Kenny GKenny G airs every Wednesday afternoon, Noon-3pm (wfmu time)Keeping the icing from getting hard. WFMU's Kenny G from 2/18/2009 Pledge here....

For the next two weeks, I'm going to be posting a plea a day for contributions to the WFMU fundraising marathon. This is the station that hosts my show, but it's also the home to dozens of amazing radio shows, and there's nothing else like it anywhere in the world. I've been a listener on and off si...

This is so, so awesome. They're excerpts from the Dreams From My Father audiobook, and I want to prank GOP Congressmen and the Rush Limbaugh show with them (as should you): “You know that guy ain’t shit. Sorry-ass motherfucker ain’t got nothing on me.� “You ain’t my bitch, nigga! Buy you...

Great jazz/soul drummer, and widower of Pearl Bailey. I have a beloved out-of-print vinyl rip of James Brown with the Louie Bellson Orchestra that's pretty incredible. For more on him, visit JazzWax (source of the below text). February 16, 2009Louie Bellson (1924-2009) Louie Bellson, one of the last...

This will be awesome if they manage to not fuck it up. But they'll probably fuck it up....

The Senate -- including Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Diane Feinstein (D-CA) -- voted to cut $50m in arts funding. So evidently, bank bailouts, bloated defense contractors, and tax-evading multimillionaire are the real friends of the workin' man, while the thousands of artists who can't survive without s...

From pal Brendan Connelly: The Dyke Division of the Theatre of a Two-headed Calf are re-mounting Season One of Room for Cream - a crazy, sloppy, wacky, touching lesbian soap opera about a coffeshop in the Berkshires - it is SUPER fun and not like anything the Two-headed Calf normally does - like ins...

Some highlights: - Abu Grape - Cluster Fudge - Nut'n Accomplished - WireTapioca - Shit Sandwich - Heck of a Job, Brownie! - Anchovy Fuckup Surprise - Nougalar Proliferation - Death by Chocolate... and Torture - "You're Shitting In My Mouth And Calling It A" Sundae - Credit Crunch - Mission Pecanplis...

Also a coupla days behind, but what can I say, I'm a busy guy: "Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the BDS cause, and talk of cease-fires is doing little to slow the momentum. Support is even emerging among Israeli Jews. In the midst of the assault roughly 500 Israelis, dozens...

This has made the rounds already, but this being the internet, I can't assume that we all share a common frame of reference. Anyway, it's always a treat: "I’ve been unhealthily obsessed with Thomas Friedman for more than a decade now. For most of that time, I just thought he was funny. And admitte...