By ANDY VIHSTADT Still in high school, Connecticut DJ Mike Waxx uses his Illroots blog to launch his mashups. Earlier this week, the youngster posted up Doomed, a 30-track mixtape that pays homage to the ever-elusive MF Doom. Get more info here and download the zip file below. MP3: Mike Waxx, Doomed Categories: Music
BY OWEN MORRIS This simple, warm-hearted post really makes me wish I had made better use of the past two rainy days than just working. (Venus in the Kitchen) I am a big fan of mushrooms. They’re healthy, earthy and having so many varieties. With that said, there’s no way in hell I would travel all the way to Finland…
By PETER RUGG Last week’s story on Union Station’s troubled finances resulted in a lot of phone calls. Most of you called after I left the office but were kind enough to leave detailed messages — all passionate about the building’s future, all sure you had a plan that would save it. Here are some of the more detailed quotes….
By ERIC BARTON It’s my job here at The Pitch to edit the Burnt Ends page, so you can imagine how bad I felt when I found out that an article this week said incorrectly that a restaurant had closed. What’s worse, it wasn’t a chain restaurant — you can bet Chipotle wouldn’t even notice such a comment. Instead, it…
It’s been a quiet week at Lake Waywardblog. We are all very hungover and unsure what day it is. Our only recourse has been to watch YouTube videos. Today’s installment: Videos Shot Entirely On a Cell Phone Pimp. First, a California band called Wallpaper capitalizes on the text messaging craze with “Txt Me Yr Love,” a day-in-the-life vignette of a…
By DAVID MARTIN The city lost a good journalist when Jim Davis, a Kansas City Business Journal reporter, died last week of complications from melanoma. Davis covered development with professionalism and aplomb. In 2006, he wrote a two-party story about the obscure but powerful Planned Industrial Expansion Authority that I keep in a three-ring binder, highlighter streaks marking my envy….
One of the perks of this job is that I get to try a lot of stuff I would otherwise pass over. Examples A and B being the drinks that appeared on my desk last week: Red Espresso and Alcohol ßG Killer. Both drinks have fibs in their names. Red espresso is neither espresso nor red (maybe a very dark…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Oklahoma’s Colourmusic made a big splash at this year’s SXSW. The band is known for its love of Isaac Newton, hippie communes and onstage wackiness, which is best described in the one-sheet: In the past they’ve been known to have their hair and clothes cut off, allow themselves to be painted, employ a motivational speaker, theatrically kill…
BY OWEN MORRIS Shortly after Sarah Palin was announced as the Republican vice presidential candidate, I started searching for all the pictures information I could find on her. I was particularly interested to see that Palin likes to claim her favorite food is moose stew. First, I have nothing against stew but I do not know a person under 75…
BY OWEN MORRIS You can practice actual democracy this fall by voting. Until then, you can practice fun boozy democracy by drinking. Starting last night and running until November’s election, The Flying Saucer in the Power & Light District is selling collectible pint glasses bearing the likenesses of Barack Obama and John McCain (sorry Bob Barr fans) and keeping track…
By ERIC BARTON Categories: News Tags: downtown, Skyline
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM From the comments: Son of Kahless says: Did you receive your used Bat’leth blessed by General Chang before his demise, or is it a designer piece you picked up in San Fransisco? All hail the dark lord: Usually, I don’t talk about my religious convictions, but I’m considering becoming a Satanist as an alternative to my…
BY OWEN MORRIS Another weekend means another festival! Last weekend it was the Irish; this time it’s the Greeks. The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church’s 47th Annual Greek Festival starts this Friday at 6 p.m. at 12001 Wornall Road. While homemade galaktoboureko (it’s like a Greek mixture of creme brulee and a cinnamon roll) should be enough to entice any food…
By NADIA PFLAUM Last night I ran into Record Bar co-owner and Roman Numeral Shawn Sherrill and realized that, as far as style goes, dude’s an original gangsta. “This is a 99-cent shirt that I bought easily ten years ago at a thrift store,” Sherrill says of his crisp-but-comfortable-looking, blue-striped number. “It’s hard to find stuff I want to wear…
BY OWEN MORRIS How many countries can one tiny bottle of fruit juice have in it? Way more than I’ve visited. (Kansas City with a Russian Accent) Cornflakes and chicken is one of those throwbacks to childhood. For me, it’s one of those foods you remember enjoying as a child but don’t think you’d enjoy anymore. Judging from the picture…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Kris Kobach is taking aim at liberal San Francisco values. But it has nothing to do with gay marriage. Last month, the chairman of the Kansas Republican Party and law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City filed a complaint against San Francisco, alleging the city’s soft stance on illegal immigrants got an innocent family gunned down…
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. The Politics of Meaning Author: Daniel Graham, Jr. Publisher: Preview Press Date: 1995 Discovered at: Family Thrift on Truman Road The Cover Promises: Punch-and-Judy puppet violence…
Gaze for one last time at the macabre nudes painted by Benjamin Carlson, resident artist at Bar Natasha. The artist will be present at this closing reception, which doubles as one of the last hurrahs for the bar itself. Live music at 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 5, 5 p.m., 2008 Tags: Benjamin Carlson, Night & Day
At the opening performance tonight of this year’s almost sold-out Kansas City Improv Festival, comedy fans should be primed for more than just the unexpected. They’re being promised the unconceived. “We’re going to put on a show that’s never been seen before and will never be seen again,” says Tim Marks, the “Chief Improvisational Officer” of Improv-Abilities, the local comedy…
Within the boundaries of Johnson County is one of the best culinary institutes in the United States. If it called itself by an important-sounding French name and charged students thousands of dollars, it would probably be nationally famous. As is, the hospitality program at Johnson County Community College still wins awards and press by the baker’s dozen. JCCC maintains such…
: Photorealistic paintings and photographs by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri are at Byron Cohen (2020 Baltimore, 816-421-5665) between 7 and 9 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: Sept. 5. Continues through Nov. 1, 2008 Tags: Baltimore, Byron Cohen, Night & Day, Yigal Ozeri
