Archives: August 2008
North vs. South Music Festival
North vs. South Music Festival
Art Unleashed
Art Unleashed
Cyclones, Wildcats play at Arrowhead in ’09 and ’10
By Justin Kendall Just got back from the press conference announcing the 2009 and 2010 Iowa State and Kansas State neutral site games at Arrowhead. Good to see the Cyclone beat writers — both of them — made the trip south on I-35. The pre-press conference jabber was whether the Cyclones had settled their quarterback conundrum. Of course not. The…
Holy Shit! This Is Our 1,000th Entry!
Well, folks, this really is the 1,000th official entry of the Wayward Blog. Canyoubelieveit? Some of you were too young and/or drunk to even remember when this blog began, way back on March 7, 2006 with an entry about Namelessnumberheadman and Robert Moore, but we have carried through the past two and a half years together with wit, aplomb, and…
Behold, the Future Look of El Torreon
As promised yesterday, Jeanne Bojarski’s publicity peeps have passed along the architectural rendering of the refurbished El Torreon, drawn up by Davison Architecture + Urban Design LLC. Feast your eyes, Kansas City. And, by the way, what’s with architectural firms always using a plus sign instead of an ampersand or the word “and”? Categories: Music Tags: El Torreon
Jollene Kuo in Westport
By JEN CHEN A long time ago, I read an article in Glamour that said that anyone – anyone! – could get away with dying their hair blonde. According to the article, it was just a matter of matching the right shade to your skin tone. I was intrigued by the Asian model featured in the magazine; her hair was…
Open: The Cook Shack Cafe
By CHARLES FERRUZZA The new movie Bottle Shock is based on the real-life story of a former real estate attorney Jim Barrett (played in the film by Bill Pullman) who sacrifices his life savings to open a California vineyard. Much closer to home is the story of retired firefighter Bill Crow, who dreamed of having his own restaurant. Four days…
Lindsay Weiss Scores with Banana Desserts
%{}% BY OWEN MORRIS Lindsay Weiss of Overland Park is one of twelve finalists for Cooking Light’s Ultimate Reader Recipe Contest. Cooking Light, which bills itself as the “world’s largest food and healthy lifestyle magazine,” chose Weiss’ dessert recipe of roasted banana bars with browned butter pecan frosting. If this sounds vaguely familiar that’s because Cooking Light’s sister magazine, Southern…
Convention Countdown: Demver!
Attention political junkies! An editor’s note: I’m too cheap to send any of The Pitch’s reporters to cover the Democratic National Convention in Denver — but thankfully I don’t need to, because our brilliant, insightful and witty colleagues at The Pitch’s sister paper, Westword, are doing such a fabulous job of covering it themselves. Over at Westword.com, the Demver blog…
The Download Extra: New Broken West MP3
By ANDY VIHSTADT The Aquarium Drunkard has posted up an exclusive new track from the Broken West’s forthcoming sophomore effort, out September 9 on Merge Records. Grab “Auctioneer” below, along with another new one from the Los Angeles outfit. MP3: The Broken West, “Auctioneer,” Now or Heaven (Merge) MP3: The Broken West, “Perfect Games,” Now or Heaven (Merge) Categories: Music
Daily Briefs: The Plog summer internship program
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM From the Comments: wumble says: Does Cabella’s have Virtual Lawnmower yet? Or maybe Promise Keeper Neo Geo, where your .75 cents lets you pretend to tell your wife and kids what’s what? Regular-guy lunchpail-carrying war hero John McCain probably can’t remember a lot of things. Once your brain gets all clogged up with the amyloid plaque,…
Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 8/21
BY OWEN MORRIS The chances of this are rare. Very rare. Like being hit by lighting rare. Yet, I link to it not to gross you out but to show things like tapeworms can happen when food is not cooked properly. (AJC) Feeling particularly feisty about the upcoming elections? Well Forbes has a list so you can make sure to…
Author Claims the Babe Was Black
By BEN PAYNTER By acquiring Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox in the ’20s, the Yankees began what has become a time-honored tradition of buying their way into success. Back then, the survival of a ball club depended on the one-dimensional business of putting butts in seats. Fans turned out in droves to watch the player who could change…
Studies in Crap: License to Kill PLUS: Enjoy Your Pigeons!
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. License to Kill Author: David Perkins Publisher: BkMk Press, Shawnee Mission, Kansas Date: 1973 Discovered at: 2nd Chance Thrift, 7740 Wornall The Cover…
Kansas City Aviation Expo and Airshow
The Kansas City Aviation Expo and Airshow returns to the Downtown airport Saturday and Sunday, featuring multimillion-dollar fighter planes piloted by the best twenty-year-olds the military has to offer. Fighter jets climb vertically and tumble end-over-end above Kansas City just one time a year, so if you’re any kind of an aeronautics aficionado, don’t miss the show. Patricipants include the…
Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin, The famous “D-list” comedian/actress, got her start on the Los Angeles area live show “The Groundlings,” but she is well known for her roles as Vicki Groener on the NBC series “Suddenly Susan” and as Sally Weaver on “Seinfeld” and the voice of the character Alice on “Dilbert.” The acerbic, razor-tongued, take-no-prisoners comedian Kathy Griffin has built a…
Have Hometown Pride
It’s nearly September, and Chiefs fans are stocking up on body paint and creative new curse-word combinations. In the immortal words of Hank Williams Jr.: Are you ready for some fútbol? Uh, wait, hold on a sec — are you sure Hank done it that way? Anyway, the Kansas City Wizards have a better chance of making the playoffs than…
Cheap Game
With the Royals’ annual nose dive making it easy to score cheap tickets to Kauffman Stadium, the Kansas City T-Bones have one less excuse to get people to the ballpark. The lovable has-beens and could-have-beens of the Northern League must instead rely on that ol’ Bill Veeck magic — i.e., wacky corporate promotions. Take, for instance, the Toyota Air Guitar…
From Busk Till Dawn
Street performing is an art as old as streets themselves. Historically, busking is rooted in intimate, live entertainment, with skilled performers interacting closely with their audiences. But some jerk decided to call these performers “buskers,” which likely led many to turn to a life of crime — the word grifters, after all, sounds cooler.Help redeem busking at the Lawrence Busker…
The American Cancer Society’s Cattle Baron’s Ball 2008
The American Cancer Society’s 27th annual Cattle Baron’s Ball 2008 is scheduled Saturday, August 23rd, at the Westin Crown Center. The theme of this year’s ball is “Denim and Diamonds,” and includes a silent auction with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m., dinner and speaking program with guest emcee Elizabeth Alex from NBC Action News at 8 p.m., an extraordinary…
Silvia Koffler
Riverfront Readings and Prospero’s Book Store are sponsoring a reading and book release for Silvia Koffler and her new book Radioactive Musings at the Plaza Library, 4801 Main St., Kansas City. Sun., Aug. 24, 2 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Silvia Koffler
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