The LC Considers the KC Fringe Festival / Also: KC Artist of the Week / Geek Rage!

KC's annual week-long bonanza of (weird) art and theater and music and movies is underway, and InkKC offers a useful guide to the madness of the Fringe Festival.

Here we offer a few picks of what might be worth your time:

For melancholy hipsters: an hour-long play based on the Mountain Goats' ultra-depressing album Tallahassee.

For sci-fi geeks: Khaaaaaan! The Musical (the press material says: "Go back to the future in this 1980's rock and roll Enterprise...Set phasers to laughter").

And for fans of the circus: Cirque du Gay presents "The Happy Circus," in which "two gay clowns service you with a rainbow of entertainment and pure happy fun."

Chip: "'Service' certainly makes it sound like these clowns are going to blow the entire audience."

The newest addition of InkKC also profiles several intriguing area artists.

Our favorite: Megan Stockman, 20, of KC dance troupe Quixotic Fusion. Why can't Asteroid Head recruit some members who look like this? (and who are so delightfully...flexible).
















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The fanboy world is shocked today by a stabbing which occured over seating arrangements during a Resident Evil panel at yesterday's Comic-Con in San Diego.

Richard: "I could totally understand this if the stabbing occurred over who got to sit closer in, say, the panel for the new Avengers film. But Resident Evil?"