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Carol Ann Oster, Wheatgrass Arts and Gallery’s Artist of the Month, is well-known in Valley County for her exquisite art work. Carol Ann has spent all of her life living in Eastern Montana. The goal she sets for her art is to express the beauty of the Montana prairies; specifically Eastern Montana. This includes the people, animals, vegetation, and natural and manmade structures. This expression is made through the use of a variety of mediums on paper including watercolor, pastel, ink and pencil. During the month of December, Carol will be s...
The Good Dinosaur proves that it is indeed easy being green, as it's held over for another week at Valley Cinemas. Joining that film is the latest iteration of the Rocky franchise, unofficial as it may be: Creed, in which an aging Rocky Balboa trains the illegitimate son of his old foe, Apollo. It's one of the best films of the year, especially once Sylvester Stallone as Rocky appears about 15 minutes in. Before that, the viewer is given the life story and psychological profile of Adonis Creed (...
Valley Cinemas is holding over its two popular films, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and the kids-oriented The Good Dinosaur. So if you've already got these two works under your belt, it's time to hit the small screen. First, try the Glasgow City-County Library (408 Third Ave S, 228-2731). There you'll find the second season of Elementary. When did America suddenly become so Sherlock Holmes crazy? We watch the wittily modernized BBC show with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the athletic m...
Editor's Note: The response to our request for recipes was so overwhelming, we do not have room for all of them in this week's issue. Recipes will be published in the next issue of the Glasgow Courier. Here is a sampling of some of these delicious recipes. PHOEBE'S MOLDED ICE CREAM SALAD By Colleen Barnard, Saco 2 big pkgs. lemon jello 4 c. ice cream (vanilla) 1 qt. 4 c. boiling water (less) Mix ice cream in hot jello #2 can crushed pineapple drained 1 c. shredded longhorn cheese ½ c.... Full story
Valley Cinemas is holding over one film – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and adding a new feature, this week the kids-oriented The Good Dinosaur. With its 16 animated feature Pixar has returned to a familiar well, the story of a friendship between man and animal, or at least boy and dinosaur, who, with bravery and self-esteem issues finds himself washed away on a river and must – guess what? – struggle to get back home. The Good Dinosaur is one of those reassuring, platitude-filled family stories disguised as a cartoon in which a centr...
Rural community people seem to be multi-talented in every nook and cranny of the hobby world. All of us interact with a myriad of people through our day jobs; it is always delightful when we find out they also play with an entirely different skills set outside of their professions. The variety of crafts that local residents are able to create add another dimension of gift giving that allows us to buy local during the holiday season-or all year round. After all, money that's spent local, often...
A is for Arrowhead by Toni Lagree isn't like any other alphabet book you have in your collection. In Lagree's book, the letters look like the words they represent. When her children were learning to read, she realized how difficult it was for a young person to grasp the abstract concept of a letter. "D is for dog," she says, "but a dog doesn't look anything like the letter D." Her solution? In A is for Arrowhead, D is for dustpan. Lagree believes strongly in the power of visual communication....
This week, Valley Cinemas is holding over its two films from last week. A good entry in the James Bond series, Spectre shows signs that the filmmakers thought the long-running franchise was getting to resemble the Bourne movies and so have retooled Bond to hark back to the glory days of Sean Connery, with the result that new film resembles Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, as others have pointed out. The dimensional CGI of The Peanuts Movie takes some getting used to, but once that’s accomplished the film is in the tradition of the daily comi...
Valley Cinemas is offering two films this week, Spectre and The Peanuts Movie. One of the interesting phenomena surrounding the James Bond movies is that viewers, or at least one viewer, have the feeling that they had just seen one a few months ago. Now the latest Bond film, Spectre, is here and it comes as something of a surprise that its predecessor, Skyfall, was released way back in 2012, during the last Olympics and when there was a Queen Jubilee, Arab Spring, a Mars rover, and Argo was the best picture ever made. Like Beatles songs,...
Wylie and the Wild West know how to break it down cowboy style: "We are a good-time cowboy band that hates to be boring," lead singer Wylie Gustafson has said. Boring, they are not. The WWW crew also broke it down western style, swing style, and polka style before they were done Tuesday night at the GHS auditorium. They even threw in a little Rolling Stones, with the "real cowboy song" (as Wylie put it), Satisfaction. All of the above were performed as homage to Gustafson's various musical...
Among the films leaving Netflix in November are, unsurprisingly, some Halloween related items, such as the first Scream, still an effective slasher film, especially if you don't know the plot, and the first five Saws, if you are a student of incredibly complicated horror mythology. For those interested in the trials and tribulations of the young, there is the Stephen King adaptation Stand by Me, and the inspirational college football tale, Rudy. For fans of chaos, there is the Saturday Night...
Most horror films entail someone going somewhere hazardous where they are scared (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunting), or settled people visited by the unholy (Poltergeist, The Exorcist). The Visit blends the two things in a tale of two kids sent to spend a season with their grandparents. The oldest is Becca (Olivia DeJonge), a budding filmmaker who is chronicling the visit in the manner of other movies produced by the filmmakers of "found footage" films such as Paranormal Activity....
Valley Cinemas is introducing two films this week, The Visit (see review), and Jem and the Holograms, an adaptation of an ‘80s cartoon series about a Hasbro doll who runs a record studio and fronts a pop band. Adventures ensue. Meanwhile, if you snoop around long enough online for freebies, you are bound to find a lot of free movies available for streaming on the Internet … I won’t reveal them all right now, but they are there, awaiting the click of your itchy finger. This week, I shall present one excellent source: Shout Factory. Curre...
It's almost been three years since my dad, Myron Blanchard, died. I find that hard to believe, but that's what it says on his headstone. There are things that remind me of him every day. Heck, sometimes I even see him. This past Sunday, I took some much needed time to complete some unfinished business. I asked my friend James to help me set Dad's headstone. After I asked him, I briefly thought, "That's a pretty creepy thing to ask someone you've known all of six months." Then I remembered,...
About five years ago something devastating happened to me. After nearly two decades as a professional author I completely lost the ability to write. This thing that had been as easy and as natural as breathing, this wonderful, magical gift which had sustained me, both financially and mentally, for my entire adult life simply up and left me, like a disgruntled boyfriend racing off in his truck in the middle of the night. For a long time--several years, in fact--I refused to accept what had...
The beauty of mountain climbing is its absurdity. Climbers do not follow their bliss in order to make scientific discoveries or chart new lands; they do so for self-glorification. It's a competitive sport, against one's own record, and against competing mountain stalkers who are equal or unequal seekers of fame, endorsements, biopics, and book deals. The recent documentary Meru, which has Montana connections, delved into the psychology of the climber. Jon Krakauer explored this psychology in...
This gardening season has been unusually long. Normally by now, I've had several frosts and a hard freeze, which kills off all the above ground vegetation. There have been a couple light frosts this past week but I haven't had a hard freeze yet. The husk cherries and delicate pepper plants have turned black and wilted away. The tomato vines would have also except I'd already picked all the fruits and uprooted the plants. Those are still in a pile, awaiting their turn at being hauled away to my...
It must be a particularly galling fact to members of the political right that few humorists are conservative. For the lefties, there is a host of comedic news sources all week long that preach to their choir. On most week nights at Comedy Central there is The Daily Show, recently taken over by a South African comic named Trevor Noah. He did all right his first week out. Around 11:30 you can turn to CBS for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. While taking on the trappings of the moribund talk...
First, a correction: Last week my column had a glaring error. I'd stated that green beans can be sliced or chopped and frozen as-is for cooking later. It should have said "green peppers." Beans need to be blanched and rapidly chilled before freezing. I apologize and sincerely hope no one ruined their green beans. (My only excuse is I was writing using my smart phone while traveling to Billings and I seriously lack proofreading skills for my own work. I know what I'm trying to say, but my phone a...
Nikolas Kulczyk loads up on gourds at this year's 2 Pups Pumpkin Patch east of Glasgow on Hwy 2. A scheduled second weekend (Oct. 3-4) at 2 Pups has been cancelled due to heavier than expected public turnout and sales.... Full story
No one knows when detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett first heard of Butte, Montana, but we know when the narrator of Red Harvest first heard of Personville, Butte's novelistic stand-in. In the novel's famous opening paragraph, the narrator writes, "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could...
The new “fall” season of television is already a washout. On the four main networks, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, there is a deadening similarity to most of the shows, which fall into four categories: sitcoms about big families; sitcoms about loser singles on the make; police-courtroom procedurals; and conspiracy tales that develop over a season. Fortunately, the second season of Fargo, returns on Monday, Oct. 12, with a prequel of sorts to incidents in the first season. Minority Report and Limitless are adapted from movies and end up being two mor...
Now that we've had a light frost, we can enjoy a bit of lingering summer. Sometimes this is the best part of summer for us. Our harvest is finished so we aren't worried about hailstorms or early snows. All the fall chores can be finished without having to wear extra-bulky clothing for warmth. The summer fallow strips have been plowed. The combine is in the shop for a tune-up. When it comes back it will be stored inside until next harvest season. The grain cart will be put away for the winter....
He came into the gallery in the morning in a small crowd of regular customers. I thought they were together, or maybe he needed to pick up his laundry, but when I asked if he was a friend of theirs, she said she'd never met him. I looked closer and saw his hands were muddled with oil paint that matched the specks on his jeans. Rather bluntly, I asked who he was. He replied, "Paul Rolfes. I'm an artist, and I was told to come to your gallery." My curiosity drove me into conversation with this pai...
The cooler weather we had last week means it's officially 'worry about frost' season. This is the time of year I start thinking about dragging out the old truck tarps, blankets, and frost cloths. They need to be laid out so it will be quicker and easier to cover the tender plants I'm not ready to let freeze yet when frost is in the forecast. The tomatoes always get covered first, followed by the peppers, cucumbers, squash, and pumpkins. I'm thinking about trying to cover a few of the husk...
