By ANDY VIHSTADT While we wait for Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek to finish up the sequel to 2000’s Reflection Eternal: Train of Thought, Okayplayer.com has posted a couple Kweli cuts that didn’t make it onto last year’s Ear Drum. Listen here. Categories: Music Tags: Ear Drum, Hi-Tek, talib kweli
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Professional voice of reason Mr. Yael T. Abouhalkah of The Kansas City Star calls for a transfer of cranial heat and the prevailing of cooler, sexier heads with regard to an offensive New Yorker cover. I was all, like, “The New Yorker? What, did John Updike write another precious New England elegy to extramarital blowjobs?” What…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Remember all the buzz among restaurant servers back in 1997 when Lidia’s Kansas City opened and announced that it would require its waiters and waitresses to pool their tips? The collected gratuities would later be split evenly among the servers working that night. If you’ve ever worked in the food-service business, you know that’s not one of…
Hospital Ships’ Geiger counter For two weeks in a row now, tastemaking indie music blog Stereogum has featured Lawrence bands in its Band to Watch segment. As the blog itself says: As we pass saturation point for press coverage of Montreal, Portland, Brooklyn and et cetera, it seems Lawrence, Kansas is poised for its coming turn in the music media…
By OWEN MORRIS Most restaurant employees would look at a person funny if he came in and asked to take photos of the restroom. Not at Christopher Elbow. The workers at the gourmet chocolatier just give a knowing nod. “Some people just go straight to the restroom to show their friends,” Rachel Plant tells me. “When Chris has people he…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN It doesn’t matter that last night’s All-Star game turned into a 15-inning marathon. The last time baseball’s All-Star Game was relevant was also the last time A-Rod’s new girlfriend was hip. Every All-Star Game lost importance in the last two decades. The Pro Bowl has always been an after-thought, where players for playoff teams did not appear…
BY OWEN MORRIS A couple learns two valuable lessons. One, not every recipe you see on The Food Network is a good recipe, and two, even a bad funnel cake will still be mighty tasty. (Lloyd and Lauren) The recession has officially hit the upper-middle class. Whole Foods launches a social Web site called The Real Deal to help consumers…
By FLANNERY CASHILL Supergrass fuse cocksure Britpop with stomping ’80s new-wave. The band plays Kemper Arena this Saturday. MP3: Supergrass, “Rebel in You,” from Diamond Hoo Ha (Astralwerks) Boris flog the Granada with squealing speed metal. MP3: Boris, “Statement,” from Smile (Diwphalanx Records) More after the jump. Categories: Music
By Nadia Pflaum Mark told me that he made the design for this shirt on his computer because, “It was too good not to exist.” He had it printed up at the Kinko’s downtown. His friends walk by and overhear him spelling his last name for me. “It’s Moran,” they add, helpfully. “Like Moron.” Categories: News Tags: John Mclane, Kinkos,…
BY OWEN MORRIS Apple opened up their application store Friday on iTunes, letting owners of iPhones and iPod Touches download applications to their devices. Being an owner of the latter, this was a release I was extremely eager for. A wine application seems like the perfect fit for the iPhone, which is able to hold a lot of information and…
By DAVID MARTIN The great Fire Joe Morgan (motto: “Where bad sports journalism comes to die”) shreds Kansas City Star columnist Jeffrey Flanagan in a recent post. Flanagan’s sins include run-on sentences and his deployment of a Star Trek reference to belittle people who, as FJM puts it, “attempt to learn things about the game they love. Those dicks.” Also,…
By JASON HARPER 1. I don’t remember any of the 413,000 other power ballads that sound exactly like this song. 2. If you’re going to get pulled over for drunk driving while on a date, it’s actually safe to have it happen outside of a theater where Bryan Adams is playing, because if your date wanders off and falls in…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Here above the jump, there’s no telling what a given blog entry contains — it’s the medical sharps container of mystery: You can hear stuff rattling around inside, but what is it??? Actually, I’ll just come right out and say that by coincidence, everything I wrote about today had something to do with economics. We know…
By Justin Kendall Spotted this ultra accurate tag on the back door of Bazooka’s Showgirls while walking to work Monday. A week ago, I spotted some of Bazooka’s talent taking a scantily clad smoke break by the door. Damn this smoking ban! Categories: News Tags: Bazooka’s Showgirls, smoke break, smoking ban, strippers, Tits
By ANDY VIHSTADT Stay Positive hits stores today and to keep things on the up and up, the Hold Steady popped into AOL’s Interface Studios for a live preview. Get it here in video or audio form. You can also listen to the album for free, along with the Black Kids’ debut, Partie Traumatic (out next week), right here. Categories:…
BY OWEN MORRIS Now granted, Brookside Boulevard hasn’t been the kindest to shops. But calling it “the black hole of death” seems to be a tad overkill. Otherwise, this is a nice blog post about a Brookside Italian market. (KC Lunch Spots) The FDA thought it was tomatoes and then peppers and then cilantro and now thinks it’s peppers again…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN CBS announced yesterday that college basketball analyst Billy Packer is no longer the head NCAA basketball analyst. This comes as a surprise, as I thought his tenure was akin to that of Supreme Court justices, who can urinate in their robes or author Bush v. Gore and yet keep their jobs. I worry about Packer. In retirement,…
By JEN CHEN I stopped in Donna’s Dress Shop recently to talk with its owner, Donna Foulk. The 28-year-old was wearing an adorable dress emblazoned with little red hearts. Cat-eye glasses, teased hair and hand-beaded moccasins completed her look. Categories: News Tags: Cat-eye glasses, Donna Foulk, dress, hand-beaded moccasins, teased hair
This post originally appeared on the blog of our sister paper in St. Louis, the Riverfront Times. By IAN FROEB Photo: Nick Lucchesi On the off chance you didn’t hear the news, Anheuser-Busch has accepted InBev’s $52 billion (or $70 a share) takeover bid. This creates not only the world’s biggest brewer but also a situation of some delicacy. What…
Beck’s late-summer tour behind new disc Modern Guilt touches down in Kansas City on September 29. The show is at the Uptown; no word yet on opening acts or prices. Tickets go on sale Monday, July 21. The gig’s on a Monday night, so plan to feel some remorse Tuesday morning. That’s not the same as shame, of which the…
