Heard about Top City Thursdays? Yes? Good! Check back often because we’ll keep you up to date on all the great things happening this summer during TCT (and no, we don’t mean Topeka Civic Theatre). A few things to remember: Top City Thursdays are every Thursday – from 5 to 8 pm — now until [...]

It’s high time for a different sound in Topeka. That’s the idea behind the new underground dance music night, “Resistance,” set to kick off Thursday, July 22 at the Boobie Trap. Local DJ’s, Hip-hop and electronic artists will be converging at the Trap Thursday nights, along with an audience base that isn’t used to this [...]

5 days = 6 great blues acts Scorch on the Porch at Washburn University June 9 Have your lunch at Washburn on Wednesday and get a good dose of midday music during Washburn’s “Scorch on the Porch.” Scorch on the Porch will take place on the Memorial Union north lawn Wednesday, June 9th from 11 [...]

Thacher is a formidable-looking building at 110 E. 8th Avenue with its pillars of Capitol-era limestone muscling their way down to street level. As the brand new home of Gizmo Pictures and the upcoming Blue Planet Café, the enormous Thacher fits the bill. It’s an adaptable place with a façade that’s been locked into downtown’s [...]

Summer is here and so are free, outdoor concerts suitable for all ages.  However, the once highly-anticipated Brown Bag series and Thursday evening shows at the Gage Park Amphitheater have halted due to city budget cuts. Despite the decrease in performances, this summer still allows for some free music outside and we encourage you to [...]

Topeka is hosting two rocking music events at two Topeka venues, so no matter what your musical inclinations may be, you’re likely to find it this weekend. The Topeka Music Scene Band Battle, Part 1, kicks it off Saturday, June 5, at 1 p.m, at Hot Pockets in Oakland.  When Les Roediger, event organizer and [...]

This is the eighth post of a blog by Matt Porubsky called “satisfactual,” which will be updated weekly, discussing odds and ends about Topeka history and culture, with a little opinion thrown in for good measure. It was my first time at Uncle Bo’s last night. My wife Leah and the general manager of Uncle [...]

In Sarah Newberry’s office at Colmery-O’Neil VA Hospital, patients fill up the institution-blue chairs and crowd around the stereo. They have over 200 CD’s to choose from, and the conversation blossoms in this small room, discussions starting with the immediacy of the music issued from the speakers, but ending in places very few of us [...]

Rod Peterson and Greg Spreer, members of the Back Porch Blues Band, also play as a duo under the name The Blue Devils.  Peterson does harmonica and vocals, Spreer on guitar and vocals.  They’ll be bringing the blues to the Topeka Farmers’ Market May 1. Q:  Which of you works harder? Rod:  On stage?  Well, [...]

The Heartland Men’s Chorus will perform a program entitled And Justice For All on Friday, May 7 at 7:30 pm at Grace Cathedral, 701 SW 8th Ave.  Joe Nadeau, Artistic Director, will conduct the 100 voices of the chorus in this special  program of music and narration centered on Martin Luther King Jr.’s statement that “Injustice anywhere [...]