Xavier Springer’s photo, “Swiftcurrent Falls on a Smoky Morning” (above), taken during a bright orange sunrise in Glacier National Park, has been chosen as the grand-prize winner of the Montana Wilderness Association’s 2017 photo contest. Springer, of Great Falls, was among photographers who submitted more 1,000 entries in the association’s ninth annual contest. (more…) Continue Reading →
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In mid-winter, dreaming of better days on the links
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Football is over. Baseball hasn’t started. Basketball is in full swish and pucks slide effortlessly across frozen water and spilled blood. It’s a transition time of the year when sports fans flip through the TV channels searching: searching for something. More is needed than sitcom reruns and dreary news headlines. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Golf, St. Andrews, winter
The day after: A review of the game we all love to hate
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I guess it’s my own damn fault.
After all, I was the one who pitched Last Best News this review of the sad national theater production known as Super Bowl Sunday. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, CTE, Eagles, Minneapolis, NFL, Patriots, Super Bowl
Billings woman organizes fun run for young cancer patients
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A big-hearted Billings woman attending school in Bozeman is organizing a Super Bowl Sunday fun run to raise money for a group that provides support for families with children diagnosed with cancer. Megan Maynard, a 2014 graduate of Billings Senior High now majoring in exercise science with a pre-med focus at Montana State University, said she was inspired to organize the benefit by a friend of hers who is a pediatric cancer survivor. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Megan Maynard, Montana State University, Pre-Dental Club, The Bozeman 3
County museum to showcase marksman’s gun-made ‘art’
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One of the favorite stunts of exhibition shooter Tom Frye was to shoot a bullet through the hole of a washer. A piece of tape placed over the hole beforehand quieted any naysayers. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Remington Arms Co., Tim Price, Tom Frye, Yellowstone County Museum
Pearl Jam adds Missoula stop to ‘exclusive’ tour
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Pearl Jam added Missoula to its exclusive summer concert series as part of its abbreviated “Home Shows” tour, the University of Montana announced on Wednesday. The concert, set for Aug. 13 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, marks 28 years of the band’s live performances and the seventh time it has played at UM. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Jon Tester, Missoula, Pearl Jam
Little Bighorn battle featured tonight on Travel Channel
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The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument will be featured tonight on “Mysteries at the Museum,” a popular show on the Travel Channel. According to a press release from Visit Southeast Montana, show host Don Wildman takes a look at Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn, which took place June 25-26, 1876, near what is now Crow Agency. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Battle of the Little Bighorn, George A. Custer, Real Bird family, Visit Southeast Montana
Red Lodge hosting pond hockey tourney this weekend
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If you’re in the market for some old-fashioned fun, you might considering watching some of the Red Lodge Winter Classic this weekend. The four-on-four pond hockey tournament will run Friday through Sunday at the Red Lodge Ice Rink in Lions Park, just off Broadway Avenue on the north end of town. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Andy Simpson, Lions Park, Red Lodge Ice, Red Lodge Winter Classic
Historical Society exhibit brings World War I home
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One of the most difficult things about assembling a World War I exhibit at the Montana Historical Society Museum in Helena was deciding what to include and what to leave out. The Great War, as it was also called, lasted four years and claimed the lives of 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians. It was fought, one way or or another, all over the globe. It destroyed empires and sparked revolutions, and its reverberations are still felt today. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Montana, Maggie Ordon, Montana Historical Society Museum, World War I
MSU prof, students experienced Hollywood in Montana
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BOZEMAN – Dennis Aig had just been hired as a film professor at Montana State University when a friend of his from graduate school called in 1991 to ask if Aig and his students might be interested in making an electronic press kit for a tightly budgeted film that would be made the next summer in Montana. (more…) Continue Reading →
