Slightly above zero degrees (F!), so maybe it's going to get warmer.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Santiago, Chile; Montrouge, Ile-de-France; Moscow, Russia; South Jordan, Utah; Miami, Florida and Louth, Ireland.

ROCK against Reaganomics at: 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 --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics!





Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.

In The Community: Nancy Cawdrey's American Silk Road, The Collective Caravan, and Old West -- New Visions at the Hockaday Museum of Art. Tom English is doing a still life workshop this weekend -- normally he specializes in landscapes, but something different is called for in THIS weather!

Media Watch: The late Oscar Peterson, jamming with Stephan Grappelli -- a whole album's worth on Montana Public Radio.

Theater/Theatre: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Update
Staten Island Underground Festival
February 16, 2008 Snug Harbor Cultural Center
1000 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, NY

Kinko the Clown featured at New York Downtown Clown Revue
February 18th, 2008 The KRAINE THEATER
85 EAST 4TH STREET BETWEEN 2nd & Bowery, 1st FL
Showtime: 8 pm Tickets are $15, available at smarttix.com
Kinko promises a night of antics, pratfalls, Cirque du Soleil tributes, and trained rats.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret Season
Sundays in March, 2008 Zipper Factory 336 W. 37th Street, NYC 10018
Info: 212-563-0480 http://www. thezipperfactory.com
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus hosts this annual show featuring world class acts, sideshow legends, daredevils, infamous clowns, and New York's finest entertainers. Each week features a new line-up.


Mistress Philomena of Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and Kinko in Action!
(Click for a slightly larger image.)
Redigitized composite image by ME,
from gig pictures found on FLICKR.