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Montana Ethic Project: Still waiting in Indian Country

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Gordon

This is the 18th chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” This chapter features the late Gordon Belcourt, a Blackfeet Indian who was executive director for the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council, speaking on “A Montana Native Perspective.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is how it begins:
“Good day everyone. My name is Gordon Belcourt. I’m a member of the Blackfeet Tribe in northwest Montana. I come from a tribal traditional community on the reservation called Star School. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Montana, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council, Star School

Film festival looks at food as part of larger conversation

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Festival

The Yellowstone Valley Citizens Council is partnering with Art House Cinema & Pub to present a Food Film Festival on three Tuesday evenings this month. The tagline for the festival is “Films about how what we eat matters for people and the planet.” The festival is part of the larger Community Food Campaign sponsored by the Northern Plains Resource Council, of which the YVCC is an affiliate. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, News, Art House Pub & Cinema, Billings Food Bank, Caitlin Hart, Cori Hart, Matt Blakeslee, Northern Plains Resource Council

Billings author writes for young adults—of any age

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Blythe

If you think young adult fiction is something to be looked down upon, or that the people who write young adult fiction are to be condescended to, I invite you to match wits, or sentences, with Blythe Woolston. Woolston is a Billings author, a late-bloomer whose first book, “The Freak Observer,” was published six years ago, when she was 53. She has published three other books since then and she is almost done with another. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, American Library Association, Blythe Woolston, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, young adult fiction

Downtown bookstore, still gearing up, hosts open house

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store

Potential customers of and investors in a downtown Billings cooperative bookstore got a sneak peek at the space Thursday night. The two-hour open house at This House of Books, in the old Wendy’s at Second Avenue North and North 29th Street, attracted a steady flow of people. The event no doubt got a bit of a boost from the Pita Pit-hosted Alive After 5 concert, which drew hundreds of people to the stretch of Second Avenue between North 29th and Broadway. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Carrie La Seur, Gary Robson, Lynn Boughey, Nina Hernandez, Precious McKenzie, Red Lodge Books & Tea

‘Swift Dam’ a mesmerizing account of family, remembrance

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Before reading Sid Gustafson’s new novel, “Swift Dam,” the only thing I’d seen of his was a short story in the winter 2015-16 edition of The Montana Quarterly. The story was uncommonly good, but I didn’t even recall reading it until I had finished this novel. What really prompted me to pick up “Swift Dam” was my fascination with the Gustafson family. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Montana, Barr Gustafson, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Erik Fingers Ray, Kristen Juras, Patricia Gustafson, Pondera County

Red Lodge Ales planning big expansion into Billings

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Hoffmann

Red Lodge Ales is on the verge of a major expansion into Billings, which includes opening a taproom, making fresh-pressed hard cider and hiring Jason Corbridge as the chef. “I think it’s really an exciting project,” said Sam Hoffmann, president of Red Lodge Ales. “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.” (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Cafe DeCamp, Depot Antique Mall, Jason Corbridge, Red Lodge Ales, Sam Hoffmann, Schutz Foss

New downtown gallery brings art back to historic building

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Gallery

Among guests at the opening of a new art gallery in downtown Billings Thursday night was Bob Durden, senior curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum. Standing in the long, narrow, high-ceilinged Stapleton Gallery on the second floor of the Stapleton Building at North Broadway and First Avenue North, Durden said that what he liked most about the new gallery was that it brought art back to a building that used to be teeming with it. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Abigail Hornik-Minckler, Jeremiah Young, Kibler & Kirch, L.A. Huffman, Senia Hart, Stapleton Gallery

Tippet Rise: A feast for the ears, eyes and intellect

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Porta

FISHTAIL — On a tour of the Tippet Rise Art Center on a rainy Wednesday morning, Alban Bassuet did not need to say much about the impressions made by monumental outdoor sculptures dotting the 11,500-acre ranch. Like Stonehenge, the Pyramids or the Eiffel Tower, the art installations at Tippet Rise speak for themselves. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Alban Bassuet, Christopher O'Riley, Peter and Cathy Halstead, Tippet Rise Art Center

Downtown co-op bookstore plans open house June 30

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An open house for This House of Books, a community-owned bookstore going into downtown Billings, is scheduled for Thursday, June 30. The event will run from 5 to 7 p.m. in the old Wendy’s restaurant at Second Avenue North and North 29th Street. Local residents and potential members of the cooperative bookstore will be able to have a look at the building, meet people involved in the project and sample some of the teas that will be featured in the store’s tea bar. Light snacks will also be served. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Carrie La Seur, Gary Robson, Nina Hernandez, Prescious McKenzie, Red Lodge Books & Tea, This House of Books

Book review: Novel explores dusty, winding road

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“The Fifth Parallel, A Love Story Set in Africa,” by Michelle Foltz, 282 pages, 2015, Amazon Books, $14.99. The author is an orthopedic surgeon who with her husband lives near Columbus, Mont., but spends most of her time volunteering her skills in places like Afghanistan. She is also the author of “A Leg to Stand On” (about orthopedics) and co-editor of the textbook “Global Orthopedics: Caring for Musculoskeletal Conditions and Injuries in Austere Settings. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Columbus, Michelle Foltz, Peace Corps