You’ve read about it in calendar; here’s another reason why you should go to La Esquina (1000 West 25th Street) for the Urban Culture Project’s musical/playacting tribute to Pink Floyd’s The Wall: YOU’LL GET TO HEAR “WHEN THE TIGERS BROKE FREE!” Floyd geeks (and World War II buffs, for that matter) will understand what a treat that’ll be. Written and…
Pale Riders By ANDY VIHSTADT NPR covered the Raconteurs recent visit to D.C. a few nights ago. Stream the entire show here, or get it to go at the Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast Categories: Music Tags: junkie jukebox, you know you’ve made it when
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Graduation Season: In what can only be construed as a colossal mistake by the regents at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, I gave the commencement address to the graduating class this week. I’d called the business office to yell at someone about some bullshit fees they were still trying to collect for some classes I’d dropped…
The Runaway Sons, Thunder Eagle and Dead Set Thursday, 5/29/08 The Point, KCMO Better Than: Other fates that have befallen people at the Point (getting stabbed, maced, etc.). Download: MP3, Thunder Eagle, “Whiskey Pills Lady Shake” By JASON HARPER The Point, with its perennial David Basse and Phil Woods jazz poster up in the window and reputation as an outlaw…
By JASON HARPER The new Olympic Size limited-run LP You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone is chock full of sexy dread and longing. It should be mass printed and airlifted to those people who live in vast modern apartment complexes by exurban airports and handed out along with frequent flyer programs to lonely traveling businessmen. The music is bleak, bedroomy,…
by FLANNERY CASHILL This Friday Death Cab for Cutie seizes the City Market with openers the Kooks and Rogue Wave. Meanwhile the Brick prepares for one-man hyper-band The Show is the Rainbow and locals Don’t Tell Pope, TriHawk and the Hit Shitters. No Pabst ordered without irony. The Replay Lounge helps raise money for a baby named Addison and her…
By PETER RUGG Earlier this month, Kansas City jurors twice declined to punish people with a death sentence for a racially motivated crime. The most recent case being when a judge sentenced 22-year-old Steve Sandstrom to life in prison for the 2005 murder of William McCay. The cases could be a sign of a trend: A newly released report from…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The song played in the stadium during the first inning last night said it all: “We’re Not Going To Guillen the role model? Take It Any More” by Twisted Sister. The Royals lost their 11th in a row last night, with Twins manager Rod Gardenhire damning us in the worst imaginable way: accepting victory by offering pity…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The song played in the stadium during the first inning last night said it all: “We’re Not Going To Guillen the role model? Take It Any More” by Twisted Sister. The Royals lost their 11th in a row last night, with Twins manager Rod Gardenhire damning us in the worst imaginable way: accepting victory by offering pity…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Swing and a miss. Jose Guillen’s post-game tirade may have claimed a target. Today, Billy Butler departs for Omaha. This is a shock, because in April, Butler and Alex Gordon were the two most-promising Royals hitters in the lineup. Butler may or may not have been a target of Guillen’s clubhouse criticism of “babies” who are satisfied…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Swing and a miss. Jose Guillen’s post-game tirade may have claimed a target. Today, Billy Butler departs for Omaha. This is a shock, because in April, Butler and Alex Gordon were the two most-promising Royals hitters in the lineup. Butler may or may not have been a target of Guillen’s clubhouse criticism of “babies” who are satisfied…
By HANNAH ZIMMERMAN Anyone watching The Colbert Report last night saw Sen. Claire McCaskill give the show’s host a Missouri flag. The flag, if you haven’t seen one lately, features in its crest the very thing Stephen Colbert hates: bears. McCaskill then proceeded to promise that there were no bears in Missouri. LIES! According to the Missouri Department of Conservation,…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI To protect the environment, consumption-crazed Americans have to learn to tread lightly when it comes to gobbling up natural resources. Too bad Kansas City residents are clomping around in combat boots. Today the Brookings Institution, an independent think-tank in Washington, D.C., released this study ranking the carbon footprint of the largest 100 U.S. cities. According to their…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Ratatat returns July 8 with its aptly titled LP3, and apparently the NYC duo has a soft spot for Schwarzenegger’s 1987 sci-fi flick, Predator. See for yourself on the video for new song “Mirando,” or just grab the MP3 right here. Categories: Music Tags: Predator, ratatat, Schwarzenegger
By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE Photo by Brad Walsh for Junk-Mag.com NYC blogger Brad Walsh thinks Kansas City is the “New New York City.” Why? Because we spawned the Republic Tigers, Alicia Solombrino, the Ssion and “20 or so transplanted club kids with more original style than I’ve seen around here in a long time.” Walsh made his bold claim in…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM The wondrous magic of imaginary Latinos: It’s not that I actually hate unfunny old Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. It’s just that I think Archer Daniels Midland, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and listeners like you should be pledging money to worthier causes, such as E. Thomas McClanahan’s Asthma Camp for Strict…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN This is Kansas City sports’ low ebb. It is sometimes impossible for a Kansas City sports fan to find anything even vaguely optimistic. The Royals are in last again and mired in a 10-game losing streak, using every bread, circus and promotion available to distract fans save batting Verne Troyer in the lineup. And then there’s last…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN This is Kansas City sports’ low ebb. It is sometimes impossible for a Kansas City sports fan to find anything even vaguely optimistic. The Royals are in last again and mired in a 10-game losing streak, using every bread, circus and promotion available to distract fans save batting Verne Troyer in the lineup. And then there’s last…
by FLANNERY CASHILL Introducing Edge of Forever, Kansas’s premiere Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band. From their Myspace: The drums, keyboard, guitars and bass guitar work have been meticuliously studied, polished and served up hot at every performance, with their stage show presentation of one 3 hr. non-stop set of everybody’s favorites with all of the stage props and the pounding southern/blues/rock…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Thank goodness for little miracles: The fabulous Cheese Steak sandwich on the lunch menu at the short-lived Sarah’s restaurant at 1815 Grand survived the transition to its new incarnation, Twist Urban Eatery. Sarah’s opened in November but I waited until a few weeks ago to check it out. I had a very nice lunch in chef Sarah…
By Jen Chen One night several years ago, my boyfriend was at the Clarette Club in Mission. It was karaoke night, and in between the performances, he saw a scraggly-looking guy with a white beard walk up to the karaoke host. The guy said something to the host, who looked puzzled but then nodded. The guy walked out of the…
Third Eye Productions, a Crossroads-based film- and video-production company, made an immediate effort to fit into the neighborhood when it opened its space at 2024 Main. “We moved into this location last March, and since we came into the Crossroads, it was obvious that we should have a gallery,” says venue manager Chrissy Raker. “We’re running shows March through November….
It is extraordinarily difficult to be a Kansas City sports fan this year. The Royals again occupy the American League Central’s basement; the Chiefs are dismal; and even Kansas City’s Arena Football League team, the Kansas City Brigade, is a consistent loser. The Brigade lost nine of its first 12 games and has one of the league’s worst records, a…
Did you ever do a didgeridoo? Like the indigenous natives of Uluru? That’s in Northern Australia, or “Oz” to you! Then meet Phil Shiva Jones, Australian musician; the didgeridoo is his native tradition. In his capacity as a music clinician, he’ll teach it to you if you’ve got the ambition.You can use eucalyptus, or sometimes bamboo (the former will smell…
