By DAVID MARTIN The 2008 Royals finished 13 games out of first place in the AL Central — an improvement on the recent past with much work still be done. The 12-game losing streak was out of the ordinary. Few saw the 13-2 finish coming. But at Jose Guillen’s last angry glare, the club’s record stood at 75-87 — below…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS If I had one word to describe the class attitude last night, it would be “pissy.” Everyone was in a sour mood the entire time. Despite the culture of the celebrity chef, there are no stars in a kitchen, just a team. When half the members of that team are in a bad mood then the…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Mercury Rev released its seventh studio LP today, but whether you decide to purchase Snowflake Midnight or not, you can download its companion album, Strange Attractor, for free at the band’s website. Join the mailing list here for the link. Categories: Music
Beck, with MGMT September 29, 2008 The Uptown Theater By RICHARD GINTOWT Click to view our slideshow. For the first five years of Beck’s mainstream career, it seemed like each of his albums were paradigm shifts. Each invented an entirely different context with a unified body of material. That started changing about the time of Guero, and though all his…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Emo Boehner is very sad. The Fed is furiously printing new money, since sad congressional Republicans’ feelings got hurt by a MEAN STUPID LADY, causing them to reject the Wall Street bailout plan and go listen to Death Cab while cutting on themselves because AT LEAST THEN THEY CAN FEEL SOMETHING! Specifically, the Fed is coughing…
By OWEN MORRIS In times of crisis, people revert to canned goods. Yesterday, only one stock on the S&P gained. Only one out of 500! That stock you ask? Campbell Soup. (Wonkette) Speaking of values, food marketers are now shying away from pushing expensive new lines and reverting back to “cost-value” safe foods. That is, safe foods with a very…
Seasoned alt-rocker Beck played with indie young’uns MGMT last night at the Uptown. Photos by Scott Spychalski.
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Kansas City already has plenty of famous mob bosses. Add Babette Geer to that list. As soon as the Brookside resident saw Brent Schulkin’s video, she knew she had to recruit a “Carrotmob” of her own. “It just talked to me,” the environmentalist says. “I thought, I’ve got to do this.” Unlike the notorious Pendergast family, Schulkin’s…
By DAVID MARTIN An investigation into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys confirms the rumor that Missouri Sen. Kit Bond can’t stomach Jeff Roe, the sharp-elbowed Republican operative. I had heard that Bond and his people didn’t like Roe (pictured) in 2004. I was reporting a story about Roe and the rough tactics he deployed against Republicans and Democrats alike….
By JUSTIN KENDALL Supposedly, it’s hard to get a date in Kansas City. Maybe it’s just easy to get laid here. So says Mingle2, an online dating Web site, which ranks KC in the top 10 most promiscuous cities in the United States. Mingle2’s Dating Report says the average Kansas Citian has slept with 11 people. But we don’t have…
Federation of Horsepower, Whiskey Boots and Buddy Lush September 26, 2008 The Riot Room Better than: Making every green light from the River Market to Midtown on Main in the middle of the day. By BERRY ANDERSON Troy Van Horn of Federation of Horsepower. Last Friday night, even though entertainment options were as numerous as dancing baby boomers in the…
For those unsatisfied with Chris Packham’s visual aids, we present Scott Spychalski’s photos from the Dandy Warhols concert this weekend in Lawrence. Click below to view the slideshow. Categories: Music Tags: dandy warhols, slideshows
Montreal’s Stars played with Dublin’s Bell X1 at the Granada this Friday. Photos by Scott Spychalski.
The Dandy Warhols played Lawrence Friday night with openers Upsidedown and Darker My Love. Photos by Scott Spychalski.
By OWEN MORRIS “Foods to eat before you die” has become a popular Internet meme. Two of our sister blogs Fork in The Road from Village Voice and Eating our Words from Houston Press put their own spin on it, so I have decided to do the same for Kansas City. This list is my own and purely subjective. I…
Stars and Bell X1 September 26, 2008 The Granada Better Than: sitting at home on a Friday night watching the presidential debates By GAVIN SNIDER Click to view our slideshow. It was couples’ night Friday at the Granada, kids standing arm in arm on the dingy floor, holding hands and talking in quiet anticipation. Parents sat at tables toward the…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Brooklyn-based MGMT is opening things up for Beck tonight at the Uptown. The duo performed at KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic a couple weeks ago. Download the six-song set here at Hearsay. Categories: Music
By OWEN MORRIS I once asked a very good bartender what his secret was and he said it was knowing that only half a bartender’s job is about making drinks, the other half is about service. That’s the main theme in this post about local bars’ service. (KC Beer Blog) Thank our eBay culture for this but on Saturday this…
By CHRIS PACKHAM It was probably during hour 36 of my three-day marathon viewing of all the DVD season sets of 1980s vagcom Designing Women that I realized how good women have been to me over the years. Maybe it was smart, sassy Julia Sugarbaker’s tough but tender liberal moralism, or Mary Jo Shively’s super-sexxxy pragmatism, but I realized that,…
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By CHRIS PACKHAM Irony-core rock combo The Dandy Warhols, named for beloved and influential mid-20th century pop artist Grandma Moses, played at Lawrence’s magnificent and terrifying Liberty Hall Friday night until the stroke of curfew. After the jump, a review of that concert. Click here or on precious national treasure Grandma Moses: Categories: Music Tags: Belial, Brent De Boer, Courtney…
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