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Dancer-director’s debut drama keeps it ‘real, raw, live’

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Group hug

Last year, for the Sacrifice Cliff Theatre Company’s New Works Festival, company co-founder Patrick Wilson went out on a limb and asked two non-writers to submit a piece for the collection of 10-minute one-act plays. The collaboration between Krista Leigh Pasini, a dancer and choreographer, and Matt Taggart, a musician and sound artist, resulted in “All Together Now,” which used music and movement, and no dialogue, to explore the dynamics of a family coming together for Sunday dinner. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, 2905, Bryan Stafford, Carly Green, Dan Nickerson, Dave Caserio, Dina Brophy, Grace Kim

After strong start, Art House Cinema selling memberships

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Cinema

After a successful first year as an independent movie theater in downtown Billings, Art House Cinema & Pub has launched a membership drive. Selling memberships was always part of the plan for the nonprofit theater, which raised startup funding through an Indiegogo campaign and other donations, but founder Matt Blakeslee figured waiting a year was a good idea. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, 'Makoshika', Art House Cinema, Caitlin Hart, Dennis Deppmeier, Indiegogo, Matt Blakeslee, Ryan Kaybeary

Red Lodge gallery owner moves to downtown Billings

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Tyler

After operating an art gallery in Red Lodge for three years, Tyler Murphy was ready for a change. One option was to expand into the second floor of the building that housed his Montana Gallery, at 22 N. Broadway. But most of his friends lived in Billings, so a move there was also a possibility. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Ben Steele, Carbon County Arts Guild, Ebon Coffee Collective, Elliott Eaton, Kevin Red Star, Kira Fercho, Margaret Murphy

Kat Hobza revives cheeky ‘Sistah,’ moves it online

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Kat

Kat Hobza—and her very funny “Sistah”—is back. A lot of people in Billings will remember the original Sistah, a tabloid newspaper published every two weeks between 2003 and 2008. It was a cheeky, profane, in-your-face-funny publication aimed at women but appreciated by men of good sense as well. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Good Housekeeping, Kat Hobza, Maxim, Sistah, Sistah Diaries

Billings native, noted soprano back for pair of local shows

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Conover

Christie Hageman Conover was 16 or 17 years old when, for her grandmother’s 80th birthday, she learned to sing Patsy Montana’s “I Want to be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart,” complete with the yodeling. This weekend, at concerts in Billings and Bozeman, she’ll be singing that song again as part of her “Women of the West” show with Bozeman pianist Stefan Stern. Later in the month, she’ll be back in her hometown to perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Billings Symphony Orchestra. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Alberta Bair Theater, Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Christie Hageman Conover, Gustav Mahler, Moss Mansion, Patsy Montana, Stefan Stern

In memoriam: An interview with jazz great Kelly Roberti

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Roberti

Editor’s note: Kelly Roberti, a native of Malta who spent most of his life in Bozeman and who was a bassist known to jazz lovers around the world, died on March 7 at the age of 61. In commemoration of Roberti, The BoZone Entertainment & Events Calendar recently republished an interview with Roberti. The interview, from April 2009, was conducted by RollingZone, the music section of the BoZone, and is reprinted here by permission of that publication: (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Bob Nell, BoZone, Brad Edwards, Fred Raulston, Jim Honaker, Kelly Roberti

An absent Hitchens looms over Babcock appearance

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Taunton

It was Larry Alex Taunton’s show, but the Babcock Theater stage was dominated Thursday night by the man who wasn’t there: Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens, a noted author, journalist and enemy of religion, is the subject of Taunton’s new book, “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist.” The book won’t be officially released until April 12, but Taunton previewed the book before about 75 people in the theater where he and Hitchens debated in 2010. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, atheism, Babcock Theater, Bill Clinton, Christopher Hitchens, Geroge W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Jerry Falwell

Book review: Backwoods memoir a gripping read

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People fall into two categories: A. Those who think that giving up civilization and going to live alone in the woods would be a rich, romantic and unforgettable adventure. B. Those who think that being in Category A would be at least slightly worse than prison. Readers of Julie Riddle’s “The Solace of Stones” (University of Nebraska Press) who already fall into Category B will find plenty of good reasons to stay there. And readers in Category A may sense themselves slowly slipping into Category B.

It’s not that the Montana life Riddle describes was all that horrible. When she was a toddler, her parents moved her and her 3-year-old brother from Tucson, Ariz., to the edge of the Cabinet Mountains near Troy. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, 'The Solace of Stones', Bradford Angier, Butte, Julie Riddle, Libby, Tracy Kidder, Troy

Long-running Red Lodge forum looks at cybercrime

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DeBello

RED LODGE—When George Washington led troops into battle during the Revolutionary War, he communicated with his men at the same speed Julius Caesar had sent dispatches 2,000 years earlier. But within 100 years after the Revolutionary War, communications had developed rapidly with the invention of the railroad, telegraph, telephone and steamship. A hundred years after that, the Internet was in its infancy, heralding a new era in which global communications could occur almost instantly—and posing new risks to privacy and national security. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Cafe Regis, Forum for Provocative Issues, George Washington, John De Bello, Julius Caesar, Loma Media, Red Lodge