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Contemplating distances. Visiting Hugo writer and Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui reads at the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall Fri., March 21. 7 PM.
Micah Wyatt) plays an in-store show at Ear Candy. 4 PM. Things might even move outside if’n it’s nice out.
nightlife Burns St. Events Center hosts a dinner benefit for Pattie Fialcowitz, a Clark Fork Market seller who’s recovering from a brain aneurism. Includes music, live and silent auction and num-nums provided by the Bistro chefs. Cash bar. 1500 Burns St. $15/$5 for kids. The 45-plus Singles of Missoula party down with a birthday dinner at the New Hong Chef, 2009 Brooks St. 6 PM. Call Nancy at 2513330 with any questions. Be high, fly and too wet to dry after an evening out with tunes from Kristi Neumann at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. No cover. Bluesy singer-songwriters Jake Ilika and Mike Munson play tunes to drink by at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Nationally recognized sustainable business advocate Judy
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WIcks chats about “Beautiful Business: New Models for Local Living Economies” as part of the Sustainable Business Council’s annual lecture. Book signing to follow. UM Gallagher Business Building, room 106, 6:15-8 PM. Free. Check out some very special dollies when Alan Scott Pate discusses and presents some of the 1927 Friendship Dolls sent to American children from the Japanese government. Masquer Theatre in the PARTV center. 7 PM. Let your food-nerd activism sprout after Janisse Ray reads from The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Nevada rockers The Kanes get elevated at the Palace, along with Boston Tea Party, Crooked Cops and Confidence Man. 9 PM. No cover. Cut loose and fracture your toupee at the Chuckles and Knuckles evening featuring such classy, sassy folks as Micah Wyatt, P.D Lear, The Barefoot Band, Spencer Can O
Beans, Matt Kettlehake, and Kyle Kulseth. Palace. 9 PM. No cover. Shut up and get rad at Martyfest 2014, featuring Long Island’s Iron Chic, along with Providence’s Atlantic Thrills, Bozeman’s Battlestations and a slew of local troublemakers. ZACC. 8 PM. $8/$6 in advance at Ear Candy. All ages. (See Music.) Marley-approved reggae outfit Steel Pulse spreads the love, along with Muzikata, at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $33/$30 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com. March Madness strikes again. Ugh. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online at missoulanews.com.