Obviously, the Kansas City Police Department has had a long 24 hours. It held a press release at 3 this afternoon to talk about yesterday’s shootout at Ward Parkway Center and has been e-mailing updates to media outlets all day. We’re thinking someone might need a nap. One of those e-mails, from KCPD spokesman Darin Snapp, which we received at…
The KCPD just released the details on the suspect in Sunday’s shooting. They say it’s “51yr old David Logsdon from Kansas City, MO.” Categories: News
If you’ve had one conversation about yesterday’s shooting at the Ward Parkway Center, you probably talked about the last time you were there. For me, it was late Saturday, when I went to sign up last-minute for the Trolley Run. A good friend of mine was volunteering, directing the other procrastinators where they needed to go to fill out paperwork…
Fred Phelps’ infamy is spreading across the pond. The anti-gay Topeka preacher and his faithful flock were recently documented by Louis Theroux, an English broadcaster with the British Broadcasting Company and a former correspondent with Michael Moore’s TV Nation. Theroux hosted the documentary The Most Hated Family in America, which debuted on BBC 2 to more than 4 million Brits….
On a sunny Saturday like today, yard sale signs in Brookside make the place look like it’s election time again, except there’s crap being sold instead of crappy candidates. But there was one at Gregory and Edgevale this morning that caught my eye. Down at the bottom of the store-bought sign were stickers advertising “Oprah for President ’08.” A…
Once you’ve been to all the shows we talked about (or at least the ones between now and Sunday) in the music section, regroup with some retail therapy at the Zebedee’s-sponsored record sale, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Westport-Roanoke Community Center (3601 Roanoke Road). In addition to LPs, 45s and 78s, there’ll be CDs, posters, videos and…
Witch and Hare, Central Standard, The Ssion. Thursday, April 24, at the Brick Concert Review by Megan Metzger Thursday night I pulled up to a reasonably crowded Brick to check out art punk and danceparty sensation, the Ssion . I feared there would be too many younger kids sporting cut-offs and body odor, but I was lucky to find…
At 3 p.m. on Saturday, the non-profit organization Invisible Children is hosting a nationwide event to demand talks with the United States to end the war in Northern Uganda. There are an estimated 1.5 million displaced Ugandans living in refugee camps. About 1,700 Kansas Citians have signed up to attend the event at Kaw Point Riverfront Park (1 River City…
Hello! My name is Samantha. I’m an orphan, and I live with my wealthy grandmother in a turn-of-the-century house. It’s a style called a “gingerbread house.” I attend Miss Crampton’s Academy, a school situated in a fine private home. Miss Crampton teaches us penmanship, geography, arithmetic and history. On special occasions, I enjoy visiting Tyson’s Ice Cream parlor, and…
Recently, a friend of mine called me from his seat on the patio of P.F. Chang’s on the Plaza to report, somewhat hysterically, that the Seville-inspired architecture was decorated with swastikas. I initially assumed he’d had a few too many lychee-and-green-tea-infused cocktails, so I filed his message under W for “Whatthefuckever.” Categories: News
This blog entry is (as the blogger himself says) kind of funny. It’s a price comparison between a lovely old downtown Lawrence home and a home in Watts, L.A. — Jason Harper Categories: News
It was a dream of mine for the Crossroads Music Festival to pull one or two national headliners this year, and that dream has come true. It’s in the form of Eleni Mandell, however, and I have no idea how big a draw she’ll get locally. She’s played here a lot. The cozy ballads that make up her latest, Miracle…
A Brief Conversation at Pitch HQ: From: Jason Harper, music editor To: Chris Packham, assistant calendar editor Subject: I have a plan! >>> 4/26/2007 2:07 PM >>> Marry Norah Jones. Shouldn’t be too difficult to manage. >>> Chris Packham 4/26/2007 2:13 PM >>> Wait, what problem does this solve, exactly? Your lack of subdued jazz songs performed without enthusiasm? By…
In the same week that Missouri native Sheryl Crow was suggesting that American consumers reduce their toilet paper consumption to one square per bowel movement, a little pinch of Kansas City’s rectal history was listed for sale on eBay. A seller used the online auction site to sell a “vintage physician’s sample tin” that once contained rectal cones (active ingredients:…
Racing fans can enjoy a full weekend at the Kansas Speedway (400 Speedway Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas). Saturday offers the NASCAR Craftsman Truck O’Reilly Parts 250, an opportunity to see drivers race pickup trucks. Sunday brings the Kansas Lottery Indy 300, in which media sensation Danica Patrick and other racers hit 220 mph in preparation for May’s Indianapolis…
There’s no shortage of ambition surrounding the grand opening of ARTichokes (10557 Mission Road in Leawood, 913-206-5810), a multipurpose art space at the new Mission Farms development. The facility aspires to be the area’s creative center by sponsoring a vast array of classes — painting, dance, creative writing, songwriting, juggling — in addition to rotating three-month exhibits highlighting 12 Kansas…
A game based on 300 has no excuse not to kick ass. Just picture yourself leading 300 Greeks (that’s 1,800 abs) against the Persian empire’s massive armies, led by the evil, pierced, and preening King Xerxes. Since your Spartans are the deadliest soldiers in the world, the Persians’ only chance is to smother you with sheer numbers — so every…
Al Franken: God Spoke (Docurama) Code Name: The Cleaner (New Line) Columbo: Mystery Murder Collection 1989 (Universal) Déjà Vu (Buena Vista) The Documentaries of Louis Malle (Criterion) The Drew Carey Show: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) Flipper: Season One (MGM) .45 (Velocity) Ironside: Season 1 (Shout! Factory) Jean Renoir: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition (Lions Gate) The John Cleese Comedy Collection…
Five Wonders of the World Planet Earth (BBC/Warner Bros.) Roll over, Marlin Perkins, and tell Jacques Cousteau the news: There’s never been another nature series like this. You will spend forever glued to this five-disc collection, finding among such holy-shit discoveries a herd of never-before-photographed camels who live in the frozen wastelands, great whites dining on unsuspecting seals, swimming monkeys…
The Full Monty Here comes the area’s most ambitious community theater company, this time taking a swing at the old will-they-or-won’t-they male-stripper comedy. It’s the kind of ribald musical that the Barn Players have made their niche: something too rough for the New Theatre but not anything you couldn’t take your mother to. Advance word is that Chris McCoy’s choreography…
Summer Farrar: Folks Summer Farrar doesn’t paint faces — she stitches them. A recent graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, she works from a snapshot or from memory, employing various fabrics — scraps from clothing, upholstery and other materials — to create an image on canvas. “Jori,” a portrait of a local art-scene personality, is the fuzziest picture, using…
Cabaret shows at Quality Hill Playhouse are dedicated to “the American songbook,” that revered and narrowly defined catalog of standards that peaks with George and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter and craps out with the flat, flatulent croak of Billy Joel. Its trademarks: whiteness, cleverness and an elevation of craft above feeling, plus a last-century politeness. If these songs made…
For ladies wanting fairy-tale romance, here’s some helpful advice, courtesy of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters and your friends at the Coterie Theatre. Rule 1: Be nice to everyone you meet. Rule 2: Be especially nice when you meet someone who has previously been described to you by a mysterious, future-seeing old crone. Rule 3: Be hot. This third instruction is…
Just when I was complaining about the dearth of conceptual ceramics lately (last week’s “Pot Heads”), I ran across Lisa Marie Barber’s exhibition at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. Barber, an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, works with ceramics as installation art. Airplanes and Buildings incorporates quilts and a couple of free-standing ceramic sculptures….
