Conceptual Play is an exhibition about how two artists are drawn to science and math to satisfy their artistic and theoretical impulses. Stanton Fernald works as a graphic designer at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he creates medical textbook illustrations. Emerging from this day job are Fernald’s hand-built projectors — they look like massive microscope lenses —…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • Barack Obama won the Wisconsin Democratic primary last night by 646,000, compared to John McCain’s 224,000 votes on the Republican side. When this was posted, Obama’s home state of Hawaii was also leaning heavily Obamaward. Oh, he also beat Hillary Clinton, obvs. • I think I could really warm up to Cindy McCain — she…
BY JUSTIN KENDALL The Seattle SuperSonics will move to Oklahoma City if NBA commissioner David Stern and team owner Clay Bennett have their way. Stern gave the bleak diagnosis to the Emerald City during his annual all-star-weekend news conference. Stern also talked about expanding the league to Europe, promoting the idea of NBA-ready arenas in London and other cities,…
BY JUSTIN KENDALL Kansas Sen. Jim Barone got caught stuffing his pants with top-secret polling data, according to the Associated Press. The incident, which has been dubbed “Trousergate,” occurred at a December 19 Democratic Party retreat when Barone allegedly tried to slip out of the meeting with his packet. Tim Graham, Sen. Anthony Hensley’s chief of staff, caught Barone…
Bang Camaro Monday, February 18, 2008 The Bottleneck Better than: David Lee Roth’s solo vocal take on “Runnin’ with the Devil” By RICHARD GINTOWT Ever since the advent of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, I’ve had a horrible premonition that video games are going to seriously fuck things up for kids who want to be musicians. I’ve already heard…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • My dream job: I want to be the guy who comes up with all the new ideas at National Public Radio. Because I would never, ever have to produce any work whatsoever. When NPR fired Bob Edwards from Morning Edition a few years ago, that was like the biggest programming shakeup in 20 years. As…
Limbeck, with John Ralston and the Jen Say Kwahs Saturday, February 16 The Jackpot Music Hall By GREG FRANKLIN Walking into a club wringing water from your pants is never a good start to an evening. Torrential downpours, we thank you for providing crops and lush greenery for us (oh, and I suppose drinking water is pretty alright too), but…
Tanka Ray, with Outlaw and 8ighty 6ixed Saturday, February 16th The Record Bar By FLANNERY CASHILL Tanka Ray’s Saturday night show at the Record Bar honored the first birthday of a family friend, Penelope. Her father held her in his arms as strangers cooed and smiled, but Penelope, in her velvet dress and earplugs, looked unimpressed. At one year old,…
Mark Olson Saturday, February 16, 2008 Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club By RICHARD GINTOWT On a rainy Saturday night at Davey’s Uptown, Mark Olson presented a picture of informality. Dressed in a natty grandpa sweater and a pair of argyle trousers, the founding songwriter of the Jayhawks casually inhabited a booth and chatted up the locals on presidential politics (he’s an…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Sex & Violence For your viewing pleasure: the new Kanye West video, directed by Spike Jonze. Much like his 1995 vid for Wax’s “Southern California” (reminisce here), Jonze shows his penchant for slow motion and fire. Add a shovel-wielding lingerie model to the equation and you’ve got gold. Ironically, dousing a fur coat with lighter fluid has…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • “Legal Battle Continues Over Monkey Incident” is not the perfect headline. Crime Scene KC has that sewn up with last October’s “Pit bulls kill young cancer patient’s Make-A-Wish horse,” the “perfect storm” of headlines, which, if I am not mistaken, killed George Clooney. The story, about a monkey that was euthanized after a birthday party…
By PETER RUGG It’s been almost 20 years since a pair of elderly Missouri farmers were convicted of murdering drifters and burying them in shallow graves roughly an hour north of Kansas City. The duo, Faye and Ray Copeland, became the oldest couple in American history to be sentenced to death. Now a Texas Chainsaw Massacre version of the story…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Plog Week in Review • Peter Rugg found good reason to hope that Union Station CFO M.A. Chaudry is passed over for the city manager position in Iowa City, Iowa, in favor of another candidate. • V for Vendetta cosplay enthusiasts mounted a not-at-all ineffectual protest against Scientology as part of the Internet group Anonymous’ worldwide demonstration….
By CHRIS PACKHAM FRIDAY • Meet the Feebles at Liberty Hall. Peter Jackson’s 1987 film about filthy puppets screens at 11:30 p.m. at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts in Lawrence, 785-749-1972) Do not bring children to this screening. Unless you hate children. • The Carquest World of Wheels auto show at Bartle Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000). From 11 a.m….
They’re really getting things off with a big, hairy bang at the Riot Room, which is the club now operating in the space formerly occupied by the Hurricane. Word on the streets it’s the same owners as before — the guys who own Jerry’s Bait Shop — but with a new name and, likely, some changes to the interior and…
Crap. There’s a lot going on this weekend. For what feels like the past six months, the scene’s been as frigid as the weather, but suddenly there’s a thaw. As always, this week’s music section contains the in-depth, comprehensive, critically tempered coverage that your mom has come to expect from the world’s greatest altweekly, but I also felt compelled…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • You know what? It’s a good thing that Mayor Mark Funkhouser has engendered so much goodwill and has an awesome relationship with the City Council, because he says Kansas City needs to cut $70 million from the budget. • If it weren’t for illegal Internet scrip doctors, I’d probably be paying $500 a month out-of-pocket…
By SCOTT WILSON A year ago this week, the Police reunited for the Grammys and, the next day, webcast an open rehearsal to announce a world tour. Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers then played “Wrapped Around Your Finger” on big cash registers and laughed and laughed until handlers had to summon an ambulance for 64-year-old Summers. Summers, now 65,…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • Here’s a romantic Valentine’s Day idea: The busybody Chastains should start having “couple date night” — I’m talking about a special night that does not involve poring over the minutes of City Council meetings or talking about urban transit proposals but instead is spent really looking past their bizarre fixations and the scent of Vicks…
By DAVID MARTIN Just in time for spring training, our favorite dermatologist and baseball writer has started a new blog dedicated to the Kansas City Royals. Rany Jazayerli is a skin doctor, husband, father of two and knowledgeable baseball fan who grew up in Wichita, rooting for the Royals. While pursuing a career in medicine, Jazayerli helped found Baseball…
Where most people see partially hydrogenated oils and transfats, Mark Winne sees racism and government malfeasance. The author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty is a sociologist by trade and an activist at heart. He has dedicated his professional life to developing farmers’ markets, co-ops, community gardens, food banks and avenues for education….
Hey, cool! It’s that Hitchcock movie, the one with Jimmy Stewart — and it’s showing for free! No, not that one, with the lighthouse and Kim Novak. That one’s awesome, though. And, no, not the peeping-Tom picture in which Grace goddamn Kelly lounges upon him in her delectable silver evening clothes while Stewart can focus only on his camera lens….
The Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge sounds a bit like something out of a George Orwell book or a Saturday morning episode of Beakman’s World. Located at New York University, the institute primarily occupies itself with information and the control of it. Does knowledge still trickle down from universities, religion and the government? Or has new…
The company that’s developing Kansas City’s new downtown entertainment district wants to keep the good times from rolling in other neighborhoods. The issue is beer. And it’s the latest example of how Cordish Co., the East Coast developer of the Power and Light District, has shown its ungratefulness to a city at the breaking point of its generosity. A few…
