By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Yes, that is bamboo. Today brings me to a subject that I often wanted to explore in this space with the intellectual depth that the topic deserves. In advance of the Beijing Olympics and in a human interest story unlikely to be covered by NBC during its coverage, The New York Times on Friday reported that Chinese…
OWEN MORRIS When life hands you lemons, screw making lemonade and just go straight for lemon cookies. (Noodletown) Local advertising agency Bernstein-Rein has a long history with McDonalds so it’s nice to see them win some work back from the arches they helped build. (KC Biz Journal) Plastic is not just for water and soda pop anymore. Wine is starting…
By ERIC BARTON The Kansas City T-Bones announced recently that they will honor former Kansas City Athletics players at this promotion on August 16. It may seem odd for one team to honor another, especially one that fizzled out so famously. It’s a curious thing about sports how fans forget a departing team so fast. Take the Royals, for instance….
BY CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Drink up, bottled water fans. Your days may be numbered. Kansas City resident Kate Corwin couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy anymore. In recent weeks, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council has been getting serious about reducing global warming pollution and using green tactics to deal with our messy sewage problems. But all the while, they’ve been slapping —…
by NADIA PFLAUM I spotted Lyndzi and Cristina outside One 80 Lounge on a recent Tuesday because, um, they were impossible to miss. Sparkles radiated from their tops and shoes like they were dressed for an 80’s party – as the disco ball. They swear up and down that they didn’t call each other about their outfits before going out….
By Nadia Pflaum Tina had a glow about her last Sunday night at the Peanut, even though she was wearing a really basic outfit: a black shirt, jeans, and black canvas shoes. I ask her what look she’s usually going for. “I feel like a 12-year-old white boy a lot of the time? So that’s what I do,” she says….
Tribute Band Superstars
Live & Collective Soul
By ERIC BARTON The pink-and-rhinestone hat in question. Earlier today, Dave “Chilidog” Crawford, the cross-dressing local punk rocker, sent out a MySpace bulletin titled “I don’t get a free pink hat? Well fuck you.” Crawford’s message explained that he went to the Royals game last night and expected he would be one of 20,000 fans given a pink Royals hat…
By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}%Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is a Sidney Lumet-directed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke and Albert Finney. It starts off pretty depressing. Then, against all odds, it just keeps getting more and more depressing over its 117 minutes, until climaxing in whatever the depressing equivalent of a terrific orgasm would be. It’s like watching…
By JEN CHEN One of my favorite local blogs is Kansas City Lunch Spots. Recently, its author, The DLC, wrote that he was on the hunt for a seersucker suit. I was intrigued; I love seersucker and wanted to know how his search was going. So, I called The DLC —- a.k.a. Dave LaCrone, a 35-year-old librarian at the Johnson…
By FLANNERY CASHILL Those technophiles eager to announce the end of an analog era may want to consider the new trend in music consumption: motherfucking vinyl records. In many markets, vinyl outsells CDs, and turntables outsell guitars. This Saturday, Earwaxx Records in Gladstone (6408 North Oak Trafficway) opens its doors, and introduces a new generation to record store babes, record…
BY OWEN MORRIS When young chef Joe West was handed the reins of the newly minted Delaware Cafe he had big plans. Grand plans. Not one of which concerned brunch. “That was more of a ten-minute brainstorm with the owners,” West said on our walk to the farmer’s market very early on a Saturday morning. “Every Saturday, we have a…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN You really want to mess with Brett? ESPN.com’s Rob Neyer posted this piece on George Brett yesterday, attempting to link the former Royals star to coke (in order to read Neyer’s writing, click here): “In the early 1980s, many baseball players were using cocaine. Some of them got into trouble, and a few of Brett’s Kansas City…
On the left tray: Bailey’s & Roasterie Coffee and Absolut lemondrop martini. On the right tray: Bacardi mojito with lime zest and Gran Marnier-Godiva truffle. BY OWEN MORRIS Depending on who you talked to at the release party last night, The Drop’s new liquor concoctions are either really fancy Jell-O shots, the next big thing in avant-garde bartending or a…
Son of a bitch. This presale’s been going since the 22nd, and I didn’t get an email from the promoter until THIS MORNING. Grrrrrrr. Anyway, if you haven’t already, click here to buy tickets for Motorhead, with the Misfits, Airbourne, Valient Thorr and Year Long Disaster. Password: INFERNO Categories: Music
By ANDY VIHSTADT California’s Cold War Kids are looking to avert the fabled sophomore slump with Loyalty to Loyalty in September. The band posted a preview yesterday and it had me craving the Talking Heads instantly. Grab it below. MP3: Cold War Kids, “Something is Not Right With Me”, Loyalty to Loyalty (Downtown Records) Categories: Music
BY OWEN MORRIS Do you have a talent for the written word? Is your pen definitely mightier than your sword? Then start writing your 400 word article for The KC Irish Fest. Unlike the contests in knitting, baking and photography, it’s due before the Fest begins. The Irish Fest Blog has some tips on how to write the perfect essay…
Photo by Sara McManus from Johannes’ MySpace page. a.k.a “New Song For You To Not Stop Listening To” The title of the song alone is diamonds. MP3: “Horserider’s Smile” by Suzannah Johannes When Neil Young went out on that one weekend, he must’ve met a previous-life Suzannah Johannes. Her sleepy, lilting voice that comes near breaking on verse two, that…
Titus Andronicus, Pink Socks, and I Love You Date: July 24, 2008 Venue: The Pistol Social Club Better Than: Watching Macbeth, the White Sox, and P.S. I Love You at The Buena Vista Social Club By GRANT SNIDER Titus Andronicus sounds like The Pogues – if The Pogues got stupid drunk and played each song as loud and fast as…
By DAVID MARTIN Security officers at the Power & Light District use hand-held scanners to check the authenticity of the IDs they’re presented. In addition to weeding out underage drinkers, the machines also conduct market research. Power & Light spokesman Jon Stephens says the scanners do not collect personal data. Information is being pulled from the licenses, however. “Zip codes…
Re-Grand Opening
Marc Cohen live at the Crossroads
By CHRIS PACKHAM Via Boing Boing — I know, I know — morning news anchors for Fox 5 News in Las Vegas share their desk with simulated cups of delicious-looking, but fake, McDonald’s coffee drinks, which are actually made out of some kind of plastic.%{}% According to The Las Vegas Sun, the anchors are not even supposed to acknowledge them,…
