According to several sources, 2011 should usher in a new renaissance of cheaper ticket prices for struggling rock-mongers like you and me. Death + Taxes breaks down the stats: In the span of twelve years the average price of a show went from $26 to $67, and it doesn’t take an accountant to figure out that’s a faster rate than…
UPDATE: Suspended Kansas basketball player Mario Little’s court date has been pushed from January 5 to May 19. He’s facing charges of battery, criminal damage to property and criminal trespassing for an incident with his girlfriend earlier this month, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Original Story: University of Kansas basketball player Mario Little was arrested early Thursday morning on charges…
Christmas may be over for another year but I could pass up the opportunity to post a link to Michael Curry’s “Christmas Lego Men of Kansas City” (click here to see photos from the guys’ tour of Kansas City). The Lego Men are apparently big sports fans, having made stops at the Sprint Center, Arrowhead and the K. They also…
Now that we’re perched on the precipice of a new year (finally, right?) we can survey the past months, and ask: what was awesome about 2010? Well, if you’re finding yourself coming up short of any personal victories, we’ve got a slew of local albums that cracked new heights in the past 12 months to make your year feel worthwhile….
If you didn’t make the requisite holiday pilgrimage to the movie theaters this weekend, shame on you. (If you did, and went to see Little Fockers, even more shame is directed your way.) However: those of you who went to see True Grit couldn’t have missed the haunting tune that accompanied the movie’s closing credits. Turns out that it’s none…
Food bloggers don’t have a union or a coffee-break room. We just have the Internet and a title that is too all-encompassing to be very helpful. But occasionally one of the pack steps up and, like Susan Powter, makes a call to “stop the insanity.” In this case, I have to tip my virtual fedora to The Chicago Tribune’s Christopher…
%{}%Building a gingerbread house that can stand, let alone one that looks like it was built with a modicum of care, is difficult. The icing drips down the sides, the weight of the candy smears the icing and the blocks of gingerbread snap at the corners when too much pressure is applied. But even with these limitations, there are a…
Killing someone over a game of dominoes has to be up there with the all-time stupidest reasons for murder. Police in Wichita believe that’s what led to the stabbing death of 40-year-old Christopher Rackham on Christmas Eve, according to KWCH Channel 12. A 50-year-old man is n custody, facing charges of second-degree murder and poor conflict-resolution skills. Categories: News Tags:…
Waldo institution SRO Video will close its doors “sometime in March or April,” according to the guy who answered the phone when I called over there last night. Categories: Music Tags: SRO Video
First, humankind tackled lickable wallpaper. Now, we’re moving on to edible cups. It seems the incredible food magic of Willy Wonka is soon to be in the hands of mere mortals. The Way We See The World, a product design firm in New York City, has invented Jelloware, a biodegrable, edible cup in flavors meant to complement whatever you’re drinking….
UPDATE: The 18-year-old Olathe man found dead outside of the Outhouse strip club in Lawrence on Christmas morning died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Original Story (December 26): An 18-year-old Olathe man was found dead outside of the Outhouse strip club in Lawrence on Christmas morning. The Lawrence Journal-World reported that police don’t suspect foul…
Despite being two of the highest-profile rappers in the city, Mac Lethal and Tech N9ne have never collaborated on a track. But it sounds like that might soon be changing. To Twitter! Categories: Music Tags: mac lethal, Tech N9ne
Doyle Byrnes, a nursing student at Johnson County Community College since 2006, was recently dismissed from the program after she and three other students took photos with a placenta they were examining during a lab at Olathe Medical Center. The anatomical, but incorrect, photo op took place November 10, 2010, under the watch of JCCC clinical instructor Amber Delphia. When…
Nobody would hear him scream. But he screamed anyway. It was about year ago. Tony Krsnich was inside the Chatham, the once-iconic building vacant now for 20 years. The Chatham’s past lives — as an iconic hotel, a stylish apartment building and a TWA dormitory — had long been obscured by piss, thick layers of dust, and neglect. Krsnich was…
It’s the most rip-roaring, fist-pumping, beer-slopping party night of the year. So, pressure’s on, Kansas City: Where will you spend those first few minutes of 2011? Around here, we’re trying to decide — among these worthy New Year’s Eve shows — where we’ll spend the most time. Mac Lethal and Coalesce at the Riot Room. This one’s going to be…
Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful confusion that gets its kick not only from evoking a world of unromantic hookups, casual BJs and iPhone porn, but also from satirizing New York’s bourgeois bohemia. Newly graduated with a degree in film from an artsy Midwestern college, Aura and her pet hamster arrive at mother Siri’s spacious, immaculate white-on-white…
Awkwardly carving up a white paper napkin with a table knife at the Westport Café and Bar, Darin Seal attempts to explain the difference between his two zoologically named music projects. “Saharan Gazelle Boy is more of a personal project, something I’ve been doing by myself since I was 16,” he says. “Capybara was always meant to be a much…
An elf-sized, white Christmas tree stands on the pool table at the Gusto Lounge, a cozy midtown bar that celebrates a time when Americans drank Schlitz in large, unironic quantities. Pink ornaments dangle from the tree’s branches in honor of Tracy Ward, a City Council candidate whose most striking feature is the bubble-gum color of her hair. “Every time I…
Dear Readers: I wish I could say I was back on the rancho, but you know how that drug war of ours (both Mexican and American) is going, so the Mexican decided to stay home for the holidays for the first time in decades. Besides, there’s too much work at mano. The failure of the U.S. Senate to pass the…
Children of Spy’s interests, according to the band’s Facebook page: “Pickled eggs, beer, space, Kessler, the perpetual motion machine, The El Rancho Truck Plaza and Restaurant in Cabool, Missouri, and grilled tilapia.” If you’re looking to gain insight into the Tennessee band’s sound, you can’t get much more specific than that. But we can gloss it for you if metaphor…
The gumbo that is today’s New Orleans pop culture includes frozen daiquiris, Drew Brees jerseys, goth eyeliner — and all-American rock band Cowboy Mouth. Since 1990, frontman Fred LeBlanc and his crew have been winning fans with high-energy, soul-cleansing live performances that demand an audience’s sweat and participation. The band’s appearance at Knuckleheads is the second date on its 16th…
After playing the South by Southwest official showcase in Austin last spring, local electro-funk band Antennas Up began recording its second album. Frontman Kyle Akers says the band is now “locked in the basement of the hAUs working on the music we wrote in Maine earlier this year,” with an eye to wrapping things up in the early part of…
I recently ran into a female friend, whom I hadn’t seen for quite a while. She not only looked terrific but also looked years younger than she did the last time I saw her. I just couldn’t get over her apparent plunge into the Fountain of Youth, and I guess I said as much when I ran into a mutual…
