Typical Billings. We have a couple of days of Arctic cold, a heavy snowfall … and then a few days later it feels like spring again and half the snow is gone. Before the recent storm fades into memory, we thought we should bring to your attention the video we posted in March 2014, after another big snowstorm. The video, produced by Stan Parker, mixed some fresh footage of the 2014 snowfall combined with excerpts from a short film made in 1955 by a local chiropractor, the late Allan Downs. Continue Reading →
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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
Bakken reporting team meets funding goal, hits the road
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And they’re off. A team of four young journalists, who plan to document the changes sweeping Eastern Montana and North Dakota as a result of the Bakken oil boom, hit the road Thursday afternoon. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, News, Bakken, High Plains Heritage Project, Jessica Jane Hart, Stan Parker, Tarek Fouda
Team plans in-depth look at life, history in Bakken region
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A group of mostly local journalists are planning to do some in-depth coverage of developments in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota and Eastern Montana, and they need your help. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, Bakken, High Plains Heritage Project, Jessica Jane Hart, Kickstarter, Peter Tolton, Stan Parker, Tarek Fouda
Last Best’s 1st quarter report — so far, so good
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On the slowest day in the short life of Last Best News, just 131 people visited the site. That was on Saturday, Feb. 15, two weeks after the site launched on Feb. 1. That depressing day was followed by a few more slow Saturdays, which convinced me that people simply don’t spend much time on the Internet on that day of the week. Continue Reading →