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ESCAPE ROUTE: AMERICAN REDOUBT MOVEMENT TARGETS MONTANA AS A SECURE DESTINATION

ALLEN DOC DIRECTOR ARTS WOODY BRINGS DEBATE TO MISSOULA

RANCHERS, FARMERS TO KNOW ABOUT NEWS ETC WHAT FIGHT KEYSTONE XL NEW SEN. JOHN WALSH

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ESCAPE ROUTE: AMERICAN REDOUBT MOVEMENT TARGETS MONTANA AS A SECURE DESTINATION

ALLEN DOC DIRECTOR ARTS WOODY BRINGS DEBATE TO MISSOULA

RANCHERS, FARMERS TO KNOW ABOUT NEWS ETC WHAT FIGHT KEYSTONE XL NEW SEN. JOHN WALSH

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DIVISION OF GLACIER BANK

Cover illustration by Kou Moua

News Voices/Letters Sage grouse, Lake County and the Bitterroot .....................................4 The Week in Review Maggie Voisin, snow and sweethearts ......................................6 Briefs Same-sex unions, the sit ban and no blowing .....................................................6 Etc. Meet Sen. John Walsh ..............................................................................................7 News American Redoubt movement looks to escape disaster .......................................8 News Montana farmers, ranchers continue fight against pipeline.................................9 Opinion Mountain bikes and wilderness simply don’t mix .........................................10 Feature A guide to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival .........................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Can we still like Woody Allen’s Annie Hall? .........................................................22 Music The Gourds, The English Beat and Davina and the Vagabonds.........................24 TV “True Detective” beats out other crime series.........................................................25 Film Coens create a grand odyssey with music............................................................26 Film No guts, no glory in The Monuments Men...........................................................27 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................28 Flash in the Pan A middle ground on GMOs ..............................................................29 Happiest Hour Booze at Flathead Lake Brewing Co...................................................30 8 Days a Week Where fact is stranger than fiction ......................................................31 Mountain High Super Grizzly Dip...............................................................................37 Agenda V-Day................................................................................................................38

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

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen, Jimmy Tobias COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING, PROMOTION & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Jason McMackin, Brad Tyer, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Josh Quick, Brooks Johnson

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[voices]

Opinion changed

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Feb. 11, near the corner of Broadway and Higgins.

The 11th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival starts this weekend. What’s your favorite documentary film?

Follow-up: What’s a story or topic you think deserves to be made into a documentary?

Forest Taipale: Recently at the Roxy I saw Ram Dass: Fierce Grace about accepting the process of aging and the body changing without your permission. It’s electric: The history of dubstep and the present-day influence of dubstep.

Geoffrey Sutton: Probably Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine. It was a really important issue—gun violence in America—that needed to be brought up.

It’s still a pressing problem. Fish tale: I’m working on a fly-fishing guide school for Chileans to come here and train to become guides. It would be interesting to see the common bond of the sport of fly fishing and the similarities of what fishing is to both cultures.

Mark Lannen: An ESPN “30 for 30” film called The Two Escobars about drug king Pablo Escobar and Columbian footballer Andres Escobar, who was killed. It was a brilliant story about how sports, economics, politics and world drug policies in the ’80s and ’90s all worked together. Get the frack out: Something about the efforts to do fractured oil drilling in the AbsarokaBeartooths in Montana. Now is a good time to do it because the company is trying to go in there and do exploratory drilling.

Linda Swanson: I think it’s called A Place at the Table, about the hunger problems in America. Reformer: We need to look at the history of our health care system and what’s going on behind the scenes that’s holding up changes in the system. It’s obviously broken and lawmakers seem unwilling to make changes.

Christina Michels: I like the Zeitgeist series, especially Zeitgeist: Addendum.

And Blackfish, about the killer whales at SeaWorld. They steal them from the ocean and separate the mothers from their babies ... it’s so sad. Locavore: I wish people were exposed more on topics regarding food production and what’s in fast food and what people are eating every day. I would like to see people who are self-sufficient with their local food sources.

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I must confess I did not think of the Missoula Independent as much of a serious news organization. The investigation into corruption in Lake County and the fact that it was traced to Steve Bullock’s office as attorney general has changed my mind.

I hope the Independent will continue to follow the corruption in Lake County and all the way up to the now governor. The fact that the Independent had to pay its own legal fees to uncover this story should be given more coverage than just the “etc.” section of the paper (see Jan. 2 issue). The public’s right to know what “our” government is doing and having real journalists looking into the government is essential to freedom and our way of life.

I voted for Steve Bullock. However, it looks like he is punishing good public employees for doing their jobs, then covering it up. Anyone who wants to investigate these actions has to have lot of money for a lawsuit.

The public needs to know about this kind of behavior from our elected officials. If the Independent will continue to follow this story and others like it, I will continue to take them seriously.

Matt Arno Bonner

as well as large parts of the Bakken oil field.

It’s clear the primary motivation to focus on sage grouse for ESA listing is to provide yet another tool for special interest groups to block energy development. And in this obstructionist toolbox, there’s no heavier sledgehammer than the ESA. What an interesting irony, then, that so much effort is going into “protecting” one bird from energy development, when the Obama administration is turning a blind eye to hundreds of thousands of other birds being killed by wind energy turbines each year, including protected birds

“The fact that the

Independent had to pay its own legal fees to uncover this story should be given more coverage.”

ESA abuse The humble sage grouse has earned a new moniker in Montana and other western states: the spotted owl of the prairie. That description started as a joke, but for the tens of thousands of Montanans who earn their living in agriculture or energy development it’s no longer a laughing matter. That’s because there’s a very real threat this bird could be listed under the Endangered Species Act. The result would dramatically impact Montana’s economy.

It’s worth noting that sage grouse— these birds in desperate need of federal protection—are game birds in Montana and other western states. You can shoot them.

And there are no plans to restrict their hunting if they are listed under the ESA. It’s no coincidence that sage grouse habitat also happens to intersect both the largest untapped coal deposits in the country

like bald eagles.

Recent research puts the annual butcher’s bill by wind farms at 573,000 birds.

Included in that number are 83,000 hunting birds, like eagles and hawks.

Most bird deaths are violations of the ESA, the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, or other protective acts. Indeed, there are examples of the Obama administration prosecuting power companies for birds killed by power lines and oil companies for birds that drown in waste pits. But to date, not a single wind energy company has been prosecuted for bird deaths.

It’s not true to say the feds are doing absolutely nothing to enforce these laws—in one example a wind company was ordered

to employ “spotters” to watch for eagles and shut down turbines when they get too close.

How’s that for government efficiency?

It’s a dirty little secret, but the Obama administration has been granting renewable energy companies “take” permits that allows them to kill bald eagles with impunity for up to five years. On Dec. 6, the Interior Department announced they were extending the length of those permits for up to 30 years.

It would seem that not all birds are created equal, at least for the Obama administration and their environmental allies. Wind energy has a literal “free pass” to kill bald eagles, but traditional energy development could get shut down in eastern Montana because of the potential that it could disturb sage grouse habitat.

Let’s be honest about what’s driving this process—a political agenda that cares much more about putting shackles on energy development than it does about protecting birds. The duplicity shown by the Obama administration in applying the law underscores the point that the ESA is more about politics than it is protecting and restoring endangered animals. Though enacted with noble aims, over the years the ESA has been corrupted, used arbitrarily to reward rent-seekers and punish political foes, and been used with devastating effect to destroy jobs and economic opportunity.

Several Montana industries now find themselves with an ESA target on their back in the form of the sage grouse. Montana officials are scrambling to craft a sage grouse management plan that satisfies the feds and prevents ESA listing. But regardless of the management plan they enact, a heavy blow will be dealt to energy development in our state. In other words, even without an outright ESA listing, the act is still being used to force states into arbitrarily limiting development.

The way the ESA, and other wildlife protection laws, have been selectively applied is shameful. It’s time the ESA is restored to its original purpose—restoration of wildlife populations that need our help. And it’s time that federal officials start applying those protection laws evenly among all industries.

State Rep. Nicholas Schwaderer Superior

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Strange days,” Feb. 6

Stay to the end

One theory

Sad story

“The way this article started out, I expected a different conclusion. But I’m glad to say I agree completely the commission is to blame. We elect far too many people based on their personalities and attitude when what we need is competence, integrity and experience.”

Posted Feb. 6 at 7:14 a.m.

“Has anyone thought to think about the correlation between TEA Party wackos and the fact that so many of them are not native Montanans? Nutballs of all shades have infiltrated our politics and in most cases have been losers from places who were probably given tickets to Montana because people were tired of listening to crap spewing from their mouths and simply wanted them gone.”

Posted Feb. 6 at 8:53 a.m.

“What’s so sad about this story is that it’s getting so much press. When people from out of state visit our online newspapers and blogs they see this. It’s not quite the impression that we want them to have of Montana, now is it? … I urge the people of Ravalli County to stop making the rest of us native Montanans look like stupid fools.”

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[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, February 5 The Montana Supreme Court rules that a GOP-backed referendum to bar Montanans from registering to vote on Election Day can go on the November 2014 ballot.

If it passes, the referendum will change the voter registration deadline to the Friday before an election.

Thursday, February 6 The University of Montana and other local schools lock down for more than three hours while an armed man who robbed two East Broadway stores during the early morning runs loose on Missoula’s streets and successfully evades police.

Friday, February 7 Maggie Voison, the 15-year-old Whitefish native who went to Sochi as the country’s youngest Olympian, suffers a leg injury while training for the slopestyle skiing event. She withdraws from competition.

Saturday, February 8 Missoula’s YMCA decks out its gym and books a DJ for its annual Father-Daughter Sweetheart Dance, a semi-formal occasion where “each young lady is treated like a princess.” More than 160 sweethearts attend the event.

Sunday, February 9 Powder hounds hit the slopes, trails and sledding hills as six inches of snow falls throughout the region. Indy staff find plenty of cross-country skiers in Lubrecht Experimental Forest and Pattee Canyon, as well as dozens of families sledding at Chief Charlo Elementary School.

Monday, February 10 Gov. Steve Bullock appoints Angela McLean to be the state’s new lieutenant governor.

McLean is a teacher from Anaconda and the former chair of the Board of Regents, which governs the Montana University System.

Tuesday, February 11 Dilbert Markle, 81, slams his car into JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts on Brooks St. after his galoshes get caught beneath his gas pedal. No one is injured in the crash.

Sally Jo Beck, foreground, teaches an aerial yoga class to Madison Unsworth, right, and Patricia Skergan, back left, at the Moksha Aerial Studio Collective on Feb. 10.

Holy Spirit

Church backs same-sex unions On Feb. 6, Missoula’s Holy Spirit Episcopal Church announced that its governing body, with support from the congregation, had approved the blessing of samesex unions. It becomes the largest denomination in Missoula to approve such a rite.

Rev. Terri Ann Grotzinger, the church’s rector, says her congregation went through a long process of discussion and discernment before the church’s leadership committee took a vote on the issue.

“Not everybody agrees in the Episcopal church on what we should or shouldn’t do on lots of different things. We often have widely differing views in the same congregation,” Grotzinger says. “We listened to those views. … And then the [leadership committee] had to say where they were and why and vote on it.”

The leadership group, also known as the vestry, unanimously supported same-sex blessings.

“I personally was very awed and impressed by the thoughtfulness and the depth of caring that people expressed in written form and oral form,” says Bob Wattenberg, senior warden of Holy Spirit’s vestry. “People thought about this. … I think the church got it right.”

Along with Holy Spirit in Missoula, Saint James Episcopal Church in Bozeman and Calvary Episcopal Church in Red Lodge have also approved the rite.

Holy Spirit joins a growing group of local congregations that affirm committed same-sex relationships.

Other churches in the area that recognize same-sex unions include the University Congregational Church, or UCC, and the local Unitarian Universalist congregation. UCC’s Rev. Peter Shober, whose church started performing same-sex blessings in 1993, says that religious communities are moving in the right direction when it comes to gay rights.

“It’s like we hit a tipping point a couple years ago and now we have gone from one way of being to a whole different way of being,” he says. “It really has been unbelievably gratifying to see that change occur and it is a great example of how, with social justice issues, there is a long arc and finally you get there.”

Jimmy Tobias

Downtown

ACLU says sit ban should go The Montana ACLU warned the Missoula City Council on Feb. 10 that suggestions proposed by Mayor John

Engen to curb downtown loitering and panhandling could still leave the city on shaky legal ground.

“It goes beyond this council’s police powers to ban benign acts,” ACLU staff attorney Anna Conley told council during its most recent debate about changes to the city’s anti-solicitation and pedestrian interference ordinances.

In December, council voted 7-3 to prohibit sitting, sleeping and lying on a downtown sidewalk between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., and to prohibit soliciting money in many areas of the city’s urban core. The decision sought to quell concern from business owners who have repeatedly called upon council to curb aggressive and unsavory behavior downtown.

Council’s December vote was a relief to shopkeepers, but it disturbed those who felt lawmakers were in effect criminalizing homelessness. Weeks after council cast the vote—one of two required to make the amendments law—a federal judge tilted the debate when he found similar prohibitions passed in Boise violated constitutional free speech protections.

The Boise lawsuit prompted Engen to address potential legal pitfalls in Missoula’s ordinances. The mayor unveiled his recommended changes this week.

Engen suggested scrapping an existing after-dark

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[news] solicitation ban and a citywide prohibition against loitering near footbridges and pedestrian tunnels. He also recommended shrinking a no-panhandling buffer area from 20 feet around downtown doorways, as the December ordinance stated, to 10 feet around public entrances to commercial buildings.

Engen said he believes his amendments will withstand judicial scrutiny. The ACLU isn’t so sure. Conley argued that Engen’s draft still has significant problems, including the prohibition against sitting on downtown sidewalks between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. Tack that onto the city’s existing ban on using signs to solicit money in some areas, and Conley said the ordinances still infringe on free speech.

“There is no safety or other justification for banning silently holding a sign in a non-aggressive and non-intrusive way,” Conley said.

Councilman Jason Wiener agreed. Aiming to remedy what he sees as an overstep, he proposed striking the sit ban entirely. He also asked his council colleagues to eliminate language in Missoula’s existing statutes that make it unlawful to use a sign to solicit for money.

Council sent the ordinances back to committee for further tweaking. They are slated for another debate on Feb. 26.

Jessica Mayrer

tennials until the biological opinion is complete. Grizzly 726 went missing on one of those allotments. Critics of the sheep station have repeatedly alleged that the operation has not been honest about how it deals with predators; the station itself insists it directs employees to use non-lethal means.

A nearly identical legal proceeding played out in 2007 when two environmental groups sued the USDA for having failed to assess the station’s impacts at any point in its 100-year history. FWS finished that analysis in 2011. Ken Cole at the Western Watersheds Project—a plaintiff group in both cases—says he hopes the government considers the cumulative effect of grazing more “honestly” this time around.

Grizzlies

Victory in the Centennials Grizzly bear 726 remains missing, having disappeared high in the Centennial Mountains in fall 2012 on a chunk of land grazed by federally owned sheep.

But conservationists are toasting a recent victory that’s tied directly to the saga of 726 and could change how the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s sheep experiment station uses the landscape west of Yellowstone National Park.

The USDA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reached a legal settlement early this month with several environmental groups directing FWS to issue a new biological opinion on the sheep station’s grazing activities

by June 1. John Meyer with the Bozeman-based Cottonwood Environmental Law Center—one of the five plaintiffs—hopes that the subsequent analysis will finally reveal the impacts the sheep station could and is having on an expanding grizzly population.

“I think any time you settle a case without having a judge get involved, it signifies that you had a very solid case,” Meyer says. “In this case, with Grizzly 726 missing, the facts were very strong and I think the government probably saw the writing on the wall.”

The settlement also forbids the sheep station from grazing on three high-elevation allotments in the Cen-

Cottonwood continues to offer a $6,500 reward for information on 726, but Meyer isn’t optimistic. He is, however, confident that the new settlement will add to the pressure on the sheep station to retire grazing on its Centennial allotments completely.

“They’ve settled two consecutive lawsuits, they’ve got a grizzly bear that’s gone missing on their property, [and] every federal and state agency that’s weighed in on this place has told them to find alternative grazing allotments,” Meyer says. “You just have a cumulative pressure coming from virtually everybody that’s concerned about grizzly bears saying, ‘Find somewhere else to graze.’”

Alex Sakariassen

DUI

Court weighs no-blow law A local woman convicted of driving under the influence in 2013 filed an appeal before the Montana

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Miles of major city streets plowed by municipal workers Feb. 8 and 9. Missoula officials say that heavy snowfall prompted crews to twice clear the city’s 70 miles of primary roads.

Supreme Court last month that seeks to overturn a Missoula law that criminalizes refusal of a blood alcohol test. “(The law) should be repealed,” says Terry Wallace, the Missoula attorney representing the plaintiff, Amber Armitage.

Prior to 2010, state law governed breath test refusal rules in Missoula. Declining a law enforcement officer’s request to yield to an alcohol test earned motorists a six-month driver’s license suspension. A spate of local drunken driving fatalities, including the deaths of two Hellgate High School freshmen in 2009, and mounting frustration from law enforcement who believed the state law made it too easy to skirt the rules, prompted the Missoula City Council to make breath test refusal a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine.

Wallace argues the two laws—city and state—confuse the situation. He adds in court filings that the city statute prompted his client to “act against her will,” unduly influencing her to take a breath test that enabled prosecutors to secure the DUI conviction.

To bolster his claims that Missoula overstepped its lawmaking authority, Wallace cites a 1956 Montana Supreme Court precedent in the case, City of Billings v Herold, which found state drunken driving statutes trump municipal ordinances.

In response, Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent says the law is working exactly as intended. He rattles off a list of state statutes and other mandates empowering cities and towns to regulate local streets, and notes that a lot has has changed since 1956. Specifically, he points to Montana’s 1972 Constitution granting local governments “liberally construed” powers. A 1997 city charter further solidifies Missoula’s powers of self government. “That includes regulating DUIs,” Nugent says.

Prior to the Supreme Court appeal, Missoula District Court Judge Dusty Deschamps agreed with Nugent when finding that Missoula may exercise any power not expressly prohibited by state and federal statutes. Deschamps noted that Armitage “has identified no such prohibition.”

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. As of Tuesday, Montana welcomed its newest U.S. senator: Butte native John Walsh. After being appointed by Gov. Steve Bullock to fill the seat once held by Max Baucus, Walsh arrives in Washington, D.C. with big shoes to fill and an alarmingly small amount of political experience.

To put it bluntly: Who is this guy?

We’ve come to know Walsh in recent years as a soldier, a decorated veteran of the Montana National Guard who led troops into combat in Iraq. That service led to then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer appointing him adjutant general in 2008 and Bullock tapping him as a running mate in 2012. Since then the Democrat has mostly been appearing at events on Bullock’s behalf, fulfilling his diplomatic duties as lieutenant governor but offering little hint as to how he may conduct himself as a lawmaker.

Walsh’s Senate campaign has yet to reveal to his political priorities, either. In a video last year announcing his candidacy he spoke in campaign trail generalities, offering to “bring our values to Washington, D.C.” and admitting to being “a boy turned soldier, not really a politician.”

Granted, he did recently extend support for a trio of Montana environmental bills, but any detailed stance on national issues beyond “fostering job creation” and “supporting Montana’s working families” remains forthcoming.

Walsh’s political background is so nonexistent that the GOP has struggled for material with which to attack. Walsh became the butt of a few jokes last summer when word leaked that he had clicked “like” on a Facebook page dedicated to women’s breasts. Republicans blanketed the web with screen grabs; Walsh’s campaign dismissed it as an accident. Breastgate made scattered headlines before slipping from memory.

The real barrage came in late December when a three-year-old investigation of Walsh by the U.S. Army inspector general hit the public.

The investigation concluded that, in 2010, Walsh had improperly used his senior position to pressure state military personnel to join the National Guard Association of the United States. Walsh was denied a federal promotion to the rank of general that year, though Schweitzer did go to bat for him.

It remains to be seen whether Walsh’s appointment will be a blessing or a curse for his campaign. Critics decry Bullock’s decision as a backroom deal, and Democrats are certainly fretting about losing Baucus’ seat. The flip side is that Montana voters might finally meet the man who has so far eluded introduction: Walsh the politician.

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Keystone woes Montana farmers, ranchers continue fight against pipeline

by Jimmy Tobias

In spring 2009, representatives from TransCanada started visiting Darrell Garoutte on his cattle ranch in McCone County, Montana. The Canadian corporation wanted to build the Keystone XL pipeline across his land and its representatives did not mince words. Garoutte says he was presented one of two choices: sign TransCanada’s long-term easement agreement voluntarily or the company would condemn his land through eminent domain.

“We signed because we figured we were going into [eminent domain] condemnation,” says Don Brown, who owns a ranch that will be bisected by nearly five miles of pipeline near the Missouri River. “...

It feels like we have been invaded by Canadian big money.”

When the U.S. State Department issued a final environmental impact statement on the pipeline last month, it did nothing to assuage the fears of Garoutte, Brown and

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

A megaload carrying mining equipment to the Alberta tar sands recently rolled through Missoula. TransCanada hopes to transport tar sands oil along the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.

“I don’t believe my land should be taken and my rights infringed for somebody else’s gain,” Garoutte says. “But, you know, they can outspend us a zillion to one. We are ranchers and farmers, we work for a living, we neither have time nor an excess of money.”

Garoutte and 30 of his neighbors formed an organization to collectively bargain with TransCanada. Originally they planned to resist the company’s eminent domain claims. In 2011, however, the Montana Legislature, with the backing of Gov. Brian Schweitzer, passed House Bill 198 and thereby loosened rules on the use of eminent domain by private corporations.

“HB 198 scared the hell out of us,” says Garoutte. “It was scary in that it soon became apparent to us that big business or whoever wanted to could go to the legislature and with the help of the governor and the legislature and the bureaucracy that the governor pretty well controls, they could get anything passed that they wanted.”

In summer 2012, Garoutte and his neighbors relented. They signed contracts with TransCanada. They still feel sore about it.

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their neighbors. They say TransCanada has a questionable safety record and has not developed an emergency response plan to deal with possible oil spills in the region.

TransCanada’s pipelines have a history of leaks and spills. For instance, pump stations along a portion of the Keystone pipeline system that was completed in 2010 suffered 12 different oil spills during the first year of operation, according to the State Department report. The worst of those spills leaked 21,000 gallons of crude onto company property and adjacent farmland in North Dakota.

The company’s Canadian pipelines have also experienced difficulties. In 2009, a natural gas pipeline operated by TransCanada leaked thousands of cubic meters of natural gas into the atmosphere in Alberta, Canada. The gas then ignited, according to a report by Canada’s National Energy Board. And last month, a TransCanada gas pipeline in Manitoba exploded, sending a ball of fire into the air and leaving thousands without heat in the dead of winter.

The Montana farmers and ranchers

who are forced to live with Keystone XL want assurances from the company that it has an adequate plan in place to deal with similar disasters. TransCanada, however, has not been forthcoming.

“We are working through an emergency response plan that will have to be in place before the proposed pipeline would be operational, but as you can appreciate we are still waiting for a permit to proceed with this project, so the emergency response plan has not been finalized,” says Terry Cunha, a TransCanada spokesperson.

“It would definitely be done before the pipeline would become operational.”

Cunha noted, however, that the emergency response plan will never be made available to the public, nor will it be made available to property owners like Garoutte.

“As a matter of security we do not make our emergency response plans available to members of the public,” Cunha says. “This is a $5.5 billion piece of pipeline infrastructure. If we detail the exact location of our pipeline route and what we are doing to protect it along with our pump stations, it is not something we want to make available for the public because as you can appreciate not everyone is a supporter of our project.”

Despite serious concerns about TransCanada’s ability to maintain its infrastructure and the lack of transparency surrounding its emergency response plan, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality says it cannot reconsider its permit for the project.

“DEQ doesn’t have the regulatory authority to reconsider the permit in this case, because we are preempted by federal law in enforcing safety standards for interstate pipelines,” says DEQ spokesman Chris Saeger. “In other words, because the pipeline crosses state boundaries we do not have the authority to reconsider the permit in light of safety concerns—that lies with federal regulatory bodies.”

Whether the federal government grants a permit to the Keystone XL project remains to be seen. The final decision rests with President Barack Obama.

In eastern Montana, the property owners who oppose the project remain anxious about the future of their land and their livelihood. Their last hope is that the pipeline doesn’t get approved.

“The first time I heard of Keystone, [TransCanada] called here and the question was: How would you like to have a pipeline across your property?” says Brown. “I said I would not. And that hasn’t changed.” jtobias@missoulanews.com

[news]

Refuge realty American Redoubt movement looks to escape disaster

by Mike Gerrity

Todd Savage isn’t the first person to use dramatic landscapes to help sell property in Montana, but he may be the first to incorporate an image of a car engulfed in flames.

Savage moved to northern Idaho from San Francisco in 2006 after years of searching for a retreat in “the American Redoubt,” a term coined by survivalist author James Westley, Rawles (the comma is intentional, and popular in the Sovereign Citizen movement). Redoubt is a biblical word for

who are already living a fear-based life.

“One of the aspects of consulting that SRC provides its clients is to bring a reality check to fear,” Savage says in an email. “We teach our clients that once they have made their relocation, that there is no reason to fear a possible ‘societal collapse,’ be it from a solar flare/EMP, derivatives collapse or any other calamity.”

Theresa Mondale, a Missoula agent with United Country Real Estate who works

photo courtesy of Todd Savage

Survival Retreat Consulting and American Redoubt Realty helps people find refuge in the Pacific Northwest from society’s imminent collapse. “Montana is a perfect haven for our Libertarian-minded clients, Missoula in particular,” says company founder Todd Savage.

fortress, and the term refers to the areas of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and eastern Washington that serve as a survivable refuge in the event of what Rawles believes to be an imminent societal meltdown.

Savage helped found Survival Retreat Consulting and American Redoubt Realty as an independent consultant to help people around the country find their place in the refuge. The burning car photo is the main image on his website’s “Contact” page.

“Bug out bag packed and ready; check.

Pistol and tactical flashlight on your belt; check. Trauma bag and Rifle in the trunk; check. Gas tank always at half full; check,” reads Savage’s SRC homepage. “In order to effectively bug-out from your urban area during a socio-economic collapse you need to have a fully self-sustainable survival retreat for off the grid living in the American Redoubt.”

A Craigslist ad Savage posted in Florida suggests residents there sell their properties and buy new ones in the Northwest to “FLEE the POLICE STATE!” For all of the capital letters and exclamation points, Savage says he’s simply looking to help people

regularly with Savage, says she has helped 40 to 60 Redoubters relocate to Montana over the last several years, and that about 100 more are waiting. The ability to maintain a sustainable lifestyle, she says, appeals to people from both ends of the political spectrum, even those who don’t dread a looming disaster.

“You would be flabbergasted at the different political lines that come into this office that are looking for this type of lifestyle in this type of area,” Mondale says.

Montana and Idaho have always been popular with those shouldering a preoccupation with catastrophe. Last year, Christian Allen Kerodin and other investors bought a 20-acre patch of land in the western Idaho Panhandle called “III Citadel” to establish a walled community of up to 7,000 armed “Patriots.” It was eventually revealed that Kerodin was a convicted felon and prohibited from personally owning firearms. In addition, despite Kerodin’s online application form requiring potential residents to disclose ties with “any racist group or subversive association that espouses the violent overthrow of these United States or any in-

dividual State,” the Southern Poverty Law Center published blog postings he’d written that dwelled on Latinos being “purged” and Muslims being “culled.”

The American Redoubt movement, as defined by Rawles, walks a fine line by claiming to be welcoming of all people, and yet calling specifically for those of Christian and Jewish faiths to migrate. Savage has disclaimers on his websites barring any discriminatory behavior, past or present, from his prospective clients.

Savage reiterated that point while participating in a story broadcast on televangelist Pat Robertson’s show, “The 700 Club,” which aired in October. The intro to the piece opens with an ominous montage of inner-city riots, natural disasters and armored FBI agents marching around with rifles. Over the ambient wail of an ambulance’s siren, the narrator bemoans the “loss of privacy” in America. Those words are spoken over more images of a gay pride rally and reference to the 2013 case of an Oregon bakery that voluntarily closed its storefront rather than bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

Regardless of that segment’s introduction, Savage maintains his commitment to keeping troublemakers out of the movement.

“We do not discriminate against anyone, except those that are intolerant of others. Period,” he says. “SRC has a strict policy and screens its clients carefully. We would rather lose business than to be in any way associated with intolerance or persecution.

It’s un-American.”

Hoping to prevent friction between Redoubters and the states they migrate to, Savage says he tries to file people with particular ideologies off to sympathetic areas.

“Idaho is a perfect haven for ultraconservative, right-wing clients, due to the political and demographic makeup of the state,” he says. “Montana is a perfect haven for our Libertarian-minded clients, Missoula in particular. Helena would be a great recommendation for certain clients, but it’s too close to Great Falls, a major nuclear target.”

While the Bitterroot Valley remains a coveted spot for outdoor lovers and disaster preppers, Missoula probably won’t be seeing many Redoubters in town. In Joel M. Skousen’s 2011 book Strategic Relocation, the author suggests readers steer clear of Butte, Anaconda and Missoula because of their “hard-drinking, anti-religious elements.” editor@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Slippery slope Mountain bikes and wilderness simply don’t mix

by Howie Wolke

My first wolverine sighting in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem happened on a warm July afternoon in 2012. On a pass above northwest Wyoming’s West DuNoir Creek, I watched as the elusive animal scaled a rock face and then ambled away. Under prehistoric conditions, wolverine populations were thinly spread across big landscapes; in 21st century America, wolverines veer toward the endangered species list.

Wolverines need wilderness to survive.

That’s one reason that conservationists for four decades have promoted wilderness designation for the DuNoir, which is contiguous with the designated Teton and Washakie wilderness areas.

The roadless DuNoir landscape is stunning; its wooded basins and sprawling tundra provide rich wildlife habitat for many species native to Greater Yellowstone. Unfortunately, it also appeals to a growing cadre of mountain bikers, who sometimes speak louder than wildland defenders. The Shoshone National Forest is on record as opposing wilderness designation for the DuNoir, as the Forest Service plans a bike route through the heart of the area.

Turn back the clock 50 years to when Congress passed the Wilderness Act, our foremost land protection law. Its authors had the foresight to forbid “mechanized” and not just “motorized” travel in wilderness. Under this carefully worded law, wilderness areas must remain “untrammeled” and their “wilderness character” maintained. Designated wilderness is primeval nature, a landscape of human restraint, where natural conditions and self-sufficiency prevail. Sure, there are other land protection options such as national monuments or recreation areas, but nothing equals wilderness for protecting a vestige of America as it was for eons before the spread of civilization.

When mechanized mountain bikers demand access to proposed and designated wilderness, they fail to understand that if they succeed, owners of unimagined future contraptions will certainly demand equal treatment. So will modern-day snow machine and all-terrain vehicle owners. To

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loosen wildland restrictions now starts us down that slippery slope.

In addition, mountain bikers are not traditional users, such as hikers or horse-packers. Mountain bikes were not commercially produced for off-road use until the early 1980s. By allowing them to proliferate in roadless areas, the Forest Service nourishes yet another anti-wilderness constituency. A cynic might suggest that’s no accident.

“Let’s face it: Mountain bikers need all that protective gear because they’re not always in control.”

Let’s be frank: Backcountry biking damages the land. Bikers often veer off trail just to keep from crashing. Last year, I sent the district ranger photos of mountain-bike damage to vegetation at Kissinger Lakes in the DuNoir, but the problem persists. Because mountain bikers ride fast, they startle wildlife more than hikers or horseback-riders do.

They also make formerly remote areas more accessible, thereby reducing solitude and increasing the disturbance of wilderness-dependent species such as lynx and wolverine.

Like trail runners with earbuds, mountain bikers inadvertently “troll for grizzlies,” as demonstrated by the 2004 mauling of a DuNoir mountain biker. Speeding mountain bikers also endanger horse-packers and hikers on steep trails. Let’s face it: Mountain bikers need all that protective gear because they’re not always in control.

Generally speaking, the place for mountain bikes is on roads, not in relatively pristine backcountry. At this point in our history, I believe that public land management should be about preserving wildness and doing what’s best for the land and wildlife.

Recreation can adapt. Though some—certainly not all—mountain bikers apparently view our public lands as outdoor gyms, that is not their function. Nor is a wild place a metaphorical pie to be divvied up among “user groups” or local “stakeholders,” to use federal bureaucratese. The authors of the Wilderness Act would be appalled at the Forest Service’s eagerness to mollify every recreation group that decides its particular form of recreation trumps all else.

As a backpack trip outfitter, I’ve guided hikers throughout the West, including the DuNoir, since the 1970s. When these Lycraclad speedsters zip past our groups, ripping up vegetation and spooking critters, it diminishes our clients’ hard-earned wilderness experience.

But that’s not why I believe that the DuNoir—and other qualifying wildlands— should be designated wilderness. It’s because wilderness designation is best for the land. Wilderness is about humility, the acceptance that we humans don’t know it all and never will. More than any other landscape, wilderness takes us beyond “self ”; in it, we are part of something greater. It is a shame that the Forest Service, many politicians and some recreationists are so wrongheaded and stuck in a self-indulgent and myopic worldview regarding the DuNoir and so many other fragile endangered wildlands. Wilderness is timeless, transcending short-term concerns. Above all, wilderness celebrates the intrinsic value of wild nature. We need to let it be.

Howie Wolke is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He co-owns Big Wild Adventures in Montana with his wife, Marilyn Olsen, and has been guiding and outfitting backpack trips in the Greater Yellowstone and elsewhere in the West since the 1970s.

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[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - During an apparent robbery attempt in a parking lot in Portland, Ore., a 40year-old man shot a 32-year-old man in the leg. The shooter fled, but his getaway ended when he accidentally shot himself in the groin, according to police Sgt. Pete Simpson, who explained, “The suspect’s wound is consistent with somebody putting a gun down his pants.” (Portland’s The Oregonian) A police officer who stopped a car with a broken taillight in Roswell, N.M., was checking the driver’s information when passenger Savana Jimenez, 22, called 911 to report a gunman near a convenience store. Jimenez later admitted making the call, hoping the fake emergency would summon the officer before he could issue the driver a ticket. Jimenez also believed she had warrants out for her arrest, but there were none, police official Sabrina Morales said after Jimenez was arrested and charged with obstruction. (Associated Press)

SMALL JOBS - Scientists at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization announced plans to glue sensors, each 2.5 mm square and weighing 5 milligrams, onto 5,000 honeybees in Tasmania, hoping to track their movements and halt the spread of diseases. The bees are first refrigerated to make them docile, and younger bees, which are hairier than older bees, often need to be shaved before the microchips can be glued on. The scientists said they’re working on shrinking the sensors to 1 mm square so they can be glued to mosquitoes and other small insects. (Reuters)

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Authorities charged Brad Lee Davis, 33, with killing his 58-year-old stepfather during an argument by giving him an “atomic wedgie.” Court papers filed in Pottawatomie County, Okla., state that Davis admitted pulling Denver Lee St. Clair’s underwear over his back and head, allowing the elastic waistband to wrap around the victim’s neck and suffocate him. “I'd never seen this before,” Sheriff Mike Booth said, believing it to be the first death by wedgie in the United States. (Oklahoma City’s The Oklahoman) Norris Troutman, 20, told authorities in St. Lucie County, Fla., that he hit his 48-year-old uncle in the head with a toilet seat lid because the victim was “mocking” him. Insisting he did nothing to provoke the attack, the uncle said he was watching television when he heard the apparent sound of “someone running down the hallway from the bathroom” just before he was struck in the back of the head. (Florida’s TCPalm.com) Anthony Tyron Mayo, 38, was accused of killing his wife with a vacuum cleaner. Before she died of a brain injury, Beverly McFarlane, 40, told authorities that her husband hit her in the head with the vacuum at their North Las Vegas, Nev., home. (Las Vegas Sun)

BLAME GAME - Campaigning to reduce homicides in Venezuela, which the United Nations ranks fifth highest in the world, President Nicolas Maduro accused television soap operas of spreading “anti-values” to young people by glamorizing violence, guns and drugs. Last year, Maduro blamed violent video games and the movie Spider-Man. (Associated Press)

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? - During a meeting of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to address postal reform, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., stated his eagerness to include a provision that would “remove a federal ban on guns in post offices” so that licensed gun owners could carry their weapons inside post office buildings instead of having to leave them in their vehicle. (MSNBC)

THE PRICE OF IDEALISM - Despite being packed almost every day, a restaurant in China’s Fujian province is losing money because it trusts diners to pay what they want. Many choose to pay nothing. In its first three months, Five Loaves and Two Fish lost 250,000 yuan ($41,100), according to majority investor Liu Pengfei, who said the news isn’t all bad. “We initially expected the restaurant to stay open for two months, and now it has lasted three,” he said. “The losses are not unbearable.” (China Daily)

HAZARDS OF TOILET PAPER - After someone rolled a house and trees in Dora, Ala., homeowner Cheryl Crausewell and her son cleaned up most of the mess, but some of the toilet paper remained stuck in a magnolia tree. Crausewell said they set fire to a piece of toilet paper to remove it, but the wind blew it into the front yard, setting the grass on fire. Within seconds, Crausewell said the fire spread to the backyard, where a propane gas tank from a grill fueled the blaze, which destroyed the house. (Birmingham’s WBRC-TV)

HEALTH-CARE FOLLIES - Intending to save Florida millions of dollars by privatizing health care for prison inmates, Department of Corrections head Michael D. Crews awarded a five-year, $1.2 billion contract to Tennessee-based Corizon to provide medical care for inmates at 41 state correctional facilities, even though the company was sued 660 times for malpractice in the past five years. A second contractor, Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Services, signed a five-year, $240 million contract to provide medical services to nine state institutions, despite having 1,092 malpractice claims filed against it in five years. In 2006, Corizon, then known as Prison Health Services, backed out of a 10-year state prison health care contract months after being awarded the deal, insisting that it wasn’t making enough money. (Miami Herald)

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - While Eric Morkert was driving home from a firearms safety class in Boynton Beach, Fla., he pulled over to inspect his new Glock 17 and accidentally shot himself in the leg.

(West Palm Beach’s WPBF-TV) Lacking a laser pointer for a slideshow presentation to a foreign delegation at State Police headquarters in Albany, N.Y., Jerome M. Hauer, the state director of homeland security, took out his loaded 9-mm Glock pistol and used the laser-sighting device attached to the barrel as a pointer. One public official who attended the meeting said that three Swedish emergency managers in the delegation were rattled when the gun’s laser tracked across one of their heads while Hauer was trying to find a map of New York to point at. (Albany’s Times Union)

DO AS I DO, NOT ETC. - Eileen McArthur, 47, pleaded guilty in Forfar, Scotland, to driving drunk behind the wheel of her car twice in the space of three weeks, including once driving while almost five times the legal limit. McArthur is a former senior planning officer for Angus Council’s Focus on Alcohol, where she spearheaded initiatives against alcohol abuse. (BBC News)

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n a 2010 panel discussion about the making of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” comedian Larry David confessed dryly that he wanted to improvise scenes for his television series for two reasons: it would feel more like a real documentary and he wouldn’t have to memorize any lines. The latter illustrates classic David humor, the kind that captured the more selfish, self-deprecating version of the comedian in his show. But the primary appeal of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” deals with the former reason—that it mocks the formula and tone of a documentary in a way that adds one more hilarious, and often uncomfortable, layer to what would otherwise be just another sitcom.

This year’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival offers a few different themes, but one of the most prominent is comedy. In that spirit, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” pilot episode (it was originally made as a one-off) will screen along with several true documentaries centered on comedy, including classics like Heavy Metal Parking Lot, which covers the pre-show

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scene of a 1986 Judas Priest concert. Robert Weide, a producer for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the focus of this year’s festival retrospective, will be in attendance to introduce some of his comedy docs, like Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth and The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell. (On a more serious note, Weide recently made a newer Woody Allen documentary, which will also be screened during the festival. You can read more about the controversy of Weide’s defense of Allen and Allen’s alleged sexual abuse in this week’s Arts section.)

Comedy covers one major theme for this year’s festival, but as always, the nine-day event encompasses much more. There’s a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, encore screenings of past BSDFF popular films, and special appearances, such as former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart performing live after a Feb. 22 showing of a doc about the band, Every Everything. It’d be damn-near impossible to cover all of the 125 or so films on the schedule, so we’ve focused our lenses on many of the films short-listed for Best Feature, Best Short and the Big Sky Award. It’s just a sampling, but should provide enough of a peek into what makes this one of western Montana’s best annual attractions.

SERIOUSLY FUNNY Tig Notaro on comedian Chris Fairbanks, her Missoula cat and living life—even when it’s hard—with humor

by Erika Fredrickson ig Notaro is the kind of observational comic you can fall in love with, even if you’re not a fan of the standup comedy format. She doesn’t really do bits, so much as she starts one joke and takes it for a ride. She’s dry and conspiratorial. She occupies the stage like she just accidentally wandered up there, as if she just stumbled upon the fact that she’s the funniest person in the room.

In May 2012, Notaro did a performance for the live version of “This American Life,” in which she talked about running into 1980s pop singer Taylor Dayne and the absurd conversations that ensued between them. But, behind the scenes, Notaro was going through some hard times. Within a four-month span, she’d contracted pneumonia and a life-threatening digestive infection called C. diff. She’d gone through a breakup. Her mother suddenly died from a fall. A couple months after all that, in August 2012, Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Then, something amazing happened.

A few weeks after the grim news, she took the stage at a Los Angeles club called Largo and delivered a now legendary set, which she started with, “Good evening. Hello. I have cancer.” It is a shocking, funny, heartbreaking and candid performance that spurred comedian Louis CK to famously tweet, “In 27 years doing this, I’ve seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.”

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Tig Notaro Live, her recently Grammy-nominated comedy album, includes a recording of the Largo set.

The album is just one artifact of Notaro’s rising stardom. (By the way, the “Live” is pronounced as in the opposite of death, not like “live show,” which makes it both funny and poignant.) This past year, she’s been touring with her podcast, “Professor Blastoff,” which she hosts with comedians Kyle Dunnigan and David Huntsberger. She’s also working on a memoir and she’s the subject of a documentary in progress. We talked with her in advance of her upcoming Feb. 19 performance in Missoula, when she’ll take the stage at the Wilma with her longtime friend, beloved Missoula native Chris Fairbanks.

Let’s talk about the most pressing issue, which is obviously how you and Chris Fairbanks own a cat together. How did that happen?

Tig Notaro: Oh, well, Chris and I lived together for seven or eight years and we acquired a cat. When we finally parted ways, he kept the cat and then he finally started getting so busy he couldn’t keep the cat and so I guess the cat moved to Montana. Well, I know the cat moved to Montana because I crashed on the cat’s couch a few months ago. He’s living with Chris’ dad in Missoula and so I was going through there on tour and got to crash at my cat’s house. Pretty fun!

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FREEDOM ROCK Music helps pick up the pieces in Death Metal Angola Metal is filled with gnarly lyrics and macabre imagery; part of the intent is to titillate and provoke. But when a band like Angola’s Before Crush sings about “blood on my chest, my heart filled with chaos,” they’re not having to use their imagination much. The young men in this band have seen a lifetime of real brutality.

After centuries of occupation, the Portuguese left the southwestern coastal African nation of Angola to its own devices in the 1970s, and different factions began fighting for control. The country was gripped by civil war and political instability for most of the decades after (with play-

ers like Cuba, Russia and the United States often interfering). It began to stabilize in the mid-2000s, leaving millions of displaced people, former child soldiers and sexually abused girls and women.

As the country heals from violence, music and art is popping up again, like flowers after a long winter. Rock music, introduced during the 1990s, is surging in popularity, with several bands, a national radio station and blogs like Rock Made in Angola and the Angolan Association of Rock.

Death Metal Angola, in competition for Best Feature, follows several musicians who’ve found a healing power in hardcore and metal music. We meet bands like Dor Fantasma, Neblina and Black Soul. With cobbled-together instruments and gear, they rip with as heavy riffs and growly vocals as any

NEED TO KNOW The festival runs Sat., Feb. 15, through Sun., Feb. 23.

All screenings at the Wilma Theatre, Crystal Theatre and the Top Hat Lounge.

Tickets available online and at the Wilma box office.

Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for more info.

All-access pass: $250 All-screening pass: $125 Five-screening punch card: $30 Tig Notaro and Chris Fairbanks: $25/$20 advance

What were you doing in Missoula? Had you been here before?

TN: I was coming through with my podcast, “Professor Blastoff.” We were on a national tour and went through Montana and just went and crashed with my cat. I did do a one-night gig in Missoula at a bar maybe 14 years ago, but that was just one night—in and out. For the show I did with “Professor Blastoff” I was only there the night that we crashed at the cat’s house, but I haven’t really spent much time in Missoula. With this [Big Sky Documentary] festival, I’m hoping that I can stay at least a couple extra days to hang out in town with Chris and all his old friends and go see some good movies. So I’m looking forward to it.

What was it like being roommates with Chris?

TN: Everybody always thought it was going to be totally insane, but we kind of just were very mellow people and so there was nothing too crazy to report, you know?

It was kind of a disappointment, I think. I feel like it would definitely disappoint people if they would have peeked in on our lives.

You’re one of the main attractions for the documentary festival this year, as part of its focus on comedy. Do you have a favorite mockumentary?

TN: Well, I am a fan of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” I haven’t really followed much TV but that is one show that I thought was great. Waiting for Guffman was great. That was probably a favorite of mine. I don’t really follow too much comedy or mockumentaries, but actual documentaries I go nuts on. I watched the Mitt Romney documentary recently and the one called Billy the Kid. I watched Last Days Here—that’s about the lead singer of this metal band called Pentagram. I watch documentaries all the time. I love them.

There’s actually a documentary being made about my life right now. They started making it in January of 2013

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following the horrible year that I had previously. So that film is being made right now.

Your album Tig Notaro Live comes with a pretty big backstory, including the show at the Largo in 2012. You’ve talked about this night so many times. Is it something that you get tired of talking about?

TN: It comes up daily, several times a day, and I think I’m just used to it at this point. I feel very thankful for that night and so I try to remember that whenever I’m not really in the mood to talk about it. I’m glad I’m alive to talk about it.

Have you heard from people whom the album affected?

TN: Oh yeah, I get emails daily from people who have cancer or people who are dying or people who have just had a rough week and their health is perfectly fine but the album put their life in check. I read every email that comes in. I feel so thankful that people are touched, that they feel like somebody out there understands, because it’s rough.

People have so many different rough spots in life they go through and so however it helps them I’m thankful to be a part of it.

Someone I know who survived breast cancer used to joke about the pressures of “courageously battling” cancer, because what if you don’t feel brave? It’s a real fear, I think, but also she joked about it because she needed to laugh.

Did it help you that you already approach life with a comedic eye?

TN: Oh yeah, 100 percent. It took me a while to have a sense of humor about life. In the four months that my life fell apart [before the diagnosis] I kind of lost my sense of humor. But when I was diagnosed with cancer it came back full force. I experienced that, too, as far as people saying how brave I was or how brave I am. I’d tell them if they could just see me in a fetal position crying on my couch— I don’t feel very brave. But I was talking to Louis CK about

that idea and he was saying how you’re still brave if you’re whining or crying. You’re facing the horror and the troubled moments. You’re getting through it. That’s enough. But it was hard for me to accept people saying they consider me brave. But I get it.

Chris went on “Conan” recently wearing what he calls his “grandpa” sweater, which I also spotted him wearing two other times in Missoula. Then I realized you have a similar sweater that you wear all the time. What’s up with the grandpa sweaters?

TN: I wear mine and have worn it for the past 14 years, like even in the summer time. And I saw Chris—he did a show of mine the other night—and he wore his sweater.

He was acknowledging how he’s starting to wear grandpa sweaters now. I don’t know, I mean, I certainly didn’t invent grandpa sweaters.

Chris tells me that you “totally shred” at guitar. He also said you would deny that you totally shred.

TN: [Laughs] I played guitar from the time I was in fourth grade up until the time I was about 22 or 23. I can pick it up and kind of fake it and impress people still but I’m not really that great. But, when I was nominated for a Grammy I was given all these free gifts and one of them was a brand new Les Paul guitar. It just got me thinking that I would love to have a hobby since I’m so busy. So I put a band together yesterday. It’s a bunch of comedians: me and Kyle Dunnigan and Henry Phillips, Jonah Ray and Steve Agee. We’re going to just start off learning some covers. I don’t think I’m going to be impressing anybody right away. But, yeah, I can play.

Tig Notaro and Chris Fairbanks perform at the Wilma Theatre Wed., Feb. 19, at 8 PM. $25/$20 advance at Rockin Rudy’s, Ear Candy and bigskyfilmfest.org. (Not included in festival passes.)

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Norwegian metalhead could aim for. Music “cleans it all away,” as one young man says.

The main narrators are Wilker Flores and his girlfriend, Sonia Ferreira, who run an orphanage together. They love rock and aim to put on the country’s first big rock festival; they joke that it will be like Woodstock. Ferreira explains that they desperately need arts and culture again.

“Rock was one of the ways that helped me to fight for my freedom,” Ferreira says.

On the film’s site, director Jeremy Xido has explained that the documentary came about by pure chance. He was in the capital, Huambo, on another project and looking for a cup of coffee. He chatted for a while with Flores, who invited him to come see his concert that night at the orphanage. “There he was, Wilker Flores, the young man in a blue oxford, with tiny dreads and an electric guitar, surrounded by 55 orphaned boys who called this place home,” Xido writes. “Siphoning electricity from the neighbor, Wilker proceeded to play one of the hardest and harshest impromptu concerts imaginable, lit by nothing more than the headlights of a van.”

Many of the musicians in Death Metal Angola can’t articulate what it is that draws them to heavy music. I would guess that they’ve found a place for catharsis.

—Kate Whittle Screens Fri., Feb. 21 at 9 PM at the Wilma and Sat., Feb. 22 at 2 PM at the Top Hat. Nominee for Best Feature.

TRUE CRIME An unsolved kidnapping leads to the first missing person on a milk carton There’s something terrifying about the idea of a person gone missing; that you could get plucked out of your life and dropped into a new one by people who want to take over your mind and body and use it for themselves. Imagine it: No one knows what happened to you and they might never find out.

This is the subject of the documentary Who Took Johnny, directed by David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley and in competition for Best Feature. Thirteenyear-old Johnny Gosch was kidnapped in 1982 on his paper route in Des Moines,

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Iowa. He left behind his dog and red wagon, so we can assume he didn’t run away. What follows from there is the 30year investigation into his disappearance, spearheaded by his mother Noreen Gosch.

There’s a lot to be learned in this film about the history of how police handle a child abduction case. We take the current infrastructure for tracking missing persons for granted, but none of that existed back then. They had no interstate system in place, authorities used to have to wait 72 hours before they could investigate a dis-

Johnny was likely kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that provides young boys to rich clients. Could he still be alive? All we ever see of the kidnapper is a composite sketch crafted from eyewitness accounts of the man they saw Johnny get into a car with. He never gets a name, and he doesn’t have horns or a tail but he might as well.

Johnny and his mother’s story plays out with soap opera-level plot twists.

The details of the case are fed to the viewer like a trail of breadcrumbs, and

the unused southern half is slated to lease out for profit-based housing development and a Whole Foods grocery store, some 200 activists break the lock, enter the land and start to plant crops.

Occupy the Farm is a down-to-earth documentary of the events that followed.

There’s nothing flashy or bold about Darling’s style, but the content is compelling and the narrative shape is deeply satisfying. At heart, it’s a David vs. Goliath story.

It reminds me of when Argentinean workers reclaimed abandoned factories during

it’s a testament to the filmmaker’s firm sense of pacing and storytelling. A lot of people along the way seem to think Noreen is a little crazy or maybe even not credible. The documentary couldn’t exist without her full cooperation, and so it’s not surprising the film tends to congratulate her, but still they’ve left a little space for interpretation.

Who Took Johnny is a dark story and it’s surprisingly gripping and suspenseful, too. It’s true crime at its most engaging.

—Molly Laich Screens Sat., Feb. 22 at 3:30 PM at the Wilma and Sun., Feb. 23 at 10 AM at the Wilma. Nominee for Best Feature.

their economic crisis of the early 2000s.

The owners had laid everyone off and ditched the property. So the workers formed cooperatives, marched back into the factories, and started producing on their own.

Questions emerge from these stories: What happens when what is legally right becomes morally questionable and socially disadvantageous? What should land ownership—particularly public land ownership—actually stand for? What will be more important as society evolves—the economic rights of individuals or ethical stewardship of resources crucial to everyone? While the filmmakers clearly side with the Occupiers, they don’t gloss over the ethical complexity of the situation.

They raise questions without forcing answers down your throat. It’s a story told in moments and images.

Even more fascinating than the actions of the Occupiers is the authority’s response. The game is more chess and tightrope walking than boxing. Public opinion and the hesitation it creates in the power structure is dizzying to watch.

Occupy the Farm reinforces the potential of creative and non-violent protest.

Focusing on building up rather than tearing down can dissolve the physical tension that allows the force of oppression to easily crush resistance. Maybe the most captivating image in the entire film takes place after the farmers have finally been forcibly removed from the land. A single masked renegade hops the fence with a bucket and starts watering the crops while a dozen police officers jog after him in full gear. I don’t care what side of the fence you’re on, that’s just awesome. Like the

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appearance—the list goes on. In the Gosch case in particular, the film paints a picture that starts to look like a conspiracy compounded by police incompetence.

Without much help from law enforcement, Noreen does most of the investigating on her own. She and her husband frequently go on television. We see her pleading with the kidnappers to come forward with their demands, as if they had a big ransom plot in mind and just lost the Gosch’s phone number. A local dairy company hears about the case and Johnny becomes the first kid to have his face on a milk carton.

The plot thickens when somebody in the investigation brings up the word “pedophile,” which was until then a rarely used term and an unknown, lurking danger in suburbs all over the country. It starts to become more and more clear that

RADICAL SEEDS Occupy the Farm digs up questions about protests Oakland, Calif., was one of the hottest of the hotspots at the height of the 2011 Occupy movement, with protests resulting in over 400 arrests, violent police response and millions of dollars in lawsuits.

Todd Darling’s Occupy the Farm comes in the wake of these events, with a mellower but no less dramatic story that played out just 10 miles north in Albany.

The conflict concerns a 100-acre lot of public land called the Gill Tract, the last parcel of farmable land in the entire East Bay area. Because of its exclusive agricultural status, people have been fighting for over 15 years to have the Gill Tract allocated as a sustainable urban farm. However, the University of California, which manages the land, only wants to use it for research and recreational purposes. When

erly in America; but it encourages me that projects like Music and Memory are putting us on the track to a kinder system.

—Kate Whittle Screens Sun., Feb. 16 at 1:15 PM at the Wilma. Nominee for Best Feature.

MAKE ART, NOT WAR

Alive Inside

Banksy image of a bandana-wearing anarchist flinging a bouquet of flowers instead of a Molotov cocktail, the irony reminds us we’ve got a lot of kinks to work out in our “just” society.

—Josh Wagner Screens Fri., Feb. 21 at 5 PM at the Wilma. Nominee for the Big Sky Award.

POWER OF SONG Alive Inside offers hope for battling dementia End-of-life care is not something we often think about in America. Just like with Grandpa in “The Simpsons,” we ship old people off to nursing homes and mostly forget about them. At least, that’s how it is for most people. My mother, a nurse, works in hospice care, so every time I go home to visit, I’m reminded of my own and everyone else’s impending mortality. She’s fairly cheerful about it, given that she deals with death every day.

Her stern lectures about what it’s like to die of cancer have forever put me off smoking cigarettes.

But what scares my fearless, tough mother is dementia. There’s not much the medical establishment can do to prevent or treat it. It’s a slow death where you lose your personality, your independence and your ability to connect with loved ones. It runs on my father’s side of the family. I am terrified of dementia, too.

So I came to Alive Inside, a documentary about music therapy for dementia patients, prepared for something grim. I had my Kleenex ready. Instead, I got a jolt of hope. Dan Cohen, a social worker and nursing home volunteer, has found a way to bring happiness to patients with a therapy so simple it seems painfully obvious: Give them headphones and play their favorite songs from back in the day.

Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett followed Cohen over three years of the project. One of the first people we meet in Alive Inside is Henry, an elderly black man. In the video, Henry, who mutters and seems barely aware of his surroundings, transforms when the music starts.

His eyes widen. He waves his arms. He hums and then sings along to “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” When Henry’s story

hit the internet, Cohen’s Music and Memory project took off.

Alive Inside follows many more such breathtaking transformations. People who are walker-bound or bedridden, seemingly barely conscious, start dancing, singing and crying, experiencing the first real joy they’ve felt in years. Doctors in the film explain that music is as fundamental in shaping the human psyche as language, and it activates parts of the brain that Alzheimer’s doesn’t destroy. One doc calls music a “back door into the brain” that elicits a physiological response.

Music should be an easily accessible thing, but bringing it into nursing homes—“a combination of poor house and hospital,” as one person puts it—has been a battle for the Music and Memory project. A gerontologist explains that it’s easier for him to write a prescription for a $1,000-a-month antidepressant than it is to request a $40 music player. The medical supply and pharmaceutical industries are much more invested in promoting expensive medications, rather than simple athome solutions.

Alive Inside, which is in the running for Best Feature, calls out glaring problems in the way we take care of our sick and eld-

An appreciation of Refah, the mostly invisible assistant Wherever you fall on the Mohs scale of Montana crunchy (hint: cattle rancher=talc) probably corresponds to how you feel about the Buffalo Field Campaign. But your thoughts on Art Is War, a doc that follows Los Angeles performance artist Lila Roo, whom the campaign brings in to ruffle some fur, might be messier.

The doc, it turns out, is more complicated than the views of the campaign, which are laser-focused on humans not mucking around with the wildness of the American bison. In Art is War, those views serve as the Greek chorus, for sure, but fair play to the filmmaker, Montana State University grad student Devon Riter, for focusing his lens on Roo’s assistant, Refah.

See, Refah’s the one getting it done and building things, including the giant box for Roo to stand on outside Yellowstone National Park while she clenches many yards of red tarp (symbolizing bison blood) in her teeth. Like Roo, Refah is a newcomer to both Montana and its bison issue. He’s there to do a job, to be “invisible” while the artist creates. In reality?

He’s the glue. When someone asks him how he feels about bison, he says, “I think they’re here. ... They’re big and there’s a lot of them.” It’s a nice turn, a contrast, a break. Because, regardless of personal crunchiness, there comes a time when you need a break from Roo and the BFC. The film gets that pretty beautifully right.

Art is War starts chronologically, with Roo’s arrival to Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (sounds so fancy, huh?) and continues to follow her and Refah as they get ready for a Major Art Event near

the park’s entrance. (This all happened last May.) As it builds toward said Major Art Event, the BFCers let Roo and Refah ride along during their patrols of the patrollers, also known as the state and fed employees of the Interagency Bison Management Plan. They’re witness to the patrollers using a helicopter and other methods to herd bison back into the park.

The experiences, enhanced by cute bison babies, turn spiritual for Roo. “I hope we start changing back into animals soon,” she says.

“She feels guilty for being a person and not an animal. I don’t get that,” Refah says.

You see what I mean? It’s not like Refah is some raging right-winger. It’s more like he’s Canadian. (He actually is Canadian.) He’s into creation, not destruction. He thinks Roo’s an awesome artist and, you know, she’s the boss. “We gotta make it happen,” he says. So good enough.

Drama builds as the wind picks up and threatens to blow away both concepts and actual elements of the installation, including the huge headdress Roo will wear.

All eyes are on her as it comes together, including Refah’s, who switches from carpenter to photographer. But the film makes sure he’s not doing the other thing he’s supposed to do—be invisible—and that makes all the difference.

—Jule Banville Screens Sun., Feb. 16 at 3 PM at the Wilma. Nominee for the Big Sky Award.

CRASH COURSE Coal, climate change and politics come into focus in Momenta Montana knows coal. We see the trains laden with it paralleling the interstate. We glimpse pictures and read headlines about new mines on the horizon.

Some of us even scan the lists of campaign donations to our elected officials, wondering how much familiar companies like Arch Coal and Cloud Peak Energy have in-

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vested in our politics. Coal is a part of life here in our West, and its expanding journey to markets in China has many wishing it weren’t anymore.

So there are few surprises to be gleaned in Momenta, a film devoted to further exposing the dirtiness of coal development in Montana and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin and squeezing it into the increasingly crowded narrative of global climate change. For those unfamiliar with the debate, Momenta offers a crash course from the side of the opposition, dropping little nuggets of knowledge here and there like chunks of coal from a train car. For most, though, the film comes more as an emotional affirmation than a

revelation. Yes, there are people throughout the Pacific Northwest who are just as outraged, just as moved to action. You are not alone.

“If we cook this wonderful planet we’re living on, we’re not going to have human existence,” says famed Bozeman climber and Momenta narrator Conrad Anker in the film’s opening moments.

Anker acknowledges he’ll be fine. He’ll still have his coffee and be able to drive to the mountains long before the oven timer beeps. “But what’s it going to be like 200 years down the line?”

The most soul-wrenching moments come early, as when LJ Turner, a Wyoming cattle rancher, talks of the Powder River

Basin as a sacrifice zone singled out to benefit some corporation’s bottom line.

“Mr. Peabody’s coal train is carrying Wyoming away,” he says, pointing to a line of BNSF railcars plodding through the distance. Like those coal trains, Momenta itself rumbles quickly past Turner and onward to Spokane, Portland and Bellingham, with brief stops in Billings, Missoula and Sandpoint.

It’s a bit disappointing that Momenta doesn’t spend more time in our backyard.

Missoula City Councilman Dave Strohmaier provides a momentary look at the stakes here, explaining that the anticipated 50- to 100-percent bump in coal train traffic could impede local commerce and public safety

by blocking downtown corridors like Madison Street. But the film is off to the next station in a flash, making Strohmaier something of a missed opportunity.

As the producers point out, each train loses an estimated 31 tons of coal and coal dust during its trek to the coast—which at 18 trains a day pencils out to roughly 204,000 tons annually. That concern has prompted Missoula officials to urge the Army Corps of Engineers in recent years to extend its environmental reviews of proposed coal port projects up the line.

The Army Corps declined the first time around, but the hubbub raised here did compel the Washington Department of Ecology to step in and assess such im-

ALSO PLAYING From pet foxes to fake families, even more films to consider

by Jule Banville, Skylar Browning, Molly Laich, Josh Wagner and Kate Whittle Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall It’s not easy to watch a man die. It starts in the eyes, with a soft glaze and a distant stare. There’s muttering and confusion.

Breathing becomes labored until, eventually, one day, the chest doesn’t struggle to rise once more. The jaw goes slack. Skin color fades.

The title of Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall prepares viewers for what they’re about to watch, and it’s a raw sight. But the power of this Academy Awardnominated short film isn’t as much in Hall’s death as it is in the compassion of those who surround him during his final hours.

The Iowa State Penitentiary created a hospice program in 2004 funded entirely through donations and staffed by specially trained prisoners serving life sentences.

Prison Terminal, which was filmed by director Edgar Barens in 2006, follows Hall, 82, as he’s moved from the prison’s infirmary to one of two beautifully decorated rooms designed for end-of-life care. One prisoner made the curtains. Another constructed the bookcase. Hall’s own snapshots fill bulletin boards on the wall. Men with names like Glove, Herky and Love, each serving time for murder or kidnapping, commit to Hall’s 24-hour care, including back massages, showers and lots of prayer. The men take their responsibilities seriously, and speak eloquently about the redemptive nature of their work. They even conduct tours for visitors to help generate support for the hospice program.

Hall provides a perfect study for such a heartwarming endnote to a life of hard time.

The former World War II veteran, who was convicted of murder, speaks with a quick wit and demonstrates a steely resolve in early interviews. He has tattoos of naked women on his torso and forearm, and one on his fingers that reads “Love is Hell.” We learn that he’s also racist, or at least used to

be. But as his health deteriorates and he’s left to the care of three selfless black men, it’s clear that he’s found some level of peace with his place in the world. We should all be so lucky to die that way. (SB) Screens Sun., Feb. 16 at 5:15 PM at the Wilma. Nominee for Best Short.

Mistaken For Strangers Behind many artsy, passionate musicians are humdrum upbringings and dorky families they’d rather not talk about during interviews with Pitchfork. In the case of Matt Berninger, lead singer for super-literate, broody Brooklyn rock band The National, he’s embarrassed about his younger brother, chubby metal nerd Tom Berninger. Mistaken For Strangers, shot mostly by Tom on a handheld camera, was meant to be a rock documentary made while Tom roadied for his brother’s band during several months of touring. But as the documentary progresses, the already uneasy relationship between the two deteriorates, and Tom keeps recording during many tense moments. Mistaken For Strangers is a portrait of two brothers, both odd and creative and smart, but one has channeled it into mainstream success and

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the other is still floundering along, being a screw-up and a goofball. If you’re a fan of The National, admittedly an uber-serious band, you might not be surprised to see that Matt is intense and unforgiving of his brother’s quirks. Tom is painful to watch at times, as he pesters the other band members with weird questions and invites himself along where he’s not wanted. But it’s clear,

from scenes where he gets drunk and listens to Halford’s Christmas album, that he’s still the person you’d rather party with.

The end of Mistaken For Strangers seems to reach something of a resolution between the two squabbling brothers, but anyone with close family knows that sibling rivalry never really ends. It’s a “rock documentary” that accidentally became a poignant, funny and authentic-feeling picture of fame and family life. (KW) Screens Mon., Feb. 17 at 7:45 PM at the Wilma.

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In director Matt Wolf’s film, we learn that teenagers didn’t always exist. In fact, the distinction is an invention born mostly out of war and a changing economic and political landscape the world over. Wolf tells the story of the teenager’s fight for a collective identity through remarkable archival footage, starting from before World War I and more or less wrapping up around the end of World War II. The images have an almost fake, dreamlike quality, coupled with the voiceover nar-

pacts. A small victory, but a victory nonetheless.

If, for the uninitiated, Momenta feels lengthy and cumbersome, weighted down by a few too many characters and a few too many stops, that’s a good thing. The issue at hand isn’t just about folks in Gillette or Cherry Point or any of the hundreds of towns in between. As Anker lays out from the very beginning, and as anyone in the West who’s even half awake will tell you, Powder River coal has long-term ramifications for us all.

—Alex Sakariassen Screens Sun., Feb. 23 at 3:30 PM at the Wilma. Nominee for the Big Sky Award.

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ration of actors who speak as though they were there. We learn about the invention of the Boy Scouts in England, followed by Hitler Youth. The film shows teenagers in Germany who listen to American jazz, and kids in America getting into swing. The movie is like Will Smith’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” except it takes itself much more seriously. It’s eerie to watch people who look young on screen but are in reality very old and dead.

They are like butterflies pinned to felt. This is a somber, trance-inducing film composed of pretty images and not a lot else. For viewers looking for a meatier experience, Teenage might come up a little short. (ML) Screens Fri., Feb. 21 at 5:30 PM at the Crystal.

Trucker and the Fox Mahmoud Falavarjani, the trucker, is depressed. His psychiatrist, however, has the cure: “Don’t think about your dead fox anymore. Get back to work.” The next shot?

Mahmoud in his beat-down, 40-year-old lorry with a photo of his dead fox taped to the steering wheel. Because the deal with Mahmoud is, in his heart, he is not a trucker.

He’s an animal guy, first, and a filmmaker, second. And by midpoint in this Iranian documentary that’s in competition for Best Feature, he gets around to creating his own cure: Trap a new fox. Make a new movie starring the fox. But that doesn’t just happen, film fans. It takes time to make an arty critter

movie, which is, primarily, the downfall of this otherwise quirky and lovely movie about making a movie. It’s tedious to watch him keep checking the trap and talking pre-production plot. Although, hey, the plot does involve donkey lovers whose stars get crossed by you-know-who (pssst ... the fox!). We watch as Mahmoud allows his obsessions to blow holes in his marriage and in his tenuous job. But we also see his transformation from despair to joy because of them. Better, though, to get to joy just a bit quicker. (JB) Screens Sat., Feb. 15 and Sat., Feb. 22, both at 11:45 AM at the Wilma.

Nominee for Best Feature.

Rent A Family, Inc. A middle-aged man sits down with his daughter and her boyfriend, who nervously explain that they want to move in together before deciding to get married. The father listens calmly, expresses his concerns, and eventually gives his blessing. The thing is, he’s not actually the girl’s father. She hired him to play the role because her boyfriend insisted on a father’s blessing, and she knew her real father would never give it. This is the career Ryuichi Ichinokawa has made for himself, and the subject of Kaspar Astrup Schroder’s documentary, Rent A Family.

Like much of Japanese culture, Ichinokawa’s story is weirdly fascinating from an American standpoint. He calls his website “I Want to Cheer You Up” and takes on

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all sorts of jobs impersonating fathers, husbands, friends, as well as managing a staff of freelancers to fill roles he can’t fit. What makes the documentary a story rather than an exposé is that Ichinokawa’s business of duplicity parallels his own life. His family has no idea what he does for a living.

Unfortunately, the film’s wrap-up doesn’t quite live up to the intrigue of the setup.

Rent A Family, a nominee for Best Feature, peters out into a conclusion that only fails to be predictable because of how anticlimactic it is. But it’s still well worth watching on account of the unusual detailing of how Japanese relationships, as eerily unfamiliar in custom as they might seem to us, reflect the same emotional undertow we all experience. (JW) Screens Tue., Feb. 18 at 6:45 PM and Sat., Feb. 22 at 2 PM at the Crystal. Nominee for Best Feature.

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times

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Jayson Blair is troubled, and that may be putting it gently. During the 74 minutes of A Fragile Trust, everyone on-screen—including Blair himself—searches for the right way to describe just what ails this “mentally unstable,” “crazy,” “sick” and “bipolar” lightning rod of criticism. These descriptors are important, because they’re all that’s available to explain Blair’s fantastically flawed stretch as an intern and then reporter at The New York Times, during which he managed to file stories riddled with errors, fabricate sources, plagiarize work from other papers and report on

events he never attended, in cities he never visited. At one point he smelled so bad his colleagues complained. In another, he lost a company car. Just lost it. For a month.

Blair’s actions are so ludicrous that it’s hard to fathom how he could get away with such behavior at an institution like the Times. His litany of excuses—drugs, alcohol, trauma after 9/11, pressure of the newsroom, etc.—are so nauseating and desperate that you can’t tell, as one editor puts it, where his sickness starts and where the scheming begins.

Director Samantha Grant’s film, which is in competition for Best Feature, catalogues the entire saga and, toward the end, briefly explores certain postscripts, such as the fallout at the Times, the potential indictment of affirmative action (Blair is black and was hired to help diversify the newsroom) and the overall reflection on contemporary journalism (hence the title). The film spins its wheels at points and meanders toward its conclusion, but this journalist is willing to admit that it was the smarmy subject—not the filmmaking—that grew tiresome.

If you have any affinity whatsoever to journalism, you have zero time for a compulsive liar like Blair. I didn’t want to spend a minute longer listening to or about him, and can’t imagine why the Times took so long to reach the same conclusion. There are no great revelations in the film—except, perhaps, Blair’s current career choice as a life coach—but plenty to leave viewers shaking their heads as the final credits roll. (SB) Screens Tue., Feb. 18 at 7 PM at the Wilma and Wed., Feb. 19 at 5 PM at the Crystal. Nominee for Best Feature.

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Dissecting the artist Do we still like Annie Hall, and other questions about Woody Allen

by Dan Brooks

What if you knew for a fact that Woody Allen sexually abused Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old?

Before something awful happens to both of us, let me say that this allegation is by no means confirmed.

Allen denies it. In 1993, during his custody battle with Mia Farrow, the Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Abuse Clinic determined that Dylan had not been abused. But she has stuck by her claim for the last two decades, most recently in an open letter to The New York Times.

“What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie?” the letter begins, before detailing the afternoon when Allen allegedly led Dylan to the attic and assaulted her.

Again, we have no way of knowing whether this story is true. A court and prosecutor reviewed the case and did not file charges. But if they had—if you believed everything Dylan Farrow says about her father and what he did to her—would you still like Annie Hall?

Obviously you shouldn’t. No one would argue that the acting in Vicky Cristina Barcelona makes up for one molestation. Even Allen’s most ardent fans acknowledge that if he really were a sex criminal, we should stop liking him immediately. Consider the case of Robert Weide.

The subject of this year’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival retrospective, Weide is best known as executive producer and principle director of the first five seasons of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Recently, though, he is known for producing Woody Allen: A Documentary on PBS and mounting a vigorous defense of the director in The Daily Beast.

Weide’s position—which I’m sure he will be glad to answer dozens of questions about during his Missoula Q&A—is that Dylan Farrow’s memory has been

warped by pressure from her mother, Mia. Much of the Daily Beast piece implies that Mia is spiteful, erratic and more than usually promiscuous, and it comes off a little sleazy.

Weide even embraces the possibility that Ronan Farrow is not Allen’s son, but there is one argument he will not touch: He never suggests that Allen’s achievements as an artist make up for his allegedly molesting a 7-year-old girl. You’d have to be crazy to believe that—or at least you’d have to be crazy to say it out loud.

For the purposes of this discussion, let us say that we have the power to stop watching Annie Hall even though we really like the street scenes, and that we theoretically believe Woody Allen abused Dylan Farrow. The conjunction of these hypotheticals leaves us with exactly two options: 1) Forswear Woody Allen movies forever, lest we get misty near the end of Manhattan and say to ourselves, “This child molester’s perspective on romance really speaks to me.”

2) Declare that works of art are completely separate from the artists who make them.

Option No. 2 is not so easy as it first appears. It’s particularly problematic when applied to Allen, whose presence is an integral part of his early, best work. When Ned Flanders on “The Simpsons” says, “You know, I like his films except for that nervous fellow who’s always in them,” it’s funny because the movies are inseparable from the man. People don’t like Bananas and Midnight in Paris and Crimes and Misdemeanors; they like Woody Allen pictures.

The problem is more pronounced in other media. At least a Woody Allen movie contains other

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actors to distract us from the stammering, possibly child-assaulting homunculus in every scene. Music and books force us into relationships with their creators that are even more intimate. When you read At the Hawk’s Well, you are alone with William Butler Yeats, who proposed to the same woman three times and then tried to marry her daughter. And no man who cares for his reputation would be seen publicly jamming out to Chris Brown.

Brown reveals a potential hypocrisy among those of us who would cleave to option No. 1. We all stopped listening to his music after he beat up Rihanna. Making that decision was not only noble but easy because Chris Brown sucks.

Compare to the director Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty to statutory rape in 1977 and then fled to Europe to escape sentencing. Very few people suggest that we should stop watching Chinatown because Polanski had sex with an underage girl. We have agreed to ignore Polanski’s sex crime, partly because it happened a long time ago but mostly because his movies are so good.

It seems our approach to the art of potentially awful people is utilitarian rather than deontological.

Chris Brown is a pretty mediocre pop musician—let’s say a six on a scale from one to Michael Jackson. What he did to Rihanna was pretty bad—let’s say an eight, also on a scale from one to Michael Jackson. The eight quality of his awfulness exceeds the six quality of his art, so screw him. Polanksi, who did something comparable but produced much better art, squeaks by.

Is that a just way to respond to good art or bad things? Absolutely not—we don’t let criminals out of jail based on an annual painting contest. But it does reflect how we consume art and artists now.

We may pretend to an austere separation between the work and the maker, or to unstinting moral scruples, but contemporary culture makes art and artists the same thing. It is true of actors like Rob Lowe and musicians like James Brown, but it is also true of the auteurs whose work is not so immediately identifiable with their persons.

Everybody wants to be Ernest Hemingway, but not many want to write For Whom the Bell Tolls. A lot of us consume art through the fantasy of artistry, and that entails seeing the hard work of writing a novel or making a film as an extension of the basically fun and easy project of being a genius author or director.

Last weekend, Woody Allen wrote a denial of Dylan Farrow’s claims in The New York Times, in which he implies that Mia Farrow is a crazy shrew and expresses unseemly enthusiasm for the possibility that Ronan Farrow is not his son. It’s a sometimes sad, often undignified defense that forces us to consider how petty a great writer and director can be.

That is precisely what we do not want to do. The artist makes the art, but then the art goes on to render the artist in our minds. I want my Woody Allen to be Alvy Singer, the man who fell in love with Annie Hall. I want him to be funny and sometimes foolish but never selfish or depraved. I want to believe that if I wrote something as good as Annie Hall, my worst qualities would evaporate, too.

Robert Weide’s Woody Allen: A Documentary screens at the Crystal Mon., Feb. 17, at noon as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Visit bigskyfilmfest.org for more info. arts@missoulanews.com

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Feeling alive Gourds soundtrack captures blue-collar appeal There’s a great live version of “Goodnight Irene”

by Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars where they play to a murmuring New Year’s Eve crowd in New York City, 1977. The recording is sharp and the audience’s exhilaration palpable. It feels like everybody’s happy and in love and maybe drunk and probably a little delirious. This is exactly the kind of spirit and depth that makes the live songs on The Gourds’ All the Labor so magnetic. As the Austin, Texas, band kicks out Southern alt-folk and rock tunes, unbridled woots and whistles from fans fill the lulls, sparse though they are. You feel like you’re there. And, actually, you might have been. The official soundtrack to Missoula filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis’ rockumentary about The Gourds includes three live songs from 2011 and 2012 shows at the Wilma Theatre.

The feature documentary, also called All the Labor, came out last March and follows the quirky yet down-to-earth band through live shows and interviews. It tells a story about a group that is distinct and genre-defying. They’re not a jam band, but they do jam. They’re often goofy but also weirdly profound.

They’re a cult band that has created a relationship with Missoula ever since they first played here in 1998.

The newly released soundtrack isn’t just for the fans, though. I think it’s a pretty good introduction to The Gourds, and it stands on its own. Hawes-Davis produced the album. Brendan Canty, jack-of-alltrades and former Fugazi drummer, engineered it.

With the exception of “Gangsta Lean” and “Pint Tar Ramparts/Stadium Blitzer,” which came from archive material, the songs were recorded for the film during rehearsals and shows spanning Oregon, Montana, Texas and California.

I am not a Gourd-head, but I am a sucker for vivid lyrics, even silly ones, and The Gourds have that in spades (i.e. “Chicken sneezed eatin’ my cracklins.”)

Any album from the band will showcase that fact. But this soundtrack does something more. It allows you to experience how damn hard the band works on stage. You can just tell they don’t do it for anything else but sincere love of playing music to an audience that loves them right back. And I think that’s rarer than we all might think. (Erika Fredrickson)

The English Beat It’s tempting to compare The Beat (called English Beat in the U.S.) to The Clash. Both are reggae/ska-influenced British rock bands conceived in the late ’70s, with single word names. Both channeled Margaret Thatcher-era political and social unrest into their music. But where Joe Strummer spat angry lyrics, the Beat was out to let you know that love and unity would make it all okay in the end. In its heyday, The Beat, led by singer and guitarist Dave Wakeling, was among the first to infuse ska, reggae, punk and rock into one feel-good product. It’s a format that has been repeated with a lot of success; you can hear a whole lot of The Beat’s influence in The Police and Operation Ivy and even Vampire Weekend. But The Beat’s albums still sound fresh and bright, maybe because they haven’t been played to death on the radio. The Beat, which disbanded in

1984, put out three solid albums—for my money, 1980’s I Just Can’t Stop It is the most skankin’ good time of them all, and it has “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” on it.

Wakeling went on to play in General Public (with, funny enough, Clash guitarist Mick Jones) and work for Greenpeace, advocating for solar power and putting out the 1994 compilation album Alternative NRG with U2, Annie Lennox and others. These days, Wakeling tours as The English Beat with a revolving backing band of Beat, General Public and other ska all-star members. Wakeling is still an advocate for social and environmental causes. Perhaps he still has a lot to teach us about how to build a lengthy career on spreading the love, too. (Kate Whittle) The English Beat plays the Top Hat Wed., Feb. 19, at 8 PM. $24/$20 advance. Visit tophatlounge.com.

Davina and the Vagabonds Davina and the Vagabonds take me back to my little college apartment under the glow of a red lamp, a midnight chinook stirring up autumn leaves outside the window. Maybe that’s because I listened to Etta James and Billie Holiday back then, and Davina Sowers has that same kind of crackly, blues-and-jazz voice that pulls each song along like an intimate conversation. The Minneapolis band plays music that feels like classic 1920s jazz, though Sowers does mostly originals. In “River,” from the group’s most recent album, 2011’s Black Cloud, she sings, “I’m so-oh sorry.

Sorry, my man. I didn’t mean to do you wrong. I will take myself to the river to pray. And if that don’t work, I will sail along.” It’s like listening to Sam Cooke’s

“Bring It On Home To Me” after a breakup. It will bring you to your knees.

The Vagabonds, with their yearning trumpets and dramatic drums, keep the songs in constant motion like a picaresque. I haven’t seen them live, but YouTube clips show a band as noteworthy for its stage presence as its musicianship. Sowers is addictive to watch as she dominates the piano and she playfully bends her words for effect. “I ain’t–! I ain’t–! I ain’t–!” she stutters, somehow, gracefully. She makes it easy to wait for whatever words come next. (Erika Fredrickson) Davina and the Vagabonds play the Missoula Winery Thu., Feb. 20, at 8 PM. $13/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

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“Maybe if we took off our shirts we could get to the bottom of the mystery.”

A young woman has been murdered. Her naked body is found under a tree, bound and propped up to imitate kneeling in prayer. A set of deer antlers perches like a crown on her head. A bloody spiral is carved into her skin. A quiet detective takes notes at the scene on an oversized notepad. He looks up into the cloudy Louisiana sky, watching a giant flock of birds take flight. The flock shapes itself into a migrating imitation of the grisly spiral on the dead girl. Is that a hallucination? A sign from God? A clue?

This is the surreal, macabre and beautiful world of HBO’s “True Detective,” created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. Matthew McConaughey plays a philosophizing homicide detective with a mysterious past and Woody Harrelson plays his philandering yet conflicted good ol’ boy partner. Sprinkled throughout are familiar characters: An angry police captain, a dutiful but unhappy wife, a buxom, borderline-underage mistress, serial killers and a shady suspect or two.

But the familiar world of noir gumshoes and classic door-knocking investigation ends there. “True Detective” digs deeper into its characters than your average whodunit. For one thing, the show spans an unusually broad timeline. One part of the story takes place in the mid-1990s as the two detectives investigate a serial killer. A separate story takes place in the present day, 17 years later, as the detectives—changed through time and experience—revisit the case through interviews.

“True Detective,” which premiered Jan. 12, is pure Southern gothic fiction in the truest form ever adapted for television. It’s not the campy and simpering fantasy/romance mashup of “True Blood,” nor the romantic/tragic melodrama of Anne Rice. This is like something out of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man

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Is Hard To Find” or Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” where the Southern location and humid atmosphere are just as important as the storyline and characters.

Scenes move between decrepit buildings, seedy trailer parks and dingy restaurants. The damp, dark and messy bayou foliage serves as a metaphorical backdrop to Harrelson’s strained marriage and McConaughey’s tragic past. For each part of the story we can take at face value, other parts seem less certain as to whether they’re real or imagined. Equally disconcerting: wondering if each character we meet is a murdering psychopath.

“True Detective,” which is currently halfway through its first season, is a mere eight episodes. Unlike so many lengthy American television series, it requires concise storytelling. (It is, however, like “American Horror Story” in that the next season will involve a different storyline with a different set of actors.) Fortunately, McConaughey and Harrelson make the most and best of the time they have on-screen.

Present-day McConaughey is bedraggled, frail and washed up. He agrees to continue the interview only if provided with a six pack of Lone Star. He has changed over the years from wistful and melancholic to bitter and full of contempt. Present-day Harrelson is divorced, beer-gutted and eager to put on a hyucking, happy-go-lucky front. His tragic former self was naïve, in over his head and insecure. Both men have lost something in the 17 years between one narrative and the other. The show handles that gap with artful restraint. It’s a mystery that keeps us hooked—and helps make this one of the most engaging shows on television. arts@missoulanews.com

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Near the end of Inside Llewyn Davis, the titular hero (Oscar Isaac)—a struggling folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village—tears into a version of a song we’ve already heard a couple of times before, the folk standard “Fare Thee Well.” It’s a raw, blistering rendition, occupying a strange place in the film’s fragmented chronology—and it just might be the key to unlocking another masterful creation by Joel and Ethan Coen, one that may be the most poignant and human story they’ve ever created.

Like many Coen brothers’ films, this one is a kind of odyssey, and a more literally Homeric one than anything outside of O Brother, Where Art Thou?

From an opening that finds Llewyn being beaten in an alley as comeuppance for some unspecified offense, the Coens flash back several days, following the itinerant, homeless Llewyn as he bounces from couch to couch and seems to give offense to everyone he knows. He accidentally lets out the cat of an uptown benefactor. He may have impregnated Jean, the wife (Carey Mulligan) of his musician friend Jim ( Justin Timberlake). A visit to his sister ( Jeanine Serralles) finds him insulting more conventional lifestyle choices than his own. That Llewyn, he’s not an easy fellow to embrace. Or to put it more simply: He’s kind of a dick.

But as the Coens gradually parcel out information, the character gets more and more complicated.

Yes, he’s the sort of self-righteous artist who snorts at Jim and Jean’s “careerist” aspirations, or the lyrics of the novelty song Jim has written (the hilarious “Please Mr. Kennedy”). Yet he also recently went solo, for reasons not immediately clear, after working with a partner named Mike. He discovers, when setting up an appointment for Jean to have an abortion, that a previous partner actually carried his baby to term. And Llewyn’s relationship with his father— and dad’s career as a merchant seaman—is complicated by present circumstances as well. Isaac’s performance is wonderfully nuanced, but it is particularly so during the song performances that he reveals the Coens’ grand purpose in Inside Llewyn Davis: They’re exploring grief, and how easy it is not to confront it.

Because the Coens have always been masters of moments—tense, intricate set pieces, or memorable bursts of dialogue—it’s been easy over the years to dismiss them as chilly technicians who turn to humanism as a last resort. There’s a terrific extended sequence in Llewyn Davis that finds Llewyn sharing a road trip to Chicago with a heroin-addicted jazz musician ( John Goodman) and his taciturn driver (Garrett Hedlund), and at times it feels like it might be little more than a showcase for Goodman’s blowhard performance. Then that road trip reaches its climactic moment—Llewyn’s audition for the owner (F. Murray Abraham) of a legendary Chicago folk-music club—and a cruel punch line also serves as turning point for Llewyn starting, ever so gradually, to let things go.

If Inside Llewyn Davis were nothing but its superficial pleasures, it would still be one of the year’s best films. Bruno Delbonnel’s cinematography washes music venues in cool blues, and the exteriors in the muted tones of a chilly New York winter. Every performance—the remarkable Isaac and Goodman, but also Mulligan’s venom-spewing Jean—hits a note somewhere beyond the stylized bits so often associated with Coen brothers films. And there’s all that music, lovely and haunting traditional folk melodies filled with yearning for something that seems impossible or out of reach.

That’s why it’s no mere elaborate exercise in style that the Coens chose this milieu for Llewyn’s story. As he brings a ferocious emotion to that final performance of “Fare Thee Well”—one that we don’t see when the film opens on the events of that same evening— we’re finally getting a glimpse at a Llewyn Davis ready to move on from the unresolved issues that hold him back from any chance at getting out of his own selfdestructive way. Inside Llewyn Davis may be just as funny and vividly drawn as other Coen brothers films, but it’s also a heartbreaking look at its title character finally getting those things that are inside Llewyn Davis out, so that he can, at last, say “au revoir.”

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Safety first No guts, no glory in The Monuments Men

by Molly Laich

“I need to know what becomes of Bilbo Baggins!”

To be fair, I don’t particularly like action, adventure or war films, sentimentality or happy endings, so from the start The Monuments Men and I sort of got off on the wrong foot. But I’m a professional, damn it. I was fully prepared to judge the film on its merits, and if necessary, lavish its director, co-writer and star George Clooney with faint praise. Tragically, the film turned out even worse than I thought it would be. I wish I’d gone to The Lego Movie instead, a children’s film based on a boring toy—what does that tell you?

In The Monuments Men, based on a book and true story, the Third Reich has squirreled away the world’s masterpieces, and if Hitler dies his men have orders to destroy everything. Professor Frank Stokes (Clooney) explains the problem to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his men in what looks like a 1940s era PowerPoint presentation. “Who will make sure the Mona Lisa still smiles?” Stokes says to a score that I will come to know throughout the film as insidious, swelling and needlessly heavy-handed.

The movie makes it seem as though a case needs must be made for saving the art, and it’s a thesis they keep returning to: Is preserving thousands of years of beautiful culture and tradition worth a few human lives? I haven’t read the book, so maybe I’m wrong that this idea is exaggerated for the film, but it seems to me that protecting and recovering property and resources has always been a component of why we fight.

To go behind enemy lines and identify the stolen works, Stokes will need a ragtag assembly of aging art experts, played here by a collection of beloved actors.

In a movie where everything is just a little lamer than it needs to be, the Monuments Men are blandly introduced and collected at their respective job sites.

We’ve got Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Jean Dujardin and Hugh Bonneville, listed helpfully in the credits in order of their descending star power. There’s no conflict, resistance or even funny quips in sight. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the men are stoic and eager to contribute to the war effort any way they can. For inspi-

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ration on how to bring together beloved characters for a shared task, Clooney should have watched D2: The Mighty Ducks, which has the team visiting each of the old cast members on rollerblades at the mall where they conveniently all work now. Their ringleader says something like, “Take off your apron, we’re getting the team back together!” I mention it only because this montage from a children’s film about hockey is executed about 10 times better than in The Monuments Men. These excellent actors are forced to play characters who are unfunny and indistinguishable from one another. The story puts them in dumb pairs, navigating a PG-13 version of a war-torn landscape, so rest assured that even amidst the watered-down carnage, nothing truly bad will happen. Cate Blanchett shows up as a French art curator secretly working for the resistance. Matt Damon needs to gain her trust, since she alone holds important information as to where the stolen art’s been transported.

If the script is a gloved hand feeding a nest of starving birds, Murray and Balaban have the most scraps with which to work. Balaban as Preston Savitz becomes “Private Preston Savitz,” which he hates being called. (This is a recurring joke that I entirely do not get, but that one’s probably on me.) Mostly they’re rivals who get along just fine and have no real conflict or heart to speak of.

More than anything, The Monuments Men damns itself with its uneven tone and dogged commitment to please. I think Clooney wanted to make an inoffensive film with universal appeal, but good art rarely comes from such a compromised place. It’s not that you can’t mix levity and tragedy in a war film—you needn’t look further than Inglourious Basterds or even Catch-22 to prove that—but to pull it off you need guts and good characters, and sadly, The Monuments Men has neither.

The Monuments Men continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK ENDLESS LOVE Teenagers with suspiciously good skin seek to bone each other, despite parental disapproval.

If you can figure out what makes this movie remotely unique, you tell me. Starring Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer and Bruce Greenwood. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharoahplex, Showboat.

WINTER’S TALE Colin Farrell is a roustabout who changes his ways when he discovers he can make the woman he loves come back to life, in a centuryspanning tale set in a fictional version of New York City. Also starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Russell Crowe. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING AMERICAN HUSTLE Sexy, swindling, 70s-fabulous misfits led by a con man get involved with the FBI, in a story mega-loosely based on the real Abscam sting operation. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12.

BARBIE: THE PEARL PRINCESS In the 27th animated Barbie movie, I’m guessing she deals with menopause and Ken’s midlife crisis. Starring the voices of Kelly Sheridan and Katie Crown. Rated G. Carmike 12.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS A singer-songwriter dude in 1961 Greenwich Village wears neck scarves and tries to make it big. I think I saw this before on the Your Dad, the Original Hipster blog. Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. Rated R. Wilma. (See Film.)

“Oh man, back at Downton, we always had to ride side-saddle.” Winter’s Tale opens Friday at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.

Paulette, Prison Terminal, about the death of a convict, The Lady In Number 6, a 109-year-old pianist and Holocaust survivor, and Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), a comedic take on motherhood.

Wilma.

THE MONUMENTS MEN FDR directs an unlikely platoon of handsome men to rescue classic art pieces from the Nazis in WWII Germany. Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

(See Film.)

THE LEGO MOVIE The toys you grew up painfully stepping on now star in an action-packed animated adventure to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the Lego world together. Starring the voices of Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks and Craig Berry. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION See the animated shorts up for awards this year, including Feral, about a wild boy who tries to learn how to live in civilization, Get A Horse, a never-before-seen 1920s Disney piece featuring Mickey Mouse, and The Missing Scarf, a dark comedy narrated by George Takei. Wilma.

LIVE ACTION OSCAR SHORTS The shorts up for Academy Awards include Cavedigger, about sandstone sculptor Ra

PHILOMENA A cynical journalist sets out with an elderly woman to help find her long-lost son. Rated PG-

13. Starring Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and Sophie Kennedy Clark. Wilma, Pharaohplex.

RIDE ALONG A smart-alec security guard tags along with his fiancée’s brother, a cop, to prove his mettle, but he could be in for more than he bargained. Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumpter.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

ROBOCOP Half-man. Half-cop. All action. Hollywood continues with its prime directive of inflicting remakes on us. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Douglas Urbanski and Abbie Cornish. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

school full of sexy vampires. Sounds just like my high school. Starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Danila Kozlovsky. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com 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.

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller are three buddies trying to navigate confusing points in romantic relationships. Also starring Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharoahplex.

VAMPIRE ACADEMY Rose Hathaway is just your typical half-human, half-vampire teen, going to your typical private

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Common ground on GMOs

by Ari LeVaux

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In case you missed it, there has been an interesting discussion about genetically modified food over at Grist.org. It began with a series of posts by Nathaneal Johnson in which he dissected, in impressively neutral and skeptical fashion, most of the argument for or against GM food that you’ve ever heard.

Johnson’s posts managed to draw attention and respect from voices on all sides of the issue.

After six months of researching and posting, Johnson came to the conclusion that genetically modified organisms are neither as scary as many haters claim, nor as world-saving as supporters have boasted. In an attempt to put the discussion to bed, he wrote, “The most astonishing thing about the vicious public brawl over GMOs, is that the stakes are so low.”

All of a sudden, folks respectfully had a beef with Johnson. Two responses were published at Grist, one

by Mother Jones food columnist (and former Grist writer) Tom Philpott, a longtime critic of GM food, and one by Ramez Naam, author of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.

Philpott argued that GMOs do matter, because they are a load-bearing pillar of a misguided agriculture system, while Naam wrote that GMOs matter because they can, and already do, benefit people and the environment, not just corporations and factory farms. According to Philpott, most GMOs have been used to sell pesticides and herbicides. He called the vast majority of GMOs currently on the market “an appendage of the pesticide industry, which has dominated the technology from the start.”

Naam, a proponent of “sensible labeling,” wrote that GM crops have more impact in poor countries than rich ones. He said GM cotton in India is an example of how these crops can help boost the income of small farmers.

While Philpott and Naam inhabit opposing camps on the GMO issue, their arguments are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they could define an important chunk of common ground between both sides of the debate.

Skeptics of GM food should come to grips with the fact that the act of genetic manipulation is itself not unholy. As it is, few GMO haters would refuse medicine made with assistance from GM bacteria, like insulin, or a blood clot thinner used to treat a stroke.

As GMOs have proven useful in medicine, they could also be useful in agriculture.

By the same token, proponents of GM foods should remember that for most skeptics of GM food, the bare act of genetic manipulation isn’t even the issue. It’s the process by which the technology has been rolled out that’s pissing them off. In many ways, the script is playing out according to old fears, and there seems little public recourse available.

FLASH IN THE PAN

The epitome of this power imbalance, of course, is Monsanto, which is simultaneously the world’s largest biotech corporation, seed company and organic seed company, as well as one of the world’s largest pesticide companies. That’s a ridiculous concentration of power.

There is now an effort underway to use genetic modification to save Florida’s orange orchards, which are threatened by the greening virus. Bananas and chocolate, as well as other beloved and economically important crops, are susceptible to viruses as well.

GMO haters might want to do a gut check by asking themselves if they would forgo GM chocolate if it was the last chocolate on earth.

And those who believe that all GM skeptics are being paranoid should remember that there is nothing inherently safe about introducing GM plants to people and the environment. If not tested and regulated appropriately, there will be problems.

The rollout of GM foods has been awkward and wrong-footed since it began, in 1994, with the first GMO food ever to be commercially licensed: the slowripening Flavr Savr tomato. Its creators at Calgene had sought to use a process called antisense knockdown to shut down certain genes, and the Flavr Savr was approved according to this understanding. The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, meanwhile, was awarded to a team that figured out that in addition to the antisense knockdown, something entirely different was happening in that tomato: a process now known as RNA interference.

The Flavr Savr was pulled from the market, not because it was operating via a previously unknown pathway, but because it was too mushy. It turns out the world didn’t need another subpar supermarket tomato, yet we all took a risk, in a sense, on a tomato that was approved before anyone knew what was going on.

Red flags and all, skeptics need to face the fact that our walk down the GMO trail is inevitable. After Philpott’s and Naam’s rebukes of his “GMOs don’t matter” conclusion, Johnson posted a response of his own, beneath the headline: “OK, GMOs matter, but the noisy fight over them is a distraction.”

He acknowledges that there are problems with GM foods, but thinks they have been overblown, and are solvable.

The battle over GM food has become a proxy for a philosophical debate about the appropriate places for science and capitalism. This is an important, ongoing discussion to be having. But it’s a separate discussion, even if GM crops offer many cases in point.

The benefits and risks of GM food lie in the processes by which this neutral technology is deployed.

So let’s focus on these processes as we figure out how best to solve the problems that most need solving.

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2/14 Tom Catmull 6 pm-9 pm. 2/18 Captain Wilson Conspiracy 6-9 pm. Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). 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. $ 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 sand-

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wiches 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. 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. Mon-Sat 11am5pm. 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. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ 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. $-$$$ Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$

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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 $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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Booze at Flathead Lake HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: Within the next week or so, anything you want. Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula recently purchased a full liquor license, and owner Carla Mancini assures us that the first shipment of booze is imminent. Once FLBC gets the final thumbs-up from the state, Mancini plans to host a “launch party” that will include free drinks from 5 to 6 p.m. for anyone who “likes” the brewery’s Facebook page. The new license is part of a series of goals mapped out when FLBC purchased its downtown building in 2010. Mancini says the next step is opening a rooftop patio.

What’s changing: FLBC intends to roll out a drink menu stacked with 10 to 15 specialty mixers using a variety of ingredients made inhouse. “We’re squeezing our own orange juice and stuff like that,” Mancini says. “It’s just going to be a little bit upscale, but it’s not going to break the budget. We’re not going to have $15 drinks.” Mancini is also establishing a private whiskey club, which will have full run of the third-floor Galaxy Lounge one night a month.

Membership will be limited to 70 or 75 people.

What’s staying the same: Nothing is set to change aesthetically, beyond the possible addition of a few pool tables on the second floor. Private parties will still be able to rent out the Galaxy Lounge, and the availability of alcohol shouldn’t distract from Flathead’s beer, Mancini says. “That

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. $-$$

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still is our main focus here … We’re just introducing a new option for people when they come in.”

When to show up: That detail, unfortunately, is anyone’s guess right now. Mancini says it could happen literally any day. “They could call me right now and say, ‘You’re good to go.’ Or it could be later this week.” FLBC will put the word out via social media, so stay tuned to their Facebook page for updates.

Where to go: As soon as the announcement’s made, head down to 424 N. Higgins Ave. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com

Oysters Sampler $12 Seared Albacore Tuna $13 Citrus Ponzu, Ginger, Scallion, Seaweed, Shishito Pepper

Seared Duck Breast $29 Huckleberry Bread Pudding, Swiss Chard, Carrots, Chocolate Vinaigrette

Grilled Tomahawk Steak for Two $65 Mashed Potatoes, Spaghetti Squash, Kale, Sauce Diane

Chocolate Fondue for Two $15 Strawberries, Banana, Nuts, Cake

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.

Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome 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! $-$$

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 11:30-12:30 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.

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. $-$$

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. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers!

Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ 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

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Philly West 134 W. Broadwa 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 inhouse so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$

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. $

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. $$-$$$

Passion Fruit Mignonette, Cucumber Gelee, Champagne Granite

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. $$-$$$

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 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. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ 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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Keep it under your hat. DJ Abilities performs at the Palace, along with Bad Tenants, Codependents, M-AD and Tonsofun. Tue., Feb. 18 at 9 PM. 18-plus. $8, plus fees. Tickets available at Ear Candy.

THURSDAYFEB13 Kingston, Jamaica’s Black Uhuru brings some of that island reggae warmth up to the Top Hat, along with Indubious. 10 PM. $26/$22 in advance. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and tophatlounge.com. 18-plus.

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

If your name is Simon and you like to do drawings, you’re gonna lurve Continuing Drawing: Perspective Portraits with Marilyn Bruya. Participants will explore contour and gesture drawing and use of perspective. Ages 18-plus, new and ongoing students

welcome. Missoula Art Museum.

Thursdays from 10 AM-1 PM. $100/$90 for members. Call 7280447 or email reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3

years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Take your boots off before the Lunch Re-Boot Yoga with Mary Hanson, with breathing, stretching and relaxing poses. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays from noon to 12:50 PM. No class on Jan. 23. $40 for six week series/$9 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or email info@redwillowlearning.org.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11.

Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Painting Fun with Susie Risho invites kids ages 7–12 to learn basic composition and color mixing with tempera and acrylic paint.

Projects include weather paintings,

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[calendar] real and fantasy creatures and circular mandala designs. Missoula Art Museum. Thursdays through Feb. 20 from 3–4:30 PM. $50/$45 for members. Call 728-0447 or email reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org.

Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Thu. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Drop-ins welcome. Call 3601521.

Go ahead and linger in Tortoise pose for a while at Yoga For You, which encourages folks to go at their own pace while following a recording of instructor Rodney Yee. Missoula Public Library. Thursdays at 4:30 PM.

nightlife Get rolling on that resolution to be more rad with the four-week adult beginners’ class at Aikido of Missoula, 208 E. Main St. The course introduces Aikido principles, basic techniques, breath awareness and selfdefense. Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-5:45 PM, through March 6. Call 549-8387 or visit AikidoMissoula.com to learn more.

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. Stay true to your roots when oneman-band John Adam Smith plays uplifting songs and West African rhythms at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton from 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Ryan Bundy won’t make you eat crow at the Top Hat’s dinner show. 6 PM. Free.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Evening Yoga for Runners, taught

by Missy Adams, meets Thursdays until the end of March at the Runner’s Edge basement classroom, 304 N. Higgins Ave. 6-7 PM. $92/$85 for members. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Failings of the criminal justice system are up for discussion when Jon Gould, director of the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research at American University, lectures at the UM Law School. 6:30 PM. Free/$25 for those seeking CLE credit. Visit mtinnocenceproject.org to learn more.

Wade through them snow drifts before the Montana Backcountry Alliance and Montana Wilderness Association present the ninth annual Backcountry Film Festival, showcasing the wonders of winter recreation. Ten films span from Mongolian mountains to wolverine adventures. Roxy Theater. 6:30 PM. $10. Check out montanabackcountry.org.

Sample a tasty trio of creative minds when Sheryl Noethe, Josh Slot-

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nick and Alan Weltzien read and sign their poetry collections. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Janisse Ray, 2014 Kittredge Visiting Writer in EVST and author of nonfiction books Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt and more, reads as part of the Wild Mercy Community Nature Writing Reading Series.

UM Flat, 633 S. Fifth St. E. 7 PM. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with Big Sky Pool Party in the Cabana starting at 5 PM, singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.

American Falcon swoops in for another installment of the Thursday night residency at the VFW, along with Ryan Bundy and Boss Fight. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. No cover.

Rootsy reggae aficionados Satsand play chill tunes at the Palace, along with Ten Skip Stone. 9 PM. No cover.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind—just be cool and ask first, lovelies. The Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

FRIDAYFEB14 Four words: Ice. Sculpture.

Liquor. Luge. Find it at the Melt Your Heart Valentine’s Day Party, featuring Mr. Projectile and Mr. Wizard and Stroboscopic GoGo dancers. Hot giggity! Palace. 9 PM. $7. 18-plus.

Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

The Last Best Printfest, indeed, the one and only printfest in our neck of the woods, presents a day of workshops, demonstrations and silent auction. ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. 9 AM-8:30 PM. Free, no registration required. Learn more at zootown arts.org/LastBest. (See Spotlight.)

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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“Dude, I been working out. Feel my pecs.” The Legend of Orpheus runs at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts on Fri., Feb. 14 at 7:30 PM, Sat., Feb. 15 at 2 and 7:30 and Sun., Feb. 16 at 2 PM. $15-$21, tickets at mctinc.org or by calling 728-7529.

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.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM. No cover. Feb. 14 features The Hasslers.

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.

Fact: Joan Zen Jazz is a natural aphrodisiac, so come on down to Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton and get a dose. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Teens go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Writers Group, which meets every Fri. at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721BOOK.

I’ve got you, babe, at least until you fall down, and then you’re on your own at the Sweetheart Skate at Glacier Ice Rink. 2-for-1 admission during evening public sessions evening public skate sessions on the outside rink. 6 PM. $6/$3 for kids.

Ladies and their parts will speak up and out at the UM Women’s Resource Center annual production of The Vagina Monologues. Besides the now-classic production, which raises funds to fight domestic violence, the event includes a nifty silent auction and, no doubt, rad partying afterward. Dennison Theater, 7 PM. $10, tickets available at Griztix outlets and the door. To learn about donating to the silent auction, email umt.wrc@gmail.com or call 406-2434153.

Spark some creativity after the bell rings with the Young Artists After School Program, where kids can learn art fundamentals, history and techniques while using several media.

ZACC. Ages 6-11 on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:15-5:30 PM. Ages 12-16 on Fridays from 3:455:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

The D’Vine Palette roving studio celebrates a grand opening with a libation-fueled social painting class at Traveler’s Rest Restaurant, 2.5 miles up Highway 12 in Lolo. 6-8 PM. Visit dvinepalette.com. Seating is limited, so call 239-6856 to learn more about registration and several other weekly classes at other locations.

Cozy up to someone at the seventh annual An Affair of the heART quilt show and Reflections exhibit from Montana Bricolage Artists. Corner of South Second and State Streets in Hamilton. Fri., 6-8 PM, AND Sat. and Sun. from 10 AM-4 PM. $3 admission. Learn more by calling Jamie at 360-3712, SueAnne at 360-0658 or Susan at 360-9458.

Jitterbug with all the jerks and fillies when David Horgan and Beth Lo play jazz at Caffe Dolce, 500 Brooks St. 6-9 PM. No cover.

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Enjoy zee cinema at Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema night, the second Friday of every month.

The series showcases indie and foreign films. Doors open at 6:45, show at 7 PM. Check missoulapub library.org for info. Free. Feb. 14 features the French/Hebrew film Aliyah.

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.

Don’t yell out your ex-girlfriend’s name during Hump Day Bingo with Bob at the Lucky Strike Casino.

Prizes for winners. Beware: $5 minifishbowls served all day. Bingo starts at 6:30 PM.

The classic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice is the centerpiece of The Legend of Orpheus, a collaboration between MCT’s Out of the Box Productions, UM Opera Theater and the UM Symphony Orchestra. MCT Center for the Performing Arts on Fri., Feb. 14 at 7:30 PM, Sat., Feb. 15 at 2 and 7:30 and Sun., Feb. 16 at 2 PM. $15-$21, tickets at mctinc.org or by calling 728-7529.

Montana Rep presents Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, about five people who discover new things about themselves in an eclectic acting class. Performances at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students.

Tonight is the opening performance of the Hamilton Player’s rendition of the classic Oklahoma!

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[calendar] Performances at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, Feb. 14-16, Feb. 21-23 and Feb. 28-March 2. $15/$8 for kids under 12. Visit hamiltonplayers.com.

It’s a Valentine’s Day Millssacre when the Deadnecks and Helligans play the VFW, along with Whiskey Hooves, Mahamawaldi and Grunt. 8 PM. $4/$6 for ages 18-20.

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.

Sing a happy tune at the Evaro Bar’s Friday night karaoke and you just might win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, free to sing. 17025 US Highway 93 North.

DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.

Crack some suds and dig the mellow kicks at Thunderground, a new dance night with Kris Moon and guests on Fridays in the basement of Stage 112, on the corner of Front and Pattee (aka the old Jolly Corks.) 9 PM. No cover, 21-plus.

Sham-a-lam-a-ding-dong, the Bop Dips are here to sweeten up the evening at the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 9 PM. No cover.

Baby Tyger and John Adam Smith will croon their way into your heart at the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. $5.

You’ll fall so fast, you’ll leave your shadow still standing at Rhythmatic Romantics: A Hip Hop Love Story, featuring such sultry emcees as Tonsofun, Dar, Traff the Wiz, Codependents, Gentleman Script, Petey Peak, Mite Aswel and DJs Brand 1 and Tonality.

Stage 112. $5/$8 for couples. 21plus.

Pour one out for your homies before the fourth annual Dre Day Dead Hipster Dance Party, which features all the old school hip-hop, 90s hits and $5 Olde English forties you can handle. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 9 PM. $3.

Ask somebody to check you for ticks when The Hasslers play a very booty-moving show at Sean Kelly’s, along with Ryan Bundy. 9 PM. No cover.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406721-2416 or just show up.

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.

Longtime jazzman Charles Neville plays the saxamaphone at the Top Hat, starting at 9:30 PM. $14/$12 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

SATURDAYFEB15 All the hottest designers predict that fur will be totally in at AniMeal’s ACATemy Awards. The red-carpet, black-tie event starts with silent auction, dinner, Golden Cat Awards and live auction. Missoula Hilton Garden Inn, 6 PM. $65/$650 for table of 10. All proceeds go toward shelter up-keep, medical care and pet food for local critters. Visit animeals.com or call 721-4710 for tickets and info.

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The one and only Big Sky Documentary Film Festival kicks off today at 10 AM. Tonight features a free screening of Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert at the Wilma at 7:30 PM. For more info on the 130-plus films screening Feb. 15-23, visit bigskyfilmfest.org.

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 run wildmissoula.org.

Get outta the house and check out some feathered wonders when Five Valleys Audubon hosts a junket to view raptors and other wintering birds in the Mission Valley.

Meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 8 AM or the Cenex on the south side of Ronan at 9 AM. Dress warm and bring a lunch, trip returns to Missoula at 5 PM. To learn more, call Terry at 214-1194.

Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

Run like there’s ice cream at the finish line at the Catch ‘Em If You Can 5K, a benefit for Hellgate High School Cross Country. Starts at Toole Park at the end of Fourth Street East at 9:30 AM and follows the Riverfront Trail. Post-race party includes treats and ice cream. Check out runwild missoula.org.

Big Sky Mind and the Tibetan Language Institute present A Day of Buddhist Practice: Cultivating Love and Compassion, a workshop with instructor David Curtis at 102 McLeod from 9:30 AM-5 PM, with potluck lunch break at 12:30. Suggested donation of $25-$50/free for students.

Register by calling 961-5131, emailing info@tibetanlanguage.org or dayof at 9 AM. Them waters might be chilly, but you can b.s. about trout anyway when the Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile hosts a weekly Fly Tyer’s Roundtable.

Y’all can drink coffee, learn new patterns and use tools and materials for free. Rock Creek Fisherman’s Mercantile, 73 Rock Creek Road in Clinton. 10 AM. Call 825-6440 or email rcmerc@blackfoot.net for more details.

Cozy up to someone at the seventh annual An Affair of the heART quilt show and Reflections exhibit from Montana Bricolage Artists. Corner of South Second and State Streets in Hamilton. Fri., 6-8 PM, AND Sat. and Sun. from 10 AM-4 PM. $3 admission. Learn more by calling Jamie at 360-3712, SueAnne at 360-0658 or Susan at 360-9458.

Hang out with some real tweeps at the Beginning Birder Walk sponsored by Bitterroot and Five Valleys

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prints of tides The art of printmaking has more to it than just the witty saying on your T-shirt. It boasts a long, global history, from Asian woodcuts to European etchings. Woodblock or woodcut printing was developed in China for decorating cloth, and by the fifth century AD, was used for inscribing text and words on paper. In the Middle Ages, German metalworkers developed engraving, where a very finely detailed image is cut into a metal plate. Artists like Rembrandt used etching and engraving; today you can see it on American money. But the version of printmaking you’re very likely wearing on your clothing or displaying on your tote bag is silkscreening.

Silkscreening, or screenprinting, uses a mesh screen, stencil, paint and squeegee to impress images on cloth or posters; it goes back as far as the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD). Andy Warhol is credited with turning screenprinting into pop art with his Marilyn Monroe portraits. The process can be much fancier these days, but screenprinting with similar tools as the Chinese used is still an accessible and prolific means of sharing images, from high art to local DIY punk bands.

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WHAT: Last Best Printfest WHEN: Fri., Feb. 14, from 9 AM–8:30 PM WHERE: ZACC, 235 N. First St. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: zootownarts.org/LastBest

On Feb. 14, the ZACC hosts the Last Best Printfest, which features workshops and demos about several kinds of printmaking. It runs all day, with classes on mono prints, image transfers on clay, collagraph, relief prints and pull prints on a vintage showcard sign press. It’s the fourth annual printfest, Audubon chapters. Families with kids are welcome. Trip involves minimal walking and two hours of instruction on using binoculars, field guides and identification techniques. Meet at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge headquarters at 10 AM. Learn more by calling Terry at 214-1194.

Imaginative young writers ages 8-14 are invited to the Missoula Writing Collaborative’s Saturday Creative Writing Workshops, where instructor Micah Fields will lead discussions in the role of winter in inspiring work, occasional outdoor recreational activities and hot cocoa.

Fort Missoula, No. 28, Officer’s Row. No cost. Learn more by calling 5493348 or emailing info@missoulawritingcollaborative.org?

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.

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As part of the festivities, from 5:30–8:30 PM, the ZACC gallery hosts a reception for the youth portfolio show and, as it does for every Second Friday, you can bring a shirt or buy one to be silkscreened from a choice of a few cool options created by local artists. Once you appreciate the fine art of printing, you may as well show it off with a witty T-shirt.

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mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK.

Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. For more information call 493-4431.

Kick back and warm up with traditional Salish tales from storyteller Tony Incashola, of the Salish-Kootenai Cultural Committee. Traveler’s Rest State Park. $4/free for members and kids under 18.

Let the creativity and the libations flow with Art on Tap, a sociable and relaxing painting class where you’ll go from blank canvas to readyto-frame art. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. 12:30 PM. $32. Call 317-1910 or email artontapmissoula@gmail.com to learn more.

Become a bush expert during the Winter Shrub Identification Field Trip with the Native Plant Society. You’ll learn the basics of using a key and then head out to the Swan River Nature Trail in Bigfork. RSVP to Anne at 406-886-2242 or Betty at 406-8920129; Missoula folks should contact Clare for carpool info at 728-0189.

Music is an aeroplane so share the gift of it with the chilluns at Kids’ Vibrations, a 45-minute funtime featuring local musicians, dancing and playing instruments. Now meeting at the Missoula Senior Citizens’ Center, 705 Higgins Ave. 11–11:45 AM. Donations accepted.

Get a jolt of inspiration when Valerie Harms presents Your Soul at a Crossroads: (With Steps You Can Take Not to Lose It), a guide to finding your way using your inner resources.

Reading at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., from 1-3 PM. John Frusciante, eat your heart out when Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo performs as part of Flathead Valentine’s festivities at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts. 4 PM. $27/$15 for students. Visit Electric Avenue Gifts, bigforkcenter.org or call 406-837-4885 for tickets.

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nightlife David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the intoxicating tunes while you sip some tasty local vintages at the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4, music from 6-9 PM. I’ve got you, babe, at least until you fall down, and then you’re on your own at the Sweetheart Skate at Glacier Ice Rink. 2-for-1 admission and $1 skate rentals during evening public sessions evening public skate sessions on the outside rink. 6 PM. $6/$3 for kids.

Exercise caution and don’t run with scissors when The Harms Brothers play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

It’ll be greener on the other side when Pinegrass plays old-school bluegrass at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays the jazzy stuff all sexy-like at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7-9 PM. No cover.

The classic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice is the centerpiece of The Legend of Orpheus, a collaboration between MCT’s Out of the Box

Productions, UM Opera Theater and the UM Symphony Orchestra. MCT Center for the Performing Arts on Fri., Feb. 14 at 7:30 PM, Sat., Feb. 15 at 2 and 7:30 and Sun., Feb. 16 at 2 PM. $15-$21, tickets at mctinc.org or by calling 728-7529.

Montana Rep presents Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, about five people who discover new things about themselves in an eclectic acting class. Performances at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students.

The Missoula Folklore Society presents a contra dance with tunes upstairs at the Union Hall.

Christa Torrens has the call. Beginner workshop from 7:30-8, dancing from 8-11 PM. $9/$6 for members.

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.

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2.

DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.

The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays.

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Make out in the mosh pit when the very metallic Arctodus and Mountain Shark play the Palace, along with the return of the spiffy fellows of Con/sequence. 9 PM. Free.

Those rascals at KBGA College Radio are hosting one big End-ofThon par-tay at the Roxy Theater, wherein Shramana, The All-Hail and Darshan Pulse will be playing tunes, and Modality will do a live score to the film Haxan that will doubtless surprise and titillate. Plus, there’s standup comedy, a spelling bee, whatever the Bat Honey Puppeteers are, and more.

9 PM. $5. VFW bartenders will be providing libations.

Prowl all through the night at the ACATemy Awards afterparty, which includes dancin’ and drankin’ and tunes

by Shodown, at the Hilton Garden Inn. 10 PM-midnight. No ticket necessary; but dress fancy-like. Check out animeals.com.

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The D’Vine Palette Class invites one and all to enjoy libations and a social painting class at Traveler’s Rest State Park, 2.5 miles up Highway 12, off Highway 93 in Lolo. 24 PM. Visit dvinepalette.com.

Cozy up to someone at the seventh annual An Affair of the heART quilt show and Reflections exhibit from Montana Bricolage Artists. Corner of South Second and State Streets in Hamilton. Fri., 6-8 PM, AND Sat. and Sun. from 10 AM-4 PM. $3 admission. Learn more by calling Jamie at 360-3712, SueAnne at 360-0658 or Susan at 360-9458.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger

plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK. Gather round, children, and listen to tales of the Hughes Gardens at the History Roundtable with Glenn and Sharon Smith and Don Felton. Includes a display by the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. St. Ann Catholic Church in Bonner. 2 PM. Free.

The non-instructed Open Figure Drawing afternoon invites artists to draw from a live model. Missoula Art Museum. 3-5 PM. Register by calling 406-728-0447, or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. $7/$5 for members.

nightlife The classic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice is the centerpiece of The Legend of Orpheus, a collaboration between MCT’s Out of the Box Productions, UM Opera Theater and the UM Symphony Orchestra. MCT Center for the Performing Arts on Fri., Feb. 14 at 7:30 PM, Sat., Feb. 15 at 2 and 7:30 and Sun., Feb. 16 at 2 PM. $15-$21, tickets at mctinc.org or by calling 728-7529.

Singer-songwriter and all-around folky dude John Floridis plays Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-7 PM. No cover.

Explore the idea of open intelligence and the peace, happiness and skillfulness that exists within you during the Balanced View open meeting, which runs. from 6-7 PM in the meeting room of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free, but donations accepted. Visit greatfreedom.org for more info.

Montana Rep presents Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, about five people who discover new things about themselves in an eclectic acting class. Performances at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. $3 Fireball specials. Call 721-1798.

MONDAYFEB17 You be Leo DiCaprio, I’ll be Jeremy Irons during Masquerade Monday with Famous Raymus at the Palace. 9 PM. Masks are suggested; you can pick one up for two bucks at the door. No cover.

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Fully equipped. Christian rapper Toby Mac performs at the Adams Center, along with Brandon Heath, Mandisa, Matthew West, Matt Maher and Capital Kings. Tue., Feb. 18. Doors at 6, show at 7 PM. $29-$39. Tickets available at griztix.com and 243-5329.

week class where you’ll learn how to format and plot out film scripts. ZACC, 235 N. First St. Mondays from 6-8 PM through Feb. 17. $75. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.org to learn more.

Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Rasa O’Neill presents Therapeutic Yoga for Wellness and Healing, with gentle stretches, breath work and guided meditation. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent St. Mondays from noon to 1 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in. Ongoing class. Call 721-0033 to learn more.

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, at 1 PM. $1.25.

Spark some creativity after the bell rings with the Young Artists After School Program, where kids can learn art fundamentals, history and techniques while using several media.

ZACC. Ages 6-11 on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:15-5:30 PM. Ages 12-16 on Fridays from 3:455:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

nightlife Keep your shiz together and for the love of God, quit accidentally yelling the answers at Super Trivia

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Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 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.

Let’s get physical, physical, at the Zumba Fitness Classes at Lolo School’s upper gym. Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 PM. $2/free for Lolo residents. Register by calling Kathy at 273-0451.

The D’Vine Palette social painting class meets at the Noodle Express conference room, 2000 W. Broadway, from 6-8 PM. Visit dvinepalette.com to learn more.

Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org.

Rock the mic when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse.

Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially

with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-229-0488 to get yourself a spot.

TUESDAYFEB18 Exercise your most gestural drawing ability when the ZACC hosts Celebrity Sketch: Downtown Dance Collective edition, where hang out, drink wine and learn to draw portraits. ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. 6 PM. $12/$10 for members, all supplies included. Call 549-7555 or email info@zootown arts.org to learn more.

Dance cuz everybody’s watching at the American Cabaret Style bellydance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. This class is great for beginners and experienced dancers alike. 6–7 PM. Visit madronadance.wordpress.com.

The Arlee CDC Board Meeting invites one and all to the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House. 10 AM. Call 726-5005 or email arleecdc@arleemontana.org to learn more.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome.

1–3 PM. For information, call 5433955.

The After School Art Adventure class invites kids ages 6-11 to check out current exhibits and then dig in to their own projects, like printmaking, paper weaving, fantasy character paintings, drawing and more.

Missoula Art Museum. Runs through Feb. 18, on Tuesdays from 3:45-5:15 PM. $50/$45 for members. Scholarships available, too. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

nightlife Get rolling on that resolution to be more rad with the four-week adult beginners’ class at Aikido of Missoula, 208 E. Main St. The course introduces Aikido principles, basic techniques, breath awareness and self-defense. Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-5:45 PM, through March 6. Call 549-8387 or visit AikidoMissoula.com to learn more.

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

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Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

The D’Vine Palette social painting class meets at the Noodle Express conference room, 2000 W. Broadway, from 6-8 PM. Visit dvinepalette.com to learn more.

Tuesday night just got a whole lot more erotic as Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays jazz at Brooks and Browns, inside the Holiday Inn downtown. 6-9 PM. No cover.

Find your creative voice at Turning the Wheel’s Tapestry class, which is a self-expression-filled improvisational movement bonanza. Headwaters Dance Company studio, 1042 Monroe St. 6:30-8:30 PM. $10. Join any time; register first at lulu.steinberg@turningthewheel.org.

Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writer’s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Techies are invited to the Google Apps development group with Nik Chaphalkar, which is using Eclipse IDE to build apps for the Android platform.

If any of that makes sense to you, check it out at the Missoula Public Library, ever other Tuesday evening through February. 7-8 PM. Free.

Toby Mac, one of the foremost Christian rappers today, performs along with Brandon Heath, Mandisa, Matthew West, Matt Maher and Capital Kings at the Adams Center. Doors at 6, show at 7 PM. $29-$39. Tickets available at griztix.com and 243-5329.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to 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.

“So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow...” Learn to mine great lines from that fabulous mind of yours just like William Carlos Williams when you join other seasoned and novice poets for Poetry Club, now meeting every third Tuesday at 8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First W. Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and 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. The forecast is for fun when Portland’s Miss Massive Snowflake and Rainstick Cowbell play the Badlander.

9 PM. No cover.

Rhymesayers’ own DJ Abilities performs at the Palace, along with Bad Tenants, Codependents, M-AD and Tonsofun. 9 PM. 18-plus. $8, plus fees. Tickets available at Ear Candy.

It’s Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, we all just live in it, so groove like there’s no tomorrow when the legendary saxophonist (and Slightly Stoopid member) rolls into the Top Hat. Show at 9:30 PM. $22/$18 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

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Wednesdays, from 3:15-5:30 PM. Ages 12-16 on Fridays from 3:455:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Stop on by for a mini session of the Body Code natural healing system at Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. W. 4-6 PM. No cost. To learn more, check out butterfly-transitions .webs.com or call Evelyn at 207-1370.

The folks at Bitterroot Ecological Awareness Resources bring you the third annual pint night fundraiser and Radical Reels Film Tour preview at Higherground Brewery in Hamilton.

Includes live music from Poor Henry and silent auction. 4-8 PM. The festival goes down on Feb. 21 at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center.

nightlife Yoga for Chronic Pain with Dena Saedi will use gentle poses, mindful meditation and other techniques to lesson long-term suffering for issues like back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent. Ongoing class is Wednesdays from 5-6 PM. $40 for six weeks, but a prerequisite private session with Dena is $50.

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. Feb. 12 features the Trio Noir.

Check out the poets of the future, today, when Buddy Wakefield and friends present an evening of slam poetry with 10 Missoula youth poets and Diego Kjelland. Le Petit Outre, 129 S. Fourth St. W. 7 PM. Donations appreciated.

The Fiction Writer’s Workshop invites all aspiring scribes to get together for dynamic, interactive workshopping at the ZACC. Every other week on Wednesday at 6 PM through June 11. Open to everyone ‘cept for UM writing students (and really, they ought to be busy enough as it is). Free.

Spark some creativity after the bell rings with the Young Artists After School Program, where kids can learn art fundamentals, history and techniques while using several media.

ZACC. Ages 6-11 on Mondays and

Win $50 by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 8 PM, plus specials on wings, pizza, domestic pitchers and $7 Harvest Moon pitchers.

Immerse yourself in professor Robert Stubblefield’s lecture, “By Some Gliding Stream: Walton, Wordsworth and the Riverscape Legacy,” part of the Western Rivers community lecture series. University Center Theater. 7-8:30 PM, with Q&A session.

This week’s wilderness lecture is “Getting Beyond Rock and Ice, Prairie Wildlands and the Next 50 Years of Conservation Under the Big Sky,” with panelists including a wildlife refuge manager, prairie wildlands outreach coordinator and Montana rancher.

Gallagher Business Building, room 122. 7:10-8:30 PM. 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: Which English king designated Feb. 14 as St. Valentine’s Day in 1537? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

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You gotta walk before you can boleo at the Argentine Tango Class with Tango Connections at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. New six-week series begins Feb. 19. 7:25-8:25 for beginners, 8:35-9:35 for intermediates. $10 to drop in, $8 per class if you sign up for the series. Learn more at ddcmontana.com or tangomissoula.com.

Intrepid comedian Tig Notaro performs at the Wilma, along with our own Chris Fairbanks.

8 PM. $25/$20 in advance at Ear Candy and Rockin Rudy’s. (See Feature.)

If you think your Prince falsetto is good, that’s what matters, dear. Now go forth and rule the school at the Badlander’s Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Red Solo cup, I fill you up. Let’s have a party at Stage 112’s Solo Cup Wednesdays with live music and/or DJs. One American dollar, plus $3 cup fee, gets you a 32-ounce cup of beer or well drink. Oof-da. 9 PM. 21-plus.

You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours when Random Music for Random Kitties brings the Milkcrate Mechanic, Hauli and Wolf Trap to spin tunes at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus free pool and $5 PBR pitchers. (Trivia answer: Henry VII.) The English Beat brings the ska and reggae lovin’ to the Top Hat. 9 PM. $24/$20 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com. (See Music.)

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Floor it. Montana Rep presents Circle Mirror Transformation. Performances at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 1416 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students.

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Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe plays the Top Hat Tue., Feb. 18. Show at 9:30 PM. $22/$18 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy's and tophatlounge.com.

THURSDAYFEB20 Taste a little bit of traditional Japanese art and culture (and food, hell yeah) at the opening reception for the traveling exhibit, The Japanese Woodblock Print: An Extension of the Impermanent. Japanese cuisine, ikebana and traditional shamisen performance are all on tap. Meloy and Paxson Galleries in the PARTV Center. 5-7 PM. Free.

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

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perience needed. 5:30 PM. $35, register at Eventzilla or at the Vespiary, all forms of payment accepted.

Seattle musician Micah Wyatt plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 68 PM. No cover.

Hold on to your chair and don’t step on no snakes when Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover.

Davina and the Vagabonds heat up the joint with jazz, blues and rootsy tunes at Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. 8 PM. $13/$10 in advance. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com. (See Music.)

American Falcon swoops in to drop another Thursday night residency on your head, along with Copilot Eyedrops and Darshan Pulse at the VFW. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. No cover.

Happy Galentine’s Day! Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit events online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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he Olympics is about a lot of things, but what’s the most inspiring, and keeps us coming back for more, is celebrating the triumph of human achievement. And so do the Special Olympics, which began in the 1960s when Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded a summer camp for young people with intellectual disabilities. The Special Olympics has grown since then into a globally recognized organization, with chapters throughout the world, including several in Montana. The basic idea is to celebrate what people with various disabilities (including Down syndrome, autism and Fragile X) can do, instead of what they can’t.

Special Olympics Montana organizes events throughout the year, like the State Winter Games, slated for Feb. 23–25 at Whitefish Mountain Resort.

Some of SOMT’s biggest events are polar plunges, held around the state. The upcoming Super Grizzly Dip

raises money by inviting intrepid folks to plunge into a tank on the University of Montana’s Oval. (You can also register as a “chicken” and raise funds without getting soaked, mercifully.) Plungers need to raise a $100 minimum donation to participate; proceeds support SOMT’s year-round athletic programs. That sounds like enough of an endorphin rush to make the dip worth it.

—Kate Whittle The Super Grizzly Dip on the University of Montana Oval Sat. Feb. 15 raises funds for Special Olympics of Montana. Registration at 10:30 AM, followed by party and plunge at noon. $100 donation minimum per plunger/$50 for UM students. Visit somt.org/events/plunge to learn more.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13 Wade through them snow drifts before the Montana Backcountry Alliance and Montana Wilderness Association present the ninth annual Backcountry Film Festival, showcasing the wonders of winter recreation. Ten films span from Mongolian mountains to wolverine adventures. Roxy Theater.

6:30 PM. $10. Check out montanabackcountry.org.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 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 FEBRUARY 15 Become an experienced woodsperson after the two-day Animal Tracking Clinic in the Swan Valley, where you’ll learn to recognize prints of everything from voles to mountain lions. $150, covers lectures, field sessions and transportation. Lodging at the Swan Valley homestead will cost extra. Register at northwestconnections.org, call 754-3185 or email info@northwestconnections.org.

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.

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Get outta the house and check out some feathered wonders when Five Valleys Audubon hosts a junket to view raptors and other wintering birds in the Mission Valley. Meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 8 AM or the Cenex on the south side of Ronan at 9 AM. Dress warm and bring

a lunch, trip returns to Missoula at 5 PM. To learn more, call Terry at 214-1194.

Run like there’s ice cream at the finish line at the Catch ‘Em If You Can 5K, a benefit for Hellgate High School Cross Country. Starts at Toole Park at the end of Fourth Street East at 9:30 AM and follows the Riverfront Trail. Post-race party includes treats and ice cream. Check out runwildmissoula.org.

Hang out with some real tweeps at the Beginning Birder Walk sponsored by Bitterroot and Five Valleys Audubon chapters. Families with kids are welcome. Trip involves minimal walking and two hours of instruction on using binoculars, field guides and identification techniques. Meet at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge headquarters at 10 AM. Learn more by calling Terry at 214-1194.

Become a bush expert during the Winter Shrub Identification Field Trip with the Native Plant Society.

You’ll learn the basics of using a key and then head out to the Swan River Nature Trail in Bigfork. RSVP to Anne at 406-886-2242 or Betty at 406-8920129; Missoula folks should contact Clare for carpool info at 728-0189.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19 Get the crew together for the Missoula Alpine Ski Race League, wherein four-person teams (including at least one woman) face off in head-to-head races.

Hosted by Snowbowl Wednesday evenings from Jan. 22–March 5 at 7 PM, with final race and party on March 7. Lots of prizes and Big Sky brew gear for the winners. $395 per team. To learn more, contact Jay Rutherford at jay.rutherford@gmail.com. calendar@missoulanews.com

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If you feel conflicted about Valentine’s Day, you’re in good company. But Feb. 14 isn’t just the mainstream holiday promoted to sell flowers and jewelry and chocolate while pushing messages of heteronormativity. (Cheap chocolate, by the way, often comes from cocoa farmed by exploited children in sub-Saharan Africa, if you want to get really crabby about it.)

There’s a lot of ways to subvert Valentine’s. My mom always made sure to make us kids feel special with special treats on Valentine’s, because it doesn’t just have to be about romantic love. And it can be about celebrating friendship, like I do when I get together with buddies to drink wine and make cards.

Valentine’s can be about caring for your fellow

human beings. The international V-Day movement makes Feb. 14 about honoring survivors of emotional and sexual violence.

You can celebrate healthy love and speak out against violence with others on Feb. 14. A One Billion Rising dance is on the Oval at noon, to spread awareness of the statistic that, globally, one in three women will be beaten or raped in her life. At the Dennison Theatre, the UM Women’s Resource Center puts on their annual rendition of the Vagina Monologues. Proceeds go toward V-Day programs to help victims of sexual violence.

Going to a play or dancing for awareness is nice, of course, but my hope is that people come away with better knowledge of how to subvert the underlying rape culture that’s responsible for the prevalence of violence. Teaching young boys how to respect women, bringing men into the conversation, emphasizing the importance of consent and watching out for each other are all things we can do year round. Working for societal good lasts a lot longer than any roses or chocolate.

—Kate Whittle The Missoula One Billion Rising dance is Fri., Feb. 14 at noon on the UM Oval; all are invited to participate. The UM Women’s Resource Center’s Vagina Monologues is at 7 PM at the Dennison Theatre. $10.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13 Failings of the criminal justice system are up for discussion when Jon Gould, director of the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research at American University, lectures at the UM Law School. 6:30 PM. Free/$25 for those seeking CLE credit. Visit mtinnocenceproject.org to learn more.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a nonviolent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free.

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Big Sky Mind and the Tibetan Language Institute present A Day of Buddhist Practice: Cultivating Love and Compassion, a workshop with instructor David Curtis at 102 McLeod from 9:30 AM-5 PM, with potluck lunch break at 12:30. Suggested donation of $25-$50/free for students. Register by calling 961-5131, emailing info@tibetanlanguage.org or dayof at 9 AM.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 17 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a different nonprofit or good cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

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The Arlee CDC Board Meeting invites one and all to the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House, 92555 Hwy 93. 10 AM. Call 726-5005 or email arleecdc@arleemontana.org to learn more.

This week’s wilderness lecture is “Getting Beyond Rock and Ice, Prairie Wildlands and the Next 50 Years of Conservation Under the Big Sky,” with panelists including a wildlife refuge manager, prairie wildlands outreach coordinator and Montana rancher. Gallagher Business Building, room 122. 7:10-8:30 PM.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 Get in gear for the mid-term election fever (what, no?) when MSU political sci professor David Parker presents “Within the Margin of Error: Why Campaigns Still Matter” as part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series. University Center room 332. 1 1:30 AM-12:30 PM. I sense the lecture will spark discussion when fire policy expert Tom Zimmerman chats about “Wildland Fire Management: Are We Doing Enough?” University Center, room 331. 4 PM. We can probably expect frank talk from Northwest Connections Director Melanie Parker’s “Collaboration: Why it Sucks and Why I Still Believe in it,” part of the conservation social science seminar series. Forestry Building Room 301. 4:10-5 PM. Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door. 7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

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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DINNER AND A SECOND MORTGAGE? I know you've discussed how the guy should pay on the first few dates. I've been dating a pretty fabulous woman for a month, and I'm dipping into my savings to take her out to the sort of restaurants she's used to.

I earn a decent living in a creative field, but she is in finance and clearly makes far more money than I do. I may have complicated things when, on our third date, she wanted to pick up the check and I wouldn't let her. Is there a smooth way to let her know that I now need her to throw down some dough?

—Can We Say Awkward?

The organ that gets used on the third date isn't supposed to be the kidney you sold on the black market to pay for dinner.

It's nice to take a woman out for a special meal from time to time, but the guy who can keep up the weekly wining and dining at restaurants where even the cockroaches speak passable French isn't the guy you are—and probably isn't the guy she expects you to be. Women do look for a man to be ambitious and show potential. But typically, a woman who wants a rich guy not only has calculated her date's net worth (probably pretty successfully) long before the first date but has also trained herself to identify a fake Rolex at 50 paces and read even the subtlest signs about a man's income like fiscal tea leaves. So, this woman is probably well aware that if you're "managing a hedge fund," it's just a little money you're putting aside to replace the dead plants on your balcony.

Also, unless a man's a spy, a woman doesn't like him to pretend to be somebody he's not. This isn't to say you should have some awkward conversation with this woman about how you really do need her to pay for dinner—or hope she gets the idea when she sees you standing by the on-ramp with a cardboard sign, "Spare $264.50, plus tip?" Instead, just take her to places you can pay for painlessly and wait until you're in a relationship to talk about money. Though women evolved to look for potential partners to show generosity, you can do that in a symbolic way, simply by treating her to something more affordable—maybe a ticket to a museum and fancy ice cream afterward—and by showing generosity of spirit: fairness, kindness, and willingness to do the right thing even when it's hard.

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SIGH TUNES Am I the only one who doesn't like to have music playing during sex? When I'm with a guy, I'm turned on by hearing his breathing and sounds he makes while aroused. If the music's good, I'll be listening to it rather than paying attention to him or my own arousal. If the music's bad, I don't want to hear it at all. I'm seeing a new guy, and I'm already worried that he'll play some annoying pop music when we get intimate. Plus, if he needs music, I'll think, "Well, am I boring you?"

—Audibly Distracted Responding to this question on Reddit, "What is the absolute worst song to play during sex?" Redditor 5secsofpleasure posted, "Hi, I'm Sarah McLachlan, and I'm about to kill your erection."

Though for many people the right music can be a real sex enhancer, there can be tragic accidents, like when a guy doesn't realize that he got sloppy in pulling together his HSP (Hot Sex Playlist) and the dogs barking "Jingle Bells" play at exactly the wrong moment. Regarding your suspicion that a guy would only put on a soundtrack because he finds sex with you a bore, you're probably just falling prey to a common cognitive bias—the assumption that other people's minds work just like our own. You simply need to make your preference known before any clothing goes flying. Maybe start talking about music and casually mention that you don't understand why some people like to listen to music during sex—such a distraction. The guy will probably nod offhandedly, but in his brain, a tiny stenographer from the sex department will be feverishly taking notes. As for any worries you may have that this will turn a guy off, trust me; there probably isn't a guy out there who won't find the musical silence during sex preferable to the sound of you sitting with your arms folded on the couch.

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SKILLED LABOR Biological Technician The National Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station’s Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program has a state-of-theart wildlife genetics laboratory located in Missoula, MT. The laboratory is responsible for DNA analyses of wildlife specimens for National Forest System and Forest Service Research projects.

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agencies and their partners across the country. There is a need for an experienced Biological Science Technician to assist the program on a full-time basis to generate genetic data from samples associated with largescale monitoring projects. This position is critical to our ability to provide timely results to our USFS and other agency partners. The Biological Science Technician shall have basic DNA laboratory experience, with college coursework related to biology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics or wildlife biology. Funds for this contract will be coming from a combination of soft-dollar agreements. Responsibilities: • Organize and extract DNA from wolverine research projects in Canada (Kananaskis and Round River Conservation Projects). • Perform Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) using thermocyclers on DNA from wolverine samples and collect DNA microsatellite data using a Li-Cor DNA analyzer. • Format the generated data for error-checking (using program DROPOUT). • Maintain DNA database for wolverine.

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Job# 9986786 Geotechnical Engineer Perform entry to mid-level geotechnical engineering tasks, including; write geotechnical proposals, prepare field investigation plans, log geotechnical borings in the field, assist staff engineers with field work (seismic surveys, inclinometer readings, construction oversight), assign laboratory testing, perform engineering foundation designs, prepare geotechnical engineering reports, assist with laboratory testing as necessary.

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By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Drunk with my madness, I shouted at him furiously, 'Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!'" So says a character in a prose poem by Charles Baudelaire. And now, even though I am neither drunk nor furious nor consumed with madness, I am whispering the same command to you. I hope you will respond by embarking on a heroic effort to make life beautiful everywhere you go. The astrological omens suggest that if you do, you will be inundated with practical blessings that are as valuable as money. This will also be an excellent way to drum up the kind of love you crave.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here's what I wish for you during the Valentine season: to be happily in love with an intimate partner who loves you back. If that's not feasible, here's what I hope: that you are learning provocative lessons about yourself through your growth-inducing relationship with a close ally. And if you're not blessed with either of those experiences, here's a third alternative: that you cherish your fathomless longing for its own sake, feeling wonder and reverence for its wild power even if it's unfulfilled.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Making eye contact is essential for building potent links with people you care about. It bypasses rational thought, stimulating chemical reactions in your bodies that enhance empathy and intimacy. In practicing the art of love, it's one of the most potent moves you can make.

This Valentine season would be an excellent time for you Leos to explore the frontiers of what's possible through prolonged eye contact. Start here: Cultivate a sincere desire to know what's simmering inside the souls of your dearest allies. With that as your driving force, your gaze won't be clouded by shyness or self-consciousness.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "I prefer an ecstatic orgasm to a lot of angst," says Filipino artist David Medalla. I hope you consider making that your battle cry during this Valentine season. It would be in rapt harmony with the current cosmic omens. There really is no need for you to get sidelined by anxiety or distracted by stress when the natural remedy is so easily available. In every way you can imagine, Virgo, fight off sourness and dourness by engaging in acts of joy and pleasure.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her poem "Implications of One Plus One," Marge Piercy marvels at the way she and her long-term partner keep finding new nuances in their love-making. "Ten years of fitting our bodies together / and still they sing wild songs in new keys," she writes. What's their secret? It's "timing, chemistry, magic and will and luck." What I wish for you this Valentine season, Libra, is that you will have access to all five of those ingredients as you reinvigorate your relationship to love. More importantly—based on the current cosmic omens—I predict you will have access to them.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jesuit priest Pedro Arrupe touted the practical value of being totally in love. "What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything," he said. "It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude." Are you in love, Scorpio?

With either a person, a beloved animal, a certain patch of land, your creative work, or life itself? If not, there's no excuse! Astrologically speaking, it's an excellent time for you to be stupendously in love with someone or something—anything! If you are already in this state, trust your intuition to make it even smarter and finer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Borrowing the words of Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks), I've prepared a love note for you to use as your own. Give it to a person whose destiny needs to be woven more closely together with yours: "You are the sky my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place." Would you like even more inspirational words to deliver to your chosen one? I hope so. Be greedy for lyrical bonding. Lust for springy intimacy. Feed your churning yearning. Try saying this, lifted from the book The Last Unicorn: "We are two sides of the same magic." And be sure to say this, paraphrased from Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: "I love you in a way that will always make you feel free."

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit," says author Elizabeth Gilbert. "But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back . . . They tear down your walls and smack you awake. . . shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you . . . transform your life." Does that sound like the kind of person you want in your life, Capricorn? Or do you prefer someone who likes what you like, appreciates you just as you are, and makes your life more secure and comfortable? This Valentine season is a good time to make or renew your commitment to one choice or the other. Whatever you decide, you're likely to experience it on a richer, deeper level during the next 12 months.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you feel oppressed by Valentine's Day? Maybe you're single and reject the cultural bias that says being in an intimate relationship is the healthy norm. Or maybe you're part of a couple but are allergic to the cartoonish caricatures of romance that bombard you during the Valentine marketing assault. If you'd rather consecrate love and intimacy in your own unique way, untainted by the stereotypes flying around, I invite you to rebel. Make this the year you overthrow the old ways and start a new tradition: Valentine's Day 2.0. Mock sappy, sentimental expressions of romance even as you carry out futuristic experiments in radically slaphappy love.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "The fact that someone else loves you doesn't rescue you from the project of loving yourself," writes blogger Sahaj Kohli. Nothing else rescues you from that quest, either, I would add. Sooner or later, whether it's now or 20 years in the future, you will have to master this fine art. It's not enough to merely feel affection for yourself; not enough to seek pleasure and avoid pain.

You've got to make extensive investigations to discover what it means to love yourself; you have to develop rigorous plans for how to accomplish it; and you must fire up a deep commitment as you actually carry out those plans. By the way, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to work on mastering this fine art.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her TED talk, science writer Mary Roach made it clear that human beings don't need genital stimulation to experience orgasms. She spoke of a woman who routinely reaches ecstatic climax by having her eyebrows caressed, and another woman who reaches the big O simply by brushing her teeth. Then there's the woman who can simply think herself into coming, no physical touch necessary. I can't guarantee that a similar aptitude will suddenly turn on in you, Aries, but the coming days could bring you as close as you have ever been. Right now you're a connoisseur of deep pleasure—a blessed bliss master.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I have come to be fascinated with the messiness of desire," writes novelist Ashley Warlick, "with the ways people fit themselves together, take themselves apart for each other, for want of each other, for want of some parts of each other." Your assignment, Pisces, is to celebrate the messiness of desire; to not just grudgingly accept it as an inconvenience you've got to tolerate, but rather to marvel at it, be amused by it, and appreciate it for all the lessons it provides. Your motto this Valentine season could be, "I bless the messy largesse of my longing.”

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-14-06 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JEAN DAVIS KOICH a/k/a JEAN LORRAINE KOICH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan Cook 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 above-named as the attorney and the Personal Representative, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 23rd day of January, 2014. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case. No. DV-14-27 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Stephanie Broadhead, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Stephanie Broadhead has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Stephanie Nichole Broadhead to Phoenix Jade FrostUlfhamr and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 26th day of February, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, in courtroom number 1. 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 January, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DG-14-6 Dept. 3 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR GUARDIANSHIP OF MINOR CHILD AND PROTECTED PERSON IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP OF EGY, a Minor Child and Protected Person. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner Stephanie Potter (“Petitioner”) has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Guardianship and Conservatorship of Minor Child and Protected Person. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula County in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th day of February, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Service of this notice is being made in accordance with the attached Certificate of Service. DATED this 28th day of January, 2014. REEP, BELL & LAIRD, P.C. /s/ Eric Henkel, Attorneys for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-234 Dept. No. 4 Honorable Karen S. Townsend, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL A. HANSEN, 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 Kelly F. Hansen, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of February 2014. /s/ Kelly F. Hansen, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorneys for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-13 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of VERNON E. UNDERWOOD, 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 be either mailed to Bonnie Briggs, the personal representative, return receipt requested, c/o Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP, Attorneys at Law, PO Box 1178, Kalispell, Montana 59901-1178, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of January, 2014. /s/ Bonnie

Briggs, Personal Representative. Personal Representative’s Attorneys: Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP By: /s/ C. Mark Hash MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-2014-1 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT CHARLES BROWN, 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 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 Kenneth Shipman, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 9th day of January, 2014, in Superior, Montana. /s/ Kenneth Shipman, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-14-48 Dept. No. 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Christopher Patrick Lim, Petitioner. This is a notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Christopher Patrick Lim to Tristen Christopher Valentino. The hearing will be on 3/11/2014 at 1:30 p.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 1/27/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Case. No. DV-1425 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Timothy Lee Blumenthal, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Timothy Lee Blumenthal has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Timothy Lee Blumenthal to Fenris Forseti Ulfhamr and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 26th day of February, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, in courtroom number 1. 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 January, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-14-16 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH BURNS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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 Linda Ault, Judith Andrews and James Burns, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. We declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 31st day of January, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Linda Ault /s/ Judith Andrews /s/ James Burns BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. c/o Boone Karlberg, PC P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Linda Ault, Judith Andrews and James Burns, Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-253 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY M. MONAGHAN, 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 Tina Asby Hansen, 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,

under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 28th day of January, 2014, at Missoula, Montana /s/ Tina Asby Hansen BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Tina Asby Hansen MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Hon. Karen S. Townsend Probate No. DP14-18 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES EDWARD NUANEZ, 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 Suzanne M. Nuanez, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of February, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Suzanne M. Nuanez BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ James A. Bowditch P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Suzanne M. Nuanez, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-11 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MARGARET A. CORSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-captioned estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to JOANN BACHELLER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, i care of her attorney, Amanda Beckers Sowden of Karell Dyre Haney PLLP, 175 North 27th Street, Suite 1303, Billings, Montana 59101, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED: January 30, 2014. /s/ Joann Bacheller, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-9 Dept. 3 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRS AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CODY YUHAS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner Stephanie Potter (“Petitioner”) has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs and Appointment of Personal Representative. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula County in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th day of February, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Service of this notice is being made in accordance with the attached Certificate of Service. DATED this 28th day of January, 2014. REEP, BELL & LAIRD, P.C. /s/ Eric Henkel, Attorneys for Petitioner NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated February 6, 2003 Grantor: Lei Ann Cross 199 Cross Country Rd. Polson MT 59860 Lei Ann Cross 17600 Hwy. 93 North Missoula MT 59808 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. PO Box 549 Missoula MT 59806-0549 Original Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula 1704 Dearborn Missoula MT 59806 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded February 6, 2003 in Book 698 of Micro Records at Page 1312, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 15th day of April, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway Side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of

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the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: A tract of land located in the E ½ of Section 23 and the W ½ of Section 24, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, M.P.M., Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Section 24; thence S.00° 01’E., along the West line of said Section 24, 3798.38 feet to the true point of beginning; thence S.68° 07’10”E., 337.82 feet to the Northwesterly right-of-way line of the Northern Pacific Railway; thence S.43° 33’20” W., along said railway right-of-way line, 165.15 feet; thence N.66° 11’30—”;W., 411.11 feet to the Southeasterly right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 93 on a non-tangent curve (radial) line through said point bears S.75° 43’30”E.; thence Northeasterly along said Highway right-of-way line and said nontangent curve, being concave to the Northwest and having a radius of 2945.0 feet, 94.3 feet to a point on a tangent line; thence N.12° 26’20”E., along said Highway rightof-way line, 46.95 feet; thence S.68°07’10”E., 155.74 feet to the true point of beginning. LESS AND EXCEPTING that portion deeded to the State of Montana recorded in Book 666 of Micro Records at page 1060. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the abovenamed Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of Four Hundred Forty Six and 10/100 Dollars ($446.10) for the months of June, 2013 through November, 2013; together with late charges in the amount of One Hundred Thirty Three and 60/100 Dollars ($133.60); together with other charges in the amount of Forty-Seven and No/100 Dollars ($47.00). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Thirty Six Thousand Seventy-Eight and 92/100 Dollars ($36,078.92), plus interest thereon at the rate of 8.0% from and after the 10th day of June, 2013 to October 30, 2013, in the amount of One Thousand Four Hundred Thrity One and 29/100ths Dollars ($1,431.29), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Seven and 90/100 Dollars ($7.90), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.

DATED this 2nd day of December, 2013. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 598077909 STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 2nd day of December, 2013, by Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Jill S. Malone Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 10/30/2014 2.13.14, 2.20.14, 2.27.14 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as Successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA).

The following information is provided: THE NAMES OF THE GRANTOR, TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER ARE: Grantor: GMP, LLC (the “Grantor”) Original Trustee: WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: FIRST INTERSTATE BANK (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: GMP, LLC THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tracts 2 and 3 of Certificate of Survey No. 5496, located in the SW1/4 of Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 6418 Mormon Creek, RD, Lolo, MT 59847. The Real Property tax identification number is 3029106 & 1121103. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Montana Deed of Trust dated February 24, 2006, and recorded February 27, 2006, under Recording No. 200604404, Book 769, Page 866, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of the monthly principal and interest payments due under the Promissory Note dated February 24, 2006, which is secured by the Deed of Trust; and, failure to maintain insurance, as required by the loan documents. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF JANUARY 13, 2014 ARE: Principal: $ 893,033.37 Interest:

$49,655.19 Late fees: $ 0 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: June 6, 2014 Time: 11:00 a.m. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. DATED: January 17, 2014. /s/ Benjamin P. Hursh Benjamin P. Hursh, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on January 17th 2014, by Benjamin P. Hursh, as Trustee. /s/ Sierra C. Stief (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My commission expires: Sept. 19, 2016 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/20/02, recorded as Instrument No. 200234954, Bk 693, Pg 1065, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kenneth D. Mohler an unmarried man, and Christine F. Waylett an unmarried woman was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company, a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of Wheatgrass Acres, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200632752, Bk 789, Pg 633, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 9, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $130,677.92.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $106,323.88, 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 April 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, whereis 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96546) 1002.262042-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/23/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200621607 Book 781 Page 1021, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Lloyd A. Carrell was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC, Its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Western Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 5, Bellevue Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 4 of plats at page 26 1/2 on file and of record in the Office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201224932, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. 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 08/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 17, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $177,217.62.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $169,737.87, 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 April 28, 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, whereis 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.104437) 1002.262253-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/04/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200827010 B:830 P: 598, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Jerry P Kelly, and Angelia J Kelly, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 3 of Doerr Subdivision, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201204488 B: 890 P: 1165, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP successor by merger to Wilshire Credit Corporation, on behalf of the Wilshire Mortgage Loan Trust 1997-2.

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 08/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 24, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was 657,418.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $618,421.34, 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 May 2, 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, whereis 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.17931) 1002.262292-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 24, 2014, 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 7 OF KELLY ISLAND ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISON IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Michael J Riska and Vicki L Riska, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 12, 2009 and recorded March 17, 2009 in Book 835, Page 692 under Document No. 200905858. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company.

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 $2,152.90, beginning August 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 December 11, 2013 is $375,559.71 principal, interest at the rate of 5.125% now totaling $28,285.63, late charges in the amount of $1,507.10, escrow advances of $5,361.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,564.82, plus accruing interest at the rate of $53.47 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: November 13, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 13th day of November, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Guild v Riska 41291.450 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 24, 2014, 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 situatec in Missoula County, Montana: ALL OF LOT 1 AND THE EAST 1 FOOT OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK 13 OF LOW’S ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 81 NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 718 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1173 Heather Nichols and Mike Nichols, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 10, 2008 and recorded June 10, 2008 in Book 820 Page 495 under Document No 200812917. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. 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 $983.42, beginning August 1, 2013, 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 December 7, 2013 is $127,098.27 principal, interest at the rate of 2.000% now totaling $1,100.94, late charges in the amount of $345.89, escrow advances of $-1,055.54 and other fees and expenses advanced of $134.68, plus accruing interest at the rate of $6.96 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: November 15, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )ss. County of Bingham) On this 15th day of November, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 CitiMortgage v Nichols 42011.863 Trustee Sale No. MT08000006-13-1 APN: 5811614 Title Order No.: 8379127 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Trustee will, on May 30, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the County Courthouse, 200 Weat Broadway, Missoula, MT First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is the duly appointed Successor Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Tanya N. Gonzales and Robert M. Gonzales, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Flathead County Title Company as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust which is dated August 31, 2005 and was recorded on November 18, 2005 as Instrument No. 200530699, in Book 764 , on Page 683, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 101 COLONY CT, MISSOULA, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 3 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO.6, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by VOLT Asset Holdings Trust XVI. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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 July 1, 2009 installment payment and all monthly Installment payments due thereafter. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. Said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $134,764.14, together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.12500% per annum

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s from June 1, 2009, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the Beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: January 27, 2014 First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee By: Lisa J. Tornabine ASSISTANT SECRETARY First American Title Company of Montana, Inc c/o TRUSTEE CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 949-252-8300 FOR SALE INFORMATION CONTACT: (714) 573-1965, Website for Trustee’s Sale Information: HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose.

P1080543 2/6, 2/13, 02/20/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 12-02359-3 Loan Number: 0195008719 APN: 5900174 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 9, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 9200 SHARPTAIL DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT ANN KRISTINE GUNDERSON, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MONTANA MORTGAGE COMPANY, A MONTANA CORPORATION, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of August 26, 2004, and recorded on August 31, 2004 in Film No. 738 at Page 1618 under Document No. 200424963, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated August 16, 2012 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of January 15, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from April 1,2012 and which payments total: $23,641.12: Late charges: $1,266.34 Net Other Fees: $415.00 Advances: $3,167.23 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $117,694.59 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 6.37500% per annum from March 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings.

The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. 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 aforesaid 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 theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 Dated January 29, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature AFTER RECORDING RETURN TO: Fidelity National Title Insurance Company 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1081963 2/13, 2/20, 02/27/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 14-00014-5 Loan Number: 0203300124 APN: 1527107 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 9, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: The Land referred to in this Guarantee is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and is described as follows: Lot 13 and the West 23.5 Feet of Lot 14 in Block 62 of SCHOOL ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 613 of Micro Records at Page 1056. More commonly known as: 1324 DEFOE STREET, MISSOULA, MT CHARLES R. ABELL & KAREN R. ABELL, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIPL, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MANN MORTGAGE LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of October 30, 2006, and recorded on October 30, 2006 in Film No. 786 at Page 347 under Document No. 200628154, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”).

The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated January 17, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of January 30, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2013 and which payments total: $7,650.00: Late charges: $183.60 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $171,194.87 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 6.50000% per annum from August 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

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 aforesaid 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 theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: January 30, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature AFTER RECORDING RETURN TO: Fidelity National Title Insurance Company 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1081966 2/13, 2/20, 02/27/2014

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 56, 279, 395, 602 and 629. Units contain furniture, clothes, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, February 24, 2014. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 20, 24, 25, 95, 195, 235, 247, 267 and 286. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 2/18/2013 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 2/21/2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on February 25th, 2014, at 11:00 am. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods.

A silent auction will be held Tuesday, February 4th, at 11:00 am at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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by Matt Jones

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1 Ready to go 4 Running jokes 8 Hemmed in?

12 Sat for a portrait 14 Foot or furlong 15 Certain Fed 16 QUERY, PART 1 19 I-5 or I-95 20 Ginormous 21 Player who cannot be a DH 22 QUERY, PART 2 27 Swallowed hard 28 Make a selection 29 Graffiti ID 30 Hot tempers 31 Went after 33 Go back, like the tide 34 QUERY, PART 3 38 Au ___ (roast beef order) 41 Oscar winner Jeremy 42 Drunken utterances 46 Long ending?

47 Rabbit food?

48 Affectedly trendy 50 QUERY, PART 4 54 Gin mills 55 Just slightly 56 Casual dress day, for short 57 LAST PART OF QUERY 61 500 sheets of paper 62 Brickmaking need 63 Shopaholic's binge 64 Franklin and Folds 65 ___ a one (zero) 66 Avg.

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1 Stuff on a kitten's underbelly (because awwwww....)

2 Getty of "The Golden Girls" 3 Typo often mocked online 4 Try to answer a riddle 5 Loos who wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 6 Soldiers, for short 7 Hold firm to a decision 8 Throat problem, in brief 9 Abu Dhabi or Dubai 10 Ball of cotton 11 180 degrees from SSW 12 It's eaten in Eastern Europe 13 1990s R&B group Bell Biv ___ 17 See 32-Down 18 River that flows past Omaha 23 ___ facto 24 Childhood taboos 25 Metered vehicle 26 CIA Cold War counterpart 31 Perch for a chicken 32 With 17-Down, "Atlas Shrugged" author 35 Scheming operatic barber 36 "Breaking Bad" star Bryan 37 Prisoner's knife 38 Prominent Jay Leno feature 39 "Eww, gross!"

40 Tofu base 43 Winter project in the Arctic, maybe 44 Mapped out 45 Gary of "Forrest Gump" and "CSI: NY" 48 Shabby ___ 49 More than dislikes 51 Settles down 52 Communion item 53 Piano key wood 57 Crystal ball, for example 58 Payment for services 59 Eggs, in the lab 60 Vinyl spinners

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RENTALS

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath split-level in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-law apartment. $339,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2225 Missoula. 4 bed, 3 bath on Rattlesnake creek with fireplace, outdoor hot tub & Mt. Jumbo Views. $499,000.

David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $865,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355, milyardhomes@yahoo.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 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com.

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Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $162,000.

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $159,900. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

1265 #B Dakota. Riverfront parcel for to-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. $55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 20 acre parcel with exceptional views of Philipsburg, Flint Creek Valley and Discovery, excellent

Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown.

All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. 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

Adorable Lewis & Clark Bungalow 4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, finished basement, deck & 2 car garage. Fenced corner lot near mall & schools.

Beautiful Home On Rattlesnake Creek 4 bed, 3 bath with cathedral ceilings, wood floors, gourmet kitchen, jetted tub and river rock fireplace. Lovely 2nd floor deck overlooks creek. $865,000

4005 Duncan Drive. 3 bed, 3 bath bordering open space in Upper Rattlesnake. Large windows with fantastic views. $535,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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access, utilities, close to recreation, $121,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522

LAND FOR SALE

606 North Ave. W. $255,000 • MLS #20136914

THE UPTOWN FLATS STARTING AT $149,900 Another condo just SOLD 2.7.14. Who will be the next lucky Buyer?

Call Anne to learn about the great opportunities available in the Upscale Community of The UPTOWN FLATS.

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PORTICO REAL ESTATE

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Classic 1950's with refinished hardwood floors,arched doorways and built-ins.

All new windows & new energy-efficient furnace.

Finished basement with family room.

Fenced yard with fruit trees & raised beds.

Double detached garage.

For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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REAL ESTATE 53.5 acres overlooking Missoula. Utilities in place, septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com East Missoula Lot At 559 Speedway (Next Door) $55,000.

4,800 square feet. Mature trees, sewer available. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com NHN Frontage Road, Alberton.

2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $154,500. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.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

OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Clinton area home on 1.6 acres. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000.

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of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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River Access 17430 SixMile, $285,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons

$535,000 4005 Duncan Drive Designed with the landscape in mind!

3 bed, 3 bath in Upper Rattlesnake has large windows for lots of natural light and mountain & valley views.

Gas fireplace, deck & two car garage.

Borders open space.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 WILSON• Listen up, Lab lovers! Wilson is an older Chocolate Lab that would make an incredible pet for some lucky family. He's quiet and easy to handle, as well as having very good manners. This handsome guy makes every effort to please, and keeping a family happy would be a great job for him.

FRANK•Frank is a young cat who

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came from a feral colony, but somehow he got socialized and isn't actually feral at all! He's a handsome boy with extra toes, and he loves to play. He's a bit shyer than most cats his age, but he does enjoy attention from people (especially if it includes toys)!

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MADELINE•Madeline didn't have

PHILLY•This pup is full of energy and

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is so happy that he can hardly contain his love of life. Even though he loves to run and play, he also enjoys quiet moments with people. He's already housebroken, but he will need a bit of training to help him curb his enthusiasm.

FANCY•Fancy is a beautiful lady, and she is also quite affectionate with people.

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much success living on her own after getting separated from her family, so she was thin and frail when she was first brought to the shelter. Now, however, she is plump, has a lovely coat, and appreciates every bit of attention she gets. (Her adoption has also be sponsored.)

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SNOWFLAKE•This lady looks much

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more like a big snowball than a delicate snowflake, but she's still a lovely cat.

She has a quiet nature, but we have seen her having her playful moments. We know her personality would really blossom in a home where there were people to love her and make her happy.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 SAMMI• Sammi is a quiet, peaceful girl, who likes laps and being brushed.

This five-year-old has a beautiful red-orange and white coat, and thinks she'd make the perfect Valentine kitty. And, her adoption fee is only $14 this month, in honor of the holiday! Come visit Sammi, and she'll steal your heart.

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ABBY• Abby is a lovely black-and-white girl who has a cute half-mustache! Because she's seven years old, she qualifies for the Seniors for Seniors program - but don't tell her that: She says "Senior? I'm barely middle-aged!" Abby is quiet and shy at first, but she loves pets and head-rubs, and has a sweet little meow.

SID•Sid is a handsome black boy with chubby cheeks that just beg to be scratched and smooshed. Sid was originally found in rough shape, but has since regained his strength and shine. He's shy, but once he trusts you he loves to be petted and snuggled. Sid would prefer a quiet home, where he can snooze in a sunny spot!

BELLA• Bella thinks she's a dog! She's

STUBBY•Stubby is a sweet Manx cat

AUGUSTINE•Augustine is a sweet oneyear-old calico who came to the shelter with eight tiny kittens, all of who have been adopted. It's Augustine's turn now!

She's affectionate, outgoing, and thanks to Blue Mountain Vet Clinic, she's spayed and ready to go home today. Come get her for $14, just in time for Valentine's Day!

(hence the name), whose owner passed away. With her gorgeous green eyes, she says, "Do you have a nice warm lap for me to sit on?" Although shy at first, she loves treats and gentle pats. Stubby's adoption fee has been sponsored, and she's just waiting for a quiet home to call her own!

happy to follow you on walks around the neighborhood, and loves to play. Come fill out a cat adopter survey, and find out if Bella is the perfect match for you. If she is, her adoption fee is only $14 this month!

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