By CHRIS PACKHAM Good morning, my special, special princess. Today will be full of rainbows and porpoises and lots of princesses. The Weather Princess waves her sparkle wand of damaging straight-line winds: So, weather and stuff? Like, up in Gladstone and Pleasant Hill? Last night, a friend said he heard one of the local meteorologists talking about the hi-def Doppler…
Destroyer, with Andre Ethier May 2, 2008 The Record Bar Better Than: Hawaiian Punch spiked with the adrenal gland secretions of a gypsy dwarf. By JASON HARPER If you could Google Andre Ethier’s voice, the results might include a bee-bearded man, a river otter, a dire wolf, a monte cristo sandwich , an antique samovar, and a field guide to…
By JASON HARPER Princes of Pain KC is lucky to catch a couple of not-necessarily-hot but totally solid touring acts this weekend. First up, Little Rock, Ark., band American Princes brings its blend of lo-fi guitar pop, broken-throated harmonies, heavy lyrics and big choruses to Davey’s. You won’t find these dudes written up in the hype-osphere, but if you give…
Remi Remembers By JASON HARPER Not too long ago, in Warrensburg, Missouri, punk was kosher and Kosher was punk. Starting in the dredges of the Warrensburgeois punk scene and rising all the way to a contract with L.A.’s BYO Records, Kosher was a pretty big deal. Its frontman, Remi Remlinger, is remembered as a patriarch of the scene, and the…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The simplest way for a team to draw attention is to win games. Today, the 1-7 Brigade appear to be relying on a different strategy: appealing to nostalgic fantasy football players by announcing the signing of quarterback Quincy Carter. In his career, Carter displays the vocational stability of a migrant farm worker, released by four separate teams…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The simplest way for a team to draw attention is to win games. Today, the 1-7 Brigade appear to be relying on a different strategy: appealing to nostalgic fantasy football players by announcing the signing of quarterback Quincy Carter. In his career, Carter displays the vocational stability of a migrant farm worker, released by four separate teams…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Time is running out to get a controversial anti-affirmative-action measure on the Missouri ballot this November. So, in a rush to get signatures before May 4, organizers for the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative are recruiting out-of-state volunteers with an all-expenses-paid vacation to the Show-Me State. The Missouri Civil Rights Initiative aims to amend the state constitution to…
By JEN CHEN In case you missed Stephen Colbert last night, check out his interview with Donna Brazile. Not only do they flirtily joke about meeting up in Kansas City after the show (it’s the halfway point between Stephen in New York and Donna via satellite from San Francisco), but at the very end of the clip, Stephen starts singing,…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Last night, the Americans for Prosperity brought itsHot Air Tour to Kansas City, promising free rides in a 70-foot balloon to raise awareness about “Global Warming Alarmism.” Annie Patnaude, a spokesperson for the national group that advocates free-market and small government, told us that AFP isn’t saying climate change is a hoax. “We just want to have…
Thought you weren’t gonna hear from Night Ranger ever again? You were wrong, sister Christian. Photo by Scott Harrison Pretty much a Wayward Blog exclusive, here’s the new single from Night Ranger, off their brand new album, Hole In the Sun, set for release July 1 on VH1 Classic Records. Categories: Music Tags: motorin’, Night Ranger, the 80s
Americans for Prosperity brought its Hot Air Tour to Kansas City, promising free rides in a 70-foot balloon to raise awareness about “Global Warming Alarmism.” Because of the wind, they didn’t get airborne. But we did snap a few photos.
By ANDY VIHSTADT Chem Lab London’s Stereolab is prepping its ninth studio LP, slated for August 19 on 4AD Records. Grab the first single from Chemical Chords below, thanks to Pitchfork. MP3: Stereolab, “Three Women” Laid The man responsible for three decades of hookups is teaming up with the Roots’ ?uestlove to Lay it Down. Al Green’s upcoming LP is…
Caribou, with Fuck Buttons Wednesday, April 30 The Record Bar Review by GREG FRANKLIN Photos by MICHAEL FORESTER Walking into the Record Bar, I was practically slapped in the face by the droning fuzz of Fuck Buttons, an experimental/noise duo from the UK. On record, Fuck Buttons fully realizes the sonic subtleties of its droning keys and pushing simplistic beats…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM My, what a pretty dress you’re wearing: It’s May Day! The day we — I mean you — prance around a pole and sing medieval songs about cuckoos, the asshole of the bird family according to bird scientists. WHO WILL BE CROWNED THE QUEEN OF MAY DAY? I nominate one of those attention-hungry hobbits from the…
Musicians and music fans alike — cool people, in other words — are no strangers to the plight of the uninsured, because we’ve all been there, right? Hell, some of us are still there. So thank heavens for free clinics, like KU Med’s Jaydoc clinic, that not only treats your sick ass but rocks it once a year with a…
BY DAVID MARTIN The Cordish Co. claims that the Kansas City Power & Light District is an $850 million project. That number appears to be off by about a half-billion dollars. Scrounging around my desk for a lost CD, I came across a glossy brochure the Downtown Council put out a couple of years ago. The brochure illustrates in impressive…
Sports enthusiasts and British glitterati stalkers alike were crestfallen last year when David Beckham, international man of intrigue and occasional soccer player, sat out his visit to Arrowhead Stadium due to an injury. Local Anglophiles have another chance to see a heartthrob from across the Atlantic when British author Santa Montefiore appears at 10:30 a.m. at Churchill in the Fairway…
Old black-and-white movies can make our grandparents’ wardrobes seem awfully romantic. Women didn’t leave the house without stockings, men always wore hats and T-shirts were considered underwear. But anyone who goes out in a New Deal-era getup on a summer day in 2008 risks looking affected and getting sweaty. Aubergine Vintage Couture, the new boutique at 1719 West 39th Street,…
Cannibalistic murders are happening around town, and Dr. Xavier’s medical academy is under suspicion. Lionel Atwill and scream queen Fay Wray star. Shown as part of the Forbidden Hollywood film series. Thu., May 8, 6 p.m., 2008 Tags: Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Night & Day
On this Mother’s Day, take Mom to the sculpture garden at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for a free performance of a giant, interactive puppet show. Also: flower arranging, basil seed transplanting and ice cream. And, oh yeah, there’s, like, a bunch of art inside the museum to look at, too. Sun., May 11, 2 p.m., 2008 Tags: Mother’s Day,…
More than 80,000 visitors are expected for the annual art show and sale in Brookside. Most artists’ booths are set up under and around a series of large tents at 63rd Street and Brookside Boulevard, which allows the show to go on, rain or shine. A wide variety of media – including acrylic, oil and watercolor painting; photography, sculpture, ceramics,…
Life at Three Feet is an exhibit of photos by very young photographers. “The idea behind it was that kids are always at First Friday exhibits, running back and forth through the studios, often with nothing to look at,” says Sabrina Staires, who organized the exhibit. She distributed disposable cameras to a group of children ages 4 to 8, and…
Without singling out any specific public art for mockery — because that would be mean — Kansas City does boast a few, um, unevenly executed public murals. So it seems right to point out the unimpeachably competent jazz mural on the southeastern wall of the Power & Light District, a new commercial entertainment venture in downtown Kansas City with which…
Anyone scared off by the idea of experimental film should consider just how bizarre the nonexperimental has become. Imagine Edison being lugged to Iron Man and expected to make sense of the cuts, perspectives and narrative shorthand our minds have shaped themselves to parse. Because truth is always tougher than fantasy to capture in art, filmmakers such as Kansas City’s…
