This next invention will change our culinary lives. Not in a two-bit way like the Magic Chopper has, but in the way microwaves or refrigerators did. Scientists have stumbled across a way to make the cheapest of cheap wine taste like a vintage pinot grown in the heart of Burgundy. It’s an outlandish claim and people have been hawking various…
A recent Kansas City Star feature on Bill Snyder’s returning to coach football at Kansas State opens with a scene of a house in St. Joseph. The house was chosen because it contains an apartment where Marionetta Snyder, a frail but determined single mother, raised the boy who would one day rescue the K-State program. “It’s where a mother once…
Our old and funky friend, KCist-turned-San-Franciscan Oz McGuire, dropped the following list in our inbox over the holidays. Top Records You Might Have Missed This Year (2008) Señor Oz (Afrolicious, SF) Ocote Soul Sounds, The Alchemist Manifesto (ESL Music) Someone called this “mescalin music.” I don’t know about that, but this collaboration between Adrian Quesada (Brownout) and Martin Perna (Antibalas)…
Dan of Gone Mild is a home-beer-brewing wizard. I tasted a few of his creations awhile back and was impressed. So were the people at 75th Street Brewery, where Dan won a home-brewing contest back in October. As his prize, 75th Street Brewery let Dan make his winning recipe on a grand scale. Hundreds of gallons of Triple Sugar Tripel…
M.Toast finds a swastika patch in a parking lot at 75th and Wornall. Awesome thought of the day: “Maybe I should post it on Craig’s List under Lost and Found.” Categories: News Tags: Fred Phelps, Just Cara, Kansas City Fake Mustache Club, M.Toast, Midtown Miscreant, RDM Random Thoughts, The D Rules
In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008’s been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were…
%{}%The jokes of comedy: What have we learned this year? For one thing, we learned that a joke whose punchline is “Lipstick!!!” is always way funnier and more handicapped-accessible if you point to your lipstick when you tell it. Men: This also works for jokes about cocks. Nothing enhances a joke like a helpful little pantomime, or, in the case…
%{}% KC Lunch Spots visits another off-the-beaten-path restaurant that has such specialties as fried bologna. M. Toast Hivemind comes upon a very interesting picture that was lost on Wornall. This is the best news I have heard in a long time. Romantic movies are bad for you! They give people unrealistic expectations. This is now my excuse to get out…
Atlanta’s Black Lips will hitting the Granada on March 18 to promote the band’s sixth proper album. According to a statement to Stereogum from the band’s drummer earlier this month: “Like 200 million thousand is how much our parents love us, or 200 million thousand is how many records we’re going to sell … 200 million thousand trees in the…
