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They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell deep dives their catalog ahead of their Truman show

They Might Be Giants (l-r: John Linnell and John Flansburgh). // photo credit: Miranda Penn Turin They Might Be Giants play ...
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The Rip Offs’ Greg Lowery on their enduring garage punk legacy ahead of Ship show

The Rip Offs. // image courtesy the artist Greg Lowery formed the San Francisco garage punk band The Rip Offs in 1993, and ...
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Latest Missouri poll finds another razor thin margin ahead of November vote on abortion

Demonstrators ordered out of the Missouri House public gallery during a debate on anti-abortion legislation march and chant Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in the Missouri Capitol Building. (Rudi ...
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Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones on the band’s revitalization ahead of Uptown show

Steve Jones. // photo credit Jemma Dodd The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter play the Uptown Theater on Thursday, September 17, with support from Panic Shack. Details on that show here. We could get ...
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US Supreme Court again blocks use of Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins speaks to reporters following Missouri Supreme Court arguments Wednesday. (Annelise Hanshaw/MissouriIndependent) The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a ...
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Matcha madness: Narrowing down Kansas City’s matcha lattes to five must-tries

Illustration by Teddy Rosen When a trend is born, people tend to fall into one of four groups: Early Birds, the trendsetters who are ahead of the curve; Regulars, the masses who join once social media ...
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Kansas City Underground’s free film festival offers weird, profound, silly, and scary movies for all

Courtesy Kansas City Underground Film Festival The fourteen-strong programming team at the Kansas City Underground Film Festival spent 214 hours watching 463 features, shorts and documentaries for ...
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Creeping Death’s Reese Alavi on the band’s return to the road ahead of Thursday’s Warehouse show

Creeping Death. // photo courtesy the artist Creeping Death plays as part of The Summer Slaughter Tour 2026 Part II, along ...
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Premiere: Gametime is ‘Making Up For Lost Time’ with their forthcoming album

Gametime. // image courtesy the artist Since their 2024 reunion, Kansas City pop-punk band Gametime has been making up for ...
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Federal courts conflict on GOP effort to revive gerrymandered Missouri congressional map

Rick Brattin, a Republican from Harrisonville, and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins speak to reporters outside Hoskins’s office in the Missouri State Capitol on July 28 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri ...
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Andrew Garfield leads a righteous revolt in timely tyranny takedown The Uprising

Courtesy Focus Features When I think of Robin Hood, I think of the orange fox in the green tunic with a bow and arrow, with Little John and Maid Marian and all the Merry Men happily stealing from the ...
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Republicans created Missouri’s redistricting mess. Now they’re furious about it.

The judges, all but two of whom were appointed by Republican governors, unanimously ruled that Missouri’s Constitution gives citizens the power to refer “any act of the General Assembly” to voters ...