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The flavor of fire

By Ari LeVaux ● Flash in the Pan ● August 20, 2025

How Argentina-style asado and Blackfeet bison turned a heavy metal festival into Montana’s most epic culinary experience.

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Off the information superhighway

By ERIKA FREDRICKSON & Emma White ● Arts & Culture ● August 8, 2025

Walter Kirn’s analog newspaper County Highway trades digital distraction for small-town stories — and he’s bringing his vision of unhurried journalism to Shakespeare & Co. on Saturday.

A bird in the hand

By Sarah Aswell ● Books ● August 5, 2025

Author Brian Buckbee’s bond with a wounded pigeon allows “We Should All Be Birds” to take flight, but the deeper story is one of survival through illness and heartbreak.

Body slams and power chords

By ERIKA FREDRICKSON ● Music ● July 24, 2025

Montana punk meets DIY wrestling at Moshoula — a night of flying elbows, feedback, and full-on chaos.

Native artists, storytellers gather for ‘IndigiPalooza’

By Nora Mabie ● Indian Country ● July 22, 2025

The inaugural festival brings to Missoula more than a dozen Indigenous artists, musicians and writers for panel discussions, live music, an art market and more.

Lineup subject to change (and it always does)

By Jason Cohen ● Music ● July 18, 2025

A quick chat with Scott McCaughey about the Minus 5’s even quicker Montana tour. They headline the Woodtick Music Festival on Saturday.

A taste of home

By Emma White ● Food ● July 16, 2025

Dama Rose is a family-run market offering Halal staples and global ingredients — a place where an international community finds connection, and where the curious can discover something new.

Match made in heaven

By Kate Whittle ● Arts & Culture ● July 10, 2025

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.

This grill is on fire

By Ari LeVaux ● Flash in the Pan ● June 29, 2025

A four-ingredient formula for smoky summer perfection.

Hope has a history

By Emma White ● Books ● June 21, 2025

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.