The New Wave Time Trippers: An ’80s Cover Band With Big-Time Dreams
Making rent with what you make playing in an ’80s cover band is perhaps a lofty goal. But the Whitefish-based New Wave Time Trippers aren’t about setting limits. Ultimately, these …
Runners With a Drinking Problem
Let’s say you like to run and you also like beer. Running a mile while stopping a couple of times to pound a brew should be easy, right? Erik Petersen …
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? …
Owning Pray, Wanting to Sell
Selling the town of Pray started with an auction in 2012. It was big news then. It’s not like little towns in Montana going on an auction block is a …
Episode 11: Owning Pray
Barbara Walker owns a town in Paradise Valley, Montana, just north of the only year-round entrance to Yellowstone National Park. For years, she’s been its mayor, its rent-collector, its head …
Surviving Mom
Deep in the backcountry of Glacier National Park, two “trail dogs” (seasoned members of the park’s trail crew) embark on an epic hike. Crappy weather pushes them off their plan, …
Love Advice for the Young
“Take good care of your teeth!” I mean, when is that not great advice? Journeyman musician Bob Athearn, whose stylings often accompany performances by the University of Montana dance department, …
Episode 10: Bears + Advice
In the backcountry of Glacier National Park, two seasoned trail-crew workers watched a couple of cute, fuzzy cubs cross their path. “And then you think, uh oh, where’s mom at?” …
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 …