AltWeeklies Wire
The Old Man and the Secretarynew
Valerie Danby-Smith lived with Hemingway in Cuba; she wrote out his correspondence; she typed out the chapters to A Moveable Feast; she stayed up late with him, trying to ease his insomnia; she was a receptive student to his natural and eager teaching.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-18-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Westward, Oh...new
The tension in Mark Spragg's latest novel, slated for a forthcoming Robert Redford film, is between Spragg's wonderful prose and predictable story.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-04-2004 |
Fiction
The Deer Hunternew
Chef Boy Ari bags the season's first deer.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
11-04-2004 |
Food+Drink
Fighting Big Beefnew
Montana meat packer John Munsell files a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against the USDA.
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
11-04-2004 |
Animal Issues
His Velocity: Keeping Up With Dave Eggersnew
While Heartbreaking Work fried Eggers' grief over his parents' death in a vat of irony -- a necessary tic, no doubt, in de-sanctifying the memoir -- these stories do not have their guards up. They are raw, unfiltered and have the quivering texture of lived experience.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
10-29-2004 |
Fiction
Fall's Guardian Angelnew
It's the season of the squash.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
10-29-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tags: squash
Seeking Tax Transparencynew
A Montana legislator sues the state for the right to see corporate tax records. Why are they private in the first place?
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-29-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Bison Range Reversalsnew
Critics of a groundbreaking agreement between the feds and the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribe to manage Montana's National Bison Range look north to Alaska, and find oil in the details.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-29-2004 |
Environment
To Wack and Backnew
On a round-the-world tour, a hip-hop scholar finds America's best-selling music in Tokyo, Rio, New York, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
10-14-2004 |
Nonfiction
Conflicted Agendasnew
With an initiative banning gay marriage on Montana's November ballot, who's fighting the battle, and why?
Missoula Independent |
Julie Sparrow Carson |
10-14-2004 |
LGBT
Pressing Issuesnew
"That guy who cut his arm off" in a Utah slot canyon opens up.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
10-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Exhuming Brautigannew
Montana poet Greg Keeler remembers riding shotgun with the cult author Richard Brautigan.
Missoula Independent |
Scott Preston |
10-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Quitting Timenew
In American Indian tradition, tobacco is sacred. But its use has been twisted by commercial interests, some American Indians say. In Montana, they offered a conference on fighting tobacco abuse that helped an addicted reporter to quit.
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
10-11-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Nair's Fairnew
Reese Witherspoon gets her period piece.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mira Nair, Vanity Fair
Maculate Conceptionnew
Saved! falls short of its mark. It's not bad, but uses its intermittent satire as a Trojan horse to deliver a message about intolerance.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Dannelly, Saved!
