What is there to say about another hot summer day? It wasn't too awfully hot, and it's the time of year for this sort of thing. I was up past 2:30 AM, so I know it cooled down -- it wasn't dark until 11:00 PM.

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!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED! Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue, hapless Aura II, an essay on bodacious Princess Aura I.
COMING SOON! Another essay on what passed for serial continuity -- illustrated with Ming's spitfires!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution this Summer to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: We put up ANOTHER new show at the Hockaday Museum of Art -- Recent Acquisitions,; Montana Contemporary Artists

Media Watch: I saw the New Orleans Funk band 'Galactic' live in Whitefish last night. They know my friend Melissa Weber as 'DJ Soul Sister' -- one of the fine people who recommended this group to me. The music was EXCELLENT -- all instrumental, with Ben Ellman up front on Sax & Harmonica; Stanton Moore, one of the best drummers I've ever heard (and that's saying something); Rich Vogel's quality Keyboards sharing the front duties, along with a serious-looking, but playful Guitar virtuoso named Jeff Raines. Bass? In a Funk Band? Hail Yeah -- Robert Mercurio's super-fine Bass all the way! 'Galactic' had the whole mixed-age audience shakin' their booty thangs until the cops shut the place down.


A fantasy collage featuring gig photos of Galactic mixed with various crowds from all over the Internet.