Last Time Around
November 2004 Our last chance to possible influence the election. Regardless of the outcome, it's time to move on.
 
 
 

Eve of Deduction
September 2004. We all get musical and then there's "Bombs Over Baghdad."
 
 

Lying Show
August 2004. avantRadio explores the lying that has been perfected to an art form by the Bush Administration with Dubya leading the way.

Iraqi Slacky 
July 2004. avantRadio takes its left leg back!!! Bush's plan for Iraqi Freedom in a way anyone can understand. Maria Spassoff takes on the role of Laura.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hootenanny
June 2004. We wrote the song "Be The Media" for the ACLU's Upton Sinclair free speech Uppie Awards. Followed by our take on the job outsourcing phenomenon hitting the GOP fundraising efforts, we do our rendition of the old Weavers' song "Wasn't that A Time."

PDB
May 2004. A Great Moment in History---avantRadio was there when Dubya received his historic intel briefing and immediately flew in action.

Worst Side Story 
April 2004. avantRadio goes Broadway....with apologies to Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence and Natalie Wood. Backers audition tape availible upon request for our new musical project
 
 
 

Quack Quack!! 
March 2004. avantRadio was there when Vice-Resident Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia went duck hunting.

Condoleeza
February 2004. avantRadio celebrates Black History. Every year in February, we honor the great many worthy African-Americans who have helped make this country great. In honor of Black History Month, we slam some famous African-Americans who really deserve it. Earnestine Phillips joins the fun as the goddess---Mama Moon.

New Years 2004
January 2004. avantRadio starts the new year off with music---"Sadaam's Last Hideaway" and then "On the Street Where I Live"

Christmas Show
December 2003. Jennie Webb wrote the short play "Not to Worry" featuring Lizzie Harding Wilkins, followed by more avantRadio whimsy and our rendition of "I'll be Home for Christmas"

Spin-no-matic 2000 
November 2003. Making her avantRadio debut, Helen Kelly takes on the role of Karen Hughes in this dreamscape of Dubya's world peopled by Conan the Barbarian, Karl Rove and a pliable media. Followed by "Do the Frog March" by Little Joe Wilson and the Diplomats.

Sixteen Words 
October 2003. With apologies to Merle Travis. avantRadio first performed this bit opening for George Carlin at an ACLU event in San Pedro, California in Sept. Backstage, Carlin shared his sage advice: "That was great!! Keep kicking those bastards in the balls!!!"
 
 
 
 

Bitter Harvest 
Sept. 2003. Jack Kerouac and Lenny Bruce showed the modern power of the rhyming and the rhythm.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Universal Soldier 
Aug. 2003 Sad that this anthem still has such relevance in the 21st century. avantRadio spins the Buffy Sainte Marie classic for our times..
 
 
 
 
 
 

True Confessions
July 2003. A penitent shares his concerns with his confessor who has other things on his mind, followed by Sleepy James' "War Jones" 
 
 
 
 

It's Only Coffee
April 2003. avantRadio premieres Jennie Webb's original play about a woman trying to help a friend who's involved in a difficult relationship starring Susan Angelo and Maria Spassoff. Followed by Sleepy James' rendition of Pete Seeger's "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy."
 

The War Prayer
December 2002. avantRadio's first production. The Mark Twain classic features Tom Allard and Terry Evans, followed by Ellen Geer and Melora Marshall's rendition of the IWW version of "Onward Christian Soldiers".