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COVER image: Day of the Dead parade will be held Friday, November 2. photo by Michael Gallacher

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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 路 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PAUL G. ALLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION 路 MONTANA ARTS COUNCIL DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION 路 MISSOULIAN 路 MONTANA PUBLIC RADIO

pg.34 the upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 beer week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 brew craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 celebrate life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 around the weird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 the sip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 musings from the dark side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 missoula events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 grapevine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 festival of the book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 nw montana events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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pg. 9 bitterroot events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 CINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 mso hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 the haps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 spurlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 loretta lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 sound check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 music of autumn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 dweezle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 sports page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 wtf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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THE Mike Lake

umor R The l is Mil g. churnin

ike butter, rumors need some churning. And there are rumors galore about Apple’s latest device. No, not the iPhone 5, the iPad Mini. The device been coined the “iPhablet” by the Internet fan boy population because it’s a mashup of the iPad tablet and the iPhone. Thus, Phablet. A 7-inch mini version of the iPad may hit stores as early as Christmas, but most likely not until next spring. The Mini is Apple’s pushback at the Kindle Fire and the Google Nexus 7 markets. Presumably, the Mini will offer a book reading experience like the Kindle Fire sports. Which is cool, if you read books by backlit screens–I still prefer the real deal, printed paper–but if that’s your cup-o-tea, more power to you. Insider experts are expecting the new device to run anywhere from $249 to $399. That is still double the price of the Kindle Fire, which retails at $159, or the HD version at $199. Google Nexus 7 retails at $199. If Apple decides to price the Mini at $399, it could be both a genius move, and a shot in the foot. Kindle Fire’s selling point is just that, its selling point. Jumping into the tablet market for only $149 is way easier to justify

than $399. Most consumers in the market for a tablet that size would still prefer the lower price point. On the other hand, Apple has more to offer–arguably–from its app market. Tested, verified apps that go through a submission process as opposed to the Android market with is open source. Both markets have their pros and cons, but Apple’s apps are a bit more polished, which could offset the higher cost of the new mini. By leaving the price of the Mini comparable to the iPad 2, Apple could be setting itself up for huge sales. People in the market for such a device may be willing to pony up the extra dough for the Apple brand and the app market that goes along with it. If, in fact, Apple is planning on delivering the iPad Mini before Christmas, you can bet this tech nerd will be pre-ordering that slice of happiness. Mike Lake is art director for the Corridor. He’s currently in the middle of a home renovation and his sanity may be compromised. He can be reached at mlake@corridormag.com.

October 2012

from the publisher

e completed our first year publishing the Corridor, and we are all so thankful for the wealth of support we received from loyal advertisers, your fantastic pick–up rates, and the quality engagement from our readers and the communities we serve. We are eager and focused on year two and delivering even better entertainment news and information for our readers. October is my favorite month in Missoula. The colors (hopefully less smoke) are amazing, weather is great, and at the Missoulian we start our new business year, so it is a time for a resetting of the clock and a fresh start again in a new year. Thank you from the staff at Corridor for allowing us to do the work we love in an amazing community we call home. Happy October and Happy Birthday Corridor! I promise we won’t spend three months celebrating our birthday, but we are proud to continue offering Corridor and hope you enjoy it as well. Sincerely,

Jim McGowan Publisher, Corridor

Publisher Jim McGowan SALES AND PROMOTIONS DIrector Brooke Redpath brooke.redpath@corridormag.com

SALES AND PROMOTIONS Scott Woodall scott.woodall@corridormag.com

Editor Sherry Devlin sherry.devlin@corridormag.com

Art Director Michael Lake mike.lake@corridormag.com

Designers Jesse Brockmeyer Diann Kelly Megan Richter Josh Quick

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Corridor was created to provide you with a one stop view of the culture, events, and happenings that make Missoula the interesting and fun place we all love. Published the first Friday of every month we hope this becomes a monthly tool for you to use to find out what to do and where to go over the next month. Enjoy this positive look at our great community and all it has to offer! Readily available in racks across western Montana, and inserted in the largest local newsprint product, the Missoulian, Corridor is a cultural hub for music, art, events and all things Missoula. With over 50,000 copies distributed monthly Corridor is an expressive extension of the Missoula Valley and everything it embodies. No part of the publication may be reprinted or reproduced without permission. ©2012 Lee Enterprises, all rights reserved. Printed in MISSOULA, MT, USA.

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beer week D

eschutes Brewery, makers of too many delicious brews to name here, is bringing its Base Camp tour to Missoula from Oct. 9-13, with plenty of beer tastings, food pairings and, well, Woody. Base Camp is a touring “multi-venue, multi event celebration of Mirror Pond, where any serious craft brew exploration begins,” or so says the brewery. What’s Woody? Well it’s a “giant beer barrel on wheels.” Deschtes brewers will also be in town taking part in the festivities. Deschutes will be visiting Worden’s, Orange Street Food Farm and Pattee Creek Market; host a beer dinner at Cafe Dolce; attend pint night at the Rhino; and tailgate at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Pretty much an all out assault on Missoula, in a good way. There are a bunch of events so hit the jump if you’re interested.

INDUSTRY TASTING

BASE CAMP BEER DINNER

INDUSTRY NIGHT BOWLING TOURNAMENT

BASE CAMP PINT NIGHT

Tues, Oct 9, 8-9 pm · Westside Lanes

Tues., Oct 9, 9-11 pm · Westside Lanes

LUNCH WITH A BREWER

Wed, Oct 10, 11 am – 2 pm · Iron Horse Brew Pub Break up the week with an important business lunch…dining with brewer Robin Johnson from Deschutes Brewery. Play a little game of stump the brewer – if you come up with a question he can’t answer, you can get some fun Deschutes swag. Even better? You’ll be noshing on yummy lunch menu items paired perfectly with Deschutes beers like the brand-new Chasin’ Freshies and Chainbreaker White IPA.

FRESH HOP BEER RELEASE & MEET THE BREWER

Wed, Oct 10, 3-5 pm · Worden’s Market Deli

When hops go from field to brew kettle in just a few hours, you get fresh hop beers that are…well…. fresh! Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery celebrated the hop harvest this fall by releasing two fresh hop beers: the brewery’s annual celebratory brew, Hop Trip; and a brand-new addition to the lineup, Chasin’ Freshies. Bottles of these hop-filled wonders, plus Deschutes Brewery favorites like Mirror Pond Pale Ale andBlack Butte Porter, will be available for sale. Bring a few home and wow your friends and family with all your craft brew knowledge – which you’ll garner from a nice chat with brewer Robin Johnson. He’ll share with you the ins and outs of brewing your favorite style of beer.

HATS OFF TO HOMEBREWERS

Wed, Oct 10, 6:30-9 pm · Union Club Bar

Attention homebrewers…come hone your craft with the gang from Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery. The Deschutes crew, including one of its brewers, Robin Johnson, is heading to Missoula for Base Camp Week and will be giving away complimentary brewing supplies including clone recipe booklets and bags of whole flower hops to use in your next homebrew. Enjoy beer tastings of brews likeInversion IPA, the brand-new Chasin’ Freshies, Chainbreaker White IPA and winter seasonal Jubelale. Come pick the brains of some of the Deschutes Brewery staff and try something new in your next home brew. Hope to see you here!

FRESH HOP BREWS & MEET THE BREWER

Thu, Oct 11, 2-5 pm · Orange Street Food Farm

MATT PRITCHARD GrizzlyGrowler.com

When hops go from field to brew kettle in just a few hours, you get fresh hop beers that are…well…. fresh! Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery is releasing two fresh hop beers this fall: the brewery’s annual hop harvest celebration beer, Hop Trip; and a brand-new addition to the lineup, Chasin’ Freshies – a Fresh Hop IPA. Bottles of these fresh wonders, plus Deschutes Brewery favorites like Mirror Pond Pale Ale andBlack Butte Porter, will be available for sale. Bring a few home and wow your friends and family with all your craft brew knowledge – which you’ll garner from a nice chat with brewer Robin Johnson. He’ll share with you the ins and outs of brewing your favorite style of beer.

Thu, Oct 11, 6-9 pm · Caffe Dolce

Thu, Oct 11, 7-11 pm · The Rhino

Is your glassware collection looking a little tired? Spice it up with a free Base Camp for Beer Fanatics pint glass from Deschutes Brewery! Just buy a pint of fresh hop beer like Hop Trip or the brand-new Chasin’ Freshies and keep your glass! Come down tonight and share a pint with the Deschutes Brewery crew, who will keep you in the know on the brewery’s pioneering methods for brewing fresh hop beers.

BEER-LESQUE: TASTINGS AND TASSELS Thu, Oct 11, 9 pm-11 pm · Top Hat

What’s better than an evening full of craft beer from Deschutes Brewery? An evening full of craft beer coupled with adorable dancers from The Cigarette Girls Burlesque, plus some side-splitting comedy acts. Each act will showcase a respective Deschutes Brewery beer equaling a night of excitement, laughter, and unforgettable fun. Show starts at 9 pm, so come in early to enjoy a couple of beers and meet a few folks from the Deschutes crew before the entertainment commences – you don’t want to miss this! All this while enjoying the tastiness of beers like Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Black Butte Porter, Inversion IPA, Hop Trip, and the brewery’s winter seasonal, Jubelale. $5 cover charge.

FRESH HOP BEER RELEASE & CELEBRATION

Fri, Oct 12, 2-5 pm · Pattee Creek Market

Fall brings the colorful leaves, crisp evenings, and…fresh hop beers! Deschutes Brewery is celebrating the hop harvest with not one, but two, fresh hop beers: the brewery’s annual hop harvest celebration, Hop Trip – a Fresh Hop Pale Ale; and a brand-new addition to the lineup, Chasin’ Freshies – a Fresh Hop IPA. Special prices all afternoon with great sales on your favorite beers, including Deschutes Brewery staples like Mirror Pond Pale Ale and Black Butte Porter. Come chat beer with the gang from Oregon; they’ll be here to talk about Deschutes Brewery’s latest inventions.

MONTANA WINE AND BEER FESTIVAL Fri, Oct 12, 7-10 pm · Adam’s Center

Deschutes Brewery is coming from Oregon to participate in this year’s Montana Beer and Wine Festival, a fundraiser for the Grizzly Scholarship Fund. With hard-to-find Reserve Series Brews, plus the brand-new Chasin’ Freshies and winter seasonal Jubelale, you’ll want to make sure to visit them during the festival. Entry fee to festival is $60 per person.

WOODY TAILGATE AT GSA BEER GARDEN Sat, Oct 13, 11 am-1:30 pm · Washington-Grizzly Stadium

The folks from Deschutes Brewery know how to tailgate. What can beat hanging out pre-game with a giant, wooden traveling beer barrel named Woody? He’ll be pouring Deschutes’ beers like Mirror Pond Pale Ale and Black Butte Porter from a couple of his traveling taps to keep you cheering for the home team.

October 2012

brew craft

ould there be a better place to celebrate the traditional month of beer drinking–aka, Octoberfest– than in Missoula, where craft beer brewing has boomed over the past

decade? The state’s three largest breweries–Big Sky Brewing Co., KettleHouse Brewing Co. and Bayern Brewing Inc.–call Missoula home. A fourth–Draught Works–opened late last year and has had trouble keeping up with demand after it introduced its brews to the city. And most agree there is room for the craft beer industry to grow–and it will. Missoula’s Big Sky Brewing is by far the largest in the state. The company pumped out 45,000 gallons of brews in 2011. Big

kettlehouse

By JENNA CEDERBERG photos by kurt wilson

Sky’s beers are distributed to 24 states, including Oklahoma and Alaska, making it the 38th biggest brewery in the nation. Co-founder Neal Leathers sees Big Sky as fitting perfectly into the Pacific Northwest –which, as a region, has been charmed by craft beer, and the wide variety of flavors and options that come with it. Big Sky IPA will be canned for the first time this spring, and Leathers said an expansion of the warehouse is due soon. Even with all the growth, Leathers is surprised Missoula hasn’t seen more craft brew activity. Nationwide, the number of people drinking craft beer keeps growing–and it’s growing at a faster rate in Montana. Young people, who are just turning 21, are jumping continued on page 8

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at the chance to try craft beers. And, “people who have been drinking beer for a long time are thinking, ‘Geez, there’s something more out there than just my regular old beer.’ We’re getting some of them converting,” Leathers said. Bayern opened in 1987, both Big Sky and KettleHouse opened in 1995. Draught Works came almost 16 years later. “I’ve kind of always wondered, ‘Why aren’t there more breweries open?’ I’ve always thought Missoula could support more breweries,” Leathers said.

t the newest Missoula brewery, the taproom is constantly packed. Draught works opened last October, offering five flagship beers, including the Clothing Optional Pale Ale and Scepter Head India Pale Ale. Draught Works’ second seasonal, a California Common beer, made its debut this spring. Co-owner Jeff Grant said it’s not just Missoula that has seen success. There are 32 breweries in a state with 1 million people. Breweries from Wibaux to Wolf Point have become strong businesses, Grant said.

Missoulian business reporter Jenna Cederberg can be reached at 523-5241 or at jenna.cederberg@missoulian.com.

ettleHouse has long hoped to expand, and has in various ways over the years. The brewery expanded to its second location, on the Northside, several years ago, solidifying its innovator status in the craft beer scene by canning its brews. It was a risky move becoming the “little brewery that cans,” marketing manager Al Pils said. Before the push to aluminum, craft brew drinkers demanded their beer in bottles. KettleHouse has proved that’s not true in Montana. But KettleHouse has been held back from major expansion by Montana law. What brewers call a weird, arbitrary state law dictates breweries that produce more than 10,000 gallons a year can’t sell the beer for consumption. The popularity of KettleHouse’s superstar brew, Cold Smoke Scotch Ale, has pushed Kettlehouse to the verge of hitting the 10,000 limit. Recently, owner Tim O’Leary announced Cold Smoke would be pulled from several major markets around the state, including Kalispell, Great Falls and Helena. The means the company’s ultrapopular taprooms in Missoula can remain open to serve their dedicated patrons. O’Leary is gearing up to lobby the Montana Legislature in 2013 to adjust laws and allow growth. The demand is certainly there. “People want more, they don’t just want Wonder Bread, they want Le Petit (Outre bread). They don’t want just Bud Light, they want Cold Smoke,” Pils said. “I still feel like there is a ton of room to grow and expand.”

draught works Craft beer lovers are invited to take over Caras Park on

Saturday, October 6 Montana Brewers Association’s fourth annual Fall Festival. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Caras Park.

By JENNA CEDERBERG

Big sky brewery

issoula’s oldest brewery, Bayern, has continued to grow throughout the years, not only churning out new flavors of beer but adding a bottling operation and second taproom to its Montana Street facility. Lore holds that Bayern founder Jurgen Knöller came to the States from Germany with two suitcases. One held his clothes; the other, his brewing books. Knöller found Montana the perfect spot to brew beer, with Missoula’s pure aquifer and the bounty of malt and wheat from farther east, Bayern marketing and sales manager Jared Spiker said in a January interview. The quality supply of grains and water is another reason the growth should continue. Bayern, to be sure, will keep producing new flavors.

bayern brewery

eer lovers who attend will be greeted by plenty of options to satiate their need for craft brews. The association’s website touts the festival as the “largest collection of Montana-made beer ever gathered in one place.” It will feature 75 Montana-made beers from 21 breweries, and many will be special “fall festival releases” that haven’t been tasted before. Missoula brewery Draught Works will debut its “Potato with a Mullet” rye Indian pale ale at the festival, as well as have its Shadow Caster, Clothing Optional and Scepter Head beers on tap. Local bands will provide music throughout the day, starting at 1 p.m. with music from The Growlers. The fall festival release kegs will be tapped at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Judging results will be announced at 6 p.m. Tickets to the festival are $12 and include a glass and two beer tokens. Additional tokens can be purchased for $1. Special VIP tickets that include early entry, a glass and four tokens, are available at montanabrewers.org. This is the fourth annual Montana Brewers Association festival, but the first held in Missoula.

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celebrate

life W

e only talk about death and dying once in a blue moon, and even when we do – it is a challenge to most. How do we take a stab at bringing this stage, end-of-life, to life? This is exactly the thought running through the minds of a local rhythm and blues band: Blue Moon – and they decided to take action! Like any good Missoulian would, Blue Moon decided to approach this “taboo” topic by calling upon the arts as a creative medium to bring some normalcy to death and dying. Who are these do-gooders with one of the least talked about topics on their agenda for fun? How and what will be their life changing event? Why will you find yourself drawn to join in the celebration? Great questions young Jedi – read on.

THE WHO:

Blue Moon is a rhythm and blues combo of four local, experienced, heavyweight musicians: Mary PlaceAllyn, Mikel Greathouse, Andrew Huppert, and Patrick Montgomery. Playing an eclectic mix of smokey-smooth original rhythm and blues, Blue Moon creates a perfect atmosphere for all who appreciate fine music.

THE HOW:

Blue Moon approached The Foundation of Hospice of Missoula to see if they might hold a fundraiser to educate and celebrate end-of-life in conjunction with Missoula’s Festival of the Dead. They received an honored welcome and an event started to take shape. Knowing that a corporate sponsor was needed in addition to a worthy cause and community education – Blue Moon reached out to First Security Bank who agreed to sponsor an the event.

THE WHAT:

The First Annual Festival of the Dead Cabaret was born! To be held at the always amazing Crystal Theatre on Saturday October 27th from 7-11 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. You can purchase these tickets from folks at First Security Bank, Blue Moon, Hospice of Missoula or by calling Andy at: 240-0767. Pizza will be served and there will be a cash bar with beer and wine.

THE WHY:

Not only will this event feature a live performance from Blue Moon, but you will also enjoy a cabaret of performances by local artists. There will be music, spoken word, comedy, dancing, a poetry slam and more. When asked about the event – spokesperson for Blue Moon, Andrew Huppert, had this to say: “This isn’t your grandpa’s hospice ball. This is a real life event and it brings the issues we all face at the end of our lives into the open so we can examine them to find our own experiences and peace. We found a local hospice foundation that donates 100% of their funds to patient care in Missoula and we thought – yes! … this has gotta happen.”

THE YOU:

Finding moments that are meaningful to our personal growth is something we all pursue. Sometimes we have to seek out education or maybe we learn through experiences of struggle or joy. This event is a gimmie. You will walk out with a backpack of knowledge and awareness about end-of-life – and the entire time you will be celebrating. That’s what we call a win-win. See you there.

October 2012

Around the

Weird RACHEL CRISP PHILIPS

MAD MONK

While hiking through the woods, a German man came across the unusual sight of another, completely naked man wandering around the forest, disoriented and cold. When help was offered, the nude man refused assistance and wandered away, but was eventually intercepted by law enforcement. Later, it was discovered that the affected man was a monk on a camping expedition who had accidentally consumed toxic berries, resulting in hallucinations, partial paralysis and public exposure during the incident. (The Local)

RELAX AND FLOAT DOWNSTREAM

When local police in Wenling City, Zhejiang Province, China, responded to calls of a dead body floating in the river they naturally assumed the worst. However, upon closer inspection, the woman was revealed to be alive and well; she was simply napping. While on a walk to clear her head after a spousal argument, the woman had succumbed to drowsiness from a prior ingestion of cold pills, causing her to topple into the water. Fortunately, this artificially relaxed state helped to prevent her drowning as her limp body calmly floated downstream for an estimated 40 minutes before rescue. (Record China)

DEMOLITION JOYRIDE

Upset over a recent arrest, a Vermont man decided to enact some vigilante justice. Armed with a full-size, eight-tired tractor and a mind for vengeance, the man headed for his local Sheriff’s office. After using the machinery to line up seven of the official vehicles, and courteously moving a civilian vehicle to the side, the culprit drove back-and-forth over the cars, monster truck-style, before officers were able to engage him in a low-speed chase. Ultimately overtaken, the man now has 13 additional charges to add to the original accusation. (The Newport Daily Express)

EMU

Typically, road improvements such as wildlife crossings and bridges are seen as positive progress from both road officials and environmentalists for the impact they have on reducing road kill. However, a proposed Australian highway that will cut across a major emu habitat has caused recent conflict. According to environmentalists, the underground wildlife crossing tunnels incorporated into the design are not enough to save the poor emu. While they respect the wild emu, they also contend that the animal is far too dumb to use the life-saving tunnels. (The Telegraph)

SMOKING GUN

When a 24-year-old Washington state man reportedly stopped his pickup truck yell at a pregnant smoker on the sidewalk, he shouted, “Who the heck smokes when they’re pregnant?” When the woman replied, “I do,” the man allegedly pulled a gun on her, even further heightening the risk of harm to the woman and her unborn child. Stopped by police a short time later, the man confessed to confronting the woman but denied pulling a gun. According to police, two handguns were found in the truck and the man was arrested for investigation. (Huffington Post) Rachel Crisp Philips is a sales assistant at the Missoulian and purveyor of “odd news.”

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October 2012

By JEN HILDEBRAND

photos by Jodi Keating

less is more

hat is fashion without beauty? One of my favorite sections of any fashion magazine is the beauty section. I love reading the newest trends and of course the newest products. From million dollar eye creams, to five dollar lipsticks, Bridget Bardot hair, and crazy manis, this section launched my early obsession with all things beauty. I can remember being 9 years old and stealing my mom’s Mary Kay lipstick and eye shadow, and at 13 when my mother took me to get my first makeover at a department store cosmetic counter. I used to save up my babysitting money just to pay to have my hair washed and curled at the local hair-cutting chain. So over the years, I’ve deemed myself somewhat of an expert in the beauty field. From working for a top cosmetic company in college, to my extensive research. You name a product and I can probably tell you something about it. So this month I’m going to give some helpful hints and looks for the upcoming seasons. Holiday beauty is a huge money maker for cosmetic companies, and with this they usually introduce their funniest and craziest trends. From overly glittered eye shadow, to a purple lip, who knows what they’ll put out. Don’t get me wrong, I love these fun looks, but I can’t exactly get away

with the Katy Perry look on a daily basis. My all-time favorite look is the vintage retro look. Light eyes and a bright lip. But let’s face it ladies, we live in Montana where sometimes the closest we come to lipstick is tinted lip balm (And thank God for that. … I have six in my bag as we speak). Too many times do I see women overdoing it with their makeup and hair. If you are going through a whole black eyeliner khol a month, it’s time to rethink your look. Black eyeliner can be nice as definition, but the overly smoky eye should be left to Kardashians and Snookies. Less is more, think of it as doctrine! Less highlights, definitely less bronzer (NO tanning), and less foundation. Use yellow tinted concealers to cover dark bags, and blemishes. A good foundation with key ingredients for your skin usually costs upwards of $30-plus, but is totally worth the money in results. Over-tweezed brows are out, let those babies grow (castor oil applied nightly with a Q-tip to brows helps the growing process a little faster)! Also when it comes to mascara, throw it out every 12 weeks! Eye bugs, ladies! Yet the sad truth for many of us ladies is that the best beauty secret is more sleep, which will never happen. Thank goodness for eye cream!

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HEATHER THUESEN

Out of Our Gourds, MatÉ

ong ago, as Yarí the Moon goddess gazed upon the earth over Paraguay, she felt overcome by a great longing to see the rainforests that Tupá, the great god of the Guarani people, had planted. And so she asked Araí, the pink dusk, to accompany her down to the earth. As they traveled in human form and hoped to relax within the forests, a huge Yaguareté (jaguar) came out and tried to attack them. Fortunately, a kindly old Guarani man killed the beast and offered generous hospitality to the visitors. In an act of gratitude in return for the kindness, the goddesses planted very green plants, perfumed with kindness, and directed the dreams of the kind old Guarani and his family as to how to pick the leaves, dry them on fire, grind them, put the pieces in a gourd, add cold or hot water and sip the infusion. The purpose of this new beverage, they said, was meant so the family could always find strength, health & company, even in the sad hours of the cruelest solitude.” To drink this beverage would mean for the Guarani people a gift of the gods, to drink in the essence of the rainforests. And so the “caá-ete” was born, which white people would later adopt under the name of Chimarrão in Brazil and Yerba Mate in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. With the coming of the Conquistadors, who learned about yerba mate and its virtues from the Guaraní, yerba mate became a staple commodity above other wares like tobacco, cotton, and beef, and its trade and consumption spread throughout the entire Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. With the coming of the Jesuit priests in the 1700s and their learning the secrets of cultivating mate, whose seeds only germinate after passing through the digestive systems of toucans, yerba mate plantations became very widespread throughout their missionary work. The knowledge of cultivation became lost as the Jesuits were run out of South America. For many years afterwards, yerba mate came only from wild trees in

the forest, growing in very dense thickets called islands. In the early 1800s, a French naturalist by the name of Aimé Bonpland began studying yerba mate and its cultivation, and mate was officially classified as ilex paraguariensis, and Bonpland rediscovered the secret to its domestic cultivation. However when he died so too did his knowledge, and once again the secrets of growing yerba mate became hidden. With the coming of the 20th century, Argentina began establishing controlled plantations of yerba mate, which will not grow beyond what was originally established as the original Guarani lands in South America. Though frequently and improperly accented as “maté” to help English speaking people properly pronounce it (accented, this is actually Spanish for “I killed”), the proper denotation of mate should be without the accent, and if you’re curious, the pronunciation is YAIR-bah MAH-teh. It is interesting to note, that despite various anglicized changes to make mate easier to pronounce, the way that it is prepared and consumed has not changed. For South Americans, drinking mate became a passion and a mark of cultural identity, with the leaves being dried, chopped and ground, then steeped in a dried natural gourd, and sipped through a metal bombilla (basically a metal spoon with holes to filter out the mate leaves) or hollowed out cane. It is typically drunk in social gatherings or working in fields, often in actual gourd ceremonies. One person acts as a server, or cerbador, and prepares the mate carefully, then drinks the initial brew to taste the quality. This is referred to as the mate del zonzo, or mate of the fool. The cebador subsequently refills the gourd and passes it to the drinker to his or her right, who likewise drinks it all, without thanking the server, until the entire gourd is washed out. Some drinkers prepare the mate with sugar or honey, which is a very popular custom in Brazil. Outside of the deep cultural roots and

mystery, the health benefits of mate are truly fantastic. More nutritious than green tea, and proven scientifically to have strong therapeutic properties, mate is considered to be one of the six most commonly used stimulants in the world, right up there with coffee, tea and guarana. However, mate is more balanced with its energy and nutritional properties. It contains a plethora of vitamins, including Vitamin A and various B vitamins, numerous minerals that include calcium, iron and magnesium, and it also contains caffeine, theobromine (such as in cacao) and theophylline. What does all of this mean? It means that in addition to its strong antioxidant properties, yerba mate can stimulate focus and clarity, natural physical energy, and is an absolute powerhouse for the system. On the caffeine scale, yerba mate has less caffeine than coffee but more than black tea, without the harsher peak and crash that is often experienced by coffee drinkers. So how can you experience for yourself the wonders of this amazing brew? If you’re seeking something beyond your average coffee latte, Liquid Planet offers a very unique Mate Latte, which infuses the steamed milk of your choice with yerba mate, and is delicately enhanced with honey and vanilla. This can be enjoyed hot or iced, sweetened or unsweetened, however you prefer. For established maté fans, there are selections of green and roasted yerba mates for both pots of tea and bulk sales, as well as packages of the high quality South American Taraqui brand. If you’re on the go, and would enjoy a more flavorful boost, Guayaki has some beautiful bottled mates infused with mint, raspberry, citrus, pomegranate and passion fruit. If you would like to have your own gourd ceremony, gift sets that include gourds, bombillas and loose mate are also available. Whether drunk solo, shared daily amongst friends, or at an all-night study session, yerba mate is a great addition to your beverage repertoire.

October 2012

musings

from the dark side instrumental characteristics

ne of the great things about being a conductor is that you get a chance to meet many people, from musicians, to community leaders, enthusiastic audience members, kids in schools, university students and professors. And when you add the multiplier of traveling for guest conducting, the number multiplies quickly. You trade a little privacy for much learning and hearing some pretty spectacular stories. But when it comes to meeting musicians in an orchestra, one starts to notice surprising parallels, no matter if it is a rehearsal at the Dennison Theatre, or a group of string players from Georgia (and that would be the Republic, not the state). It is a universal truth that when you spend time around someone, you probably adopt a few quirks from being in their presence. Hence it is not surprising that people from across the globe carry similar characteristics when spending thousands of hours with an instrument. I remember reading a book by a certain Mr. Fuchs in college about the very subject, the man managed to write 200 pages on what type of personality can be most found among harp players! For one, the instruments where invented quite a long time ago, and ergonomics was not on the priority list. If you have a big hickey under the left side of your chin and you are not an enamored teenager, you most likely play the violin. All string players develop calluses on their left hand due to the eternal battle with the tension of the steel strings under our fingers. The function of the instrument in the orchestra also plays an important role, especially when facing the group in number. Instruments that play bass lines (think basses, tuba and trombones) tend to have a little less activity in their parts – the first violins, for example, will often have ten times as many notes to play in the same piece! As a result, this gang tends to be quite laid back in character, easy going, and most likely to celebrate a good concert with a pint in a pub.

DARKO BUTORAC

The trumpet generally gets to shine and take over the entire soundscape of the orchestra, and it is no surprise you will find confident characters among their ranks. Their neighbors in the horn section battle with the most unstable of instruments, and one must be empathetic when approaching them. Cellists get the juicy tunes and rich bass lines, and thus tend to have a romantic, soulful personality. Then there are the violas, the victims of the jokes - there must be thousands of them, whereas the other instruments might have a dozen at best. That’s what happens when you are unnoticed in a big group (the violas play in the middle register rarely stepping into the limelight) – think New Jersey or Belgium. Yet, just like the Belgians, the violists of the world tend to just be really normal and mellow – like a good neighbor. No wonder they get picked on among the other idiosyncrasies of the orchestral milieu. But there is one instrument to which all the others aspire. Every treatise on every instrument states at some point: Make it sing, emulate the human voice! It is the most human of sounds – the one most likely to grab a hold of your heart and stir your soul. And it is this month that the MSA celebrates the glory of the human voice, at our Symphony Chorale stand-alone concert at the Dennison Theatre (formerly known as the University Theatre). Come check out a vivid program of a wide variety of repertoire, along with the irreverent and eclectic Missoula Brass Consort. Now as far as singer personalities, that will have to be an article all unto itself. Darko Butorac is the music director of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and a cello player at heart. The Missoula Symphony Chorale Stand-Alone Concert featuring the Missoula Brass Consort performs on October 28 at 3 p.m. www.missoulasymphony.org for tickets and more information.

october 2012

October 2012

MISSOULA oct 5 UM Women’s Soccer vs Northern Colorado 3 p.m.

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EVENTS CALENDAR

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5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave. Featuring the art of Marlo Crocifisso, who explores the role of the stencil through her large canvas and stencil works inspired by urban environments. Call 721-4777. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., The Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. Featuring “Momentum in the Stillness of Now” by Noellynn Pepos. Call 728-5251 or visit thebrinkgallery. com. 5 First Friday, 5-9 p.m., Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. Featuring “SALTMINE Artists” with Bev Beck Glueckert, Stephen Glueckert, Peter Keefer, Cathryn Mallory, Karen Rice, Edgar Smith, showing contemporary art consisting of drawings, prints, photography and mixed media sculpture. Call 541-7100. 5 First Friday, 5-9 p.m., Garden Mother Herbs, 345 W. Front St. Featured artists are Emanuel Preta who allows us a peek backward in time at the logistics of massive human achievement through these beautiful paintings; Eugene Heavy Runner and Karen Kapi (Coffee), Native American beadwork, traditional dress and bone work; Kelly S, local photographer, “Back to Nature Series,” featuring tri-state rugged natural wildlife; Shawna Cushing, phallic necklaces with her rock and woody collection, “Nature Made; Jeff McGrath, line drawings, Xua Ponzone pen and ink prints, stylized minimal color; and Xavier Myers, age 9, has his first show with four pieces, he likes to draw movies, animals and sports, with pen and watercolor. Plus music by Chris and Friends and fire dancing and hula hoop dancers. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., Brooks & Browns, 200 S. Pattee St. Featuring original pieces from Brian Murphy. 5 First Friday, 5 p.m., Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins Ave. Featuring Jax hats and silversmith jewelry created from recycled forks and spoons. Call 239-2538. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., Western Montana LGBTIQ Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Suite 202. Featuring “Venting Trans Angst in a Repressed Culture,” pencil drawings and photography by Sabina Jonez. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., Bella Sauvage Day Spa, 629 Woody St. Featuring the works of Zombie Tools. Zombie Tools are legitimate craftsmen and metalsmiths who create highquality blades and other gear that will increase your odds of surviving a zombie apocalypse. Call 396-5915. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. View exhibitions in six galleries, sample delicious wine, beer, and nonalcoholic beverages. Immerse yourself in Gerry Sayler’s entrancing site-specific work, “Evanescent.” Sayler created “Evanescent” to hang in MAM’s beautiful sunlit stairwell, and is inspired by her study, exploration and understanding of Glacial Lake Missoula. At 7 p.m., Sayler will talk about how she constructed, assembled and suspended over 3,000 fused hot glue and monofilament strands evoking water, ice and a sense of cascading. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., The Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Featuring fused glass by Ilene and Arden Arrington, with bold color and contemporary design. Call 543-6393 or visit missoulaartistsshop.com. 5 First Friday, 5-8 p.m., Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St. Featuring recent paintings and related prints and posters from Yellowstone National Park by Monte Dolack. Music by Julian Jared Ricci. Call 549-3248 or visit dolack. com. 5 First Friday, 5-7 p.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Featuring the Great Bear Foundation. Call 541-7529. 5 First Friday, 5-9 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. Featuring Kris Moon and his CD release party. 5 Montana Natural History Center’s fall celebration, dinner and auction, 5-9 p.m., DoubleTree Hotel, 100 Madison St. Admission $50 per person. RSVP by calling 327-0405 or visiting montananaturalist.org.

5 Poetry Slam, 9 p.m., Monk’s, 225 Ryman St. Part of Festival of the Book. Call (406) 818-1111. 5 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3 and Storytime for ages 3 and older, 10:30 a.m.; Yarns @ The Library, noon; Young Adult Writers Group, 3:30 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 5-6 “The Arabian Nights” by Mary Zimmerman, presented by the University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance, 7:30 p.m., Masquer Theatre, PAR-TV Center, UM. Tickets $16 general, $14 seniors and students, $10 ages 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org. 5 Big Read, “Altered Books” with a landscape theme, 3 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 5-6 “The Woman in Black” presented by MCT Inc., 7:30 p.m., Camp Paxson, Seeley Lake. Tickets $10. Call 728-7529. ___________________________________ 6 Writers Anonymous, 10 a.m. and Storytime for ages 3 and older, 11 a.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 6 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church inaugural Octoberfest, 4 p.m., 16680 Main St., Frenchtown. Silent auction, 4-6 p.m.; live auction 6 p.m. Plus food, live entertainment, kids games, raffle prizes and more. Call 626-4492 or 396-1158. 6 Big Read, “Montana Women Homesteaders,” 1 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Join University of Alberta Professor Sarah Carter for a reading and discussion of her WILLA Literary Award-winning book. Reception to follow. Free. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 6 World’s Largest Garage Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., University of Montana parking garage, east of the Mansfield Library. Call 243-5874. 6 Ivan Doig signs “Bartender’s Tale,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. 6 Missoula Folklore Society Contra Dance, 8-11 p.m., Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. Beginners workshop, 7:30 p.m. Music by Strawberry Ridge, caller Mark Mathews. Admission $6 members, $9 non-members. Visit missoulafolk.org. 6 Theresa Danley signs “Deity” and “Effigy,” 11 a.m., Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., and 1 p.m. at Hastings, 2501 Brooks St. 6 Pickleball Palooza, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Fort Missoula, tennis courts. Cross between tennis, badminton and ping-pong. Particpants learn basics, try the game and get information about winter indoor play. All ages. Call Missoula Parks and Rec, 721-PARK or visit missoulaparks. org. 6-7 Alpine Artisans’ “Tour of the Arts 2012,” 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Seeley Lake. Take a free self-guided tour following the map provided at alpineartisans.org (click on “Tour of the Arts”), or pick up a brochure at Grizzly Claw Trading Co in Seeley Lake or Mission Mountains Mercantile in Condon. This is a great opportunity to see the Crown of the Continent, visit with rural artists and view their work in progress. Call (406) 677-0717. ___________________________________ 7 UM Women’s Soccer vs North Dakota 11 a.m.

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 7, 14, 21 “Linoleum Block Printing” with M. Scott Miller, noon-3 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Costs $81/$90. Work with exhibiting artist M. Scott Miller to explore line, color and value contrast through the creation of a linoleum cut image. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 7, 14, 21, 28 Open Figure Drawing, non-instructed, 3-5 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Costs $5/$7. This session provides artists an opportunity draw from a live model in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. Participants must be 18 years or older. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 7 Pharmacy Health Fair sponsored by the University of Montana Skaggs School of Pharmacy, noon-4 p.m.,

Southgate Mall. Blood pressure checks, smoking cessation information, immunization information, diabetes education, testing and information, poison prevention, bone marrow registry, medication information and counseling, heartburn education, bone density scans and diabetes A1C testing. 7 Unity Dance & Drum Inc. presents Alhassane Camara and Lamine Bangoura, master dancer and drummer from Guinea, West Africa. Drum class, 5-6:30 p.m.; dance class, 8-9:30 p.m.; Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Costs $15 per class. Call 549-7933 or visit the Unity Dance & Drum Facebook page. 7, 14, 21, 28 Storytime for ages 3 and older, 2 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 7, 14, 21, 28 Second Wind Reading Series, 5 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 7 Alpine Artisans’ Open Book Club presents Kim Barnes reading from “In the Kingdom of Men,” 5 p.m, Girzzly Claw Traiding Co., Seeley Lake. Visit alpineartisans.org or call (406) 677-0008. 7, 21 Five Valleys Dance club sponsors Sunday Dance Party, 6-9 p.m., American Legion Dance Hall, 825 Ronan St. Lesson, 5 p.m. Costs $7 per person, $12 per couple. Visit fivevalleysdancelcub.com. ___________________________________ 8 Unity Dance & Drum Inc. presents Alhassane Camara and Lamine Bangoura, master dancer and drummer from Guinea, West Africa performance, noon, University Center Atrium. Call 549-7933 or visit the Unity Dance & Drum Facebook page. 8 Unity Dance & Drum Inc. presents Alhassane Camara and Lamine Bangoura, master dancer and drummer from Guinea, West Africa. Interactive dance presentation during the University of Montana African dance class, 5-6:30 p.m., PAR-TV 005 (Open Space), UM. Admission free for UM students with Griz Card, $15 general. Call 5497933 or visit the Unity Dance & Drum Facebook page. 8 Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold will deliver a lecture titled “While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era” as part of the President’s Lecture Series, 8 p.m., Dennison Theatre, University of Montana. Call 243-2981. 8, 15, 22 Kickball after party featuring local DJs, hosted by DJ Mermaid, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 8, 15, 22, 29 Missoula Community Concert Band fall rehearsals, 7-9 p.m., Mondays through Nov. 5, Sentinel High School, Band Room. Conducted by Jennifer Kirby, director of Bands at Florence-Carlton Schools. Concert will be Nov. 12. Call Tom Trigg, 721-6778 or email info@ missoulaband.org. 8-12 KUFM 89.1 FM Pea Green Boat Reads “Sarah, Plain and Tall,” 4 p.m. ___________________________________ 9, 16, 23, 30 River City Bingo, 7 p.m., Press Box, 835 E. Broadway. 9 Mansfield Center Brown Bag session, “Adventures with Pearls and Dragons: Teaching English in China” by Dr. Sandra Janusch, director, English Language Institute, noon, Mansfield Center, University of Montana. 9 Unity Dance & Drum Inc. presents Alhassane Camara and Lamine Bangoura, master dancer and drummer from Guinea, West Africa. Drum class, 5:30-7 p.m.; dance class, 7-8:30 p.m., Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Costs $15 per class. Call 549-7933 or visit the Unity Dance & Drum Facebook page. 9 “Tell Us Something,” live storytelling, 6-9 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 9 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Russian for Everyone class, noon, Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 9 “UFOs: The Secret Story,” a lecture and slideshow by Robert Hastings, 7:30 p.m., University Center Ballroom, University of Montana. Free and open to the public. “UFOs: The Secret Story” is a 90-minute lecture and slideshow concerning the U.S. government’s secret

october 2012 response to UFOs, and is based on thousands of Air Force, FBI and CIA documents declassified via the Freedom of Information Act, as well as the testimony of 120 former or retired U.S. military personnel interviewed by Hastings. Visit ufohastings.com. 9 “My Ántonia” lecture and book discussion with professor Brady Harrison, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 9 “Macro to Micro Herbal Medicine” with herbalist Katrina Farnum, 6:30 p.m., Meadow Sweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. W. ___________________________________ 10 Children’s Hand Drumming Series with Tracy Topp of Drum Brothers and Djebe Bara, Wednesdays, 5:30-6:15 p.m., The Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. W. Costs $50 for five weeks for single child with or without parent observing; $80 with child and parent taking class together. Call Tracy, 531-1609, or visit drumbrothers.com. 10 Evening lecture, “The Hidden Role of Microbes in Animal Health and Nutrition,” 7 p.m., Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Suggested donation $4, MNHC members free. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist. org for more information. 10 Children’s West African Dance Series Drumming Series with Tracy Topp of Drum Brothers and Djebe Bara, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:15 p.m., The Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. W. Costs $50 for five weeks for single child with or without parent observing; $80 with child and parent taking class together. Call Tracy, 531-1609, or visit drumbrothers.com. 10 Unity Dance & Drum Inc. presents Alhassane Camara and Lamine Bangoura, master dancer and drummer from Guinea, West Africa. Interactive drum/choreography presentation during University of Montana African dance class, 5-6:30 p.m., PAR-TV 005 (Open Space), UM. Admission free for UM students with Griz Card, $15 general. Call 549-7933 or visit the Unity Dance & Drum Facebook page. 10 Unity Dance & Drum Inc. presents Alhassane Camara and Lamine Bangoura, master dancer and drummer from Guinea, West Africa. Dance class, 8-9:30 p.m., Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Admission $15. Call 549-7933 or visit the Unity Dance & Drum Facebook page. 10 Big Read Film, Wednesday Afternoon Matinee, 2 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. 10 “The Lost Journals of Sacajawea” with author Debra Magpie Earling, 7 p.m., Mansfield Library, 32 Campus Drive. 10 Russian for Everyone class, noon; computer class, “Beginning Word,” 12:30 and 6 p.m.; Wednesday movie matinee, 2 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 10 Teen Artist Workshop, “I Know You By Heart: Identity and Mapmaking” with Lisa Jarrett, Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. You will work toward the center with drawings or objects that tell a story about getting to your core. Lisa is an adjunct art professor at the University of Montana. Pizza and snacks provided, 4-6 p.m.; all materials provided. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 10, 17, 24, 31 Trivial Beersuit, 8:30-10:30 p.m., The Press Box, 835 E. Broadway. 10 Deschutes Brewery “Cheers to the Homebrewers” party with Deschutes brewmaster from Oregon giving a class on homebrewing, 6:30 p.m., Union Club, 208 E. Main St. 10, 17,24, 31 Playgroup, 11 a.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Call 721-7690 or visit familiesfirstmontana.org. 10 “Fabulous Fossils,” 2 p.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Call 721-7690 or visit familiesfirstmontana.org. 10 Women’s Health Fair, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-7 p.m., The Women’s Cub, 2105 Bow St. Call 728-4410 or visit thewomensclub.com. ___________________________________ 11 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Paws for Reading, 3 p.m.; Lego Club, 3:30 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary. org. 11 Peace & Justice Film Series featuring “Elections,” 7 p.m., University Center, University of Montana. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org. 11 Matchstick ski film “Superheroes of Stoke,” 8 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $10 general. 11 “Fit Kids,” 11 a.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Call 721-7690 or visit familiesfirstmontana. org. 11, 18, 25 “Early Out Art Fun” with Melissa Madsen, Thursdays, 3-5 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Ages 6-12. Drop-in fee $12. Every Thursday Melissa will have an exciting art project ranging from Mondo SelfPortraits to Renegade Recycled Landscapes. She always

has a wealth of projects to keep your child creatively engaged and active. Students are welcome to arrive a little bit earlier or later depending on school release time. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. ___________________________________ 12 UM Volleyball vs Sacramento State 7 p.m.

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 12 David Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio speaks about his book “Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism” 7 p.m., Urey Lecture Hall, University of Montana. Call 543-3955. 12 Love Has Come presents “Get Loud,” 7 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $5, ages 12 and under free. Available at lovehascome.com. 12 Tiny Tales for ages 0-3 and Storytime for ages 3 and up, 10:30 a.m.; Yarns @ The Library, noon; Young Adult Writers Group, 3:30 p.m.; World Wide Cinema movie, 7 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 7212665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 12 “Climbing to 20,000 Feet in Sichuan” with mountain climber/photographer Christopher Gibish, 7 p.m., Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway. 12-13 “The Woman in Black” presented by MCT Inc., 7:30 p.m., Crystal Theatre. Tickets $10. Call 728-7529. 12 David Cates reads and signs “Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home,” 7 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. ___________________________________ 13 Griz Football vs Southern Utah 1:30

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 13 Kerry Foresman signs “The Mammals of Montana,” 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. 13 The Met: Live in HD Series presents “L’Elisir D’Amore,” 10:55 a.m., Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Tickets available at morrisproductions.org, Rockin’ Rudy’s or at the box office at 328 E. Pine St. 4-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, call (406) 322-2589. 13, 20, 27 Storytime for ages 3 and up, 11 a.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 13 Matisyahu, 8:30 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $25. Available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 1-877-4-FLY-Tix, ticketfly.com or knittingfactory.com. 13 Saturday Discovery Day, “Fall Foray: Lichens!” 10 a.m.-2 p.m., The Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Toby Spribille presents a basic introduction to lichens, profiles common species, and describes amazing phenomena during Saturday Discovery Day. We will hike in Pattee Canyon looking for and learning about this amazing organism. Is it a plant? Is it a mushroom? How does it live? Costs $15 nonmembers, $10 MNHC members. Registration required. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org for more information. 13 Saturday Family Art Workshop, “Multi-Colored Leaf Printing” with Cynthia Laundrie, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Capture the fleeting beauty of fall. Join us for easy-to-learn printing techniques using fallen leaves and different printmaking materials. Children and adults will create tie-dye effects by layering bright yet transparent printed leaf designs. Leaves will be provided, but you may also collect and bring in your own leaves. Costs $5. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 13 Big Read, “Heartland” film screening, discussion and reception, 1 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. MAM will host a free screening of the acclaimed 1979 film “Heartland,” starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell and based on the 1914 memoir Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Join the film’s local producers Beth Ferris and Annick Smith for stories and Q&A discussion during a reception after the film. Free and everyone is welcome. Seating is limited. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 13 Family workshop, “Building,” 2-5 p.m., The Clay Studio, 1106 Hawthorne, Unit A. Costs $50 for adult and child. Call 543-0509 or visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org. 13 Tango Night at the Brick Room, all-levels class, 8 p.m.; Milonga dance, 9 p.m.-midnight, Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Costs $10 per person, $16 per couple. Portion of proceeds benefit the Girl’s Way. Call 541-7240 or visit ddcmontana.com. ___________________________________ 14 Paul Tripp reads and signs “Choking on Silence,” 2:30 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. 14 Ed Norton Big Band, 6-8 p.m., Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier Drive. Admission $5. 14 Big Read, Sunday Afternoon Matinee, 2 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. ___________________________________

15 Big Read Film, Willa Cather Documentary, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. 15 Computer class, “Intro to Email,” 6 p.m.; “Reading and Writing Poetry,” 6:30 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. ___________________________________ 16 Pearl Django with Stellarando – 7:30

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 16 Pearl Django in concert, 7:30 p.m., George and Jane Dennison Theatre, University of Montana. Tickets $15 in advance, $17 day of show, $10 for seniors and children 14 and under. Available at GrizTix locations, griztix.com or 243-4051. 16 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Russian for Everyone class, noon; Young Adults volunteer orientation, 4 p.m.; computer class, “Intro to Email,” 6 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. ___________________________________ 17 Griz Football vs Idaho State 1:30

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 17 Russian for Everyone class, noon; iTunes for You, 12:30 p.m.; Scribbles Writing Group, 4 p.m.; computer class, “Intro to Email,” 6 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 17 Maile Meloy, author of the University of Montana FirstYear Reading Experience book, “Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It,” presents a lecture, 8 p.m., Dennison Theatre, University of Montana. Call 243-4689. 17 Contemporary Collectors Circle fall event with Lela Autio, Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Join the Contemporary Collectors Circle – for an additional $100 with any membership level, you will help contribute toward the purchase of art for the MAM Collection. In exchange, you will be treated to special events, including visits with private collectors and artists, guest lectures, and behind the scenes trips to other artistic and cultural institutions. In October, the Contemporary Collectors Circle will visit the home of artist and collector Lela Autio, a central figure in Montana’s art scene for over fifty years. Members will view the wonderful collection Lela and Rudy accumulated over the years, along with a peek into Lela’s colorful studio practice! For more information about the Contemporary Collectors Circle, contact Ted Hughes, MAM registrar, at 728-0447, Ext. 22,2 or ted@ missoulaartmuseum.org. 17 Kaya McLaren reads and signs “How I Came to Sparkle Again,” 7 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. 17 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform, 8 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $20 in advance, $23 day of show. Available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 1-877-4-FLY-Tix, ticketfly.com or knittingfactory.com. 17 “Bound Like Grass: A Memoir of the Western High Plains” with author Ruth McLaughlin and homestead food with Good Food Store’s Emily Walter, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. ___________________________________ 18 Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens’ “Plants and Skulls Costume Workshop,” 5:30-7:30 p.m., Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens classroom, under the silver water tower. In celebration of Missoula’s Day of the Dead Parade we are offering a special nature-based costume workshop. Use plant materials to create crowns and wands, reference our animal skull specimens to design a screen print on material, then march with MNHC in the parade on Nov. 2. Costs $5. Registration requested. Call 327-0405. 18 MiniNaturalists PRE-K Program, 10-11 a.m., Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. The miniNaturalist program will engage youngsters in the exploration of the natural world through fun hands-on activities, games and play. Emphasis will be on observation, sensory skills and imagination in hopes of cultivating a positive connection with nature at an age when children are just beginning to explore the world around them. October’s theme will be nocturnal creatures. Admission per child for this program is $1 for MNHC members, $3 for nonmembers. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Best for ages 2-5. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org for more information. 18 Wolfgang Gartner performs with Pierce Fulton and Popeska, 9 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $20 in advance, $23 day of show. Available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 1-877-4-FLYTix, ticketfly.com or knittingfactory.com. 18 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Paws for Reading, 3 p.m.; Lego Club, 3:30 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary. org. 18 Little Read! “Sarah, Plain and Tall” live reading and art project, 3-5 p.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St.

18 Kelly Barth reads and signs “My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus,” 7 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. 18 Fall kids classes for ages 9-12, Thursdays through Nov. 8, 3-5 p.m., The Clay Studio, 1106 Hawthorne, Unit A. Costs $81 per child. Call 543-0509 or visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org. 18-21 Maestro Teo Morca, with renowned guitarist Carlos Lomas and acclaimed singer Vicente Griego, present a flamenco workshop. The festival will kick off with a reception the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 17, and continues for four days of classes in dance, cante (singing) and guitar, along with evening charlas (talks) about flamenco history and evolution, Teo’s own experience in more than 60 years of nonstop teaching and touring, and the nuances of communication in the cuadro of singer, dancer, guitarist and palmas (clapping). The festival will culminate in a juerga the evening of Sunday, Oct. 21. Classes will be held at the Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St. For more information, visit flamencomt.com or call Victoria Lenihan at 542-9270. ___________________________________ 19 Hellgate Rollergirls 7 p.m.

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 19 UM Volleyball vs North Dakota 7 p.m.

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 19-20 “The Woman in Black” presented by MCT Inc., 7:30 p.m., Fort Missoula. Tickets $10. Call 728-7529. 19 Motion City Soundtrack performs with Jukebox the Ghost and Now Now, 8 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 day of show. Available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 1-877-4-FLY-Tix, ticketfly.com or knittingfactory.com. 19 Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens’ Soup and Spud Fest 2012, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens classroom, under the silver water tower. Enjoy the fall weather at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. A variety of soups, spuds with the fixin’s and drinks will be served for just $5. Kids are welcome. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org for more information. 19 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3 and Storytime for ages 3 and up, 10:30 a.m.; Yarns @ the Library, noon; Young Adult Writers Group, 3:30 p.m.; Cheap Date Night movie, 7 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 19 Big Read, Cheap Date Night, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. 19 Home Resource benefit auction, 6-9 p.m., DoubleTree Hotel. Admission $35 in advance, $40 at the door. Includes gourmet dinner, Bernice’s Bakery desserts and local wine and beer. Online auction calender is available at www.homeresource.org. For more information and tickets, call Lauren Varney, 880-8240, or email lauren@ homeresource.org. ___________________________________ 20 UM Volleyball vs Northern Colorado 7 p.m.

GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 20 “Promoting Empty Spaces: Selected Photographs of Montana’s High Plains from Three Centuries” with Kristi Hager, 1 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. 20 Big Read, Artist Lecture, “Promoting Empty Spaces” by Kristi Hager, 1 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Local artist and scholar Kristi Hager will deliver a slideshow and lecture titled “Promoting Empty Spaces: Selected Photographs of Montana’s High Plains from Three Centuries.” In the lecture, Hager will discuss photographers that drew inspiration from Montana’s wide-open prairie, including turn-of-the-century photographers L.A. Huffman and Evelyn Cameron, New Deal photographer John Vachon, and contemporary photographers John Smart, Geoffrey James, Lois Conner and Lee Friedlander. Hager is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist. She has written a book about Evelyn Cameron titled “Evelyn Cameron: Frontier Photographer,” and currently provides photographs for the Library of Congress’ Historic American Building Survey. Reception to follow. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 20 Family workshop, “Glazing,” 2-5 p.m., The Clay Studio, 1106 Hawthorne, Unit A. Costs $50 for adult and child. Call 543-0509 or visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org. 20 Missoula Folklore Society Contra Dance, 8-11 p.m., Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. Beginners workshop, 7:30 p.m. Music by Pick & Squeece, caller Janet Grove. Admission $6 members, $9 nonmembers. Visit missoulafolk.org. 20 Homestead Demonstration Day, 1 p.m., Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. ___________________________________

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grapevine quest for gold

miner’s unquenchable desire for riches can drive him to all ends of the earth in search of the mother lode. One such man was Carl John Kingston, a miner and engineer from Central Mine, Michigan. In 1906, Kingston’s thirst for adventure led him to set out for Chile. There he joined the Cerro de Pasco Mining Company. Kingston never struck gold, but as a result of one of his many mining deals, he wound up with a large dairy farm and cattle ranch. He married Caroline Los Kamp and settled the property with her. “The Farm”, as it has been called by five generations of the Kingston family, is nestled in the western hills of Chile’s Casablanca Valley, twelve miles from the Pacific Ocean. Little did C.J. know that the Casablanca Valley of Chile would become one of the most desirable grape-growing regions in the world! Chile runs north to south for 2600 miles on the west cost of South America. It is only 100 miles wide at its widest point. It is a melting pot with a heavy European influence from Germans, Spanish, English and French that have taken up residence, enjoying the moderate climate similar to the Mediterranean. Chile features three distinct climatic conditions from east to west, and three main growing regions from north to south. The coastal region is a cool climate; the central valley is warm, and the Andes can be cool or warm depending on the location. The main grape-growing regions are the Casablanca Valley (sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, pinot noir), the Maipo Valley (cabernet sauvignon), and the Rapel and Chlchaqua Valleys (cabernet sauvignon, carmenere, merlot). These days, few family-owned farms are sustainable beyond the third generation. Like many other farm and ranch families, the Kingstons wondered how they could sustain The Farm. Courtney Kingston, a member of the fourth generation of the clan, did her undergraduate studies at Princeton and graduate studies at the University of

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Stanford. It was at Stanford that Courtney, realizing the potential of the property, formulated a plan for sustainability, one that would serve the Kingston family for generations to come. Risk-taking is deeply ingrained within the DNA of the Kingstons! Courtney’s plan, inspired by California vineyard visionaries David Hirsch and Gary Pisoni, called for the planting of pinot noir and syrah grape vines in an area known only for white grape cultivation. The family’s mission was to grow world-class, quality red grapes in a cool climatic zone. In 1998, pinot noir and syrah grapevines were planted on the western hills of The Farm. Carl John Kingston, the gambler and risk taker, who loved to wager on the horses at the traditional Chilean rodeos in the early 1900’s, never saw his dreams of quick riches realized. But he clearly saw The Farm as a legacy of stability for his family. And, thanks to his descendant Courtney’s inspired plan, it has become exactly that. The Kingston family harvested their first grapes in 2003. The payoff: 400 cases of pinot noir and syrah. Under the watchful eyes of the Kingstons and two amazing winemakers, Byron Kosuge and Evelyn Vidal, Kingston Family Vineyards produce one of the best values in wine today. Their sauvignon blanc, pinot noir, and syrah are all named for horses on The Farm. The Kingstons offer a flight of exceptional “stallion”-like wines, inspired by the great namesake horses: ‘Cariblanco’ sauvignon blanc, named after a white-faced horse; The ‘Tobiano’ pinot noir, after a painted horse that looked like someone had poured two cans of paint over him; and their syrah, ‘Lucero’, after a horse with an intense white flash on his forehead. These exceptional selections have been reviewed at www.wineguymike.com, and are available at Liquid Planet, “Missoula’s Best of Beverage”, in the Heart of Downtown Missoula.

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October 2012 issue 13 corridormag.com

October 2012

Festival 13th Annual Humanities Montana

of the book October 4-6, 2012

Kim Barnes

he biggest literary celebration to hit Missoula ever begins Thursday, October 4. By Saturday night, the 13th annual Humanities Montana Festival of the Book will have featured over 80 writers in a variety of readings, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, signings, receptions, and other events. This year’s Festival includes four major evening events and over 50 daytime sessions, all free and all in downtown Missoula. The 2012 Humanities Montana Festival of the Book will feature some of the country’s most important voices including award-winning authors Ivan Doig, David Quammen, Pam Houston, Rick Bass, Walter Kirn, Patrick deWitt, Jonathan Evison, Kim Barnes, James Lee Burke, Colin Meby, Alyson Hagy, the list goes on. ... All Festival events are free (except for the Readers’ & Writers’ Reception where $25 gets you libations and hors d’ouevres) and venues include the Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park, the Wilma Theatre, the Missoula Public Library, the Missoula Art Museum, Monks, and Missoula Community Theatre. Besides the readings and panels listed in the schedule, special events include Friday night’s Gala Reading featuring Ivan Doig, David Quammen, and Pam Houston; the fifth annual Festival Poetry Slam, with Tahj Bo; a sneak peek at, and discussion of, the film Winter in the Blood; a reception honoring ten Humanities Heros; and, Saturday at 7:30 pm, the Montana premier of the musical adaptation of James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk. Check the full schedule of events, panel descriptions, and author bios inside or at www.humanitiesmontana.org/festival. The Humanities Montana Festival of the Book is the largest literary event in the inland Northwest. National and regional foundations and local businesses and donors make the Festival possible each year. Please note our list of funders inside this section. Humanities Montana is Montana’s independent nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities Montana grants and programs have served Montana since 1972.

Pam Houston courtesy of Adam Karsten

Patrick Dewitt

Carson Ellis

Jess Walter

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authors & presenters David Abrams’ short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, The Literarian, Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The North Dakota Review and other literary quarterlies. His novel about the Iraq War, Fobbit, was published this summer. Abrams retired in 2008 after a 20-year career in the active-duty Army as a journalist. In 2005, he joined the 3rd Infantry Division and deployed to Baghdad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The journal he kept during that year formed the blueprint for the novel which would later become known as Fobbit. He now lives in Butte, MT with his wife. Claude Alick took to the sea at the age of eighteen after

completing his secondary education, working on charter yachts, plying the Caribbean Sea between Grenada and Antigua. Somewhere along the way, while reading writers like Conrad, Poe, Melville and others, he caught the writing bug and began writing about the islands and its people. Alick came to the United States in 1970, has attended schools in Portland, Maine, Memphis, Tennesee, and The University of Montana. Alick has published two books, Wet Storage and other stories (a collection) and Dancing with the Yumawalli, (a novel).

Mark Sundeen courtesy of Anna Hrnjak

Minerva Allen is the author of Nakoda Sky People and a contributor to New Poets of the American West. She lives in northern Montana on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Lodge Pole with her family in the foothills of the Little Rockies, known as the Island Mountains to the Nakoda. She owns a ranch with cattle and many horses that roam the ridges in Big Warm. She coordinates the Lodge Pole Senior Programs and teaches night-school courses in Nakoda Language. She enjoys rodeos and life in general. She is the mother of eight children (and raised six more) and numerous grandchildren. David Axelrod is co-director of the EOU Low Residency MFA,

and the author of six collections of poems. The most recent, What Next, Old Knife? was published in 2012 by Lost Horse Press, which will also publish Folly, in 2013. His previous collection, The Cartographer’s Melancholy, won the Spokane Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award. His collection of cultural and environmental essays about the interior Northwest, Troubled Intimacies, appeared in 2004. He also edits basalt: a journal of fine & literary arts, and is Professor of English and Writing at Eastern Oregon University, where we has taught since 1988.

Kim Barnes holds a BA in English from Lewis-Clark State David Abrams

College, an MA in English from Washington State University, and an MFA in creative writing from The University of Montana. In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, her first memoir, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, received a PEN/Jerard Fund Award, and was awarded a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Her second memoir, Hungry for the World, was a Borders Books New Voices Selection. She is the author of three novels: Finding Caruso; A Country Called Home, The Oregonian; and her newest, In the Kingdom of Men.

Rick Bass is the author of more than 25 books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, The Heart Of The Monster with David James Duncan, the novel Nashville Chrome, and the nonfiction The Black Rhinos of Namibia. His fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Bass’s memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Missoula and has been touring and recording with Stellarondo for the past year.

Alison Hagy

Sheila Bonnand is an assistant professor/reference librarian at Montana State University. She is involved with intellectual freedom issues both professionally and personally. She is especially concerned about threats to the First Amendment that might restrict our right to free speech – and, by extension, our freedom to read. Carol Buchanan’s first novel, God’s Thunderbolt: the Vigilantes of

Montana, won the 2009 Spur award for Best First Novel. In 2010, Gold Under Ice was a Finalist for the 2011 Spur for Best Long Novel. The Devil in the Bottle was published in December 2011. Although she didn’t set out to write a series, all three historical novels are set in the Montana wilderness in 1863-1865. Carol is currently at work on the fourth novel in the Vigilante series.

Florence Williams

Alan Kesselheim

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authors & presenters James Lee Burke’s most recent novel is Creole

Belle. Over the years he has published more than twenty-five novels and two short story collections. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, News Stories From The South, The Southern Review, Antioch Review and Kenyon Review. His novels, Heaven’s Prisoners, Two for Texas, and In The Electric Mist with Confederate Dead were adapted as motion pictures. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Charlotte Caldwell was raised on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. She graduated with a BA from Middlebury College, Vermont in 1974. She went on to receive Masters Degrees in Environmental Studies and in Special Education from other New England universities. As a photographer, naturalist and preservationist, Charlotte captures the beauty of light as it touches landscapes, wildlife, buildings, and people. Her first book of photographs, The Cottages and Architects of Yeamans Hall, by Charlton deSaussure with Photographs by Charlotte Caldwell was published in 2010. Her photographs have also been published in Antiques Magazine, Antiques and Fine Arts Magazine, and the Livingston Enterprise. Amy Cannata is communications director for the ACLU of Montana. She produces inhouse publications, works with the media and manages the organization’s website and online social networking. She spent 14 years as a newspaper reporter in Spokane, Wash., where she nurtured her appreciation of the First Amendment. Sarah Carter is Professor and Henry Marshall

Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics, and the Faculty of Native Studies of the University of Alberta since 2006. From 1992-2006 she taught at the University of Calgary. She is Adjunct Professor with Athabasca University. She is the editor of Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own and the author of Lost Harvest and Capturing Women.

David Allan Cates is the author of four novels,

Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out of Wonderland, Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and, most recently, Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home. Cates is the winner of the 2010 Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award. In Missoula he works with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on the short shory in public high schools, and is a part-time faculty in Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.

Victor Charlo is the author of Put Sey, a contributor to New Poets of the American West, and a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He is a direct descendent of the chiefs who signed the Hellgate Treaty. Born and raised on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana, Vic writes poems about reservation

life and people, his family, and his journeys to visit the polar bears. Vic earned degrees from the University of Montana and Gonzaga University.

John Clayton is the author of The Cowboy Girl, a narrative biography of the Montana/ Wyoming novelist, publisher, rodeo founder, and homesteader Caroline Lockhart, which was a finalist for the 2007 High Plains Book Award. An independent journalist, essayist and blogger based in Red Lodge, he has worked for clients ranging from National Geographic to Harvard Business School publishing. His work covers Western history, environment, and literature, as well as advanced management communications Theresa Danley is the author of Epic’s E-Book Award Finalist, Effigy. Her newest novel is Deity. She lives along the hi-line of Montana. Somewhere between raising her family and writing her novels, Theresa can usually be found riding a horse. Emily Danforth has an MFA in Fiction from

The University of Montana and a PhD in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Miseducation Of Cameron Post is her first novel. Her short story, “The Truest Way to Name Something,” was selected for the 2008 International Queer Fiction Award from the UK’s Chroma Magazine, and her short story “Everything That Much Harder,” was the recipient of the 2004 George Garret Fiction Award.

Kate Davis, executive director of Raptors of the Rockies, has been caring for wild animals since her start at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1973. She currently keeps 18 permanently injured and falconry raptors at the Raptor Ranch on the banks of the Bitterroot River, and presents over 80 programs to school and community groups each year. Her first book for Mountain Press Publishing, Raptors of the Rockies came out in 2002, and her second, Falcons of North America hit the stands in late 2008. Her newest book Raptors of the West Captured in Photographs is a collaboration with falcon book photographers Rob Palmer and Nick Dunlop. Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. His first book, Ablutions, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book. His second book, The Sisters Brothers, was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the 2011 Governor General’s Award for English language fiction. The Sisters Brothers was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Ivan Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, in 1939 and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front. His first book, the highly acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He also

holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. In the century’s-end San Francisco Chronicle polls to name the best Western novels and works of non-fiction, Doig is the only living writer with books in the top dozen on both lists: English Creek in fiction and This House of Sky in nonfiction. He is the author of three other books of nonfiction and 11 novels including Bucking the Sun, Prairie Nocturne, Worksong published in 2010 and his newest work, published this fall, The Bartender’s Son.

John D. Ellingsen is a native of Great Falls,

Montana. He has a Master of Arts and Applied Arts degree from Montana State University. Ellingsen has won numerous awards for his work in historic preservation, including a lifetime achievement award from the Montana Preservation Alliance, the Governor’s Award for historic preservation, and a special award for preservation from the Department of the Interior for his work at Garnett Ghost Town. At present, he is curator emeritus. Ellingsen is the author of Witness to History: The Remarkable Untold Story of Virginia City & Nevada City Montana.

Carson Ellis loved exploring the woods,

drawing, and nursing wounded animals back to health as a kid. As an adult, little has changed— except she is now the acclaimed illustrator of several books for children, including Lemony Snicket’s The Composer Is Dead, Dillweed’s Revenge by Florence Parry Heide, and The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. She and her husband, Colin Meloy, are the creators of Wildwood and Under Wildwood. Elis and Meloy live with their son, Hank, in Portland, Oregon, quite near the Impassable Wilderness.

Jonathan Evison’s newest novel is The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. Other novels include the highly celebrated West of Here and his debut novel, All About Lulu. Evison was awarded a Richard Buckley Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. In his teens, Evison was the founding member and frontman of the Seattle punk band March of Crimes, which included future members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

Shann Ray Ferch is the author of Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity and The Spirit of Servant Leadership co-edited with Larry Spears. He is also a poet and prose writer and his collection of stories, American Masculine, was selected for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference prestigious Katherine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize. Ferch is a professor of leadership in the PhD. Program in leadership studies at Gonzaga University. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and has also served as a visiting scholar in the Netherlands, Colombia, Canada, the Philippines, and South Africa, and is the editor of The International Journal of Servant Leadership.

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authors & presenters Charles Finn is the editor of High Desert Journal a literary and visual

arts magazine out of Bend, Oregon. His book of micro-essays, Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters was published last spring. Charles taught English as a foreign language in Hiroshima, Japan, hid out in the woods of British Columbia, Canada, learned the art of deconstruction in Potomac, Montana, and wrote. A self-taught woodworker and proponent of “living little” he lived for many years in an eight by twelve foot cabin of his own making with no running water or electricity. During this time, he began A Room of One’s Own.

Amanda Fortini writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including Best American Political Writing and The Best of Slate. She lives in Livingston, Montana. Mark Gibbons is a poet from western Montana. Forgotten Dreams

is his seventh collection of poems. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. An MFA graduate from The University of Montana, Mark teaches for the Missoula Writing Collaborative and the Montana Arts Council. He has also worked a variety of labor jobs to pay the bills. For twenty years he moved furniture and drove truck. In 2011 he began Blind Horses Press and is currently researching the life and work of his old friend, the late-great Montana poet, Ed Lahey.

Kevin Goodan was born in Missoula, and raised in the Mission

Valley. He studied at the University of Montana, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the author of three books, In The Ghost-House Acquainted, Winter Tenor, and most recently Upper Level Disturbances. He is currently Assistant Professor at Lewis-Clark State College, and faculty advisor for Talking River.

Tami Haaland has had great success in the fields of poetry and teaching—she won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for her first collection of poems, Breath in Every Room, and has a new collection, When We Wake in the Night. Haaland is a founder of the Yellowstone Writers Collective, which plans and sponsors readings for writers, and is involved with Stone’s Throw, an online magazine she started with Russell Rowland, a Billings author. She is a board member for Aerie, a youth literary journal based in Missoula. Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A graduate of Williams College and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, she is the author of four collections of short fiction, Madonna On Her Back; Hardware River; Graveyard of the Atlantic; and Ghosts of Wyoming; and three novels, Keeneland; Snow, Ashes; and this year’s Boleto. Her story “Search Bay” was also included in Best American Short Stories 1997.

Diane Hipp is an author and curriculum developer who has worked in schools across the country helping to foster a positive school climate. Her children’s books include Hermis and Howard: A Bully Finds His Heart and Stuart the Donkey: A Tale of His Tail. William Hjortsberg was born in New York City, and graduated

from Dartmouth. He received a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship from Stanford and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is the author of eight books, including the new Richard Bnautigan biography Jubilee Hitchiker, Alp, Gray Matters, and Falling Angel, as well as screenplays “Legend” and “Thunder & Lightening.” Short fiction, non-fiction and reviews have appeared in Playboy, Esquire, Oui, Penthouse, Look, Sports Illustrated, Rocky Mountain Magazine, Cornell Review, The Realist, House & Garden, San Francisco Focus, Big Sky Journal, and many others.

Bruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers

Workshop, where he assisted in editing The Iowa Review and held a Teaching Writing Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Other Voices, The Antioch Review, Crab Creek Review, The Spokesman Review, The West Wind Review, Cairn, RiverLit. His non-fiction has appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Spokesman Review and The Daily Iowan, and his poetry in RiverLit. He recently coauthored, with his wife, Signed, Your Student (Kaplan Press). His first novel is Lonesome Animals.

Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist, and electronic musician.

He is the 2001 recipient of the Seattle Artist Trust Fellowship, 2003 and 2006 recipient of the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture fellowship, 2002 recipient of the Rockefeller Map Grant for JOE HILL, 16 Actions for Chamber Orchestra, Voices and Improviser, and the 2008 NEA American Masterpieces grant for These Hills of Glory for string quartet and improviser.

Friday, October 5 - Panels 11:00 am

2:30 pm

The Lay of the Land: Memoir & Landscape

On The Road: All Good Stories Start with a Journey

Alan Kesselheim - Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water Gregory Martin - Stories for Boys: A Memoir Candace Savage - A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory From a Prairie Landscape David Treuer - Rez Life Joe Wilkins - The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry Moderated by Ken Egan Memory follows many paths, as these five writers demonstrate in their innovative memoirs. Whether a family wilderness journal, a story of family through the history of U.S. Indian reservations, or an account of the complex interaction of father and son, these writers will inspire readers to reflect on their own encounters with the land, their families, and the past.

Long Way Home: Journeys of a Chinese Montanan

Tom Decker • Flora Wong In 1936, seven-year-old Flora Wong, her parents, and her seven siblings, left their home in Boston and crossed the Pacific Ocean on a twenty-one-day voyage to return to her parents’ home village in rural southern China. At 18, Flora was informed that an engagement had been arranged for her, to an American. So began 60 years of life in Montana.

Listening & Responding to Montana Indian Poetry

Dottie Susag - Birthright: Born to Poetry Dottie Susag discusses the Montana Office of Public Instruction’s newest addition to the “Indian Education for All” materials, her book gathering and analyzing important works by Native American poets.

1:00 pm Literary Journals of the Northwest

David Axelrod - basalt Charles Finn - High Desert Journal Kevin Goodan - Talking River Kate Rutledge Jaffe--Cutbank Jodi Varon-basalt Moderated by Robert Stubblefield This panel will explore and discuss the challenges and rewards of building and sustaining a literary journal in both campus and off-campus environments. Editors and advisors from Basalt, Oregon East, Cutbank, High Desert Journal, Talking River Review, and The Oval will share their views and take questions regarding the past, present, and future of their respective publications and the literary journal landscape.

Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers Jonathan Evison - The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving Pam Houston - Contents May Have Shifted J. Robert Lennon - Familiar Moderated by Robert Stubblefield Ever since at least Homer, the road trip has been a go-to convention for storytellers. Whether a plot is set in action by an annual trip to a child’s grave or a globe-trotting search for self, four of today’s most respected novelists talk about their new works, and whether it’s the journey or the destination.

Witness To History: The Remarkable Untold Story of Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana

John Ellingsen - Witness to History Clay Scott--editor Amy Sullivan - executive editor What happens when a man with a remarkable life story and an editor with incredible insight get together? Witness to History tells the story of two unique Montana cities but it’s also about one man’s commitment to something larger than himself. Join with the storyteller, the editor and the Montana History Foundation executive directive as they take you on an amazing journey on how this book came together.

Altered Books

Dana McMurray - Missoula Public Library A Festival tradition, McMurray will lead workshoppers, taking books that are days away from the dumpster and giving them a brilliant second life as ART. The library will provide lots of books, magazines, art materials (all kid-safe), plus music and snacks! All ages are welcome and all varieties of creativity are honored.

4:00 pm Show me the Money: Reading & Discussion on the American Culture of Money

Mark Sundeen - The Man Who Quit Money David Wolman - The End of Money Last year two talented men approached the subject of $$$ in very different ways. Mark Sundeen’s story of a man who quite literally quit money, and David Wolman’s chronicle of the year he lived without cash make us rethink the role money plays in our culture.

“Say What?” A Dialogue Clinic

Shawn Klomparens - Two Years, No Rain Catherine McKenzie - Spin Great dialogue brings life to fiction, but how is it written? How can passages of dialogue feel realistic without being dull, or convey action without seeming forced? Join authors Shawn Klomparens and Catherine McKenzie for a session on crafting tight, narrative-propelling dialogue.

9:30 am Publishing: The New Rules

Claude Alick Carol Buchanan David Allen Cates Neil McMahon Moderated by Dan Smetanka The path to publication has changed dramatically in recent years and authors have a host of choices in publishing their work: e-book, print on demand, traditional print publisher/literary agent, or even take to social networking and tweet your life story. With all these different avenues, what does being a “published writer” mean today? We hear from an editor and a number of writers who are changing the rules.

“I bet we can make these books bestsellers!” Books and Social Media

Shawn Klomparens - Two Years, No Rain Catherine McKenzie - Spin Using social media to interact with and create an audience has become commonplace for authors. But which social media should you use? Is it better to be on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or Tumblr? Should you be on all of them? And what does “being” on social media mean, for authors and readers. Klomparens and McKemzie have led classes on books and social media at the Jackson Hole Writers’ Conference, the Salem Literary Festival, and the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal.

What’s Creative Writing & What’s It Good For?

Sheryl Noethe-MWC founder/artistic director Annie Garde - skipper, Montana Public Radio’s Pea Green Boat Missoula Writing Collaborative Student Writers Young writers from Missoula Writing Collaborative residencies talk about their art, their souls, and their favorite material.

Breakfast & Stories

Snow White • Grumpy Snow White and Grumpy will share breakfast treats and stories with kids and their parents!

Access to Justice - A Discussion of Issues

Inspired by Sun-Painted Man Philip F. Schuster - Sun-Painted Man Raymond Cross - Faculty, UM Law School Philp Schuster’s novel Sun-Painted Man is based on the actual diaries, court papers and photographs of his great-uncle, Christian F. Schuster, who lived with the Blackfeet, spoke their language and knew their culture intimately. Schuster, who is also a lawyer, joins with Raymond Cross to discuss the historical basis for the novel, and the ongoing issues Native Americans have with access to justice.

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Saturday, October 6 - Panels 11:00 am The Bare Knuckle Round: One Editor. His Writers

Dan Smetanka - Editor-at-Large, Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press Bruce Holbert - Lonesome Animals Elizabeth Rosner - Blue Nude Susan Sherman - The Little Russian Joe Wilkins - The Mountain and the Fathers Peter Stark - The Last Empty Places What happens when five authors meet their editor face to face? The gloves come off and tough questions fly -- about the editorial process, jackets, agents, contracts, publicists – the whole shebang. Listen in as Dan Smetanka is man enough to get in the ring with his writers.

Larger Than Life: Writing About Montana Legends

William Hjortsberg - Jubilee Hitchhiker Toby Thompson Riding the Rough String Moderated by Amanda Fortini Hjortsberg and Thompson are legendary Montana figures themselves, who just happen to spend a considerable amount of their writing lives describing other icons. While Hjortsberg’s biography of his long time neighbor Richard Brautigan was 20 years in the making, Thompson has captured luminaries like Robert Redford, James Lee Burke, William Kittredge and Peter Fonda for publications as diverse as the Washington Post, Esquire, Outside, and many more.

Too Dangerous for the Big Sky? Book Banning in Montana

Sheila Bonnand - Reference Librarian, MSU Amy Cannata - Communications Director, ACLU What do Fools Crow, The Guy Book and Siddhartha have in common? All of these books were challenged or banned in a library or school in Montana. Learn some of the history of book banning and find out what has happened in our state with such censorship attempts. Participants will receive a Montana banned books poster.

1:00 pm Different Worlds: Creating a Sense of Time & Place in the Novel

David Abrams - Fobbit Kim Barnes - The Kingdom of Men Alyson Hagy - Boleto Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins Moderated by John Clayton Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in Italy shooting Cleopatra and engaging in spectacularly bad behavior; an Oklahoma girl set down in the middle of a U.S. oil company compound in 1967 Saudi Arabia; an old fashioned family ranch set in opposition to a very real new west Wyoming; the recent war zone in Iraq…each of these incredible and wellreviewed novels take us out of the here and now and someplace totally new.

Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion

Robert Morgan - Lions of the West The bestselling and award-winning author discusses the research and writing behind his acclaimed newest work, and the passion -- from Thomas Jefferson through the Mexican War -for the drama and romance of the West, often remembered quite differently by Hispanic and Indian Americans.

Ravishing Raptors!

Kate Davis - Raptors of the West Captured in Photographs Perhaps a feathered friend or two… Kate will discuss her award-winning book Raptors of the West and present a sneak peek at her upcoming book on Bald Eagles. She’ll also highlight the myriad projects she’s been involved with over the last 24 years with the educational program, Raptors of the Rockies. A few live birds from the teaching team will be on hand, and yes, you will be asked to “hoot up an owl.”

Montana’s One Room Schoolhouses

Charlotte Caldwell - Visions and Voices In this slide presentation, photographer Charlotte Caldwell tells the story of her travels to each of Montana’s 56 counties photographing historic oneroom schools and what inspired her to take on this project. Along with each schoolhouse is a portrait of a person who attended or taught at that school. Their voices provide an oral history of recess games, learning in a one-room setting, family life, daily chores, and above all, the sense of community, as defined by these iconic humble schoolhouses.

Montana Women Homesteaders

Sarah Carter - Capturing Women Who were the women who endured harsh journeys to start their own homestead plots in Montana? Join University of Alberta Professor Sarah Carter for a reading and discussion of her WILLA Literary Award-winning book..

Making Winter in the Blood

Alex Smith - writer/director/producer Andrew Smith - writer/director/producer Lois Welch--advisor Ken White - writer/producer Moderated by William Marcus What began with young twin boys playing in Jim and Lois Welch’s yard, has unfolded to become a movie based on Welch’s lauded first novel Winter in the Blood. Filmmakers Andrew and Alex Smith and Ken White will discuss the process of this labor of love, helped along by Lois’ insights and comments

2:30 pm True Lit: Nonfiction That Sings

Robert Morgan - Lions of the West David Quammen - Spillover Jim Robbins - The Man Who Planted Trees Florence Williams - Breasts Moderated by Ginny Merriam The intersection of information with lyrical language is a rare crossroads indeed, but it’s a place these four writers have reached over and over throughout their careers. Journalist Ginny Merriam will lead a discussion of how certain topics snag certain writers, and then how they find the right words to tell the stories in ways that snag the rest of us.

Mark of the Grizzly: New Man Meets Bear Stories

Scott McMillion - Mark of the Grizzly If you’ve ever been on the ground with a grizzly bear, you’ve got a story to tell. That’s the premise author Scott McMillion used when he compiled the true tales that make up Mark of the Grizzly. He also wanted to clear up some misconceptions about grizzlies: neither Pooh bears nor vicious marauders, the great bears have things to teach us about our world and our place in it. Sometimes, it’s good to be reminded that we aren’t always at the top of the food chain. But grizzly bears, like humans, live in a constantly evolving world, so McMillion prepared a revised second edition of the classic with several new chapters, expansions and updates and fresh information about grizzlies and our lives among them.

Inheriting Identity: How We Choose our Material and How our Material Chooses Us

Elizabeth Rosner - Blue Nude Author and Creative Writing Professor Elizabeth Rosner focuses on exercises and suggestions to help writers access the deepest sources of their subject matter. Open to all genres and levels of experience, the session will invite participants to probe and expand their repertoire of words, images and narrative methods.

Cyclops & Other True Stories for Girls

Emily M. Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post Erin Saldin - The Girls of No Return Blythe Woolston - Catch & Release Moderated by Samantha Dwyer Coming of age, being different, facing tremendous odds, it’s a tough, tough world for young women. Three gifted writers of young adult fiction talk about their heroines and their craft.

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short

stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the novel Sight Hound, a collection of essays called A Little More About Me, and most recently the novel Contents May Have Shifted. Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, and The Evil Companions Literary Award and multiple teaching awards. She is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis and teaches in The Pacific University low residency MFA program.

Lowell Jaeger is author of four collections of poems: War On War,

Hope Against Hope, Suddenly Out of a Long Sleep and WE. He is founding editor of Many Voices Press and recently edited New Poets of the American West, an anthology of poets from western states. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, winner of the Grolier Poetry Peace Prize and recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Montana Arts Council. Most recently, Lowell was awarded the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award.

Alan S. Kesselheim lives in Bozeman, Montana. Books include Water and Sky: Reflections of a Northern Year; Silhouette on a Wide Land; and The Lightweight Gourmet: Drying and Cooking Food for the Outdoor Life. His most recent book, Let Them Paddle, describes the three coming-ofage river trips he and his wife, Marypat, took with their three children.

Walter Kirn is the author of seven books, including Up in the Air, Lost in the Meritocracy, Thumbsucker, and Mission to America. He is the national correspondent for the New Republic and is currently writing a memoir of his relationship with the con-man and impostor Clark Rockefeller. Tahj Bo Kjelland is a poet and musician, artist and activist, student and father, and poetry slam majordomo.

Shawn Klomparens, the author of the novels Jessica Z and Two Years No Rain, was born squarely in the palm of Michigan, and grew up between there and Central Ohio. After studying English and geological sciences in the beautiful foothills of Appalachia at Ohio University, he moved to Jackson, Wyoming. Jane Lambert is a fifth-generation, northern California rancher, turned Montanan. Her book, Charlie Russell: The Cowboy Years, chronicles the eleven years Charles M. Russell spent on the open range of Montana working as a cowboy, from 1882 until 1893. She grew up ranching with a passion for horses. As a kid, she hung Russell’s art on her walls and read all of James’s books.

J. Robert Lennon is the author of a story collection, Pieces For

The Left Hand, and seven novels, including Mailman, Castle, and Familiar. He holds an MFA from The University of Montana, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and his story “The Rememberer” inspired the CBS detective series Unforgettable.

Denise Malloy is a transplanted Southern girl living in Big Sky

Country. Malloy is now a columnist for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, blogger and the author of A Real Mother: Stumbling Through Motherhood. Her articles have appeared in Family Circle, Parents, Funny Times and American Profile.

Gregory Martin is the author of Stories for Boys: A Memoir and

Mountain City, a memoir, which received a Washington State Book Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Martin’s work has appeared in the Sun magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Creative Non-fiction, StoryQuarterly, and Orion magazine. He teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico.

Keith McCafferty is the survival and outdoor skills editor of Field & Stream. His non-fiction work includes the L.L. Bean Family Camping Handbook and the L.L. Bean Hiking and Backpacking Handbook, which his son illustrated. The Royal Wulff Murders is Keith’s first novel. Keith has finished his second book in the series, The Gray Ghosts, which is slated for hardback release in February. He is currently working on his third novel.

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authors & presenters Catherine McKenzie was born and raised

in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of McGill University and McGill Law School, McKenzie practices law in Montreal. Her novels Spin and Arranged were international bestsellers. They, along with her third novel, Forgotten, will all be published in the U.S. by William Morrow this year.

Neil McMahon grew up in Chicago, holds a degree in psychology from Stanford, and has lived in Montana since 1971. His wife, Kim, coordinates the annual Montana Festival of the Book. Along with writing, he spent many years working as a carpenter. He has published ten thrillers, and co-authored, with Kim, the young adult novel Adam of Albion. Scott McMillion writes for magazines and

newspapers around the country, focusing much of his work on environmental and natural resource issues. He is the author of Mark of the Grizzly. He co-authored, with Robin Tawny Nichols, Len and Sandy Sargent, A Legacy of Activist Philanthropy. After 20 years in the newspaper business, where he won dozens of awards, McMillion is now senior editor of Montana Quarterly.

Dana McMurray is the Youth Services

Associate at the Missoula Public Library where he leads numerous activities, among them altered books workshops in which books about to be thrown away are given a second life.

Colin Meloy once wrote Ray Bradbury a letter,

informing him that he “considered himself an author too.” He was ten. Since then, Meloy has gone on to be the singer and songwriter for the band the Decemberists, where he channels all of his weird ideas into weird songs. The Wildwood Chroncles (Wildwood and the newest in the series Under Wildwood) are his first attempts at channeling those ideas into a novel.

Ginny Merriam earned a degree in journalism

at The University of Montana and worked as an award-winning reporter at the Missoulian newspaper for 20 years. She now works as communications director for the City of Missoula and manages to work in some freelance journalism too.

Robert Morgan is the author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, noted most for his novel Gap Creek and his biography of Daniel Boone, both of which were national bestsellers. A professor at Cornell University since 1971, and visiting

writer-in-residence at half a dozen universities, his awards include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010.

Michener Foundation and Montana Arts Council fellowships. His new novels is The Other Shoe. The Montana Public Defender News describes his legal briefs as “amazing,” while Booklist calls his first novel Our Savage “rapturous and remarkable.”

Sheryl Noethe. attended a high-school

Natalie Peeterse has an MFA from The University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Sonora Review and Strange Machine, among other journals and anthologies. Her new chapbook is Black Birds : Blue Horse, An Elegy. She has been a fellow with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a participant at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and was most recently an artist in residence at the Caldera Institute in central Oregon.

alternative program, Urban Arts, which allowed her to learn to write poetry. After winning the The American Academy of Poets Award and a McKnight Fellowship, she published her first collection of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake. In 2010 she was named Montana’s Poet Laureate. Noethe is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, and the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press.

Daniel Orozco is a writer of fiction known

primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and magazines such as Harper’s and Zoetrope. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer of Stanford University and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho.

Elsie Pankowski is a five-time First Place

winner of the Mary Brennan Clapp Memorial Poetry Contest, open to all Montana poets. She has produced two chapbooks: a “Sunrust Featured Poet Chapbook” and Gathering Stones, published by Pudding House Publications. Their Voices Call in the Dark was published by Foothills Publishing in 2012. Her poetry and short prose have appeared in several hundred publications.

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent’s career as a

nonfiction author has spanned almost four decades, with more than 130 published books. She has also delved into historical subjects like Lewis & Clark and has coauthored three adult books and many magazine articles. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for the body of her work. Her latest books are The Horse and the Plains Indian: A Powerful Partnership, illustrated with photographs by her long time collaborator, William Munoz, and Dogs on Duty: Soldier’s Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond.

Matt Pavelich is the author of the novel Our Savage and the short story collection Beasts of the Forest, Beasts of the Field, which won the Montana First Book Award. He’s also been awarded

David Quammen is the author of four books

of fiction and seven nonfiction titles, including The Song of the Dodo. He has also published a few hundred pieces of short nonfiction--essays, columns, articles, reviews in Esquire, Outside, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Harper’s. He has been honored with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. His new book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. Quammen is a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine.

Lois Red Elk is a poet, actor and culturist. She is Dakota/Lakota, born and raised on the Ft. Peck Reservation. Writing since she was a teen, her work has been published in numerous anthologies in the United States, Canada and the U.K. For a time she was the co-editor of her tribe’s newspaper, WotaninWowapi (News Paper), and she authored a weekly column titled Dakodicaga (Raised Dakota). Presently she is adjunct professor at Ft. Peck Community College and teaches Cultural Arts topics. Her first book, Our Blood Remembers, was recently published by Many Voices Press. Jim Robbins, a free-lance journalist for more than thirty years, lives with his family in Helena, Montana. He has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times since 1980, and has written for numerous magazines from Condé Nast Traveler to Smithsonian. He has carried out assignments in Europe, Mongolia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Yanomami Territory in Brazil and Venezuela, and across North America, especially the Rocky Mountain West. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, and is at work on a fifth.

Elizabeth Rosner lives in Berkeley, California,

working as a full-time writer after having been an instructor of creative writing and composition at the college level for nearly thirty years. She offers writing workshops annually in the autumn in Montana at the Holland Lake Lodge. She is a graduate of Stanford University, the MFA Program at U.C. Irvine, and the University of Queensland in Australia. Her first novel, The Speed of Light, was included in Book Sense 76 twice, and was selected as one of Borders Original Voices. Her second novel, Blue Nude, was a national bestseller and named as one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s best books of 2006.

Randy Rupert was raised in Montana and has spent years in sales and marketing. But, according to Rupert, no business deal can compare to the experience of writing his first book, A Dog-Gone Tale, and creating a lasting memory for his son and daughter. Erin Saldin’s writing has appeared in the New

York Times and the Best New American Voices series, as well as multiple literary magazines. She teaches creative writing and honors courses at The University of Montana. The Girls of No Return is her first novel. In two starred reviews, Kirkus Reviews called The Girls of No Return, “[R] ichly rewarding” and “[A] smashing debut” and Booklist raved “So much more than a typical problem novel, this psychological mind-bender is raw, gripping, and deftly rolled out by a writer-to-watch.”

Candace Savage is the author of over two

dozen works of nonfiction, including, most recently, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory in a Prairie Landscape. She is the recipient of many honors including multiple Saskatchewan Book Awards. She is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada and is on the honor roll of the Rachel Carson Institute.

Philip F. Schuster practices law in Portland, Oregon. He has been a contributing author to publications in the areas of environmental law and family law. He was a good friend of the late Curly Bear Wagner, a well-known Blackfeet leader and relative of Chief Curly Bear, who adopted Christian Schuster. Schuster’s secondnovel, Sun-Painted Man, is based on actual diaries, court papers and photographs that originally belonged to his great uncle, Christian F. Schuster.

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authors & presenters Clay Scott is the creator and producer of Mountain West Voices, a weekly radio series broadcast on Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and other stations. He has worked in print, radio and television, in the U.S. and abroad. He has covered a variety of stories, ranging from war and conflict, to environmental and social issues. He has won many awards for his work, including an Emmy award for his reporting from Kosovo. Clay edited Witness to History: The Remarkable Untold Story of Virginia city & Nevada City, Montana. Sharma Sheilds is the author of the short story collection Favorite Monster, winner of the Autumn House Fiction Contest. Sharma’s short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, Sonora Review and several other literary journals. She has received numerous awards for her writing. She received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from The University of Montana (2004). She now lives in Spokane with her husband and young son. As an information specialist for the Spokane County Library District, Shields founded T.W.I.N.E.—Teen Writers of the Inland Empire. Susan Sherman is a former Chair of the Art

Department of Whittier College, a small liberal arts university once attended by President Richard Nixon. She is also the co-creator of one of the most successful television shows for children in the history of the Disney Network. The Little Russian is her first novel.

Dan Smetanka was an executive editor at

Ballantine/Random House, Inc., where he acquired and published award-winning debut books including The Ice Harvest by Scott Philips, The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner, Down to a Soundless Sea by Thomas Steinbeck, and Among the Missing by Dan Chaon. He currently serves as editor-at-large for Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. His projects include Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank, Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide by Linda Gray Sexton, This River by James Brown, The Adjustment by Scott Phillips, Lightning People by Christopher Bollen, The Silver Lotus by Thomas Steinbeck, and Mistaken by Neil Jordan.

Alex Smith teaches filmmaking at the

University of Texas at Austin and is the Creative Director of UTFI, the University of Texas Film Institute, where he recently produced the feature film Dance with the One. He and his twin brother Andrew wrote, directed and produced Winter in the Blood, on Montana’s Hi-Line, which is based on the world-renowned James Welch novel. Previously, they wrote and directed the award-winning feature film, The Slaughter Rule. Alex and Andrew also sold a television pilot to FX network, and adapted the graphic novel Son of the Gun by legendary cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Andrew Smith co-wrote and co-directed Winter

in the Blood, based on the novel by James Welch as well as The Slaughter Rule. With his brother Alex Smith, he also adapted the graphic novel Son of the Gun for Fox Searchlight, as well as penned scripts for Columbia Pictures, HBO, Disney and ESPN Films. The brothers Smith recently wrote a screenplay based the prize-winning short story “Walking Out” by David Quammen, for acclaimed director Rodrigo Garcia. Andrew is an associate professor in the School of Media Arts at The University of Montana.

Bruce Smith is a wildlife biologist and science writer. His first book, Imperfect Pasture, records changes in the ecology of the National Elk

Refuge during its 100-year history. Wildlife on the Wind is based on his four years working with the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Indian tribes. At their request, he catalogued the status of the reservation’s diverse wildlife and helped foster a landmark recovery of elk, deer, moose, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope. His latest book, Where Elk Roam, chronicles his 22 years studying and managing Jackson Hole’s famous migratory elk herd.

Peter Stark’s work has appeared in many magazines, including Outside, Smithsonian, and The New Yorker. His books include Driving to Greenland, Ring of Ice, Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, and At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness. His most recent book, The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map takes the reader through four of the least populated regions of the United States. He is working on a true adventure tale of John Jacob Astor’s epic 1810 expedition. Robert Stubblefield teaches undergraduate fiction writing, advanced composition, and serves as faculty advisor for The Oval. He has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Left Bank, The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Open Spaces, Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of the Millenium, and High Desert Journal among others. Stubblefield’s story “Preserves” is published in Best American Stories of the West. Amy Sullivan is the president and chief

executive officer of the Montana History Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Sullivan ran her own association management and government affairs business. Sullivan started her career in journalism in Chicago and Great Falls, Montana, before spending close to eight years working for publicly elected officials. Her educational background is in journalism with a B.S. and M.S. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois.

Mark Sundeen was born in Harbor City,

California, in 1970. He is the award-winning author of The Man Who Quit Money, whose nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, the Believer and elsewhere. His other books are Car Camping and The Making of Toro, and he co-authored North By Northwestern, which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He has taught fiction and nonfiction at the MFA creative writing programs at the University of New Mexico and Southern New Hampshire University.

Dorothea Susag is the author of Roots and

Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature and the new book Birthright: Born to Poetry. A retired English teacher, she works as an independent education consultant and as an indian education curriculum specialist for the Office of Public Instruction and is a member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau.

Toby Thompson is the author of three previous

books: Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota, Saloon and The ‘60s Report. He has written for publications as diverse as Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Gray’s Sporting Journal, GQ, Men’s Journal, Sports Afield, Playboy, Outside, Big Sky Journal, Western Art & Architecture, The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others. He teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Penn State.

October 2012

Friday, October 5

11:00 am

Holiday Inn Ballroom A/B The Lay of the Land: Memoir & Landscape Alan Kesselheim Gregory Martin Candace Savage David Treuer Joe Wilkins Mod: Ken Egan

Holiday Inn Ballroom D Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Amanda Fortini Walter Kirn

Holiday Inn MT Boardroom Nonfiction Reading Jane Lambert Dorothy Patent

Holiday Inn Yellowstone Glacier Holiday Inn Three Rivers Rooms Long Way Home: Journeys of a Chinese Montanan Flora Wong Tom Decker A China in Missoula Event

Holiday Inn Atrium

Fiction & Essay Reading Catherine McKenzie Denise Malloy David Allan Cates

Bookstore/ Exhibits

Other Venues Missoula Public Library Listening & Responding to Montana Indian Poetry Dottie Susag

12:00 pm LUNCH 1:00 pm

James Lee Burke on Writing

Dynamic Duo: Conversation & Readings Jonathan Evison Patrick DeWitt Mod: Kim Anderson

Literary Journals of the Northwest David Axelrod Charles Finn Kevin Goodan Jodi Varon Mod: Robert Stubblefield

Montana Poets Series: Year Two Dexter Roberts Elsie Pankowski Mark Gibbons

Nonfiction Reading Shann Ray Ferch Jim Robbins Florence Williams

Bookstore/ Exhibits The Favorite Book Project

2:30 pm

On The Road: All Good Stories Start with a Journey Patrick deWitt Jonathan Evison Pam Houston J. Robert Lennon Mod: Robert Stubblefield

Nonfiction Reading Alan Kesselheim Bruce Smith

Poetry & Meditations Reading Natalie Peteerse Tami Haaland Charles Finn

Witness to History: Virginia City + Nevada City John Ellingsen Clay Scott Amy Sullivan

Nonfiction Reading Gregory Martin Candace Savage David Treuer

Bookstore/ Exhibits

Fiction Reading Sharma Shields Daniel Orozco Matt Pavelich

Show Me the Money: Reading & Discussion on the American Culture of Money Mark Sundeen David Wolman

“Say What?” A Dialogue Clinic Shawn Klomparens Catherine McKenzie

Fiction Reading Kim Barnes David Abrams

Bookstore/ Exhibits

4:00 pm

Missoula Public Library Workshop Altered Books Dana McMurray

READERS & WRITERS RECEPTION Holiday Inn Downtown Ballroom GALA READING WITH IVAN DOIG, DAVID QUAMMEN, PAM HOUSTON The Wilma Theatre POETRY SLAM WITH MASTER OF CEREMONIES TAHJ BO KJELLAND Monk’s

5:30 pm 7:30 pm 9:00 pm

Saturday, October 6

Holiday Inn Ballroom A/B

Holiday Inn Ballroom D

Holiday Inn MT Boardroom

Holiday Inn Yellowstone Glacier Holiday Inn Three Rivers Rooms

Holiday Inn Atrium

Other Venues

9:30 am

Publishing: The New Rules Neil McMahon Claude Alick Carol Buchanan David Allan Cates Mod: Dan Smetanka

“I bet we can make these books bestsellers!” Books + Social Media Shawn Klomparens Catherine McKenzie

What’s Creative Writing & What’s it Good For? Sheryl Noethe Annie Garde + Missoula Writing Collaborative student writers

Breakfast & Stories with Snow White and Grumpy

Access to Justice Phil Schuster Raymond Cross

Bookstore/ Exhibits

11:00 am

The Bare Knuckle Round: One Editor. His Writers. Dan Smetanka Bruce Holbert Elizabeth Rosner Susan Sherman Peter Stark Joe Wilkins

Larger Than Life: Writing About Montana Legends William Hjortsberg— Jubilee Hitchhiker Toby Thompson—Riding the Rough String Mod: Amanda Fortini

Fiction Reading Theresa Danley Carol Buchanan Keith McCafferty

Storytime Dog Gone Tale Randy Rupert Hermis and Howard Diane Hipp (& puppets)

Fiction Reading J. Robert Lennon Alyson Hagy Jess Walter

Bookstore/ Exhibits

Missoula Public Library Too Dangerous for the Big Sky? Book Banning in Montana Sheila Bonnand Amy Cannata

12:00 pm LUNCH 1:00 pm

Different Worlds: Creating a Sense of Time & Place in the Novel David Abrams Kim Barnes Alyson Hagy Jess Walter Mod: John Clayton

Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion Robert Morgan

Ravishing Raptors! Kate Davis and feathered friends

Native American Poetry Minerva Allen Lois Red Elk Victor Charlo Mod: Lowell Jaeger

Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Susan Sherman Bruce Holbert Joe Wilkins

Bookstore/ Exhibits

Missoula Art Museum A Big Read Event: Montana Women Homesteaders Sarah Carter

2:30 pm

True Lit: Nonfiction that Sings Robert Morgan David Quammen Jim Robbins Florence Williams Mod: Ginny Merriam

Mark of the Grizzly: New Man Meets Bear Stories Scott McMillion

Inheriting Identity: How We Choose our Material and How our Material Chooses Us Elizabeth Rosner

Montana’s One-Room Schoolhouses Charlotte Caldwell— Vision & Voices: Montana’s OneRoom Schoolhouses

Cyclops & Other True Stories for Girls Emily Danforth Erin Saldin Blythe Woolston Mod: Samantha Dwyer

Bookstore/ Exhibits The Favorite Book Project

Wilma Theatre Making Winter in the Blood, a panel with film Alex Smith Andrew Smith Lois Welch Ken White Mod: William Marcus

4:30 pm Ballroom C/D Stan Cohen Mark Sherouse

7:30 pm

Humanities Heroes Reception honoring outstanding local contributors to the humanities Monica Grable Bruce Sievers

Mark Johnson Lisa Simon

Chérie Newman Hal Stearns

Inez Ratekin Herig Shawn Wathen

NEW MUSIC INSPIRED BY JAMES WELCH’S THE HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK performed by the Festival Orchestra – Wilma Theatre

learn more at www.humanitiesmontana.org/festival

october 2012

featured events THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012

4:30 pm FREE Under Wildwood Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis present the newest in their bestselling The Wildwood Chronicles series, Holiday Inn Downtown, 200 South Pattee 6:30 pm FREE A Big Read Event Missoula Children’s Theatre production of My Antonia, reception to follow. Missoula Community Theatre, 200 N. Adams Street 8:00 pm FREE Rick Bass + Stellarondo Performance + CD Release Celebration! The Wilma Theatre, 131 S. Higgins

FREE Missoula Writing Collaborative

Poetry in Motion 2012-13 Kickoff Creative writing by young Missoula writers will be displayed on all Mountain Line buses throughout the year

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012

5:30 pm $25 Raise a Glass with Your Favorite Author! Readers’ & Writers’ Reception – libations & hors d’oeuvres, Holiday Inn Downtown 7:30 pm FREE GALA READING Ivan Doig, David Quammen, Pam Houston The Wilma Theatre 9:00 pm FREE POETRY SLAM with Tahj Bo Cash prize to winner, Monk’s, 225 Ryman, 18 and older

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012

7:30 pm FREE The Montana Premier of the Musical Adaptation of James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk With composer Wayne Horvitz, conductor Dylan Dwyer, soloists Robin Holcomb, Maria Mannisto and Daniel Oakden, and the Festival Orchestra, The Wilma Theatre

authors & presenters David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Treuer’s first novel, Little, was published in 1995. He received his PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His third novel The Translation of Dr Apelles and a book of criticism, Native American Fiction; A User’s Manual appeared in 2006. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Time Out, and City Pages. His new work of nonfiction is Rez Life. Jodi Varon is the author of the non-fiction

Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father (U of Missouri Press). Her non-fiction, fiction, and translations appear in magazines and journals such as The Colorado Review, The High Plains Literary Review, New Letters, New Millennium Writing, the Northwest Review, WomenArts Quarterly, and Zone 3, and in the anthologies Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Stories by Women (Crossing Press) and Texas Told ‘Em: Gambling Stories (Ink Brush Press).

Jess Walter is the author of five novels and

one nonfiction book, a former National Book Award finalist, and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published in Harper’s, Esquire, McSweeney’s, Byliner, Playboy, ESPN the Magazine, Details and many others. His newest novel, Beautiful Ruins, is a New York Times bestseller. Other recent books include The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Zero.

Lois Welch taught comparative literature at

UM from 1966-2001, directing the Creative Writing Program for eight years, chairing the English department for three. After marrying James Welch in 1968, theirs was a busy literary life; after his death in 2003, she remains active as his literary executor and working on a memoir about their life together.

Ken White co-wrote and co-produced the

feature film Winter in the Blood. His script Blight was optioned by Titan films in association with Sony, and his latest script The Wereman is currently in development. He has also written screen adaptations of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and the medieval Irish epic The Táin. His first poetry collection, Eidolon, is forthcoming from Peel Press in 2013.

Joe Wilkins teaches writing at Waldorf College. He is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; two collections of poems, Notes from the Journey Westward, winner of the 17th Annual White Pine Press Prize in Poetry, and Killing the Murnion Dogs; and a chapbook, Ragged Point Road. A 2010 National Magazine Award finalist and PEN Center USA Award finalist, he is the recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center.

Florence Williams is a contributing editor

at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slate, Mother Jones, High Country News, O-Oprah, W., Bicycling and numerous other publications. Recently she was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado’s Journalism School. In 2007-2008, she was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. Her first book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, was recently published by W.W. Norton.

David Wolman is a contributing editor at Wired. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Outside, Newsweek, Discover, Forbes, New Scientist, and Salon, and his work appeared in Best American Science Writing 2009. A former Fulbright journalism fellow in Japan and graduate of Stanford University’s journalism program, he now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he received a 2011 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. His books include A Left-Hand Turn Around the World, Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, and, most recently, The End of Money. Flora Wong was born in Boston in 1928, and moved to a tiny village in Southern China with her family in 1936 at age seven. During the Communist Revolution, Flora escaped China through an arranged marriage in 1947. In 1968, her husband died, leaving Flora with five children. After retirement, Flora was named Montana Big Sky Athlete of the Year in 1999. In 2009, the Helena Sports Hall of Fame named Flora to its list of honored athletes. Her memoir, co-written with her son, Tom Decker, is Long Way Home. Blythe Woolston is the author of Catch and

Release, and The Freak Observer, which won the ABC New Voices Pick award, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award and the 2010 William C. Morris YA Debut Award. She only started writing books because she was desperate for something to read. She is gainfully employed as an indexer of academic nonfiction and lives with her family in Montana.

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MISSOULA

events calendar

21 Laura Ingalls Wilder Day with Missoula Parks and Recreation, 1 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 21 Big Gigantic performs with Griz, 8:30 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $15 in advance, $17 day of show. Available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 1-877-4-FLY-Tix, ticketfly.com or knittingfactory.com. 21 Rocky Mountain Entertainment Agency presents a new annual modeling competition, Miss Model Montana and Miss Model Teen Montana, Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. For ages 14-25. Four phases of competition include overview, runway, live photo shoot on stage and a commercial script performance. Call 544-5186. ___________________________________ 22 Veggei Tales Live “God Made You Special Tour,” 6 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 day of show. Available at Garden of Read’n. 22 Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series, 6 p.m., University Center Ballroom, University of Montana. Featuring Jack Stanford, Bierman Professor and director of the Flathead Lake Biological Station. Call 243-4689 or visit umt.edu/provost/pdfls. 22 Computer class, “Internet Searching,” 6 p.m.; Reading and Writing Poetry class, 6:30 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. ___________________________________ 23 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Russian for Everyone class, noon; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 23 Toddler Yoga, 11 a.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Call 721-7690 or visit familiesfirstmontana.org. 23 Dinner with entertainment by Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre, 6:30 p.m., Silk Road. Admission $50 per person. For reservations, call (406) 547-0152 or email silkroadcatering@gmail.com. 23 “Home, Home on the Ranch,” humor and music with William Rossiter, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 23-Nov. 27 “Preschool Art Start” with Allie DePuy, Tuesdays, 9-10 a.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Six weeks. For ages 3 1/2-5. Costs $45/$50, $10 drop in fee. DePuy has years of experience inspiring young children. She will stimulate your child’s creativity with hands-on projects using safe and fun materials – shaving cream, clay dough, tempera paints, watercolors and more – in a fun and friendly atmosphere. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. 23-Nov. 27 “After School Art Adventure II” with Bev Glueckert, Tuesdays, 3:45-5:15 p.m., Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Six weeks. For ages 7-11. Costs $45/$50. Students will work on projects inspired by the fantastic array of artworks on display at MAM. First session projects will include cardboard and found object assemblage pieces a la Rauschenberg, ledger drawings inspired by Dwayne Wilcox and large paintings of our town inspired by the Missoula nightscapes of M. Scott Miller. Call 721-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. ___________________________________ 24 Russian for Everyone class, noon; computer class, “Heritage Quest Database,” 12:30 p.m.; Wednesday movie matinee, 2 p.m.; Scribbles Writing Group, 6 p.m.; computer class, “Internet Searching,” 6 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 24 Reel Big Fish performs, 7:30 p.m., Wilma Theatre. Tickets $19 in advance, $21 day of show. Available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, 1-877-4-FLY-Tix, ticketfly.com or knittingfactory. com. 24 Evening lecture, “Insect Snacks and Facts,” 7 p.m., Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. The University of Montana’s Annika Duke will treat you to a presentation on insect eating and insect biology. She is also bringing along a variety of live insects for up-close viewing and numerous tasty hor’s deouvres made with insects. At 8 p.m. courageous adults can stick around for a screening of a scary insect horror flim. Suggested donation $4. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org for more information. 24 HeritageQuest Database Class, family history research for everyone, 12:30 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.

24 Big Read, Wednesday Afternoon Matinee, 2 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 24 “The Greatest Lecture Ever Presented,” 7 p.m., Dennison Theatre, University of Montana. Featuring Morgan Spurlock, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated television and film documentarian. Call 243-5576 or visit umt.edu.uc. 24 “My Life as Laura” with author Kelly Ferguson, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. ___________________________________ 25 Big Read, film, dessert and a movie at Frenchtown School and Community Library, 17620 Frenchtown Frontage Road. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 25 Jo Deurabrouck reads and signs “Anything Worth Doing,” 7 p.m., Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Call 721-2881. 25 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Paws for Reading, 3 p.m.; Lego Club, 3:30 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 25-27 “The Woman in Black” presented by MCT Inc., 7:30 p.m., The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive. Dinner and show. Call 728-7529. ___________________________________ 26 Camille Bloom performs, 7:30 p.m., Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier Drive. Tickets $12. 26 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3 and Storytime for ages 3 and up, 10:30 a.m.; Yarns @ the Library, noon; Young Adult Writers Group, 3:30 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 26-27 Celebrate Piano Series featuring Pianissimo V! 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, University of Montana. Featuring Eight pianos and 20 pianists. Tickets $20 general, $10 students. Available at the UM Arts Box Office, 243-4581 or ummusic.org. ___________________________________ 27 “Dance of Form and Surface,” workshop with Julia Galloway, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., The Clay Studio, 1106 Hawthorne, Unit A. Costs $90 nonmembers; $80 members, seniors and students. Call 543-0509 or visit theclaystudioofmissoula. org. 27 Saturday Kids’ Activity, “Night Frights” with Animal Wonders Inc., 2-3 p.m., Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Animal Wonders Inc. is bringing nocturnal creatures for a fun day of live animals and animal facts. Learn about the special senses needed for a nocturnal lifestyle and get close to some very special creatures from around the world. Costs $5 nonmembers, $3 MNHC members. Call 327-0405 or visit montananaturalist.org for more information 27 The Met: Live in HD Series presents “Otello,” 10:55 a.m., Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Tickets available at morrisproductions.org, Rockin’ Rudy’s or at the box office at 328 E. Pine St. 4-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, call (406) 322-2589. ___________________________________ 28 Halloween Bash, noon-5 p.m., Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Costs $5 per person. Call 7217690 or visit familiesfirstmontana.org. 28 Urban Homesteading Workshop, 2 p.m., Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, 515 Wyoming St. 28 An evening of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young performed by local musicians, 7 p.m., Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Call 493-1252 or 493-7047. ___________________________________ 29 “CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections” featuring Ambassador Gary Locke by webcast and commentary by Terry Weidner and Steven Levine, 6 p.m., Todd Building 210, University of Montana. Locke will speak in a webcast to selected sites nationwide, followed by commentary by Mansfield senior fellow in Asian affairs Terry Weidner and research faculty associate Steven I. Levine. This event is co-sponsored by the Mansfield Center, the UM School of Extended and Lifelong Learning, and the National Committee on United StatesChina Relations. Call 243-2988. 29 Big Read film “Keepers of the Land: Three Montana Families & their Homestead Legacies” with producer Carmen Daye Irish, 6:30 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 29 Computer class, “Online Job Applications,” 6 p.m.; Reading and Writing Poetry class, 6:30 p.m.; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.

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October 2012

Missoula events continued

November 2 Sesame Street 7 p.m.

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GET TICKETS! 406.543.3300 ___________________________________ 30 Tiny Tales for ages birth-3, 10:30 a.m.; Russian for Everyone class, noon; Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 30 “The Wind Blew Them West: The Montana Homestead Experience” with Paulette Parpart of Western Montana Genealogical Society, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. ___________________________________ 31 Russian for Everyone class, noon; computer class, “Resumes,” 12:30 p.m.; computer class, “Excel,” 6 p.m.; Socrates Cafe, 7 p.m., Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Call 721-2665 or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. 31 Halloween foam party, Pulse, in the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway. DJ Boy Burns Bridge. Admission $5 ages 18 and older, free 21 and older.

EVENTS CALENDAR

29 Loretta Lynn performs with guest Chuck Mead, 7 p.m., Dennison Theatre, University of Montana. Tickets $55-$75. Available at the Adams Center Box Office, 243-4051, 1-888-MONTANA or griztix.com.

5 Opening reception for “Horsin’ Around,” 5-7 p.m., Sandpiper Gallery, 306 Main St., Polson. Artists showcase their interpretations of all-things equine in this non-juried show, on display through Nov. 9. Visit www. sandpiperartgallery.com or call (406) 883-5956. 5 Opening reception for “Watermedia 2012,” 5:30 p.m., Bigfork Museum of Art and History, 525 Electric Ave. Artists from around the U.S. share their creations in the Montana Watercolor Society’s 30th annual National Juried Art Exhibition, on display through October. The winning artists will be announced during the reception. The society will also host a banquet and silent auction Oct. 6 at the Hampton Inn in Kalispell. Call (406) 837-6927 or visit www. bigforkmuseum.org. 5-6 Great Northwest Oktoberfest continues, Depot Park, Whitefish; $3 admission per day. Visit http://www. whitefishoktoberfest.com/ or call (406) 862-3501 for schedule and details. 5-6 Conrad Mansion Ghost Tours, 5-7 p.m. Friday and 6-7 p.m. Saturday, 330 Woodland Ave., Kalispell; $15, reservations required (not recommended for children). Call (406) 755-2166 or visit www.conradmansion.com. 5-7 Whitefish Theatre Co. presents “God of Carnage,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave.; tickets $8-18. In the Tony Award-winning comedy by Yasmina Rez, two highly-strung Brooklyn couples meet for a civil discussion about a playground fight between their 11-year old sons. As the discussion progresses, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, in a laugh-out-loud, train wreck of an afternoon among savages. Call (406) 862-5371 or visit www.whitefishtheatreco.org. 5-7 Glacier Jazz Stampede continues in Kalispell featuring traditional jazz, Dixieland, swing, ragtime, Latin and big band jazz. Musicians from across the U.S. and Canada perform through Sunday night in five venues located at the Red Lion Hotel and the Kalispell Eagles Club. Tickets are $80. For details, visit www.glacierjazzstampede.com or call (406) 862-3814. ___________________________________ 6 Saturday Artisan Market, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., The Cottage on Main, No. 1 Fifth Ave. W., Polson; local musicians, produce, Made-in-Montana art and crafts; call (406) 838-6010. 7 The Swan River Inn will celebrate 20 years in business with an open house, 2-4 p.m., 360 Grand Ave., Bigfork. Six remodeled theme rooms will be unveiled, refreshments

will be served and prizes will be awarded. For more information, call (406) 837-2328. 7 Christian Johnson’s Acoustic Showcase, 4 p.m., The Raven, Woods Bay, Bigfork. ___________________________________ 9 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish. ___________________________________ 10 Flathead Valley Community College Reading Group to discuss “State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett, 6:30 p.m. Call Sharon Randolph, (406) 756-3981, for details. ___________________________________ 11 Senior Tour and Tea Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Hockaday Museum of Art, 302 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. Docent-led tour and complimentary coffee, tea and cookies. Call (406) 755-5268 or visit www.hockadaymuseum.org. 11 James Lee Stanley and John Batdorf in concert, 7:30 p.m., Ronan Performing Arts Center; tickets $12-$14. The duo opens Big Productions’ 25th season with the greatest hits of the Rolling Stones, performed in the style of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Call 1-800-823-4386 for tickets. 11 Glacier Symphony presents “Symphony Soloist Spotlight: Trio 21,” 7:30 p.m., Alpine Ballroom, 333 S. Main St., Kalispell. Kinga Augustyn, violin, Robert deMaine, cello, and Jeffrey Biegel, piano, perform. Call (406) 257-3241 or visit gscmusic.org. 11 Mega Karma, 6-9 p.m., Eastshore Smokehouse, Highway 35, Polson. ___________________________________ 13 Tamarack Time, 1 p.m., Electric Avenue, Bigfork. The oldfashioned celebration of harvest includes food tastings, harvest decorations, hay rides starting at 11 a.m., cider making and pumpkin carving. Call (406) 837-4356. 13 Free Kayak Fishing Demo Day, West Shore State Park, Flathead Lake. Call (406) 871-6282 or visit http:// alternatives-magazine.com/bikeandpaddle.html for details. 13 Saturday Artisan Market, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., The Cottage on Main, No. 1 Fifth Ave. W., Polson; local musicians, produce, Made-in-Montana art and crafts; call (406) 838-6010. 13 Los Pinguos in concert, 7:30 p.m., Whitefish Theatre Co., O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Tickets $27. Originally from Buenos Aires, the group plays a mixture

october 2012 of Latin rhythms, performed with Spanish guitars, a Cuban Tres, Peruvian cajón bass and harmonizing vocals. Visit www.whitefishtheatreco.org or call (406) 862-5371. 13 “Crits & Croissants: A Saturday Morning Artists’ Critique,” 10:30 a.m.-noon, Hockaday Museum of Art, 302 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. Call (406) 755-5268 or visit www. hockadaymuseum.org for details. 13-14 Glacier Symphony and Chorale presents “Beethoven Triple Concerto,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Flathead High School Performance Hall, Kalispell; tickets $10-$32. Trio 21, featuring Kinga Augustyn, violin, Robert deMaine, cello, and Jeffrey Biegel, piano, join the orchestra in works by Beethoven and Sibelius. Call (406) 257-3241 or visit gscmusic.org. ___________________________________ 14 Silent auction and pie and ice cream social, 1-4 pm., Kalispell Senior Center. Public welcome. Call (406) 7554402. 14 Christian Johnson’s Acoustic Showcase, 4 p.m., The Raven, Woods Bay, Bigfork. ___________________________________ 16 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish. ___________________________________ 19-28 Bigfork Community Players present “Girls of the Garden Club,” 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts, 526 Electric Ave.; tickets $6-$16. Call (406) 837-4858 or visit bigforkcommunityplayers.com. ___________________________________ 20 World Class Bucking Horse Finals, 7 p.m., Majestic Valley Arena, 3630 Highway 93 N., Kalispell. Tickets $15 adults, $8 kids 6-12. Call (406) 755-5366. ___________________________________ 21 Christian Johnson’s Acoustic Showcase, 4 p.m., The Raven, Woods Bay, Bigfork. ___________________________________ 23 “An Unladylike Battle for Survival in the Sunnyside Library,” 7 p.m., Plains High School. The new librarian in town thinks books are for burning, so several book characters band together to try to change his mind in Montana Repertory Theatre Educational Outreach program. Call (406) 5446654. 23 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 4 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish. ___________________________________ 25 Craig Barton & Friends, 7 p.m., Eastshore Smokehouse, Highway 35, Polson. ___________________________________ 26-28 Christmas at the Mansion, 7-9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Conrad Mansion, 330 Woodland Ave., Kalispell. Craftspeople from across the state offer their creative works, along with vintage pieces and antiques. The special Friday night party offers early buying privileges. Call (406) 755-2166 or visit www.conradmansion. com. 26, 27, 31, Nov. 1-3 “The Rocky Horror Show,” 7 p.m., Flathead Valley Community Theatre, Kalispell; tickets $10-$15; (406) 756-3814 or visit www.fvcc.edu/theatre.html. ___________________________________ 27 Mike Strickland in concert, 7 p.m., Lincoln County High School auditorium, Eureka, tickets $12; (406) 297-0197 or www.sunburstfoundation.org. 27-28 Black Curtain Theatre presents “Lombardi,” 7:30 p.m., Whitefish Theatre Co., O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Tickets are $10 at the door. Though football’s Super Bowl trophy is named for him, few know the real story of Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi – his inspirations, passions and ability to drive people to achieve what they never thought possible. The play is suitable for older students and adults. Visit www.whitefishtheatreco.org or call (406) 862-5371. ___________________________________ 28 Christian Johnson’s Acoustic Showcase, 4 p.m., The Raven, Woods Bay, Bigfork. ___________________________________ 30 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish. ___________________________________ Nov. 1 Spencer Bohren in concert, 7:30 p.m., Polson High School auditorium; tickets $12-$14. Bohren’s music resonates with the ambience of the rivers, roads and bayous of the American South. Call 1-800-823-4386 or email cmc@ronan.net.

B-Root 5 Fun and Support Accordion Group featuring Jean Roberts and Cleo Gunther, 6-7:30 p.m., North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., Stevensville. Call 777-5061. 5 Artist’s reception, 6-9 p.m, River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art, 317 Main St., Stevensville. Featuring 30, “The Art of Woodwork” with featured artists Brian Thorp, Scott Aries, John Boman and Nick Boynton of Missoula; Dave Carlson and Dan McArdle of Helena and David Coffin of Bozeman along with other fine woodworkers. Call 777-0520. 5,12, 19, 26 Toddler Story Time, 10:30-11:15 a.m., west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. Call 363-1670. 5 Scarecrow Festival, downtown Stevensville, invites the public to view as many as 40 scarecrows and vote for their favorite. Cash prizes will be awarded for People’s Choice and Artistic Merit during First Friday festivities. Call 777-3797 or visit www.sassart.org. 5-14 “Wait Until Dark,” 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Stevensville Playhouse, 319 Main St.; tickets $8-$10. In this terrifying cat-and-mouse game, three men terrorize a blind protagonist in hopes she’ll reveal the whereabouts of a children’s doll, filled with narcotics. Call 777-2722 or visit www,stevensvilleplayhouse.org. ___________________________________ 6 McIntosh Apple Day, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St., Hamilton. Enjoy art, crafts, food and produce from the Hamilton farmers market as well as vendors from outside the area. The signature Bake Sale offers made-from-scratch apple pies, caramel apples, barbecue pork and apple butter. a raffle, silent auction and live entertainment are also part of the annual affair. Call 363-3338 or email rcmuseum@questoffice.net. 6 Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, 8 p.m., Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton. Tickets $32.50-$37.50. Call 363-7946 or visit www.bartc. org. ___________________________________ 9 Marjorie A. Crawford Literature Seminar featuring “The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski,” 9:30-11:30 a.m., west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. Call 363-1670. 9, 23 Creative Writing Class, 7 p.m., west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. This six week class, taught by John Robinson, will look at the history and philosophy of writing, and includes lots of writing participation. Preregister for the classes at the Information desk or call 363-1670. ___________________________________ 10 Preschool Story Time, 10:30-11:15 a.m., , in the Children’s Corner of the Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton.

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Featuring “I’m Gonna Like Me!” with story-teller Jamie Ogden. Call 363-1670. ___________________________________ 11, 25 Lego Club, 3-5 p.m., Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. For children ages 4-9 accompanied by an adult. Call 363-1670. 11 The Fellowship Club, 6 p.m., west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. Discussion of “Stillness Speaks” by Eckhart Tolle. The Fellowship Club is facilitated by staff member Joseph Costantino. Call 363-1670. ___________________________________ 12 “Science in Wonderland,” 6 p.m., Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St., Hamilton. Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre, under the direction of Charlene Campbell, reveals the mystery of viruses through original music, choreography and photo projections by artist Barbara Michelman. Call 363-3338 or visit www.brvhsmuseum.org. ___________________________________ 13 Party in PInk, family fun event, 4-7:30 p.m., The Canyons Athletic Club Zumbathon and other entertainment, 4-6 p.m.; barbecue sponsored by the Elks, 6-7:30 p.m. plus door prizes, raffle, bounce house, face paintin, Slash from the Maulers, and more. $8 per persons or $20 per family; proceeds go to the aid for Mammography Fund. Call 3759313 or 363-7413. 13 Ravalli County Republican Central Committee’s annual spaghetti dinner, Ravalli County Fairgrounds, First Interstate Building. Speaker will be Rick Hill, candidate for governor plus a meet and greet with candidates. For tickets, call 207-7630. 13 Harvest dinner and dance, St., Mary’s Parish, Stevensville. Dinner, 5-7 p.m.; dance 7 p.m.-midnight. Dinner prices are $8 adults, $5 ages 4-12 and children under 4 are free. Call 777-2067. 13-27 and 31, Ghost Tours, 10 p.m.-3 a.m., Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St., Hamilton. Call 363-3338 or visit www.brvhsmuseum.org. ___________________________________ 16 Socrates Café, 7 p.m., west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library. Join Facilitator Kris Bayer for a great conversation. Choose a question to discuss, define terms, and respectfully consider the answers. Call 363-1670. 17 Preschool Story Time 10:30-11:15, in the Children’s Corner of the Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. Featuring “Bugs” with storyteller Kristen Weese. Call 363-1670. “Stay and Play” activities will be set up after story time.19-28 “The Diary of Anne Frank,” 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. Tickets $8-$15. In

this gripping adaptation, writings from the journal of young Anne Frank, as well as survivor accounts, are interwoven to create an impassioned story of people persecuted under Nazi rule. Call 375-9050 or visit www. hamiltonplayers.com. 17 University of Montana geography faculty member Rick Graetz and his wife, Susie, present a narration and slideshow of their scenic photography of Montana’s mountains and prairie in a lecture titled “This is Montana,” 6:30 p.m., at the Hamilton High School Performing Arts Center. Call 375-0100. ___________________________________ 18 Web on Wheels Computer classes with Missoula Public Library instructors include, Bitterroot Public Library, Hamilton. Advanced Internet, 1:30-2:30 p.m. and Advanced e-mail, 3-4 p.m. Preregister at the information desk or call 363-1670. Space is limited ___________________________________ 20 Third annual Fall Freeze Marketplace, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., First Interstate Building at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds, Hamilton. Booths are available on a first-come basis; call 363-3411 for details. 20 The Monthly Grind, 7 p.m., Stevensville Playhouse. A variety show with emphaiss on “non-political, familyoriented” entertainment. $5 adults, kids under 6 free; bring dessert to share and get in free. Call 396-6519. ___________________________________ 24 Preschool Story Time, 10:30-11:15 a.m., in the Children’s Corner of the Bitterroot Public Library. Featuring “Pumpkins” with storyteller Paula Prescott. Call 3631670. ___________________________________ 25 Brown Bag It! Book Discussion Group discusses “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, noon-1 p.m., in the West Meeting Room of the Bitterroot Public Library. Call 363-1670. ___________________________________ 30 Socrates Café, 7 p.m., west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library. Join Facilitator Kris Bayer for a great conversation. Choose a question to discuss, define terms, and respectfully consider the answers. ___________________________________ 31 Preschool Story Time 10:30-11:15 a.m., in the Children’s Corner of the Bitterroot Public Library. Featuring “Trick or Treat!” with storyteller Dominic Farrenkopf. Feel free to wear costumes. Call 363-1670.

October 2012

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undreds of issues, dozens of films…thus begins the 9th annual Montana CINE International Film Festival at the Roxy Theater, Monday through Sunday, October 22nd through the 28th. The Montana CINE Film Festival is an international film event whose focus is on films that give us a global view of the world --- documentaries and features, whose issues and topics create discussion. CINE translated from French means film or cinema and that’s what Montana CINE is ---- films that are hard-hitting, heart-felt, dramatic, and timely. The International Wildlife Media Center is the host organization and the same group that puts on the annual IWFF or International Wildlife Film Festival in the spring. We launched Montana CINE because around the world, thousands of films were being made on important topics and big ideas and stunning places, films about people and where and how we interact with our environment and the natural world. The films of CINE are films that address issues we are all thinking about and talking about and film is one very important way to tell a story in two hours or less. Since the mission of our organization is to raise awareness through excellent media, CINE was a natural outgrowth of IWFF. What emerged was a 7-day film festival with breathtaking, contemporary films on critical topics and issues. Of the 50+ films that will be screening, there are many important ones --- here are just a few to consider… From Place to Place, which won Best Made in Montana, about America’s

By janet rose Foster Care System and the stories of two Montana teens who grew up in this system --- what happened to them and most importantly, what they did to help change the system and make it better for foster kids all across the United States. The filmmaker is a Montanan and her film has changed the system for the better! Horse Tribe and Return of the Horse --two award-winning films on horse issues unlike any before; these are focused on the history, the science and the culture of the horse in American life. Horse Tribe takes a very heart-felt and intense look at the horse in Indian culture and won the Best Indigenous & Native Cultures category. Return of the Horse is also a spectacular look at the horse through history, and traces its origins in a uniquely scientific way with a perspective that is both cultural and historical. Children of Kabul, a short studentmade film gives us an intimate look into the lives of Afghanistan’s youth who must support their families by leaving school and going to work, some even as young as 10. Another student-made film Salma, Wingless Nomad is a beautifully poetic tale of a young woman reflecting on life and loss in Africa; Nomad to Nobody explores the displacement of the nomadic Tibetan culture. Journey of the Universe, providing a stunningly visual journey that explores the making and the creation of the Universe as science would tell it. But these are only the tip of the iceberg and only a small taste of the truly amazing documentaries and features that fill the Roxy with morning screenings geared to family and youth audiences and evening screenings that are more hard-hitting and

mature in theme. Among the issues --- we focus this year’s CINE on the Bison issue, with two awardwinning films that delve deeply into the story of the American Bison. Another feature of CINE, because it’s a film festival and ultimately about how we make films, is a free, public daylong workshop with Panasonic – a hands on day of technology, cameras, editing and Q&A for the amateur and professional filmmaker alike. That’s Friday, October 26th from 12:30-5pm with a hosted lunch. Friday evening, the Montana Film Office hosts a reception in celebration of Montana Film and Filmmakers. This too is free and open to all. Missoula after all is fast becoming a film capital of the west and that is something to celebrate! There are water issues, fire issues, land issues, cultural issues and if you remember last year’s award winner, Cultures of Resistance, that breathtaking film returns for one more screening this year in association with International Programs of the University of Montana. Cultures of Resistance examines the cultures of people worldwide, through art, dance, and music and how people use their cultures to express political and social commentary. As the name implies, culture and resistance often go hand in hand. It’s not easy to see a snapshot of the world in one film or one story or one image but Montana CINE tries to give us a small peek into this global window. Janet Rose is executive director of the International Wildlife Media Center & Film Festival

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MSO HUB Community Corner gift of legacy T welve years ago a group representing 27 non-profits collaborated to put together an awareness campaign to encourage their donors to leave something in a will or trust. Such gifts can ensure that those non-profits to

By JEAN BOWMAN continue to make our communities the best places possible. We called ourselves Legacy Montana. Today we number more than fifty in Missoula and the surrounding area. Our goal is to make people aware that they can leave something for their favorite non-profit(s) in a will or trust. This is not a quick fix, but an educational effort, designed to raise public awareness about the importance and ease of leaving a gift to a non-profit organization. Such gifts can enable those non-profits to continue to do good works long after we are gone. In the coming years, middle-aged American children will inherit over $10 trillion from their elderly parents. Many

people who share their financial blessings while they are alive are rightly concerned that their contributions will be missed when they are no longer here. And they are right. Nationally, only 3-5% of probated wills include gifts to charity. Locally, that percentage is estimated to be nearer 1-2%. Leaving something to your favorite non-profit(s) does not mean your children, spouse, or friends are left out. Wills and trusts re flexible and can be written to make sure your desires are met. Much of what makes our communities special are the result of the gifts others left for usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;collections of art, medical care for the disadvantaged, park land, food and shelter for the indigent. The list goes on and on.

This year alone at least five Missoula nonprofits received a legacy gift. These usually unexpected gifts enabled them to continue programs, or start a new program, or helped them meet an unexpected expense. These gifts indicated the confidence of the donor that the organization was living up to its mission, and would continue to thrive. If you think a small gift wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter, please think again. Every gift matters. Your gift, large or small, helps build the future. It matters because every person matters. For more information about Legacy Montana, to learn about the organizations which participate, and to meet people who have made a legacy gift, visit our web-site, www.legacymontana.org.

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‘Not Your Typical Camelot’: MCT Artistic Director Joe Martinez gives new slant to an old classic

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CT Artistic Director Joseph Martinez comes with a robust résumé. During his career, Martinez has directed more than 100 productions, including The Drowsy Chaperone, It’s a Wonderful Life, Anything Goes, How to Succeed..., Kiss Me Kate, Little Shop of Horrors, Man of La Mancha, A Christmas Carol, Miss Saigon, Forever Plaid and Footloose. His credits at MCT include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Blood Brothers, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Martinez’s previous experience also includes his working with community theatre groups at US Air Force bases in Korea and Japan. In October, he gets his first crack at directing Camelot. Bringing the 1,000-yearold legend of King Arthur to the Missoula Community Theatre provides Martinez with a fresh set of creative circumstances. “I was involved in a production of Camelot 25 years ago,” says Martinez. “I remember my wig and one scene from the show – not much else. I’ve never approached Camelot as a director, so this is a thrill for me.” While there are countless variations of Camelot, the basic narrative is the same: love, mystery, magic,

conspiracy, and vengeance. The musically- lush classic evokes enough swashbuckling excitement to keep one engrossed. For lovers of romance, Camelot has it all: a fine-looking English princess swept off her feet by a bashful, yet passionate bachelor king; a zealous French knight, torn between devotion to his feudal cause and a reciprocated desire for the king’s wife. MCT staff chose the production because they wanted to produce something familiar and popular, a title people would easily recognize. “We haven’t done Camelot at MCT since 1986,” says Martinez. “We are looking forward to putting our own personality into it.” Many people have a preconceived idea of Camelot or envision the movie when they hear the name. Martinez hopes to distance MCT’s production from some of those fixed sentiments. “When people hear Camelot,” says Martinez, “they think of King Arthur’s striving for beauty and equality. Our Camelot is much more about the ideals of those pursuits. We want to make them more real. There are so many elements within that make it real and not fairy tale. I’d like to push Camelot into the realm of more reality.” One of the common misperceptions about Camelot

Opens Friday, Oct. 19 The Missoula Community Theatre on October 19.

For tickets & information, call the MCT Box Office at (406) 728-7529.

Brian D’Ambrosio is Media Relations Coordinator at MCT

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is that it is all swords and serious subject matter. While obviously not a cheery fairy tale, the tale’s heavy, dour themes are a bit overstated. “Camelot is actually quite humorous,” says Martinez. “I’d like to bring some of that humor out.” Ultimately, under the direction of Martinez, MCT’s Camelot intends to draw out the story’s humanistic sides and prompt people to think about and recognize subjects generally not associated with the epic. That is not to suggest that its gritty mien will in anyway be altered. “Medieval times weren’t pretty,” says Martinez. “In fact, I told the women at the first rehearsal that they couldn’t wear makeup during the performance. Those times weren’t about looking pretty. They were about surviving.” “Community theatre is a huge time commitment,” says Martinez. “Generally, there is an 8-week rehearsal commitment and a 2-week performance commitment. Essentially, 10 weeks of one’s life are spent volunteering to be part of a production. Part of my job is to figure out what shows people want to be involved in and come to. Audiences will quickly realize that they are not seeing their father’s Camelot. We have a new, clever spin ready.”

est known for his critically acclaimed documentary “Super Size Me,” Morgan Spurlock is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated television and film documentarian and campus speaker. Spurlock will come to the University of Montana to present a thought-provoking, informationfilled and entertaining presentation about America’s advertising and marketing culture.

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Spurlock will deliver “The Greatest Lecture Ever Presented” at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24

in the George and Jane Dennison Theatre. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is a pre-event to UM’s seventh annual Day of Dialogue. This campuswide symposium on diversity will be held

Thursday, Oct. 25

in the University Center. The Day of Dialogue is comprised of a series of events focused on topics of diversity and civil discourse. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members discuss, present, perform and exhibit art throughout the day. To learn more about this event, visit www.umt.edu.uc or contact Jamar Galbreath, program adviser for the UC Student Involvement Network, at 243-5576 or jamar.galbreath@mso.umt.edu.

October 2012

proud to be

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Monday, October 29 Doors open 6 p.m. Montana Theater at The University of Montana Tickets on sale now Order By Phone: (888-666-8262) or (406) 243-4051 Order In Person At: Griz Box office Online: griztix.com

ountry legend Loretta Lynn is coming to the University of Montana campus on Monday, Oct. 29. For 50 years, the country music icon has fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful – and as culturally significant – as any female performer you’d care to name. Her music has confronted many of the major social issues of her time, and her life story is a ragsto-riches tale familiar to pop, rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner’s Daughter – the tag refers to a hit single, an album, a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning film, and to Lynn herself – has journeyed from the poverty of the Kentucky hills to Nashville superstardom to her current status as an honest-to-goodness American icon. Her latest album, the Jack White-produced “Van Lear Rose,” is poised now to remind the world yet again of Lynn’s power as a vocalist and her skill as a songwriter. As she puts it on “Story of My Life,” the new album’s closing track: “Not half bad for this ol’ Kentucky girl, I guess… Here’s the story of my life. Listen close, I’ll tell it twice.“

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soundcheck OCTOBER 5 First Friday show featuring Kris Moon and his CD release party, 5-9 p.m.; Family Friendly Friday with the Whizpops, 6-8 p.m., no cover; Themes with Sick Kids XOXO, 10 p.m., $5, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 5 Cash for Junkers, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover. 5-6 The Tom Cats, 9:30 p.m., The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent. 5 Montana Dark Horse Country Band, 9:30 p.m., Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 6 Andrea Harsell, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover.

19-20 County Line, 9:30 p.m., Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 19 The Louie Bond Band, Hideout Bar and Casino, 942 Hub Lane, Hamilton. 20 Three Eared Dog, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover. 20 Wild Coyote Band, 7 p.m., American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. 20 Cold Hard Cash, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 21 Louie Bond & Kimberlee Carlson, 7 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. No cover. 21 Christian Johnson’s acoustic showcase, 4 p.m, The Raven, Bigfork.

6 Nashville songwriter festival featuring Kostas, Kendell Marvel, Even Stevens and Wynn Varble; live music by Mark Duboise and Crossroads, 9:30 p.m., Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave.

22 Larry Hirshberg, 7-10 p.m., The Red Bird, 111 N. Higgins Ave.

6 House of Possibilities presents A Night of Forward Thinking Bass Music, The Palace, 147 W. Broadway. Ages 18+. $5 presale tickets on line at www.eventbrite.com/event/4262519310; $7 at the door; $5 surcharge for ages 18-20.

23 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish.

23 Other Lives, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. $10 in advance, $12 day of show.

24 Greensky Bluegrass, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

6 Zoograss festival, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

25 The John Adam Smith Band, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

7 Christian Johnson’s acoustic showcase, 4 p.m, The Raven, Bigfork.

25 Craig Barton & Friends, 7 p.m., Eastshore Smokehouse, Highway 35, Polson.

8 Joan Zen, 7-10 p.m., The Red Bird, 111 N. Higgins Ave.

26 Camille Bloom in concert, 7:30 p.m., Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier Drive. Tickets $12.

9, 16 Zoo Town Throw Down with Javier Ryan and friends, 10 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

26 Copper Mountain Band, 9 p.m., Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave.

9 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s Whitefish.

26 Wild Coyote Band, 8 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W.

10 Figure, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

26 Josh Farmer, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover.

11 Deschutes Brewing presents Beer-Lesque Tastings & Tassels, comedy, beer and burlesque, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

26 Family Friendly Friday with The Clumsy Lovers, 6-8 p.m., no cover; The Clumsy Lovers, 10 p.m. The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

11 Mega Karma, 6-9 p.m., Eastshore Smokehouse, Highway 35, Polson.

27 Halloween Bash 2012 with Zeppo, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover.

11, 18, 25 Party Trained, 9:30 p.m., Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave.

27 Wild Coyote Band, 9 p.m., The Doghouse, St. Regis.

12 Muzikata, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover. 12 Family Friendly Friday with Mathew Marcelic and Dracy Drumming and Dance, 6-8 p.m., no cover; Cure for the Common with Shakewell, 10 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 13 Russ Nasset & The Revelators, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover. 13 Dodgy Mountain Men, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 14 The Ed Norton Big Band, 6-8 p.m., Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier Drive. $5. 14 Christian Johnson’s acoustic showcase, 4 p.m, The Raven, Bigfork.

27 Copper Mountain Band; Halloween costume party, 9 p.m., Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 27 Lil Smokies, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 28 Christian Johnson’s acoustic showcase, 4 p.m, The Raven, Bigfork. 29 Russ Nasset, 7-10 p.m., The Red Bird, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 29 Kickball after party and Javier Ryan’s annual Ghost dance featuring music by Javier Ryan, Grit, Traffic and more, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. No cover. 30 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish.

15 Kimberlee Carlson, 7-10 p.m., The Red Bird, 111 N. Higgins Ave.

30 Sea Wolf with Hey Marseilles and Sick Kids XOXO, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. $10 in advance, $12 day of show.

16 Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose, 8 p.m., Casey’s, Whitefish.

31 The INfamous Stringdusters, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. $18 in advance, $20 day of show.

18 Kamindia & Random Rab, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. $10 in advance, $15 day of show.

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19 Family Friendly Friday with Andrea Harsell and the Chitlans, 6-8 p.m., The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 19 tom Catmull & The Clerics, Union Club, 208 E. Main St. No cover.

1 Horse Feathers, The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.

October 2012

music of autumn

ctober brings a packed calendar of music to the Garden City, starting with the spiritually tinged reggae and hip-hop of Matisyahu. The freshly shaven Hasidic vocalist is touring behind a new album, “Spark Seeker,” his first release on an independent label of his own creation. Paste Magazine wrote that it’s “a collaboration that delivers through angles, improvisation and Judaic philosophy. By these rituals and spiritual deliveries, Matisyahu has created an album for the ears and for the hearts.”

Matisyahu with the Constellations will perform Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Wilma Theatre. The doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the music starts at 8:30. Tickets are $25, available at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 1-877-4FLY-TIX and online at ticketfly. com.

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blending genres either, having pioneered a mix of folk, rock and world music for years now. The group is touring behind a new studio album set for release at the end of the month, “Movement.” Vocalist and guitarist Michael Glabicki has said, “This album is a culmination of everything we have learned, or have tried to learn, over our entire career. It truly is a career record for us.” Rusted Root will perform on Friday, Oct. 19, at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. Tickets are $18 in advance, $22 the day of the show. They are available at Rockin Rudy’s, Ear Candy and Tophatmissoula.com. – For transfigured roots music of less folksy vein, you couldn’t do better than Oklahoma group Other Lives. The vocals and guitar of Jesse Tabish are backed by unusual instrumentation including oboe, violin, cello and the occasional harp. Their dour, orchestral approach to acoustic music

earned the ultimate stamp of approval earlier this summer when Thom Yorke, the reigning champion of mournful vocals, released a remix of “Tamer Animals,” the title track of its latest album.

Other Lives will perform with Indians at 9 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. Admission is $10 plus fees, 21 and older only.

Greensky Bluegrass has earned its accolades through a daunting tour schedule, having played 160 shows a year across the country each of the past six years. The quintet, made up of Anders Beck on dobro, Michael Arlen Bent on banjo, Dave Bruzza on guitar, Mike Devol on upright bass, and Paul Hoffman on mandolin, booked high-profile festivals such as Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Their performance at the latter led Rolling Stone to proclaim, “Greensky are hardly strictly bluegrass, and yet, they’re representing genre for a whole new generation.” Greensky Bluegrass will perform Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. The music begins at 9 p.m., and the band will perform two sets.

Reel Big Fish – All things from the early ’90s are back again, so it’s inevitable that there would a revival of that decade’s ska revival. One of the most successful bands

from that wave of ska/punk was Reel Big Fish, who hit it big with a catchy single about not “Selling Out.” The band has soldiered on since with its blend of punk, ska and funny, bratty lyrics, and is currently touring behind its seventh studio album, “Candy Coated Fury.” It’s a set of “bad-relationship songs that everybody can relate to,” Aaron Barrett, founding vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter, said in a news release. Reel Big Fish will perform Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Wilma Theatre. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and music starts at 7:30. Tickets are $19 in advance, and $21 day of show. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 1-877-4FLY-TIX or online at ticketfly.com.

Loretta Lynn – Capping off a month that features many artists seeking revivals or reinventions is country legend Loretta Lynn, who revitalized her career in 2004 with “Van Lear Rose.” That record comfortably paired the original “Coal Miner’s Daughter” with production and some songwriting from Jack White of the White Stripes. The unlikely collaboration won over fans from both the country music establishment and the indie-rock underground that White sprang up from. Loretta Lynn will perform Monday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Dennison Theatre at the University of Montana. Tickets are $55 to $75, available at griztix.com.

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rank Zappa’s son, Dweezil, a guitar virtuoso in his own right, will perform a set of his father’s music on Thursday, Dec. 20, at the Wilma Theatre. Having watched his father perform concerts from the side of the stage since he was in diapers, it was no surprise that Dweezil Zappa began to show an interest in music early on. At 6 years old, he received his first guitar, a Fender Music Master, from his dad. Since then, Zappa has remained an advocate for his father’s music while pursuing a career of his own. In spring 2006, Dweezil debuted the live band Zappa Plays Zappa, playing long, ambitious sets of Frank Zappa favorites and obscure gems to big audiences of crazed Zappa fans. “I think that my father’s music is quite powerful live,” Dweezil said in a recent interview. “We do our best to present it in a way that emphasizes what makes it unique in the world of music as well. I’ve said many times before that learning to perform Frank Zappa’s music is like training for the Olympics. You have to be prepared to pull it off at your best when the audience is there to witness it.” Dweezil recently released “F.O.H.” – a live double CD featuring Zappa Plays Zappa performances of Frank Zappa songs.

Thursday, Dec. 20 doors open at 7 pm music starts at 8 pm

The reserved tickets are $62.50, and provide access to sound check access and an event poster). Other all-ages tickets are $35. Additional fees may apply. Tickets are available at jadepresents.com, at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling (866) 300-8300, or at tickets300.com.

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o for the past month we have had two major sports involved in labor disagreements that have negatively impacted the sports we enjoy and follow. Yet, we…as fans, remain loyal despite the result of a lesser quality product. These labor disagreements in the NFL and NHL have nothing to do with the fans. In fact, they are just battles of greed as two sides fight over money and other issues created by the success of the two sports. This success that would never have happened without the support of fans like you and I. We have contributed to the problem by buying tickets, watching events on TV, buying merchandise, etc. Our

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support has created this pot of wealth that creates conflict on how it should be divided up. Yet as they argue and hurt the quality of the product that they produce, we fans continue to hang on and continue to feed the monster. So I ask you….are we fans too gullible? Lets take the NFL labor dispute. This dispute is between the referees who work the games and the NFL league office. From first blush, one wouldn’t think that these two sides would risk everything to drag this out so much that it would cause the integrity of the game to be questioned. Yet that is exactly what has happened. The officials were replaced by replacement referees who

were unqualified to handle the speed and power of the pro game. Keep in mind, that the NFL had to go to great lengths to find replacement referees since college football still has high demand for quality officiating. So the quality of the officials wasn’t the best of the best out there to begin with. At any rate, the dispute continued through the pre-season and then spilled into the regular season. As each game unfolded, we began to see the cracks in the lack of quality officiating create product quality issues for the game itself. Game lengths increased dramatically making the game hard to watch from beginning to end. Bad calls became the norm and questioned the integrity of the product and game results. Players and coaches began to change the way they play the game to “take advantage” of the weaknesses of the replacement officials. Unbelievably, the game became more physical as players pushed the limit with the ferocity of hits and created a real concern for future serious injury. Due to the issues created by this labor dispute, the media and social media circles began a barrage of complaints and voices of displeasure with how the NFL was basking in mediocrity due to the officiating. Fans screamed about how badly the game was due to the replacement refs. But through it all, all the way until an agreement was reached last month, we fans kept on feeding the beast with unwavering support of the product. The tipping point for a new deal between officials and the NFL came on that faithful night of Monday, September 24th when the Seattle Seahawks were awarded a game winning TD on the final play of the game against the Green Bay Packers on a horrible blown call by a replacement official. This should have been a death blow to the NFL and fan support. Yet the ESPN

Sportscenter post-game show following the incident drew 4.5% of U.S. households making it the most-watched Sportscenter ever! Yes, we ate up the controversy. We fed it. Made it a brand. However, I will stop short of labeling us as gullible. Loyal is the word I prefer to use. On second thought, maybe the NFL should have kept the replacement officials for a few more weeks. They could have increased their TV money with higher ratings. After all, more money means more to divide up…er… I mean fight over.

Replacement Ref Humor

One funny and entertaining positive that came from the labor dispute in the NFL and hiring of replacement referees was provided to us by the social media site Twitter. Some ingenious person out there created a twitter account which posed or parodied as an official account of the replacement refs. Started on 9/24, this account had over 95,000 followers within days. Some of the more funny, at least in my opinion, tweets were: “Finally icing my arm..Throwing flags after every play is harder than you think” “Just got called to count the votes in Florida for the election this November. That gig was so fun 12 years ago.” “Still can’t believe the Packers tried to pull their goalie on a hail mary. Everyone knows thats illegal!” And then there is comedian Steve Martin who on his official twitter account tweeted: “Just hired the NFL referee substitutes to manage my Laser eye surgery outlets!” Humor still is the best medicine for things that ill us!

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46 October 2012

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W.T.F.

This month’s W.T.F. is going to tackle one of life’s useless mysteries. Although this information will probably not improve your life in any great or dramatic way, I am willing to bet you will regurgitate this information at some point in your lifetime. It may be at the water cooler as you try to impress your co-workers, or at that family gathering where you try and look smarter than you really are, or even as filler during one of those awkward silent moments you have on a first date. Regardless, we hope to entertain you and make you smarter even if it is of the mindless variety.

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notches or not?

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hy do dimes, quarters, and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not? So the economy still sucks, to be blunt. So as we work on saving every penny we can, one may notice that not all coin is created equal. Go ahead and reach into your pocket and pull out a handful of coin. Whether you knew it or not, some of your coin has notches and some does not. How could this be?! In a country that screams for equality and equal rights, how can we produce five different types of coin and not make them equal? To notch or not to notch, that is the question? Alright, enough of the cheesy rhetoric. As you analyze your handful of coin, you will notice that the dime, quarter, and half dollar has notches on the side. However, the penny and nickel does not.

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The creating of the notch is actually called “reeding”. Originally, the U.S. Mint made coins with precious metals such as gold or silver. Some innovative people, crooks to be blunt, realized that they could shave off a tiny amount of the metal all the way around the rim without the coin’s value being compromised. If they did it on enough coins, they could collect the metal shavings and sell them to a metals dealer. So the U.S. Mint reeded the edge of dimes, quarters, and half dollars so that shaving a coin, which is considered fraud, would be obvious to police and government officials. Pennies and nickels were not reeded because they were made with inexpensive metals since there denomination value was so low. As a result, there was no market for criminals to shave their sides. Today, the U.S. Mint has eliminated using silver and gold in making their coins. However, reeding is still continued for a number of reasons. For one, they wanted to remain consistent with the coin and its appearance. This also allowed them to maintain the same production molds. Secondly, the U.S. Mint likes that each coin is different in design, shape, and feel. It helps people distinguish each coin apart. For example, the notches on the side of the coin helps those that are visually impaired determine its value. Take that to your water cooler, family gathering, or date and see where that gets you! We know you will.

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