3. “Christmas in Vietnam,” Johnny & John Two soldiers trapped in a foxhole know they won’t be home this year, but that doesn’t stop them from remembering happier times or just wanting to hear “Jingle Bells.” It won’t be merry this Christmastime, they know. They’ll only be friends and loved ones all around me dyin’. Previous Top 10: 10. “Christmas…
Jeremy Piven, the short, formerly balding — but charismatic — star of HBO’s Entourage series earned some unexpected food-related headlines recently. He left the new Broadway revival of David Mamet’s black comedy, Speed-The-Plow due to, his doctor insists, mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi. Naturally, the fishing industry lobby — and lots of New York sushi restaurants — went…
This is what Arrowhead Stadium will look like once the cranes are gone (apparently on another gloomy KC day). This Web cam is what it looks like now. Overland Park’s P-Tn started the eye on Arrowhead last Friday. Check out Arrowhead’s video progression, which will only get better with time, just like the H&R Block Building. I’m not much of…
%{}% I’ve always had trouble writing “News of the Weird”-type posts. Because they’re like the journalistic equivalent of those wacky cans of peanut brittle that turns out to have CRAZY SPRINGY SNAKES INSIDE! And what am I, Mr. Krazy Headlines So Weird They’re True? Which is what I asked Justin while we were shaking the vending machine in the hallway….
As originally reported in the dining newsletter Pitch Forks, Waldo Pizza is featuring eight-plus Christmas beers right now. Among them are the more-traditional Christmas beers like Schlafly Christmas Ale and Anchor Christmas Ale. The Schlafly tastes too strongly of cloves but Anchor is more balanced, if on the light side of an ale. Not to make things confusing but the…
Predicting which college quarterbacks will make great NFL quarterbacks is nearly impossible. For every Peyton Manning there are more Ryan Leafs. The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell wrote about “the quarterback problem” in his December 15 piece, “Most Likely to Succeed” and used University of Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel as his case study question mark. Categories: News Tags: Chase Daniel, malcolm…
OK, last-minute-shoppers: Here are gifts you can pick up on Christmas morning. The only places open on Christmas are ethnic restaurants (more on that tomorrow), authentic Jewish delis (of which, KC sadly has none) and drugstores. Walgreens and CVS both proudly advertise that they are open on Christmas Eve and Christmas. Here’s a sampling of the kind of last-minute gifts…
After 10 months of unsuccessful contract negotiations, members of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers decided to voice their frustration in tune with the season last night. Dozens of winter-coat-clad educators gathered outside the home of Kansas City School Board Vice President Arthur Benson to serenade, in mocking fashion, the man they believe is humbug-ing teachers out of a happy holiday. Categories:…
Thanks to Meesh V., I know where to buy used condoms for the low, low price of $3.47. I’m gonna pay a little extra for new ones. Nobody’s ready for my ginger spawn. The KC blogger reach around love fest is pissing off JoCo SOB. Looks like someone won’t be getting many votes for Present Magazine’s top 10 blogs list….
It wasn’t long ago that eco-activists called Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius a coward on environmental issues. When the controversy over massive new coal-fired power plants in western Kansas erupted in 2006, Sebelius was conspicuously MIA. How times have changed. At the 11th hour, Sebelius’ administration grew a pair and denied the power plants permit, provoking conservatives to hijack the legislative…
This is going to be interesting. Yesterday, an Arkansas judge ordered Linda Carter to appear as a witness at a hearing for abortion doctor George Tiller, the Wichita Eagle reported. Carter’s appearance in court on January 6 will be the first time she’s spoken publicly about her affair with former Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison, who was recently cleared of…
%{}% Musings from a St. Louis transplant on the city’s unique style pasta and the way it has evolved. If you’re going to pull off your own successful Ponzi scheme, it’s good to learn from the masters. Here’s the nine most brazen Ponzi schemes. It’s not even 2009 and we already have a food trend for next year. I hope…
The Prodigy returns with LP5 in March, marking the band’s first to appear on its own Take Me to the Hospital record label. The title track from Invaders Must Die was co-produced by James Rushent from Does it Offend You, Yeah? and is available below, along with a bonus remix that’s sure to give your tweeters a workout. — Andy…
A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience—these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be subtitled “Ten More Albums…
