“Let me tell you about the very rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a few months before the publication of “The Great Gatsby,” a work now considered his ultimate treatise on the subject. “They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we [...]
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Ten minutes before the show, only a handful of people were standing in front of the stage, waiting for the next act to go on. The venue, a smaller stage across the hall from the Uptown main stage, a two-level room with the bar up top overlooking the dance floor and stage. The blue walls [...]
The first “Iron Man” may have resuscitated Robert Downey Jr.’s career, but it was Shane Black who applied the defibrillator paddles back in 2005 when the “Lethal Weapon” screenwriter-turned-director cast the newly sober Downey as a motor-mouthed amateur sleuth in his rollicking L.A. neo-noir “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” Despite its tepid box office returns, the [...]
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Canadian cult filmmaker David Cronenberg has long been acknowledged as the father of body horror, a nasty little sub-genre noted for externalizing moral corruption through graphic depictions of perversion (“Crash”), decay (“Rabid”) and transfiguration (“The Fly,” “Videodrome”). Although Cronenberg himself has since graduated to the comparatively elegant ferocity of character dramas like “A History of [...]
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As the last weeks of school come to a close and the weather slowly heats up, we’ll soon be trading in our books and jeans for swimsuits and shorts. Summer can be a difficult time to dress, as humidity and heat always conquer hairdos and make up. Dressing for summer requires a handful of must-have [...]
Lawrence is known for having an eclectic and vibrant music scene. In 2011, Kansas City decided it was time to jump on board by launching its very first music festival — Kanrocksas. The festival lasted two days and brought in more than 20 musical guests and about 100 thousand eager fans. While the festival started [...]
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In the six years since the release of his debut “Shotgun Stories,” Jeff Nichols has been quietly establishing himself as one of the most exciting new voices in independent film, a writer-director with a refreshingly un-ironic affection for life in rural America and a gift for harnessing atmosphere as an active participant in his work. [...]
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Summer is right around the corner, and you know what that means: tons of new music, as well as Kansas’ annual music festival Kanrocksas. Here’s what to look forward to as you enjoy your summer break: Danny Brown – Old Rapper Danny Brown was relatively unknown until his released his 2011 album “XXX,” then he [...]
Question: What happens when Michael Bay foregoes almost everything that makes him the eyeball-straining, intellect-draining king of summer blockbusters: his nine-figure budgets, his penchant for non-stop explosions, his borderline incomprehensible editing style and his inexplicable affinity for Shia Labeouf and leg-humping robots? Answer: He turns around and makes his best movie since 1996’s “The Rock.” [...]
Beneath the dreadlocked tresses and the inky armor of his many, many tattoos, Rob Zombie has always been a movie geek at heart, a fanboy trapped in the body of a motley shock-rocker. White Zombie, the now-defunct metal band he co-founded in 1985, took its name from a 1932 Bela Lugosi voodoo thriller, and songs [...]
With celebrities announcing their pregnancies left and right these days, it seems as if having a baby bump is the hottest accessory. That, or there must be something in the water in Hollywood. Stars such as Kim Kardashian, Fergie, Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz have all refused to let fashion slide as their pregnancies proceed. [...]
