Intent doesn’t have a full-length album. The band’s manager is a DJ who specializes in karaoke. The publicity department is Kinko’s. But give the young quintet a break. With an abrasive sound akin to Staind with less woe-is-me and more woe-is-you, Intent battled its way into a slot opening for Marilyn Manson at the Freakers Ball on October 30,…
With a soundtrack stockpiled with songs of romance and Christmas and a screenplay by the man who wrote Bridget Jones’s Diary, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, it’s appropriate that Love Actually feels less like a brand-new movie than like a greatest-hits compendium. Screenwriter Richard Curtis is also the director this time, which means we’re presented with undiluted…
A not terribly long time ago in an uninhabitable galaxy called Burbank, a generally astute movie studio founded by four Polish siblings alienated a young, hotshot filmmaker. The studio was Warner Bros., and the project was a cold, disturbing, highly stylized vision of a mechanized future called THX-1138. It’s hardly a surprise that the kid didn’t court them with…
Flank attack: Regarding Tony Ortega’s “Register This!” (October 23): Thank you so much for writing this article. I was one who sent in my private info, kicking and screaming. So now, thanks to KC Strip, I will log in with the Pitch info. Take that, kansascity.com! Chrisie Lovell Independence Judas Priests Publish or parish: Concerning Kendrick Blackwood’s article “Mother Superior…
Pity the white man with a small penis. Sometimes even the biggest SUV can’t possibly compensate for his feelings of inadequacy. Thankfully, there’s a support group he can turn to. The National Rifle Association. See, nothing comforts the poorly endowed man’s fragile ego like stroking the barrel of a handgun while surveying the contents of his home. But eventually,…
In 1992, Cedric Walker had a vision: a hip-hop circus. “I wanted something clean and wholesome, like Motown and Soul Train,” says the former rap promoter and theater producer. “People told me that black people don’t go to circuses,” he says. But Walker thought that traditional circus acts packaged with funk, soul, rap, urban slang and culture, wrapped in…
This is the part of science people rarely get to see. A dozen or so casually attired scientists sit around a long conference table in the Stowers Institute for Medical Research on Volker Boulevard east of the Plaza, eating lunch and watching a digital slide presentation that documents a string of recent failures. The slides show bright color bursts…
