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And that "anything" includes recreating not-all-that-hilarious videos of people being mistreated while under arrest featuring someone "sexy" in the mistreater's role! Yes, Tampa-area radio station 97X gave its wheelchair-bound listeners the "opportunity" to be dumped out of their wheelchair and into a pile of bubble wrap, Orient Road Jail-style—and if the chosen listener made it through the whole thing, he'd get a pair of tickets to see Radiohead. I have to say that the one thing that bums me out the most about the Howard Sternization^* of radio is this insistence on performing stunts that probably wouldn't even make the "deleted scenes" menu on a Jackass DVD... over the radio, so only the people laughing their asses off in the studio can actually see what's going on. Which is to say: Of course there's video of it, and it's after the jump. More »

Do you have 144 hours to spare and an unquenchable desire to see Miley Cyrus in person? If you were in Tampa, Fla., you could have taken on 35-year-old Jody Powell in yet another contest designed to give away tickets to a Hannah Montana concert to the person most willing to take a lot of time off of work for unexplained "personal reasons": More »

The Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer is reporting that this morning's radio follies on Power 92, the local hip-hop station, included a woman calling up to beg for tickets to Jay-Z's show at the Chicago House Of Blues next week, which unsurprisingly sold out instantly. While the station wasn't giving away tickets at that moment, the host did say that if the woman engaged in some reverse sexual harassment, she'd be a winner, sort of.
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Tonight marks the kick-off date of the Hannah Montana tour—the official Hottest Ticket Of The Year, especially among attorney generals—and in their last-minute scramble to prevent their eight-year-olds from having week-long tantrums, parents across America are lining up for the chance to make complete asses out of themselves (and their employees): More »