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The Rockin' the Rivers' Facebook group shared a post today stating that a festival, Rockin' the Rockies will be taking place, but at a new venue in Lincoln, MT. The event will take place over 2 days, September 5th and 6th at the Grantier Ranch, just south of Lincoln.

Here in Butte, it's not uncommon for the premiere of a new summer blockbuster to skip us entirely, so it's good news that the new action/western movie "The Unholy Trinity" will, in fact, be playing here. It's even better news that this movie has our own Tim Montana playing a big role, making his major motion picture debut alongside such major players as Pierce Brosnan and Brandon Lessard and Samuel L. Jackson. Yes, that Samuel L. Jackson. The movie looks intense. Let's have a look.

When a giant like the Boeing C-32, a modified version of the 757, comes in for a landing, people are going to take notice. Especially when the plane has "United States of America" proudly displayed on its fuselage.

That distinct "hell yeah" that you heard was the collective shout of heavy metal and screaming guitar fans upon learning that Zakk Sabbath, the world's number one tribute to Black Sabbath, will be playing the Wilma Theater in Missoula on Tuesday, November 3 along with Guns N' Roses tribute Use Your Illusion and heavy metal band Dark Chapel.

This weekend is one that many Southwest Montana families have had circled on their calendars since the early days of winter. No, it's not opening day of baseball season. It's not Memorial Day or Mother's Day. Its opening weekend at the Silver Bow Drive-In, one of the few operating drive-in theaters left in existence and a treasure to those who enjoy it.

It's no surprise how important his home state is to Tim Montana. You need not look further than his very name. Montana is in his music, his image, and his business ventures. If you want to see what Tim Montana means to his home state, you need look no further than the Montana Department of Commerce's Governor's Conference on Tourism where Tim just took home an incredible but very justified award.

Monday night around 8:45, the Mountain View Cemetery, the final resting place of Evel Knievel and a testament to Butte, Montana's colorful past, was vandalized, apparently by a white box truck, tearing off the beautiful wrought iron arch and support that has stood for well over 100 years.

Monday night, the University of Houston Cougars, under the tutelage of Coach Kelvin Sampson, will meet the University of Florida Gators for the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. As you have probably heard several times by now, Coach Sampson is also the former head coach of the Montana Tech Orediggers, a school he led to then-unseen success and a school where he left a lasting legacy. Coach Kelvin is a member of the Digger Athletics Hall of Fame. Sampson is a mentor to current Oredigger Head Coach Adam Hiatt. Hiatt's present-day Orediggers proudly play on Kelvin Sampson Court. But even as Sampson has moved on, you can tell there is a lot of Butte left in him.

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