Subject: Switzerland

• Daily Briefs: Europe: The Forgotten Continent

  Secret society: I have got to become a "Hallmark Hipster," you guys. There's nothing that says "hipster" like Our Special Thoughts On the Occasion of Your 10th Wedding Anniversary. Unfortunately, my application to this very exclusive social networking site was rejected, just like my applications to the Georgetown University Alumni Association, Curves and the Heritage Foundation, so basically I'm still just a misunderstood outsider drifting from town to town with no visible means of support, hel

  December 12, 2008

• SXSW Partial Band List Announced. NEXT.

  And, as usual, no one from Kansas City is on it. Yet. (You will be glad to know, however, that Dananananaykroyd, from Glasgow, is.) A coworker was wondering aloud today whether the festival would be as big this year because of the economy. Many of the unsigned acts that flood the city -- playing free shows any place that will have them, paying all their own expenses, sleeping in the van and so forth -- probably won't be able to go this year. And in past years, that's precisely how Kansas City

  January 8, 2009

• People mad about food must have brain disorder

  The right anterior cerebral hemisphere, probably thinking about foie gras or something else delicious. Unless you're a neurosurgeon, chances are you don't mention the right anterior cerebral hemisphere very much in daily conversation. Yet, if you love food, especially fine food, that part of the brain holds the key. This according to two scientists from a university hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, who completed a paper showing people who suffer lesions in this part of the brain become obse

  January 21, 2009

• Daily Briefs: America's New Sports Doctor

  Embryogenesis doesn't mean you get to live off my dime, mammalian blastular welfare queens. Buckskinned mountain folk in the blasted frozen lands of North Dakota polished off their plates of buffalo entrails, reset their beaver traps, hitched up their leather breeches and declared that blastocysts are persons with all the rights pertaining thereto, dated this day February Stupidth, Two Thousand Stupid. Shouldn't they be more worried about the Hudson Bay Company actively destroying the fur tra

  February 19, 2009

• Swing Set

  May 6, 2004

• Don't Call Us Nazi-mystium

  Corporations and black-metal bands make strange bedfellows, and last week Toyota/Scion panicked when it woke up next to Nachtmystium's corpse-painted face. Scion booted the Chicago-based band from last weekend's Scion Rock Fest in Atlanta, after the event's promoters and sponsors received an anonymous tip characterizing Nachtmystium as Nazism-affiliated. "For the LAST TIME, we ARE NOT a Nazi band, ARE NOT political, are certainly NOT racists and DO NOT support that world or any band, person or

  March 3, 2009

• The People vs. Erotic City

  Behind the glory holes, orgy rooms and sex booths is a board of directors that includes a felon, a preteen and others who think things aren't that bad.

  March 20, 2008

• PB&J

  Peter, Björn and John put the sweet into Sweden.

  November 22, 2007

• Mozart Rocks

  August 23, 2007

• Hot, Steamy

  This coffee shop isn't as sexy as a Swiss museum exhibition, but it gives us a warm rush anyway.

  June 28, 2007

• The Bloodsucker of Valentine

  Neighbors say the plasma center on Broadway keeps a train of addicts coming back.

  February 22, 2007

• Terror Tourists

  Eric Kaiser pairs terrorism with tourism with his series at Pi Gallery.

  August 17, 2006

• DJ P

  April 27, 2006

• Big Matt Attack

  Anti-cloning crusader Matt Bartle makes some very powerful Republicans squirm.

  March 10, 2005

• The Bellamy Brothers

  Saturday, June 12, at the Mission Cattle Drive.

  June 10, 2004

• Terminal Ferocity

  When local lawbreakers risk their lives to leap off one of downtown’s landmarks, the Pitch is there.

  January 15, 2004

• What a Drag

  January 1, 2004

• Christmas Eve at Adam's House

  Adam Hamilton's Church of the Resurrection enjoys the fruit of the season.

  December 19, 2002

• Reel World

  Kansas City screens films from far and wide.

  October 3, 2002

• Party Melt

  Despite its cheesy concept, the Melting Pot cooks up a good time.

  March 14, 2002

• Making the Leap

  Vinx hopped from triple-jumping to music, then from big stages to packed clubs.

  November 8, 2001

• Tea Room Sympathy

  Our reviewer eats humble pie -- and fabulous pastries -- at Andre's Confiserie Suisse.

  November 2, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  Local arts boosters want to put cows on parade -- but the beasts have a sordid past.

  August 3, 2000

• Around Hear

  The SureNauts, The Daybirds, The Ugly Boyfriend, Matt Suggs, and DMC DJ competition

  June 8, 2000

• Inside the Soap Box

  Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  May 25, 2000

• Project Censored's Top 25 Stories for 1999

  May 11, 2000

• Electro-poppers London Transit aim to sell high with their Digital Kid

  July 2, 2009

• Stream Secrets of the Moon's Privilegivm

  German occult black metal collective Secrets of the Moon hit the Beaumont Club on October 24. They're opening for Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, along with Switzerland's Samael, and touring in support of their forthcoming album, Privilegivm. ​ To describe what it sounds like, here's the quote from the press release: "it's a darkly progressive journey through the Stygian fields of black metal, impressive in its ability to evoke both the staple sound of the black metal elite, and a

  October 1, 2009