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 …
A Visit to the Death Cafe
Katheryn Houghton was flipping through the Daily Interlake when she noticed an ad for a group offering tea and cookies, which she’s into, along with frank discussion about death and …
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 …
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 …
Episode 9: Sticks + Stones (The Winter Sports Episode)
As it turns out, there’s a difference between Canadians and Americans and its name is hockey. Down here, we don’t worship at the temple of Don Cherry. Anna Cole, a real-life …
Episode 8: The Plane Crash
When the pilot of a plane saw a fireball explode on Emigrant Peak, about 15 miles north of Yellowstone National Park, the dispatcher called out for another plane that was …
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 7: Death + Bike Polo
When Erwin Byrnes died, it was not exactly sad. That’s because his wife of 63 years and his family were ready when he picked the day and time to open …
Episode 1: Grandpas + Grenades
“Your grandmother’s lice got going real good, so I took her down to the river when it got to be 30 below, chopped a hole in the ice and put …