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OUR WRITERS RECAP THE BOOKS, FILMS, ALBUMS AND MOMENTS THAT HELPED DEFINE THE YEAR

INVESTIGATIONS, BUDGET WOES, FIRE FILLED 2013

OPINION

GETTING USED TO EXTREME CLIMATE

NEWS

CONTRACT KILLER: IDAHO HIRES HUNTER FOR WOLVES

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News Voices/Letters The Front, help and Russ Talmo ........................................................4 The Week in Review Griz schedule, Obamacare and child porn ...............................6 Briefs ESA, medical marijuana and a contracted killer ..................................................6 Etc. Baucus drops another bombshell............................................................................7 News Looking back at the top news stories of 2013 ......................................................8 Opinion Research shows extreme climate events are the new norm..........................10 Feature The year in photos ..........................................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts The moments that defined the 2013 arts scene....................................................20 Music The best sounds of the year ...............................................................................21 Books The ones our reviewers couldn’t put down......................................................22 Film A roundup of the year’s best on the big screen ...................................................23 Film Howling over The Wolf of Wall Street...................................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................25 Flash in the Pan Massaging kale ..................................................................................26 Happiest Hour Brandy Alexander ...............................................................................28 8 Days a Week We’ve seen it all ...................................................................................29 Mountain High Polar Bear Plunge...............................................................................37 Agenda Community Classifieds....................................................................................38

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Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11

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Proud hunter

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Dec. 23, near the corner of Pattee and Broadway.

What do you think was the biggest news story of 2013?

Follow-up: Who, in your opinion, was the newsmaker of the year?

Wally Sept: Obamacare, or more specifically, “Obamascare.” Health care is a private situation where government should not have any control or part of. Real American hero: [Edward] Snowden.

People think he’s a traitor to our country but I think he should be given a medal.

Candace Trautwein: Probably the government shutdown. It affected so many Montanans and was such a needless thing to happen. Twerked: Miley Cyrus. I saw her in the news so many times I wanted to shut it off.

Ryan Slevin: The girl from Pussy Riot getting freed from prison yesterday. That was the best news story so far. Reformer: Bustlin’ Bill Lubots. He is the nemesis of Gary Marbut and a true Montana patriot. Bustlin’ Bill is working on immigration reform for foreigners who want to open restaurants in Missoula.

Kyle Jones: The black rhino. I’m a bio major and a lot of my classes emphasize the importance of endangered species and when a species is completely eliminated it’s a hard truth for any current species. Leader: Sadly, Nelson Mandela.

That man was a beacon of what people would want to represent a country.

Ted Boushie: I like the stories of the new pope. He’s so diverse and accepting of everything. I’m a Catholic so I really appreciate that. Wrecking ball: I hate to put these two in the same sentence but Miley Cyrus. She’s so provocative and raises hell … she sticks in your head.

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Montanans have been protecting bits and pieces of the Rocky Mountain Front for 100 years. Starting in 1913, with the creation of the Sun River Game Preserve, the 1940s and the creation of the Sun River Game Range, the permanent withdrawal of oil and gas leasing along the Front in 2007 and now, the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act. The Front has been wildlife rich for eons.

The Salish-Kootenia tribes traveled across the spine of the continent to hunt bison. Bighorn sheep across Montana and the United States are back in historic ranges due to the sheep of the Rocky Mountain Front. Elk hunters clamor for bull tags in districts along the Front and the mule deer of the Teton and Sun Rivers are still engaged in their rut activity thanks to the efforts of hunters and landowners to ensure that the Front will always be prime ground for wildlife.

Only by working together for a common cause—keeping the Front the way it is—have we been able to ensure the continued viability of wildlife habitat while maintaining traditional agricultural and livestock related industries.

It was hunters and ranchers who sat down with other parties to ensure that the Heritage Act reflected their needs and desires. Together, the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front and Sen. Max Baucus put forward a bill that would do just what the postcards say: Keep the Front the way it is for future generations.

Job well done, Sen. Baucus. Count this hunter as another supporter of a bill that really is made in Montana.

Robert Wood Hamilton

Mean-spirited vote That our Big Sky state refused to provide basic health care for all feels mean-spirited and uncivilized (Senate Bill 395 went down 51-49, against expanded Medicaid). The result keeps low-income folks, anyone making less than $11,490 per year, caught in a downward spiral of poverty. We can’t work because

we can’t get treatment. Then ensuing struggles to get help from a broken system only foster hopelessness, depression and non-productivity, even bringing on needless death.

Moreover, the people who manage to get coverage could, at any moment, due to unforeseen circumstances, suddenly be off on their own. This kind of widespread desperation leads us nowhere good.

Why is there so much attention being focused on this matter now, rather than last spring when the vote was taken? Because most people, as it turns out, are totally stunned that our legislature could actually deny readily available health care to people financially strapped. All this the result of rejecting a billion-dollar federal investment in

“This kind of widespread desperation leads us nowhere good.” our state. (The insurance woman who finally succeeded in explaining the implications of the vote to me said that a big part of her job now is informing incredulously shocked people why they do not qualify for affordable health care.)

As Montanans, we all need to come together, talk across party lines and discover the paths that leave no one behind.

Alex Brown Stevensville

Fix the process The process that federal regulations go through from proposal to enactment is simply baffling. There are seemingly countless comment periods, public hearings and reviews. Keeping up with the process is simply impossible for any small business in Montana. But with 739 regulations that directly affect small businesses under consideration

by various federal agencies, it’s a process that Montana small businesses can ill afford to miss.

When a regulation goes into effect, it’s in effect for everyone, from the largest conglomerate down to the mom and pop corner store. With teams of lobbyists and lawyers, big businesses can have a great deal of influence on how a new regulation is crafted.

They have a voice in the process, but more often than not small businesses do not. And what’s best for a large organization isn’t always good for a small one.

In my northwest corner of the Treasure State, regulations from federal agencies like the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and the EPA have had a devastating impact on what once was a thriving economy based on natural resources. Too often in the world of mining permits, rules get changed and goal posts get moved in the middle of the game—leaving businesses to cope with the losses that result.

Increasing the transparency and accountability of the regulatory process, formalizing the types of objective data to be used in the analysis and development of regulations, and studying the unique impacts that a regulation might have on smaller business are all reforms that would go a long way to improving the situation of Montana’s small businesses.

There’s a growing sentiment in Washington for real regulatory reform. Let’s all encourage our Montana congressional delegation to get involved as early advocates for small business.

State Rep. Mike Cuffe House District 2 Eureka Correction: In our holiday gift guide, published Dec. 5, our instructions for a handmade Mason jar candle called for buying, among other things, a wick holder insert. Turns out, you don’t necessarily need one of these to make the candle and, more importantly, the item is not stocked at Montana Ace on Brooks Street. The Independent regrets the error.

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Sucker punch,” Dec. 17

Shedding light

Moving forward

Drowning

“Thank you Jessica and the Indy for bringing this story to the Missoula community.”

Posted Dec. 18 at 9:06 a.m.

“The truly sad back story for our community and Russ Talmo’s unfortunate assault. Thank you Jessica Mayrer for this piece. I think moving forward with the healing process starts with raising community awareness of senseless violence around Missoula and helping raise support for crime victims like Russ.”

Posted Dec. 19 at 7:34 a.m.

“Sadly we’ve seen many such cases just like this in Missoula before, and I think we’ll see them again. Montanans have a problem with alcohol.”

Posted Dec. 20 at 4 a.m.

Strength to recover “This is truly an example of bad things happening to good people. Rusty is a very caring, dedicated person who must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thankfully, Rusty has the youthful strength and positive attitude to recover from the hideous attack.”

Posted Dec. 19 at 12:17 p.m.

Punish him “God, I hope they find the bastard who did this and put him away for a long time.”

Posted Dec. 17 at 10:01 p.m.

Cowardly jerk “My God! I hope this guy is going to be ok and the cowardly jerk that did this crime gets caught. We just don’t need this sort of trash running around Missoula.”

Posted Dec. 18 at 9:21 p.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, December 18 The University of Montana releases its 2014 football schedule. The Griz open the season against Wyoming in Laramie on Aug. 30, and host the 114th “Brawl of the Wild” against Montana State on Nov. 22.

Thursday, December 19 Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act clears a big hurdle after it receives bipartisan support from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Among other things, the bill would create 637,000 acres of new wilderness and mandate timber harvests on 100,000 acres in Montana.

Friday, December 20 Six men and one woman appear in Missoula County Justice Court to face felony child sex abuse charges after a two-day sting operation caught them responding to Craigslist and Backpage ads for sex with underage girls. Law enforcement agents posted the fake ads.

Saturday, December 21 A theatrical rendition The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris’ sassy monologue about the life of a world-weary holiday elf at Macy’s department store, opens to a full house at the Crystal Theatre. Justin Fatz stars in the lead elf role.

A home on the corner of South Avenue and Tower Street advertises an evening music and light show for those tuned in to 97.7 FM. At least a dozen vehicles gathered near the home Dec. 22 to watch the synchronized display illuminate snowmen, palm trees, reindeer, an old car and even a nearly 30-foot ice sculpture.

Sunday, December 22 At least 30 people gather for an afternoon of slap shots, snowballs and winter fun at the outdoor ice rink nestled in Rattlesnake Valley’s Pineview Park. Maintained by a noble corps of volunteers, the rink draws pick-up hockey players, little kids learning how to skate and everyone in between.

Monday, December 23 Due to heavy traffic on Healthcare.gov, the Obama administration extends the signup deadline by 24 hours for those who want Affordable Care Act coverage that begins on Jan. 1. Montana insurers have also said that they will give new customers until mid-January to make their first premium payments.

Tuesday, December 24 The NORAD Santa Tracker confirms that Santa’s sleigh has left the North Pole. An operator at the NORAD hotline (1-877-HINORAD) says Santa is due to arrive in Montana between 9 p.m. and midnight.

When asked if he can narrow that down the operator says, “It’s tough to tell. Santa mostly keeps his own schedule.”

Wildlife

Hired gun Wolf management in Idaho recently took an odder turn than usual. Earlier this month, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game agreed to pay hunter Gus Thoreson an as-yet undisclosed sum to do what every other in-state resident needs an $11.50 permit to do: Kill wolves.

Thoreson’s specific mission, according to media reports last week, will be to exterminate two wolf packs from the area around the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Officials believe a decline in the elk population there could be attributed to low wolf harvest totals; the region is remote and difficult for hunters to access.

Thoreson will be living in a U.S. Forest Service cabin while he conducts the contracted hunt.

Wildlife Bureau Chief Jeff Gould did not return calls or emails requesting comment last week. However, wildlife manager Ken McDonald with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks assured the Indy that Idaho’s decision to contract a private hunter is “not a route that we would look to here in Montana.”

“It will create, in some people’s minds, an expectation that if Idaho can do it, everybody should be able

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to do it,” McDonald says. “But I’m not too worried about a precedent.”

Idaho Fish and Game’s annual wolf report for 2012 offered no size estimates for the six packs documented in the Middle Fork Wolf Management Zone, where Thoreson will be hunting. Nor were any of those packs listed as containing breeding pairs, which Fish and Game describes as “the measure of Federal and State wolf recovery and management goals.”

The agency has been increasingly struggling in recent years to fund wolf management, thanks to a steady decline in sales of out-of-state deer and elk permits. In January 2013, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved a reallocation of $50,000 from the state’s coyote control fund for eastern Idaho to wolf control measures in areas where elk populations are below management objectives.

In an interesting coincidence, the chapter of Idaho for Wildlife based in Salmon, where Thoreson lives, is hosting its first annual Coyote and Wolf Derby Dec. 28 and 29. The group is offering a $1,000 minimum prize for the largest wolf shot during the event. Nearly 15,000 people have signed an online petition at Change.org aimed at stopping the derby. Five environmental groups even went so far as to file a lawsuit against the Forest

Service Monday alleging that the agency failed to require permits or an environmental impact analysis for the event, which is being held partly on public land.

Lynne Stone, director of the Idaho-based Boulder-White Clouds Council, said in a statement that “killing contests like this have no place in a civilized society and are an embarrassment to our state ... It’s no wonder so many people view Idaho as like something out of Deliverance.”

Alex Sakariassen

Marijuana

Resurgence underway On a recent weekday afternoon, Tayln Lang greets a visitor to Rocky Mountain Cannabis on Orange Street with a wide smile. The longtime medical marijuana advocate launches into an animated explanation of the drug’s ability to ease symptoms that stem from a range of ailments, including HIV, cancer and opiate addiction.

“I’ve seen wonderful, wonderful things happen,” he says.

It’s in part because Lang believes so vehemently in cannabis’ healing properties and the importance of providing it to the people most in need that he’s taken on

[news] the high-profile, yet potentially dangerous, role of managing Rocky Mountain’s prominent storefront location.

“What we’re doing is still technically illegal under federal law,” Lang acknowledges. He adds that because the operation is following state law to the best of its ability he feels “relatively safe.”

There’s a significant amount of uncertainty, however, about what will happen to Montana’s Medical Marijuana Act in the coming months. In 2011, the federal government, along with local law enforcement agencies, raided dozens of caregivers across the state, just as the Montana Legislature debated a bill that would determine the industry’s future. Lawmakers eventually voted to prohibit marijuana providers from profiting from sales and banned advertising.

The effects of the new law were immediate. Dispensaries soon shuttered across the state and advertising disappeared. The number of patients listed on Montana’s medical marijuana registry plummeted from 30,036 in June 2011 to 7,519 this past October.

But in 2011 and again in January, Helena District Judge James P. Reynolds emboldened the cannabis industry when he temporarily blocked the profit and advertising bans. Reynolds’ decisions means that for-profit entities like Rocky Mountain Cannabis are ostensibly operating in accordance with state law.

Armed with Reynolds’ decisions, the local cannabis industry has begun advertising again in recent weeks.

At least two new dispensaries have also opened, including Montana Buds and Rocky Mountain Cannabis. The number of patients listed on the statewide registry also indicates signs of growth, as 233 marijuana users were added between October and November.

Reynolds is expected to make a final decision on the profit and advertising bans this spring. His opinion will be subject to appeal by the Montana Attorney General’s Office, notes Chris Lindsey, a spokesman for Montana NORML. Lindsey also cautions that, while Missoula seems to be seeing a resurgence, it’s a tenuous one. The legal wrangling could leave operators like Lang—and his patients—in limbo for many more months. “We’re going to be on this path for a while,” he says.

Jessica Mayrer

Conservation

The ESA turns 40 “How old are we?” John Melcher calls to his wife.

She yells back an answer.

“I am 89 years old,” he says, chuckling quietly over the phone. “I just needed to make sure.”

Melcher was exactly 49 years old when, as Montana’s congressman from the now-defunct second district, he was one of 355 U.S. representatives to vote for the Endangered Species Act, or ESA. Only four voted against it. In the Senate, the support was even more

pronounced, as not a single senator said “nay.” On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the ESA into law, calling America’s wildlife “priceless” and “worthy of preservation.”

From his home in Missoula, Melcher has been witness to the success of this historic bipartisan achievement.

“When the bald eagle gained ESA protection in 1978, believe it or not, we only had 12 pairs in Montana,” says Derek Goldman, field representative of the Endangered Species Coalition. “Now you can see a bald eagle on practically every river or creek in the state.”

Species like the American peregrine falcon, the American alligator, the black-footed ferret and the brown pelican saw similar population rebounds over the past 40 years.

photo courtesy of NPS, Jim Peaco

“But the biggest success in Montana and the Northern Rockies, really, is the restoration of the gray wolf from near extinction in this region,” says Goldman. “I think that recovery gets lost in a lot of the conflict, but when you think about it we have taken a large carnivore and brought it back from the edge. It is a great testament to the ESA and to American wildlife conservation generally.”

Today, the ESA remains a major force in protecting such species as the fluvial arctic grayling and the greater sage grouse in Montana. Melcher thinks the bill is doing exactly what it is supposed to do.

“Back then it was part of the business of being in Congress to pass far-reaching bills,” he says. “Passing the Endangered Species Act got everybody talking about the issue. It was important when we passed it, and it will have importance today, tomorrow and all the years forward.”

Jimmy Tobias

Crime

Mortician alleges vendetta David Wayne Sconce, a California mortician who in 1989 pleaded guilty to mutilating corpses, alleged last month that prosecutors in Missoula County and California violated his civil rights when extraditing him from Montana for a probation violation.

BY THE NUMBERS Days that Hamilton pastor Harris Himes will serve in jail.

Himes, who’s best known for lobbying lawmakers against advancements toward gay equality, was sentenced last week for three felony counts of securities fraud. A jury found him guilty in September of bilking another Bitterrooter out of $150,000.

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“This is a vendetta,” says Roger Diamond, Sconce’s Santa Monica attorney. Diamond also claims that the California prosecutors who worked with Missoula attorneys to extradite Sconce have been “out to get” his client for years.

The skirmish marks the latest in a long legal war colored with gruesome allegations that trace back to 1989, when Sconce was convicted of 21 counts related to crimes committed while overseeing his family’s Pasadena business, Lamb Funeral Home. Prosecutors alleged that Sconce removed body parts, such as hearts, lungs and eyes, for sale to biological supply companies and stole gold dental fillings. As the Los Angeles Times reported, former funeral home employees testified that Sconce used pliers to remove fillings from cadavers “in a process the mortician called ‘popping chops.’” In exchange for his guilty plea, Sconce received a five-year sentence.

In 1997, Sconce agreed to another guilty plea, this time admitting to conspiring to kill a competitor. For that crime, he received lifetime probation.

In 2007, Sconce moved from California to Huson.

In 2012, federal prosecutors in Montana indicted him for being a felon in possession of a firearm after alleging that he stole a weapon from a neighbor. That’s when prosecutors in California had him extradited for violating the terms of his lifetime probation.

In response to claims that the Missoula County Attorney’s Office violated Sconce’s civil rights, Assistant Chief Deputy County Attorney Jason Marks says that if Sconce had attempted to fight the extradition during the proceeding itself, he would have had ample opportunity to challenge it—but he didn’t. “He waived extradition,” Marks says. “And now he’s sending me angry letters.”

Pasadena prosecutor Thomas Krag notes further that Sconce’s track record is not that of a good citizen.

“He doesn’t understand what it means to obey all laws,” Krag says. “He should have been put in custody many, many years ago, when this all went down in the ’80s.”

Sconce is jailed in San Diego serving a sentence of 25 years to life.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. Christmas came early for political pundits the world over when, on Dec. 18, reports surfaced that President Barack Obama would nominate Max Baucus, Montana’s senior Democratic senator, as ambassador to China. Two days later, Obama made the formal announcement, emphasizing the senator’s two decades of work on trade agreements as making him “perfectly suited” for the job.

The announcement marked the second Baucus bombshell in eight months. In April, he said he would “serve out my term, and then it will be time to go home to Montana.” We should’ve known that Baucus wouldn’t go quietly into retirement. But as Republicans and Democrats alike scrambled to run for his seat, most assumed Baucus would make his last bits of noise hammering out a revised tax code, fixing the Affordable Care Act, saving the Rocky Mountain Front, lauding Montana’s craft breweries or otherwise cementing his domestic legacy. Now he’s off to Beijing, where the beer is weak and the stakes are high.

Those political pundits, meanwhile, are tripping over themselves trying to piece together how this move came about, what it means for the 2014 Senate race, how Gov. Steve Bullock will fill the interim position and, long-term, how Baucus will fare as an envoy to a country with the world’s second-largest economy. Was this a Hail Mary move to give Democrats a head start against Republican frontrunner Steve Daines in the Senate race? What will become of Baucus’ unfinished business in the Senate, which he said was so important that he didn’t want the distraction of running a campaign? And why did Obama tap Baucus anyway?

The senator certainly has his domestic critics, but foreign policy wonks may dislike him even more. Some doubt his readiness for the position, considering the previous ambassador spoke Mandarin and the current one is Chinese-American. Also, that trade history Obama pointed to is cause for concern, according to Peter Navarro, director of the documentary Death by China. In a Huffington Post column, Navarro called Baucus “absolutely [the] worst choice” for, among other reasons, helping “the multinational companies that have off-shored our jobs to China.”

As the questions hang out there, and the debate continues over the merits of Obama’s nomination, Montanans are left in a position with which we’ve become accustomed: waiting to see how Baucus’ curious, far-reaching influence trickles down to us. He may be retiring as our senator, but he’s not yet done wielding his power.

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News in review A look back at the events that helped define 2013

by Independent staff

Sexual assault investigations

the DOJ will file a lawsuit seeking to compel the attorney’s office to cooperate.

cause they used (force) against the black kids, and they didn’t do anything of that type to any of the white kids.”

The Kemps have threatened to file a civil suit against the Missoula Police Department. George Kemp told the Independent this month that the family still intends to pursue the case. “We know who the culprits are,” he said.

National media turned its focus to Missoula in February to cover the trial of Jor- Slap on the wrist Sexual assaults at UM weren’t the only dan Johnson, the University of Montana’s issue that attracted the attention of national star quarterback accused of raping a fellow investigators.

In July, the National Collestudent. The New York Times, ESPN, Wall giate Athletic Association released findings Street Journal and others followed the profrom an 18-month investigation into that ceedings inside a makeshift courtroom university’s athletic department.

The report setup at the Holiday Inn downtown to acdetailed extra benefits provided to mem- Hectic in Helena commodate the crowds. At the end of the bers of the football team and found that the The 63rd Montana Legislature convened 12-day trial, which included detailed testimony from the alleged victim about the administration and former head football in Helena at the beginning of the year with many holding out hope that night in question, the this year would prove less jury found Johnson not partisan than 2011. Not two guilty. Days later, he redays in, more than 100 Najoined the football team tive American activists with and helped lead the Griz the Canadian-born moveto a 10-3 record and the ment Idle No More were Football Championship protesting outside the CapiSubdivision playoffs. tol in support of a host of Johnson emerged as social-justice issues. Within the face of an issue that a month Montanans were plagued the university for seeing some familiar battles the better part of two being waged across the years, but appears to have aisle, from aid in dying to finally come to a close. At parental consent for minors a May 9 press conference, seeking abortions. And the representatives from the bill that got the most early U.S. Department of Jusattention? It legalized salphoto by Cathrine L. Walters tice and U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed findings UM President Royce Engstrom speaks at a May 9 press conference vaging roadkill.

While not nearly as from a yearlong investiga- announcing the conclusion of the Department of Justice’s investidysfunctional as 2011, the tion into UM’s handling gation into the university’s handling of sexual assault complaints.

2013 legislative session did of sexual assaults. With The DOJ concluded that there was a “significant problem” with find itself bogged down in UM’s procedures and training.

UM President Royce Enentrenched partisanship. gstrom in attendance, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy coach failed to properly monitor the pro- Republicans successfully pushed a measure Austin announced that the DOJ and the De- gram. For all of its work on the case, the attacking same-day voter registration partment of Education found that the uni- NCAA hit UM with relatively minor penal- through both the House and Senate, only versity had a “significant problem” in the way ties: a three-year probation period, schol- to see Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock veto it handled sexual assault complaints. One arship reductions, a vacation of wins and a it. Democrats tried hard to expand Mediweek later, the DOJ described additional reduction in the number of undergraduate caid coverage to poor and uninsured Montanans, but House Republicans proved too problems at the Missoula Police Department, student assistant positions. powerful. The GOP even suffered from Many of the rule violations cited in the specifically noting “deficiencies” that comrampant infighting within its own caucus, NCAA report stemmed from the fallout of an promised the “effectiveness of sexual assault an ideological split that carried beyond the October 2011 house party during which Misinvestigations from the outset.”

Title IX of the Education Amendments soula police officers used a stun gun on and session.

In the end, one of the most high-profile of 1972 ensures men and women the equal arrested UM football players Trumaine Johnsymbols of bipartisanship came in the form right to education. Public institutions that son and Gerald Kemp. Details of the house of a bill cracking down on dark money, harbor a climate of sexual violence against party were limited both at the time of the arcrafted by Bullock and Sen. Jim Peterson, Rwomen, therefore, are in violation of the law. rests and in the NCAA’s report, but those inBuffalo.

It passed the Republican-controlled volved spoke with the Independent in In exchange for being absolved of legal liaSenate, but the House Judiciary Committee, August to tell their side of the story. bility, UM and the police department agreed chaired by Rep. Krayton Kerns, R-Laurel, “I didn’t touch the cop,” Kemp said. to sweeping changes in the way they investipromptly killed it.

Kemp and his grandfather, George gate sex crimes, including additional training for police and UM security on how to inves- Kemp, who was on the phone with his grandson when he was hit with the stun gun, An unlikely ally tigate sexual assault.

Nobody, not even Republican Rep. While UM and the police department accused police officers of using unnecessary pledged full cooperation with the federal force and potentially singling out black foot- Duane Ankney himself, anticipated his emogovernment, the county attorney’s office has ball players at the party. “What they did was tional April 9 testimony on the floor of the steadfastly refused. It remains to be seen if an act of racism,” George Kemp said, “be- House of Representatives. The retired coal

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[news]

miner from Colstrip choked up when talking about why lawmakers should repeal a portion of the state’s deviate sexual conduct code, which classified gay sex as a crime akin to bestiality.

“I didn’t think about TV cameras, I didn’t think about a goddamn thing like that,” Ankney told the Independent. He simply thought, “Enough is enough.”

In 1997, the Montana Supreme Court found unconstitutional a state statute that made gay sex a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Despite the ruling, Republican lawmakers shot down attempts by gay rights activists to scrub the law from the books during nearly every legislative session that followed.

The activists’ persistence finally paid off this year, when Missoula Democratic Sen. Tom Facey’s Senate Bill 107, which sought to remove the homosexual acts portion of the state’s deviate sexual conduct law, passed both chambers of the legislature. It was Ankney who helped it through the House when he broke from his Republican colleagues and spoke in favor of SB 107 on the House floor. His voice cracked as he explained that his daughter is a lesbian. “To say she is any less of a person, or she is a criminal for her lifestyle, really upsets me. And for anybody that would feel that way—upsets me,” Ankney said, pointing at the other lawmakers. “I don’t think God thinks any less of my daughter than he does of any one of you in here.”

Nine days later, Gov. Bullock signed the bill inside the Capitol rotunda. At a celebration that followed, partygoers wore Duane Ankney T-shirts, portraying an image of the Republican with his ever-present widebrimmed hat and walrus mustache.

All politics is local On the local level, voters ushered in a new crop of progressive representation to the Missoula City Council on Election Day. First-time candidates Bryan von Lossberg, Jordan Hess, Emily Brock Bentley and Annelise Noelle Hedahl—all of whom were endorsed by the Missoula Democratic Party—won their races. Incumbents Marilyn Marler and Jon Wilkins also retained their seats, as did popular Mayor John Engen, who faced challengers on the ballot for the first time since 2005.

The current council finished an eventful year by passing a controversial ban on sitting, sleeping, lying and panhandling on city streets. That ordinance followed a drawn-out debate on handling accessory dwelling units, or ADUs. The next council will face a similar range of local issues, none bigger than Engen’s pledge to purchase Mountain Water Co. The most contested race of this year’s local elections involved the battle for Municipal Court judge. Incumbent Kathleen Jenks took 45 percent of the vote to Mark McLaverty’s 41 percent. A third challenger, Leta Womack, garnered 14 percent.

Voters also supported the Missoula Urban Transportation District Levy to gener-

ate $1.7 million annually through an increase on property taxes. The money will be used to beef up bus service, which left Mountain Line Executive Director Michael Tree excited on Election Night. “The ridership is going to go berserk,” he said.

Money matters It was a rough year at UM, and the problems eventually landed on the university’s bottom line. In spring, rumors started to fly about devastating budget cuts. Sections of some courses were temporarily blocked out as students prepared to register for fall classes. Adjuncts began to see their duties shrinking, and rightly feared they’d be high on the chopping block.

The administration wound up enacting an $8.6 million across-the-board budget cut—far less than first suspected—but faculty members still rallied outside Main Hall in late April in protest.

The story continued to unfold this fall as UM reduced the budget by an additional $2.9 million, prompting one group of tenured professors to speak out against how the administration is handling the crisis.

Mehrdad Kia spearheaded an open meeting for the faculty and public in November to address what he called an “atmosphere of fear” hanging over the campus when it comes to speaking out against Main Hall’s actions.

“The knife has come to the bone,” Kia told the November crowd.

Things are expected to get worse before they get better. UM projects another $3 million in possible cuts by spring 2014.

Despite the budget issues, UM did succeed in settling on a location for the new Missoula College building on East Broadway.

The Montana Legislature approved $29 million in funding for the building, and the university is required to match that funding with an additional $3 million.

Lake County chaos This year the Montana Public Safety Officer Standards and Training Council, or POST, wrapped up its inquiry of seven Lake County cops accused of a litany of dishonorable and criminal acts. The quasi-judicial board, which certifies police officers, decertified only one of the cops it investigated, Dan Duryee, formerly of the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office, who lied about serving in the military. It also suspended Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth, accused of nepotism and falsifying documents, for 15 years.

The other five officers, despite facing a range of allegations including poaching, perjury, ethics violations and witness tampering and intimidation, saw the complaints against them dropped or were issued minor sanctions.

The Indy published POST’s evidence against the officers in July, a year after the newspaper filed document requests under the Montana Public Records Act. Those requests landed in court. At issue was the officers’ individual privacy versus the public’s right to know their alleged offenses. Helena

District Court Judge Kathy Seeley ruled in favor of the public. The decision set a new precedent of transparency for POST, which had lacked policy on whether files detailing complaints against peace officers are public record. Now they are.

In addition to the details of the alleged offenses, the hundreds of documents released to the Indy, combined with many more subpoenaed as part of a federal suit alleging organized crime within the Lake

As for the federal suit alleging organized crime, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen of Missoula dismissed it in September.

Fire on the mountain Two major fires blackened Missoula’s skies this summer as part of the fifth most expensive firefighting year on record.

The Lolo Creek Complex, which began Aug. 18 and burned 10,902 acres, burned within eyesight of the entire Missoula valley.

prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Then, on May 14, he received devastating news when a reporter told him that he was likely heading back to prison.

“I don’t understand,” he told the reporter. “I have to make some phone calls.”

In a 4-3 decision, the Montana Supreme Court reinstated Beach’s 100year prison sentence for the 1979 murder of Kim Nees on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Beach served nearly three decades

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Ben Bonesz, left, and Daniel Paladino of the Castle Fire Engine from White Sulphur Springs mop up a hillside Aug. 23 along Highway 12. The Lolo Creek Complex ended up burning 10,902 acres and destroying four homes.

County Sheriff ’s Office, revealed the extent to which key officials at virtually every level of government went out of their way to thwart the investigations. The two primary investigators—the former POST director and a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game warden—became the targets of smear campaigns and left their positions; the POST director resigned under pressure, while the warden was reassigned.

The warden, Frank Bowen, was told by his superiors in mid-2012 to cut short his poaching investigation, which implicated several Lake County officers, because of election-year politics. At the time, Attorney General Steve Bullock, who had been criticized for failing to intervene in Lake County, was in the middle of a successful campaign for governor. Before a legislative committee hearing at which Bowen was called to testify, FWP Regional Supervisor Jim Satterfield threatened to fire Bowen if he said too much, and told him, “Are you willing to fall on your sword just to make the Democratic Party look bad?” FWP acknowledged the threat and gag order when it settled a grievance Bowen filed.

The fire destroyed nine structures, including four homes near Highway 12, and was named the nation’s top firefighting priority.

The Forest Service ended up spending $13 million and deployed 1,000 firefighters and support personnel to contain the blaze.

The second major blaze was the Gold Pan Complex, which began July 16 and burned 43,215 acres. The fire started in Idaho and burned across the Idaho-Montana line, where as many as 1,200 firefighters battled it for months in and around the Bitterroot National Forest without much success.

Rain and snow finally stifled the fire in early October. The Forest Service spent more than $11 million trying to manage the blaze.

Overall, large wildfires burned more than 100,000 acres in Montana this year, and federal and state agencies spent more than $74 million on fire suppression in the state.

Nationwide, the federal government spent $1.74 billion on its firefighting efforts.

Beach back in prison Barry Beach spent 18 months living in relative freedom after spending 29 years in

in prison—the sentence offered no chance of parole—for the murder, before a district court judge in 2011 found sufficient new evidence to warrant another trial. The Montana Attorney General’s Office appealed that decision to the Montana Supreme Court, which opined in the May 14 order that the new evidence was “primarily hearsay,” and insufficient to trigger a new court proceeding.

The Supreme Court’s decision inspired shock and anger among Beach’s many supporters. An online petition posted by Montanans for Justice calling upon the state to free Beach garnered more than 15,000 signatures. In September, Centurion Ministries, a nonprofit that works to free the wrongly convicted and a long time Beach champion, filed a clemency petition with the Montana Board of Parole and Pardons that seeks to make Beach immediately eligible for parole.

That petition garnered 200 letters of support, including those from Sen. Jon Tester and former Sen. Conrad Burns. If the Board of Pardons approves Beach’s pending petition, he could become immediately eligible for parole.

missoulanews.com • December 26–January 2, 2014 [9]

[opinion]

CSI: Earth Research shows extreme climate events are the new norm

by B. Lynn Ingram

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The rains had been heavy on and off for weeks, soaking the ground, washing away the soil and undercutting our yard and those of our neighbors. This happened 45 years ago, when we lived on a steep mountain ridge in the Santa Ynez Mountains of Santa Barbara, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

Where once we had an ample yard, 15 feet of grass now separated our house from the precipitous edge of the slope. That led to anxious nights with images in my mind of our house sliding down the slope while I slept. Although our house never went over the edge, those feelings of anxiety sometimes recur during big storms.

A little research reveals that the worst storm ever recorded in California struck on Christmas Eve of 1861. The rains continued almost nonstop until February 1862, soaking California with almost four times its normal rainfall, and creating enormous brown lakes on the normally dry plains of Southern California. In the Sierra Nevada, the deluges filled rivers, transforming them into raging torrents that swept away entire communities and gold mining settlements in the foothills.

In California’s enormous Central Valley—a region over 300 miles long and 20 miles wide—the floodwaters streaming from the Sierra produced an inland sea, covering farmlands and towns. Sacramento was submerged under 10 feet of brown, debris-laden water, forcing residents to move about the city by boat.

California wasn’t alone in its misery: Diary and newspaper accounts suggest that most of the West Coast as well as inland areas in Nevada, Utah and Arizona suffered their worst floods in history.

Then there’s drought, and I recall living through the severest drought on record for many Western states, which happened during the winter of 1976-1977. In California, this period is known as “the year with no rain.”

I was a teenager, and for the first time I had to confront the realization that water

was a finite resource. My family had always used water liberally with little thought about supply, but that year every drop counted.

Washing cars, watering lawns and taking baths or long showers were banned. These “sacrifices” paled in comparison to the far harsher impacts we heard about on the news, faced by farmers with little water, ski areas with no snow and forests drying and burning. This bipolar behavior of our Western climate left me wondering what a “normal” climate really was.

“Decades-long droughts have also occurred more frequently and fairly regularly, telling us that these dry periods are a normal feature of our climate.”

Today, I am one of a small cohort of earth scientists trying to answer that question, by searching for evidence of past droughts and floods, wildfires, periods of warmth and cold and so on, over the geologic past—the period before humans kept records in the West.

If we step back and view our climate history over a very long time period—say, hundreds to thousands of years—we begin to see

the forest for the trees. We can pick out extreme events and how often they occur. This natural history is written not in paper and ink, but in the earth itself, in sediment, stone, trees, ice. Like investigators at a crime scene, we try to piece together seemingly random and unrelated clues about our past climate, and eventually, we begin to see patterns.

Our discoveries are occasionally surprising, sometimes unsettling, even anxiety-provoking. Evidence is mounting, for example, that two prolonged droughts, each lasting over a century, gripped the Southwest during medieval times about 650 to 1,100 years ago.

Decades-long droughts have also occurred more frequently and fairly regularly, telling us that these dry periods are a normal feature of our climate.

We have also found evidence for previous catastrophic floods in the region, suggesting that the “megaflood” in 1861-’62 was not a freak event. Our studies indicate that huge floods—much larger than we have experienced in the past century—occurred every 100 to 200 years over the past few thousand years.

It’s unsettling to think about the implications of extreme climate events and the reality that global warming may make severe weather much more frequent and even more extreme. These days, of course, my adult mind can provide diversions, and some people are getting quite skillful at outright denial. This might alleviate unease in the short run, but I know that the best long-term solution is for scientists to prepare everyone living in our Western states for a future of unpredictable and extreme climate change.

B. Lynn Ingram is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is a professor of earth science at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow.

missoulanews.com • December 26–January 2, 2014 [11]

[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police investigating 15 home burglaries in and around Lakewood, Colo., identified Brandon Campbell, 27, as their suspect because he was wearing a GPS ankle monitor that placed him at the crime scenes. “I would say it’s a prosecutor’s dream to have GPS,” Arapahoe County Deputy Prosecutor Chelsea Koch said. “That’s an excellent piece of evidence to put him at every single burglary at the time it was burglarized.” Campbell was wearing the ankle monitor after being convicted of trying to steal a GPS navigation device. (Denver’s KCNC-TV) Police trying to locate Rolando Lozano, who they suspected of burglarizing 17 cars in Rosenburg, Texas, appealed for public help by posting his picture on their Facebook page. He responded with a taunt: “catch me if u can muthasuckas.” Tips from the community led them to Lozano within 15 minutes of his post.

(The Huffington Post)

PERSONAL PRONOUNS - Germany became the first European country to allow parents of babies with characteristics of both sexes to leave the gender blank on birth certificates, creating a new category: “indeterminate sex.” The policy change is intended to avoid pressuring parents to decide on a gender quickly to register the new child with the authorities. The interior ministry said German passports, which now list holders as M for male or F for female, will have a third designation: X, for intersex holders. Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan also officially recognize a third gender. (BBC News) DIDN’T SEE IT COMING - Claiming to be a psychic, Stephanie Thompson took more than $115,000 from a client, telling her the money was cursed and that she would return it after cleaning it. Instead, Thompson lost the money gambling, police in Boca Raton, Fla., said after arresting her. (Miami’s WPLG-TV)

BUILDING INSPECTION FOLLIES - Sweden’s National Housing Board ordered a hotel made of ice to install fire alarms. The Ice Hotel has been rebuilt every year since 1990 in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, using chunks of ice from the Torne River. Because each year’s building is new, it must abide by the current building code. (Sweden’s The Local) SHORT ATTENTION SPAN - People were curious when the letter “A” recently appeared next to the 180-foot-tall “N” that has lasted 100 years on the side of a mountain beside the University of Nevada, Reno, until Brent Wilbur admitted adding the second letter. “I was trying to write a woman’s name, ‘Tina,’” he explained, noting that was the name of a woman he dated four years ago but still loved. He started with the “A” but said that after spending five and a half hours to create it that he “just ran out of steam” and quit. (Reno’s KOLO-TV)

We’re open over the break this year and on New Year's Day.

NO SURPRISE - The publisher of a calendar of traffic circles in Wales that was a surprise best-seller in 2012 returned this year with a new calendar: “Fast Disappearing Red Telephone Boxes of Wales 2014.” It failed to sell a single copy, according to publisher Kevin Beresford, who lamented, “Not even the most patriotic Welsh person wants to buy a copy.” (BBC News) OOPS! - A Boeing 747 cargo jet heading to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., mistakenly landed 8 miles north at Col. James Jabara Airport. McConnell has parallel north-south runways, 12,000 feet long.

Jabara has no control tower and a single north-south runway, 6,101 feet long, much shorter than is ideal for a 747. After being turned around on the 100-foot-wide runway, the 235-foot-long jumbo jet successfully took off the next day and landed 15 minutes later at its intended destination. (NBC News)

JUSTICE IS THE NAME, JUSTICE IS THE GAME - Prosecutors in Williamson County, Tenn., filed a motion objecting to defense attorney Drew Justice referring to them in court as “the government,” arguing that “such a reference is used in a derogatory way and is meant to make the State’s attorney seem oppressive and to inflame the jury.” Justice filed his own motion, demanding that his client be referred to not as “the Defendant,” but as “Mister,” “the Citizen Accused” or “that innocent man”—since all defendants are presumed innocent until found guilty. Justice also stated that he should be addressed as “Defender of the Innocent, “Guardian of the Realm” or “Captain Justice.” Circuit Court Judge Michael Binkley rejected the prosecution’s motion, saying the word “government” wasn’t derogatory. (Nashville’s The Tennessean)

PAY-AS-YOU-GO GETAWAY - Police pursuing a Car2Go vehicle going 75 mph in a 60 mph zone in Austin, Texas, reported that the driver crashed and fled on foot. Car2Go is a car-sharing service whose members can rent Smartfortwo vehicles by the minute wherever they’re parked. The driver spotted another Car2Go vehicle and took off, but after it turned down a dead-end road, police arrested driver Richard Delarosa, 33. A Car2Go official said the company would “evaluate” his membership status. (Austin’s KXAN-TV)

DRONE ON - Officials at Georgia’s Calhoun State Prison reported that a small drone flew over the facility and dropped contraband tobacco products inside the gates. Sheriff Josh Hilton said a search of nearby woods turned up a car, which contained the aerial vehicle and two pounds of tobacco, and four individuals who were charged with delivering the contraband. (The Washington Times) NIPPING POPULATION GROWTH IN THE BUD - Having legalized euthanasia for adults in 2002, Belgium’s government is now considering extending the right to children and adults with early dementia.

There were 1,432 recorded cases of euthanasia in Belgium in 2012, 25 percent more than in 2011. (Associated Press)

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Miller, 89 that he can no longer serve as parade marshal because he’s too old. Miller, a decorated Royal Navy veteran, had been a parade marshal for the Royal British Legion for nearly 40 years, but said he was told he was being dismissed “because of insurance and that I should have stood down when I was 85.”

(Britain’s Daily Express)

WHAT’S COOKING? - Firefighters responding to a call at a Denver home learned that a child’s car seat with a baby girl about 11 months old had been placed on the stove, and “a short time later the chair ignited, burning the child” on the backside, police reported. It was unclear whether the stove was turned on or was still hot after being recently turned off. Neighbors said they believed the homeowners were operating an unlicensed day care. (Denver’s KMGH-TV)

missoulanews.com • December 26–January 2, 2014 [13]

Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church sings during a Sept. 9 protest in Bozeman. Her husband and son were the only other Westboro members in attendance, but the three of them attracted hundreds of counter-protesters.

by Cathrine L Walters

Above: Jasmine Hanson carved this three-tier pumpkin monster during a family carving competition before Halloween. The jack-o’-lanterns sat on display outside the Hanson home on 10th Street during the holiday. Left: A Bell model 206L3 firefighting helicopter crashed into the Clark Fork June 28 while its pilot was trying to earn his recertification with the U.S. Forest Service. Neither the pilot nor the other passenger suffered any serious injuries in the incident.

[14] Missoula Independent • December 26–January 2, 2014

Randy Pepprock’s company, Downtown Deco, caters to the verisimilitude freaks who want a more grimy, run-down look to their train layouts. Pepprock designs and fabricates hyper-detailed architectural miniatures, most of which are sold to model railroad enthusiasts.

On the cover: A herd of bighorn sheep race across Highway 200 near Thompson Falls and nearly collide with a cyclist.

Above: Joel Baird, director of Missoula Community Access Television, or MCAT, has seen the station evolve since its inception in 1990. The nonprofit’s library of shows, for instance, has been transferred from SVHS to DVD, and is now being converted to computer files. Left: Turbines near Martinsdale capitalize on one of the windiest spots in central Montana, just north of the Crazy Mountains. Montana ranks third in the United States for potential wind energy capacity.

missoulanews.com • December 26–January 2, 2014 [15]

Attorney David Paoli, right, hugs Montana football coach Mick Delaney outside the Missoula County Courthouse March 1 after jurors found Griz quarterback Jordan Johnson not guilty of rape.

Johnson was suspended from the team when he was charged, and was reinstated after the verdict. Johnson went on to lead the Griz to a 10-3 record and the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

Barry Beach served nearly three decades behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit. In December 2011, a Montana district judge freed him after finding that new evidence could alter his original 1984 conviction. Beach enjoyed 18 months of tenuous freedom until the Montana Supreme Court reversed the lower court’s decision and reinstated Beach’s sentence on May 14. He was returned to prison to continue serving a life term.

[16] Missoula Independent • December 26–January 2, 2014

Bobbie Bartlette of the Lolo Watershed Group, upper right, stands on the bank of a dry Lolo Creek. A lighter snowpack, hotter summers and unsustainable patterns of water use are contributing to drain the critical waterway. “It’s a crisis all right,” Bartlette says. “This is supposed to be a perennial creek.”

Above: The Garden of 1,000 Buddhas sits just outside of Arlee. The 60-acre international peace center has been under construction for nearly 13 years and, when completed, hopes to host a visit from the Dalai Lama to consecrate the site. Right: Army vet John Maldonado and his wife stayed at the Poverello Center for more than six months waiting for a federal Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing, or VASH, voucher. Congressional cuts to the program have caused a backlog, and this year’s budget sequestration only exacerbated the issue.

missoulanews.com • December 26–January 2, 2014 [17]

Members of the Blackfeet Tribal Preservation Office hold a prayer circle around a freshly unearthed pile of bison bones that archeologists believe are from a 1,500-year-old bison processing operation.

Contractors working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs discovered the bones in July while excavating a water line for a new $22 million dormitory for the BIA-operated Cut Bank Creek Boarding School.

The tribe is now battling the BIA to preserve the historic site.

Right: Warm weather during Memorial Day weekend melts snow along The Going-to-the-Sun Road. The short window of car-free bicycling lasted this season until June 21, when plowing and construction was completed and the road was open to all transportation. Below: A climber works his way toward the Iceberg Notch above Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park.

[18] Missoula Independent • December 26–January 2, 2014

Smoke from the Lolo Creek Complex billows over Missoula on Aug. 20. Overall, the blaze destroyed five homes and burned more than 10,000 acres.

Left: After last year’s poor showing, the Western Montana Fair contracted a new company for its carnival for the first time in 54 years. North Star Amusements won the bid, received positive reviews from attendees and reported a 28-percent increase in gross sales over the previous vendor last year. Below: Kate Morris created Fake Your Own Death in 6 (Lonesome) Steps, a one-woman play that addresses the idea of self-loathing. She staged the production at Downtown Dance Collective and the Zootown Arts Community Center basement.

A couple sleeps on the kitchen floor of the Poverello Center during a stretch of extreme cold weather in early December. The homeless shelter exceeded its 68-person capacity to meet demand, accommodating a near-record 113 people on Dec. 6.

missoulanews.com • December 26–January 2, 2014 [19]

[arts]

Time of our lives Eight moments that marked Missoula’s art scene in 2013

by Erika Fredrickson

Party’s over For five years, Dead Hipster dance parties have ruled Thursday nights. Chris Baumann and Michael Gill cranked out popular numbers at the Badlander for a sweaty mass of amped-up dancers. On the dance floor, time stood still as drinks were drank and booties were shaken, and photographer Abi Halland captured candid and posed moments of partying. Dead Hipster made a few changes over the years, including a brief jaunt at Sean Kelly’s before they moved back to the Badlander.

the Indy in time for the video’s release, while he was touring through Finland. In 2012, Smetanka received a Kickstarter donation from Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, who had asked the silhouette animator and music aficionado if he would “create some images” for the band. As it turned out, it was a little bit more than that.

Old time rock and roll Dave Martens, an omnipresent fixture in the music scene (he is often in three or so bands at once) set out

On the bar end of things, the new Stage 112, inside the Elks Lodge, opened and pulled in some buzzworthy acts like Adventure Club, Little People, James McMurtry and Pickwick. The Top Hat has made a major impact on the music scene since it re-opened after a major renovation. Some of the hottest current touring acts have graced the stage including Sarah Jarosz, Blitzen Trapper, the Polyphonic Spree and Pinback, plus some out-of-left-field bands like Agent Orange. The performances have been sometimes

prospects, the owners finally took it off the market.

Rick Wishcamper and Justin Metcalf of Rocky Mountain Development Group bought the historic theater in 2007 and have renovated parts of it. It will continue to host concerts and screen films for now.

Not long after the Wilma announcement, another theater, the Village 6, closed its doors. The Village 6 doesn’t have the historic, opulent status of the Wilma but it had its regulars who loved the divey space for all its faults. Without the Village 6, the

photos by Cathrine L. Walters

This year, the Roxy Theater, left, and the renovated Top Hat surfaced in Missoula as hot venues for live music and movie screenings.

But this year they called it quits for good. The group still does one-offs, but their regular dance party nights are over—and Thursday nights don’t feel the same.

Blood summer Even after Winter in the Blood was ready to roll, there was a long buildup to the Missoula screening.

The movie, based on the novel by late Montana author James Welch, has a multitude of local ties, including directors Andrew and Alex Smith and several main actors and extras, and it was filmed on the Hi-Line. Still, local audiences had to wait until after it screened at the LA Film Festival in June—where it garnered some positive reviews—before it finally showed at the Roxy in July. The three scheduled nights sold out and others were added at the last minute. In October, during the Montana Festival of the Book, an eager crowd formed a line down the sidewalk, nearly curling around the corner, for yet another sold-out screening.

Video magic In late August Pearl Jam revealed its new music video, “Mind Your Manners,” with animations by Missoula’s own Andy Smetanka. The local artist disclosed the secret to

on a mission to unearth as many band posters, records, newspaper articles and photographs that he could find of Montana bands dating from the 1950s up through the 1980s. The Lost Sounds Project has been a slowand-steady task, but in August, Martens got to provide a preview. At the Zootown Arts Community Center, he set up an exhibit of borrowed posters from 1960s Montana psychedelic and garage bands like The Frantics and The Initial Shock. A handful of old rock and rollers from those bands descended on the show, driving to town from surrounding valleys and a few other places, like Butte, to reminisce and listen to records from the good old days.

Hello, goodbye Every year we have to say “goodbye” to a few good music venues. In March, we ushered out Zoo City Apparel, a retail space where throngs of local and touring acts often played among the racks of 406 T-shirts. It had such a laid-back, clubhouse feel, and it was all-ages— something hard to come by in a town of bars. That allages void has been filled more and more by the Zootown Arts Community Center, which now hosts underground concerts and theater events in its basement.

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intimate and sometimes sprawling and feisty. The venue has also embraced film. The Big Sky Film Series took up residence at the bar on Monday nights so viewers can sit back with a beer and watch old and new films such as a documentary on the Ramones and PBS’s Indian Relay.

On edge The first Missoula Fringe Festival got off to a shaky start when it hit downtown the same weekend as Total Fest. It could have been a disaster—the enormous first-time undertaking by festival organizers meant juggling three days of performances in multiple locations. Bands played down by the river under the bridge and in parking garages. Dancers took up street corners and alleys. More conventional venues hosted one-woman-plays and stand-up comedy. A few bumps in the road—ticketing issues and scheduling— didn’t keep small and large crowds from attending, which bodes well for the festival’s future in Missoula.

Rolling credits The Wilma Theatre has been up for sale since September 2011, but late this year, without good

Carmike 12 is the only theater in the city that screens major studio releases.

Roxy moxie The Roxy Theater surged to life after sitting mostly underused for several years. Former Big Sky Documentary Film Festival program director Mike Steinberg, along with Chris Sand, spearheaded a major facelift to the historic theater and started screening indie films and cult classics in August (Winter in the Blood, included.) The theater quickly established itself as a place to congregate in a way that older Missoulians might recall of The Crystal. Besides filling the niche for art house, the Roxy has been hosting themed nights, like weekly showings of the series “Twin Peaks,” during which they serve local coffee and pastries. And it has hosted live, intimate performances by bands. The eclectic film offerings also include a wildly popular residency from musicians and composers John Sporman and Travis Yost, aka Next Door Prison Hotel. The duo’s live original scoring of silent films such as Nosferatu have consistently sold out early. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Sonic praise From crushing whales to melancholy crows, our reviewers recount their favorite albums of 2013 Missoula artist Mite Aswel, aka Kyle McAfee, has all the tasty ingredients of good hip-hop on Face the Music—bravado, sexual innuendo (or not-so-innuendo), humor, compelling beats and smart-person words. Because of meme-culture, the title of the second track, “Hey Girl,” makes me think of Ryan Gosling. The lyrics don’t deter from that. Lines like, “Hey girl, it’s nice to meet you...When we make love, we’re breakin’ sonic boundaries,” layer on the cheese in the most hilarious way. My favorite: “You’re like food. I want to eat you.”

Are we being serious? Who cares. It’s too good. (EF) Tom Catmull’s new solo album, Words & Malady, is decidedly duskier than his other work. You might drink your coffee to these tunes, but you’ll probably feel the need to idle in your chair, letting the

words soak in. You might tear up. You might wish you were drinking whiskey instead. What makes this album not a cry-fest is a thread of goodwill and hope that runs through the lyrics. There are plenty of warm chords, moments of self-deprecating humor, twang, guitar plucking and other signs of life going right. (EF) I play The National to soothe my anxiety. I play it on long road trips. I play it when boys are over late at night, too. Most of all, the band has been there for me during the rough times, the heartbreak and grief. And when I fall in love with a band’s album and want to play it again and again until I know every word in my sleep, the follow-up releases almost always disappoint me. So that sets the bar pretty high for The National’s Trouble Will Find Me. But it’s gorgeous, another graceful album layered with masterful playing. It elevates this thing we call rock music into high art. I love it already. (KW) I personally cleave to the heavy side, with the Melvins and whatnot, which is probably why I like Red Fang’s new Whales and Leeches. From the mercilessly compelling “DOEN” through the closing “Little Twist,” the album is all about the rhythm section. The rolling beats, which a lamer band might call grooves, are as deep and propulsive as anything by The Who, if you melted The Who with flaming pitch. If you would like to melt The Who with flaming pitch, go out and listen to Whales and Leeches immediately. If you are a sea leviathan, do the same thing but remain in the ocean. Those who are super into Cannibal Corpse can safely stay home. (DB) Ryan Bundy Crow’s Share offers 12 songs that have a folk foundation—banjo and slide-guitar, ac-

companied by Bundy’s warm vocals. But it’s full of electronica warping and reverb, melancholic bridges and musical off-roading that gives it a different composition than his previous two recordings. It’s a heartbreak album with a dark resonant sound, but its title, which refers to the idea that you only take what you need to survive, lends a hopeful beauty that makes this album soar. It’s one of the best I’ve heard this year. (EF) I’m making a list of what Vampire Weekend sounds like: the Police if Sting could read, Sandinista! if the Clash were from the Hamptons, reversechronology Paul Simon. That last one is more about me: I hated Vampire Weekend at first, just as I initially liked Paul Simon, and now I am sorry to report that

Graceland is cheesy and I like Modern Vampires of the City. It’s like Chili Cheese Fritos: still guilt-inducing, but undeniably pleasurable. (DB) If I were the Program Director at KTBR (Tripping Balls Radio) I would put Kylesa’s most recent effort, Ultraviolet, into the heavy rotation bin, kick back in the DJ booth with a dube and watch the doors of perception come unhinged. Not that these longtime Savannah, Ga. metal maestros are a latter day psych-rock outfit. The band keeps things tidy, blending the atmospheric elements of doom metal and shoegaze: The wistful, spooked-out keyboards and the fuzzy, echoed vocals of guitarists Laura Pleasants and Phillip Cope combine with sludge-ariffic riffery and the pounding attack of double drummers. ( JM) In Sandrider’s Godhead, the crashing waves of percussion underlie ripping, step-on-the-gas guitar riffs and vocals that roar, but never shriek. It’s like a good, muscular massage for your brainwaves.

The 10 powerful tracks don’t wear out their welcome soon; you need only set it to “repeat” and sit back. (KW ) Action Bronson’s EP is only 25 minutes long, but his major-label debut distills the richly developed world Bronson has described in seven releases since 2011. Here are the grindhouse exaggerations, obscure wrestling references and disjointed similes that have raised his work beyond rap cliché to the level of ecstatic vision. Saaab Stories is certainly Bronson’s most danceable album and probably his most disci-

plined. He has always been prolific. This gem suggests that now he is focused, too. (DB) Needlecraft is like your favorite observational comic: Lyrics come from the everyday and ordinary, and in just two minutes become an adventure of their own. The riffs are simple, the drums stick to the same fast upbeat, but the background vocal harmonies really do the trick to keep the listener hooked. The group went into the recording studio last May and the result, a self-titled album from Wäntage, is catchy, punchy and worthy of more than a few shimmies. (BJ) If anyone has ever taken a sledgehammer to the idea that minimalist music needs to all be Phillip Glass-style violins and soft tones, it is the beautifully

brutal Iron Lung. On its latest album, White Glove Test, the Seattle duo unleashes fury that is as stimulating as it is strangely soothing, like taking a shot of whiskey. Like an attractive gentleman caller, it knows to leave early and keep you wanting more. (KW ) Like most of the tracks from Vaz’ Visiting Hours, instrumental ass-kickery seems to be the focus. The final track, “Plague Ship,” pulls into port as advertised, sounding like a rotted vessel filled with the buzzing locusts of counterpoised guitars. Paul Erickson’s almost laconic vocal delivery marks a place for listeners to find equilibrium in the constantly shifting sonic sea of liquid electricity and Jeff Moordian’s quaking drums, before the song and the album eventually sink into an undertow of doomful feedback. ( JM) As soon as the first epic riff twanged at the beginning of The Beauty Between, I knew Olympia punks RVIVR had reached a sweet spot. I was just starting to worry about the state of pop punk in 2013, too.

Here’s a dirty secret: I’ve never really dug RVIVR’s recorded work. The band’s energy didn’t quite translate and the hooks started to grate on my ears after a few listens. Beauty Between is different. Melodic, catchy, inspiringly fast and anthemic, while keeping a certain amount of grit, the album makes me want to tear off my jacket and jump into the nearest sweaty pit by the second song. (KW ) Give it up to Missoula’s Boys for reawakening me to the joys of distortion, echo and reverb in less than 20 minutes. Strike that—the effect was pretty immediate. With diverse structures akin to TV on the Radio,

but with a tone closer to bluesy lo-fi, Kamikaze definitely blew my expectations out of the water.I haven’t heard a rock record like this come out of Missoula since Wartime Blues’ 2011 magical farewell album.

Not that I had low expectations for Boys in particular, but it’s easy to treat any young band with some skepticism. It’s nice when that pessimism is quickly stamped out. (BJ) When the Moondoggies sing about love, it’s about missing someone in the chill of a Northwest winter. On Adios I’m a Ghost, frontman Kevin Murphy delivers stories that aren’t too expository and leave you with complex characters—whether prideful, reckless, glowing or evil—floating in your head.

The songs are written with a precision that doesn’t

undercut the authentic depth of the album—not rehearsed but sharpened to their most effective point.

I don’t often call something brilliant, but the writing on this is. (EF) Yo La Tengo’s Fade is a washed-out update to the band’s best album, I Can Hear The Hearts Beating as One, already 15 years old. Here’s the same shoegazing trio putting out indie rock like it never happened, but with maturity in the lyrics and nuance in the structures. Some surprises emerge. “Stupid Things” takes a hint from Bon Iver and re-reintroduces cheesy ’80s pop guitars with class, while the acoustic “I’ll Be Around” is a nice break from the electrics. Fade finishes on “Before We Run,” a satisfying last song that feels like the soundtrack to flying over all your favorite places, real and imagined. (BJ) If Screeching Weasel wrote bluegrass-Americana songs, it might sound something like The Pine Hearts.

The Olympia, Wash., band weaves together spirited anthems about holding on despite the troubles of the world, about being in love with someone even though they’re leaving forever. Maybe it’s singer Joe Cappocia’s slightly nasal vocals that makes him seem a little punk rock, despite the fact that Distant Lights is an album overflowing with banjo and mandolin.

Or it could be that the youthfulness of this group gives them an extra kinetic kick—fans of the feisty boys of Old Crow Medicine Show, for instance, will likely fall in love with The Pine Hearts. (EF) Album reviews by Erika Fredrickson, Kate Whittle, Jason McMackin, Dan Brooks and Brooks Johnson.

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It’s impossible to read Night is Simply a Shadow without some sorrow. Its release this August comes eight years after poet Greta Wrolstad, at the age of 24, died in a car accident on Highway 200. It includes pieces with harrowing lines best described in the former University of Montana MFA student’s own poetry as “not terror” but a “lullaby from which the danger is waking.” What’s great about the title is that it illustrates the beautiful darkness of some of her writing but it also, with the word “simply,” swiftly reassures that night is nothing to fear. The book’s publisher, Tavern, and Wrolstad’s poet friends have curated the collection to reflect that in an elegant way.

By the final poem, “Fontaine De Vaucluse,” which ends with, “the season of rain is coming, hold out your hand,” you will feel less sorrowful and more lucky to have her words to read over again. (EF) There are times when a good novel starts to become the thing that it’s about, and such is the case with Rick Bass’s latest, All the Land to Hold Us. The prose stretches out and burns steady like a meadow on fire. It meanders whether you want it to or not. But for every new piece of landscape traveled, the reader will feel as though they’ve accomplished something extraordinary just to have witnessed it. This is the novel to bring on a long backpacking trip. There isn’t an ordinary sentence in the lot. (ML) Montana’s hard-boiled plot and its twists are entertaining enough, but Gwen Florio’s portraits of tough women and old-school journalism are what left a lasting impression for me. Lola and Mary Alice worked for their college paper and then moved on to rough big-city beats for dailies, packing .45s for protection and drinking Jameson, never regretting their bold career choices. They’re the kind of dogged, intrepid reporters that aspiring journalists hope to become. Fictional portrayals of journalism can be frustrating to read if the details are wrong. But Florio’s real-life experience gives the dramatic plot of Montana a realistic heft. (KW) Introduction to Botany nearly derailed my college degree. In the final semester of senior year, it was the one required general ed credit I had left to take. Perhaps I’d have done better had Amy Leach been my instructor. Leach, a writer based out of Bozeman, has released Things That Are, a series of beautiful, graceful essays musing upon beaver dams and intergalactic dust and everything in between, like the wonders of salmon spawning, the moon’s gravitational orbit, jellyfish eyes, mushroom sprouting and supernova formations. It’s science made into poetry. (KW) In She Matters: A Life in Friendships, Susanna Sonnenberg’s sentences are bizarre and off-kilter without ever calling attention to themselves, and she writes them without clumsy metaphors or similes. “We have different styles. Patricia starts with the reports, I start with mood. I pierce, hunt for the biggest truth, restless until

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I’ve divined it.” She pierces! No need to completely nerd out with me on the extraordinary verbs at play here, but they deserve at least a small celebration. This is a book about a specific thing, but the writing is so good, the cadence of the sentences so soft and feminine, I would trust this author with just about any subject. (ML) In It Runs in the Family, the natural progression from digging for answers from his parents to searching for reportable facts provides the perfect framework for Richard Manning to touch on a number of larger issues while also recounting his life. There’s a rawness to Manning’s memoir that makes it extremely poignant. His bitterness and fury often bleed through. So does his passion for wilderness and his keen desire to connect with people who he cares about. The book ties no loose ends, offers no rosy finale.

But it does make a case for never being afraid to ask questions that have complicated answers. (EF) After the first few pages of Eidolon, you’ll find yourself drawn deeper into the world that Ken White creates, not necessarily because you know what’s going on, but because of the sound and cadence of his poems.

They carry you along like a current. While his words are compelling on the page, the lines seem to hiccup and shift strangely, the wordings unfamiliar. But read aloud, they sound exuberant, breathless and real. (MM) The five novellas that make up Brown Dog each give way to the next, as the title character becomes more than a rustic clown. He actually experiences personal growth (gulp) despite his best efforts to avoid it. By the end, it’s even poignant. Whether or not you’re a fan of Jim Harrison’s other work, the character of Brown Dog is probably somebody you’ll want to meet. If you already know B.D., you’ll find this collection works as a strong novel in its own right. I recommend it highly. (DK) So dog-eared are the pages of my copy of Opportunity, Montana that from across the desk the book appears waterlogged. Simply put, there’s just that much to like in Brad Tyer’s debut—that much to ingest, puzzle over, learn from, return to. Like many fine recent nonfiction publications, Opportunity, Montana is a determined hybrid: part history, part narrative, part treatise, part balanced reportage. But the book does not waffle as it wanders. It hones in on the well-documented Milltown Dam cleanup, the history of atrocities surrounding the drainage-long pile-up of toxic sediments, and the irony of that phrase “cleanup.”

When a story about slag heaps and sluices can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, you know you’re holding rare ore. (CD) Books reviews by Kate Whittle, Molly Laich, Erika Fredrickson, Chris Dombrowski, Melissa Mylchreest and Dave Knadler.

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And scene Beatniks, mass murderers and other wonderfully flawed characters make this year’s movies Few other films have affected me as much as Blood Brother, the story of a regular Pittsburgh guy named Rocky who decides to travel to India to work with HIV-infected orphans. I know what you’re thinking: cheap setup to tug at the heartstrings. But Blood Brother is different. Rocky is different. And Rocky’s best friend, director Steve Hoover, tells a story different from any other I’ve seen. The film alternates between such powerful displays of love and kindness, and loss and pain, that by the end you’re somehow both spent and hopeful. I cried during most of the sec-

drama Wild Things were a philosopher, and in between their shady double-crossings and backdoor deals, the characters took the time to sit down and discuss eloquently with each other the true meaning behind the nature of reality, truth, love and their own twisted motivations. (ML) This is a comedy, sort of, except it’s as serious as a heart attack and carries with it the dread of a horror film. Coming so late in Woody Allen’s career, it’s a gift to be given a film so fresh and current in its sensibil-

Smiths have turned a beautifully uncomfortable story into a beautifully uncomfortable film. It’s hard-hitting and tragic, surreal and funny. It’s the kind of movie a writer would want made about his own work. (ND) The Iceman is a controlled, disconcertingly quiet film, directed by Ariel Vromen. The first thing required of you is to put yourself in the mind of a man who barely knows how to love, thinks everyone is out to get him, has a limitless capacity for violence and doesn’t seem to be afraid of death or consequences. Thus is the story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), the real-life Mafia hit man who from 1948 to 1986 killed at least 100 people. I saw a screening in Michigan with my mother, and afterward she asked me, “I wonder what Michael Shannon is like in real life,” which suggests that some men are so frightening and powerful on screen that it’s impossible to imagine that they could be normal in real life. (ML) Finally, the dismal spring season has given us the first truly awesome film of 2013. The Place Beyond the Pines is a tragedy told in three movements. It’s a careful portrait of two men and their families, the choices they make and the consequences of those choices. How are fathers supposed to model the right way to live for their sons? After 140 minutes, the film isn’t any closer to an answer, and yet it never feels long. I want everyone to go see it, go home and think about it, and then go see it again. (ML)

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ond half—and choked up again while telling my wife about it afterwards. I sound like a sap, except that I’m apparently not the only one. Blood Brother came away from Sundance with both grand jury and audience honors for best documentary, and then earned the top prize at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. (SB) If you’re a fan of the Beats, you’re in for something special, particularly after the disappointment of last year’s On the Road. John Krokidas could have botched Kill Your Darlings a million ways, but he avoids overindulging the clichés associated with the Beat generation, and instead lets their work inspire his own voice.

The photography is gorgeous and poetic, with a manipulation of shadow that often nears perfection. (JW) 12 Years a Slave is an expertly crafted, eerily beautiful film with a clear message and a lot of violence.

If you’re thinking lynchings, bloody backs and women wailing spirituals in the cotton fields while men fall down dead from exhaustion, you’re right. There are times in the middle, with no real plot or story arc to hang our hat on, where our only respite is that, unlike the protagonist, we know from the title that there’s a certain absolution we’re working toward. And still you’re thinking, just how long is 12 years anyway? (ML) Walking out of The Counselor, I knew I’d witnessed something grotesque and brilliant. I felt disoriented and cheated, and yet the moment it was over I wanted to turn around and watch it again. How to explain? Imagine if everyone in the salacious melo-

ities. Blue Jasmine is a domestic, personal story about corporate greed and its consequences. It’s about class and entitlement and it invites you to consider your own priorities. (ML)

In 1965, a failed coup in Indonesia led to a communist purge in which more than 500,000 people were tortured and executed. One group known as the “Movie

she’s scared. In one particular shot, the camera creeps in on her face slowly, until it circles around in one uninterrupted take and the perspective changes from observing to the observed. We become the astronaut looking out through her helmet into the dark. It’s evident in the scaffolding that director Alfonso Cuaron has set out to make an enduring, classic film. Who knows how it will fare over time, but he’s at least succeeded in making one of the best movies of 2013. (ML) There are times when a moviegoer seeks shelter from the unrelenting blaze of the Big Hollywood sun, and it’s comforting to know that shade can be found under the canopy of compelling narrative dramas, if you know where to look. One such respite is Mud, the film from story-driven writer/director Jeff Nichols, starring Matthew McConaughey as the title character. Nichols has a true gift for dialogue, and he uses that gift to establish his characters as unabashed romantics. When Mud is asked to describe the moment when he knew that he loved Juniper, he says it was “like the whole world split apart and came back together new.” Gorgeous stuff. (ND) In 1995, writer and director Richard Linklater made a simple independent film called Before Sunrise about an American traveling in Europe named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and the Parisian student Celine ( Julie Delpy) who he picks up on a train one afternoon in Vienna. Nine years later, the characters reunited to make Before Sunset. Before Midnight is unique in the series because the enemy is no longer

Inequality For All, the new documentary built around Robert Reich, aims to push wealth distribution back into the forefront of the national debate.

Aided by Reich’s knack for simple but precise metaphor, director Jacob Kornbluth unleashes an array of graphics that consistently—and startlingly— drive home how the laws and prevailing culture in this country have given the United States the largest distance between haves and have-nots, by far, of any developed nation. The fact that Reich and Kornbluth have somehow put an entertaining spin on such a tragic story is simply icing on the cake. (ND) I went into Blackfish, a film that takes a deep dive into the 2010 death of veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau and parlays that investigation into a call to end orca captivity, with an oversized grain of salt. As it turns out, the salt came in handy—it made the crow I was served by director Gabriela Cowperthwaite go down just a bit easier. I came away from Blackfish with a greatly enhanced understanding of orcas, and a newfound respect for their social dynamics in the wild. (ND) Fans of the novel Winter in the Blood will be pleased to know that directors Alex and Andrew Smith went to great Backbone of the World heights to stay true to James Welch’s original work. It’s a brave move. The

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Theater Gangsters” carried out countless arrests, interrogations and murders. In 2005, Joshua Oppenheimer, a Texas filmmaker, and his crew met and collaborated with this gang—now wealthy old men who have never been charged with any crime—in order to recreate their exploits on film. The Act of Killing documents this process, and the result is one of the most powerful and revealing works of cinema I have ever seen. (JW)

circumstance; now they have nothing but time, and with so much real life to look forward to, they turn on each other. At times heartbreaking and frustrating, Before Midnight is a good film in its own right.

You don’t need to have seen the first two to get something out of this one, but it helps. And if you’ve seen the others, you have no choice. You can’t just abandon them now. (ML)

In Gravity, I found myself carried by Sandra Bullock’s breath. Her oxygen is dangerously low and

Film reviews by Molly Laich, Nick Davis, Josh Wagner and Skylar Browning.

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After more than 40 years of remarkable movies— documentary, biography, historical epic, drama, thriller, comedy, even family fare—there’s no way to pigeonhole Martin Scorsese as a filmmaker. But one thing is clear: Nobody does a better job of capturing the breathtaking appeal of taking a criminal shortcut to the top of the world, while also showing how far there is to fall.

The Wolf of Wall Street finds Scorsese diving into a milieu that’s new to him—the cutthroat, manic, excessive world of America’s financial Masters of the Universe—yet he’s exploring it in a familiar way. He’s directed plenty of indelible portraits of hard men and the ruthless things they do to gain and preserve power, from Gangs of New York’s Bill the Butcher to The Departed’s Frank Costello. But The Wolf of Wall Street re-

be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a Scorsese movie, there’s a sequence here—involving a Quaalude-blasted Belfort trying to make his way out of a doorway, down a few stairs and into his car— that instantly allows DiCaprio to enter the pantheon of all-time physical comedy performances.

This is fundamentally a morality play, or perhaps more accurately a melding of a couple different kinds of morality plays. In part, it’s a story of addiction, one that—for all Belfort’s monstrous appetites for coke, ’ludes and women—is primarily about addiction to money, to chasing the thrill of selling people crap and getting rich doing it.

Yet it’s also about capturing the way Jordan Belfort is such a close analog of Goodfellas’ Henry Hill, dazzled

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sembles nothing so much as a variation on the rags-to-riches-to-chaos arc of Goodfellas—and such a touchstone only makes Scorsese’s magnificent assault on financial-industry avarice more brutally effective.

The film is an adaptation of the memoir by Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), who built his own brokerage firm from the ground up and made himself— and plenty of his colleagues—into multi-millionaires in the 1990s. The story flashes back to Belfort’s early days learning at the knee of his mentor, Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey), and developing a relentless cold-call sales approach that allows him to get rich selling volatile penny stocks. From there he builds an empire, one fueled by plenty of drugs, hookers and the money money money that just keeps rolling in.

Scorsese takes three hours to tell the story of that empire’s rise and fall, yet it’s impossible to overstate how nimble and effortless that running time feels. The director knows how to tell meaty stories in a way that entertains, starting with Hanna’s multi-martini lunch lecture to Belfort about the keys to making it big in the brokerage game; McConaughey hilariously nails the amped-up Hanna’s mix of not-suitable-for-work wisdom and chest-thumping tribal chants. He serves up brilliantly insane and offensive conversations, like Belfort and his partners going over the fine print as they prepare to bring some dwarf-tossing entertainment to the office. And while slapstick humor may not

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by the extravagant lifestyle his criminality allows, even if it puts either his liberty or his life at risk on a regular basis. In so doing, Scorsese also shows how much the American financial industry behaves like a crime syndicate, with an arrogance built on the assumption that living well makes you invincible. DiCaprio nails that sensibility throughout his performance, though perhaps nowhere better than in a conversation with a federal investigator (Kyle Chandler) that drips with mutual contempt—the law enforcement agent for this cocky punk, and the cocky punk for anyone who’s sucker enough to try to live straight.

If anything prevents this wildly entertaining piece of work from being a flat-out masterpiece, it’s exactly that sense that this is basically Goodfellas transferred to a different brand of crooks. By the time we reach the point where Belfort is on the hook of the feds and forced to consider turning rat on the guys who were part of his loyal crew, The Wolf of Wall Street is breaking little new ground. But this collection of great set pieces and dynamic performances does provide its own brand of originality: putting the dangerous characters threatening America not on the other end of a gun, but on the other end of a phone.

The Wolf of Wall Street continues at Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. arts@missoulanews.com

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BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL The pinup legend herself narrates the ups and downs of a groundbreaking, iconic career. Rated R. With appearances from Dita Von Teese, Hugh Hefner and Rebecca Romijn. Screening at the Roxy Theater Dec. 27–29 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. GRUDGE MATCH Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone are two aging boxing rivals coaxed into fighting a last bout. Also starring Kim Basinger and Alan Arkin.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY A daydreaming dork winds up on an adventure more wild than anything he’s ever imagined, in a retelling of the 1947 film with Danny Kaye.

Starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig and Adam Scott.

Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET High-rolling stockbroker Jordan Belfort lives it up—until it all comes crumbling down. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie. Rated R. Carmike 12. (See Film.)

NOW PLAYING ALL IS LOST Robert Redford stars as a stranded sailor at sea who must battle a certain death and his own inner demons. Written and directed by J.C. Chandor. PG-13. Wilma.

AMERICAN HUSTLE Sexy, swindling, 70s-fabulous misfits led by a con man get involved with the FBI, in a story mega-loosely based on the real Abscam sting operation. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12.

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Ron Burgundy and crew are dusting off their suit jackets and taking their fantastic hair to New York City. Starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaoplex.

Shredder really has a case of the ass. 47 Ronin opens on Christmas Day at Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.

CITY LIGHTS In this 1931 silent classic, that lovable Tramp goes on screwball adventures to help a beautiful blind flower girl. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill and Florence Lee. Screening at the Roxy Theater Dec. 27–29 at 5 and 7 PM. FROZEN A Nordic princess endeavors to find her sister and bring her back to their snowy kingdom. A whimsical talking snowman joins in the adventure, too. Starring the voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Idina Menzel. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Orphan Pip comes into money in director Mike Newell’s take on the Dickens classic. Starring Toby Irvine, Jason Flemyng and Helena Bonham Carter. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 100 percent more hot elf action is on tap in the second installment of the kids-book-turnedgiant-trilogy. Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McK-

ellen and Richard Armitage. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

voices of Charlie Rowe, Karl Urban and Angourie Rice. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Showboat.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Katniss Everdeen and boring ol’ Peeta are back for the second installment of the dystopian teen fantasy. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

SAVING MR. BANKS Walt Disney coaxes the curmudgeonly P.L. Travers into selling the movie rights to her novel, a little book you may have heard of called Mary Poppins. Starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Annie Rose Buckley. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12.

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

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS Take an animated journey into the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth with T. Rex and co.

(Obligatory nerd trivia: scientists now think most dinos were feathered, not scaly. But feathered dinos look ugly as sin, so maybe that’s why movies don’t draw them that way.) Starring the

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Given the great love many people have for kale, it seems appropriate that a massage turns out to be the best way to prepare it. A good rubdown can enhance the kale’s flavor as well as preserve its nutrient content.

Because, while kale is known as one of the world’s healthiest foods, tenderness and sweetness aren’t usually emphasized as its strong suits. That’s why kale is usually cooked. The heat breaks down the plant’s cellular structure, tenderizing it, while turning complex carbohydrates into simple sugars, adding sweetness.

But this increased edibility comes at a cost. As the bluish green of a living kale leaf fades into a navy shade of green, some fragile enzymes are killed. Live enzymes are known to be healthy in many ways, including as a digestive aid. A raw vegetable like kale is composed of cells that are still alive. Cooking effectively kills the plant cells, destroying other sensitive nutrients as well.

Massaging kale results in a compromise between raw and cooked, in which the best aspects of both methods are preserved. As you rub the kale leaves, the cellulose architecture of the cell walls is crushed. In this mayhem, some of those enzymes are released, some of which go to work on the cell’s carbohydrate supplies, chopping them into simple sugars. As you rub, twist and knead the kale, it wilts down to a fraction of its former size, similar to what happens in cooking.

By the end of this preparatory procedure you have a massaged kale that’s great in and of itself, but can also be a point of departure for the creation of many other, more interesting salads.

Any kale will work, and there are many to choose from these days. I like a mix of curly green kale and black kale, aka dino, aka Tuscan, aka Lacinato kale, aka the flat-leafed, extra-dark kind. Wash the kale and shake it dry—no need for the salad spinner, as not much water will come out, and a little water doesn’t hinder the massage. Pull the leafy material off of each leaf ’s stalk, and put the spineless leaves in a big mixing bowl.

Before I massage in earnest, sometimes I attack the de-stemmed kale pieces with scissors, snapping the sheets down to smaller pieces in haphazard fashion. One could also chop the leaves with a knife, or carefully sliver them with scissors. Or just rip it all to shreds with your bare hands.

Enhance the massage with the application of salt, oil and citrus juice to the leaves. These ingredients help grind up the cell walls as they work their way into the leaves, establishing their flavor. Vinegar, while

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acidic, makes a terrible flavor substitute for lime, lemon, orange or grapefruit. And citrus, like kale, is coming into season in winter. I like to use a mix of citrus juices, any one of which could be used alone except for orange, which isn’t acidic or bitter enough.

For a decent-sized bunch of kale, use about ¼ cup olive oil, ½ teaspoon of salt, and 2 tablespoons of citrus juice.

Mix these in, and proceed to squeeze, twist, wring, press and maim the kale with your hands. The exact motions are fairly intuitive. The kale volume will shrink dramatically at first. By the time the kale is holding steady at about a fifth of the original volume, or when your forearms are too tired to continue, or when it’s sufficiently beaten down to your liking, the massage can end.

You now have massaged kale, which you can start eating right away, or use as an ingredient in a more complex dish. If you want to start eating, simply adjust the seasonings and go. I highly recommend toasted pumpkin seeds sprinkled on top.

As a salad, massaged kale goes well with parsley (non-massaged), and the fiery pungency of raw garlic and onions. Cooked grains like quinoa or bulgur can be added. I like to toss in thin slices of blood orange, peel and all. The bitterness of the peel bridges the flavors of the bittersweet orange and the bitter-ish kale, while providing a juicy, colorful contrast. And despite the fact that massaging adds sweetness to kale, a little more is always welcome. Grapefruit chunks are another way to add a bittersweet flavor. Pomegranate is another fruit, also in season, that makes a beautiful, delicious splash in massaged kale salad. A tablespoon or two of pomegranate molasses adds welcome tang and sweetness. Sweeter fruits like mango can be used, as can honey.

When your salad is assembled, taste and add more citrus or salt as necessary, and crush some black pepper to taste.

Massaged kale can also be added to cooked food.

Toss it on a hot dish and let it wilt, as is often done with spinach. Or toss it into a stir-fry at the last minute; it only needs to heat up, and can hang onto its raw, bright green color. You can also let massaged kale hang out in the fridge overnight, allowing it to soften and marinate.

In short, all of the many ways you enjoy kale could be improved if you start by giving it a loving, tender massage. Okay, it’s actually a rough, tenderizing massage. But let’s face it, kale responds well to tough love.

[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway • 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts.

Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Nothing says Bernice’s like the cold, grey months of January. Come in, sit quietly, or share a table with friends in our warm and cozy dining room.

Enjoy a cup of joe, a slice of cake, or a breakfast pastry as the sun beams in through our large glass windows. Want a healthy lunch? Come by in the afternoon and try a salad sampler or Bernice’s own Garlic Hummus Sandwich on our Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Bless you all in 2014! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus.

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 84. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins • 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns... MERRY CHRISTMAS! Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 41 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. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm ThursSat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$ Dickey’s Barbecue Pit 143 W. Broadway Downtown Missoula • 203.1557 Taste why Dickey’s Barbecue is the world’s best barbecue since 1941! Try our 8 juicy hot pit smoked

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meats, like our southern pulled pork or our family recipe polish sausage. We even offer 11 home-style sides, like our creamy cole slaw and fried okra. Don’t forget we’re also your catering experts! Any event, any size – let Dickey’s do the cooking, and you can take the credit. Graduation parties, weddings, office functions, you name it! Dickey’s Barbecue is the perfect catering choice for groups of all sizes – from 10 to 10,000! Don’t forget-Kids Eat Free Sundays & everyone enjoys FREE ice cream every day! Dickey’s Barbecue. Seriously, Pit Smoked. Open 7 days a week. Offering a full liquor bar. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love.

From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, 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 smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 97:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. • Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$

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Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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Brandy Alexander HAPPIEST HOUR What we’re drinking: A sweet, brandy-based alcoholic cocktail.

Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service.

Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$

Why we’re drinking it: White Russians get all the attention. While there’s nothing wrong with The Dude’s beverage of choice, we wanted to try something seasonally festive and a little different.

How to make it: Like a White Russian, it’s super easy to make a Brandy Alexander. In a shaker, pour one part cream (or about ¾ of an ounce), one part brandy and one part dark crème de cacao.

Shake and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with a sprinkle of ground nutmeg, if you desire.

What it tastes like: Chocolate cake.

Where you’ve heard of it: The Brandy Alexander has appeared in many scripts and lyrics. Peggy Olson ordered one during the first season of “Mad Men” to try and impress her date. Jack Lemmon orders one for Lee Remick in the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, mak-

Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche.

Several more baked options and the finest espresso available.

Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula.

Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

ing it something of a gateway drink to the couple’s dark spiral into alcoholism. On a lighter note, Townes Van Zandt mentioned it in “Fraternity Blues,” and Ron Sexsmith and Feist cowrote a song called “Brandy Alexander.” The latter ends with the refrain, “It goes down easy, it goes down easy …”

—Skylar Browning Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:3012:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

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. $$-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-214-2659 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one

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of our braised meat sandwiches. We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available).

Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis’s Kitchen 531-5034 • sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods. Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis’s Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula “Best Pizza” Winner’s for 2008-2012. Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12”crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery.

Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Walking Moustache 206 W. Main St. • 549-3800 www.walkingmoustache.com 12/28 - Tom Catmull 7:30 pm. Our aim is to offer excellent food with five star service. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Daily Specials + 2 am Special. Restaurant Hours: Tues 6 am – Sun 5 pm. Monday Lunch 11 am - 2:30 pm. Winebar Hours: Tues 11 am – Sat 11 pm.

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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THURSDAYDEC26 Load up the sleigh with all your misfit toy buddies and head on down to the Badlander for Sloppy Sleigh Bells, a festive shindig where you can bust a move in Santa’s Twerk Shop. $1 well drinks from 9-midnight. $3 cover/free for women before 10 PM.

nightlife Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Do your Boxing Day up right when David Baty plays Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Snazzy lady Kimberlee Carlson plays jazz along with Ron Meissner and Pete Hand at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance.

Inner Harmony Yoga. 8 PM. $8. Visit turningthewheel.org.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Howl at the moon and kick up your boots when Wild Coyote Band plays the Sunrise Saloon. Country two-step beginner/intermediate class is from 7-8:30 PM, live music and dancing from 9 PM to close. $5 for dance class/no cover after 9.

Starting off on the right feet. Bare Bait Dance Company performs Tue., Dec. 31 at 3:30 PM at the Dennison Theatre, as part of First Night festivities. Check out our calendar listings and missoulacultural.org/firstnight for more events. $15 for First Night button.

Here’s your chance to brag about your presents while the Milkcrate Mechanic

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Concentrating folks. Seattle duo Squirrel Butter plays an Old Time Barn Dance Party Sat., Dec. 28, along with Nann Alleman and Aaron Parrett from Helena. The Barn Movement Studio, 2962 S. Third. St. W. 7:30– 10 PM. Pass-the-hat donation requested.

gets to work at the House and Trance Night at the Palace. 9 PM. Free.

FRIDAYDEC27 Portland duo Lindsey Stormo and Sean Frenette plays folky tunes with a classical verve at the University Congregational Church, 405 University Ave. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $15 suggested donation/$10 for students.

Kiddos can discover their inner inventor with the SciKids Engineer It! workshop day hosted by SpectrUM. Participants will learn how to make puppets with moving parts, construct a bouncy ball and design buildings to withstand earthquakes. Classes are split for ages 6-8 and 9-12. Skaggs Building, Room 166. 9 AM-4 PM. $50. Call

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[calendar] 728-STEM to sign up. Scholarships are available, too.

loon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

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Walk on the wild side, baby, with the Queer Party: Animal Edition, where all flavors of the rainbow are invited to dress up like their animal selves and groove to electronic tunes. Palace Lounge. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free.

Andrea Harsell and co. foster the warm fuzzies at Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat. 6-8 PM. Free.

Missoula’s furriest pop punk outfit, Cat Heaven, arises for a ninth life with a reunion show at the ZACC, along with The Scribblers, Little Giants and Pancakes. 7-11 PM. $5. No alcohol, no jerks. All ages.

(See Spotlight.)

Wild Coyote Band does the bootscoot-boogie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.

Band in Motion keeps the holiday spirit flowing at the Union Club.

9 PM. No cover.

Discover what the fox says when Bozeman-based Theory magazine launches its fourth issue of arts and culture at Foxxy Friday. DJs Hev- E, Myrrr, BVS and Funkfoxx will be getting down, woodsy style. Badlander.

9 PM. No cover.

Sean Kelly’s hosts a Ladies Night this eve, where all manner of women and dude-types can party down. 9 PM. No cover.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406-721-2416 or just show up.

Lolo Hot Springs Resort hosts the weekly TomBourine Show, plus you can get your soak on and rent a cabin. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Cure them Boxing Day blues when Paydirt plays the Sunrise Sa-

Shake a tail feather when six-piece rhythm ‘n blues band Zeppo plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

SATURDAYDEC28 Polson partiers Off in the Woods play their reggae-rock and funky grooves at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

If you’re having trouble paying for daycare for the little ones, Missoula’s Child Care Resources offers scholarships. New guidelines mean a family of three can earn up to $2,386 per month to potentially qualify. Call 406-728-6446 or visit childcareresource.org to learn more.

Stay true to your root vegetables with the Heirloom Winter Farmers Market, which offers produce, honey, crafts and more, in the Floriculture Building on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. 10 AM-2 PM on Saturdays.

Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.

nightlife KVD! KVD! KVD! Let’s all shout a rousing cheer when Kevin Van Dort plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

The Frederico Brothers foster good sibling relations when they play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

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[calendar] You bring the bread, I’ll bring the jam when Seattle duo Squirrel Butter plays an Old Time Barn Dance Party along with Nann Alleman and Aaron Parrett from Helena.

Missoula Folklore Society hosts this particular shindig.

The Barn Movement Studio, 2962 S. Third. St. W. 7:3010 PM. Pass-the-hat donation requested.

Bridging the gap. Singer-songwriter Kristi Neumann plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton Thu., Jan 2, from 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

If you’re up Whitefish way, take a break from all that nog and get cultured with the Whitefish Gallery Night. Spanish artist Sunol Alvar’s limited-edition lithographs of colorful imagery is on display at Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave. Opening reception from 6-9 PM. Learn more about the exhibit by calling 862-5929.

Wild Coyote Band does the bootscoot-boogie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.

Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are like Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, saving rec centers one beat at at time.

Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2.

The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays. 7000 Graves Creek Road.

9 PM.

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Cure what ails ya when Soul Sister and The Medicine play dancin’ tunes at the Union Club. 9 PM. No cover.

Show off the rad sweater Aunt Barb knitted you at the Holidazed blowout with performers including Grand Aye, Wormwood, Mr. Soap, Lige Newton, Yung Boi and more.

Palace. 9 PM. Free.

It ain’t fancy but it’ll be a good time when Blue Collar plays dancing tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM to close.

No cover.

SUNDAYDEC29 Get a front seat to Phish’s Madison Square Garden without the pesky plane ride today when the Top Hat shows a live video stream of the performance. 5:30 PM. Free.

Da Bears take on the Packers, and the Top Hat shows the game and offers all manner of fried animal products while you watch the game. 11 AM. No cover.

Dance the cabin fever blues away when the Golden Age Club hosts dances on the first, third and fifth Sunday afternoons through March, an alcohol-free event with potluck snacks during breaks. 727 Fifth St. in Hamilton. 1-4 PM. $3.

Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their guitars, mandolins, harmonicas, fiddles, banjos, dobros, or other acoustic instrument.

Music includes old-time country, bluegrass, swing, cowboy, folk, old standards, etc. Folks who want to play or just listen are encouraged to come. For more information, call John at 381-2483. Free.

nightlife Cram a little more fun into 2013 when Mike Bader Bearjam plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-7 PM. No cover.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.

MONDAYDEC30 Three Cornered Jack, with Ron Dunbar and Travis Yost, winds down your Monday evening at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. No cover.

Little Fauntleroy will put David Copperfield to shame with SpectrUM’s Illusions 101 workshop day.

Kids will discover optical illusions, take a potions class and apprentice to chem professor G Wiz. Classes are split for ages 6-8 and 9-12. Skaggs Building, Room 166. 9 AM-4 PM. $50. Call 728-STEM to sign up.

Scholarships are available, too.

Bridge Group, which meets at 1 PM at Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $1.25.

nightlife Show how big your gray matter can get at Super Trivia Freakout.

Win a bar tab, shots and other mystery prizes during the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 8:30 PM. Free.

Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

Find an Abe’s Cabe and let’s ankle to Monk’s for Jazz Mondays. Line-ups vary, but generally the four-piece Basement Boys kick things off at 7 PM and a vetted jazz jam starts at 9. $5 suggested donation. 21-plus.

Find out what it takes to be a stand-up when the Top Hat shows Comedian, the doc profiling Jerry Seinfeld and rising star Orny Adams.

Top Hat. 7:30 PM. Free.

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-229-0488 to get yourself a spot.

TUESDAYDEC31 Gil and the Spills just might help you find somebody to mack on at midnight when they play the New Year’s Eve party at Sean Kelly’s. 10 PM. No cover.

Drink up to support good eggs at today’s edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a different non-profit or good cause each Monday. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

Beginners and folks needing a refresher course are invited to the

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Moun-

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purr-fest “Nothing lasts forever dude,” or so goes the poster for punk band Bomb the Music Industry’s upcoming final dates in January in New York. But you might recall that BTMI played one of its “last shows” in Missoula in fall 2012, and then kept touring for months. Nothing lasts forever, for sure—especially bands’ threats that they’re done for.

One of Missoula’s punk outfits arises from the grave, or maybe the litter box, when Cat Heaven plays a reunion show at the ZACC. The band included Tyson Ballew on guitar and vocals, Buddy Jackson’s Grant Geiger on drums and the Whoopass Girls’ Ethan J. Uhl on guitars and “screamy vocals.”

They called it quits when Ballew moved away from Missoula in 2012.

WHAT: Cat Heaven, Scribblers, Little Giants, Pancakes WHEN: Fri., Dec. 27 from 7–11 PM WHERE: ZACC basement HOW MUCH: $5 donation MORE INFO: facebook.com/ tummyrockrecords

Ballew, you may remember, is also a tireless solo artist, frequent show promoter and maestro at Tummy Rock Records. Missoula lost a great DIY organizer when he moved away, but fortunately, he

tain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon– 1 PM. Free.

All sorts of nimble-footed shenanigans are underway at the Missoula Senior Center. Starting things off is the 1:15 Intro to African Dance class, followed by the Sentinel High School Jazz Band at 2:45, Way Cool Music at 5:15, Missoula Folklore Society dancing at 6:30 and the Starlighter’s Swing Band from 10 to 10:45.

still comes back on occasion. We also lost a great little pop punk outfit when Cat Heaven disbanded.

The August 2012 album Fear of A Cat Planet has some real gems, like the angsty “(Fuckin’ Up) in Montana” and “Garden City Hardcore,” which is probably the most perky song I’ve ever heard that complains about the lack of a punk scene. It’s a rare bit of fun to hear punk rock that’s so Missoulareferential.

As a whole, Cat Heaven is a perfect example of the Tummy Rock Records motto: “Have Fun, Play Nice, Sing Loud.” Bands may come and go, but it’s a motto that seems pretty timeless.

—Kate Whittle

by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

tana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: The New Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square originated because of a ban on fireworks. What year did the ball first drop? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umon-

Put down those Potato Oles and ring in the Año Nuevo with some

nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart.

Meets Tuesdays at the Ewam Buddhist Center, S. Third Ave W. 5:306:30 PM. Call Clare at 721-8224.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed

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[calendar] revelry, western-style. Soul City Cowboys play rock and/or country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. The 406 Band will help you count down the seconds ‘til the ball drop at the Sunrise Saloon’s New Year’s Eve bash, complete with party favors and champagne. 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Teens are invited to party down and win prizes at the New Year’s Eve Party hosted by City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave. Doors at 8 PM, party until 1 AM. Call 532-1555 with any questions.

Do the Charleston all nite long at the Roaring 20s New Year’s Eve Bash and Poker Party, which includes live dance music, gaming, food, prizes and fireworks at midnight. Child care available for folks who call the reservation line, plus Tipsy Tow services. Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Hwy. in Hamilton. 8 PM-1 AM. $35/$50 for two. Call 363-6004, ext. 2 to make a reservation.

Now here’s an evening you’ll certainly remember. The Lil Smokies play a New Year’s Eve banger at the Top Hat for a live concert CD. Things start off with a catered preparty and music at 8 PM, followed by the concert at 10 PM. $25 to go to both, $10 for just the late show.

Ticket holders can get a copy of the CD a few weeks afterward, plus a nifty frameable silkscreened “ticket” poster. 21-plus. Tickets are limited, so check out the Top Hat or tophatlounge.com in advance.

Squeeze a little more intrigue into 2013 when Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays Finn and Porter, 100 Madison Street. 8-11 PM. No cover.

photo by Tommy Martino

What a bunch of weiners. Lil’ Smokies play a New Year’s Eve bash to be recorded for a live concert CD at the Top Hat Tue., Dec. 31. Pre-party and music at 8 PM, followed by the concert at 10 PM. $25 to go to both, $10 for just the late show, includes cost of the CD. 21-plus. Tickets at the Top Hat or tophatlounge.com in advance.

Lest old acquaintances be forgot, head on over to the Union Club where Russ Nasset and the Revelators will do up the New Year’s Eve bash right good. 9 PM. No cover.

Get started on that resolution to party harder with the New Year’s Eve bash at the Palace/Badlander complex. DJs Mark Myriad, M-AD, Tak-45 and Monte Carlo rock the upstairs while Shakewell, Three Eared Dog and Deadline get all the

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way down at the Palace. 9 PM. $5.

Free champagne and big ole balloon drop at midnight.

Wild Coyote Band rings in twenty-fourteen at the Rustic Hut, 5341 U.S. Highway 93 in Florence.

9 PM. Rise like a phoenix from the ashes and boogie at the RezErected Records and Spare House Entertainment New Year’s Eve blowout, with performers including Traff the Wiz, Codependents, MT

Souls, Rude Max, Courtney Weaving, DJ Tonality and Nic Nak. Wolf Den, 218 Main St. in Polson. 9 PM. $3. 21-plus.

We gotta drop the bass before we can drop the ball at the NYE White Noise EDM extravaganza at Stage 112. DJs including Kris Moon, M-AD, Enzymes, Oz, Logisticalone, Mike Stolin and more offer two floors of thumping dance party. 9 PM. 18-plus. $5 limited presale tickets at seafarerentertainment.com.

WEDNESDAYJAN01 Auld lang syne and all that jazz, today is New Year’s, and most stuff is closed. If you got a little too into the holiday spirit yesterday, Calapatra officially recommends lemon-lime pop and Excedrin as the best hangover cure. Our royal prediction for this year: Caras Park will install a beer fountain.

(Trivia answer: The first ball, made of iron and wood and lit with 100 lightbulbs, dropped in 1907.)

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FIRST NIGHT 3:15, belly dancer Kelli Marie Neumayer at 6:45 and Patio Andaluz and Flamenco Montana from 8:15 to 9 PM. Watercolor artist Kendahl Jan Jubb gives a demonstration about how she gets them colors so pretty at Murphy-Jubb Fine Art, 210 N. Higgins Ave, Ste. 300. 2-3 PM. Neat stuff on tap for the Wilma today includes Blackfeet storyteller Jack Gladstone at 2:45, singer Kira Means at 5:15 and Jenn Adams and Beth YoungIt wouldn’t be First blood at 6:30. From 8Artist Kendahl Jan Jubb gives a watercolor Night if somebody 10 PM, talented young workshop Tue., Dec. 31, at 2 PM. Murphy-Jubb wasn’t getting weird, so folk compete in the First Fine Art, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 300. the ZACC hosts rock and Night Star singing comexperimental music from petition. Rocker High Brace Yourself, Citighost, ElectrickVoltage round out the evening eries and Modality from 3 to 9 It’ll be en pointe when Rocky from 11 PM to midnight.

Mountain Ballet Theatre presents Celtic chirpers the Gaelic MeadPM. Dance the year away when classic dances at 12:30 PM, fol- owlarks play at 3 PM, followed by The Missoula Folklore Society lowed by the Ballet Arts Academy Michael and Keleren Millham at Studio Co. at 2, Bare Bait Dance 5:30, Bill Mize and Beth Bramhall presents a contra dance with at 3:30, Headwaters Dance at 5, at 7:30 and Abby Swidler from 9 tunes provided by Celtic Knots, Celtic Dragon Pipe Band at 7:30, and merry elves as callers. UC Unity Dance and Drum and 9:15 to 10:30 PM. University Center Ballroom. UM First Night button and Gamelan Manik Harum lead- Theater. needed. ing a clanging Balinese-style pa- Feast your eyes and ears Top brass will oversee the rade at 10 PM. Dennison Theatre. when Jazz Graffiti, Dick Skultin Jazz Trio, Rhanda Johnevening when Missoula’s Tril- A riotous day of dance and son and Easy Living and Triple lium Brass Trio plays classic music kicks off with Turning the Sec play old-school jazz, swing tunes, followed by the Five Valley Wheel, which encourages move- and pop tunes from 3 to 7:30 Chorus of Sweet Adelines and ment games for the whole family, PM at the Dana Gallery.

Rocky Mountainaires, Montana A from 1-3 PM. Frederico Brothers Cappella Society and John play tunes from 4-4:45, and Peace out, man, and bring a voFloridis with Ed Stalling. UM Headwaters performs chill tunes tive candle in a brown paper bag from 5:15 to 6. Full Grown Men with a little sand to join the comRecital Hall. 4 to 9:15 PM. take over at 6:30 PM, followed by munity candlelight peace sign Writer, historian and folk dance Zeppo at 7:45 and Drum Broth- project in Caras Park. Jeannette aficionado Mark Matthews gives ers from 10:30 to midnight. Uni- Rankin Peace Center volunteers a talk called Promenading Toward versity Center Commons. will have extra materials if you forget. 4 PM-midnight.

Democracy, about how the square dance evolved into an First Night launches with the Bluegrass Alley parties down American icon, from 4:30-5:15, annual Children’s Parade of Hats in Theater 2, with Richie Reinfollowed by a talk on Jitterbug- at Southgate Mall at 1 PM, where holdt and the Acousticals, Mike prizes, refreshments and decoraging Across the Color Line from tions will be provided. The Mis- and Tari Conroy Band and Pine5:30-6:15 PM. Guitar duo Mon soula Taekwondo Demo Team grass. 5:30 to 9:25 PM. Roxy Dieuo! rocks out (gently) from 7- showcases their skillz at 2 PM, Theater.

7:45 PM. Downtown Dance Col- followed by Missoula Youth FencZootown Brew hosts a couple lective. ing at 3:45.

First Night activities, with a The Roxy hosts a Poet’s Cor- Pick out a pretty prancer to ride Missoula Writing Collaboraner, with readings throughout the when Parson’s Pony Farm offers tive workshop for ages 8 to 18 day from Mark Gibbons, Sheryl rides at Caras Park from 1-4 PM. from 4:30 to 5:30, followed by Noethe, Jack Shifflett, Zan tunes from Kalispell folks Flannel Montana Super Skippers Bockes, David Cates, Kyle Graph from 6:15-8:15.

Kulseth, Missoula Writing Collab- jump right into the holiday spirit orative and Mark Twain. at 2 PM, followed by the Solo Get a jolt when traditional Irish(Schnikes!) Noon-8:30 PM, with Stars Square Dance Club at 3:30, inspired outfit Craicers, along with readings lasting five minutes to bossa nova with Rio at 4:45, Larry Hirshberg and Damarais half an hour. Check missoulacul- Brazilian jazz with Yemanja’s Gemmer, play Break Espresso.

Kitchen at 6:15, Big Sky Mudflaps 5:15 to 9:15 PM. tural.org for full schedule. at 8, Salsa Loca at 9, and Ed NorVarious hep cats class it up ton Big Band from 10:30 PM to The Community Classifieds participatory art project invites with live music at Missoula Art midnight.

Missoulians to collaborate on a Museum, with Blue Hour Jazz Ensemble from 12:20-1:30 PM, The MCT Center for the Per- document advertising their unCaptain Wilson Conspiracy from forming Arts hosts talented conventional but still valuable 2:45 to 3:30 and Ouzel from 4 folk, from mime Christian Acker- skills. University Center Atrium, 6man at 2 PM to Mark King at 11 PM. to 4:45.

A vast and dazzling array of workshops, talks and performances are happening throughout today as part of First Night, an alcohol free, family friendly New Year’s Eve celebration. Admission buttons, which get you into everything, are $15 for adults and free for kids under 7.

First Night Star Tickets are $3, and guarantee entry to the singing competition at the Wilma at 8 PM. Check out missoulacultural.org/firstnight for a list of button outlets and complete event listings.

Hi-yah and karate chop the year’s end at the Kung Fu Movie Marathon, featuring classics like The Drunken Master, Enter the Dragon and The Street Fighter.

Roxy Theater. Noon-midnight. $5/free with First Night button.

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Ryan Bundy and friends play the Palace, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

Let dark lords of rock lead you into a heavy-as-hell 2014 when Shramana kicks off Shramanuary, a month-long residency at the VFW. Tonight features Judgment Hammer, Monks on Fire and Swamp Ritual. 9 PM. $3. 18-plus.

Work on those dancing goals when Wild Coyote Band plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. Things get rolling between 9 and 9:30 PM. No cover.

Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free.

Kiddos can find out how Grissom got his start with SpectrUM’s Crime Scene Investigation workshop day, where they’ll learn about fingerprinting, blood-typing, examining fibers under microscopes and mapping crime scenes. Classes are split for ages 6-8 and 9-12. Skaggs Building, Room 166. 9 AM-4 PM. $50. Call 728-STEM to sign up.

Scholarships are available, too.

Bust out that two-step and get a cutie on the dance floor when Best Westerns play the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. Free.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind—just be cool and ask first, lovelies. The Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

nightlife I’ll take my wit and my martini dry when Three Cornered Jack, the “smart-ass formerly known as Ron Dunbar,” plays the dinner show at the Top Hat. 6 PM. No cover, all ages.

Whip it good. The Roxy screens Bettie Page Reveals All: The Authorized Biography Dec. 27–Dec. 29 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM.

Singer-songwriter Kristi Neumann plays her Nashville-honed tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.

519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door.

7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus

specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Go tell it on the mountain. Submit events to Calapatra by 5 PM on Fridays to calendar@missoulanews.com to ensure publication in print and online. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit events online at missoulanews.com.

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umping into freezing water seems pretty bonkers to me, but it has a long and storied history, all the way back to the ancient Roman frigidarium, the cold pool that bathers started in before moving to the warmer ones. Here in the New World, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club was started in 1903. Advocates of plunging into frigid waters say it’s an exhilarating endorphin rush, improving stamina and immunity.

But doctors warn that polar plunges aren’t a great idea if you’re not in good cardiovascular health. According to a January 2013 Time article, if you’re at risk for heart disease, the blood vessels in your heart can constrict, leading to a heart attack, or you might inhale water and drown. The shock response also leads to an adrenaline boost, which is where the endorphins come from.

If you decide the benefits—or just the bragging rights—are worth the risks, western Montana has plenty of cold waters for you to take a dip in. The annual New

Year’s Day Flathead Lake Polar Bear Plunge, on the shore outside the Raven Brew Pub in Woods Bay, draws dozens of brave souls every year. Or, if you frequent the Sanders County area, Libby hosts a weekly polar plunge on Sundays at 2 PM on the Farm-to-Market Bridge over Libby Creek. Maybe you’ll meet Polar Bear Rick, who claims to have missed only three or four plunges in the last few years. (Photos on libbymt.com show Rick cavorting about in boots and swim trunks, slathered in snow and ice.) You can ask him about the health benefits yourself.

—Kate Whittle The annual Flathead Lake Polar Bear Plunge, held outside the Raven Brew Pub in Woods Bay, is Wed., Jan. 1. Parade at 1:45, plunge at 2 p.m. sharp. The Libby Polar Bear Club meets on Sundays at 2 PM at the Farm-to-Market Bridge; check out libbymt.com/outdoors/polarbearclub.htm.

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Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 28 You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward.

Free to run.

Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Them waters might be chilly, but you can b.s. about trout anyway when the Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile hosts a weekly Fly Tyer’s Roundtable. Y’all can drink coffee, learn new patterns and use tools and materials for free. Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile, 73 Rock Creek Road in Clinton. 10 AM. Call 825-6440 or email rcmerc@blackfoot.net for more details.

SUNDAY DECEMBER 29 The annual New Year Snowmobile Fun Run cruises through an array of trails in and around Lincoln, and includes prizes for winners. 10 AM-4 PM. Meet up at the Ponderosa Snow Warriors cluhouse in Lincoln. Email ponderosasnowwarriors@ yahoo.com or visit the Ponderosa Snow Warriors Facebook page to learn more.

Perhaps this will be the year you take the plunge and join the Libby Polar Bear Club, which meets at the Farm-to-Market Bridge over Libby Creek at 2 PM on Sundays through April. If the ice can be broken, the club does the dive. Check out libbymt.com/outdoors/polarbearclub.htm.

Year’s Eve Rockin’ Rail Jam at Whitefish Mountain Resort, with competition, torchlight parade and fireworks. Check out skiwhitefish.com to learn more.

Check with Nostradamus before Run Wild Missoula’s New Year’s Eve Two-Mile Prediction Run, a two-mile junket where runners and walkers will be asked for predict their time before starting. No watches or clocks will be allowed, and the best prediction will win a prize. Peak Health and Wellness Center, 5000 Blue Mountain Road. Registration at 5 PM, staggered starts beginning at 6 PM. Free for Run Wild Missoula members, PEAK members and First Night button wearers. Register at runwildmissoula.org.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1 I predict an auspicious beginning to the Rattlesnake Resolution Run, which includes a 10K and 5K for hardcore runners, families and walkers alike.

Rattlesnake Elementary School, 1220 Pineview Drive. 10K starts at 11 AM, 5K at 11:15. Awards and hot chili to follow. Register at runnersedgemt.com.

Gear up for the year at the First Day Hike guided by an expert at Lone Pine State Park, 300 Lone Pine Road outside Kalispell. Meet at the visitor’s center at 11 AM and prepare for a moderately difficult 1-2 mile trip. Leashed dogs are allowed.

Dress warm and wear ice walkers or cleats if you got ‘em. Snowshoes are available for rent, too.

Jump-start your 2014 with the annual Flathead Lake Polar Bear Plunge, held outside the Raven Brew Pub in Woods Bay. Costumes encouraged. Parade at 1:45, plunge at 2 PM sharp.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENTS RAIL JAM, TORCHLIGHT PARADE & FIREWORKS PLUS live music! It all starts at 5PM. Full details online.

THURSDAY JANUARY 2 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

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Napoleon Dynamite jokes were the height of hilarity when I was in high school, in particular, Napoleon’s assertion that he and his buddy Pedro had “skills.” Skills like sweet dance moves and using nunchucks and having a mustache. It’s silly because we don’t think of those things as being terribly important or useful, but they’re definitely important to Napoleon. I can think of a ton of skills my buddies have that I find highly important. My best friend, for instance, can identify the title and artist of ’70s rock songs within the first 30 seconds. Another friend makes excellent frybread. I admire how another gal can always do her eye make-up really well. I know some people who can shotgun a beer in five seconds. Others have near-encyclopedic knowledge of the Star Wars canon.

None of those are skills someone would put on a resume (I think, anyway) but they’re still part of what makes life rad. So I like the idea behind Community Classifieds, a participatory art project that’s

part of First Night Missoula festivities. It’s based on artist Amy Stout’s Employment Ads series, when she placed classified ads in the Missoulian like “PT position, daydreamer wanted to spend time lost in thought” and “Skilled Labor: Conversationalist wanted to engage in stimulating discussion on a variety of topics. People skills required.” The project invites people to produce their own “classified ad” for their unconventional skills with cultural or social value. Especially around the holidays, when it’s easy to get swept up in finding the neatest present to give, it’s nice to sit back and remember the immaterial gifts we all give each other. We all have special skills.

What’s yours?

—Kate Whittle Community Classifieds runs from 6–11 PM at the University Center Atrium on Dec. 31 as part of First Night activities. Visit missoulacultural.org/firstnight to learn more.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY DECEMBER 27 Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 28 If you’re having trouble paying for daycare for the little ones, Missoula’s Child Care Resources offers scholarships. New guidelines mean a family of three can earn up to $2,386 per month to potentially qualify. Call 406-728-6446 or visit childcareresource.org to learn more.

Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.

MONDAY DECEMBER 30 Enter to win great prize giveaways at every booth and one lucky bride will win

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Drink up for a cause at today’s edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. A dollar from every drink sold is do-

nated to a different non-profit or good cause each Monday. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 31 Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at the Ewam Buddhist Center, S. Third Ave W. 5:30-6:30 PM. Call Clare at 721-8224.

THURSDAY JANUARY 2 The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. Now meeting at 6 PM. Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door. 7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

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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FLESH PRINCE My boyfriend of two years has always disparaged gentlemen's clubs. I truly believed him until he visited his family and I searched Google Maps on his computer for something in his hometown. The text box predicted "strip clubs" there. I confronted him, and looking to prove me wrong, he showed me his "places" history.

Various searches for strip clubs showed up.

(I don't think he understood that Google keeps track of that stuff.) He claimed he didn't do these searches and suggested that his brother or someone who borrowed his computer did. We have sex regularly, and he is loving and treats me very well, so I put aside his lying and gave him another chance. I should say that I understand men's interest in these clubs; I just don't feel it's right for guys in relationships to go because of the possibility of cheating happening. Disturbingly, I just found some Hooters coupons with his stuff. I think that the fact that he may go to these places doesn't bother me as much as the fact that he's lying about it.

—Worried A woman wants to believe a man when he claims he hates those nasty "gentlemen's clubs." Yeah, the last thing any man wants to see is a totally hot 21-yearold with enormous breasts doing upsidedown splits on a pole.

There's that line from politics: "It isn't the crime; it's the cover-up." Not only did your boyfriend pre-lie, laying out the above bed of lies like lettuce on a cottage cheese plate, but he followed up with the obvious honker that it had to be somebody else searching for nudie bars on his computer. Yes, it was probably Granny, who, like many women her age, loves to go to strip clubs and make it rain Social Security checks.

As for why he lied, consider that there's a notion that men are pigs—simply for being men. Men evolved to be highly visual and variety-driven in their sexual desire, while women evolved to be more emotion- and commitment-driven. Male sexuality isn't wrong; it's just different. But men are so used to being under attack for what turns them on that many default to denying it. They keep mum to avoid conflict in their relationships, in part because they think they could never explain male desire in a way that wouldn't make a woman's head fly off and chase them around the room.

The truth is, we all lie, all day long, and often think nothing of it. If you cram

your muffin-top into Spanx or put goop on your eyebags, you're lying about what you really look like. And frankly, if people could read our thoughts, most of us wouldn't make it to lunchtime without a co-worker's bludgeoning us with a stapler. But because we alone know what we're thinking, a person can say sweet, relationship-enhancing things to his partner—"You're the only woman for me!"—while entertaining less palatable fantasies: "If only I could have you, your sister, the Swedish women's bobsled team, and that girl from The Weather Channel in a swimming pool of butterscotch pudding!"

Still, fantasizing and cheating are two different things. Sure, some guys who go to strip clubs are looking to get some on the side, but a guy can do that at the office or the corner bar without breaking out a wad of Benjamins. And Hooters? Naughty in concept, but in reality, a place to eat heavily battered chicken strips while having platonic conversations with a married waitress in gym clothes and 1980s pantyhose.

As for those coupons your boyfriend had, nothing helps a guy seduce a waitress like whipping out a voucher for 10 percent off. ("Hey, big spender!")

Another woman may turn your man's head (or make it swivel like a turbo lazy Susan), but that doesn't mean she turns his ethics, too. If you have reason to believe your boyfriend is a good guy, driven by ethical standards instead of what he can get away with, chances are he's just looking at strippers from time to time instead of looking to get some strange. Relationships are built on trust, but they're also built on white lies about who we really are and having the wisdom to look the other way at stuff that doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.

You and your boyfriend have heat in the bedroom, and he is loving and treats you well. Sounds like he's happy.

That's probably the single best motivator for a guy to make visiting strip clubs nothing more than an occasional form of sightseeing -- as much a threat to your relationship as a visit to the Grand Tetons (on one of those days they're decked out in flaming nipple tassels and 5-inch Lucite heels).

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PROFESSIONAL CHEF DE CUISINE A local business seeks a CHEF DE CUISINE. QUALIFICATIONS: The extensive experience, knowledge, skills and abilities at this level are typically acquired through a bachelor’s degree in hospitality or food service management or a related field and at least three years of directly related experience or a twoyear culinary degree and four years of directly related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Two years’ experience in catering or fine dining or a progressive college or university operation is required, along with leadership and management experience and the ability to be ServSafe certified within a year of employment. Also required is the ability to lift 40 pounds, experience with purchasing, receiving, storage and production of a wide variety of food items, profit-and-loss labor analysis and annual operating budgets, recipe and menu development, and working with college students as employees and guests. DUTIES: This position is responsible for the production and service of food from the retail kitchen, auditing and managing CBORD recipes for catering and the food court, and the safe production, transportation and presentation of food from the retail kitchen.. HOURS / DAYS: Full-time. WAGE: $15.59 to $17.84 per hour. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985924 Collector level I and/or III The Collector is responsible for performing collection activities in an effort to recover losses from assigned accounts. The Collector will locate and communicate with debtors via the telephone and written notices in order to obtain repayment in full or to establish acceptable payment arrangements. Additionally, the Collector will resolve issues of a non-routine nature as necessary as well as

perform skip tracing and contract observance functions to ensure compliance of all company, client, and federal and state regulations.

The successful candidate must possess excellent communication and computer skills, is a self-starter, and motivated to succeed. This is a full time position. Hourly plus commission. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job#9984904 DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY A local university seeks a DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY. QUALIFICATIONS: This position requires a bachelor’s degree in police science, law enforcement, criminal justice, public administration or a closely related field and at least eight years of experience in law enforcement, including at least five years at police lieutenant or higher rank or comparable level. Candidates must have or be able to obtain Montana P.O.S.T. certification. Required skills include knowledge of basic law-enforcement practices, including budgeting, program planning, implementation and evaluation, supervision and training. Principles of police science include uniform patrol, drug, alcohol and crime prevention, misdemeanor and felony investigations, case review, investigative assignments and report review, media relations, and intelligence gathering and electronic surveillance. DUTIES: This position is responsible for the comprehensive operations of the university’s public safety department, including oversight of parking services and dispatch. The director serves as the primary resource on all matters related to campus safety, security and emergency management, including oversight of all major criminal, internal and administrative investigations. HOURS / DAYS: Full-time. WAGE: Negotiable. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 2985926 Dispatch Specialist Local multi-state firm offering part-time (15-20 hours a week) opportunity for a Dispatch Specialist to provide emergency dispatch call out services. Previous call center/Dispatch experience preferred. Requires the physical ability to sit and operate a computer for long period of time, have the manual and physical dexterity needed to operate a keyboard and handle paper documents, and have adequate hearing and verbal abilities to communicate effectively in person and by telephone. Pay is $10/hr.

Job duties include: ¿ Dispatch emergency tickets via phone and ticket administration system. ¿ Document all pertinent emergency ticket information. ¿ Provide detailed ticket information to endusers. ¿ Applicant must have previous Microsoft Office experience. ¿ Must have excellent oral and written communication skills. ¿ Other duties as assigned. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 9984891 SCRANTON EQUITY OF Scranton, ND is seeking a qualified General Manager. This is a BNSF grain shuttle loading facility and full service agronomy and energy operation with sales of $100 million with three locations. Grain, agronomy, energy, and service as well as financial and personal

management experience required.

Email: larry.fuller@chsinc.com or fax (888-653-5527) resume to: Larry Fuller, 5213 Shoal Drive, Bismarck, ND 58503 SENIOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Missoula youth organization is seeking a Senior Youth Development Director with solid experience and skill in managing youth programs including camp and childcare.

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or 1 to 2 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education & experience. Knowledge of word processing software; Excel spreadsheets & Daxko operations management software. Program development, licensing, regulations, educational curriculum & quality assurance are critical.

Processes should include volunteer & staff engagement. Must have a deep passion for youth, a high level of energy & strong administrative skill. Requires driver’s license. DUTIES: Responsible for organization, delivery & quality of critical youth development programming such as Camp, Afterschool Club & Early Childhood Education. Will interview, hire & train employees; plan, assign & direct work; review & approve timesheets; appraise performance; reward & discipline employees; monitor and update all required staff certifications; address complaints & resolve problems. Will supervise 5 program directors.

DAYS/HOURS: Full time, days/hours may vary. PAY/BENEFITS: $40K-$45K, DOE/DOQ + health insurance, vacation & sick leave, retirement. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job#2985925

TOUR ACTORS / DIRECTORS TOUR ACTORS

AND DIRECTORS are needed immediately for a locally-based theatre company that works with children around the county. This is an on-the-road commitment from January through May, with work beginning December 30. QUALIFICATIONS: Staff members should have some theatre experience, including high-school productions.

They must be able to sing in character and sing in tune, but Broadway-caliber voices are not required. The staff also has to be able to teach children and to lift set pieces weighing up to 50 pounds.

DUTIES: These employees travel to various points in the country, where they audition, cast, and in 20 hours, train a young cast to put on at least two performances of a two-hour musical. HOURS / DAYS: Full-time. WAGE: Approximately $1,200 to $1,400 per month. Housing and transportation costs are paid. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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SKILLED LABOR Custodian Three months experience in the cleaning/custodial industry, specialty cleaning specifically. Employer will train on site. This is a PART TIME,position, evenings and some Saturdays hours vary. Must be able to lift 30 pounds, Must have reliable transportation to job sites. Must pass

criminal background check. DUTIES: window and carpet cleaning and other duties as required - typical janitor duties. All equipment and cleaning supplies are provided by employer; part time. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 9984922 LOOKING FOR A TRUCK DRIVER. Must have Class A CDL with a clean driving record. Competitive wages, starting wage $18 DOE. Benefits: Simple IRA, health insurance, dental, paid vacation and paid holiday. B&B Septic Services, Inc., 3604 N. Hwy 7, P.O. Box 1514, Baker, MT 59313-1514; Allan or Trish Barth 406-7782599. Please send resumes to: trisho@hotmail.com or can fax to 406-778-3794

TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-5454546

HEALTH CAREERS Certified Nursing Assistant - Operating Providence is calling a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Operating Room, to St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, MT.** We are seeking a compassionate and caring individual to provide safe and reliable routine daily care to patients admitted to the hospital. *This is a 1.0 FTE variable shift position, with rotating weekend call and 810 hour day and evening shifts, with start times between 6:00am and 2:00pm.* **In this position you will:** * Act as an advocate for patients in maintaining choice, independence, privacy, dignity and security. * Provide appropriate patient care as directed by the licensed nurse. * Assist in providing care and implementing delegated activities of the nursing plan. **Required qualifications for this position include:** * High School diploma or GED * Current Nursing Assistant Certified (NAC) licensure * Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification **Preferred qualifications for this position include:** * Prior work experience in a hospital. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 9652527 Manager - Patient Access Providence is calling a Manager Patient Access to Saint Patrick Hospital in Missoula, MT.** We are seeking a Manager who will be accountable for the 24/7 operational leadership of the on-site Access Services staff. **In this position you will:** * Manage Access Services on-site operations with focus on accurate registrations, superior customer service, high employee satisfaction and maximized reimbursement. * Track KPI¿s, metrics and take action on outcomes including data accuracy, patient satisfaction, compliance measures/requirements, POS collections and

patient wait times to maximize performance and ensure Revenue Cycle goals are met or exceeded. * Ensure Access Services departments are adequately staffed at all times to facilitate patient care including providing 24/7 on-call support to resolve staffing or emergent department issues. * Develop and mentor Supervisor(s) and staff. **Required**** qualifications for this position include:** * A Bachelor¿s degree in related field of study, equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered in lieu of the education requirements. * Minimum 3 years Managerial experience in an Access Services related position. * Minimum 2 years experience in a large healthcare delivery system. * Working knowledge of Revenue Cycle processes **Preferred**** qualifications for this position include:** * Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM). Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job#9652431 Medical Technologist Providence is calling a Medical Technologist to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, MT. ** We are seeking a medical technologist to perform the essential laboratory testing that is critical to the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. **In this position you will:** * Plan, perform and evaluate routine and complex laboratory tests. * Operate instruments and perform maintenance function checks and trouble-shoot. **Required qualifications for this position include:** * Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Medical Technology or related science program * Licensed as a CLS/CLT in the state of Montana and MT(ASCP), NCA(CLS) or MLT (ASCP) * Experience in a medical laboratory. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job#9652525 PACU RN Surgery Center is currently looking for an as needed/fill-in PACU RN to cover vacation and sick days on an as needed basis. Main Duties: Responsible for conducting preoperative testing and patient counseling. Performs nursing care for the patient in the immediate

postoperative/post-anesthesia period, assessing and documenting patient’s status upon arrival in the recovery room. Provides nursing care to meet patient needs related to surgical condition and type of anesthesia administered, monitoring patient and informing surgeon or anesthetist of observed complications. Job Requirements: High school graduate or GED certificate recipient.

Graduate of accredited school of nursing. RN with active MT license. BLS/ACLS/PALS Certification. Strong ethical and moral character references. Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal, and telephone communication in American English. ASC experience with minimum 2 years recent PACU or critical care experience. Computer literacy. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job#9984876 Phlebotomist Providence is calling a Phlebotomist to Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, MT.** The phlebotomist draws blood and other samples from patients for various lab tests and procedures. **In this position you will:** * Obtain patient blood samples by skin puncture, venipuncture and arterial puncture * Process specimens by using centrifugation, separation, delivery to department, prep for transfer to lab * Ensure cleanliness in the lab and maintain instruments * Maintain laboratory supplies by ordering, receiving and stocking them * Use a computer to register lab patients, order tests and input specimen data **Required qualifications for this position include:** * High School diploma or equivalent * Proficient with software applications such as Microsoft Office Suite **Preferred qualifications for this position include:** * Prior experience in a laboratory or related science environment * Phlebotomy certificate * Completion of Medical Assistant (MA) course or Phlebotomy

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your last best hope to get rich was back in the latter half of 2001 and the first six months of 2002. From July 2025 to June 2026, the cosmos will again conspire to give you a big fat chance to expedite your cash flow to the max. But why get bogged down dreaming of the past or fantasizing about the future when fertile opportunities to boost your prosperity are in front of you right now? Financial luck is flowing your way. Viable ideas for making money are materializing in your subconscious treasure house. The contacts that could help you build your wealth are ready to play with you. (This offer is good until July 2014.)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): French poet Edmond Jabès had this to say about the birth of big creative ideas that dramatically transform one's life: "For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound." Regardless of whether or not you're an artist, Cancerian, I expect that you will experience a wrenching and amazing awakening like this in 2014. The opening you've been hoping and working for will finally crack its way into your destiny. It may be one of the most pleasurable disruptions you've ever had.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, I'm betting that you will exit a confined place or shed cramped expectations or break off your commitment to a compromise that has drained you. It may happen suddenly, or it could take a while to complete. How the escape unfolds will have to do with how thoroughly you extract the lessons that your "incarceration" has made available. Here's a ritual that might also expedite the process: Give a gift to the people you're leaving behind, or offer a blessing in the spot where your difficult teachings have taken place.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good," says a character in John Steinbeck's novel East of Eden. I suggest that you make this your rallying cry in 2014, Virgo. In fact, why not begin right now, wherever you are? Say "Now that I don’t have to be perfect, I can be good." Free yourself of the pressure to be the polished, ultimate embodiment of everything you'd ever hoped you would be. That will allow you to relax into being more content with the intriguing creation you have already become. You may be surprised by how much mojo this affords you.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1972, English folk musician Nick Drake recorded his album Pink Moon.

He finished it in a mere four hours, singing all 11 songs and playing every instrumental track himself. It took years for anyone to appreciate his artistry, but eventually the magazine Melody Maker selected Pink Moon as number 48 on its list of the "All Time Top 100 Albums." Here's one way I suspect your efforts will be similar to Drake's in 2014, Libra: You will have the ability to get a lot done in a short time. Here are two ways your fate will be different from Drake's: First, you will have a big pool of trustworthy allies to call on for help. Second, what you produce won't take nearly as long to get the appreciation it warrants.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Eierlegende Wollmilchsau is a colloquial German term for a mythical pig that lays eggs like a chicken, provides milk like a cow, supplies wool like a sheep, and ultimately becomes bacon and pork chops. Metaphorically, it may refer to a fanciful device that performs many functions. Imagine, for instance, a futuristic smart phone that could interpret your dreams, trim your unwanted hair, fix you a perfect cup of coffee, tell you you're beautiful in ways you actually believe, and cure your little health problems. In the real world, there's no such thing, right? Not yet. But there's a chance you will find the next best thing to an eierlegende Wollmilchsau in 2014.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "We don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do," says Rainer Maria Rilke in the Duino Elegies. Do you promise to take that truth into consideration in 2014, Sagittarius? Will you pledge to diligently devote yourself to creating the right conditions for love to flourish? In the past, you may not have been fully able to carry out this slow-building marvel; you may not have had quite enough wise perseverance. But you do now.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan, confiscated the swords, daggers, and spears belonging to every citizen. He announced they would be melted down and used to make a giant Buddha statue. I'd love to see you undertake a comparable transformation in 2014, Capricorn. You shouldn't completely shed all your anger and pugnacity, of course; a certain amount is valuable, especially when you need to rouse yourself to change situations that need to be changed. But it's also true that you could benefit from a reduction in your levels of combativeness. What if you could "melt down" some of your primal rage and use the energy that's made available to build your personal equivalent of a Buddha icon?

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The period between last July and next June is prime time to find or create your dream job. That might mean simply upgrading your existing gig so that it serves you better. Or it could involve you rethinking your relationship with work and going off in quest of a new way to earn a living. So how are you doing on this project, Aquarius? If you are proceeding on schedule, you should be halfway there by now. The goal should be clear, and you should be more disciplined, organized, and determined than ever. If for any reason this isn't the case, start playing catch-up.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) is known as the father of nuclear physics not just because he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He was also a superb teacher.

Eleven of his students won Nobel Prizes. That's the kind of teacher or mentor or guide I urge you to connect with in 2014, Taurus. The coming months will potentially be an optimum time for you to learn deeply, and at a rapid rate. One of the best ways to fulfill that promise will be to apprentice yourself to adepts who have mastered the skills and savvy you want to acquire.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Edmund Kean (1789-1833) was one of the most famous British actors of his time. But a contemporary, the poet Samuel Coleridge, was frustrated by Kean's inconsistency, regarding him as a great artist who on occasion lapsed into histrionics. "To see him act," said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." Now and then I get that feeling about you, Aries. You have bursts of brilliance that you sometimes don't follow up on. You're like a superstar who loses your concentration. But I've got a strong feeling that in 2014 you will at least partially overcome this tendency. Your word of power will be consistency.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Singing teaches two skills that are essential for any creative process," says author and vocalist Rachel Bagby, "the ability to listen and the ability to be flexible and spontaneous." I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because 2014 could potentially be a Golden Age for your creativity. It will be a time when you will benefit even more than usual from exploring and enhancing your imaginative originality. That's why I'm encouraging you to sing more than you ever have before. Make a list of your 50 favorite singable songs. Be aggressive about expanding the music you get exposed to, and learn the melodies and lyrics to a lot of new tunes. Cut loose with your vocal stylings whenever you have a chance, and take a vow to propel yourself out of funky moods with the creative energy of your singing.

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[C4] Missoula Independent • December 26 – January 2, 2014

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-13-1268 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Lauren Kelso, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Lauren Michelle Kelso to Lauren Michelle Kelso Hanna. The hearing will be on January 8th 2014 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 11/27/13 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk of Court

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-233 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of FREDERICK MAISEL, IV, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above 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 William Andrew Maisel, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 21st day of November, 2013. /s/ William Andrew Maisel, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause Probate No. DP-13-217 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LORNA ANN GAVIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joe DeMarois and DeEtta Garland, the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC,

210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: December 13, 2013 /s/ Joe DeMarois, Personal Representative /s/ DeEtta Garland, Personal Representative Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-13-242 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GLEN DAVENPORT, A/K/A GLEN WAYNE DAVENPORT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Judith Ann Oliver, 13075 Mill Creek Road, Lolo, MT 59847 has filed in the above Court and cause a petition for appointment as conservator for the estate of the above-named protected person. For further information the petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the Clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said petition will be held in said Court at Courtroom 2 South in the Courtroom at Missoula, Montana, on the 7th day of January, 2014, at the hour of 11:00 a.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and object. DATED this 17th day of December, 2013. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. By: /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Probate Case No. DP-13-236 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Del W. Cumley, 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 the Personal Representative, Shirley J. Edwards, return receipt requested at 4206 Expressway #14, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 2nd day of December, 2013. /s/ Shirley J. Edwards, Personal Representative 4206 Expressway #14, Missoula, MT 59808 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-13-247 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE KNAPP, 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 be mailed to JOSEPH GORSH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o CHARLES W. SCHUYLER OF SCHUYLER LAW OFFICE, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of December, 2013. /s/ Joseph Gorsh, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-13-241 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES E. DOUGLAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Bradley C. Douglas 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 Bradley C. Douglas, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 6th day of December, 2013. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws

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PUBLIC NOTICES of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 6th day of December, 2013. /s/ Bradley C. Douglas, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-13-245 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BEVERLY J. WEEKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Richard Allen Flink, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

Dated this 10th day of December, 2013. /s/ Robert Allen Flink, Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Richard Allen Flink WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-13-250 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE

ESTATE OF DORIS E. BLUNCK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to LISA WILLS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o CHARLES W. SCHUYLER OF SCHUYLER LAW OFFICE, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of December, 2013. /s/ Lisa K. Wills, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DA-13-63 NOTICE OF INTENT TO RELEASE CHILD FOR ADOPTION IN RE THE PARENTING RIGHTS OF SAMANTHA THOMPSON AND MICHAEL PRITCHARD. SAMANTHA THOMPSON, Petitioner. NOTICE To: Michael Pritchard, a putative or possible father to an unborn child belonging to the Petitioner, Samantha Thompson, address unknown. Pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. § 42-2-503, you are hereby notified as follows: 1.A Petition of Notice of Intent to Release Child for Adoption has been filed by Samantha Thompson. 2. Samantha Thompson has identified you as a putative father or possible father of her unborn child.

3. Petitioner is pregnant. 4. Petitioner intends to release the expected child for adoption through direct parental placement. 5. The approximate date of conception was May 20, 2013. 6.

The location of conception was in Missoula, MT. 7. The expected date of delivery is February 16, 2014. 8.

That a hearing will be held on the 14th day of January, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 2 South, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, the purpose of which will be to consider the termination of your parental rights. 9.

You have the following rights: a. You have a duty to register with the Montana Putative Father’s Registry pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. § 42-2-204. b. If you register with the Montana Putative Father’s Registry, you will be entitled to notice of all proceedings to terminate your parental rights in accordance with Mont. Code Ann. § 42-2-205. c. If you do not have an address where you can receive notice of a termination of parental rights proceeding, you may designate another person as an agent for the purpose of receiving notice. d. If you wish to designate an agent you must provide the department with the agent’s name and the address at which the agent may be served. Service of notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, constitutes service of notice upon the putative father. e. If you register, you are responsible for providing written updates regarding any change of name or address. 10. Failure to appear as required may result in the termination of your parental rights. DATED this 2nd day of December, 2013. By: /s/

Karen S. Townsend, Hon. District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-13-238 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Robert M. Munson, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christopher P. Munson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 59807-7099 or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 5th day of December, 2013. /s/ Christopher P. Munson, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 10, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County.

Montana: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 1, ELK

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Zoo Music Awards Showcase February 7 & 8 Various Downtown Locations

Zoo Music Awards Ceremony Saturday, March 8 Wilma Theatre Tickets on sale at Zoomusicawards.com

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[C6] Missoula Independent • December 26 – January 2, 2014

HILLS PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. A.P.N. #: 3173504 Jeanette E. Hallam, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 3, 2003 and recorded December 10, 2003 in Book 723, on Page 1070, under Document No. 200346449. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., First American Title Company of Montana Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,757.41, beginning June 1, 2013, 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 16, 2013 is $163,725.70 principal interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $4403.15. late charges in the amount of $230.68, suspense balance of $-54.43 and other fees and expenses advanced of $190.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.35 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may dis-

burse 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: October 2, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 2nd day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage Vs. Hallam 42011.971 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 11,

PUBLIC NOTICES 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6A OF RIVER ROAD ESTATES LOTS 6A & 7A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Theodore D Weber, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Washington Mutual Bank FSB, a Federal Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 26, 2002, and Recorded June 28, 2002 in Book 684, Page 752, under Document No. 200218611. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, successor in interest to Washington Mutual Bank, FSB, A Federal 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 due in the amount of $250.29, beginning November 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 September 23, 2013 is $72,344.78 principal, interest at the rate of 2.589% now totaling $1,834.91, late charges in the amount of $75.06, escrow advances of $3,111.23, suspense balance of $399.82 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,672.53, plus accruing interest at the rate of $5.13 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 8, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 8th day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs. Weber 41816.174 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 4, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 1 OF TREASURE STATE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Eric Kelley and Allison Kelley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 30, 2008 and recorded October 2, 2008 in Book 827, Page 385, under Document No. 200822600. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,233.20. beginning September 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 1, 2013 is $185,586.80 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5000% now totaling $14,275.26, late charges in the amount of $1,028.93, escrow advances of $2,327.72, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,812.22, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.51 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 30th day of September, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Guild Vs. Kelley 41291.876 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 21, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, TO WIT: LOT 20 IN BLOCK 2 OF REMICK’S SWAN RIVER TRACTS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO: 1886100 Jimmie D. Carter and Rosenda P. Carter, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated October 21, 2009 and recorded October 27, 2009 in Book 849, on Page 1002, under Document number 200925754. The beneficial interest is currently held by EverBank. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,889.27, beginning April 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 6, 2013 is $344,010.75 principal, interest at the rate of 4.8750% now totaling $26,782.99, late charges in the amount of $377.84, escrow advances of $4,945.74, and other fees and expenses advanced of $800.46, plus accruing interest at the rate of $45.95 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

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

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser

shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 18, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 18th day of September, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Everhome Vs. Carter 41471.317 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application for Air Quality Permit pursuant to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program. Farwest Rock Products has filed on or about 12/26/2013 an application for an air quality permit from the Environmental Health Division of the Missoula

City-County Health Department. The applicant seeks approval for operation of Gravel Crushing. SO7, T14N, R20W, LOT1 PT of LOT2 E1/2 NW1/4 NE1/4 LessR/W SO6 T14N R20W S1/2 SE1/4 13272 Frontage Road. Any member of the public who wishes to review the application, obtain a copy of the application, or who wishes to submit comments should contact the Department at 301 W. Alder, Missoula, MT 59802-4123 or phone 258-4755 prior to 1-26-2014.

The Health Department will make a preliminary determination on whether a permit will be issued and provide notice to the public for comment on the determination. The notification will contain the date when the Department intends to make a final decision. The address and phone number at which interested persons may obtain further information or obtain a copy of the proposed permit is 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802 or 258-4755

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27 Since 28 Go to brunch 29 Day, to Don Quixote 32 Abbr. on a mountain peak sign 35 Fresh, in Frankfurt 37 "Bye Bye Bye" band, 2000 39 Pest 43 Language that gave us "kiwi" 44 Phoenix-to-Vancouver dir.

45 Photographer Geddes 46 2013 and 2014, e.g.

47 Curvy shape 50 Phobia 52 Appetizer trays at a luau 57 Bravo preceder 60 Kindle buys 61 Dennis's sister on "It's Always Sunny" 62 Rapper who dropped part of his name after 2001's "Doggy Bag" 64 Fireplace nook 66 City of central Florida 67 Ginger ___ 68 "Wall Street" theme 69 SATB section 70 Gen-___ (Millennial) 71 Disgusting

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1 Swiss cash 2 Big name in consumer electronics 3 Man of steal?

4 Cereal grain 5 Yell on the set before "curtain up" 6 Posting sought by some seekers 7 "Asteroids" game company 8 Cell 9 Melodramatic sound 10 Love, French-style 11 Kings of ___ 12 Like some cheddar 13 "The Banana Boat Song" opening 19 "The Thin Man" dog 22 "Jurassic Park III" star Tea 25 Noisemaker or party hat 26 Mountain on the Mediterranean 29 Bob Dylan's "In My Time of ___" 30 Get ___ the ground floor 31 Face trouble 32 Soap-making award?

33 "I don't believe you!"

34 "Dukes of Hazzard" deputy 36 Tea server 38 Begin 40 Modern waltz violinist Andre ___ 41 Blooming 42 Make a slight adjustment to 48 Gush 49 Chain pitched by Michael Phelps 51 Punctuation in an e-mail address 52 Nobel-winning poet Neruda 53 Good surname for a lifeguard?

54 They may be sanded down 55 Get new tenants 56 Broken-down 57 "I get that ___" 58 Hair scare 59 Dessert after paella 63 Paddle cousin 65 Org. for shooters

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REAL ESTATE 2272 South 10th West. 3 bed, 1 bath bungalow with wood floors, basement, 2 car garage & fenced yard. $197,500.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2550 Pattee Canyon. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on 8 acres. Gourmet kitchen, deck, patio, 2 car garage. $480,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

4475 Quaking Aspen. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Prairie-style home on almost one Rattlesnake acre. Built by professional woodworker with lots of natural light and beautiful details. $599,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 511 Spanish Peaks. 4 bed, 3 bath Mansion Heights home with 3 car garage. $769,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate.

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29203 Old Hwy 10 West. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 3.39 acres on the Clark Fork River. $539,900.

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5454 Canyon River Drive. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on Canyon River Golf Course. $550,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Central Missoula home. $214,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on 5 acres in Target Range. Borders DNRC land. $499,900. Properties 2000.

Pat McCormick 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

716 South 6th West. 3 bed, 2 bath with wood floors, fireplace, basement, large fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

3024 Elms Park Drive. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 bonus rooms, gas fireplace, deck & single garage. $254,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambroera.com

756 Angler’s Bend. 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car gargage on East Missoula golf course. $465,332.

Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate.

532-9229 tory@montana.com

FIND YOUR WAY HOME! David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana Real Estate, 406.241.3321 Lewis and Clark Area Home!

839 W Central. $220,000 MLS# 20136229. 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Double detached garage and many other sweet features. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Lot 42 Jeff Drive. To be built 2 bed, 2 bath Hoyt home in Linda Vista with 3 car garage. $369,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229. tory@montana.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, University District condo. $210,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail.

No HOA fees. $289,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown.

All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES

Burns Street Commons 1400 Burns St. #15. $159,9000. 3 bedroom, 1 bath.

Coveted 3 bedroom home in the Burns St. Commons, next to the Burns St. Bistro and the Missoula Community Co-op. KD: 2405227 porticorealestate.com

2424 McIntosh Loop. Bright & airy 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community. Ramp, patio and single garage. $129,000.

Vickie Honzel, Lammbros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

Condo With Views 1545 Cooley, Apt C. 2 bed, 1 bath Westside condo close to downtown, Burns Street Bistro & Missoula Community Co-op. $128,500 MLS# 20134747 KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 53 acres overlooking Missoula in the South Hills. Utilities and septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

575 Killdeer, Stevensville • $339,000 Home For the Holidays!

• 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres • Hardwood, granite, tile & many more recent upgrades • Deck with mountain views • 2 car garage, hay barn & horse stall

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5402 Canyon River Road.

Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15,901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River

frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com East Missoula Lot At 559 Speedway (Next Door) $55,000.

4,800 square feet. Mature trees, sewer available. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Florence Acres 944 Pathfinder. 330 gorgeous acres with 1 bed cabin and double garage. This little slice of perfection can be yours! Build your dream home here. $650,000 MLS# 20134863, 20134864 KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Frenchtown area, 14.9 Acres, existing well, adjacent to Forest Service land. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Frontage Road, Alberton.

2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

and either live on-site or rent out for a supplemental income stream. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com HISTORIC STENSRUD BUILDING. Renovated 1890’s building with 95% original hardware.

Residential or commercial zoning.

Lovely opportunity. $799,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-9270. glasgow@montana.com

OUT OF TOWN 1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered

by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $480,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula,

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $130,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $239,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $259,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

NHN Mormon Creek Road, Lolo. 12 acres with Sapphire Mountain views. $150,000.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40+ acre parcel with Mission Mountain views. $199,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Old Freight Road. Approximately 11 acres with Mission Mountain Views. $86,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Ryans Lane Tract B. 103+/treed acres with year-round creek near Evaro Hill. $517,250. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com Rock Creek Acreage. 20 acres adjacent to Forest Service land. #349,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

COMMERCIAL Great place to run your business

Beautiful Home On Rattlesnake Creek 4 bed, 3 bath with cathedral ceilings, wood floors, gourmet kitchen, jetted tub and river rock fireplace. Lovely 2nd floor deck overlooks creek.

$865,000

REAL ESTATE 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres. Great mountain views. $339,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com River Access 20525 Schwartz Creek, Clinton. 3 bed, 2 bath, single level living on 1 acre. Walking distance to river fishing access.

250,000. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-2587522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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Properties2000.com Homes:

Land:

2272 S. 10th W. • Charming Bungalow • $197,500 839 W. Central • Solid and Sweet! • $220,000 406 Aspen View • Polaris MT. • $345,000 2607 View Dr. • Many Upgrades • $239,000

330 Acres in the Bitterroot Amazing Views! • $650,000 East Missoula Building Lot With Trees • $55,000

Homes With Land: 2348 River Road • 2.23 Acres in Town • $535,000 20525 Schwartz Creek • 1 Acre Near River in Clinton $250,000

Townhomes/Condos: 1400 Burns • Cheaper Than Rent • From $79,000 Uptown Flats #306 • Third Floor Views! • $162,000 Uptown Flats #210 • Modern 1 Bed • $149,000 1545 Cooley #C • Rooms With a View! • $128,500

Commercial: 2309 Grant • Commercial Building & Land • $155,000

2272 South 10th West Charming 3 bed, 1 bath bungalow with hardwood floors, basement & 2 car garage.

MLS #20136664 $197,500

1545 Cooley #C North Hills views 2 bed, 1 bath condo with large kitchen, deck & single garage.

MLS #20134747 $128,500

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 JULIET• This lively Lab X finds it very hard to live in a cage! She wants a real home with a yard for running around and people for playing games and walking and hiking, She's looking for an active lifestyle that can also include cuddling and petting from a family that loves her.

Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MTSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays

BENNY•Anyone who knows and loves

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd

Jack Russell Terriers knows exactly what to expect from Benny. He's a small dog with a huge personality and as much energy as the Energizer Bunny. He needs to be an only pet, but -- take our word for it - he's plenty of pet all by himself!

TINY•Tiny is very aptly named; she is indeed a petite, delicate cat. She looks almost like a kitten, but she is as big as she's ever going to get. She loves to play, gets along with other cats, and really wants a home filled with sunshine and happiness.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

CRISSY•Crissy is very specific in her likes and dislikes: She loves people and is wonderfully affectionate with them.

However, she really doesn't like other animals, and she's not at all nice around them. Rescue her from our cat room, make her an only pet, and she'll thank you for the rest of her life!

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SNOWFLAKE•This white beauty is

SHANNON•Shannon is such a quiet, well-behaved cat that no one seems to notice her in our cat room. As you can see 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 from her picture, she has big, beautiful Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) eyes, but they aren't her only attractive Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 feature. She has a loving personality, a 3708 North Reserve Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) glossy coat, and an endearing face.

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much more of a snowball (a BIG one!) than a snowflake, but we have her on a diet to try to change that. She's a mellow, sweet lady who gets along fine with most other cats and really wants to have her very own people again.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 MAGGIE• Maggie is the perfect dog!

She loves hikes, loves car rides, and best of all, she loves other dogs, big and small.

This 6-year-old pit bull mix has fantastic manners, is housetrained, and has outgrown all of those annoying puppy habits. Won't you give this lovely lady a home for the holidays?

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SID• Sid is a handsome black boy with chubby cheeks that just beg to be scratched and smooshed. Sid was originally found in rough shape, but has since regained his strength and shine. He's shy, but once he trusts you he loves to be petted and snuggled. Sid would prefer a quiet home, where he can snooze in a sunny spot!

ATLAS•Atlas is a 3-year-old terrier/pit bull mix who would love the chance to find his perfect home. He would prefer a family without small children - all that noise and commotion can make a guy nervous! Atlas is a big, strong fellow, but he has beautiful, intelligent eyes, and looks at you as if to say, "Are you my new person?"

WILDER• Wilder loves to play! This

YELLOW•Yellow is a five-year-old lab

SERENA•Serena was tired, hungry and afraid when she came to the shelter way back in April. After spending lots of time learning to trust staff and volunteers, she has warmed up to humans.

Now, all this 4-year-old girl wants is a warm bed, some tasty food, a safe place to call home, and a human of her own!

mix who loves to play with other dogs, especially little ones! This hefty fellow loves treats (maybe a little too much!) and fetching, and he walks well on a leash. He would make a great addition to a family that needs a new companion who is both laid back and playful. Maybe yours?

beautiful 2-year-old Maine Coon mix would love a home where he can be an involved part of the family - he's outgoing, energetic, and inquisitive, and loves men, women, kids, and even other cats! He's currently in a HOPE foster home, and can't wait for a home of his own!

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