Chicken wings are typically multi-napkin, lip-burning affairs — you have to plan for a messy dinner when you sit down for a bowl of wings at The Peanut. But Lifehacker links to a video from Food Wishes that shows the secret to deboning chicken wings and having a relatively mess-free dining experience. To those who would say that this is…
The competitors for Farmer’s Ball, KJHK 90.7FM’s annual battle of the bands, have been announced. In no particular order, the bands and acts are: Cloud Dog Burger Kingdom Dutch Newman Katlyn Conroy Hidden Pictures The California Craisins Eagle Us Pets DJ Avi This year’s competition will differ from years past. Rather than have two nights of competition, with two finalists…
The Greater Kansas City Food Policy Coalition has launched an “Eat Local For the Holidays” campaign to let people in the Kansas City metro know about where they can find and buy locally sourced produce and meat. “The holidays are a perfect time to add another dimension to how we think about food because we are already making thoughtful food…
Kansas City graffiti artist Scribe demonstrated his work outside of Creative Coldsnow last weekend with the camera rolling. Here’s the time-lapse movie by Phil Koenig. Cool stuff. Categories: News Tags: gaffiti, Kansas City, kansas city, Scribe
Grunge, an infectiously rockin’ disease that originated with flannel-clad chimpanzees in Africa and spread through male primate ululating in the nightclubs of Seattle, is still alive and raging in the undergrounds of the USA. Batrider, a New Zealand band that fully embraces its grunge affliction, is headlining a show tonight at the Pistol Social Club, and, holy cow, look at…
Last night, the local chapter of Kansas City NORML — the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws — had scheduled a meeting at the Westport Coffee House to make protest signs against COMBAT, a tortured acronym describing a self-imposed tax that targets drug enforcement within the Jackson County. JaCo voters will decide today whether…
It’s a good year to be Rob Pope. The Get Up Kids bassist is not only selling out venues with his old bandmates on their reunion tour, Pope’s other band, Spoon, is preparing to drop a new one, his second with the Austin-based band. On Thursday, December 3, at the Midland by AMC, Pope, lead singer Britt Daniel, and those…
%{}% Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s squeaked out an ugly win in this week’s fantasy football mach-up with Green Bay Mayor James J. Scmitt and his Green Machine. Funk’s football won 69-54 and moved to eighth place with a 4-4 record.. I misread last week’s schedule and thought Funk was playing Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. Not so. And that was good news…
Lawrence kaleidoscopic art pop act Mammoth Life recently returned from a trip to New York and the CMJ Music Marathon. As they’re settling back in to life in the Midwest, the group has begun recording new songs in hopes of soon completing their second full-length, An American Movement. They are releasing their next single, “Boy Blue, An American Lion” sometime…
The night of the living on the Day of the Dead at Club 15-Twenty This is the first year that Kansas City has hosted the national convention for the Mexican Restaurant Association, a three-year-old non-profit organization whose mission is “to integrate all Mexican restaurants while promoting the vast diversity of Mexican gastronomy and culture.” Kicking off the three-day conference was…
Willie “Bibleman” Aames’ new and humbling television show, Broke and Famous, airs on VH1 Thursday night, and according to Entertainment Tonight, the former Charles in Charge star’s Johnson County garage sale — filmed for the VH1 show in March — will be featured on the show. I was there with the Pitch Action News Team — read about it here…
Judi’s Bakery expands to a third location The North Kansas City-based Judi’s Bakery, which also operates a location in the Legends complex in Wyandotte County, opened its third store a week ago in the Parkville Commons Shopping Center at the intersection of Highway 9 and Tom Watson Parkway. Like the Legends location, all the baked goods — doughnuts, cookies, cakes,…
Cinnamon rolls are the tabula rasa of breakfast. With cinnamon rolls, the day starts off full of promise and anything seems possible until you eat your third one. And as the weather turns cold, we begin to yearn for hot breakfasts. But since man can’t live on steelcut oatmeal alone, Fat City presents you with a veritable smorgasbord of cinnamon…
In a forum post yesterday on HipHopKC.com, Mac Lethal announced that he’s looking for local songs to spin on his Sunday night KRBZ 96.5 the Buzz show, Black Clover Radio. Except for two songs, Lethal wrote, his entire playlist this past Sunday was local. He does, however, have some stipulations: Don’t send me songs about hustling drugs in the K-town….
%{}% Drinks and a bite at Sullivan’s Steakhouse results in high praise for the blue cheese dip and a Saved By The Bell reference. A stop at On The Rise Bakery in Osage Beach, Missouri, shows some tasty-looking beignets with a raspberry melba sauce. The newly re-opened Absolute Icebar in Stockholm, Sweden: a gimmick that’s worth experiencing once in your…
Let it never be said that Wayward Blog didn’t give you advance notice. We know how important St. Patrick’s Day is or those of us in the field of music. When you consider that we’re also in the field of journalism, we understand the importance of a holiday that is — let’s be honest, here — an excuse to get…
Weezer decided to name their new album Raditude. This is quite possibly the least annoying thing about the record. I can’t help but wonder if Rivers Cuomo has completely left the realm of serious musicianship and gone straight into the realm of post-modern comedy. A track called “I’m Your Daddy”? A guest spot from Lil Wayne? The whole album sounding…
