By JUSTIN KENDALL Feels like a hangover this morning after a grim day across Grand and further down Main Street yesterday. Lots of chatter about the ax falling around town. And it sounds like Kelly Urich is out at Mix 93.3. Who will Hearne Christopher quote now? Oh, yeah. Radio folks have already been celebrating Christopher’s pink slipping. State of…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA The party’s over. The big spending party, that is. The burgundy awning that covered the front door to one of the costliest beef emporiums in Kansas City has been unceremoniously removed, leaving a forlorn looking entrance where Morton’s The Steakhouse used to be. Early last summer, well before the national economy started stinking like an old tuna…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Last night’s lecture was initially focused on braising but like most of the lectures, the instructor quickly got on a tangent. Braising is a method of cooking that uses a little bit of liquid and a lot of time to cook a tough piece of meat. It’s usually done in two parts: First you brown the…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Science Whatever: Hey, scientists have figured out how sharks can swim so fast! They can raise their scales, creating tiny wells that reduce drag, like the dimples on a golf ball. Kansas students are excused from knowing about this. Kids, in accordance with your tribal superstitions, sharks swim fast because the prophet Elijah ascended into heaven…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Photo by Cambria Harkey Austin’s What Made Milwaukee Famous recently booked time at Texas’ famous Sugarhill Studios to lay down a few unplugged tracks from What Doesn’t Kill Us (released in March), as well as one from the band’s 2006 debut. According to Barsuk Records page: The Sugarhill Sessions EP offers listeners a chance to hear the…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS A beer that tastes like a bagel topping? To me that sounds like a win-win combination but apparantly in reality, it’s less so. This story is just sad. Two Steak n’ Shake employees were found dead in the restaurant in St. Louis in what appears to be a robbery. Ever since a Steak n’ Shake waitress…
By JASON HARPER Unless you’ve been in a pop-deprivation chamber for the past couple months, you know that founding-foundling boy band New Kids On the Block has reunited after 14 years for a new album and a world tour. Heralded by instant hits like the nostalgic (i.e., re-introductory) “Summertime” and the more modern, hip-hoppy “Single” (feat. Ne-Yo), The Block has…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Depressing weekend for Kansas City sports fans, and I’m not talking about another Chiefs loss. The Columbus Crew ended the Kansas City Wizards’ season Saturday. Down the Byline looks at the season finale and it was, in a word, “disappointing.” Midtown Miscreant guides us through Bannister Mall blight. My favorite Miscreant blogger finds a whole bunch of…
By JASON HARPER Though not nearly as stolid a trooper as any of the people from Apocalypse Meow, or Abigail herself, or Chris Meck, or Howard Iceberg and Chad Rex, or Amy Farrand or any of the other folks who participated in all three nights of this past weekend’s Abigail Henderson breast cancer benefit at Midwestern Music, Davey’s and the…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM I’m going to tell you a little story, and at the end, I think we’ll all realize that we learned something. On Friday night, my sister sent me a text message to the effect that she was having “GIRLS NIGHT OUT” because her husband had a previous engagement, and she hates “GIRLS NIGHT OUT,” to which…
By ANDY VIHSTADT After giving it away for a limited time on eMusic, the Postmarks’ sophomore effort, By the Numbers, is getting an official release tomorrow. The all-covers album boasts a numerical theme and includes renditions of songs by David Bowie, the Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain and even the Pointer Sisters. Download the Miami act’s version of Blondie’s “11:59”…
By OWEN MORRIS A friendly knock on my door yesterday reminded me that it is already time for Girl Scout Cookies. According to the Northeast Kansas/Northwest Missouri Girl Scout’s Web site, Girl Scouts have been canvassing neighborhoods since the beginning of the month. Call me jaded, but I guess I didn’t notice them because of all that other canvassing for…
By OWEN MORRIS Not to steal ideas (OK, this is totally stealing ideas) but over the weekend on Chowhound’s boards, one poster asked the question of where he could rekindle love in the Kansas City area. Most “romantic” spots focus on making good first impressions — those places that seem to have all the extra props from a Bridget Jones…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Get ready to gear up for the next food trend. Peruvian food is making its way into the U.S. pretty much on the back of one chef who’s the Gordon Ramsey and and Julia Child of South America rolled up into one. Check out all these cool chandeliers, including one made entirely out of gummy bears….
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By DAVID MARTIN The citizen satisfaction surveys that Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser prizes as a performance measure indicate that his approval ratings fell 18 percent in the last nine months. The new survey, released Wednesday, showed “significant decline” in 32 areas, including the leadership provided by elected officials. Only 23 percent of residents say they are satisfied or very…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Last month, BPU general manager Don Gray announced that an outside firm had been hired to investigate the Kansas City, Kansas, utility company in the wake of chief administrative officer Marc Conklin’s indictment on charges of stealing $400,000. “We’re continuing to take a hard look at ourselves,” Gray assured residents at the October 15 BPU board meeting….
By NADIA PFLAUM Air traffic controllers told The Pitch last year, in this story, about the poor working conditions in the tower at the Kansas City International Airport and at the Kansas City Air Route Traffic Control Center in Olathe. A block of veteran air traffic controllers, hired in the wake of the air traffic controllers’ strike of 1981, are…
By ANDY VIHSTADT First, a Bush II impersonator hits the town in “W’s Last Night In Office” As Tall As Cliffs And then: MP3: Thom Yorke, “Harrowdown Hill (Logic Jump Remix)” courtesy of the Culture of Me MP3: Brother Ali, “Mr. President (You’re the Man)” MP3: J. Period (feat. Q-Tip), “Q-Tip for President” courtesy of So Much Silence Stream: Common,…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Slow day out there so far on the blogs. Dan from Gone Mild comes to Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s defense for suing the city to overturn the volunteer ordinance. “I hate to see litigation erupt, but the Council’s attempt to take over the Mayor’s office was a serious breach of governmental roles, and Mark’s suit is important and…
