Umove.net impresario Bill Pile has just announced that the Grandmaster Flash (of Furious Five/Melle Mel fame) will be spinning at Mosaic in the Power & Light District two weeks from tomorrow, on July 24. There will be no advance ticket sales, so prepare your plan of attack: The start time is listed at 10, and Spinstyles is opening. One would…
Comedian Margaret Cho hits the Voodoo Lounge on October 2. She will be showcasing songs from her forthcoming album, tentatively titled Guitarded, which will feature guest appearances by Patty Griffin, Jon Brion, Grant Lee Phillips, and others. Guitarded is also the name of an album by pop-punk band Limp, so she might want to change that. Tickets go on sale…
The 12th Street bridge has reopened after being shut down for “emergency repairs.” The bridge was shut down in May after MoDOT inspectors discovered “structural deficiencies” and “extensive deterioration” (earlier in the month it was down to two, multi-metal-plate-covered lanes). It didn’t take an inspector to know that the bridge was a villain’s fantasy death trap. Bridge repairs were several…
It’s a fact of life that in modern America we’re “pressured to do more, do better and look fantastic while doing it,” according to Robin Abrahams, the ethics and etiquette columnist for the Boston Globe, who spoke last night at Rainy Day Books in Fairview. And “when we’re stressed out and busy, we may not have the bandwidth” for politeness,…
A quick update from James Christos and crew’s Anarchy Tour Christos: What up KC!!!? JC checking in. We’re outta Houston now. On our way to Mt. Pleasant,Texas. We had a lil incident on our way from Houston to Dallas. I’ll just say it was sort of like a rite of passage when you’re getting your Rock Star on on the…
In the telecommunications version of an NBA salary dump, Sprint just traded 6,000 employees and its wireless network operations to Ericsson. This all sounds kind of scary, but Sprint claims no layoffs are planned (yet), and Sprint also gets to keep ownership of its wireless network operations. The traded employees get a new signature on their checks. No word on…
In addition to having one of the better articles explaining the fall of AIG, Vanity Fair’s August edition also has a refresher biography about the life of Julia Child, who’s being portrayed by Meryl Streep in the upcoming Julie & Julia. Child’s life has been well-documented by multiple biographers but she remains an enigma, which makes sense considering that she…
Classical choral ensemble Octarium has been nominated for a Just Plain Folks music award in the Classical Vocal/Opera/Choral Album category. Over 42,000 albums were submitted and less than 1/3 of 1% of the entrants got a nomination. The Just Plain Folks Music Awards were started in 1999 as a simple way to recognize the best music submitted by members. JPF…
Related to this week’s feature story, we took a very informal poll of our colleagues at Village Voice Media newspapers around the country, asking about their cities’ clandestine hookup places. Here’s a sampling: Our sister paper in St. Louis let us know about Forest Park, a 1,293-acre monster that’s stuffed with places to get it on. Recently, Forest Park made…
How low will you go for a free meal? If you answered “I’ll do anything but dress up like a cow” then we’re sorry to say that Cow Appreciation Day is not for you. But if you are willing (eager?) to put on some fake hooves, a tail and spots, Chick-fil-A will give you a free combo meal Friday. Not…
Depending on who you talk with, either the Bannister Federal Complex is either an “ideal” site for the federal government to dump store thousands of tons of mercury waste or a development-killing, really, really bad idea (just ask council members John Sharp and Ed Ford or Congressman Emanuel Cleaver). The plant is already a toxic nightmare (according to the Star),…
Fast Geek Reader: A Collection of Poetry and Short Fiction (Fast Geek Press) includes writing from musicians such as Karl Alvarez (ALL / Descendents), Nathen Maxwell (Flogging Molly), Zack Boddicker (Drag the River), and more traditional authors and poets with whom I’m unfamiliar. I’ll admit that, despite my BA in English, I always leaned more towards twentieth century fiction like…
My head has a face, and I don’t read books/So where should I go?/You damn right: to Facebook speak-sings Nuthatch-47 singer Max Kuhnakovich in this short, hilarious and grammatically challenged new video from the Kansas City band whose debut CD, Respectable Sins, we reviewed this week. It’s pretty self-explanatory — a clever satirical primer for the social-networking site that has…
Readers of the New York Times may have noticed this letter to the editor in yesterday’s food and dining section, from K-State professor and blogger Doug Powell who runs the food-safety-related Barf Blog from Manhattan, Kansas. Powell wrote: The only thin piece of metal that should be stuck into the side of a hamburger is a tip-sensitive digital thermometer. Chef…
A garden-full of local attorneys gathered at a Ward Parkway home last night to meet and mingle with the guy who graces the latest cover of American Lawyer magazine. Dennis Johnson, a now-retired attorney from Des Moines, shot to national prominence in April when the Iowa Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. Johnson was the lead lawyer on the case, which…
%{}% Guess who makes a cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest ambush comedy, Brüno? None other than Topeka’s favorite sons and daughters, the Westboro Baptist Church. Salon has an interesting story on why Brüno lacks the kick in the balls of Borat because no one in the film — aside from a brief passing with Fred Phelps’ flock — is…
%{}% While summer is traditionally a slow time for the city of Lawrence, this week is different. The charity Cottonwood is hosting a multiple- day fundraiser focused on wine, called Salute! Kicking things off tonight is the Mass. Street Mosey. Fat City attended last year, and saw how unlikely venues such as shoe stores and a bank were converted into…
Here’s an update on the bacon explosion guys, Aaron Chronister and Jason Day. The two amateur barbecue enthusiasts’ recipe for bacon-stuffed-in-sausage-stuffed-in-bacon took the Internet by storm, landing them on the pages of the New York Times and with a six-figure book deal. Since then, countless people have tried to make the bacon explosion. But the original was smoked for hours,…
%{}% Not only does the Foundry have McCoy’s 12th anniversary dubbel on tap, it also has free wi-fi. Turns out those canned-goods recipes that chefs came up with for the Harvesters dinner are tasty. The luxury wine market is being absolutely obliterated by the recession as even the richest buyers start thinking that $1,000 bottles of wine are frivolous. The…
Danko Jones are set for the U.S. release of Never Too Loud, their brand new studio album, on September 8 via Bad Taste Records / Caroline. Hailing from Toronto, the group teamed with Grammy award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Coheed & Cambria, Stone Sour, Velvet Revolver) and recorded Never Too Loud at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los…
