I hear the first cheers around 10 or 11 in the morning, before anybody on the bus besides the driver is awake. From inside my capsulelike bunk, behind blackout curtains, the burst of screams and applause sounds strange and otherworldly. It is Saturday, November 22, and the two trailer-dragging buses and the equipment truck have just pulled into the parking…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA I know I’m risking public scorn by admitting this, but I just don’t think the “Awesome Reuben” sandwich served at the New York Bakery and Delicatessen is very awesome. I like this venue a lot and it serves a nice thick corned beef sandwich, but in my opinion, a Reuben it ain’t. The New York Bakery’s Reuben…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM O Holy Econocalypse: There should be a horror movie called Black Friday, because obviously they chose to give the first shopping day after Thanksgiving an extremely creepy-sounding name. Which, no criticism, you guys, my new puppy’s name is Li’l Princess Blood Feast, after the shocksploitation classic Blood Feast, by Herschel Gordon Lewis, and she’s ADORABLE. I’ve…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Tonight I finally realized why Johnson County Community College has our upper-level class cook in the smallest and most crowded kitchen in the entire school. The answer dawned on me as I was literally stuck in an impasse between two students cooking on a stove-top with two more students beyond them in each direction. In the…
Last night, we had our own case of Corgan-flu, but we’ll have a reviewer at the show tonight, promise. In the meantime, check out Tim Finn’s review at Back to Rockville, and enjoy our tasty photos, by our man Scott Spychalski. Categories: Music Tags: billy corgan, midland, Smashing Pumpkins, the world is a vampire
A dual birthday-party-plus-eviction-celebration kicked off around 38th and Walnut over the weekend. Art students don’t take fashion – or dancing- lightly.
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Known for its nation-leading urban sprawl, Kansas City has spent almost three decades spinning its wheels when it comes to accommodating pedestrians and cyclists. As far back as 1980, the Department of Parks and Recreation put together a plan for Kansas City Bikeways. But it went the way of side ponytails and parachute pants before it could…
By ANDY VIHSTADT The 2002 Wilco documentary, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, made it clear that there was nothing amicable about Jay Bennett’s split from Tweedy and Co. Since going solo, Bennett has recorded five LPs, including Whatever Happened I Apologize, which was posted for free yesterday on the Rock Proper website. He also has another album in…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Ladies of Kansas City, wanna bang? Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Tyler Thigpen wants to go on a date with you right after the 24-year-old South Carolinian finishes banging this skeleton. KC Magazine will auction Thigpen off December 5 at the Uptown for Big Brothers and Big Sisters. It’ll be a double date with 38 the Spot cue-card…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Dan, the blogger behind Gone Mild, is quite the talented home-brewer and won a contest at 75th Street Brewery earlier this year to make his own beer there. Now the beer that he brewed is tantalizingly close to fruition. A long, long article detailing all the medical advances we’ve achieved in 2008. All the way from…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Painting by Alice Neel. No one in Kansas City (besides myself) may give a damn, but today, Tuesday, November 25, is the 112th anniversary of the birth of Virgil Thomson. Virgil who? Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was once considered to be one of America’s most preeminent modern composers, although his reputation has lost some its luster over the…
By JUSTIN KENDALLThe Sunday New York Times read like a want ad for laid-off journalists. The Times reported that Six Apart is giving free memberships to recently fired journos and bloggers. But space is limited. Only 20 or 30 journalists will be accepted into the TypePad Journalist Bailout Program, which includes tech support, advertising revenue sharing and a spot on…
I was invited to hop on the bus after Tech N9ne’s show in Kansas City on Friday, November 21, and ride along with the Strange Music crew to Denver for the show there and then come right back. Fortunately, I took my camera. (By Jason Harper)
By JUSTIN KENDALLMichael Vick is out of the federal pen in Leavenworth, Kansas, and back in Virginia where he’ll plead guilty to state dog killing charges, reports WSB-TV in Atlanta. Last Thursday, Vick left Kansas, where he was enjoying a 23-month sentence on federal dogfighting charges. Now the Atlanta television station is reporting that Vick personally killed seven dogs by…
By JUSTIN KENDALL I can’t resist posting more of these Life photos, especially the nude model from Thomas Hart Benton’s painting “Rape of Persephone.” Somebody has a hot grandma. And, as DLC pointed out last week, Raquel Welch looks amazing in her roller derby outfit in this photo taken for The Kansas City Bomber. Categories: News
By JUSTIN KENDALLLast Monday, Phill Kline testified at George Tiller’s pretrial hearing. But “a scheduling conflict cut off questioning,” the Associated Press reported. Apparently, Kline had somewhere better to be: at a speaking engagement in Richmond, Virginia. The Family Foundation of Virginia was throwing a party Thursday night, and it just isn’t a party unless Phill Kline shows up to…
By OWEN MORRIS Last Friday I discussed the intricacies of birch beer versus sarsaparilla versus root beer and today I’m tackling ginger. As in ginger beer and ginger ale. What’s the difference? First, there’s the alcohol. Many ginger beers have the stuff while no ginger ale does. Then there’s the ginger itself. Ginger beer traditionally has more of the herb….
By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE Click on the picture for a slideshow.The Beautiful Bodies got turned into rotting bodies on Sunday during a video shoot at the Uptown Theater. The concept behind the video for the song “Strut” included undead models and Bodies frontwoman Alicia Solombrino strutting down a catwalk to the delight of living and undead audience members. The whole…
By ROBERT BISHOP The plan was to go to Best Buy early to get a good spot in line for Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy. I assumed at least a few people would be as geeked for this as I was, but hardly anyone was there. C’mon, people! Guns N’ Roses! Seventeen years since Use Your Illusion! Then…
The Beautiful Bodies cavorted with beautiful zombies during a video shoot on Sunday. The concept of the video for Bodies song “Strut” includes a fashion show with scantily clad, undead models.
Murs November 21, 2008 The Record Bar Better Than: Finding out you’re adopted By JORDAN EDWARDS Murs (aka Nick Carter) has spent the last decade drifting around the West Coast hip-hop wasteland without much love from the mainstream. The Ryan Adams of rap, he’s pumped out eight studio albums and several collaborations since 1997. But the 30-year-old Angelino recently signed…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA No, that’s not my family in the photograph. My raucous family was never that quietly composed (or zombie-like, whichever you prefer) as we gathered around the Thanksgiving table. And we did have better china. The photo, which culinary author Lou Jane Temple found in a flea market, did remind me of Tolstoy’s famous line: “Happy families are…
