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As the FCC and the entertainment biz get ready to end home recording as we know it, a bunch of radical geeks are working on a solution or two.

Back after World War 1, audiences filled this huge theater for burlesque, movies and other working class delights. Most of these old theaters have been shut down, run down and destroyed. The 3000 seat Congress Theater in Chicago has managed to keep going, today hosting everything from monthly Luche Libre wrestlers to rock concerts. It is a fun place to see a show. http://www.congresschicago.com/HomeComing.asp

Sexo Y Violencia! Lucha VaVoom! This just may be the wildest wrestling promotion of all time. They are coming to Chicago on Cinco de Mayo, I am so there. Burlesque queens, comedians, wrestlers! I think we have one brilliant idea here. Not safe for work.

Incarcerated chess champion Bobby Fischer, tantalizingly close to securing freedom after almost eight months in Japanese cells, may yet find himself being deported to his homeland as the United States government is moving to prosecute him for tax evasion, the Mainichi Daily News learned Saturday.

Although Iceland has a special foreigner's passport waiting in its Tokyo Embassy for the 62-year-old grandmaster's release, his supporters have an airplane ticket to Reykjavik for him, and moves are afoot to grant him citizenship of that country, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is about to begin legal action against Fischer.

The Underdog Show is still funny. The Underdog Show began with a parody of Superman's famous opening: "Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a frog...a frog?" At that point, the canine would correct the observers with: "Not bird, nor plane, nor even frog, it's just little 'ole me, Underdog !" Like his human counterpart, Underdog was not infallible. While he didn't have to contend with Kryptonite, occasionally his power would fade, causing him all kinds of trouble. For cases like that, the pooch would carry a revitalizing energy pill in a secret compartment in his ring.

The Ranch Girls and the Ragtime Wranglers have been playing rock-a-billy / hillbilly based songs with female harmony vocal duets, songs from their musical heroes of the 40's and 50's as well as new originals, most of them written by 'Ranch Girl' Mary Ann. No nostalgia here, but looking back and recreating the past.

Want to make homemade fireworks and fireworks displays? This is the place to go. Chock full of recipes and ideas for displays using basic consumer fireworks, as well as instructions on how to make your own shells and mortars. I suggest checking out the "Fireworks Projects" to start out. Includes video clips of these "projects" being lit off. http://www.pyrouniverse.com/

This bar ROCKS!! Excellent streaming audio/video cam puts you right there. By far my favorite cam since Jailcam. Don't forget to go full screen to get that OOOOHHHH YEEAAAAHHHH sensation when the babes get crazy at Last Call :D

This online exhibit draws on materials from the David O. Selznick Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin to illustrate three aspects of the classic film: how the rights to the novel were acquired, the two year search for the perfect actress
to play Scarlett O'Hara, and Costumes and Makeup.