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Being the most you can be isn’t easy. Our best can get lost in the shuffle of aging. Mr. Deluxe is getting old. Some print sources errantly show that he is 51 years old. Others give his birth date as 1970 and as late as 1978. Continue Reading →
PHILADELPHIA — Though it’s doubtful many people here know it, key components of a major public arts project in Philadelphia were made in Montana. The project, “Fireflies,” by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, consists of hundreds of handmade Chinese lanterns on display aboard a fleet of pedicabs that have been plying the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Parkway since mid-September. (more…) Continue Reading →
Autumn ArtWalk in downtown Billings, set for Friday from 5 to 9, “embraces cool art, cool nights and cool music.” That’s according to a press release from the Downtown Billings Alliance, which also announced that tickets for ArtWalk’s first 50/50 raffle are on sale through the Winter ArtWalk, scheduled for Dec. 1. (more…) Continue Reading →
Sara Hollenbeck owes a lot to Mr. Totes MaGoats. He was the little orange goat that her husband, Henry Hollenbeck, bought for $5 and jokingly gave to her as a first-anniversary present. (more…) Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, at a group lesson for students in the Free Spirit Rock School, Sharon Mulvehill was sitting in on bass guitar. She normally plays a regular guitar, and she wasn’t all that familiar with the bass line for the first song of the night, Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me.” Bill Dickman, the school’s guitar teacher and musical director, who happened to be sitting in on drums, stopped the song and briefly, a little impatiently, told Mulvehill what she should be playing. (more…) Continue Reading →
CROW AGENCY — When the River Road Relay team gets together for a practice, it’s all about the horses. The human beings involved in an Indian horse relay race certainly get a workout, and occasionally a few scrape and bruises, but at practice the horses are the focus of their intense and loving attention. (more…) Continue Reading →
No smoky skies. No steady rain. No high-prairie winds. No searing heat. Conditions for running 26.2 miles from Molt to Pioneer Park in Billings don’t get much better. Continue Reading →
Most writers and visual artists, in one way or another, have a way of inviting you inside their minds. This Friday in Billings, several artists and writers are inviting you inside their living rooms. (more…) Continue Reading →
On display from coast to coast and border to border, this traveling art show may be the biggest in the nation. Most certainly, it’s the heaviest. For decades, railcar graffiti has been rolling across Montana around the clock, in all seasons, in all weather. (more…) Continue Reading →
Seven units in one of the earliest downtown buildings to be converted to loft apartments are now on the market as condominiums.
The two-story loft apartments, averaging about 1,700 square feet each, are located in the Oliver Building at 2702 Montana Ave., at the corner of Montana and North 27th Street. (more…) Continue Reading →
