→ August 20, 2011
Imperfectly Perfect a poem by Emma, age 14 In my mind I can see The girl that I would like to be I’ve gotten to know her in my thoughts she is perfect and I am not She’s pretty, smart, and always sweet She plays sports and piano, she’s so elite It upsets me sometimes. [...]
→ August 7, 2011
Rouse’s Reviews | A regular web column by Josh Rouse, who keeps his ear to the ground and his lens steady through life in T-Town Manhattan has Country Stampede, Kansas City has Kanrocksas and now North Topeka has its own music festival: In Session. The inaugural Christian music festival took place Saturday, Aug. 6, outside [...]
→ August 3, 2011
NOTO (Topeka’s arts district in North Topeka) has a lot in store for the August First Friday Artwalk. Here are some of the events taking place in the northland this Friday, from 5:30-8:30 p.m.: NOTO Community Arts Center The NOTO Banner Project Join community-based artist and designer Carol Bradbury in creating a series of vibrant, [...]
→ July 21, 2011
by Melissa Sewell | photos by Colin MacMillan / Nathan Ham Photography Today, July 21, marks the first anniversary of Resistance, the wildly popular all-ages alternative dance night held on Thursdays at the Boobie Trap Bar. But when the weekly dance night first began, co-creator and “glorified jukebox” Josh Luttrell (or DJ LeTrouble) didn’t expect [...]
→ July 16, 2011
Aptly dubbed, Spoken Thought is making hip-hop that makes you think while you are hit with a wave of infectious sound. Today, the local artist released his newest album, “Brain Food,” and we second the sentiments of the track “Love the A.N.T.” (featuring Anthemous): “Turn it up, man! Make it louder, man!” Spoken Thought is [...]
→ July 11, 2011
by Cale Herreman | photo by Gary Krohe The pictures, in their tidy black frames, are not large. They show some amazing scenes of birds and beasts, and humans doing ordinary things in ways alien to us. Each one is a window upon a deeper world. Each one a story. The current exhibit at the [...]
ArtMap_July2011 WESTBORO/MIDTOWN Alice C Sabatini Gallery – Topeka & Shawnee County Library: 10th Annual Art Exhibit for Children: “One World, Many Stories,” photographs by Jim Richardson. Richardson is from Lindsborg, Kan. and is a National Geographic photographer. Artwalk is 5:30 – 8:30 pm, the exhibit runs through August 12. This exhibit is supported [...]
→ June 22, 2011
Topeka’s Slash + Bash Festival back and bigger than ever. Slash + Bash Film Fest Schd: Friday, 6/24 On the outdoor screen 9:00 pm – Lawrence Filmmaker Patrick Rea Presents two short films with Q&A – “Time’s Up Eve” & “Get Off My Porch” 10:00 pm – “Aliens (Special Edition)” Saturday, 6/25 The Break Room [...]
→ June 22, 2011
Performing the music from their youth, Tejano band Paradize is celebrating 35 years of music-making this year. Growing up in the Oakland neighborhood, with a career older than most of the upstarts usually featured in the pages of seveneightfive, the members of Paradize can keep you entertained for hours with stories from the road. Featuring [...]
→ June 22, 2011
Topeka-area promoters and entertainers are gathering at Jeremiah Bull Frog’s Live, 4115 SW Huntoon St., to raise funds for the Red Cross Tornado Relief Fund for two Midwestern cities that were recently hit by twisters. The event, titled Jam for Joplin, will be held Thursday, June 23 from 6:00 p.m until 2:00 a.m. Relief and [...]
