Mission’s Fire Wok has odd hours, but good food It’s hard to imagine that any restaurant in the metro would be closed on Saturday nights. After all, that’s traditionally the most lucrative business night of the week in the food service business. But seven years ago, the Huywh family — who have operated the Fire Wok Chinese Restaurant at 5820…
Self-described “noisy hard-pop rock band” the Scriveners have three demo songs up for your listening pleasure on MySpace. In addition, Dan Cook was cool enough to hook us up with one of ’em, so you can download it and play it on your iPod, Zune, or what-have-you each and every time you want to, regardless of Internet connection or power…
Tim Leiweke has balls. No one can take that away from Leiweke, the president of AEG — the group running the Sprint Center. Asked about comments made by David Cordish — one of the guys behind the Power & Light District — in an e-mail to City Hall calling the Sprint Center a “disaster” because the arena hadn’t landed an…
Because he more than proved his mettle covering Warped Tour, we sent That Guy (who, by day, is a horticulturalist named Bryan) to something a little more mellow — last night’s Australian Pink Floyd concert at the Uptown. + = BY THAT GUY I’m not the world’s most knowledgeable Pink Floyd fan. So I asked my buddy Pope to join…
One of my first assignments as a reporter for a community newspaper in Lynn, Massachusetts, was to interview Don Durkee, the co-owner of Durkee-Mower — the makers of Marshmallow Fluff. For those unfamiliar with Fluff, it’s a marshmallow spread that can be used for Rice Krispy treats or in fluffernutter (Fluff and peanut butter) sandwiches. It remains the only interview…
Not much to report on in the latest edition of the University of Missouri-Kansas City police blotter, but one student had a really bad September 20. 3:50 p.m. Larceny —A student returned to her vehicle parked in the Oak Street Parking Structure to find her left rear tire missing. Remind me to never park at UMKC, especially if someone can…
%{}% The charges against a 16-year-old boy who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend have been dropped, KCTV 5 reports. The unnamed teen shot 17-year-old Charmaine Jamison in the face and killed her. The shooting was called accidental. But Jamison’s death was still counted as a homicide, and the boy was charged with involuntary manslaughter. A couple of weeks ago,…
We all have foods that we have yet to try. For some of us, those foods, like blowfish or durian, are the exotic items on our bucket list. For others, it’s an aversion to regular foods like pickles or certain kinds of cheese. Eat Me Daily links to a funny bit from the sitcom, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in…
Blistering punk. Pile-driving thrash metal. Air-guitar-worthy arena rock. Dual-vocal post-hardcore. Epic prog. Hair whipping, faces contorting, sweat arcing through the stage lights ten feet off the ground. Trying to identify the sound of Austin’s And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead is like looking for the proverbial needle after you and the haystack and your mom and…
The How to Take Back America Conference in St. Louis must have been a real scream. There was O’Fallon loon Cynthia Davis claiming that no one takes Orly Tairtz’ birther conspiracy seriously because people are prejudiced against her because of her accent, and Phyllis Schlafly being the most hate-filled grandma ever, talking about feminists and “the gays” ruining marriage and…
We have a tendency in society to take somebody who is good at one thing and hope that their success translates into another medium. With chefs, the danger lies in taking them out of the kitchen and asking them to become performers. Variety broke the news yesterday that Gordon Ramsay is set to be the star of a new stop-motion…
Last week, the Crap Archivist discovered Weird Stuff Antiques at 901 Tracy Ave. in downtown Kansas City. Weird Stuff’s manager Rob Hutson and owner Terry Sanchez were cool enough to let us look around — and snap some pics. They even offered us a free kitten. No thanks, guys. But if anyone needs one … stop in. Here’s the treasures…
%{}% A recipe for chicken and olives over pasta so simple that it seems anybody could follow. Construction finally stops in front of Scooter’s Coffee House on 10th and Walnut — although it’s probably only a temporary break. The 20 largest chef-run empires based on restaurants, merchandise and cookbooks. A cardboard prototype for a new half-gallon milk carton that could…
Paramore is one of those bands that I like in theory, but not so much in execution. “Misery Business,” off their last album, Riot! kicked so much ass that it was unbelievable. But as amazing Hayley Williams is as role model for young girls (being more than just some cute little thing backed by a bunch of guys), the songs…
First up, the Calamity Cubes are doing an in studio appearance tomorrow on KKFI 90.1’s Vibes With Val Show at 10:30pm. They’re playing in front of a club audience at Davey’s Uptown October 10, with Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company and Cletus Got Shot. The Cubes’ Joe Henry will also be a part of the Old Canes’…
O’Fallon loon (and Missouri state Rep.) Cynthia Davis declared racism dead last week. But Davis, along with lawyer Orly Taitz, doesn’t believe President Barack Obama was born in the United States, and she gave a puzzling explanation to The Washington Independent of why their “birther” lawsuit isn’t being taken seriously. “Her credibility is questioned because she has an accent,” said…
%{}% Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s fantasy football team is on two-game losing streak. Funk’s Footballers lost a close one to the Pittsburgh Proud, 96-91. Good games out of Denver’s defense, running back Willis McGahee (67 yards rushing and two touchdowns) and receivers Jericho Cotchery (108 yards receiving and a touchdown) and Nate Burleson (109 yards receiving) couldn’t over come bad games…
Community activists Ron McMillan and Mark Porter are presenting a series of 10 personal-safety seminars they’ve titled, “Dodging Bullets.” The first one is going down tonight at 6 at St. Therese’s Little Flower Church at 5814 Euclid Avenue. More than 2,000 shootings have been reported in Kansas City this year, McMillan says, but “as far as crime prevention, and actually…
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Jeff Stolz and Wallace Cochran, collectively known as Drakkar Sauna, were kind enough to speak with me following their performance at the Replay Lounge last night. We stepped outside the Replay Patio just after the guys finished playing a couple Louvin Brothers tunes with the Midday Ramblers, and just before Stolz had to go on at the front bar. We…
