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Dave Caserio is a poet, but he is best known in Billings as a performer of poetry. In the past 10 years he has collaborated with musicians, dancers, actors, painters and other poets to create improvisational amalgams of creativity unlike anything else available in this part of the world. (more…) Continue Reading →
I hope you all saw the brilliant letter to the editor in the Gazette this morning. It was a masterpiece — clever, sarcastic and absolutely irrefutable. And short. So short I’ll just reprint it, rather than linking to it:
“I see the United Nations is backing another summit on climate change. I wish the alarmists would make up their minds. Continue Reading →
I have this sneaking suspicion that a lot of wolf-haters deliberately say outrageous things solely in hopes of provoking reasonable people to anger, and therefore should be ignored. That’s what the rational part of me says. But I find it hard to be rational when my blood’s boiling, as it was last week when I read about the Missoula “man,” as he was described in news stories, who bragged on Facebook about deliberately hitting two wolves with his van. (more…) Continue Reading →
It’s quite possible you’ve never heard of one of the most popular authors in Montana. That would be Tyler Knott Gregson, a 33-year-old poet and wedding photographer who lives in Helena and recently published his first book of poems. (more…) Continue Reading →
I am honored — not to mention tremendously thankful — to announce that Dan Berry has joined Last Best News as an ad salesman. Dan retired from the Billings Gazette last year after a career of more than 25 years there. He and his wife, Kay, moved to Billings in 1979 and Dan joined the Gazette as an ad salesman in 1985. (more…) Continue Reading →
As mysteries go, I am aware that the two I want to write about today aren’t exactly on par with the tombstone found in the Yellowstone River. Still, these are both rather touching, I hope you will agree. The first one I ran into this weekend, when my wife and I were walking our dogs in the old neighborhood. At the corner McDonnell Boulevard and Locust Street, a couple of blocks due south of the main entrance to the MSUB campus, we came across the little sign at left. If you can’t read it, the sign says, “For the person whose child lost this spoon.” Continue Reading →
The verdict is in: members of the McKinley neighborhood book club were quite pleased with their meal from Zpizza. Opinions were mixed, however, on this month’s book selection. No one seemed entirely satisfied with Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History,” despite its best-seller status, and at least one member had nothing good to say about it. (more…) Continue Reading →
A television reporter in Alaska, after admitting that she is the owner of a cannabis club, goes out with a bang, and an F-bomb — quitting on live TV. (more…) Continue Reading →
Last year, when the Montana State University Billings Library presented a series of lectures marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, no one had any idea how many people would turn out for the Tuesday night presentations. (more…) Continue Reading →
How big is too big? That is a question people love to weigh in on when the subject is houses. Or so I have found. When I first wrote about what was going to be the biggest house in Yellowstone County, which is being built just outside the Ironwood subdivision, readers flooded the Last Best News Facebook page with spirited comments on the subject. (more…) Continue Reading →
