Alicia Solo pulled off another wild one at the Conspiracy Room with her Night of Fame series. This time, the spot was stuffed with Britney Spears lovahs whose impersonations ranged from Spears’ naughty-schoolgirl days to her most recent ringleader status. Click here to see Scott Spychalski’s skanky series! Categories: Music Tags: Britney Spears, circus, Night of Fame
No question the hysteria over the Waldo rapist is on high. Just read the comments on the “Lets Find This Prick” Facebook page, where there’s no shortage of folks posting photos of guns and talk about chopping off the guy’s penis. Self-described community activist Alonzo Washington mocks people’s fears, blames the media for over reporting the story (Fox 4 takes…
The Kansas House approved a statewide smoking ban on Thursday — voting 68-54 to send the measure to Gov. Mark Parkinson’s desk. The ban, which includes bars, restaurants, and workplaces, has several exceptions — tobacco shops, private clubs, designated smoking rooms in hotels and the gambling floors of state-run casinos. While Parkinson has not yet signed the bill into law,…
John D. Smith is the in the pole position for stupid ‘neck of the week. The 44-year-old man with the common name reportedly lit his crotch on fire last Friday while allegedly employing “the shake-and-bake method” of cooking meth. Shake-and-bake method? For those not familiar with meth cooking, shake and bake means adding your meth chemicals to a two-liter pop…
The United States Department of Agriculture launched the Food Environment Atlas last Wednesday — a Web-enabled map that gives a county-by-county breakdown of available sources of food, access to food and relevant economic data. The new resource is being touted as a part of Let’s Move, First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to combat childhood obesity. While the map is designed…
%{}% Back during the 2008 Presidential race, John McCain described himself to the New York Times as “a conservative Republican… to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold.” Many liberals didn’t buy the self-comparison to Teddy Roosevelt. But some conservatives said McCain was, too, like Roosevelt — and that was a bad thing. Categories: News Tags: Glenn Beck, John…
%{}% A trip to Justus Drugstore always seems to end up in a story to go with the food — which is why you should be eating there. A video of two baristas from Dean & Deluca in Overland Park competing at the grocery chain’s Latte Art Throw Down. This new beer log-book from 33 Beers allows you to remember…
Molestaches. Auto-tune. Central Asia. Techno. Check out the latest so-bad-it’s-good meme making the round on the internet. Wilbur Sargunaraj’s video for his anti-arranged marriage jam, “Love Marriage”—complete with sexxxy backup dancers, sweet-ass rides and rad special effects—is just begging to be remixed. (Here’s looking at you, Timbaland. You collaborated with the goddamn Fray—c’mon, this guy’s ‘stache alone deserves a place…
Monday Welcome the month of March with a song. Take the mic during Mandatory Monday Karaoke with Nanci Pants at The Brick. Tuesday Fantasize about being babysat by sexy Elisabeth Shue. The Bulldog’s Tuesday Movie Night features Adventures in Babysitting and Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead this week. Screenings start at 9 p.m. Wednesday Decide what your next car’s…
“Where We Pee” is a weekly excursion into a local music venue’s excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls. “You can’t put a bag over her personality.” “Don’t get your dick in the urinal — crabs can pole vault.” These are the sorts of things that seem to have sadly been obscured over the years…
By IAN HRABE Alkaline Trio was my favorite band when I was 16. One of my earliest showgoing memories is sneaking out to Lawrence with a friend to see Alkaline Trio play the Bottleneck, only to be shut down by my friend’s Mom. (Right outside the venue, too! We had tickets and everything and we’d been found out and forced…
Sometimes, it pays to check MySpace. While it is what SNL’s Seth Meyers referred to as “the Internet’s abandoned amusement park,” some bands still use it to post news and info. Case in point: the Belles. It’s been six long years since the duo of Chris Tolle and Jake Cardwell last released anything, that being the Idle Acres EP. Their…
By ELGIN SMITH In stark contrast to the past shows I’ve attended at the Blue Room, guitarist Charlie Hunter generated a near-capacity crowd with his unique jazz-influenced sounds at 18th & Vine: something I haven’t seen in quite some time. While Hunter is on the funkier end of the Blue Room’s scope of artists, his group’s sound was perfect for…
Alicia Solo pulled off another wild one at the Conspiracy Room with her Night of Fame series. This time, the spot was stuffed with Britney Spears lovahs whose impersonations ranged from Spears’ naughty-schoolgirl days to her most recent, ringleader status. Click the pic to see Scott Spychalski’s skanky series! Categories: News Tags: Alicia Solo, Britney Spears, circus, Conspiracy Room, Kansas…
In his day job, Crosby Kemper III is the director of the Kansas City Public Library. In his personal time, he’s a founding member of the Show-Me Institute, a libertarian think tank run by super-rich St. Louis businessman Rex Sinquefield. So when petitions for Sinquefield’s ballot initiative to repeal the earnings tax showed up in library lobbies and speakers co-sponsored…
The instructions: dress like Britney or a ringleader a la the star’s Circus tour, and get a buck off drinks. Plenty party-goers followed said directions, but there were lots of other Brit-Brits in attendance: sloppy schoolgirls, whip-cracking S&M darlings…the only thing missing? We didn’t see any bald Britneys wielding green umbrellas at the poisonous paparazzi. Guess it just goes to…
We’ll have to wait a little longer to find out how many years in prison Scott Roeder will get for killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller in a church last year. Roeder’s sentencing is scheduled for 9 a.m. April 1, less than a year after he snuffed out Tiller. Categories: News Tags: abortion, George Tiller, homicide, Scott Roeder
The snow and sleet got the best of the multicolored “LOOK” bicycle at the corner of 43rd and Main streets. But with the (hopefully) soon-changing season comes a new piece of bike-inspired art at this busy intersection. See the new art after the jump. Categories: News Tags: street art, urban cycling
By GORDON GUILD Saturday night at the Sprint Center, Elton John and Billy Joel performed their rescheduled “Face 2 Face” show; but, it could have been dubbed “Face Off” between these two veteran piano men. There were vast differences in John’s and Joel’s performances: From a frontman’s perspective, Sir Elton had a more theatrical stage presence, while B.J. was a…
