[calendar] nightlife
on wings, pizza, domestic pitchers and $7 Harvest Moon pitchers.
121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.
Put some pizzazz into your Thursday evening when Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio plays the Top Hat from 7-9 PM. Free.
UM President Royce Engstrom and his venerable beard present the State of the University Address, beginning at 10 AM in the Montana Theatre. Reception to follow afterward at 11 AM.
End your afternoon with a fine glass of grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 2–7 PM Mon.-Sat. and 2–5 PM on Sun. 5646 W. Harrier. Call 830-3296 and visit missoulawinery.com.
If you’ve ever felt like dancing outside on a lovely morning,
Enjoy some alley tunes with unusually good beverage catering
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. Karaoke follows. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up. Fight for your right to belt out tunes at the Dark Horse’s Combat Karaoke, hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free. Gotta hydrate before you gyrate to the hip tunes and underground tracks at Dead Hipster Dance Party. 9 PM. Badlander. $1 well dranks til’ midnight, life-long memories for free, y’all. Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with Big Sky Pool Party in the Cabana starting at 5 PM, singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. Free to attend. It’ll be wicked cool when Austinby-way-of-Boston singer-songwriter Greg Mullen plays the Palace. 9 PM. Free. Mark Duboise and Crossroads are here to smooth out the rough edges of your eve when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. Show off all that hard work you put in sophomore year when Stage 112 presents the Beer Pong Tourney 4.0. Free to play; winner gets tickets to the upcoming Adventure Club show. 10 PM.
FRIDAYAUG23 Take a break from late-summer heat when Dead Winter Carpenters outta California stop in town to bring a dose of roots-rockAmericana to Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 9 PM. Free. Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective,
drink and music from Headwaters and the Boxcutters, plus the chance to bid on great auction items. 629 Phillips St. 6-11 PM. $20 for non members/$15 for MUD members/$40 for non-member families/$30 for MUD families. Visit mudproject.org or call 721-7513 for more. Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Find out when
settling in For many a college freshman, the River City Roots Festival is the introductory salvo to living in Missoula. The Missoula Downtown Association bills it as the “signature celebration of the city we live in,” and I can’t really argue with that. There is, of course, much more to Missoula, but here are the basics you’ll want to be familiar with: bluegrass and Americana bands, family friendly activities commingling with grownup carousing, art shows, food and beer. There’s something else about the festival, too, something that, upon my arrival, I realized was a thing I was sorely needing in my life without even knowing it. River City Roots Fest is a good representation of a town with a real heart and center. A soul, if Railroad Earth you will. (And yeah, you can have some wine with that cheese.) The big-box-ification of Amer- in Missoula now, you and I, where we block off streets ica has decimated downtowns across the country. and throw parties at any provocation. Besides watching boisterous performers like The Other places don’t have big free music festivals downtown where people can dance in the streets; I’ve ex- Gourds, Railroad Earth and Chuck Prophet, River City perienced towns where anything that blocked parking Roots Festival is a good place to learn about what spaces would never be allowed by the city council. community really means. People coming together But thank goodness, we’re not in those places. We’re just because they like a place. People volunteering to throw free events because it seems like a cool thing to do. Wandering around and seeing old friends WHAT: River City Roots Festival and new friends and yet-to-be-friends everywhere you go. There’s someWHERE: Main Street and Higgins in downtown Missoula times enemies and exes, of course, WHEN: Sat., Aug. 24 and Sun., Aug. 25 and part of living in a community is figuring out how to gracefully handle HOW MUCH: Free them, too. So come on, everybody dance now. MORE INFO: rivercityrootsfestival.com —Kate Whittle don’t be bashful and join Nia in the Garden at The Women’s Club Health and Fitness Center. 10:30 AM. Call Barbara at 406-728-7130 for more info.
when the Top Hat and Rhino present Blues Alley, with Kevin Van Dort Band and Idle Ranch Hands in the patio between the two bars. 5 PM. Free.
The Women’s Circle Group Acupuncture at Mountain Sage Acupuncture Clinic, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 1, focuses on women’s health issues and sounds comfy and nice. 2–5 PM, last appointment at 4 PM. Sliding scale treatments $20-40 with a first time administration fee of $10. Call (503) 593-7073.
John Floridis plays the folk-rock to sip some malt beverages to at Draught Works, starting at 5 PM. Free.
Teens go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Writers Group, which meets every Fri. at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
[30] Missoula Independent • August 22–August 29, 2013
Get a taste of la dolce vita and a li’l vino when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703. Visit tenspoon.com. It’ll be a jolly good time, chaps, at MUD’s annual Garden Party and Silent Auction. Includes dinner, a
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents Henry V at the Double Arrow Resort, two miles south of Seeley Lake on Double Arrow Road off Highway 83. 6 PM. Free. Refreshments available, leave the pups at home. Now, here’s a class reunion that’s bound to be fun: Fact and Fiction hosts the 406 Poetry Workshop Reunion Reading, with Mark Gibbons, Clark Chatlain, Gillian Kessler, Mal Westcott, Mindy Hammett, Laura Hunt and Annie Connole. 220 N. Higgins Ave. 6-8 PM. Don’t yell out your ex-girlfriend’s name during Hump Day Bingo with Bob at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for winners. Beware:
$5 mini-fishbowls served all day. Bingo starts at 6:30 PM. DalyJazz is back in action and ready to spruce you up. The August edition features Austrian fella Jim Rotondi on trumpet and flugelhorn, David Morgenroth on Piano and Kelly Roberti on bass. Dinner and drinks provided. 240 Daly Ave. 7 PM. $25 requested donation, RSVP to dalyjazz@gmail.com. Russ Nasset classes it up when he plays the terrace at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, from 7-10 PM. No cover. The dress code is black (bolo) tie when Wild Coyote Band plays Cowboy Troy’s, on Highway 93 outside Victor. 8 PM. No cover. You just might have to show up to find out what smooth, sensual grooves are in store when Regmachine presents Band in Motion: Blues and Beyond at the Eagles, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover. Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 2734733. Sing a happy tune at the Evaro Bar’s Friday night karaoke and you just might win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, free to sing. 17025 US Highway 93 North. DJ Dubwise spins hot oldschool and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free. Mark Duboise and Crossroads are here to smooth out the rough edges of your eve when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. Shake what your momma gave you, like somebody’s about to pay you when Muzikata plays the Union Club, starting around 9 PM. No cover. The Live and Uncut Hip Hop Saga show promises some realness, yo, when Ambedext, Traff the Wiz, Codependents, Tajh, Siren and DJ Dub Wise perform at Feruqi’s, 318 N. Higgins ave. 9 PM. 21-plus. Cover TBA. Sista Otis keeps spreading the love to P-town, playing the White Front Bar in Philipsburg. 9 PM. Free. Get totally housed at the August edition of I’ll House You, with DJ Vyces, Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Hotpantz. 9 PM. Free. Confidence Man, The Blue Side of Town and Run From the City present rootsy tuneage at Sean Kelly’s. 9 PM. Free. John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every