Progeny of the smart, comic songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and Princess Fiona, Rufus Wainwright, mid 30s, strode on stage at the Uptown dressed in clashing casuals, an Obama bandanna upon his head as though he’d just escaped captivity at the hands of campus feminists and was greeted by light but warm applause, which was not due to the crowd’s lacking…
%{}% Because, who cares? The Pitch’s Carolyn Szczepanski writes a great blog feature called “The Give a Shit List.” This was kind of adapted and evolved from my original idea, the “I Could Give A Shit List,” demonstrating the power of one or two words to completely change the semantics of a phrase. My list included things like internet “bacon”…
Photo: David Swanson Conan O’Brien invited the White Stripes to reconvene for his final Late Night show on Friday night. During an emotional goodbye, the future holder of the Leno/Letterman timeslot assured viewers of good things to come, but you couldn’t help but wonder if the same would be true for Jack and Meg. Check out the video and MP3…
One topic among the punditry last week was the certainty that the Kansas Legislature will re-fight the battle over coal-fired power plants in Holcomb, Kansas. To recap: Sunflower Electric Power Corporation wants to expand. Some stuck-in-the-past legislators want to let Sunflower build coal plants, saying the project will bring desperately needed jobs to the western part of the state. Last…
Designer Peggy Noland’s shop on 18th Street undergoes radical transformations every few months. Until a week ago, stepping into the shop was like walking into a cloud. Now, it’s like a baby’s playroom on ‘roids. Every inch of the place is covered in stuffed animals, which Noland collected from friends and garage sales and through solicitations on Craigslist. “It’s kind…
This week: preventing violence through vagina appreciation, partying like (and for) an animal and queering conventional wisdom: a dollar in the bra of a drag queen is worth two in the coffers of AIDS Walk. Categories: News Tags: drags against AIDS, immigration, KC Wildlands, puppy mills, TWIG community garden, vagina monologues
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Flickr: ElvisTR The Daily Dish blog from Toronto Life posted a great piece about ideas for Oscar night parties to throw in your own home. Not everyone gets invited to the high-profile Vanity Fair shindig — which is being downsized this year because of the crappy economy. The creative ideas on the Daily Dish list include the feature from Gourmet…
In honor of tomorrow’s Academy Awards ceremony, Danish Film Institute Fat City has already paid tribute to the movies that have had Oscar-winning performances by stars playing waitresses or famous scenes in restaurants. But today’s Los Angeles Times offers a great slideshow featuring some of the films — not all of them Oscar-worthy, but most of them famous — and…
It’s no wonder Clay Chastain settled on mass transit as his pet cause: A conversation with him is a bumpy ride over loose tracks, and only he decides when it’s over. The best way to keep your blood pressure down when Chastain wants to talk — which lately is often, given that next week his light-rail boondoggle plan gets yet…
Yeah, San Francisco elitist Stephen Fowler is a dick. The villainous Brit from last week’s Wife Swap made an ass out of himself by demeaning poor plump Missourian Gayla Long. I finally watched the show this afternoon. The producers clearly tried to pair a stereotypical arrogant elitist husband with a stereotypically uneducated submissive redneck wife. And Fowler and Long were…
A couple weeks ago, Wayward writer Greg Franklin wrote about attending a writing workshop in Seattle with Long Winters man John Roderick. In it, Greg praised Roderick’s Twitter, and, now that I’ve finally looked at it, I gotta agree. It is pretty good. 1:06 a.m. yesterday: “Before interviewing the Master Musicians of Joujouka I went to the Russian baths and…
Attention late night partiers, Crossroads pizza shop Art of Pizza is staying open after the bars on weekends. Starting tonight the restaurant will be open until 3:30 a.m. serving pizza. Owner Victor Almo says the restaurant will have its full menu until midnight and then pizza by both the slice and whole pie for another three and a half hours….
“Everyone desires a strong, magnetic personality,” writes Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., in the 1935 pamphlet, The Spiritual Property of Food. “We often meet those persons who seem to radiate a convincing attitude of joy and happiness, of abundant good health, of optimism, love and sympathy. These people make friends everywhere…. people love to do things for them.” Wouldn’t you…
Let’s hear it for Fat City commenter Heatherkay who guessed, correctly, that this photo was the side of the delightful Skillet Licker Cafe in Kansas City, Kansas. The owner of the building evidently liked the original artwork advertising the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company to have re-painted the faded lettering. The reference to the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company threw off Fat…
WOO! I was going to post about how the Brick is offering up a Sunday New Orleans-style brunch with music by the Grand Marquis, and then maybe give an info-byte or two about Tuesday’s parade (which is back, yay!!!), but I just realized that my friend and colleague Nadia Pflaum has just Plogged a comprehensive list of Kansas City Mardi…
The Simpsons taught me that there are two kinds of hobos — singing hobos and stabbing hobos. This is the story of a stabbing hobo. Around 12:20 a.m. this morning, a 37-year-old homeless man couldn’t find his blankets, The Kansas City Star reported. The man found another homeless guy using his covers in a parking garage at 1300 Cherry. Asking…
U.S. News & World Report is running a blog today about how former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders wants to see a doctor appointed as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, not a lifelong politician like Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Paul Bedard’s blog, Washington Whispers, quotes Elders saying of the HHS slot, “I feel there are many roles to…
Attention all readers looking to get into a restaurant/bar job, or who are in the culinary arts and looking to move: There is a KC Live! Open House this Tuesday and you’re invited. Via Craigslist: We will be having a one day “Hospitality Open House” on Tuesday, February 24, 1 to 7 p.m. central. It will be held at the…
