It is supposed to be HOT today! Those damn fireworks were banging away until all hours of the night.

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

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED! Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue, plus hapless Aura II.

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

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art is OPEN on the 4th of July this year! We are located between the Main Street parade route and the free ice cream social at the Conrad Mansion. People are walking and driving all around us, so it's worth a try.

Media Watch: Stan Frieberg's The United States of America on the local NPR station -- just as funny now as it was at the end of the 50's. The bread and circus version of Amerika under which we are living now could stand a few laughs, but the damn CLOWNS are running the place instead, and bread is scarce.


John Fery, Austrian/American landscapist, did hundreds of canvases for the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway. It is still possible to find one of his works in a woodpile somewhere, but don't count on it.