I have to talk to you about last night’s Mayhem Fest tour stop at Sandstone but I really don’t wanna. But I should just quit bitching and go on with things because I knew what the responsibilities were when I asked for the gig. Fuck. Who would’ve thought you’d feel this way the day after a Slayer show? And therein…
A new blog launched last month that could, quite honestly, be the new Look At This Fucking Hipster or Stuff White People Like. It is simply and elegantly entitled Awesomely Bad Lyrics, and that is its focus. The posts follow a basic format: line-by-line (or couplet-by-couplet) analysis and mockery of songs. Awesomely Bad Lyrics looks to be primarily focusing on…
Pittsburg State’s Joe Windscheffel won’t be suiting up for the Gorillas this season after a zebra got bite-y with him. Windscheffel (pictured on the trading card on the right) was reportedly trying to move four zebras (a male and three females) so he could paint a fence. But the male zebra didn’t want to go, charged him, chomped down on…
It’s one of the great stranded-on-an-island questions that inevitably comes up at a bar — would you drink your own pee to survive? You might say no at first, but when presented with a series of qualifying factors — there is no other water available or your shipwrecked mates have island fever and are holding a cutlass to your head…
Slayer rocked and Manson attempted to shock on Tuesday, July 21, when the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Fest 2009 came to Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone.
A Kansas City judge awarded a New York man $7.3 million in damages on Tuesday, for years of harassment suffered at the claws of a Johnson County cougar. The woman, outed by the Star as 48-year-old Jessica Wright of Leawood, originally hired the man, identified as Lewis Heacker, now 23, to babysit her kids when he was 13. Then she…
The tour dates for the second leg of Leonard Cohen’s U.S. tour have just been announced, and guess what? Lenny’s gonna be our man on November 9 at the Midland by AMC. Hallelujah. The worldwide tour has been receiving fantastic reviews, including this one by A to Z, who saw Cohen in Chicago back in May. (He’ll be in St….
Tonight at the Riot Room, cross-country hip-hop barnstormers James Christos, PL and DJ Jamel Rockwell return from their month-long DIY tour across California, the Southwest, Texas, Missouri and Kansas. The 10 p.m. show marks the concluding date of the Anarchy Tour, which, if you read this blog regularly, you should be damn well familiar with by now, thanks to the…
As people around town continue to dissect Gloria Squitiro’s diary, a line on Page 17 of the manuscript caught the interest of Fat City: “We purposely met with Roe at Cascone’s so all the world could see what we were up to,” writes Squitiro. We assume she meant Cascone’s Grill in the River Market, a well-documented favorite of Funkhouser’s when…
Midwest Music Foundation hosts its second “Stay Tuned” concert Saturday, August 15 at the Record Bar. Playing that night will be Expassionates, Greg Enemy, and Jeff Harshbarger. It’s a rather eclectic bill. It should be interesting to see how the hip-hop crowd of Greg Enemy reacts to the alt.country and Americana of the Expassionates, to say nothing of Harshbarger’s wild…
Johnson County prosecutors charged Jeanette L. Lawrence with involuntary manslaughter in the death April 2009 death of a child at the Olathe daycare she ran at 16012 W. 148th Terrace. Lawrence was also charged with aggravated endangering a child and a violation of registered daycare regulations. Good report from Fox 4 on the case in which a family friend of…
It’s just 11 herbs and spices, but the secret recipe of Colonel Harland Sanders — the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken — has been one of America’s biggest mysteries since the chicken chain’s first restaurant opened in 1952. Well, 57 years later, Ron Douglas thinks he has cracked the code. It’s one of the 200 recipes in his new cookbook,…
Fox 4 warns us that driving Southwest Trafficway might eat your tires. The streets are being repaved and manhole covers jutting above ground are killing tires. Fox 4’s Paul Herdtner claimed the station was working for a woman whose tire popped after hitting one of the covers (way to work in the slogan). But working for her would mean actually…
You say tomato. Farmer Brooke Salvaggio says start eating. “The time to buy heirloom tomatoes is right now. The season is going to be short, so you’re only going to have two to three weeks to get the best tomatoes,” says Salvaggio, who runs Badseed Farm and Market with her husband Dan Heryer. The recent rain and an early…
Those of you wondering what’s up with the $500,000 convention hotel study will be happy to know it’s just getting started, and Prime Buzz says Councilwoman Cindy Circo and businessman Bill George are co-chairing the committee studying whether to build the hotel. The group already agrees that the city needs a convention hotel to compete for the biggest and bestest…
It should be a sweet story. Gary Doss opened the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in the California town of the same name 14 years ago. Over that time, his collection has grown to more than 800 of the dispensers — seemingly endless rows of cartoon and movie characters. The dispensers are in mint condition, but everything is not cherry…
%{}% Elvis might be gone, but a grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich after Hungarian night at Grinder’s isn’t a bad way to honor his memory. Kansas City With The Russian Accent and Hot Blog On A Stick try the chicken fried duck at The Farmhouse, which recently opened in the River Market. Your birthday will seem anti-climatic after you…
From the wilds of Columbia come the Revelators. Wild, untamed blues rock ‘n’ roll the likes of which the world had not seen and will not see again. Quite literally, this was an album I bought, played, and put away from fear. A year later, after I’d had a chance to recover, I brought We Told You Not to Cross…
Lawrence’s Old Canes—the side project of Appleseed Cast frontman Chris Crisci—announced that they have signed to Omaha’s Saddle Creek. Their follow-up to 2004’s Early Morning Hymns is entitled Feral Harmonic and will be released on October 20. There’s a tracklisting at Aversion. How awesome is this? Really fantastically great news, right? Five years I’ve been waiting for this album. Early…
Neko Case blew into town Sunday night and made sure to perform one of the highlights of her new album: a cover of Harry Nilsson’s heartbreaker “Don’t Forget Me.” Commenter DLC then asked for a brief on Nilsson. So, thanks to a grant from the Nilsson Education Foundation, here’s a quick lesson in the late singer-songwriter’s towering awesomeness. I. Songs…
