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Merq

The fashion wars certainly aren't over in Lawrence a town that, despite a kernel of old soul centered on the university, is rapidly becoming Olathe West. Two bucks buy you the chance to join the fight for fabulousness when boy diva Mercury Mad (head glam queen in Vibralux) and spangly Lawrence DJ Gunther Kallman pilot their Generic-X Fashion Victims & Trash Dance Party right into the Eighth Street Taproom (901 New Hampshire). Pledged to make the world safe for art fags one dance-a-thon at a time, our hairless heroes promise to spin the best and worst grooves that queer clubland has to offer.

Our advice: Dress to distress. Mercury and Kallman are famous around town for their furs, tiger-striped pants and jaggy licks of hair that jut up off their shaved heads like Pebbles Flintstone's ponytail. Those suitably dolled-up might walk off with prizes, which will go to both the most fab and the most hideous. No matter what you wear, expect taunts from the irrepressible Mercury. Unless you're representing in your KU sweatshirt and ball cap, in which case you best just get back to fraternity hazing, which let's face it is a thousand times more queer than this throwdown. Fri., Feb. 24
The 8th Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire , Lawrence