Jon Jost is a fiercely independent artist known for his boundary-pushing work in film, photography, painting, and poetry.

BUTTE, Mont. — An artist who moved to Butte from Appalachia Ohio is showcasing her incredible work through the month of July at the Covellite Theatre. Brooke Hack is a multidisciplinary artist ...

Butte is ugly, the pamphlets and websites said. Ugly from the days of metal mining, from the reign of Montana’s Copper Kings. Lead-stained ground, air-blown arsenic, metals in the soil. Dingy ...

But Butte has held on to its history and builds its future. Visitors can see the World Mining Museum, hit the Montana Folk Festival and eat at the nation’s oldest Chinese restaurant, the Pekin ...

Butte was a beacon in the dark, a warm handshake with cold fingertips. When winter came, I headed south: Memphis, Nashville, and then Austin, Texas, where I spent 13 years making music.