The Evolution of Open Mic Night
You outta be in love if you’re gonna write a song. At least that’s the way Missoula singer/songwriter Jeff Overturf sees it. And if he’s the John Prine of the …
Episode 12: Singers + Runners (The Beer Episode)
What makes a person screw up enough courage to try open mic night at a brewery, where people are there mostly to drink beer and not hear you sing? …
Canada vs. America: A Hockey Story
When producer and total Canadian Anna Cole decided to go to college south of the border in Montana, she thought hockey would be more of a thing. She soon found …
3-2-1 Polo!
In a parking garage next to Mount Sentinel in Missoula, it’s bike-on-bike, body-on-body, mallet-on-mallet. The rules of bike polo here are pretty clearly and quickly dispensed with in this sound …
How to Die in Montana
This story about death is more hopeful than sad. That’s because Erwin Byrnes, who had Parkinson’s, and Ethel Byrnes, his wife of 63 years, figured out how to die with …
Episode 5: Garage Pop + Germs
“I made you a mixtape!” Even though Hana Zimorino started dating the guy Mikki Lunda had been living with for three years, Hana thought, really? They needed to start a …
Episode 2: Goats + Dumplings
“Where we goin’ now, boss?” Follow Colin May and a couple of charismatic researchers to Glacier National Park, where a study about habituated goats all mostly ties back to human …
A Most Spirited Voice
Mary Hickman is a caroling institution outside the Orange Street Food Farm in Missoula. When this longtime Salvation Army bell-ringer was reassigned to a different store, people missed her. Her …
Episode 5: Garage Pop + Germs
The backstory to Needlecraft that’s so much bigger than the band. Plus: When’s the last time you ate floor food?
Critters, Blobs and Swan Dives
Are babies critters? Are they blobs? These are tough concepts for parents unless parents are being honest. Producer Corin Cates-Carney starts off this feature by getting to the root of …