Most music aficionados don’t think of Montana — let alone Havre, Montana — as a hotbed of sonic Americana, but Dave Martens is changing that view. Martens is a Havre native, a pedal steel player, and the curator of a music archive he calls Lost...
“We’re not mad geniuses, that’s for damn sure. We just know what we like and what we feel dignified in producing. And also what we’re good at.” On a recent Wednesday morning, two of the three owners of Brasserie Porte Rouge sat in the filtered light...
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel (Milkweed Editions, $25) by Debra Magpie Earling upends the orthodox view of the Lewis and Clark saga, which paints Sacajewea as Toussaint Charbonneau’s wife and ignores the fact that he bought (or gambled for) her when she was...
Peeking to preen beneath water gleam to glitter under the amber spell-bound, serene sunlight. Swiftly swimming so their scales sparkle of endless crimson, teal, gray, olive. Whisks through foreign lands, crossing peaks, icy slopes. Consistently wavering in the water. Content and unknowingly holding us so that our breathes hold to admire pearly eyes, leopard fins, amber gills even as they...
Joshua Caldwell’s new film, Mending the Line, isn’t your typical movie about war. Following screenwriter Stephen Camelio’s cues, the film’s story explores the restoration of John Colter, a wounded veteran haunted by the trauma of war. In Livingston, Montana, he meets an unlikely pair who...
In the secluded Montana valley where I live, summer has erupted in a crescendo. It began with the echoes of geese and twitters of mountain bluebirds, which were followed closely by the thunderous calls of sandhill cranes and murmurs of croaking frogs. These days, the...
Stio, a mountain lifestyle brand headquartered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, announced that Bozeman, Montana will be its tenth “mountain studio.” The new Rocky Mountain West storefront will open in the fall of 2023, downtown at 233 E. Main St. As a mountain town, Bozeman has become...
When Rain Houser, interior designer and co-owner of Urbaine Atelier in Bozeman, Montana, heard about a new facility in the works for Haven, the local domestic violence shelter, she and business partner Skye Anderson sought out Haven’s executive director, Erica Aytes Coyle, to find out...
Books always make a room better,” says author Tanya Boteju in her 2019 novel Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens. And, despite the rise of e-book sales, the proliferation of digital media on all sorts of devices, and trends in de-cluttering, many people agree. Interior design has embraced...
A sculpted, three-legged barstool. A chaise lounge perched on a swooping set of rockers. A classic carved seat built with Old World techniques. Is it everyday furniture? Or usable art? If it’s a product of Henneford Fine Furniture, it’s both. A woodworker and artist based in...