Art, her site is taking a lot of hits, right now, so you may not be able to access all of it. It is being moved, too, but if you click HERE, it will take you to it. Scroll down and click on the links to the rest of the site.

She made a big splash when she went on SNL in the 80's and very angrily ripped to shreds a picture of the Pope. From what I remember, I thought of it as a kind of ultimate "I survived an extremely patriarchal/repressive and abusive Catholic childhood, now stick it up yours" thing and applauded her for it. It was, imo and as I remember it, at the time, a very feminist statement, too. She also made waves in general by shaving her head which was pretty outlandish looking. And, she has a voice, as some of the others have said. You can read comments about her and about a few of her albums here.

Here's a bit of what she said about it in 1997, ten years after: From my personal experience," she says, "I identified strongly with the victims of the Church's sexual abuse. Which is what my tearing up the pope's picture was about. Many of the victims were not being helped by the Church. They were basically being shut up. I understand the importance of breaking down the wall of silence that surrounds abuse. There is more at this site.

Oh, just found an archive of a CHicago Sun-Times op/ed on her SNL pope picture ripping: clickety!

Didn't Willie support her, too, guys? I remember seeing her booed off stage at Dylan's thing.

Yeah, Den, thanks.