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An exhibition created by Crow artist Wendy Red Star, which opens next week in Billings, promises to be a powerful combination of art, artifacts, family and the reverberations of tribal history. The exhibition, “Peelatchiwaaxpaash/Medicine Crow (Raven) and the 1880 Crow Peace Delegation,” will be in the Northcutt Steele Gallery at Montana State University Billings Oct. 20 through Dec. 1. (more…) Continue Reading →
I have been seriously out of touch lately. We let our subscription to the dead-tree edition of the Billings Gazette lapse a few weeks ago and haven’t renewed it because we get sticker shock every time we see how much they want to charge us for the damned thing. (more…) Continue Reading →
The two candidates running for the only contested seat on the Montana Supreme Court this year sparred repeatedly during a public forum Thursday over questions of experience and ideological bias. Dirk Sandefur, who was a police officer in Havre for three years and a deputy county attorney for eight years before becoming a Cascade County district judge in 2002, said “there is no substitute for experience.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: We are pleased to draw your attention to another independent online journalism site covering this part of the world. The masthead at The Bullseye describes its mission this way: “With a focus on environmental and cultural issues in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the broader American West, we are here to champion honesty, transparency and accountability in government and society.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Regular readers of the Billings Gazette might be wondering, “Who is this new writer who seems to know so much about Montana?” I am referring to Jessica Wick, whose byline reads “For The Gazette.” I plugged her name into the Gazette’s search bar and got hits on 32 stories, all published this summer. Every story under her byline follows the same pattern: the five best of this or the six best of that, all with a Montana theme. (more…) Continue Reading →
I was going to write a regular column this week, but I found that I did not have—to use a word that has risen to prominence lately—the correct temperament for it. I was far too serious, for one thing. The few hesitant starts I made toward a column veered off into politics, and not even the politics I know a little something about, that being local politics. (more…) Continue Reading →
On a fairly regular basis, said the Rev. Stacey Siebrasse, people would come to her church, First English Lutheran Church, asking for help paying their rent or in making a mortgage payment. Sometimes the people asking for help were members of the congregation. (more…) Continue Reading →
Tahani Nelson has put on her armor and summoned her troops. The cause for which they fight is Nelson’s novel, “The Last Faoii.” Winning the battle would mean getting the book into print, into the hands of as many readers as possible. (more…) Continue Reading →
About 75 people turned out Wednesday night for a “Third Party Throwdown” at Yellowstone Valley Brewing Co.’s Garage Pub, but it seems safe to say that neither Gary Johnson nor Jill Stein was the main attraction. That would have been Yellowstoned, a band that describes itself as a psychedelic reggae dub-hop collective. Others were there for opening acts that played folk music and hip hop. (more…) Continue Reading →
In the 32-month history of Last Best News, few stories were as fun to report as the one about Kate Morris’ grain bin house, which the former Lockwood school teacher built on some family property north of Great Falls. (more…) Continue Reading →
