Another year of Best Ofs, another hot KC mofo crowned Best Sexy Musician. This year, our staff didn’t have to deliberate too hard to choose the charming, handsome and genuinely sweet Enrique Chi of the magnificent Making Movies. A few of us (well, me) wanted to see a lady get it this year, but Chi’s chi was just too hot…
One of our profile subjects in this year’s Best Of Kansas City issue is jazzman Leon Brady (“The Teacher”), who leads his young students into battle against the perception that this music is fading. Brady says, “I tell people: If you think jazz is dying or dead, visit 1317 Central.” Here’s Brady doing his thing at the Kansas City Youth…
%{}% A celebration of Boulevard’s next installment in the Smokestack Series — Harvest Dance Wheat Wine — apparently scheduled for a November release. A visit to Manifesto includes being fed a red bell pepper cocktail through a straw — we should all have such Friday nights. Starbucks’ turnaround is apparently going full-steam ahead, in light of a recent rise in…
%{}% The scene on the cover of this year’s Best of Kansas City issue was created by 34-year-old Matt Hawkins. A Shawnee Mission North High School grad, Hawkins went on to work at Hallmark — where he eventually got bored and started building toys out of paper. These days, he works at C-3, an Overland Park company that designs kids’…
Chad Price, of Drag the River and All, embarks on what seems like the most fun tour ever. First of all, it’s short — only one day long. Secondly, it’s a tour of Colorado breweries. The tour is to celebrate the release of Price’s first solo album, Smile Sweet Face, on Suburban Home October 20. Being as how the Suburban…
It’s football season. The Chiefs are losing terribly, but the Jayhawks are 4-0 going into conference play, so I don’t really care (and, honestly wouldn’t anyway, but my kid does, so I try and show some form of support). Still, the football season always brings to mind cooking meat with fire, drinking beer, and loud music that gets you fucking…
Sens. Claire “Bear” McCaskill and Kit Bond send O’Fallon loon (and Missouri state Rep.) Cynthia Davis’ calls straight to voice mail. They also don’t write her back (Bond did send her a form letter; not sure if he also sent an autographed 8×10). Sharp Elbows StL interviewed Davis who claimed: “I guess they don’t have logical answers to my questions.”…
Former Kansas City Kansan reporter Sam Hartle has started a blog: Strange Conversation. Looks like he’ll focus on the future of media; the first post is about newspapers using social media to drive traffic to their Web sites but erecting pay walls in which readers would have to pay to view the content. Hartle did a really good job covering…
Over at our sister paper, the Village Voice, Crazy Yankee Chick has dubbed Royals reliever (and former Yankee) Kyle Farnsworth “the human white flag” and “a human victory cigar” (hey, isn’t that Darko Milicic?) after last night’s 4-3 loss to the Yanks. Farnsworth’s mere presence was enough to give the Yankee faithful a surge of optimism, according to Crazy Yankee…
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Jackson County will pay $70,000 to assistant prosecutor Dan Miller to drop his lawsuits and go away, KSHB Channel 41 reports. The JaCo Legislature voted unanimously to pay Miller to drop his lawsuits claiming that he was discriminated with. The lawsuits stem from a Jackson County judge’s reprimand of Miller for withholding evidence from the defense attorneys of Matthew Davis,…
Just announced is the big screen premiere of Scarum Harum’s first film production, It Starts With Murder! Directed by Scary Manilow of the Spook Lights, and featuring a cast of Lawrence regulars, including the Spook Lights’ own Curvacia Vavoom, Andy Stowers, Misty Nuckolls, and more, it’s a no-budget film. It cost $700 to make, and that included the cost of…
On Monday night, Pitch Clubs Editor Berry Anderson went to the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium for a beer tasting of selections from the Founders Brewery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year, Founders will roll out approximately 23,000 barrels of beer aged in gypsum mines (by contrast, Boulevard Brewery will produce more than 141,000 barrels) for distribution in 14 states. Michael…
Wine in the back of the fridge seems to operate under the same rules as Tupperware. If you pretend not to see it, then it doesn’t exist. Only on trash night is it once again visible, and then it must be poured down the drain like the vinegar it has become. But a little bit of leftover wine can still…
If there’s one thing this world needs, it is not another cover of John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” According to Allmusic, there’s well over a couple dozen already recorded. We’re good. Still, that doesn’t seem to have deterred David Bazan from recording a cover of the song for the sixth installment of his Christmas Singles Series. You’d be…
The Chiefs traded skeleton-humping backup quarterback Tyler Thigpen to the Miami Dolphins today. ESPN says the Chiefs will get a draft pick. No word on what round. Thigpen goes to an 0-3 team (hey, sounds familiar) and has a shot at starting with the likely season-ending injury to Chad Pennington. Guessing that Thigpen and his skeleton are a package deal….
We keep trying to turn the burger into something it was never meant to be. Case in point: This week’s news from England of a burger on steroids. The Super Scoobie stands six inches tall and weighs in at three pounds. While it’s nice to see a country other than our own succeed in oversizing its food (The Super Scooby…
As has been reported hither and thither (though I didn’t know until someone told me last night), AC/DC has had to postpone dates in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Louisville, Kansas City, Des Moines and Milwaukee. According to the band’s site, lead singer Brian Johnson underwent a medical procedure that will require him to rest up a few days. The tour will…
