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lotsa weirdo genres for three days of sweat, dancing, beer and rad times with Shannon and the Clams, Lord Dying, Chastity Belt and many more. Venues include the ZACC, Free Cycles, Badlander, Palace and Big Dipper, Aug. 1416. $55 for three-day pass/$20 per day. All ages, as always. Passes at totalfest.org and Ear Candy. (See Music.) Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:30-8:30 PM. Feel the fraternity when the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets to discuss Marianne Williamson’s The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life. The club meets every second Thursday of the month from 6-7:30 PM. Bitterroot-based string-band Poor Henry plays tunes at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 57 PM. No cover. Burn the midnight oil after Jeremiah and the Red Eyes play bluesy Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover. Rick Springfield, aka “Jessie’s Girl” dude and a secret Australian (well, it was news to me, anyhow) plays his rescheduled show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45 for balcony seats/$55 orchestra/$70 for the pit. All ages. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com. A Montana gal recounts an exploration into another faith when Shelley Kirilenko reads from My Year as a Jew. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Bust out a little geetar at the Open Mic at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. JB and the Moonshine Band teams up with Wild Coyote for a barn-burner at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2 for dudes, no cover for women. (Hey, gotta make up for that wage gap somehow.) Do them dirty deeds dirt cheap when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating
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cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover. Japanese metal legends Boris are here to crush Stage 112, along with Sub Rosa. 10 PM. $18/$15 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s, Ear Candy at 1111presents.com. 18-plus. (See Music.) Cali hip-hop maestros Blackalicious play the Palace, along with Tonsofun, Traff The Wiz and Ambedext Eastwood. 10 PM. $18/$15 in advance, plus $2 surcharge for ages 18-20. Tickets at holdmyticket.com, or check out seafarerentertainment.com.
FRIDAYAUG15 Wendy Woollett presents The Lost Montana Monologue, about a goofy California gal trying to make her way in Montucky, starring Rachel Petite. Performances at the Roxy Aug. 15 at 7:30 PM and Aug. 16 at 8:30 PM. $12. Party outside the box at the second annual Zootown Fringe Festival, which features a truckload of art, music, performance, workshops, experimental scrap percussion and “Steve on the Piano.” Go Steve! Venues throughout Missoula, Aug. 13-17. Events are $0-$12. Find a detailed schedule and info at zootownfringe.org. (See Arts.) Check out the results of summertime learning when MCT campers present The Bard on Broadway: Shakespeare, Rattle and Roll, a revue of Shakespeareinspired show tune material, at the Missoula Children’s Theatre on Thursday at 8 PM, Friday at 5 and 8 PM and Saturday at 1 and 4 PM. $12 for matinees/$15 for evening performances. Visit mctinc.org. Green Ribbon Books hosts a used book sale with $1 paperbacks and $2 hardcovers on Aug. 15-16, from 10 AM-4 PM. 800 Kensington Ave. Suite 210 C. Proceeds benefit the Missoula Food Bank. UC Santa Barbara professor Lisa Parks chats about her years of field work in “Women, Internet and Mobile Phones in Rural Zambia,” as part of the YWTalks series at the YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Noon-1 PM. Free. (See Agenda.) It’ll make a pretty picture when the Rocky Mountain School of Photography culminates its Summer Intensive course with a graduation and exhibit at the UM Music Recital Hall, 2-4 PM. Visit rmsp.com.