Archives: July 2008
Gym Class Heroes’ Front Man Travis McCoy Arrested In St. Louis
In a blog posting this afternoon, Riverfront Times music editor Annie Zaleski reports that Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy was arrested yesterday in St. Louis for allegedly assaulting a fan. Witnesses claim the fan with whom McCoy “scuffled” had called McCoy an “ignorant nigger.” Says Zaleski: Sergeant Joe Eagan of the Maryland Heights Police Department says department policy is not…
Your Starbucks is Safe
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Starbucks announced today that it plans to close 600 stores in the U.S. Starbucks is keeping mum on which stores it will close but said “70 percent of the stores to be closed were opened after the start of 2006.” What is the likelihood that your neighborhood Starbucks will go the way of the Westport Starbucks?…
Gay Residents Answer: ‘When Did You Know?’
BY CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI “I knew I was gay when the most exciting part of my Bar Mitzvah was meeting with the party planner.” — Howard Bragman, public relations executive “When I was six I loved my first grade teacher so much I knew I would have to grow up to be a boy so I could come back and ask…
Local Marine Maj. Mike Corrado Contributes Song to To The Fallen Records Compilation
By PETER RUGG Before 9/11, U.S. Marine Corps Major Mike Corrado was opening up for acts like John Mayer and Robert Cray. After 9/11, he was in Iraq, overseeing security at a military base in Fallujah. Now safely back in Kansas City, his experiences and his lyrics about the life of a military man have given the singer-songwriter a wave…
Daily Briefs: Think of the children. Plus: Truth trucks and patriots.
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Covering a dispute over the transfer of some school buildings from the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to Independence, The Kansas City Star editorial page takes the easy, cushion-y path of upholstered least resistance, bypassing any explanatory preamble and just immediately invoking the children. Right there in the lede! I mean, Jesus, warm me up a…
Josephine Collective Release New Album, Video
By FLANNERY CASHILL Kansas City’s Josephine Collective dreams big. The group has a contract with Warner Brothers, tours with Warped Tour, and now awaits the release of their new album, We Are The Air, produced by John Feldmann of the Used and Good Charlotte. What’s next, a Pepsi sponsorship? One can only hope. We Are the Air comes out as…
Your Starbucks is Safe
By OWEN MORRIS Starbucks announced today that it plans to close 600 stores in the U.S. Starbucks is keeping mum on which stores it will close but said “70 percent of the stores to be closed were opened after the start of 2006.” What is the likelihood that your neighborhood Starbucks will go the way of the Westport Starbucks? Not…
Jose Guillen, the Howard Beale of the Royals
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Jose Guillen doesn’t care about me or what I think. On Friday, he said the following (presumably with numerous expletives omitted): “I care less about the fans and how they boo me,” Guillen said. “They booed me earlier in the season when I was struggling. I could care less. They don’t know what’s going on with Jose…
The Download Extra: New UNKLE MP3s
By ANDY VIHSTADT James Lavelle (the man from UNKLE) is getting the word out on his upcoming fourth LP with a few free tracks. “Blade in the Back” should be available to download here, via RCRD LBL sometime today and “Synthetic Water” is promised to be available right here, on Friday. Check out a couple more tracks below. End Titles…Stories…
Community Space Looking for Members
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI For the most part, it has been a good year for the Crossroads Infoshop. After being cramped in a leaky back room in a promising but deteriorating building on Troost Avenue, the community gathering space, music venue and radical book shop moved to a much larger store front with far more foot traffic. Volunteers spent months transforming…
This Week in MP3s
Kaiser Cartel nurse their broken heart with folk-inspired indie-pop. MP3: “Okay” by Kaiser Cartel, from March Forth (bluhammock music) Becky Barta channels Nashville pop-country queen Patsy Cline. MP3: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” performed by Becky Barta, from Crazy…And Then Some (self-released) Categories: Music Tags: Becky Barta, kaiser cartel, Lori Chaffer, MP3, The People’s Liberation Big Band, Waiting for…
Vans Warped Tour 2008
Vans Warped Tour 2008
Kline Buys JoCo House from Campaign Donors
By Justin Kendall Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline is moving back to Shawnee – and he’s buying a house from two long-time campaign donors. The day after announcing his intentions to seek a full term as district attorney on June 10, Kline told The Kansas City Star that his family would be Johnson County homeowners “very, very soon.” Kline…
The KCPD uses pink handcuffs
By NADIA PFLAUM A friend of mine was recently arrested. It’s a long story, and he was telling it over beers in a friend’s backyard. While my friend was briefly detained at the Kansas City Police Department headquarters, he was handcuffed. And the handcuffs were pink. “Pink? Seriously?” I asked. “Pink,” he said again. Later, I called Captain Rich Lockhart,…
Horsley Backed the Arts; Now the Arts Community Backs Horsley
By JEN CHEN Nobody was a bigger backer of the symphony than Horsley. The local arts community is still riled up about the firing of Paul Horsley, The Kansas City Star’s classical music critic. Horsley was part of the mid-June purge by the Star’s parent company, McClatchy. Horsley’s firing has inspired outrage and threats of canceled subscriptions. Now comes a…
Star Readers’ Rep Makes a Case for the Dulls
BY DAVID MARTIN Mailer had the balls the Star lacks. Derek Donovan, The Kansas City Star’s readers’ representative, posed a question in a recent column: Should journalism be interesting? Donovan says “yes.” But only to a point. Seldom missing an opportunity to make the lively pursuit of journalism seem tedious, Donovan wrote a piece in Sunday’s paper about “newsmakers’ behind…
New Koufax Album and Live Gig On the Way
Koufax has a new album coming out. Why haven’t we heard from Koufax lately? It’s probably because bandleader Rob Suchan has been living in Praha in the Czech Republic while writing the new album, while his band mates have been at home in Lawrence, sending Rob messages like “done yet?” and “how’s the coffee in Prague?” Something like that. Anyway,…
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