The Ole Beck VFW, a “little dive bar” in downtown Missoula, had considered closing on Mondays for lack of customers. Then came “Love Island” watch parties.
In her new book “The Intermediaries,” author Brandy Schillace traces the history of a radical queer clinic in Berlin and shows how love and community have always been forms of resistance.
In “Outrage,” Irish artist Brian Maguire uses radical care to honor some of Montana’s missing and murdered Indigenous people, transforming their portraits into acts of both remembrance and resistance.
Funding cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts jeopardize a decades-old writing program for elementary school students on the Flathead Reservation.
First published in 1941 and recently revived, Norman Macleod’s semi-autobiographical novel “The Bitter Roots” excavates Missoula’s buried past, including its young men trying to prove themselves amid war, class struggle, and cruelty.
