Archives: September 2008
Violence coming to Kansas Citians’ porches
By JUSTIN KENDALL I flipped on the news last night and the top story was a woman shot while sitting on her front porch. I thought my DVR had screwed up. I hit the “live” button. Nothing happened. It was another attack on someone on their front porch, a familiar trend in this killer city. Last night’s was a drive-by…
The Download Extra: New Raveonettes Stream
By ANDY VIHSTADT As promised, the Raveonettes issued a few new tracks today with Sometimes They Drop By. Stream at Spinner or buy it here. The digital-only EP is the second of four shortened releases scheduled for 2008, the last of which will be stuffed with Christmas songs. You can’t still get duo’s remix EP for free right here. Categories:…
Culinary School Diary Week Four
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS You may be disappointed that this week’s Culinary Diary is so brief and contains very little new information but the fact is, so am I. Last night’s class revolved around setting up a breakfast buffet. Besides learning some facts about buffets (food costs for buffets are higher, not lower, because people gorge themselves) I learned next-to-nothing…
Where Is It?
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Yesterday was the first day of fall, the beginning of the autumn equinox. It won’t be too long before the gas logs in this attractive copper-hooded fireplace will be aflame, providing a warm refuge against the chilly winds of November and December. Do you know which local restaurant boasts this happy hearth? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Angie and Tim on Troost
By NADIA PFLAUM Let me just start by saying that I know this photo blows. I know it. But it’s the only one that remotely showed off Angie’s Betsey Johnson spider necklace that she got on sale at Macy’s for $18 instead of $80, which was the whole point of this post. And no, you can’t buy one — they’re…
Daily Briefs: Sexy Grandpa remembers the Great Depression
%{}% digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_sexy_grandpa_remembers_the_great_depression_economic_collapse_financial_bailout_fox_news_racism.php’; By CHRIS PACKHAM Today is the 179th post of Daily Briefs. In celebration, we’ve tweaked the format such that we’re now “eating our own dog food.” No, literally — with the money we earn by donating plasma and also copious amounts of sperm, leaving us post-coitally spent and ravenously hungry, we buy bottles of peppermint schnapps…
Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 9/23
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS A very interesting article about the theory of standing in lines and how companies like Disney and Starbucks are masters of it. It starts off with a obvious point that’s worth repeating: humans are the only animals that have the idea of lines. (Scientific Blogging) Wisconsin is the best state in the Union. That’s not my…
“High Noon Showdown With Midnight Hate”
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Just before midnight on September 9, Thomas and Sylvia McFall were drifting off to sleep in their Missouri City home. They both had to get up early the next morning for their daily commute. Sylvia would head to her fifth-grade class in the Kansas City, Missouri, School District. Thomas works for an area corporation. Then they heard…
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The Wayward Cast Returns! Episode XVI
Ladies and gentlemen, I got the crazy urge last night to bring back my podcast. It’s been nearly a year since my last one, and in that time — though I’ve grown no wiser nor improved at all morally — I’ve, well, I’ve become more of the sort of person who should be doing podcasts. Basically, I asked myself, “Harper,…
Charlie at Mike’s Tavern
By NADIA PFLAUM Charlie is a regular at Mike’s Tavern and is very particular about the level of his hat. He told me he used to carry a carpenter’s level in his pocket to make sure his hat is straight. I thought he was joking until I got this email: I didn’t much care fer either one of those pics…
New Boo and Boo Too Album Announced, MP3
After kicking around these parts for a couple of years and releasing an EP, Lawrence band Boo and Boo Too is making the big leap with a debut full-length release on October 14 via local imprint Iron Paw Records. Grab “I’ll Be Your Whore,” the first single off of No Tempo, courtesy of the band’s all-profesh-‘n-shit publicity firm, Fanatic Promotion,…
Survey USA/KCTV 5 poll: Graves up 9 on Barnes
By JUSTIN KENDALL Kay Barnes better shake a few more hands if she wants to beat Sam Graves. Incumbent Sam Graves has a 9-point lead over former Kansas City Kay Barnes in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District race, according to a Survey USA/KCTV 5 poll released this weekend. Conservative Republican incumbent Graves leads 51 percent to Democratic challenger Barnes’ 42 percent….
The Download Extra: New Lambchop MP3s
By ANDY VIHSTADT Last Friday, Nashville’s Lambchop celebrated National Talk Like a Pirate Day (which is an actual holiday,) with an appropriately titled new one from its upcoming LP11, OH (Ohio). Grab it below, along with another upcoming track (courtesy of Stereogum), and look for the album on October 7. MP3: Lambchop, “National Talk Like a Pirate Day,” OH (Ohio)…
Blogger RDM protests Kansas City’s losses, won’t blog until Chiefs win
By JUSTIN KENDALL Looks like Chiefs Chairman Clark Hunt might be the only person who can bring back local blogger RDM. Categories: News Tags: Bill Cowher, carl peterson, Clark Hunt, denver broncos, kansas city chiefs, Marty Schottenheimer, RDM Random Thoughts
Guilty Pleasures: Dan Meiners
By OWEN MORRIS For more than a decade, Dan Meiners has been livening up weddings and photo-shoots with his unique floral arrangements and designs. He is the owner and principal designer of Studio Dan Meiners at 17th and Wyandotte in the Crossroads District. I met with him there in a spacious, well-furnished office so imagine my surprise when he told…
This Weekend At The Plaza Art Fair
By OWEN MORRIS Click on the photo for a slideshow of the Plaza Art Fair! I went to The Plaza Art Fair on Friday night and after spending an inordinate amount of time looking for a parking spot I seriously was considering the idea of driving right through one of the barriers, parking my car in the middle of the…
Daily Briefs: Strong buy on Kevlar
%{}% digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_strong_buy_on_kevlar.php’; By CHRIS PACKHAM · Who’s afraid of the political power of the snowmobile industry? Not The Kansas City Star’s Laura Scott, who faces down Big Snowmobile and the Bush administration on behalf of the raccoon lobby, which has been busily wreaking havoc on the American recreational land vehicle industry with its clever little paws. While Big…
Tom Deatherage’s Magic Bus
By NADIA PFLAUM “It’s been a tool shed, a spare room, a crack house…” Art collector Tom Deatherage ticks off the different uses for the graffiti-coated bus parked behind his gallery, the Late Show, at 1600 Cherry. Deatherage is fluttering around the bus, cleaning up debris, and waves me on when I ask to take a picture. I’m hardly the…
Bar Natasha: The Goodbye
By OWEN MORRIS Last Friday night, the second-to-last night of existence for Bar Natasha, Missy Koonce was joined on stage by staff and ex-staff to sing one of the establishment’s favorites, a song by the Indigo Girls called “WaterShed.” Many in the audience sung along. As the song built to its climax, the band suddenly stopped playing as Koonce and…
Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 9/22
By OWEN MORRIS I remember the first time I entered the back of a bakery as a young child and was shocked to see they weren’t using Nestle or Hershey chocolate chips but these round chocolate discs out of a huge, plain cardboard box. When I asked them where they hid the Hershey’s they looked at me like an idiot…
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