Feel free to shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969. Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327. Exercise your right as a consumer to drown yourself in a swarm of booty-shakin’ beats and/or booze for Black Friday when DJs Monty Carlo and Chris Baumann rock sets at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. A tryptophan hangover is no excuse not to imbibe in some punk and country punk when Bozeman’s Out the Lights play with locals Hangover Saints, TSMF and Birds Mile Home at the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158. Zeppo MT urges you to burn the midnight oil in your finest dance attire when they blues up the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.
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Get those endorphins pumpin’ early when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for mid to long group runs during Saturday Group Runs, every Sat. at 8 AM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org. They probably won’t be playing Blackalicious’ first album on repeat, but you can still get down with some lively movement of the same name when Jody Mosher and Cathy Jenni lead a Nia class every Sat. at 9 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10. Call 541-7240. If you have compulsive eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org. Snag some hot holiday gifts from a plethora of local crafters while also helping the Teen Challenge Program during the City Life Community Center’s Annual Craft Bazaar Holiday Extravaganza, which runs from 9 AM–4 PM at the center, 1515 Fairview Ave. Free to attend. Call 532-1545. Strengthen your immune system by bettering your posture and more during the workshop Yoga for the Immune System, from 9 AM–Noon at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $35 drop-in, $25 punch-card holders. Call 581-4093 or visit www.yogainmissoula.com. Vendors hawk Christmas-themed gifts while you munch lunch and more at the Corvallis Christmas Bazaar, which runs from 9 AM–3 PM at Corvallis High School, 1045 Main St. in Corvallis. Free. Call 369-3458. Learn to mix and match your bellydance styles during Beginners World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Sat. at 10 AM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for as many classes as you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Wendy at 5410667 or e-mail thebellytent@hotmail.com. Spend Black Friday and the subsequent weekend away from the big box stores by perusing fine arts and crafts during the Under The Big Sky Holiday Festival, which runs from 10 AM–6 PM
at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 North Reserve St. Free, with free parking. Call 207-6502 or visit www.underthebigsky.net. The wireless age collides with art during the Missoula Art Museum’s Cell Phone Tour, which runs from 10 AM–3 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St., and features exhibiting artists discussing their works from your cell phone. Free. Call 728-0447. It could be a choir, jazz band, or an ivory tickler. Whatever music it is, you know good times will be had during the Missoula Art Museum’s Holiday Weekend Fun activity, which features live music and runs from 10 AM–3 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free, includes a “creativity station” for kids to make holiday ornaments. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick it to the core for Core-Kicking Pilates Class with Alison Laundrie every Sat. at 646 Sixth St. W., at 11 AM. $10, includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247. Sample local and international crafts and food during the Frenchtown Holiday Market, which runs from 11 AM–7 PM at The Corner Hub in Frenchtown, 16862 Beckwith St. Free to attend, $10 fee for vendors. E-mail Laurie at lkhandicrafts@yahoo.com. See the artistic fruits of peeps from Kyrgyzstan during the Kyrgyzstan Felt Products Road Show, from 11 AM–5 PM at China Woods Home and Garden, 716 N. Dickens St. Free to attend. Features ornaments, stockings and other goods imported from Kyrgyzstan. Call 550-2511. If you get lost when trying to figure out the social networking tentacles of Facebook, let the experts at Vann’s guide you during the workshop “create a Facebook page” at 1 PM at Vann’s, 3623 Brooks St. Free. Call 541-6000.
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The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM in Liquid Planet’s conference room. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com. Organic green thumbs in the Bonner, Milltown and Riverside areas can get involved with the Milltown Garden Patch–a nonprofit organic community garden slated to open in Milltown in Spring 2010–during an organizational meeting, which starts at 2 PM at 108 Regal St. in Milltown. Free. Visit www.www.milltowngardenpatch.org. Your holiday-induced curmudgeonliness might ease a tad when Hamilton’s River Street Dance Theater performs a song and dance version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, first at 3 PM and again at 7 PM, at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton. $7 at the Music Box in Hamilton or by calling 363-1203. Event also includes post-show craft hour.
nightlife Post-Thanksgiving serenity meets its musical match when Tom Catmull plays a solo set at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468. The snow gods just might answer your pleas for fluffy white stuff during a Pray for Snow Party at Bierstube at the Whitefish Mountain Resort, 3896 Big Mountain Road in Whitefish, at 7 PM. Free. Starts with a bonfire at 7, followed by music from the Canyon Creek Ramblers at 8:30 PM. Call 862-6560. Formalized dance in tutus and pointe shoes rings in the holiday season during the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre’s Montana Holiday Spectacular, a ballet performance at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $15. Features dances from choreographer Kathryn Posin and Ming Yan Cui. Call 549-5155 or visit www.rmbt.org.
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