Archives: November 2008
The Download: New Mike Relm MP3s
By ANDY VIHSTADT While we wait for Mike Relm’s proper debut (which was originally scheduled for release last month), we’ll settle for the four new tracks posted on his site. The California DJ/DVJ (yes, he scratches video as well,) has spent the past couple of years padding his fan base as the opening slot for the Blue Man Group and…
Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 11/21
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS The entertaining story of the people on some of the world’s most famous liquor bottles. Yes, there was a real Captain Morgan and no, he didn’t practice off the coast of Somalia. If you like traveling the world for the best cheese shops, well then, do I have a cheese-shop round-up for you. Citing waste management,…
Stealing Time: Wherefore art thou, Wonder Woman?
By JUSTIN KENDALL Paul Morrison’s mistress Linda Carter is missing. Or at least, George Tiller’s attorneys can’t find Wonder Woman. So they claimed earlier this week during Tiller’s pretrial hearing on criminal charges that he broke Kansas law for not using a second, independent doctor to approve the abortions he performs. They must not have tried very hard because the…
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Missouri and Kansas are among “Dirty Dozen” for mercury pollution
Ameren’s Labadie power plant By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Environmentalists in Missouri celebrated earlier this month when a ballot initiative requiring investor-owned utilities to produce more renewable power faced no organized opposition and passed with a resounding 66 percent of the vote. Last year, the administration of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius denied the permit for a massive new coal-fired power plant, even…
Socialism for me, right-wingers for everyone else
By DAVID MARTIN Olathe banker Don Bell contributes money to right-wing causes and politicians. But when his business stands to benefit, socialism begins to look pretty awesome. The Kansas City Star reports today that Brittany Savings Corp., the parent company of Security Savings Bank, plans to apply for funds from the $700-billion bailout Congress approved in October. Bell is the…
Get Up Kid Pryor to Join Other Emo Frontmen on Acoustic Tour
Things have been busy lately in the Get Up Kamp. First, an impromptu reunion show, and now Matt Pryor’s taking his bird on tour. From the PR wire. Where’s The Band? is a tour featuring solo acoustic performances by the frontmen of four successful groups. Dustin Kensue (of Thrice), Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids), Chris Conley (of Saves…
Opening this Week: Copa Room
By OWEN MORRIS It’s been four months since the original Copa Room at 34th and Broadway closed. Now it has reopened in a location that would never be confused with midtown. Presenting the Copa Room in Lenexa, Kansas. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Copa Room, restaurant openings
Eagle reveals Kline’s medical records investigation
By JUSTIN KENDALL I take it all back, Ron Sylvester. Yesterday, I bagged on the Wichita Eagle for Twittering the pretrial hearing of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, who is facing 19 misdemeanor charges that he violated a law requiring two independent doctors to approve late-term abortions. But damn! Today’s Eagle story is full of the juicy stuff that makes…
Daily Briefs: Missouri decides, you guys
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Okay, so John McCain is finally the President of Missouri, thanks to 3,000 people who couldn’t stay the fuck home on Election Day. THANKS, YOU GUYS. Now we’ll never be rid of McCain and his horrible Alaskan spouse with her stolen wardrobe and hillbilly-like crowd of pregnant, barefoot children. When they move to their Presidential mansion…
Czar Bar Fashion Show
Last night, models walked the runway showing off Heather Rama’s clothing line and Scarlett Garnet jewelry to benefit Hope House.
The Download: New Apples in Stereo MP3
By ANDY VIHSTADT It’s only a matter of time before the year’s first snow, so the REI sporting goods outlet is gearing up with some new music. The Apples in Stereo contributed a new track, “(Baby, It’s) So Cold,” which didn’t appear on the band’s latest b-sides collection, Electronic Projects for Musicians. Download it below (thanks to You Ain’t No…
Beer lovers needed ASAP!
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Please folks. I don’t pull a Jerry Lewis and start slobbering and begging for something very much, but this time I need your help. Specifically, from the more serious beer drinkers out there. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: beer judging, Gone Mild, KC Biermeisters
Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 11/20
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Not exactly the news you want to hear any year, much less this one but expect Thanksgiving food prices to be significantly higher this year than last. An economist slap-down of New York Times food critic Frank Bruni being biased (duh) towards certain neighborhoods in Manhattan over others. What’s surprising though is that the areas Bruni…
Stealing Time: A screwdriver up the bum?
By JUSTIN KENDALL I am so sorry I didn’t see this earlier. Laughtrack to My Life has been doing an ambulance ride-along series, and the first installment included this amazing call: a prisoner with an eight inch screwdriver shoved up his ass. “It had allegedly been there for two days, when he shoved it up there while running from the…
Studies in Crap: How to Pick Up Girls!
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power. How to Pick Up Girls! Author: Eric Weber Publisher: Symphony Press, New York Date: 1970 Discovered at: Goodwill, Bonner Springs The Cover Promises: Much that the…
Murs makes a symbolic bid for office on his positively progressive new album
An eloquent and gifted young black man running for president in 2008 recently stepped up to the mic and said: It’s not socialism, it’s not communism/It’s loving each other, realize there’s no difference/It’s positive movement, gradual improvement/When no one else does, believe you can do it. If you think these words came from President-elect Barack Obama, you’re wrong but not…
Better Than Adam Sandler
The funniest thing about David Fagin and Rob Tannenbaum, the comedy duo performing under the name Good for the Jews, is that they aren’t even Jewish. Just kidding. They’re totally Jewish, and they’ll be singing songs they wrote, such as “It’s Good to Be a Jew at Christmas,” “JDate” and “They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Eat” (the…
Kinda Candid Camera
What do Ingmar Bergman, kid-lit heroine Pippi Longstocking, 1970s pop-music icons Abba, clothing company H&M, and Volvos have in common? They all hail from Sweden. Tonight, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick, 816-753-5784) opens Taking Turns, the work of another Swede, artist Johanna Billing. Billing puts people in contrived situations — packing and moving a stranger’s belongings, rehearsing…
He Oozed Charisma
Before Kevin Bacon got kebabbed at Camp Crystal Lake, before George Clooney fended off killer tomatoes, before Jamie Lee was crowned the Queen of Scream, there was Steve McQueen. Yeah, you read that right: Steve freaking McQueen. Before he was Capt. Hilts, Bullitt or Thomas Crown and before he became the very embodiment of cool, he was just another aw-shucks…
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