Metallica October 25, 2007 The Sprint Center Better Than: Harptallica, the Metallica tribute duo consisting of two female harpists. By PETER RUGG I can’t be certain until I make a few calls, but it’s doubtful hospice centers keep statistics on their patient’s disposition shortly before death. Still, there are certain stories about the last weeks of a loved one that…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA I was one of those moviegoers who fell in love with 1996’s Big Night Big Night, a film about two Italian-born brothers, played by Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub, trying to make a success of their restaurant. Here in Kansas City, two Italian-American brothers — certainly as handsome as movie stars — are having much more success…
By CHRIS PACKHAM A few weeks ago, The New York Times said the stock market was “gyrating,” which was some weird, gross “backwards cowgirl” imagery, where walking mummy Alan Greenspan is the cowgirl. %{}%And today, they’re explicitly anthropomorphizing world markets by saying that European and Asian stock markets “shuddered” while you were asleep last night. Is this helpful? Characterizing stock…
Drawing from its early thrash-pioneering days all the way to its brand-new one, Metallica magnetized the crowd in downtown KC on a Saturday night.
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS See if you can’t correctly answer these liquor-based questions that were part of a category on Jeopardy last week. (On Flickr via Cocktailians) Sadly, I’ve eaten chocolates that looked as bad or maybe even slightly worse than these ones that are 106 years-old. (Telegraph) Too little too late. The U.N. is just finally getting around to…
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By DAVID MARTIN Matt Schofield, the Kansas City Star reporter who wears a ushanka in a weirdly prominent photograph appearing on the paper’s politics blog, wrote a terribly misleading entry about John McCain cutting into Barack Obama’s lead in the polls. Schofield’s entry, published yesterday, suggested that Joe the Plumber was having an impact on the race. The evidence? A…
HH & HW comes back with a bang this Sunday with a special performance by Akil the MC of Jurassic 5. Deep Thinkers will also perform. So will DJ Tminmnmsnms. Categories: Music Tags: Hip-Hop and Hot Wings
By JUSTIN KENDALL Add another mugshot to the BPU’s growing collection. We published the first two, of Marc Conklin (left), the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities’ chief administrative officer, and Rodney L. Turner (right), a Wyandotte County lawyer indicted with Conklin, last week in this story detailing the WyCo electric and water company’s loose ethical oversight. The latest portrait…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Every weekday, our exclusive Pitch Wayward Blog science men spotlight fresh, hot and legal free downloads from around the Web. But in constantly trolling for the best free music, there’s always a ton of stuff that doesn’t make the DL cut. Starting today, we’ll be offloading the second-string selections each week in our Friday MP3 Dump. Because…
By OWEN MORRIS There’s a story I heard long ago about a starving artist who couldn’t afford to heat his space, so when it became bitterly cold, he’d paint a roaring fire to try and trick his mind into thinking it was warm. To prevent the apocryphal from becoming true for Kansas City artists, one Crossroads gallery is hosting a…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Master and Commander: Before Daily Briefs, I knew I was good at writing. But I never knew how good I was at writing tales of high adventure on the open sea! Just one of many journeys of self-discovery and deep reflection and whatnot that I’ve embarked on in 2K8. Yesterday’s action-packed nautical adventure was the 200th…
By DAVID MARTIN Monday’s Kansas City Star did a bad thing. It gave a newsmaker a prominent platform in the same issue he dodged questions from one of the paper’s writers. Tim Golba, the former president of Kansans for Life, is now championing the direct elections of judges in Johnson County. Golba (pictured) says partisan elections will lead to better,…
An alert paparazzo snapped this picture of Metallica front man James Hetfield and bassist Robert Trujillo spending some of their metal-earned cash yesterday on the Country Club Plaza. Maybe they’ll wear their new duds at tomorrow’s show at Sprint Center. Categories: Music Tags: yeah right
By ANDY VIHSTADT Three and a half years after its original release, the Eels’ Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is getting the deluxe treatment on vinyl. The limited edition boxed set (only 2,500 copies will be pressed) is spread out on four LPs; the fourth being a 2005 performance recorded in Manchester. It also comes with a hardcover book and…
By OWEN MORRIS On Monday night I got a taste (OK, more than a taste) of the fall menu now available at all six Houlihan’s in the Kansas City metro. The gentlemen who run the Web site KC Beer Blog were also in attendance, and they have a much more detailed rundown of the environment and the food. But here’s…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS A local blogger in a much better situation to make recommendations about Russian food than most has some tips about an Eastern European bake sale. (KC With a Russian Accent) This post made me sick. Not as sick as it made the eater of the QuickTrip Sandwich. This post deserves a double warning: There’s a picture…
By JUSTIN KENDALL and SCOTT WILSON Fucking up is easy for professional athletes. Temptation is everywhere. Weed. Women. Booze. Guns. Fast cars. Money is plentiful. Mistakes are bound to be made. So we’ve developed a template for saying you’re sorry even when you don’t really mean it. (Thanks, L.J.!) If you find yourself unable to autograph or buy your way…
By OWEN MORRIS The ATF is officially reporting that the downtown Hereford House fire from Sunday night is being treated as arson. More information will be posted here as it becomes available. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: arson, ATF, Filet Fire, Hereford House
People who hate Christmas music just don’t get it. Yeah, it’s kitschy and starts playing in department stores in October blah-di-blah, but people who expend the energy hating it are usually just young and uptight — overgrown spoiled children all. On the other side, you’ve got people who love Christmas music so much, they refuse to respect the seasonal boundaries….
By ANDY VIHSTADT The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim has been on a roll the past couple of years with free, exclusive material from a pool of indie rockers, underground hip-hoppers and avant-pop instrumentals. This time around, they’ve teamed up with the gamers at Ubisoft to compile an EP of up-and-coming South African artists. The collection coincides with the video game…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM My girlfriend got some really well-targeted mail from the Republican National Committee yesterday about how Barack Obama and Bill Ayers used to get together for their terrorist cuddle parties, which really turned my head around on this whole election. BILL AYERS FOR PRESIDENT, you guys. All’s I’m saying is, the best way of catching my attention…
