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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The Après-ski is where to be this weekend, with a pair of concerts in Missoula aimed at celebrating all that is gnarly and sick (that’s ‘extreme’ and ‘good’ to the rest of us). [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 Blue Mountain Clinic has issued a call for submissions for its upcoming Off the Rack fashion show. Here’s the release direct from them. [Read More...]
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Happy Monday! As you try to figure out what to do with all your free time as the relaxed holiday season approaches (cough, cough), perhaps building a parade float is in the cards this year. Applications are due this week for floats for the Missoula Downtown Association’s annual Parade of Lights; here’s the [...]
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This is pretty cool. Now I’m just pissed off that I didn’t think of stringing this story to the Times! Ha!
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I received an email that I thought I would post up here about a contest that Missoula Children’s Theatre is involved in. The winner gets $250,000, which would surely be a nice shot in the arm for the company. Here’s the email I received, with instructions on how to help out: [Read More...]
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About five years ago, a woman named Maria Laubach arrived in Western Montana and took a job at the DirecTV call center in Missoula. Apart from the slight accent that betrayed her childhood upbringing in South Africa, Laubach probably didn’t stand out too much at her new workplace. That was by design. Hers was a story like so many: Pulled to this region by the allure of natural beauty and a slower pace, she and her new husband, Richard, settled south of Stevensville, where they could quietly raise horses and ride motorcycles and live out their shared dream of the Western lifestyle.
“On our very first date we discussed moving out west and having land,” she recalls today. “It’s something we both really wanted to do. So when my husband had the opportunity to transfer out here, we took it as a sign and just did it.”
It was a dramatic shift for Laubach, who left behind more than her maiden name, Jooste, when she married Richard. In the years before the couple moved here from Maryland, Maria Jooste had become something of a young celebrity in the east-coast operatic world. [Read More...]
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