Archives: September 2010
The New York Islanders are staying in Long Island; deal with it
All those fun rumors about the New York Islanders settling down in the Sprint Center have been quashed once and for all by team owner Charles Wang. Well, for the next four-plus years anyway. Wang has spent the past three years trying to convince Hempstead, New York, to build a massive development with a hockey arena for his team, but…
Sharon Jones teaches Kansas City a lesson that ends in a dance party
Remember when I told you about Sharon Jones’ show on Monday night with the Dap-Kings, and how the crowd stormed the stage? Well, there’s a video of Jones getting lecturing the crowd for having too many people onstage, and then giving them a dance party. If we ever needed proof that Jones is one of the classiest ladies to grace a…
Top 5 foods under a $1 in KC
With five one-dollar bills in our pocket, Fat City set out to create the ultimate dollar menu in Kansas City. Accordingly we’ve culled dishes from restaurants across the metro area to create an affordable feast with cheap appetizers, entrees, desserts and drinks. Rachael Ray may need $40 a Day, but we can show you the city for an one-eighth of…
Soft Reeds will be rockin’ CMJ this year
CMJ — New York’s version of SXSW — is going down on October 19 through the 23, and Soft Reeds will be reppin’ Kansas City among the hundreds of artists that will play venues tucked away in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. They’ll be playing Union Hall in Park Slope with PS I Love You and Dear Comrade on October 20. Categories:…
New song from Cake, who’s playing at Sandstone on Saturday
For the first time in six years, Cake has released a brand-spanking-new single to go with their new studio album that’s due out in January of 2011 called Showroom of Compassion. Cake — who have been a good old standby for the Buzz’s booking peeps — will be playing at 96.5 The Buzz’s Buzz Beach Ball concert on Saturday with…
A new place for Sunday fried chicken dinner (Update)
Update: The fried chicken dinner that was the featured in this week’s “Where Am I Eating?” post garnered some very good comments, but none of them actually pinpointed the actual restaurant: Backfire BBQ in the Legends Entertainment Complex in Kansas City, Kansas. Chicken is only available on Sundays, but that’s also the day the venue offers fried chicken and homemade…
Marilyn Manson wants to be on Eastbound & Down. Really badly.
Marilyn Manson watches a lot of TV. Who knew?Apparently, the shock-rocker is a creeper-level fan of what is clearly the best show on television: Eastbound & Down. (I’m a music writer, not a film critic, and admittedly have terrible taste in television. Decry my credibility as you wish.) Apparently, Manson has been repeating entire chunks of dialogue in public, and frequently…
Ravenous immigrant hordes want to steal more jobs by volunteering for military service
Deytookerjobs!! No longer content to feed their mewling anchor babies by undercutting salt-of-the-earth American laborers in the lucrative construction and food service industries, illegal immigrants are now attempting to steal valuable positions in the nation’s front-line infantry. This latest affront to right-thinking values was nakedly exposed when a small group of DREAM Act supporters picketed U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback’s…
PotPie’s steak chips are taterific
Some side dishes are plate stealers. They’re simply too good not to be given their own featured menu item. So, PotPie, consider this a request to expand your chalkboard menu to include a heaping mound of your steak chips. There were eight delicious fried rounds that accompanied my chicken burger at lunch yesterday. Common decency forced me to give away…
Leilani Münter, vegetarian ARCA driver, will go green at Kansas Speedway
Race-car driver and former Catherine Zeta-Jones body double Leilani Münter will promote clean energy as she zips around the track during one of the upcoming races at Kansas Speedway. In the ARCA race on September 30, Münter will drive a car sponsored by Operation Free, a group of military veterans who advocate for energy independence and action on climate change….
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Bring Down the House
Elke Mermis was at the Midland Theater Tuesday night to catch Jones’ soulful performance. Read her review and check out pictures from the evening, taken by Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski.
You will not believe this little kid dancing to ‘Billie Jean’
of a little boy dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” is not fully viral as I write this Wednesday night, but I’m fairly confident everybody on the internet will have seen it by the end of the day Thursday. The kid is maybe two or three years old (?), and you’ve never in your life seen footwork, or sexually unaware…
Our alien moon base, Gerald Ford’s pedophilia, and 20 other unlikely claims from The Untold History of America
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 Untold History of America: 1492 – 1963 Author: Ray Bilger Date: 1996 Publisher: “Phoenix Source Distributors,” which is probably just Ray Bilger Discovered at: Savers, Overland…
Louis Sullivan: The Search for American Architecture
It’s undoubtedly — and unfortunately — a niche audience that will be interested in the life and career of Louis Sullivan, the architect who created the skyscraper and coined the phrase “form follows every function” (shortened over time to “form follows function”). Born in 1856, Sullivan was a genius who enrolled at MIT at the age of 16, then dropped…
You Again
There’s a dance-off in You Again that pits the four lead female characters against one another in what’s meant to be a laugh-riot of chaotic bad moves. Instead, you cringe in embarrassment — not just for the lifelessness of the scene, but for the actresses giving it their all, especially Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver, who deserve so much…
Pinalcchio: Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County deputy’s high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn’t add up
Pinalcchio: Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County deputy’s high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn’t add up A Pinal County sheriff’s sergeant is discussing Deputy Louie Puroll, who famously claimed on April 30 that a Latino drug smuggler shot him in the desert. “I can’t speak for our sheriff ,” Dave Hausman says, “but I can…
Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway
Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway is a musical revue featuring some of Broadway’s most well-known songs and stars. Thu., Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Neil Berg, Night & Day
Goal Determination
KC fans seeking a lesson in perseverance need look no further than Wizards midfielder and striker Birahim Diop. New York coach Octavio Zambrano discovered Diop and persuaded New York to sign the Senegalese immigrant for the reserve squad. Cut from New York after just four games, Diop never gave up. He traveled and became familiar with work-permit restrictions throughout the…
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