More Than U Know feat. De La Soul – Prince Paul
By SCOTT WILSON Sarah Palin and Joe Biden went to St. Louis for their vice presidential debate. John McCain and Michelle Obama were in Kansas City on the same day on October 1. Barack Obama is due back in KC Saturday. In the final weeks of the campaign, candidates and media alike have hit Republican-leaning Missouri hard, and polls now…
By NADIA PFLAUM More after the jump! Categories: News Tags: graffiti, River Market
By OWEN MORRIS Yesterday I talked about an assortment of family-friendly drinks that go well with this glorious season. Today I turn to drinks that are not so family friendly but still an important part of celebrating the fall: booze. Hard Cider It perturbs me that Bulmers — the best cider in the world — is not available in Kansas…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA I have friends who won’t touch bread pudding. The idea of a dessert made from old, stale bread offends their sensibilities to the very core, even though the history of the dessert as a clever way of salvaging dried bread dates back to the 13th century. One of the finest pastry chefs in the city, Megan Garrelts…
Broken Social Scene October 16, 2008 The Beaumont Club Better Than: Getting shit on by a Canadian goose. By BERRY ANDERSON One fall morning, at the ripe age of 17, I excitedly took a place in line at 5:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union for tickets to see Tori Amos on her Dew Drop Inn tour at the Lied Center….
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS A new study shows bottled water is no purer than tap water. The anti-bottled water movement is gaining momentum. (Medical News Today) Tom Colicchio is actually cooking in a kitchen but unless you’re a New Yorker who’s wealthy, has Tuesdays free and is incredibly lucky with phone reservations, forget it. (Forbes) Move over Splenda, Stevia is…
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KC Marathon Running Expo
By JUSTIN KENDALL Got bless Deadspin. Scoop Jackson writes a stupid ESPN Page 2 column about the Tampa Bay Rays’ B.J. Upton bringing baseball “back to the hood” by being lazy and Deadspin gets an expletive filled e-mail from The Kansas City Star’s $350,000 man, Jason Whitlock. “Would someone please stop Scoop Jackson since the ***** editors at ESPN won’t?”…
A couple of days ago, this track from Kansas City’s best songwriter found its way to our inbox with the message to spread it around. Spread it we shall. It’s basically a rattling, rambling little sing-along about what to do with corrupt moneychangers and politicians. Very appropriate for these times. Think about it when you go vote on November 4….
By OWEN MORRIS It took a while, but it looks as if the weather has finally changed to autumn: that short time of year when the weather is chilly but the sun warm, the trees gorgeous with the color of dying leaves. With autumn come certain foods. Sure, we could have cider year-round but drinking it in the middle of…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Last night, the elected board of the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities met for the first time since the embattled power company’s second-in-command was indicted on charges of stealing $400,000 from the utility. Wyandotte County residents packed the normally empty boardroom, some calling for the BPU to fire Chief Administrative Officer Marc Conklin (that’s him…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Jennifer James Herrema is keeping the Royal Trux torch burning with her current outfit, RTX. JJ Got Live RaTX, which isn’t actually a live album, comes out next Tuesday on Drag City. The first single sounds a bit like Chocolate and Cheese-era Ween. Grab it below. MP3: RTX, “Cheap Wine Time,” from JJ Got Live RaTX (Drag…
By OWEN MORRIS Back in the summer when this blog was just getting started, we were able to break the news that Bill Raney and the ACLU would represent Justus Drugstore in its fight to save its name after the Missouri Board of Pharmacy filed a case against the restaurant for having the word “drugstore” in the title. That was…
We can’t dance, but these people can. Click the photo below for a slide show featuring some dancers from the So You Think You Can Dance tour, which pirouetted into Kansas City’s Sprint Center last night. Slide Show Categories: News Tags: dancing queens, Sprint Center
By CHARLES FERRUZZA So just how inexpensively can you eat in today’s economy? If you don’t demand perfection, pretty well. Let’s start with breakfast, the so-called “most important meal of the day.” Almost every fast food outlet in the city is currently offering some kind of $1 menu featuring low-cost sandwiches, beverages, breakfast items — even desserts — for a…
By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}%I wish I had a survival bunker: Euro Pacific Capital President and predictor of terrifying economic collapses Peter Schiff says homeowners whose mortgages are turned over to the government in the Big Bailout of Ought-Eight should just stay in their houses and stop making payments. I think he’s serious! His reasoning is that after a few years,…
The top 11 dancers from the most recent season of the popular Fox TV-show get jiggy in Kansas City, October 15, 2008.
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS KC Meesha has a complicated blog entry about cooking apple-based “sharlotka.” Both the sharlotka and the entry end up looking good. (Kansas City With a Russian Accent) In the name of airline safety, get ready for the full monty at the airport. It’s getting to the point were we all might as well show up nude…
