Greg Gillis, the brains behind Girl Talk, passed through town back in September, treating us all to an evening of pop-music mashups at the Crossroads at Grinders. He just announced a 40-city tour that unfortunately does not include Kansas City. But if you need a quick fix you can hike to St. Louis on January 18. He’s touring in support…
If talking about a song two days after you heard it brings tears to your eyes, then whoever wrote it must be some kind of crazy genius poet. That’s my take on the dusty singer songwriter who played an intimate show in the Conspiracy Room on Saturday night. Of course, Sam Baker comes from Austin, Texas, where country and blues…
The talent behind the infectious, rom-com anthem “Love Song” brought her sweet pop-rock tunes to Liberty Hall in Lawrence on Sunday night. Check out a slideshow after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: Love Song, Sarah Bareilles
The man shot at 33rd and Wabash early Sunday morning has died from his wounds. Timothy R. Martin, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the driver’s seat of the vehicle around 3:15 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died from those wounds. Categories: News Tags: Timothy R. Martin
While chef Celina Tio forced the judges on The Next Iron Chef to like her cooking, she ultimately couldn’t make them fall in love. And so she was eliminated in the seduction-themed episode that aired last night. In the reality cooking show equivalent of “it’s not you, it’s me,” host Alton Brown informed her that she had cooked her best,…
The Decemberists are playing the Uptown on February 7 in support of the band’s forthcoming record, The King Is Dead. (The album itself comes out on January 18.) They’re joined by Gillian Welch, another uniquely-voiced songstress. (We reviewed her show in Omaha with Bright Eyes this summer. Read it here.) Mountain Man — a woodsy, Bennington, Vermont-based group of three…
UPDATE: The bizarre story of the former $1 million Missouri Lottery winner who tried to sell her grandson just keeps getting stranger. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating whether Patty Bigbee sold her daughter 26 years ago. Read the update after the jump … You wouldn’t think that Patty Bigbee would be hard up…
The “Love Song” singer and songwriter brought her sweet pop-rock tunes to Liberty Hall on Sunday night.
Meerkat Manor probably has a few folks wanting the little creatures as pets. No, you don’t. Just ask the guy who stole a meerkat from the Kansas City Zoo last Thursday and dumped it off at an Overland Park Petco the next day. Overland Park police are looking for the guy who ditched the meerkat at the pet store. Categories:…
Go ahead, end the holiday meal with a flaming pudding. Since the season to be jolly is fast-approaching, Fat City is looking around for holiday gift ideas, preferably the kind that can be eaten (or used to make something that can be devoured). I missed out on one my of favorite local shopping events this month: the annual British Faire…
Score a victory for public masturbators. Two women spotted a man watching porn and jerking off at a library on the campus of the University of Kansas on October 25, the University Daily Kansan. The guy may have gotten off once and may be getting off again. The case has been sent to the University of Kansas’ administration but reportedly…
%{}% You can’t tell by the packaging. And you certainly shouldn’t go buy what the salesman in housewares tells you. But everyone has had one great appliance in their lives. The Kinghorn family of Edinburgh, Scotland, offers perhaps the most startling proof of that corollary. The Daily Telegraph reports that Kinghorns are still using a 75-year-old Frigidaire refrigerator. It was…
Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley didn’t do anything to dispel the notion that he’s kind of a dick after yesterday’s 49-29 drubbing at the hands of the Denver Broncos. Getty Images’ Justin Edmonds’ photo says it all. Haley snubbed Denver coach Josh McDaniels during the post-game handshake. He also appears to have some choice words for McDaniels while wagging…
It’s safe to assume that if you’re eating somewhere where there are pictures of the dishes on the menu, odds are you’re not in store for some fine dining. In fact, food pictures can be a great warning, like the colors black and yellow in nature, that the eggplant parmesan is indeed dangerous. But in today’s world of food bloggers,…
%{}% Hey sheeples: Barack Obama thinks he’s better than you. Obama gets a lot of this from conservatives, and has since before he was elected. He’s been called “arrogant” by thousands of them, including Karl Rove and Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton. But this week he got a heavier dose of it than usual, with the Weekly Standard, the Daily Caller,…
Absurdist comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim hit the Midland tonight as part of their Tim & Eric Awesome Tour, Great Job, Chrimbus Spectacular 2010. The show includes a performance by their ’70s Southern-rock parody band, Pusswhip Banggang. The Pitch recently spoke to an impressively deadpan Heidecker about band dynamics. The Pitch: So you’ll be performing as Pusswhip Banggang, but…
Last week, we heard the story of John Travis, who asked a noisy neighbor to keep it down and was beaten and thrown down a flight of stairs at the Bryant Manor Apartments. Travis needs his jaw wired shut and reconstructive facial surgery after suffering a shattered cheekbone, broken jaw, broken nose and a brain contusion. Now Kansas City, Kansas,…
Today: Is it Chrimbus yet? Not quite. But you can get into a Chrimbus spirit when the Tim & Eric Awesome Tour brings uncomfortable humor and ridiculous costumes to the Midland tonight — a couple weeks before the Tim & Eric Chrimbus Spectacular airs on Adult Swim. By the way, in case you hadn’t started, it’s a good idea to…
Weekend makes sonic aggression palatable. A cursory listen of the San Francisco trio’s debut LP, Sports, makes clear that the band has studied its Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. But retro-rock it ain’t. Categories: Music Tags: My Bloody Valentine, weekend
Delta Spirit bangs out clamorous tunes dripping with red, white and blue. Categories: Music Tags: Delta Spirit
The country band that launched a thousand soccer vans is selling out coming to the Sprint Center on March 6. They’re on tour with Luke Bryan and Chris Young. Tickets are on sale on Saturday, November 20, at 10AM. Categories: Music Tags: Rascal Flatts
