And the Ask the Dust promo appearances just keep on comin’. Thanks to Megan for bringing this to my attention – I just went to investigate and it looks like it’s true! Idina will be a guest on the morning talk show “Regis & Kelly” next Friday, March 10th! (Her Ask the Dust co-star, Salma Hayek, will be appearing the day before on Thursday morning.) — Check your local listings for air times and channels to be sure of those, and if you’re interested in viewing the upcoming schedule, click here. The show’s Official Site has only listed this week’s guests so far, but check it on Monday just in case you’re skeptical I’ll also be uploading the video clip once it airs, just in case people miss it.

On a seperate note: I’ve opened up registration in the Gallery, which would allow members to create their own private albums of favorite Idina pictures and even leave comments about individual ones. I may be making registration mandatory in the future, because I’m finding that many visitors are hotlinking pictures, and that’s no fun. Stealing bandwidth = lame. But that hasn’t happened yet, though I’d love to see how many people visit and enjoy the gallery. So join up!! It’s FREE! How could ya resist anything free??

There’s been a bit of confusion concering the air date for Idina’s upcoming appearace on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” this week. Her particular segment is for sure being filmed this Wednesday @ 4pm… HOWEVER, the Official Site for the talk show has set the segment to air late Thursday night, March 2nd. I believe that it will be airing that Thursday, since the schedule seems pretty set at the moment. To be safe, I recommend that anyone having doubts tune in late Wednesday night @ 12:35am on CBS to be sure. If she’s not on then, she’ll definitely be on the next night. Sorry to anyone who this inconveniences, but remember, I will be posting both screencaps and the video clip on this site immediately after it airs. So no matter what, you’ll be able to view it.

If any changes develop, I’ll update and you’ll all be the first to know.

New Affiliates: Angelina Fan, AngelinaJ.net // Inspirational, Charlize Theron Central

I’ve just added 55 screen captures of Idina (and caps of old Idina photos) from the “No Day But Today” Documentary on the DVD of Rent. It’s an AMAZING documentary, and if you haven’t watched it yet, I highly recommend it. But either way, some caps are in the gallery, so check ‘em out!

As promised, I’ve just added 675 screen captures of Idina/Maureen, taken from the Rent DVD. I’ve only capped the feature itself, not the documentary yet – I’ll get to that next. You may notice I STARTED to tag each picture, but after about 100+ pics, it was takin’ too long and it just wasn’t worth it. haha, soo… yeah. Enjoy them! There’s some really great shots, and Idina looks incredible, as always.

REMINDER: The Rent DVD is being released to purchase (and rent) in stores today! Hope everyone interested gets the chance to see the beautiful DVD (and special features), and I’ll be adding a lot of caps when I get the chance. Just keep an eye out for those soon.

It took me awhile to do this, but I finally reminded myself to add clips of Idina’s “freestylin’ raps” from her Summer Concert Tour last summer (as well as an old favorite ) to the new Freestyle/Rap Sound Page. I also added the lyrics to several of them (the others are coming soon, I just need to rewrite them), so what she’s saying is more clear to those of you who haven’t heard them before Enjoy! These are soooooooo fun, let me know what you think (*cough*comment*cough*).

Reminder: The CD release of Idina’s most recent musical, See What I Wanna See, has already started to be shipped out to those people who ordered it from GhostlightRecords.com, but when the CD is widely released on March 7th, I WILL BE REMOVING the See What I Wanna See AUDIO CLIPS FROM THIS SITE! I announced before that they would only be here as long as they couldn’t be heard elsewhere. But I encourage everyone to purchase recordings of Idina’s projects, so again, anything available to buy on CD won’t be here to download. Sorry, that’s just the way I’m choosing to run the media section. If you are still interested in downloading/saving the clips, go here and do so. I will be removing them on March 7th.

A HUGE thank you to Raev for sending to me 13 beautiful photos from the “Life” magazine photoshoot by Karina Taira!! They are in color, with a few of the original images in color too, so go check them out! They’re stunning!

Upcoming TV appearance! Idina will be making an appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson late on Wednesday, March 1st — The show airs weeknights at 12:35 AM on CBS — MEANING: Stay up LATE on March 1st to see the episode, which technically airs very very early on March 2nd! It can be confusing, so be careful. I will be posting an update that morning as a reminder, so be on the lookout! Also, if you are in the Los Angeles area, you can order FREE tickets to see the taping of the show here. I got my tickets, I can’t wait!

Also, Idina has been listed as a performer in the upcoming Hollywood Meets Motown Benefit Concert, which will be on March 15, 2006 at the Waldorf in NYC — Tickets have been listed as EXTREMELY expensive (it is a benefit, after all), but if anyone has the means, it’ll likely be a fantastic event. Read more about it here.

New Affiliates: Amy Adams Online, Jewel Staite [dot] net

BroadwayWorld.com has put up this week’s edition of “Broadway Beat”, an inside look at New York Theatre — The new video includes interviews with several performers from last month’s benefit concert, The Public Sings, including Idina! I’ve added the link to the video to the Streaming Videos Page (just scroll all the way down), and since the video includes other footage, the Public Sings segment begins at 12:15 Idina is just adorable, I highly recommend taking a look, it’s a great little interview.