Bozeman Magazine

Sharing Your Story For The Sake of the Future

Carmen Dunn

Spanish-born philosopher and poet George Santayana’s famous quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” has been paraphrased several ways, all with a focus on being aware of, appreciating, and respecting the…

The Black Lives Matter Movement As An Asian American

Cassie Pfannenstiel

The issue of race in America is complex. Many communities of varying cultures exist together often without accepting one another in a meaningful way. Growing up in a multicultural home as a mixed-race child, I often felt as a cultural outsider to…

You Only Turn 90 Once

A Different Kind of Birthday

Amanda Cass

Birthdays. Love them or hate them, or avoid them all together. But they will keep coming as long as the Earth rotates the sun and our hearts keep beating. Rod Roys has had 90 of them.A Bozeman native and former Bozeman City firefighter, Roys is…

May Cover Artist: Ken Thorsen

Ken Thorsen was born and raised in beautiful Bozeman, Montana where he continues to live with his wife Maggie and one of their three sons. If you are a regular reader of Bozeman Magazine you have likely seen Ken’s past contributions of writing…

Haufbrau Open Mic (The Pandemic Sessions)

Cammie Reid

Up until March 16, 2020 the Haufbrau, part of Bozeman’s infamous Bar-muda Triangle, hosted live music seven nights a week, with Open Mics on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. When the entire state of Montana was given the stay-at-home order…

The Class of Covid-19

Mia Snyder

For the longest time, graduation seemed like an illusion to me, a mountaintop I could see but never thought I would reach. By my junior year, I’d switched my major upwards of five times, from Kinesiology to Chemical Engineering to English. I…

Theater Expert Tom Watson Takes Film School to New Heights

Cammie Reid

As the Resident Scene Designer for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (MSIP) and an Associate Professor at the Montana State University School of Film, Tom Watson regularly finds himself at the helm of the vibrant and clamoring theater scene that…

What's Your Beef? Flashing RED Means Stop!

As a school bus driver in Bozeman, I love the smiling faces and the great kids I get to deliver to school every day. The counter to that is my real disappointment with drivers running the flashing reds and stop signs of the school busses all around…

Marcia 1924-2019

Elizabeth Anderson

As the New Year chaos has settled down and many emotions are cleared up, I’d like to take a moment to reminisce my grandmother’s life. A fiercely independent, determined, vibrant, continuously learning, and presently strong life lived…

Sobering Reminder: Montana’s Fatality Marker Program

Christie Selensky

Numerous enough to notice, infrequent enough to be startled at seeing, and inspiring reverence, sorrow, sympathy, curiosity, and caution. For over 50 years, the white crosses that mark the sites of fatal traffic accidents along the highways of…

Dan Lourie: A Pillar of Conscience

Dan Lourie is a powerhouse, leading by example to challenge members of the Bozeman community and beyond to engage in civil discourse, to show up in support of their values, and to insist on justice day after day.  - Ariel Donohue Born into a…

Sweet Pea Festival of the Arts Focusing on the Music

Angie Ripple

It’s only July but it’s never too early to start thinking about the beauty and smell of Sweet Pea’s in August, not just the amazingly gorgeous flower, but also Bozeman’s most beloved festival of the arts and culture, the Sweet…

Bozeman’s Dancing Deer: Else Trygstad-Burke

I run on a semi-regular basis, maybe three kilometers, three times per week. Nothing like the distance junkies in Bozeman who invited me to go trail running for the first time. At this invitation for a twenty-kilometer run, my partner said…

Earth Day, Every Day

Angie Ripple

You’ve probably seen Jan Schweitzer with her large yellow trash bag along a Bozeman city street or Huffine Lane at least once. For the past three years, Jan has been walking the streets and roadways of Bozeman picking up trash along the way. In…

The ‘Chunch’ Lady Gina Albini

Jerry Schuster

If you shop for groceries in Bozeman, you have probably seen Gina Albini in action. She is the volunteer head of the free student lunch ministry sponsored by Resurrection Catholic Parish in Bozeman. The home-style meal is served at midday on…

Top 10 Montana’s Most Haunted

Sarah Cairoli

Bozeman Paranormal Society is a historical ghost investigation group composed of people who are very passionate about the paranormal. BPS investigates reports of paranormal activity using cameras and more technical equipment, like ghost boxes which…