Big news, pot heads: move to Douglas County, Kansas, where your homegrown head-stash isn’t such a big deal. Last week, the Douglas County District Attorney’s office handed a sentence of 12 months probation to 24-year-old pot grower impresario Rai Shed Abdu Yahia, who pleaded no contest to charges that he and his roommate, Alexander Abbas Faoud Farran, were growing 28…
Your Kansas City Chiefs will attempt to double last season’s win total in Denver this Sunday. Of course, the 2008 team was all kinds of lousy. Even if the Chiefs, who are 13-point underdogs, prevail at Fur Locker Field at Mile High, the ’09 season will go down as one of the franchise’s worst. Elvis Grbac kind of sucked, but…
Thanks to the kind folks at Action Town Records, you can download all of Teenage Kicks’ Uptight! LP for free! Now, if you’re a decent human being, and enjoy what you hear, you’ll buy the record proper from Action Town. It’s only $12 postage paid, and that’s a totally reasonable price for some poppy garage punk. As you might guess…
We wondered what would happen to Phill Kline after his flame-out in Kansas politics. After he lost the Republican primary in the Johnson County District Attorney’s race to Steve Howe, Kline left Kansas for to teach at Liberty University in Virginia. But now, after seeing his latest missive on Free Republic, it looks like Kline is an aspiring movie critic…
It’s fitting. The last music video Spike Lee directed was also for a Michael Jackson song (“They Don’t Care About Us”, back in 1996). I’s also a bit fitting that the cap on Jackson’s video career should be done by a director who’s done so much with music in his films. Michael Jackson – This Is It – Directed by…
%{}% A Sedgwick County judge is scheduled to hear arguments on whether Scott Roeder, the man who confessed to reporters that he killed Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, can present evidence claiming he used force in defense of another. The Wichita Eagle reports that Judge Warren Wilbert has scheduled a January 8 hearing to take up the matter. Last week,…
Obama conspiracy theorist and “celebrity” quiz master Jack Cashill is emceeing a trivia bowl at the Zona Rosa O’Dowds on January 22. It costs $25 to play and the money goes to Americans for Conservative Training (here’s ACT’s Facebook page). Looks like this has something to do with the tea partiers. Here’s a stab at one of the questions: Who…
Every year, the Library of Congress selects recordings it deems worthy of being preserved for all time. It’s called the National Recording Preservation Board, and the selections are both historical (field recordings of the Passamaquoddy Indians in 1898) and popular (Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” and Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation). You can view the full list online, and it’s quite…
Bartenders used to take requests from regulars to create new cocktails. But an emerging trend — dubbed user-generated cocktails — has bartenders finding partners on the other side of the bar. The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported on how speakeasy rules are giving way in bars designed to encourage input from drinkers. As bartender Josey Packard explains to The Chronicle,…
Snitching could pay off for one lucky St. Louisan, thanks to the city’s resident hip-hop superstar, Cornell Hayes Jr., better known as Nelly. The artist who put St. Louis rap on the map is offering a $10,000 reward for tips leading to the arrest of the man who broke into Nelly’s suburban home in the Lou on December 11 and…
Citing concerns about potential E.coli contamination, the National Steak and Poultry Company, an Oklahoma-based meat processor, voluntarily recalled 248,000 pounds of beef on Christmas Eve. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the recall in connection with a Centers for Disease Control investigation into an outbreak of E.Coli 0157:H7 related illnesses in six states: Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, South Dakota and…
John Bersuch (of Minds Under Cover and Bacon Shoe infamy) recently hipped us to a new tune he recorded on Christmas Eve. It’s not necessarily a holiday song per se, but certainly qualifies as something to which you should get your ear holes turned towards. The story, per Mr. Bersuch: Last night I went to my moms to celebrate xmas,…
With more small plates and shared meals showing up in restaurants across the city, the concept of family-style dining looks like one of the burgeoning food trends for 2010. Julian in Brookside opened with a Sunday-night family meal, while the Westside Local, Extra Virgin, JP Wine Bar, Bluestem, Brio Tuscan Grille, The Drop, Garozzo’s, and One80 all have small…
When it’s a part of the holiday spread, a cheese ball is full of intrigue. You don’t want to be the one to break into the dairy sphere, and you keep hoping someone else will pierce it with a cracker. It’s a little-known fact but cheese balls are guaranteed party gold. The solid cousin of spinach and artichoke dip, they…
Arrow Trucking Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, unexpectedly went out of business last Tuesday, leaving more than 1,300 truckers stranded on highways all over the country. Dispatchers for Arrow ordered their truckers to immediately drop their rigs off at the nearest Freightliner dealership, where they could pick up a bus ticket to get home. But truckers on international routes found that…
If you haven’t made plans for greeting 2010 in Kansas City, here are some options: Grand Street Cafe is taking reservations — they’ve got a surf-and-turf special ($38, lobster tail and filet mignon) or a sea bass ($32, with spinach risotto and bacon-wrapped asparagus). La Parrilla in Lawrence has a menu influenced by Central and South American flavors — dishes…
%{}% A new brewery is coming to the St. Louis area. Cathedral Square Brewery will likely appeal to observant drinkers . A hearty recipe for skillet chili mac with corn and green chiles — giving you one less reason to leave the house. Motion sickness might not be the only danger to your stomach, based on recent health inspections at…
Remember when “King Pink” Larry Johnson wrote on his Facebook page that he was “Gonna gallop all over the Chiefs. Cleat prints on the chests. Mud in the face masks”? In four carries, he galloped for 11 yards. Yeah, yeah. Johnson’s new team, the Cincinnati Bengals, beat the Chiefs, but who didn’t see that coming? The Kansas City Star points…
The songs that rocked my ears over the course of the past year, in alphabetical order. I rank none of these any higher than any others. That’s mainly because depending on the day, mood, weather, and other assorted circumstances, I might want to hear one more than the other. MP3: Alex Kerns – “Clamor On” Released via the Art of…
%{}% There are a few ways to look at the case of the thwarted holiday crotch-bomber. On the one hand, we have a deluded fellow who, allegedly assured of eternal glory by jihadists who bade him sew explosive chemicals into his underwear, set his lap on fire during a Delta flight and, instead of the cooling ministrations of 72 virgins…
