Modis restaurant closes after less than two years on Platte Street
The eatery’s new landlord sued it in April over unpaid rent.
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The eatery’s new landlord sued it in April over unpaid rent.
“It’s not worth the cost of our cash and certainly not worth the cost of the real estate,” Impulsify founder Janine Williams said.
The property at 2260 California St. was the subject of an August lawsuit over homeless encampments on the site that has been dismissed.
Williams says he wanted Trickster Carousel songs to have both depth and naughtiness. On the quintet’s new album, Snake Oil, available for purchase on the band's website, iTunes and Apple Music, Williams explores ideas he wrote about in The Trickster Brain. Take the upbeat foot-tapping swing cut “Cradle to the Grave,” a humorous song about death and evolution that sounds like Tom Waits sitting in with the Squirrel Nut Zippers. “Evolution never meant to make us happy,” Williams says. "Happiness is not something that evolution gives a shit about. It's just survival and getting your...