In celebration of Richard Feynman's May 11 birthday, come see Genghis Blues on Thursday, May 11, in PAB 1-425 at 4:50--6:30.

Some of you probably know Tuva or Bust!, a book by Feynman and Ralph Leighton, about their attempt to travel to Tuva, an exotic place at the center of Asia that Feynman remembered from his stamp collecting youth. In many ways, the attempt to travel to Tuva is an allegory for Feynman's perpetual curiosity to discover new things. During their decade-long quest to travel to Tuva, Feynman was fighting cancer and he succumbed in 1988 shortly before the visas finally arrived. Leighton and Feynman's Friends of Tuva arranged for Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar to come to Pasadena in 1993, ride a horse in the Rose Parade and to give concerts in Los Angeles and San Franscisco. The movie Genghis Blues takes up where Tuva or Bust! ends. The chain of events set into motion by Feynman results in an unlikely journey to Tuva in 1995 by Paul Pena, a blind black blues musician from San Francisco, to compete in a throat singing competition. This is an odd, surprising, warm and human story, part of the Feynman legacy, not to be missed.