The Get Up Kids Novemer 16, 2008 The Record Bar By AARON LADAGE Photos by FORESTER “When the hell did the Get Up Kids get back together?” Give or take the superfluous swear word, this was undoubtedly the question on most people’s minds when word of a TGUK reunion show started trickling in over the last few months and culminating…
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of Something to Write Home About, the Get Up Kids reformed for a barely publicized reunion show.
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Click on photo for a slide show of the protest. The temperature was low, but the energy was high as hundreds of Kansas City residents joined a nationwide protest against California’s new gay-marriage ban Saturday afternoon. With colorful signs calling for equal rights for gay and lesbian couples, the crowd was so large that those on the…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI After a bullet from Iraqi rebels paralyzed him from the chest down, Northland native and Army veteran Tomas Young agreed to film the splintering of his life in the hopes that the brutally honest documentary would serve as a counter-recruitment tool. But Body of War, made by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, has become much more than…
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By DAVID MARTIN Ed Wolf’s nearly 200-page deposition has provided a lot of infotainment for people who follow the Appalachian-Neapolitan soap opera in the Kansas City mayor’s office. First lady Gloria Squitiro’s alleged penchant for the inappropriate and Wolf’s “mother-in-law on honeymoon” money quote have received the most attention. Less eye-catching but also interesting is the discussion about Squitiro’s status…
By JUSTIN KENDALL I concede that my Super Mario skills no longer exist. This morning, I discovered Super Obama World, a knockoff of the Mario Bros.Nintendo franchise in which you play as president-elect Barack Obama, crossing the infamous Bridge to Nowhere into Alaska to battle on the Palin estate and try to return hope to America. All the while avoiding…
By NADIA PFLAUM KMBC Channel 9 anchors Maria Antonia and Kelly Eckerman and reporter Peggy Breit filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon against the local ABC affiliate and its parent company, Hearst-Argyle Stations, alleging that they were discriminated against because of their age and gender. “The environment at KMBC-TV has transformed over time, from one of cooperation into a hostile environment,…
By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}%Now that America has elected Barack H. Obama as its President, America has come together as One People, united in a sense of common purpose, like for instance, the belief that Barack Obama is going to take away our guns, y’all; he is totally going to do that with his ATF shock-troops just as soon as he…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Sean Tevis didn’t win a seat in the Kansas Legislature, but the guy was still a campaign phenom. The latest from his campaign site is the story of taking his blog down after 10 years because his opponent would most surely use any and all silly photos against him in attack ads. “I felt like I was…
By OWEN MORRIS I was down in the Power & Light District and decided to stop by the Peachtree to see how it was coming along. I walked up the steps to the second-level restaurant and lo and behold learned I had stumbled upon its grand opening. Categories: A&E, Dining Tags: Peachtree, power & light, restaurant openings
By ANDY VIHSTADT MP3: Simian Mobile Disco, In the Mix (N-Joy) 11/7/08 (thanks to Brooklyn Vegan) ZIP: Mick Boogie & Terry Urban, Viva la Hova (Coldplay/Jay-Z mashup album) ZIP: Anti- Records 2008/2009 sampler. Tracklist 01. “Mexico City” – Jolie Holland 02. “Pieces Of You” – Islands 03. “Say Hey (I Love You)” – Michael Franti & Spearhead 04. “Whispers” –…
By OWEN MORRIS The 801 Chop House has more menus than some restaurants have items: a fine wines menu, a wines-by-the-glass menu, a bar menu, a fresh catch menu, a Sunday prix-fixe menu, a dessert menu and finally, a menu. Each is printed on a separate sheet of heavy paper; the fine wines menu is six pages with a six-point…
Chris Martin and his mates in Coldplay came to Kansas City on 11/18/2008, fulfilling the postponement of a summer gig on their Viva La Vida tour.
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Am I the only one who gets too little sleep? Obviously not — everybody I ask says they’re tired. Either that, or they’ve fallen asleep before the question is over. Turns out not sleeping is bad for the body. Like, really bad. Gordon Ramsey was voted number one chain-operator in Britain, a claim he probably won’t…
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Coldplay November 13, 2008 Sprint Center By JASON HARPER Photos by SCOTT SPYCHALSKI Click photo for slide show. To the question at hand: is Coldplay cool? Cool enough, that is, for a discerning, punk-bred, 45-collecting, uncomfortable-shoes-wearing music blog reader such as you? Well, if you’re reading this review at all, most likely you already love Coldplay and you’re just waiting…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Finally, we know the real reason for the Kansas City Star’s decline. The Star’s financial woes apparently aren’t due to the bad economy, much less the industry-wide loss of revenue as advertisers migrated to the Internet over the last two decades, or the changing habits of readers who get more of their news online. Instead, the Star’s…
By DAVID MARTIN Ed Wolf, Mark Funkhouser’s former chief of staff, compared Gloria Squitiro’s presence in the mayor’s office to that of a mother-in-law brought on honeymoon. The comments are in a deposition obtained by The Pitch. Update: Here’s a copy of the deposition. Wolf, who left the mayor’s office in September, answered “yes” when asked if he felt that…
By JUSTIN KENDALL First George Brett, and now self-proclaimed “Big Sexy.” Deadspin has the latest Facebook status update from Star columnist Jason Whitlock. It ain’t pretty. Categories: News Tags: Deadspin, Facebook, George Brett, Jason Whitlock, Poop
The latest videographic installment from the Black Clover family, simply titled “Black Clover Posse Cut,” features Mac Lethal, Grieves and the Soulcrate Music dudes landscaping, barbecuing T-shirts and drinking microbrews at the Overland Park home of Mr. J. W——-. As with the previous viddy joints, “Calm Down Baby” and “Black Widow Spider,” this one was directed by Kyle Harbaugh. Enjoy…
