2008 Woodie Awards
After years of being considered a "hole-in-the wall bar" the Keystone Lounge has revamped to become one of the most popular concert venues in Joplin.
Flip past the Toker Poker page and the centerfold of an enormous white rhino bud. Stop - but only briefly - at the photos of a scantily clad Miss October taking a hit from a mushroom pipe. Feel free to jot down some notes on the new strains coming to the 2009 Cannabis Cup, but not too detailed, because page 70 is your ultimate destination. There, along with nine other colleges and universities, Missouri Southern takes its place in the hallowed pages of America's most infamous marijuana magazine: High Times.
Several heavy metal acts from across the four-states will be gathering at The Surge this Saturday for the Battle of the Bands.
With its three year anniversary coming up this month the local chapter of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is ready to do the two things it does best, celebrate and recruit.
Many bands attempt to write the next hit song, but local acoustic duo One Shade of Grey isn't thinking about fame and fortune. "We're not concerned about being the next big thing," said Alex Martin, lead guitarist. "It would be nice of course, but we're doing this because we like to have fun."
A local open mic night host has moved to another location, but his friend and band mate has stuck around to "continue the tradition."
A local park hosted its third annual Sickle Cell Anemia Benefit over the weekend. Carter Park in Carthage not only gave people a place to hang out, eat food, bash a car and win raffled prizes it provided entertainment from some local artists.
It takes seven minutes and forty-three seconds to get to John Popper's first harmonica solo, and after suffering through "Forever Owed" and its nursery rhyme overtones, it's a welcome, but brief, respite.
There's nothing that helps a viewer emotionally connect to a character better than witnessing the death of his father in a car bomb.
Slipknot's newest release, All Hope Is Gone, is exactly what fans have been hoping for.
Since Bret Easton Ellis hasn't written anything in the last couple of years to quench the thirst of the bloodthirsty, drug addled minds of his fans, many are looking elsewhere. That's where newcomer John Niven, Scottish writer and ex-London music industry executive, comes in.