By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Architecture firm BNIM, which includes green-building visionary Bob Berkebile, took home a prize this week from The History Channel as part of the network’s “City of the Future” challenge. The national competition asked architects to create visionary models for what urban centers could look like in the year 2108. BNIM, on a design team along with Atlanta-based…
By ERIC BARTON Over at the other end of Missouri’s portion of I-70, Monsanto is sort of a big deal, giving out money like they’ve figured out how to genetically modify soybean plants to make it. The seed and herbicide maker, for instance, has its money in the St. Louis Science Center and the Categories: News Tags: genetically modified food,…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM FAIL: Ward Connerly came all the way from California to stop all the affirmative action in Missouri, and now he’s going back home a spent, miserable failure of a man. HAHA! I’m now enjoying the satisfying sensation the Germans call zeitshadengeisteshichtefreudenwagen, which is roughly defined as “taking pleasure in the failure of Ward Connerly.” He had…
American Music Club, with Expassionates and Olympic Size May 5, 2008 The Record Bar Better Than: Going to bed alone and waking up with a stranger By SCOTT WILSON Click photo to view slideshow American Music Club songwriter and frontman Mark Eitzel has a voice like rancid caramel and a borderline-autistic stage presence. Which makes him the perfect delivery system…
The Frames with Swell Season May 5, 2008 The Uptown Theater by PENNY LaROCQUE OK, I admit it: I cried at the end of Once. Glen Hansard’s portrayal of a broken-hearted Dublin busker wrenched my heart right out of my chest cavity. I wanted him to get the girl. To have the music engineer respect him, damn it! And Marketa…
by ANDY VIHSTADT Do You Want More?!!!??! This one, along with “Birthday Girl”, didn’t make it onto US copies of the Roots’ Rising Down for some unknown reason. See how the rest of the world is living below. MP3: The Roots, “Grand Return”, courtesy of Spine Magazine Internal Affairs NYC rapper Pharoahe Monch has leaked his first post-Desire material. No…
by NADIA PFLAUM A helpful reader called in today to report that the “Hypnotized Tour” at Kemper Arena Sunday night was a disappointing bust. Promotional fliers listed the artists that were supposed to perform: Plies, Rick Ross, Lil Boosie, Juvenile, Pretty Ricky, Yo Gotti, Pop It Boyz, Shay and Mon-E-G. Tickets were $50. KPRS, the station that plays Plies’ song…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The Royals have a new strategy in 2008: prayer, and not just when assembling the roster. Both manager Trey Hillman and General Manager Dayton Moore appeared at the Midwest Baptist Theological Seminary Monday, speaking with humility concerning God’s presence in their life. At no point did they suggest that God cares about whether the Royals win. (Although…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The Royals have a new strategy in 2008: prayer, and not just when assembling the roster. Both manager Trey Hillman and General Manager Dayton Moore appeared at the Midwest Baptist Theological Seminary Monday, speaking with humility concerning God’s presence in their life. At no point did they suggest that God cares about whether the Royals win. (Although…
Mr. Fish Soft Serve Assault (self-released) by LORNA PERRY “S.O.L.V.E.N.T.” by Mr. Fish, from Soft Serve Assault (self-released): The boys of Mr. Fish ask not to be taken too seriously. Which is a good thing, because these five suburbanite lads are all still in high school. Which isn’t to say their musicianship isn’t as impressive as it is fun. Soft…
The pants are shitted. Tom Waits will bring his Glitter & Doom Tour to St. Louis on June 26 at Fox Theatre. We have to go. Behold, Anti- has put together highlights from Waits’ recent gonzo press conference about the tour. Categories: Music Tags: TOMWAITS
Actually, that’s just Tim Braun, newest member of Lights & Siren, and his bandmate/boss Anna Cole. Braun, former guitarist for the Supernauts, joined L&S a couple of weeks ago to fill the shoes of Jenny Carr, who left the band, Anna says, to pursue her own projects. Look for Lights & Siren’s debut, Our Hands Make Waves, later this summer….
Blues Explosion By ANDY VIHSTADT Along with gracing the new Grand Theft Auto soundtrack, the Black Keys are looking to expand their fan base by covering a tune from Captain Beefheart’s 1967 debut. Download “I’m Glad” at the Ohio duo’s MySpace page, right here. The track doesn’t appear on Attack & Release and will only be available until Friday. Categories:…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Hey hey, ho ho! These factory overstock 2007 Malibus have got to go: As of 9 a.m., the United Auto Workers union local are on strike at the General Motors Fairfax plant. American consumers have been on strike from buying General Motors cars for quite a few years, so SOLIDARITY, NORMA RAE! This is about local…
Where you Friday night? After watching this slideshow, you’ll wish you’d been at the Brick for Super Black Market and its older brother, Kosher. Click on the photo go to the slideshow. Read last week’s interview with Remi of Kosher and grab MP3s here. Categories: Music Tags: Kosher, punk, Super Black Market
By JASON HARPER Last night at the Record Bar, Dead Girls Ruin Everything co-frontman JoJo Longbottom took the stage with a fractured left heel. Categories: Music Tags: DGRE, rock injuries, scene snapshots
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Sure, mainstream journalists might remark amongst themselves about whether new Chiefs fullback Mike Cox has the size to compete in the NFL, whether Mike Cox will be a member of the squad, whether Mike Cox requires performance-enhancing drugs, whether it would be painful to cut Mike Cox, or whether Mike Cox can finally fill the void left…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Sure, mainstream journalists might remark amongst themselves about whether new Chiefs fullback Mike Cox has the size to compete in the NFL, whether Mike Cox will be a member of the squad, whether Mike Cox requires performance-enhancing drugs, whether it would be painful to cut Mike Cox, or whether Mike Cox can finally fill the void left…
By NADIA PFLAUM John Sebelius, the 23-year-old son of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, is following up the creation of his controversial board game, “Don’t Drop the Soap,” with a new clothing line called Gillius Inc. It sells at Hobbs at 700 Massachusetts in Lawrence, Kansas, and debuts at the Legends at Deegie’s Carma on May 17. He answered my questions…
By ERIC BARTON It seemed strange this morning to read Jason Whitlock complain in this column about how the editors of Playboy screwed up a story he’d written for the magazine by writing a headline that he didn’t like. The Kansas City Star’s sports columnist claimed that the headline — “Jason Whitlock, The Black KKK” — didn’t reflect the freelance…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Viva La Hate If Paul Rudd’s comment about Coldplay in The 40-Year-Old Virgin didn’t discourage you from ever listening to Chris Martin & co again, grab the band’s new single, “Violet Hill,” right here until Tuesday. Viva La Vida comes out June 12 on Capitol. Death Proof Narrow Stairs hits stores on May 13 via Atlantic. For…
By JEN CHEN Bobby, from his high school yearbook Earlier this week, The Kansas City Star’s Dan Margolies wrote this article about Robert Coughlin, the Pembroke Hill graduate who got embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Bobby, a high-ranking Justice Department official, supposedly accepted free meals and tickets from Abramoff’s firm. He pleaded guilty to a single count of conflict…
Play the guitar, matey? Now’s yer chance to join a pirate band! Musical Blades is a real, actual band. They’re based in Shawnee and recently placed this ad on Backpage.com seeking a guitarist. From the ad: “Our music is mostly original, traditional sounding, comedy laden (pirate) sea chanties, but we also do non-comedic songs, as well as a few traditional…
By ERIC BARTON Kansas City weathercasters missed their chance to make on-air, off-color jokes about Jared Allen’s jersey number. But Twin Cities weatherman Chris Shaffer wasted no time going right for the tasteless, joking on air that Allen coming to Minneapolis was an omen that somebody was “gonna get 69 sex!” Shaffer quickly realized he’d gone too far. He corrected…
