The best shows at this year’s Fringe Festival toyed with their points rather than pounding them. Creating the loudest noise in a week full of buzz, The Death of Cupid was atypical Fringe fare. It ran two hours and featured a sizable cast of pros and graduate-student actors. And it was written and directed by Kyle Hatley, the assistant artistic…
I played Leonard Nimoy last week and went In Search Of … The object of my quest? A moving sidewalk. Its location? Underneath Pershing Road. My obstacle? Three security guards. First, some background. In 2006, the Internal Revenue Service dedicated a new building near Union Station where workers now process tax returns. It’s a heavy-looking thing with window slits that…
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a dick and vagina on the interiors of port-a-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then you got the white boy reply, “Here I sit flexing a … ” You should know the rest. Original Schreck in Houston Dear Gabacho: Methinks we have a coprophiliac in…
Feature: “Park Players,” July 23 Dog and Crony Show I applaud Nadia Pflaum for addressing public parks at a time when we are all looking at how the Kansas City Parks Board will handle a report submitted by the Dog Park Task Force on July 21. The report came after a year and a half of extensive research, on-site visits…
Here’s a “Thank God” and an “It’s about time” for the Theatre League’s 12 O’Clock Jump, a weekly celebration of jazz grooves past and present, broadcast live from the Mutual Musicians’ Foundation each Saturday night at midnight. This lively jazz-meets-blues-meets-comedy jam airs on KCUR 89.3 as it happens, but you can catch it free, in the flesh, by showing up…
Someone in the Dandy Warhols camp must be booking their travel arrangements today, because several KC-related questions have appeared on the Dandies’ Twitter @TheDandyWarhols in the past couple of hours. The band’s September tour brings them to the Beaumont on 9/3. Here’s what they’s Tweetered so far: Dare you ask!? Questions about the difference between KCMO and KCK and the…
The Skillet Licker Cafe, home of those “hot l’il donuts,” is frying those delectable miniature treats no more. The popular Kansas City, Kansas, diner at 501 N. 6th Street, which was reviewed in The Pitch just a year ago has closed up shop. The owner of the other small restaurant in the same building, Ellen Hume of the JayWale Bakery &…
In case you haven’t been downtown yet today, swarms of adolescent girls are already taking over the the Power & Light District and the sidewalks around the Sprint Center in the desperate hope they’ll come across an elusive Jonas Brother before tonight’s concert. Not to be a dick to any downtown businesses, but this is one night we’d do our drinking…
These are the two best analyses of popular culture you will read this week—possibly this month, possibly this year. Idolator writer Jess Harvell recently responded to an article in The Guardian by Alan McGee entitled “Why Bon Jovi are mythic New Jersey artists.” The final line of McGee’s editorial is this: “Bon Jovi are easily one of the three creators…
Kansas City’s Roman Numerals have just released a new song through the brand-new online music marketing enterprise Topspin Media. Enter your e-mail in the widget below, and a link to download “Go/No/Go” will be sent to your inbox (or possibly spam filter, as it did with mine — watch out). If that wee widget looks familiar to you, that may…
Wavves is better known for breakdowns and accidents than their actual music. Nonetheless, the band is still the “hype shit” these days. Wavves usually draws comparisons to those bands in Los Angeles’ underground noise punk scene (such as the acts that grew up around the Smell club like No Age and Abe Vigoda). Their record’s all right. If you dig…
Oh, Roy Blunt. Too bad you don’t have balls big enough to admit that President Obama was born in the United States. “What I don’t know is why the President can’t produce a birth certificate,” Blunt says to Mike Stark from Fire Dog Lake on the video. “I don’t know anybody else who can’t produce one. And I think that’s…
Given the current move to vilify the food industry and growing concerns about food safety, we here at Fat City are glad that, when we need the truth, we can count on the BarfBlog. Kansas State University professor Doug Powell and other BarfBloggers from the world of food safety and public health break down news stories and new findings in…
Evidently, future funkster Miles Bonny woke up this morning, splashed cold water in his face, looked at himself in the mirror and said, I’m gonna shoot a video today. The INnatesounds proprietor is requesting your presence today at 3:30 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern in Westport. He’ll be shooting the video for “On Impulse,” from his upcoming album Incense…
Maniac, the new band from Shawn Harris of the Matches, has started a blog where they will record “(near) weekly cover of pop’s most popular.” Basically, whatever is #1 on the Billboard charts each week will get covered. Unless, of course, the song stays the same, in which case they’ll cover something from the British Billboard charts or something like…
Tacos may be the best-loved Mexican-American dish served in the United States. The Food Lover’s Companion describes a taco as “a Mexican-style ‘sandwich’ consisting of a folded corn tortilla filled with various ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken, chorizo sausage, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, onion. … Most tacos in the United States are made with crisp (fried) tortilla shells, but there…
The fashion blogger behind White Lightening, Elizabeth Spiridakis, has a PROBLEM with ALL CAPS, but we’ll forgive her because on her road trip across America, she’s discovered some of Kansas City’s treasures: Peggy Noland, Nates Swap N’ Shop at 8200 E. 63rd Street, and Re-Runs vintage in the West Bottoms. She also caught Sonic Youth at the Uptown and took…
David D. Liberty loves young boys. Really young. Like 4-years-old. Or as old as 12 (but only “sometimes”). But he was specific on his desires: “I LUV LIL BOYS 5 to 10 n diapers the best.” The 50-year-old from Parkville was convicted of promoting child pornography and eight counts possession of child porn. Liberty could lose his liberty for up…
In an effort to improve the nutritional value of french fries and other fast-food items, several major cities have instituted bans on artificial trans fats in restaurants. New York City led the way in 2006, passing a ban on all artificial trans fats in food served in restaurants as health officials cited the connection between trans fats and heart disease….
