The Westport-midtown connection has been DJ Just’s domain for more than a decade, and it’s easy to see why. Just was there when clubgoers would wild out for hip-hop in the ’90s, when that music wasn’t even heard on local radio, and he has since adapted his playlist for the hipster-dominated dance floors of 2008. Now, every Thursday at Glow…
At first, before the music swelled up, a fountain started trickling and 20-odd women in elegant black paraded onto the set, I had doubts. Could this shebang really come off? After all, here’s the long-coming area premiere of Nine, a complex, operatic and mostly plotless musical from Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit. The score is demanding, the themes complex,…
Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire De Lune Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, the most welcome addition to the local stage since the debut of the Kansas City Actors Theatre, was recently chucked from its homey garage space. For this mounting of Terrence McNally’s hard-edged romance, the company has secured temporary shelter at 36th Street and Main. There’s good news, though: Director…
The Amateurs (First Look) The Beatrix Potter Collection (BBC Warner) Becoming Jane (Miramax) Blade: The Series — The Complete Series (New Line) Blue State (MGM) Charlie Chan: Volume 4 (Fox) Dallas: The Complete Eighth Season (Warner Bros.)Dedication (Weinstein) The Equalizer: Season One (Universal) Family Ties: The Third Season (Paramount) General Hospital: Night Shift — Complete First Season (Buena Vista) George…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • Mean fire marshals want to ban the sale of novelty lighters that look like toys or that light up and make sounds when ignited. The AWESOME lighters, in other words. For years, Chinese lighter manufacturers have been bringing a Barack Obama-style sense of inspiration to the open market. Now safety officials want lighters more like…
From LiveNation straight to you: Their Only Area Appearance! RADIOHEAD WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 LIVE AT VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATER – ST. LOUIS! TICKETS ON SALE THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 10 AM! Tickets: Pit and Reserved- *$61 and Lawn -*$36 Parking Included – Just Drive and Park! Get No Service Charge at the Box Office First Week of Sales (offer…
Marilyn Manson, with Ours Monday, February 11 The Uptown Theater By ANDREW MILLER The January 9 return of bassist Twiggy Ramirez sent Marilyn Manson message boards scrolling, and the news promised dividends for casual fans. For example, given that Ramirez missed the recordings of the group’s indifferently received recent albums (2003’s The Golden Age of Grotesque and 2007’s Eat…
By PETER RUGG This recent Chicago Tribune story details the efforts of one man to convince people that Bigfoot exists. He apparently ran into some skepticism at the Kansas City Sportshow. But no matter what the Missouri Department of Conservation says, this amateur video that was supposedly shot in suburban Kansas City should leave no doubt to the creature’s eerily…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • There’s a reason that animal control posts a “Safety First” sign that says “ANALYZE BEFORE YOU EUTHANIZE.” It’s the stock trader’s equivalent of “Buy High, Sell Low.” Or something. I don’t understand the stocks or the bonds. But I do recognize infuriating bureaucratic fuck-ups when I see them: Kansas City Animal Control euthanized a guy’s…
By NADIA PFLAUM According to a MySpace message and viral video floating around the ’net, members of “Anonymous” — a shadowy and slightly over-dramatic protest group — have been tormenting Tom Cruise and his brethren by hacking into Scientology Web sites in recent weeks. According to the video, narrated in a creepy robot-voice, Anonymous had plans to descend on Scientology…
Saosin, with Armor for Sleep, Fear Before the March of Flames and Meriwether Saturday, February 9 The Granada By CALEB GOELLNER The kids born around 1990 are starting to hit the age when they can vote, smoke and gamble, and their newly minted right to be nostalgic was apparent at Saturday night’s Saosin show. Rock and roll has changed…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Gods & Monsters R.E.M. is streaming “Supernatural Superserious,” the first single from the upcoming Accelerate LP on its official site. Have a listen here , and then contemplate whether it’s worth $2.50 for the ringtone. The album comes out on April Fool’s Day, so let’s hope Stipe wasn’t joking about this one being a rocker. Down…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • Mike Huckabee swept Kansas and Louisiana, but in Washington state, where the candidates were running neck-and-neck, Republican party officials suddenly declared John McCain the winner after counting only 87 percent of the votes. The Washington press corps’ bored acceptance of Republican electoral slop is completely awesome. • The Kansas City Star’s E. Thomas McClanahan has…
By PETER RUGG Union Station’s administrators already have their hands full with the final push before the Bodies Revealed exhibit opens February 29. Besides that, though, they’re hoping they won’t lose their CFO before then. M.A. “Art” Chaudry, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Union Station, is one of five candidates visiting Iowa City next week in…
Finally, here’s the last of the new mugshots for the Star’s columnists, including a Segal-looking Tim Finn. Tim Finn, in his Steven Segal phase. Steve Kraske dons the shirt that proves he climbed the great wall — where he apparently saw a dragon. Robert Butler: family man edition Somebody tell Jeneé that genie pants were so…
Who knew the Star’s Mike Hendricks also had skills on the violin? Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Star, Mike Hendricks, Olan Mills, violin
Okay, Rhonda Chriss Lokeman, look up to your right. Lift your chin. Now look indignant. Yes, that’s the look, like you’ve smelled something foul. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Star, Olan Mills, Rhonda Chriss Lokeman
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM • Nadia Pflaum attended Barack Obama’s campaign event in El Dorado, Kansas, where Obama lived as a child. This entry includes a frankly awesome photo of Obama with his mama. • Jen Chen tracked the Broadway Cafe story across the national media. If only there were some sort of mythological or Biblical tale that summarized the…
BY DAVID MARTIN A principal in the dubious effort to build a $980 million entertainment and sports resort in Kansas City, Kansas, is being sued over a $591 dry-cleaning bill. Five Star Dry Cleaning recently filed a small-claims action in Johnson County against bodybuilder-turned-developer Craig Chambers. The dry cleaner complains that Chambers, the managing director of Sport World Live, has…
By CHRIS PACKHAM FRIDAY The Comedy Central Live Indecision 2008 Tour featuring Greg Giraldo comes to the Lied Center at KU (1600 Stewart Drive in Lawrence, 785-864-2787) tonight at 7:30. Admission is $7 ($5 for students). The Young Friends of Art hold their Second Friday Happy Hour at the Museum Café at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak. It’s…
By CHRIS PACKHAM • Lenexa-based, IHOP-owned Applebee’s would like the country’s political writers to know that, in case anyone can’t find the True Americans, the True Americans are at Applebee’s, washing down Bistro Sirloin Sandwiches and baskets of mozzarella sticks with extra shots of insulin. True American pictured at right. %{}%Ben Smith of the Politico blog received an invitation…
I know these asses aren’t local, and one’s not music related, but I had to share — because, hey, this is a lot of unexpected ass in one news week! The images are possibly NSFW, so follow the link to find out whose asses have recently been exposed. Warning: If you were ever an English major, you may not…
A blues challenge sounds pretty tough. International blues challenge? Even tougher. You gotta be really good at the blues for that, especially going up against all those Swedish blues bands (probably only funny to me, that). But check it out — here are the rules for the annual International Blues Challenge, a contest that’s been held every year for the…
By JUSTIN KENDALL I love KCTV 5. I cannot think of another Kansas City TV station that would have run this clip about murdered Sun Fresh employee Joseph Bussell. This video is why your mother told you to wear clean underwear – and never to stick raw meat into your pants. If this is a serial killer’s calling card,…
