The Pitch Music Awads
By Justin Kendall Esquire’s Peter Martin hung out at the Young Republicans Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., in May and found three Alex P. Keaton-types from Kansas and Missouri. Martin discovered one of my favorite Republicans and a familiar face to the Kansas press corps: Stephanie Wing, spokeswoman for Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh. Martin quotes Wing talking about…
Roller Warrior Benefit
By Justin Kendall Hockey great Mario Lemieux confirmed at yesterday’s arena groundbreaking in Pittsburgh what we already knew: The Pittsburgh Penguins used Kansas City like a cheap whore to get a new arena deal in Pittsburgh. KMBC has the video here. The highlight was Lemieux saying there was never a possibility of the Penguins moving to Kansas City. “We had…
Edited and shot by Zac Eubank of Skinless Productions Pitch Music Awards August 17th Uptown Theatre from Zac Eubank on Vimeo. See you Sunday. Categories: Music Tags: PMA 2008
The first lesson of American Idol is that people who suck and don’t know it are way more entertaining to watch than, well, just about anything. The show recently held auditions at a local stockyard, branding those worth sending along to Hollywood or wherever and grinding up the rest into hamburger meat and feeding it to Randy Jackson. Local blogger…
By ANDY VIHSTADT The Rosebuds return on October 7 with LP4. From the video sampler, it sounds like the North Carolina duo is going back to a more acoustic sound. Stream a few songs from Life Like here and download the title-track below, thanks to Music for Ants. Rosebuds Video Sampler MP3: The Rosebuds, “Life Like,” from Life Like (Merge)…
BY OWEN MORRIS It may not be fancy nor chic to admit, but lots of people buy wine based on what the label looks like. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. As sommlier Kelly Wooldridge explained on this blog, the quality of the label can have a direct correlation to the quality of wine in the bottle. But just how…
Langhorne Slim Thursday, 8-14-08 The Jackpot Saloon Better than: Winning a bronze metal and slamming it down in protest. Download: MP3, “Rebel Side of Heaven” by Langhorne Slim By RICHARD GINTOWT The troubadour folk singer isn’t an archetype that typically draws me in. Bob Dylan did it best, and the rest are just sort of doing it. That’s why I…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Still Alive: As a kind of stunt, I thought I might try making jokes about every story on the index page of The Kansas City Star website this morning. %{}%Unfortunately, they printed an unusually high number of stories about people who died, so I quickly Netscape-navigated away to inoccuous, unfunny list-generating node Cracked.com, a website so completely…
By OWEN MORRIS From Charles: “I can’t imagine anything less exciting than the contents of my refrigerator. I rarely take leftovers home because I don’t own a microwave and the only leftovers I like cold are pizza and fried chicken. But I do buy deli food from Cosentino’s Brookside Market (that’s their pesto chicken salad on the top shelf.) I…
By DAVID MARTIN In preparation for the three-day Ethnic Enrichment Festival, which begins at Swope Park today, a sign maker might have opted for “Event Parking.” Categories: News Tags: ethnic enrichment festival, Sign snafu, Swope Park
BY OWEN MORRIS If you’re going to have a homeless man beg outside your restaurant, it’s probably best to make him somewhat lingual. Though if it doesn’t effect the quality of the food, who really cares? (Kansas City With a Russian Accent) Oh Sunny D! So refreshing. So nutritious. So phallic? (Dave’s Double Entendres) Lawrence starts the Midwest charge to…
By DAVID MARTIN Team USA is cruising toward a medal in women’s basketball in Beijing. And if AEG President Tim Leiweke kept his promises, Lisa Leslie, Candace Parker and other stars of the WNBA would roll through the Sprint Center once the season resumes on August 28. The failure of AEG, Sprint Center’s part owner and programmer, to land an…
Split Lip Rayfield
Jack Johnson Llive at Sandstone
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Was anyone really surprised that the legendary TV chef Julia Child – who would have celebrated her 96th birthday tomorrow if she hadn’t, well, died in 2004 – has just been outed as a former OSS spy during World War II? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: julia child, spies, The Frugal Gourmet
The great thing about havin’ me a blog is that when I’m just cooking along editing shit and downloading pictures of dinosaurs and cavegirls and eating tortillas (you know, the usual workday stuff) and I’m stopped dead in my tracks by some song I ain’t heard before is that I can post it up here and wax a bit and…
Yesterday Wowowow.com, the “Women of the Web” blog founded by Liz Smith, had a slideshow revealing what several of its famous contributors keep in their fridges. Refrigerators are basically an entire closet full of guilty pleasures and eating habits. Smith keeps hers bare save for a bottle of gin and some Snickers bars (a byproduct of the hard-nosed, hard drinking…
An error led to the last sentence (and part of the one before it) being omitted from the print edition version of David Martin’s column about Missouri attorney general candidate Chris Koster. The column is available in its entirety here. The last paragraph in the print version should have read: Koster, who once voiced support for the constitutional amendment banning…
by NADIA PFLAUM Here’s the YouTube video featuring a mooning Fort Hays debate prof that is making rounds on the Internet: The tag on the entry reads: “In the quarterfinal of 2008 CEDA Nationals, the RFD erupts into a heated exchange of words between Pittsburgh coach Shanara Reid and Fort Hays coach William Shanahan.” Fort Hays’ spokespeople say that the…
