Archives: August 2009
Stik Figa to be featured on KCUR’s KC Currents this weekend.
KC Currents, the great little local news and culture show on KCUR 89.3 FM that covers everything from women’s football to why that “new car smell” is actually toxic, is turning its mic on local hip-hop to give air time to one of our personal favorites here at the Wayward Blog: Stik Figa. Stik, who was born in Topeka as…
Sony Charges Westboro Baptist Church With Copyright Infringement
Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, home of Pastor Fred Phelps and the “God Hates Fags Campaign,” has been hit with copyright infringement from Sony/ATV Music. In a letter to the church, Sony lawyer Peter Brodsky states that a video on the church’s website “constitutes a serious infringement of Sony’s copyright.” That video is “Hey Jews,” the Beatles’ hit written as a…
Tonight’s show: Get to the Riot Room early for Irv da Phenom
Tonight, Irv da Phenom’s opening for CES Cru’s CD release party with Heltah Skeltah. Yesterday, ya boy Irv brought The Pitch an advance copy of Tire Shops & Night Clubs, a mixtape he expects to release mid-September. KPRS 103.3’s show Underground Heat is already playing Irv’s single, “How I Feel,” featuring Big Scoob (whose new album on Strange Music, Monsterifik,…
Three of Operation Rescue’s ‘whistle blowers’ are convicted felons
Operation Rescue is annoying Nebraskans this weekend. They don’t care much for LeRoy Carhart’s doctoring, so they’re attacking his practices. This is so familiar. Now, Operation Rescue is latching onto four of Carhart’s former employees. All fired or laid off. Bet they’re not holding a grudge. Operation Rescue claims: The women have made allegations that unlicensed staff illegally performed medical…
Featured Story: CES Cru
CEStory Kansas City’s most dexterous hip-hop duo wants to meet you on The Playground. BY HUGH WELSH Five years ago, CES Cru was tag-teaming bad guys. The cover to the hip-hop group’s debut album, Capture Enemy Soldiers, showed Ubiquitous (Mike Viglione) and Godemis (Donnie King) basking atop a mound of corpses. On the cover of the duo’s follow-up, full-length album,…
Lynn Jenkins’ search for a ‘great white hope’: Day 9
Kansas Congresswoman Lynn “Where the white folks at?” Jenkins gave MSNBC’s hyperbolic liberal Keith Olbermann ammunition with her 1900s-era call for a “great white hope” to defeat African-American World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Oh, wait, she was talking about President Barack Obama — a century later. Anyway, Olbermann wasn’t satisfied with Jenkins’ apology. Let it rip, Keith. Visit msnbc.com for…
The Manliest Restaurant in America!
Sure, he’s got brains — but does he eat them? It’s now official: The Manliest Restaurant in America is — drum roll, please — The Hilltop Inn in Evansville, Indiana. The restaurant was chosen by the manly ol’ AOL website asylum.com which claims it chose the Indiana joint from a list of potential contenders because it served a fried brain…
Breakfast Buffet: Friday, August 28
%{}% A look at the history and choices when it comes to mead and a few suggestions for how to make your own. A recipe for poblano cream soup and a conversation with the manager of the greenhouse at Johnson County Community College. A visit to Kansas City and a desire to experience this city’s barbecue begins and ends with…
Bo Jackson prefers handshakes with ‘The Gipper’ to home runs
Bo Jackson’s life is still pretty damn sweet. In an AP profile, the 46-year-old former Kansas City Royal says he doesn’t want anyone feeling sorry for him after his career was shortened due to a hip injury. Now a businessman, Jackson says hitting back-to-back home runs with Wade Boggs in the 1989 All-Star Game wasn’t near as cool as shaking…
Download the Sexy Accident’s Mantoloking
The Sexy Accident’s new album, Mantoloking, is available for free download on the band’s website. Come to think of it, so are all of the Sexy Accident’s poppy, bouncy albums. This means that while you’re entering your name and e-mail to get on the band’s mailing list (fear not, as they promise to share with no other parties) and get…
UMKC Libraries Receives McShann Collection
From the UMKC library press desk: UMKC’s LaBudde Special Collections at Miller Nichols Library recently received the collection of legendary Kansas City pianist and bandleader Jay McShann. Highlights of the collection include videos of interviews with McShann and footage capturing him in performance. In addition, the collection includes photographs, awards, and other memorabilia from McShann’s lengthy career. It represents a…
What to do this weekend — our suggestions
1. Do the time warp. Rocky Horror Picture Show is screening for free at City Market Friday night. 2. Cut it out. Comedian Dave Coulier (aka Uncle Joey to Full House fans) shares the laughs at Stanford’s Comedy Club Friday night and Saturday. 3. Walk the dog. On Saturday morning, there’s a charity dog-walking event called Too Cool to Drool…
Rockhurst frat makes neighbors long for days of living next to drug dealers
Fox 4’s Rob Low (not the West Wing guy) has a hilarious story about a Rockhurst frat — Sigma Alpha Epsilon — keeping neighbors in the 5500 block of Forest up late with “wild parties.” Neighbors even complained about partiers pissing through their fences. It’s so bad that one neighbor said he missed the days when the house belonged to…
Bike-a-day: Riverfront Heritage Trail
%{}% Biking in Kansas City doesn’t so much require a hard-headed sense of road entitlement as a spirit of adventure. With enough gumption and time, it’s possible to stitch together the disjointed threads of a few different bike paths. Today’s example: The Riverfront Heritage Trail. It’s 10 or so miles (one-way) of well-signed, on-street/off-street path that begins in the Summit…
Museum to honor Johnson County’s diversity (for serious)
Hey, Johnson County residents who were born in another country! The Johnson County Museum wants to hear your story — and your children’s stories — for an exhibit opening in 2011. New Immigrants and the American Dream will focus on the experience of immigrants and their children, their perspectives on American life and their experiences in suburban communities. Contributors to…
Feuding neighbors shoot at each other in the 3900 block of Flora; 16 arrested
Neighbors in two houses were shooting at each other in the 3900 block of Flora yesterday evening. View Larger Map Kansas City police issued an “Operation 100” after receiving reports of people shooting guns in the street around 7:36 p.m. Police took four people — two adults and two juveniles — into custody from one house early on. Police also…
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