Neo-soul crooner Maxwell returned to music after a long hiatus with last year’s BLACKsummers’night. Jill Scott is an accomplished R&B artists in her own right, and her next album, The Light Of The Sun: Words and Sounds, Vol. 4, is due out later this year. Maxwell and Scott bring baby-making music to Starlight on Sunday, May 30. One can expect…
%{}% Sometimes it’s the little things that drive you nuts at restaurants. Whether it’s related to the service or the food, everybody has pet peeves when they sit down to eat. Come discuss yours with Charles Ferruzza on The Walt Bodine Show (KCUR, 89.3 FM) today from 10 to 11 a.m. He will be co-hosting the show for the first…
Three members of the Mutual Musicians Foundation’s board resigned last week. One of the departed, Bobby Watson, cited in his resignation letter the inability of the foundation and Theater League to reach a new contract on the production of the 12 O’Clock Jump show. A jazz-and-blues version of A Prairie Home Companion, 12 O’Clock Jump has originated from the foundation…
If you’re getting chemo and you can’t buy the real thing, a bag of this might help. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has yet to sign a bill criminalizing K2 synthetic marijuana — with an emergency clause making the law effective immediately. Gotta have that to stem the tide of K2 overdoses flooding the state’s emergency rooms and forcing pregnant women…
Paul Mahern has fronted Indianapolis punk act the Zero Boys for the entirety of the band’s existence. The band, while not particularly famous during its original heyday, has since become a touchstone for many modern-day acts. The Zero Boys’ debut full-length, Vicious Circle, as well as its follow-up, The History of the Zero Boys, were re-released on Secretly Canadian last…
Melissa Eddy sits through just about every meeting of the Kansas City, Missouri, School Board, taking careful notes on the behavior and actions of its nine elected members. The mother of two often watches petty politics and in-fighting wreck havoc on the education of her kids. “The board is quite divided and quite tense and there is a very clear…
%{}% Scott Roeder, the man convicted of murdering Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, was sentenced Thursday to the “Hard 50,” meaning Roeder will serve 50 years before being eligible for parole. Roeder was also sentenced to a year for each of the two counts of aggravated assault. It all totals to life in prison without a chance of parole for…
There are very few things that could convince me to go to Wichita. Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper playing a co-headlining tour is one of them. This show from one of the originators of shock rock featuring one of his proteges will offer you a spectacle of theatrical delights to which you’ll find no peer. The show hits Wichita’s Hartman…
With demand for tours increasing, the Boulevard Brewing Co. is going to start requiring reservations for its free public tours beginning today. “We were turning people away. And if you drive all the way down to see us, it didn’t feel good to say sorry, we’re full,” says Chief Operating Officer Steve Mills. Boulevard won’t charge for the tour, and…
Prairie Village police have identified 47-year-old Susan L. Stuckey as the woman shot and killed by police during a standoff at the Kenilworth Apartments at 93rd Terrace and Mission Road Wednesday morning. View Larger Map Police have said that the woman had made “suicidal and threatening comments” earlier Wednesday morning.The woman had barricaded herself in her apartment and continued making…
The last great place to break up a relationship The last traditional cafeteria in the Kansas City metro — Louisiana-based Piccadilly Cafeteria — closed after servings its last meal on Tuesday night. The cafeteria opened in 1993 in a free-standing building at 11741 Metcalf Avenue and served modestly priced meals to a primarily older clientele — the same group who…
The story of Joan Jett, as presented in the book Joan Jett by Todd Oldham, is the perfect example of how an “official” biography should go. Yes, technically, this is probably an autobiography. Oldham took interviews with Jett from 1981 to the present, and mixed them up with an interview he did with the rock star, and that is the…
When they’re not doing awesome things like opening for Kiss, Lawrence’s the Dead Girls are doing other awesome things like (who knew?) recording, well, records. They’re releasing one of these said records tonight at Czar Bar, in their LP Release Party with Bacon Shoe and Radio City. All you vinyl-philes, take heed: the Girls are offering up their latest, Out…
Summer has officially started in Westport Heralding the arrival of warm weather, Murray Nixon re-opened her namesake ice cream emporium in Westport two weeks ago for what will be her 26th season selling signature flavors like Chocolate Flake Fromage and One Drunk Monk. Nixon’s rotating selection features 200 hand-crafted favorites and one new offering: Hog Heaven, maple walnut ice cream with…
Google has pulled yet another April Fool’s prank, and this year, it’s striking pretty close to home. Our beloved capital, Top—-ahm, I mean, Google, has switched names with the eminent search engine, and its new christening is begging for a theme song. Lawrence.com has nabbed the newest jingle endeavor of Dan Billen (local pop act Sam Billen’s brother), who writes jingles…
In case you haven’t seen the clips of Bill Murray bro-ing down with SXSWers, here’s video footage of star fetching tequila shots. (And only tequila shots.) There’s also rumors of a chillwave project circling the internet called Chill Murray. Is it Billy Murray’s new electro project? Eh, probably not. But we can hope. Categories: Music Tags: Billy Murray, chillwave, sxsw
%{}% Updated, October 2017: Criminal charges against Paul Montano reported in this story were dropped in 2011. The lack of regulation in the cadaver and mortuary fields continues to be problematic.Remember those human heads and body parts from New Mexico that ended up in Kansas City, Kansas? Authorities in New Mexico have charged Paul Montano with three counts of fraud. Court…
Despite the fact that Janelle Monae doesn’t ever seem to play Kansas City, she’s from here, and we love her. Her music is soul, funk, and danceable as hell. If she doesn’t make you want to bust a move like James Brown, we feel sorry for you. Her new album, The ArchAndroid hits stores on May 18. We expect there…
%{}% Independence police are investigating the “suspicious death” of Randy E. Stone. The body of the 42-year-old Independence man was discovered around 5 p.m. Wednesday. Police aren’t likely to release more info about Stone’s death until Monday. If you have any information about Stone’s death, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477 or the Independence Police Investigations Division at 816-325-7330. Categories:…
