What’s a holiday without eggnog shakes? You know the holidays are officially here when McDonalds starts serving its eggnog milkshakes. McDonalds likes to be ahead of the game, because frozen custard vendors Culver’s and Sheridan’s haven’t kicked off their eggnog shake season. A Culver’s manager told me that they typically start serving eggnog shakes after Thanksgiving; the kid who answered the…
For those who don’t know — and since mixed martial arts is one of the fastest growing sports in the country, there probably aren’t too many of you — the action takes place in a octagonal ring surrounded by a head-high chain link fence. Competitors with lots of tattoos try to pummel each other with whatever skills and appendages they…
This video is not for fans of Family Guy, American Dad, or the Cleveland Show. This short from CollegeHumor pretty much sums up the output of Seth MacFarlane over the past decade: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. That said, as scattershot as the man’s approach is, he’s bound to hit every once in a while. Such…
Remember that flurry of hip-hop shows last weekend? It’s surprising that more multimedia didn’t wash up from that (or maybe we just missed it), but here’s a nice slice. It’s a live MP3 of MC Reach performing Mouth, the band which, you’ll remember, set up a night of live-instrument-backed hip-hop at the Scion Lab last Friday — and did a…
%{}% University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino is on the hot seat. KU’s meter maids hate him. Former players hate him. The parents of former players hate him. Even some current players don’t like him. My decoder ring says Mangino has lost the confidence of Athletic Director Lew Perkins. But Perkins will be in a tough spot if the…
A committee looking to change the way the city deals with urban farms met for a second time on Wednesday night. The goal was to further define the group’s mission and begin the process of reaching out to neighborhoods. “The reason we’re here is that some growers in urban areas have had onerous restrictions placed on their ability to grow…
A study released yesterday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest found that a medium popcorn and soda sold at the Regal Entertainment Group was the equivalent of eating three Quarter Pounders from McDonald’s topped with … wait for it… 12 pats of butter. And that’s before we compulsively press the handle of the buttered topping dispenser. Kansas…
The big news this week is that photogenic real American Sarah Palin has kinda/sorta written a Young Adult book about why everybody should quit their jobs. But books are hard and take time to read! Understanding the dilemma Going Rogue presents to non-elitists, local theater people last night performed the public service of reading Palin’s book aloud at the Fishtank…
I have to openly admit I didn’t know jack about rapper XV until stumbling across this video last night. His MySpace — which boasts over a million views — says he’s from “Smalltown, KS.” I had trouble digging up bio info, but apparently he’s gotten Lil Wayne to guest on a track, and this blogger thinks he’s the second coming….
It’s hard not to like Adam Richman, an everyman who takes on an eating challenge in every episode of the Travel Channel’s Man v. Food. He isn’t a competitive eater, just a food show host who happens to be astonishingly good at meeting the biggest eating challenge in a given city. And yet it’s easy to dismiss the travelogue/food show…
Fox 4 reports that the mother of the alleged sexual abuse victims and a former Mormon bishop in Independence knew about the allegations of sexual abuse inside the Mohler family. Ex-bishop Paul Tonga told Fox 4 that Burrel Mohler Jr.’s wife came to him several times and relayed fears that her husband was abusing their children. Tonga, who was the…
%{}% Five Guys Burgers and Fries, a Chinese supermarket and a chili cook-off — sounds like a normal week in Kansas City. Christopher’s Elbow’s guilty pleasure? He’s mortal like the rest of us: chicken wings at the Peanut. A review of Southwest Airlines’ coffee while in-flight — perhaps a first in coffee tasting? If you’re one of the legions waiting…
Not only did we get some Robot Koch yesterday (say it out loud, and then it’s funny), we also have some Party Robots, courtesy of Idle Warship — more popularly known by its individual members Talib Kweli, Res, and Graph Nobel. Idle Warship welcomes you to our first full length offering, Party Robot. This started out as a path to…
No Idea Records is a fantastic label based out of Gainesville, Flordia. They’ve released records from Less Than Jake, Small Brown Bike, Against Me!, and Hot Water Music — only a few amongst the many other hundreds of great albums they’ve put out. However, they’re speaking to punk rock java junkies everywhere with No Idea Coffee. Seriously — we know…
The Elton John & Billy Joel Face Off Tour, directed by John Woo, which features the two piano-playing icons surgically switching faces and playing each others’ songs, was originally scheduled for a December 1 stop at the Sprint Center. The date has been moved. It is now set for February 27. Tickets for the original gig will be honored, or…
1. Pretend it’s First Friday, not the third. The Charlotte Street Foundation is sponsoring a few openings tonight, including Mythmakers at the Paragraph. 2. Laugh spontaneously. The Holy Cow! improv troupe entertains at the Westport Coffee House theater Friday night. 3. Remember why giving a kid a gun for Christmas is a bad idea. (He’ll shoot his eye out!) The…
Neither Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II nor Jacob Turk, the Republican challenger who’d like to replace Cleaver in 2010, has taken part in the Department of Energy’s Former Beryllium Workers Medical Surveillance Program for former Kansas City Plant employees, though coincidentally, they both worked there. Cleaver worked at the Kansas City Plant when he first came to Kansas City in 1968;…
Fifth District Councilman Terry Riley led the resistance against Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s takedown of City Manager Wayne Cauthen at City Hall on Thursday. Before the chaotic, tedious legislative session began, Riley worked the room, huddling with reporters and the community activists who had come to support Cauthen. Once the suspension came up, he frequently asked for the floor in order…
