If there’s anything we’ve missed with this brief highlight reel of today’s new releases, hit us up in the comments. Incubus’ greatest hits collection Moments And Melodies is a two-disc affair. Disc one is the hits, disc two is b-sides and rarities. It contains nothing of their rap-rock roots on Fungus Amongus or S.C.I.E.N.C.E., so don’t expect them to even…
Driving down Westport Road it’s impossible to miss the Burger Mobile parked in front of the Westport Flea Market. It looks like nothing else on the road, which is exactly what Joe Zwillenberg wanted. The story of the Burger Mobile — which made its debut yesterday as part of The Flea Market’s 28th anniversary celebrations — will surely go down…
REVIEW BY IAN HRABE Last night at the Granada, amid the smell of industrial-strength permanent marker mingled with various perfumes in a crowd of rowdy young women and their boyfriends, I bought everything Jenny Lewis was selling. Though I’ve always found the vocals on her solo records to be a bit too thin for her country-folk-gospel songs, by the end…
%{}% If you weren’t able to get to the Taste of the Crossroads on Sunday, it was a fun, stomach-filling time. Here are some pictures. So it’s decided. When it comes to drinking, “experience trumps rumors, science, and myth,” and its proven through several hilarious examples. A new travel study finds that the middle seat on the airplane is so…
Despite the possibility of impending awful weather, a decently-sized crowd gathered at the Jackpot last night for full-on garage rocking. Now, a little garage goes a long way, so it was thankful that the three acts who graced the stage all offered something different. Lawrence’s own the Spook Lights ended up headlining, despite everyone and their mothers thinking they’d be…
As the Sprint Center gradually loses its new arena smell, the odds of Kansas City landing an NHL or NBA team seem more remote. But one booster is making sure that KC at least looks poised to snatch up the next hockey team willing to relocate. A weekly newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, The Other Paper, ran a story earlier this…
Weird Al Yankovic has just put up the video for his new song, “Craigslist.” You’d know that if you followed his Twitter feed. It’s not a straight song parody. Rather, it’s one of his “style parodies,” where the song is original, but sounds like a kind of style — i.e., “Your Horoscope For Today” didn’t parody any specific ska song,…
Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Pro-Sumer Power! How to Create Wealth by Spending Smarter, Not Cheaper Author: Bill Quain, PhD Publisher: INTI Publishing & Resource Books, Tampa, Florida Date: 2000 Discovered at: 2nd…
Draw Night
%{}% Late last week, the Kansas City Royals were still advertising Friday’s showdown with the St. Louis Cardinals as a way to “support the Missouri Right to Life.” The link for what we were calling “Right to Life night at the K” disappeared shortly after we ran this piece Friday morning, about the awkward timing of such a promotion in…
I love eating at church festivals for the following reasons: the food is usually very inexpensive, the fare is often home-made, and the atmosphere is very convivial. It is, after all, hosted by a church! Last Sunday, I was scheduled to go to brunch with a couple of friends but I requested making a culinary detour first: to the “Taste…
Health and Human Services Secretary (and former Kansas Governor) Kathleen Sebelius worked the Sunday morning talk-show circuit yesterday. The topic was health-care reform. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos thinks the “news” he got out of their conversation was that “the secretary wouldn’t commit to a presidential veto on health care reform legislation that adds to the federal deficit.” He seemed most concerned…
%{}% I’m so sorry I missed Flora’s Cafe — wherever the hell it is. I mean, yes, I do know where it is: somewhere between hell and Hannibal. The question is, do you know where it is? Judging from the peeling paint and boarded-up windows, I’m not sure this joint was even open in my own lifetime. Do you know…
%{}% The group trying to recall oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser announced today that they won’t seek a lawsuit to force a recount of the recall petition signatures. Here’s a snip from spokesman Harris Wilder: The simple fact is that the committee of the petitioners could not raise the $10,000 necessary to pay for a lawsuit. While the petition drive…
The Pixies have revealed all the details regarding their Minotaur box set. Described as “the definitive Pixies collector’s piece,” Minotaur is curated by legendary graphic designer, Vaughan Oliver, who in connection with photographer Simon Larbalestier, created the album artwork for all five Pixies’ studio albums. Oliver and Larbalestier have teamed up once again on Minotaur, to create their largest single…
The road to Cedar Crest just got a helluva lot easier for U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback. Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh announced today that he’s out of the running for Kansas governor in 2010. Basically, he didn’t think he could pull out the W. That leaves Brownback in the race for the Republicans. And if Sunday’s bit of rumoring…
Remember all the stories about the guy who allegedly swiped a MAST ambulance from Research Medical Center and wrapped it around a tree in Independence? Kansas City police say Thomas Glisson — the guy on the right with all of the cuts — really loves taking ambulances for joyrides, especially swerve-filled ones that end smashed against a tree in Independence….
Beer before liquor: never been sickerLiquor before beer: you’re in the clear Even though this theory has been debunked by so-called medical professionals, it remains a guide. Partially because it’s an easy-to-remember rhyme and partially because of people’s own experiences. After all, personal experience has trumped science in this arena before. Among these 15 common drinking myths, number eight is…
This is the most horrible thing I’ve read yet today (thanks Fox 4). A 16-year-old claims a man sexually assaulted him in the bathroom of an Overland Park Borders Bookstore. Stop reading unless you want to be permanently scarred: The teen entered the restroom and was pushed into a stall by an unknown white male. Police said the suspect tried…
Someone around town has a serious issue with the signs for Rebilt Homes. The signs, which read, “Why Rent?” and brag that a minimum of $500 down can buy a home, have been defaced with black spray paint to read “NO” or “BAD.” They’ve been spotted along Troost, Wornall, and 31st and Broadway. The picture above was taken near 80th…
The muddy water of the mighty Mississippi River doesn’t immediately conjure up images of wine. But vineyards in four Midwestern states are trying to get their land designated as an official appellation area called the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Appellation law works so that wineries from a certain geographic region can distinguish themselves from wines of another region. Napa, for…
REVIEW BY ZACHARY TROVER On a humid night in KC, the crowd at the Uptown seemed fine with getting close and sweating it out to get the chance to see the Riverboat Gamblers, Rancid and Rise Against. We arrived about halfway through the Riverboat Gamblers set and, sadly, we were kind of OK with that. While I do enjoy the…
You want to make hip-hop heads upset? Try changing up some iconic album covers from the likes of the Wu-Tang Clan. Much like the Littlepixel album covers as book covers redesign project, the Wu-Tang Design Remix Project by Logan Walters takes the familiar and puts it in a new context. In this case, it’s records like Enter the Wu-Tang: 36…
