Bronze sculpture unveiled in Stevensville
The Stevensville Art and Sculpture Society (SASS) unveiled their second public art piece June 14 in Lange Park on Main Street in Stevensville. The artwork, "To Know Joy" by Ovando artist JR Eason, is the first public art piece to be installed in one of Stevensville’s town parks. Read more
Zootown Arts Center celebrates grand opening
The Zootown Arts Community Center in Missoula celebrates its grand opening from noon-8 p.m. Sept. 6 with an introduction to the center, which provides fine arts classes, workshops and events for all ages. The all-day event offers an opportunity to tour the new community arts facility, which is available for classes, lectures and art parties, or sign up for fall art classes offered at ZACC’s Creative Community Classroom. Read more • (1) Comments
Whitefish Mountain unleashes Runaway Train bike trail
Whitefish Mountain Resort hosts a party and ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday, Aug. 16, to celebrate the opening of “Runaway Train,” a new freestyle downhill mountain-biking trail on the slopes of Big Mountain.... It features more than 29 berms, six rock drops, one rock wall ride, three natural terrain wall rides, more than 24 jumps of varying sizes, one large technical section of single track near the top, and a “flowy” section on Russ’s Street at the end. Read more • (1) Comments
William Kittredge | The Next Rodeo, New and Selected Essays
“All these stories are about a place called Home and a time in which I imagined we owned it all,” writes William Kittredge in the opening essay of his new collection. ... This is the mastery the Missoula writer wields: telling stories that help us makes some sense the world we know simply as The West, straddling as he does the old (he was raised on a sprawling cattle ranch in eastern Oregon) and the new (he’s lived for many years in Missoula, where he taught creative writing to generations of students at The University of Montana). Read more
Greg Lemon | Blue Man in a Red State
How this remarkably savvy politician, once dubbed by a CNN reporter as the “Rock Star from the Rockies,” has garnered national attention and become a popular Democratic governor in a state that was seen as increasingly Republican, is a story worth telling.... Author Greg Lemon splices reflections on the state’s past and current political seasons, with a look at the governor’s personal history, his childhood on a homestead near Havre, family dynamics (he’s in the middle of six children), his education as a soil scientist and his pre-political pursuits (he spent several years building farms in the Middle East where, he says, he learned to negotiate like a Bedouin). Read more
Susan Overfield | Saturday Dogs … And the Owners They Trained
You don’t have to be a dog-owner (let alone, be trying to ride herd on a three-month-old Weimaraner puppy) to appreciate the humor and acuity of Susan Overfield’s book, but it certainly helps.... The problem dogs range from Bonnie, the border collie whose owner was an emotionally abused and fearful woman who didn’t understand why her dog responded to strangers as though they were enemies; to Kit, the teacup Pomeranian, who so charmed everyone (including his owner), that he had become a master at manipulation; to Punkin, a dog whose master was literally loving her to death. Read more • (7) Comments
Third issue of Whitefish Review on newsstands
More than 300 artists and writers submitted fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and photography, and 26 were selected by the editorial staff for inclusion in the journal published by Buckshot Enterprises, Inc. Features include a story and interview with Yaak author Rick Bass, as well as a story by Missoula author and filmmaker, Annick Smith.... The journal features an additional 24 artists, writers and photographers, ranging from 17-75 years old, and from seven different U.S. states, as well as India. Read more