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McTavish: Quixotic Jewelry Commercial Tilts at Windmills
The dancers appeared to fly through the air with the greatest of ease Continue reading
McTavish: KC Confidential Weekend Planner; What Not to Not Do
There must be at least five ways to have fun this weekend in Kansas City.
Here are my five picks, which you can also hear me chatter about at 11:50 a.m. today and every Thursday on my pal Steve Kraske Continue reading
McTavish: George Jones struggles at Ameristar
Bless his heart for trying.
George Jones, one of the greatest country singers of all time, could barely sing a lick Continue reading
McTavish: Demetri Martin gets absurd, goes off on Uptown Audience
Friday night at the Uptown Theater I saw the past and the future of comedy and its name was Demetri Martin.
The past: Martin Continue reading
McTavish: Giants Might Be a Cult at Beaumont
Longtime cult band They Might Be giants – the quirky-as-they-want-to-be Brooklyn duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell – drew several hundred hardcore fans Friday night to the Beaumont Club in Westport.
The show’s big draw: The two Johns and their guitar-bass-drums backing trio performed the entirety of the band’s third and most well-received album, “Flood,” from 1990.
Tough to say which was odder: An alternative music group most people haven’t heard of diligently revisiting all 19 tracks in sequence from a nearly 20-year-old album. Or the sight and sound of a floor-full of followers jumping up and down in nostalgic approval while singing along with such obscure sonic nuggets as “Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love” and “Road Movie to Berlin.”
(To give the Giants their pop-culture due, the group won a Grammy Award for the song, “Boss of Me,” which was the opening theme to the Fox TV sitcom, “Malcolm in the Continue reading
McTavish: Aging B-52s Pass Muster for Fans
There was nothing like the B-52s when the adventurously dissonant party band shimmied onto the new wave scene in the late 1970s sporting crazy beehive wigs and throwing out surf-rock-meets-art-school tunes like candy at an extraterrestrial carnival.
Wednesday night at the Uptown Theater it was clear that the group Continue reading
McTavish: Who Knew? Starlight Honcho a Closet Crooner
Denton Yockey is into Stevie Wonder Continue reading
McTavish: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; Stevie Wonder Set for Starlight
After much speculation, the latest big-name mystery concert artist being teased by promoters at Starlight Theatre turns out to be Stevie Wonder. The Motown legend, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and Academy Award winner is scheduled to perform Friday, June … Continue reading
McTavish: Mike Epps Gets Streetwise at the Midland; N the Winner is…
The notion that context is everything was never truer than at the
McTavish: A Second Helping (Cluck Cluck) of New Theatre
While I still don’t have much
McTavish: Tony Does Britney, Frank, Duke & the Midland
Anyone fortunate enough to have experienced Tony Bennett in concert Saturday night at the Midland by AMC is probably still searching for superlatives to describe it.
But maybe only one word is really necessary: Impeccable.
Who am I kidding? I can Continue reading
McTavish: Hardest Working Hick in Show Biz Unleashes Cornpone Zingers
Like a one-man sitcom, Larry the Cable Guy got as many laughs per minute as any stand-up comic could expect to get during the first of two packed shows Saturday at the Midland by AMC.
Attired in his trademark ball cap and button-down shirt cut off at the shoulders, the hardest working hick in show business sauntered on stage and sent out absurdist cornpone zingers like a somewhat smarter brother of Junior Samples.
It may have felt more than a little like Continue reading
McTavish: Maher Mauls Midland
Bill Maher may be a dick, but he Continue reading
