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FURLOUGH FRUSTRATIONS: RESEARCHERS PLAY CATCH-UP AFTER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
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News Voices/Letters Daines, dinosaurs and guns ...................................................................4 The Week in Review Burning down the house, ghosts and free books .......................6 Briefs Booze, farmland and megaloads..........................................................................6 Etc. Raising awareness about intersex conditions..........................................................7 News Billionaires attempt to remake Montana’s pension system..................................8 News Researchers play catch-up after government shutdown.......................................9 Opinion Wolves and grizzles: a grand symbiotic relationship .....................................10 Feature One Day in Missoula .......................................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment Arts How Beth Sellars made a tenacious bid for The Jesus Corner ..............................20 Noise Latyrx, Pony Time and Pearl Jam ........................................................................21 Books Gwen Florio’s Montana cuts to the chase ........................................................24 Theater UM’s Distracted keeps focus ..........................................................................25 Film The Counselor reveals McCarthy’s wisdom..........................................................26 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................27 Flash in the Pan Save the carrots!................................................................................28 Happiest Hour Thirst Gear ..........................................................................................30 8 Days a Week Say cheese curds..................................................................................31 Mountain High The Montana Cup ..............................................................................41 Agenda Pizzapalooza ....................................................................................................42
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-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11
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STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, Oct. 29, on the corner of Higgins and Spruce. What’s the most indelible image you’ve ever seen? Follow-up: What iconic images come to mind when you think of Missoula?
Stephanie Hohn: The one I keep seeing is the National Geographic image of the Afghan refugee woman with the bright eyes. Bridges to everywhere: The Wilma and the view over the river, where you have to cross the bridge to do anything.
Graham Serviss: The Big Dipper made a flyer or postcard a few years ago with an image of the Big Dipper building. It was amazing. A river runs through it: Brennan’s Wave and the view of the Clark Fork from Caras Park or the bridge.
Mike Himber: Inside Carnegie Hall. I played on stage with the Big Sky High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Missoula high-rise: The Wilma. I’ve been to so many shows and have had so many good times there.
I like your paper and read every issue cover to cover, but I was surprised to find a tirade by a poorly informed hypocrite in the food section (see “Hunting just got harder,” Oct. 17). In the article, the writer complains of an ammo shortage—an ammo shortage caused by anti-gunners like Obama, the Clintons and Bloomberg trying to restrict guns and ammo purchases. Gunners are all stocking up, thus leaving the writer no ammo to hunt with. Too bad. This writer is a hypocrite because he thinks it’s okay to use his rifle but not others. AR originally stood for armalite rifle, not automatic rifle. Today, they are called Modern Sporting Rifles, or MSRs. They look different than bolt action rifles but function same way. One pull of the trigger causes one bullet to come out of the barrel. Everybody wants to use the best tool available to do a job. The MSR is the most reliable, durable and accurate rifle a hunter can get. MSRs can be had in any caliber, not just the stupid zombie .223 caliber that hunters never use. The writer of this article is an idiot and should be given an IQ test before getting a hunting license. MSRs do not mow things down—lawnmowers do. Use of these rifles does not, as the writer says, open the door to irresponsible and unethical shooting, such the unfathomable practice of hunting at night. Hunting with an MSR is not an insane practice, it’s as safe and responsible as using any other weapon. It all depends on person using weapon. I hope this writer never finds his .270 ammo because the woods will be much safer without this person running around with a gun. Richard Brodowy Florence
Dinosaur favorite Ron Trosclair: My folks are in their 90s and keep a photo album of when we were young, so many of the images in there. Aesthetic value: Old buildings in town, like the Boone & Crockett Club.
My congratulations to Matt Rosendale for officially announcing his run for U.S. Congress. This takes the speculation
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“Your speech about conservative values must have warmed the hearts of those departed dinosaurs. Why, they probably said, ‘Finally, a politician with old ideas like us.’” lions of years. Your speech about conservative values must have warmed the hearts of those departed dinosaurs. Why, they probably said, “Finally, a politician with old ideas like us.” Someone who supports criminalizing a woman’s right to an abortion—even in cases of rape or incest, an interpretation of his religion that has been around for years. Someone who wanted Montana to be able to secede from the union—a thought that goes back to at least the Civil War. Finally, a dinosaur favorite who wanted to keep an unconstitutional law on the books, making it a crime to be a homosexual. Mr. Rosendale’s conservative reasoning is “the Bible forbids it.”
To Mr. Rosendale’s credit, he will devote his entire time to the U.S. House race. It remains to be seen if his entire Tea Party conservative agenda will translate statewide. Pat Mischel Glendive
Gut-check time Will the real Rep. Steve Daines please stand up? So which is it, Mr. Daines? Are you the fellow that Montanans thought they were sending to Congress—the guy who listens to all sides of an issue and champions ideas from Montana? Or is Daines swept up in the nonsense that is too prevalent in Washington, D.C.? Is he just listening to political operatives more bent on gouging the eyes of their opponents than in actually solving this nation’s problems? Sadly, Rep. Daines appears to be falling into the camp with the partisan radicals. Case in point: Daines has recently signed on with a radical national forest management bill being forwarded by Tea Party favorite Doc Hastings. The bill is a fantasy of those with a simplistic, narrowminded view of national forests. Now, Montanans want their forests managed. That’s no secret. But the Hastings bill won’t actually accomplish that because it’s overly broad, unrealistic and driven more by ideology that pragmatic solutions. It’s classic, winner-takes-all politics. Does that sound familiar? Doc Hastings would manage Montana’s national forests the way his Tea Party friends managed the federal budget. Across Montana, folks from sawmills, conservation groups and sportsmen’s organizations have hammered out real, practical visions for bringing people together and getting things done on the land. These balance both the conservation of and the wise utilization of natural resources. It’s gut-check time for Rep. Daines. Whose side are you on, Montana’s or Washington, D.C.’s? Gabriel King Missoula
[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “The hatemonger next door,” Oct. 24
Can’t be real
Victoria Cronin: Do you know the Depression-era photo of the migrant worker? The mother? That one. Rooftops: I live by the river so it would be what I can see from my house. I’d have to say the steeples, like St. Francis Xavier, and even the dome of the courthouse.
away, and now gives reporters the obligation and opportunity to cover the competition equally. Great job by Mr. Rosendale for selecting Makoshika State Park as the perfect location for this event, a magical place in eastern Montana that is rich in landmarks and artifacts that date back hundreds, thousands and, for some misinformed geologists and members of the public, mil-
“What the #$*@!? The ‘growing threat of diversity’? I mean, I am always up for an intellectual and open-minded sharing of differing views—ahhh, the gift of diversity! This dude can’t be for real. If so, I am blindsidely fascinated at such a world-view.” Posted Oct. 24 at 12:45 p.m.
Too stupid “As soon as the black population in the cities wake up from their ignorance and realize that the illegal Mexicans stole their welfare they will clash ... I do expect
that at anytime there will be full scale riots in our cities and the population will decrease substantially among the Mexicans and blacks. As well their victims will be the whites who are too stupid to have armed their homes from such intruders.” Posted Oct. 24 at 12:50 p.m.
To the moon
An idea
“No matter how this piece of filth tries to dress or present himself, white supremacists will always be nothing more than homeland terrorists and cowards. Cowards because he fears what he does not know and he wants to kill anyone that he fears. He needs to be locked up before he does any real harm.” Posted Oct. 25 at 8:51 p.m.
“Hey, I have an idea. Why don’t all the descendants of the European immigrants promoting European nationalism relocate back to Europe.” Posted Oct. 25 at 11:03 a.m.
“I am fully in support of this Dick Spencer guy creating his ‘ethno-state’ … on the MOON. I’ll stay down here.” Posted Oct. 25 at 7:23 p.m.
A spade
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, October 23 The Missoula City Council begins deliberating the creation of two new urban renewal districts, one on the northwest end of the city between the railroad tracks and I-90 and the other along East Broadway. The proposals aim to encourage development and eliminate blight.
Thursday, October 24 Denver-based Energy Corporation of America opens its first Montana office in Billings. ECA intends to develop as many as 50 gas wells on the east side of the Beartooth Mountains.
Friday, October 25 Gov. Steve Bullock declares an energy emergency after a mudslide shuts down a CHS Inc. pipeline that supplies fuel to eastern Montana, where the energy-intensive fall grain harvest is underway.
Saturday, October 26 Motorcyclist Christopher Tucker, 41, is riding west on Highway 12 near Lolo when he crosses the center line and sideswipes an eastbound vehicle. Tucker, who was not wearing a helmet, dies at the scene.
Sunday, October 27 Hundreds of bundled-up locals descend upon the Missoula Municipal Cemetery’s annual Stories and Stones celebration to learn about historical characters, including the Garden City’s egotistical co-founder, Christopher P. Higgins, and the notorious Madam Mary Gleim.
Monday, October 28 Gusty winds present problems for the Missoula Fire Department as it attempts to knock out an early morning Skyline Drive blaze. The fire is eventually extinguished, leaving one resident injured. The fire’s cause remains under investigation.
Tuesday, October 29 A woman reports to a Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy that someone stole books she had placed in a “free library” in front of her residence on Spurgin Road.
Jasmine Hanson carved this three-tier pumpkin monster during a family carving competition last week. The jack-o’-lanterns sit on display outside the Hanson home on 10th Street.
Development
Missoula rewrites the rules Missoula County’s subdivision regulations are about to get a major renovation. The Board of County Commissioners announced Oct. 22 that Bill Collins of Collins Planning Associates, an urban planning group based in Jackson, Wyo., will head the efforts to rewrite subdivision rules, which regulate things like road construction and subdivision design. His contract is for “a sum not to exceed $100,000.” Collins now finds himself square in the middle of Missoula County’s most contentious land-use conflicts, including the sticky topic of subdivision development on farmland. “I have absolutely no doubt that interest groups will use this rewrite to push their agendas,” says Commissioner Jean Curtiss. “So finding the balance will be our challenge.” One of those interest groups is the Missoula Organization of Realtors, which has long pushed to make subdivision development regulations less restrictive, especially in regard to development on agricultural lands.
“Landowners must be able to have consistent expectations of the subdivision regulations,” says Austin James, MOR’s public affairs director. “We think the bottom line is that the landowners need to be able to exercise their private property rights without their usage being determined by outside groups.” The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition would also like to see more consistent subdivision regulations, but their concern is the county’s loss of farmlands. “Standards for mitigating development impacts on agriculture are not really addressed in the subdivision regulations right now,” says Annie Heuscher, CFAC’s land-use program manager. “The county needs consistent standards in place so they have the regulatory backing to ask subdividers to design their projects in ways that provide a future for agriculture in the county.” These two organizations, along with other interested parties, will have a chance to sit face to face and discuss their differences. Collins says he plans to develop a stakeholder group in which conflicting parties can come to agreement. “We will work toward consensus,” he says.
The subdivision regulation rewrite will begin in mid-November. Collins says discussion of the more controversial topics will take place after the new year. Jimmy Tobias
Media
Cowles eyes sports network Pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission, a string of Montana television stations will have a new owner. The Spokane-based Cowles Company announced at the beginning of October it was negotiating to acquire seven broadcast outlets statewide from Max Media LLC in Virginia for an undisclosed sum. Cowles’ broadcast footprint would subsequently expand from Washington, northern Idaho and parts of Oregon all the way across Montana. Patricia McRae, spokesperson for Cowles and president of the company’s NBC affiliate in Spokane, is now touring the Montana stations to meet with staff. She says the company is “very, very excited to be local broadcasters in Montana,” adding that the company has been eyeing such an expansion “for some time.” Cowles is also the owner of The
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Liquor
Will work for booze Downstairs in Montgomery Distillery, just beyond a stack of more than two-dozen barrels of whiskey that no one will taste for a couple more years, Evan Holmstrom leads a gang of volunteers to a “bottling party” for the company’s latest batch of Quicksilver Vodka. “Who knows how best to empty the filter cylinder?” Holmstrom asks the group. “You got it down pretty well, right Justin?” For the last few months, Montgomery has been signing up volunteers every Saturday through its website to bottle, label and package new batches of vodka and gin in exchange for merchandise or a coveted bottle of booze. The process begins at a stainless steel tank filled with nearly 700 liters of vodka, which is pumped through a strainer to clear out impurities like dust particles or the occasional fruit fly. A volunteer then
takes one of the distillery’s original bottles shipped from China and air blasts the inside clean before filling it up. JoJo Snyder waits for the freshly filled bottle to slide her way for corking and slaps a shiny new Quicksilver label across the front of it. It is her second time volunteering in Montgomery’s basement operation. “I think it’s awesome,” Snyder says. From there the bottle gets passed down to another volunteer who affixes the rear label, and then to someone else who delicately places the sealing sticker over the cork. Justin Urbantas inks the vodka’s batch number—24—on the seal with a sharpie. “I got a bottle of vodka last weekend just so I could make martinis and stuff,” Urbantas says.
The bottles are then boxed up and stacked on a pallet. The first 30 are pulled aside to be shipped to liquor stores statewide, and 50 more cases go toward Montgomery’s house supply. By 4 p.m. Mike Lattanzio is hauling cases upstairs to fill the bar’s dwindling stash. “We only have two or three bottles left,” he tells Homlstrom. According to Montgomery Distillery’s website, the next five bottling parties are already filled up. Mike Gerrity
Megaloads
GE subsidiary backs down Tribal representatives, environmentalists and residents along Highway 12 in Idaho celebrated something of a victory last week. General Electric subsidiary Resources Conservation Company International voluntarily withdrew an appeal of a federal court order banning the transport of oversized loads through the Clearwater-Lochsa River corridor. The months-long delay caused by the legal battle forced the company to redirect its focus, given the time
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Harvested mule deer recorded at all west-central Montana check stations during last weekend’s big game season opener. That’s half the mule deer recorded during the 2012 season opener, and 28 percent below the five-year average.
sensitivity of getting its equipment to the Alberta tar sands. Nez Perce Tribal Chairman Silas Whitman hailed the withdrawal as “a significant step forward for not only the Nez Perce people but all persons who believe this special area should not be transformed into … an industrial corridor.” Whitman was quick to note, however, that the backing-down of RCCI was merely “one small part of the overall effort needed” to protect the wild and scenic stretch of Highway 12. “This solidifies the injunction that’s in place and will remain in place for the foreseeable future,” Kevin Lewis, conservation director for the nonprofit Idaho Rivers United, said in a statement shortly after RCCI’s Oct. 24 withdrawal. “Instead of spending our time in court we need to be working with the [U.S.] Forest Service to solve this problem. The threat of industrialization of this amazing place is still very real.” The Forest Service, which was barred from approving megaload transports under the court order RCCI had appealed, has yet to complete consultation with tribal officials or release an impact study outlining the potential costs to environmental, social and cultural assets resulting from megaload activity. RCCI argued in court this fall that the delay could cost the company as much as $85 million. The first of the GE subsidiary’s two 255-foot, 644,000-pound evaporators headed up Highway 12 in early August the same day the Idaho Transportation Department approved the oversized load permit. The shipment occurred despite repeated requests from the Nez Perce National Forest not to approve the permits until the Forest Service had a chance to formally consult with tribal officials. Dozens of Nez Perce tribal members temporarily blocked the megaloads’ passage in protest several nights in a row, resulting in the arrest of eight of the nine Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee members. The second evaporator is currently sitting at the Port of Lewiston, awaiting transport by shipping company Omega Morgan. In light of the legal withdrawal, megaload critics now suspect RCCI will shift its focus to an alternate route through Idaho and Montana via the interstate system. Alex Sakariassen
ETC. Jim Ambrose was born with what science refers to as “ambiguous genitalia.” Though he was chromosomally male, his testes were internalized and his penis small. Rather than letting Ambrose live as he was, doctors drew from a medical protocol still widely used today and conducted a series of painful operations to make him appear female. “This stuff is really hard to say,” Ambrose told a crowd of roughly 40 people at last week’s inaugural Gender Expansion Conference at the University of Montana. Those unfamiliar with intersex conditions likely came away shocked by Ambrose’s presentation, but that’s exactly why he stressed the importance of educating the broader public about the issue. Roughly 1 in 2,000 people are born with genitals atypical enough to make the person’s sex unclear. And ever since Johns Hopkins psychiatrist John Money argued in the 1950s that gender should be fixed during the first two years of life, doctors have performed thousands of surgeries similar to the one Ambrose received. These operations cause a loss of sexual function, incontinence and scarring. Just as damaging is the emotional turmoil that can accompany a forced gender assignment. Ambrose, for instance, lived as a female until seven years ago, when he began taking testosterone and transitioned into a man. “I’m just beginning to put my life together,” he said. What’s frustrating is that these procedures are rarely necessary. The surgeries are mostly performed to alleviate the discomfort felt by doctors, parents and society as a whole—those who prefer set notions of gender. As Ambrose put it, intersex conditions “aren’t threatening to the child, but they are threatening to the child’s culture.” Ambrose wants to de-stigmatize intersex people and, in doing so, stop doctors from performing “normalizing” medical procedures on children. That’s why, in addition to speaking last week, he and his partner, singer Eden Atwood, who’s also intersex, launched The Interface Project. The locally based group documents the stories of intersex people from all over the globe and “brings visibility to a community that has been invisible for too long.” The Interface Project traces its activist roots back to the 1993 formation of the Intersex Society of North America and, with its growing prominence in the Missoula community, marks a homegrown example of a political movement that’s gradually gaining traction. “Things are changing,” Ambrose said. “Things are changing very slowly.”
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Among the many questions facing the nance Committee. “But the other piece is Retirement System, Montana’s second Montana Legislature earlier this year was that traditional pensions present some largest pension. “My sense was that they had how to fix the state’s two biggest public structural problems built into their design.” an agenda to move plans to cash balance.” Pew and Arnold were not the only Draine discussed the structural failures pension plans, which had taken a beating during the Great Recession. Lawmakers of Montana’s defined benefit system, like in- would-be pension reformers present in eventually found a way to stabilize the adequate planning for investment risk. His Helena, however. Americans for Prosperplans without radically restructuring analysis, however, barely addressed the con- ity, or AFP, an organization funded by them, but a new report by the Institute for nection between Montana’s pension woes Charles and David Koch, advocated for the full privatization of Montana’s pension America’s Future, a left-leaning think tank and the 2008 financial meltdown. Draine recommended that legislators system. They wanted a 401(k) system for in Washington, D.C., shows how outsiders attempted to capitalize on the situation by consider a cash balance plan, describing new state employees that would eliminate pushing pension privatization in the state. it as a “more modern way” to deliver re- guaranteed income and individualize investment risk. They supported The report, titled “The SB 406, a bill to put a referenPlot Against Pensions,” claims dum on the 2014 ballot to esthat Montana’s pensions were tablish a 401(k)-type system. targeted by a variety of billion“Our representatives tesaire-backed advocacy groups tified in support of SB 406,” with links to Charles and says Joe Balyeat, AFP’s state diDavid Koch and John Arnold. rector and a former state senThese groups are waging a ator from Bozeman. “The state-by-state campaign, from 401(k) plan would be better Pennsylvania to Rhode Island than what we got now, but it’s to Arizona, in the hope that not politically doable now. public pensions can be fundaCash balance is more doable mentally remade. and in some ways preferred.” Specifically, the groups AFP had other outspoken aimed to replace Montana’s allies. On March 10, 2013, defined benefit system—a photo courtesy of Laura and John Arnold Foundation Richard Dreyfuss of the Mancrown jewel of the labor movement—with at least a Laura and John Arnold made their billions at Centaurus hattan Institute published an Advisors LLC, a now-defunct hedge fund that specialized op-ed in the Helena Indepartially privatized system, in betting on natural gas prices. pendent Record arguing that and eliminate guaranteed intirement benefits. Cash balance plans “any reform proposals should begin by come for future public employees. “There is nothing worse than a billion- share features with a defined benefit plan, moving new hires into defined contribuaire on a crusade,” says Eric Feaver, presi- like pooled investment risk, but they also tion, or 401(k)-type, plans.” Dreyfuss redent of the MEA-MFT teachers union. partly privatize the system. Each worker lied on Pew-Arnold’s pension research in “People with money who want to remake has his or her own account, and is only his column. The Manhattan Institute rethe universe in their image, that’s annoying.” entitled to guaranteed returns from state- ceives funding from both the Koch brothThe Laura and John Arnold Founda- managed investments. Workers do not re- ers and the Arnold Foundation. Montana was not the first state where tion, along with its partners at the Pew ceive a guaranteed income. In February 2013, Sen. Ron Arthun, R- both Pew-Arnold and Koch-backed groups Charitable Trusts, first appeared in Helena in fall 2012, according to Joe Triem of Wilsall, introduced SB 333, a cash balance simultaneously pushed for pension reMontana’s Legislative Services Division. bill. He says he was impressed with the Pew- structuring. They worked with the 2012 The Arnold Foundation is the brainchild Arnold advisors and took part in a telecon- Kansas Legislature, using a strategy similar of John Arnold, a billionaire from Hous- ference with them as early as August 2012. to the one used in Montana a year later. ton, Texas, who was a commodities trader He was inspired by pension reform in In Kansas, the Koch- and Arnold-financed at Enron before he made billions running Kansas, where cash balance won the day. Kansas Policy Institute pushed hard for a a hedge fund. According to his founda- While he was writing his bill in early 2103, full privatization of the state’s pensions. tion’s tax records, he bankrolls a variety he met the Pew-Arnold representatives for The Pew-Arnold alliance presented its of conservative causes, including the char- dinner. “They might have helped me with cash balance idea as a compromise. Last ter school movement. Pew was founded some base ideas, but not with the language,” year, Kansas adopted a cash-balance-style pension system. by the children of oil magnate Joseph says Arthun. “Pew really liked my bill.” Draine says Pew-Arnold has no immeOverall, the Pew-Arnold vision was Pew. These two groups have traveled the country in recent years, nudging legisla- met with resistance in Montana. Gov. diate plans to return to Montana. But after tors toward partial pension privatization. Steve Bullock supported a defined bal- leaving the state last spring, the two orRepresentatives of the Pew-Arnold ance model. Arthun’s bill died in commit- ganizations provided testimony to the partnership arrived in Montana at the leg- tee. Some pension experts were wary of Oklahoma Legislature and the Pennsylvania Legislature on pension reform. He islature’s behest with presentations decry- Pew-Arnold’s inexperience. “At the time they were here they had says they are currently working with the ing the state’s defined benefit pensions as fundamentally unsound. “Bad policy is part very little pension experience on which to city of Jacksonville, Fla. of the story,” said the Pew’s David Draine base their assumptions,” says David Senn, in a Nov. 13, 2012, presentation to the Fi- former executive director of the Teachers’ jtobias@missoulanews.com
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Furlough frustrations Researchers play catch-up after government shutdown by Alex Sakariassen
One of the most complete Tyran- its 55th anniversary. Essential staff were kept biologists have been collecting more denosaurus Rex specimens in existence—a on to ensure the safety of astronauts aboard tailed data on a population estimated at fossil known as Wankel’s Rex—awaited the International Space Station. But the fewer than 50 bears. The 16-day hiatus for FWS also meant federal inspection at Bozeman’s Museum shutdown delayed the launch of dozens of of the Rockies in late September. The fos- new satellites and turned off the lights at shuttering several western Montana wildlife refuges including the National Bison Range. sil had been transferred from a secure NASA’s Asteroid Watch program. storage facility, and paleontologists had The shutdown also came on the eve Lead wildlife biologist Brendan Moynahan meticulously uncrated the specimen in of the latest field season in Antarctica. says the bison range staff had just enough preparation for a trip to Washington, D.C. Newly arrived scientists were told not to time upon returning to complete its annual Then, on Oct. 1, the federal govern- unload equipment. Others were stopped herd roundup—a critical point of the year ment shut down. Representatives from in airports en route. Researchers are now when personnel tag new bison calves, take the Smithsonian Institute’s Natural His- faced with possible weeks-long gaps in genetic samples and cull the population to a manageable size for winter tory Museum, where grazing. Moynahan adds the Wankel’s Rex is destined to work took considerable become the centerpiece of time this year due to the a new dinosaur hall, told shutdown’s impacts on MOR to pack everything scheduled maintenance of up. The trip would have to range infrastructure. During wait until spring. the shutdown, bison broke “Once we realized that through several fences and the government was shut “scattered to the wind” down, the curators and the across federal property. scientists and the [U.S. The shutdown “really Army Corps of Engineers] in put in jeopardy the whole particular—the guys who point of the work we do were really in charge of that through the other 99 perspecimen—decided that if it cent of the year,” Moynadoesn’t ship now, it’s not photo courtesy of Museum of the Rockies going until spring because The government shutdown delayed the transport of a nearly han says, “which is to keep of the chance of a freak complete T. Rex fossil from Bozeman to Washington, D.C. Other animals moving across the range, try to keep the ims n o w s t o r m w h i l e t h i s impacts to Montana researchers were even more serious. pacts from heavy grazing as thing’s on the road,” says MOR spokesman Mark Robinson. “Nobody datasets on ice flows and penguins, and acceptable as possible.” Moynahan is also gravely concerned wanted to take that chance because it is, the National Science Foundation is canthat the shutdown may have cost the scientifically, a very valuable specimen.” celing scores of projects. Wankel’s Rex was scheduled to ship Here in Montana, the shutdown bison range time to gauge the extent of out Oct. 11, a date MOR had slated for a forced the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study epizootic hemorrhagic disease among varspecial send-off event. The Smithsonian Team to call off the final month of its fall ious wildlife populations. EHD, an illness had similarly set aside the fossil’s arrival trapping schedule in Yellowstone National spread by midges, killed hundreds of date of Oct. 16 for a special presentation Park, which began Aug. 28. Biologists whitetail deer around Missoula this fall. on the National Mall to coincide with the planned to collect samples from and And just days before the shutdown, a visfourth annual National Fossil Day. The two apply radio collars to bears in the park itor to the bison range found a dead museums reached a 50-year loan agree- through the end of October. Frank van whitetail deer in Mission Creek. Tests ment for Wankel’s Rex earlier this summer. Manen, the study team’s leader, says the came back positive for EHD. Days into the shutdown, Moynahan Now the T. Rex, which was promptly shutdown delayed the release of a muchpacked up and stashed away again, will anticipated report on grizzly dietary habits received a call from the bison range’s law have to wait until April. in Yellowstone until early December— enforcement officer, one of the few un“We’ll go through the same process in barely in time for the Interagency Grizzly furloughed staffers. The officer reported the spring,” Robinson says, “where we un- Bear Committee’s final meeting of 2013. a bull bison near Mission Creek that was crate it, inspect it, make sure everything’s “I would call it a temporary setback,” having difficulty breathing. Biologists okay, re-crate it and ship it off.” van Manen says of the missed window for were allowed to collect emergency samThe holdup for Wankel’s Rex is just research. “It’s something we can probably ples from the carcass for testing, but Moyone example—and a relatively minor one compensate for in the next field season, nahan hasn’t yet had time to comb the at that—of the widespread impacts of the so it’s not like some other research proj- property for other dead animals. At this government shutdown on the scientific ects … that missed a very critical window point, any carcasses would be too decommunity. Furloughs and darkened web- to get everything ready. For us, it’s mostly graded to yield testable samples for EHD. “That’s beyond frustration,” Moynasites combined to push researchers out of an inconvenience and a setback.” the field and bar online access to federally Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator han says. “That really is tantamount to a compiled data from various agencies. Chris Servheen, with the U.S. Fish and negligence that is a direct result of not NASA in particular made national head- Wildlife Service, notes a similar loss of re- being allowed to do our jobs.” lines as 97 percent of its work force was sent search opportunities in the Cabinet-Yaak home the same day the agency celebrated ecosystem in northwest Montana, where asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
Intertwined Wolves and grizzles: a grand symbiotic relationship by Paul VanDevelder
A study by Oregon State University ecologist Bill Ripple has, for the first time, linked the welfare of wolves to the welfare of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park ecosystem. This was big news when the story broke in August, which means that either the story hit during the doldrums of the 24/7 news cycle, or that grizzly bears and wolves have been promoted to front-page fodder by the mainstream press. My guess: It was probably a bit of both. My reaction to the stories about this new study was a resounding, “Duh.” I’ve been reading and writing about wildlife recovery for a very long time, so this kind of biological symbiosis seemed a given. I reached Bill Ripple about a week after the study was published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, just as the newspapers began reacting to his findings. Most treated the story as if Bigfoot had been caught on a security camera stealing candy bars from a 7-11 store, i.e., as a huge and unexpected surprise. “How could this be news?” I asked Ripple. Weren’t these creatures top predators that coexisted on the American High Plains for thousands of years? Yes, he said, adding that his study’s findings have as much to do with politics and the courts as they do with critters in the wild. “How so?” I asked. The impetus for Ripple’s study came in 2011, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the wolf from the endangered species list. Wolf killing resumed immediately after an 85-year hiatus; 1,500 wolves have already been killed in Idaho alone. At the same time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to delist Yellowstone’s grizzly bears, though the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wasn’t buying it. The court ruled that the federal agency had not adequately explained how the demise of the whitebark pine, a principal high-country food source for the bears, would not threaten their already precarious existence. These concurrent events
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prompted a “green fire” moment for Ripple—a reference to Aldo Leopold, the father of the modern conservationism, who described the light he saw in the eyes of a dying mother wolf. That green fire led Leopold to the realization that predators were intrinsic to the natural world. Though Ripple said he had studied Yellowstone wolves since their reintroduction in the mid-1990s, he decided he needed to make a closer and more de-
“These two beasts of the northern wild have been engaged in a fascinating survival dance that began at the end of the last Ice Age.” tailed investigation of the relationship between wolves and grizzlies. What he discovered turned out to be very old news. The symbiotic relationship between the wolf and the grizzly was documented in petroglyphs on cave walls. These two beasts of the Northern wild have been engaged in a fascinating survival dance that began at the end of the last Ice Age. Ripple’s findings stand on the shoulders of his earlier work on the ecological effects of wolves and elk, which found that the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone reduced the size of the elk herd, and, in turn, relieved foraging pressure on berry-bearing shrubs that comprise a critical food source for other species, including grizzlies. Surprise No. 3,474: All of
these relationships come back to food and how one species impacts the food sources of another. “We developed four different data sets to show that the re-introduction of the wolf to Yellowstone has had much deeper and more far-reaching effect on the flora and fauna of that ecosystem than we realized,” said Ripple. As wolves reduced the size of the elk herd in the Yellowstone ecosystem, chokecherry, serviceberry and huckleberry flora began to rebound and flourish in a long-term phase of “passive restoration,” Ripple said. In time, and as other food sources decline, berry production might become more and more important as a source of nutrition in the grizzly bears’ diet. It’s humbling, Ripple added, to realize that the cascading effects of wildlife management, or mismanagement, roll in both directions. If too many wolves are killed, the consequences could affect many other species. “But if we let passive restoration run its course, we might just see some remarkable things happen,” said Ripple. The riparian environment could once again become vibrant nurseries for birds, beaver, and a number of smaller critters. If you kill too many wolves in Yellowstone, however, their population could drop below the threshold essential to maintaining a vigorous and resilient ecosystem. If that happens, we might as well paint over the petroglyphs, cage the animals, pave the parks, dam the last freeflowing rivers, turn the last old-growth forests into toothpicks and stop pretending that we cherish the wild. Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). The author of Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire through Indian Territory, he lives in Oregon.
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[quirks]
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Police accused three men of breaking into a home near Palatka, Fla., photographing its contents and then posting the pictures on Facebook, offering to sell any and all pictured items. When a potential buyer asked about a refrigerator, the men said to meet them at the house. A suspicious neighbor saw the men enter the house and called police, who arrested Carlos Rivera, 27, Leandre Green, 25, and Jordan Green, 25. (Orlando Sentinel) Police investigating an armed robbery at a convenience store in Belleville, Ill., arrested a suspect after he returned to the store five hours later, and the clerk recognized him. (St. Louis’s KTVI-TV) NEVER FORGET – NBC Sports Network canceled “Under Wild Skies,” a hunting show funded by the National Rifle Association, after animal rights groups criticized host Tony Makris for shooting a wild elephant in the face in Botswana from a can’t-miss distance of 20 feet. While stalking the elephant with a .577 rifle, Makris declared the weapon was “made to shoot ivory.” He responded to his critics by accusing them of “animal racism” because they didn’t object to his shooting birds but protested that elephants are different because “they’re so big and special and they’re smarter,” he told NRA News. “And I went, you know, Hitler would have said the same thing.” (Britain’s The Guardian)
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SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – Police investigating the death of Michael Babinsky, 49, who was shot multiple times in the neck and head at a Chicago shooting range, said they believed the man shot himself accidentally. (Chicago Tribune) Police investigating the shooting death of Amanda Mosley, 24, concluded that she died while embracing her 18-year-old boyfriend in Phoenix, Ariz. “We understand that she wanted to hug the 18-year-old,” Sgt. Steve Martos said. “He had a gun in his waistband. It caused some discomfort while they were hugging. They started to remove the handgun, and that’s when it accidentally went off.” (Phoenix’s KTVK-TV) FIRST-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – Popular Science announced a ban on online comments on articles in the magazine. “Comments can be bad for science,” an editor explained in a website post, which stated that vicious, insulting or ignorant comments can pollute otherwise intelligent online discussions, as well as undermine public understanding and appreciation of science itself. (The New York Times)
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The Los Angeles Times said it would no longer publish letters to the editor that deny the existence of manmade climate change. Pointing out that many letter writers insist “climate change is a hoax, a scheme by liberals to curtail personal freedom,” letters editor Paul Thornton said, “Saying there’s no sign humans have caused climate change is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy.” (The Washington Times)
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IT HAPPENS – A commercial for Poo-Pourri air freshener had more than 12 million views on YouTube in its first month and so many orders that shipments were delayed up to two weeks, according to the company, Poo-Pourri Scentsible of Addison, Texas. Marketed to women, Poo-Pourri is designed to be sprayed into toilet bowls before sitting down. It leaves a protective film on top of the water that traps odors below and, with each deposit, releases “a refreshing bouquet of essential oils, ” the video promises, declaring, “Our business is to make it smell like your business never even happened.” (ABC News) PHOTO PHOT PHO P PH HOT H HOTO HO OT OTO O TO T O BY BY C CRACKLE RA R ACK KLE LE L EP PHOTOGRAPHY HOTOG HOTO HOT H HO OTOG OT O TO R T RAPHY RAP APHY HY H Y
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Panda poop might provide the fuel of the future, according to Mississippi State University researchers who are using dung samples collected from zoos to harness microbes from the efficient digestive tract of giant pandas. Once scientists have identified the microbes that are most effective at breaking down cellulose, they anticipate using them to create genetically engineered yeast cells on an industrial scale to turn corncobs, wood chips and grass into clean biofuels. (The Washington Post) WE HARDLY KNEW YE – Kentucky wildlife officials have documented the first free-ranging wolf in the state since the mid-1800s—after a hunter shot and killed the 73-pound endangered gray wolf. The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources isn’t filing charges against James Troyer, 31, because he had no reason to expect a wolf to be in the state and thought it was a coyote. (Louisville Courier-Journal) WHEN GERBILS ON TREADMILLS AREN’T ENOUGH – Retired ExxonMobil vice president Ben Markham has figured out how to provide electricity to remote parts of Africa by harnessing children’s youthful energy. Markham, who runs the renewable-energy nonprofit Empower Playgrounds, is installing merry-go-rounds in villages. Children playing on them generate energy that can be stored in battery packs, which the children can take home to power lamps so they can read. Each system costs $10,000 to install, and one lantern charge will last 50 hours. (Mother Nature Network)
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WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Ophelia Neal, 53, pleaded guilty to robbing a bank with two cans of spaghetti sauce. Police said Neal entered the bank in Macomb County, Mich., and told a clerk she was carrying a bomb in her cloth bag. She fled with an undisclosed amount of cash but was later arrested with the bag, which contained the spaghetti sauce. (United Press International) MOTHER OF THE YEAR – Authorities accused Quacheena Juett, 33, of ordering her 12-year-old daughter to beat a driver pumping gas at a station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who was taking up too much room at a gas pump, preventing Juett from getting gas. According to the police report, after Randa St. Cyr told Juett to wait until she finished, the mother told her daughter to “take care of it,” and the girl punched the victim in the face. Juett and her daughter then hopped into St. Cyr’s car, grabbed St. Cyr’s iPhone and took off. Authorities used the gas station’s surveillance system and the phone’s GPS to locate Juett. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
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8:00 a.m. Morning frost appears on Stephanie Parker’s car outside her Edith Street home. COURTESY OF
StephanieParker n Saturday, Oct. 5, we put out an open call to anyone and everyone, from iPhone shooters to seasoned professionals, to photograph a typical day in Missoula. We had no idea what to expect. Really, we just hoped enough people would partake so we could curate an inspiring and contemplative visual celebration of the city we call home. We ended up receiving more than 70 submissions, all shot within the same 24 hours, with an impressive amount of diversity. There were back-alley shenanigans, Homecoming pageantry, outdoor adventures, abstract natural beauty, one delicious shot of a milkshake—and not a single selfie in the bunch.
9:58 a.m. Luke Rieker, co-owner of Strongwater, slips in a morning surf session before opening up the Hip Strip’s “original mountain surf shop.”
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Then came the hard part. We had to select the top photos based on composition, creativity and overall execution, and compile them for this week’s issue. Eighteen images made the final cut. This marks the return of the Independent’s “One Day in Missoula” feature, which first debuted in 1996 and was last done in 2004. To help mark the occasion, we’ve partnered with the Rocky Mountain School of Photography to have the images displayed Nov. 1 for a First Friday exhibit at the school’s downtown location, 216 N. Higgins Ave, starting at 5 p.m. We hope to see you there. We also thank everyone—shooters, RMSP, the community as a whole—for their help in putting this together. —Cathrine L. Walters
10:07 a.m. Monte waves to supporters during the University of Montana’s Homecoming parade on Higgins Avenue.
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11:32 a.m. Alexander Lindgren takes a self-portrait outside the UPS Store on Brooks Street.
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1:38 p.m. The University of Montana Marching Band stands at the ready while awaiting the arrival of the Griz football team in Washington-Grizzly Stadium. UM went on to win the game over Portland State, 55-27. COURTESY OF
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3:18 p.m. Targets take a beating during a concealed-weapon permit class taught at the Deer Creek Shooting Center.
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LisaWeinreich 3:24 p.m. Two paragliders ride the wind currents above Mt. Jumbo and the “L”.
4:11 p.m. Veteran hang glider Brian Steubs flies over Mt. Sentinel. Fifteen pilots gathered Oct. 5 to celebrate the University of Montana’s decision not to build a new Missoula College campus on the UM Golf Course, keeping that open space available for all kinds of recreational use. COURTESY OF
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4:22 p.m. A few locals get a different view of the Homecoming football game in Washington-Grizzly Stadium after hiking up Mt. Sentinel.
4:37 p.m. An unidentified man takes a break on the bench outside Free Cycles Missoula, a community bike shop.
5:35 p.m. A recently watered flower basket glistens in the sun along Higgins Avenue. The baskets are maintained by the Missoula Downtown Association.
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5:08 p.m. Max the Siberian Husky waits for Brad Hatcher in an alley off Higgins Avenue.
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5:41 p.m. The Wyckman Building captures the reflection of a man walking near the corner of Pine Street and Higgins Avenue.
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6:32 p.m. This Liquid Pavement milkshake at the Uptown Diner features vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, hot fudge, Oreos, espresso grounds and liquid espresso, and is topped with whipped cream.
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6:42 p.m. A lone kayaker surfs the rapids at Brennan’s Wave on the Clark Fork. COURTESY OF
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GraceKari 7:57 p.m. Evening musings from the porch.
7:08 p.m. Grace Kari takes in the sunset outside the vacant Missoula Mercantile building.
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10:45 p.m. Counting chips while playing poker at The Oxford Cafe. COURTESY OF
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[arts]
Provoking for art How curator Beth Sellars made a tenacious bid for The Jesus Corner by Erika Fredrickson
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
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n 1992, an exhibit at the Cheney Cowles Museum in Spokane made front-page news when it became infested with flies. The show, by Montana artist Ted Waddell, included animal pelts that were, unbeknownst to everyone, carrying larvae that hatched in the warmth of the gallery. The media had a field day—the Associated Press headline read, “Bizarre Art Exhibit Draws Crowds of Flies,” and the story made “Weird News” lists across the nation. All the hubbub overshadowed Waddell’s work, an exhibition titled True Objects and Stories from Two Dot, and it ended up painting the rancher-artist as backwoods rather than what he is: a worldly professional artist with an arts education. (The sting hasn’t lasted; Waddell’s work continues to be in demand.) But the fallout also affected curator Beth Sellars, who was trying to raise the profile of the Spokane museum at the time of the larvae incident. She told the Spokane Chronicle that the flies had been blown out of proportion, but lamented that “Spokane has always considered itself a podunk town … what better way to [reinforce that attitude] than to say the major museum in the city of Spokane brings in horse---- and flies.” Two decades later, the story is a blip on the radar for Sellars, who has now put together hundreds of provocative, nationally renowned exhibits. Though she’s been a curator since 1975, she made her mark the last 20 years exposing the Northwest to contemporary and avant garde art that doesn’t often make it past the confines of big city museums. She has also worked with top Montana artists such as Rudy Autio and Dennis Voss. And she managed 3,000 works of art for the city of Seattle and, in the last 17 years, brought in big names from New York,
San Francisco and everywhere in between to the Suyama Space, a nonprofit gallery she co-founded in Seattle with architect George Suyama. Sellars, 75, is a woman with moxie, and it’s her acquisition of one installation in particular that sticks out as a prime example of her distinct style. The Jesus Corner, a work by the late Edward Kienholz and his wife and collaborator, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, has been featured in top art museums around the country since 1982. It’s a reconstruction of a Spokane storefront window filled with pictures, cards and symbols arranged in a Christian shrine. The original shop, owned by a man named Roland Thurman, was never open to the public, but passersby could peek in at the display. Ed, though he was an atheist, admired Thurman’s dedication. When the building was condemned, Ed and Nancy salvaged the artifacts and recreated the shrine. The Jesus Corner is one of five reconstruction installations created from Spokane buildings. The highly sought-after pieces had mostly found homes among cosmopolitan museums. But, in the early ’80s, when Sellars was working for the Cheney Cowles, The Jesus Corner was still homeless. She felt that because they were created after Spokane landmarks, by a Washington-born artist, her museum deserved dibs on at least one of the works. “It’s one of the five tableaux pieces that were created from old apartment buildings in Spokane,” Sellars says. “And for that reason alone it was something that needed to be included in the museum. When Ed and I first started talking about it I had said, ‘We need you in the collection.’” Sellars says that Kienholz offered one of his jerry-can sculptures—a small piece from a series that
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looks like a television. But it wasn’t enough for Sellars. “Like it or not, we are your museum,” she recalls telling him. “Our budget obviously doesn’t allow for the acquisition of one of the major tableaus but I just want you to know we want one.” Sellars says she and Kienholz talked off and on for several years about art and sometimes about the installations. Sellars continued to press the issue. In 1993, she got a call from Kienholz’s Los Angeles dealer. “He said that he wasn’t sure what was going on up there but that Ed had told him to call me and offer The Jesus Corner to me,” she says. “It was for a price he said he didn’t want me to tell people because it is so below what he normally would charge. “And of course, in retrospect, he was getting ready to die,” Sellars adds. “He was getting his life in order—his estate in order—and he knew we wanted a piece. He agreed, yes, like it or not we were his museum, and so that’s how it came about.” Kienholz died in 1994 of a heart attack. The Jesus Corner eventually ended up in the permanent collection of the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane, thanks to Sellars’ persistence. Looking at the Kienholz’ assemblage works you can find all kinds of provocative themes. The installation Five Car Stud shows the castration of a young black man by a group of white men who have found him with a white woman. The installation Back Seat Dodge ’38 reveals a couple having sex in the back of an automobile, and when it went on display in 1966, it was nearly banned by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for being pornographic. The Jesus Corner is a comparably tame
piece in theme, but it’s arguably just as engaging for the fond manner in which it pays tribute to a man no one seemed to really know. (The Kineholzs and others had tried to track down Thurman, to no avail.) It’s been a long time since Sellars had to fight for any art exhibit. The Suyama Space doesn’t do much with pre-existing exhibitions. The design of the gallery is so unconventional that it requires artists create art according to the space. “The first few shows we did were artists bringing in preexisting work, but the building is so powerful and overbearing it was visually eating alive the exhibitions,” Sellars says. “George [Suyama] and I determined we have to actually have the artists respond to the physical space and that’s what we’ve done for the last 13 years.” Past exhibitions have included visually provocative works including colorful inflated plastic and spring-steel rods that grow upward to the gallery ceiling, emulating grass. As for The Jesus Corner, it’s currently on display at the Missoula Art Museum. This week, as a tribute to Ed Kienholz, Sellars will read from an essay he wrote about the original Jesus corner and the impact it had on him. “The essay is a really pure expression of respect for what other people think and what he thinks and how that works together,” Sellars says. “It’s a beautiful thing.” Beth Sellars gives the story behind The Jesus Corner at MAM Wed., Nov. 6, at 7 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
Spirit animals Latyrx deviates from the expected “Gorgeous Spirits,” from Latyrx’s forthcoming second album titled, helpfully, The Second Album, is pure dance-floor electronica. The track is anchored by a boombap hip-hop beat, but it’s barely audible under a joyful outburst of bloops and squiggles. The chorus abandons hip-hop beat patterns entirely, in favor of a four-on-thefloor anthem that would get Cher up from the banquettes. Hearing “Gorgeous Spirits” makes you realize how limited rap’s sonic palette has become. More importantly, it suggests that things don’t have to be that way. The track is an undeniable head-bobber in precisely the way that, say, Yeezus is not. It proves that producers can
deviate from hip-hop’s sometimes rigid formulae and still play in the clubs. The other difference between Latyrx and Kanye lies in the rapping. Latyrx members Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker are not the kind of ostentatious talents that contemporary hip hop likes. Lyrics’s nasal delivery is better suited to supporting the beat than leading it, and Lateef ’s rhymes are dense in a way that rewards cult listening. Neither will lay claim to the title of best rapper alive, but they are innovating within the strictures of their craft. (Dan Brooks) Latyrx plays the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 1, at 10:30 PM. Doors at 9:30 PM. $13/$11 advance.
Pony Time, Go Find Your Own You will not soon forget the name of this Seattle band if you listen to the song “Tacocat Scraps,” because the chorus is “Pony time, all the time now / pony time, what do you do,” and it absolutely will get stuck in your head. That’s off the 2011 self-titled album. Pony Time’s newest, the 2013 Go Find Your Own, doesn’t have any singles that are quite as memorable, but it’s a fun garage-punk treat anyway. Drummer Stacy Peck keeps up an insistent beat and crashy cymbals while bassist Luke Beetham’s nasal, quavering vocals remind me of surf groups like Guantanamo Baywatch. Pony Time are local favorites in Seattle, and Beetham appeared in a shirtless, sultry pose with his
Danelectro bass for The Stranger’s tongue-in-cheek Men Who Rock issue. (He dished that honey oatmeal soap is his fragrance of choice.) The band is outspokenly feminist and passionate about cats, candy and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Peck and Beetham back up the great personas with a heck of a live party, as I recall from the show at Zoo City Apparel back in summer 2012. Jaunty tempos step up into higher gears worthy of bouncy slam-dancing, like on “Lesbian Mayor” and “First Thing in the Morning, You and Me (Hard and Heavy).” Plus, there’s a love song to Kathleen Hanna. If it has to be Pony Time all the time, I’m just fine with that. (Kate Whittle)
Pearl Jam, Lightning Bolt Creating quality music decades into your career is a white unicorn chased by many bands desperately clinging to their past. With Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam defies this notion. The band has captured lightning in a bottle—ahem—by balancing the raw “grunge” sound of its genesis, while seamlessly combining acoustic guitar and quick stop-and-go riffs. Those elements are anchored solidly by catchy choruses that will have you hooked on first spin. Hits abound on Lightning Bolt, making it Pearl Jam’s most balanced and accessible effort since 1994’s Vitology. Songs like “Getaway,” “Mind Your Manners” and the title track deliver with a punk-influenced metal
vibe. “My Father’s Son,” led by Jeff Ament’s bass-playing, is drenched with that classic grunge sound. Throughout, but most noticeably on “Sirens,” Mike McCready plays loose and noodles away, creating psychedelic-rock jams while Vedder’s vocals sound their strongest to date. The band even takes a stab at Vedder’s acoustic track “Sleeping By Myself,” from his solo album, Ukulele Songs, successfully reimagining it. Lightning Bolt wins on every front. For a band that tours to a devoted fanbase with high standards, the album will go down in history as one of their most piercing and superior efforts to date. (Samuel Martin)
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[books]
Big Sky intrigue Gwen Florio’s Montana cuts to the chase by Kate Whittle
fish, ride horses, whatever it is they do out there,” an editor tells Lola. She only plans to stay a few days, and then return to Afghanistan as a freelance reporter. But when Lola flies in to the Helena airport, and Mary Alice doesn’t arrive to pick her up, the real trouble starts. The rest of the tale follows Lola as she tries to solve a murder, investigate a suspicious gubernatorial candidate, deal with overdosing meth addicts, manage unlikely love interests and navigate rural customs. She teaches herself to ride a horse and tend a wood stove along the way. The story is also a loving portrait of the state, filled with observations of things we might take for granted, from the expansive sky to the generous portions of cinnamon rolls at hometown cafes. One of my favorite tiny details is when Verle, a local rancher who’s taken a liking to Lola, picks her up to take her to a cafe and, after coaxing her into his truck, “drove a single block in silence” before parking. Much as it agitates me, that’s about as Montana as it gets. Montana’s hard-boiled plot and its twists are entertaining enough, but Florio’s portraits of tough women and old-school journalism are what left a lasting impression for me. Lola and Mary Alice worked for their college paper and then moved on to rough big-city beats for dailies, packing .45s for protection and drinking Jameson, never regretting their bold career choices. They’re the kind of dogged, intrepid reporters that aspiring journalists hope to become. Lola’s clueless about Twitter and Facebook, but relentlessly tracks down people who can give her information. She stays up late, gets up early and drives hundreds of miles to get a source to talk. I’m not sure that her kind of newspaper career even a n ta n exists anymore, but it makes for a o M lorio Gwen F nent Press good story. a er, Perm $28 v o c Fictional portrayals of jourrd a h es, 208 pag nalism can be frustrating to read if the details are wrong. But Florio’s real-life experience gives the dramatic plot of Montana a realistic heft, from sleeps with her boots on, is shell-shocked from her descriptions of dead bodies to interludes where Lola years of working in volatile regions, habitually on guard tries to look up campaign finance donors. It captures for danger and vividly imagining what would happen if how journalism can be exciting and utterly banal at she was back in Afghanistan. While her editor is chas- every turn. (Florio does leave out mention of characters tising her, she looks out the window of the newsroom actually writing articles, which I’ll allow, given that it and contemplates a truck sitting outside. “The perfect would be pretty boring to read. Alas, my dream of a size to hold a dozen oil drums packed with a sludgy gritty depiction of journalism where someone argues mix of fertilizer and racing fuel … The concussive force with an editor about capitalization will have to be realwould bend the newsroom windows outward, the ized some other day.) It’s not giving much away to say that, despite the panes bubbling like a soapy mass across the face of the building, then suck them back in with such speed and misadventures and intrigue, our hero Lola warms up to intensity that the glass would burst, shards rocketing the state by the book’s end. I wonder if we’ll see more across the office, razoring through furniture, paper, from her in Florio’s upcoming works. After all, a reporter’s work is never done. flesh.” Gwen Florio reads from Montana at Fact and Forced to go on vacation, Lola plans a visit to her old college buddy, Mary Alice, who works for a paper Fiction Fri., Nov. 1, at 5:30 PM. in the fictional town of Magpie, Mont., described as kwhittle@missoulanews.com being a little south of the Blackfeet Reservation. “Fly Small-town rural life is often anything but idyllic and innocent. Wherever people can be found, so too can sex, drugs and scandal, like in Gwen Florio’s debut novel, a mystery called Montana. It’s a fast-paced, engrossing read with details cleanly rendered by Florio, a seasoned journalist. Florio has worked all over, including as a reporter in Somalia and Iraq, and at the Missoulian. At the start of Montana, our protagonist, Lola Wicks, has just been removed from her post as a reporter in Afghanistan, since her Baltimore-based newspaper has shut down its foreign bureaus. Lola, a hot-tempered, scrappy woman who
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[theater]
Stay tuned UM’s Distracted keeps its comedic focus by Erika Fredrickson
In American culture we lament—and often laugh edy of Errors—and does it again, this time as the father at—how perpetually distracted we are. It’s not to the distracted boy. He and Bouma feed off each enough that our attentions are spread thin by an on- other like a good sitcom couple. They exude a warmth slaught of emails, texts, tweets and Facebook posts, together like good allies do, which makes the times but we’re constantly trying to keep up with every- they turn on each other all the more uncomfortable. A few characters are written as caricatures includthing else. Have you read the new article in The Atlantic? Are you eating the right vegetables? How to ing the teacher, played by Erin Agner, as well as two find time for your parents/children/friends? Recall this other moms, played by Cally Shine and Carissa Lund. scene: You’re having a nice dinner with the family and That doesn’t stop the actors from being highly entera phone rings. The conversation is put on hold as taining. Agner’s version of the stern, spectacled teacher is precise even if we never see much more to everyone searches their pockets. Distracted, a play by Lisa Loomer (Girl, Inter- her. And the moms, I think, are meant to work as rupted), deals with the cultural baggage of distrac- means to a point. These are the women who medicate their ADD chiltions. But its main dren, and even pop storyline focuses on pills themselves. We a particular issue: aren’t meant to tochildren diagnosed tally dismiss them. with attention They are, after all, deficit disorders. In Loomer’s attempt to the story we meet a try and explore all mother and father possibilities and spiraling into deviewpoints for dealspair while dealing ing with ADD kids— with their son’s hythough from the peractivity and way she has written troubles at school. her characters, you Throughout the can tell she stands course of the play, on the side of antithe parents are torn photo by Cathrine L. Walters meds. The other between the advice of medical ex- Distracted stars, from left, Kelly Bouma, Carissa Lund, moms are oblivious in one instance and perts, their kid’s Elizabeth Bennett and Cally Shine. defensive in anteacher, other parother. In the end, though, we laugh at them because ents and each other, all in the quest for a solution. In the University of Montana’s School of Theatre they say all the wrong things. Elizabeth Bennett as Natalie, the gothy teenage & Dance production, directed by graduate student Hillary Sea Bard, Kelly Bouma plays a woman trying to babysitter, is incredible. She plays up her character’s balance a career as an interior designer with being a own ADD symptoms without diminishing the heavimother to an unruly 9-year-old. Bouma is wonderfully ness of her situation. And then there’s Rigel Rae, who neurotic while still being smart and likable. In the first splits herself between three characters. As a nurse she few minutes of the play we see her meditating to the appears only briefly, but the other two are notable light of a candle saying, “Lord, make me an instrument and so far flung from each other. You barely recognize of your peace.” But the peace lasts for mere seconds her as both the smooth, professional, Southern-acbefore the phone rings. From there, almost no scene cented Dr. Zavala and the gum-chewing waitress offers any form of serenity. We see characters constantly who’s so distracted by the restaurant’s television she distracted—by each other or by their own thoughts, can barely take a step forward without running into something. Finally, Jesse, the the aggravating son with which they speak as asides to the audience. Sometimes a scene is interrupted by a quick ADD, is played with charm by Monroe Ayers, mostly jaunt into another scene. For instance, in the midst as an offstage voice. At the heart of the story is the anxiety of making of talking to a psychologist about her son, Mama suddenly become preoccupied by the shoes she ordered good choices for your children, and just when it starts from Zappos. For a moment, we are briefly trans- to feel like a public service announcement, Loomer ported back to her house where she receives the reins it back in with entertaining dialogue. For her shoes, ships them back, orders seven more pairs and part, Sea Bard has taken a sometimes heavy-handed then appears back in the doctor’s office to continue but interesting play and made it thoroughly entertheir conversation. (The hopping around is a clever taining. That the UM actors seem to be having a great way to keep the audience in a constant state of dis- time with the distraction theme makes it easy for the audience to stay glued. traction as well.) Distracted continues at the Masquer Theatre Comedy is key to this play and most everyone in UM’s production delivers it with good timing. Steve Thu., Oct. 31, through Sat., Nov. 2, at 7:30 PM Hodgson has livened up the stage in several UM pro- nightly. $16/$14 for seniors and students/$10 for ductions—as a Russian dance instructor (You Can’t kids age 12 and younger. Take it With You), the Persian king (1,001 Arabian efredrickson@missoulanews.com Nights) and starred with Bouma in the fantastic A Com-
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[film]
Good words The Counselor reveals McCarthy’s wisdom 10/31 NOSFERATU 8 pm Live Musical Accompaniment by NextDoor Prison Hotel 11/1-3 MOTHER OF GEORGE 7 & 9 pm 11/1-3 MUSCLE SHOALS 7:15 & 9:15 pm 11/4 TWIN PEAKS episodes 4 & 5 7 pm $5 admission
by Molly Laich
Walking out of The Counselor, I knew I’d witnessed something grotesque and brilliant. I felt disoriented and cheated, and yet the moment it was over I wanted to turn around and watch it again. High hopes come with the territory. The film is directed by Ridley Scott and stars some of the best actors around. Most of all, this is the first screenplay written directly for the screen by the great American novelist Cormac McCarthy. But No Country For Old Men this is not, and viewers expecting that level of craftsmanship will be disappointed. How to explain? Imagine if everyone in the salacious melodrama Wild Things were a philosopher, and in between their shady double-crossings and backdoor deals, the characters took the time to sit down and dis-
Reiner ( Javier Bardem) looks like a drug dealer and acts like one, but in between talking about business, he’s got a lot to say about the darkness inside a man’s heart and about the way women have wielded seduction in his life like an ax. Reiner is in love with Malkina (Cameron Diaz), who keeps cheetahs as pets—and in case the cat-eating-mouse metaphor escapes you on that level, she has cheetah spots tattooed along her back to drive the point home further. Reiner tells us, “She understands everything,” and I’m thinking she’s the only one. Her mascara cakes around her eyes obscenely and she wears a cartoonish amount of large, gold jewelry. Critics have been quick to point out the film’s lack of subtlety in general, and they’re not wrong, per se.
Open House Russell Street Project Wednesday, November 20, 2013 • Open House: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Burns Street Community Center • 1500 Burns St., Missoula, MT The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and the city of Missoula (City) invite the public to attend an open house to discuss the Russell St. Project (Project). This open house is an opportunity for the public to provide input on the final design details for Russell St. between W. Broadway and Idaho St. including the Russell St. Bridge. MDT and the City plan to implement roadway, pedestrian, bicycle, and transit improvements to approximately 1.5 miles of Russell St. in Missoula - from W. Broadway to Mount Avenue. Improvements to this corridor are necessary to meet current and future transportation demands and facilitate mobility to all modes of travel. The Project will be designed and constructed in phases to utilize available funding. The first planned phase is between W. Broadway and Idaho St. and includes the Russell St. Bridge. The Environmental Impact Studies process began along this corridor in 2001 and concluded with a Record of Decision in 2011. The Final Environmental Impact Statement analyzed five alternatives for Russell Street. Alternative 4 was selected as the preferred alternative and consists of two southbound and two northbound travel lanes with raised medians, center turn lanes, bicycle lanes, curb & sidewalks, grade-separated bicycle/pedestrian crossings, and the use of traffic signals at key intersections. The meeting is open to the public and the public is encouraged to attend. MDT attempts to provide accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person's participation in any department service, program or activity of our department. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in this meeting, please contact Loran Frazier, WGM Group Project manager at (406) 728-4611 at least two days before the meeting. For the hearing impaired, the TTY number is (406) 444-7696 or (800) 335-7592, or Montana Relay at 711. Alternative accessible formats of this information will be provided upon request.
Comments may be submitted in writing at the meeting, by mail to Ed Toavs, District Admistrator, Missoula district office, PO Box 7039, Missoula, MT, 59807-7039 or online at the project website: http://www.mdt.mt.gov/pubinvolve/russell Please indicate comments are for project CN4128 and submit comments by Dec. 21, 2013.
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Just another normal day of bird watching.
cuss eloquently with each other the true meaning behind the nature of reality, truth, love and their own twisted motivations. Think of David Mamet levels of affected dialogue, plus the weird animal symbolism you’ll find in Werner Herzog’s feature films—and that’s not it, either. Describing the plot won’t help, but here it is anyway. Michael Fassbender plays the flawed hero, known only as “The Counselor.” He’s a lawyer by day, but otherwise doesn’t counsel anyone, so no need to read too much into the title. He’s in love with Laura (Penelope Cruz). Not since Shakespeare’s Desdemona have we seen a woman so uncomplicatedly devoted. For whatever reason (the film isn’t telling, except to point vaguely at greed and cash-flow issues) the Counselor thinks he’s going to involve himself in a shady deal just this once, and then he’s out. The drugs are coming across the Mexican border in septic tanks, and the transporter thing (don’t ask, I don’t know either) is hidden in a motorcycle helmet. There are a lot of hands in the pot and it’s hard to follow just how people are involved or whose side they’re on. Brad Pitt is a nihilistic middleman in a bolo tie who might be delivering the film’s thesis statement when he tells us how he’s been everywhere and seen the world for what it really is: shit.
The story points to the characters who will end up dead, and then sure enough it happens, and just the way we’re told it will. I have to think that we’re not meant to feel surprised, but some other emotion entirely. Is it dread or recognition or what? Many Ridley Scott films are dark, in a literal sense. He tends to drain the color out of things. But this film is well lit and in focus, with bright, garish colors that left me feeling even more terrible. Still, I haven’t had time to mention the wise jeweler, or the film’s fantastic violence, or the fact that Diaz makes love to the hood of a car. What does it mean when she tells us that the truth has no flavor, or when the Mexican drug lord says that men create the world in their own head? At its worst, The Counselor is a tired story about a man in crisis after a drug deal gone wrong. Looked at another way—and this comes to us via the strength and weirdness of McCarthy’s prose—the film is a meditation on what it means to be alive. On my next viewing, I intend to forget about the plot and instead listen more closely to what the characters have to say. The Counselor continues at the Carmike 12.
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bender, Brad Pitt and Goran Visnjic. Rated R. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
ENDER’S GAME Brilliant young Ender Wiggin is selected and trained to protect earth from an attack by the brutal Formic race of aliens. And you thought you were under a lot of pressure in middle school. Starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Harrison Ford. PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Showboat, Pharaohplex.
GRAVITY A space shuttle accident leaves two astronauts untethered in space and struggling to survive in director Alfonso Cuarón’s intense drama. Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney and Ed Harris. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat, Village 6. INEQUALITY FOR ALL As the country’s income gap grows ever wider, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich dissects why that is and what we can do about it. Rated PG. Wilma.
FREE BIRDS Two turkeys must avoid fowl play and work together to avoid getting gobbled for Thanksgiving dinner. Starring the voices of Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson and Amy Poehler. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Entertainer, Pharaohplex.
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA Johnny Knoxville plays an 86-year-old Irving Zisman on a trip with his 8-year-old grandson, Billy. Heartwarming situations will ensue, I betcha. Also starring Jackson Nicoll and Spike Jonze. Rated R. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex.
IN A WORLD... A young vocal coach struggles against sexism and her annoying dad to try to become a movie trailer voice-over star. Directed, written and starring Lake Bell, along with Jeff Garlin and Fred Melamed. Rated R. Wilma.
RUSH Fast cars, fast women and slick hairdos feature in Ron Howard’s drama based on the real-life rivalry between Formula One racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde. Rated R. Carmike 12.
LAST VEGAS Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman were all somehow convinced to appear in a tamer version of The Hangover. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex.
THE SPECTACULAR NOW A hard-partying high schooler reconsiders his “live in the now, man” attitude after meeting a cute, quirky nerd girl. Starring Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley and Kyle Chandler. Rated R. Wilma.
MOTHER OF GEORGE A Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn struggles to fulfill the expectation that they’ll have children. Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Danai Gurira and Yaya Alafia. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Theater Nov. 1-2, at 7 and 9 PM, and only at 7 PM on Nov. 3.
Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.
MUSCLE SHOALS Explore the studio in a little Alabama town that recorded some of the most iconic music of our time, from Greg Allman to Mick Jagger to Aretha Franklin to Percy Sledge. Includes interviews with Bono, Clarence Carter, Alicia Keys and more. Rated PG. Showing at the Roxy Theater Nov. 1-2 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM, plus Nov. 3 at 7:15 PM.
Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit missoulanews.com’s arts section to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
NOW PLAYING CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Yar, there be bloody pirates! Tom Hanks plays Captain Richard Phillips during the 2009 hijacking of an American cargo ship by Somali criminals. Also starring Barkhad Abdi and Barkhad Abdirahman. PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. CARRIE Strap in your dirtypillows for the ride when Carrie gets her revenge in director Kimberly Peirce’s version of Stephen King’s 1974 classic. Starring
Rock the mic. Clarence Carter appears in Muscle Shoals opening Friday at the Roxy Theater.
Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore and Gabriella Wilde. Rated R. Carmike 12. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 Watch out for shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons and snarling tacodiles when inventor Flint Lockwood finds out a machine he’s created is churn-
ing out mutant food-beasts. Voiced by Bill Hader, Anna Faris and Will Forte. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharoahplex. THE COUNSELOR A lawyer bites off more than he can chew when he gets into drug dealing. Starring Michael Fass-
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Save the carrots! by Ari LeVaux The carrot, so easily planted, is work to harvest. And then you have a pile of dirty carrots to deal with. Or maybe your CSA gave you an overwhelming sack. But as problems go, too many carrots shouldn’t be one. Assuming you have more than you wish to put in your fridge, there are many elegant and delicious ways to put away those carrots for the long haul. Here’s a list—it goes to 11—of ways that people save carrots, including a few methods that I don’t endorse, and I think you should know why. Leave them in the ground It really doesn’t get easier than this, provided you’re absolutely positive where you planted the carrots, as the telltale foliage that locates the roots will be long gone by winter. Before winter hits, pile on insulators like straw and blankets to keep the cold air off the carrot patch. Even in places where the ground usually freezes, like Montana, well-insulated soil around your carrots will stay soft enough for digging all winter long. And you don’t want to keep them in the ground much longer, as they’ll get woody when they begin growing again in spring. Dig a hole If you have a root cellar, store your carrots there. Otherwise, you can improvise one by digging a hole in the ground and burying a container. This year I buried a Rubbermaid tub. I trenched around the rim, drilled holes in the bottom and will keep it covered from above with plywood and tarp, a layer of insulation, like straw or blankets, in the gap between plywood and tub. Carrots should be trimmed but unwashed. They’ll stay crisper that way. Shovel a layer of dirt on the bottom of the tub, then add about four inches of carrots. After that, alternate layers of carrots and dirt. Store them in the sandbox In this popular carrot storage technique, carrots are kept in a box of moist sand, and left in an unheated garage. I’ve never been a fan of this technique—I prefer dirt. Make sure and use clean “food grade” sand; don’t just open a sandbag that was hanging around the back of your pickup for two years, like I did. Pickled, with peppers A shelf packed with jars full of pickled carrots and peppers is a shelf that you will gaze upon proudly, and hungrily. You’ll need some spicy, fleshy peppers, like jalapeños, along with cider vinegar, salt, sugar and mustard seeds. Heat a brine of 50/50 water and cider vinegar, adding enough sugar to take the edge off the vinegar. Add a tablespoon of mustard seeds and a teaspoon of salt to each clean, sterile quart jar. Then, pack each jar with carrots and peppers, trimmed and sliced, leaving proper headspace. When the brine
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reaches a simmer, pour it into the packed jars. Process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Dehydrated If you have a dehydrator, dried carrots are a great option. They shrink way down, and can be reconstituted in soups, stir-fries, sauces and dips. Peeling carrots before dehydrating will make them a bit sweeter. Another important pre-dehydration process is blanching them first, which will preserve nutrients and fix the bright orange carrot color for perpetuity. Slice the carrots, lengthwise or crosswise, into ¼ inch pieces. Plunge into boiling water, and blanch for two minutes. Then, transfer slices to cold water for two minutes. Drain, then dehydrate until crispy, but not shriveled away. Store in airtight bags, in the freezer or a cool place. Juice Freezing carrot juice sounds like a great idea. But there’s a consensus among juice freezers that carrot juice doesn’t work. It separates, and the consistency changes. There are better things to do with your carrots. Blanched and frozen Blanching kills enzymes that would otherwise digest the carrots from within, even while frozen. Slice or chop carrots about ¼ inch thick and blanch for two minutes, followed by two minutes in cold water. Grated and frozen If you’re really into carrot cake, this is definitely your method, but freezing your carrots grated opens up other doors as well. No defrosting is necessary; simply add to whatever dish is cooking. To prepare, grate the carrots, then blanch for two minutes in boiling water, followed by cold water. Pack in airtight containers, and freeze. Microwaved and frozen Carrots can be blanched in a microwave, rather than in steam or boiling water. But just because it can be done doesn’t mean it should be done. Microwave inconsistencies make it difficult to give exact directions, and makes the endeavor all the more prone to screw-up. And it’s kind of weird. Frozen carrot dish Cooked carrot meals like carrot soup or carrot mayonnaise are already blanched, in effect, by the cooking process, and are ready for the freezer. To make carrot mayo, add cooked carrot rounds (steamed or oven roasted) to a blender in which olive oil and garlic have whizzed around. Season with salt, pepper, and perhaps an herb like oregano or thyme— but don’t get too crazy. Let it cool to room temperature, and freeze it.
[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway • 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's wants to say THANK YOU. Thank you Missoula for buying Bernice's handmade breads for a third of a century - - 35 years! Bernice's will be stopping production of breads for retail sale beginning November 1st. Why? YOU. You Hipsters, Professors, Moms, Dads, Kids, Griz Fans...MISSOULIANS. We have been increasing our sweet treat production for the last 4 years and you want more. Bernice's has an awesome location in a 100 year-old historic building and we are not moving. We need more space to make Missoula just a little sweeter. Bernice's will still offer a full line of breakfast goodies, rich coffee, our infamous Parkerhouse Rolls and crazy cheap lunches. AND BERNICE'S WILL STILL BE BAKING DINNER ROLLS FOR THANKSGIVINGS TO COME! You'll just have to stop by the bakery to get 'em. Halloween is around the corner come in and check out Bernice's amazing line up for the Halloween holiday starting October 24th. xoxo bernice $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 84. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns... THURSDAY is Trivia Night (7:30-10 pm). FRIDAY 8/30: Britchy Duo 6-9 pm. SUNDAY: Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). TUESDAY (Burger + any draught beer $8). Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 41 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub
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Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$ Dickey’s Barbecue Pit 143 W. Broadway Downtown Missoula • 203.1557 Taste why Dickey’s Barbecue is the world’s best barbecue since 1941! Try our 8 juicy hot pit smoked meats, like our southern pulled pork or our family recipe polish sausage. We even offer 11 home-style sides, like our creamy cole slaw and fried okra. Don’t forget we’re also your catering experts! Any event, any size – let Dickey’s do the cooking, and you can take the credit. Graduation parties, weddings, office functions, you name it! Dickey’s Barbecue is the perfect catering choice for groups of all sizes – from 10 to 10,000! Don’t forget-Kids Eat Free Sundays & everyone enjoys FREE ice cream every day! Dickey’s Barbecue. Seriously, Pit Smoked. Open 7 days a week. Offering a full liquor bar. $-$$
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Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 10am-6pm Mon-Thurs/10am-7pm Fri+Sat. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a selfserve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$
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Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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Thirst Gear HAPPIEST HOUR Slow your roll: On a recent Pedal power: During a trip test run, the Snyders and several to Portland, Ore., a few months friends rode the Thirst Gear bike back, Five on Black owner Tom up Higgins and along side streets Snyder and his brother Alex found to Draught Works. The pedaling themselves entranced by Brewcyproved easy, and Tom pumped cle Portland, a company that music from a portable stereo near books tours between the city’s the driver’s seat. Over pints, one craft breweries via a multi-person volunteer test pedaler summed “beer bike.” These bikes first up the fledgling company as caught on in Europe in the late “powered by pedals, fueled by ’90s before popping up in major U.S. cities like Minneapolis and photo by Alex Sakariassen beer.” After 45 minutes—the perbrewery stop time Thirst Gear Chicago. It seemed like a mode of transportation tailor-made for Missoula, so the plans to stick to for its tours—the crew rolled on to Snyders commissioned one from a manufacturer Tamarack. Given the bike’s top speed of about 5 in Bend, Ore. “We knew someone else was going mph, the four-block trip down Orange Street may to do this,” Alex says. “Missoula’s needed a bike like have caused some consternation among motorists. But most honked, cheered or laughed, inthis. It was only a matter of time.” trigued by Missoula’s latest boozy pursuit. Sit back and pedal: Thirst Gear, as the SnyGet on board: You can book your Thirst ders are calling it, books tours to Draught Works, Flathead Lake Brewing Co., Tamarack and Kettle- Gear tours online at thirstgear.com, or visit the house’s Myrtle Street taproom. The bike looks company’s Facebook page for more contact desomething like a table on wheels, with 10 pedal tails. Also look for the bike in the Nov. 2 Day of stations and two extra seats along the sides. A the Dead parade. —Alex Sakariassen bench on the back fits three additional passengers, and Thirst Gear provides a company driver Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana for each booking. While there’s no drinking allowed on the bike (yet), Thirst Gear’s drivers are watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender required to stay sober so you can drink your quota or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com. at the breweries without worrying about a DD.
Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:3012:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
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Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis’s Kitchen 531-5034 • sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods. Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis’s Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula “Best Pizza” Winner’s for 2008-2012. Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12”crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$
Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. • 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$
Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.
Walking Moustache 206 W. Main St.• 549-3800 www.walkingmoustache.com Our aim is to offer excellent food with five star service. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Daily Specials + 2 am Special. Live music Saturday 11/2 at 7:30 pm with Kristi Neumann. Restaurant Hours: 24/6. Tues–Sun 6:00am–11:00pm. Closed Mondays. Winebar Hours: Tues–Sun 11:00am–11:00pm. Closed Mondays.
Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-214-2659 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 whole-
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some ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches. We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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Head poncho. The annual Day of the Dead Parade marches down Higgins Avenue on Sat., Nov. 2, at 6:30 PM, and ends at Caras Park, with candle-lit dancing and music to follow. Visit the Missoula Festival of the Dead Facebook page for more info.
THURSDAYOCT31 The ghoulish duo of John Sporman and Travis Yost, as Next Door Prison Hotel, slinks into the Roxy Theater to provide a live score to the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu. 8 PM. Visit theroxytheater.org for ticket info.
Wander around the shopping mall like zombies during Halloween for Hospice. Photo booth, carnival games, costume contest and more. Southgate Mall. 4-9 PM, with trick-or-treating starting at 6 PM. Free to attend; carnival games are $1 each or unlimited for a $15 wristband.
nightlife Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Intercultural Dialogue Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, where people from various backgrounds meet on the last Thur. of each month at 5 PM for an afternoon of conver-
sation and peacemaking. Library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info. Let the “walking zombies versus running zombies” debate be solved once and for all when The Hub hosts Zombie Lazer Tag,
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[calendar] where players must navigate a dimly lit maze and shoot down zombies before getting eaten. PG version from 6-7 PM, PG-13 environment after 7. 5055 Expressway. $8.
Get thrills and chills when Miller Creek takes command of the Top Hat for Halloween, with a Dark Side of the Moon set, screening of “Thriller,” costume contests and spooky drink specials. 9 PM. $5.
It’ll be scary good when the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio plays Higherground Brewery in Hamilton from 6-8 PM. No cover.
I got a feelin’ that tonight’s gonna be a good night and the club will be bumpin’, bumpin when Dead Hipster Dance Party revs up for its last Thursday residency forever, and that’s a mighty long time. Badlander. 9 PM. $7, includes entry to Palace show. $1 wells til midnight.
Try a slice of monster mash when Chris Timmons plays the Top Hat dinner show, starting at 7 PM. Free. Hey now, pay attention when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Distracted, a play by Lisa Loomer. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 for seniors and students/$10 for kids age 12 and younger. Tickets at the UMArts Box Office in the PAR/TV building. Runs Oct. 22-26 and Oct. 29-Nov. 2 at 7:30 PM. 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. Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Turning the Wheel Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance. Headwaters Dance Studio, 1042 Monroe St. 8 PM. $8. Visit turningthewheel.org. Forward Montana’s Trick Or Vote campaign asks volunteers to knock on doors to remind folks to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 election. Arrive at the Crystal at 5 PM in a costume. Volunteers get into the Cabaret Follicular show at 8 PM for free, too. Public speaking, clowns and spiders shall lurk when Cabaret Follicular and Forward Montana present What Are You Afraid Of, a Halloween variety show with performance, costume contest and dancing. 8 PM. $15. 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. Party hard enough, boys and ghouls, and maybe you’ll summon the spirit of Jimmy Hoffa when the Union Club hosts a Halloween bash, with live music from Zeppo MT. 9 PM. The 406 Band has got all the spookiest dance numbers for you gargoyles at the Sunrise Saloon’s Halloween party. 9 PM to close. Delve into the deep when Locksaw Cartel, Boxcutters and Nervous Curtains strike fear into your hearts at the Palace. 9 PM. $7, includes entry to Dead Hipster’s final night up at the Badlander.
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Calling all Hott Hodags and Bitchin’ Banshees, it’s a costume par-tay with Confidence Man, The Hasslers and the Chalfonts at Stage 112, 112 Pattee St. 9:30 PM. Free/$3 for ages 18-20. 18-plus. MudSlide Charley’s gonna shake dem bones, dem bones at Charlie B.’s for all you creepy bar crawlers. 10 PM. Free. You might wanna call some Ghostbusters before heading out on a Ravalli County Museum Ghost Tour, where you’ll be taken on a spooky trip through the historic county courthouse in Hamilton. 10 PM-3 AM. Ages 14-plus; anyone under 17 must be accompanied by parent or guardian. All tour-takers must sign liability waver.
FRIDAYNOV01 Get a little spicy at the Missoula Medical Aid salsa ball, with dancing, Salsa Loca, libations, hors d’oeurves and auctions. Children’s Museum of Missoula, starting at 7 PM. $50/$25 for students. Advance tickets are Rockin Rudy’s and missoulamedicalaid.org. Call 1-888-298-1249 for more information. The holidays are here, folks, so suck it up and get to working on that gift list at the Daly Mansion’s annual Holly Jolly Craft Show and Sale. 251 Eastside Highway in Hamilton. Hours are noon to 6 PM on Friday, 10 AM-4 PM on Saturday and Sunday. $3/free for kids. Get an early start on Day of the Dead festivities when the Missoula International School hosts Ritmos de Vida: a Rhythmic Celebration of the Ancestors, with artists, West African drumming and dance performances. 1100 Harrison St. 3:30-5 PM.
nightlife The Humane Society of Western Montana seeks good eggs to help care for the shelter’s critters. Volunteer duties include dog walking, cat socializing, cleaning, office work and more. 5930 Highway 93 S. Orientations are Nov. 1 and Dec. 6 at 5 PM and Nov. 2 and Dec. 7 at 11 AM. Apply first at myhswm.org.
[calendar] Local author Elliott Oppenheim reads and signs his latest work at Valley Drug, 301 Main St. in Stevensville. 5-7 PM. Discover the creative minds of those fashionable Betty’s gals when the Hip Strip boutique hosts an Employee Art Show, with crafts, paintings and sculpture. Betty’s Divine. 5-8 PM. Free wine and treats. Get ready, Fandos, it’s time for the 2014 edition of the Lando calendar, featuring the beardy man himself posing as iconic rock covers. Release party at Stockman’s Bar, 125 W. Front St, from 5-8 PM. Calendars are $20, and also available at Rockin Rudy’s or lando406.com. Some proceeds go to the Wounded Warrior Project. Seasoned reporter Gwen Florio reads her mystery Montana, about a hard-bitten, experienced re-
porter solving small-town intrigue at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 5:30 PM. (See Books.) The Montana A Cappella Society gets down acoustic-style to celebrate the release of the new CD Stories of America. Music, hors d’oeuvres and beverages are on tap at the corner of Second and State Street, outside the Hamilton Elk’s Lodge. 5:30 PM. Free. You never know when pirates will attack, so you may as well be prepared by checking out fencing classes. Missoula Fencing Association hosts a free, one-hour class today, ages 9 and above. 1200 Shakespeare. 6 PM. Check out missoulafencing.net. Those playful rapscallions The Whizpops! are back at it again, and playing Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat. 6 PM. Free.
WE Missoula presents live bands and art to benefit Partnership for Children at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St. Kevin Van Dort, Kira Means and Ian Velikoff provide the tunes alongside artists Candice Rhea and Kelly Loder. 6-9 PM. $5, includes free beer for folks who are of age. You know the organ, yes, but have you been dazzled by zee French organ? Helena performer Joe Munzenrider presents an organ recital of three French composers, Jean Langlais, César Franck, and Charles-Marie Widor, from Franck’s spiritual “Choral in b minor” to the touching to the “Song of Peace.” First Presbyterian Church. 7 PM. Free. Dr. Eric Kress discusses “Death With Dignity” as part of All Saints Day. Crystal Theatre. 7 PM. Free, with music from Blue Moon to follow.
Hot off the grill. The Dana Gallery hosts Four Generations of Art with pieces like Michael Stockhill’s “Car Show,” above, and others from family members AM Stockhill, Marie Leibenguth-Stockhill, Martin Leibenguth and Bowen Green. Reception on Fri., Nov. 1 from 5–8 PM.
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[calendar] Just keep swimming at the Badlander’s Fishbowl Friday, a BassFace Krew shindig featuring Seattle producers Splatinum and locals M-AD, Digerati and Kapture, plus art from Jenny Gorecki. 7 PM. No cover, plus $5 fishbowl dranks. Hey now, pay attention when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Distracted, a play by Lisa Loomer. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 for seniors and students/$10 for kids age 12 and younger. Tickets at the UMArts Box Office. Runs Oct. 22-26 and Oct. 29-Nov. 2 at 7:30 PM. The UM Symphony Orchestra is back from tour and plays a hometown concert to celebrate. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 for seniors/$5 for students. Check out umt.edu/music. Howl at the moon and kick up your boots when the Wild Coyote Band plays country and classic rock at the Eagles Lodge, 2340 S. Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.
Barreling along. Whitewater Ramble plays the Top Hat Sat., Nov. 2, along with Lil’ Smokies, at 10 PM. $8.
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Don’t ask probing questions the morning after Abduction, the annual Halloween rager with 20,000 watts of sound, two horror rooms, costume contest and light show. Broadway Inn and Conference Center. 9 PM. $10.
[calendar] The Grotesque Burlesque Carnival Of Flesh is back and creepysexy as ever, with Cigarette Girls performances and metal from Blessiddoom, Universal Choke Sign and Mahamawaldi. Prizes for your oogiest costume, drink specials, giveaways and more. Dark Horse, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. $5.
Sean Kelly’s downtown, starting at 9 PM. Free.
Make duck soup when Zeppo MT plays dancing tunes at the Union Club, starting at 9 PM. No cover.
Lolo Hot Springs Resort hosts the weekly TomBourine Show, plus you can get your soak on and rent a cabin. 9:30 PM. No cover.
Codependents emcee a raft o’ local hip-hop, including Wormwood, Rude, Tonsofun, Traff the Wiz at the Woolgather Project at the Palace, starting at 9 PM. Free.
Emcees Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker spit rhymes as Latyrx at the Top Hat, starting at 10:30 PM. $13/$11 in advance. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and tophatlounge.com/ events. (See Music.)
Celebrate All Saint’s Day by letting Muzikata soothe your soul at
Tell Greg Ginn to bite it when ‘77 Oi legends Tossers, Cunts and Wankers play the VFW, along with Black “Shramana” Flag, Fearless Vampire Killers as Bad Brains and Dicklips, a Blink 182 tribute. Up the p0nx! 9 PM. $3.
SATURDAYNOV02 Prep for the Day of the Dead parade with the ZACC, where’s there’s a sugar skull workshop, crepe paper marigold-making and face-painting before heading downtown to the parade. 235 N. First St. 2 PM. Free, donations appreciated. Call 549-7555 to learn more. The Google Developer Group Missoula hosts DevFestMT, two days of workshops and lectures from mobile software developers, professors and business folk. Washington Education Center, 8 AM-6 PM. $100/$50 for college students/$25 for high schoolers, includes meals. Check out DevFestMT.com.
Veterans interested in advocating for others in the court system are invited to the third annual Missoula Veterans Court mentor training at the UM Law School. Classes are on Sat., Nov. 2 at 8:30 AM and 12:30 PM and Tue., Nov. 5 at 5:15 and 8:30 PM. Call 258-4728 or email bdesmond@mt.gov to learn more.
University Village Community Center’s 14th season of monthly sessions for parents and kids to dance and see professional performances. Instruments and snack provided. 10:30 AM, with dancing at 11 and guest musician around 11:20. $3.50 per child, $2 for additional kiddos. Free for parents. Call Jen at 370-0300 to reserve a spot.
Stay true to your root vegetables with the Heirloom Winter Farmers Market, which offers produce, honey, crafts and more, in the Floriculture Building on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. 10 AM-2 PM on Saturdays.
The whole durn family is invited to Missoula Art Museum’s Saturday art workshop. This edition will explore constructing willow sculptures with artist Christine Joy; adults will want to help younger kids with cutting tools. 11 AM-12:30 PM. Free, but pre-registration two days in advance is required. Call 728-0447 or email lily@missoulaartmuseum.org.
If Spontaneous Music By Children doesn’t sound like a punishment to you, then check out
FIRST FRIDAY Bozeman sculptor Christine Joy presents her willows and red osier branches for your contemplation at Missoula Art Museum. Reception from 5-9 PM, gallery talk at 7. Beer and wine available for purchase. Missoula Art Museum seeks creative folk to serve as volunteer art guides. Meet with an exhibiting artist and learn about guiding opportunities at 3 PM. Contact Renee at reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more. It won’t even cost $5 when the Clay Studio of Missoula presents Hot and Ready, a group show of ceramic pottery and sculpture by UM MFA candidates. 1106 Hawthorne St., Unit A. 5:30 PM. Perhaps you’ll spot your lost Lenore when the 4 Ravens Gallery hosts The Black Bird, A Raven-Inspired Artist Invitational, with works by Courtney Blazon, Dan Towell, Sheila Griebe and many more. 248 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM. The mysterious E3 Convergence Gallery opens for the first time, with live music and “unique art.” 229 W. Main St. 5 PM. Emerge from the chrysalis when Nonda Gaylord shows her work in Transformations at Prudential Montana Real Estate, 314 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM. The One Day in Missoula photo exhibit celebrates all things Garden City with an opening reception at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. 5 PM. (See this week’s feature story.) Artists including Wesley Delano, Jonathan Marquis, Adelaide Every, Anneke Ayres and David Miles display their works at the Riverside Cafe, 247 W. Front St. 5 PM. The Union Club hosts Art in the Bar with painter Emily Meyers, from about 5-7 PM, with live music to follow. Consider the mightiness of the pen when the Artists’ Shop presents calligrapher Amity Parks and her small-scale works that combine photos, collaging, recycled layers and various techniques.
Calligrapher Amity Parks displays her multimedia works at the Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Reception on Fri., Nov. 1, from 5–8 PM.
127 N. Higgins Ave. Reception from 5-8 PM. Taste the bacon rainbow when Courtney Blazon exhibits new works drawn on recycled grocery bags at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM.
It’s like the Avengers, but with less spandex when Christopher Dufala, Perry Haas and Richard Smith present Ceramics Now: An Unexpected Band Ceramic Heroes at the Brink Gallery. 5-8 PM.
Painter Laura Blaker exhibits her latest works in Missoula Neighborhoods, on display at A&E Architects, 222 Higgins Ave. Reception from 5-8 PM. Mary Beth Percival and Monte Dolack present Honoring Our Montana Wild Lands, a retrospective celebrating the Treasure State’s wilderness. Reception at Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St., from 5-8 PM, with refreshments and music from Jordan Lane. It’s a gosh-darn family reunion when the Dana Gallery hosts Four Generations of Art, with AM Stockhill, Marie Leibenguth-Stockhill, Michael Stockhill, Martin Leibenguth and Bowen Green. Reception from 5-8 PM. George Gogas presents a new series of eye-dazzling acrylic paintings in the Gold Band Series. Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. Reception from 5-9 PM. Let them eat cake at Jennifer DuToit’s paper installation, Rice For Dessert. Reception at Noteworthy, 101 Higgins Ave., from 5:30-8 PM. Cake not included, but there will be cookies and wine. All the cool kiddos should check out Mismo Gymnastics’s Friday Night Children’s Party, where ages 5-plus play games and explore obstacle courses with guidance. This month the UM Griz Cheerleaders will be performing. 1900 W. Broadway St. 5:30-9:30 PM. $25/$20 for members, plus $10 for additional siblings. Limited to 80 kids, so zoom over to mismogym.com or call 728-0908 to sign up ahead of time. Guitarist Will Bluefield serenades your ears as part of First Friday at the North Valley Public Library in Stevi. 6-8 PM. No cover. Break past the gender binary along with artist Sarah Tancred, an MFA candidate who’s crushing middle-class socially constructed gender norms in America. Media: “Wax, hair,” but it looks less icky than it sounds. Reception at Frontier Space, in the alley by Sean Kelly’s, from 6-9 PM. Grab your finest “Miami Vice” outfit for the Pastel Society of the Northern Rockies’ exhibit at River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art, 317 Main St. in Stevensville. 6-9 PM.
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[calendar] The holidays are here, folks, so suck it up and get to working on that gift list at the Daly Mansion’s annual Holly Jolly Craft Show and Sale. 251 Eastside Highway in Hamilton. Hours are noon to 6 PM on Friday, 10 AM-4 PM on Saturday and Sunday. $3/free for kids. Get real hands-on with your liquor when Montgomery Distillery hosts a bottling party, where folks who come help out can earn themselves some fine spirits. 129 W. Front St. 1 PM. Spots are limited, so sign up in advance at montgomerydistillery.com.
wine, hors d’oeuvres from the Farm Table and treats from the Montana Chocolate Company. Ravalli County Fairgrounds Events Center, 100 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton. 6-10 PM. $75. Honor your dearly departed today by frolicking in the streets. The annual Day of the Dead festival includes facepainting at Caras Park and outside Circle Square secondhand store from 3-6 PM, dance performances at 5:30 and parade downtown at 6:30. The party continues with candles and dancing at Caras Park afterward.
Hey now, pay attention when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Distracted, a play by Lisa Loomer. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 for seniors and students/$10 for kids age 12 and younger. Tickets at the UMArts Box Office in the PAR/TV building. Runs Oct. 22-26 and Oct. 29-Nov. 2 at 7:30 PM. Voodoo Horseshoes does the oogie-oogie-boogie at the Symes Hot Springs’ Day of the Dead blowout, starting at 7:30 PM. Free, though cabin rentals are advisable.
cial performances from capoiera, tango and flamenco artists. Doors at 8 PM, lesson at 8:30, partying til 2 AM. $10/$16 per couple. Some proceeds benefit X Sports 4 Vets. Comedian Cabriel Rutledge, winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition, brings the laffs to the Roxy Twin Theater, 120 N. Second St. in Hamilton. 8 PM. $10. Visit roxyclubtheater.com to learn more. Toss your cap in the air and get down when the Missoula Folklore Society presents a Town and Gown contra dance, with Idaho’s Out of
shindig includes a Halloween masquerade and prizes. Things get rolling at 9 PM each night. Cabaret Follicular is getting in your hair once again with the Subterranean Performers’ Ball at the Crystal Theatre. 9 PM. $15, with discounts for Day of the Dead parade participants. Best wear your good Cinch shirt and some blue jeans so the Idle Ranch Hands will let ya do the boot-scoot-boogie at the Union Club. 9 PM. No cover. The DRAKE (not to be confused with Top 40 rapper Drake, ahem) plays the Dark Horse, along with Jackson and Parr Band. 1804 Regent. 9 PM. Pack the knuckle sandwiches when Olympia rockers Mom’s Rocket and MyFistYourFace play the VFW, starting around 9 PM. Cover TBA. Colorado’s Whitewater Ramble unleashes a tide of dancegrass unto the Top Hat today, along with Lil’ Smokies. 10 PM. $8.
SUNDAYNOV03 Our editor’s favorite Dallas electronic/metal weirdos The Browning play the Palace, along with This Or the Apocalypse, starting at 8 PM. $13, all-ages show. The Google Developer Group Missoula hosts DevFestMT, two days of workshops and lectures from mobile software developers, professors, students and business folk. Phyllis J. Washington Education Center, 8 AM-6 PM. $100/$50 for college students/$25 for high schoolers, includes meals. Check out DevFestMT.com.
Five for fighting. Gaelic Storm plays the Wilma Sun., Nov. 3, at 7 PM. $29. Tickets at Rockin Rudy's and BrownPaperTickets.com.
Maybe she’s born with it, or maybe she just learned how to make her own schmancy face products. Herbalist Elaine Sheff presents a workshop on natural face care at Meadowsweet Herbs. 1 PM. 180 S. Third St. $30, plus $10 to take home your own lotion, cleanser and toner.
nightlife Be on your guard when those Dodgy Mountain Men play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. Free. The Ravalli County Museum presents a gala as part of ARTrageous in the Bitterroot, a celebration of art in Hamilton with First Friday walk, quilt show and DINEaround. The gala includes an art sale, no-host bar with local beer and
Simon Cowell won’t know what hit him when the Wilma hosts Zootown Idol, a high school talent show to benefit the First Step Resource Center. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $5. Captain Wilson Conspiracy jazzes up your evening at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison Street, from 79 PM. No cover. The Coke’s in the icebox, popcorn’s on the table, and you and your baby can dance the night away at the Weekly Country Dances at the Hamilton Eagles Lodge, 125 N. Second St., with the Bitterroot Dancers and appearances from live bands like Northern Lights and the Revelators. $7.
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Whitefish Theatre Company presents a Black Curtain production of the Tony-nominated drama Frozen, a play about a murderer, his psychologist and the mother of a victim. FYI, Black Curtain productions are minimalist affairs and actors read from scripts. Performances at the O’Shaugnessy Center at 7:30 PM. $10/$8 for students, tickets only available at the door.
the Wood providing tunes and Bev Young makin’ the calls. University Center Ballroom. Beginner workshop at 7:30 PM, dancing from 811. Free.
Howl at the moon and kick up your boots when the Wild Coyote Band plays country and classic rock at the Eagles Lodge, 2340 S. Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.
The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays. 7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM.
Hot-cha-cha, get saucy with the Day of the Dead Latin Dance night at Monk’s Bar, with salsa, merengue, Latin hip-hop and spe-
Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are like Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, saving rec centers one beat at at time. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2.
The Copper Mountain Band will be ridin’ six white horses when they ‘round the bend at Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. The Sat., Nov. 2
The holidays are here, folks, so suck it up and get to working on that gift list at the Daly Mansion’s annual Holly Jolly Craft Show and Sale. 251 Eastside Highway in Hamilton. Hours are noon to 6 PM on Friday, 10 AM-4 PM on Saturday and Sunday. $3/free for kids. Discover how to pretty up your petals when Allisen Justman, flower arranger extraordinaire, presents a class on the secrets of flower arranging at China Woods Home and Garden, 716 N. Dickens St. 2 PM. Zut alors, the Alliance Française de Missoula presents Les Petits Ruisseaux, a film with “sexe, drogue, rock ‘n’ roll.” Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier St., at 4 PM. Free.
nightlife Sarah Knab’s got your Sunday beer ticket when she plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-7 PM.
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punk is dead Halloween is the season when we can dress up and pose as whatever we secretly or not secretly wish to be. Rock bands are comprised of ordinary people posing as what they wish to be, which is cool and admired. And so it is fitting that during All Hallow’s Eve and All Saint’s Day festivities, several rock bands are dressing up and performing as other bands, or just busting out their spookiest sets. At the Top Hat, Miller Creek takes over to play three sets, including a Dark Side of the Moon tribute. Meanwhile the VFW hosts back-to-back nights of tomfoolery. First, on Oct. 31, experi- Monks on Fire mental rock weirdos Monks on Fire celebrate Monktoberfest, with a Black Flag ends by none other than themselves. (The acronym, Live ’85 cover set from Shramana, über-doomy TCW, bears a suspicious resemblance to a local metal by Zebulon Kosted and a Kiss tribute from group called Total Combined Weight, does it not?) I Swamp Ritual. Full-on Kiss makeup and “a dude in highly recommend checking out the Tossers, Cuntz his underwear” are promised. and Wankers Facebook page for the vaguely comprehensible, completely filthy track listings and faux tour updates. “Seems Pighead has taken to having WHAT: All Saint’s Fest it off with the randiest old slags in your chip shops, America,” warns one. WHERE: VFW, 245 W. Main St. Black “Shramana” Flag is on the bill for All Saint’s WHEN: Fri., Nov. 1 at 9 PM Fest, too, as well as Fearless Vampire Killers as Bad Brains and Dicklips performing Blink 182’s Enema HOW MUCH: $3 of the State. If normally you wouldn’t be caught dead singing along to, say, “What’s My Age Again?”, here’s your chance to cut loose. Don’t worry, we’ll Nov. 1 is All Saint’s Fest, featuring Tossers, Cuntz keep it a secret. and Wankers, a band proclaimed to be ‘77 oi leg—Kate Whittle
Get all tied up in Celtic knots when indie-folk outfit Gaelic Storm rushes into the Wilma, bringing world grooves. 7 PM. $29. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and BrownPaperTickets.com. Western Union Swing Band puts the centripetal motion into your Sunday when it plays the Top Hat. Dance lesson at 6 PM, tunes from 7-9. No cover. Whitefish Theatre Company presents a Black Curtain production of the Tony-nominated drama Frozen, a play about a murderer, his psychologist and the mother of a victim. FYI, Black Curtain productions are minimalist affairs. Performances at the O’Shaugnessy Center at 7:30 PM. $10/$8 for students, tickets only available at the door.
MONDAYNOV04 Hey, David Lynch lovers, The Roxy Theatre shows episodes of “Twin Peaks,” a few at a time, every Monday at 7 PM. $5. Homemade pie and Black Coffee Roasting Co. decaf and regular available.
Get the kids rollin’ with After School Aikido for Youth’s orientation, aimed at kids from 7-14, for classes that meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. Aikido is a noncompetitive martial art that teaches balance and blending movements. 208 E. Main St, above the Union Club. 4:15 PM. Call 549-8387 or visit aikidomissoula.com to learn more.
nightlife Show how big your gray matter can get at Super Trivia Freakout. Win a bar tab, shots and other mystery prizes during the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 8:30 PM. Free. Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages. The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. Now meeting at 6 PM. You’ll be on a roll after the Learn to Skate Night with Hellgate Rollergirls, where women and men are
invited to try on some gear and get one-on-one coaching from league skaters. 6-8 PM at the Inferno, aka the warehouse at 812 Toole. Registration at 5:30 PM. 18-plus, must bring proof of valid insurance. All my rowdy friends are comin’ over tonight when the Top Hat hosts Monday Night Football for the Packers Vs. Bears game. (Ahem, Da Bears.) Special Wisconsinite menu and Bloody Mary bar on top. 6:40 PM. Free, all ages. Find an Abe’s Cabe and let’s ankle to Monk’s for Jazz Mondays with the four-piece Basement Boys kicking things off at 7 PM and a vetted jazz jam starting at 9. $5 suggested donation. 21-plus. Ponder the importance of the figure in early modern art when UM professor H. Rafael Chacón presents a lecture on that very topic at the Masquer Theatre. 7 PM. $5 suggested donation. Local vegetable-enthusiast Josh Slotnick, whom you may remember from such farms as the PEAS, reads from his poetry collection, Home Farm, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM.
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root words November 5 - Greening the Bits on the Information and Communications Highway With Dave Martin, VP of Product Management and Corporate Technology Officer for Blackfoot Telecommunications Group Social at 5:30 p.m. • Presentation at 6:00 pm The Loft of Missoula • 119 West Main Street FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Refreshments provided by Taco Sano, Liquid Planet and Big Sky Brewing Series Sponsors:
It’s no surprise that Josh Slotnick’s poems have titles such as “The Night Before the Farm Inspection,” “Spring Dream” and “Sowing and Reaping.” He is, after all, the director for the Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society (PEAS) farm, cofounder of Clark Fork Organics and a University of Montana professor who lectures on agriculture and food in the Environmental Studies program. (There’s more, but that gives you an idea.) But most people who are familiar with Slotnick know he’s a passionate wordsmith. He lectures in the poetic, wise style of Wendell Berry, making young students yearn to become farmers. He’s also a poet who has racked up audience applause for imagery and turns of phrase that take you out of the farmland theme and into WHO: Farmer and poet Josh Slotnick WHAT: Reading from HomeFarm, a new poetry collection WHERE: Shakespeare & Co. WHEN: Mon., Nov. 4, at 7 PM HOW MUCH: Free
other worlds. In his new book, HomeFarm, Slotnick explores the rich roots of Missoula farm life, but also the Cash For Junkers take the manic outta Monday when they play the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 7-10 PM. No cover.
TUESDAYNOV05 Ach, there’ll be toil and trouble when the Met Live presents a recording of the 2013 Manchester International Festival performance of Macbeth. Kenneth Branagh plays in question. Roxy Theatre. 7:30 PM. Tickets on sale at Rockin Rudy’s at mtlive.org. $16/$14 for seniors/$11 for students and children. Friendly reminder to all you citizens over 18 that today is the Missoula Municipal Election. The Fairgrounds Elections Center is open til 8 PM; check out missoulanews.com for our endorsements of this year’s candidates. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a Marketing 101 Workshop for aspiring businesspersons. 10 AM. $25. Register at missoulamarketing.com’s workshops tab.
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Florida Keys where “a pasty man and ample thigh with a weatherman’s haircut and a black Harley T-shirt stands across from us.” In “Sweet Salty Sour and Hot; Lunch in Bangkok 15 Years Later,” he writes, “Two stroke tuk-tuk exhaust, last-leg diesel buses and sweat/these big winds of stink...garlic bludgeoned into peppers, stung with lime and fish sauce.” Titles like “Shit Sandwich” and “Buying Appliances After Watching the History of Punk Rock in America Documentary,” hint at a man who is at once a pillar of the community and also a rebellious mover-and-shaker. In his introduction, Slotnick questions why he stays working on his land when he knows, eventually, his children will all move away, off to new lives. It won’t be the same. “It’s winter now,” he writes. “Our field is a uniform, white monolith—and I can walk to the exact spot where Sophie helped me in the kale last fall...” The place you live can become a powerful vessel for memory, but it’s always changing. This is exactly the kind of complexity that runs through Slotnick’s poems. We love and lose, we plant and sow, we start one place and end up somewhere else, either physically or emotionally. And isn’t it wonderful? —Erika Fredrickson
nightlife Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free. Put your money where your mouth is at the Food Trivia Night, with music, Biga Pizza available and four rounds of local food quizzes. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., at 5:30 PM. $10 per team per round, or $30 to compete in all four rounds. Prizes include beer, T-shirts and cash. Proceeds benefit the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition. It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900. Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.
Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages. Take a soothing nap in public when Iron & Wine plays the Wilma. (We kid, we kid.) Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$28 in advance at Rockin’ Rudy’s, by calling 866-468-7624 or checking out knittingfactory.com. Eastern Montuckian poet Gary Whited presents his poetry collection, Having Listened, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. He’s also working on a translation of fragments from ancient Greek dude Parmenides, so, whoa. 7 PM. Lo, the angels are calling to remind you that the holidays are just around the corner, and the Five Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines invite women to join in the four-part barbership harmony for performances at the Parade of Lights and Christmas concerts. Practice is at the First Baptist Church, corner of Woody and Pine streets, east entrance, Tuesdays from 7-8 PM. Call 5438137 to learn more. The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to
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teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.
Come to a greater appreciation of “The Jesus Corner,” Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s installation, during Beth Sellar’s talk about this piece at Missoula Art Museum. 7 PM. Free. Prep for your “Judge Judy” appearance when UM hosts a Citizens’ Law School lecture series, which covers stuff like landlord/tenant regulations, family law, criminal prosecution and defense, estate planning and the very sexy Night With the Judges. Runs through Nov. 20, and meets at the School of Law, Room 215, on Wednesdays at 7 PM. $40 for the series. Register by calling 243-6169.
Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: Spelunking legend holds that caves are haunted by strange, ugly creatures called hodags. Hodags are also the mascot of a small school in what midwestern state? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) The winningest USian will get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials. Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. Take a breath of fresh air when Pinegrass plays bluegrass at the Top Hat, starting at 8 PM. Free; 21-plus after 9 PM. The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Stage 112, inside the Elk’s at 112 Pattee St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free. 18 plus. Bluesy fella Travis Ward plays gee-tar and banjo at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAYNOV06 Jump in the Way-Back Machine when Yellowstone National Park when artist Lee Silliman discusses the history of the park’s now-obscure stands of petrified trees. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. $4/free for MNHC members.
He’s back! The 2014 edition of the Lando calendar, featuring photos by Andy Kemmis, will be released at a party at Stockman’s Bar on Fri., Nov. 1, starting at 5 PM. Calendars are $20. Learn more at lando406.com.
Early childhood professionals are invited to Child Care Resources’ training, Literacy All Day: Beginning Level First Course, where you’ll learn how to incorporate language learning throughout a kiddo’s day. 105 E. Pine St. $10. Visit childcareresources.org.
country. University Congregational Church. 5 PM. Mark your calendars for the bluegrass-inspired picking circle at Tangled Tones, now every week on Wednesday. Bring any-
thing as long as it’s got “strings or buttons that you don’t plug in.” All skill levels welcome, listeners too. 2005 South Ave. W. 6 PM. Free. John Floridis plays folk and rock while you get your nosh on at
If a snail munches in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound? Contemplate this and discuss Elizabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating with the Montana Natural History Center’s Science and Nature Book Club. Meets at Bernice’s Bakery at 7 PM. Bitterrooters interested in landuse challenges should check out environmental activist Brock Evans, president of the Endangered Species Coalition in D.C., who appears at the Hamilton Community Center, 223 S. Second St. in Hamilton. 7:30 PM. Learn more about Evans at endlesspressure.org.
Break down the barriers created by the concept of “other” and join in the eighth annual Day of Dialogue, a campus-wide, all-day event with exhibits and panels on diversity. 10 AM-5 PM. Check out life.umt.edu/dod for full schedule. For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska screens as part of the Indigenous Film Series at the Payne Family Native American Center, room 201. 4:30-6:30 PM. Visit life.umt.edu/aiss.
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[calendar] Let me tell you something I learned the hard way: Meatloaf songs are not appropriate for karaoke. Now go forth to Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. MudSlide Charley plays the blues real smooth-like at the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. Free. (Trivia answer: The Hodag is the mascot of Rhinelander High School in Wisconsin. It has the head of a frog, spiny back of a dinosaur, four short legs and a long tail.)
THURSDAYNOV07 Are you troubled by someone’s drinking? Al-Anon is for you!
UM students can safely engage in discussion on some heavy topics at Bridging Dialogues Across Cultures, a guided event that covers race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and ability. 4-6 PM, Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences Room 241. Held on Nov. 7 and 21 and Dec. 5.
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If you’ve got the late hipster blues, the Badlander offers forth a new Thursday night dance party, Drop Culture, with a rotating DJ line-up. $3, with $1 well drink special from 9 PM to midnight. Women get in free before 10 PM.
Learn about the legend of Poker Joe, a French/Nez Perce man who acted as trail chief during the legendary Nez Perce retreat, as presented by Richard Baker at the Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. 6 PM. Free.
The ZACC’s Printshop Orientation Class teaches peeps everything you need to know to use the print shop. In just two hours you’ll be able to impress your friends and family with your knowledge in silk-screening, relief printing, and woodcut printing. Once you get the tour, you can work there during business hours. Limited to six people per month. $20. To register call 549-7555. Outside of a dog, books are man’s best friend, ‘cause inside of a dog, it’s too dark
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to read! So go argue whether Mark Twain or Groucho Marx said that at the Historical Museum at Fort Missula’s used book sale. Heritage Hall, 3255 Fort Missoula Road. Runs Thu., Nov. 7 from noon-5 PM, Nov. 8-9 from 10 AM-5 PM, and on Nov. 10 from 11 AM-2 PM. $10 per bag on Sunday.
Songwritin’, banjoin’, fiddlin’ lady Barbara Jean plays the Top Hat dinner show, starting at 6 PM. Free. Find a pretty Jane Doe when John Smith plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover. Have an old-fashioned good time when Travis Ward plays old-timey guitar and banjo tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8 PM. No cover. Stage 112 hosts a Maasai School Water
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Project benefit party this evening, with African cuisine provided by Masala and live music from Brooke Beighle, Djebe Bara, Rhanda Johnson and Easy Living, Hunter and the Gatherers, Boston Tea Party and the always-esteemed Fred Boner Band. 6:30 PM-midnight. $5 suggested donation. Proceeds go toward installing a water system for schoolchildren in Tanzania. Prepare for pointed remarks when Historian Char Miller presents “Cutting Through the Past: Foresters and Conservation at the University of Montana” as part of the College of Forestry’s centennial celebration. North Underground Lecture Hall. 7 PM. Ken White, one of the producers of Winter in the Blood, reads from his new poetry collection, Eidolon, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Hip-hop outfits Height and Al Lover take the Palace stage this evening, along with Codependents. 9 PM. $5. Remember, Halloween partiers, it’s not a walk of shame, it’s a stride of pride. Submit events to Calapatra by 5 PM on Friday to calendar@missoulanews.com. If you absolutely must (my inbox is organized, my desk is a disaster) snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax at 543-4367. You can also submit events online.
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he Montana Cup is billed as neither a road-race nor gnarly endurance trail run, but a cross-country team event on terrain including bare ground and gravel road, coordinated annually since 1992. The length varies from year to year between 5K and 8K. Seven teams representing the state’s largest towns compete, and a different running group hosts it each year. There’s actually four trophies given at each Cup, depending on age group and gender, and the winning team gets to keep their trophy for a year. The 2013 hosts, the Butte Piss and Moan Runners, kept the Cup’s race location a mystery until July, leaving hints on Facebook like “Not Butte,” “6 hour 10 minute drive from Broadus” and “People there usually wear hats.” Whoever guessed the hints won free entry into the meet; at last, in July, it was revealed to be the historic Grant-Kohrs ranch in Deer Lodge.
A literal busload of Missoulians will be representing at the Cup, since Run Wild Missoula is sponsoring a free bus ride for competitors that leaves Saturday morning for Deer Lodge and returns at the end of the day (info to sign up for a seat is at runwildmissoula.org). I’m pleased to report that Missoula has dominated most categories for the last couple years in all kinds of windy and damp weather; perhaps the trophies will get to stay in the Garden City once again. —Kate Whittle The Montana Cup cross country race is Sat., Nov. 2 at Grant-Kohrs ranch in Deer Lodge. Men start at noon, women start at 1 PM. Check out montanacup.com and runwildmissoula.org for more info.
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free. Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Sprint like you’re late for American Government 201 again when the UM Rec Center hosts a 10K/5K campus fun run. Both courses start at the Rec Center, and there’s T-shirts and door prizes afterward. 11 AM. $25. Call 243-5295 to email campusrec@mso.umt.edu to learn more.
son with the Ski/Winter Sports Conditioning class at Summit Athletics, designed to get your butt in gear for everything from ice skating to snow shoeing. 1920 Montana St. Wednesday nights through March. 5 PM. $5 drop-in/$20 per month.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org. Our ground might be brown, but Warren Miller’s Ticket to Ride is packed with snowy ski destinations like Kazakhstan and Iceland. Screening at the Wilma at 7 PM. $15/$12 in advance at the Trail Head and eventbrite.com. Watch the li’l stars twinkle and sip hot cocoa when the Western Montana Astronomical Association hosts a viewing of November Night Skies at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. Astronomers will be on hand with telescopes and pertinent instruction. 9 PM. $5. Visit montananaturalist.org to learn more.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6 Demonstrate the power of your glutes this sea-
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What does your dream home look like? As we hurtle toward a future of increasingly scarce resources and competition for things like water and energy, it might sound appealing to be prepared in a self-sufficient, self-powering home. The average individual doesn’t wield a lot of power to affect global policy on climate change (and if you do, I would sure like to have a word with you.) But we can try to make the best choices in our personal lives, and they say that change begins at home. The University of Montana’s Forum for Living with Appropriate Technology, or UM FLAT, is an experiment in bringing environmentalism into day-today life, in doable pieces. FLAT, founded around 2010, includes two traditional houses with a decent-
sized yard in the heart of the University District. Over the years, the UM students who live there have transformed it as part of their internships. It boasts a chicken coop, solar panels, energy-monitoring system, garden and straw-bale-insulated garage. (The FLAT blog, at umflat.wordpress.com, is also a surprisingly fun and touching read, with jokes about chickens, odd bits of poetry and tongue-in-cheek references to housemates’ “blinding level of poor personal hygiene.”) You can check out the project and help support it at FLAT’s second annual Pizzapalooza, which includes live music, handmade pies and hot cider. Maybe someday soon, our stereotype of a dream home will look like the FLAT. —Kate Whittle UM FLAT hosts its second annual Pizzapalooza Sun., Nov. 3, at 2 PM, with Clove Cart Pizza Peddlers and music from Ten Skip Stone. 633 S. Fifth St. Proceeds support projects like chicken coop renovation, graywater system installation and beekeeping. $2-$3 suggested donation per slice.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Intercultural Dialogue Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, where people from various backgrounds meet on the last Thur. of each month at 5 PM for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking. Library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info. Forward Montana’s Trick Or Vote campaign asks volunteers to knock on doors to remind folks to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 election. Arrive at the Crystal at 5 PM in a costume. Volunteers get into the Cabaret Follicular show at 8 PM for free, too.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 Dr. Eric Kress discusses “Death With Dignity” as part of All Saints Day. Crystal Theatre. 7 PM. Free, with music from Blue Moon to follow.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 Veterans interested in advocating for others in the court system are invited to the third annual Missoula Veterans Court mentor training at the UM Law School. Classes are on Sat., Nov. 2 at 8:30 AM and 12:30 PM and Tue., Nov. 5 at 5:15 and 8:30 PM. Call 258-4728 or email bdesmond@mt.gov to learn more.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3 This is the kind of mass I can really get behind. The Missoula Area Secular Society presents its Sunday M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for lunch at 11:30 AM in the Elbow Room. 1855 Stephens Ave. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 Come on down for Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. (It ain’t called Wall Street Wednesday, amiright?) $1 from every drink sold is donated to a different non-profit each Monday. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.
The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. Now meeting at 6 PM.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 Friendly reminder to all you citizens over 18 that today is the Missoula Municipal Election. The Fairgrounds Elections Center is open til 8 PM; check out missoulanews.com for our endorsements of this year’s candidates. Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free. The Sustainability Shot Series Lecture Three gets all Matrix-y on us when Blackfoot Telecommunications’ Dave Martin presents “Greening the Bits on the Information and Communications Highway.” I’m going with the blue pill, myself. Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. 5:30-7:30 PM. Free.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6 Early childhood professionals are invited to Child Care Resources’ training, Literacy All Day: Beginning Level First Course, where you’ll learn how to incorporate language learning throughout a kiddo’s day. 105 E. Pine St. $10. Visit childcareresources.org. Bitterrooters interested in land-use challenges should check out environmental activist Brock Evans, president of the Endangered Species Coalition in D.C., who appears at the Hamilton Community Center, 223 S. Second St. in Hamilton. 7:30 PM. Learn more about Evans at endlesspressure.org.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 UM students can safely engage in discussion on some heavy topics at Bridging Dialogues Across Cultures, a guided event that covers race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and ability. 4-6 PM, Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences Room 241. Held on Nov. 7 and 21 and Dec. 5.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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PEARL•What you see is what you get with a senior pet; and Pearl is a beauty! She is very tidy, has experience with livestock and loves to be with people. She is hoping November will be her lucky month. Visit the Humane Society from 1 to 6 pm Tuesday through Friday and noon to 5 pm Saturday to meet your senior soulmate
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TEASE FOR TWO I'm dating a wonderful guy I'm totally in love with. He's always looked up to his older brother, a very attractive guy who's a real lady's man. I've found myself behaving in some unsettling ways when we hang out with his brother, like fixing myself up beforehand like I've got a big date. I realized that I want his brother to want me. I get a very naughty feeling when he looks me up and down, and I love it. To be clear, I don't want him in any real or threatening way, and I don't want to jeopardize my relationship with my boyfriend. Perhaps I'm motivated by knowing that my boyfriend has never been envied by his brother, and now I get to make that happen. —Puzzled Like many good people, you're inspired to do volunteer work to bolster the less fortunate, such as the boy who grew up deprived of being envied by his older brother. Interestingly, others who do charitable work, like Salvation Army Santas, somehow manage to accomplish it without first re-engineering their cleavage to graze their jawline. In addition to your push-up humanitarianism and the ensuing uplift for your ego (and possibly your boyfriend's, too), another explanation for your behavior is that you aren't just yourself; you're also what two researchers call your "subselves." It's long been believed that we each have one consistent "self," with stable preferences, leading us to make consistent choices from situation to situation. That actually isn't the case. Psychologists Douglas Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius, authors of "The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think," find evidence for our having seven "subselves" driving our choices, each corresponding to a different evolutionary challenge our ancestors faced. These challenges include: 1. Evading physical harm. 2. Avoiding disease. 3. Making friends. 4. Gaining status. 5. Caring for family. 6. Attracting a mate. 7. Keeping that mate. Although we like to think of ourselves as driven by rational thought, environmental triggers can prime a particular subself to grab the controls. For example, seeing a scary movie or a crime report primes our harm-evading subself to take charge, amping up our loss aversion. (Good time to sell us a Rottweiler and the world's first suburban moat.) And although you're in a happy relationship, real or imagined potential mates on the horizon prime your mate attraction subself, which is the one leading you, whenever your boyfriend's bro will be around, to dress for sliding into a booth at
the diner like you'll be sliding down a greased pole. The complicated truth is, if your boyfriend notices his brother's eyeballs bouncing after you like puppies, you may be priming his mate-retention subself by reminding him that you have other options. To keep him from suspecting you're interested in other options, prime your own mate-retention subself. Look at cute pictures of the two of you and run through reasons you're grateful for him and for your relationship. This, in turn, should help you refrain from saving your sexiest looks and moves for when you two are hanging out with his brother: "Just gonna twerk my way to the bakery case, bend over in this short skirt, lick the glass, and see if the banana nut muffins speak to me."
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$300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training available. 1-800-965-6520 ext. 278 INSULATION LABOR Local, reputable Missoula company looking for person to fill general labor position in the insulation department. Willing to train. POSITION AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. $10/hr, starts ASAP! Missoula Job Service 728-7060. Job # 9982959 KENNEL TECHNICIAN AniMeals has an opening! Cleaning kennels, feeding, customer service, working in ICU, and assisting other kennel staff. We need someone who is organized and analytical, has worked with animals or in a shelter. Wage is $10.00 to start. Position available immediately. DO NOT CONTACT ANIMEALS DIRECTLY!!!!! Call WORK FORCE INC. to set up an interview. 406.543.3590. Missoula Job Service, Job# 9982901 Now Hiring Call Today! 273-2266 Receptionist Join our Team of professionals who continually deliver a customer service experience that is second to none! This position must provide excellent telephone, communication and interpersonal skills. If you enjoy frequent public contact and pride yourself in being customer friendly we would love to hear from you! Missoula Job Service 728-7060. Job# 9982930
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PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE for local university. HS diploma; at least 1 yr related exp. or equivalent combination of education and exp. required. Proficiency in Microsoft Office software, ability to interact in professional and courteous manner, ability to assist with public events and keep info confidential. Half-time. $10 $10.46/hr. Missoula Job Service 728-7060. Job# 2985648 CLINICAL DOCUMENT COORDINATOR / #2984087 $40,560.00 - $46,800.00 Yearly. Associate degree in Nursing or Medical Coding. Minimum 5 years experience adult inpatient medical surgical or critical care nursing; or minimum 5 years inpatient coding. Full time; M-F; day shift. Full benefit package provided. /lat. Missoula Job Service 7287060 Driver - Multiple Positions Available Temporary seasonal delivery drivers. 6
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EMPLOYMENT Two years experience in a clinical or mental health setting is required. **Employment is subject to passing a criminal background investigation that will require finger printing. Part time, permanent position. Requires some evening and weekend work and may require over forty hours in a work week. $19.55/hr. CLOSES: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. Missoula Job Service 728-7060. Job# 2985646 PARK AND TRAIL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER $21.2363/hr, regular, fulltime, non-union. The City of Missoula Parks and Recreation Department is seeking an individual to plan, design and coordinate development of the City’s park and trail improvements. Complete job description and required City application available at City of Missoula Human Resources Dept., 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802-4297, (406) 552-6130 or apply on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us /jobs. Closing Date: 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 19, 2013. EEO/AA/ADA Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. THE GLASGOW COURIER seeks a sports editor to write, lay out pages and take photos. To apply, send resume, work examples and references to publisher@glasgowcourier.com
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Once when I was hiking through Maui's rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log. As I bent down close, I inhaled the merged aromas of moldering wood and sweet floral fragrance. Let's make this scene your metaphor of the week, Aries. Here's why: A part of your life that is in the throes of decay can serve as host for a magnificent bloom. What has been lost to you may become the source of fertility. Halloween costume suggestion: a garbage man or cleaning maid wearing a crown of roses.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you ready to be amazed? Now would be an excellent time to shed your soul's infantile illusions . . . to play wildly with the greatest mystery you know . . . to accept gifts that enhance your freedom and refuse gifts that don't . . . to seek out a supernatural encounter that heals your chronic sadness . . . to consort and converse with sexy magical spirits from the future . . . to make love with the lights on and cry when you come. Halloween costume suggestion: the archetypal LOVER.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some people in your vicinity are smoldering and fuming. The air is heavy with emotional ferment. Conspiracy theories are ripening and rotting at the same time. Hidden agendas are seeping into conversations, and gossip is swirling like ghostly dust devils. Yet in the midst of this mayhem, an eerie calm possesses you. As everyone else struggles, you're poised and full of grace. To what do we owe this stability? I suspect it has to do with the fact that life is showing you how to feel at home in the world no matter what's happening around you. Keep making yourself receptive to these teachings. Halloween costume suggestion: King or Queen of Relaxation.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Unification should be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. Anything you do that promotes splicing and blending and harmonizing will get extra help, sometimes from mysterious forces working behind the scenes. The more you work to find common ground between opposing sides, the stronger you'll feel and the better you'll look. If you can manage to mend schisms and heal wounds, unexpected luck will flow into your life. To encourage these developments, consider these Halloween disguises: a roll of tape, a stick of Krazy Glue, a wound that's healing, a bridge.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What do you think you'd be like if you were among the one-percent-wealthiest people on Earth? Would you demand that your government raise your taxes so you could contribute more to our collective well-being? Would you live simply and cheaply so you'd have more money to donate to charities and other worthy causes? This Halloween season, I suggest you play around with fantasies like that—maybe even masquerade as an incredibly rich philanthropist who doles out cash and gifts everywhere you go. At the very least, imagine what it would be like if you had everything you needed and felt so grateful you shared your abundance freely.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What if you had the power to enchant and even bewitch people with your charisma? Would you wield your allure without mercy? Would you feel wicked delight in their attraction to you, even if you didn't plan to give them what they want? I suspect these questions aren't entirely rhetorical right now. You may have more mojo at your disposal than you realize. Speaking for your conscience, I will ask you not to desecrate your privilege. If you must manipulate people, do it for their benefit as well as yours. Use your raw magic responsibly. Halloween costume suggestion: a mesmerizing guru; an irresistible diva; a stage magician.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I had a dream that you were in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? You were like the character played by George Clooney after he escaped from a prison chain gang. Can you picture it? You were wearing a striped jailbird suit, and a ball and chain were still cuffed around your ankle. But you were sort of free, too. You were on the lam, making your way from adventure to adventure as you eluded those who would throw you back in the slammer. You were not yet in the clear, but you seemed to be en route to total emancipation. I think this dream is an apt metaphorical depiction of your actual life right now. Could you somehow use it in designing your Halloween costume?
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to try the following exercise. Imagine the most powerful role you could realistically attain in the future. This is a position or niche or job that will authorize you to wield your influence to the max. It will give you the clout to shape the environments you share with other people. It will allow you to freely express your important ideas and have them be treated seriously. Let your imagination run a little wild as you visualize the possibilities. Incorporate your visions into your Halloween costume.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the course of earning a living, I have worked four different jobs as a janitor and six as a dishwasher. On the brighter side, I have performed as a songwriter and lead singer for six rock bands and currently write a syndicated astrology column. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Aquarians are primed to cultivate a relationship with your work life that is more like my latter choices than the former. The next eight months will be a favorable time to ensure that you'll be doing your own personal equivalent of rock singer or astrology columnist well into the future. Halloween costume suggestion: your dream job.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you up for an experiment? Not just on Halloween, but for a week afterwards, be scarier than your fears. If an anxious thought pops into your mind, bare your teeth and growl, "Get out of here or I will rip you to shreds!" If a demon visits you in a nightly dream, chase after it with a torch and sword, screaming "Begone, foul spirit, or I will burn your mangy ass!" Don't tolerate bullying in any form, whether it comes from a critical little voice in your head or from supposedly nice people who are trying to guilt-trip you. "I am a brave conqueror who cannot be intimidated!" is what you could say, or "I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all threats to my integrity!"
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What don't you like? Get clear about that. What don't you want to do? Make definitive decisions. What kind of person do you not want to become and what life do you never want to live? Resolve those questions with as much certainty as possible. Write it all down, preferably in the form of a contract with yourself. Sign the contract. This document will be your sacred promise, a declaration of the boundaries you won't cross and the activities you won't waste your time on and the desires that aren't worthy of you. It will feed your freedom to know exactly what you like and what you want to accomplish and who you want to become. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Louis Stevenson loved the work of poet Walt Whitman, recommending it with the same enthusiasm as he did Shakespeare's. Stevenson also regarded Whitman as an unruly force of nature, and in one famous passage, called him "a large shaggy dog, just unchained, scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon." Your assignment is to do your best imitation of a primal creature like Whitman. In fact, consider being him for Halloween. Maybe you could memorize passages from Whitman's Leaves of Grass and recite them at random moments. Here's one: "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 2:30 p.m., November 5th, 2013 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one (1) Parks Department Chipper. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Parks Department Chipper, Closing 2:30 p.m., November 5th, 2013”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and/or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to
the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials that best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 2:30 p.m., November 5th, 2013. Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 3:00 pm, November 12, 2013, and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room in City Hall
PUBLIC NOTICES at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one (1) Automated Flow Injection Chemical Analysis System Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in a separate, sealed envelope marked plainly on the outside with the bidder’s company name and address and the words, “One (1) Automated Flow Injection Chemical Analysis System closing November 12, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. ” Pursuant to Section 18-1102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and/or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Wastewater Division Lab/Pretreatment Supervisor a minimum of five (5) calendar days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials that best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., November
12, 2013. Bidders may obtain further information from the Wastewater Division Lab/Pretreatment Supervisor, 406.552.6606 or skenyon@ci.missoula.mt.us. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on November 18, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance to amend Chapter 8.52 Missoula Municipal Code entitled “Fireworks,” to clarify definitions, enhance enforcement and revise penalty provisions to support the City’s efforts to increase enforcement of the Fireworks Ordinance to preserve public peace, health and safety. A copy of the ordinance is on file at the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. Proposed amendments to Missoula City Zoning Ordinance Chapter 20.05.020 Allowed Uses, Residential Districts, Chapter 20.10.020 Allowed Uses, Business and Commercial Districts, Chapter 20.15.020 Allowed Uses, Industrial and Manufacturing Districts, 20.20.020 Allowed Uses, Open Space and Public Districts, 20.40.000 Use and Building Specific Standards, 20.105.020 Residential Use Group, Use Classifications, and 20.105.030 Public and Civic Use Group, Use Classifications As directed by the Missoula City Council, Development Services prepared potential amendments to the Missoula City Zoning Ordinance. The proposed language amendments to be reviewed by the Planning Board include establishing use classifications for homeless shelters and meal centers, establishing use- and building- specific standards for homeless shelters and meal centers, and establishing homeless shelters and meal centers as conditional uses in certain Residential, Commercial, and Manufacturing Districts. The City Council will conduct a public hearing on this item at a time to be determined. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The amendments and agenda can be viewed at Development Services, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, (406) 5526630 or web link: www.ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?nid=160 5 If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 552-6630. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services. CITY OF MISSOULA Request for Proposals – Forestry Thinning on Mount Jumbo The City of Missoula, Parks & Recreation Department is re-
questing proposal statements for a forest thinning project on Mt. Jumbo. Proposals are requested from interested professional foresters. Mt. Jumbo is a public conservation area located within the Missoula City limits and managed primarily for native habitat. The contractor shall perform work necessary to reduce susceptibility of forest to pine beetle attack, decrease wildfire danger and restore historic (pre-fire suppression) forest conditions on the property. The density of trees per acre is quite variable across the site depending on slope, age of stand and available moisture. This project will entail selectively thinning small diameter conifers across 53 acres on Mt. Jumbo. Contractors interested in submitting proposals are required to attend a pre-bid tour of the project area on Tuesday November 5th, 2013 at 8:30 am. Tour will begin at the Lincoln Hills Trailhead located on Lincoln Hills Dr. approximately 1.4 mi. east of the intersection w/ Rattlesnake Drive. Come prepared for hiking on steep terrain. Contact the city Conservation Lands Manager with questions. Proposals are due Monday, Wednesday November 13, 2013 at 4:30 PM at the Missoula Parks Operation Office, 100 Hickory. Late proposals will not be accepted. Detailed requests for qualifications must be obtained from Morgan Valliant, City Conservation Lands Manager or on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bi ds.. Please see below: Morgan Valliant, Conservation Lands Manager Missoula Parks and Recreation Operations Division mvalliant@ci.missoula.mt.us 100 Hickory St. Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 552-6263 (406) 327-9367 (fax) IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA BEFORE THE HONORABLE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Cause No. CV-201343773 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION WILDFLOWER APARTMENTS, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN BAUGH AND ALL OTHERS 1250 34th Street, B101 Missoula, MT 59801, Defendant. TO: JOHN BAUGH, 1250 34th Street, B101 Missoula, MT 59801 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, Ted Hess-Homeier, 445 South 5th West, Missoula, MT 59801, within ten business (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A $30.00 fee per Defendant must be accompanied by your answer. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, the 16th day of October, 2013. /s/ Karen A. Orzech Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 PROBATE NO. DP-13170 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: KATHARINE BAUBLIT Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Diana Six has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the abovenamed as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 16th day of October, 2013. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DV-13-1144 Department No. 2 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of DANIEL JOHN PAYETTE, JR. Leslie Anne Kazandjian-Dimmick, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Leslie Anne Kazandjian-Dimmick, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District of Montana for a change of name from DANIEL JOHN PAYETTE, JR. to DJ JORDAN ROSE KAZANDJIANDIMMICK, and the Petition for Name Change shall be heard by the District Court Judge on the 26th day of November, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 16th day of October, 2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-209 Dept. No. 1 Honorable Ed McLean Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR L. CRAWFORD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Diane Westbrook, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk
As the General Contractor/Construction Manager, Jackson Contractor Group, Inc. on behalf of Missoula County, will be accepting pricing for all scopes of work for the Missoula County Courthouse/Annex, Annex 2nd Floor Office Remodel Phase 3A. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, temperature controls and fire sprinkler subcontractors will be restricted to those previously pre-qualified from the original Phase 3 bid. All bids are due on November 14th at 2:00pm MST to the Office of Missoula County Auditor, located at 199 West Pine, Room #136, Missoula, MT 59802. Bid documents may be obtained through the Missoula Plans Exchange, through our ftp site or a hardcopy may be obtained for a plans deposit fee of $200.00 at the Jackson Contractor Group, Inc. office located at 5800 Highway 93 South, Missoula, MT 59804. Please contact Hattie Redmon at hattier@jacksoncontractorgroup.com or 406-542-9150 to gain access to the plans through our ftp site or to obtain a hardcopy.
of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of October, 2013. /s/ Diane Westbrook, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-13-1112 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Loren W. Chapman, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Loren Warwick Chapman to Loren Warwick Bartulovich. The hearing will be on 11/26/2013 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/17/2013 /s/ Shirely E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria A. Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-12-1247 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Emily Mae Solomon, Genevieve McGrath, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Emily Mae Solomon to Emily Mae McGrath. The hearing will be on 12/4/13 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: September 13, 2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Cady Sowre, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-13-208 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN PETER DONOVAN A/K/A PETER DONOVAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Renee L.O. Donovan, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 16th day of October, 2013. /s/ Renee L.O. Donovan, Personal Representative
PUBLIC HEARING The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following application: A request from OZ Architects on behalf of Community Medical Center for a Sign review for the new Community Cancer Care building. The subject property is located at 2837 Fort Missoula Rd. (SEE MAP G).
Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. E-mails can be sent to kcolenso@ci.missoula.mt.us. Project files may be viewed at the Missoula Development Services at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 552-6636. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP13-207 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MARY MARGARET CRAMM, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of
the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Sylvia Wahoske, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjorn-
son Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 16th day of October, 2013. /s/ Sylvia Wahoske, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By: /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Sylvia Wahoske, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP13-194 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ARNOLD I. FINKLIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that First Interstate Bank has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named
Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to First Interstate Bank, Susan K. O’Neil, Vice-President, Personal Representative, return receipt re-
quested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of October, 2013. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 1st day of October, 2013 /s/ Susan K. O’Neil, Vice-President, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP13-211 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY LAVERNE HARBBRIGE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JOANNE BOOTH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of October, 2013. /s/ JoAnne Booth, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representatives. /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-13-210 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY LOU LESAR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Gregory Lesar, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of October, 2013. /s/ Gregory Lesar, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Gregory Lesar WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-201 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND G. HICKS a/k/a R.G. HICKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Gerald Hicks, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 9th day of October, 2013. WORDEN THANE PC By /s/ William E. McCarthy /s/ Gerald Hicks, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF OWEN C. MALONEY, Deceased. Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-199 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Shirley F. Maloney, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare,
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under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 4th day of October, 2013, at Missoula, Montana /s/ Shirley F. Maloney BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Shirley F. Maloney, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-13177 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of BARBARA E. MEAD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mark A. Mead, Personal Representative to the estate of Barbara E. Mead, return receipt requested, at c/o Katherine C. Holliday, Esq., Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC, PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED October 16, 2013 /s/ Katherine C. Holliday, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-198 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELISE F. ZAWADA, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Scott Ochsner, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 2nd day of October, 2013 /s/ Scott Ochsner, Personal Representative. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING. The Lorraine South County Water District will hold a Public Hearing on December 18, 2013 at 8121 Springtime Road, Missoula, MT at 7 p.m. regarding dissolution of the district. Creditors must present claims owed by the district to the board of directors prior to the hearing. For further information, contact Craig Caprara at (406) 251-3907 or mail comments and questions to the address listed above. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/29/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200516250, BK-755, PG-298, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kelly J. Keintz, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel I: Lot 23A of Daly’s Addition, Block 64, Lots 23A and 24A, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. Parcel II: Together with a 15 foot permanent water and private utility service easement across Lot 24A as delineated on the Plat of said Subdivision. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 27, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $150,025.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $134,612.20, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s secu-
PUBLIC NOTICES rity interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 6, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.103504) 1002.236401-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/31/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200714360 Bk 798 Pg 1446, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Roy D. Loewen and Karen C. Loewen was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 3240, located in the Southwest quarter (SW) of Section 21, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 10, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $176,764.82. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $170,496.97, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 21, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses ac-
tually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.107325) 1002.257193-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/24/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201218905 Bk 901 Pg 182, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Timothy L. Kennedy was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 of Lost Mine Suburban Tracts No. 2, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201311451 B 914 P 617, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 12, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $220,011.27. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $213,532.97, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 21, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.107019) 1002.257196-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/08/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200520745 B: 757 P: 1625, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ronald E.
JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s Beck and Molly S. Beck, as joint tenants with right of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. dba Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 1 of Elms Addition No. 1, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201222326 B: 903 P: 803, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 11, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $165,322.09. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $161,613.72, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.107363) 1002.257285-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 23, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 11 OF BITTERROOT MEADOWS PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Crystal Alcorn and Jeremy Alcorn, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Option One Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 19, 2007 and recorded July 25, 2007 in Book 802, Page 354, under Document No 200718952. The beneficial interest is currently held by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2007OPT5, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-OPT5 .. First American
Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $633.01, beginning October 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 9, 2013 is $197,354.72 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% now totaling $3,676.36, late charges in the amount of $324.48, escrow advances of $3,540.44, suspense balance of $294.95- and other fees and expenses advanced of $184,980.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.78 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis,
without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 15, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15th day of August, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Ocwen V Alcorn 41249.994
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Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on 5 acres in Target Range. Borders DNRC land. $499,900. Properties 2000. Pat McCormick 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 3024 Elms Park Drive. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 bonus rooms, gas fireplace, deck & single garage. $254,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambroera.com 3940 Melrose Place. 3 bed, 2 bath Pleasant View home on fenced corner lot with 2 car garage. $245,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 4475 Quaking Aspen. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Prairie-style home on almost one Rattlesnake acre. Built by professional woodworker with lots of natural light and beautiful details. $599,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 509 Simons. 6 bed, 3 bath Farviews home with 2 car garage. Backs Mountain Water owned park, City Park & open space. $365,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 524 Spanish Peaks Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath Mansion Heights home with 3 car garage near park & common area. $575,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 6614 MacArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing views. $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properites. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 6632 MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath with gas fireplace, Jacuzzi and wonderful views. $273,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503, riceteam@bigsky.net 716 South 6th West. 3 bed, 2 bath with wood floors, fireplace, basement, large fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat Mc-
Cormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 720 Ben Hogan Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath on 4 private acres with Missoula & Pattee Canyon views. $789,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres overlooking Clark Fork River. Missoula Valley and Mission Mountain views. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com FIND YOUR WAY HOME! David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana Real Estate, 406.241.3321 Grant Creek Frontage. 4 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan, fireplace, deck & 2 car garage. $655,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7365 milyardhomes@yahoo.com Lewis and Clark Area Home! 839 W Central. $220,000 MLS# 20136229. 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Double detached garage and many other sweet features. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
plan. Single garage. $138,000. Rita Gray, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 1845 B West Central. 3 bed, 1.5 bath on quiet cul-de-sac. Large, open kitchen, patio & garage. No HOA dues! $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.com 2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues. Starting at $149,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 2272 South 10th West. 3 bed, 1 bath bungalow with wood floors, basement, 2 car garage & fenced yard. $200,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Burns Street Commons 1400 Burns St. #15. $159,9000. 3 bedroom, 1 bath. Coveted 3 bedroom home in the Burns St. Commons, next to the Burns St. Bistro and the Missoula Community Coop. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
Lot 42 Jeff Drive. To be built 2 bed, 2 bath Hoyt home in Linda Vista with 3 car garage. $369,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229. tory@montana.com
Condo With Views 1545 Cooley, Apt C. 2 bed, 1 bath Westside condo close to downtown, Burns Street Bistro & Missoula Community Co-op. $128,500 MLS# 20134747 KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com
LotB MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath to be built with fantastic views. $189,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net
Northside Condo 1545 Cooley St #C. MLS# 20134747. 2 bedroom 1 bath Condo. Views of the North Hills. $128,500. KD: 2405227 porticorealestate.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES
Uptown Flats #103. 1 bed, 1 bath with W/D, patio and handicap accessible features. $120,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. From $155,000. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, car port, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $350,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com East Missoula Lot At 559 Speedway (Next Door) $55,000. 4,800 square feet. Mature trees, sewer available. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Florence Acres 944 Pathfinder. 330 gorgeous acres with 1 bed cabin and double garage. This little slice of perfection can be yours! Build your dream home here. $650,000 MLS# 20134863, 20134864 KD: 2405227 porticorealestate.com
Near Riverfront Park. 1265 Dakota #B. To-be-built, 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. Lot: $55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com NHN Edgewood, East Missoula. 3.5 acres bare land. $89,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com NHN Frontage Road, Alberton. 2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
Frenchtown area, 14.9 Acres, existing well, adjacent to Forest Service land. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
LAND FOR SALE 53 acres overlooking Missoula in the South Hills. Utilities and septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5402 Canyon River Road. Canyon River Golf Course Lot 901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
$215,000
103 Benton, Missoula
RICE TEAM
MLS# 20136151
1 Bdr, 1 Bath, University District condo. $210,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1815 A Montana Street. 3 bed, 2.5 bath end unit with open floor
Mary Marry
Prime Lewis and Clark location. Waiting for new owners to give it some TLC. Home has many built ins and has wood flooring under carpets. Basement is mostly unfinished and could provide more living space. This home is located on a 9,453 sq. ft. lot that is completely fenced and features apple and plum trees as well as a garden area.
544-2125 • mmarry@bigsky.net
Robin Rice 240-6503 PRICE REDUCED! 11082 Cherokee • $232,000 3 bed, 3 bath in Lolo. PRICE REDUCED! 19560 Mullan • $305,000 3 bed, 2 bath in Frenchtown. MAKE OFFER! 13465 Crystal Creek • $225,000 3 bed, 2 bath near Turah. 102 Boardwalk • $283,000 3 bed, 2 bath zoned commercial in Stevensville.
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REAL ESTATE NHN Mormon Creek Road. 12 acres with Sapphire Mountain views. $150,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties.2000.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40+ acre parcel with Mission Mountain views. $199,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Old Freight Road. Approximately 11 acres with Mission Mountain Views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
NHN Ryans Lane Tract B. 103+/treed acres with year-round creek near Evaro Hill. $517,250. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com
COMMERCIAL HISTORIC STENSRUD BUILDING. Renovated 1890’s building with 95% original hardware. Residential or commercial zoning. Lovely op-
OUT OF TOWN
11082 Cherokee Lane, Lolo. 3 bed, 3 bath with finished basement, 2 car garage and amazing views. $232,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net
15305 Spring Hill, Frenchtown. 4 bed, 3 bath cedar-sided home bordering Forest Service. $430,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net
102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath zoned commercial with 48x30 shop. $283,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503, riceteam@bigsky.net
11901 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo. Cute 2 bed, 2 bath farmhouse on nearly 1 acre. $220,000. Rita Gray, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 532-9283 ritagray@lambrosera.com
19655 Mullan Road, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath log/frame with 1 bed rental on 15 acres. $305,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net
109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 2 bed, 1 bath 2 story home with 2 bonus rooms, parlor & library. $139,000. Rita Gray, Lambros Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com
13475 Crystal Creek, Clinton. 3 bed, 2 bath with large deck, 2 wood stoves & 2 car garage. $225,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net
210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $480,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
portunity. $799,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7289270. glasgow@montana.com
3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $130,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $239,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4475 Quaking Aspen Ct. $599,000
12646 Conestoga, Lolo $565,000 •
3024 Elms Park Drive Price Reduced $254,900
• Lovingly maintained 2 bed, 2 bath across from Elms Park • 2 bonus rooms in basement • Large kitchen, lots of natural light, gas fireplace • Backyard deck & single attached garage
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MLS# 20135424
4 bed, 4 bath, 4400 sqft, Beyer Meadows. Beautifully landscaped, with views in all directions. Custom home, top of the line finishes throughout. Basement is a private sanctuary with large family room and service bar complete with stainless appliances and black granite counter. Full theater room! The back patio is massive, made of stamped and stained concrete. Completely new paint, both exterior and interior. New plush, deep carpeting on all levels.
Curtis Semenza
406-360-0364 • curtis.semenza@prumt.com
• 4 bed/2.5 bath modern Craftsman style. • Large private Rattlesnake location. • Hardwood floors, open floor plan.
11689 Stolen Rock, Frenchtown • $319,000 5 bed, 3 bath on over 3 acres Great valley & mountain views
Mullan Heights Riverside Condos Large secure units with affordable HOA dues Starting at $144,900
REAL ESTATE $138,000 1815A Montana Ave
3 bedroom, 2.5 bath condo Open main floor living Single car garage 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Florence area home on 12.6 irrigated acres. $500,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $269,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 4449 Johnsrud Park Road. 3 bed, 2 bath on 2.52 Blackfoot River acres. Incredible retreat! $675,000. Vickie Honzel, Lam-
bros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-2587522 or Cell: 406-550-3587
$259,900 716 South 6th West Inviting 3 bed, 2 bath in Central Missoula Arched doorways, cove ceilings & wood floors Fireplace, finished basement & upper level Large fenced yard, deck & single garage
Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com
Missoula Properties 728-8270
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience
pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)
Properties2000.com
Homes: 2272 S. 10th W. . . . .Charming Bungalow . . . . . . . . . . .$200,000 839 W. Central . . . . .Solid and Sweet! . . . . . . . . . . . . .$220,000 1965 Raymond . . . . .Rattlesnake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$339,000 508 Evan Kelly . . . . .Almost 1/2 Acre in Rattlesnake . . . .$379,900 406 Aspen View . . . .Polaris MT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$345,000 2607 View Dr. . . . . .Many Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . .$239,500
Homes With Land: 2348 River Road . . . .2.23 Acres in Town . . . . . . . . . . .$535,000
Land: 330 Acres in the Bitterroot with Amazing Views! . . . . . . . .$650,000 East Missoula Building Lot With Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000
Townhomes/Condos: 1400 Burns . . . . . . .Cheaper Than Rent . . . . . . . .From $79,000 Uptown Flats #306 . .Third Floor Views! . . . . . . . . . . . . .$162,000 Uptown Flats #210 . .Modern 1 Bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,000 Uptown Flats #103 . .ADA Configured . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$120,000 1545 Cooley #C . . . .Rooms With a View . . . . . . . . . . . .$128,500
Commercial 2309 Grant . . . . . . .Commercial Building & Land . . . . . .$155,000
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