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The entertainment industry is a profoundly dangerous and beautiful place, and its legal landscape shares more in common with the Wild Wild West then any other frontier. It's participants encounter arduous challenges- diversified revenue sources, restrictive and unreliable public funding, and the high octane stresses of live event planning- all while suffering a chronic lack of access to legal counsel in navigating these challenges. Most cow-boys and girls opt to traverse this

When I was twelve years old, I played my first ever rock and roll show at the Roxy in Overland Park, KS. The Club, sandwiched between a Dunkin Donuts and a Dollar General in one of Overland Park's extensive strip malls, was everything to me in that moment. To me, the fact that a real music club would deign to give my band thirty minutes of stage time during the prime time 2:30 slot on a Sunday afternoon signified a new value in the hobby with which I had fallen in love. I

The Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) employs decades of accumulated administrative laws in order to regulate the entirety of the state government (and its partners) in their responses to private citizens' impassioned requests for public records, all in service of its lofty, yet valiant goal of transparency in government. In the absence of compiled data regarding KORA’s financial impact on the State, this review looks to the language of the laws, public comment, and alternative