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Contemporaneous BVRI and JHK photometry are presented for 22 Cepheid variables. Nineteen of these variables also have uvby photometry available, making them excellent candidates for application of the Infrared Flux Method of distance determination. We are in the process of acquiring high-precision radial velocities of 16 of these variables in anticipation of conducting that analysis.

We review the available observational data to show that the slope of the RR Lyrae MV–[Fe/H] relation is 0.18±0.03. The recent claim by Feast that, because of biases, the true slope is much steeper is not justified.

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