Cory Walsh

1 week ago | missoulian.com | Cory Walsh

Here’s a quick guide to some upcoming arts and cultural events happening around Missoula in the week ahead. Missoula Pride(Friday, June 20-Sunday, June 22)The fourth annual Missoula Pride gathering lands this weekend, with three days’ worth of music, activism and community events around the city. The festival team at the nonprofit Western Montana Community Center and a number of local collaborators have lined out a full schedule of events, most of which are free.

1 week ago | missoulian.com | Cory Walsh

Missoula Pride returns to the city this weekend, with more than 50 events that span from a rally at the Missoula County Courthouse to readings at the Missoula Public Library and the Saturday block party on West Main Street. As the homegrown event enters its fourth year, co-director Devin Carpenter said they’re often still pushing back at the perception that it’s just a party.

2 weeks ago | missoulian.com | Cory Walsh

The turquoise blue in some of Eric Jensen’s paintings looks like it could be the surface of a lake tucked in a far cirque of Glacier National Park. Lane Chapman’s ceramic vases, with ornate deep green and copper, include birds that appear to be either diving or struggling. That bright blue refers to tailings from the mining operations, which adds a hint of queasiness to the bright hues. Chapman’s carefully carved ceramic birds are herons and osprey, indicator species of contamination.

2 weeks ago | missoulian.com | Cory Walsh

Have a news tip? Pass it along to [email protected]. Star-studded Montana Western opensPierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson filmed a new Western, “The Unholy Trinity,” in the Paradise Valley that’s due in theaters around the country Friday, June 13, including the AMC 12 in Missoula. Australian director Richard Gray has shot historical films like “Robert the Bruce,” and “Murder in Yellowstone City,” in the Treasure State, where he's lived since the 2010s, according to the production notes.

2 weeks ago | missoulian.com | Cory Walsh

A sister who’s been AWOL for a decade is busted sneaking into her sister’s apartment at 2 a.m. They call their other sister over and talk out the schism for about an hour, with fighting, crying, reminiscing and jokes en route to possible reconciliation. MissCast Productions’ original show, “Trio,” which has a run through the weekend at the ZACC Show Room, is a contemporary family drama with one quality you likely haven’t seen in a play before: The three sisters are triplets.