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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk So about those sex robots... ....................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Love in the time of AI, last call at Uptown Diner, and gutting health services..............6 Etc. Mike Adams is very proud of his mouth .............................................................................7 News Commemorating 50 years of black studies at UM ...........................................................8 News All Families Healthcare reopens in Whitefish...................................................................8 Opinion Dan Brooks: Refusing complicity at the Department of Labor & Industry.............10 Writers on the Range An exhibition at UM showcases students’ conservation “fixes”........11 Feature The Independent guide to the 15th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival....14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts East meets West in Beth Lo’s ceramic work .........................................................20 Music Rock camps influence a DIY scene....................................................................21 Music Shot Stereo resurrects a resistance ...................................................................22 TV The bad, the worse and what to watch instead on Netflix .....................................23 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................24 BrokeAss Gourmet Rice cakes with black bean puree...............................................25 Happiest Hour Mixing it up at Winter BrewFest ........................................................27 8 Days a Week And none the warmer ..........................................................................28 Agenda How to impeach a president ..........................................................................37 Mountain High Missoula’s Darian Stevens at the Olympics.......................................38
Exclusives
News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................39 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................40 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................42 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................45 This Modern World.....................................................................................................46 GENERAL MANAGER Andy Sutcliffe EDITOR Brad Tyer PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer STAFF REPORTER & MANAGING EDITOR FOR SPECIAL SECTIONS Susan Elizabeth Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERN Micah Drew ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer SALES MANAGER Toni Leblanc ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Declan Lawson MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Declan Lawson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Hunter Pauli, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson Melissa Stephenson
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STREET TALK
By Derek Brouwer
This week, the Indy writes about a conference about love and sex with robots scheduled to be held in Missoula later this year.
What’s your favorite fictional robot?
What are a few traits you’d want in a robotic romantic partner? (Editor’s note: We asked lots of women, too. None were willing to answer.)
Bryce Kilker: R2-D2. He’s pretty spunky. He’s got some attitude, you know. He’s got a list: It wouldn’t look like R2-D2. Cleanliness would be really up there. Discretion is important. I don’t want it connected to the cloud. And then probably customization is what I’m looking for.
Bob Giordano: Bubo, that little owl in Clash of the Titans. It was a robot owl that I want to say was out to fight for the good cause. That might be my memory twisting what Bubo was all about. No thanks: Oh, god. The first that comes to mind is for that object to know that there’s not really a role for sexual robotic things, and it just poofs into thin air. Let me throw another one at you: It somehow helps in bringing together real people.
Craig Rayle: Pris, a pleasure model from Blade Runner. I think there’s something sad and damaged about her that makes me realize my own humanity. You can watch her on different levels, but then you just go, wow, what happened to her, and what’s my role as another being? Someone was going to say it: I tried that with my wife and it didn’t work. I’d rather have the real thing.
Francis Gjefle: I would pick R2-D2, just because I’m a Star Wars fan. Warm bodies: None. I want a biological romantic partner. Robots are programmed, unemotional, they’re cold. There’s no emotional connection there. Maybe I’m old school.
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Let us not be weeds
The standard complaint by opponents of wilderness study areas and national monuments is that people are “locked out,” a phrase that suggests the public has no access to its own property (“Opposition mounts to Sen. Daines’ Wilderness Study Area bill,” Feb. 6). This is not accurate. What “locked out” actually means is that people can’t build roads and drive vehicles across protected lands. Rather than a hindrance to public use, these restrictions allow wild landscapes to retain their special value for all of us. As a species, we have subdued every fraction of the earth where we can turn a profit. We should devote our best efforts to preserving the residue for future generations. Roads and vehicles are necessities, but simple humility demands that we keep them away from the few spaces we have not yet appropriated, littered and exploited. Unlike cheatgrass, knapweed and spurge, which can only be what they are, we can choose to contain our presence and not be the weeds that devastate what’s left of nature. Bill Ferguson Missoula
Daines’ bad bill
I feel compelled to voice my concerns about Sen. Daines not listening to Montanans on public lands issues. Daines has said he will support the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act (BCSA). This act designates 80,000 acres of public land as protected wilderness. Yet, his condition in supporting the BCSA is that he will move his bill, S 2206, forward at the same time. S 2206, misleadingly titled “Protect Public Use of Public Lands Act,” strips the protection of five significant wilderness study areas, the equivalent of nearly 450,000 acres. Daines put his act forward without any opportunity for Montanans to voice their opinions. If S 2206 were to pass, wild lands that embody wilderness character will be made eligible for resource extraction and development. These targeted areas, currently protected as wilderness study areas, are the Sapphire, Blue Joint, Big Snowies, Middle Fork Judith and the West Pioneer Wilderness Study Areas. I ask that Sen. Daines withdraw his proposed bill and instead stand with the BCSA, a collaborative bill that Montanans are proud of. Lyndee Nikkila Missoula
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Sustaining smarts
Back in 1898, near the headwaters of the Missouri River in what is now Glacier National Park, my great grandfather found and drilled the first oil wells in Montana. He also found the school teacher in Altyn (who was 33 years younger), and on their windy mining claims on Swiftcurrent Creek, they raised 17 children. It was a hard life, but as my grandfather (#13) used to say, “It was a good place to get the stink blowed off ya.” Now fast forward 120 years and go down the Missouri River 1,000 miles to Standing Rock, N.D. Last winter, my daughter Jessy was hit by a rub-
“Are we really going to let America descend into a hog-wild frenzy of consumerism and resource exploitation and let corporate power and greed control our politics?” ber bullet there, while helping the Sioux protect the river from the oil giants. She was unhurt and the pipeline went through anyway, but it got me thinking about some things. Our family has made our living directly from Montana’s natural resources through forest products, logging, mining, ranching, trapping, hunting and guiding. Over the years, and through mistakes, we learned a few lessons — like you always give something back, and you don’t take too much too fast. This brings me to our current political leadership. Trump, Zinke, Pruitt, Gianforte and Daines all ride the same horse of unbridled capitalism and seem hellbent on turning our last natural
resources into dollars ASAP. Gutting the EPA, opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, removing endangered species recovery, canceling wilderness study areas, reducing national monument designation, lifting air and water regulations, ignoring climate change and dismissing scientific data and research are only a few deeds that make their agenda clear. Maybe I shouldn’t blame them. Their backgrounds are far from the land, and they measure wealth with money. They probably never heard a meadowlark sing, probably never saw the springtime up on the Great Divide. Maybe they never felt a kinship with this earth and don’t even know that it can be your friend and something to love. Still, you would think they would know that a healthy economy must be connected to a healthy environment. Are we really going to let America descend into a hog-wild frenzy of consumerism and resource exploitation and let corporate power and greed control our politics? Even now, we have not yet paid the true cost for the standard of living we enjoy. The true cost includes the price of the environmental degradation and health consequences that we are handing down to our children. Every real dollar in our economy begins with the raw resources from the earth and is then multiplied by the resources of the people. Our obvious challenge then is how to use the resources sustainably, while we sustain an economy, while we also sustain this wonderful circle of life around us — which actually sustains us. Are we smart enough to do it? Do we care enough to do it? My daughter thinks so, and that gives me hope. Mike Stevenson Missoula
Ripping the bowl
Skateboarding is not a crime. In response to “Tough choices,” (“Letters to the editor,” Feb. 8): How dare you compare skateboarding to smoking? To be a competitive skateboarder, one must be in the best, ultimate fitness shape. Benefit! To say the benefits are “low” compared to the down sides — are you real? Get off the couch, come out and meet the child, youth, professionals, the old man/woman still ripping the bowl. Skateboarding is not a crime. Andrew Arnica Clinton
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, February 7 A university student dies outside a Missoula nightclub, confusing an Indy intern, who wonders how he missed such major news. Turns out there’s a chain of bars called “Missoula” in the UK. Who knew? (Literally every other Indy staffer.)
Thursday, February 8 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announces it will not institute a hunting season for Yellowstone grizzly bears this year. Wyoming Game and Fish, on the other hand, is currently drafting its hunting proposal.
Friday, February 9 At 4 a.m. Montana time, the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics kick off with opening ceremonies. Three Montanans will compete over the two-week course of the winter games.
Saturday, February 10 The second-largest sled dog race in the Lower 48, the Race to the Sky, gets underway in Lincoln. Sixteen teams finished either a 100- or 300-mile course through Ovando and Seeley Lake.
Love in the time of AI
Is this OK, computer?
Adrian David Cheok knows it’s the “sex” in the Love and Sex with Robots Congress that attracts attention, but the engineer, who runs the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia, says it was a love robot that first drew him into the field of AI intimacy. “I was trying to develop a robot that would have, in software, all the different components of human love,” Cheok says. “You have to have empathy, joint interests, and I was trying to codify this into some software. So we made a love robot which could fall in love with a human.” His work led him to David Levy, an artificial intelligence expert who authored the 2007 book Love and Sex with Robots, from which the congress takes its name. They began an annual workshop, and after holding previous meetings in Portugal and the U.K., decided to present the recently announced 2018 congress in Missoula. They will be renting space from the University of Montana, but Cheok says the university is otherwise not involved with the congress.
Human-robot sexual and emotional interactions draw on a number of academic fields, including engineering (how will they work?), philosophy (can they consent?), computer science (how convincing is the artificial intelligence?) and ethics (is robot sex moral?). There are endless questions of logistics and theory to be parsed, many of which incite controversy. At last year’s congress, Belgian philosopher Marc Behrendt presented a paper titled “Reflections on the Moral Challenges Posed by a Child Sex Robot.” “He was giving the argument whether child robots should be illegal or not, because they could be used by pedophiles, and if they were, is that as bad as real pedophilia with a real child,” Cheok says. “So it was more an ethical question that it was presenting. Still, it got quite controversial.” Cheok’s co-chair, Levy, has also courted controversy with his predictions that human-robot marriage will be legal by 2050, and that humans and robots will eventually procreate, and protesters have targeted previous congresses on religious and ethical grounds. Cheok says the first congress was held on Madeira Island, Portugal. “The second one we tried to have here in Malaysia, and it was actually
banned by the Ministry of Police,” he says. “The last two congresses have been successfully held in London in Goldsmiths University of London, and last year we had it in a church hall” after warnings that there might be major protests. This is why, Cheok says, organizers decided to have the congress in Montana in December 2018. “We wanted to go to Montana for a couple reasons. One is that it’s a little bit more isolated place. The last few years were quite stressful because we had some negative things, so a sort of isolated place would be better,” Cheok says. “And also Montana is a very beautiful state, so we think the delegates will really enjoy it.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Gutting health care
The hits keep coming
The bad news keeps piling on for Missoula’s health care community and the people it serves. On Feb. 1, the Montana Department of Health and Human Services held a packed hearing on proposed rule changes aimed at helping the agency cut the $49 million from its general fund
Sunday, February 11 A burning train engine almost prompts evacuation in Clinton. The engine was attached to oil tankers, which were found to be empty. The fire was contained with no harm to people or structures.
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Monday, February 12 A Toyota pickup is broadsided and rolls over at the Broadway and Orange St. intersection. There were no injuries
Tuesday, February 13 Viola, a Cirnechi dell’Etna (read: dog) from Stevensville, competes in the 142nd Westminster Dog Show in New York. Alas, she fails to place.
— Graffiti on construction scaffolding in front of the Hip Strip building that formerly housed the Crystal Theater and Silk Road restaurant. The building is being renovated as the future home of Gild Brewing.
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[news] demanded by the Legislature during last year’s special session. The rules place new limitations on targeted case management eligibility for children, a move Missoula City-County Health Department Director Ellen Leahy warns would effectively eliminate home visitation services for families on Medicaid. “There are no good cuts,� Leahy says. “But these have to be the worst cuts in terms of what the exponentially negative result is going to be and who they’re hurting.� According to Leahy, her department conducted just fewer than 4,000 home visits in 2017, serving 533 children. The nature of those visits, she says, could include following up on reports from doctors about missed appointments and advising new mothers on the dietary needs of babies with medical conditions. It’s a “fundamental service,� she continues, and helps ensure children are raised in a healthy, safe environment. “Speaking as a woman and a mother, I wasn’t born knowing that stuff,� Leahy says. “So I think it’s fair that people get support for that. But the population on Medicaid has some additional stressors in their lives, just economically.� Adding to Leahy’s concerns is fear about how DPHHS’s rule changes may impact federal matching money for targeted case management and other services. In a statement this month, the Montana Budget and Policy Institute estimated that since the 2017 regular session, the Legislature has directed DPHHS to cut $95 million from its general fund. That, the statement continued, would put the amount of unrealized federal matching funds at more than $100 million. Blame for the depth of these cuts continues to get shuffled in Helena. GOP lawmakers point the finger at Gov. Steve Bullock for ignoring other options, while the Bullock administration knocks Republicans for failing to compromise or approve revenue increases. But for those on the ground in Missoula, the question of fault is far from their most pressing concern. “With cuts to mental health and developmental disability, if these go through on top of that, we’ve basically gutted any support system for any of these families that are the most at-risk for ad-
verse outcomes,� says Sara Heineman, MCCHD health services director. “There’ll be nothing left to help them.� DPHHS is currently reviewing public testimony on the proposed rule changes and, according to agency spokesman Jon Ebelt, expects to publish its final rules online sometime around Feb. 23. Those rules would go into effect March 1. Alex Sakariassen
Downtown on the move
Uptown Diner down
It’s been part of Missoula’s restaurant scene since 1991, and its old-fashioned diner vibe is even older. You almost expect to hear Sandy and Danny harmonizing on “Summer Nights� in the next booth. So when the Uptown Diner closes for good on Feb. 18, it will mark the end of more than one era. The Uptown will be survived by hordes of adoring Missoulians with memories of their first meal as a college freshman, graduation celebrations and after-school ice cream cravings. According to the menu, locals have voted Uptown’s shake — thick enough to eat with a spoon, topped with a cloud of whipped cream and a cherry and served in a classic shake glass — the best in Missoula for 18 straight years. I went in for one last taste this weekend, and waited in a 20-minute line to get inside, but the usual lineup of shake glasses was missing from the counter. They’d sold them all off as souvenirs. “We’ve gone through 20 of those big tubs of ice cream just on Saturday,� said front-of-house manager Selena Simpkins. “It’s been just crazy.� Owner Matt Ellis told the Indy that his decision to sell the building and close the business stemmed
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Source footnotes added to updated human-trafficking statistics on the Montana Department of Justice website after the Indy reported its earlier use of erroneous figures last week. from market influences, “personal reasonsâ€? and nearby construction. “It was just time to move on,â€? Ellis said. “It sucks, it’s been a major part of my life ‌ and I care deeply about our customers. They’ve been phenomenal.â€? Since announcing the closure on Facebook two weeks ago, business has surged, Simpkins said. The afternoon I went to pay my respects, the line spilled onto the sidewalk. My friend and I waited for our milkshake — the Liquid Pavement, with fudge and ground coffee, and the Flying Nun, with espresso, marshmallow syrup and a cherry — not caring about the longerthan-usual wait. It gave us a chance to just sit and soak it all in: the pastel colors, gossip from neighboring booths and the smiles (and occasional tears) of our fellow patrons. The line outside periodically extended past the window in front of the table were we sat, and when people peered in, it looked as if they were staring into the past. It felt weird at first, but then I realized that we had entered the classic frame of any 1950s-era set piece: a boy and a girl, seated inside a diner, leaning over a table slurping milkshakes. The same image is branded on the Uptown Diner’s menu and the sign over the door. We had become part of the window display, as the Uptown Diner had long been part of the face of Higgins Avenue. Micah Drew
ETC. The University of Montana School of Journalism was going to get dragged. The question was who would do it. Sen. Steve Daines eagerly assumed the honor, delivering, by video, a two-and-a-half-minute dressdown of the department for its refusal to sponsor the Christian-conservative provocateur, Mike Adams of North Carolina, whom J-school donor Maria Cole had selected as the speaker for her 10th annual Cole Lecture, in honor of her late husband, Missoulian and later Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Cole. Daines claimed to be “stunned� by the snub. “With this decision, a public, taxpayer-funded university — and a journalism school, no less — was ignoring the most basic principles of the First Amendment,� he said. So began a spectacle orchestrated by a fed-up donor. It did not matter that Cole’s speaker is not a journalist, or that his talk — a polemic against policing speech, particularly Christian speech, on college campuses — did not mention journalism, save for one bizarre dig at an unspecified reporter who had apparently emailed Adams a question about what he intended to accomplish with his appearance. “To speak,� Adams answered defiantly. No one bothered to explain how the J-school’s refusal to attach its name to the speech in any way prevented Adams from accomplishing that goal. The lashes delivered by Cole were merely implicit. She spent 15 minutes honoring four local veterans and law enforcement officers, whom she introduced as fighting for freedom every day — remarks that served to put self-righteous journalists, who claim an identity as First Amendment defenders, in their place. No journalism school in its right mind would have sponsored Tuesday’s event, which began and ended with Christian prayer. It’s hard to believe that Cole ever sincerely expected that UM’s would. But the set-up worked. UM President Seth Bodnar had ordered a disclaimer taped to the theater’s doors explaining that the speaker’s views do not represent UM’s. Adams just used that entirely unnecessary act as the tee for his opening drive. And when a woman in the audience yelled that Adams was a bigot, he saw his chance to grandstand about his refusal to be silenced. Cole had said the event’s purpose was to promote civil discourse, and, before the closing prayer, a minister pulled out a talking stick, saying, “Tonight, this was Dr. [of criminology] Adams’ turn� to hold it. By seizing it so obnoxiously, in the midst of such manufactured controversy, it was Adams’ and Cole’s privilege, not their persecution, that came across loud and clear.
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Fifty years ago, the number of black students at the University of Montana could be counted on two hands. The environment was foreign to them, as were the textbooks, which included little about black history. “It was like we didn’t even exist,” one of the first African-American women to graduate from UM, Thamani Akbar, recalled to the Montana Kaimin in 2013. So Akbar and her peers made themselves visible. They established a black student union, with Akbar as the first president, and lobbied UM president Robert Panzer to create a black studies program that, as Akbar told the Kaimin, could “sensitize white students” and prepare them for a world that wasn’t nearly as white as their isolated mountain town. In the spring of 1968, just after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the country’s third black studies program was born. Fifty years later, current Black Student Union President Meshayla Cox sits at a table in the Branch Center, a new community space in the University Center for underrepresented students, and thinks about how her predecessor’s experience at UM compelled Akbar to activism. Being in Montana, at this campus, has helped Cox come into her own identity, too. “It almost pushes you to,” she says. Cox, from southern California, says her passion was ignited in a African-American studies course taught by Tobin Miller Shearer, the program’s director. “It’s an interesting thing to be like, ‘Yeah, some white man taught me about black studies and now I’m the head of the Black Student Union because of it,’” Cox says. But that’s the sort of possibility that arises from having one of the longest traditions of black scholarship in a state with fewer African Americans than any other. “There’s no way to be in this program and not be an activist,” Cox says. “Because, to me, there’s so much infor-
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mation that people are unaware of — that I was unaware of — that I feel like people need to know.” In 2016, only 95 of UM’s 10,770 undergraduates identified as black or African American. If she had stayed in California, Cox says, she would likely have spent more time with people “who already get it,” or are people of color themselves. Here, she became her roommate’s first black friend. The
program and black student union, the conference will draw members of black student unions from across the northwest. It will be capped by a free public lecture Feb. 18 by civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King. The summit will likely triple the number of black students on campus for the weekend, which Cox hopes will provide cause for reflection. Conference presenters include scholars from different
a relevance he says has only increased as alt-right and white supremacist activity has resurged nationally. To that point: Earlier this month, University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Mike Adams, who delivered a high-profile lecture Feb. 13 at UM’s Dennison Theatre, tweeted, “The University of Montana should combine African American Studies and Gender Studies into one major called Resentment Stud-
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Meshayla Cox, a senior in African-American studies and president of the Black Student Union, organized the first Black Solidarity Summit, to be held Feb. 17 and 18 at the University of Montana.
experience has shaped how she thinks about the work required to upend America’s culture of white supremacy. “We need our non-people-of-color, our allies, to understand. They won’t know it on the same level that we know prejudice, that we know discrimination, but to understand it, to call it out, to be educated about those experiences will change the fight against social injustices in a profound way,” Cox says. That’s a big part of the reason Cox is organizing UM’s first Black Solidarity Summit. Held in conjunction with a week of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of UM’s black studies
racial and personal backgrounds speaking about histories that are not necessarily their own. “So I think it’s going to be a different experience for people to be taught these things from people they may not expect,” Cox says. Shearer has raised more than $19,000 to support anniversary events through a #ride4blacksolidarity bike ride last summer, which paid homage to the black student union’s epic 1974 retracing of a 1,900-bike trek from Fort Missoula to Missouri completed by the African-American 25th Infantry in 1897. He’s proud the program has established its relevance across the state —
ies.” The night before Adams’ lecture, Shearer had introduced black studies scholar Darlene Clark Hine’s lecture in that same theater. Hine spoke not about resentment, but about a forgotten instance of cooperation in the Jim Crow-era South, where the only black female doctor in South Carolina, Dr. Matilda Evans, worked to advance health care for blacks and whites alike. “If we don’t know each others’ stories,” Shearer says, “we’ll never be able to talk to each other.”
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Expanding care All Families Healthcare reopens in Whitefish by Susan Elizabeth Shepard
At the end of January, the ACLU of Montana and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in Lewis and Clark County seeking an injunction against the state law that bars advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) from providing abortions. The suit was filed on behalf of a nurse midwife, known in the suit as Jane Doe, and Helen Weems, the certified nurse practitioner who reopened All Families Healthcare in Whitefish on Feb. 5. Weems worked in partnership with physician assistant Susan Cahill, who operated All Families in Kalispell as the only abortion provider in the Flathead Valley until the clinic was destroyed by an anti-abortion activist in 2014 (see: “Can’t do it alone,” May 15 2014). Currently, state law expressly states that only physicians and physician assistants may perform abortions, and it is a felony for other clinicians to do so. Helen Weems, who answered questions from the Independent via email, says that APRNs regularly perform procedures similar to or greater in complexity to early-term abortions, including endometrial biopsies and IUD placements. “APRNs also provide miscarriage management by numbing the cervix and emptying the uterus,” Weems says. “This is the exact same procedure as an abortion.” Weems says she chose to bring the case because of the shortage of available practitioners. “In deciding to be a plaintiff, my thought process was pretty straightforward: Women need access to safe abortion. I have the skills to provide safe abortion. What do I need to do to make this happen?” she writes. “This is an unjust, arbitrary, and unconstitutional limitation for a service that is so desperately needed.” She says the clinic will also provide a variety of health services, including a patient care fund for contraception. “[Weems and Doe] are both in the category of advanced practice registered nurses who are providers that are qualified to provide abortions based on their training and experience, generally,” says Caitlin Borgmann, executive director of the ACLU of Montana. “The research has shown that
consistently, and they do provide abortions in many other states, and they do so as safely and effectively as doctors and physician assistants.” A statement from the ACLU says that the nurse midwife in the case chose anonymity due to safety concerns. “Ms. Doe fears that, if she discloses her identity publicly, she will be exposed to harassment, intimidation, and violence. This fear is based on a history of harassment, intimidation, and violence against abortion providers in the United States generally, and in Montana in particular.” Until now, the Flathead has not had an abortion provider since All Families was de-
“There’s nothing about the reasoning in that opinion or the wording that indicates that the Montana Supreme Court felt the opinion should be limited to physician assistants.” The Armstrong opinion rested on an expansive interpretation of the Montana state constitution’s privacy protections, which are stronger than those in the U.S. Constitution. “The right of privacy should also address information gathering and protect citizens from illegal private action and from legislation and governmental practices that interfere with the autonomy of each individual to make decisions in matters generally considered private,”
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Susan Cahill cleans out the previous All Families location in 2014 after vandalism forced its closure.
stroyed in 2014. During those years, the closest provider was more than 120 miles away, in Missoula. Until All Families reopened last week, 93 percent of Montana counties lacked an abortion provider. The suit builds on the Montana Supreme Court’s ruling in Armstrong v. State in 1999, when the Center for Reproductive Rights sued the state on behalf of medical professionals for the rights of physician assistants to provide abortion services. Armstrong challenged a state law that targeted Cahill specifically, as she was the only PA in the state providing abortion services. That ruling resulted in the state Legislature adding PAs to the list of qualified abortion providers. “Definitely we believe this case is squarely controlled by the decision in Armstrong v. State,” says Borgmann.
reads the unanimous opinion authored by Justice James C. Nelson. While the Montana Legislature has regularly produced attempts to restrict abortion access, Borgmann says those attempts would stand little chance against a challenge in court. “I think it’s pretty clear that these really onerous TRAP [Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers] laws that have been introduced around the country would be — they’re already being struck down under the federal Constitution. There’s no question they would be unconstitutional under the Montana constitution.” Lacking similarly strong protections, dozens of clinics in other states have closed in the U.S. over the last decade. sshepard@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • February 15–February 22, 2018 [9]
[opinion]
Just saying no Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts refuses to be complicit. Would you? by Dan Brooks
Last week, Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts quit his job rather than connive in the deportation of immigrants. The Helena resident, who has a 4-year-old daughter and a wife in graduate school, worked as a legal secretary in the Montana Department of Labor & Industry. Originally created to address working conditions in the field of ampersand mining, the department also responds to labor data subpoenas from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Dyrdahl helped process those subpoenas. He doesn’t believe in what ICE is doing under President Donald Trump, so he quit. “People have asked why I am doing this if I have a child,” Dyrdahl-Roberts said on Twitter. “I’m doing this because I have a child. I want to be able to look my child in the eye.” That’s a commitment to living your values, right there. Dyrdahl-Roberts does not believe that ICE should be deporting low-priority undocumented immigrants — people who have never been convicted of felonies and were not routinely deported under the Obama administration. During the first nine months of Trump’s presidency, ICE arrests increased by 42 percent over the same period in 2016. Many of those deportees have children who were born in the United States and are therefore citizens. In an interview with the Washington Post, Dyrdahl-Roberts cited his own unstable family when he was growing up, saying he didn’t want to play a part in breaking up anyone else’s. This sense of responsibility for the systems we uphold is sorely lacking in America today. I commend DyrdahlRoberts for looking candidly at his own job and acknowledging how it supports a political agenda with which he disagrees. He took the necessary steps to bring his daily life into line with his values. That’s something we can all admire — even those of us who bear absolutely no responsibility for the direction our country is headed now.
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Take me, for instance. As a freelance writer, I contribute nothing to anyone, much less their agenda. Some people might look at a work life that advances no political or aesthetic projects and say that’s enough, but not me. I consider myself a political person, and I have done everything I can to stop the Trump administration from transforming my country. For example, I didn’t vote for him. As a journalist, I won’t tell you exactly
“Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts considered the system in which we are all enmeshed and refused to be complicit.”
how I exercised my rights on Election Day 2016, but it rhymes with “Hillar… stayed home and did bong hits.” It was a bold stand, undertaken at no small risk to my person, but I didn’t want to contribute to Trump becoming president. Alas, my fellow Americans were too stupid to believe the same things as me, and they voted wrong. Trump won, so my activism had to continue. I am proud to say that I have complained about him on social media ever since. Times like these demand heroism
from all of us. Over the last year, I have been careful never to give information to immigration agents that led to someone being deported. When I learned that ICE planned to deport Audemio Orozco-Ramirez, the Billings man who says he was raped in jail after a misdemeanor immigration arrest in 2013, I wrote a column saying that was bad. Then I collected my fee and paid my taxes. Then I shared a Facebook video in which President Trump was depicted as a sexually overconfident orange. My point is that I am not a part of any of this. The federal government has fallen under the control of people with whom I vehemently disagree. They are using ICE and other agencies of American democracy to commit terrible acts, and there’s nothing I can do about it until at least November. I am clear of any responsibility for what my country does, but I encourage other people to look at their lives and ask if they can say the same. Dyrdahl-Roberts did it, and he didn’t like what he saw. Even though his work was only tangentially connected to what ICE is doing, and despite the fact that his only part in it was to respond to court orders that demanded his employer provide information to the federal government, he quit. He stood up for his principles and his duty to the other people living in this country, even when it put his own family’s finances at risk. He considered the system in which we are all enmeshed and refused to be complicit. In Being and Nothingness, JeanPaul Sartre writes that it is senseless to complain about the world or our lives in it, because “nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or who we are.” In this age of bad presidents, Russian election meddling and immoral enforcement of immigration policy, I just wish other people would pay more attention to that. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.
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Cardboard creativity UM exhibition showcases students’ conservation “fixes” by Natalie Dawson
In Missoula, a current art exhibition includes a cardboard rendition of President Donald Trump’s border wall, complete with windows and wildlife doors. There’s also a greenhouse made of wood along with an easy chair for relaxation, a climbing wall fashioned out of discarded materials like bottle caps from local dumpsters and a contraption that would somehow clean up the oceans’ plastic pollution. The display demonstrates some of the virtual solutions to today’s pressing conservation concerns and was devised by college students in the Wilderness and Civilization program at the University of Montana. None of these young people are art students, yet as part of their class, they have to show the public the kind of ideas they come up with. Their exhibit, “Dream Solutions,” attempts to answer this question: “Given limitless resources, including technology and money, what existing perceived problem at the intersection of (so-called) wilderness and civilization would you ‘fix,’ and how would you fix it?” Using only cardboard and other recycled materials, the students engaged in the artistic expression of some of the ideas they’ve been studying all year — subjects such as public lands and how to manage the conflicting demands they face with limited money. The students also wrestled with the sometimes-inexplicable relationship between humans and the natural world. About his “wall,” which seemed surprisingly porous, sophomore Forest Smith explained, “I aspired to be one of the architects for President Trump and his plans to build a wall between the border of Mexico and the U.S. My wall will be littered with holes and entrances to accommodate the people, animals, plants that tend to bisect these arbitrary man-made lines.” Another exhibit, “Fragmentation,” by junior Jessy Stevenson, looks at the impact of boundaries on the land. She grew up in the Swan Valley, where a
checkerboard pattern of land ownership has created management problems. Josiah Simmons, a junior majoring in wildlife biology, opted to “portray an act of Congress that would require people to kill their own food in order to eat meat. If this were the law … conditions for animals would improve, the environmental impact of cattle and pig farming would be reduced, and people would live healthier lives.” One student exhibit focused on improved surveillance systems to prevent
“Whether we live in a small Montana town or large urban center, finding our voices can be difficult, and learning how to engage with others can seem daunting.” car collisions with wildlife, while another tallied the waste that Americans compost or recycle compared to the waste we throw away, asking, “Where does it really go? Why do we send our recycling to China?” Senior Kyra Searcy created a “mobile greenhouse, which takes in carbon dioxide from the air around it. Plants produce oxygen inside the cube … giving 20 minutes of fresh clean air to users from all economic classes and parts of cities that may be affected by air pollution.”
In “Spoils of Recreation,” sophomore Jessica Raty explored the dark side of consumption in recreation. “By taking common items needed for recreationists to get to the trail, the trash that would normally be impacting the landscape is being used to create fun, functional climbing walls for the community.” All of the students used concepts they explored in conversations during the last six months with landowners, ranchers, federal land managers, conservationists, theologians, rural schoolteachers, scholars and poets throughout the West. Many were not from the Western part of the country, yet they became so involved in the region’s natural resources issues that, when faced with the opportunity to take a weekend off, they elected instead to keep on learning about the West and its problems. A group decided to drive to Salt Lake City to participate in a public-lands rally in support of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. For many students, it was their first time at a public rally. They came back to classes with the exhilaration that accompanies freedom of expression. This art exhibit was a culmination of that freedom of expression. Whether we live in a small Montana town or large urban center, finding our voices can be difficult, and learning how to engage with others can seem daunting. Yet here was the next generation of public-lands leaders, activists, writers, scientists, educators and engineers, engaging in new forms of expression. As they grow in knowledge and experience, perhaps they can help answer the increasingly difficult conservation questions we all must face, in ways we can only dream about right now. Natalie Dawson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She is a rambling wildlife biologist and director of the Wilderness Institute at the University of Montana.
missoulanews.com • February 15–February 22, 2018 [11]
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SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT – The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland has a new course of study for scholars to pursue: a bachelor’s or master’s in yodeling. Beginning in the 2018-19 academic year, students will be able to major in the traditional form of singing, which was used by Swiss herdsmen to communicate with each other in the mountains. The BBC reported that prize-winning yodeler Nadja Rass will lead the courses, which will also include musical theory and history. “We have long dreamed of offering yodeling at the university,” gushed Michael Kaufmann, head of the school’s music department.
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NAMES IN THE NEWS – Police in Logansport, Indiana, finally caught up with the thief who had been targeting churches in the area since Jan. 16: Christian J. Alter, 22, of Kewanna, was charged with breaking into five houses of worship and stealing cash, according to the Logansport Pharos-Tribune. Alter was apprehended Jan. 23 just moments before the fifth burglary, at Rehoboth Christian Church, was discovered by police. He was being held in the Cass County Jail. THE CONTINUING CRISIS – Birds nesting near natural gas compressors have been found to suffer symptoms similar to PTSD in humans, according to researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, and noise pollution has been named the culprit. The Washington Post reported the team studied birds in the Rattlesnake Canyon Habitat Management Area in New Mexico, which is uninhabited by humans but does contain natural gas wells and compression stations that constantly emit a low-frequency hum. The steady noise was linked to abnormal levels of stress hormones, and the usually hardy western bluebirds in the area were found to be smaller and displayed bedraggled feathers. “The body is just starting to break down,” explained stress physiologist Christopher Lowry. ARMED AND NAKED – In Texas, game wardens came across an arresting sight in Gregg County last November: an unnamed Upshur County man hunting in the nude along a state highway. The Houston Chronicle reported that the hunter, who is a well-known nudist and activist in the area, contested his arrest on charges including hunting without a license, but one look in court at the warden’s body cam footage undermined his case. The man then dropped his appeals and settled the citations. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT – Vincente Rodrigues-Ortiz, 22, was arrested on Jan. 24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the assault and murder of Andre Hawkins, 17, the day before. But when Rodrigues-Ortiz appeared in court on Jan. 25 for arraignment, he questioned the judge about his “other murder case.” WWMT TV reported that his query led prosecutors to interview and then swiftly charge him with the March 2017 homicide of Laurie Kay Lundeburg, and Rodrigues-Ortiz now awaits arraignment in that case as well. BRUTALLY HONEST – Kane Blake of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, has great things to say about his Springvalley home: “It’s a gorgeous neighborhood,” and his family loves most things about it. Nevertheless, the Blakes have listed their home for sale, with a sign out front reading: “Home for Sale by owner because neighbor is an —hole.” Blake said a neighbor has been harassing his family for five years, including sending police and bylaws officers to the house for frivolous reasons and taking photos of Blake’s house. “My kids won’t even walk to school, they’re terrified,” he told the Kelowna Capital News, adding that he’s received several offers on his house. (Update: Kane has since removed the sign.) TOILET GHOST – Homeowners in Noosa, Queensland, Australia, were perplexed about why their toilet kept randomly flushing, so on Jan. 28, they looked into the flush mechanism embedded in the wall behind the toilet. Then they summoned Luke Huntley, a local snake catcher. Huntley found a 13-foot brown tree snake in the niche, according to the Daily Mail, resting on the flush mechanism. “Hopefully, he’s going to be able to come straight out,” Huntley said on a video of the capture, “but he’s a little grumpy.” BRIGHT IDEA – A landlord in Cardiff, Wales, was caught in a compromising position when he offered a special rent deal to an ITV Wales reporter with a hidden camera. The unnamed man posted an ad on Craigslist offering a 650-pound-per-month home with the option of a “reduced deposit/rent arrangement” for “alternative payments.” When he met reporter Sian Thomas at a restaurant to discuss the property, he said, “I don’t know if you have heard of a sort of ‘friends with benefits’ sort of arrangement,” reported Metro News on Jan. 30. He went on to say that if a once-a-week sex arrangement could be struck, “then I wouldn’t be interested in any rent from you at all.” The ITV Wales report was part of an investigation into “sex for rent” arrangements, which apparently are not uncommon in Wales, judging from other advertisements. GOVERNMENT IN ACTION – Saugatuck, Michigan, attorney Michael Haddock’s dog, Ryder, probably gave the mail carrier a day off after receiving an unexpected letter on Jan. 27 from the State of Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency. According to WZZM TV, Haddock opened the envelope addressed to Ryder and found a letter saying that Ryder is eligible for $360 per week in unemployment benefits. “I knew he was clever,” Haddock said of Ryder, “but he surprised me this time.” The UIA admitted that its computer did send the notice to Ryder, but it was later flagged as suspicious, and the German shepherd won’t receive any benefits after all. 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ne of the best parts of sifting through the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival lineup is seeing how much the Montana-made films reflect the hot topics we’re dealing with in our state, right here and right now. In the 12-minute short film Kuwezesha Wanawake, for instance, Justine Binwa of the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a peek into her resettled life in Missoula. Similarly, the 39-minute Renga for the West explores the relationship between new refugees and long-time Montanans through first-person stories. There’s Drive Them Buffalo, a film about the only tribal-led buffalo drive in North America, a stewardship ritual of the Blackfeet Nation. There are films about wolves, including one about combat veterans with PTSD getting therapy through companionship with rescued wolves. And what would a Montanamade, Missoula-screened lineup be without films about river surfing, beer and backwoods poets? Also relevant to our landscape is the reliably splashy festival opener, sponsored by Montana Free Press and nonprofit marketing group M+R and free to attend. This year it’s Kimberly Reed’s Dark Money, about Montanans standing up to corporate campaign cash. Beyond the Montana-centric films, there’s also an array of peculiar and riveting work — plus audio and virtual reality docs — addressing a diverse set of subjects including wrestlers, endangered birds, acrobatic cats, the Obama administration, racist mascots, Ram Dass, peak baggers and punk-rock grandpas. Many of these films are having their world premieres in Missoula. And all of them are the cream of the crop. The festival, now in its 15th iteration, received 1,800 submissions — 300 more than last year — for its 150 slots. Then there are retrospectives from the festival’s featured filmmakers: Greg Barker, who delivers remarkable access to high-profile political figures, and Kirby Dick, whose docs about sexual assault are central to the #MeToo movement. We interviewed them both. As usual, there are far too many events — workshops, pitch sessions and parties, in addition to screenings — to cover comprehensively, but here’s our selective take, nonetheless, on some of this year’s festival’s most anticipated films and filmmakers — and some potential sleepers, too.
THE BASICS WHEN: Fri., Feb. 16 through Sun., Feb. 25 WHERE: All screenings and events are at the Elks Lodge, the Wilma, the Roxy, the UC Theater or MCT Center for the Performing Arts. ALL-ACCESS PASS: $325. Includes all films, events, workshops and VIP parties. ALL-SCREENING PASS: $175. Includes all films. INDIVIDUAL SCREENING TICKETS: $9/$7 for students and seniors Tickets available at bigskyfilmfest.org.
DOCUMENTARY DAYS An eagle, a wrestler, a cat and a former president walk into a theater... THE BIG PICTURES Street Fighting Men What a powerful piece of cinema we have in Andrew James’ narrative documentary feature Street Fighting Men. The film chronicles the lives of three men making their way through impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods in Detroit. If you’ve heard anything about Detroit, it’s probably an uplifting story about the city fighting its way out of poverty via community gardens and new sports stadiums. That cozy narrative leaves out the average citizens of the city, who struggle with a broken education system, a dismal job market and gang warfare. James’ documentary focuses on three subjects as they suffer, over a span of three years, the slings and arrows of Detroit street life. Chief among them is a retired cop named Jack Rabbit who’s assembled a kind of militia that fights drug dealers and gang violence in his neighborhood. In one powerful segment, we watch the ragtag team go from house to house, trying to sniff out the young man responsi-
ble for torturing, killing and robbing Rabbit’s childhood friend. “You can hide from the police!” Jack Rabbit bellows into a megaphone as his posse canvasses the neighborhood. “But you can’t hide from us!” Next up we have Deris, a young father who grew up hustling on the streets. Since the birth of his daughter, Deris has ambitions to go straight, and so joins up with a mentorship program called Young Detroit Builders that offers a strict regimen of education and job training to help save motivated, low-income kids from incarceration or worse. “I keep getting all these second chances,” Deris says, in the wake of one bad event after another. Finally, we have Luke, an immigrant from somewhere in the Caribbean who toils his days away renovating a dilapidated house with a loving pit bull by his side. All these stories are presented devoid of voiceovers, title cards or any kind of obvious navigation, making for an immersive cinematic experience. If not for the gritty realism provided by an on-location documentary camera, we might
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think we were watching a staged narrative. Incredible but true, each of these stories is struck by a real-time tragedy in the form of death, fire, incarceration and more. The story finds its power in the way these characters rebound from the incessant hits. James’ hands-off style is aided in no small part by a masterful score from Shigeto, an electronic musician from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Shigeto’s diverse, jazz-infused sounds are the perfect overlay for Street Fighting Men’s remarkable collection of bleak human moments, punctuated by just enough hope and determination to keep us going. (Molly Laich) At the Elks Lodge Sat., Feb. 24, at 6 PM. For Ahkeem It often feels like the rift between liberals and conservatives is just getting wider and deeper, with both sides living inside bubbles of influence and information that can’t be penetrated. How would anyone ever change the mind of someone, for example, who’s against the Black Lives Matter movement, or who generally holds racist views? Watching For Ahkeem, it seems clear that the answer lies in simply getting to know and spending time with individuals. The slice-of-life documentary, which follows black teen Daje Shelton (known as Boonie) through two years of life in a crumbling neighborhood in north St. Louis, deftly avoids practically any political statements, instead simply presenting one person’s day-to-day struggles. Through her story, we quickly see how the concept of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps can be downright idiotic when the deck is stacked against you and the system is broken. With the backdrop of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson just a few miles away, Boonie has just been sent to an alternative high school called the Innovative Concept Academy after getting into too much trouble at her mainstream public school. As she tries desperately to graduate, distractions swirl around her, from racial unrest to gang violence to falling in love. The film is shot in a diary format, with Boonie offering a voiceover that conveys her thoughts and feelings as time passes and events occur. The cinematography feels immersive, and captures the complexities of Boonie’s environment, good and bad, ugly and beautiful. The movie can feel depressingly predictable to anyone familiar with its main issues: poverty, racial injustice, sexism, public school funding, the judicial system and reproductive education and rights. And, as part of its commitment to
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simply sharing Boonie’s story, it can be frustrating when the film ends without offering solutions or comfort. But that’s a frustration that doesn’t even register in comparison to the battles that Boonie and her family face just to survive. (Sarah Aswell) At the MCT Center for Performing Arts Fri., Feb. 23, at 1:45 PM, and at the Roxy Sat., Feb. 24, at 6:30 PM. From Parts Unknown Professional wrestling is real. It’s as real as Star Wars, Harry Potter and Christmas. Sure, the outcomes of the matches are predetermined, the moves are choreographed and the wrestlers are
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playing characters, but none of that makes it fake. It’s all in service of a thrilling and sometimes dangerous art form with millions of global fans and a history dating back more than a century. Beyond the top-tier world of Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment, however, or even less-well-known organizations like New Japan Pro Wrestling and the UK’s Defiant Wrestling, exists a nebulous world of gifted amateurs plying their trade across the country. Made by Missoula filmmaker/artist Michael Workman, From Parts Unknown follows Jesse Lawson and his death-defying alter ego, Jesse “Madman” Manson.
Lawson is one of the true believers of wrestling. The bright lights of pro wrestling are his religion. It helped him grapple with his own depression and anger. We learn that, as a child, wrestling was Lawson’s connection to his working single mother, and as a teenager, it was his way of escaping the real life violence he experienced. He got his start falling through tables in backyard wrestling matches in the “bad part” of Spokane. Now, 10 years later, he’s running an independent wrestling promotion company and producing free shows in parking lots and dance clubs. Not yet 30, his body is falling apart — he’s taken hits from clubs wrapped in
barbed wire and been body-slammed into ladders. He has one last match scheduled before retiring from competition, but how long will he be able to stay away? From Parts Unknown crisply captures a world occupied by people who have lived their entire lives in economic distress. Wrestling — where good guys and bad guys are clearly defined, where outcomes are always planned — is an escape that Lawson and so many like him need. He spends most of his time babysitting his roommate’s daughter, introducing her to his beloved collection of action figures. He lives in a concretewalled basement bedroom, watching VHS tapes of ’80s-era wrestlers. But when he’s caked in makeup, throwing himself from the top rope at an opponent while the assembled crowd of Spokane Anarchy Wrestling cheers him on, he becomes something more. (Charley Macorn) At the Wilma Sat., Feb. 17, at 12:30 PM and Sun., Feb. 25, at 3:30 PM. World premiere. My Country No More By the time the Bakken boom peaked in 2012, my trips home to Bismarck had dwindled to a few days at Christmas, maybe a week. Friends and family told me stories about living out of hotels for weeks at a time, or fighting to curtail the oil patch’s encroachment on treasured places. For me, it all seemed so distant, a shift in the culture and landscape I could really only measure by how much farther the lights of Dickinson stretched since the last December night I’d sped through. North Dakota has changed. And I can’t help feel indebted to filmmakers Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling for chronicling how that happened. They center their narrative on Trenton, a speck of a town between Williston and the Montana border. Trenton’s people were sold a familiar bill of goods — jobs, riches, a chance to grab progress by the reins and ride. Embracing oil here meant embracing a refinery in the church’s backyard, but oil is never so easily satisfied, and demands more than anyone intended to give. There’s nothing more heart-wrenching than watching good people get steamrolled, especially when it’s set to a soundtrack as slick and gritty as what’s coming out of the ground. Kalie Rider and her family put up a hell of a fight, but oil can be more erosive than water, and it threatens to wear Rider down the same as it has her neighbor, Merna Patch. North Dakotans are hardy stock, raised to face the wind with tight-lipped resolve.
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About the only thing you could do to break them is to take the one thing that can’t blow away: their land, their home. Amid these struggles, Baghdadi and Hammerling reach for balance with glimpses of Ruben Valdez, a complex and kind-hearted oil worker who deposits his fat paychecks at the blackjack table. He is the jobs and riches that Trenton and so many other towns were promised. Their sorrow is his good fortune. That’s not his fault, though, and it’s impossible not to notice that Valdez is a victim, too. In the beginning, My Country No More seems predicated on the tired old notion that you can never go home again. It’s a depressing thought, and it’s good to see Baghdadi and Hammerling
throw it out with the fracking water. (Alex Sakariassen) At the Wilma Fri., Feb. 23, at 6 PM, and at the Roxy Sun., Feb. 25, at 12:30 PM. World premiere. Minding the Gap This film begins just as you’d expect a skateboarding flick to, with reckless young guys ignoring a “no trespassing” sign as they trot up flights of rusted stairs. Only these three guys wimp out and bail when they reach the top of the attached parking garage. As they ollie around the pavement, one delivers a voiceover about the expectations of manhood, and how boys are taught to think “margaritas are gay.”
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CAPSULE REVIEWS Sickies Making Films In Sickies Making Films, director Joe Tropea takes viewers on a sobering journey through the history of censorship in cinema. Like most art forms, the medium started out tentative and quickly went wild. Did you know there were silent pictures in the 1910s with full-on nudity playing at dirty nickelodeons for 5 cents in front of God, children and everyone? As history teaches us, all good things must come to an end. Sickies Making Films chronicles the birth of censorship, which in the beginning was dealt with on the local level. Eventually, only the Maryland Board of Censors remained, with an undereducated and overopinionated prude named Mary Avara at the helm. Tropea’s doc is a fine addition to a compendium of censorship that includes 1995’s The Celluloid Closet, which surveys the annals of gays in cinema, and 2006’s This Film is Not Yet Rated, which uncovers the crooked inner workings of the Motion Picture Association of America. Sickies Making Films explores some deep cuts in cinema. For example, have you ever heard of Howard Hughes’ blacklisted 1943 sex romp The Outlaw, or 1949’s Pinky, a strange political drama about a black woman passing as white in the American south? Me either! Despite its occasionally dry and academic delivery, Sickies Making Films promises cinema fans a solid history lesson. (Molly Laich) At the Elks Lodge Thu., Feb. 22, at 8:45 PM. World premiere. Transformer Janae Kroczaleski had two dreams growing up as, in her own words, “poor white trash.” One was to be strong. The other was to be a woman. The first was easy. As a teenager, Kroczaleski, still not sharing her true gender identity with the world, did the things she thought society wanted her to do to be strong. She became a powerlifter. She joined the United States Marine Corps, where she provided military security for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of State. And after serving, she threw herself into competitive bodybuilding, where she won numerous awards and shattered world records.
That second dream proved more difficult. Transformer is the rare trans narrative that doesn’t simplify a complex issue into an easy-to-swallow pill. Gender is messy, complicated and deeply personal. The realities of trans people, regarding coming out, finding acceptance and just living their lives, aren’t as black and white as people would like. And while the film does gloss over a few important details (namely, Kroczaleski getting outed against her will), and even though her journey is still difficult and on-
among their own people (and how they shipped that enthusiasm overseas to a Facebook feed near you). In one particularly bizarre plotline, Russian newscasters theorize that Hillary Clinton was hexed during a 1997 visit to a Russian museum to see a mummified Russian princess, causing fainting spells, dizziness, dementia and — seriously, a Russian newscaster actually says this — “retardation.” It seems silly and unbelievable, but was the American coverage on Fox News that far removed? Most spooky are the images
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going, this film reflects warmth, understanding and, above all else, strength. (Charley Macorn) At the Wilma Sun., Feb. 18, at 8:15 PM, and at the MCT Center for Performing Arts Thu., Feb. 22, at 1:45 PM.
of wild Russian children on YouTube, who regard Trump like a cooler version of Spiderman. Is there such a thing as objective news anymore? This film will make you wonder. (Molly Laich) At the Wilma Wed., Feb. 21, at 6 PM.
Our New President If you thought the political propaganda in the United States during the 2016 election was bad, get a load of this. In Our New President, New York-based filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin uses a combination of Russian news footage, amateur YouTube videos posted by excited Russian citizens and output from a variety of media outlets to paint a frightening narrative of misdirection and hysteria. We’ve all heard by now about Russia’s probable tampering with the presidential election and Trump’s cozy relationship with Putin. In Our New President, we see how the state-run Russian media helped manufacture such manic enthusiasm for their candidate of choice
A Shot in the Dark One of the most compelling documentary subgenres is the inspirational underdog sports story, and A Shot in the Dark delivers at every turn. The 86-minute film follows blind high school wrestler Anthony Ferraro on his quest for the New Jersey State Championship title, flanked by a colorful cast that includes his loveable but high-strung coach and his supportive, big-hearted father. The movie rolls forward with smart editing and cinematography (which includes spectacular, well-placed footage of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy) paired with a perfect soundtrack as Ferraro advances from Districts to Regionals to State.
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While his wrestling wins and losses aren’t quite as exciting and dramatic on screen as they might be, the heart of the story lies with Ferraro. He is an inspiration to watch — on the mats, playing guitar, skateboarding, rummaging through the fridge for a snack — and the filmmakers do an excellent job of capturing his struggle and the way he’s treated. Many think it’s unfair that he wrestles under slightly altered rules for his safety (for example, the wrestlers must maintain physical contact throughout the match to prevent head injuries), while others mercilessly take advantage of his weaknesses. Others doubt he’s really blind at all. The movie is as much about Ferraro as it is about discrimination, sportsmanship, equality and pride. (Sarah Aswell) At the Elk’s Lodge Sun., Feb. 18, at 6 PM and Mon., Feb. 19, at 8:30 PM. Bird of Prey There’s a reason nature shows like Planet Earth rise to such critical acclaim. Nature is riveting, and great filmmakers can translate that onto a screen. Bird of Prey is no exception. The star of this 91-minute documentary is the Philippine Eagle, an endangered species of raptor native to the island nation. The film follows cinematographer Neil Rettig on his journey to the Philippines to determine what it will take to save the world’s largest eagle from extinction. Rettig is no stranger to this bird — he filmed the first images of the Philippine Eagle in 1977. Footage from his original trip meshes with the modern clips to seamlessly weave the tale of the eagles’ demise across decades. Shots panning above the rainforest canopy capture the scope of the scenery and long lenses put the viewer in the nest with newborn chicks. The film uses these elements to tell the dramatic tale of baby eagles fighting to survive, and pulls viewers in until they’re fully invested, before pivoting to an environmental plea for help. Shots of “a landscape bleeding” are narrated to show where nests used to be before deforestation decimated the birds’ already limited habitat. The highlights of the movie are stunning images of the animals in the wild. One filmmaker even points out, “That’s got to be one of the most amazing
On first viewing, the line lands like the half-baked musing of some teenage skate punks who are making a movie about themselves. And, strictly speaking, that’s exactly what’s going on here. The boy behind the camera is Bing Liu, and the other skaters on screen are his best friends, Zack and Keire. They’re a diverse trio (Zack is white, Keire is black and Bing is of Asian descent) living in Rockford, Illinois. The stage is set for a middle-America buddy movie when, a few minutes later, we see them smoking pot and shooting roman candles in a backyard. Zack turns to Liu, who is behind the camera, and asks if he’s going to include footage of him smoking in the film. “I’ve given you free range,” Zack says. “I have no stipulations.”
But the film’s ambitions go far beyond goofing off, and the exchange between Zack and Bing turns out to be a hint — a permission slip, even — for the startling intimacy that follows. The young men each witnessed or experienced domestic abuse as children, and those scars are revealed slowly, and masterfully, throughout the film, as the boys grow older and learn more about one another. The key is Liu’s technique, which places him as both a character and an exacting observer of his best friends and family. As the story progresses, we meet Zack’s girlfriend, Nina, and Liu’s mother, whom he interviews on camera about the stepfather who abused them. Skateboarders with handycams may seem like a premise destined to fall flat, but
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beak-cleaning shots of any raptor ever done.” It’s hard to come away feeling anything other than awe at the world we live in and the beasts we share it with. (Micah Drew) At the Wilma Sun., Feb. 25, at 6 PM. World premiere. Dark Money It may seem odd for a movie about campaign finance to open with geese. But this is Montana, where the same scars that remind us daily of past political corruption have also killed fowl by the thousands. We are, of course, talking about the Berkeley Pit. Dark Money sets the table for a discussion of recent campaign scandals by invoking the Anaconda Copper Company. From there, filmmaker Kim Reed pivots to her primary focus: attempts by shadowy corporate figures to control our modern elections, and the effort to shine a light on their actions. No doubt many of Dark Money’s characters and plot twists will ring a bell for Montana viewers. Steve Bullock is here, fighting as attorney general to beat back the effects of Citizens United. So are former state Sen. Art Wittich, taken to trial for illegal collaboration, and reporter John S. Adams, formerly of the Great Falls Tribune (and the Independent before that) struggling to find an outlet for his investigative skills. It’s a decade of state history condensed and bookended with the century-old legacy that speaks to why dark money matters, especially in Montana. It’s tempting for campaign finance wonks to stray into the weeds. Fortunately, Reed spares her broader audience the pedantism. Instead, she keeps her focus squarely on Montana, the scrappy prizefighter jabbing and ducking in the name of transparency. (Alex Sakariassen) At the Wilma Fri., Feb. 16, at 7 PM, the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Sun., Feb. 25, at 3:15 PM, and the UC Theater Mon., Feb. 19, at 5:30 PM. A Better Man Women are capable of heroic forgiveness. Are men capable of understanding why they need it? This unusual documentary follows Attiya Khan as she attends counseling sessions with the man who
abused her when they were teenagers. Twenty years later, she and her abuser, Steve, revisit the places they lived and frequented then, while Attiya seeks an acknowledgement of the fear and pain she felt from the only other person who bore witness to it. Attiya and Steve visit the apartment where they first lived together and the high school they attended, and in those scenes, Attiya’s recollection of how alone she felt is most striking. She says she would run down the street where their apartment
decades-long attempt to construct an experimental city in rural Minnesota for 250,000 scientific pioneers, designed to produce zero waste, move via experimental mass transit and serve as a shining guide toward a utopian society. It was an idea right out of Spilhaus’ fantastic comic strips. But with a $10 billion price tag (in 1967 dollars), who would pay for this bold vision of the future? The film is lovingly constructed out of newspaper articles, educational films, oral histories and even
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was, screaming for help, only to have the neighbors close their curtains. And she recounts coming back years later to thank her guidance counselor, when a teacher who recognized her said she’d always worried about Attiya after noticing her bruises. Until then, Attiya recalls, that teacher had never once spoken to her about it. The viewer learns very little about Steve’s life in the present, which is too bad. We know a lot more about how women handle trauma than we do about how men might cease inflicting it. (Susan Elizabeth Shepard) At the Elks Lodge Sat., Feb. 17, at 3:45 PM. The Experimental City Fifty years ago, college professor, futurist and cartoonist Athelstan Spilhaus realized that the main problem with cities is that they’re totally reactionary. No one had ever built a city first, and then brought people to it. The film tells the story of a
tape recordings of planning meetings. It’s an archivist’s dream that shows real dedication on the part of the filmmakers. To add some dynamism to the film, the oral histories and meeting tapes feature actors standing in for the preserved voices, with the camera filming them slightly out of frame and out of focus. It helps the film power through a few of its drier moments, and creates a sense of depth not seen in a lot of other documentaries. (Charley Macorn) At the MCT Center for Performing Arts Mon., Feb. 19, at 8:45 PM. The Reluctant Radical Nothing, not a broken oar or a padlocked chain or a 9,000-ton Finnish icebreaker, can stop Ken Ward from trying to protect his son, and the world. The climate change movement has many faces. Director Lindsey Grayzel has found perhaps its most obsessive. Ward is eloquent and affable, a bit goofy, and his conviction is inspiring. But this isn’t a tale
of simple activism. The Reluctant Radical captures the very real costs of committing so completely to a cause that you find yourself protesting alone outside a gas station on Christmas in a Santa suit. Ward’s passion costs him a marriage, lands him in jail four times and prompts him to see a therapist, leading to Grayzel’s sole dangling thread: Is Ward actually bipolar? Regardless, he marches forward, snatching a few wins along the way and ultimately finding himself in front of the shutdown valve of an oil pipeline as one of the five now-infamous valve turners. Grayzel wants us to ponder whether this oneman mission to save the world makes Ward a radical. “Yes” is too easy an answer, and the wrong one if you ask Ward. He has to stop climate change at any cost. His every action is one of common sense. Maybe we’re the crazy ones. (Alex Sakariassen) At the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Thu., Feb. 22, at 6:15 PM, and at the Wilma Fri., Feb. 23, at 1 PM. World premiere. 690 Vopnafjordur This documentary asks a question that will be familiar to people who live in Montana’s remoter corners: Why live there? Vopnafjordur is a fishing town of about 600 people in far northeastern Iceland, which you can think of as the rough equivalent of, say, Ekalaka. “Fishing town” probably evokes images of a quaint village where sixth-generation fishermen use traditional methods, but Vopnafjordur is really a company town where everything revolves around an industrial fish-processing facility. It’s remote, but modern. Only one inhabitant of Vopnafjordur speaks directly to the camera, in the film’s opening sequence. What follows is a collection of scenes from daily life with voiceover interviews with the people pictured. Even as the residents offer subtle reflections on their community, you never feel like you’re seeing them directly. The technique helps eschew nostalgia, making way for a quiet portrait of the anxieties and simple comforts that color a distinctive but familiar way of living off the land. (Derek Brouwer) At the Roxy Fri., Feb. 23, at 7:30 PM and Sat., Feb. 24, at 11 AM.
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THE WAY WE WERE
Documentarian Greg Barker talks about The Final Year and life post-Obama by Dan Brooks
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hen Greg Barker started shooting The Final Year, his new documentary about Barack Obama’s foreign policy team during the last year of the president’s second term, he understood it as a kind of band movie. “It’s the story of a group of people … who have been around the lead singer for a decade and know that they’re doing their final album,” he said during a recent interview with the Indy. “That’s how I conceived it.” The 55-year-old filmmaker expected a certain tone: a team of experienced professionals, many of them at the apogee of their careers, working with a president they admired to pursue a final, ambitious agenda in the Middle East. There would be last-minute triumphs and lingering frustrations. There would be the bittersweet satisfaction of
Barker’s ability to develop access has been a hallmark of his career. His 2011 film Koran by Heart followed children in an international Koran-reciting competition — a project that depended wholly on the willingness of families to grant him access to their private lives. His 2013 HBO documentary Manhunt, about the search for Osama bin Laden, is built around a series of emotionally charged interviews with CIA analysts. That Barker got such intimate footage from professional secret-keepers attests to his ability to develop relationships with his subjects. “It’s a leap of faith on the part of a person to open themselves up to a documentary filmmaker, because they lose control over their story,” he said. “I take that trust very seriously. It’s a great responsibility to not make a film that they
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one era in American history making way for another. Then, in November, Donald Trump shocked the world. “It becomes a different film because of what happened,” Barker said. “It becomes more like the Titanic. They’re going through the film not knowing what’s ahead … but we, the audience, know that the iceberg is looming.” This knowledge imparts dramatic irony to the movie. Even as we watch national figures like Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations ambassador Samantha Power pursue a Middle East strategy that requires astonishing levels of specialized expertise, we know something they do not. Barker believes the tension between these two perspectives drives the documentary. “I’ve never had a film that plays on different levels like this one does — the narrative itself, onscreen, and the counter-narrative in our minds of whatever’s happening today,” he said. None of the Obama-administration officials who appear in The Final Year, including the president himself, knew what was coming. Although this particular uncertainty caught everyone by surprise, not knowing exactly what he would get after he started filming was an element of Barker’s project from the beginning. “We tried out this idea of whether or not an experiential film inside government would work,” he said. “It was a question that all parties had.” White House staff wondered whether the filmmaker and his crew would get in the way. Barker wondered if he would get enough access. “Every film, regardless of what level, depends on access,” he said.
necessarily like, but to convey them and their story as accurately, and as truthfully, as I can … but at the same time to maybe see them in a way that they don’t see themselves.” “What I’m trying to do is create a sense of empathy for individuals, characters in my films,” Barker said. This habit of referring to his real-life subjects as “characters” reveals something about his approach. Though his work is informed by his background as a journalist — Barker worked as a war correspondent in the 1990s, covering the first Gulf War and the conflict in what was then Yugoslavia for outlets including Frontline and CNN — he no longer considers himself a journalist. “I consider myself a storyteller who specializes in nonfiction,” he said. “So I’m looking for, first and foremost, strong stories.” He describes Manhunt, for example, as an emotional journey, and different from the work he could have done at Frontline. This tension between storytelling and reportage — and the ethical dilemmas that emerge from it — is an issue Barker sees younger documentary filmmakers struggling to negotiate. “It’s tricky,” he said, “because documentaries have become more and more popular in recent years. We’re living through a golden age of documentaries. There’s no actual rules about how to make them now.” Big Sky’s Greg Barker retrospective includes The Final Year, Manhunt and Koran by Heart. The Final Year screens at the Wilma Fri., Feb. 23, at 8:30 PM, and at the Roxy Sun., Feb. 25, at 7:45 PM.
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Liu delivers a delicate autobiography that explores the residue of childhood trauma. What starts as a story about skateboarding-as-escape becomes a filmmaker’s coming to grips with his own demons by discovering them in the people he loves. The result is a rare and special achievement. (Derek Brouwer) At the Elks Lodge Fri., Feb. 23, at 6:30 PM. Samantha’s Amazing Acrocats The night I saw the Acrocats Circus Cats was one of the best of my life, coming in only behind the time I saw the first Magic Mike in a theater full of women on my birthday. There is nothing bad about it. They’re cats, and sometimes they do tricks, but even when they don’t, you’re still watching cats play. As I type this, I’m looking at a magnet featuring Buggles, the skateboarding cat, that a friend got me as a souvenir of that amazing night. When we left the show, we saw the Acrocats RV parked out back, and realized that the trainer actually lived in there with all those cats, driving around the country. What a life! Samantha Martin used to train all kinds of animals, and had an exotic zoo before turning all-cat. Now she tours 200 days a year, playing any kind of venue that will have her. The footage in the touring RV gets more intimate than you’d care to be with 20 cats, Martin and her assistant Lynsi, and is effective at conveying how cramped the open road can be.
Imagine combining a touring band with herding cats and you’ll get a pretty good picture of the chaos that is Martin’s life. Christopher Guest mockumentary vibes creep in occasionally, like when Martin warns that it’s not a children’s show. “Kids can enjoy it, but the humor is adult-oriented,” she says, not wrongly. Adults love cats, and the internet loves cats, and Martin gets frustrated watching viral amateur housecat videos get millions more views than those of her semi-polished show. But she keeps donning her stage outfits — always with purple accents and cat ears — and persevering. Martin is charismatic, self-deprecating and uncompromising. After one visit to see her father, she talks about how she feels guilty for not coming to visit more often, but she simply doesn’t want to. There is a crushing amount of loss here for a documentary that isn’t even an hour long, and it’s barely discussed. That might be because it’s just a fact of life that a great deal of sacrifice is required to live like this and follow a passion. Samantha’s Amazing Acrocats is, weirdly, kind of short on the cats. Let that be an incentive to catch the show live, because, as Martin says, no one else can do this. (Susan Elizabeth Shepard) At the Roxy Fri., Feb. 23, at 9:15 PM, and Elks Lodge Sat., Feb. 24, at 8:45 PM. editor@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
Deepest roots East meets West in Beth Lo’s ceramic work by Erika Fredrickson
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eth Lo grew up in Indiana with only an inkling of her Chinese heritage. She and her sister spent a couple of weeks each summer at “Chinese family camp,” learning about Chinese culture with other families of similar descent. Sometimes her parents drove them north to Chicago, where they’d meet up with eight Chinese immigrant families to play games and dance. At the time, Lo saw it as a corny affair — one of those traditions children half-enjoy, halfrebuff and later recall with fondness. Chinese culture was mostly peripheral to Lo. She was engaged in the kind of
More narrative. The work was about my nuclear family and that grew into work about my parents and their immigration story. And from there I started looking at the blend of east-meets-west.” Lo has a storied artistic history in Montana, not only as a ceramicist but as the founding bassist of longtime Missoula band the Big Sky Mudflaps and cofounder of Hamilton’s co-op gallery, Art City. Her current ceramic works are part of Shape/Shift, a group exhibit at Missoula’s Radius Gallery that also features Pamela Caughey and Sean O’Connell, as well as some Chinese brush paintings by
bles,” Lo says, “is you can use them as a platform to say something more specific.” In past works, Lo has created similar speech bubbles, via slip casting, and written words inside them to provide an extra layer of storytelling. But “Do Not Enter” is all imagery. Inside each speech bubble is a map of the United States rendered in a range of flesh tones, from dark to light. To the left of the gray children, a sixth child — dressed in red, white and blue — holds a flag with a Do Not Enter sign on it. “The idea is that each of these characters is from a different country trying to get into the United States, but the cur-
blend of being half and half: I’m culturally more American, but I’m biologically close to 100 percent Chinese. I like to explore the idea of nature versus nurture and the factors that cause a person to become what they are. Cultural differences and perception, racism and subtle racism and stereotyping all go way back for me to junior high. Those were things I struggled with growing up in the United States, feeling like I was a minority and knowing that my parents thought of themselves as minorities who had to prove themselves.” Lo says her parents aren’t really storytellers. They raised Lo and her sister to
mother waited a long time to get a Swedish boat to take her to the U.S. “There was a short period in the 1950s where they could have gone back, and they chose to stay, knowing that they probably would never see their parents again,” Lo says. “They stayed in the United States and they were adventurous.” Lo’s father got occasional summertime consulting work on the west coast and would drive the family there. “We always went through the mountains and I just loved it,” she says. It’s one of the reasons she ended up in Montana, making
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Beth Lo’s “Do Not Enter,” left, and “Family” are part of Radius Gallery’s current exhibit, Shape/Shift.
social activities most American kids are, not particularly interested in her parents’ past or a culture she hadn’t grown up in. She heard snippets here and there about her parents upbringing in China, and as a student at the University of Michigan, she joined the Chinese Student Club while working on a general bachelor’s degree and taking art classes. But it wasn’t until she had a son — after she’d moved to Montana and become a ceramicist — that she really began to explore the country to which she could trace her DNA. “I’d always done sculpture and vessels,” Lo says. “But when Ty was born I started being more literal with my work.
Lo’s mother, Kiahsuang Shen Lo. It’s the perfect venue in which to see the artist’s honed work, which she has developed since studying under Rudy Autio at the University of Montana in 1974 and becoming an arts professor at UM in 1985. It’s an exhibit that also offers a window into the kind of socio-political content she’s immersed herself in. One piece, “Do Not Enter,” features a set of five small ceramic child figures. The figures, painted in what Lo describes as “unhappy gray,” hang on the wall accompanied by ceramic speech bubbles that appear to float above their heads. “The nice thing about speech bub-
rent administration won’t allow that to happen,” Lo says. “This country was built on immigrants and immigration. The whole concept of a melting pot is so important to our culture — and it’s important to my personal history. It’s my protest piece.” In another piece, Lo has created two terracotta figures that seem to be growing out of landforms. Look closely and you’ll notice that one character is standing in China and the other in the United States. “It’s about how your personality or being could be formed by the country you live in,” Lo says. “Like my own personal
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look forward rather than back on the past. She’s learned a lot more about their lives before they came to the U.S., mostly thanks to her sister, who has done a lot of digging into the family history and reconnected with family still living in China. “My parents’ immigration story is kind of sad,” Lo says. “A lot of that generation were pretty intelligent and ambitious, and they got out before the Communist era. They made a choice to leave. My dad did it for education. They were married in China, and it took a year for my mother to get out.” War conditions forced her parents to cross into India over the Himalayas. Lo’s
art that blends the personal and the political, both aesthetically pleasing and steeped in tension. “I’m drawn to the blend where East meets West,” she says. “Western culture may not always be dominant politically, but it still seems to be dominant culturally. It’s the lowest and the highest form of culture, but it’s the most free — and maybe that’s why it feels both so interesting and frightening.” Shape/Shift continues at the Radius Gallery through the end of February. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
Tuning in Rock camps influence a DIY music scene by Josh Vanek
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Drummer Silas Liszak plays in the Boys Rock Camp band Exotic Mess.
Growing up in Yakima, Washington’s 98902 zip code meant that underground culture was 142 miles away in Seattle. We did benefit from some local weirdos, including a record store guy named Derek Smith, who brought amazing bands — Cupid Car Club, Karp and Zeke — to town. Importantly, he always got local bands to play those shows. I didn’t know it by name at the time, but those shows were my first introduction to do-it-yourself/underground music. They were always all-ages and in halls rented from such-and-such fraternal order. Typically, Derek collected the cash, ran sound, made food and shared his living room. The idea was, you didn’t have to look a certain way or have a record deal or amazing gear in order to play great music in front of a real audience. Missoula’s Zootown Arts Community Center has taken that same idea and turned it into a core part of its mission. In 2014, the ZACC started a Girls Rock Camp, where girls could work out the mechanics of being in a band. The program reflected the national Girls Rock Camp movement, which started in response to the low representation of women performing live music. A few years later, the ZACC expanded the rock camps to give all kids a chance to play. According to ZACC executive director Kia Liszak, approximately 250 Missoula youth have come through a ZACC rock camp. The fruits of some of that labor can be heard on the new Rock Camp Comp 2017, released digitally on Bandcamp last month. These middle-school aged bands write great simple songs and play with refreshing brevity, relying on strong vocals, melodies and drumming to drive the music. If, like me, you prefer your art unrefined, the comp offers an amazing art brut sound. I was pretty lucky that Derek Smith was there at a formative time. (Maybe I’d be a Dave Matthews Band fan otherwise.) That young Missoulians are learning how to play tunes together gives me some hope that original, independent music will continue to be a part of what defines Missoula.
In advance of this Friday’s rock camp performance, I talked to middle-schooler Axel Smetanka about the song his band, the Scraps, will play and what he’s learned from the experience. Tell me about your band. Axel Smetanka: Alden is playing slide guitar, I play guitar, Evan plays drums and Larkin plays bass.
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What kind of music would you describe it as? AS: Punk rock, maybe. Punk rock or rock and roll. Pop maybe. Are you going to put together some of your own shows in the future? Are you going to stay in a band and maybe play in somebody’s garage? AS: Probably not. Usually with Rock Camp you just make a band and then you perform a show, and then you don’t re-group. Andy Smetanka (Axel’s dad): Are you inspired to be in other bands though? Your other guitar player lives right down the alley. AS: Um, probably. Yeah. I am. What is your music about? AS: It’s about — do you want me to describe who the guy is? We sing about this [fictional] guy named Jim, who has a hard life. And we describe that he got burnt to the fourth degree in some kind of mental way. That’s what our song’s about: “Burnt to the Fourth Degree.” Andy: What did you learn about life by being in a band? AS: If you disagree with something, you can’t start pouting and run off. You have to actually solve it. The Scraps and Exotic Mess perform at the Top Hat Fri., Feb. 16, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Free.
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Getting mad Shot Stereo resurrects a resistance attitude by Erika Fredrickson
Shovel your walk and do your part to help us all get around this winter. Missoula City Ordinance requires walks be shoveled by 9am the day following a snowfall.
KEEP IT CLEAR. KEEP IT SAFE
[22] Missoula Independent • February 15–February 22, 2018
photo by Amy Donovan
Shot Stereo features, clockwise from top left, Brad Craig, Ryan “Shmedly” Maynes, Mathew Bainton and Jacob Ballengee.
There’s a long tradition of protest songs in the United States, but when it comes to political punk rock, one of the brightest flare-ups happened in the 1980s after the country elected Ronald Reagan as president. The Dayglo Abortions (a band whose very name was a middle finger to conservatives), wrote the surprisingly catchy and funny song “Ronald McRaygun” with lyrics that skewered the president’s military policies and managed to make fun of corporate greed at the same time: “I am Ronald McRaygun / I want you in my McArmy / Special orders don’t McUpset me / As long as I get the McEnemy!” Dead Kennedys (another band with a fantastically irreverent name) also took swings at Reagan. In the 1981 song “We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now,” the band refers to him as “Emperor Reagan” and portends a world where fascism and the Ku Klux Klan dominate society. (Their response to that kind of world appears in another song: “Nazi Punks Fuck Off.”) There’s been some speculation among underground music fans that in the context of the Trump administration, political punk — or some kind of angry music — would come back into fashion and if that’s the case, Missoula’s Shot Stereo is catching the first wave. In the basement of Club Shmed recording studio on the south side of town, the four-piece unfurls battering bass and drums, fast and dark guitar solos, all punctuated by Brad Craig’s gravelly vocals. Stylewise, Shot Stereo doesn’t fit into the same punk category as Dayglo Abortions or Dead Kennedys. They’re more in the sonic realm of Motörhead with hints of Rage Against the Machine and Black Sabbath. And yet, Shot Stereo’s “eat the rich” attitude combined with songs about plutocrats and environmental destruction make them akin to those 1980s hardcore bands. But Craig, who writes the lyrics (and most of the songs), has also updated the list of criticisms to match the times with songs about sexual predators, news sources and people eschewing facts,
drone warfare and reproductive legislation. For instance, on “Love the Fetus, Hate the Baby,” Craig takes on the persona of a right-wing conservative, singing “Down with contraception / it’s not the Godly way / No sex education / It’s better just to pray / Help the single mother? / you liberals are crazy / Love the fetus! / Hate the baby.” None of the members of Shot Stereo come from a punk or metal background, though they’ve all played in various rock bands: Craig played in Red Carpet Devils and drummer Mathew Bainton is in the Sasha Bell Band and Tequila Mockingbird. He’s also in the psychedelic rock band Voodoo Horseshoes, along with bassist Jacob Ballengee and guitarist Ryan “Shmedly” Maynes, the studio owner who is also known for Secret Powers and Miller Creek. Shot Stereo is cathartic for all of them. Shmed, like the punk bands from the 1980s, laments current trends in music and sees Shot Stereo as a way to counter that. “Music’s so terrible right now,” Maynes says. “We remember in the 1990s when everyone turned their back on the 1980s keyboards. And now to hear kids listen to stuff that sounds like bad ’80s music blows my mind.” For Craig, the drive to write songs for Shot Stereo is about testifying in a political age when criticism is most needed. “I’m a left liberal with some libertarian tendencies,” he says. “I’m anti-Trump, I’m pro-choice, I’m pretty much opposed to everything the current crop of neo-confederate nazi scum stands for. And that’s what these songs are about. It’s time to fight back. And why isn’t everybody doing it? Where’s the anger?” Shot Stereo plays the Dark Horse with Undun, Malt Liquor Shitzs and the Shoving Leopards Sat., Feb. 17, at 9 PM. $5. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Rafe Spall stars in The Ritual, the least worst movie in our Netflix lineup.
Heaven help us. This February alone, Netflix will roll out 30 original films and series. I watched three such movies this weekend, thinking that surely one of them would be worthy of criticism. But what can I say? I struck out. Here’s a brief sampling of What Not to Netflix and Chill in these dark days of winter, with some viewing suggestions to help you thereafter: When We First Met This light-as-air romcom stars Adam Levine (“Workaholics�) as a love-obsessed goofball who’s about to watch his best friend/No. 1 crush (Alexandra Daddario) get married to a super nice guy named Ethan. If only he had done something differently when they first met three years ago at a cursed Halloween Party! The movie employs the classic Groundhog Day construction (this time in the form of an enchanted photo booth machine), which sends Levine back to this goddamn party again and again, where we watch him fumble his life in a variety of ways until lessons are learned and—zzzzzz. Worse than just bad, this movie is utterly harmless. You don’t need it. Watch instead: Groundhog Day (1993) The Cloverfield Paradox People who aren’t me love this franchise. (The outcry I received from my negative review of 10 Cloverfield Lane still stings.) And so, when the JJ Abrams-conceived movie dropped from the sky unexpectedly on Super Bowl Sunday, the crowd went wild. “Finally, unanswered questions about how the
existing Cloverfield films fit together will be answered,� the crowd reasonably assumed. (They were not.) Given how much people hated this on the internet, I was kind of steeling myself for the picture to be a lot worse. What we get is a very unlikely team of international space cadets tasked with saving the world from an energy crisis — and also monsters are there. This is science fiction for a YA audience, ergo, the grownups are expecting too much. Watch instead: Solaris (1972) or (2002) — both are good. The Ritual Of all the bad movies I wasted my time with on Netflix this week, director David Bruckner’s horror feature The Ritual is the least worst. Here we meet an old gang of blokes as they’re planning their annual vacation. They begin the film five strong, but then an early tragedy strikes, which casts a dreadful pall on the rest of the action. We jump ahead six months to a somber hiking trip of four in the Swedish mountains, where the men are stalked by a sinister, invisible force in the forest. Think The Blair Witch Project, but less original. Still, The Ritual is the best of the three because despite the garbage script and insufferable characters, the film looks good, and the underutilized monster at the end (that’s a spoiler, I’m not sorry, did you really think there wasn’t a monster in the woods?) has a cool design. To see what I mean, you can just skip to the last 10 minutes and infer everything else that came before, no problem. Watch instead: The Descent (2005) arts@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • February 15–February 22, 2018 [23]
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OPENING THIS WEEK BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL The 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival features screenings across Missoula that prove truth is stranger than fiction. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule of films and screening times. (See Feature) BLACK PANTHER After making 10 movies starring white guys named Chris, Marvel Studios finally gives the king of Wakanda his own feature film. Black Panther must prevent a Shakespearian coup from kicking off a new world war. Rated PG-13. Stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. EARLY MAN Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park returns to the stop motion animation well with this story of prehistoric peoples battling against the oncoming Bronze Age. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston and Richard Ayoade. Playing at the AMC 12. SAMSON The producer of God’s Not Dead brings the tale of the biblical strongman ruined by a bad haircut to the silver screen. I can relate, Samson. I can relate. Rated PG-13. Stars Taylor James, Billy Zane and Caitlin Leahy. Playing at the AMC 12.
NOW PLAYING THE 15:17 TO PARIS Clint Eastwood’s new film recounts the true story of the 2015 Thalys train attack, and the three Americans who put themselves in danger to save the lives of strangers. Rated PG-13. Stars several people playing themselves, as well as Tony Hale and Jaleel White. Wait, you’re telling me Urkel is in this movie? Is Eastwood okay? Has he been yelling at empty chairs again? Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12. BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. The tortoise lies on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun. But you’re not helping because they’ve finally made a sequel to Blade Runner and it’s incredible. I can’t wait to watch a hundred different director’s cuts of this one. Rated R. Stars Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto and Harrison Ford. Playing at the Roxy Wed., Feb. 21, at 7 PM and Sun., Feb. 25, at 2 PM. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME A Jewish-American boy living in northern Italy falls head-over-heels in love with a bookish and musical grad student. You’ll never look at peaches the same way again. Rated R. Stars Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg. Playing at the Roxy. DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) In the far-off, futuristic year of 2000, a crooked president presides over a transcontinental road race where drivers are scored on how many people they run over. Sounds like just another day on Reserve St. Rated R. Stars Mary Woronov, Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine as Frankenstein. Playing Fri., Feb. 16, at 9 PM at the Roxy. FACES PLACES (VISAGES, VILLAGES) Agnès Varda was one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, now this 89-year-old filmmaker
Hail to the king, baby. Chadwick Boseman stars in Black Panther, opening at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. documents her journey with acclaimed photographer and muralist JR on a road trip to create giant portraits of the people they meet. Get ready to learn a surprising amount about goats. Rated PG. Directed by Agnès Varda and JR. Playing at the Roxy.
just because he’s black. That man is a Philadelphia police detective and now the two must work together to solve this mystery. Not Rated. Stars Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Warren Oates. Playing Thu., Feb. 22 at 7 PM at the Roxy.
FIFTY SHADES FREED Ana and Christian Grey explore new levels of masochism, which are nothing compared to the levels exhibited by fans of this franchise. Rated R. Stars Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson and that unmistakeable hankerin’ for a spankin’. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12.
INHERENT VICE (2014) A drug-addled private eye investigates an ex-girlfriend’s disappearance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Rated R. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin and Owen Wilson. Rated R. Playing Sat., Feb. 17 at 8 PM.
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN P.T. Barnum might be best known for coining the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute,” but the life of the famed circus founder still has a few surprises up its sleeve. Rated PG. Stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya. Showing at the AMC 12.
JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE It took them 22 years, but Jumanji is finally getting a sequel without any of the original cast. Didn’t they learn their lesson with Zathura? Rated PG-13. Stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.
HERO (2002) You’ve successfully defeated three of the deadliest assassins in ancient China. Now all you want to do is tell the king all about it, but he just won’t shut up. Rated R. Stars Jet Li, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. Playing Mon., Feb. 19 at 7 PM at the Roxy. HOSTILES Unrelated to Eli Roth’s series of torture films which are spelled differently anyway, an army captain is tasked with transporting a dying Cheyenne war chief from New Mexico to Montana. You had me at Montana. Rated R. Stars. Christian Bale, Wes Studi and Ben Foster. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. I, TONYA Did you know figure skater Tonya Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition? Of course not. We all remember her from the wildest scandal in sports history instead. Rated R. Stars Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan and Allison Janney. Playing at the Roxy. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) The racist police chief of a small town in Mississippi arrests the wrong man in connection with a murder
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KOYAANISQATSI (1983) This movie makes a lot more sense when you learn the director spent 14 years in silence, prayer and fasting in an attempt to become a Roman Catholic monk before abandoning it all to make experimental documentaries that defy categorization. Not Rated. Directed by Godfrey Reggio, soundtrack by Philip Glass. Playing Sun., Feb. 18, at 7 PM at the Roxy. LOVING VINCENT He was a brilliant, passionate painter who changed the world of art forever. Now Vincent Van Gogh’s story is told through painstaking animation. Every single one of this film’s 65,000 frames is an oil-painting, hand-painted by hundreds of artists around the world. Rated PG-13. Stars Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan and Aidan Turner. Playing at the Roxy Sun., Feb. 18 at 2 PM. THE MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE After being delayed by three years, the Maze Runner series comes to an end with more of the same stuff we saw in the Hunger Games movies. Rated PG-13. Stars Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper. Playing at the AMC 12.
MISS SHARON JONES! (2015) With a powerful voice and a stronger personality, this former corrections officer turned singer was on top of the world until she was diagnosed with a lifethreatening illness. Not Rated. Directed by Barbara Kopple. Playing Thu., Feb. 15 at 7 PM at the Roxy. PETER RABBIT Beatrix Potter’s beloved bunny makes the hop from children’s books to the big screen as a fast-talking, twerking jerk who throws all-night ragers in Mr. McGregor’s house. Rated PG. Featuring James Corden, Sam Neill and the realization that no one at Sony knows how to read. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharoahplex. PHANTOM THREAD The Ghost Who Walks emerges from the four-color world of comic strips to slam evil in this big screen adaption of Lee Falk’s purple-clad super hero. Just kidding, this is Daniel Day-Lewis’ supposed last film. He plays a tailor in charge of dressing the high-andmighty of Postwar Britain. I don’t think he slams any evil. Rated R. Also stars Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Playing at the AMC 12. THE POST In the 1970s, the federal government was lying to the American people and attacking the free press, a cornerstone of our democracy. I’m sure glad things aren’t like that anymore! Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Bob Odenkirk. I wonder who is going to play me when they eventually make a movie about the Indy? Playing at the Pharaohplex. THE SHAPE OF WATER Did you ever watch Creature from the Black Lagoon and think to yourself, dang, I wanna have sex with that? Guillermo del Toro did, apparently. Rated R. Stars Sally “Paddington 2” Hawkins, Doug Jones (not that one) and Michael “Pottersville” Shannon. Playing at the Roxy. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Get up-todate listings and film times at theroxytheater.org, amctheatres.com and pharaohplex.com to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.
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Rice cakes over black bean puree by Gabi Moskowitz
BROKEASS GOURMET
Rice and beans are the ultimate BrokeAss food — healthy, filling, tasty and, perhaps most importantly, cheap. So it came as no surprise that, due to the leftovers from the dinner party I had earlier this week, rice and beans would be my dinner tonight. But throwing leftovers together in a bowl and microwaving them just isn’t my style, so I came up with this sexy, vegan rendition of everyone’s favorite complete protein combination. Serves 2 Ingredients 2 cups cooked rice 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained 1/2 red onion, diced 1/2 mango, diced 1 small bunch cilantro, chopped 1/2 avocado, diced juice of one lime salt to taste 3 tbsp olive oil, divided 1 plantain, sliced into ½-inch-thick pieces on the bias Directions Heat the beans in a small pot with 3 tbsp water over medium heat until fully heated. Puree using
an immersion blender or a potato masher until smooth. Turn off heat. Heat 2 tbsp of the olive oil over medium-high heat in a large frying pan. Heat the rice in a small pot or the microwave until warm to the touch. Stir in 2-3 tbsp water until the rice becomes sticky. Use wet hands to carefully shape the rice into patties, about 3 ½ inches wide and 1 inch thick. Fry the patties for 3-4 minutes on each side, until a thick crust forms. Add more oil if needed. Flip very carefully, and don’t worry if the patties fall apart — they’ll still be delicious, and it won’t matter when you serve them. Keep the patties warm in the pan with the heat turned off until ready to serve. Heat the remaining tbsp of olive oil in a medium frying pan over high heat. Add the plantain slices and cook for 1-2 minutes on each side until golden brown. Drain on a paper towel. Toss together the mango, onion, avocado, cilantro, lime and salt to taste. Set aside. To assemble, divide the black bean puree between two plates. Top with rice cakes and mangoavocado relish. Serve plantains on the side. BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor in chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough: 100 Delicious Unexpected Recipes.
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[dish] Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar & Grill is the place to relax and unwind while enjoying our New Feature Menu. Great selection of Montana Brews on tap! Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour every day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials changing daily. Thursday Trivia from 7:30-9:30. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$
“PROST!” Located above Bayern Brewery 1507 Montana Street Monday–Saturday | 11a–8pm BayernBrewery.com
Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$
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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of
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[dish] 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to
name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$
Mixing it up at Winter BrewFest
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Rumour 1855 Stephens Ave. 549-7575 rumourrestaurant.com We believe in celebrating the extraordinary flavors of Montana using local product whenever it's available. We offer innovative vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, meat & seafood dishes that pair beautifully with one of our amazing handcrafted cocktails, regional micro-brews, 29 wines on tap or choose a bottle from our extensive wine list. At Rumour, you'll get more than a great culinary experience....You'll get the perfect night out. Open daily: restaurant at 4.00pm, casino at 10.30am, brunch sat & sun at 9.30am Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 • tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s!
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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Why you’re drinking: Cold and snow be damned. Throw on your parka and elbow your way into the eighth annual Winter BrewFest in Caras Park. You know you will. Because if there’s one thing Missoula does better than ritualistic brunching and ranting about traffic, it’s throwing a brewery-themed bash. And while not everyone around here is a raging hophead, it’s hard to pass on a party. Plus, there’s an extra draw this year…
in the case of Montana Distillery’s Lumber-Jack cocktail, the name is apt. It’s a mix of fresh lime, cranberry juice, maple syrup and ginger vodka, and it tastes like something a lumberjack would order by the gallon. A little sweet, mostly tart, not unlike a Moscow Mule but far more flavorful. Montana Distillery’s Jacob Stalnaker based the recipe on a cranberry sauce he whips up every Thanksgiving. Who needs gravy? I’ll smother my turkey with this stuff.
What you’re drinking: A cocktail. Yeah, you heard that right. This year, the Missoula Downtown Association has broadened the Winter BrewFest menu to include spirits and mixers from Montana Distillery and Montgomery Distillery. So toss back that highball glass, beer haters, and rejoice. Or just sip hot toddies as the rest of us curse about forgetting our koozies.
Where you’re drinking: If it’s Feb. 17 between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., then you’re in Caras Park and the Lumber-Jack will cost you three tokens. If not, the seasonal cocktail will be available through February at Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St., for $7. —Alex Sakariassen
What you’re drinking, more specifically: You might not normally associate Paul Bunyan’s flannel-clad kin with a pink drink. But
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FRI | 9 PM New Old Future hosts an album release party at the VFW Fri., Feb. 16. 9 PM. Free.
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WED | 9 PM Monophonics plays the Top Hat Wed., Feb. 21. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$13 advance.
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Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Celebrate the University of Montana's 125th birthday with the annual Charter Day celebration at Dennison Theatre. 5 PM. Free and open to the public. Carla Green Jazz provides the tunes at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Say "yes and" to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM
nightlife Take a behind-the-scenes class for would-be and wannabe dancers at the Fox Club. 5 PM– 8 PM. $35. All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Hambone and the Headliners headline a night of music at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free. Watch The Wind and the Wave warble wonderful wisdom at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk's. 9 PM. Free. Aaron "B-Rocks" Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Jackson Holte and the Highway Patrol, Ocelot Wizard and The Pool Boys unite for a night of music at the VFW. 9 PM. Donations.
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Get your engine revving at the annual Motorsports Show at Southgate Mall. See what's new in motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles and more through Feb. 18. 10 AM–6 PM. Author Paige Embry reads from her new book Our Native Bees at Fact & Fiction. It's been generating a lot of buzz. 5:30 PM–8 PM. Free. The Scraps and Exotic Mess, two bands made up of 9- to 11-yearold-boys, give their first performance at the Top Hat as part of Boys Rock Camp. 5:30 PM–6:30 PM. Free. (See Music.) This play is all Greek to me. The MCT Center for the Performing Arts hosts the premiere of Hercules! 5:30 PM and 7 PM. $5– $10. Whoa, my love, my darling. I've hungered, hungered for your touch a long, lonely time. Reenact the sexiest scene from Ghost (that doesn't involve Vincent Schiavelli) at Ghost Date Night at Clay Studio. 6 PM–8 PM. $50/$40 couple. BYOB. Travis Yost provides the soundtrack at Highlander Beer. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free. Canta Brasil provides the tunes for your dancing pleasure at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free. The 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival kicks off with a free screening of the Montana premiere of Dark Money at the Wilma. 7 PM. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule and tickets.
Head for the Hills plays the Top Hat Fri., Feb. 16. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.
nightlife Missoula's favorite Valentines tradition returns. An all bodied, all gendered performance of The Vagina Monologues starts at 7:30 PM at the Dennison Theatre. $10 cash. Comedians from across Montana come to the Roxy Theater to go head-to-head at the first round of Missoula's HomeGrown Comedy Competition. 8 PM. $11.
Give 'em the old razzle dazzle! Chicago opens at Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Rd, Hamilton. 8 PM. $15. Smokey Rose, Hotpantz and Red Velvet are on the decks for a special I'll House You at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. New Old Future celebrates the release of its inaugural album with a party at the VFW with Faith Eliott, Easter Island and Edgar
Spotlight In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, that wandering uterus. Then, thank god, somewhen a woman showed signs of persistent one invented the vibrator. sadness, excitement or Pulitzer and any emotion that made Tony award-nomimen uncomfortable, WHAT: In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play nated playwright she was said to be sufSarah Ruhl's play In the Next Room, fering from a “wander- WHERE: Masquer Theatre or the vibrator ing uterus.” Doctors WHEN: Premieres Thu., Feb 21 at 7:30 PM. play follows three were real idiots back sexually frustrated then. Those suffering HOW MUCH: $16 women whose sex from it were diagnosed lives are someas having a strange MORE INFO: umt.edu/umarts/theatredance/ thing they must ennew disease called dure rather than hysteria. The most highly recommend course of treatment pre- enjoy. Set in the 1880s, this gilded age comscribed to these women was marriage. The edy of manners explores the early days of the idea was sexual release could help purge the vibrator as a clinical device used to bring system of these hysterical fluids and placate women to orgasm to treat hysteria. Through
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Allan Kubrick. 9 PM. Free. Run for your lives! Head for the Hills plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. This city ain't big enough for the both of us. ShoDown plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free. Do you like your rock shaken, not stirred? Moneypenny plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.
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Saturday Aran Buzzas provides the tunes at Highlander Beer. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Andrea Harsell and Nickalongside play Imagine Nation from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Andre Floyd provides the bluesy tunes at Draught Works at 6 PM. Free. David Horgan and Beth Lo play Finn & Porter. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
Skippin' A Groove provides the music for the Contra Dance at Union Hall. Workshop at 7:30 PM, dancing at 8. $9.
Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.
Undun, The Malt Liquor Shitzs, The Shoving Leopards and Shot Stereo perform at Metal Melee at the Dark Horse. 9 PM. $5
Troublesome provides the soundtrack at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.
Get your luau on at Lolo Hot Springs. Roasted pig, stay for costume contest. 9 PM. Free.
Russ Nasset & the Revelators open up the seventh seal of rockabilly at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.
Letter B plays Bitter Root Brewing from 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. The 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues with screenings across Missoula that prove truth is stranger than fiction. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule of films and screening times. The Black Solidarity Summit on UM campus hosts presentations addressing racial discrimination, political disenfranchisement and social organization. Visit umt.edu/uc/student-involvement/ for a full list of events and registration. Free. I would give Patrick Wilson an A-plus. That's what they mean by celebrity appraiser, right? Antiques Roadshow's Timothy Gordon is on hand to appraise your memorabilia, ephemera, documents and more at Missoula Art
Museum. 10:30 AM–2:30 PM. $20/object. The 8th Annual Winter BrewFest gives you an excuse to sample delicious beers from over 30 Montana taps. Caras Park. 3 PM–9 PM. $15 gets you a collectible glass and 3 tokens. This play is all Greek to me. Hercules! continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 3 PM and 5 PM. $5–$10.
Aerie literary magazine presents the annual Citywide Poetry Slam at the Public House. Drop your illest rhymes and win cash prizes. Free to watch, $5 to compete. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM.
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The 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues with screenings across Missoula that prove truth is stranger than fiction. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule of films and screening times.
Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM. Travis Yost provides the tunes at Highlander Beer from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
The Black Solidarity Summit on UM campus hosts presentations addressing racial discrimination, political disenfranchisement and social organization. Visit umt.edu/uc/student-involvement/ for a full list of events and registration. Free.
Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.
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David Horgan, Beth Lo and Antonio Alvarez provide the soundtrack at Bayern Brewery from 11 AM–2 PM. Free.
Celebrate President's Day with Tom Catmull at Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.
Embarrassed by Fido's behavior? Local trainer Robyn Shepherd hosts a free dog behavior workshop at Missoula Public Library. All are welcome, but leave your doggo at home. 2 PM.
Motown on Mondays puts the s-o-u-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
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Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21plus.
Olney, Montana's own Tim Helnore plays Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free. Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM.
Tenor soloist Brian Stucki performs with the String Orchestra of the Rockies at UM Music Recital Hall Sun., Feb. 18 at 7:30 PM. $30.
Love that vino? February's Wine Tasting at the Dram Shop features personal favorites handpicked by the Dram Shop's Wine Director. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. $25. RSVP ASAP. Tenor soloist Brian Stucki performs in the
Montana debut performance of Britten's Heroes & Legends with the String Orchestra of the Rockies at UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $30. Oh my god, I forgot! Celebrate the life and career of Dr. Dre with a party at the Bad-
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lander. Leave the chronic at home, okay? 9 PM. Free. Every Sunday is "Sunday Funday" at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
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Island Soldier plays at the MCT Center Wed., Feb. 21, 1:45 PM. as part of the Big Sky Documentart Film Fest. The 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues with screenings across Missoula. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule.
nightlife We're one-third of the way to a BLT. Lettuce plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $26/$24 advance. Pura Vida Community Chorus hosts a benefit concert at the Salvation Army of Missoula. 7 PM. $10.
The Rivers Will Run Lecture Series continues with Alan Watson in Gallagher Business Building Room 123. 7 PM. Free and open to the public. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week's trivia question: What guitar legend played his first gig on today’s date in 1960? Answer in tomorrow's Nightlife. This next song is about drinking a LaCroix in your Subaru with your dog. Missoula Music Showcase at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
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Wednesday The 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival continues with screenings across Missoula that prove truth is stranger than fiction. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for a full schedule of films and screening times. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company's Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for the Mountain Home Montana. 5 PM–8 PM. Brother Coyote plays Great Burn Brewing from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Did Fido get kicked out of The Shape of Water? Movie night at Wagg'n Indoor Dog Park lets you enjoy a movie with your four-legged friend at 6:15 PM. $10. This month catch Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
nightlife The slam is back! Poetry Slam brings verbal prowess and lyrical acrobatics to E 3 C o n v e r g e n c e G a l l e r y. 7 P M . Email e3gallery@e3gallerymissoula.co m to sign up. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night
at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Jimi Hendrix. Missoula's Homegrown Comedy Showcase is back at the Roxy Theater with a special show featuring the Garden City's newest comedians plus a few special guests. This month's headliner is high-flying wunderkind Zac Allen. 7:30 PM. Two drink minimum. Sarah Ruhl's comedy of manners about the dawn of electricity awakening the feminine sexuality, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, opens at the Masquer Theatre. It's generating a lot of buzz. 7:30 PM. $16. (See spotlight) Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover. Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free. My DJ name is RNDM LTTRS. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 8 PM. It's like the kissing disease but for your ears. Monophonics plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$13 advance.
Brother Coyote plays Great Burn Brewing Wed., Feb. 21 from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
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Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16.
Lions and tiger and patent trolls (oh my)! Attorneys Shane Vannatta and Martin Rogers take you through the basics of intellectual property through the eyes of L. Frank Baum's classic Oz Series. Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce. 11:30 AM. $25.
Spokane-based singer-songwriter Marshall McLean plays the Top Hat. 8 PM. Free.
All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30– 10 PM.
Old Dominion play the Adams Center at 8 PM. Meanwhile New Dominion plans its revenge. $29.50–59.50. Get your boots scootin' at the Sunrise Saloon's Rocking Dance Party. 8:30 PM. Free.
Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.
Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
Well that's nice of them. Benevolents play Draught Works 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Say "yes and" to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM
Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not small. No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk's. 9 PM. Free. Aaron "B-Rocks" Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
nightlife Singer-songwriter and beatboxer Matisyahu plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28.
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Matisyahu plays the Wilma Thu., Feb. 22. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28. The Five Valleys Audubon conducts an Advance Birding Workshop every Thursday Parks Regional Office. This week Larry Don't be hysterical. In the Next Room, or from 7 PM–9:30 PM at the Fish, Wildlife & Weeks talks about raptors. $15. the vibrator play continues at the Masquer
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(mostly the outs) of the impeachment process. Missoula Public Library. 3:30 PM–5:30 PM.
Missoula Rises hosts its quarterly open meeting at Congregation Har Shalom. Come learn what you can do to make a difference in your community. 6:30 PM. Free.
A portion of the price of every beer sold at Bitter Root Brewing goes to support Bitter Root Water Forum. That's a lot of bitter roots. 1 PM–7 PM.
The Missoula Renters Union meets at Home ReSource with a potluck. Attorney Klaus Sitte answers questions about renters' rights. 6 PM–7:30 PM.
While I'm sure we can all define what impeachment is, it's more difficult to explain how exactly it works. It’s so difficult, in fact, that Kari Ann Owen is giving a free talk on the process and basics of the process. As it turns out, it is incredibly hard to impeach the President of the United States. To date, no President has ever left his position at the top of our government through impeachment. That’s partly because, like anything in our stupid government, the whole thing ends up a partisan nightmare, and also because the process itself is fraught with bureaucracy. The impeachment process includes votes in both chambers of Congress, and requires a majority two-thirds vote to convict. Only two U.S. Presidents have undergone impeachment trials. Andrew Johnson went on trial in 1868 for violating the
Tenure of Office Act (basically he fired someone Congress said he shouldn't have), and 131 years later Bill Clinton underwent the process for perjury and obstruction of justice. Both times the President narrowly avoided losing their job due to the Senate being unable to hit that two-thirds majority. Richard Nixon spent the better part of two years battling with the press and Congress before resigning when the articles of impeachment process were formally filed. –Charley Macorn Kari Ann Owen gives a talk about the impeachment process at a free event at Missoula Public Library. Sat., Feb. 17, 3:30 PM–5:30 PM.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17 The Black Solidarity Summit on the UM campus hosts presentations addressing racial discrimination, political disenfranchisement and social organization. Visit umt.edu/uc/student-involvement/ for a full list of events and registration. Free. The Sunrise Saloon hosts a fundraising benefit to cover medical expenses for Missoulian and probation officer Mick Mclean. 1 PM. Kari Ann Owen gives a talk about the ins and outs
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Writer and civil rights activist Shaun King gives the keynote address at the Black Solidarity Summit at the University Center Ballroom. 7 PM.
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Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company's Northside tap room. A portion of the price of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week raise a glass for the Mountain Home Montana. 5 PM–8 PM.
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Mountain High ne competitor at a time will be sent down a snowy terrain park filled with massive jumps and rails. Each skier has two qualifying runs, with three rail sections and three jumps continuously linked so as to show off their most athletic and creative trick to impress the judges. This is slopestyle skiing: PyeongChang version. PyeongChang is only the second Olympic Games, after Sochi in 2014, to include slopestyle skiing in the lineup of sports, and a homegrown athlete will be in the hunt for a medal. Missoulian Darian Stevens was named to the U.S. freestyle ski team a few weeks ago and will make her Olympic debut this weekend. The former Sentinel High student missed the 2014 team by one spot. She joins rival-turned-teammate, 19-year-
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15 The 2017 Hunting Film Tour brings the best in conservation-minded, fair chase films to the Wilma. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $18/$15 advance. Women in Wilderness's bi-monthly conversation series highlights the inspiring, dedicated and intelligent women in fields tied to wild and public lands. 6 PM. University Center Room 333. Free. Montana American Fisheries Society hosts an open meeting with guest speaker Ryen Neudecker in UM Forestry building 311. 6 PM. Free and open to the public. How do porcupines reproduce? Show off your outdoor knowledge at Naturalist Trivia Night at the Montana Natural History Center. 7 PM. $5 suggested donation. BYOB.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17 Learn how to perform an ice rescue at two-day
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old Maggie Voisin from Whitefish, who was on Team USA in 2014, but broke her ankle during training and was unable to compete. Stevens is coming off an 11th place finish at last year’s world championships in slopestyle and Voisin won gold in last month’s Winter X Games in Aspen. To celebrate, Mayor John Engen has declared Saturday, Feb. 17 (Pyeongchang is 16 hours ahead) to be Darian Stevens Day in honor of her olympic bid. —Micah Drew The Women’s Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle will air Fri., Feb. 16 at 10:35 PM on NBC.
certification training at the Whitewater Rescue Institute, 1620 Rogers. $225. Skate over to whitewaterrescue.com for more info and registration.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18 Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute leads an outing into the Nine Pipes area to identify winter raptors. 8 AM–4 PM. Meet at Montana Natural History Center. $80. The Bitter Root Water Forum hosts the 2018 International Fly Fishing Film Festival at the Pharaohplex. Doors at 10:30 AM, show at 11. $15/$12 advance.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22 The Five Valleys Audubon conducts an Advance Birding Workshop every Thursday from 7 PM– 9:30 PM at Fish, Wildlife & Parks Regional Office. This week Larry Weeks talks about raptors. $15.
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—Insecure It’s a spot on your face that suggests you’ve done some stuff in the sun; it isn’t Mark of Satan™ or a button with a message underneath, “Press here to activate the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” Your intuition that a clear, even complexion is important isn’t off base. Anthropologist Bernhard Fink and his colleagues did some pretty cool research on how skin tone uniformity affects perceptions of a woman’s attractiveness. This isn’t a new area of study, but almost all of the research has been on Western populations. Social science findings are more likely to be representative of human nature when the subject pool goes beyond the usual “WEIRD” participants (from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic countries — and, more often than not, 19year-old college undergrads fighting a wicked hangover to answer survey questions for class credit). So Fink and his team sought out 172 men and women, ages 17 to 80, from two remote tribes — the cattle-raising Maasai in Tanzania and the forager-farmer Tsimane tribe in Bolivia — each “unfamiliar with lighter-colored skin.” The researchers explain that these tribes have no electricity and “little or no access” to magazines or newspapers from the West.They also live far from any tourist destinations, so no — no pale-faced college girls dropping by, all “C’mon, Mr. Maasai … just one more selfie with me and your totally adorbs cow!” Tribe members were asked to assess “age, health, and attractiveness” from photographs of skin — squares of white-lady skin cropped from photos of faces of British girls and women ages 11 to 76. Echoing findings from Western populations, women with “homogenous skin color” — meaning even in tone overall, with little or no “skin discoloration” (blotches or spots) — “were judged to be younger and healthier” and more attractive. Research finds that humans, in general,
prefer faces with clear, uniform skin, which is associated with being parasite- and diseasefree. There’s also strong support, from crosscultural studies, for the notion by evolutionary psychologists that men evolved to be drawn to female features that suggest a woman is young and healthy — and thus more likely to be fertile. Men just don’t think of it in so many words — “Better babies when Mommy’s got skin like an airbrushed Vogue cover girl!” — especially not in places where the nearest newsstand is maybe four days away by donkey. Because women co-evolved with men, women anticipate this male preference for flawless skin — leading them to feel, uh, undersparkly when their facial landscape is less than pristine. This brings us to you. The thing is, you aren’t just a skin dot with a person attached. A guy will look at the whole. Also, we accept that people use products and technology to hide or fix flaws in their appearance — or to enhance the features they have. Accordingly, a guy is not defrauding you by using Rogaine, and no man with an IQ that exceeds your bra size believes you were born wearing eye shadow. Ultimately, you have more control than you probably realize over how much any imperfections affect your total attractiveness. A woman I know is a living example of this. She’s got two fewer legs than most of us. But she understands — and shows it in the way she carries herself — that she’s vastly more than the sum of her (missing) parts. In other words, your real problem is you — your feeling that this spot is some kind of boulder-sized diminisher of your worth. Chances are, this comes from putting too much weight on your looks as the source of your value.Though you may not be where you want in your career, doing regular meaningful work to help other people — like volunteer work — might be the quickest way for you to feel bigger than that dot on your face. There’s nothing wrong with getting it lasered off, but as long as it’s still with you, try something: Revel in having it instead of going into hiding over it. I’m serious. After all, it’s basically a sign that you went outdoors and seized life — not that you got drunk and joined one of those racist Tiki torch marches and now have to hit up some tattoo artist to turn the swastikas into butterflies.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP INVITATION FOR BID Missoula County is seeking sealed bids from qualified bidders for the Installation of Poured-in-Place Seamless Rubber for Phase 2 of Fort Missoula Regional Park, Missoula, Montana until 4:00 PM local time February 23, 2018 and will then be publicly opened and read aloud at the Office of the Missoula County Auditor, 199 West Pine, Room 136, Missoula, Montana 59802.The project consists of the professional installation of approximately 14,418 sq. ft. of ADA compliant poured-in-place, seamless, rubber safety surfacing for the playgrounds at Phase 2 of Fort Missoula Regional Park. Missoula County reserves the right to waive any and all irregularities or informalities and to determine what constitutes any and all irregularities or informalities in a bid. Missoula County reserves the right to determine and accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid based on the bid requirements and the documentation and pricing as outlined in the Contract Documents. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to re-advertise. Missoula County reserves the right to authorize construction of any combination of, or all of, or none of the bid items indicated. A complete set of the IFB Documents are available on the County website at https://www.missoulacounty.us/government/administration/auditor-s-office/bidsproposals
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INVITATION FOR BID Sealed bids from qualified bidders for the Installation of Playground and Fitness Equipment for Phase 2 of Fort Missoula Regional Park, Missoula, Montana will be received until 4:00 PM local time February 23, 2018 and will then be publicly opened and read aloud at the Office of the Missoula County Auditor, 199 West Pine, Room 136, Missoula, Montana 59802. This project consists of the professional installation by certified installers of owner provided play and fitness equipment from multiple suppliers for Phase 2 of Fort Missoula Regional Park, Missoula, Montana. The list and layout of equipment to be installed under this contract is listed can be found in the Invitation for bid and the attached exhibit. All equipment is to be installed within the constructed play area boundaries per the exhibits. Installer must certified by equipment manufactures and CPSI. Missoula County reserves the right to waive any and all irregularities or informalities and to determine what constitutes any and all irregularities or informalities in a bid. Missoula County reserves the right to determine and accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid based on the bid requirements and the documentation and pricing as outlined in the Contract Documents. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to re-advertise. Missoula County reserves the right to authorize construction of any combination of, or all of, or none of the bid
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-1235 Dept. No.: 2 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Aaron Michael Duffy, Petitioner.This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Aaron Michael Duffy to Aaron Michael Hampf.The hearing will be on 30/06/2018 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date January 23, 2018 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molly A. Reynolds, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-18-32 Dept. No.: 4 Karen S. Townsend Order Setting Hearing In the Matter of the Name Change of Jane Goffe McIntosh, Petitioner. This Court orders Name Change Hearing.The hearing on the Petition for Name Change filed in this case is set for: 03/06/2018 at 3:00 p.m. at the Missoula County Courthouse. Date 1/24/2018 By /s/ Karen S. Townsend, District Court Judge
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): At 12,388 feet, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest peak. If you’re in good shape, you can reach the top in seven hours. The return trip can be done in half the time — if you’re cautious. The loose rocks on the steep trail are more likely to knock you off your feet on the way down than on the way up. I suspect this is an apt metaphor for you in the coming weeks, Aries. Your necessary descent may be deceptively challenging. So make haste slowly! Your power animals are the rabbit and the snail. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a few short jaunts through the air in a flying machine they called the Flyer. It was a germinal step in a process that ultimately led to your ability to travel 600 miles per hour while sitting in a chair 30,000 feet above the earth. Less than 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ breakthrough, American astronauts landed a space capsule on the moon.They had with them a patch of fabric from the left wing of the Flyer. I expect that during the coming weeks, you will be climaxing a long-running process that deserves a comparable ritual. Revisit the early stages of the work that enabled you to be where you are now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 2006, five percent of the world’s astronomers gathered at an international conference and voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a “dwarf planet.” Much of the world agreed to honor their declaration. Since then, though, there has arisen a campaign by equally authoritative astronomers to restore Pluto to full planet status. The crux of the issue is this: How shall we define the nature of a planet? But for the people of New Mexico, the question has been resolved. State legislators there formally voted to regard Pluto as a planet. They didn’t accept the demotion. I encourage you to be inspired by their example, Gemini. Whenever there are good arguments from opposing sides about important matters, trust your gut feelings. Stand up for your preferred version of the story. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ray Bradbury’s dystopian bestseller Fahrenheit 451 was among the most successful of the 27 novels he wrote. It won numerous awards and has been adopted into films, plays and graphic novels. Bradbury wrote the original version of the story in nine days, using a typewriter he rented for 20 cents per hour. When his publisher urged him to double the manuscript’s length, he spent another nine days doing so. According to my reading of the planetary configurations, you Cancerians now have a similar potential to be surprisingly efficient and economical as you work on an interesting creation or breakthrough — especially if you mix a lot of play and delight into your labors.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Poet Louise Glück has characterized herself as “afflicted with longing yet incapable of forming durable attachments.” If there is anything in you that even partially fits that description, I have good news: In the coming weeks, you’re likely to feel blessed by longing rather than afflicted by it. The foreseeable future will also be prime time for you to increase your motivation and capacity to form durable attachments. Take full advantage of this fertile grace period!
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 2004, a man named Jerry Lynn tied a battery-operated alarm clock to a string and dangled it down a vent in his house. He was hoping that when the alarm sounded, he would get a sense of the best place to drill a hole in his wall to run a wire for his TV. But the knot he’d made wasn’t perfect, and the clock slipped off and plunged into an inaccessible spot behind the wall. Then, every night for 13 years, the alarm rang for a minute. The battery was unusually strong! A few months ago, Lynn decided to end the mild but constant irritation. Calling on the help of duct specialists, he retrieved the persistent clock. With this story as your inspiration, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you Virgos to finally put an end to your equivalent of the maddening alarm clock.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Was Napoléon Bonaparte an oppressor or liberator? The answer is both. His work in the world hurt a lot of people and helped a lot of people. One of his more magnanimous escapades transpired in June 1798, when he and his naval forces invaded the island of Malta. During his six-day stay, he released political prisoners, abolished slavery, granted religious freedom to Jews, opened 15 schools, established the right to free speech and shut down the Inquisition. What do his heroics have to do with you? I don’t want to exaggerate, but I expect that you, too, now have the power to unleash a blizzard of benevolence in your sphere. Do it in your own style, of course, not Napoléon’s.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit,” said French playwright Molière. I’m going to make that your motto for now, Scorpio. You have pursued a gradual, steady approach to ripening, and soon it will pay off in the form of big bright blooms. Congratulations on having the faith to keep plugging away in the dark! I applaud your determination to be dogged and persistent about following your intuition even though few people have appreciated what you were doing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The growth you can and should foster in the coming weeks will be stimulated by quirky and unexpected prods. To get you started, here are a few such prods. 1. What’s your hidden or dormant talent, and what could you do to awaken and mobilize it? 2. What’s something you’re afraid of but might be able to turn into a resource? 3. If you were a different gender for a week, what would you do and what would your life be like? 4.Visualize a dream you’d like to have while you’re asleep tonight. 5. If you could transform anything about yourself, what would it be? 6. Imagine you’ve won a free vacation to anywhere you want. Where would you go?
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may think you have uncovered the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re just a bit more than halfway there. In order to get the rest of the goods, you’ll have to ignore your itch to be done with the search.You’ll have to be unattached to being right and smart and authoritative. So please cultivate patience. Be expansive and magnanimous as you dig deeper. For best results, align yourself with poet Richard Siken’s definition: “The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet.”
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The posh magazine Tatler came up with a list of fashionable new names for parents who want to ensure their babies get a swanky start in life. Since you Aquarians are in a phase when you can generate good fortune by rebranding yourself or remaking your image, I figure you might be interested in using one of these monikers as a nickname or alias. At the very least, hearing them could whet your imagination to come up with your own ideas. Here are Tatler’s chic avant-garde names for girls: Czar-Czar; Debonaire; Estonia; Figgy; Gethsemane; Power; Queenie. Here are some boys’ names: Barclay; Euripides; Gustav; Innsbruck; Ra; Uxorious; Wigbert; Zebedee.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-18-20 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARA L. HELLAND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Matt J. Halttunen, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., at 310 W Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22nd day of January, 2018. /s/ Matt J. Halttunen c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce St. Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate Case No. DP-18-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of PATRICIA L. BEWICK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that John F. Bewick, Jr. has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed, return receipt requested to: John F. Bewick, Jr., Personal Representative, Estate of Patricia L. Bewick, c/o Katherine Holiday, Esq., Carmody Holiday Legal Services, PLLC, PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 or filed with the Clerk of Court. DATE: February 12th, 2018. Respectfully submitted, Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC /s/ Katherine C. Holiday MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-18-30 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RAYMOND E. ANTHONY, SR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Raymond E.Anthony, Jr. and Dennis L. Anthony have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate.All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jones & Associates, PLLC,Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2625 Dearborn Avenue, Ste. 102A, Missoula, MT 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 29th day of January, 2018. /s/ Raymond E. Anthony, Jr., Co-Personal Representative /s/ Dennis L. Anthony, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-18-11 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEONARD ZAWADA, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to The Western Montana Chapter, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 7th day of February, 2018 at Missoula, Montana. Western Montana Chapter /s/ Melissa Stiegler Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie Sirrs, Esq. PO Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Tina Zawada, Petitioner
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-18-19 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JOSEPH J. HACKENBRUCK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to AMANDA HACKENBRUCK, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of January, 2018. /s/ Amanda Hackenbruck, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Amanda Hackenbruck, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on June 4, 2018, 10:30 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 18B of the Homesteads, a platted Subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof, recorded in Book 20 of Plats, at Page 4. More commonly known as 2229 Hillside Drive, Missoula, MT 59803-1152. Alfred K. Greene and Erica Davis-Greene, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on August 27, 2015, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on August 28, 2015 as Instrument No. 201516444, in Book 950, at Page 327, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows:Assignee: Pingora Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Assignment Dated: December 28, 2016 Assignment Recorded: December 28, 2016 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201623519, in Book 972, at Page 947, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 1, 2017 as Instrument No. 201703702, in Book 975, at Page 760, of Official Records.The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning August 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $177,832.28, interest in the sum of $3,853.01, escrow advances of $878.77, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $249.52 for a total amount owing of $182,813.58, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the
Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed, without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 25th day of January, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 48810 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on May 17, 2018, 11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: A Tract of land located in the South one-half
of Section 4,Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 3690. Together with a non-exclusive easement for the purpose of ingress and egress from the above described premises to the public road. More commonly known as 27785 Isaac Road, aka 27785 Isaac Creek Road, Huson, MT 59846. Michael F. Manthey, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on January 16, 2008, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on January 25, 2008 as Instrument No. 200801735, in Book 812, at Page 394, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Bank of America, N.A. Assignment Dated: July 27, 2015 Assignment Recorded:August 3, 2015 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201513819, in Book 948, at Page 502,All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee
pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on November 14, 2017 as Instrument No. 201723001, in Book 989, at Page 459, of Official Records.The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning April 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $61,392.53, interest in the sum of $4,348.53, escrow advances of $0.00, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $900.62 for a total amount owing of $66,641.68, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes
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are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed, without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to
120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 2nd day of February, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 50825 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 25, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The N1/2 of Lots 1 and 2, which N1/2 of said lots is a tract 80 feet facing Spruce Street and 58.75 feet facing “A” Street, of Block “A” of the REPLACEMENT PLAT OF LA POINT ADDITION, according to the official plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder`s Office, Missoula County, Montana Joseph J. Turk III and Dorene M. Turk, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Allen L. Karell, ESQ., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to One Stop Mortgage, Inc., a Wyoming Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 24, 1999, and recorded on June 2, 1999 as Book 584 Page 1372, Doc Number 199914976.The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank NA, successor trustee to Bank of America, NA, successor in interest to LaSalle Bank National Association, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities Trust 2005-2,Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-2. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee.The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning April 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other
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