Well, it looks like we have an answer to the question of whether or not audiences are interested in a historical, racially charged baseball movie. Brian Helgeland's '42' opened at the top of the box office this weekend, instantly breaking the record for biggest opening for a baseball movie. Sure, it's a minor record to break, but a record is a record.
I know you have a lot of things to do today, but I'll bet nothing on your to-do list is more fun than curling up with a good book. That's the logic behind "Drop Everything and Read" Day, sponsored by Harper-Collins publishing
Bird watchers around the world have a rare opportunity to study the development of a new family of Long-Eared Owls, thanks to a new "owl cam" set up by the Owl Research Institute in Charlo. Researcher Denver Holt tells the Associated Press he has banded over 1700 of the birds and found over 225 nests in Montana, but this will be his first chance to study the nocturnal birds' child-rearing habits
Well, More Aboard Amtrak, anyway. The passenger rail company released its ridership report Tuesday, showing passgener numbers increased in the first six months of fiscal year 2013.
Ridership on the Empire Builder route, which runs from Chicago to Seattle and Portland, crossing Montana's Hi-Line, was down .07%, to
My grandmother, Rhoda Singer, died earlier this year. She lived much of her life in Brooklyn and was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Her favorite player was Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers' scrappy white shortstop who famously silenced a racist Cincinnati crowd by putting his arm around his black teammate Jackie Robinson during pre-game warmups.
I thought about my grandmother a lot while watching '42,' the new biopic of Jackie Robinson and his quest to break the color barrier in baseball. On an intellectual level, I can tell you a dozen things wrong with the movie, from its excessively preachy dialogue to its bloated length. But on an emotional level, I have to admit that this movie bypassed my brain and grabbed my heart, pulling each and every string contained therein firmly and repeatedly. It's a pretty good tribute to a great man. And when Pee-Wee and Jackie embraced on that field in Cincinnati I cried.
Doo-Wop, in my opinion, is some of the best music in the world. I spin a lot of it in the afternoons on the Puffman Show & tomorrow night (Wednesday), down in Fort Benton, the Choteau County Performing Arts is presenting "The Alley Cats" singing a A cappella Doo-Wop. Gr
My good friend Marie Ostrem will be sitting in for me this evening (Tuesday) to read "Montana History" up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. "Montana Marie" will continue with the great book that we're been enjoying the past couple of weeks, "Glacier From the Inside Out"
Choteau, Fairfield and other area schools are remembering the victims of the Holocaust by promoting tolerance throughout the schools with a "Hat Day" today to raise funds to help bring Holocaust survivor, author and inspirational speaker Inge Auerbacher to area schools in May. Students will pay a dollar to wear their hats during the school day.
Choteau students, Charley Yeager, Amanda Willekes and Tylee Patton have spent the last couple months raising funds to cover Inge’s expenses to Montana and provide several community events.
It should be impossible for a movie to be both enthralling and boring, but somehow 'To the Wonder' pulls it off. It contains sights -- of picturesque Oklahoma sunsets and impossibly serene European beaches -- so beautiful they awaken you to the glory of the world around us. And it also contains passages -- of Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko running and twirling through fields, and then rolling around in bed, and then fighting and screaming, and then running and twirling in that field again -- so repetitive and tiresome that they nearly lull you to sleep.
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Democratic and union activists were cheering, while Republican activists were mocking, State Sen. Shannon Augare (D-Browning) on social media Friday. Augare apparently fled the Montana State Capitol in an attempt to block action on seve
In a Sunday afternoon performance, Kelsey Wood was crowned the 2014 Cut Bank Distinguished Young Woman. First Runner up was Michelle Nygaard. Other contestants included Olivia Carette and Shelby Cochran
Annette Funicello, best known as one of the original "Mouseketeers" on Walt Disney's 'Mickey Mouse Club' has passed away at the age of 70.