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Overloaded: ‘Fully Committed’ role requires portrayal of 40 characters, almost at the same time
It's challenge enough for any theater director to find four or five actors who can create vivid and balanced characters and bring a script to life. Forty actors? That's a challenge at a whole different level.
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Inspired by eastern Montana skies, Dennis Sloan melds light, landscapes and nudes
Naked women with guns? It wasn't Dennis Sloan's idea - at least not at first. One day in the early 1980s, when the artist was in the midst of his female-form phase, his model walked into the studio wearing high heels and nothing more than her birthday suit.
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NICKELL'S BAG: ‘Rocky Horror’ risk pays off big; Evangelicals are today’s Cure
Last weekend, more than 2,300 people turned out to cheer and sing along at Montana Actors' Theatre's production of "The Rocky Horror Show" at the Wilma Theatre. With four performances spread over just 32 hours, it was a watershed weekend for local professional theatre - a moment when good…
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EATING MISSOULA: Silk Road inspires appetizer quest
When news hit the street that the restaurant-savvy Risho clan had plans to open a new tapas-style restaurant, the prospect of enjoying good ethnic food once more became a reality.
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Group hopes snowboard films create interest in terrain park
A screening of two snowboarding films, Absinthe's "Neverland" & Burton's "B Movie," will take place next Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Wilma Theatre. The event, which costs $6, is a fundraiser for the Backwoods Project, which aims to build a terrain park at Montana Snowbowl. For more info…
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Christmas rolls in early
UM Entertainment Management program benefits from Mannheim Steamroller concert
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Out & About: The week in arts and entertainment
Friday, November 6
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‘Men Who Stare’ loses sight of story
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: "More of this is true than what you might imagine."
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Wineries tout carbon footprint in marketing
Rodney Strong Wine Estates announced last month that it is now "carbon neutral." The Sonoma County winery joins several in California, South America and New Zealand that, through conservation and investment in clean energy (by buying carbon credits), have reduced their carbon emissions en…
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Imagine the Beatles in Polson
Big Productions brings an evening of nostalgia and fun with a Beatles tribute band called Imagine to the Polson High School Auditorium for a 7:30 p.m. show on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
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UM art students’ work on display
The 15th annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is on display at the University of Montana's Gallery of Visual Arts through Nov. 20.
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‘Messiah’ concert helps fund Habitat
Community voices can join with professional musicians to perform Handel's "Messiah" on Sunday, Nov. 29, at the University of Montana.
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Montana Rep back in town
Montana Repertory Theatre's educational outreach tour announced the return of this year's touring show "ThePoeProject."
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Mission Mountain Wood Band documentary premieres Wednesday
Four people who've never seen the new documentary about the Mission Mountain Wood Band include the band members themselves.
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ABOUT A GIRL: Hornby has new novel, screenplay
Works present a call to arms against youthful boredom
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West end blues: Memoir of life, music in NOLA before Katrina
NEW YORK - Hurricane Katrina gave Ned Sublette a dramatic coda - and title - for his memoir.
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Unsentimental look at Istanbul in flux: Orhan Pamuk’s novel shows a master at work
When the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was invited to give the annual Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University this fall, he chose as his title "The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist." Kemal, the protagonist and first-person narrator of Pamuk's latest, "The Museum of Inno…
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