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I went to Missoula’s Northside recently to visit Brian Donahue, a construction worker originally from central Illinois, to hear about the celebrated crow-hunting season back where he comes from. As one thing led to another, he told me about the time he found a dead crow in his backyard in Missoula and how, as he was trying to dispose of it, other crows circled him and dove Cover illustration by Pumpernickel Stewart for his head. He had to summon his roommate home to fend them off long enough for him to scoop the dead bird into a garbage bag, he said. “But why were they attacking you?” I asked. “Well, I shoot them off my front porch with an air rifle,” he said. .....................14
News Letters Montana needs a budget controlled by its people ........................................4 The Week in Review Thunderstorms spark fires in the Bitterroot...........................6 Briefs Safeway plays hardball......................................................................................6 Etc. The Tester-Rehberg duel in black-and-white .......................................................7 Up Front Residents fight motorized expansion on Blacktail.....................................8 Up Front The temporary lives of migrant workers in the Flathead ..........................9 Range Mentally ill need drugs, not guns..................................................................11 Agenda Questions Montanans should ask about the energy boom .......................12
Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Fermentation fervor......................................................................18 Happiest Hour Earl Grey Pale Ale at Great Northern Brewery...............................19 8 Days a Week Cherish the birds.............................................................................21 Mountain High Men’s river retreat ..........................................................................29 Scope Lurgio turns his lens on lost—and found—towns of Montana......................30 Soundcheck Tidal Horn is hilariously laid back......................................................31 Noise Gutpanthers, Tender Forever, All Eyes West, Strangled Darlings...................32 Film Aubrey Plaza adds brilliance to Safety..............................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ..................................................34
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Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-12
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