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KRNU watts could be picked up, in theory, all switched in January. Getting away from commercial radio over Lincoln, but some areas didn't These increases in power will expand in Lincoln soon will be easier. receive the signal or got weak recep- the stations' listening area, but not by KZUM, Lincoln's public access sta- tion. The power increase eliminates as much as it would seem. Increasing tion, and KRNU, the UNL station, both those problems and stretches the lis- KRNU's output from 10 watts to 100, for have FCC permission to increase their radius 20 to 30 miles out of tening will not increase the area by KRNU made the switch from 10 town. example, Courtesy of Agency For The Performing Arts output. 10 times. watts to 100 in KZUM will KZUM's from 10 O. Williams January. Increasing wattage Wendy increase from 10 watts to 1,500 in mid-Ma- y. to 1,500 watts will give it a strong, clear It will give a stronger signal, and will KZUM was expected to raise its signal that is expected to cover Lan- make the signal easier to pick up. Even power on April 24, but delays in equip- caster County, said P.T. Martin, KZUM with the power increases, KZUM and Queen ofsleaze returns ment deliveries pushed the date back. program director. Geography makes it KRNU still won't have as strong a signal What this means to the listener is difficult to tell how far the signal will as commercial stations, such as Z-9- 2 that both stations will now be heard reach, but, she said, KZUM hopes to be which has a 100,000-wat- t output, Mar- Wendy 's back in town clearly throughout Lincoln and in nearby heard as far as Crete. tin said. to saw at Royal Grove race From Staff Reports 's "Stand By Your Man" with Kilmister from UK's notor- She's back. Yes, Wendy O. Williams, ious Motorhead. rock's reigning queen of sleaze, returns 14) Drove school bus through two walls to Lincoln Tuesday night at the Royal of 100 televisions for video premiered New York Howard Stern earns acclaim Grove. Tickets are $6 and are on MTV. DJ for bigotry available at Pickles. Released first O. Williams d Dirt Cheap and 15) Wendy T ZUM radio DJ and Lincoln's one erences to sex or excretory organs." squints his heavily lined, mascara-cake- Tickets are $8 show. album name. It the day of the without the 1 and only celebrity socialist Ron Voice columnist Richard Goldstein eyes, strokes his Spandex crotch Don't miss this dominatrix of the was by of I produced Kurtenbach has been syn- wrote, "The complaints that inspired and croons, "I'm a cowboy" like a decibels. out Evel Kiss. civil-righ- ts Get and see the onymous with the word controversy in this policy shift came not from fashion model on a testosterone binge. heavy-met- al Transferred from to Knievel of rock strut her 16) moving car the past two weeks all because he groups, whose entreaties on Now that's what I call a real American ladder from mama stuff. rope" hanging airplane used the "F" word after 10 p.m. and behalf of the Fairness Doctrine have man. before If you don't know much about this (without a safety harness) car, affronted some liberals. Hof- gone unheeded by the FCC, but from for (Abbie goddess of the gutter, here's a listing of went over cliff video of "It's My fman would never use such lan- fundamentalist ministers." But the real question is: Is Stern Life." On cover Times." all the things she's done in chronologi- "Vegetarian guage!) truly a rebel or merely a mouthpiece for cal order: 17) Opened in live stage version of Part of the lies in the ignorance and white male supremacy? 1) Won local talent contest and made "Rocky Horror Show" starring Wendy But way in the Big the controversy up Apple, warned And why is he getting offers for talk O. St. Mo. The lis- fact that Stern was only by the performing debut on the "Howdy Doody Williams in Louis, show jaded ears of Manhattan have been shows and rallies endorsed by celebri- g FCC, but it told the Justice Depart- Show" at age 6. became the longest-runnin- show in St. tening to a DJ who would probably ties? can call Munster ment to pursue criminal charges against (If you Grandpa 2) Age 14 Won a scholarship to Louis in 25 years. sound more at home in rural Nebraska a star.) Or perhaps he's just an insin- Eastman Music. Malcolm Dome of KPFK, the Pacifica station that aired a School of 18) Kerrang! picked and makes Kurtenbach's case seem cere right-win- g like the from an off-of- f poseur Weekly 3) Ran away from home at age 16. Williams' album as best album of the tame. segment "Jerker," explicit World News' about safe sex. Ed Anger, dripping with 4) During the next few years: year. Broadway play shock value all in the name of sick a) worked as a macrobiotic cook in 19) 1985 nominated for Grammy Howard Stern. humor. London and Amsterdam. Award as Best Female Rock Vocal Per- Stern has been called the fascist of The Year. answer to and eve- b) danced with gypsy dance troupe formance Lenny Bruce, Stern has the constitutional right to 1986 release of second from the new Fox-T- network to throughout Europe. 20) February ryone Harrah's say what he wants as long as he uses O. "Kom-mand- er Munster" c) worked as a lifeguard in Florida. album under Wendy name, "Grandpa Al Lewis has nicer words, and he'll probably gain an On been d) lived in a tent in Boulder, Colo. of Kaos," cover Whole Life standing behind his infamous Hollywood even larger cult following than he aimed e) worked as a dominatrix in live sex Times. gibes at degrading blacks, Jews, already has if he goes prime time, Riv- homosexuals and women. show in New York. 21) Chainsawed her way onto Joan nationwide, simply because he's offen- Show. two i by icott f) studied with a mystic guru in er's Performed songs and sive enough to get attention. Coopera- Himalayas. showed off new tattoo. With gems like "would you trust a Harrah tion and time will tell. black to on brain?" 5) 1978 created legendary shock 22) Prepared for release of most devas- surgeon operate your I. . rock group Plasmatics with systems tating album of all time, "Maggots: The he has been deified by a predominantly "The is to see how close designer and artist (Yale Record," the ninth anniversary Wendy straight, white, male adolescent aud- it's easy to understand Stern's apo- game always conceptual he comes to a line that can never be MFA Rod Swenson. O. WilliamsPlasmatics album squirm- ience. theosis. The white teen-ag- e male is an holder) Goldstein wrote. if that 6) Concert banned in London by Greater ing its way into the living rooms of the appalling breed and a grotesquely seen," "(A)nd means he has to use the word homo- London Council. world. The FCC has warned Stern and told paradoxical one. Fueled by suburban sexual instead of on the 7) 1979 drove a car loaded with More Wendy O. Williams information: him to lay off the remarks, but his fans values about machismo, males reach fag Letterman, bad boy is infinitely explosives into exploding stage at end The Plasmatics were put together as are right behind him and concur with the age of 16, cruise O Street looking cooperative." of show on Pier 62 NYC in front of the back-u- p band for WENDY O. in 1978 his belief that it's his First Amendment for nookie, and whenever they can't to f- wants. 15,000 people (live coverage by all as the vehicle to rattle the cage of no right say whatever the - he find any, go on a quest looking to kick networks). sweat, formularized corporate rock Y At Fox-T- according to the Village some "nigger or faggot" ass. Perhaps should not censor Stern's 8) World Domination Tour. roll. Wendy and the band made their Voice, Stern is planning to do a pilot for they've found an outlet in Stern, a rebel idiocy needs to be 1980-8- show. Last MTV blat- 9) 1 On TV shows: "SCTV," rock and roll debut at New York's a weekly talk week, who says all the things they would get We even when it is "Fridays," "Solid Gold," "Entertain- CBGB's in 1978 and soon were doing aired coverage of a Stern rally in New detention slips for if they decided to antly put on for press. If we follow the ment Tonight" and many others. four-nig- stands, two shows per night, York, where teen-ag- e headbanger boys mutter them in study hall. old Jean Genet creed that says crime 10) Arrested in on obscen- at the historic club to pack in the cult and Grandpa Munster stood and intoned is beauty and the Warholesque belief "F-- - ity charges. Two days later, arrested on of dedicated fans that quickly deve- the FCC" for America to see on the that publicity is virtuous, we can dis- same charges in Cleveland. Refusing to loped. The first recorded single, "Butch- airwaves. MTV DJ Mark Goodman have to remember that when miss Stern as a picayune tool of media plea bargain, both went to trial and er Baby," featured the sound of a smiled with amusement as he read cue talking about the hype. What's more unsettling is the cards about Saint bad-bo- y We we have to overlook Stern reinforces and Wendy won. chainsaw cutting through a guitar. This Stern, the male, fact that merely 11) 1982 blew up car on "Tom has become one of Wendy O.'s most broadcaster of working-clas- s cult sta- all sense of logic. After all, these are romanticizes attitudes that existed who on all Snyder Show," New York, and blew up famous trademarks. During the course tus. Suddenly hatred had become hip. the people pride themselves long before he came into the limelight. Mercedes on "" TV show, of the three albums and three EPs the virtues they learned from Boy Scouts As Stern makes his brand cf fascism Germany. released under the Plasmatics name, and Little League. When they see Eon fashionable, perhaps the public will be Alive" 12) Made People Magazine's "Best more than 16 musicians alternately he Voice reported that the FCC Jovi's "Wanted Dead or video forced to take an inventory of these Dressed List." played on the records and toured with enlarged its scope of taboo to on MTV, they shout cries of "kick ass" values and see them for the social mal- T offensive ref when brushes back his adies are. 13) Recorded' speed-meta- l cover of the band. include "patently Jon tresses, they