Jake Iverson

5 days ago | billingsgazette.com | Jake Iverson

Stare long enough at the Billings Gazette’s press and you’ll start to see America. The press, a hulking piece of metal that rises three full stories, one above ground and one below, is American in the way that a Bruce Springsteen song is American. It might not literally be about this country, but it’s made of the same things everything around here is made of. It’s metal and grease and ink, rollers and pneumatics and pistons.

1 week ago | billingsgazette.com | Jake Iverson

Around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a section of the ceiling of the Babcock Theatre collapsed. Now the folks at Art House Cinema and Pub are starting to put the pieces back together. The specifics are stubbornly few at this time, said Matt Blakeslee. He’s the founder and executive director of Art House, the nonprofit downtown movie theater that manages the Babcock, which is owned by the city of Billings and on the National Register of Historic Places.

1 week ago | billingsgazette.com | Jake Iverson

This isn't a holiday weekend, but it feels like one, especially when you've got so much to do in and around Billings.  'Escape to Margaritaville' at Billings Studio TheatreBillings Studio Theatre's 72nd season is coming to a close (don't fret — the 73rd starts in September) and they're going out in style. If you consider flip flops and Hawaiian shirts to be style, that is.

2 weeks ago | billingsgazette.com | Jake Iverson

With all this going on, it's a pretty fitting time to get an extra day off. Hoof-It With a Historian returnsIt's been a long winter, but the signs of summer are there. There are the new leaves, the sounds of cracking bats and popping mitts coming from Dehler Park, and of course those soaring temperatures. Now is finally the time to add the Western Heritage Center's Hoof-It With a Historian tours to that list.

2 weeks ago | billingsgazette.com | Jake Iverson

Michael Spears is just about to portray one of the most famous and influential people ever born on this continent — but first he’s got to make it though his college finals. The actor, who grew up in South Dakota but has spent much of his life working out of Bozeman, is playing the titular Hunkpapa Lakota leader in “Sitting Bull,” the History Channel’s two-part docuseries that runs on Tuesday, May 27 and Wednesday, May 28.