Warm, warm weather and a lot of water coming off the mountains -- our local Flathead River might cause some trouble for its neighbors.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Jamaica, New York; Vernal, Utah (Right next to Colorado); Troy, Michigan; Louth, Ireland (Hey Eavan!); Ogden, Utah, and Sterling Heights, Michigan.

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.





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

In The Community: Taste of Kalispell out in the heat of the downtown streets yesterday evening -- met our mayor again, had some good food. The young, but seemingly capable band were victimized by the sound mixers. They were called The Clintons, so I asked "Where's George?" as I was leaving.
Two new shows going up at the Hockaday Museum of Art starting tomorrow.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

This looks like fun: 2008 Summer Arts & Music Festival; May 31 & June 1 the 32nd annual Summer Arts & Music Festival at Benbow Lake State Rec. Area (Most of the way up Coast Highway 101 from San Francisco to Eureka, California) -- A beloved local tradition to celebrate the arrival of summer, this favorite family event will again offer the most comprehensive celebration of arts and culture in Humboldt County, with more than 100 diverse performances on 5 stages, over 150 handmade craft and food booths, an all-media fine arts showcase, outrageous kid zone, and so much more. Admission for the festival will be at the gate only and your sliding scale donation will help support the work of the Mateel Community Center. The minimum donation is $12 per day or $20 for the weekend pass, with kids 10 & under free. Gates open at 9:30am both days and the fun wraps up at 10pm. Free shuttle service is offered continuously from Redway and Garberville and a limited amount of paid parking is available in Benbow.



(P-Funk related bands in BOLD)
Confirmed Acts Saturday: Tree Stage -- Eric McFadden Trio with Bernie Worrell
Otis Taylor Band; Creation; Alfred Howard & The K-23 Orchestra; Druid Sisters Tea Party; Lost Coast Marimbas; WoMama Solar Stage: Bayonics; Some of the Truest; Jah Sun; Flamingo Gunfight; The NPK; This Dying Wish; NightHawk; Del McCain; The Nestburys; Lawn Stage: The Bucky Walters; TapWater; Lansdale Station; La Colectiva
Absynth Quintet; Ukesperience; Bloco Firmeza.
Confirmed Acts Sunday: Tree Stage: Cyril Neville & Tribe 13 (New Orleans connection, also a friend of Bernie's); Moonalice; Queen Omega; Soul Majestic; Stymie & The Pimp Jones Love Orchestra; Subliminal Sabotage; Nucleus; Arcata West African Drum & Dance Ensemble; Solar Stage: Ponche Jade Steel & Emerald Triangle; Kim Manning Band; Marjo Wilson Band; The Delta Nationals; Stevie Culture; Smokehouse Gamblers; Fickle Hillbillies. Lawn Stage: Fishtank Ensemble; Fear Mia; Rootstock (acoustic set); Alice DiMicele; Kevin & The Coconuts; Sly Fox.


Michael Whelan's original illustration for Joan Vinge's Summer Queen. I am friends with both Eric McFadden and Bernie Worrell. Kim Manning is touring with George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars, but I think she may have this weekend off!