There’s a great interview with local animator and writer Andy Smetanka in the Winnipeg Free Press this week, advancing a showing of his animations there. As usual, Andy is erudite and funny as he talks about his work and his town: “I’m too attached to Missoula,” he admits. “It’s a little like Boulder, [...]
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Local documentary filmmaker Damon Ristau has taken a novel approach (at least, locally speaking) to fundraising for his latest project, titled “The Bus:” He is asking for small individual donations via the online project-incubator Kickstarter.com. You can see a trailer for the film that Ristau wants to make at the Kickstarter page he [...] Advertisement Local photog Eileen Rafferty, an instructor at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, has started up a new quarterly photo journal, titled “Butterflies and Anvils.” Looks like a promising forray; you can check out info about it here. Share on Facebook
Seems that David Letterman’s Montana ties are paying off once again for area musicians. Readers might recall the night a couple of years ago now when the Great Falls tribute act Cold Hard Cash appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. Tonight, another Montanan, Andrew Petroff, will appear on Letterman’s show as bassist in the band, Steel Magnolia. Here’s a press release I received about it. [Read More...] Years ago, as a teenager, I attended a meeting of my church youth-group led by a guest minister. I still remember how he arrayed our group in a circle, and without any explanation, whispered something in the ear of one of our group members. She laughed, turned, and whispered in the ear of the person next to her, who then passed the message along around the circuit. The secret eventually got around to me. Now, 20-plus years later, I don’t remember much of it, but it had something to do with a bicycle, a list of items from the store, and some places and names. “Pass it on,” I was told. Eventually, the circle was completed. The minister asked the last person in line to say what he had heard out loud. Then, the minister read from a piece of paper the original message he had whispered in the first girl’s ear. Neither a single fact nor even the basic gist of the story had made it all the way around the circle. [Read More...] 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...] Leslie Nielsen, star of the “Naked Gun” movies and co-star of “Airplane!,” is dead. Every modern generation has its formative films, and for mine, “Airplane!” was a classic. Too young for Mel Brooks, too young and American to catch Monty Python until it was already in the classics bin, too old and “mature” [...] This is pretty cool. Now I’m just pissed off that I didn’t think of stringing this story to the Times! Ha! Share on Facebook For the past week, my head has been spinning at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. After spending the past two decades carefully curating a CD collection that includes around 300 classical titles, I’ve suddenly found myself awash in LPs – more than 500 of them, all classical, many older than I am. My music world has been turned upside down. It all started when I received a call from local documentary filmmaker and avid record collector Doug Hawes-Davis. Actually, for Doug, the story started several months ago, when he received a phone call from an elderly man in Helena who had seen Doug’s “wanted” ad for used records on Craigslist. The caller figured Doug might want to come see his collection, which he had decided to sell. “How many records do you have, exactly?” Doug asked. “Oh,” the caller said, pausing for effect, “about 35,000.” Doug had no way to deal with that many records; but together with fellow record collector Mike Steinberg, he rented a moving truck, drove to Helena, and brought home about 10,000 of the records, which the man had collected, carefully catalogued, and graded for quality since the late 80s. Since then, Doug and Mike have slowly dispensed of many of the records they bought. Among those that remained was a sizeable collection of classical music. Doug’s not a classical music listener, but he knew I was. Hence his call to me. [Read More...] |
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