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Intense goal: Missoula artist creating 100 paintings in one year

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian

On Tuesday morning, as snow fell from a gray Missoula sky outside her window, Laura Blaker stood in her downtown studio, brushing paint into a clear, blue sky on a small canvas. Her hand moved deftly left and right, lifting the brush at every stroke, dabbing paint from a mottled palette. …

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NICKELL’S BAG: Ever-changing Wilco

By JOE NICKELL

There’s a certain inescapable irony implicit in the eponymous title of Wilco’s latest album. Over the course of the Chicago-based band’s 16-year history, Wilco has come to epitomize creative reinvention. From its roots in the mid-’90s Americana scene, Wilco has ventured to every c…

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EATING MISSOULA: Candies, sodas bring back memories

By LORI GRANNIS

Memories of first childhood independence are inexorably tied to trips on Portland’s Tri-Met bus to city center and the velvet-decked theaters of old for Saturday matinees.

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Cheating death in dust bowl America: Mullen weaves compelling tale of ’30s robbers

By MARY FOSTER Associated Press

Few things are sure in Thomas Mullen’s latest novel, including death.

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Tracing fallout in American politics: Executive power has rendered Congress moot, renowned historian says

By Tirdad Derakhshani - Philadelphia Inquirer

It’s time we revised our eighth-grade social studies textbooks. America has no presidency any longer, but a monarchy.

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J.D.’s private world: Salinger’s N.H. home may have provided rich writing material

By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press

CORNISH, N.H. – J.D. Salinger supposedly spent the latter half of his life writing for his own pleasure, composing each day in a pine house in the hills that overlooked towering maple trees, plowed hay fields and the neighboring mountains of Vermont.

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Saga for schools isn’t over: Greg Mortenson continues fight for education in Central Asia in ‘Three Cups of Tea’ followup

By GAIL SCHONTZLER Bozeman Daily Chronicle

BOZEMAN – Millions of people read Greg Mortenson’s first book, “Three Cups of Tea,” and many probably closed the covers thinking “and he lived happily ever after.”

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Book dates

Monday, Feb. 8

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SHELF LIFE: Beat winter blahs - Library offers slate of free activities this month

By JOYCE DOYLE for the Missoulian

February is National Blah Buster Month. The best way to bust those blahs and banish the blues is stopping by the Missoula Public Library for free activities for all ages. Here’s just a sample:

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Glacier artwork displayed at Natural History Center

By JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian

If you wanted to see Glacier National Park right now, you’d have to either do it by helicopter or by carving your way through 40 feet of snow.

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‘Kissing’ after dinner is nice

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian

Robert Caisley never set out to write a Valentine’s Day play. The Idaho playwright wasn’t even working on a full-scale script when he penned the line, “James Bond taught me how to kiss. James Bond and my fifth grade babysitter, Pamela Gready.”

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Out & About: The week in arts and entertainment

Friday, February 5

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Face the music: ‘Into the Woods’ explores unintended consequences

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian

Happily Ever After only happens in fairy tales. Jack chops down the beanstalk, killing the giant. All good, right? Well, not if you have to deal with a giant’s corpse in your backyard. And definitely not if you have to deal with his bereaved giant wife. And especially not if the giant w…

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Rocky Mountain Celtic: Willson and McKee perform to benefit Youth Home

By the Missoulian

Big Productions, a fundraising venture of the Lake County Youth Home, brings an encore presentation of longtime Mission Valley favorites Willson and McKee to the Ronan Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, for a Valentine’s week concert. The show is co-sponsored by True…

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Daly Mansion a perfect match with romance

By AJ MAZZOLINI of the Missoulian

What better romantic scene is there on the eve of Valentine’s Day than Hamilton’s Daly Mansion?

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Second Elvis show added in Bigfork

By the Missoulian

Due to overwhelming demand, Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts has negotiated an additional matinee showing of “Love Me Tender: Elvis Live in Concert!” on Sunday, Feb. 14.

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Ceramists’ skills on display

By the Missoulian

Three resident artists from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena – Nathan Craven, Steven Roberts and Kelly Garret Rathbone – will demonstrate their skills in ceramic art during Archie Bray Day on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the University of Montana.

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Campus cubists: Artwork on view in UM President’s Office

By the Missoulian

Community members can view four impressive Cubist-inspired works of art in the lobby of the President’s Office at the University of Montana through Wednesday, April 14.

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