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You remember Bryan Adams, right? “Cuts Like a Knife”….”Summer of ’69″….yeah, that Bryan Adams. It’s now been 14 years since his last #1 single, “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?,” hit the charts. His latest album, “11,” peaked at #80 on the U.S. charts. Now, he’s coming to Missoula. Solo. And if you’re like me, you’re gonna be shocked at the price of tickets. [Read More...] Just got word that Bob Weir, best known as co-vocalist and rhythm guitarist with the Grateful Dead, is bringing his band Ratdog to Missoula on August 26. Tickets are on sale now. Click through for the full press release… [Read More...] Advertisement I just realized I had never linked up the final wrap-up story I wrote about going to China with the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater — which is unfortunate and needs to be fixed, since it is, in many ways, the story I am most proud of from the series. I think, or at [...] Today, the last two stories chronicling this China adventure were published in the paper; both can be read here. In a couple of weeks I think we’re planning a photo essay for the Sunday Territory section; but today’s stories are the last play-by-play installments. Hope you’ve enjoyed them. Share on Facebook Here’s the latest story I did about this trip: a profile of Shonto Pete, one of the Native American dancers on the tour. In case you’re wondering, we are indeed back state-side already at this point. But my dad’s passing slowed my production of stories a bit, so we’ve gone ahead and delayed [...] On a lighter note, a story did run in the Missoulian about one of the first notable events that took place in Shanghai. Endless thanks to Erica Jeffrey, one of the professional dancers along for this trip, who pretty much wrote the whole thing as I sorted through my grief. Erica, you rock. [...] The last time I saw my father alive, I was sitting in a stuffy hotel room in Guilin, China, half a world away from where he lay in a hospital, drifting away. Dad’s face was bathed in a wash of sickly yellow light, shattered into ghosting pixels as he peered out from the screen of my laptop computer. I could not hear him speak; there was a problem with his computer’s microphone. He never moved; rather, he flickered around the screen in herky-jerky stop-motion, gazing somewhere below me as he stared at his computer screen rather than at his camera. I’ve fallen a bit behind here for reasons that I’ll try to explain in a post soon. But for all you wondering what’s going on, we’ve made it to Shanghai and had a busy day yesterday visiting Suzhou, a city famous for its traditional gardens, most notably the Humble Administrators Garden. Here are a few pics from that visit. I’ll catch up more as soon as I am able. It’s truly impossible to describe our trip on the Lijiang River. For me, it was a trip of a lifetime. Indeed, the first time I saw pictures of this region back when I was about 20 years old, I vowed I would someday see it in person. Yesterday, I did. I feel so lucky. Rather than blather on, I’ll just share some pictures here. Charlene Campbell, co-director of the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre, left this as a comment on a post, but I thought I would reposition it as a guest-post for those who might otherwise miss it in the comments.
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