%{}% The next two potential Smokestack series releases from Boulevard: Rye-on-Rye and Dark Truth Stout. After watching the treatment of amateur cooks on the Food Network’s Worst Cook in America, this blogger offers to teach anyone how to cook. Apparently, the way to appreciate Grand Street Cafe is to eat appetizers for dinner. Roger Ebert has a moving piece on…
Want to know what’s playing on the radio, right now, all over the country? Check this website out. It’s called the YES Nation. It’s nothing but a Flash app that displays what’s currently playing on the radio all over the country, but watching it is absolutely hypnotic. You’ll discover which areas have stations with a strong Latino lean, where certain…
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. The Lawrence Arts Center plays host to not one, but two art openings tonight. Both openings run from 7-9:00 p.m. First, you have Lynda Andrus’ “Unwrapping the Past.” The…
%{}% A Kansas City, Missouri, snowplow driver is in stable condition after being shot in the back early Friday morning. Kansas City police say the on-duty snowplow driver was taking a break, parked underneath the Interstate 470 overpass on James A. Reed Road, when a vehicle pulled next to the plow, a suspect exited the vehicle and began shooting into…
Big-time college football does not decide its champion with a playoff. Instead, at the conclusion of the regular season, the top-ranked teams couple up and scatter, key-party style, to play in bowl games of varying interest. The point man for the system, the Bowl Championship Series, resides in Prairie Village. He’s Bill Hancock, a former assistant commissioner of the Big…
Yeah, it’s cold and snowy. Get over it. This is January. And there are still plenty of reasons to get out of the house. 1. The Crossroads galleries knew better than to open their doors on First Friday this month, since it also happened to be NEW YEAR’S DAY. But rather than wait ’til February, a few choice spots are…
A now former Johnson County prosecutor is entering a diversion program after being arrested for shoplifting about $40 worth of liquid bandages and deodorant from a Price Chopper grocery store. Roger Nordeen’s 21-year tenure in the Johnson County District Attorney’s office ended November 13, a couple of weeks after he was ticketed for shoplifting, The Kansas City Star reported yesterday…
Without water, polar bears are naturally drawn to ice. Thus, you might want to think about what’s going to be your drink on the rocks at the first annual Polar Bear Pub Crawl at the Power & Light District this Friday from 8 to 11 p.m. With six bars participating, an crawlers getting commemorative T-shirts and the chance to win…
If Killed By Death and 7 Inch Punk weren’t enough to sate your desire to download obscure, underground punk albums, a new site launched a couple weeks ago. Called MKE Punk, the site focuses on Milwaukee punk bands from the late ’80s and early ’90s. The guys who run MKE Punk say the purpose for the site is that “MKE…
Onion rings have inspired songs, casseroles, even toys. But nothing can beat the real thing. Some culinary historians attribute the invention of the onion ring to the Japanese — tempura-battered onion slices — or trace it to the Indian tradition of battered vegetable pakoras. In the United States, the Pig Stand restaurants in Texas have long laid claim to having…
Twitter is a hotbed of weird, random things that get passed around from person to person. Because of the “@” function, one can communicate with pretty much any other person on Twitter. Whether you get a response or not is somewhat up in the air, but getting in touch with your favorite actor/musician/director is easier now than it ever was….
Get ready for another round of school funding fights in Kansas. A motion to reopen the K-12 funding case (Montoy) could be filed within the next 10 days an attorney representing a coalition of 53 school districts known as Schools for Fair Funding told the Wichita Eagle yesterday. After the motion is filed, then it’s up to the Kansas Supreme…
Last July, we introduced you to Fat City entrepreneur Adam Clay: the former Hyatt Regency Hotel restaurant manager who decided to go into business for himself as an independent operator selling hot dogs from a cart at 101 Armour Road in the heart of downtown North Kansas City. Clay did so well in that location that he’s leased the adjacent…
Here’s hoping you didn’t risk your life last night to party at Angels Rock Bar. Yesterday, the Cordish-owned club that once billed itself as “Kansas City’s only true rock bar” was closed for renovations and won’t reopen until January 15. Managing partner Drew Coleman explained the closing in an press release. “The new Angels Rock Bar will have more sex…
%{}% Nick Brownlee’s history of disposable popular music, also known as “bubblegum,” is a treatise that gives its otherwise flippant topic a modicum of respect. However, at the same time, Bubblegum: The History of Plastic Pop is a bathroom read, simply because the subject matter is a litany of Svengalis and their proteges. Bubblegum is defined by The Rock Snob’s…
Jason Pryor is trying to figure out where he’s going to take his wife for dinner. “I’m lining up a babysitter, I’m heading to the Web site and I’m going to see where we are going over the next ten days,” says Pryor. It’s hard to choose from the 96 restaurants participating in the first annual Kansas City Restaurant Week,…
Meet B-Lizard, the latest snow creation from Danny J. Gibson, also known around KC as DJG (2003 Best Of winner for Best Fliers). DJG sent along the above photo of B-Lizard in his front yard at the corner of West 40th Street and Holly. “Last Wednesday, the snow was perfect for packing as a guy could roll up the yard…
Experimental folkie Xiu Xiu has announced a slew of tour dates with lo-fi acoustic artist tUnE-yArDs in support of his upcoming release, Dear God, I Hate Myself—and they will be stopping by our very own Jackpot Music Hall on March 29. (Okay, it’s really far away, but exciting nonetheless.) Channeling the intimate, warbling tones of D.I.Y-style artists like CocoRosie and Here…
The future of the locavore movement might be in a cryopreservation facility in Newport, Rhode Island, where the SVF Foundation is hoping to catalog and ultimately promote rare heritage livestock breeds by freezing their embryos and semen. It sounds like science fiction, but the science is very real and reflects a back-to-nature approach with fertility technology being used to make…
