| | | Kris Kobach and other illegal immigration crusaders use FAIR's bogus stats to scare America BY TERRY GREENE STERLING  On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of Senate Bill 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation that had been signed into law six weeks earlier. The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class white people waved handmade signs blaring such slogans as "14 Million Jobless Americans, 13 Million Illegals, DO THE MATH, MR. PRESIDENT." And: "SB 1070 is not racist!" It was a hot day. People were sunburned. Some wore American-flag shirts, American-flag baseball caps, or American-flag necklaces. Some carried American flags. They stood in the sun to hear a lineup of speakers delivering the same victory-themed message: Americans are under si... more >>
| | | | | | | | Latenight Callers are seducing Kansas City music lovers BY JENNY KRATZ  If a band can be defined by its drink of choice, the Latenight Callers would be a 12-year scotch. "The aesthetic of what we do is timeless," baritone guitarist Krysztof Nemeth says. "We're like the house band at David Lynch's pool party." Technically, the Latenight Callers occupy the electro-noir genre: a sexy blend of synths, reverb-heavy guitars and dancing bass riffs behind lusty female vocal... more >> | | | | | | | | Until someone cures Saturday night, there's always brunch BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  The great gilded age of the American Brunch was probably the late 1970s, when there was fierce competition among restaurants to lure in the hard-partying young sophisticates who got up late and were happy to pay a premium for a starchy buffet and a potent mimosa or Bloody Mary. In those days, Sunday brunch was a sure way to extend the festivities of the night before. I remember hearing people &m... more >> | | | | | | Black Swan BY J. HOBERMAN  A nearly irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp — at the very least, it's the most risible and riotous backstage movie since Showgirls. Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake has had a spooky quality at least since Tod Browning appropriated a few bars of it to introduce his 1931 Dracula; Aronofsky takes that creep f... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog Remember Capybara? Sure, you do! Rumors circulated that the local band responsible for "The Wimp" had broken up this year, when Darin Seal's solo project, Saharan Gazelle Boy, began to capture e... Fat City Crack open a can of Tab and celebrate -- the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed saccharin from its list of hazardous substances. The EPA's decision won't determine whether sacchar... Plog Dale Helmig is home for the holidays. On Monday, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, sustained a motion filed by Helmig's attorneys to release Helmig on bond. Helmig was serving a ... | | | | |
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