I had bacon for dinner. Tonight I plan on having pork. Tomorrow, maybe bacon, pork and ham. I have no qualms about this because, except for hurting my arteries, no harm can come from eating pork. “Swine influenza viruses are not transmitted by food. You cannot get swine influenza from eating pork or pork products.” That’s the CDC talking, not…
Last week, The Kansas City Star put Jerry Johnston’s First Family Church back under the microscope. This time, for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and on public relations (because, as First Family put it, of “attacks” by the daily paper to cripple the church’s “political impact”). Now, Bottom Line has a letter from Robert Ulrich of…
I spilled out of The Master & Margarita drunk on what I’d seen. A comic, wicked, sensual, absurd and moral adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s all-that-times-a-thousand novel about the devil coming to Soviet Moscow, this UMKC production bursts with marvels. A short list: luminous moonscapes, women bewitched into flight, the devil’s own magic show, a cat in a gunfight, the anguish…
“It’s a dinosaur. It’s a plane. It’s Superman.” That’s about the best description of Chomp Womp I got from Jonathan Doerr – perhaps the reason he felt compelled to call me later and apologize for “poorly representing” Chomp Womp. I’d be inclined to agree with him if anyone else could explain the damn thing. Most obviously, Chomp Womp is a…
You may never have heard of the Kansas City Originals, but you certainly know its components. The 40 restaurants in the organization are all locally owned and range from upscale spots such as Aixois and Tatsu’s to workingman bars like Harry’s Country Club. The group holds its eighth-annual picnic and live auction this Sunday from 5 to 9 p.m. at…
Well, that didn’t take long. Shortly after Sony Pictures released the poster and the Web site for Julie & Julia, the trailer is now online: Meryl Streep’s impression will either carry or tank this movie. The trailer makes it seem like she’s nailed Child’s voice, but if it’s really just 90 minutes of Streep saying cliches like “Bonjour! Bonjour!” then…
Last night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart admitted that calling President Harry Truman “a war criminal” “was a stupid thing to say.” The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Harry Truman Was Not a War Criminal thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis First 100 Days The night before, Stewart made the comment when discussing…
REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY ROBERT FOLSOM A swift kick in the pants, that’s what that was when Eddie & the Hot Rods took the stage Thursday night at the Record Bar. Their balls-to-the-wall, full-throttle sound apparently wasn’t for the hygiene-minded. “There’s not very many people here tonight. Must be bath night,” lead singer Barrie Masters joked about the small size…
%{}% People really have to work on their manners and the limitations of what other people can do for them. This post wins my award for clever title of a beer post. I’m moving slow this morning, it took me a couple of seconds to get it. It’s not uncommon to stumble upon a part of the Internet you never…
The Kansas City Star comes to us with some bad news: rich and cranky Skip Sleyster unexpectedly died Thursday at age 85. Sleyster was known for his Super Flea Swap & Shop flea market and his Sunday ad in the Sunday Kansas City Star, “One Moment of Your Time, Please!!” We’ve poked a bit of fun at Sleyster’s columns —…
To hell with you — Neil Young’s guitar is like a damn hurricane. That black, shorn Les Paul, looking like it was pulled out from a den of berserk tigers, plugged into a stack of amps ranging in size from sewing-machine case to taller than a man and wider than two (the latter’s MAGNATONE logo legible from the back rows),…
The Kansas City, Missouri, School Board has unanimously picked John Covington to be the new superintendent of the Kansas City School Board District. Covington, a superintendent from Pueblo, Colorado, takes over a school system that doesn’t know the meaning of “stability.” What’s the over under on how long he lasts? Categories: News Tags: John Covington, Kansas City Missouri School District
The ghost of Chuck Thompson is still haunting Wyandotte County 21 years after the Democratic Party Chairman’s murder. Questions about Thompson’s murder has led a Kansas judge to dismiss the case against an attorney accused of stealing $400,000 from the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities. Kansas Senior Judge Jack Lively told The Kansas City Star that he threw…
1. It’s First Friday, y’all, and that means the Crossroads will be hoppin’ with people interested in art (and a lot of people who pretend to be interested in art but are really just trying to rustle up free drinks and snacks and the appearance of sophistication). One of the bombest art openings happening tonight is at Mercy Seat, the…
Scott Tobias, film editor for the satirical newspaper The Onion, is in town next week to talk about his A.V. Club essay series “The New Cult Canon.” He’ll speak at the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, which is gearing up for its summer Off-the-Wall film series. The connection: This summer, the library’s outdoor screenings focus on titles…
First Friday/Joan Finn creates chalk art
So after my panic attack over the dangers of eating red meat, I thought to myself: I’ll only eat red meat, like, two nights a week and during the weekends, and I’ll only eat healthy fresh vegetables and grains and tofu and horrible, dry, tasteless, vegan desserts.” And for some completely strange reason, the concept of being a “weekend vegetarian”…
This New York Times story by Jane Brody, about the dangers of eating red meat, was exactly the wrong thing to read after eating a big fat double cheeseburger from The Burger Joint. My entire night was ruined. For the first time in 25 years — ever since the night that I abandoned my strict 11-month attempt at being a…
