Missoula News

Bitterroot stretch reopens by Ted McDermott Rick Marcum, the outfitting manager at Missoula's Grizzly Hackle, is well aware of the dangers posed by an unassuming diversion dam that crosses the Bitter- root River near Corvallis.

The Oxford Saloon & Cafe When your friend who's had one boilermaker too many tries to start a mosh pit at a folk show , we'd advise whisking her away to a location where cheese fries or the J.J.'s Special will absorb some of that alcohol.

Lil' Smokies They may be named in honor of a popular brand of cocktail wieners, but the Lil' Smokies are a main course in the Missoula music scene.

Five on Black Ever since Five on Black opened last year, any hungry Missoulian with $5 in his or her pocket can afford a small bowl of a delicious Brazilian stew called feijoada, brown rice, steamed collared greens, spicy coconut sauce and chimichurri.

A Carousel for Missoula & Dragon Hollow You'd think after a bazillion different visits to downtown Missoula and the banks of the Clark Fork, the little crumb catchers who cling to your leg would catch a glimpse of Dragon Hollow and A Carousel for Missoula and not immediately start screaming like the paparazzi just spotted ... (more)

Glacier Ice Rink, home of the Missoula Maulers hockey team, is an intimate, bare-bones space that amplifies like nowhere else in town the live experience of watching sports.

On Feb. 11, roughly 100 policy wonks, gadflies and people who simply like to play participated in the first-ever Missoula Budget Game.

Like turning water into wine or walking on water, playing an exciting, inventive, un-ironic and joyful cover of a Sublime song should not be possible.

The 20th anniversary edition of our annual readers' poll Back before there were iPhones, before anyone used the verb "Googled," before the country of Montenegro officially existed, before anyone worked as an "SEO Specialist" or wrote on a blog, before DVDs had been invented, before Harry Potter was first published or ... (more)

Betty's Divine The recent Missoula Fashion Week made prominent something that local fashionistas have known about for a while: Our little mountain town might not be a designer hotspot, but we can make just as much of an effort to be stylish as anyone.

Erika Fredrickson, Missoula Independent About a year ago, the Indy newsroom received a frantic phone call from its seasoned and usually unflappable arts editor.

If People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had their way you would. They've launched a campaign to show the world how stupid they can be - I mean, to rename fish as "sea kittens."

This week: Third annual Garden City Community Brew The story: For the third year in a row, local breweries and tavern owners are releasing a beer specifically to benefit a community nonprofit.

For such a sparsely populated state, Montana has managed to generate some outsized headlines lately.

DON'T WORRY, IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE THE APOCALYPSE: "Workers are attempting to remove three enormous Boeing 737 fuselages from the Clark Fork River near Missoula, Montana, after they were ejected from a derailed train over the weekend.

Work crews remove one of the Boeing 737 fuselages that plunged into the Clark Fork River east of Superior, Mont., on Monday, July 7, 2014.

While working on the Wednesday print column -- on the college campus sexual assault numbers released last week in connection with a story in The Washington Post -- Rowan Frost at Reed College directed me to an arresting set of images out of Missoula, Montana.

Work crews remove one of the Boeing 737 fuselages that plunged into the Clark Fork River east of Superior, Mont., on Monday, July 7, 2014.

MISSOULA Vintage travel films, an aged piece of sweet memorabilia, songs from a bovine point of view and contemporary American Indian art make up a new episode of the popular MontanaPBS travelogue series "Backroads of Montana."

Damon Ristau, an independent filmmaker from Missoula, Montana, wants your help to fund his new documentary, "A Bug Movie."