I’m pretty excited to announce that the Missoulian Entertainer has finally — FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! — been redesigned as its own independent online destination site. This has been a thorn in my side pretty much since I got here, so I’m both proud and relieved of what we’ve done. (I actually didn’t do much except [...]
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Last February, the band came to town for a gig at the Badlander. After performing for a decent-sized local crowd, the band members began loading their equipment out the back door into their tour bus. Drummer Dan Scanlan says that he was carrying his drums out the door when he heard band members and bystanders yelling: Someone was stealing the bus. Advertisement A pair of chairs, a pair of beds. One for a couple – maybe. The other for a duo – for now. Harold Pinter’s pair of plays, “Ashes to Ashes” and “The Dumb Waiter,” written nearly four decades apart, bear structural, dramatic and thematic resemblances from end to end. Placed together on the same program, the one-act dramas create their own back-and-forth dialogue that helps to illuminate the deepest qualities of the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright’s celebrated work. Given the Montana Rep Missoula treatment at the Last spring my wife and I discovered (mostly through that annoying intuition that causes us both to always guess each other’s birthday presents in advance) that we were planning the same birthday present for each other: Each of us had separately decided to commission local artist Michael DeMeng to do a family [...] It was a day that saw the first, small accumulation of snow in town, at the end of a week that saw the most precipitous fall of the stock market in more than a generation. It was, in an uncanny way, a perfect day for a concert by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. “I never thought that the Dow dropping several thousand points in a week could be good for a symphony concert,” joked conductor Darko Butorac at the beginning of the second half of Sunday’s concert, to much laughter from the audience. “But I think this music is reflective of these troubled times.” He got that right. URBANA, Ohio (AP) — A defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes [...] My son has his own blog now. It’s here. I didn’t have my first blog until I was 38. He’s 17 months old. Obviously this is the sign of a generation gap. Share on Facebook I’m emceeing this Wednesday’s “Opera on Draft” at the Badlander. I’m spectacularly unprepared. But having heard a lot of the singers I can guarantee that they’ll hold up their end of the bargain with some fine entertainment. Hope you’ll come, it was a blast last time. Check out the awesome poster that Courtney [...]
Here’s my confession: Sometimes I get even my own tastes wrong. That Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament can write a catchy tune will surprise none of the band’s legions of fans. The composer of songs including “Jeremy,” “Nothingman,” and “Nothing As It Seems,” Ament is responsible for some of Pearl Jam’s biggest hits. But Ament isn’t the band’s only songwriter, and the band’s heavy-rock sound isn’t the only noise in Ament’s head. That latter fact is made plainly evident on Ament’s debut solo CD, “Tone,” which was quietly self-released late last month through the band’s Web site and an independent network of distributors. The ten-track, 32-minute record ranges widely across the pop music landscape, from herky-jerky punk-pop (“Just Like That”) to story-song folk (“Hi-Line”) and even a radio-ready R&B ballad, “Doubting Thomasina.” |
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It’s not often that a heavy metal band comes to town bearing gifts for the local police department. But then, it’s not often that a band has a 
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