[calendar] Carpenters play rootsy rock at the Top Hat, starting at 9:30 PM. $5.
library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK..
Fill your fingers with nothin’ but rocks and bypass the velvet rope at VIP Thursdays, with light show, DJs Efren Duarte and Mo, hourly shot specials, $3 flavored vodkas and, most importantly, $1.50 Fireball shots from 11 PM to midnight. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman. 10 PM. No cover.
Eastern Weave’s Mona Bachmann presents a trunk show, featuring handmade wool Kashmiri shawls and knotted Persian rugs, hosted by Bhavana, 101 E. Broadway. Refreshments will be on hand and the store is offering special discounts for the event. 4-8 PM.
FRIDAYNOV15 Pour one out for your ‘hood during a fundraiser pint night for the Westside Neighborhood Association. Raffle tickets for neat prizes are available, too. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 48 PM. School’s out, so give the kids something to do besides watching “Spongebob” with Mismo Gymnastic’s School’s Out Camp. Gymnastics, pits (not the moshing kind), flying, educational stuff and more will keep the little ones busy. Send them with water, snacks and a sack lunch. 8:30 AM. $33 for full day, $25 for half. Call 728-0908 to register or email toni@mismogymnastics.com. The Women’s Circle Group Acupuncture at Mountain Sage Acupuncture Clinic, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 1, focuses on women’s health issues and sounds comfy and nice. 2–5 PM, last appointment at 4 PM. Sliding scale treatments $20-40 with a first time administration fee of $10. Call (503) 593-7073. Teens go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Writers Group, which meets every Fri. at 3:30 PM at the
nightlife Andrea Harsell and co. oversee the proceedings at the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday, where parents can get their drank on and kids can run around like maniacs. 6 PM. Free. The new exhibit Natural History: How Well Do You Know Your World? opens at Ravalli County Museum, with an opening lecture from UM professor Greg Peters on how geology affects flora and fauna. 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton. 6 PM. Plus the Sunshine Kids will be dancing and singing, gosh darn yippee! Check out the creativity from up-and-coming performers when at the Informal Dance Concert with UM dance students in the Open Space at the PARTV building. Program I is at 6:30 PM, Program II at 8:30 PM. $9 for general seating, seniors and students/$6 for required students and floor seats. You’re a cheap date, not a cheapskate. The Missoula Public Library hosts another installment of its cheap date movie night, which starts at 7 PM sharp at the library, 301 E. Main St. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. The legendary Monty Python musical Spamalot prances our
way, with performances at the MCT Center For the Performing Arts Nov. 13-Nov. 16, at 7:30 PM, Nov. 17 at 6:30 PM, plus matinees on Nov. 16 and 17 at 2 PM. $15-$21. Check out mctinc.org. Hey hey hey, it’s the one and only Bill Cosby, bringing his family friendly brand of comedy to the Adams Center. 7:30 PM. $49/$59 for premium tickets at griztix.com. Walk alone, I dare you, to the Hellgate Drama Department’s rendition of the Shirley Jackson classic, The Haunting of Hill House. Hellgate High School, 7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation. (BTW, don’t confuse this with House on Haunted Hill, the awesome Vincent Price movie, like Calapatra did at first.) Stand-up comedian Thomas Dale, a “gay Italian guido from Long Island” regularly featured on Chelsea Handler’s late-night talk show, brings the laffs to the Broadway Inn, 1609 W. Broadway St. $12. Tickets at Rockin’ Rudy’s, the Broadway or at standupmt.com. We’ll have both kinds, country and western, when the Country Boogie Boys play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover. Prepare for your face to be melted at “Steel String Guitar for the New World” with Chris Proctor, a flexible-fingered virtuoso playing the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier St. 8 PM. $12. All ages. Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733.
Dueling banjos. The Lowest Pair, featuring K Record’s Kendl Winters and Palmer T. Lee, plays the Roxy Theater Tue., Nov. 19, along with Caroline Keys and Travis Yost. 718 Higgins Ave. 8 PM. $10.
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