 Elon Musk's company 48 Sleek river swimmer 50 Jason of "Game of Thrones" 53 Smartphone programs 55 Michael who directed "Miami Vice" 56 Over it 58 Reason for a shot 59 Expend 60 Title for Doug Jones of Ala. 61 Aliens, for short

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