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If you've misplaced your Ritalin or you need some sensory stimulation to prepare for a big test, consider tonights Los Campesinos! show at the Bottleneck in Lawrence. The exclamation-point-abusing Welsh band is bringing its bratty brand of indie art-punk to Lawrence with support from Titus Andronicus, who were featured this week in The Pitch.
Arts & Crafts picked up Campesinos' debut LP, Hold On Now, Youngster, presumably because it sports a stockpile of cathartic hooks as deep
More and more I hear arguments for legalizing marijuana. Joe Klein and Andrew Sullivan are two people pushing especially hard for it right now, although President Barack Obama has blown off the issue -- and for good reason. If Obama made a huge deal about legalizing pot he might make gains among a percentage of people who probably already support him, but he'd lose plenty more voters. But what if pot were to be legalized without becoming legal?That appears to what's happening. Two weeks ago, Att
Tom Kane must have been a tough kid to sit next to in the sixth grade. Loud, boisterous, bouncing off the walls. Once, a teacher tied him to his desk chair with jump ropes.
"Today if I was a kid in grade school, they'd have me on Ritalin up to my eyeballs," the 47-year-old Kane says.Luckily for Kane, no one tried to put him on mood stabilizers. More than 30 years later, he gets paid for the same things that drove his teachers crazy. Capital-P Paid. Just turn on your television and wait 10 m
