If it were a movie pitch, it would likely be a romantic comedy. But there’s nothing funny about Linda L. Bean’s ideas for mass-marketing lobster. The New York Times profiled Bean, the 68-year-old heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune, and her plans to shake up the Maine lobster industry: Her goal, she said, is to save Maine’s most iconic industry…
Travel + Leisure released a bunch of rankings for “America’s Favorite Cities, 2009.” Eyeballing the list, I’d say we’re about middle of the pack with a few exceptions. Kansas City’s best feature according to visitors? Being an “affordable getaway,” just behind Cleveland. But Kansas City isn’t a romantic or wild getaway (ranked No. 22 in both categories). But you can…
The bad news keeps coming for the University of Kansas’ men’s basketball program. First, there was the fights with the football team that left Tyshawn Taylor with a dislocated thumb. Then there was Brady Morningstar’s arrest for suspicion of drunken driving (and suspension). Now, Jayhawk sophomore forward Markieff Morris was in a traffic accident in a 1997 Chevy Tahoe registered…
Ruth Reichl says her book will be the legacy of Gourmet Magazine. If you were driving through the Country Club Plaza last night about 10 p.m. or so, you might have seen the contingent of Foodie types — Making of a Foodie blogger Jenny Vegera, or the slight lawyer who calls himself The Ulterior Epicure — trudging back to their cars lugging…
Screw brunch — it’s time we talked about the ultimate breakfast-lunch hybrid: the donut sandwich. Woman’s Day has put together a list of 7 daring donut sandwiches that range from craptacular to heart-stoppingly beautiful. The sloppy joes (pictured above) sound a bit out of my league; however, a fried chicken patty between two halves of a jelly donut could be…
A Blue Springs student is suing the school district after getting a tooth knocked out while fighting at the school, KMBC Channel 9 reports. Samuel Gomez reportedly fought another student after wrestling practice last year while an assistant wrestling coach watched. Gomez is reportedly suing for $20,000 to get his dental bills paid (he got two teeth broken and one…
%{}% A recipe for pumpkin dog biscuits, a natural stomach relaxer and tremendous distraction for trash-eating dogs. A good look at the sign of Toad & Perk, the coffee bar-beer bar combo, is enough for one blogger. Slate works it way through a selection of upscale yogurts. Start saving for Christmas because the first gift on your list should be…
The time is drawing near for Farmer’s Ball, KJHK’s annual battle of the bands! But, before they get the Ball rolling (pun intended, and not my fault), they need your submissions. Farmer’s Ball winners in the past have included the Bubble Boys, Hawley Shoffner, Stik Figa, and the Esoteric. All local bands/rappers/musicians needs to submit 2-3 songs by October 23…
The Best of Me + You Vol. 1 compiles over 30 exclusive interviews and songs recorded at the Viva Radio’s Brooklyn studios between 2007 and 2009 for the program, hosted by Tedward. The Best of Me + You features interviews and songs from Andrew W.K., the Fiery Furnaces, Jay Reatard, the Homosexuals, the Black Lips, and way more. The compilation…
When members of Bite Club of KC made their case to stop the deer harvest planned for Shawnee Mission Park, they often conjured gruesome imagery. Addressing the Johnson County Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners in recent months, animal rights activists predicted terrified, half-dead deer, with arrows stuck in their anatomy, bolting into traffic or dragging their bloodied bodies onto…
Kansas City police found the body of a man in the street at 4005 St. John around 11 p.m. Wednesday. View Larger Map The man had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. If you have any info about the man’s death, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477. Categories: News Tags: homicide, shooting
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Choices of Men: A Novel of Male Power and Sexuality in a Feminist Age Author: T.S. Tyrone Date: 2001 Publisher: 1st Books Library The Cover…
This fundraising event for the KC Fringe Festival will feature the work of local and national artists and will offer poetry, visual art, live music, dance performances, and intriguing theatre in an environment that is uniquely Fringe. Sat., Oct. 10, 8 p.m., 2009 Tags: kc fringe festival, Night & Day
What’s simpler than two men beating the hell out of each other? Turns out, just about anything. Such are the revelations in The Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies Among American States, a new book by Robert G. Rodriguez, a lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kansas. With a wonkiness that Bill James…
The Chambers of Edgar Allen Poe (1100 Santa Fe Street) By contrast to the open layouts of The Beast and the Macabre Cinema, The Chambers of Edgar Allen Poe is structured around the tight corridors and dark claustrophobia of a traditional spookhouse, in keeping with the terrifying enclosures of the graves and crypts of Poe’s short works. Visitors experience scenes…
The Kansas City Public Library examines the career of Edward G. Robinson in a film series called At the Maximum of His Villainy. Schedule: Woman in the Window (1944) on October 5. This Fritz Lang masterpiece helped define film noir as a genre. Robinson stars as a psychology professor whose attraction to a young woman (Joan Bennett) leads to murder…
It’s a rare Wednesday night that RecordBar isn’t packed when Bob Walkenhorst and Jeff Porter take the stage. The friends are two of Kansas City’s longest-running performers, and much of their audience has been with them for the better part of two decades. After playing his last show with the Rainmakers in the mid-1990s, Walkenhorst took a five-year hiatus before…
The rock musical has never managed to really rock, so big-money producers deserve recognition for bumping Duncan Sheik’s indie-ish chamber-rock musical Spring Awakening up from Off-Broadway to Broadway in 2006. Musical theater can nail the energy and relative fussiness of Sheik’s pop — and it not only did so but also made Sheik’s music richer and more powerful (a trick…
Fans of foxy soccer players, take note: Players for the Missouri Mavericks will be toe-touching down the runway tonight at Ice, the fall/winter fashion show at the Courthouse Exchange (113 West Lexington in Independence, on Independence Square). The guys will be styled by the men’s department at Dillard’s, while female models will show off the latest from the Uptown Boutique…
Just a few weeks after Kansas City’s big blarney bash at Crown Center, it’s already time for the Weston Irish Festival. Kansas Citians have to follow the rainbow (aka Interstate 29) 35 minutes north for this three-day event, which takes place at a brewhouse in the quaint, antique-filled hamlet of Weston, Missouri. Festivities include pretty much everything that fans of…
Latin American Day of the Dead celebrations involve personal artistic expression. Families build altars to honor deceased friends and relatives with sugar skulls, flowers and handmade ornamentation; construct skull-headed Catrinas; and decorate graves with food and other ofrenda. Tonight through November 11, the Sixth Street Gallery at the YWCA of Greater Kansas City (1017 North Sixth Street in Kansas City,…
Those inventive clown wranglers at Byrd Productions Movement Theater scored one of the big hits of this year’s Fringe Festival with The Miniature Housewife, a penetrating and hilarious sendup of suburban ennui that naturally grew, somehow, into a dreamlike work offering moments of true beauty, existential dread and clowns (you know, the nouveau artsy kind, not the salty old carnival…
The American biker rally is a unique cottage industry. In many states, relatively small motorcycle clubs have started modest weekend parties that, over the years, boomed into massive events requiring tent cities to shelter thousands of bikers drinking through their BYOB supplies and having as much fun as possible. For too long, Kansas City-area bikers have been denied a rally…
Certain ideas are stunningly perfect in their simplicity. The Oxford Project is one of these. In 1984, photographer and University of Iowa professor Peter Feldstein photographed roughly 670 residents of Oxford, Iowa — virtually the rural community’s entire population. He returned in 2005 to shoot new portraits of the same subjects, this time with writer Stephen Bloom to interview them….
