If you’re in Westport today, drop by 4118 Penn, a new bar owned by and adjacent to the Dark Horse. The lineup of live music looks pretty sweet: 12:30 to 2 p.m.: The ACB’s 3 to 6 p.m.: 77 Jefferson 7 to 10 p.m.: Lindquist & Greer (Miles Bonny and Joc Max) 10:30 to close: Organic Proof (John Brewer and…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Admit it: you totally flirt with all the cute guys in your class on MySpace. I mean, LYL, but if you don’t have a profile, you might as well be dead. So why not the boys in blue? Cruising down Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, the other day, I noticed a recruitment banner outside the KCK…
That’s a resounding … …YES. Amid band upon band of yanks who don’t know a good rock performance from a beard trimmer, Brighton, England, band British Sea Power, shooting sparks behind its latest, Do You Like Rock Music, delivered the guitar-oriented goods Saturday night at 1 a.m. Categories: Music Tags: music
That’s what it’s all about, right? Rock the crowd, sweat like a stallion, get mobbed by the ladies afterward. After driving all day from Kansas City on Friday, Mac Lethal was greeted by a small but enthusiastic crowd at Volume for one of SXSW’s few hip-hop showcases — and only showcase featuring mostly KC artists… Categories: Music Tags: mac…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Sunglasses of Justice: Were you aware that the Big 12 came to town on Thursday? The Kansas City Star noticed that a giant crowd of people “descended” on downtown KC yesterday. The article is practically lashed together with terrible CSI: Miami-grade plays on words: • “So when hungry fans showed up in the zone it was…
You’d think Lou Reed would be a nearly impossible act to follow, but N.E.R.D. grabbed the crowd by the collar and gave ’em one hell of a sharp, loud and sexy throttling. Musically intelligent and lyrically adolescent, N.E.R.D. is the brainchild of star producers Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams (aka the Neptunes), with their Virginia Beach childhood friend Shae…
Some conference keynote speakers are lame. Others are Lou Reed. Currently working up a tour to revisit his misunderstood and gorgeously despondent masterpiece Berlin, Reed did a little Q&A at the Austin Convention Center yesterday. Later, he dazzled the crowd (many of whom, like me, didn’t expect to see the man play at all this week) at the Levi’s…
This weekend, local hip-hop collective Innate Sounds Crew is celebrating its first anniversary with two CD-release parties, at the Jackpot tonight and the Brick on Saturday. Largely the brainchild of local scene visionary Miles Bonny, Innate comprises local rappers, DJs, hip-hop producers, graphic designers, musicians and the like. This weekend, the crew is releasing Alpha, a compilation CD of smooth…
By NADIA PFLAUM It’s a tremendous compliment that The New York Times gives the Kansas City Ballet with this article today about the troupe’s 50th-anniversary show. Writer Jennifer Dunning showed impeccable taste by singling out dancer Logan Pachciarz, a former Pitch This Week We Love. Dunning says Pachciarz is “a wonder in this lyrical shrug of a solo, dancing with…
By C.J. JANOVY After yesterday’s events at the Big 12 Women’s basketball tournament, I have one thing to say to the Kansas State team: Quit yer cryin’! Oh, sure, it was agony to watch that game-winning ball circle the rim a couple of times before falling out, but it was even more agonizing to see girls acting like… girls…
Travis Morrison and the Hellfighters Tuesday, 3-11-08 The Jackpot Saloon By RICHARD GINTOWT It wasn’t so long ago that the Dismemberment Plan was on top of the world. Powered by a tight-as-hell rhythm section and the offbeat lyrics and delivery of Travis Morrison, the band was a huge draw in Lawrence and one of the staff favorites at KJHK. Hailing…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM But where did he poop for two years? Look, it’s been covered everywhere, but if I don’t mention the unnamed Wichita woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years, it would be like pretending it never happened. And for the sake of unborn generations, we need to make sure that it never happens again….
First of all, the changes to Austin since last year’s SXSW: more fusion restaurants downtown. Second of all, Van Morrison. Like a god descending from the unquiet volcano in a symphony by Holst, Van the man came onto the stage at La Zona Rosa yesterday at 7, an earth-shaking, larger-than-life, trident-bearing, spark-huffing music legend playing in a festival that’s characterized…
By Justin Kendall In case you missed it, here’s the video of the Daily Show episode with Lt. General William B. Caldwell, commander of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth. Caldwell tiptoed around political questions and defended the “dull” Army field manual that he helped author. When Stewart asked if the stories about soldiers not getting the body armor…
By DAVID MARTIN Kansas City Star business writer Rick Alm has spent too much time with tourism officials who try to make cities feel bad about their convention facilities. In his column this week, Alm wrote that the Sprint Center was “smallish.” Yep. Sorry, folks. You spent $276 million on a spiffy new arena. And it’s “smallish.” Alm’s column…
By NADIA PFLAUM Nerve.com, the thinking pervert’s Web site, has a blog called Scanner that used to be a daily Internet stop for me. Lately, its contents seem a bit flat, but now I have a reason to stop by again: Emily Farris, one of Scanner’s bloggers, is from Independence, Missouri. This explains why a disproportionate amount of Farris’…
If you ever have the notion that the showtunes you sing in the shower sound good enough to win American Idol, an event at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum today will give you a chance to find out. “Singing in the Shower,” a display that demonstrates why our singing may sound better in the bath, is one of…
You don’t have to be a fan of HBO’s critical hit The Wire to understand America’s social disparities, which lie within our health, employment and educational systems, in addition to our mental health system. Dr. Kirby Randolph, director of Kansas Medical Center’s Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity, explores these issues today with her lecture, “Who Cares About Black Women?…
Need a way to discreetly shed all those unwanted holiday gifts? Well, tonight’s Swap-O-Rama is a great chance to trade them for something new(ish). Every third Thursday of the month, Bon Bon Atelier (314 Westport Road) invites you to bring in all those clean, undamaged items you no longer need. Starting at 7 p.m., you’ll have a chance to look…
All pasta dinners are served with our freshly baked herb and bread sticks, Figlio’s special “Bottomless” Caesar Salad, and Gelato. 4pm-6pm. $11.95 per person. Mondays-Thursdays, 4-6 p.m.; Sundays, 2:20-6 p.m., 2007 Tags: 557, Night & Day
The only animal usually referenced in this weekend’s festivities is the snake, so we raise our glasses in salute to St. Patrick and his apocryphal expulsion from the Emerald Isle, home to those that slither. But during this year’s imbibing, why not keep in mind the more domesticated animals whose expulsion from homes depresses us all?At 7 tonight, St. Pet’s…
Long before U2 became the world’s biggest band, the group served as Ireland’s rock ambassador, introducing that nation’s history to a global arena. Back in 1982, a charmingly guileless U2 led an MTV camera crew on a St. Patrick’s Day tour of the Dublin docklands. These days, Bono and the boys reserve their special-events calendar for Super Bowls and Earth-saving…
The official St. Patrick’s Day may fall on a Monday this year, but that’s no reason not to drink until you turn green. Get an early start today at Lew’s Grill and Bar (7539 Wornall, 816-444-8080) with breakfast at 6 a.m. Four hours later, the beer starts flowing at the fifth-annual Lew’s Irish Hooley, a 21-hour dancin’ and drinkin’ fest….
If you still have a hangover from St. Patrick’s Day 2007, you can thank the Roman Catholic Church for giving you more time to recover this year. Because St. Patty’s 2008 overlaps with Holy Week, the Church has earmarked today for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Otherwise, Holy Monday would’ve become Holy Shit I’m Wasted Day. As a result, you’ll have…
