Food is such a strong culture identifier, but I never thought about what an American ethnic section would look like in a European grocery store. Simone Haruko Smith filmed the above video in the “USA section” of a Berlin grocer, and just 45 seconds into the video, one Kansas City product takes a starring turn. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
A sixer can be a weapon. Some people just don’t know how to take rejection. A Lawrence man didn’t take kindly to being denied a beer early Saturday morning and that’s when trouble started. A 20-year-old man allegedly asked a friend of his live-in girlfriend for a beer, but the friend didn’t want to share. So the man supposedly…
Homegrown rapper Mac Lethal just returned from a tour of South Africa, where he played shows to crowds in Cape Town and Johannesburg. As tours go, that is a pretty legit one. He wisely shot some footage of his trip, and is sharing it with us all via his YouTube show “Keep It Irish.” Highlights: A showdown with an elephant,…
It’s 3 p.m. and you’re flagging in the office. That’s when you reach into your desk drawer and grab a waffle that has a liquid honey center. Lance Armstrong, co-owner of Honey Stinger, is the brains behind a new line of Stinger Waffles — an organic, honey-filled waffle meant to give you a boost of energy. Designed to be an…
Photo by Keith Allison Shaun Smith is accused of reaching out and touching Alex Mack in his private place. There’s gotta be an unwritten (or written) rule that you don’t yank another player’s crank during a game. Kansas City defensive lineman Shaun Smith allegedly didn’t get the message. Cleveland Browns center Alex Mack claims Smith, a former Browns player,…
It is a well-rounded group of individuals that report to you from this Wayward Blog. In addition to knowing certain things about music, we also enjoy drinking and eating delicious substances! The finest of tastes, we have! And so it comes to pass that we bring you news of the Westend Stampede, a benefit walk through western Midtown establishments complete…
Myrna Orozco will likely have to protest longer. Remember a few months ago when some Kansas City area students were arrested for protesting Congress’ refusal to vote on the DREAM Act? For a moment this week, it looked those resilient kids actually forced our elected officials to do something when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he’s going to…
Dan Le Batard, Miami Herald sports writer and longtime friend of former Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock, was quoted in Sunday’s New York Times saying, of Whitlock, “I try not to burn bridges, but he napalms them. He’s fundamentally unafraid.” To which Whitlock responded, via Twitter: “LeBatard is my boy. Don’t get it twisted. He has a right to…
Do you eat, breathe and sleep music? Are you a confident, witty writer? Are you well-acquainted with Kansas City’s local music scene? Well, bully for you! You should apply to be an intern for the Wayward blog. The Pitch, Kansas City’s alternative weekly newspaper, is looking for college interns. Categories: Music Tags: Intern action, Wayward Blog
Remain calm. All is well — even if Jackson County is behind on more than $2.5 million in stadium payments to the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals. County officials sound like Kevin Bacon’s character, Chip Diller, in Animal House as they try to reassure us that the teams haven’t threatened to move … yet. The Kansas City Star reported over…
Highbrow rag Lapham’s Quarterly has resurrected a quote from John Berger, an English novelist and critic, about how every city can be characterized as a person. Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the…
Loyal readers, have you ever noticed how Jason Harper’s 2008 post about Danny Trejo doing a cameo in the Tech N9ne video for “Like Yeah” consistently appears as our blog’s most popular story? Look to your right — it’s there as we speak, taunting us. To compete, I bring you this: Tech N9ne will appear in Danny Trejo’s upcoming “indie”…
Image via Flickr “We covered! Woo-hoo!” Our weekly experiment in sports gambling homerism, where we track what would happen if you only bet on the home teams. Last week, we proved that in the arbitrary world of sports gambling, you can get just as rich betting on your hometown teams as you can betting on the “winners” those tout…
Local filmmaker (and self-described beard enthusiast) Justin Parlette — one of the local horror ‘heads behind this summer’s zombie apocalypse web series, Dead Wait — will chat with Ben Folds on the internet this week. They’ll talk about Folds’ new collaboration with Nick Hornby, Lonely Avenue (which is out on September 28 on Nonesuch Records). Categories: Music Tags: ben folds, Justin Parlette
Who among us has not thought about taking a job at the drive-in or a movie theater just for that one glorious moment when you can stick your head under the nacho cheese dispenser and discover your upper limit for the fake, spicy, cheeselike sauce? Well, Serious Eats wants to save you the embarrassment of a public firing with the…
The foccaccia is for sopping up the leftover gorgonzola cream sauce. To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. Osteria il Centro, the comfortable Italian bistro just south of the Country Club Plaza, leaves the more traditional Sicilian-American fare to its…
Chef Jasper Mirabile Jr. is on the hunt for great cannoli. The title of his upcoming book, On the Cannoli Trail, comes from his search for the perfect version of the classic Sicilian carnavale dessert: a pastry shell filled with ricotta cheese and sometimes blended with cream and sugar or orange flower water. It’s one of the many desserts he serves at…
%{}% The Kansas City Chiefs’ record is spotless after winning a 16-14 squeaker over the Cleveland Browns. At two-and-0, the Chiefs are already already halfway to matching last year’s pathetic win total of four. Credit Todd Haley for a gutsy call to go for it on fourth-and-inches at Cleveland’s 36-yard line with two minutes left in the game. Running back…
KCK police are looking for a killer. Update (10:20 a.m. September 20): The victim of Sunday’s homicide was 26-year-old Ediel Lazoya of Kansas City, Kansas. Original Story (7 a.m. September 20): Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a second homicide within the last two days. A Hispanic man was shot and killed inside a home in the 1100 block…
Speakeasies are all about secrets. But details keep leaking out about Manifesto’s plans for reopening at 1924 Main with the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange on the first floor. The Making of a Foodie has an interesting photo tour of the space, as well as interviews with Manifesto’s Ryan Maybee and new partner Howard Hanna (a partnership that Fat City’s…
When Christine O’Donnell beat Mike Castle last week to become the GOP nominee in the Delaware Senatorial race, a clown car pulled up and several bizarre O’Donnell quotes came piling out. The most famous of these, so far, are probably her remarks on the sure-fire comedy topics of masturbation and Satan worship. In another era, these might have caused…
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