Toddlers always learn a thing or two from books like The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan at Toddler Story Time, which includes age appropriate stories (of course), from 10:30–11:15 AM in the downstairs meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670. Invigorate that spine of yours during a Classical Pilates Mat Class taught by Alison Laundrie every Fri. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 11 AM. $12. RSVP 541-2673. It’s time for your kids to brush up on culture outside the land o’ the free, so give them something intellectual to chew on (and perhaps some tortilla chips to gnaw) during Cultural Trunk: Mexico at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front. St., at 11 AM and 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Grab your cigarette puffing teen and shove ‘em off to the MOBASH Skatepark at McCormick Park from 2–6 PM today or tomorrow where those anti-smoking peeps from the Truth campaign will be on hand to discuss tobacco issues in “a non-preachy way.” Free. Call 864-616-7969.
nightlife Expect a high-class time when jazz and wine mingle during the Real Book Jazz Jam and Wine Tasting, which occurs the first and third Fri. of each month from 5:30–8:30 PM at the Loft, 119 W. Main St. Free, but wine tasting is $10. Call Carla at 360-8746. Times are tough, even for literary mags, so help keep CutBank Literary Magazine from cutting back on one of its issues during an art auction featuring art by Adam Perry, Monte Dolack, Lucy McCoy, Chris Koelling, Marc Moss and more at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W., from 6–9 PM. Free. E-mail cutbank@mail1.umt.edu. Old timey music descends from Arab eggplant dishes when Baba
Ganoush plays the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday InnDowntown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 6–10 PM. Free. A teen narrator goes beyond the gloss of the Caribbean and into the realm of voodoo, prejudice, sex and even leprosy when Claude Alick reads and signs copies of his book Dancing with the Yumawalli at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881. (See Scope in this issue.) Even if you’ve never spent hours wading through their doors, fixtures and the like, you’ve got a chance to help Home Resource move into a new locale during its Spontaneous Construction Auction and Awards Gala which features a live auction of art made at SponCon 2009, tunes by Cash for Junkers and more at 7 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $15/$10 advance at Home Resource, 825 W. Kent Ave. Call 541-8300. (See Agenda in this issue.) A marriage of convenience spurs much after-date discussion when the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., presents its Cheap Date Night screening of The Proposal at 7 PM. Free. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Call 721-BOOK. A teen’s dual desire for baseball and women contrasts with his parents’ expectations during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs which runs Oct. 13–17 at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18 general/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 or visit www.umtheatredance.org. (See Theatre in this issue.) Local pianists Christopher Hahn, Steven Hesla and Barbara Blegen join Margery Whatley and Dorothy Peterson for a keystroke-a-thon during Pianissimo!, a benefit concert for the UM Keyboard Society at 7:30 PM at UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the
Music Building. $20/$10 students and seniors. Call 243-6882. Montana-native and travelin’ singer/songwriter Sara Horvath plucks it up with an acoustic show at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5. Call 541-8463. Bear witness to the zany Sycamore family and their erratic ways, and see how the crotchety Kirby clan reacts, when the Whitefish Theatre Company presents You Can’t Take It With You at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave. $15 adults/$12 seniors/$8 students. Call 862-5371. Grab pappy and your flask, ‘cause it’s time for a good old fashioned bluegrass off with Missoula’s Wise River Mercantile during a Montana Folklore Society sponsored show at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., at 8 PM. $10 at the door or at Rockin Rudy’s. Visit www.montanafolk.org. Spend your night getting gnarled and gnawed when The Wild Coyotes rock the stage of the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Ski photos, ski movies and more await you for a night of ski-induced revelry when Poor Boyz Productions present the “Triple Threat Tour” at 8 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $15/$10 advance at poorboyzstore.com. Visit poorboyz.com. Old school rock and country rocks ‘dem boots when Rob Quist plays the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361. Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free. Be thankful that the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free.
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