Listen to Jane play a Star Trek Trivia game on The Pop Ten with Lance Bass.

Listen HERE.

This Coming November 12th, the spry 102 year old Roxie Theater, San Francisco’s oldest continually operating theater, will open its doors to our furry four-legged friends! Join the Roxie as they screen a variety of dog films, host a dog show competition, as well as an online movie short competition. The proceeds from ticket sales are going to help one of their favorite nonprofit charities, Muttville, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of senior dogs.  The Roxie understands what it is like to be the oldest dog in the business and they want to show their support to other senior dogs!

3:00 – Dog Show Competition: Celebrity judges Jane Wiedlin (from the GoGo’s!!!), Jon Provost (“Timmy” from Lassie) and San Francisco favorite, Vanessa Getty, will pick the top doggie from the parade for the “Roxie Favorite” title! The winner get’s a photo session from a top dog photographer and their picture put up in the Roxie lobby for an entire year! Other various prizes and categories T.B.A.

Vacation was used in the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Video is not for the faint of heart.

An interview with Anthony Pedone and Jane Wiedlin where they discuss the Camp Casserole documentary at the 19th Raindance Film Festival.

New interview with Jane and Leicester Square TV.

Dear Loved Ones,
You probably know I have been part of the charitable fundraising event Bowling for Boobies for many years now.

This event was started by my dear, late friend Edith Speed who herself battled breast cancer.  Bowling for Boobies raises money to help women who are currently battling breast cancer, to pay their bills.  Even with insurance, the cost of getting ill in this country is devastating, and this tiny group is a lifesaver to many women each year.

I am so proud to be part of a nonprofit organization that uses virtually all the money we raise to help actual women with breast cancer! It would mean a lot to me if you donated. You can do so HERE.

I am hoping you will help our event this year!
Lots of love,
Jane

Well dear followers, I believe it’s time for me to catch you up on my goings-on.

Jane Wiedlin performs on Hey Hey It’s Saturday – 1988

New interview with Jane and Bongo Comics about the upcoming Simposons Treehouse of Horror issue. The comic hits stores on Sept 21st or is available online HERE.

Read the interview HERE.

Jane will be at the Entertainment Media Show Oct 1st-2nd!!

More information HERE.

Prepare for a trilogy of Halloween treats in this year’s terrifying Treehouse of Horror!

First, punk rock pixie and Go-Gos founding member Jane Wiedlin (Lady Robotika) leads Marge down the path of the walking dead; then, Zander Cannon and Gene Ha (Top Ten) offer up a remake, Simpsons-style, of the classic horror flick Nosferatu; and finally, indie artist Jim Woodring (Jim) helps Bart uncover the truth behind the biggest mystery in the history of horror comics.

Comic hits stores on Sept 21st or is available online HERE.

Jane sings Icicle to the Sad Sadsters. Apologies to Bob Dylan.

Jane Wiedlin covering 13 men…a scene from Camp Casserole.

From the documentary, Camp Casserole about Steve Balderson’s new film, The Casserole Club.

If you missed Jane on RuPaul’s Drag U … you can watch the full episode HERE.

Yesterday, August 29, 2011, my nephew Danny, son of my beloved sister Meg Wiedlin, and brother of my amazing niece Gena Inkeles, took his own life.

Daniel Robert Inkeles was born February 13, 1986 in the middle of a huge El Nino storm. Danny grew up in Topanga and Malibu California and spent the last 4 years in Oregon. Danny was a delightful child who loved hiking, surfing, tide pooling and dirt biking. Danny’s biggest passion in life was music. His first band, at age 5, was Dragon Fire, which involved fake instruments and ninja costumes. When Danny turned nine he started playing drums, and began his life as a musician, playing in many bands, including the critically acclaimed band The Hills. His last band was King Ghidorah, which truly highlighted his talents as a drummer. Watching him play music was a joy.

Life’s trials and tribulations became difficult for Danny, but he met some of his greatest friends as he struggled with sobriety and depression. He had many people who loved him and supported him in his efforts to live and love his life. Ultimately, Danny chose to end his life on August 29th, 2011. All who loved him will miss him.

If you have a loved one who is battling with depression and/or drug addiction, try to take the necessary steps to help them but know it’s not always possible to save them.

In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to MusiCares, a non-profit organization that provides critical assistance to music people in time of need. Please donate HERE.

New interview w/Jane and the DallasVoice.com

Lady Go-Go by Rich Lopez
Nothing makes you feel older than an album from your youth celebrating a milestone anniversary. Nothing! Those defining tunes as you came of age may be timeless, but it’s a reminder that you aren’t.

As the seminal ‘80s band the Go-Go’s celebrates three decades since Beauty and the Beat, time seems to have hardly touched guitarist Jane Wiedlin. With her little girl voice and sassy wit, Wiedlin has kept the same spunk she had when the iconic girl group burst onto the scene.

“In some ways it feels like three years ago and other ways, like 300 years ago,” she says.

Wiedlin wants to make one thing clear: The concert she and her bandmates will give this weekend is not part of a reunion tour — there’s nothing to reunite. Rather, the Go-Go’s just aren’t “a very active band” who have taken “a big chunk of time off.”

Whether or not she’s kidding, the tour has injected the band with a vigor that they’ll put on display Friday at the House of Blues. Dallas thought they might get a nostalgic taste of the band when they were set to perform last year. But Wiedlin unintentionally derailed that.

“It was the day after my birthday and a few of us decided to take a midnight hike up to the top of this hill,” she explains. “We wanted to have this epic light saber battle. But as we walked home, I literally fell right off a cliff. I heard my knees explode; I was rolling through poison oak! I went and found the cliff and I had fallen about 15 feet.”

Such an anecdote reveals several things about Wiedlin: She’s an admitted Star Wars geek, and she’s the adventurous type. She has a limp now, but otherwise, she’s back in the game. The time off gave her some time for introspection — about touring in the early days, the fun the ladies had on the road and the experience of putting those shows together. Even with the ups-and-downs of the band, she thought everyone was having the best time possible — why not again?

“You know, I get sucked into the minutiae of being onstage, but it’s extraordinary,” she says with little gasps. “Our intention is to make this tour the most fun we’ve had in decades, which will make it fun for other people.”

Which seems like a given with such musical faves like “We Got the Beat,” “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.”  But is new music in sight for the band that never really broke up? Wiedlin and the gang aren’t ruling it out.

“It looks possible to record together, even though we don’t have to have a major label,” she says. “That used to be such a big deal to make music, but now with the web, it’s very DIY. Like getting back to those  ‘70s punk rock days. Charlotte [Caffey] and Kathy [Valentine] just wrote a new song for the band.”

Wiedlin gives the impression that she can’t sit still, whether she’s a star in the comic book Lady Robotica, partaking in her admission that she’s a BDSM perv or acting in indie films, Wiedlin’s voice suggests she may never stop working — whatever the work may be.

“I’m working all the time. I just wrote and directed my first sci-fi movie, The Pyrex Glitch,” she says. “That’s on the film fest circuit. Hopefully people will find it as funny as I do. But we’re all really busy. Belinda [Carlisle] has her jewelry and textile company and Gina [Schock] is been writing songs for Miley Cyrus. Everybody is still so active even though we’re old.”

Wiedlin has discussed her bisexuality, although she prefers to stay away from labels. In an interview with AfterEllen.com, she told the site she’s had sex with both sexes, but that “bisexuality is such a loaded term.” But she loves her gays and as Prop 8 played out in California, she experienced both the joy of gaining equality and the disappointment of marriage privileges being taken away.

“For a few months in the summer of 2008, we got equal rights,” she says. “I wanted to be part of that celebration! But then Prop 8 happened and I’ve been fighting it ever since. I became an ordained minister to marry same-sex couples. I’ll go anywhere to do that so people can be together as they should be. Oh, and as a disclaimer, I’m completely non-religious.”

Her focus is now on the tour and even with her bum knees, she laughs off any obstacle that would keep her from enjoying giving a good show. And while the audience will hear Go-Go’s hits and perhaps even Carlisle’s, don’t be so sure on hearing Wiedlin’s one-hit wonder song “Rush Hour.” The pop confection made a top 10 splash back in 1988. In fact, she’s almost betting on it.

“You know, that song has been a thorn in my side,” she chuckles. “It is so hard to play live because it has like millions of synths in it. I’ve never been able to crack it to make it sound good, but I’d love to hear Belinda sing it.”

We’d go for that.

Set your Dvr, Pvr or VCR!

Jane’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag U will air on Aug 29th.

Fantastic interview with James St.James and the Go-Go’s.