Released yesterday online, O Foolish Pride is the second in a growing series of digital mini-EPs from Ghosty. The first was the delightful A Mystic’s Robe EP, which the Lawrence band surprised us with September. Frontman Andrew Connor tells us that the band will release “4 or 5, maybe more” of these digital EPs, with plans to compile the best…
Sinister portents abound, Kansas City! Normally, as rational skeptics, we’d laugh at the idea of anything unusual happening in 2012 — a date getting a lot of attention for being the last year on the Mayan Calendar. But then there’s this story about the owners of Major League Baseball teams gathering in Chicago today to hash out a few things. One…
In her most calculated move against the liberal media elite to date, celebrity ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is saying heck no to letting the fourth estate into her December 2 speaking engagement at the College of the Ozarks, the private college’s PR director told the Springfield News-Leader. To clarify, only those members of the media who got tickets for the…
Yesterday, Kansas City Police Chief James Corwin announced a $8,000 grant from Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s foundation to buy a new vicious, snarling, face-biting member of the police force police dog. On his blog, Corwin wrote that the new K-9 should be on duty by the end of the year — just in time to cause would-be holiday burglars…
Tonight (and tomorrow night), after the noodle-y goodness of the Widespread Panic at the Midland, drop by Crosstown Station and check out DJ Logic at midnight. Last week, Logic played on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with Carly Simon & the Roots, this week he’s in the Crossroads. Crazy, huh? After tomorrow night’s second Widespread performance, catch Wichita’s own Split…
The Missouri Wine and Grape Board has a few suggestions for in-state wines you can select when looking for the right complement to your holiday meal. I’ve added a specific bottle to each recommendation — all of which are solid, if not world-beating wines. With the first course or even by itself, the MWGB recommends a sparkling wine such as…
This just in: This evening starting at 7 p.m., the Uptown Theater will christen its new space, called The Conspiracy, with an all-ages local show headlined by We Are Voices and including the King and Thief, Katacina and Bottle Rocket. The brand-new Conspiracy — whose name, no doubt, reflects Uptown owner Larry Sells’ taste for the fringe — can be…
%{}% Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s dismal outing in this week’s fantasy football match up has got us asking, “What the Funk?” Again, our Vulcan mayor got spanked, this time by Results Minneapolis, 86-54. Funk got 251 passing yards and touchdown from Dallas quarterback Tony Romo and 68 yards and touchdown from Jets wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, but it wasn’t good enough….
Holy casseroles. Eighteen of them, to be exact. It was a great turnout on a chilly, wet night, which means Kansas City’s first casserole party was truly a success. Fork yeah! After seeing 18 casseroles lugged through the doors of Pryde’s Old Westport, each swaddled in warming towels, I had a whole new respect for Emily Farris’ original, Brooklyn-based party…
Kansas Democrats finally found someone to run against Sam Brownback. Their candidate: Tom Wiggans. Who? Tom Wiggans of the Wiggans Drugstore. Uh … In Fredonia. Where? He knows a lot about bioscience. He was the CEO and chairman of Peplin, Inc. Pep-what? They make drugs that treat skin cancer. Oh, that’s good. What political experience does he have? He’s never…
This one’s not so much a remix as a mashup. In a fit of what could only be described as cartoonish inspiration, Soul Server and Losers’ Clubber Deuce Fontane has taken the vocal off Milk Drop’s “Dirty Ls” and laid it over the famous ’80s bloop-reel “Axel F,” with a bit of Family Guy mixed in at the end. The…
If you’ve been looking for a way to add pork to your bedside table, then this do-it-yourself bacon lamp could be just the ticket. Whether this falls under home improvement or not is likely in the eye of the lampholder. In the Flickr account of how to build the light, inventor Kris Kelley suggests that it might not smell like…
Wilkie and Merola ladle up the soup Was it nearly six months ago that Fat City reported that the the owners of Function Junction, Mary Merola and Rebecca Wilkie, were making plans — big plans — to greatly expand the culinary store on the third-floor of Crown Center? It was the last Function Junction in the city after Merola closed…
%{}% The headline says it all. Photo courtesy of Chris Vleisides/Kansas City Royals Categories: News Tags: Cy Young Award, kansas city royals, Zack Greinke
The Kansas City Chiefs’ fortunes have not changed, even after beating the Oakland Raiders on Sunday. The Chiefs announced today that wide receiver Dwayne Bowe has been suspended four games for “violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing substances.” Being a Chiefs fan must be like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown and then kicking him in the…
A headline like “KU AD Perkins meets with football players over concerns about coach Mark Mangino” can mean a lot of different things. Just look at the picture (Mangino is on the left). The Lawrence Journal-World quotes KU athletic director Lew Perkins saying “an internal review is underway” about a “personnel matter.” Of course, that makes the whole thing “confidential.”…
In honor of the first keg tapped at Ponak’s Mexican Kitchen twenty years ago today, Boulevard is throwing a 20th anniversary party at the Southwest Boulevard staple. The session runs from 5 to 8 tonight and there is sure to be plenty of Pale Ale — the first beer to be on tap at Ponak’s. Happy anniversary, Boulevard. Categories: Dining,…
If you’re dreading cooking for Thanksgiving, your salvation might come from a local food blogger and chef who is offering a free Thanksgiving 4-1-1 online class on Thursday, November 19, at 7 p.m. Chris Perrin — the pen and spatula behind the three-year-old Blog Well Done (where you can register for the class), will be on the other end of…
By this point, the story of vinyl’s resurgence has been done to death. Every story on the subject seems to focus on several points, all of which are now cliched. Case in point: the article “The Vinyl Revival,” from the University of California, Irvine’s campus paper New University. Within the first paragraph, the article refers to LPs as “an ancient…
