Archives: July 2008
Gnarls Barkley: Canceled
Folks, I found out Gnarls had canceled yesterday. I waited to post anything until I’d heard whether the other bands (Black Keys, Ting Tings) were still playing. Turns out, they aren’t. The whole thing is canceled. AEG Live says the show was “canceled due to a routing conflict related to Lollapalooza.” Categories: Music
Power & Light vs. Westport
We go on an eight-hour binge to find out which entertainment district is winning the war for your drinking dollars.
Cellar Rat Cleans Up With Garage Sale
By Owen Morris “To call it a success is an understatement,” says Cellar Rat managing partner Ryan Sciara. His wine store at 1701 Baltimore had its first “garage sale” this past Saturday morning, selling 155 cases of wine at garage-sale prices. It was an off-the-cuff idea that sparked a massive response. “Three weeks ago this garage sale wasn’t a thought,…
KC Atheist Will Care for Your Pets After Rapture
By Justin Kendall If you’ve worried about what will happen to Bob the Dog or Mrs. Meowmeow when Jesus raptures your soul to Heaven, worry no more. A Kansas City atheist has a solution for your left behind pets. In this Craigslist ad, an unnamed atheist promises to feed, water and shelter Santa’s Little Helper and Snowball II until they…
Daily Briefs: No-coherent-theme Tuesday
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Sit, Aibo: If there’s any residual doubt in your mind that you, like everyone else, are nothing but a meat robot responding to subconscious scripts and preprogrammed biological directives, then throw this on the teetering pile of evidence that scientists call Mount Pavlov: Loud music in bars causes people to drink more than they would have…
The Download Extra: New Primal Scream MP3
By ANDY VIHSTADT Primal Scream returns with Beautiful Future today, marking number nine in the Scotland outfit’s catalogue. Listen to the first single, “Can’t Go Back,” and a few others right here. For a bonus, surrender your email address here for a free download of the non-album track, “Urban Guerilla”. Categories: Music
Guest Post: A Mets Fan’s Perspective on Beltran
Beltran, before and after. This week’s guest post is from Chris McCown, former contributor with Future Considerations and current contributor to MetsGeek. I asked him to write about Carlos Beltran, who — not Johnny Damon — is the Five-Tool Star The Royals Let Get Away. -Chris Rasmussen Other Chris asked me here today to talk about Carlos Beltran. As a…
Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 7/22
By OWEN MORRIS From Sullivan Hidgon & Sink’s American Copywriter blog, I present the biggest thing to hit the internet since LOLCats: cake decorations gone bad. (Cake Wrecks via American Copywriter) Pitch execs take note: an in-office bar does wonders for employees’ moral. (AdAge) A Los Angeles’ council-member is trying to ban fast food within much of the city’s limits….
Jen Smith, 21, at the Dark Horse Tavern
by NADIA PFLAUM Jen and a blond friend plopped down on bar stools at the Dark Horse Tavern on a Tuesday night to celebrate another friend’s birthday. I noticed Jen’s mismatched earrings and Twiggy eyelashes and asked her about them. “I describe my style as eclectic,” she told me. “I usually don’t match. Kind of like an urban pirate. I…
Mandy Norman, 28, at the Velvet Dog
by NADIA PFLAUM I spotted Mandy at a bridal shower that kicked off at the Velvet Dog. She was impossible to miss, with luminous blond hair and neon orange fingernails. She explained, “I wear acrylics, and I get them really short. I used to work in merchandise for Urban Outfitters and I had to do a lot of work with…
Guilty Pleasures: Darren Mark
By OWEN MORRIS Darren Mark is the vice president of marketing and PR for Corona Cantina #1 in the Village West Shopping Center in Kansas City, Kansas, and a freelance writer for Spaces Magazine. Previously, he was the host of the mid-morning talk show Kansas City Live on KSHB. I caught up with him at the Peanut chowing on some…
Preparty for Tom Petty
Preparty for Tom Petty
Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival
Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival
Forget the Chiefs and Royals: KC Explorers at Least Can Win
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI In a town with consistently disappointing sports teams, the Kansas City Explorers are a bit of an anomaly. First, theyre part of World Team Tennis a professional league thats widely unknown to sports fans and sprints through its short season during the hottest month of the year. But more than that, the Explorers are actually, well, really…
From the Streetside Gallery of TIM! and Friends
By Nadia Pflaum I caught up with an artist named TIM! (as he likes it to be spelled, exclamation point and all), who gathered fellow artist friends together to paint this quirky wall next to Pittsburgh Paints at 2645 Southwest Boulevard earlier this year. TIM! says an artist named Dane Bonner painted this owl and chicken: This deer is courtesy…
KC Explorers Spank Washington
In a town with consistently disappointing sports teams, the Kansas City Explorers are a bit of an anomaly. The Explorers, part of the World TeamTennis league, are actually, well, really good. Against the Washington Kapitals on Saturday night, the Explorers cruised through the D.C. Kapitals 23-13.
How to Avoid Special-Ed Lawsuits
By PETER RUGG Last week, I reported on how parents of special education students in the Lee’s Summit School District were ready to picket a state education conference on autism because they were upset that Lee’s Summit’s Director of Special Education, Jerry Keimig, had been selected to give a presentation. I was never able to confirm this, but as near…
The Download Extra: New UNKLE MP3
By ANDY VIHSTADT Mulder and Scully have their work cut out for them after the Dark Knight’s record breaking weekend at the box office. The producers of X-Files: I Want to Believe (out Friday) called on James Lavelle, aka UNKLE, to toughen up the theme song. Download it here via Sendspace. Categories: Music Tags: the download extra, unkle, x-files
Daily Briefs: 100 percent Batcrap-free
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Ha ha, today I am Teevee Barnhart: Variety reports Brillstein-Grey TV co-topper Susie Fitzgerald has been tapped as prexy of Josephson Entertainment. Rising from co-topper to prexy could be seen as more of a lateral move than a promotion, in my experience. Reading this shit aloud sounds like old people using slang from the 1800s, and…
Concert Review and Slideshow: Foo Fighters and Supergrass at Kemper Arena
By CALEB GOELLNER Click to view slideshow. Going nearly unused for rock shows of late, Kemper Arena has more or less become the awkward middle ground between the artsy Uptown and the soulless Sprint Center. However, on Saturday night the former hockey rink seemed like a fine fit for The Foo Fighters show, where the three-band bill kicked so much…
Upcoming Chiefs Season Another Exercise in Rebuilding
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN It’s not just stadiums under construction. Every rational fan of a professional sports team knows their season will likely end in failure. Sometimes, in successful years, it ends in a sudden and painful fashion, with a heartbreaking loss in the playoffs. Those are successful failures. More often, we know before the season begins that the team we…
Next for Obama: Challenging McCain to a Game of Horse?
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Sen. Barack Obama sucks at bowling, but he shows below that he may expand America’s foreign policy range. Categories: News
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