Earlier this week, Riverfront Times music editor Annie Zaleski, saw the Roman Numerals play a new club in St. Louis. Here’s her report: Us St. Louis residents had the pleasure of seeing ex-Get Up Kid Ryan Pope’s debut appearance as the drummer of Roman Numerals on Tuesday night. The band was kind enough to grace us with its presence at…
On Wednesday, Clay Chastain took city officials, engineers and the media on a tour of the light-rail line that voters approved last November. The ride began, fittingly enough, with a fare. Chastain asked each of us to drop $10 into a hat to cover the cost of the Chevy van rented for the occasion. Categories: News
Maximo Park and the Cribs July 18, 2007 The Record Bar Better Than: The Arctic Monkeys accepting your friend request. Review by Jason Harper. Photos by Scott Spychalski. How are people going to know about it if it’s a secret show? That was the crux of the biscuit going into the Record Bar’s free Secret MySpace Show last night, where…
As Pitch local cinema critic Alan Scherstuhl points out in this column, History of America, the new film by local animators MK12, is full of “gorgeous animation” and “imaginative sequences.” Too bad the masses can’t see this all-too-limited release. At least there are snippets of MK12 on the Internets. First up, the trailer for History of America, which, I’d dare…
If you build it, they will come. “They” being the disgraced 1919 Chicago White Sox. Tags: AL Central, American League (MLB), chicago white sox, Major League Baseball, Night & Day
Describing the Yankees’ efficient but boring postwar dynasty, sportswriter Jimmy Cannon wrote that rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for U.S. Steel. This hardly seems apt now, thanks to the decline of American manufacturing and the team’s rise as dysfunctional soap opera. Today, rooting for the Yankees is akin to rooting for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., another flashy and…
Jazz-hip-hop fusion sounds surprisingly fresh considering that we’re approaching 15 years since Gang Starr’s Guru took the plunge with his first Jazzmatazz album, which featured full-blown collaborations with Branford Marsalis, N’Dea Davenport and Roy Ayers and seemed forward-thinking enough to be billed as “experimental.” The possibilities between the two forms still seem limitless, and Guru has returned with the series’…
Destination Science is a week of fun and fascinating science and nature-related activities, including outdoor survival, GPS and compass investigations, archery, fishing, science pioneers, team building, and water adventures. Tags: Night & Day
Shakespeare’s fantastical romantic comedy The Tempest has inspired dozens of unique contemporary adaptations, including the avant-garde film (if not the store) Prospero’s Books and the sci-fi musical Return to the Forbidden Planet. Paul Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy earned the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for music, and the composition for solo clarinet and piano trio ranks among the most acclaimed recent interpretations. In…
Travis’ sweet, moody Britpop blends the hook-lined swells of Oasis with the swooning ebb and flow of early Radiohead. Not as majestic (or pretentious) as simpering, near-tears acts such as Coldplay, the easy-going Travis still occasionally rocks out. The band’s latest, The Boy With No Name, follows the disappointing Twelve Memories’ solemnity and political commentary by returning to airy pop…
“Undressed” features human hair embroideries and a series of Psychological Clothing by artist Kate Kretz. Kretz recently received worldwide coverage for her controversial painting “Blessed Art Thou” featuring Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary. Tags: Angelina Jolie, Blessed Virgin Mary, Kate Kretz, Night & Day
The Mission Business Development Committee is now seeking barbecue teams for their annual “Battle of the Brisket” State Championship Barbecue Contest to be held Friday night, September 14, through Saturday September 15. Teams interested in competing must complete and submit a registration form with their entry fee by Wednesday, August 1st at 5:00 pm. Tags: Mission Business Development Committee, Night…
The typical model for a sketch class isn’t a paragon of youth and beauty. Liver-spotted skin and a preponderance of flesh can be inspiring, even under the scrutiny of a stale-breathed professor and among the occasional geriatric boner. But the idea of depicting a stone-cold fox has its inspirational appeal, too. Add tassel-covered bras, booze and bizarre contests and you…
Town hall meeting with Mayor Funkhouser. Tags: Night & Day
Screening of Cars, performance by Bob Walkenhorst and Jeff Porter, plus a mini car show. Tags: Bob Walkenhorst, Jeff Porter, Night & Day
As if mounting and staging his own plays while still an undergrad isn’t enough, Adam R. Burnett makes it harder on himself by adding ideas, themes and a cast of more than 15 actors as he aims to give the audience something to think about while not neglecting his duties as an entertainer. In short, Burnett means to accomplish,…
Spice of Life Productions is synonymous with the Donkey Show series — wild exhibitions of music, poetry and sleaze. Today, the same souls bring the Bootleggers Union Americana Showcase to Knuckleheads (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456) from 4 to 10 p.m. The potluck includes traces of typical Spice — get $2 off the $10 admission if you bring a side dish…
You have only a few hours left before the sunstroked media skip to the end of J.K. Rowling’s last Harry Potter book so that news of the young wizard’s survival or demise can ease the pressure of reporting on war, genocide and climate collapse. By dawn Sunday, the fate of the most popular fictional character since Madonna will be known…
For every fan of Kansas City music who’s heard of Glen Hockemeier, there are a dozen or so who have only heard him. In addition to drumming for hard-riding country-rock band the Gaslights, Hockemeier is the proud owner of this music scene’s most famous laugh. Ringing out of bar doors wherever the Gaslights and their friends are making a night…
If Coat Party’s song “Burn the House Down” was a PowerPoint presentation, it would break down to three bullet points: (1) CP is gonna burn this fucking house down, (2) CP has the party to keep this house shaking, and (3) CP has the booty beats to keep the kids rocking. All three statements are true, and the Lawrence band…
Readers of Vogue, Elle and other glossy fashion magazines have probably seen ads for St. John designs in which a smartly dressed woman is surrounded by handsome, adoring men. In the past, the lady was Kelly Gray, daughter of the St. John’s founder. Angelina Jolie is the company’s new face. Neither one will be at the St. John’s Boutique trunk…
As a graduate student at Duke University, Jessamyn Hatcher began thinking about how the language of psychoanalysis became embedded in American culture. “I went to the library and got the top 15 circulating magazines from 1910 through 1935 and paged through them,” she tells the Pitch. “And I just lit upon this column in the Ladies’ Home Journal, written by…
Shawn Catlin was fed up with corporate kickball. The league was too disorganized, too pricy and too competitive. So Catlin decided to start a Kansas City kickball chapter of the Midwestern Unconventional Sports Association. Now he extends an open invitation to kickballers and drinkers for a free pickup game tonight at 7 at Rosedale Park (4000 Mission Road in Kansas…
A 2004 study by the National Endowment for the Arts found that fewer than half of American adults read even one book a year. According to Tom Wayne of Prospero’s Bookstore (1800 West 39th Street, 816-531-9673), storage costs drive retailers and libraries to throw away “dumpster loads” of books every month. Thus, Prospero’s has been inspired to stage book-burning protests….
