Subject: Topeka

• Hard Love

  May 28, 2006

• Shirley Phelps-Roper Arrested

  June 6, 2007

• The Phelps Florida Vacation

  June 28, 2007

• Minutemen Turn Anger From Illegals to Vandals

  August 22, 2007

• Kansas Denounces Gangsta Rap and Looks Stupid

  January 14, 2008

• New Stik Figa Video "The Truth," directed by Johnny Quest

  In KC (formerly Topeka) rapper Stik Figa's new video, he is asked to tell the truth. His answer-as-question: "Ain't I the truth?" Listen to his verses and judge for yourself: Notes: In the video, Stik is being interrogated by a police detective. OK, cool premise. But what detective in their right mind would leave a big-ass Maglite sitting on the desk in front of their un-handcuffed interrogatee? Good thing John Westbrook Jr. is not a violent man. Read Nadia Pflaum's profile of Westbrook, th

  December 12, 2008

• Best Local Release

  October 19, 2000

• Best Supporting Actress

  October 19, 2000

• Art Capsule Reviews

  November 4, 2004

• Art Capsule Reviews

  November 11, 2004

• Art Capsule Reviews

  December 2, 2004

• Bluesday Tuesday Report: Bluesin' Across the Metro

  This week, we check in on two different blues clubs in KC. The Power & Light District location of the Minneapolis-based barbeque chain, Famous Dave's has reopened after six weeks and will begin featuring live music for the first time this Saturday with Salty Dawg. Famous Dave's Area Director Mat Eastlack says that the Power & Light location will be using the chain's Minneapolis BBQ and Blues Club location (right) as "a template." "We're open to anything and everything," Eastlack says. Down at

  March 3, 2009

• Origin

  March 24, 2005

• None So Vile: Tech-Death Squads

  Decrepit Birth could be the perfect gateway through which the metal-phobic could enter the darkened realm, provided that the prospective listener could overlook that scary-sounding name. Also, an instrumental like "The Enigmatic Form" would be an ideal starting point, to get the unaccustomed listener hooked on the group's jazzy riffs, symphonic keys, and clear, neo-classical solos before introducing them to Bill Robinson's matted-as-his-dreadlocks voice. "Wow," this extreme-music novice might

  March 5, 2009

• Too Short

  April 21, 2005

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: Get your idle kids involved in something worthwhile during spring break, lend a hand along the Big Muddy, see for yourself why Kansas City's community centers are worth the expense and, please, for the love of God, Kansas residents take a quick trip over to Topeka and tell your legislators face-to-face that the coal battle has been lost and it's far past time to move on.  

  March 16, 2009

• Campaign reform in Kansas?

  Terrie Huntington This afternoon in Topeka, lawmakers will talk about cleaning up "corrupt political advertising." The House Elections Committee has a 3:30 p.m. hearing scheduled to talk about holding 527 organizations accountable for their sometimes smelly campaigns. An amendment to Senate Bill 117 would force anyone who buys political ads to identify themselves on TV and radio commercials and in mailings, robocalls, Web sites and mass e-mails.At the moment, groups can advocate for or against a

  March 16, 2009

• Letters from the week of January 4

  January 4, 2007

• Steve Tilford has sewn up his place in cyclocross history — but he isn't done

  January 22, 2009

• Responsible Fuel

  June 26, 2008

• Gay Power in Numbers

  March 27, 2008

• Klusterfux

  February 7, 2008

• Backwash

  God Hates Fat People, Too, Apparently

  April 14, 2005

• State of Shock

  The Static Bar's move to KC from Topeka gives local metalheads a new place to bang.

  August 23, 2007

• Hey, Good Lookin'

  Miles Neidinger and Jordan Nickel flex their makeover skills.

  November 11, 2004

• Stik Figa

  August 16, 2007

• Mindz Control

  When it comes to discussing how the powers that be work against them, the members of DVS Mindz aren't tired of talking.

  March 29, 2001

• The New Fred

  November 2, 2006

• Color Guard

  Letters from the week of

  July 6, 2006

• K-Tim

  June 29, 2006

• The Kennedy Luck Club

  May 25, 2006

• Doe

  Saturday, February 4, at The Granada.

  February 2, 2006

• Brewhaha

  The KC Brewfest has a cure for what ales ya.

  August 4, 2005

• Open Wide

  First Family Church's Jerry Johnston has his orders for Kansas City.

  February 10, 2005

• Please Stand Up

  Head to Topeka to hear about nothing.

  January 13, 2005

• Art Capsule Reviews

  Our critics recommend these shows.

  November 25, 2004

• The Clash

  Aren't teenagers supposed to be lazy punks?

  September 30, 2004

• The De-Kline of Western Civilization

  Inspired by the Kansas Attorney General’s knowledge of popular music, the Prairie Dogg takes a tour of Kansas libraries.

  August 26, 2004

• Topeka Jazz Festival

  Friday, May 28, to Monday, May 31, at the Topeka Performing Arts Center.

  May 27, 2004

• You Got Schooled

  Kansas lawmakers get the smack-down from a judge fed up with the state's places of learning.

  February 19, 2004

• Fun with Jello

  Jello Biafra doesn’t take his news prepackaged like some kind of instant dessert mix; he makes it from scratch.

  April 17, 2003

• DJ Kutaculous

  DJ Kutaculous of D.V.S. Mindz Presents ... G-Coffee! (self-released)

  March 28, 2002

• Midwest Metal Fest

  El Torreon -- Sunday, July 23, 2000

  July 27, 2000

• Night & Day Events

  June 15, 2000

• THE BILLIONS

  LIVE/HOME RECORDINGS

  June 1, 2000

• Scaring up a crowd

  So why is the state capital cawing about the Crows?

  January 13, 2000

• Tonight: Sloppy Seconds at the Brass Rail

  This slid under my radar until I spotted it yesterday morning on MySpace. Loretta Morrison​Punk rock legends Sloppy Seconds will play their only area show with Iron Guts Kelly at the Brass Rail Tavern in Topeka. It's a full-bore punk show in a pub owned by a punk rocker (namely, Robert "Boj" Stevens, frontman for Iron Guts Kelly). The show is all ages, $10, and starts at 8 p.m. sharp. The guys in IGK promise "Lots of cold beer, hot BBQ and fat dudes." I'm not sure what it says about me i

  July 27, 2009

• Get well soon, Wayward Son.

  Per the Topeka Examiner, original Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren -- author of classics "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son" -- suffered a stroke yesterday morning is in serious but stable condition at a hospital in his home of Topeka, Kansas, according to yesterday's Examiner article.courtesy Numavox.com​ In 1980, three years before his 13-year-run with Kansas would end, Livgren became an evangelical Christian. He has released Christian-themed, largely orchestral rock albums ever

  September 2, 2009

• Falling off the vegetarian wagon

  ​Attached to the debate over concentrated animal feeding operations and conditions at slaughterhouses is the growing trend of reduced-meat or meat-free diets. We've once again reach the point in the cycle where a vegetarian diet is being advocated from a moral viewpoint about sustainability and doing as little harm as possible to the environment and our fellow creatures. Beth Mendenhall, a senior at Kansas State University, makes that point in a recent editorial in the K-State Collegian: Bacon

  September 3, 2009

• The Turnpike Music Showcase

  September 17, 2009