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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We received a doozy of a “press release” today that I thought I would share, unedited, in its entirety (after all, according to the release, failing to do so would mean I’m perpetrating evil!). Maybe I was right about saxophones all along….
Advertisement I know that accidents sometimes happen, but really. If you’re gonna spend the exorbitant money necessary to get into a concert by the New York Philharmonic, at least turn off your cellphone. Or, at least, turn it off after the first ring. Otherwise, this might happen. Anyone who knows the music of Mahler [...] Well-known Missoula jazz singer Eden Atwood and her husband, the Canadian guitarist Claude Pineault, have launched a campaign on the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo to raise money for a new album. As I wrote recently, several local groups have turned to the Internet to raise funds for creative projects — and the local success [...] As of Monday morning, the production team behind the upcoming film version of “Winter in the Blood” has hit its goal of raising $60,000 via the online “crowd-funding” site Kickstarter.com. With 34 hours left to go in the fundraising campaign, “Winter in the Blood” has raised $60,709. That means the project will receive [...]
Last night, we got together for the first time in a long time at Walking Stick Toys to run through our setlist for the reunion show. We were joined by Bryan Hickey, the founding bassist (and my next-door neighbor), who had left the band prior to its dissolution. It was super fun to run through all these old tunes; I was surprised how easily they all came back to me. In advance of tomorrow’s gig, I thought I’d share a little of the past writing that I and others at the Missoulian have done about Touqe and its founders. [Read More...] Okay, this is goofy enough that I have to share. I received this press release late last week. Who knows, maybe someone around here is a closet velvet-Elvis-maker… [Read More...] In case nobody Tweeted you the news yet, today is the second annual National Day of Unplugging. Organized by Reboot, a network of “young thought-leaders and tastemakers” who aim to rejuvenate Jewish traditions in the 21st century, the idea is that, from sunset tonight through sunset tomorrow, we all should shut off our computers, televisions, cellphones, and other electronic umbilical cords, in order to “help people become more aware of their dependence on technology and not to allow it to interfere with the important things in life.” I learned this, of course, via the Internet, where Reboot has created a Web site devoted to the cause, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. (Actually, to be perfectly clear, I learned about it from a friend’s Facebook status, where he posted a link to his blog, where I found the link to the organization’s Web site, www.sabbathmanifesto.org.) At the Web site, I learned that the idea behind the National Day of Unplugging is to encourage people to slow down and “reconnect with friends, family, the community and themselves.” Um, wait…What? [Read More...] Last year, Missoula artist Monte Dolack visited Egypt, where he produced a series of beautiful paintings of the landscape he encountered. All of this happened, of course, prior to the current uprising in that country; but as we watch the chaos on television, this video of Dolack’s works might offer a reminder of [...] |
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