Angie, and mag, the room doesn't exist until someone opens it. Often when that happens, the person opening the room starts a thread asnnouncing the fact. If you try to find the room a couple hours after the last post to the announcement thread, you'll often be unsuccessful, since the room gets closed if nobody is performing or if no one is willing to administer the room.

There are a number of other rooms which feature live performances, and Mudcatters can often be found in those rooms if there's not a Mudcat specific room open. Live rooms usually feature that fact in their room descriptions. After you've used Paltalk a few times, you'll get the hang of it. There's really no great mystery involved.