Our winter weather is mild relative to the deep snows and sub-zero temperatures in the Eastern USA this week. Snowy mornings feel safer to me while driving in these Montana winter mornings -- the other cars go slow and take their time braking. Hey guys and gals -- those 4 wheel drives make you go fast enough to KILL yourself or somebody else! (It takes a lot longer to stop at higher speeds.) I notice the Deer are grazing under trees which have green patches around them -- the grasses are slowly growing again.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution as the days get brighter to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Fresh updates on the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website, take a quick look at what Travel Montana has online about us! I'm moving a few cafe tables over to the Central School Museum this afternoon, plus returning some pedestals from the Hockaday. Thanks to Gil Jordan, their director. I hope the weather doesn't mess us up.

Media Watch: America's Ballroom Challenge on PBS isn't exactly Junk TV, but it borrows a few aspects here and there. What's good is seeing Tony Dovolani dancing with his professional partner Elena Grinenko. (Instead of hapless country singer Sarah Evans, sadly-betrayed candidate of Tom Delay's KKKristian Koalition.)
Our favorite couple were immigrants Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine and Joanna Zacharewicz. They won the "Show Dance" category, but Dovolani and Grinenko won the overall round -- that was alright.


A composite picture of Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine, Tony Dovolani, Elena Grinenko, and Joanna Zacharewicz in action
on PBS's America's Ballroom Challenge.
Non-commercial digital re-interpretation by M.E.
From images © Moreno/Lyons Productions, LLC.