Emmanuel Baptist Church, 328 S. Shiloh Road
Service: 8 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015
Length of service: 1 hour, 6 minutes. Length of sermon: 35 minutes Continue Reading →
At Your Service
At Your Service: Nice surprise in store at Emmanuel Baptist
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Last words, maybe, and a few thanks from Last Best News
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I was planning to ride off into the sunset today, but if I may appropriate an observation by Benjamin Franklin, it looks as though I might be heading in the direction of the rising sun.
In the week since I announced that Last Best News would cease publication today, I have heard so many expressions of interest in reviving it in some shape or form, with or without my continued involvement, that it appears likely that this independent online newspaper will live on.
Prairie Lights
Prairie Lights: What did we do to deserve all this music?
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Looking back at the summer of 2015, these are the things I’m most likely to remember.
There was Sheila Kay Adams, a storyteller and musician from Sodom, N.C., giving a brief history of the past 400 years as told by her Scottish grandmother, whose people have been living in the same corner of North Carolina since 1731. Continue Reading →
Culture
Lincoln sculpture park: Preserving the past with art
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LINCOLN—A “House of Sky” is just one of the vivid art installations a visitor comes upon in the “Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild” in Lincoln.
There is also a genuine historic tepee burner from a nearby mill; a “Hill and Valley” landscape formation made from newspapers; a bulky frame-like statue of entangled spruce branches bound in a wood and metal frame; and a mammoth gateway of downed ponderosa pines, engraved with poetry, overlooking a golden fantasy village. Continue Reading →
Billings
Symposium planned as a ‘movement toward healing’
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Editor’s note: Russell Rowland helped organize the Native American Race Relations and Healing Symposium, a daylong series of panel discussions scheduled for Aug. 22 at the Billings Public Library. A companion piece by co-organizer Adrian Jawort, is published above this one. Click here to see it. Continue Reading →
Billings
Telling hard truths a good step in putting racism to rest
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Editor’s note: Adrian Jawort helped organize the Native American Race Relations and Healing Symposium, a daylong series of panel discussions scheduled for Aug. 22 at the Billings Public Library. A companion piece, with a schedule of events, by co-organizer Russell Rowland, is published below. Click here to see it.
Aurelia Brien Jawort is a bright and reserved Crow and Northern Cheyenne girl (with a quarter of German blood via her grandpa on her father’s side) who just graduated from kindergarten. She has lived back and forth between Billings and the Crow Indian Reservation. Continue Reading →
Diversions
Cowboy-turned-chocolatier opens 2nd Wyoming store
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CODY, WYO. — Savvy Wyoming residents who travel frequently between Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks know to buy an annual pass, allowing for unlimited visits through both parks. And it’s unlikely anyone is using an annual parks pass more this summer than Tim Kellogg. Continue Reading →
Billings
Planners enlist residents to deal with city growth
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Candi Millar, planning director for the city of Billings, has an arresting way of describing what she calls the city’s “exponential growth.” Continue Reading →
At Your Service
At Your Service: Beautiful people, an upbeat message
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Word of Life Fellowship, 1737 King Ave. W.
Service: 10 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014
Length of service: 1 hour, 8 minutes. Length of sermon: 26 minutes.
I was a little nervous on my way to the Word of Life Fellowship. Having checked out the church’s website, I had been struck by the dauntingly handsome staff members pictured there. Would they scorn me as too old, too unattractive? Continue Reading →
Prairie Lights
Prairie Lights: Let’s not allow yahoos to redefine ‘dive bar’
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When I lived in Anaconda, Red’s was a good dive bar. Strong drinks, cheap beer and a pool table in the middle of the main room. The jukebox had more than a few Merle Haggard songs.
The bartenders may have been too kind, though. They’d give you a free shot of Jack Daniels with every other beer. I hated to say no to a free drink and have the bartenders think badly of me, so sometimes I’d go over in the corner, next to the jukebox, stand in profile to the bartender and toss the drink over my shoulder. Continue Reading →
Billings
Playground opens, work continues on tennis courts
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There was a grand opening for the new playground at Pioneer Park in Billings on Friday, even as work continued on all-new tennis courts in another corner of the park.
Work continued as well on a new playground at South Park and another tennis-court replacement, this one at Castle Rock Park in the Heights. Continue Reading →
