Archives: July 2008
Concert Review: Jon Dee Graham, Nervous Turkey and Exene Cervenka at Davey’s Uptown, 7/19/08
Jon Dee Graham, Nervous Turkey and Exene Cervenka Saturday, July 19 Davey’s Uptown Better than: Watching Lifetime on a Saturday night By RICHARD GINTOWT On the right night, Davey’s Uptown can feel like the center of the Kansas City universe. Such was the feeling on Saturday night as Ernie Locke – he of Tenderloin, Parlay and Sin City Disciples fame…
Breakfast Buffet: Monday 7/21
By OWEN MORRIS Contrary to my previous prediction, I’m sorry to say your Starbucks isn’t safe. The company is closing four area stores: three in the burbs and the one in the H&R Block Building. I apologize if you thought I had any insider information on my last post. I should have made clear I didn’t. I was just trying…
Tattoo Rendezvous
The metallic buzzing that anyone who has a tattoo can recognize filled the halls surrounding the Embassy Suites ballroom on Saturday for Tattoo Rendezvous. The convention featured a maze of tattoo artists, vendors and hundreds of the well-inked.
Cut Copy & Presets Coming to Record Bar
Good. Fucking. NEWS. CUT COPY is coming to the Record Bar in our very own Kansas City on September 15. And they’re bringing the Presets! Guess what? I love Cut Copy. The Australian electropop/dance/rock group’s latest, In Ghost Colours, has been tearing up my discman since its release earlier this year, and I haven’t even been listening to much dance…
Andy Chambers
By JEN CHEN On a muggy Thursday afternoon, Andy was walking with an out-of-drag DeDe DeVille down 39th Street. His red-checkered shirt caught my eye. He paired the shirt with loose-fitting, knee-length shorts, which were navy blue with white pinstripes. The overall effect — along with the hat — is what I’d call “jaunty.” Categories: News Tags: Andy Chambers, hat,…
Supergrass with Foo Fighters at Kemper Arena, 7/19/08
Photos from Saturday night’s show by Scott Spychalski.
Viva Estro-Cards: Local Greeting Card Company Isn’t Exactly Hallmark
By JEN CHEN Last May, local residents Tiffany Lewis and Jackie Malena launched Viva Vogue, an e-card Web site for women. Viva Vogue’s cards are a little more risqué than, say, Hallmark or Blue Mountain. The estro-friendly topics include speed dating, internet dating and PMS, among others. Recurring card characters on the wine-colored Web site include Diva Dish, Prima Pink,…
Mystery Waiter Almost Revealed
By CHARLES FERRUZZA No one needs to tell me that a restaurant can seem like a psychiatric ward on certain nights (especially during a full moon). In the case of the author and blogger currently known only as The Waiter – he knows it’s true. Before he became a waiter, he worked in the mental health field: “I was one…
Dude, Were You At the Ween Afterparty?
Someone mentioned to us a few days ago that Ween played an afterparty at Midwestern Music after their show here a week ago. Then, yesterday, another person said the same thing — and that it was on “the youtube.” After dutifully getting drunk and making out with your mother and passing out, we awoke and searched the youtube for evidence…
O.A.R.
O.A.R.
Shop Watch: Envolve
By NADIA PFLAUM Grand and 11th is no longer the last place on earth to look for style. Twenty-eight-year-old Brandi Rogers opened a clothing boutique named Envolve at 1103 Grand a year ago, and people are slowly catching on that there’s more to that urban corner than bail bonds offices and a crack-dusted bus stop. Categories: News Tags: Envolve, hype,…
Kyle Whalun in Westport
By JEN CHEN I was walking around in Westport on a Thursday afternoon when I spotted this sharp-looking guy in front of Tea Drops. Kyle had just rolled into town and was looking for Big Dude’s Music City. He’s the bass player for James Otto, a country singer, and they were performing later that night at the Beaumont Club. Categories:…
OP Man Conquers 200th Beer, Gets Plate and 20-Pound Paunch
By ERIC BARTON On Thursday, Michael Krueger, a 44-year-old law firm analyst from Overland Park, went to the Flying Saucer bar in the Power & Light District to relish in the fact that he can drink a lot of beer fast. Krueger was the first in Kansas City to drink all 200 of the Flying Saucer’s beers. Here then is…
Poison Overdrive
Poison Overdrive
The English Beat
The English Beat
Concert Review: JJ Grey and Mofro
By ERIC BARTON If you’ve ever been to Lochloosa, you’d wonder why JJ Grey is always singing about it. It’s up in the Florida lake country, past nothing and halfway to Hawthorne. I think there might be a Hardee’s there. But there’s something in Grey’s voice when he sings that song about his hometown. There’s something that feels like true…
Daily Briefs: Economic news and a sincere letter of apology
By CHRIS PACKHAM I say, have you noticed the sheer, amazing proliferation of Starbucks coffee purveyors? %{}%Four area Starbucks stores are closing, including the location inside the H&R Block building downtown. HAHAHA, those things are everywhere, how psychotically crazy is that? Someone should really get around to writing something funny about a Starbucks being across the street from a Starbucks,…
Sean Tevis Campaign Site Offers Stick Figure Theater
By Justin Kendall Freedom isn’t free. It costs a buck o’ five. To Sean Tevis, democracy costs $8.34. Well, maybe beating Arlen Siegfreid costs that much. Tevis, a Democrat, is challenging Siegfreid, the Republican ruler of Kansas House District 15, which reps downtown Olathe. Tevis has created the best campaign site I have ever seen. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Arlen…
Kline’s Campaign Manager Hates Abortion but Loves Christmas
By Justin Kendall Phill Kline has enlisted a battle-scarred Christian solider to run his campaign for Johnson County District Attorney. Giroux Jennifer Giroux, the executive director of the Cincinnati, Ohio-based Women Influencing the Nation, has packed up her minivan and come to Kansas to help Kline in the August 5 Republican primary. I called Giroux earlier this week to talk…
Rockin’ the Colonies Review Preview
Those heading out to the Crossroads at Grinders tomorrow night for the English Beat/Fixx/Alarm show may be interested to read this review of the tour stop last night in St. Louis by “Dreamboat” Annie Zaleski at our sister paper, the Waterfront Companion. The intrepid Zaleski also shot a couple of videos, including the one below of the English Beat. Kinda…
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