Around Town: More Changes Brewing
It looks like Sam's Taproom and Red Lodge Ales have finally found a new home. Permits, licenses, zoning, and other issues have been dogging the brewery's search for a new home, but owner Sam Hoffman feels that they've finally solved the majority of the problems.
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Book Review: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar
by Gary Robson
Hearing the title of the book Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes probably makes you think you've found another April Fool's joke. Not so. The book is quite real, and actually spent a good stretch of time on the bestseller lists.
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BRTA Annual Meeting April 24
Beartooth Recreational Trails Association will hold its annual public meeting Thursday, April 24 at The Pollard Hotel in downtown Red Lodge. Appetizers will be provided beginning at 6:30 with a no-host bar; the event begins at 7:00.
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Cabin Fever: Is it Spring Yet?
by Corey Thompson
Have you ever heard the little ditty "April showers bring May flowers"? Maybe that happens somewhere but here in Montana, April is another extension of March, where the only signs of spring seem to be that daylight is getting longer. Winter is waning, and spring is occasionally teasing, but actually miles ahead, unless you live in some place like Kansas or Georgia, which we don't. So even though you're still hanging on for those fantastic dumps of snow and the fun you can have in it, April looms long and slow in its languid plodding towards spring. It's the time of year when folks get a touch of cabin fever.
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Carbon County Geothermal Theme Park
by Cletus DuBois
The vast community of Red Lodge area real estate agents is all atwitter over the new housing / water park / miniature golf course / geothermal theme park announced this week, which is slated for development at an undisclosed location "near Red Lodge."
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Catfish Heads & Coyote Feet
by Craig Beam
Ok. Everyone knows me as the Trout Scout, fly fishing purist. Wouldn't touch a spin casting rod to save my life. Every time a client refers to my hand-tied flies as "bait" I have a seizure. It wasn't always so.
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Does it Make Sense to Recycle?
by Clare Witcomb
In the January issue of National Geographic, Tom Zeller, Jr. asked a very simple question: Does it make sense to recycle? He felt that it does.
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Health and Fitness: What is Pilates?
by Leslie Marty
Leslie explains everything you need to know about Pilates.
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Local News From The World-Wide Web
The Web is an amazingly deep and rich source of information, but searching it can be frustrating. Even with tools like Google, what you find often isn't what you were looking for. With that in mind, your ever-vigilant investigative staff at the Local Rag brings you the straight poop on official local Web sites.
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National Finals Ski-Joring
The winning team in the Open Division was Helena's Rider Joe Scanlon aboard his speedy steed Jet, pulling skier Cody Smith of Spokane. Their combined time over two days was 36.67 seconds, beating Sherry Graham of Bond, CO riding Duke and pulling Frisco, CO skier Bruce Stott, at 36.7 seconds. Placing third at 37.24 was Sherry Graham again pulling Red Lodge's own Jason Russell.
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Nature Center Update: Birds (and a New Cat) Home Safe
In February's issue of the Local Rag, we reported on the effect the construction of the new Red Lodge High School was having on the Beartooth Nature Center and its animals. The article was entitled, "Stop & Think: Working Together is the Only Solution." This month, we'd like to bring you an update, which shows that yes, indeed, working together is the solution.
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Parking Space: Red Lodge City Parks Update
by Dan Seifert
This article is the first in a series to be written by Red Lodge Parks Board members and volunteers to highlight what is happening on your City Parks and public lands in Red Lodge. The Parks Board works with the City Council, City Departments, multiple volunteer groups, and numerous other dedicated individuals to identify and address park and tree needs on City-owned lands. City Parks and trees provide numerous assets that help make Red Lodge a great place to live.
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The Hills are Alive with Snow Quest Adventures!
by Lindsey Cadwell & Marc Swanson
How many layers are in a snow drift? Do you know how to tell if an animal track is old or new? These are a few of the many questions that members of the Boys & Girls Club were challenged with on their Snow Quest adventures. Together the Boys & Girls Club of Red Lodge and environmental educator Marc Swanson of the Beartooth Nature Center have been able to take over forty kids on Snow Quest adventures. Needless to say this winter season of Snow Quest has been extremely successful.
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The Sheer, Abject, Horror of Blimps.
by Scylla
Last week while traveling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It?s called ?Airship Earth,? and it?s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it and two propellers hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium, put batteries in it, and you have a radio-controlled indoor blimp. Little did I know the horror, the fear, the terror that this evil, sinister flying menace would cause.
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The Soul of Red Lodge
by Audrey Clark
s I prepared to write for this issue of The Local Rag my mind started running through a long list of my favorite "Red Lodge Moments." After listing a few I realized that all several thousand of us have our favorite Red Lodge moments, and it was rather egocentric of me to think that anyone else would be interested in hearing my oft-repeated stories.
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Variety Show April 17 & 18
It?s back! The Red Lodge Theatre Co. and the Red Lodge High School Drama Club have joined forces to bring ?THE RED LODGE VARIETY SHOW CAULK US? to the boards of the Roman Theater for two big nights on Thursday April 17 and Friday April 18. The Variety Show?s many and varied incarnations have entertained locals off and on for over 25 years, and launched the successful careers of big name acts such as Patsy DeCline and Tammy Whinerette.
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AFK for Life:
Versus! Giant Metal Jigglypuff!
by Doug Robson and Ethan McDowell
Yes, we're back, and we've got a review for the new game from Nintendo exclusively for the Wii: Super Smash Bros. Brawl! It is third in the Super Smash Bros. series, and the last two were huge successes, so this one has to be good, right?
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by Randy Tracy
The Wine Snob gets his mail and the Cheapskate gets out-cheapskated.
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by John Overton
John explains 3 real groundhog recipes: The Country-Style Groundhog, the Hopping John, and Big Reba's Fruit Cocktail Cobbler. No joke, these are real.
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by Marci Dye
Marci enlightens us with her vision of the future, when Red Lodge becomes a Biker Town, and not the motorized kind of bikes.
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Heirloom Recipes:
A Creamed-Pea Soup Starter for your Easter Dinner
by Jay West
Easter Dinner is a good time for a meal in courses. Start with a soup course. The main course of ham or lamb, asparagus and potatoes can come later. I remember grandmothers starting with just a soup bowl in the middle of each plate and nothing but the soup on the table. Grandmothers could do such things because they were strict and they didn't have the armies of children who made mothers' kitchens seem like mess halls and cafeterias.
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by Jeanne Thomas
Her face was flushed and excitement permeated the air as Pat Luptak--the Red Lodge School of Dance proprietor and chief instructor--opened the doors for the crows at the first ever Student Works Showcase. Elizabeth Prather, Josylin Luptak, Deanne Duke, and Harold Greer were all struggling to instill some order into the wild enthusiasm bursting from the students who had choreographed their own pieces and would be dancing them tonight in front of a full house. This full house and standing-room-only performance (not unusual for the dance school's events) was held at the Bull & Bear, an historical dance hall and saloon, and long-time partner in the development of the performing arts in Red Lodge.
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by Gene Rodman
Gene goes tries to answer the age-old question "Is Photography Art?"
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by Gary Robson
Don?t you hate it when you have to leave your computer and go out in the real world? No? Of course not. You live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Well, then pretend to be a teenager. They tend not to notice the outside world. Got it? Okay.
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