Castoffs and Scarlett Garnet Fashion Show: A Benefit for Hope House
%{}% By NADIA PFLAUM Remember when Shauntay Henderson was one of America’s Most Wanted? Remember when the FBI sought her for an “execution-style murder,” claiming she had shot her victim three times in the chest at close range with a semi-automatic weapon? Not so much. Today, Jackson County 15th Circuit Court Judge Robert Schieber found 26-year-old Henderson guilty of voluntary…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Ronnie Metsker is too “liberal” for Kansas Liberty. Kansas Liberty has given us another dose of “fair and factual” news. A story published yesterday on Kansas Liberty’s Web site, headlined “JoCo Republican showdown pits liberals against conservatives,” is packed with the loaded language that makes media-critical conservatives howl. Kansas Liberty’s story, however, comes with a conservative slant….
By OWEN MORRIS News from the local dairy: I mentioned this last week in the dining newsletter but forgot to mention it here: Shatto released its eggnog two weeks early for everyone already looking to get in the holiday spirit. It’s available areawide in grocery stores that carry Shatto. My grocery store was already out of the first run, which…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Thoughts from Kansas’ Joshua Rosenau challenges the notion that only people who can have children should be allowed to marry. If poppin’ out babies were a pre-req, then Rosenau’s widowed, 70-something grandmother wouldn’t have been allowed to remarry. “Whenever I hear someone say that marriage is about procreation, I think of my grandmother,” Rosenau writes. “Not just…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS My teacher repeated the two words “45 degrees” like they held the key to some buried treasure. They didn’t, but they were close — 45 degrees is the angle at which meats should be laid on the grill. The presentation side is put down first because the first side that is put on the grill is…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS A coffee-lover’s ode to the shop of Midred’s and its coffee and breakfast sammich. A sausage-lover’s ode to the links. (Okay, that doesn’t work as well as the above example.) Still a great article about Werner’s sausage and how it gives this blogger a warm fuzzy feeling and in a good way too. 100 drinks that…
By ANDY VIHSTADT %{}% Neil Hastead, the man behind acts like Slowdive and Mojave 3, recently put his social networking skills to good use. He recorded a six-song performance at the MySpace Transmissions studios which includes material from this year’s Oh! The Mighty Brushfire, as well as a couple from his 2002 solo debut. Download the session below and if…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Oil of Old Ladies: Anchors Maria Antonia and Kelly Eckerman and reporter Peggy Breit are suing KMBC Channel 9, alleging that the station has discriminated against them because of their age and gender. Meanwhile, management allows Larry Moore to go around looking like he opened up the ark of the covenant, but we’re not supposed to…
Local fashionistas headed to Crosstown Station last Friday for a little red carpet action. Models worked the runway wearing rockin’ duds dreamed up by local designers.
Hey ladies, this just in! 96.5 The Buzz Presents Kings of Leon Uptown Theater Friday, January 23, 2008 On Sale Saturday, November 22, at 10 a.m. $36 Categories: Music Tags: kings of leon
By PETER RUGG This weekend, movie theaters are going to be packed with teenagers who have been patiently waiting for the Twilight romance-vampire novels to make their big screen debut. Between this and High School Musical 3, a lot of kids have probably burned through their allowances. Though it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get your classmates to join you…
The Freedy Johnston (and Wayne Gottstine and Eric Mardis and Grant Fitch) show that was scheduled for this Wednesday at the Jackpot ain’t haps no more. We don’t know why, but it is. So don’t try and go, see? To folks of a certain age and bent, Johnston is best known as the guy who sings through the end credits…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Back in 2000 when I moved into the City Market, the electricity would go out for the whole neighborhood if a bird landed on a power line, or if you thought about birds landing on a power line. Thunderstorms were accompanied by the apocalyptic popcorn-like sound of transformers exploding up and down the length of Third…
By OWEN MORRIS Even if you don’t subscribe to The New Yorker, as a person interested in food this may be a good week to pick up a copy from a magazine stand. (Do street magazine stands exist anymore?) It’s the annual food issue, and it’s got some interesting stuff. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: barbecue, Flat Bread, knifes,…
By DAVID MARTIN I recycle the editorial department’s cans and bottles. It’s a form of penance for all the dirty mugs and scorched coffeepots my office career has left behind. At the Deramus facility this week, I parked next Robert Keim’s SUV. Keim wore a chefcoat as he emptied two large plastic bins filled with empty beer and liquor bottles….
By ANDY VIHSTADT On Friday, Panther made a hefty commitment to its fans. The Portland duo announced it would give away a new cover song each month for the next two years while they work on their follow-up to 14kt God (released earlier this year). The MP3s will be available via the Rhinestone Neck Brace blog and the first installment…
By OWEN MORRIS Michael Smith is the James Beard-award-winning chef of his eponymous restaurant at 19th and Main and the soon-to-be-open tapas bar next door ,Extra Virgin. Previously he worked as co-executive chef at 40 Sardines in Leawood and the American Restaurant in Crown Center. He trained in France and has worked at such national establishments as Charlie Trotters in…
The energy was high at Mill Creek Park on the Plaza as hundreds of Kansas City residents joined a nationwide protest against California’s new gay-marriage ban Saturday afternoon.
By JUSTIN KENDALL Midtown Miscreant Last week, Midtown Miscreant called out self-appointed crime fighter Alonzo Washington for ripping on a crime victim’s family who refused his help. Washington fires back at MM with a childish rant. A sample treat: “Hey Mark, I think you are gay,” Washington writes. “Why would any straight man be so concerned with another man like…
Rise Against, with Thrice, Alkaline Trio, and the Gaslight Anthem November 14, 2008 Uptown Theater Better than: Getting all dressed up for some hipster party. By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE Thank the masses that Barack Obama won the presidential race. If he hadn’t, the Uptown Theater might have been a scarier place to be last Friday night, with disgruntled punk fans…
Youth, hope, punk rock and visions of Barack took over the Uptown Theater this past Friday night.
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Dan from Gone Mild makes an impassioned and intelligent plea to restaurants to stop treating their beers like a red-headed Palin-child when compared to wines. An open invitation to Thanksgiving along with tales about unwrapping the holiday decorations. This is truly the giving spirit. Macau, the Chinese Las Vegas, has opened more casinos in the past…
