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 →
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From this year’s Grand Slam winner, a look at Butte
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Editor’s note: The seventh annual High Plains Grand Slam, a poetry competition held in conjunction with the High Plains BookFest, played out Thursday night before a standing-room-only crowd at the MoAv Coffee House. With 14 competitors entered in the verbal throwdown, it was the largest and without a doubt the best slam we’ve seen here in Billings. The winner—and now the first person to have won the title twice—was Pete Tolton, of Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Butte, High Plains Grand Slam, Pete Tolton
New partnerships expand, enliven poetry slam
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The High Plains Grand Slam, a competitive poetry-reading event, just keeps getting bigger and better. This year’s slam, set for Thursday, Oct. 6, at the MoAv Coffee House, 2501 Montana Ave., will be the first one officially registered with Poetry Slam Inc., a nationwide organization, and it will feature a $250 prize for the slam champion. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Anna Paige, High Plains BookFest, High Plains Grand Slam, James Dean Hickman, MoAv Coffee House, Nate Petterson, Pete Tolton
Footage of Friday’s Duck Creek fire
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Last Best News contributor Pete Tolton was on the scene of the Duck Creek Fire tonight and came back with some greta great footage, which you can watch here:
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Duck Creek Fire, Pete Tolton
Film on Bakken oil boom has Billings premiere this Sunday
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“Makoshika,” a documentary about boom-and-bust times in the Bakken oil field, will have its Billings premiere this Sunday. The 50-minute documentary made its Montana premiere on Monday at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula. It will be shown at 7 p.m. this Sunday at the Babcock Theater in Billings and then from March 4-10 at the Art House Cinema & Pub, also in downtown Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, 'Makoshika', Art House Cinema, Babcock Theater, Bakken, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Jessica Jane Hart, Pete Tolton
Rough-and-tumble poetry slam set for next week
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At the fifth annual Billings Grand Slam poetry event next week, you can expect to encounter high sentiments, lovely words — and fierce competition. “People are there to see the blood sport,” said James Hickman, one of the organizers of the slam. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Culture, Anna Paige, Billings Grand Slam, Corby Skinner, Dave Caserio, High Plains BookFest, James Hickman
A very public poet celebrates new book
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Dave Caserio is a poet, but he is best known in Billings as a performer of poetry. In the past 10 years he has collaborated with musicians, dancers, actors, painters and other poets to create improvisational amalgams of creativity unlike anything else available in this part of the world. (more…) Continue Reading →