Doomtree This week in our weekly paper that comes out every week: hanging with Twin Cities hip-hop collective Doomtree; chatting with Nezbeat and iD about Red Wedding, their final album as Archetype; and all the shows you ought to see, via Forecast. Categories: Music
Craig Finn Hold Steady fans — a devoted lot — need no encouragement or further inspiration to attend frontman Craig Finn’s upcoming concert at RecordBar on February 11 (9 p.m., 18-and-older, $12). But for a tease of Finn’s debut solo record, Clear Heart Full Eyes, head over to NPR, where the hope-tinged, pleasantly sad alt-country album is streamable all week….
The Laffer Curve might work differently when it comes to his checkbook. Last week, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback released a $14 billion budget proposal that cut state spending by a reported 4 percent. Under his plan, taxpayers would pay lower taxes, but it rankled some Sunflower State residents because it wants to eliminate homeowners’ mortgage deductions and charitable deductions. It…
Eric Bratton, pictured above, is charged with first-degree aggravated assault, second-degree aggravated assault and two counts of armed criminal action for the Saturday-afternoon shooting at the Independence Center shopping mall. Court records say Bratton, 24, and the male shooting victims got into an altercation after Bratton made a comment about the female shooting victim’s butt. The male victim and Bratton…
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus is touring this February with his band, which has a very common-sense name — Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks. The tour is in support of the Jicks’ newish album, Mirror Traffic. Catch ‘em at the Granada on February 19, at 7 p.m. Cost is $15 in advance (via Paste). Categories: Music…
For those of you who just can’t wait for the release of the Grisly Hand’s new EP, you can download the title track for free at the band’s website. All it takes is sharing your e-mail address. The EP itself — which features two new originals, as well as covers of Radiohead and Gram Parsons — hits digital outlets on…
So in the last week alone, there was a shooting at Independence Center, a dude was killed at 71st and Monroe, there was a triple homicide at 39th and the Paseo, and The Kansas City Star reported that the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese Pedophile Clearinghouse Prize Patrol paid out $1 million in 2011 to the lucky survivors and their prize-winning…
Statemaster.com It’s a good year to live in KCK. Even without the coming of Google Fiber, it turns out that now might be the perfect time to move to Kansas City, Kansas. Housingpredictor.com has determined that KCK will have the country’s best housing market in 2012, expecting home prices to appreciate by 5.8 percent. According to study author Mike Colpitts,…
Brass Monkey in Northmoor is dishing up everything from burgers to seafood in a funky little space that has been everything from an adult bookstore to a Tortilla Flats. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Scott Pioli with his cellphone tracking device (allegedly!). I realize it’s only January, but nothing should come close to touching Kent Babb’s story in Sunday’s Kansas City Star about the work atmosphere at 1 Arrowhead Drive. Of note, former Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley’s claim — whether real or paranoid — that his phones — yes, even his personal…
Have you had your burger this morning? Fast-food joints are often maligned, in this space and others, for ridiculous menu machinations. But I think Wendy’s may deserve a bit of credit for its latest innovation. Forget breakfast for dinner. Wendy’s is now committed to bringing you dinner for breakfast. While I’m still not sold on its cheeseburger to start my…
Paula Deen’s never just been playing around in the kitchen. Let us start with the formalities. I am not glad that celebrity chef Paula Deen has diabetes. I take no joy in her condition. I’m still not certain why Maxim named her the hottest female chef on television. All that said, and for those who have failed to turn on…
Omaha indie rapper Conchance (born Brenton Walstrom Gomez) has made quite a few trips to Lawrence, slowly but surely building a following down in the 785. A Conchance joint glides along like a bike ride on a sunny day, but corners, bobs and weaves with alert attention to detail. He’s back in Larryville this Saturday, January 21, at the Jackpot…
Occupation: Anchor and reporter, KSHB Channel 41 Hometown: San Antonio Current neighborhood: Southwest Kansas City, Missouri Who or what is your sidekick? My sidekick is Serviner Willis (Mama Vene); I call her my Kansas City mom. Categories: News Tags: Cynthia Newsome, KSHB
%{}% Happy Chinese Year of the Water Dragon, which begins January 23, 2012! This week’s Amount of Energy (AOE) represents time it will take to integrate your sun sign and the Dragon of Chinese lore. It’s East meets West, baby! The communal versus individual. The lower the number, the faster your integration of culture and diversity, hence the less AOE…
Leland Dickens was killed Tuesday night. UPDATE: The victim of Tuesday night’s homicide has been identified as 33-year-old Leland Dickens. Police are still looking for the killer.Original Story: Kansas City police are investigating the fourth homicide of the week. (It’s the fifth homicide of 2012 in KCMO.) Gunshots around 8 p.m. led residents in the area of East 45th and…
Entering the American Heartland Theatre lobby is a little like clubbing. Music plays, people line up for drinks from the full-service bar. By the time you’re halfway up the escalator from the ticket window, you’re ready for a party. So are the guys onstage. In Beer for Breakfast, a new play directed by Paul Hough, three 50-something men are headed…
The release by Dekagon Records this week of Red Wedding marks the official end of an era for Archetype, the longtime Lawrence hip-hop pastiche pair. Producer Jeremy Nesbitt (aka Nezbeat) is building beats in San Francisco, and MC and lyricist Isaac Diehl (aka iD) has turned his attention to rock, playing bass and guitar. Good for them, bummer for the…
The fire and diversity that make hip-hop collectives compelling are also what can unravel them. Everybody’s got opinions — what hotel to book while on tour, where to go for coffee in the morning, how to execute a certain track. It’s challenging to harmoniously accommodate five or more personalities in any situation. And when those personalities are MCs — not…
Let me just say right off that I don’t feel sorry for any dude whose dick I can see from the back. In the opening minutes of director Steve McQueen’s new film, Shame, we see Michael Fassbender’s lead character get out of bed, walk naked around his swank yet minimalist New York apartment, and head into the bathroom for that…
Because Tom Hanks is both Hollywood’s last Everyman and its saint in chief, it takes a bona fide atrocity to kill him: AIDS, the Nazis, Jude Law. So maybe we’re overdue for a movie that sends him to perish offscreen in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Hanks, after all, was an anchor of the Tribute to Heroes telethon that…
Peter Kinder peaked on February 8, 2008, when he announced that he would not run for governor. Just two weeks earlier, Republican Gov. Matt Blunt had announced that he would not run for re-election, and almost immediately after that, Kinder jumped into the race. But the campaign was not to be. Instead, on a stage at Lincoln Days, an annual…
The Kills, with Jeff the Brotherhood and Hunters Still-around supermodel Kate Moss recently married Kills guitarist Jamie Hince, which gives a sense of the Kills’ current prestige across the pond. Over here in America, the other half of the Kills, vocalist Alison Mosshart, moonlights as the singer in the Jack White-led supergroup the Dead Weather. The Kills, we can then…
