Craig Lancaster | 600 Hours of Edward
In Craig Lancaster’s first novel, Edward Stanton is a middle-aged man with Asperger’s syndrome, an obsessive-compulsive disorder that causes him to live a solitary, but not unhappy, life. Edward is in control of his orderly world until one chaotic October, when over a period of 25 days (600 hours) people and events bring changes to his daily routine that will forever alter his life. Read more
Philip Aaberg and Darol Anger | Cross Time
Philip Aaberg and Darol Anger’s Cross Time is a series of pieces the duo has performed for several years in concerts all over the West. Taking classical, jazz, Broadway and Americana forms and throwing them into a big stewpot, the pianist from Chester and the nationally known violinist continue to turn music on its ear in their latest collaboration. Read more
Homestake Lodge hosts Powder Hound Winter Triathlon
The Powder Hound Winter Triathlon, held Jan. 31 near Butte, will serve as the 2010 Pacific Northwest Region Winter Triathlon Championship. Bark, growl, unleash your inner snow dog, and have a howlin' good time, while running, mountain biking and Nordic skiing on the groomed ski trails of Homestake Lodge, high atop the Continental Divide. Read more
Headwaters Dance premieres the four-part “Montana Suite”
Headwaters Dance Company premieres its “Montana Suite,” an impressive dance anthology described as “Four Montana landscapes, four choreographers, four dances and four years in the making,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4-6, with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday at MCT Center for the Performing Arts in Missoula. Read more
Dublin Gulch | Dirty Old Town
Perennial purveyors of Celtic favorites, Butte’s Dublin Gulch has released their first studio album, Dirty Old Town. Besides that hit by Ewen MacColl, the band continues to extoll the populace of Montana’s most colorful city in story and song. Read more
Bob Faulkner | The Buffalo Rock
When young reporter Grant Collins takes the train from St. Louis to Fort Benton in 1923, he expects to make a name for himself as a writer by interviewing the last living Pony Express rider. What he doesn’t anticipate is the larger-than-life story that unfolds, and his own transformation in the still-wild West. Read more