The rugged, Texas songwriter-performer Tom Russell prepares to release his new album Blood and Candle Smoke. Featuring some of his most intimate, insightful material, Russell ventured from his home in El Paso (where he moved from New York 10 years ago), to Tucson’ s Wave Lab Studios. Studio owner Craig Schumacher (Neko Case, Iron & Wine) co-produced the album with…
Some of the contenders filed away for further testing. There are plenty of places to find cool, creamy milkshakes around town, but finding really good ones is a different matter. Here are Charles and Owen’s top 10. 10. Chubby’s, 3756 Broadway, 816-931-2482. Any place modeled after a ’50s diner should have good shakes and Chubby’s doesn’t disappoint. Both the chocolate and…
Pinback just announced the dates for their fall tour, and they’re coming to Lawrence. Specifically, the ethereal indie rock act will be playing the Granada on November 5. Yes, I know that’s a good long way off. I’m all excited, though, and wanted to get other people giddy and happy, too. The weather’s horrible, so let’s all dream about seeing…
Only a few tickets are left if you want to join Anthony Spino III and his family this Friday to watch the Royals beat the despised the St. Louis Cardinals during Anthony’s Night at the K. Join the downtown party at 5:30 p.m. when dinner and cocktails will be served at Anthony’s Restaurant. An hour later you’ll board a shuttle…
San Francisco Bay Area-based Lujo Records is happy to announce the release of their new Spring 2009 Sampler. This sampler is totally free and available for immediate download. Lujo Records’ Spring 2009 Sampler includes songs from their current roster: The Dark Romantics, Pomegranates, Death House Chaplain, Mouse Fire and Baby Teeth. It also includes tunes from new-to-the-Lujo-lineup: A Lull, Enlou,…
When you’re a child, it’s not uncommon to sometimes think of your parents as weird. Especially some of the foods they eat. Say, vegetables or shell fish or hamburgers cooked medium-rare. Sometimes tastes don’t evolve — hence the reason Mexican restaurants feature chicken fingers on adult menus. But more often than not, the foods that seemed so foreign to us…
The Kansas City City Council will vote today on whether to spend half-a-million dollars to study whether building a downtown convention hotel is a good idea. $500,000? In cash-strapped, layoff having, bad, bad, bad economic times? Tell you what. Save the $500K. I know somebody who can tell you right now — for free — that the idea sucks. The…
Back in October, Home Depot co-founder, Bernie Marcus, called the Employee Free Choice Act the “demise of a civilization.” Yesterday, a large crowd of workers, advocates and local politicians circled the sidewalk under one of Marcus’ big, orange signs to protest big business’ opposition to EFCA and call for the passage of the union-friendly legislation. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Employee…
Always give the menus at fast food restaurants a second glance because they are often more complicated than they seem. Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee found that out yesterday when she went to a McDonald’s and noticed that four chicken McNuggets for 99 cents was a better value than 10 for $4 or 20 for $7. For those keeping score, that’s…
In honor of it being hot enough to cook things in your pants, here is a selection of tunes dedicated to heat, the summer, and wanting to live inside your refrigerator until sometime around the end of September. Seriously, it’s supposed be something like 96 degrees today. For God’s sake, stay the hell indoors. And while all these songs are…
It was all about the honey. Sipping straight honey from a cup on stage up by her tiny Fender guitar amp (“It’s the only thing that keeps me from coughing,” she said, sounding like a character from a Tennessee Williams play), Lucinda Williams and her backing band, Buick 6, delivered two straight hours of pure, refined, thick aural sweetness last…
Tthanks to the collective brain of the Internet, air traveling is getting a little bit more comfortable. People have been using travel sites for years to save on fares, but only relatively recently have they been posting reviews of individual seats aboard aircraft to let other savvy travelers know which rows may be in coach but feel like first-class. Categories:…
Five hundred deer in Shawnee Mission Park will be relocated to deer heaven this fall. But drop your shotgun. You’re probably not invited to these killing fields. The parks board is bringing in sharpshooters and bow hunters to thin the herd. Damn. Guess I’ll settle for popping virtual Bambis at the Record Bar. At lest I can drink. Categories: News…
%{}% The unusual habits of people who hand out fliers for Power & Light District events. Yes, the cherry cobbler picture at the top of this post may look delicious but just look at all the work that went into it. Stop the presses! Science comes through again with another fascinating discovery. When boiled, whole carrots are slightly healthier…
Normally, this would be something I’d post in tomorrow’s Friday Freebies, but this is A) Late at night and B) Pretty doggone unique. Visitors to Lawrence’s historic 1955 Amtrak station are used to the sounds of growling diesel engines and the screech of wheels against steel rails. This Friday night, the depot will be surrounded with different sounds—the voices, guitars,…
The victim of a shooting at 42nd and Park has been declared brain dead. The Kansas City Star reports that 15-year-old D’Shawn Clayton will be kept on life support until his organs are collected. On Wednesday, Jackson County prosecutors charged 17-year-old David L. Smith with shooting Clayton. Court records say Smith told detectives that he accidentally shot Clayton while smoking…
The relationship between cyclists and the Missouri Department of Transportation is marked with plenty of pot holes and dead ends. If you ask MoDOT, cyclists don’t demand or use the roads enough to warrant the dollars they demand. If you ask bike advocates, they might complain that the state agency might as well be called the “Department of Single-Occupant Automobile…
Republicans promised a health-care reform bill of their own but delivered, as Time magazine put it, “a four-page exercise in public relations that left out how many of the 47 million uninsured Americans would be covered, how it would be paid for or even how much it would cost.” So courtesy of Fired Up! Missouri, we give you Missouri Congressman…
