Nickell’s Bag

“Sex and the City 2″ opens this weekend. If you trust newspaper critics — which, it must be noted, few people do, and often justifiably so — the film’s a dud. The most interesting part, from my perspective, has been the race among critics to see who can roast it the mostest.
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Colin Hay, better known as the man who introduced millions of American teenagers in the 1980s to the concept of the “Vegemite Sandwich,” is coming to the Wilma for a solo show in August. You better run, you better take cover…
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This Sunday’s concert by Ween is so close, Bryan Hickey can taste it. The manager of Missoula’s Big Dipper Ice Cream for the past decade, and a devotee of the Pennsylvania-based psychedelic freak-rock band for nearly twice that long, Hickey has spent the past week blending his passion and his profession to create a series [...]

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I’ve been away from the office for a week, just getting back in the flow now. Thought I’d share this 60 Minutes segment about Gustavo Dudamel and his quest to transform the musical culture of America. This guy inspires me like few others. Enjoy.

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On Monday, an episode of the series “The Endless Feast” will air on Montana PBS. This time around, the focus is Whitefish. Here’s the press release with details:
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The New York Times recently put together a diagram of how Facebook’s system for setting your privacy preferences works. It’s pretty crazy; check it out here.
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I’m pretty stoked about the announcement I received today that the Mountain Goats are coming to Missoula. They’ll perform at the Palace, which should be an amazing place to get up close to ‘em.
So happens that I named a Mountain Goats album among my 20 favorites of the recently ended decade (see here). It’s an [...]

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Got a press release from the Montana Nonprofit Association saying that many small non-profits in Montana face the possibility of losing their tax-exempt status if they fail to file a form with the IRS. Hopefully word is getting out to those organizations, but just in case, I figured I’d post it up here.
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Apparently quite a number of community members have been up in arms about the $1 service fee added to the price of tickets to the International Wildlife Film Festival by GrizTix. Nevermind that every professional ticketing system in the country charges ticketing fees, or that $1 is way lower than any fee I’ve seen in [...]

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Fate holds a peculiar position in the classical concert hall. At every performance, the music of the program is there on the page in indelible ink, theoretically preordained and immutable, the most meticulously organized choreography of human expression in our culture. Yet any time that live musicians go about translating scratches on paper to waves [...]

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