Dan Eaton isn’t interested in aimless drifting. Judging from his solo project’s name, Motorboater, he seems to crave forward motion, even if progress is a bit choppy. Riffing on an obscure electro outcropping called chillwave, the solo debut of the Queens Club frontman is brimming with hazy, cocaine-coated euphoria. With droning ’80s synths that could be ripped from a Simple…
You can’t go home again. But you can always get high. For Devin the Dude’s sizable underground fanbase, this seems to be the lesson learned from the Dude’s recent career path. The Houston rapper, whose real name is Devin Copeland, has come to be defined by where he’s not rather than where he is — at least when it comes…
Joshua Rizer waves his arm at the upper-right section of a large oil painting called “Mangst: Down, Down and Away.” “Well, this brickwork is too literal,” he says. “So I need to make it more suggested. And this is just embarrassing,” he adds, pointing to the half-formed face of a background figure, a bar patron whose head — still just…
It started over a cherry 1977 Corvette named Betsy. “Ever since they took that car, the fight’s been on,” Denny Hardin says. He’s talking to The Pitch by phone from the Moberly Correctional Center, where he’s serving the first months of a five-year sentence for a probation violation. By “they,” he means the United States of America. Hardin didn’t plan…
Being as how the Big 12 tournament is invading the Power & Light District and surrounding parts of downtown, Amy Farrand’s weekly dinner hour social club show, “Weirdo Wednesday” got bounced from Czar Bar this week. No need to get up in arms with Czar Bar — the economy blows, and there’s lots of money to be made from folks…
%{}% A federal grand jury indicted four local guys — Gerald “Jerry” Cammisano, James J. Moretina, Michael J. Lombardo and James L. Dicapo — and a couple of out-of-state businesses today for running a $3.5 million illegal gambling operation. The feds allege Cammisano, 56, was running the operation with Moretina, 60; Lombardo, 54; and Dicapo, 57, working under him as…
Full of gay cooking ideas! Cooking with ice — how totally 20th-century! This super-groovy, full-color pamphlet published in the 1960s by Servel (“Makers of the famous Automatic Ice-Maker Refrigerator”) was probably included with the purchase of one of those state-of-the-art iceboxes. I’ve never actually seen a Servel fridge, but vintage advertisements make it look pretty alluring. One doesn’t actually cook…
Local shoe-gaze-y experimental rockers Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk have just released a video for “Fort Porkchop,” a track off of the collective’s recent re-release, the Puppycat EP. The re-release is limited to 59 copies, and the band won’t be selling it at shows. Click here to mail order it from their obscure German label. Those who want it best be scurryin’…
%{}% A Fat City shout-out to commenter Fred who correctly guessed that the croque monsieur sandwich featured in this week’s Where Am I Eating? question was at Trezo Mare restaurant in Briarcliff Village. You’ll find out more about Trezo Mare in Fat City on Friday. Categories: Dining, News Tags: croque monsieur, Sunday brunch, trezo mare, Where was I Eating? Here!
ZU33 Pictures (the folks who made the Moog documentary) have a new film, The Heart Is A Drum Machine, which came out on DVD yesterday. We’re big fans of rock docs here at Wayward Blog — by the way, did anyone else watch Young @ Heart on KCPT last night and cry like a baby? This film appears to traverse…
The DeLorean had a flux capacitor and the movie magic of Back To The Future, but a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco — a DeLorean look-alike — has been jerryrigged to run on roasted coffee for a British television program. The Daily Mail reports on the latest alternate-fuel vehicle built by the team for the BBC’s Bang Goes The Theory, a cross…
The labels on your milk, meat and produce can tell you a lot more than the nutritional information if you just know what to look for on the sticker. Lifehacker has a solid break out of what various marketing terms mean in relation to products. The two key points are that organic is one of the only strongly regulated words…
Walt Bodine fans better enjoy their daily fix while they can. Starting next month, Bodine is cutting his schedule back to hosting only on Fridays (movie and food critic day). KCUR-FM program director Bill Anderson announced the change on the station’s Web site yesterday. Categories: News Tags: KCUR 89.3, Walt Bodine, Walt Bodine Show
The doll that Americans love — and love to hate — turns 50 this year. In honor of Barbie hitting the half-century mark, the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City is featuring the exhibit Celebrating 50 Fabulous Years with America’s Favorite Doll, plus a slew of related events, including lectures, film screenings and craft times for kids. In conjunction…
Brooklyn’s Screens and San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun make a diverse bill when they play Lawrence’s Replay Lounge on Monday, March 22. Both bands are making their ways back home after SXSW, and aren’t actually on tour together. Screens’ prior touring compatriots Aa and Golden Triangle miss us by two days, so this just happens to be a fortuitous pairing, as…
The death of James M. Elrod has been ruled a homicide. A landlord found the 58-year-old’s body on the living room floor of an apartment in the 1100 block of The Paseo around 6:30 a.m. January 16. View Larger Map Elrod’s cause of death has not been released. Elrod is Kansas City, Missouri’s 16th homicide victim of 2010. At this…
Lutfi’s has left The Landings The last time we visited with Kansas City’s “King of Fish” — restaurateur Lutfi Khalifa — nearly a year ago, he had just opened his first buffet restaurant in the back of The Landings shopping center at 63rd and Troost. It was a noble attempt, because most buffet restaurants that had opened in that venue…
A homicide investigation is underway in Riverside. The Metro Squad is investigating the shooting death of a man at the El Chaparral apartment complex in the 4900 block of Northwest Gateway Drive. View Larger Map The man was unresponsive when he was discovered by Riverside police around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to a local hospital where he was…
It’s never wise to get between a bear and seafood, but this could be the exception. On Facebook, Panda Express is offering a coupon for a free Honey Walnut Shrimp entree valid for today only. The newest dish on the menu has tempura shrimp and “gourmet” honey sauce, topped with glazed walnuts. There are 15 Panda Express locations in the…
Stumbled upon the GoogleKC press conference in the Power & Light District’s living room, and you can’t blame the handful of local politicos and shakers for using the the Big 12 Fan Fest as a backdrop for their pitch to be the test site for Google’s one gigabyte, high-speed broadband Internet. A handful of City Council members (Russ “Hot Legs”…
Homer’s Coffee House is tucked just off Metcalf on 80th Street in a stone building that I often drove past before going in for the first time yesterday. The interior of the coffee shop is open, with a half-dozen wooden tables and a cluster of couches in the back right corner. The shop is known for its espresso drinks and…
Today, I urge everyone to go out and rent Corey Haim’s magnum opus. I refer, of course, to License to Drive, starring a young Heather Graham as the object of Haim’s affection, Mercedes Lane. And, hey…the Thrills got their question answered. Categories: Music Tags: Corey Haim, dead celebrities, Heather Graham, Thrills, video
