Archives: December 2009
Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, December 16
%{}% What happens when you place pasta inside a wrap? Nothing good … nothing good. Boulevard’s Tank 7, the latest Smokestack series release, is now on shelves. Check the comments for insight into prices and availability around the city. TLC has a new series called Little Chocolatiers, about little people who run a chocolate shop. You can not be ambivalent…
Download Hollyweerd’s Have You Ever Made Love to a Weirdo EP
Underground Atlanta hip-hop duo Hollyweerd has a new free EP out. Entitled Have You Ever Made Love To A Weirdo: Weirdo Remix Suite Vol.1, it’s a series of ten remixes to their song “Weirdo.” You can check out the full artwork and tracklisting (which includes local fave Miles Bonny) over at 2DopeBoyz. Download Hollyweerd’s Have You Ever Made Love to…
Wayward Advent Calendar: The More the Merrier compilation
Perennial Wayward Blog favorite the Record Machine had one of their artists, Sam Billen curate and offer a Christmas compilation. It’s the label’s first holiday offering, and features classic and new songs from Sam Billen, Nathan Philips (The Winston Jazz Routine), Andrew Connor (Ghosty), Joshu, Taylor Hollenbeck (Old Canes) and Andy Smith with Brian Lee and His Orchestra (Paper Route)….
Town hall meeting tonight to address health and safety issues at Honeywell’s Kansas City Plant
Recent press coverage by The Pitch and Channel 41 boosted the visibility of Bannister Federal Complex workers who are sick with occupational illnesses. So, now what? Former and current Honeywell workers and their families, peaceniks, environmental activists and workers’ rights proponents will tackle that question at a gathering at the St. Thomas More Church, 11822 Holmes Road, from 7 to…
Rush-hour car chase ends in Overland Park
Kansas City’s streets looked more like Los Angeles for about 20 minutes yesterday as police chased a car from east Kansas City all the way to Overland Park. KMBC channel 9’s chopper air stalked the high-speed chase through rush-hour traffic, and the video’s worth a watch (video here). Hope the driver in the silver car is in good hands. Help…
Killa City: Body found in North KC
Not a lot of info on this, but a body was found early this morning in the 4900 block of Northeast 38th Street, according to The Kansas City Star. View Larger Map Police are investigating, but no word yet on whether this is a homicide. They also haven’t released any names. We’ll update when we know more. Categories: News Tags:…
Funkhouser to help residents get satisfaction from City Hall drunk
You’re used to seeing oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser, but now you can get an undersized novelty Funkhouser, and a few drinks for your trouble. Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday at McFadden’s in the Power & Light District, the Funk will tend bar and distribute mini-Funk bobbleheads to drunks voters. What better way to help us all forget The…
Troubadour Music Club
Troubadour Music Club
Kelly Urich’s Kissmas Bash
Kelly Urich’s Kissmas Bash
Roeland Park mayor finds it pays to Discover
Roeland Park Mayor Adrienne Foster is fighting with her bank over allegedly unpaid bills — and she’s fighting the political rumor mill. After filing a lawsuit in January of this year claiming that Foster owed $7,802.31, Discover Bank won a judgment against her for the amount plus interest and attorney’s fees. According to Johnson County court records, Foster failed to…
Incoming: Midlake at the Jackpot, March 12
Midlake’s new single, “Acts of Man,” featuring two songs from next year’s The Courage of Others, came out today. If that wasn’t enough, they announced the tour dates in support of the album, and right before they end their tour with a SXSW performance, they’ll be appearing at the Jackpot Music Hall in Lawrence on March 12. If the new…
The evolution of holiday punch
We’ve all come a long way from grain alcohol and fruit juice, but the big bowl of holiday punch hasn’t been updated accordingly — until now. While tracing the history of the classic party drink, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer makes the case that punch will be coming back to high-end bars. The article also offers a compendium of punch recipes with…
Vedera, Janelle Monáe perform with this year’s Lilith Fair
After a ten-year hiatus, the all-female music festival Lilith Fair makes its return next summer. A surprising return, especially considering most of the touring fests from the ’90s have become big weekend events or ended (Lollapalooza for the former, H.O.R.D.E. for the latter). Whether or not it’s coming to Kansas City remains to be seen, as the first leg of…
Video: The Paperclips, “Please Tell Your Loved Ones”
Familiar with the Paperclips? Before this new video from Zac Eubank, we’d only heard the KC band’s name. And what a misleading name it is. Ain’t too many bands out there working a slide-blues-rock sound, especially not one touched up with gospel-infused hillbilly acapella. Makes us think more of, well, guns and outlawry than it does office supplies. Fortunately, the…
Remembering soap opera restaurants
Yesterday, when National Public Radio’s Morning Edition reported that CBS had canceled As the World Turns, one of the longest-running soap operas in America, the story included an interview with that show’s most famous vamp-villainess, the conniving Lisa, played for nearly half a century by actress Eileen Fulton. Among other things, Fulton remembered the day that the script required her…
Local gifts that bring some heat
For those who love spicy food, there is no shortage of options in the Kansas City area. And here are a few hot items to use as stocking stuffers or to put under a tree this year. Your search for spice should begin with Original Juan (111 Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas). The specialty foods purveyor sells a huge variety…
Sol Cantina’s license suspended for serving alcohol to minors (again)
Sol Cantina, the Corona-drenched club at 408 E. 31st Street, will be spending the first few days of 2010 stone-cold sober. The city’s Regulated Industries Division has suspended the club’s liquor license from January 1 at 6 a.m. to January 8 at 3 a.m. after busting employees serving alcohol to minors. This is the second such violation for Sol Cantina…
Fake holy man and maybe real child molester ignores judge’s orders
Blue Springs man and alleged child molester Paul J. Cool has ignored a judge’s order to stay away from the underage girls that he’s accused of sexually abusing, according to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Readers might remember our first report on the 49-year-old Cool. Police reports say Cool, baptized and ordained as an elder in the…
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