On March 24, Little Brazil, one of my favorite Omaha indie rock bands will release a new record — on Kansas City’s own Anodyne Records, no less. Three days later, on March 27, LB will play a CD-release party at Czar Bar. Son is the name of the new album, which is kind of a concept project. Most of the…
Broward-Palm Beach New Times Are you sick of us talking about vampires yet? We’re just about there ourselves, but before we finish the week we’ve got one more story we want to tell you. This one helps justify our recent obsession, or at least helps us feel a bit less lonely about it. In this recent feature from our sister paper,…
By GRANT SNIDER Categories: Music Tags: comics, Joanna Newsom, relationships, sketchbook
Cleaning out my spice rack last night gave me an idea. Spice shelf space is limited, which made me wonder which spices are really important. Also, I love making lists. So here’s the first of what may or may not become a running series called “If You Only Had 10.” If I only had 10 spices for my spice rack,…
I’m not sure what the market is for babies today, but it sounds like Denise Novotny got a steal of a deal on her daughter. In 2004, Novotny paid $6,000 to a Wisconsin couple for their baby girl. Buy low, I always say. And it beats messy childbirth (I hear you poop). Now, mean ol’ prosecutors in Wisconsin are accusing…
Gatorade has been promoting its new G line of low-calorie drinks with a team of athletes — the Super Bowl ad featured 16 different stars. But athletes aren’t Gatorade’s real target audience. It’s hungover people! Our sister blog The Snitch in San Francisco did some research among store clerks and estimates that 50 percent of all Gatorade sales are for…
The day President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the camps at Guantanamo Bay, writer Tim Elfrink was the only American reporter inside the detention camps. While there, he was able to get an inside view of the facilities that some of America’s sworn enemies occupy.
While Pepsi did not have any news this week as cool as a 120-soda fountain machine, it did announce it was bringing back old recipes for two drinks that never disappeared and calling them new drinks. That’s not confusing right? The two drinks are Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback. In addition to the “so old they’re cool” labels, the…
Check out the five best mixes from this year’s DJ contest submissions. Support your favorite, support them all, on Friday, March 6, at NV starting at 9:30 p.m. After drawing their order randomly, these finalists will spin for 30 minutes each. A panel of judges will decide the winner. We will all drunk and get dance. Woops — these mixes…
%{}% All the Platinum Concubines That’s Fit to Spank: OHNO, the Ochs-Sulzberger family trust, which owns 19 percent of the common shares in the New York Times Co., voted to suspend its quarterly dividend due to the increasingly grim environment for the kinds of media that people actually have to pay for using “cash-money,” as we corn-shucking Midwest crackers like…
%{}% During my first (and only) semester at Missouri Southern State University, I had a roommate who would play Kid Rock at ear-splitting levels every morning in the shower. Since he was on the football team, that meant his wake-up calls were around 6 a.m. After a talk with him about the music and a discussion about him being a…
On March 17, Will Oldham issues his latest LP under the Bonnie “Prince” Billy moniker and the word on the street is that an “Ultraload” edition will be available at select record stores. Lucky fans who score an early copy of Beware will receive a bonus 10″ with four extra songs. Download a demo of the album’s opening track below,…
%{}% So a bartender hates you. Join the club. Here are seven good reasons for a bartender to hate a customer. Forgot to include this in my free-coffee story yesterday. Dunkin’ Donuts is giving away free 1.1 ounce bags of its coffee through its Web site. My favorite part is at the top, where it says, “You’ll be tasting Dunkin’…
Stacy D. Smith, aka Reach, is an MC worth celebrating. As short-lived local music careers go, Smith is among the elder royalty of the city’s hip-hop scene. The Kansas City, Missouri, native has for years rocked local microphones with lyrics that alternate personal tales with streetwise political observation. His talent and perseverance have earned Smith notable honors. In 2005, Toyota…
We used to call running all the stop signs — and our town’s one stoplight — “hell runs” in high school. And today’s your last chance for a freebie hell run at West 39th Street and Southwest Trafficway. After midnight, you’re gonna get a ticket if you run the red lights at the intersection. Earlier this week, The Star explained…
Kansas City and New Orleans have a lot in common. Both have vibrant, musical histories. Both have historic party districts. Both have neglected neighborhoods in ruins — And like the folks in N’awlins, Kansas Citians loooove Mardi Gras. Nobody could party to the extent that the Big Easy does, of course, but we still know how to laissez les bon…
The owners of Gigi’s Wigs and Beauty Supplies — one of the few small businesses in downtown Kansas City’s South Loop to avoid the wrecking ball — have lost an appeal of the city’s decision to condemn their building. The Kansas City Tax-Increment Financing Commission offered the shop’s owners, Chung Hoe Ku and his wife, Myong Suk Ku, $335,000 for…
Phill Kline must really be attached to those abortion records. The Wichita Eagle reported this afternoon that Kline tried to mail the medical records to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Kline is now teaching at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. The Eagle quotes court documents filed this afternoon by an attorney for Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller. They claim Kline spent his final…
The Associated Press reports this afternoon that the Missouri Humane Society has rescued more than 150 dogs and — no kidding — a Bengal tiger from a puppy mill in Seneca. (The Missouri Humane Society still has on its home page news of last week’s epic Yorkie rescue in Greene County, not far from Seneca.) Google Maps indicates that Seneca…
This city is so depressing some days. If the charges against Derrick L. Miller and Kenneth Donnell Jr. are true, then they’re a couple of sick fucks. KCTV Channel 5 says Miller, 33, is charged with 14 counts of rape and five other sex crimes. His buddy Donnell Jr., 26, is accused of 12 counts of rape. Channel 5 says:…
Thanks to Sony, most official Season to Risk videos on YouTube are unembeddable, so thank you, MetaCafe, for allowing us to bring readers quite possibly STR’s best-known video. It’s for the jaunty little jam “Bloodugly,” which is all about bad news. Season To Risk – Bloodugly (Official Music Video) – Watch the best video clips here The good news is…
