Scaldingly funny and laser-accurate political satirist, Roy Zimmerman,  performs in a fundraiser for KPFT's News Department on Friday, Feb. 12th at 8pm at the Unitarian Fellowship of Houston, 1504 Wirt Road, Houston, TX 77055 (map)

Tickets are $20 per person. Click here to buy tickets on-line or call KPFT, 713-526-4000 for paper tickets.

Worth every penny for a performance that will double you over with laughter and make you think AND you'll be helping supply KPFT's News Department with the equipment it needs to continue serving the Houston community.

For KPFT News' equipment list . . .

Funds raised at the Roy Zimmerman concert will be used to buy:

• 10 Audio Recorders(hand held voice recorders to conduct interviews in the field. 3 additional ones to add with the 2 we already have would enable us to allow volunteers to check them out over the weekend and throughout the week to do reports without traveling to station first. These devices are $150.00 each
• 3 Desk top Computer for nsewsroom (monitors and Hard Drives). The computers we have are extremely slow and crash regularly. Estimated price for each $700.00
• 3 Lap Tops (Basic inexpensive computers used to produce reports in the field) estimated price for each $400.00
• 4 Vegas Programs (The program the news department uses to put together reports that air on station, the purchase of these programs will allow us to install on laptops so reports can be produced in the field and emailed back to the station) estimated price for each $600.00
• 2 Video Cameras (Basic cameras for coverage of visual events, like protest, parades and town hall meeting as well as some day to day reports that can be up- loaded onto website. estimated price for each $279.00