Ain’t no shame in playing cover songs — the crowds want to hear the hits — but most musicians hope to create something to call their own. So it is that the much-loved seven-piece soul cover band the Good Foot releases its first original recording this week. “Bad Way” is one-half of a split 7-inch with Hearts of Darkness. And…
Front and center on the small stage at River’s Edge Theater rests a double bed, on and around which two couples — well, three — revolve. It’s a fitting set to portray the story of two marriages disrupted by an affair. The four characters in Orange Flower Water (directed by Doug Ford) experience the love, anger, lust, disgust, passion, apathy,…
At one point during the Coterie’s new reprise of Laurie Brooks’ celebrated 2000 play, The Wrestling Season, Melanie (played by long-haired, blond Kelly Gibson) pulls a stick of gum out of her bra and offers it to Matt (Tosin Morohunfola). The flirtatious gesture elicits giggles and groans from the audience — mostly from the people old enough to recall the…
Do your feet bleed?” a child asks. William Whitener, artistic director of the Kansas City Ballet, chuckles and repeats the question for the rest of the crowd gathered for this Friday-night open rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet. In response, a ballerina shakes her head, removes one of her slippers and passes it to the little girl, who sniffs it. Laughter…
The fictional town of Dillon, Texas, has colored my worldview for the past month, as I’ve binge-watched my way through nearly the entire Friday Night Lights television series. I would love to use this space to write about my endless admiration for Coach Taylor, or the many times I’ve cried while watching (mostly scenes with Matt Saracen), or Riggins’ Rigs,…
The latest release from Merge Records — arguably the most admired and influential indie-rock label in the United States, maybe in the world — is the self-titled debut LP from a Brooklyn trio called Hospitality. The album is full of cheery-sounding guitar-pop songs with a melancholy streak, and it has a fresh and casual way of evoking the feelings of…
Brad Dickson sits behind his desk in a T-shirt and shorts, the same outfit he plans to wear when he spends spring break in Panama City Beach, Florida, for the first time next month. It’s only 2 p.m., but the 46-year-old plumber has gone through nearly a gallon of margaritas. The bright-blue shark on his shirt tells people to “GET…
Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, with Betse Ellis A transposed version of this bill occurred back in December at Liberty Hall, when Betse Ellis’ band, the Wilders, was the headliner. At this more intimate Davey’s show, it’s LaFarge and company’s opportunity to shine. The St. Louis act has a rising national reputation in the ragtime-Dixieland-folk scene and is…
The apocryphal Persian king Shahryar had thousands of wives but never kept one longer than 24 hours. The morning after each wedding, according to the legend of the Arabian Nights, Shahryar had his new bride beheaded. By the afternoon, he’d found a new virgin to marry that night. The bodies stopped piling up when Shahryar married Scheherazade, the daughter of…
Flickr: Mark Gstohl For the Fat City reader who neglected to make a dinner reservation for tonight — Valentine’s Day — or maybe just found that one true meaningful love over the last 48 hours (I mean, it does happen, I’ve heard), it’s not hopeless. “Does bribing a host or hostess help get a table on a crowded night?” a…
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook As The Daily Show expertly demonstrated two weeks ago, the growing trend among state lawmakers to require welfare recipients to submit to drug tests raises troubling questions. As correspondent Aasif Mandvi found, if poor mothers and fathers receiving tax-funded benefits have…
The Kara Kopetsky investigation by KSHB Channel 41’s Russ Ptacek is out, and it includes a cadaver dog hitting on a spot in a home that’s marked up with graffiti about “Kara” and “murder.” It’s an interesting story, and it doesn’t reflect well on the Belton police, who are apparently investigating a secret group of investigators trying to solve the…
Kansas City is the location for the pilot edition of a new program from the Grammy Museum. The program, set to go nationwide next year, is called the Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project and means to connect young musical artists from all disciplines and genres — jazz, hip-hop, rock, folk, roots, et al. — with Grammy-level talent. From the various…
Matt Kocourek Vote Pollard. Food + Wine’s annual list of the best new chefs in the country is the kind of list that can act as a springboard for the careers of rising cooks, raising their profiles to help them find funding for restaurants of their own or appearances on one of the multitudes of cooking shows. And so while…
The stage at the Brick has hosted all kinds of acts over the past 13 years. Beer and wine pairings abound, but when it comes to what music goes with what food, you’re taking a shot in the dark. That’s why Fat City decided to ask Sheri Parr, owner of the Brick, for some musical pairings. We supplied the style,…
Flickr: Chrisser Let your gut do the thinking on this one. The Men’s Health ‘Eat This, Not That’ series is a juggernaut for two very simple reasons: It preaches substitution, rather than denial, and it does a beautiful job of making us simultaneously covet and feel grossed out by a 2,000-calorie bacon-cheeseburger monstrosity. For Valentine’s Day, the either/or maxim was…
My heart typically starts racing by the second cup of coffee, so I’ll turn to a soda or piece of dark chocolate in the afternoon if I find myself staring at a blank, blinking cursor on my computer screen for too long. I’m not actively against energy boosters. I’ve just never managed to get my head (or taste buds) around…
THE PHARMACY – DIG YOUR GRAVE (MUSIC VIDEO) from brendhan bowers on Vimeo.The Pharmacy hails from Seattle and follows in the grand aesthetic tradition of many Northwest bands. Its latest EP, Dig Your Grave, mixes garage rock’s fuzzily up-front instrumentation with inscrutably indecipherable lyrics. That’s the video for the title track, directed by Brendhan Bowers, above. It ought to be…
Russ Ptacek’s farewell tour is on. The investigative journalist for KSHB Channel 41 is leaving for WUSA 9 in Washington, D.C. Before Ptacek goes bye-bye, he’s leaving us a big story tonight at 10 about a group of people searching for Kara Kopetsky, who vanished in May 2007, and a cadaver dog that hit on a smell inside a home….
