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When she decided to open a new restaurant, Jilan Hall-Johnson said, her goal was to offer something “completely different from anything you’ve ever had in Billings.” A glance at the menu of The Sassy Biscuit Company, which is in the midst of a soft opening this week at 115 N. 29th St. in downtown Billings, would seem to suggest that she has accomplished her mission. (more…) Continue Reading →
Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of the the PBS NewsHour, will be the featured guest in this year’s Royal Johnson Forum, hosted by the Billings Public Library Foundation. (more…) Continue Reading →
In the days before World War I, Clarence Sinclair Bull took his first photograph — of a ladder leaning against a building on his father’s ranch south of Sun River, using a camera he bought in a Great Falls hardware store. Not too many years after that, he was photographing Hollywood’s elite. (more…) Continue Reading →
Five years ago, Anna Gramza, then Anna Biegel, entered the Miss Montana International Pageant, hoping she could ace the talent portion of the competition with her piano skills. Only after entering the competition did she learn that this particular pageant didn’t even have a talent event, “but it was fun, so I kept doing it,” she said. She ended up winning, and reigned as Miss Montana International during 2012-2013. (more…) Continue Reading →
A few months ago, as he was getting ready for what was to be this summer’s sixth-annual Richard Dreyfest, a punk-inspired music and arts festival in downtown Billings, Phillip Griffin had a chore to do. (more…) Continue Reading →
The Rudeboys Bistro in the old Log Cabin Bakery building is officially open for business. Owner Matt Melvin went with a soft opening on Tuesday, relying on nothing more than a small sign in front of the bistro at 2401 Second Ave. N., and between 11 a.m., and 4 p.m. about 20 people stopped in. (more…) Continue Reading →
Next month, 16 objects from the Montana Historical Society’s vast collections will compete, March Madness-style, for the title of Montana’s Most Awesome Object. The competition, modeled on the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, will pit object against object from the Montana Historical Society’s museum, archives and library collections. (more…) Continue Reading →
With the gas fire burning and the lights down low, employees at Missoula’s new AMC theater donned their corporate attire on Saturday for a practice run ahead of Monday’s grand opening. The new theater, complete with nine auditoriums and nearly 1,000 seats, marks AMC’s newest dine-in location and the first of its kind in Montana. (more…) Continue Reading →
Subzero wind chills? Kevin Cline would say it’s a great day to go paraskiing. “It’s an addictive sport,” he says. It must be to get paraskiing aficionados out on cold winter days — days that turn even more frigid in bone-chilling winds. “The wind isn’t so bad,” Cline says. Continue Reading →
Bruce Brenon has a simple explanation for why he and two of his employees flew from Southern California to Billings in the middle of a cold snap to install tens of thousands of lights on trees outside the historic Billings Depot. “It’s really hard to train people over the phone,” he said. (more…) Continue Reading →
