I just saw this report from Prime Buzz: Senator Robert “Bobby” Kennedy was was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1965. Kennedy also served as U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, fighting organized crime and the mafia. In 1968, Kennedy’s run for president of the United States was cut short by an assassin’s bullet. Uh, wait a minute. Looks…
I have a filing system at home that’s so complicated and ridiculously convoluted, I can never actually find anything I’ve filed. Unless, of course, I’m looking for something else. Which is how I stumbled across this ancient, Kodak of myself at some Boy Scout ceremony. There were solemn oaths and red candles involved, which may explain my beatific pose, somewhat…
The classical supergroup sounded its final note on the inaugural stage. “Now. Now can we do this?” Randolph Byrd, a barber at Sportsmen House of Coiffures on Swope Parkway, asked impatiently. This was the swearing in of the 44th president. Work at Sportsmen came to a halt as Barack Obama took the oath. Even the UPS guy stopped and watched….
It’s safe to say that classic cocktails are now an official trend and I don’t mean just with mixologists and Rachel Maddow. In addition to new bars with old-school drinks like The Phoenix Jazz Club and Firefly Lounge recently opening, publishers are now getting in the act. The God of classic cocktails was a 19th Century bartender named Jerry Thomas,…
If you ordered pizza for the football games Sunday or whatever the hell was on last night, chances are you got a little hot sauce on the side as well. For reasons known only to an advertising exec somewhere, Tabasco decided there was no better place to promote its famous pepper sauce than in boxes of delivered pizza and has…
Oh, Sugar Bear, how the mighty have fallen! In addition to watching himself get knocked out during a street fight on YouTube, the oft-incarcerated Marion “Suge” Knight now gets to watch his label, Death Records, vanish from his cold, calloused hands. Variety magazine reported that Wide Awake Entertainment bought Death Row Records for $18 million during an auction in Los…
Christopher Wallace is the center of the hip-hop canon. Any words rhymed after the late rapper’s two major works, Ready to Die and Life After Death, necessarily bare his indelible imprint. And to this day, nearly a decade after his death, other rap artists are best judged by their proximity, far or near, to his imaginative excellence. Also known as…
We weren’t there, but readers of democratic blog FiredUpMissouri.com sent in a few pics, including this one, of Joe “Bono” Biden leading his U2 tribute act, Elevation: Delaware. See photos of Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow and Herbie Hancock and others at FiredUp. For more extensive coverage, visit Google. Oh — by the way, what’s going on tonight, KC? Anyone know…
In the December American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a Washington University researcher proves what any person who has visited a buffet could have told him: that people who eat out often at buffets and cafeterias are more likely to be obese. Dr. Ross Brownson stacked the deck: He made sure that the people in the study lived in small Midwestern…
So today, Prince Barack Obama becomes He-Man: Master of the Universe. I just know he’s totally going to throw up his power sword in front of Castle Grayskull and scream “I have the power” or something and ride away on a giant tiger. At least, those were my expectations until I read Just Cara’s reality check this morning. So thanks…
We post this video to mark the end of the Dubya era. After all, last June, Barack Obama told a Rolling Stone reporter that he listens to Ludacris on his iPod. (Then again, it was later reported that Obama uses a Microsoft Zune. Then again again, many Zunes malfunctioned after New Year’s 2009, so Obama could be back on the…
In addition to co-founding Gramercy Tavern and the Craft empire in Vegas and New York and being the head judge on Top Chef, Tom Colicchio can now add lifesaving bad-ass to his resume. Saving anybody’s life is quite an accomplishment but Colicchio saved a James Beard-award-winning author Joan Nathan (of Jewish Cooking in America fame) — and in front of…
I first saw this on the Web site of our sister paper in Miami and couldn’t resist sharing it. First the important information. As I reported in Pitch Forks this morning, Krispy Kreme is giving away free doughnuts today in honor of the presidential inauguration. Per the press release: “Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. is honoring American’s sense of pride and…
%{}% Am I the only one wondering what John Turturro’s doing in Heineken commercials? Shouldn’t an actor of his caliber be in the lead role of a biopic right now or at least an indie film, not pushing a skunk beer? The new trend in Abu Dhabi is eating gold. Yes, actually ingesting it, even though it has zero nutritional…
Aside from a few live appearances and last May’s “Ellen Disingenuous” track (which may or may not make the final cut), L.A.’s Busdriver has been keeping tight-lipped about his next LP. According to the Anti- Records blog, the rapper recently teamed up with California-based producer Flying Lotus to record a new song in celebration of today’s inauguration. Download it below….
So acting didn’t work out for you, Kelli McCarty. How about porn? Liberal, Kansas’ favorite daughter won the Miss USA pageant in 1991 (check out the photo; she’s clearly proud of her Rock Chalk roots). And after seven years as diabolical Beth Wallace on Passions, McCarty decided that, yes, she did order a sausage pizza. TMZ reports that McCarty “just…
Fox 4’s Shawn Edwards — considered a “quote whore” by other critics — won’t be quoted on posters for Gran Torino. Last week, Edwards gave Clint Eastwood’s latest film zero out of five popcorn bags. “I hated every second of his latest movie,” Edwards said during his January 9 review. (Gran Torino topped the opening weekend box office.) Edwards added…
Yesterday, we posted a report from the University of Kansas that gave a bleak analysis of our under-funded, overcrowded, pollution-spewing transportation system. The study took a nationwide perspective, but, if there’s a poster child for poor transit planning, look no further than Kansas City. But locals are starting to get sick of sprawling highways. And now is the time to vote…
I get all sorts of weird phone calls. Some of them, like the occasional drunk dialer, are unintentionally hilarious. Some are sad, such as when the voice on the other end of the line belongs to a mentally ill person I know we can’t help. The angry phone calls, with someone I’ve never met spewing profanity, calling me names, telling…
Every day, for a good two months, I drove past a dingy couch with no cushions, two broken televisions toppling off the sidewalk into traffic and a pile of debris too massive to even identify its specific contents along the 4100 block of Troost Avenue. Discarded trash is a common sight on the north-south artery. But Monday morning, Troost got…
Former U.S. Attorney Bradley Schlozman misled Congress when he played down the role that ideology and political hackery played in his hiring decisions, according to a recent Justice Department report. Did his testimony amount to a failure of duty as an officer of the court? It’s a question Schlozman, now in private practice in Wichita, may have to answer. A…
How does Dan Fogelberg ‘s “Same Auld Lang Syne” go? Something about running into your old art director in the grocery store? That doesn’t sound right. But it was New Year’s Eve when I ran into gifted former Pitch art director Doug Kubert, whose knowledge of obscure music is terrifying and vaguely mystical. Not long after that he sent me…
As a drummer, a broadcaster, an actor and an amateur sex videographer, it’s safe to say that Bob Crane, the titular star of Hogan’s Heroes, and also the star of multiple ho-made amateur porn productions and his very own mysterious murder, was a true renaissance man of the arts and of being mysteriously murdered. Your mom says you should have…
Well obviously it has to close up. Personally I go to Burger King for the chiccen and friis. Via Consumerist via Time Doctor Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: a sad sign of our economy, burger king, spelling errors
