Clouds on the west horizon during the morning hours -- I hope that means rain is coming. We have a Stage Two fire alert in force right now.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: 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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Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED! Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution this Summer to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: New material on the Hockaday Museum of Art's website. I'm STILL pulling cable and installing equipment in the new building on campus today.

Media Watch: Jazz at Lincoln Center had something which caught me unaware, but made a lot of sense -- Spanish Flamenco, adapted for Jazz piano, with signature emotional singing and crazy beats. The Chano Domínguez Trio played Gypsy soul with Seguirilla rhythms, featuring singer Blas Córdoba, and a new composition by Wynton Marsalis exploring these elements -- Hey! It worked with Portugal's distant South American cousin Bossa Nova.
Nothing really special on TV -- saw a bit of another dance competition on a network station, and noted another celeb-reality humiliation with groupie-shagging Bret (Poison) Michaels imitating the dreadful Flavor of Love in passing on the cable.


A digital sketch of English announcer/model Cat Deeley, who towers over all the dancers on the competition show she hosts -- I'm sure those 6 inch heels help her accomplish that trick. You can't tell from this image, but I hope she hasn't indulged in cosmetic surgery -- one of her nostrils is obviously bigger than the other and the bridge of her nose points leftward. All that obsessive show-biz preening tends to dramatize odd details!