%{}% On the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, some rightbloggers (including, we must admit, some of whom we never expected it) were actually somber, reflective, even moving. But most of them were their usual belligerent selves. Amid their howling one could make out a theme, appropriate to the era of the Burlington Coat Factory Mosque and Quran-threatening…
”Cosmic vibes, man,” said the drunk guy, reeling on the sidewalk. “Cosmic vibes!” It was rounding midnight, and there was a feeding frenzy inside the Crossroads Music Festival’s largest venue. Hearts of Darkness were funking it up inside Crosstown Station, and the Good Foot was close at the Afro-beat ensemble’s heels. After throngs of people coursed through various nooks and…
There are a few new ways to get some sauce on your jersey at Arrowhead Stadium this season. Topping the list is the new Red and Gold Short Rib Melt — an $11 two-hander that starts with a mound of pulled short ribs. Between two pieces of Parmesan-crusted toast. You’ll also find grilled onions and melted Havarti and white American…
Chef Tito Le Chef Chef Tito Le Chef — that’s the name on his business cards — sees cooking and dining as theater. That’s not so unusual. But what makes Chef Tito (real name: Vasilio Dios) an actual performer is that his 8-month-old restaurant, the Latin Bistro & Culinary Center (6924 North Oak Trafficway), is designed almost like a stage….
Video editng skills > rap skills Deadspin.com calls this “The Worst Mizzou Volleyball Team Rap Ever.” Wait, there’s more than one? Evidently, the University of Missouri women’s volleyball team has it’s own cheering section. They call themselves VolleyZOU. And they made a rap. One thing’s for sure: somebody’s getting an A in video editing. Categories: News Tags: Missouri Tigers,…
Cowboy Indian Bear has added a new face to its lineup: Lawrence crooner Katlyn Conroy. Though she’s recorded with the band in the past — like on its recent album, Each Other All The Time — now, her beautiful voice will be a permanent feature on the indie-pop group’s roster. Categories: Music Tags: cowboy indian bear, Katlyn Conroy
Pavement September 11, 2010 Uptown Theater In a rare show of scene solidarity, the single complaint I’ve heard about Pavement’s Saturday night show at the Uptown is that the band didn’t play “Summer Babe,” the opening track on its debut, Slanted & Enchanted. Aside from that, it seems that everyone is in complete agreement: The show was amazing, fantastic, awesome…
Icarus flew too close to the sun. The modern day retelling of the legend has man attempting to put the entire sun in his mouth. A British grower has apparently produced the world’s hottest pepper, the Infinity Chilli. The stats are on this pepper are alarming. It measures 1,176,182 on the Scoville scale, which rates the heat of a given…
Franklin B Thompson The University of Kansas ranked No. 9 on the list. Students at the University of Kansas and University of Missouri have more going for them besides die-hard sports fans, comely co-eds and confused grandpas in fisherman’s hats. Lawrence, Kansas, and Columbia, Missouri, made the American Institute for Economic Research’s top 20 “college towns with fewer than…
Stephen Donnell Stealing an ATA bus and burning it up is a pretty epic crime. I mean, isn’t driving a bus different than any other vehicle? Stephen Donnell, 46, is accused of playing bus driver last Friday, leading KCK cops on a chase, forgetting the parking brake was on and burning the bus up. He was finally arrested in…
James Silke claimed he was too drunk. “Real men get in naked,” Kansas City police officer James Silke is accused of telling his son’s 19-year-old friend after allegedly getting him drunk and trying to entice him into a hot tub. That was after Silke, 52, allegedly fed the teen shot after shot of rum, according to KMBC Channel 9….
Montra Johnson was killed at a bus stop. The man shot to death at an east-side bus stop last week has been identified as 36-year-old Montra Johnson. His death marked Kansas City, Missouri’s 79th homicide of 2010. Johnson’s body was discovered at a bus stop at 12th and Brooklyn over the lunch hour last Thursday. He was declared dead…
Life without cable TV has introduced me to Prince Poppycock. The ‘Cock, in all his sequined, whitefaced glory will be coming to the Midland on October 15th as a part of America’s Got Talent Live. Categories: Music Tags: America’s Got Talent Live, creepy folk, Prince Poppycock, Sharon Osbourne
Brian Spoonemore Sing it, girl! To say I love drag queens is akin to saying Kansas City likes its barbeque. A duh, it goes without saying. The bravada, the costumes, the lip syncing to divas of decades past… they give us natural born ladies a run for our dolla dolla bills, y’all. In honor of this weekend’s Second Annual…
Hafeway Home Pet Adoptions is having a sale like you’ve never seen! The city’s shelter at 4400 Raytown Road is 30 dogs over capacity, so they’ve decided to have a huge adoption special today, Saturday and Sunday, with half price adoptions ($40 or $50, depending on the dog, instead of their usual $100 fee). That fee includes spay/neuter, shots, vet…
Sen. Claire McCaskill is not one to pussyfoot around her opinions, unlike a certain president we know. If you do something she doesn’t like, ClaireBear will let you know. Take a bureaucratic dump all over Arlington National Cemetery, McCaskill will smack you down in a public congressional hearing. Have an affair and exploit your wife’s cancer for positive media coverage,…
Of the mind that reporters are going the way of blacksmiths, the Kansas Department of Education plans to stop funding journalism courses with vocational-ed dollars. State officials want the Career and Technical Education fund to emphasize “high-demand, high-skill and high-wage fields,” according to a report in The Topeka Capital-Journal. The journalism profession does not fit this criteria, a fact made…
A relish tray to relish I was in my hometown of Indianapolis last week and stopped for dinner at the 82-year-old Hollyhock Hill Restaurant. It’s the Circle City’s version of Stroud’s, though much more genteel and ladylike. Stroud’s, after all, started life as a raucous roadhouse. Hollyhock Hill was opened by a married couple in their home in 1928. But I…
