The weather is still very rainy, which is typical for this time of year, but the Western USA is colder than usual. The Going to the Sun Road will NOT open early!

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Salt Lake City, Utah; Scottsdale, Arizona; Linkping, Sweden; Madrid, Spain; Rome, Italy; The island of Nassau; Denver, Colorado and Vancouver, British Columbia. (Going there in three weeks!)

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: The Hockaday Museum of Art's reception for 20/3 -- Twenty Artists/Three Days went well, and we are still selling paintings while they are drying out on our walls for a couple of weeks.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!

Media Watch: A wacky version of George Fredrick Handel's Julius Caesar in Italian: AKA: Giulio Cesare on the Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcast yesterday. It featured Danielle de Niese as Cleopatra and David Daniels as Julius Caesar. The costumes were described in depth by the announcers, and sounded delightfully whimsical and time-spanning. Emmanuelle Haïm conducted the solidly Baroque music from her harpsichord in the orchestra pit, and Ms. de Niese DANCED as well as sang -- by all reports she did both very well. David McVicar is the designer of this production, which debuted in 2005.

A redigitized collage of the performing principals involved with McVicar's Giulio Cesare: (Top Left) Danielle de Niese; (Bottom Left) David Daniels and troopers, with Ms. de Niese; (Right) Conductor Emmanuelle Haïm. Making the old into something dynamic and new is wonderful, and I'm so glad it's being done. I'm also pleased there are media that can make me aware of things like this.

Election Madness: Sen. Hillary Clinton conceeded the Democratic nomination to fellow Senator Barack Obama and encouraged her supporters to help him win the White House. There are ongoing analyses of the primary campaign on Daily Kos today, but the site is so busy that it is hard to comment. "We the people" of this country must defeat John McCain and his "100 years in Iraq" stupidity.
Support our troops -- bring them home.