The New Moon is upon us, and fine Autumn weather. I've been able to winterize my house now that it isn't a death-sentence on my throat to go outside.

Sitemeter Sez: Vienna, Austria and Montreal, Quebec.

The Mime Troupe Saga continues: 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

Many thanks to Toni -- she sent me an autographed copy of Winter Season; A Dancer's Journal (1982) for making a video of her presentation at Harvard University about Ida!




Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
MORE UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and especially Cellulose to Celluloid, Even more Flash Gordon comparisons from 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 including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!

Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. 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. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

In The Community: News and Events at Flathead Community College New website for the Hockaday Museum. (I got my Autumn Salon artwork in on time!)
The Flathead County Library's Big Read this year, focuing on Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, featured James W. Loewen, an author who witnessed the corrosion caused by institutional racism in Mississippi. He identified periods of time where relations between the races in Amerika were better and worse -- especially "The Nadir," between 1890 and 1940, where discrimination and outright murder were part of our country's legal code. "Jim," as he prefers to be called also touched on the books which made him famous -- like Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, but he had to catch the Amtrak that night, and his presentation was necessarily shortened.

Then and Now -- Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park.

Tears and Laughter about our broken health care system HERE

My Own Dam' Media: Coast To Coast To Europe -- The latest chapter of the Mime Troupe Saga, featuring our 1975 stay-over at Friends Roadshow's farm in Milan, Michigan, on our way to the first Festival of Fools.
Jango Edwards wrote a response on his Face Book page about it today:

OH MY GOD...If you are really interested in how the Nouveau Clown Tribe, Salt Lake Mime Troupe, Festival of Fools and Jango Edwards and the Friends Roadshow really started they here is a taste of "The Clown Bible," The Scriptures According to Michael Evans. I love it, Mike -- you're a mother_____ for details and the drawings are priceless....don't stop my friend. You have to go to the link and hit the tab at the bottom of the page PREVIOUS PAGE until your at the beginning.
The last sentence is good advice, Stan! Are age and detail the reasons you're using the term "Clown Bible?" You know a heck of a lot more about the field than I do.

The 1975 Festival of Fools revitalized Friends Roadshow and the Amsterdam Theater Scene. (The Mime Troupe went through a VERY temporary hiatus.) By 1977 we had outclassed the stodgy Holland Festival in quality and attendance. The economics of Theatre later suffered during the Reagan/Thatcher years, but the key theatrical entities we built then endure today!