Archives: May 2010
KU Med to animal rights activists: Stay away!
The University of Kansas Medical Center has a message for animal rights activists: Stay away! KU Med has lawyered up in an attempt to keep animal rights activists off hospital property. The members of Bite Club KC have posted a letter from attorney Anthony F. Rupp of Polsinelli Shughart on its Web site warning Lynn J. Souther to keep away…
Air Guitar Championship
The Air Guitar Championship took place at the Jackpot in Lawrence last night, for random bar flies, amateurs and pros alike. Contestant picked their clip and riffed out on stage in front of a panel. Judges included the Flaming Lips’ Kliph Scurlock and the Pitch’s own Justin Kendall. Check out these shots for some glimpses of pure, unadulterated rock and…
Bacon Explosion now comes in Cheese and Jalapeno
It’s been a big week for bacon … explosions. On Tuesday, Bacon Explosion creator’s Jason Day and Aaron Chronister released their first cookbook, BBQ Makes Everything Better, and introduced two new Bacon Explosion flavors: cheese and jalapeno. Day and Chronister will be on The Today Show tomorrow morning to talk about the book’s recipes and cook up a Bacon Explosion…
Kansas City ranked sixth-fattest city in the nation
In Kansas City, this dude is slim Men’s Health released the results of its top 10 of the fattest cities in the United States, and the results were not flattering for KC. We’re living in the sixth-tubbiest town, sandwiched between the sweaty flab of Memphis (No. 5) and San Antonio (No. 7). The results were based on calculating the percentage of…
Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, May 6
%{}% A simulated match-up of chefs Michael Foust, Tate Roberts and Jasper J. Mirabile, Jr., before a real-life battle on Saturday night. Before there is apple wine, there is apple lees. The Kansas high school culinary team won the National ProStart Invitational this past Sunday. The team from Missouri placed 6th out of 39 teams. A humorous essay on an…
James S. Harris convicted of stealing X-Box, stabbing two people
James S. Harris didn’t do a great job of stealing an X-Box from a party in Platte County in February 2009. He got caught, stabbed a couple of “friends,” and then got the shit kicked out of him. Yesterday, a jury convicted Harris’ dumb ass of first-degree assault, third-degree assault and armed criminal action (he’d already admitted trying to steal…
Ad Astra Arkestra plays Nerman Museum steps tomorrow
If you’re in the mood for artistic performance, but aren’t exactly a First Fridays kind of person, the Ad Astra Arkestra plays the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art on the campus of Johnson County Community College tomorrow night. The show is free, and starts at 8:00 p.m. Frontman Mike Tuley says of the event: It’s an outside show and should…
Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow flag, coming to KC for Pride Week
In the summer of 1968, Kansas native Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag recognized as the international symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride. Baker will be in town to serve as National Grand Marshall of the festivities at KC’s Pride Week, which extends from May 31 to June 6. Details will come out (har!) today at a 10…
Mother of 12-year-old-girl-turned-dominatrix sentenced to 15 years
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was trained to be a dominatrix and prostituted was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution. The mother isn’t being named to protect the girl’s identity. The case is something out of Law & Order: SVU. The girl’s 46-year-old mother allowed a former Blue Springs…
KJHK’s studio move is today
While it might not make much of a difference in terms of what you’re hearing on your radio or Internet stream, at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon, KU’s KJHK 90.7FM will cease broadcasting from the Sudler Annex (aka “The Shack”) and begin broadcasting from its new location on the third floor of the Kansas Union. The final broadcast from the Shack…
Studies in Crap: ’30s Texas history textbook on lazy Indians, idle Negroes and awesome white folks!
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Lone Star State: A School History Author: C.R. Wharton Date: 1932 Publisher: The Southern Publishing Company Discovered at: Submitted by a Dallas Junior Crap Archivist Representative…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s reign of terror becomes state policy, thanks to Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce and Gov. Jan Brewer
With Gov. Jan Brewer’s April 25 signature affixed to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona is poised to direct all law enforcement agencies to adopt Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policy of rounding up and incarcerating Mexicans and then shipping them back across the border if they lack proper documentation of their status in America. Arpaio’s sweeps include deputies in black ski masks to…
Dress Green
Ever wondered what Project Runway would look like in Kansas City? Now’s your chance — minus Tim Gunn’s rounds to ask that designers “make it work.” The catwalk competition Restyle Runway asked Kansas City-area designers to create recycled fashions using clothes from Goodwill Industries, all in the name of being green. The show benefits Friends of JCDS, a local charity…
Big Shots
Part of the Jay McShann legend is that the future king of Kansas City boogie-woogie piano was Omaha-bound when his bus stopped here and the musicians he knew in town convinced him to stick around. He would go on to midwife Charlie Parker’s career while cementing his own journeyman bona fides. McShann died in 2006, and a portrait of the…
Batter Up
Craig Hurba will put his slugging skills to the test this week when he and his fellow Kansas City T-Bones go head-to-head with Kansas City, Kansas, Community College. The exhibition games today and Wednesday mark the start of the metro’s Northern League 2010 play. Hurba’s time with the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners can’t hurt. The T-Bones took the…
KCAI end-of-semester exhibition and sale
Work by KCAI students in the departments of ceramics, digital filmmaking, fiber, interdisciplinary arts, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture will be on display and available for purchase throughout the campus. Work can be purchased beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, but in some cases it will not be permitted to remove the purchased work from the exhibition until Sunday. Fri., May…
Mother’s Day Puppets
StoneLion Puppet Theatre presents Mother’s Day for Mother Earth, featuring The Pirates of Pollution, a puppet show of enormous proportions, as well as a pre-show with Mr. Stinky Feet – Jim Cosgrove. Sun., May 9, 1:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Jim Cosgrove, Mother’s Day, Night & Day, Stinky Feet
Smuckers Stars on Ice
Ice capading may not be on your mind in springtime, but a mess of world-class figure skaters just happen to be performing at the Sprint Center. The Smucker’s Stars on Ice Tour, founded and produced by Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton includes Two-Time Reigning U.S. National Champion & 2010 Olympian Jeremy Abbott. They will be joined by World Champion &…
The Oiler Boiler
The Oil Boiler — a one-act dramatic fantasy about a hit man chatting up God about killing his lover, while a jazz band plays in a nightclub for assassins — sounds dark, daring and just maybe a touch ridiculous. But that’s how we like our local, scared-up-from-nowhere, collaborative First Friday theatrical happenings. A mob of artists, musicians, actors and what…
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