%{}% I was working at my second job last night, so I missed the Barack Obama show, which I was really interested in watching. When I got home all tired from enthusiastically violating the terms of the National Do Not Call registry, I cracked open a Natural Light Ice and watched the address on the poor man’s Tivo, the Internet….
The most entertaining Mardi Gras party in KC starts on 18th Street in front of Birdies and YJ’s, parades to the Mutual Musicians Foundation and ends in a crazy street party. It’s colorful and crazy in the Crossroads. Click here for a slideshow. Categories: News Tags: 18th Street, Crossroads, Mardi Gras, mutual musicians foundation, Mutual Musicians’ Foundation, parade
Spin Pizza has opened its first location in Kansas City, Missouri, in the new mini-strip-mall at 50th and Main, a block that nostalgic UMKC alums will remember as the first Planet Sub in Kansas City. Spin’s co-owner Gail Lozoff, was the co-founder of Bagel & Bagel, which got its start only a mile and a half to the south at…
%{}% My dad always thought I’d end up working in a factory or something. The Plog sweatshop is a little bit like a factory, only instead of watching all the beer bottles moving down the line, it’s a big room full of writers pecking at their, whatever, their “peckerboards.” Is that a word? We all answer to Justin, and Justin…
%{}% When is a drop in beer sales a good thing? When it comes from the world’s biggest breweries and it means people are moving towards craft beer. A lively discussion of the worst fast food chains that continue to pedal their greasy wares. Why do fruit flies prefer certain fruits to others? Screw that scientists — why don’t you…
Tap dancing used to just be something you saw on Sesame Street or at your kid sister’s dance recital. Then, Tilly and the Wall came along and made it indie rock cool. On April 7, you can learn to “Tilly-Tap” when band member Jamie Pressnall presents a masterclass at the Westport Coffeehouse Theater. Presumably, the class will be a lot…
Sample-happy producers the Bran Flakes released their sixth full-length yesterday. From the label site: Formed in 1992 amidst tape and zine trading scenes, The Bran Flakes already have seven releases of zany mashups and poppy audio collages that are more likely to cop a riff from Evel Knievel than anything on the current radio dial. Six years since their last…
The most colorful Mardi Gras party in KC starts on 18th Street in front of Birdies and YJ’s, parades to the Mutual Musicians Foundation and ends in a crazy street party.
About a week ago, Vinyl Pulse announced that Kansas City graffiti artist Scribe would be releasing a limited-edition Rumpus the rhino toy. After I saw the post on Vinyl Pulse, I e-mailed Scribe, who was cool enough to send over these sweet photos of the toy. He also filled in some details about Rumpus’ first toy: Cardboard Spaceship out of…
When the Sprint Center was going up downtown, it seemed like bloggers and others were keeping everyone updated with rooftop cameras and running commentary. I’m not hearing the same sort of buzz about construction of the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, which will be a much more dramatic building by the time it’s done (if it ever actually…
Yesterday, Shirley Phelps-Roper was riding on the high of Sean Penn’s derision. She was fresh off the plane. Her voice was hoarse. A fire truck was outside the Westboro Baptist Church (crank call). I caught her in the midst of a flurry. The night before, Phelps-Roper and the members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Academy Awards. They…
“And i walked up and down this midwest town / All I could see were cars / With workin’ stiffs goin’ to work as if they didn’t know it was Mardi Gras.” — Truckstop Honeymoon. The lyrics from the song above are from a song called “Mardi Gras in Kansas” (download it here), and Truckstop Honeymoon actually calls Lawrence home,…
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback is backtracking from an extremely brash fund-raising letter that questions the Catholic cred of several lawmakers — including John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi — and refers as well to President Barack Obama as a “pro-abortion radical.” The letter bearing Brownback’s signature was sent on behalf of the Catholic Adocate. Intended to drum up opposition…
Because the latest and third LP from Brakes (or “brakesbrakesbrakes”) arrived in our wayward offices and was met with cries of rejoicing from me and me alone, I am taking it upon myself to introduce all all to this bloody good Brighton-born band. First thing wot you should know: The band was founded by Eamon Hamilton, formerly of the great…
Dan Leap, Merriam’s rock-and-roll councilman, wants to be the suburb’s next mayor. Leap plays guitar and sells lamps constructed from microphone stands and Fenders. (The guitar strings work as dimmer switches.) He has served on the council for six years, after unseating an incumbent he depicted as a witch in a window display of his rock shop in downtown Merriam….
James Harris looks like he got the piss beat out of him. Just look at him. And the 18-year-old apparently got his comeuppance after allegedly stealing an X-Box and stabbing two people early Sunday morning. Court records allege that the stabbing occurred at a party after a woman accused Harris of stealing the video game system — later found in…
