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Published Sunday, May 11, 2008

As far as festivals go, this one's a Butte

BUTTE – The National Folk Festival comes to Montana this summer, bringing the event's trademark mix of "music, dance and tradition from across America" to historic Butte in Big Sky country. The three-day festival changes venues every three years. For the past three summers, it was held in Richmond, Va.

Here & There: Oregon Zoo goes prehistoric

It's official: The animals are running the zoo.In what must be the strangest cattle drive the West has ever seen, 25 animatronic dinosaurs made their way from McKinney, Texas, to take control of the Oregon Zoo in Portland for the summer.

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Book review: Author comes clean about travel guide writing

"Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics and Professional Hedonism"
by Thomas Kohnstamm (Three Rivers Press, 288 pages, $13.95)


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