By OWEN MORRIS Part II of my Anthony Bourdain post covers his speech at the Midland. Photos weren’t allowed (though that didn’t seem to stop about half the audience) which explains the lack of pictures for this post. “Hey Owen!” I looked around to see who was calling me and noticed the shiny badge and the hand waving from the…
By ANDY VIHSTADT This one isn’t off of the forthcoming Skeletal Lamping, but rather a track from the upcoming season of the Nick Jr./Noggin kids show, Yo Gabba Gabba. If you need a soundtrack for you and your young ones’ morning dental hygiene routine, Of Montreal’s got you covered, and without any sexual innuendo or references to Kevin Barnes’ penis….
By OWEN MORRIS I spent the better part of four hours last night either listening to Anthony Bourdain talk or listen to people gushingly talk about him and generated enough content for two posts. This is part I, which covers the media event event that was held at the Bristol. Part II covers his speech at the Midland. Like him…
%{}% digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_back_to_basics.php’; By CHRIS PACKHAM · We’re getting back to basics. Remember back in January, when Daily Briefs started? It was nothing but a bulleted list of news links with smart-ass commentary. Well, those days are back, and I hope you like your lists with extra bullets, because starting right now, it’s all about the news links. You’re…
By OWEN MORRIS Bull-e-vard, as in the KC Beer Blogger visits Boulevard, as in, the brewery. Call me disappointed but I was expecting something like when John Malkovich goes into his own portal to happen. (KC Beer Blog) Things must be looking back up on Wall Street because the Journal is already printing food pieces again; an good ones at…
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By DAVID MARTIN Research 2000, a polling outfit in Maryland, may want to rethink its approach in Missouri. A Research 2000 poll conducted in early July showed state Rep. Jeff Harris with a 10-point lead over the nearest rival in the Democratic primary for attorney general. Harris finished a distant third in the August 5 election. At around the same…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA It’s not one of the most popular confections in America, but black licorice does have its devotees, which is why Kansas City’s Commuications Office has issued this stop-the-presses news release today: The City of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department is notifying residents of more local stores carrying “Lucky Country Aussie Style Soft Gourmet Natural Flavor Black Licorice,”…
By FLANNERY CASHILL In a case of art imitating the internet, McSweeney’s exquisitely packaged coffee table compendium, All Known Metal Bands, may be copied and pasted directly from the metal-archives.com, a less exquisite but exhaustively researched Encyclopedia Metallum. All Known Metal Bands lists over 50,000 metal bands in alphabetical order, the same 50,000 plus bands listed alphabetically on metal-archives.com without…
In a room full of hipsters, my eye was drawn to Joelle Zbacnik because of her hair — a Euro-style mullet adorned with a skinny purple headband worn right across her bangs. Her friend gave her the ‘do. “It was long and I cut it off. And these are actually extensions,” the Zbacnik said, pulling on a braid. “We were…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA The recent news story about the intense security required just to move the 68-year-old hand-written “secret recipe” for Harlan Sanders’ fried chicken out of KFC’s corporate offices piqued my interest in those legendary “11 herbs and spices.” Categories: A&E, Dining Tags: fried chicken, Harlan Sanders, kfc, secret recipes
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS “So I hear there’s this bug going around the school.” Those are the first words I hear upon entering the classroom/kitchen for this week’s class on soups and sure enough, several people do not turn up. Normally the news would worry me but I have something else on my mind I’m much more afraid of —…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA If you can’t have a real Barbie birthday cake, damn it, would you be willing to accept a cake baked and frosted with a Barbie-style doll (one of those cheap 11-and-a-half inch fashion dolls found at discount shops and craft stores)? Hey, if the cake is good and the candles don’t melt the doll’s limp Dynel hair,…
digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_twofisted_pushpol.php’; By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}%Power is the best ipicac: In the month that saw the release and immediate disappearance of geriatric cop thriller Righteous Kill — a kind of Diagnosis: Murder-grade vehicle for aging Stanislavski method actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro — Cambodia-bombing old Henry Kissinger, the George Washington Carver of bombing the shit out of…
By OWEN MORRIS So for some reason, all the normal websites I read like Forbes, Portfolio, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal etc. aren’t doing too many food-related stories this week so I’ve had to turn to quirkier sources!. For instance, this story from Germany about a teen who is being prosecuted for causing a beer flood at a stadium. Fortunately, no…
By ANDY VIHSTADT NYC’s French Kicks are releasing a four-song EP of covers in two weeks. Among the honored is Lindsey Buckingham’s “Trouble,” available below thanks to Stereogum. You can also stream their rendition of Colin Blunstone’s (the Zombies) “Caroline Goodbye.” MP3: French Kicks: “Trouble,” The Covers EP (Vagrant) Categories: Music
Cut Copy with the Presets September 15, 2008 The Record Bar Next Best Thing To: The Faint opening for New Order By JASON HARPER Photos by MICHAEL FORESTER The Record Bar throbbed like an artery last night as Australian electro-pop groups the Presets and Cut Copy turned the small bistro-slash-concert-hall into a sweaty slip ‘n slide of rave-house dance beats…
By JEN CHEN As I was leaving Harry’s Bar and Tables on Saturday night, I spotted Chaukka Shaw (left) and Precious Campbell. They stood just outside the door, smoking under a tall blue umbrella the bar set out because of the rain. Categories: News Tags: cleavage, goth, harry’s bar and tables, Hollywood, Hot Topic, House of Heavilin, mom clothes, Paseo…
By MATT SPENCER In the midst of a drab, rainy weekend in Kansas City, the Uptown Theater was a colorful oasis. Bright flora of warm yellows and deep greens grew from arms, legs and backs, giving shelter to wild fauna of screaming skulls and winking pinup girls. Indelible characters in Chinese, Hieroglyphics and bloated graffiti told stories about each person…
Ra Ra Riot, Walter Meego, Pepi Ginsberg and the Letter Division September 14, 2008 The Jackpot Music Hall Better than: Drinking a Heineken at home. By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE Four acts is a lot for a Sunday night, especially a show that doesn’t kick off until after 9 p.m. Or maybe I’m just old and jealous of all the KU…
By NADIA PFLAUM No offense, but it just isn’t as good as the stuff next door. Categories: News Tags: graffiti, Wyandotte
A Wayward Blog Exclusive Q&A By PETER RUGG These are familiar times. In May 2003, early hype was going around that Metallica’s St. Anger was a return to form after a decade of mediocrity. Then the album came out and took a shit on everybody’s chest. These past few weeks have been the same, except it looks like the band’s…
By OWEN MORRIS Subscribers to the Pitch Forks dining newsletter know that I mentioned Lawrence is finally getting a respectable seafood restaurant called Angler’s, located at the corner of 10th and Massachusetts Street. In the newsletter I reported that it was supposed to soft open last week and then officially open sometime this week. It did in fact have a…
