The Oct. 28 Van Halen tour stop in St. Louis was recently canceled postponed, due, evidently, to logistical problems with transporting the band’s gear to Boston the next night. But, according to a spokesperson from Live Nation, the Kansas City tour stop has not been affected. P.S. Have you seen junior’s grades? Categories: Music Tags: Van Halen
Editor’s Note: Last night, my friends Tom and Nancy, who own Bloomsday Books in the Crestwood Shops at 55th and Brookside, together with me and a couple of others took one of the bookstore regulars to a concert. The Right Honourable John Donnelly is a 75-year-old boilermaker from Paisley, Scotland, who moved to Kansas City in the early ’60s…
Witness the overall beauty and thrill of championship thoroughbred and quarter horse racing Saturday through Wednesday. 11 a.m., doors open; 12:30 p.m., post time. Sept. 23-Oct. 27, 11 a.m., 2007 Tags: 855, Night & Day
Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on their Web sites that direct their readers to the many places on the Internet where the home address of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is listed. AAN papers are doing so to show solidarity with the Phoenix New Times, which was threatened with felony prosecution…
Love him or hate him, Tech N9ne still reigns as Kansas City’s best-known rap export. Fittingly, he has used this fact to provide a platform for other local rappers on Misery Loves Kompany. Recorded in just one month but far from a slapdash effort, MLK offers the best of three worlds: the usual heat from Tech himself, contributions from the…
A thick bank of clouds hung low in the sky. Air traffic controllers call this condition a low ceiling, and for Jenny Tudor, who was a controller — as well as a meteorologist and a certified pilot — her duties in the radar room at Kansas City International Airport were about to get especially complicated. Tudor, who had been a…
AC/DC: Plug Me In (Sony) Bob the Builder: Ultimate Adventure Collection (Hit Entertainment) Bully 911: Stop Being a Victim (Bayview) Believers (Warner Bros.) Best Picture Collection (MGM)The Hoax (Miramax) Hollow Man: Director’s Cut (Sony) The Invisible (Disney) Ironside: Season 2 (Shout) The Jazz Singer: Three-Disc Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros.) The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey (Experience Hendrix) MacGyver: The…
The estranged brothers Whitman have reunited for a journey on board The Darjeeling Limited, a colorful old locomotive traversing the Rajasthan region of India. Along the way, they will stop to visit temples (“Probably one of the most spiritual places on earth!”) and shop for souvenirs (slippers, cobras, pepper spray), with plenty of time to take in the sights,…
Former City Councilman Jim Glover had been out of office just six weeks when he made an odd return to the public stage. “I’ve been promoted, and now I’m a citizen,” he said, paraphrasing Harry Truman, at a June 13 meeting of the Tax Increment Financing Commission, a city agency that scrutinizes developers’ requests for tax breaks. Glover, who ran…
“Southside” by MilkDrop: The Soul Providers crew drops mix tapes like Philly bakes Tastykakes, and the latest treat comes from recent Vegas transplant MilkDrop. In the grand tradition, the bedrock for this tape is composed of original beats by Reach and Awe, among others, as well as classic instrumentals such as “Shook Ones Pt. 2.” The selections are nearly flawless,…
Now that Irfan Rafi is serving Pakistani cuisine in a former all-American greasy spoon (see review), it’s once again time to note how lucky Kansas City is to have such a wide array of ethnic restaurants spread throughout the metro. We have Caribbean, Creole, Greek, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Indian, Thai, Malaysian and Vietnamese — in addition to cuisines that…
It took years of out-of-town tryouts before Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse’s pop-musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde finally hit Broadway. Never quite a smash there, it was at least nudged into profitability by a loyal audience of musical theater fans, Ren Fest folks and everyone who signed petitions to keep…
Bad Dates Yes, this one-woman show sounds slight, especially as the debut production of the new Copaken Stage’s first full season. In three long scenes, waitress and single mother Haley Walker — played with tireless invention by Rebecca Dines — bustles about her too huge (but wonderfully designed) New York apartment, dishing and dressing as she preps herself for imminent…
Kansas City’s club maestro Tactic has started two new gigs since the last time you heard about the DJ duo. One is every Friday at Glow (above the Lava Room), and the other is a new Saturday night residency at Fatso’s in Lawrence. Tactic brings to both venues this weekend one of the hottest DJs in Austin, Texas’ bubbling dance…
Dear Mexican: We were in a restaurant the other day, eating some refried beans and green chili, when I overheard some gringos in the next booth making fun of Mexicans. One thing they said that really made me mad was “Why do Mexicans refry their beans? Stupid Mexicans! Don’t they know they already fried them once? Why do they have…
From Jayne Mansfield to The Ghost Whisperer to that clingy tank top that Jodie Foster fills out all through Panic Room, most Hollywood product has been secretly, in its leering way, about the size and shape and shaking of breasts. Funny, then, that Got Breast? — a film that dares to elevate the bust from sneaky selling point to in-the-title…
Gladstone is new drinking territory for me, and Tuesday night seemed just as good as any for foray to two of its watering holes. While there, I got plenty of advice from its friendly locals. Naturally, by advice, I mean “drunk talk.” Wandering along North Oak Trafficway, Research Assistant Erica and I passed a place with an unassuming brick façade…
Feature: “Best of Kansas City,” October 4 Choice Words Was just looking at the Best of Awards for 2007. Is this really a list of the Best of Kansas City? Because if this is a true representation of KC, we really have a long way to go. I am just going to mention a few examples of why I think…
Jackass presents the world’s biggest waste of time. Love him or despise him, head Jackass Johnny Knoxville has made millions from getting kicked in the yambag. Had YouTube arrived before Jackass, Knoxville, Steve-O, and the show’s other gutterpunk masochists might still be slinging French fries, getting burned by hot grease in a strictly nonrecreational way. But with a brand-new…
“A Clock Breaks” by Another Holiday: It’s a Thursday night in Lawrence, and Another Holiday is wrapping up a stellar performance at the Jazzhaus for the bartender and about 20 friends and family members. “Now remember, there were 300 people here tonight,” jokes drummer Chris Bower. Such levity has become a survival instinct for Another Holiday, a young band with…
“Girlfriend’s Fav. MC” by MIMS, feat. J. Holiday from Music Is My Savior (Capitol): “Jesus!” Fireworks rip into the late-morning sunshine over the stage outside the Sprint Center. It’s October 10, at the arena’s public unveiling. On the stage, in front of a full orchestra, are country music star Garth Brooks and Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser. With one clad…
Transformers (DreamWorks) No doubt, Michael Bay’s slam-bang action-figure commercial doesn’t play nearly as well on TV, no matter how high or high-def your screen; this demands to be seen on a screen the size of a skyscraper and heard on speakers as large as jet engines. So the first half-hour plays flat, and the last half-hour’s just hard to…
If the new black is Interpol and the Arcade Fire, then the Old Black is AC/DC and Black Sabbath. Vanguard they ain’t, but therein lies the charm of one of Lawrence’s best new live bands. Hard-hitting drummer Jon Lane and bassist Lizz Weiler anchor the quartet’s riffy sludge, a concoction that should taste like sweet nectar to fans of Queens…
“It seemed like the ending to ‘Hey Jude’ for like an hour straight.” That’s how Kansas City rocker Drew M. Gibson felt about the last time he saw the Polyphonic Spree. Fortunately, that’s not such a bad proposition when it’s executed with white robes, a 20-piece orchestra and a lead singer who just missed the cut for Jesus Christ Superstar….
