Whitefish Winter Carnival celebrates 50th year
Whitefish Winter Carnival celebrates the season of snow and ice with a veritable blizzard of activities, beginning Jan. 10 with the annual Merry Maker at the Great Northern Bar, and continuing through Feb. 8. Red Lodge and Sandpoint also celebrate the season of snow and ice with carnival festivities. Read more
Helena artist Richard Notkin receives $50,000 fellowship
Helena ceramic artist Richard Notkin is among 50 recipients of USA Fellowships for 2008 – a group of artists hailing from 21 states and ranging in age from 31 to 82. “This type of open financial support – in addition to the recognition – also frees some of my time to focus on new images, techniques and concepts that would otherwise be difficult to pursue,” he says. Read more • (1) Comments
James Lee Burke | Swan Peak
An almost radioactive violence – twined with lyrical descriptions of Montana’s landscape – pervades James Lee Burke’s latest Dave Robicheaux novel, Swan Peak. The result is both jarring and mesmerizing, making for yet another roller-coaster ride from the master of suspense novels. Read more
Stephen T. Gough | Colter’s Run
Author Stephen Gough lives in the Tobacco Root Mountains, near where John Colter made his famous escape from Blackfeet Indians two centuries ago. This historical novel, published by Stoneydale Press of Stevensville, explores that encounter, as well as the many other hair-raising adventures of this intrepid explorer and fur-trader. Read more • (1) Comments
Richie and the Rocketdogs | Manic Heart
Prolific Missoula musician Richie Reinholdt has created a style over his past few CDs that time-warps to the late 50s and early 60s – an era of great love songs and harmony singing, replete with the cool garage-band sound of loud, snappin’ drums, thumpin’ bass, and low-slung electric guitar licks. Read more
“Butte, America” debuts in January
Montana-based Rattlesnake Productions will present the world premiere of “Butte, America,” on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Butte’s Mother Lode Theater, with additional screenings slated for Bozeman and Helena. Narrated by Dublin-born Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, the documentary tells the epic tale of Butte, once the world’s largest producer of the copper that plumbed and electrified America in the early 1900s. Read more • (6) Comments