Archives: December 2009
Clothes Whores: Darryl at Czar Bar
One might be tempted to say that Darryl, spotted here outside Czar Bar one recent evening, looks Kanye-esque in his argyle attire. But Kanye West wears everything that’s trendy. It’d be more accurate to liken Darryl’s style to Andre Benjamin’s, aka Andre 3000 of OutKast, who released his own dandy-inspired clothing line, Benjamin Bixby, in 2008. I’ve noticed a lot…
You’re nobody til somebody sees you at Rico’s Hooligan Holiday party
Rico’s Hooligan Holiday started out as a modest house party for the DJ, promoter and clothing-line maestro’s closest friends. Fifteen years later, it’s Westport’s biggest formal bash. Guests will be flying to KC from both coasts and all the way from Europe to clink glasses with Rico and hundreds of his best-dressed mates Sunday night at the Beaumont Club. “It’s…
Kiss Alive 35 at Sprint Center
Original members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanely brought guitarist Tommy Thayer as Ace Frehley and Eric Singer as Peter Criss for a set mostly consisting of classics. And explosions.
DIY Holidays: Roasting local pecans
Roasting pecans is like roasting pumpkin seeds: You never know how easy it is until you sit down and do it. And after you taste them, you’ll want to open up a toasted nut cart to spread the joy. Your first job is to procure local pecans. If you stop by the Bad Seed downtown farmer’s market tonight between 4…
Paul Stanley Talks Back! Between-song videos from last night’s Kiss show.
Kiss singer and guitarist Paul Stanley is almost as notorious for the things he says between songs as during them. And last night at the Alive 35 tour stop at the Sprint Center, he had a few things to get off his beaconlike, hairy chest. Video 1: “$12.99 — you can’t beat that.” Video 2: “I wanna tell all the…
Concert Review: Kiss at Sprint Center
When I was a wee lad, the kids at my church asked me if I knew what Kiss stood for. No, I said, I did not know. “Knights In Satan’s Service,” they told me as they shotgunned a whole tumbler of Welch’s red grape juice, also known as Jesus’ blood. “Really?” I asked. “Yeah. And they have a whole army.”…
Breakfast Buffet: Friday, December 11
%{}% Christopher Elbow refers to his carmelized white chocolate ganache as “my favorite flavor I’ve ever made.” The saga of a hanger, some tape and a banana trapped behind a co-worker’s desk. A recipe for a cabbage, bacon and green apple pasta that sounds pretty hearty right about now. The world of eating dirt and what farmers used to discover…
East side Boys & Girls Club members celebrate groundbreaking of a new facility
In April, we detailed the plight of kids at the East Side Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City. The East Side’s building on 24th Street is in poor shape, with its rickety basketball hoops, frequent bug infestations and none of the high-tech amenities that grace other club facilities in the metro. Finally, it looks like…
Love Garden Sounds moving sale means CHEAP records
If you’ve been waiting until prices really dropped to get in on the madness at the old Love Garden Sounds location — they are now at 822 Massachusetts in Lawrence, having moved from 936 1/2 Mass a few moths back — this is your last chance to score some crazy cheap CDs and LPs. Love Garden has 3000+ CDs and…
Rock of Pages: A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982
Nicholas Rombes’ A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982 is a superb work, in that it doesn’t provide the neat, pat definitions one has come to expect from most academic tomes. Instead of basic factual pieces or biographical paragraphs, Rombes uses as his definitions excerpts from fanzines of the early punk era, as well as respected tomes on the subject. So,…
Weekend Distractions
It’s creeping up on Christmas, and you probably have a bunch of holiday parties to attend this weekend. Howzabout blowing them off? Instead, try one of the following activities, which may or may not involve Santa-shaped sugar cookies. 1. Look at nude pictures. Overland Park’s VALA Gallery presents The First Noel, an art show chock full of portraits of the…
Talking Tiger, Frank Boal forges a wrong path
Frank Boal’s presence on WHB 810 has increased since he accepted a buyout from WDAF Fox 4. Television, it seems fair to say, got the better end of the deal. Boal comes across as a likable enough guy. His commentary tends toward the codgerly, however. Listening to Boal interact with 810’s talented full-time staff is like watching the last guy…
VAMPIRE PIRATE PUNK ROCK,
5 bands, costume contest
Bring the champagne
It’s the time of year when champagne makes everything better (except how you feel after a night of drinking champagne). But snagging the right bottle of bubbly or sparkling wine is a matter of balancing your budget and you desire for something sweet or dry. The Wine Bar (13657 Washington) can help, with a champagne and sparkling wine tasting from…
Promise of free health care draws thousands
I expected to find the proverbial huddled masses at the free health care clinic that’s been going on for the last two days at Bartle Hall. I was sure there’d be down-on-their luck homeless people. The wretchedly sick, decomposing-on-their-feet folks with wild hair and wild eyes who materialized out of the gutters to get their boils or teeth checked. I…
Police report gives gruesome details of alleged Rod Jetton bedroom scene
Yesterday evening, after requesting a copy of the Sikeston Department of Public Safety incident report, firedupmissouri.com broke the next round of sordid details about the Rod Jetton sex assault charges. This version of events contradicts the current narrative of rough sex-play gone too rough. By this telling, the alleged victim spent most of the time unaware or unconscious, coming to…
The best mac-and-cheese recipe ever!
One of this city’s most iconic restaurants of the 1980s was a vibrant bistro on 39th Street called Cafe Lulu, owned and operated by flame-haired chef Lou Jane Temple. After the restaurant closed in 1992, it remained the inspiration for Temple’s series of culinary mysteries featuring a stripper-turned cook-turned-mystery solver named Heaven Lee. Temple is still a chef, but now for…
Sweet shit, here’s some awesomeness: Magical for the Ugly at the Tivoli
Set your faces for delighted bafflement! At the Tivoli Cinemas tonight, video remix hero Pat Vamos is screening Magical for the Ugly, a collection of found and bizarre footage that thrusts all the beauty and madness of the last decades of pop culture straight at your eyeholes for 70 minutes. Since there’s a killer trailer available, I see little point…
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