With help from local gallery Grand Arts, on July 14, art-poppers the Ssion and several dozen face-painted friends shot footage for an upcoming movie.
Notice the appellation sticker below the main label. The best place to start learning wine is with Bordeaux and Burgundy. While both terms are used a lot, many people remain unclear about what they mean. First, both refer to regions or appellations in France, not a specific type of grape. So right away, you know anybody who says “I’d like…
%{}% A wonderful post about a Mexican restaurant, sellers at the City Market and the eventual takeover of the U.S. by foreign vodka. If the failing financial firm CIT Group (not to be confused with failing bank Citigroup) does go bankrupt, the results could be disastrous for many small businesses and restaurants. The two largest Japanese brewers are looking to…
Once a week, Wayward Blog brings to you an MP3 of music from the area’s musical past. This week’s Throwback MP3 comes from the Kansas City Misery compilation, released in 1995 on Red Decibel out of Minneapolis. The idea that a Kansas City music collection would come out on a Minneapolis record label makes more sense when you know that…
A year and a half after releasing Alopecia, WHY? returns with their fourth album, Eskimo Snow, pre-mixed in Nashville by Lambchop’s Mark Nevers (Silver Jews, Bonnie Prince Billy, Calexico) and worked over by Alopecia engineer Eli Crews. This album was actually recorded at the same time as Alopecia, at Minneapolis’ Third Ear studio, with Fog’s Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson…
%{}% The bad news keeps piling up for Shon Pernice, husband of missing northland woman Renee Pernice, who disappeared in January and authorities believe is dead. Pernice’s neighbors told KCTV 5 on Tuesday that they testified before a grand jury about the July 4th incident in which Kansas City police arrested Pernice for disturbing the peace after he allegedly crashed…
In this week’s cover story, I wrote about Abdullahi Ibrahim, a former University of Missouri-Columbia professor who recently returned to Sudan to run for president. Before he left, the university made this video about him. Categories: News Tags: Abdullahi Ibrahim, Sudan, University of Missouri- Columbia, University of Missouri-Columbia
An Onion classic came to mind after seeing this headline on the Web edition of The Kansas City Star: Diary of Mayor Funkhouser’s wife reveals she was upset with council members, city staff, media You know the one I’m talking about. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Gloria Squitiro, the onion
A dispute between two men led to a double shooting Tuesday night that left one man dead and another seriously injured. A woman with a man suffering from serious gunshot wounds flagged down Kansas City police officers at 35th and Park around 10:12 p.m. Tuesday. The wounded man was taken to a local hospital.The woman told police that the man…
Kansas City police have identified the man found dead in a van at 40th and Norton on July 6. The victim is 50-year-old James L. Rogers, according to a report on The Kansas City Star’s site. View Larger Map No word yet on how the Rogers died. A foul odor coming from the van led to the discovery of a…
The Community Development Corporation of Kansas City is in a whole heap of trouble with the Citadel Plaza debacle. CDC-KC is in default with the mess at 63rd Street and Prospect, just as the City Council is trying to decide whether to dump $20 million more into the project. Lots of boring but important details about CDC-KC’s failures, from finances…
Tonight, the AdHoc Group Against Crime hosts the fourth installment of its series on the Abolishment of the Death Penalty. The group invited representatives from Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, the mother of former death row inmate Michael Anthony Taylor, and a man falsely imprisoned on death row for 17 years. The AdHoc Group is officially anti-death-penalty, but they’re…
In our continuing quest to bring you band merch outside the usual t-shirts, we bring you thrash metal hot sauce. It seems New Jersey thrash metallers Whiplash have not only recently reunited, they’ve also joined forces with From Mild To Wild Hot Sauce Shop to produce and release the first-ever thrash metal hot sauce line in celebration of the band’s…
%{}% We made it! Self-proclaimed “Chicken-Shit with an Attitude” Gloria Squitiro included The Pitch in her 35 page manuscript that’s sure to grab the attention of book publishers looking for an unstable megalomaniac (she’s tentatively titled the “book” It All Started When I was Born and C’mon Funk, Move Your Ass — Gloria Squitiro and the New Politics because it’s…
In the latest round of attacks on mermaids, minotaurs, fawns, bat boy, man bear pigs, reverse mermaids and ThunderCats, Sen. Sam Brownback has introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009. Snarf, I don’t know about this, Lion-O. On his blog, Brownback wrote about the act’s intent, which is to preserve the sanctity of human life by banning the competition….
The new Sasha Baron Cohen movie Bruno debuted this weekend. Among the more genteel scenes is the clip below, in which the Austrian fashion designer goes to Jerusalem and makes a food faux-pas. Hilarity ensues: Yossi Alpher, the former Mossad intelligence officer sitting to Cohen’s left in the interview wrote a commentary about what it’s like to be interviewed…
As we blog, arty rascals of all ages around the metro are getting their Ssion faces on for the band/collective’s Grand Arts-sponsored film shoot today from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Temple at 1330 Linwood. If you haven’t RSVP’d, fire it off quick and head on down — in the proper makeup and attire. I’m sure they…
Whoah. I don’t know how we slept on this, but the Boston Phoenix presented the best new band from each state as part of their Fourth of July celebrations, or “Independents’ Day,” as some music sites have been calling it. So, 50 bands from 50 states means that they declared the best bands from Kansas and Missouri. Who’d they pick?…
Although obesity is nothing new in America, there have been recent attempts to look at the epidemic (that’s the CDC’s description) with a fresh focus. Yes, we’re too fat and have heart attacks and diabetes because we eat too much, but why do we eat so much more than other countries? More specifically, why have we become so fat in…
There are two great punk tours coming through Lawrence and KC in the coming weeks, and I thought I’d post them together, because if you’re looking forward to either, you’ll definitely enjoy the other. Kevin Seconds, of the illustrious straight-edge hardcore band 7 Seconds, played the Jackpot on July 29. He’s playing solo acoustic, which means you’re not gonna get…
Today Long John Silver’s is offering customers its newest menu item, the Baja fish taco, free until 2:30 p.m. Wait, Long John Silver’s still exists? Apparently it does, with 10 metro locations. According to the company, the baja fish taco contains “fish, crumblies and Baja sauce.” Yes, crumblies — the breaded byproduct of the frying process that most restaurants throws…
If you missed the Boss when he came through last August, you’ll be getting another chance this October 26, when Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band return to Kansas City’s Sprint Center as part of a 25-date extension of the “Workin’ on a Dream Tour,” which began 221 years ago when the U.S. Constitution was ratified and replaced the Articles…
