%{}% The only part where I disagree with Ms. Anne Brockhoff at The Kansas City Star re: alcohol consumption is the part where she says, “Everything in moderation,” right there in the headline. Because don’t you realize we’re all going to die, you guys? And I never heard anyone on their death bed say, “I wish I would have drunk…
This just in from the Wakarusa and Pipeline pipeline: Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival announces dates and new site. After a five year run in a State park outside Lawrence, KS, Wakarusa will move to a new home in northwest Arkansas. Wakarusa will be relocating to Mulberry Mountain outside of Ozark, Arkansas. Dates for this year’s festival will be June…
People act like Funkhouser and Squitiro somehow blazed a new trail in embarrassing Kansas City on the national media landscape. The truth is, we’ve always had hundreds of people lined up, begging to do something horrible in front of America while wearing a Chiefs hat. If you couldn’t get on the Real World, or American Idol, here’s yet another chance…
So I know yesterday I said that cookbooks do not necessarily make the best presents since a lot of them are bad. I stand by that statement but I also know not many (any?) people care what the heck I think and are going to go right ahead and buy cookbooks anyways. If you’re going to buy some, might as…
Photo by Frank Ockenfels, courtesy of MySpace.com/Vedera One of our staffers who was listening to the Buzz on the way to work just called Wayward H.Q. to say the station just reported that due to a car accident, Kansas City band Vedera will not be playing tonight’s How the Buzz Jizzed All Over Christmas show. Evidently, Vedera singer Kristen May…
Yep, that’s Meryl Streep playing the cookbook-writing, French Chef-hosting, larger-than-life character who was Julia Child. Streep has the main role in the upcoming movie Julia & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron. The film is in post-production but the studio just released the first photos, including the one above. Details about the movie are still scarce, but the second Julia in…
I know some of you will find this difficult to believe, but three decades ago, when I first started working in restaurants, I learned how to mix up pancake batter from a grizzled old cook who smoked cigarettes while he was cooking. One time, a bit of ash from his Pall Mall fell into the batter and he shrugged,…
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Grandview, it could be worse. You could be Bensenville, Illinois. Forbes ranked America’s fastest-dying towns, and Grandview, once home to Harry Truman and now the International House of Prayer, ranked No. 8 out of 10. Forbes says: Poverty has doubled while incomes have remained flat, and have fallen when adjusted for inflation. What’s more, the housing market has deteriorated, with…
Being from the Midwest, the Zero Boys was an unlikely force to be reckoned with in 80’s-era hardcore punk circles. The Indiana band’s 1982 debut LP, Vicious Circle, has since become an unsung classic, so the good folks at Secretly Canadian Records are remastering and rereleasing it, along with plenty of extras. From the one-sheet: “When the Ramones lost it,…
%{}% Hopefully you never have to use this advice but here are some ways to survive a terrorist attack on your hotel. While the author admits the odds of such an attack are low, he also mentions he’s stayed in four hotels in the past year that have been attacked. Point being, shit happens. Here’s a nice story on a…
The Night the Buzz Stole Christmas
It was nearly a month ago today that the Architects, a Kansas City rock band, posted the announcement that they’d signed a deal with Skeleton Crew Records, a label started by Frank Iero, guitarist for My Chemical Romance and Leathermouth. I meant to post something right when I heard the news, but I got distracted by a large-breasted butterfly or…
For more than five years, medical students from the University of Kansas Medical Center have put in long hours serving uninsured patients at their Jay Doc Free Clinic. Last year, a number of students and physicians involved in such efforts started a new group, Heartland Healthcare for All. Their aim is to push universal health care beyond the walls of…
It’s true. My mom bid on it at the Union Station auction. My mom forgot about it. My mom put up her own tree already. My mom won the Aggie Stackhaus tree. My mom met me at my place and asked me to take her to pick it up in my truck. My mom then asked me to keep it…
I was disappointed to hear that one of my favorite restaurants in Kansas City, Pangea Cafe & Market at 900 West 39th Street, will be closing at the end of the month. If owners Martin and Wendy Rudderforth hadn’t decided, this week, to close at the end of December, the World food bistro would have celebrated its third anniversary in…
As any music store clerk or rock critic will tell you, most CDs aren’t very good. Same goes for the majority of novels and movies. Yet cookbooks seemingly escape criticism. If the pictures look nice and the font is sharp and the layout easy to read, there’s a good chance somebody will buy it no matter the quality of the…
%{}% Daily Briefs First Alert Doppler Radar Weather Briefs: Channel 9 says it’s going to snow, and they frame it in the most depressing, clinical terms possible. “Most of us will see a break this morning before the second part of this system travels through our area this afternoon,” says KMBC meteorologist Lisa Teachman in the most sterile terms she…
Dan from Gone Mild writes a fantastic essay on the importance of a vibrant Kansas City Star. “If you think you can do without the Star because you get all the local news you need from the blogs, you’re horribly mistaken,” Dan writes. “You’re still getting your local news from the Star — it’s just getting filtered by bloggers, or…
From yesterday’s stories about The New York Times having to mortgage its building, it seems like the Grey Lady could use a White Russian right now — or an even stiffer drink. In addition to real estate, the company also runs something like a thousand-million blogs, so it’s not surprising that yesterday they revealed yet another one. Meet Proof, the…
UK rapper (and Sporty Spice look-alike) Lady Sovereign announced her sophomore LP yesterday. Jigsaw is due April 2009, and listening to the first single, Lady S. seems confident that auto-tune will still be a crowd-pleaser four months down the road. Let’s hope she’s wrong. Download the track below via her MySpace page. — Andy Vihstadt MP3: Lady Sovereign, “I Got…
%{}% Apologies to KC Beer Blog for mislabeling a link to its article yesterday. Gone Mild goes Dutch… at least on beer in a taste test between Heineken Light and Amstel Light. Let the battle of the skunk beer begin. Warning, this is not the time to bargain-hunt on Irish pork. Unless you like really high levels of dioxin. As…
The latest installment in Drew Bolton and Cody Critcheloe’s series of award-winning, life-changing, love-slaying videos for Kansas City dance band the Ssion is for the song “Warm Glove.” Synopsis: After a minute-and-a-half clip of a big guy in leather drinking gasoline, Danny Fischer of local country-rock band the Afterparty arrives, playing a gay disco heartthrob (don’t get typecast there, Danny!)….
