Jason Burlage of Bozeman, an MSU graduate, will screen his documentary film “Mi Chacra” (My Land) at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on February 19th at 5:30pm at the Wilma Theatre in downtown Missoula.
The film tells the story of Feliciano, an indigenous Peruvian farmer who works as a porter on the Inca [...]

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Gary Marbut, President of the Montana Sports Shooting Association (MSSA) is scheduled to be on the Glen Beck Show this Friday, 3 to 4PM, MDT on the FOX News Channel, to talk about MSSA’s Montana-made guns bill. HB 246 sponsor, Rep. Joel Boniek (R-Livingston) is scheduled to be on the show also.

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This is cool: Tim Montana, a country/rock musician who grew up in & around Butte, will appear on “The Late Show with David Letterman” tonight (Friday, October 17) to perform his song “Butte, America.”
Tim landed the gig on after he met Letterman while he (Letterman) was vacationing at his Choteau ranch.
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The snowstorm that walloped Montana was newsworthy enough to be mentioned on the cable news networks:

Usually our dramatic weather just doesn’t rate coverage, probably because we don’t have a lot of people. Chicago gets hit with a few inches of snow, or Boston temps drop below zero, and it’s trumpeted in all major outlets. But [...]

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September 24, 2008 | 5 Comments

Heard earlier today that CNN political reporter John King was in Montana, and here’s a screen shot from this evening with John reporting from Helena:

Isn’t it amazing how much attention The Last, Best Place has received this year, thanks to the Presidential campaign? The Obama team spent plenty of time here, including his much-covered Independence [...]

Got an e-mail from Montana author and blogger TL Hines, and his new project sure sounds intriguing – especially to fellow bloggers, I suspect:
My new book, THE UNSEEN, is about a loner who hides in unexpected places. So to help roll out the project, it’s time to hide reminders about the book in unexpected places.
I’m [...]

A Kossack is breathless over the possibility that Gov Schweitzer might be named as Obama’s VP pick; also of note is that Obama is visiting Montana again.
Some cool Montana train pics over at Dogcaught; best line: “Don’t let anyone tell you this part of Montana is flat!”
Dirty Red Commie caught Tom Servo and Crow [...]

Montana lost a little bit of 20th-century history a few weeks ago when the Western Aire drive-in movie theatre in Lewistown closed down:
After the Fourth of July weekend, the field will fall silent as the gates to the Western Aire Drive-In close for the final time. The Western Aire opened in 1944 in Lewistown, and [...]

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