It’s that time of year again. It’s Christmas program time. The time when parents pack into gymnasiums and auditoriums like sardines to watch their children sing holiday classics.

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It's not visible unless you walk up to the Bitterroot Chamber of Commerce front door.

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So, you've misplaced your stack of vinyl Christmas records. Or, your neighbor borrowed your Christmas CD collection, then moved out of town! Maybe you just can't stand listening to the same 30 songs over and over again on your I-thing

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The students at Missoula's Paxson School along with their parents are competing with two other communities in a national contest to win a traffic control device for the intersection at Hill Street and Beckwith Avenue.

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An updated outlook by Montana Legislative Services Fiscal Division estimates that the Montana general fund will be receiving more tax money than was originally predicted during the 2012-2013 legislative session.

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There comes a time when we must stop kidding ourselves. These 'Hobbit' films – with 'The Desolation of Smaug' representing the shank of the trilogy – are not real movies. These are exploitation films for Tolkien nuts, for enthusiasts of the original 'Lord of the Rings' movies and for audiences so hungry for high fantasy they'll gobble up whatever is served to them and ask for seconds.

As someone who has sympathy, but not empathy, for those who have such proclivities, I can get why someone might come away liking this picture. But that is more of an involuntary reaction to exposure to certain elements, not the summation of a film. Listen, there's a grey-bearded wizard who warns in low tones about a place that sounds like “Doggledoor.” And there's someone referred to as “Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror.” I love that geekorama stuff more than most. It's hilarious, and I'll probably refer to my cat as “Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror” for the next week. But this movie doesn't cohere – there's no forward momentum, no character development, no story happening. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fibber.

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The Sound of Music Live was on television last night. The original film aired in 1965 and starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Carrie Underwood starred in the latest version, and we want to know if you watched

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So, are you naughty or nice?

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