In case you forgot, Pitchfork Music Festival went down in Chi-town last weekend. What? You missed it? Dammit! Us, too. Well, here’s what happened: Pitchfork plucked choice indie heavyweights like LCD Soundsystem and Pavement and snuggled them next to lesser-known kids like Why?, Sleigh Bells, Neon Indian, Surfer Blood, and a whole slew of other groups with band names that…
You have to love any restaurant that offers, as a vegetable selection, Jell-O with whipped cream. That’s my kind of vegetable! At the family-owned Frontier Steakhouse at 94th and State Avenue, Jell-O is listed along with onion rings, loaded baked potato, the vegetable of the day and cole slaw under the “Extras” categories. The Frontier turned 50 this year —…
Apparently in Missouri, you don’t have to endanger the life or well-being of your child to have the state take it away. You just have to be blind. On May 21, Erika Johnson and her partner, Blake Sinnett, welcomed their first child, Mikaela into the world at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence. A few hours later, the state’s department of…
The GOP has finally made an honest movement out the Tea Party, giving the go-ahead for Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Glenn Beck’s illicit fantasies) to form an official Tea Party caucus. The lawmakers — about two dozen, according to the Washington Post — held their first meeting yesterday, and wouldn’t you know who joined up: Kansas Senate candidates Jerry Moran…
It includes a whopping 25 songs, a few from local artists like Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk and C V L T S, but mostly national ones, including Cloud Nothings and Julian Lynch. Lots of weirdo ambient tracks, but some rippers, too. Tracklist after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: solid melts
On the way to work, I heard 610 Sports’ Bob Fescoe talking about the latest rumor from KSHB Channel 41’s buzz-cut sporting sports anchor Jack Harry: Ex-Wal-Mart baron David Glass wants to sell the Kansas City Royals before the 2012 All-Star Game. Harry claims that’s the rumor going around “financial circles” and says the thought “really gets me juiced up.”…
I’m heading out of town for a few days and I jokingly tell my wife that I’ve left her a meatloaf in the freezer to help tide her over until I get back. “I hate meatloaf,” she says dejectedly. “Everyone hates meatloaf,” I reply. I won’t leave a meatloaf in the freezer, but I have left a stocked pantry and…
They are both exciting live bands, for one. For two, they are both playing Lawrence’s Bottleneck in October. For three, they both have new albums coming out soon. For four, they both have made music from those new albums available to people on the internet this week. For five — there isn’t a five. Or maybe there is. Probably you…
Meth heads, blue meth is hitting Kansas City’s streets, and it’s awesome … wha? The high is the same? But the chemicals are different, right? Uh, no. But it’s blue. Categories: News Tags: AMC, blue meth, breaking bad, methamphetamine
%{}% Manchester United, the hugely popular English soccer club, is in town to take on our Wizards in a friendly match this Sunday. But, let’s face it, we’re Americans, which means we probably don’t appreciate Man U for what they are. Here’s a primer of things you should know about them. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Wizards, Manchester United, Soccer
After the jump, you will find a video of Jack White playing the acoustic White Album cut, “Mother Nature’s Son.” It’s from the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize tribute to Paul McCartney last month (which featured appearances by Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, and and Emmylou Harris as well), and it hasn’t seen the light of day until now. We could say…
Tech getting arrested. Tech rapping about Gates barbecue. Tech being featured in XXL magazine. Tech’s rap being used in a professional wrestling promo. Tech’s crew giving us free Strange Music t-shirts that we then gave away to our readers. Today: more Tech! He’s just released a video for the song “KC Tea,” from his upcoming album, The Gates Mixed Plate. And it is bonkers! Categories:…
Marty McFly had the chance to change his future, one fading photo at a time. When it comes to my diet, I’ve got just one wish for what I could tell my 8-year-old self. I’d dive back to the linoleum table in my grandmother’s Chicago apartment and explain that tomatoes are not just edible — they can be the best…
City officials are working hard to justify the investment in the Power & Light District in the face of a grim financial outlook, the subject of this week’s column. Councilwoman Cindy Circo put on her hard hat and described the struggling bond issue on her blog as a $150 million sewer project.”The improvements above ground are just icing on the…
Update (7:28 a.m. July 22): Kansas City police found homicide victim Nick Dutcher’s 2009 Ford Escape last night abandoned in the 4200 block of East 56th Terrace. Police are still looking for Dutcher’s killer and tips (so if you’ve got any info, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477). Meanwhile, Dutcher’s co-workers at NBC Action News are remembering the 30 year…
The former executive director of Jackson County’s Court Appointed Special Advocates program claims she was fired because of her sexual orientation, and now she’s suing the office, the MO Lawyers Blog reports. Carol Grimsby claims allegations of an inappropriate sexual relationship with a female staffer led to her getting pink-slipped on September 16, 2009 — a day after she filed…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Bedroom Talk Author: David & Carole Hocking Date: 1984 Publisher: Harvest House publishing Representative Quote: “The lady in my office was deeply disturbed and found it difficult…
On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown’s Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that’s both pragmatic and modest: a khaki skirt cut below her knees, gray running sneakers and a white shirt….
Find the meaning of existence at a pub in the afterlife. Lend an ear as the Publican and his patrons bend their elbows at the bar where time stands still. Mon., July 26, 7:30-8:30 p.m.; Wed., July 28, 7:30-8:30 p.m.; Sat., July 31, 7:30-8:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 1, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day
A few bullet points to recap the 11th century:• Ovid completed the five-volume Tristia, a poetic lament on the misery of his exile in Tomis.• Illyria, a region of the modern-day Balkan peninsula, was cleaved asunder, becoming the Roman provinces of Pannonia and Dalmatia. • In China, perhaps even around the time that the usurper Wang Mang outlawed the use…
