By PETER RUGG Kay Barnes’ campaign went on YouTube recently with this sub-JibJab video narrated by a chipmunk-voiced version of Congressman Sam Graves. The spoof is intended as a fundraising tool for the former KCMO mayor, who has already raised $1 million to run for Graves’ seat in Congress. It’s unclear whether this video will hurt or help. Categories: News,…
Good news for us all! One of America’s greatest living motherfucking awesome dudes and his equally awesome backing-band dudes — I’m talking TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS — are coming to the Sprint Center on July 22, 2008. Tickets will range from $55 to $99 and will go on sale February 4, the day after Petty and the boys play…
By CHRIS PACKHAM • Jen Chen wrote about Tommy Farha’s dog, Tommy Farha. • Crystal Wiebe talked about the end of Bingo Night at the Brick. • David Martin wrote about 810 WHB host Kevin Keitzman’s strained political commentary. • The affidavit filed by five Kansas Citians seeking a recall election to unseat Mayor Mark Funkhouser enjoyed some bureaucratic misadventures…
By CHRIS PACKHAM FRIDAY • The Slap and Tickle gallery (504 East 18th Street, 816-716-5940), spiritual successor to the MoMo Gallery, hosts Erotica, its First Friday exhibit and party tonight at 6. Featured art includes work by local creators Dana Swedo-Bernal, Alan Winkler, Lori Raye Erickson, Jennifer Boe, and Slap and Tickle proprietress Apryl McAnerney. Live entertainment provided by…
By CHRIS PACKHAM • President Bush and the Minutemen are in town at the same time. Just a coincidence? Or has Kansas City become a gravity well for douches? I’m leaning toward coincidence, but I’ve been watching out my window for Neil Strauss, NAMBLA and the Sprint customer-service department. Maybe Kansas City will become like that town in Florida…
%{}% Joining Glass Candy and Moves!!, local electronic/DJ group Nomathmatics has done its own Ssion remix. It’s not even on the Ssion’s MySpace yet. Probably because they’re on a tour that has them playing New York City tonight. Look for a writeup in the Village Voice, ’cause that’s where the Ssion’s at, yo. The Ssion: “Clown (Nomathmatics Sexy Suburb Remix)”…
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL The last time the hippo left the city, the city begged him back. In 1997, outraged that then-23-year-old rock station KY102 had, under new owners American Radio Systems, dumped Styx and the Nuge for an all-Alanis, all-the-time format, Max Floyd’s Rock ‘n Roll Army fought its last great battle. They protested, rival stations hosted eulogies, and Kansas…
