When Texas’ massive music and arts festival, South by Southwest, was canceled last March— for the first time in more than three decades—festival organizers around the country could see that 2020 was going to be difficult. 

My sex life right now is about equivalent to that of the Pope. 

Cody Marble spent nearly half his life in the criminal justice system for a crime he did not commit. 

Walking through the doors of the Adams Center feels like walking through a ghost town. Posters line the walls—posters of players and teams, yes, but also COVID-19 protocols and mask reminders. The park- ing lot might as well have a tumbleweed rolling through it—a Saturday afternoon gameday s…

Dr. Kenneth Chatriad took a break from his work to wipe down the 12 smooth, light blue plastic chairs spaced out in a Curry Health Center hallway. Chatriad, the center’s pharmacy manager, walked through his newly constructed immunization center. Though it was hard to tell under his mask and …

Henry DeLuca, an avid skier and the president of the University of Montana’s Ski and Snowboard Club, felt the itch to get out in the snow on a chilly recent Wednesday. Powder blanketed the ground in Missoula, and ski trails left tracks down Mount Sentinel.

Over the course of the semester, Kaimin photographers have documented Missoula’s art scene, on and off campus, as it adapts to pandemic setbacks and regulations. From livestream concerts to art exhibitions, we’ve seen these adaptations in play. The Kaimin multimedia team has curated the foll…

Sisters Michelle and Aline Dufflocq-Williams piled into a taxi at John F. Kennedy airport on June 23, 2020, fresh off a connecting flight taking them from Missoula to Salt Lake City to New York. They were separated from the driver by a large sheet of Plexiglas. Unlike the last time they were…

Ben Porietis knew his neighbors weren’t home. Eyeing the pumpkin sitting innocently on the porch across the street, his friend Rob Hutchinson made an absurd, alcohol-induced suggestion, and a loosely conceived plan was born.

This election cycle is like nothing voters have dealt with in the past, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in Montana’s election history, 46 of the 56 counties will vote exclusively by mail. Missoula County has allowed for a mail-in option, but voters wishing to participa…

On a cool September evening in South Missoula, roller skaters, skateboarders and bicyclists filled an impromptu “rink,” bordered by caution tape and loudspeakers, in the parking lot of what used to be Lucky’s Market. Custom roller skates and skateboards shredding a tiny portable rail cast od…

Nathan Coyan lifted his right hand as he began the swearing in ceremony. In the quiet basement of the Missoula County Elections Office, a dozen other socially distanced clerks repeated his oath, took their seats and began counting.

If 2020 were a sound, it’d be a cough. An exasperated struggle for breath as disaster attacks the lungs. From a virus to wildfire smoke, our respiratory systems are overloaded and overworked. But perhaps the sources of the coughs are not just separate tragedies of an eventful year. Perhaps t…

Alex Northey’s car screeched to a halt at the front of the Curry Health Center’s parking lot. He felt his head shoot with pain from a headache, and tried to relax himself walking out to his early morning COVID-19 test at the University of Montana campus.