Rain on top of all this snow again -- I ventured out mid-day, when the roads were passable, and drove north to Whitefish to check out the rumor that their snow was deeper. It is and was, but the rain was falling there too and compacting everything. We are going to lose some roofs and trees if the snow gets too heavy, or it ices up too quickly.

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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

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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 Swan String Quartet of the Glacier Symphony, with my friend Anita Ho, were delightful. The Liquid Jazz Quartet was led by symphony conductor John Zoltek on guitar, and played quite beautifully at the Hockaday Museum of Art last night. They even did Ralph Towner's Icarus, made famous by the Paul Winter Consort (which included Towner 36 years ago when the song was new.)
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: The Metropolitain Opera broadcast replayed Beverly Sills' debut at the Met from 1975 -- The Siege of Corinth by Rossini, with beautifully lush arrangements behind several excellent female singers, including Shirley Verrett. This opera isn't performed much. Thomas Schippers, the conductor of that production, included other Rossini tunes and cobbled his own eclectic version for Ms. Sills, and Marilyn Horne as well.


The late Beverly Sills at the Metropolitain Opera in 1975, digitally placed on the set designed for the Siege of Corinth's premiere in 1825. She was a personable, hard-working singer who rose to the top of her profession by gritty determination and unquestionable merit.