Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Author: Verne RickettsPublisher: Lieba Inc., BaltimoreDate: 1985Discovered at: Used book store Take a look at that cover. Consider this candy castle’s drooping gables, leaking roofs, and…
Guinness Brewery celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. To put that into context, Thomas Jefferson was only 15 years old when Arthur Guinness brewed his first famous stout. It’s highly unlikely that Jefferson or Arthur could dream of how the brewer would reward one lucky drinker on its semiquincentennial: a trip to outer space! Categories: A&E, Dining Tags: 250 Anniversary,…
%{}% The non-profit health policy organization Trust For America’s Health released its annual F as in Fat survey yesterday. The results are not especially encouraging for Kansas or Missouri. While neither are among the 10 fattest states, they are perilously close. Missouri ranks as the 13th fattest, with just over 28 percent of adults qualifying as obese. Kansas increased its…
I walked into the Granada last night toward the end of a set by a band with at least seven members, a lot of hair and – I’m pretty sure – a full horn section. I didn’t catch their name, but the hirsute frontman, who wore a Davy Crockett-ish hat, made a big point about how he was actually homeless….
Stephen Colbert made sport of Missouri state Rep. and hunger advocate Cynthia Davis last night. The O’Fallon Republican, who recently stated that hunger can be a positive motivator, made Keith Olbermann’s list of worst people in the world for her “Stomach Growls for Success!” idea. Now Colbert is piling on. Noting that Davis runs a Christian book store, Colbert edited…
If you didn’t get to attend the KC Urban Farms and Gardens Tour this past Sunday, here is a slideshow showing some of the things you missed. Katherine Kelly of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture and one of the tour organizers, says not only the farmers and gardeners who took part were happy, but the attendees were, too….
%{}% A more in-depth look at the Korean tacos Yummo’s is sporadically serving and which — at 3 for $2 — are taking the world of cheap lunches by storm. A great cycling trip of southern Missouri is marred only by the terrible beer. You can make dog food from beer. Or to be more accurate, the leftover grains from…
In one of music’s best pairings in recent years, legendary punk rocker John Doe teamed up with Canadian band The Sadies to cut a record of countrypolitan favorites—Country Club—and are bringing their live act to Lawrence for a just-announced show at the Bottleneck on July 27. In true honky tonk style, Country Club is the bastard child of a drunken…
Working Americans have a few opportunities to express confused outrage at the government this holiday weekend. Tomorrow at 1 p.m., a freedom rally/tea party will be held at the Center for God, Family and Country in Lee’s Summit. On July 4 at 9 a.m., a rally for responsibility will take place along Highway 45 in Parkville. The tea parties staged…
As regular readers are painfully aware, I’m trying to get rid of eight medium-sized cardboard boxes containing thousands of promotional photos from the past. And until someone comes and takes them off my motherscratchin’ hands for free, I’m going to post selections from the archive from A to Z as often as I can (which, considering I’m only on “C”…
File under: Obvious. Last week, the Kansas State University media relations department sent out a press release saying that a couple of psychology professors had taken a “look at some reasons behind the fascination with fireworks.” We expected some deep insights into the human psyche. What we got instead: Holidays, weddings and birthdays are occasions that tend to bring out…
Dallas Maverick’s baller Dirk Nowitzki has about as much luck with the ladies as he had against the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs. His former fiancée, Cristal Taylor, was moved this week from a Texas jail to St. Charles County, Missouri, where she will face probation violation charges. She was arrested at Nowitzki’s home last May. In 1997, Taylor was…
General Motors’ fight for survival is being watched closely in Kansas City, Kansas. The carmaker’s Fairfax Assembly Plant pays millions in property taxes and, along with KU Med Center, is one of the city’s largest employers. Fairfax survived a round of plant closures announced in June. The factory is relatively new and produces the popular Chevy Malibu. Fairfax workers are…
Wonder Fair Art Gallery & the Moon Rabbit Drinking Club and Benevolence Society present a magazine release party plus exhibition of 10 illuminated assemblages by Jonathan Holley. Johnny America is a little magazine of fiction, humor, and other miscellany published twice a year by the Moon Rabbit Drinking Club & Benevolence Society. It’s a web site as well — johnnyamerica.net…
Participate in the International Year of Astronomy when Dr. Steven Hawley – astronomer, astrophysicist and five-time astronaut – presents Galileo, Apollo, and Beyond. Tue., July 7, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day, Steven Hawley
Rin Tin Tin, “the world’s most famous German Shepherd” will make a personal appearance at the Museum on Independence Day. Rin Tin Tin X, the direct descendant of the original Hollywood canine star will meet his fans from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A selection of films featuring his acting ancestors will be shown free in the J.C. Nichols Auditorium…
Football and soccer each has its Glenn Warner. Football’s Warner, better known as “Pop,” was a successful college coach who helped popularize youth football. Soccer’s Warner coached at Navy for 30 years, guiding the midshipmen to several NCAA tournaments and the 1964 national championship. Of course, intercollegiate sports are only part of what happens at the country’s service academies. To…
Dr. Sketchy’s art nights, a national phenomenon that has its local base in the West Bottoms, proceed from the premise that figure drawing should be fun, as opposed to the self-seriousness of formal art classes centered on rendering aging, unselfconscious hippies doing naked tai chi poses in the middle of a classroom. To that end, Dr. Sketchy’s enlists burlesque and…
Kansas City artist Megan Bourque creates illustrations that are result of watching much television and reading few books. The sometimes bare and always colorless compositions are a liquification of American counterculture and domestic nostalgia that create a primrose path of civil absurdity straight to the viewer’s frontal lobe. Fri., July 3, 6-10 p.m., 2009 Tags: Kansas City, Megan Bourque, Night…
