%{}% A recent wine tasting at Gomer’s Midtown and suggestions as to which bottles of Italian wines from Vias Imports to pick up around town. Everything Begins With An E finds perfection in a birthday dinner at The Westside Local. If you’re stumped for ideas, here’s a comprehensive guide to laying out a serious Labor Day spread. A simple thought…
Once upon a time, there was a show on Channel 38. This is back before it was “38 the Spot,” and possibly even predating the “38 Family Greats” identity. The show was called Burning Down the House, and the half hour show featured live performances every week, taped live at the Hurricane. It’s similar to what Lawrence’s Channel 6 does…
We’ve already shared one MP3 from WHY?’s new album, Eskimo Snow, and here’s another WHY? tune for you. It’s a collaboration with Anticon labelmates Themselves, with vocals from Doseone and Yoni Wolf. That’s frickin’ craziness, kids. The song’s sorta playful, kinda crazy, definitely something you could get down to without much trouble. Much like the country for which the track…
%{}% The 12th Street bridge is closed once again. The city closed off the portal to the West Bottoms yesterday and expects the closure to last at least three days. Why is it closed? An “expansion joint” failed, which “caused concrete to fall through the deck onto the hillside below, but there was no damage or injuries reported.” That doesn’t…
If you have an hour today, tomorrow or whenever, I recommend watching Brian Schodorf’s documentary Greensburg, about the tiny Kansas town that was pretty much wiped off the map by “the most destructive tornado in history” on May 4, 2007. “Greensburg” Documentary from Harran Productions on Vimeo. Categories: News Tags: Greensburg, kansas, tornado
Considering where this series began — with Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts’ $525,000 in campaign contributions from the health-care industry — it ends on a number that’s almost pathetic by contrast. When I started counting campaign contributions earlier this month, Roberts was the first; his amount struck me as outrageous (Roberts sits on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,…
Like the site says, it was inevitable. Categories: News Tags: apropos of nothing, Snuggie Sutra, The Snuggie
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Joe Miller’s long-awaited story about working in the Funkhouser administration is finally up on Salon. Reading the story, it’s clear Miller, a former Funkhouser spokesman and Pitch reporter, doesn’t care for first lady Gloria Squitiro. If you’ve followed the story, you probably know it all. But here’s a couple things I didn’t know. 1. Miller spent an awkward Christmas day…
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, so chances are she’s seen pictures like the one to the left, which were just published by Gawker. The senator has been tweeting her reactions to the news that some of the guards at State Department facilities in Afghanistan allegedly treated their posts like they were on spring break,…
According to Alternative Press and our colleagues over at the Riverfront Times, Blink 182’s next two shows, in Cleveland and St. Louis, have been canceled. How this affects this Friday’s show remains to be seen. There’s been no official announcement regarding it, and Weezer still performed at last night’s show in Saratoga, New York, so that part of the tour…
A proposed city ordinance change would make it almost impossible for bars outside of downtown to maintain their 3 a.m. liquor license, says one local bar owner. In order for bars to keep their 3 a.m. permits, under the ordinance change, bars would need to be within 1.5 miles of a hotel with 100 rooms and have gross annual sales…
The Kansas City Chiefs released three players today and among the casualties was Amani Toomer. The old balls received joins defensive end Alfonso Boone and tackle Cameron Goldberg in the NFL’s unemployment line. Oversized Vulcan Mayor Mark Funkhouser needs to update his fantasy football roster. Categories: News Tags: Amani Toomer, Fantasy Football, kansas city chiefs, Mayor Mark Funkhouser
Administrators at Smith-Cotton High School banned members of the school’s marching band from wearing the T-shirt pictured above after a few parents complained about its nod to the iconography showing man evolving from primates. The image fit the band’s theme for the year, “Brass Evolutions,” and each figure on the chart holds a brass instrument. The parent making the most…
Every year, for the past six years (less one year where I was flat-ass broke), I’ve attended Audio Reader’s annual fundraiser, “For Your Ears Only.” What started out as a small record sale to raise funds for Audio Reader has turned into this gigantic annual event that draws folks from all over. Last year, there was a line that stretched…
Holy shit! Biz Markie is not only coming to Kansas City, he’s playing for free! Here’s the deal: the Biz is DJ’ing a free set on the KC Live stage in the Power and Light District at 10:45pm on September 17. Shortly after that (12:30am or so), he’ll do a VIP set at Mosaic where I’m guessing there will be…
It’s time to add a new word to your lexicon: eco-douchebag. Guilty Planet has offered the phrase and asked for comments regarding a sign on a bread slicer at a Whole Foods in Vancouver warning customers that the bread slicer is used on both organic and non-organic items. It seems unlikely that bread would be affected by an all-use slicer….
Following a tip about a van covered in apocalyptic prophecy, I traveled to Independence in search of some good crazy. I wasn’t able to find the mind behind the mystic van of prophecy, but I was able to find the vehicle itself. And, as promised, it’s pretty wacky. The van covered with dire warnings of God’s wrath has been parked…
Food science in the hands of someone evil can be as devastating on your stomach as something off the Volcano menu at Taco Bell — you know, the menu with the big signs proclaiming “the good hurt.” Taco Bell isn’t an emo ex-girlfriend. There is no good hurt in relation to that drive-thru. Sloshspot has compiled a list of the…
Last week, after Missouri Congressman Sam Graves held a health-care town-hall meeting at Park Hill High School, KMBC Channel 9 reported that the debate had taken a “new turn.” Reporter Jim Flink noted that Graves’ crowd was “friendly” (to the Republican) and “partisan,” but also suggested that there had been “a shift in strategy.” The night’s focus, he said, was…
Even though it’s not due out until 2010, Slow Southern Steel looks to be an intriguing glimpse at modern Southern metal. It’s directed by Rwake vocalist CT and David Lipke, and according to the press release about the film, it “peers into the world of true southern metal/doom through live footage and personal interviews; CT’s devout commitment/knowledge/love of the topic…
