The Creative and Cultural Economy

Support the Montana Natural History Center’s move to McCormick Park by showing us your “wild” side!

Last March, I had the opportunity to meet Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, at his film complex in lush, green, otherworldly-looking Wellington, New Zealand. Jackson has done something unlikely in…

”We will be the most nimble and business-sensitive state in the nation — without sacrificing our environment,” while giving young engineers and technology workers what they want — ”hot jobs in cool cities.”

Today is Wednesday, February 4, and today’s “Happy Birthday Girl” is Isabel Perón, born Maria Martinez in 1931. A one-time night-club dancer, she became the third wife of Juan Perón and succeeded him as President…

‘‘A lot of people think we’re supported by the city, but we get no funds from the city, state or federal governments,”

The program — which began in the fall and was given final approval by the university’s Board of Regents last month — has 70 students working on projects in everything from digital film, television and video game production to content creation, screenwriting, storytelling and computer science.

After taking photographs of natural places, Sotola paints scenes
from the photos inside sections of log and creates a diorama inside.

It’s the kind of creativity that made Silicon Valley famous as a birthplace of ideas. “It’s almost as simple as birds of a feather flock together,” Fogarty said of Portola Valley’s lure.

Welcome to the Montana Committee for the Humanities monthly e-newsletter. Here you will find links to MCH news, grant guidelines and deadlines, calendar of events, and much more. Queries, address corrections, changes, subscription and unsubscription…

Today is Wednesday, January 28 and on this day in 1956 — gosh, that was only 58 years ago! — Elvis Presley made his first TV appearance. That was on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show…