Archives: October 2013
This Christmas, 96.5 the Buzz is playing the Grinch
OK, not really. But they did just announce the lineup for their special seasonal concert, the Night the Buzz Stole Xmas. The bands this year ain’t bad, with Arctic Monkeys, the Head and the Heart, Foals, Bastille and Nonono. This is all going down on Saturday, December 14, at the Midland. It’s really more of an early Christmas present than anything….
Neko Case is coming to Liberty Hall on Tuesday
Neko Case is an odd bird – a magnificent, talented bird, but an odd one. This Tuesday, she’s bringing those weird and wonderful talents to Liberty Hall. For many of her songs, Case chooses to embody elements from the natural world: singing from the point of view of a tornado, for instance, and employing surreal, oblique metaphors. Her lyrics are…
2013 Best of Kansas City Party
The Pitch celebrated the release of the 2013 Best of Kansas City issue at the Guild on October 9. Pitch photographer Brooke Vandever shot the festivities.
Rob Schamberger is doing a wrestling art show and a fundraiser for Make-A-Wish on Tuesday
WWE is in Kansas City Tuesday night to tape SmackDown (read my interview with Daniel Bryan here) at Sprint Center. But before the show, head over to the River Market Event Space (140 Walnut) to see a gallery show by Rob Schamberger, who is painting all of pro wrestling’s world champions. The show runs from noon to 6 p.m., and Schamberger is doing raffles…
The National delivered dark indie music for the soul at Starlight Theatre on Friday
The National with Tame Impala Starlight Theatre, Kansas City Friday, October 11, 2013 The quick critique: The National can make a bad day sound good, so go ahead and revel in the terrifying thrill of uncertainty, courtesy of Matt Berninger’s melancholy yet energetic baritone. The National’s frontman, Matt Berninger, has one of those voices you can wear like a second…
Fiona Apple was strange and wonderful at Liberty Hall on Saturday night
Fiona Apple and Blake Mills Liberty Hall, Lawrence Saturday, October 12, 2013 The quick critique: Demonstrating her vocal prowess through complex melodies and blissful harmonies with Blake Mills, Fiona Apple bared her tortured soul Saturday night at Liberty Hall, proving that she probably couldn’t do anything other than make music – and we wouldn’t want her to. Fiona Apple was…
Raygun, Des Moines T-shirt shop, is expanding to Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District
If you need an ironic, Midwestern-themed T-shirt – like the one above – you’re in luck. Des Moines tee shop Raygun will open a Kansas City store at 18th Street and Baltimore this spring, according to The Des Moines Register’s weekly Juice. Raygun owner Mike Draper signed the lease for Raygun’s first store outside of Iowa last week, Juice reported. (Raygun…
Was this the best weekend for Missouri sports in the history of Missouri sports?
USA Today On top. On Saturday, the Missouri Tigers football squad improbably upset the seventh-ranked Georgia Bulldogs, in Athens, 41-26. Later in the day, the St. Louis Cardinals went up 2-0 in their NLCS series versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, increasing the likelihood that they’ll soon play for a 12th World Series title. (Full disclosure: We are not rooting for…
Fiona Apple and Blake Mills are coming to Liberty Hall on Saturday
After seven long years away from the music business, Fiona Apple got back on the horse with 2012’s The Idler Wheel, a fierce and poetic album that chews through the word “comeback” and spits it back out like venom. Her show with Blake Mills at Liberty Hall on Saturday night promises to be a dynamic show that you shouldn’t miss…
Sen. Pat Roberts watches Kathleen Sebelius on The Daily Show, doesn’t like what he sees, wants her to resign
Kathleen Sebelius strutted confidently onstage to meet The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart earlier this week – it didn’t go so well for the former Kansas governor. Most of the time, interviews with Stewart are whimsical, in keeping with Comedy Central’s reason for existence. But other times, Stewart eschews the guffaws and can volley tougher questions than any other talk-show hosts…
Senator Pat Roberts watches Kathleen Sebelius on The Daily Show, doesn’t like what he sees, wants her to resign (2)
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Senator Pat Roberts watches Kathleen Sebelius on The Daily Show, doesn’t like what he sees, wants her to resign
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Peanchenstein: Pete Peterman’s wine dinner inspired by Vincent Price
Theatre of Blood.” width=”480″ height=”388″> United Artists Vincent Price caused culinary mayhem in the 1973 horror film, Theatre of Blood. St. Louis-born Vincent Price (1911-93) is probably best-known for his long career as a performer: onstage (Victoria Regina, Diversions and Delights), in films (House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. But the actor was also…
Blue Caprice director Alexandre Moors talks violence
(photo by Paul Laurens) Isaiah Washington in Blue Caprice Because America is a nation of immigrants and the descendants of immigrants, it shouldn’t be surprising that some of the most intriguing films about it have been made by outsiders. Polish-born Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) won a shelf full of Oscars writing and directing films about his…
Just announced: Panic at the Disco is coming to town in January
Panic at the Disco has just announced some upcoming tour dates, and lucky us! Kansas City made the list. The band is touring in support of its recently released, interestingly titled Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! album. It’s a big, sweeping, dramatic concoction, and the group’s show at the Uptown Theater on Sunday, January 19, 2014, is…
Review: Haim at the Granada last night, 10/10
Haim with IO Echo Granada Theater, Lawrence, Kansas October 10, 2013 Haim is absolutely the band to know right now. (Unless you’re listening to Lorde. She’s the other one that no one will stop playing.) While I had my misgivings about what the Haim show last night at the Granada would look like – forgive me if I’m not overly…
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