RCA, home of probably the least-annoying American Idol champion, just sent ’round said champion’s new single. Click on the picture of Miley — er… Kelly Clarkson below to go to a youtube page where you can hear the new made-for-ringtone anthem, “My Life Would Suck Without You.” Now, because RCA wouldn’t let us host the video or song stream or…
Daniel Hipsher may not be a household name in Johnson County, but he means plenty to members of the Kansas City Barbecue Society and people who follow the American Royal. Hipsher’s barbecue sauce won first place at the Royal in 2003. He’s also relatively well-known just west of the Kansas City area, where he opened Daniel’s Bar-B-Q’s in Tonganoxie and…
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Esquire’s “What I’ve learned” feature asks prominent people about the lessons they’ve learned in their lives. The latest batch includes one for every state. Esquire chose Wichita billionaire Charles Koch to represent Kansas and actor John Goodman for Missouri. Koch, a $17-billion man, leads Koch Industries, America’s largest private company. So what’s he know? Every company wants smart people. Well,…
Hours before the clink of champagne flutes ring in another new year, Julia Haile testifies to a seated and sober crowd. “It’s your thing,” the petite, chestnut-skinned soul singer calls to the urban-outfitted midtowners in the audience. It’s New Year’s Eve at the Czar Bar, a rock-and-roll joint situated near the dark underbelly of the Power & Light District. Do…
There’s a relatively large number of people who are proud of hacking Starbucks. Not its Web site but its drinks. Slate wrote the definitive piece on these hacks; they basically all revolve around ordering a cheap drink and then fixing it into a more expensive drink through the copious amounts of free cream and sugar available at the straw counter….
As we first mentioned in the dining newsletter Pitch Forks, the Kansas City, Missouri public libraries are hosting the Food for Thought series this month. Last week at the Central Library, Ken Albala spoke about pancakes’ utilitarian yet posh history. Tonight at the Plaza Library, New School historian and the definitive expert on junk food in America, Andrew F. Smith,…
This mugshot is of wannabe street racer Edward Tseona. Independence Police charged the 18-year-old with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the I-70 crash that killed Greg Hawley Saturday. Tseona lost control of his BMW while racing another car and slammed into Hawley’s pickup truck. Midtown Miscreant lists Tseona’s many, many prior driving offenses … and isn’t impressed with his clothing choices….
This year marks the 20th Anniversay for the Wrens and the band assured us yesterday via its newly revamped website that they will begin recording LP4 next week. The New Jersey outfit recently performed for the Worldspace Sessions at Abbey Road, including a new song that was made up on the spot. According to the site: “So we’re there, setting…
%{}% Local blogger Chimpotle needs suggestions for 10 foods in Kansas City that will kill you quickest. The greasier and fattier the better. Ant colonies are more like fundamental religions than we thought. Ants that exhibit promiscuous behavior are attacked and killed. In the pointless warning category: Cadbury put a warning on the side of its milk chocolate bars proclaiming…
Now we know where Frank got the raccoon meat. — Justin Kendall Categories: News Tags: human meat, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Raccoon meat
You may not give a hoot about David Cook, but for many of your fellow Americans, his contest with David Archuleta was the biggest race of 2008. (Sorry, Obama.) Cook, the guitar-totin’ Blue Springs native, brought the KC metro a little notoriety when he beat out teenage sissy boy Archuleta last year on the seventh season of How to Be…
The Kansas Republican Party is attacking Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ lack of budget solutions in her State of the State address. Hey, she mentioned the word “budget” six times. After the jump, more Kris Kobach (pictured) and Christian Morgan than you can handle. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Kansas Republican Party, kathleen sebelius, Kris Kobach
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius just delivered her seventh State of the State address. I don’t blame you if you watched 24 instead. Lots of “we” talk. It wasn’t a thriller, but if you want to read the whole thing, it’s after the jump. Categories: News, Politics Tags: kansas, Kansas Republican Party, kathleen sebelius
I attended the Wide Open Motorcycle Magazine’s latest bike show in Kansas City this weekend. No fake breasts were raffled off this time. Still, I had fun. And I learned some things: Everything tastes better with melted cheese; no art is so transcendent it couldn’t be improved by the addition of a dragon in the foreground; and the coolness of…
40 years ago today, on January 12, 1969, Led Zeppelin began taking steps to put the mudshark in your mythology with its debut release, Led Zeppelin I. It would be an all-too-fleeting 13 or so years until the group’s last album, The Final Rip-Off, which caused the death of drummer John Bonham. But in those years, Page, Plant, and, well,…
No one can ever accuse Mike & Charlie’s Italian Restaurant at Harrah’s Casino of being a spaghetti joint — cheap, it ain’t. But if you’re willing to sit at the bar when the restaurant is offering its Sicilian Sampler Bar Menu, it’s available at the shiny, granite-topped bar seven nights a week from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and again from…
Tonight at 7, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will outline her priorities during the 2009 State of the State address. My guess it’s not going to be all puppy dogs and rainbows. Eavesdrop here for sure, and there’s a possibility you can peep it here. — Justin Kendall Categories: News, Politics Tags: kathleen sebelius
My parents were both children of the Depression and could remember lots of businesses closing in those troubled times. But not, my late father once told me, the places vital for American life: movie theaters and saloons, of course, and drug stores, grocery stores and bakeries. In those days, people still bought their bread from bakeries — and their cakes,…
Congratulations to Bode “Baby Mangino” Lubber for winning Deadspin’s 2008 Sports Human of the Year award. Now, if we could get Baby Mangino’s picture taken with the real deal. Follow the link for a “One Shoty Moment” video tribute. — Justin Kendall Categories: News Tags: Baby Mangino, Deadspin
Alacartoona has some money to toast. Photo by Matt Mayfield courtesy Alacartoona.com. Apparently, the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City Board of Directors finds Alacartoona and People’s Liberation Big Band especially inspirational. Both of the local music groups will benefit from more than $9,000 in ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Awards that the council handed out recently. Cabaret act Alacartoona gets $2,000,…
It’s a new day in Missouri. At least that’s what Gov. Jay Nixon said during his inaugural address at noon today. That sounds so … oh, for the love of Reagan. After the jump, Nixon’s speech. — Justin Kendall Categories: News, Politics Tags: Jay Nixon, missouri
Earlier this morning, Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy interviewed Craig Glazer on his radio show. Glazer (pictured) was promoting his book The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw, which was released earlier this year. Liddy loved Glazer’s book and ate up Glazer’s admittedly hard-to-swallow stories about being a broke-ass college kid who posed as…
Kansas City web denizens will meet at Waldo Pizza 5 p.m. Tuesday night (January 13). Spyder of My Spyderweb is throwing the get together, RSVP here. — Justin Kendall Categories: News Tags: blogger meet up
