Still sick today -- minus 4 degrees (F!) outside, so I'm staying IN.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Salmon, Idaho (Known for the REAL Bigfoot, a mixed-race outlaw killed by a bounty hunter in the mid 1860's); Sydney, Australia and a neighbor here in Kalispell. (Hi Doug!)

REAL SLC Punk, not the movie, 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. Mini-thumbnails are in the test stage now. Tom English is doing a workshop this weekend.

Media Watch: FM Radio sure can be a good friend when you're sick. I heard a whole Prokofiev symphony right when I needed some beauty in my life.

Theater/Theatre: My friend Katie contacted me from Amsterdam -- she'll be working in Japan come February:

Katie Duck
February 4-6 workshop in Yokohama - KYUNASAKA studio
To register - http://kyunasaka.jp/
February 9-11 workshop in Utsunomiya

Beoff 1-7-10 Yoshino Utsunomiya 320-0838 Japan T:028-601-2620/fax 028-624-1084 - 3,000 yen for 1 day / 7,000 yen for 3days / observation 1,000 yen for 1 day
To register: www.beoff.org - info@beoff.org or
Lab.M www.labmdance.com - masako_noguchi@hotmail.com



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Part of the flier advertising Katie Duck's workshops and performances in Japan -- that's her jamming in the lower right corner with an unnamed violinist. She is an improvisational artist along the lines of Jazz greats Keith Jarrett or Anthony Braxton -- classically trained, but preferring spontaneous though structured compositions.