Subject: Sydney (Australia)

• Daily Briefs: The Democratic National Convention, Funkhouser, some stuff about prison.

  August 26, 2008

• Guilty Pleasures and More: Kelly Urich

  October 15, 2008

• Kansas City Strip

  August 31, 2000

• Best Amateur Athlete

  October 19, 2000

• 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

• Hair Spray

  March 6, 2003

• The Hold Steady: DVD and Live Album Coming in April Tour

  I rejoice with fellow Hold Steadians at the announcement of the upcoming release of the gruffly named A Positive Rage, the Hold Steady's first live album and tour documentary. Press says: The live album was recorded on October 31, 2007 and includes seventeen songs that Craig Finn, Tad Kubler, Galen Polivka, Franz Nicolay, and Bobby Drake performed on the second of their two-night sold-out stand at the Metro in Chicago. The enhanced album will also feature five bonus studio tracks: "Ask Her

  February 3, 2009

• The ghost of Alvin Ailey brings the Jazz District back to life

  December 11, 2008

• Ornithology

  July 12, 2007

• Animal Lover

  A rich PETA girl catches the meat patty's eye.

  December 21, 2006

• Don't Know Smack

  A softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick.

  December 14, 2006

• Up the River

  The Kansas City Rowing Club has world-class talent. Now it needs cash.

  November 3, 2005

• He’s No Angel

  Developer Wayne Reeder may have a prison record, but the city’s banking on him.

  September 16, 2004

• Gehry Glitter

  Why go for a world-class arena when you can get homespun sameness?

  July 29, 2004

• Undersea No Evil

  Parents, take heart: Finding Nemo is better than the average Disney 'toon.

  May 29, 2003

• Young Blood

  Shawnee Mission East's Sam Stepp and his comrades are a new breed of anti-war protester.

  February 20, 2003

• Adventures In Tight Lacing

  For specialty corset-maker Amy Crowder, Kansas City is a waistland.

  January 9, 2003

• Oh My Goth

  Vampires aren't half as scary as Blue Spring's war on dregs.

  May 30, 2002

• Survival

  When the captain brought the journalist along on the whale hunt, the elders predicted trouble. The elders were right. The whale tried to kill them all.

  October 25, 2001

• Somebody in Kansas City does love you, Sneaky Sound System

  Attention local DJs: Here's your new dance jam of the summer. A random Vimeo search led uber-Plogger Justin Kendall to this brand new video from Sydney, Oz-stralia, band Sneaky Sound System. The song is "Kansas City," and its catchy-as-hell chorus, as if lifted from a souvenir T-shirt, goes Somebody in Kansas City loves me. The video is vaguely Wizard of Oz-themed, with sultry belter "Miss Connie" (or a marionette playing her) dressed as Dorothy. Any resemblance to the movie ends there, howeve

  July 17, 2009

• Incoming: Leonard Cohen @ Midland by AMC

  Photo courtesy Midlandkc.comThe tour dates for the second leg of Leonard Cohen's U.S. tour have just been announced, and guess what? Lenny's gonna be our man on November 9 at the Midland by AMC. Tickets for this AEG show are on sale now go on sale August 7. Hallelujah. The worldwide tour has been receiving fantastic reviews, including this one by A to Z, who saw Cohen in Chicago back in May. (He'll be in St. Louis on Nov. 7.) Here's some video from the tour's stop in Sydney, Oztralia, earlier

  July 22, 2009