On Sunday night, MCT Community Theatre wrapped up its two-week run of Gilbert & Sullivan’s satirical operetta, “The Mikado,” with a frolicking performance at its home theatre on East Broadway in Missoula.
On Monday morning, MCT executive director Michael McGill set about the hard business of mending all that had gone awry over the weekend, when word spread across the Internet that MCT’s production advocated the beheading of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
What began with a single letter to the editor, published in last Friday’s Missoulian, quickly erupted into a nationwide controversy after dozens of political bloggers picked up the thread and ran with it – some adding their own colorful amendments to the story. [Read More...]
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This very evening, the Missoula Art Museum continues its monthly Artini series of events with Artini: Art and Soul. If you haven’t seen the MAM’s auction show, which is hanging now, you really should; it’s one of the best group shows I’ve ever seen at the museum, and definitely the best auction show [...]
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I received a note that I was asked to pass along, looking for volunteers to help out with this year’s upcoming Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. So….I’m passing it along. [Read More...]
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Got word on Friday that one of the Montana Grizzlies’ most high-profile alumni will be visiting Missoula on Saturday to sign autographs. Here’s the press release with details. [Read More...]
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Last week, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin took the podium at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia to lead that city’s venerable orchestra in a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Requiem.” Critics lauded the performance and the work of the French-Canadian conductor, who last summer was named the orchestra’s new music director, after a troubling period without a permanent leader.
But the program itself perhaps signaled something else about the times. [Read More...]
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The Montana Museum of Art and Culture will have to wait a little longer to find a proper showcase for its trove of art.
Monday’s news that a Virginia-based developer has purchased the Macy’s building in downtown Missoula means that the MMAC, Montana’s only state-owned museum devoted to art – and the only state-owned museum that lacks a public building of its own – likely won’t be moving into the 134-year-old building in the heart of Missoula.
“We’re disappointed, certainly,” said Barbara Koostra, director of the MMAC, the UM-based art collection that, for 117 years, has been a museum by name only. [Read More...]
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It’s that time of year again, when every self-appointed critic and self-respecting media outlet looks back and ponders the best (and worst) of the year. We’re no different around here at the Missoulian. On Christmas Day, the Missoulian will publish an issue of the Entertainer devoted largely to the year in music, film, [...]
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Big retailers have their Black Friday; online retailers have their Cyber Monday. But for local artists and handiworkers, this December is shaping up to be Craftshow Chaos. And at least some folks are beginning to wonder if the profusion of local fairs and markets isn’t starting to be too much.
This weekend alone, a quick tour of the local scene includes a First Friday DIY Bazaar at the Top Hat Lounge (tonight), the annual Brunswick Artist Studios Holiday Open House (today and Saturday), the UC Holiday Art Fair at the University of Montana (today and Saturday) – and, of course, the gamut of First Friday openings, several of them expanded for the holiday season.
And that’s just the start of it. Still to come is the Missoula Made Fair (Dec. 12, at the Elk’s Lodge), the 24th annual UM Art Annex Holiday Juried Show and Sale (Dec. 9-12), and plenty more.
The long list of fairs and sales offers a celebratory manifestation of the growing diversity of Missoula’s art and craft scene – not to mention a reflection of the nationwide revitalization of interest in handmade crafts.
But some locals wonder if the ever-expanding creativity in our community will be matched this year by a deeper pool of interested buyers. [Read More...]
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