Don’t ever say that Hollywood doesn’t know how to titilate. In one week, we’ve got movies about zombie wars, rollerderbies, and would-be porn stars. If that’s not your thing, how about the first movie made by Ricky Gervais, the originator of “The Office”? Click through for this week’s dose of film trailers… [Read More...]
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Wow, check this out. Somone lifts one of my blog posts wholesale, without credit, and then when I call him on it, has the audacity to claim the high road. Share on Facebook Advertisement Okay, I know that’s not a newsflash. But still, I’ve never seen that little factoid played out in such fascinating style as in this interactive news graphic from the New York Times. It’s a graph showing, in microscopic detail, how various groups of Americans spend every minute of their waking day, on average. [...] Sometime over the weekend, someone stole my NRS aluminum raft frame, including brass oarlocks, center rowing seat, gray front fishing seat w/ thigh bar and casting platform, gray back fishing seat, anchor system, blue/white anchor rope w/ large carabiner attached to end. Both front and back fishing seats have attached plastic cupholders. Please [...] “The curse of the bad pianists has been lifted!” “Well, that was sure worth the price of admission!” Sometimes, the offhanded comments of audience members capture the spirit of a concert better than the meditated musings of a professional critic. Those two quotes above, overheard in the University Theatre lobby during intermission at Sunday’s performance by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra, pretty much told the story of the day. In a diverse program of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy and Stravinsky, the highlight of Sunday’s concert was the playing of the orchestra and its guest soloist, pianist Stewart Goodyear, in a performance of Mozart’s 20th Piano Concerto. [Read More...] Guitarist Bill Frisell is widely known for his genre-straddling collaborations with some of the biggest names in the popular, jazz, and classical worlds: Bono, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Rickie Lee Jones, John Zorn, the Los Angeles Philharmonic – just to name a fragmentary few. But for his latest album, the Grammy-winning Seattle-based musician chose to embark on a time- and idiom-straddling collaboration with an almost forgotten, long-deceased photographer from Arkansas. [Read More...] The backdrop is steely gray, but the mood is even darker when the lights come up on Montana Rep Missoula’s production of Clifford Odet’s classic Depression-era political play, “Waiting for Lefty.” A rowdy gathering of unionized taxi drivers argues over whether to strike. A union leader, the unsubtly named Harry Fatt, insists that the workers should wait for the nation’s new President to intervene. When workers in the audience try to shout him down, Fatt calls them Reds, and warns the crowd of the dangers of Communism. “Give those birds a chance and they’ll have your sisters and wives in whore houses, like they done in Russia,” shouts Fatt. “They’ll tear Christ off his bleeding cross. They’ll wreck your homes and throw your babies in the river. You think that’s bunk? Read the papers!” As he bellows that last line, Fatt, played by local theatre veteran Howard Kingston, leaps to the front of the stage at the Crystal Theater and points a front-row audience member straight in the eye. Read the papers, indeed. [Read More...] To those with a casual knowledge of classical music, Igor Stravinsky is widely considered the first major avant garde composer of the 20th century. But as Darko Butorac prepares to conduct Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” in a concert by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra this weekend, he wants you to know: This is nothing to be afraid of. “Truly, in this day and age, your average movie score is more jarring than the ‘Firebird Suite,’ said Butorac. “As a society we’ve grown accustomed to these sounds; there’s nothing that would shock anybody in this music anymore – but there’s plenty that would move people.” [Read More...] In the first minute of the first track of the new album by Volumen, everything that is great and goofy about the long-lived Missoula band is on display: The lo-fi sing-song keyboards of Chris Bacon, the stutter-fire pounding of drummer Bob Marshall, Bryan Hickey’s no-nonsense basslines, and the confidently raw dual lead vocals of Shane Hickey and Doug Smith. These are a few of the favorite things that have drawn flocks of fist-pumping fans to gigs by the band, which celebrates its 10th birthday late this year. Born on a lark – as a one-time New Year’s Eve stunt – the band now stands as one of the most enduring and prolific acts in modern Missoula music. And now there’s a record that lives up to those hazy late-night memories of brain-searing rock shows. [Read More...] Less than a minute into his 90-minute concert on Wednesday night, Michael Franti looked out across a sea of pogoing dancers in the audience, stepped up to the microphone, and let out a long, one-word shout: “Montana!” The crowd went wild, cheering back at the dreadlocked singer. Two more times during the song, Franti called out the state’s name; two more times, the crowd went nuts. It’s a tried-and-true trick for touring performers to connect with local audiences that way. But in this case, Franti’s call seemed to carry a special reverberance — a shout-out to the mountains that echoed around him and the bare earth underfoot at this, the second-ever concert at Ryan Creek Meadows, a makeshift outdoor venue located near Beavertail Hill State Park in western Montana. [Read More...] |
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