Idon’t know about you, but I’m a lot more excited about Indian cuisine since I discovered that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, the Modigliani-faced star of the TV series Ghost Whisperer, is simply mad for it. “My new pig-out food is Indian food,” the skinny little actress has been quoted as saying. “I eat Indian food, like, three times a week.”…
Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979 American photographer Stephen Shore’s exhibition includes more than 150 images of ’70s-era parking lots, motel rooms, restaurants, highways and other familiar road-trip images from across the country. Anyone who has been on a road trip knows these images by heart. The exterior photographs of filling stations, desolate dirt roads, billboards and other…
Scribbled on the page, a few dark scrabbles indicate bushes and a tree. Another couple of lines suggest the ground. Done. Such immediacy highlights an artist’s hand and infuses the scene with authentic feeling. Lee Bowers’ exhibition at the Greenlease Gallery consists of just eight charcoal and 14 China marker drawings on paper and vellum. Many of the images…
By NADIA PFLAUM Intrepid reporters that we are, a crew of my coworkers and I checked out the atmosphere at Jared Allen’s Sports Arena bar on Southwest Boulevard. Since the news just broke that Allen’s destined to be a Minnesota Viking, I expected to see the waitstaff to be draping the flat-screens in black. Instead, there was a decent…
Photo by Autumn DeWilde Meet me on my vast veranda/My sweet, untouched Miranda-a-ah! Ah, he’s got those romantic couplets down, that Meloy. In fact, that one line contains just about all you need to know about the man’s lyric style. Never mind the next line: And while the seagulls are crying/We fall but our souls are flying/And oh, my love…….
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Countdown to Old Guys Reading Names to Other Old Guys: An NFL Draft Preview: Sports Illustrated’s Don Banks believes the Chiefs may select Boise State offensive lineman Ryan Clady, with fellow SI’er Peter King concurring that Clady might just be the Chiefs pick. So with the Time Warner empire touting his selection, let’s take a closer…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Countdown to Old Guys Reading Names to Other Old Guys: An NFL Draft Preview: Sports Illustrated’s Don Banks believes the Chiefs may select Boise State offensive lineman Ryan Clady, with fellow SI’er Peter King concurring that Clady might just be the Chiefs pick. So with the Time Warner empire touting his selection, let’s take a closer…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Comic actor Kevin McDonald began performing with Dave Foley as The Kids in the Hall in 1984. Some stuff happened, time passed, they met some guys and the group became larger, in both a literal and figurative sense. They wrote and performed their self-titled sketch comedy series from 1988 to 1995. McDonald has played housewives, secretaries,…
MP3: The Roseline, “Structure Fire” The Roseline’s second, anti-materialistic album, Lust for Luster, is alt-country gold. Maybe that’s cliched, but think about it: when’s the last time you heard the phrase? Maybe it was when Jeff and Jay dressed up like clowns, hit each other in the faces with pies, then got hosed off by Ryan Adams driving a…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM What a relief! In case you were worried that last night’s Pennsylvania primary would result in a Democratic nominee for president, you can totally put your mind at rest. Sen. Hillary Clinton was elected president of Pennsylvania by a nearly10-point margin. A friend pointed out that Clinton bested Sen. Barack Obama among Pennsylvania whites by 20…
On Tuesday after next, May 6, the Republic Tigers’ long-awaited debut, Keep Color, is finally hitting shelves, and a listening party is scheduled for that evening at the Record Bar. Now’s your chance to hear what all the hype’s about. Categories: Music Tags: listening parties, Tigerswatch
From Gaslights guitarist Chris Meck: After taking a couple of months respite, and playing a duo show in which … well … we kinda sounded like The Gaslights … we’ve elected to carry on. Ryan Johnson (Buffalo Saints, Golden Republic, etc..) is on drums and Erik Voeks is playing bass. Whether or not they’ll be permanent or not will…
Raised on the Radio By ANDY VIHSTADT With the recent debut of the “Radio Heart” video, the Futureheads are three videos deep now and still have another month to go before LP3 hits the streets. This is Not the World comes out May 27 on the band’s own Nul Records, and if you pre-order the album directly from the…
By ERIC BARTON Last night, NBC News aired this story about the recent gun violence in Chicago and offered up this quote from Police Superintendent Jody Weiss: “Why in the world do we allow citizens to own assault rifles?” Funny timing, Jody. Just yesterday, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill into law that allows Kansas residents to buy those…
10. “Conviction of the Heart,” Kenny Loggins and 9. “This Island Earth,” Kenny Loggins : “I want my hair back.” 8. “Hole in the Sky,” Julian Lennon : “More like, ‘Hole in this Guy.” 7. “Skies of L.A.,” Celine Dion %{}% : “Skies of ‘Your Husband Is Gay.’” Categories: Music Tags: Earth Day, our pundits speak!
It’s Earth Day, music junkies. So after you’ve taken the trash you forgot to set on the curb Sunday night to a nearby apartment complex dumpster and gone to work, where you will never again flush after No. 1, peruse the following list of ways you can become a certifiably green music consumer. Part I: The Concert Season 1….
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM As Pennsylvania goes, so goes Barack Obama to the White House. Here’s another article about how the Greatest Generation votes for Hillary Clinton, because they’re used to seeing her on the covers of Modern Maturity and Reader’s Digest, while Barry Obama is featured on the covers of Tiger Beat and American Cheerleader. Surviving veterans of…
I’m pretty sure that Jilly’s, at 19th and Broadway, is no more. Apart from reports from field scouts in the first weeks of April (Jilly’s apparent last weeks), I recently came across this post from a local blogger, describing the place’s apparent last night of business. The numbers I have for the place and its owner, Bob Pierce, have been…
I hadn’t even heard of Kansas City band Spidermums until a few days ago, but they get this week’s Band Purple Heart, having lost a drummer to legal issues a week before going on tour. Last Wednesday, drummer Justin Piatt was caught driving without a license. Piatt was still on probation for a prior drunk driving charge, but apparently…
This JUST in: Now’s your chance to see live waxing on Royales with cheese and whether or not Marsellus Wallace looks like a bitch (he doesn’t). Starting at 7:30 tonight at the Student Union in the West Bottoms, the Late Night Theater crew is doing a live reading of Pulp Fiction, with live soundtrack furnished by Cody Wyoming on…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Victory for the old people. OW! My hip! I’ve heard funnier things on geriatric radio show A Prairie Home Dialysis Companion, but some prissy olds, offended by a very, very slightly off-color joke, have convinced the Kansas City T-Bones to back off their marginally kind of funny Michael Vick Night at Community America Ballpark. So, um,…
On the Record with the Rosebuds By ANDY VIHSTADT Last week, I caught up with the better half of North Carolina’s favorite rock couple, the Rosebuds. Photo courtesy Myspace.com/therosebuds AV: You did a bit of stand-up in December. Does the old adage “Every rock star wants to be a comedian and every comedian dreams about being a rock star…
Spoon, with Olympic Size Sunday, April 20 Liberty Hall Review and Illustration by Grant Snider Spoon makes consistently great albums, with critical response and commercial success building for each release. They’re one of few high-profile indie rock bands New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones could accuse of “musical miscegenation.” They even appeared on Saturday Night Live to promote Ga…
