By CHARLES FERRUZZA So a couple of big fish swim into a saloon and one says to the other, “Hey, did you see the sign at the Captain D’s restaurant at 63rd and Troost?” And the other fish takes a sip of beer and says to the other fish, “No, but you’ve gotta finish the story, I’m already hooked.” Categories:…
By NADIA PFLAUM I caught up with Evyn as she and her parents were leaving the P&L after lunch. No one was surprised when I stopped her — clearly, this happens all the time. “If I had a dollar for every time someone said they liked my makeup or my hair or whatever, I’d be a millionaire,” Evyn said. She…
By FLANNERY CASHILL Yoo-hoo! As a kid, I felt enchanted by Ren Fest. As an adult, I remember that my dad paid for that enchantment. Most renaissance festivals have degenerated into anachronistic mini-malls, an arcade of hand-crafted, hand-whittled, hand-blown bullshit. Ours may thrive on money misspent, but it’s still a bargain. A donation to Harvesters earns you two-for-one admission, and…
%{}% BY OWEN MORRIS Gary Lezak has been delivering the weather to Kansas City viewers for more than fifteen years and is currently Chief Meteorologist on NBC’s Kansas City Affiliate, KSHB. He also keeps a blog on KSHB’s Web site where he writes in-depth about the weather and posts photos of his two dogs, Breezy and Stormy. I caught up…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Seattle producer Jake One drops his debut on October 7 via Rhymesayers. White Van Music will include a star-studded cast of guest MCs including MF Doom, Little Brother and De La Soul’s Posdanous. Check the full tracklisting here and a couple of freebies, courtesy of OnSmash. Categories: Music
By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE The American Idol empire visited Kansas City last weekend, for a performance by this year’s 10 finalists, including Blue Springs boy David Cook. He is my mom’s favorite singer — and someone she wishes she could set me up with — so she generously bought me a ticket to the Saturday night show at the Sprint…
BY OWEN MORRIS Welcome back from Labor Day! 75th Street Brewery held a beer competition over the weekend and Gone Mild knows the winner personally. Very, very personally. (Gone Mild) The Boulevard is not just for a brewery and Mexican food, you can still find biscuits and gravy there too. (Where to Eat in KC) It’s called diligence and KC…
Joe Ely and Joel Guzman Knucklehead’s Saturday, August 30 Better Than: Actually having to be in that shithole Texas By ALAN SCHERSTUHL That should read “Joe Ely, Joel Guzman, and the railroad conductors of America.” Guzman played accordion and sang ragged back-up. Ely, the weathered, eccentric West Texas singer/songwriter, strummed and sang, in a hard, clear tenor, a well-picked sampling…
A night with the stars, both A-list and B-list. Photos by Scott Spychalski.
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM From the comments: Harold Bloom says: Bravo for your mention of Thomas Hardy’s Die Hard. For curious readers, I also recommend the following: Jane Austen’s Total Recall Charles Dickens’s The Hunt for Red October and of course, Oscar Wilde’s seminal The Important of Being Earnest Saves Christmas. Well, here it is, Day 6 of the Activia…
By NADIA PFLAUM These dudes near 3rd and Wyandotte are so not Disney. Categories: News Tags: Disney, Finding Nemo
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Photos courtesy Denise Henning The scene at the intersection of 12th Street and Grand Boulevard on the afternoon of June 9, 2006, was grisly. A mangled red bike lay against the curb at the end of a long streak of blood. Its rider, 65-year-old John Triggs, was a block away, pinned under the rear wheels of a…
