Happy Chinese New Year! Woke up to a real sustained snowstorm Thursday morning.

Sitemeter Sez: Dunnellon, Florida; Burglengenfeld, Germany; (Lookin' for that guy who laughs about Wagner?) Seattle, Washington; Paris, France; Jersey City, New Jersey; Mountain View, California; Nicollet, Minnesota and Dallas, Texas.

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: The Hockaday Museum of Art's Art Mixer with the Swan String Quartet of the Glacier Symphony and the Liquid Jazz Quartet (featuring conductor John Zoltek) later on Friday evening.
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: Lots of grand New Orleans music over the Mardi Gras weekend -- some of my favorite Funk and R&B. The late Papa John Creach's I Walk On Gilded Splinters is a particularly moving jam. Speaking of which -- when is Amerika going to seriously tackle restoring the population and livability of one of it's oldest cities?

Now, on the other side of the world:


My friend the choreographer Katie Duck is in Japan for most of February. THIS is a fanciful take-off on some of her publicity, with a silly Manga-Katie by M.E. substituted for her real picture. (She doesn't actually play with Samurai swords.) If you are able to read the poster, check her out!