Emerging from the raging waters of the BBWA Canal early Tuesday morning, California transplant and avid surfer Chad “Kahuna” Waxman was stoked to the max. (more…) Continue Reading →
Ditch surfer super amped, says wave this year was awesome
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Memories, sort of, of a memorable Montana concert
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A friend sent me a link to Dead.net, a website devoted to all things Grateful Dead. The current posting on that site reads:
“We’re kicking off Dave’s Picks 2014 with a visit to the Wall Of Sound era. Dave’s Picks Volume 9 features the complete show from May 14, 1974, at Adams Field House at the University of Montana in Missoula, the Grateful Dead’s only appearance in the state of oro y plata.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Adams Fieldhouse, Bob Weir, Grateful Dead, Missoula, University of Montana
Run locally, think globally: Race will benefit Ethiopian street kids
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A little in this country goes a long way in Ethiopia. A fundraising dinner in Billings in 2011, followed by some T-shirt sales, brought in enough money to do most of the construction on a dormitory that will house up to 50 street kids in Gara Muleta, Ethiopia. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, News, Eayoall Atsbeha, Elizabeth McNamer, Ethiopia, Gara Muleta, Joel Harris, MyFight
Guest Editorial: What do we owe the Clovis child?
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In May 1968, while removing fill material with a front-end loader on Mel and Helen Anzick’s property near Wilsall, equipment operator Ben Hargis saw a prehistoric stone tool fall out of the bucket. Along the edge of a prominent outcrop, where Flathead Creek and the Shields River join, Ben found the gravesite of a 1- to 2-year-old male child, interred with more than 100 stone tools covered with red ochre. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, Clovis culture, Eske Willersev, Larry Lahren, Larson Medicine Horse, Mel and Helen Anzick, Montana Historical Society, Shane Doyle
Prairie Lights: In our long winter, some warmth from Butte
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Just when I thought the endless winter of 2013-14 was going to do me in at last, I was saved by a ray of sunshine from Butte, America. The sunshine was a story from the Montana Standard, published in the Billings Gazette, that was headlined: “Man accused of breaking into home, ordering porn — again.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Billings Gazette, Butte-Silver Bow sheriff, Darwin James Bradley, Montana Standard, Nancy Grace
Extenuating circumstances cited in Priest case
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Editor’s note: This email came over the transom on Friday, after Last Best News published the charging documents in the Jason Priest assault case. We see no reason not to share this email with our readers: (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Fukushima, Jason Priest, jet stream, radiation
Here’s the Jason Priest affidavit that was too hot for Gazette to handle
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Earlier this afternoon, I wrote about Billings Gazette editor Darrell Ehrlick’s decision not to print the charging documents in the assault case involving state Sen. Jason Priest, R-Red Lodge. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Billings Gazette, Darrell Ehrlick, Jason Priest, Jim Romenesko
Editor goes mum, paints self in harsh light
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The Billings Gazette is in the news, sort of, for Editor Darrell Ehrlick’s decision not to post court documents in the case of state Sen. Jason Priest, R-Red Lodge, who was charged with felony assault involving his child, his estranged wife and his wife’s boyfriend. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Billings Gazette, Darrell Ehrlick, Jason Priest, Jim Romenesko, Mike Gulledge
Bob Wire plumbs guitar players’ obsession
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Bob Wire, one of my favorite columnists, now writing for a website I was not previously aware of, Make it Missoula, has a new piece up titled “20 Surefire Signs You’re Married to a Guitar Player.” Bob should know, or at least his wife should, since Bob’s a honky-tonk man. Here are a few of my favorites from the list:
“He talks with a completely straight face about finding the ‘Neil Young’ chord in a Beatles song.” “It offends him deeply that models posing with guitars in print advertisements are obviously not guitar players. They clumsily grasp the neck, and they hold up the body of the guitar with the other hand (ever heard of a strap, Tyrese?) pretending to strum with their thumb.” Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Bob Wire, Dwight Yoakam, Make it Missoula
Montana Tech’s contentious commencement speaker also coming to Rocky
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Bozeman billionaire Greg Gianforte, whose scheduled commencement speech at Montana Tech in Butte has prompted some students and teachers there to organize a boycott of the event, is also scheduled to speak at Rocky Mountain College’s commencement this spring. (more…) Continue Reading →
