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News Voices/Letters Advice, candidates and college...............................................................4 The Week in Review Jordan Tripp, flooding and burning books .................................6 Briefs Sean Kelly’s, ALEC and water...............................................................................6 Etc. Montana: home to hippies? .....................................................................................7 News House candidate comes under fire from Dems and GOP ....................................8 News County attorney race turns testy in final weeks....................................................9 Opinion Recent shooting reveals a flawed exchange system.......................................10 Opinion Foolishly testing the limits of the state’s castle doctrine...............................11 Feature Susan Cahill lost everything when her clinic was vandalized.........................14
Arts & Entertainment Arts Bat Honey seeks to bring an age-old form of entertainment back to life.............18 Music Wormwood, The Dodos and Mesozoic Mafia ....................................................19 Theater Irreverence mixes with class at the Stensrud improv.....................................20 Art Native Alaskan exhibit plays on modern assumptions ...........................................21 Film Godzilla’s mythical monster shows unexpected style.........................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 What’s Good Here River Wok’s special ingredient......................................................24 Happiest Hour 1806 Pale Stout ...................................................................................26 8 Days a Week We’ll be crying into our Wiz at Philly West..........................................27 Mountain High “Circus Under the Moon” ..................................................................33 Agenda Montana Corrupt Practices Act........................................................................34
Exclusives
Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover ...............................................................................................C-11 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-12
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