Cold and clear weather -- those big piles of snow are slowly melting mid-day.

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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 -- UPDATED!





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 Auction of Miniatures is going up next week, right after everything else comes down THIS week. All students are admitted FREE this year to the Hockaday Museum of Art, thanks to Pacific Steel & Recycling.
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: Sarah Brightman's TV version of Symphony was featured during Montana PBS' fundraising week. It was recorded last January at Stepan's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. She sang Canto della Terra and Saeai Qui with an Italian tenor named Alessandro Safina. The former was awe-inspiring! Her duet with counter-tenor Fernando Lima was OK, but my favorite pairing was The Phantom of the Opera (Is In Your Mind) with a very powerful, direct singer named Chris Thompson. (He's bald and wears glasses, like me.) Gothica/Fleur du Mal epitomized the kind of High Art/Rock I like so much when it's done well -- lots of drums and strings, plus that full soprano voice!

Listen to the Music of the Night!


Sarah Brightman in Vienna -- redigitized from an unknown Austrian newspaper via Johanna Ouwerling's Fansite in the Netherlands. The paper photographed Brightman in a RED dress, but I liked her BLACK dress better. She also wore a mostly WHITE dress in the video too -- all three had similar bodices, so I dyed the red dress black with Photoshop. The guitarist at the left was with her in Spokane a few years back when I saw the Harem tour.