Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, died on Friday of colon cancer at sixty-five years of age. During their heyday, we Minnesotans were acutely embarrassed by having to admit that the bizarre, mascara-smeared woman was one of us. It is rare that a public figure can start as the [...]

Before Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, there was Frank Zappa’s City Of Tiny Lights video. The claymation was done by Bruce Bickford, who often collaborated with Frank Zappa. Bright Eye Pictures produced a biopic about Bickford called Monster Road that’s now on DVD. Here’s the trailer: Listen to the NPR interview with Bickford.