Turntablism is an acquired taste. Most folks are not exactly gung-ho about some dude scratching up the beats to their favorite tunes. At one time, it was revolutionary (“The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”) but, in time, became tired (that Linkin Park/X-Ecutioners collaboration). Kid Koala’s collaboration with Dynomite D, the Slew, and the resulting album, 100%…
If you have fresh parmesan in the fridge, you invariably end up with a piece of hardened crust that seems unusable. But through the magic of the microwave, Food Geekery suggests there is a window of opportunity for bringing back your parmesan crusts. The key is to let it puff up in the microwave, sort of like popcorn, until the…
Given their endangered future over at Shawnee Mission Park, it probably wasn’t that surprising to see these four deer looking like refugees in Roanoke Park at dusk last night. They were hanging out just north of 37th and Wyoming.But they still seemed out of place. They took a break from grazing on low-lying leaves and stopped to stare at the…
REVIEW BY ELKE MERMIS Sad I was indeed to find out that Norwegian riot-grrrl Ida Maria had jumped off hot pink star-studded line-up for Perez Hilton Presents at the Beaumont this past Wednesday night. (Since I gave her such a glowing review in July, I was looking forward to hearing her signature lady-roar again). However, with the infamous bitchy celebrity…
In the same way that bacon has become a self-identifier, people are apparently turning to cupcakes as a form of self-expression. Newsweek looks at how they are now a fashion statement thanks to the cupcakism movement To be a cupcakist is to put your faith in the church of cute and sweet, to believe that childhood is a magical land…
It’s Friday. We’re having some blog issues, but seem to be up and going now. Here’s a few stories from overnight and this morning to watch. Steve Rose won’t be running against Dennis Moore. He’s blaming “inflammatory bowel disease.” A new tip in the Renee Pernice missing person case led police to a field north of the river near Interstate…
You gotta wonder what Lemmy Kilmister dreams of. Masses of screaming mouths, thrusting arms, hurtling bodies, flashing strobes and over it all him and his band with their Marshall stacks unleashing wave upon wave of crashing, metal-shearing volume — this is his exact, unexaggerated life, night after glorious night. Does he dream of ponies? Of trouncing in the poppy fields…
Country music legends, or legends of any musical sort, are really a crap shoot. Back in February, I saw George Jones at the Topeka Performing Arts Center. Jones came out looking hale and hearty, barrel-chested and strong. Three songs in, he was breathing hard, and his range was severely diminished. Last night, at the same venue, I saw Merle Haggard…
The Kansas City Renaissance Festival celebrates the gaiety of Anglo civilization’s rebirth with more than 500 costumed characters on 13 stages and 16 acres of shaded lanes in Bonner Springs. Pitch Clubs Editor Berry Anderson caught some of the hot, dusty action, which continues through October 18. Click the photo for a slideshow. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Renaissance Festival
Right now there are a lot of possible freebies in Kansas City. Below is a collection of some national and local offers. But look closely, many of them expire over the course of the next month. The madness starts, as it always should, with a cookie. Mrs. Field’s celebrates National Cookie Month by giving away a free cookie between 11…
%{}% Is there no canned pumpkin in the city? A fruitless search through a number of local grocery stores leaves one Paula Dean enthusiast without Gooey Butter Cake. Photos tell the story of a 50-year marriage and 30 years of operation for the Dairy Queen on Independence Avenue. Get thee some bacon peanut brittle — the ven diagram of salty…
Western Wyandotte County has witnessed a building boom, with open spaces transformed into a sprawling shopping center, an exhaust-spewing speedway and, soon, a new soccer complex. But a group of local residents is pushing a different kind of construction in the vicinity of Village West. An often-overlooked resource, Wyandotte County Lake Park sits a stone’s throw from The Legends retail…
INTERVIEW BY DANNY PHILLIPS Few bands today can say they’ve been slogging it out together in the rock trenches for 30 years. But longevity is just one of the reasons that makes Social Distortion compelling. After 30 years, founder and sole remaining original member Mike Ness still tours as hard as ever, is still copied by the younger generation and…
The celebration of Ian Earl Jones’ life begins this evening. A candlelight vigil is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Paseo Baptist Church (2501 Paseo Blvd.) and a memorial service is set for an hour later at the Christian Fellowship Baptist Church (4509 Troost). On Saturday, a wake will be held at 11 a.m. at the Swope Parkway Church of Christ…
Cyara Whitlock is the daughter of Claudex Simmons, the snitch who lied about seeing Darryl Burton commit a murder for which Burton was sentenced to life in prison. Simmons is currently serving a life sentence at the Southwest Correctional Center in Charleston, Missouri, for second-degree murder in the death of Fire Chief Gerald Buehne, who was killed in a head-on…
1. Take back the streets — on a Schwinn! It’s the last Friday of the month, and that means it’s time for Critical Mass. Bicyclists gather at the Sun Fresh Market in Westport at 6 p.m. 2. See a black and white war in color. A new exhibit at the National World War One Museum presents the bright uniforms and…
The anthology Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers On the Albums That Changed Their Lives, edited by Peter Terzian, manages to get past the fanboy screeds that usually populate “life-changing” lists. Heavy Rotation’s writers avoid the idea of “life-changing” as “life-affirming.” At certain points, the albums soundtrack some truly awful incidents in the lives of the writers. Daniel Handler, so far as…
Magistrate Judge Benny Waggoner is either the most understanding person ever to slip on a black robe, or the biggest pushover. Waggoner allowed inmate Randy Barker to be temporarily released from an Iowa jail, so he could go to a Royals game with his family yesterday, The Des Moines Register reports. And the Bo-Sox came through for, Randy. Barker’s attorney,…
A Parkville man — and repeated child porn offender — was sentenced today to 36 years in prison for possessing a lot of creepy child porn. David D. Liberty is 50 years old, and Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd hopes Liberty’s age combined with his sentence will be enough for him to die in prison. “My hope is that with…
%{}% O’Fallon loon Cynthia Davis is a little sensitive to race relations now that her “birther” lawsuit is progressing. The Missouri House of Representatives member from the other side of the state sent out another bizarre edition of her weekly newsletter, in which she claims racism no longer exists. “Racism may have affected some people decades ago, but now that…
