August 07, 2003

In 1975, KNUS Dallas aired a 48-hour radio special called "Fantasy Park" -- an ersatz remote broadcast from a rock festival that never happened. Steve Blackson and Fred Kennedy brainchilded the project and produced it from the ground up, splicing together live performances and breathless backstage interviews, along with running commentary by host Rod Serling (!!!) and a handful of DJs reporting from the "scene." The result is a rockist's wet dream, with a lineup so hilariously reactionary it's surely guaranteed to set Cameron Crowe's short 'n' curlies on fire if he ever catches wind of it. ReelRadio has the scoop, and better yet, an RA stream of the 18-minute aircheck recapping the event.Clear Regulatory Hurdles

Fifteen years after voters gave the green-light to a medical marijuana program in the nation’s capital, a pair of locations approved to grow or sell the drug have cleared regulatory hurdles and will set up shop a few months into the new year, according to city officials.

A cultivation site in the Northeast quadrant of the city obtained its certificate of occupancy this month, meaning it can grow marijuana once the D.C. Department of Health completes a final inspection. It is one of six sites approved to grow the drug for medical purposes before it is sold at one of five dispensaries scattered across the city. One such dispensary, located just a mile north of the Capitol, also obtained its occupancy documents.

The development is significant because it