Anybody can get drunk, but can you get whiskey friskey or blotto? Discover the difference in Paul Dickson’s recently released Drunk: The Definitive Drinker’s Dictionary. Dickson, the Guinness World Record Holder for collecting the most synonyms for any word in the English language, offers up his knowledge via an illustrated compendium of at least 2,964 terms that all roughly translate…
Last week, the Kansas Democratic Party was celebrating a drop in approval ratings for Sen. Sam Brownback, who is leaving the Senate to run for governor. “In September, public support for Brownback dropped 6 points,” the Dems said, heralding new numbers from SurveyUSA. “More notably, one in ten moderates withdrew their support from Brownback during September. With an approval rate…
With a nod to the archival treasure-seeking master Alan Scherstuhl, creator of The Pitch’s Studies in Crap, Fat City will occasionally bring you culinary treasures from the past (both seriously historic and not-so-distant). We begin with this trove of recipes from 1980, when the conglomerate known as Kraft was having great success marketing its Parkay margarine with TV commercials like…
The Toasters were stalwarts of the ska scene by the time I got into the genre at the age of 16. By this point, there aren’t any original members of the band except Rob “Bucket” Hingley. A quick check of their MySpace reveals that Bucket still knows how to pick his band (past touring incarnations have included Adam Birch of…
Our friends at Popwreckoning, the national music blog with a local arm are celebrating their site’s second birthday with a show tonight at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club. Life in Jersey is headlining. We recently spoke with the Kansas City band about its new album, Plotted Points, on which frontman Carson Lands struggles with issues of faith. One thing his band…
I understand the allure of fusion restaurants. I’ll even admit to trying barbecue and Asian flavors together at home — in a leftovers-and-pantry cleaning homage to Guy Fieri’s Tex Wasabi’s Rock-n-Roll Sushi-BBQ chain. But the madness has to stop today. In the course of my sifting through the tripe of the foodieverse, I encountered the BBQ Mac n’ Cheese Pizza….
Kansans For Life doesn’t want you to hand out fun-sized Snickers bars, candy corn or caramel apples this Halloween. Not that they’re worried about child obesity. No, on this All Hallows’ Eve they want you to spread the anti-abortion message by giving out “God is Good” coloring books and tattoos with messages like “life is precious,” “pro-life,” “celebrate life,” “I…
They may have come from all over, but when the hickory smoke from 473 teams cleared at last weekend’s American Royal Barbecue, it was a team based out of Lee’s Summit that was named Grand Champion in the open division. Boondoggle BBQ, brothers Bob and Don Denner, secured their first Grand Champion designation, and the accompanying trophy and $12,500 check,…
A few minutes before 3 p.m., a limo pulled up on the west side of Mill Creek Park. Like any given Saturday afternoon, a wedding party piled out of the vehicle, brushing off their gowns and readjusting their ties before posing in front of J.C. Nichols fountain. But, on this particular day, the bride and groom stopped dead in their tracks. Circling…
So, a young girl in the UK made a request to one of those Make-A-Wish type charities. No big deal, except her wish was to destroy a bunch of garden gnomes with a guitar while she was dressed as AC/DC’s Angus Young. Paige Jones admits she “may have been under the influence of anaesthetic when she made the request to…
Three words I thought I’d never type together: Taco Bell cupcakes. But the taco chain is apparently test marketing cupcakes — as well as a new line of smoothie offerings — in California. The OC Register’s Fast Food Maven gave a thumbs down to both potential new product lines after sampling vanilla and red velvet cupcakes and a Strawberry Banana…
Following the Chiefs is an education in the consequences of bad management. Yesterday an undrafted receiver from Monmouth College torched the Chiefs’ secondary for 250 yards and two scores. Miles Austin’s performance begs a question: When was the last time the Chiefs’ front office found such a diamond in the rough? Has there been anyone since Brian Waters? Golly, that…
Did food blogs kill Gourmet? That’s Jenni Yabroff’s theory on Newsweek’s Pop Vox blog. Yabroff essentially argues we are a nation of Julie Powells who aren’t really interested in reading the writings of a bunch of Julia Childs, at least in magazine form: If the popularity of food blogs is any indication, our current vision of ourselves, as preparers and…
%{}% Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice. This week Time magazine had an interesting feature on the Obama Administration’s alleged realization that it needed to strike back at “what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims…” You have to wonder what took…
Mac Lethal’s latest video and fifth with director Kyle Harbaugh is his most disturbing yet. The visual interpretation of the catchiest song off Love Potion Collection 5 features men hunting for brides in the woods in a style that’s more Tarantino than Disney. Once a bride is shot down, doctors vivisectionally remove her still-beating heart. And then, presumably, the bride…
%{}% This full-sized flapjack can easily feed a family of three This may be the biggest flapjack in Kansas City, measuring well over 12 inches in diameter and hanging over the plate. Oversized pancakes are visually impressive but don’t always taste so good: one might be doughy in the center or get cold before you can actually finish a third…
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a late-Sunday shooting in the 2000 block of North 1st Street that left a man in seriously injured. View Larger Map KCK police found a black man suffering from a gunshot wound around 10:35 p.m. The man was taken to a local hospital. KMBC Channel 9 reports that the man was shot in the…
%{}% Mark you calendar: Saturday, November 7 is Irish Beer Night at Union Station. An account of a recent trip to You Say Tomato and thoughts on the BLT and bierocks. The Food Network’s Alton Brown talks about his show Good Eats and the first of three cookbooks. South Park sounds off on the potentially explosive effects of eating at…
You know you’re a fan of a band when one of the members can take a mid-set break to use the rest room and it doesn’t bother you. Such was the case when Teenage Bottlerocket played the Record Bar on Friday night. However, considering Ray cut his finger and bled all over the fretboard, and the show kept going, you’d…
Grunting and staggering, the bloodied undead prowled the Plaza for the 2009 Zombie Walk on Saturday afternoon.
Grunting and staggering, the bloodied undead prowled the Plaza during the annual Zombie Walk on Saturday afternoon.
Driving past the Southwest Barber & Beauty shop at 75th and Wornall on Saturday … … we caught this sign in the window: Good luck, job-shopping barbers. Categories: News Tags: barbers, help-wanted
In the fiery debate over how to manage the deer in Shawnee Mission Park, Randy Knight heard it all. Nicole Reinertson Randy Knight, community relations manager for JoCo parks One woman, who lives nearby, suggested scores of animal rights activists line up along the bank of the man-made lake and fan out methodically through the park, banging pots and pans…
