Today’s installment of the Wayward Advent Calendar comes from Tatsuya Ishida’s webcomic Sinfest. I like this version a lot more than the traditional version. If any band or musician would care to record a version of this (I recommend either hardcore or full-on creepy metal), send it to us here at Wayward Blog, and we will gladly, gleefully, post it….
Jon Yeager used to be in Kansas City pop-rock act the Daybirds, but now lives in Nashville. Yeager’s really enthused about this song, and went so far as to get it to us way back in October. We’ve waited until now to bring it to you, now that it’s a bit more seasonably appropriate. Categories: Music Tags: christmas, Daybirds, Jon…
The soft, bleeding heart of pro-animal-ism went up against the hard edge of pro-gun-ism this week in response to writer Carolyn Szczepanski’s blog “‘Funeral motorcade’ for Shawnee Mission Park deer this afternoon.” The result: new words like “speciesism,” and some bottom-brow hilarity. Part one of this week’s three part Comment of the Week goes to Beazley, whose comment touched off…
Is Darla Jaye serious about running for Congress? Only she knows, and she’s taking her time mulling the possibility while talking about it on her radio show on 980 KMBZ. And it’s making for good radio as The Pitch’s Alan Scherstuhl writes in this week’s feature, “The Big Tease.” If that wasn’t enough Scherstuhl, he pulls double-duty with reviews of…
Wicked Cool Records is sort of like Bomp or Norton, only a little more mainstream. It’s the label started by Little Steven Van Zandt, and the focus is on garage rock. The label pretty much sticks to acts like Len Price 3, and the jangly Nuggets-style power pop they knock out. They’ve released albums from long-running acts like Dave Allan…
KMBC Channel 9 reports that Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh has been offered a contract to coach the Kansas Jayhawks. Will he accept? Does Harbaugh feel like you do, Jayhawk fans? I can’t imagine wanting to leave sunny California for snowy Lawrence, especially after Harbaugh building a contender in the Pac-10. Categories: News Tags: football, Jim Harbaugh, Kansas Jayhawks, Mark Mangino,…
Feeling only a thimbleful of the Christmas spirit? This Sunday’s Scarritt Renaissance Holiday Homes Tour is going to feel like a holiday beer bong to the DOME, son! Historic mansions like the one pictured here, at 3223 Gladstone Boulevard, have been painstakingly decorated until they resemble real-life scenes from The Nutcracker. The histories of each are just as enchanting. For…
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is from the musical Meet Me In St. Louis, and as it’s sung in the film, turns out to be a dreary little number. Judy Garland sings it to Margaret O’Brien, as their family might be moving from their home, their father considering a promotion. Thus, this may be their last Christmas in the…
Part memoir and part literary analysis, Kelly Cherry’s Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life (BkMk Press, 221 pages, $16.95) could be required reading for anyone about to plunge into — and those already immersed in — a writerly existence. The depths explored during such a life are murky and invigorating, sometimes both. Cherry is the…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. Knock off work early and get to Nara for happy hour specials in the Crossroads. From 3 to 7 p.m., you can fill up on martinis, Kirin drafts and spring rolls — they’re all $4. After that, it’s just a…
The best news in director Joe Winston’s What’s the Matter With Kansas is that there’s a place called the Creation Museum — and it’s in Kentucky, not Kansas. Judging by the footage in this documentary companion to the Thomas Frank book of the same name, the Bluegrass State’s monument to Adam and Eve literalism is one of the nation’s most…
Everybody has their own personal gauge for determining just how well (or poorly) the evening is going. A mounting stack of cans, for example, or a belief that you are suddenly bi-lingual. And, at the end of the night, we all face our drunk kryptonite. The food we irrationally seek out at great effort and cost, even if we would…
In June, the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran sparked protests around the world. In Kansas City, demonstrators hoisted placards at the J.C. Nichols Fountain and drove through Country Club Plaza, young men hanging out the windows, waving flags and yelling freedom slogans. Now, the local solidarity effort has moved from protest to planting. On Saturday, activists…
And once again, we bring you Friday Freebies, wherein we present things to do this weekend that won’t cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to ’em. Tonight, at Signs of Life in Lawrence, you can hear the Christian pop-rock stylings of Jeannie Furst & Furst Light. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and the band…
Hark, everybody! Earlier this week, I received a Facebook message from Matt Dunehoo, former frontman of the once-great Doris Henson. I hadn’t heard from Matt in a while. Shortly after Doris broke up in the fall of ’07, he moved to Brooklyn, NY, where he’s been recording and playing around town as Baby Teardrops. It seems that back when DH…
This time of year, our intake of green and red foods increases dramatically. Candy makers understand this and continue to roll out new possibilities. Tootsie has created Christmas Dots — cherry, lime and vanilla-flavored gumdrops. Mike and Ike — made by Just Born — has unveiled its new holiday medley — chewy cherry, lime and holiday punch fruit candy. These…
My girlfriend rolls her eyes. My friends don’t like to ride with me. But, like millions of Americans, I find myself tuning in to conservative talk radio as I tool around town, a habit that led to this week’s cover story on firebrand talker Darla Jaye. Since I’m an English teacher and a theater critic, this makes sense: Talk radio…
Children dream of sugarplums, men dream of turkey legs. So, rest not ye merry gentlemen, it’s time for the third annual Ye Holiday Feaste at Californos. The Medieval-themed event takes over the Westport restaurant on Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. The annual benefit for the Just Off Broadway Theatre obeys some unique rules. Your status during the evening is…
It’s not as rare as it should be to hear a politician say one thing and immediately contradict it, but seeing that sort of thing in a single breath? Welcome to northern Missouri. Ken Shearin, mayor of Pony Express-starting, Jesse James-hosting St. Joseph went on Fox News to simultaneously slam the wastefulness of the federal stimulus spending and defend his…
