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The first jazz recordings were made by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917. Today we’re much more likely to be celebrating the birthdays of three great jazz artists, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk, all of them born in 1917. Happily, there is great film footage for all three, documenting their youthful as well as their mature moments as performers. "Scenes Through the Cinema Lens" is a free film retrospective focusing on the performing arts curated by Krin Gabbard, professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University. He is also the author of Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus and Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture.

An exceptional ensemble of performers—including Ailyn Pérez, Nadine Sierra, Isabel Leonard, Luca Pisaroni, Mariusz Kwiecien, and Ildar Abdrazakov—share the stage in Mozart’s comic yet profound look at human nature and one crazy day in a wealthy Spanish household. Acclaimed Mozartean maestro Harry Bicket conducts Richard Eyre’s high-spirited production.

We have finished calving at my place, none of the cows needed help delivering, for which I’m thankful. But each new little critter trailing after his mama or kickin’ up his heels makes ya smile.

It’s a typical socked-in December day, temperatures just above freezing and an occasional drizzle. The air smells, well, like 1968 Missoula, with just a hint of the pulp mill out west in the valley.

I said naked. Not quite. He had on his hat and his boots and his belt, still through the beltloops. The jeans had been ripped off his body from the pockets down, leaving only a small piece containing the fly. It flapped like Geronimo’s loincloth.

FAT STEERS. Entirely out. No slur shall be made about the weight or their sexual predicament. Each cattle buyer will now deal in Ready Edibles. No, that won’t work either, can’t mention bulls. How ‘bout Ripened Ruminants.

The digitization last May of Missoulian newspaper archives (missoulian.newspapers.com) back to 1890 promised to open new worlds for local researchers and history buffs.

Powell’s POV: An entertaining match that told a story that will probably lead to the long expected Natalya heel turn. The question is whether Natalya can finally step up and deliver the type of money promos that she has failed to come through with in the past. She’s a terrific wrestler, but she just hasn’t been able put it together with her mic work. Hopefully this time will be different. Meanwhile, Rousey showed really good emotion, but she wasn’t convincing in selling the Sharpshooter

A tourist kicks up her heels as she and a friend wait for the driver of a hot pink private taxi, a classic American Chevrolet convertible, before they take a driving tour of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

World Heritage is bestowed on places of such value that the international community agrees they must be conserved for all time, and the tops has been listed as part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a series of more than 40 rainforest national parks and reserves stretching from Barrington Tops to south-east Queensland. 

A Year of Bernstein — A 100th-Birthday Celebration Join us as we celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday with a yearlong, 12-lecture series exploring his extraordinary legacy as a composer of theater and concert music, a conductor and a teacher. A once-in-a-lifetime collaboration: Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins and Laurents created a once-in-a-lifetime work of musical theater, with a remarkable score that many have called the greatest in the history of the American musical. We’ll explore the making of the work via filmed interviews and rare footage shot on location during production of the film adaptation, and go deep inside selections of the score to understand how it achieves its rare combination of profound depth, sophistication and broad accessibility.

Now we need to make abundantly clear that once you start this next step, it will spawn an endless wave of zombies. Your current round will not come to an end until you either complete or fail the step. So make sure you’ve got everything you need ready, then go down to the Cargo Hold.