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BUTTE, Mont. - Butte's Historical Clark Chateau Mansion will be hosting its annual fundraising tea party this Saturday.

The event is called "Drink of the Wise: A Midsummer Night's Tea Party."

A portion of funds raised will go to the Caring Aid Fund of the St Patrick and Immaculate Conception Parishes, a program funded by donations to help the needy in the community.

The evening's entertainment includes presentations about kintsugi and wabi-sabi, two Japanese art forms. They will be presented by the Chateau's interns.

Another group will present a talk on the connection between tea and feminism.

Callison Stratton, the program manager of the Chateau, says the event is reflective of Butte's historical and current diversity.

She says the event is all about bringing community members together.

"Preserving places like the Chateau here in Butte are so important to keeping the cultural heritage of this town going and giving people a sense of ownership of their history and a sense of community," Stratton said.

She estimates 125 guests will show up on Saturday. Tickets are $40 and are almost sold out. Any remaining tickets will be available at the front door of the Chateau Mansion at 321 W. Broadway St.

The event starts at 6 p.m., and doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

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Carson Becker wasnt interested in the usual kind of tea party.

The Clark Chateau, which Becker has managed since 2015 with Callison Stratton, has seen its share of tea parties in its day, she said but she wanted to think bigger for the chateaus annual fundraiser, beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 24.

Instead of petit-fours and clotted cream, the historic mansion will play host to Drink of the Wise: A Midsummer Nights Tea Party, a tour across continents and centuries to uncover the cultural history of tea and its culinary possibilities.

Proceeds will benefit chateau programs and the Caring Aid Fund, which helps feed the hungry in Butte.

The evenings entertainment will include presentations about kintsugi the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with decorative lacquer and wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that embraces imperfection as a form of beauty. The chateaus teen interns will give those presentations.

Another group will present a talk on the connection between tea and feminism.

Tea houses were one of the only places where unchaperoned women could go and be safe and hang out and talk to each other, Becker said.

In a brief history of tea she wrote for Butte Arts Monthly, Becker described the gradual adoption of tea into the cultural norm in Europe as well as its tie to the suffragette movement in England, which appeared to fulfill early fears that drinking tea was tantamount to shirking household duties and becoming politically active.

The musical group Alas Harum, which plays the Balinese instrument gamelan, will come from Missoula to perform. (They are part of the larger ensemble Missoula Community Gamelan, Manik Harum.) The group includes Megan McNamer, the first participant in the Mining City Writing Project collaboration between the Chateau and The Montana Standard.

The groups director, Dorothy Morrison, said she is looking forward to meeting Saturdays audience.

It seems like the people of Butte have a very open mind to the things that arent mainstream, she said. And this is a music that isn't mainstream at all.

Manik Harums teacher, Made Lasmawan, will be in Butte later this summer with his group, the Balinese All Stars, for the Montana Folk Festival.

Lake Missoula Tea Company is providing tea for the fundraiser Saturday. Chef Daniel Hogan designed the accompanying menu, which will feature dishes to match regional teas from almost every continent, like flatbread with rose jam and pine nuts to match Lapsang Souchong from China. Tea-infused cocktails will be provided by Headframe Spirits.

Tickets are nearly sold out, according to Becker, but some may be available at the door of the Clark Chateau on Saturday.

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Taylor Budowich, Opinion contributor Published 10:56 a.m. ET June 22, 2017 | Updated 3 hours ago

A protest in Philadelphia on Jan. 26, 2017.(Photo: Suchat Pederson, USA TODAY Network)

After failing in dramatic fashion at the ballot box last year, Democrats have clung to the hope that the vague anti-Trump resistance may be their saving grace a supposed organic political movement that would do for them what the Tea Party did for the Republicans. However, afterfour straight special-election defeats capped off this week in Georgia when Democrats directed tens of millions of dollars only to lose its clear the resistance is just another political paper tiger, not the partys salvation.

Since the Womens March following President Trumps inauguration, the mainstream media has attempted to draw parallels between the resistance and the Tea Party. Unsurprisingly, the comparison revolved around tactics. The Tea Party and the resistanceboth protested their respective Administrations, they both brought energy, and they both raised concerns at town halls.

However, what the media, Democratsand even some of the GOPs old guard fail to appreciate is that itwasnt tactics that created the Tea Partys historic and lasting success. There were no novel campaign strategies, patented micro-targeting, or complex data analytics. Instead, the Tea Partys rise was defined by its powerfully simple message of limited government and less spending. It was a message and pursuit that, at the time, was largely abandoned by both political parties, yet resonated with many American voters.

Additionally, the Tea Party movement understood that to change the policies, they had to change the players and we did. Democrats and their resistance have been losing election after election, a stark contrast to the Tea Partys ability to rackup victory after victory at the ballot box.

From Trump to Sen.Rand Paul of Kentucky,from Rep. Mark Meadowsof North Carolina toGov.Rick Scottof Florida,the most prominent faces of todays Republican Party found electoral success with campaign messagesthat aligned with Tea Party values.

It was never about the label Tea Party, but instead the ideas that inspired a truly organic and peaceful political revolution. And though the Tea Party was often disparaged by the media, it flourishes in the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and in state houses across the country.

Republicans now have control of 33 governors mansions, while Democrats have lost over 900 state legislative seats, putting the GOP in control either partially or entirely of 45 states.

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In contrast, the resistance has only succeeded at turning out the same Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton and her failed campaign, and it has fallen far short of redefining the vanishing Democratic Party in part because the resistance and Democratic Party are indistinguishable from each other. Same rhetoric, same out-of-touch agenda, same result.

This has been true from the beginning. Statistician Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight and a Special Correspondent for ABC News, published an in-depth analysis of the anti-Trump Womens March in January. In his report, Silver found that 80 percent of march attendance came in states that Clinton won. By comparison, more thanhalf of the Tea Party protests were in states that President Obama won in 2008.

That reality hasn't changed. Jon Ossoff, the Democrat in the Georgia special election this week, had ninetimes more donations come from California than from the state where he ran. And even though he was the anointed candidate out of the gate, he didn't even live in the district. It's hard to win when neither the moneynor the candidate came from the district.

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Now that the dust has settled, here's what we know: The Democratic resistance poured a record-breaking $31millioninto Georgia to oppose Tea Party-backed Karen Handel , only to lose. If that wasn't bad enough, Ossoff lost by more than doubleClinton's losing margin in the district last fall.

This race, coupled with other special-election lossesin Kansas, Montana, and South Carolina, have become expensive reminders of 2016, when Democrats wasted hundreds of millions of dollars propping up candidates handpicked by the party leaders, only to be rejected at the ballot box by the voters. More consequentially though, it proves the Democrats' hopes for their own Tea Party revolution are dead.

The difference between the two movements is simple: the Tea Party's message captured voters the Republican Party failed to reach. The resistance merely re-organized those Clinton voters who have yet the accept Trumps victory and cling to the Not My President hashtag. Thats not the formula for a political revolution, its just sour grapes.

Going forward, the Democratic Party has two paths. It can continue under the failed, top-down leadership of Nancy Pelosi and anout-of-touch agenda, ensuring a continuing journeytowards irrelevance. Orit can finally recognize that it has a message problem, compounded by priorities that favor big cities and ignore the rest of America.

an agenda that prioritizes the interests of big cities, while ignoring the rest of America.

Taylor Budowich is executive director of Tea Party Express, the nation's largest Tea Party political action committee. Follow him on Twitter: @TaylorBudowich

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Jason Momoa and Suki Waterhouse in The Bad Batch. Courtesy of NEON

by Morgan Rojas/www.cinemacy.com

Bringing Bad back to the big screen for her highly anticipated sophomore film is Ana Lily Amirpour, the visionary who made black and white Vampire Spaghetti Westerns a thing. Amirpour trades the streets of Bad City for the barren desert of Texas in The Bad Batch, a meditative and highly audaciouscannibal film that makes Burning Man look like your grandmas tea party (For our exclusive interview with Amirpour and actress Suki Waterhouse, visit http://www.cinemacy.com).

Our heroine isArlen(Suki Waterhouse), a young woman who has been dumped in the desert after spending an undisclosed amount of time in a detention facility. Disorientedand penniless, her stamina is no match for unrelenting sun as she decides to let her guard down for a quick nap in a convenientlyabandoned car. Its not long until a group of ragtag cannibal misfits find Arlen and take her to their base camp. Arlens desperation to escape literally costs her an arm and a leg as she quickly learns that its every man, or in this case, woman, for herself in the Bad Batch.

Elements of what made Amirpours first film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, so successful are replicated here strong female protagonist, gritty skate culture, a trendy soundtrack including songs from Die Antwoord and Culture Club, and all-around cool vibes. Perhaps too cool at times, but how can it not be coming from distributors like Vice, NEON, and Annapurna Pictures?

Arlen encounters many characters as she wanders through the barren landscape, including the big and burly Miami Man (Jason Momoa), his quiet yetindependent daughter, Honey (Jayda Fink) and The Dream (Keanu Reeves), the idolized patriarch of the desert camp called Comfort. The subsidiary cast ofkooks like Hermit (Jim Carrey) and The Screamer (Giovanni Ribisi) are unexpected but welcomed additions that further round out Arlens reality. Like a bad ass Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, Arlen just wants to go home and usesthese characters she meets along the way to help her get there.

The audience isnt given the luxury of knowing Arlens backstory, or how she wound up in the Bad Batch in the first place, but character development clearly wasnt the focus here. We are dropped into a dystopian desert without knowing how we got there or where were going, but we blindly buckle up for the ride. By default, we root for Arlens success because the odds are against her, plus she is fighting to survive with a missing left arm and leg. Id venture to guess, however, that a backstory would have made the audience further emotionally invested.

Ana Lily Amirpours moody, high-style horror flick is an unconventional watch, but for as tough and tireless as the premise is, the cinematic style of the film itself is quite idyllic. Minimal dialogue and long, sweeping shots of the vast wasteland makes for a meditative watch despite the blood, guts, and gore. Lingering shots of barren desert-living mixed with the effortlessly cool and all-around badass Suki Waterhouse makes The Bad Batch an artistic vision, or dare I saydream?

The Bad Batch is rated R for violence, language, some drug content, and brief nudity. 118 minutes. Opening this Friday at ArcLight Hollywood andOn Demand, Amazon and iTunes.

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The 2017 installment of The Mad Tea Party Jam was held this past weekend at Four Quarters Farm in Artemis, Pennsylvania. Papadosios third set of the weekend was canceled on Saturday after three of the five band members fell ill. NYS Music reports a number of attendees, musicians and staff at the event also became sick with several sent to a local hospital.

NYS Music reports symptoms were first reported on Friday. The website spoke with attendee Ona Hogarty, who was taken to the emergency room of a nearby hospital. Hogarty told NYS Music she was diagnosed with dysentery and said the doctors told her dysentery is often given as a broad term diagnosis to stomach viruses accompanied by bloody stools. As of press time, no official cause of the health issues has been announced.

The Mad Tea Partys announcement about the cancellation of Papadosios third set reads in part, Due to health factors that are out of our control, Papadosio will not be able to play their 3rd set scheduled tonight at The Mad Tea Party Jam. 3/5 members of the band have fallen ill and feel they couldnt give you the show you deserve without the full band in good health. We are sorry to disappoint and take these health issues very seriously.

Four Quarters hosted WickerMan Burn the previous weekend, where similar health issues were reported. Organizers of the Mad Tea Party Jam shared a message from the venue that notes, Recently we have suffered at Four Quarters outbreaks of a very contagious Viral GI illness that is following the pattern of the 2008 season outbreaks. We have been in contact with our public health officials about Viral GI prior to the outbreak at The Mad Tea Party and have been in continuous contact since Sunday morning, June 18th. We have been forwarding contact information, hospital information, test reports and samples directly to the PA Epidemiological Dept, and will be meeting with them on site shortly. Read the full statement from Four Quarters Orren Whiddon:

[Via NYS Music / Hat Tip Billboard]

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