Anything goes at the unofficial Umphrey’s McGee after party, with Bend, Ore.’s everything-but-the-kitchensink band Empty Space Orchestra. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $7/$5 with UM ticket stub from the Wilma. (Pub trivia answer: Montana’s Yogo Sapphire.)
THURSDAY March
29
The Missoula Cultural Council’s Annual Arts Awards Luncheon gives tribute to a wide variety of artists who consistently kick artistic booty. Double Tree Hotel. 11:30 AM–1 PM. $25. missoulacultural.org. The Bitterroot Public Library Brown Bag Discussion Group talks about Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi. 306 State St., Hamilton. Noon.
nightlife Hey, Flounder, you too can come on down to the Kettlehouse Beer Kollege Graduation Party, even if you didn’t make it to class. Bob Wire and the Bob Wire Band plays the tunes, and the beer makes you fall in love three times an hour. Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Sculpture student Burke Jam has a rad name and an opening reception for his exhibition Sound of Place. UM UC Art Gallery. 5 PM, with an artist’s talk at 7 PM. Free. Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free. Taste the old days when Black Mountain Moan performs oldtimey Americana tunes for all y’all at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 6–8 PM. Ditch that external frame pack and folding shovel you got for graduating from Mesa State College in 1987 and have the folks at REI teach you the art of lightweight backpacking. 3275 N. Reserve. 6:30 PM. Free. Take a trip back in time during Silent Movie Night at the Crystal Theater, where films by Andy Smetanka and Harry Langdon are live-scored
Missoula Independent Page 28 March 22 – March 29, 2012
Photo courtesy of Larry Mills
Sunshine superman. Donovan Frankenreiter plays the Wilma Theatre on Wed., Mar. 28 at 8 PM with Matt Grundy. Tickets are $23/$21 advanced and available at Rockin Rudy’s or ticketfly.com. by Next Door Prison Hotel. 515 S. Higgins. 7 PM. $7. Can soccer unite disparate factions of people? Is the game really more than a game? Find out at the Peace and Justice Film Series screening of the documentary Pelada. Gallagher Business Bldg. Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free. Three Way Street is more than a French film title; it’s also a band performing at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery tasting room. 4175 Rattlesnake. 7–9 PM. Free.
Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight. The battle continues, as some of MSO’s finest musical talents battle it out each Thursday in the Top o’ the Mic Trilogy competition to crown the champion of music at Sean Kelly’s. 130 W. Pine. 9 PM. Free. Be someone’s sledgehammer when Kalispell’s A New Faith brings the metal and rockin’ from up yonder, with Tonto’s Rage and Last December. Palace. 9 PM. $5.
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. 7–10 PM.
The fry bread and corned beef train comes to an end tonight, at the final show of Bird’s Mile Home’s VFW Residency. With The Plurals and Total Combined Weight. 134 E. Main. 9 PM. Free.
Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.
It’s a bluegrass and folk battle royale with The Dodgy Mountain Men and Grandfatherglen, plus undercarders The Wench. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $6.
This is literally the point of no return, as the men of Kansas aren’t getting any younger. No worries, though: They have enlisted the aid of the UM Symphony Orchestra. 8 PM. $50/$25 students. Tix available at Rockin Rudy’s or ticketfly.com. Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM. Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance
Let’s play a fun game. Find two things that you wouldn’t normally do this week and do them. Hook me up with the goods by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Mar. 23, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”