Local Services

A Home for the Hopeful

Beartooth Humane Alliance has the ultimate home at the heart of its mission Article by Chelsea Lyn Agro | Photography by Chelsea Culp Home usually has a few dog hairs blowing around, or stuck to our upholstery or clothes. Anyone who has a dog knows that March often offers muddy paw prints in the foyer, and we don't mind. Our cats are cuddled up in the warm, fresh laundry and we are too distracted by their peacefulness to notice that they've made more work for us. Of course, for animal lovers...

February 2023

Arts + Culture

A Storied Home

Treasures from travels or yesteryear offer memories at every turn Article by Chelsea Lyn Agro | Photography by Chelsea Culp Home is a treasure trove. Think of every place you've traveled to and every meaningful item you've brought back, like a bird with a twig to its nest. When I first moved into my home I was 23 years old, almost entirely house broke, and my tiny sense of interior design was in fact limited to just one room, like the apartments or dorm rooms I'd had in the past. Taking on a...

February 2023

Home + Design

A Well-Stocked Bar

Everything you need to know to create a breathtaking in-home bar Article and Photography by Bring Billings into your home bar by visiting one (or all!) of these recommended stops for spirits. If you prefer a local taste before you purchase, local distilleries like the ones mentioned here will give you a good idea of what you want sitting in your home, awaiting your future guests. And if you're well versed on what you want around, well then you know our fabulous, plentiful local liquor stores...

February 2023

Arts + Culture

Home, Hearth, Hygge

Getting cozy and creating a feeling Article by Sarie Mackay Living as we do in a region with incomparable recreation, our focus is often outward: what peak to climb, which trail to ski, what river to fish. The lure is always there, and if we’re lucky there is a familiar kitchen and hearth to return to when our mission is accomplished. Home is the place where comfort lives, and comfort is there because this is where we collect love and memory.    To say that a home is a shelter does not begin...

February 2023

Arts + Culture

Mountainous Murals

Handmade art from a homegrown artist Article by Nick Mack | Photography by Chelsea Culp It began with a bison. Sure, Rilie Tane Zumbrennen considered herself an artist beforehand. She’d sold plenty of work and even revolutionized the art department at Elysian Elementary. But the bison mural marked the opening chapter of her life as a local celebrity. You’ve probably seen the painting—it’s become a downtown icon: a stunning 40-by-30-foot bison head on the side of the Grand Building, the home...

January 2023

Professional Services

A Lingering Experience

Roots Garden Center offers everything we need in the doldrums of winter Article by Chelsea Lyn Agro | Photography by Chelsea Culp A green thumb hidden within a mitten, February. It might feel like a juxtaposition to even speak about greenery come such a frigid, unforgiving month but here we are, doing the necessary work of planting ideas surrounding spring. Before we get too ahead of ourselves, though, let’s sit a spell in the nursery with Jon and Karen Switzer, the owners of Roots Garden...

January 2023

Arts + Culture

Of Ice & Owls

A late winter look at love Article by Sarie Mackay Climate change blows many winds, but we continue to associate February with snow and all things frozen. By now, winter has thoroughly cooled us down and made the summer garden into a wisp of memory. Social outings are as sluggish as the oil in the tractor, and the landscape is caught in a state of suspended animation.    In the quiet of the evening, the cottonwoods emit loud cracks as the moisture within them wreaks havoc in their woody...

January 2023

Health + Wellness

Luxury Reimagined

The green o invites you to a completely curated experience Article and Photography by Chelsea Lyn Agro The storybook stage of the green o presents a still and peaceful season. There are squirrels clawing their way up the thick bark of towering pines, woodpeckers drumming their bills, and the evergreen setting invites the many dresses of nature as she blows, howls, or quietly hums. Our senses, though, aren’t accustomed to this level of intricacy anymore. There are children or grandchildren to...

December 2022

Wellness

Eat the Rainbow

The Benefits of Plant-Based Eating Article by Claudia Martin Ayoade Most people think a plant-based diet is strictly for those vegan and vegetarian types but there is no debating the overwhelming evidence showing the benefits of improved health for those who make that diet choice. Plant-based eating is more of a lifestyle than a diet. You are simply eating more foods that are closer to their harvested state with minimal processing.  Meatless diets have been shown to improve health outcomes by...

December 2022

Fitness

Ice in Their Veins

Behind the scenes with the Billings Bulls Article by Nick Mack | Photography by Chelsea Culp For most Billings residents, January marks the end of our patience with the cold. We rush to our cars, hot cocoa in hand; we slip on the ice, hot cocoa all over. With the holidays in the rearview mirror and three months of winter facing us through our frosty windshields, it’s hard not to feel a little hostility toward the elements. Unless the cold is your element. Enter Clint Isakson, Jason Coleman...

December 2022