It has felt more like Spring as April winds down -- mild days, but unpredictably cold nights. The birdbath even froze one morning! The damn Blogger page was malfunctioning Sunday, so I'm posting this a day late.

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 Spring finally gets into gear to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Ambitious plans for the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website -- keep an eye on it!

Media Watch: Junque TV for ME -- Dancing With The Stars was kind of funny in certain ways. I thought it was interesting that Edyta compensates for her less-than-able partners by choreographing beautiful technical solos for herself, along with whatever moves her celebrity students can manage. I doesn't fool the judges, but it's fun to watch at home! Karina misses Mario Lopez I'm sure, but during yesterday's show she very un-technically skipped, kicked, and hopped around in the silliest polka-dotted outfit while HER schlub of a partner did the best his ineptitude would allow in a "Redneck Jive." Hmm -- I think the judges were a little bit too hard on Heather Mills. Besides jet-lag, she has to cope with being cast as a witch in England's gutter press when she goes home. Apolo Anton Ohno was the best again, even though Jullien Hough was sick. I was hoping to see footage of him dancing with her very talented brother in practice -- I KNOW they did it, because they HAD to, with Jullien being sick, but there was nothing of the sort.

What IS new at the Hockaday Museum?

This is a picture of British socialite and artist Clare Sheridan, wearing a buckskin dress owned by Elizabeth Davey Lochrie, at St. Mary's -- on the east side of Glacier National Park in 1937. She was visiting the Winold Reiss Art School on a sojourn from the Blood Reserve in Canada, where she was healing from the death of her youngest child.

Mrs. Sheridan was a legend in her own time -- she was just one of many grandchildren from a wealthy American family where all three sisters married British noblemen. One of Clare's cousins was Winston Churchill for instance, and copies of her portrait bust of him are in town halls all over England. After her husband died in WWI, she became notorious for sculpting Bolshevik revolutionaries in Moscow, and writing for many left-wing journals -- just supporting her own family was scandalous enough in her traditional social circles. Rumors of Red espionage were ridiculous too, because as a professional blabbermouth, she was neither told nor kept a secret in her life!
Photo by Elizabeth Davey Lochrie