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Let's take a road trip. Gather the friends, the old Corolla, a few scarves and maybe the dog. Let the windows hang loose, open just enough for your hand to ride the currents and flick pumpkin seeds. Make a few sideways glances, smiling, to your comrade in the back seat—but not too many. Tap your foot on the floorboard blanketed with old receipts, all the while knowing how important this moment truly is.
Andrew Frederick, Shawnee junior, has that certain way with words—to create a world at the flick of a beat and the hum of a lyric, such as experienced with the song,"AA Batteries."
As lead singer and songwriter for Frederick and the Six Angry Telephones—a seven-member ensemble of violins, horns, saxophones and the occasional (subtle) owl noise—Frederick creates music to emphasize and contextualize moments born out of peaks and rhythms. With help from co-writer and long-time friend, Austin Quick, sophomore, Frederick aims to unfold a story, in dramatic structure, for each of their songs; adding each instrument, or the coalescence of all, only when crucial to the lyrical plotline. All the subtleties of a chime or the bellow of a horn become necessities.
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Frederick and the Six Angry Telephones is playing at The Wonka House, 726 Missouri St., 9 p.m. on Saturday. The band plans to release a nine-song album on both CD and cassette soon.
While growing up watching musicals like West Side Story and attending live orchestras at Theatre in the Park in Shawnee, it's no surprise Frederick has a talent for composing unique melodic pop.
Check the group's Myspace page for news and to a few songs from the upcoming album, including "AA Batteries," to see where they take you.
— Tanner Grubbs
This Weekend for early mornings and late evenings, get a jolt from Scooter's
Photo illustration by Kristopher McDonald A new stop for anything from coffee to smoothies to tea has made its debut at Ninth and Iowa streets. Scooter's Coffeehouse Drive Thru provides its consumers with energy, says manager Steve Martin.
Slowly, begrudgingly, we allow ourselves to realize a new semester is upon us. For many students, the zombie-like jaunt to classes starting just after the break of dawn seems daunting. For others, those long, sleepless nights spent crafting papers and cramming for tests are once again becoming a frightening reality.
When it feels as if your motivation has peaked and subsequently plummeted, you may want to stop at Scooter's Coffeehouse Drive Thru, Ninth and Iowa streets just behind Zarco 66.
From coffee to smoothies (piping hot to finger-numbing cold), hot chocolate to iced tea, Forbidden Fruit to Mocha, Scooter's has a seemingly endless array of choices to satisfy that mid-morning hunger pang or late-night caffeine craving. Scooter's is open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.
A recent excursion through Scooter's yielded a 16-ounce iced latte and a 16-ounce Caramelicious smoothie for $7.08.
Scooter's manager Steve Martin says the coffee shop works hard to satisfy its customers' needs.
"Our coffee definitely provides our consumers with energy." Martin says."Energy to work, energy to study or energy to do whatever it is they need to get done."
The store's proximity to campus also makes Scooter's appealing to students, Scooter's employee Katy Poff says.
"It's so much easier for students to come by here when it's so close to them," Poff says, "rather than driving all the way downtown to shop at Starbucks or another coffee house."
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Kristopher McDonald
January 15,2009