AltWeeklies Wire
Busting a Move: Pamela Anderson Conquers Literaturenew

No fragile, tragic, self-destructive Marilyn Monroe clone, Pamela Anderson is a canny businesswoman who knows exactly what a valuable commodity she possesses, and who’s buying.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
09-30-2004 |
Fiction
Stashing the Staplesnew
Our hemisphere has tilted away from the sun. The farmers are weary. It's time to prepare the pantry for winter.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
09-30-2004 |
Food+Drink
Computer Bluenew
Kerry Conran and his blue screen clone the classics.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Doors of Perceptionnew
This Korean film about a monk and his young disciple has a beguiling simplicity and a meditative visual style that prove fascinating.
Missoula Independent |
Susanna Sonnenberg |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Bush Leaguenew
Attack biographer Kitty Kelley backfires on the Bushes.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
09-23-2004 |
Nonfiction
Tastes Like Rabbit!new
Does rabbit really taste like chicken? And does it have to?
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
09-23-2004 |
Food+Drink
A Tale of Four Pepper Dishesnew
Hot hot hot—spicing up pepper dishes from Bhutan to Thailand.
Missoula Independent |
Ari Levaux |
09-16-2004 |
Food+Drink
Fear of an Indian Toeholdnew
In western Montana, at the 96-year-old National Bison Range, negotiations for a management handover to local tribes will set precedent for public lands all across America.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
09-16-2004 |
Animal Issues
Ended Summernew
Robb Moss had a 16-millimeter movie camera in 1978, and he took it with him when he and a group of his closest friends went to the Grand Canyon for a summer on the river, a summer of floats and kayaks, heart-stoppingly gorgeous scenery, open-fire meals and the politics of fading adolescence.
Missoula Independent |
Susanna Sonnenberg |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
Target Bushnew

Nicholson Baker's new book addresses Bush hatred with a silver-bullet scenario.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
09-09-2004 |
Fiction
Pot and Prosecutionnew

With a medical marijuana initiative on Montana's November ballot, Missoula's medical marijuana poster child Robin Prosser finds relief as the prosecution rests.
Missoula Independent |
Keila Szpaller |
09-09-2004 |
Science
Unsanctioned Sicknessnew
With victim-compensation legislation stalled, and the science of asbestos-related disease uncertain, how does the federal government plan to "heal" Libby, Montana?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
09-09-2004 |
Environment
Fog of War: Swift Boat Vet Weymouth Symmes Speaksnew
Weymouth Symmes, the Missoula-based treasurer of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, published his own account of Swift boating in Vietnam in April 2004. Strangely enough, John Kerry emerges from that book unscathed.
Missoula Independent |
Robin Troy |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
True Korthnew

Heimo Korth is the subject of author James Campbell’s book debut, a Krakauer-meets-McPhee-style portrait of family life in the bush -- a sort of Daniel Boone for the modern reader.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
Time to Pick Pecks of Pickled Peppersnew
Here comes the Rocky Mountain pepper season, that sweet and fiery window of late summer flavor. In the coming weeks, legions of angular, shiny fruits will adorn pepper plants in every color of the rainbow.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-26-2004 |
Food+Drink