Your presence is requested behind this kit. Eugene Ambramov, frontman for alt-rockers Waiting For Signal recently sent out a MySpace bulletin saying his band is seeking help on the skins. So if you’re a drummer looking for a gig, hit them up via MySpace. Speaking of … it turns out that Abramov has become quite the prolific blogger. Check out…
You would have thought Ted Turner would have been satisfied with being a world-class yachtsman, founder of CNN, philanthropist and the single-largest private land owner in the United States. But no, Turner wanted to share a love for steaks and buffalo, specifically buffalo grown on his land, and thus Ted’s Montana Grill was started. Like most everything Turner touches (except…
The Green Summit Dispatch reported that the 18-year-old Benton L. Ross allegedly stole Dodge trucks from Lee’s Summit, Greenwood and Kansas City. But he had a good reason; he had an important place to be. By his statements Ross would steal trucks because he didn’t have one, didn’t trust others for rides and needed to make a scheduled court date….
To hear One More Cup owner Jeremy Neff tell the story of his coffee house, it was essentially an accident. “I wasn’t even thinking about opening a coffee shop. My wife and I just had a child and we were thinking maybe 10 years down the road of opening one… but then the opportunity came up and how could you…
I was in a meeting yesterday, so I didn’t get to watch President Barack Obama’s nominate Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for secretary of Health and Human Services. Also missed the news last night. I was with Harper at the Modest Mouse show. I finally found highlights from the presser this morning on the Associated Press’ YouTube site. Categories: News, Politics…
If you stop by Starbucks today (or anytime in the near future), you’ll notice things are a little different. Yes, the large menu signs with their $4 coffees from a different era will still be on the wall but next to them will be new signs, more pedestrian signs promoting the previously unheard-of Starbucks value menu. It offers six meals,…
%{}% KC Beer Blog flexes its tremendous rapping muscles in this ode to Chlaus malt liquor. A numbered list of reasons why sushi served via train like that at Sakura is better than normal sushi. This is brilliant. The best way to get kids to eat vegetables is by branding said vegetables and making kids think they’re rare. Batman peas…
It’s hard to comprehend Modest Mouse’s mass appeal. With a few notable exceptions, Seattle group’s songs are epically quirky, full of jerky guitar meanderings, odd time signatures, jolting and percussive rather than hooky or catchy. Singer, guitar player (one of several) and front man Isaac Brock’s voice is distinctively twangy, and rather than sing, he uses it to hector, bark…
Kansas City Police responded to a shooting in the 4400 block of Scarritt Avenue last night, but the shooting victim had left the scene. View Larger Map Detectives talked with a couple of witnesses at the scene, and then started canvassing the area for the man — a black man in his mid-20s. They found him shot to death in…
%{}% Tunguska Balls: While you were busy yesterday scanning the horizon for, uh, naked ladies carrying fruit baskets full of Climax brand elk jerky or whatever it is you’re waiting for when you scan the horizon — while you were doing that, an asteroid the size of a 10-story building went tear-assing past the Earth from the other direction. You…
It was almost exactly a year ago that alarmist, news-magazine types were farting out articles about the newest health problem facing today’s young people: drunkorexia! Even The New York Times got in on the deliciously dangerous issue, which now seems totally overblown. Since it was being discussed on the coasts a year ago, it makes sense that drunkorexia should take…
Two years ago, the lots lining Olive Street were vacant and scattered with garbage. That was before Blue Hill Community Services stepped in and replaced the urban wasteland with new, eco-friendly housing. The effort was enough to earn the group a trip to Washington, D.C., later this month, courtesy of the Environmental Protection Agency. Categories: News Tags: Blue Hills Community…
Eric Melin and J.D. Warnock, the men (and erstwhile musicians; see: Ultimate Fakebook, the Dead Girls) behind locally based movie Web site Scene-Stealers.com are mad taking over SXSW this weekend, hosting three separate parties on Sunday, March 15. If you’re down in Austin for the Interacitve portion (March 13-17) of the mammoth music, film and everything-that-is-cool festival, follow your meat…
CNBC’s Rick Santelli is an asshole. He cemented it with his rant about subsidizing “the losers’ mortgages.” I guess he was talking about good people like Joseph Zachery and Paula Stevens. Zachery and Stevens, both from Kansas City, were featured in a Time magazine story called “House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures.” Zachery was a firefighter until a firetruck…
I was driving on Raytown Road the other day when I saw the sign for The Store, the “Old Fashion Meat Market” at 6624 Raytown Road. The list of daily specials included frog legs and Delmonico steaks. The building couldn’t have been more nondescript — it looked like a small-town convenience store — but I felt some strange compulsion to…
Charles Ferruzza Collection I have this friend — no, it’s not Pitch theater reviewer and inveterate collector-of-weirdness Alan Scherstuhl — who is constantly bringing me cookbooks that she finds at junk stores, flea markets, estate sales. Her theory is this: Charles likes to cook and read books, thus Charles must love cookbooks. I do like cookbooks, but I’ve got plenty….
It’s actually kind of entertaining watching Kansas lawmakers re-fight last year’s battle over two new coal-fired power plants for Sunflower Electric Power Corporation out near Holcomb. Last Friday, the House voted on a bill approving the plants; last year the legislature couldn’t override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ veto, and after last week’s vote the governor issued a statement saying Friday’s 79-44…
Since William S. Burroughs is going on 12 years dead, it must be time to shake loose the last few dollars from the famed writer’s corpse. Someone is selling Burroughs’ cat-centric shopping lists from his last days in Lawrence on eBay for the low, low price of $495 and you can “Buy it now.” Don’t worry. The lists are “authentic.”…
Looking for some beats to liven up another shitty Monday? Local hip-hop turntablist G-Train is offering up a brand new, free mixtape for your distressed aural cavities. Grab the new mix, Daily Hand 2 Hands, at his MySpace or via the link below. Just be sure to throw a few compensatory bucks into his tip jar next time you see…
Leave it to Mastodon to keep things up-close and personal. According to a press release, for this tour, the righteous and lauded metal band will be “playing to smaller theaters and clubs to insure a maximum and up close intimate environment in which to be exposed to brand new songs and old favorites… .” Those new songs will be from…
With people cutting back across the board, one easy way to save money is to limit the number of drinks you buy at bars or restaurants. If ever there was a time to have a good home bar, this is it. People think they need every liquor and cordial under the sun, but really all you need to make a…
Ten days ago, we wrote about Gatorade’s new line of drinks called “G” and how a large part of its audience is people with hangovers whose only exercise is 12-ounce curls. Besides athletes and drunks, Gatorade apparently has a third audience — geeks. If the company’s new commercials are any indicators of who drinks Gatorade, it’s comedy nerds who can…
