%{}% A visit to Jerry’s Woodswether Cafe for the Reuben and hand cut fries. Sprecher’s Russian Imperial Stout has some bite — in flavor and out of your wallet. If your grill is still accessible, this recipe for a Guinness marinated flank steak sandwich should have you firing up the coals. The Doublicious, a new sandwich from KFC apparently being…
When some bands leave the local music scene, they leave a vacuum. Such is the case with Topeka’s Nothing to Gain. They were the sort of band that worshiped at the feet of Murphy’s Law. Fast, metal-tinged punk numbers that were about getting drunk as fuck and partying. I heard this album at a small gathering for a now-defunct website,…
We’ve been jamming the ever-loving hell out of Arctic Monkeys’ debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not at the day job the past couple of weeks. It’s an angular rocker that actually managed to live up to the promise shown with “I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor.” It was even more surprising to see that…
How do you game plan for this? How Bill Self kept the Jayhawks focused enough to get the W in Austin Monday night against the 14th-ranked Texas Longhorns and with this young lady seated behind the visitor’s bench makes him a better coach than I want to admit. Kansas fans on Phog.net sprang to attention (i.e., screencapping), and Deadspin affectionately…
As recently as 2006, there was so little interest — or confidence — in the Kansas City, Missouri, School Board that not one person challenged the incumbents and the election was canceled. This year, the race is packed with candidates vying for at-large and sub-district seats. From now until the election on April 6th, we’re profiling each of the candidates,…
The Kansas City Plant, which is run by Honeywell at the Bannister Federal Complex, is operating under expired permits for its hazardous waste discharges and its water discharges, according to Judd Slivka, the communications director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. It’s not as simple as it sounds, however. “It’s pretty normal” for large factories like Honeywell’s to operate…
Kansas City Chiefs mascot KC Wolf is the featured speaker at an abstinence-only rally Saturday night in Raymondville, Missouri. Dan Meers, the sheep inside the wolf skin, is speaking at a youth rally called True Love Waits, and you can pretty much guess what they’re all about. KC Wolf is just in time given that we’re in the middle of…
The UK’s Bubblegum Slut fanzine is the premiere publication dedicated to sleaze rock and its various glam offshoots. Editor Alison B. was cool enough to send a copy via Royal Airmail so we could take a look at it, and it’s damn fine. Sleaze rock is the domain of folks in tight pants, big hair, and a strong yearning for…
Put away your pink grapefruit and cranberry juice. If you want to give cocktails the proper tinge of pink or red, beets are the answer. The bright red vegetable is still available and not only gives cocktails some serious color, it provides a unique taste that will easily intrigue or repel you. If you like mulled wine, read on. If…
%{}% We all know Royals ace Zack Grienke is a fantasy stud but who else on the 2010 boys in powder blue might propel your fantasy team (the Topeka Trouser Snakes, anyone?) to a championship. CBS Sports.com posted the Royals’ fantasy outlook today, and there’s three things to know. First baseman Billy Butler is the “breakout” candidate. Outfielder Scott Podsednik…
Nelson Hopkins Sr. considers Kansas City’s homicide rate a “state of emergency.” His son Nelson Hopkins Jr. became the 105th homicide of 2009 on December 1, and Nelson’s cousin Randy Wilson was killed January 9 of this year. Both homicides are unsolved. Because drastic times call for drastic measures, Hopkins is launching his own anti-violence initiative, Operation Promise Land, on…
University of Kansas’ student-run radio station, KJHK 90.7FM presents a free screening of the hip-hop documentary Say My Name tonight at the Kansas Union. Say My Name is about women in hip-hop, from New York to London, “and the social and professional challenges they have faced over the lifetime of the music genre.” Appearing in the film are such performers…
%{}% Jason Whitlock’s return to 610 Sports is not imminent, contrary to the Internet rumor. “I’ve had no conversations with Jason about a job here,” Ryan Maguire, the program director at the AM sports-talk station, says. Someone using the handle “bigsexy,” Whitlock’s nickname, announced a March 1 start date on kcforum.net Monday night. “It’s going to be good to do…
It’s not quite Megatron trapped beneath the ice of the frozen arctic, but it’s close. The New Zealand Antarctic Researcher’s Trust believes it has unearthed several cases of a lost Scotch whiskey left behind by Earnest Shackleton, who abandoned his expedition to reach the South Pole in 1909 at Cape Royds, Antarctica. A story in The Independent details how the…
April 29 there are going to be nationally televised fights in the Power & Light District. The first of four live Bellator Fighting Championships events in the Kansas City Live Block, where a circular cage will house the carnage, which will be broadcast on Fox Sports. Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney tells The Pitch that the Kansas City fights…
If you want to watch video of some of upset, pissed-off people, do a search on YouTube for “Sonicsgate.” The folks in Seattle are pretty much the mirror image of what the people in New Orleans are acting like right now. Seriously — these folks are bitter. Sad, too: check out this song from Manther. If you thought it unlikely…
It might make you feel so adult to own those nice stainless steel pans, but not if you can’t keep them clean. If a series of soakings and scrubbings doesn’t work, don’t give up — the blackened remains of last night’s dinner can be removed without scratching up the surfaces. First, though, if you’re starting with a new pan that…
After taking a moment to attack the newly-dead John Murtha (“He seemed to characterize the Democratic Party’s ‘cut-and-run’ defeatism”), American Power applauded Minority Leader John Boehner’s kind words for Murtha and expressed the hope “that other conservatives will avoid the kinds of demonization campaigns that are so familiar on the left upon the death of controversial political leaders.” This must…
I recently stumbled on the blog of Molly Krause, who is one half of the husband-and-wife duo behind the closed Krause Dining in Lawrence (her husband is Robert). I’ve been enjoying what is a very personal look into her philosophy on food, dining and the restaurant industry. In some ways, The Chef’s Wife feels like an online extension of the…
Convicted killer Scott Roeder did an interview with an anti-abortion activist named Dave Leach (who believes in justifiable homicide of abortion doctors) and if you have the stomach for nine minutes of unrepentant rambling, be our guest. Yesterday, Roeder’s asked for a new trial or an acquittal of their client, who killed Wichita abortion provider George Tiller. At his trial,…
