Articles

  • 1 day ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

    When Irish artist Brian Maguire first heard about the epidemic of missing and murdered young factory girls in Juárez, he was visiting friends in Idaho. While in Sandpoint, he happened to pick up a book — new at the time — called “The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border,” written by two Mexican journalists. The book described how young women and girls, mostly factory workers, were being murdered and their assaulted bodies dumped on the edge of the city.

  • 2 weeks ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

    Once May rolls around, the Clark Fork River Market and the Farmers Market become Missoula’s unofficial weekend religion. Sure, you can attend yoga or church, but have you ever received unsolicited rhubarb wisdom at 8 a.m. from a third-wave barista moonlighting as a radish farmer? Enlightenment achieved.

  • 3 weeks ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

    Even though it was an “old” movie when I was in high school, All the President’s Men was one of the primary reasons I was inspired to write for the Hellgate High School newspaper, The Lance, and aspired, one day, to be a journalist. The 1976 film based on a 1974 non-fiction book tells the true story of the Watergate scandal and the two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the story.

  • 2 months ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

    The Co-Lab for Civic Imagination is, at its core, an experiment in what’s possible. It’s built on the idea that art isn’t just about reflection — it’s about creation. What if, instead of merely reacting to crises, communities had the space and resources to imagine something better? What if they could take those ideas and make them real?​That’s the driving force behind the Co-Lab, an initiative housed at the University of Montana but designed to work far beyond it.

  • 2 months ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

    The ZACC’s signature Mini Show Art Auction started as a scrappy, DIY fundraiser in a Northside basement. Under then-Executive Director Kia Liszak, it was an intimate sit-down dinner where guests bid on 12-by-12-inch artworks and mini-desserts to support the growing arts nonprofit. As the ZACC expanded, so did the event, moving to The Wilma and then the fairgrounds, evolving into larger, themed benefits. Even the mini-art got a little bigger.