Your date could be over by the end of the first course, when you discover she’s all about butter greens. It’ll never work: You’re a wedge guy. Welcome to the world of dating as defined by our salad compatibility. The Independent writes that Just Salad — a create-your-own-salad restaurant in Hong Kong and New York City — has launched a…
Kris Kobach doesn’t want your immigrant baby mucking up his country anymore. The Republican candidate for Kansas secretary of state held a press conference yesterday to announce that his newest sure-to-fail pet project will be to Wite-Out the part of the 14th Amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States regardless of their parents’ status —…
mysterious clothing company named Gather Us In has printed up some epic sweatshirts in anticipation of the Monsters of Yacht Dukes of September Rhythm Revue tour featuring — you damn well know — Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. Which, by the way, is this Saturday at Starlight, baby! You’re really gonna wanna check these sweatshirts out. I’ve already placed…
Ariel Rosenberg (better known as Ariel Pink) has found modest success and acclaim in obscure, eight-track bedroom recordings. That hardly makes him an anomaly in today’s music landscape. Critics and tastemakers have an unfortunate habit of prematurely ejaculating over the perceived “authenticity” of those practicing the lo-fi, DIY aesthetic, confusing unsophisticated production with righteous artistry. But Pink is truly a…
%{}% Trader Joe’s fans’ pleas have been answered. The Kansas City Star’s Joyce Smith reports that Trader Joe’s plans to open two locations in the Kansas City area in 2011. The quirky grocery chain will apparently take over the former Staples location at Ward Parkway Center (8600 Ward Parkway) and the space that was originally intended to house a Dean…
Remember the Record Machine Summer Showcase with Soft Reeds, Cowboy Indian Bear and Motorboater? A fine evening of local music, that was. But that was not a few weeks ago, even though it seems like it — it was all the way back in July! So long ago, in fact, that the Record Machine already has another bash lined up. Do…
Have pad, will travel… An editorial in today’s New York Times asks: “Are there jobs that can’t be outsourced?” Well, yes: service jobs, like cooks, waiters, waitresses and bartenders. I mean, I suppose Applebee’s could arrange to have a line cook in New Delhi prepare provolone-stuffed meatballs with fettuccine for a customer in Lee’s Summit, but that customer might…
It’s not that Greg Wald could have predicted the surprising wins by Tea Party-backed candidates in the September 14 primaries in Delaware and New York. But Wald, the third-generation owner of All Nations Flag Company Inc., on Fifth Street in the River Market, had one indication. He’s been selling a lot of the yellow Gadsden flag, which is printed with…
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. Young Physique Magazine Date: August, 1961 Publisher: Body Builder Publications Discovered at: Olathe estate sale The Cover Promises: “Behold my mighty branch!” Representative Quote: “Coming across a…
Magic Kids belong to the legion of young artists sucking inspiration from ’60s pop — Phil Spector’s horn- and string-laden symphonies, two-minute Brill Building paeans and the Beach Boys’ harmonies. Last month’s full-length debut, Memphis, takes its name from the band’s hometown and follows up on a pair of buzzworthy singles (“Hey Boy,” “Superball”). The album channels endless summer and…
Arena Football is coming back to Kansas City next year, but the Kansas City Brigade is grounded — permanently. But three seasons do not make for an illustrious history. No, the new Kansas City Arena Football League franchise will receive a moniker from one (hopefully) creative fan. The franchise is taking suggestions NOW (post ’em below, too). So go vote….
M. Night Shyamalan wrote this twisty straw story of sin, punishment and redemption, in which five strangers — a biddy, a princess, a security guard, an ex-marine, and a mattress salesman — find themselves stuck together in an inaccessible high-rise elevator. When, under cover of periodic blackouts, mere inconvenience takes a violent turn, Detective Bowden (Chris Messina) is brought in…
The Royals and the Chiefs receive almost all of the attention devoted to professional sports in this town. That’s a shame because the Kansas City Wizards may succeed where their brethren have failed by qualifying for a playoff appearance. The Wizards continue their attempt to enter the Major League Soccer playoffs when they play the Houston Dynamo at 7:30 p.m….
Organizers have varied, and the name has changed. There even was a hiatus. But this year’s Kansas City Improv Festival marks the 10th time that master wits with impeccable timing have gathered here to celebrate the art of spontaneous hilarity. We are now into the 2010 festival’s second week. The giggles begin at 8 p.m. at the Off Center Theatre…
Michael Byron, who graduated from KCAI in 1977 with a B.F.A. degree in sculpture, is a professor of painting at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Spain and Mexico. He was selected for the…
Bestselling author Terry McMillan discusses her latest novel Getting to Happy, the follow-up to Waiting to Exhale. Tue., Sept. 21, 7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day, Terry McMillan
Those who think that intellectuals are snobby elitists have a prime example in author Jonathan Franzen. He snubbed Oprah in 2001 — after she endorsed his best-seller The Corrections. The controversy culminated in her formally uninviting him to be a guest on her show and him claiming that the media had taken some of his comments out of context. Pish…
Tribute Burn The Kansas City Chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) holds its annual Hemp Fest at Shelter 3 in Swope Park (Meyer Boulevard and Swope Parkway). It’s a day of music and marijuana mobilization in the sun. Among the musical acts are Harmony Lovell and Mojo Lotus, and the speakers include peace activist…
From dusk until midnight, Brush Creek (Ward Parkway and Broadway) will be alight. No, no one is setting afire the effluvium along the aptly nicknamed Flush Creek. This is the fourth year for WaterFire, which would be a spectacle if only for its 55 floating bonfires. But the event, designed by award-winning artist Barnaby Evans, is also a multimedia extravaganza…
Let’s consider dance as an art form. Rating it on a scale from low to high art, with stripping at the low end and The Nutcracker at the top, where do has-been celebs in the ballroom fit? Never mind. The question is irrelevant to the fact that some bona fide awesome dancers spring forth from the stage at the Folly…
Lanford Wilson’s Hot l Baltimore debuted in 1973, when municipalities faced bankruptcy and inner cities suffered from inflation and white flight. It finds new relevance in our era of mass foreclosures, emptying neighborhoods and record unemployment. The Hotel Baltimore — once elegant, now dilapidated (thus the marquee’s missing e) — is home to a community of prostitutes, dreamers and others,…
The 100 Men in Aprons event will raise funds and awareness for DeLaSalle Education Center, Kansas City’s oldest alternative school and the Gifted Hands Gift Shop Program, a domestic violence prevention program based out of Crown Center. Sat., Sept. 18, 4-7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Crown Center, DeLaSalle Education Center, Kansas City, Night & Day
