Archives: November 2008

Last weekend’s protest: “Stop the H8 Rally” for gay rights

By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Click on photo for a slide show of the protest. The temperature was low, but the energy was high as hundreds of Kansas City residents joined a nationwide protest against California’s new gay-marriage ban Saturday afternoon. With colorful signs calling for equal rights for gay and lesbian couples, the crowd was so large that those on the…

Film about KC vet hits the small screen

By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI After a bullet from Iraqi rebels paralyzed him from the chest down, Northland native and Army veteran Tomas Young agreed to film the splintering of his life in the hopes that the brutally honest documentary would serve as a counter-recruitment tool. But Body of War, made by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, has become much more than…

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Squitiro: Campaign manager ex post facto

By DAVID MARTIN Ed Wolf’s nearly 200-page deposition has provided a lot of infotainment for people who follow the Appalachian-Neapolitan soap opera in the Kansas City mayor’s office. First lady Gloria Squitiro’s alleged penchant for the inappropriate and Wolf’s “mother-in-law on honeymoon” money quote have received the most attention. Less eye-catching but also interesting is the discussion about Squitiro’s status…

Stealing Time: Special Super Obama World edition

By JUSTIN KENDALL I concede that my Super Mario skills no longer exist. This morning, I discovered Super Obama World, a knockoff of the Mario Bros.Nintendo franchise in which you play as president-elect Barack Obama, crossing the infamous Bridge to Nowhere into Alaska to battle on the Palin estate and try to return hope to America. All the while avoiding…

Lawsuit filed by KMBC anchors over discrimination

By NADIA PFLAUM KMBC Channel 9 anchors Maria Antonia and Kelly Eckerman and reporter Peggy Breit filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon against the local ABC affiliate and its parent company, Hearst-Argyle Stations, alleging that they were discriminated against because of their age and gender. “The environment at KMBC-TV has transformed over time, from one of cooperation into a hostile environment,…

Daily Briefs: What condition my condition was in

By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}%Now that America has elected Barack H. Obama as its President, America has come together as One People, united in a sense of common purpose, like for instance, the belief that Barack Obama is going to take away our guns, y’all; he is totally going to do that with his ATF shock-troops just as soon as he…

Stealing Time: Tevis, Flanny, Herm

By JUSTIN KENDALL Sean Tevis didn’t win a seat in the Kansas Legislature, but the guy was still a campaign phenom. The latest from his campaign site is the story of taking his blog down after 10 years because his opponent would most surely use any and all silly photos against him in attack ads. “I felt like I was…

Opening this Week: Peachtree Restaurant

By OWEN MORRIS I was down in the Power & Light District and decided to stop by the Peachtree to see how it was coming along. I walked up the steps to the second-level restaurant and lo and behold learned I had stumbled upon its grand opening. Categories: A&E, Dining Tags: Peachtree, power & light, restaurant openings

The Download: Sample This (New Simian Mobile Disco, Coldplay/Jay-Z mashup, plus Anti- and Joyful Noise Records samplers)

By ANDY VIHSTADT MP3: Simian Mobile Disco, In the Mix (N-Joy) 11/7/08 (thanks to Brooklyn Vegan) ZIP: Mick Boogie & Terry Urban, Viva la Hova (Coldplay/Jay-Z mashup album) ZIP: Anti- Records 2008/2009 sampler. Tracklist 01. “Mexico City” – Jolie Holland 02. “Pieces Of You” – Islands 03. “Say Hey (I Love You)” – Michael Franti & Spearhead 04. “Whispers” –…

Now Open: 801 Chop House

By OWEN MORRIS The 801 Chop House has more menus than some restaurants have items: a fine wines menu, a wines-by-the-glass menu, a bar menu, a fresh catch menu, a Sunday prix-fixe menu, a dessert menu and finally, a menu. Each is printed on a separate sheet of heavy paper; the fine wines menu is six pages with a six-point…

Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 11/14

%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Am I the only one who gets too little sleep? Obviously not — everybody I ask says they’re tired. Either that, or they’ve fallen asleep before the question is over. Turns out not sleeping is bad for the body. Like, really bad. Gordon Ramsey was voted number one chain-operator in Britain, a claim he probably won’t…

Concert Review: Coldplay at Sprint Center

Coldplay November 13, 2008 Sprint Center By JASON HARPER Photos by SCOTT SPYCHALSKI Click photo for slide show. To the question at hand: is Coldplay cool? Cool enough, that is, for a discerning, punk-bred, 45-collecting, uncomfortable-shoes-wearing music blog reader such as you? Well, if you’re reading this review at all, most likely you already love Coldplay and you’re just waiting…

The real reason behind the Star layoffs

By JUSTIN KENDALL Finally, we know the real reason for the Kansas City Star’s decline. The Star’s financial woes apparently aren’t due to the bad economy, much less the industry-wide loss of revenue as advertisers migrated to the Internet over the last two decades, or the changing habits of readers who get more of their news online. Instead, the Star’s…

Ex-chief of staff felt Squitiro should stay home

By DAVID MARTIN Ed Wolf, Mark Funkhouser’s former chief of staff, compared Gloria Squitiro’s presence in the mayor’s office to that of a mother-in-law brought on honeymoon. The comments are in a deposition obtained by The Pitch. Update: Here’s a copy of the deposition. Wolf, who left the mayor’s office in September, answered “yes” when asked if he felt that…

Jason Whitlock has to poo

By JUSTIN KENDALL First George Brett, and now self-proclaimed “Big Sexy.” Deadspin has the latest Facebook status update from Star columnist Jason Whitlock. It ain’t pretty. Categories: News Tags: Deadspin, Facebook, George Brett, Jason Whitlock, Poop

Mac Lethal and Company Getting Good at Making Videos

The latest videographic installment from the Black Clover family, simply titled “Black Clover Posse Cut,” features Mac Lethal, Grieves and the Soulcrate Music dudes landscaping, barbecuing T-shirts and drinking microbrews at the Overland Park home of Mr. J. W——-. As with the previous viddy joints, “Calm Down Baby” and “Black Widow Spider,” this one was directed by Kyle Harbaugh. Enjoy…