B.o.B. may be blowing up the radio with catchy songs — and doing a college tour — but he’s no Asher Roth. Bobby Ray Simmons is from Atlanta, and has a cheeky take on the usual rags-to-riches faire in “Airplanes, Pt. II” (ex: Let’s pretend like it’s ’98 / like I’m eating lunch off of styrofoam trays / tryin’ to be…
Divorces are rarely easy. Lots of hurt feelings and anger and sometimes these things end violently. So don’t be like the 44-year-old Lee’s Summit man who tried to bring a .380 caliber semiautomatic weapon with a couple of bullets in the magazine into the courthouse for his divorce hearing yesterday morning. Not a good idea. Categories: News Tags: divorce, Independence…
Hey, heart. I know you’re busy trying to get past that bacon I keep packing in around you, but I wanted to tell you it’s OK to opt out right now. You’ve done a great job, pumping and beating and circulating the blood and such. Because I’m just not sure you’re going to be able to make the leap with…
The best thing about Hooker, Oklahoma, besides the name Hooker, Oklahoma, is that the citizens seem as proud as can be about hailing from the town named for the world’s oldest profession. When it comes to naming businesses, Hookerites take the George-Foreman-Christening-a-kid strategy: only one name will do. So, here’s the Hooker Chamber of Commerce. And then here’s so much more,…
Tech N9ne’s collabo album The Gates Mixed Plate is getting mighty good airplay in clubs and on KPRS 103.3, and for good reason. It bangs. But Tech N9ne wasn’t the first to put his lips to a mic and rap about making love to saucy, saucy barbecue. Retired rapper Joe Good, aka Jamal Gamby, may not have been the first…
The local guys who ran an illegal sports gambling ring keep falling. The latest, Michael J. Lombardo, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to running an illegal gambling business. Lombardo, 57, not the HBO programming exec with the same name, admitted for three years he took care of bettors who wagered more than $490,976 from March 2006 to March 31,…
We like these guys — they’re from Missouri! Hoo-aaa. Ha Ha Tonka has recently been on the road with fellow alt-country movers and shakers Murder By Death and Langhorne Slim. They’re swinging back through these parts on August 28, when they’re headlining a date at the Replay Lounge. And, as a random non-sequitur, bassist, Luke Long, divulged this time-worn nugget…
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. Several issues of The Pratt American Date: 1993 to 1994 Publisher: Pratt Community College, Pratt, Kansas The Cover Promises: “Exhibit brings culture to campus.” Representative Quote: “Hello…
Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only she didn’t hear screams — she heard the laughter of male guards. The women had been drugged by their rapists, who had done the same to Maria as soon as she walked into the house. They forced her to…
Lusciously shot by Oscar winner Robert Richardson (The Aviator, JFK), Eat Pray Love delivers a sensory overload as intense as Inception’s, but heavily calibrated to stir the hearts, loins and tear ducts of women for whom love handles and spiritual bankruptcy are of equally pressing concern. Julia Roberts’ Liz leaves behind flaky husband, Billy Crudup, and “Yonkers yogi” boy-toy James…
Wilt Chamberlain once claimed, “No one roots for Goliath.” He was wrong. They do, and they live among us — a silent menace waiting for their annual opportunity to strike and take over our stadium. During the 7:10 p.m. Royals-Yankees game, Yankees fans invade Kauffman Stadium (Interstate 70 and Blue Ridge Cutoff), a prospect that leaves Royals fans as terrified…
During last week’s Pitch Music Showcase, you threw up your rock fists for metro musicians. Now you can party with ’em. Virtually every awesome musician nominated for something at the Pitch Music Awards is set to appear at the 6 p.m. VIP party that precedes the big event at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway). Which means that you can get…
Since mid-April, Hamburger Mary’s (101 Southwest Boulevard, 816-842-1919) has raised about $40,000 for local charities, including the Kansas City Free Health Clinic, the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project and the Good Samaritan Project (an AIDS service organization). How? Through the power of bingo. Each Wednesday at 8 p.m., Valerie Versace hosts charity bingo in the main dining room of the purple…
This evening of entertainment, art and education begins with a social hour for patrons to browse the silent auction and an exhibit of posters created on the theme Fire/Water by such local artists as Zachary Trover, Matt Hawkins, Dan Padavic, Tad Carpenter, Daniel Bartle and Phil Shafer. Later, the evening will feature performances by aerial fabric artists Voler – Thieves…
Craft fair. At a church. Sounds like so much fun, right? But handmade creations are, like, totally hot right now. So forgive Artilicious its tame location. Just stuff some cash in your mass-produced designer purse and head to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church (6422 Santa Fe in Overland Park), where you’re going to find your new money receptacle — a…
Troost Avenue is a stretch of geography and history of such scope and density that Thomas Pynchon might, if he knew about it, find a good novella there between his long graphomaniacal novels. Named for Dutch doctor Benoist Troost, the road had been an American Indian hunting ground and had once contained a stretch called “Millionaire’s Row,” the city’s original…
For those who want to express their Jewish identity through home décor — or those who simply have a fondness for the pale dolomitic limestone quarried around Jerusalem — Waldo has a store for you. The family-owned Jerusalem Stone (319 West 79th Terrace, 816-444-4405) specializes in natural stone imported from Israel. Shop founder Sam Nachum and his crew can install…
Most of us spend a lot of time driving past chain stores on roads clogged with exhaust-spewing SUVs, in areas that offer little to view besides concrete, steel and rows of houses. But beyond the big-box stores lies nearby sprawling beauty. For instance, have you seen the sunflower field near Hillsdale Lake? Depending on the strength of your leg muscles…
If you’ve ever had a hankering for large lady Vikings and murderous Italian clowns belting out arias, your options for satisfaction just increased, thanks to the newly formed Lawrence Opera Works. With a mission of providing performance opportunities for both up-and-coming and professional opera singers, Lawrence Opera Works stages its first show, Opera on the Down L.O.W. With 23 performers,…
They may yet be amateurs, but the fiercely dedicated filmmakers who are participating in this year’s 48 Hour Film Project can rest assured that by the time they finished writing, crewing, casting, scouting, shooting, scoring and editing their miniature opuses last weekend, Stanley Kubrick would still have been obsessing over his first storyboard, and David Lean would barely have had…
Last year, Playboy named the Mutual Musicians Foundation (1823 Highland, 816-471-5212) one of the greatest bars in the country, alongside such hot spots as San Francisco’s Top of the Mark and New York City’s King Cole Bar. But it’s not all about the late-night vodka tonics and beers at this 81-year-old music hall off 18th Street and Vine. “Jazz is…
Looking for comedy that’s a bit less milquetoast than Jay Leno? A bit less redneck than Larry the Cable Guy? A bit less godawful than Jeff Dunham? Then you might enjoy the profane stand-up stylings of Bring Back Comedy at the Jazzhaus (926-1/2 Massachusetts, 785-749-3320). Lawrence’s longest-running showcase for local comics assembles aspiring humorists who tend to eschew family-friendly fare,…
The 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary Trouble the Water follows Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring hip-hop artist, and her husband on their video-camera-equipped journey: from a Red Cross shelter the day before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, through the storm and into the social and political aftermath. Containing news footage, home video and footage of the city, the film hit the…
