Looking to up the ante on this year’s Halloween party? You can do better than fake cobwebs from Michaels and an iTunes download of “Monster Mash.” You’re better than that. What you’re gonna need is you’re gonna need some brains — bloody, delicious brains, and plenty of ’em. That, and Written in Blood, Nate Ashley’s seriously amazing compilation of “romantically macabre…
Zack Greinke is on the trading block. Well, sort of. The Kansas City Royals are willing to listen to offers. That much we already knew. But now we know that Greinke has a no-trade clause in his contract, which expires in 2012, that allows him to block deals to half of the league. Fox Sports reported that the 2009 Cy…
Life sometimes means eating lunch at an Applebee’s in Liberty, Missouri. The service was prompt. The menu was expansive. Over the course of an hour in a corner booth, I understood why Applebee’s is packed on Friday nights. But in the same hour that I spent in the company of a chicken fajita roll-up, I watched the perfectly capable serving…
The Kansas City Chiefs’ sack master Shaun Smith won’t be fined $10,000 for grabbing an opposing player’s balls. The NFL fined Smith $10k after San Francisco 49ers rookie right tackle Anthony Davis accused him of pulling his purple-headed yogurt slinger. Categories: News Tags: ball grabbing, kansas city chiefs, nfl, Shaun Smith
Since September 28, Patrick Brown has been daily adding to YouTube a variety of clips he gathered while putting together the Kansas City Reggae Uprising Film, a documentary about the local reggae community. (Watch them here.) Brown’s doing it to build up anticipation of the film’s premiere, which now has an official date and venue. Categories: Music Tags: DJ Jabberock,…
You ring the bell. You step back from the screen door. And you prepare to say those three little words. This is the world’s best moment of anticipation. The door will open, and a candy basket will appear. And in that basket lies the possibility of candy nirvana. What follows are the top five candy choices, bar none. No substitutes…
Live to ride, ride to live. This September, I spent three days in a field in Urich, Missouri, fighting the elements, stray motorcycles, and a violent drunk with one dead eye to bring you the true story of one man’s dream to give Kansas City a good biker rally (“Field of Dirty Dreams”). But words are limited in a…
Just like Thanksgiving, but flourless Sherree Ross, a local certified holistic health coach, likes to invite friends to her home for the holidays but prefers not to make separate meals for her friends with dietary restrictions. “Last year, I had friends with allergies to gluten, onion, mushrooms and nuts at my table,” she says. “And I made dishes we…
A gorilla is on the loose? UPDATE: Sueko the chimpanzee has a new home. The chimp won’t be returned to her owner and instead will be housed at the Kansas City zoo. Read the update after the jump and watch the dash cam video … Categories: News Tags: chimpanzee, Monkey Island
How many people does it take to design a better paper cup? For Starbucks, the answer is likely thousands. Fast Company has the extended saga of the coffee giant’s quest to design and feature a completely recyclable cup. To that end, Starbucks has held a series of Cup Summits, inviting coffee competitors and searching for answers to the waste created…
Joel Thomas, a new suspect in the Tutera murder. Idiocy draws a crowd. Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar announced on Wednesday that two additional men have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Michael Tutera. Tutera was found dead in the garage of his Sunset Drive home in May, the victim of a botched robbery….
ack in August, we told y’all about Alive and Well, the EP from Stik Figa and D/Will that you can still download for free. Today, we bring you the video for “Whutupwidit,” a track from the EP. “Whutupwidit” is one of those songs that makes you wonder how Stik (and a few other emcees kicking it around town) haven’t blown…
Remember the $787 billion spending behemoth passed by Congress last year to supposedly prop our nation up and slide us like a greased pig through the recession? Democrats more or less called the stimulus a necessary evil. Republicans screamed their heads off about how it would bankrupt the country and that the Four Horsemen would be galloping toward Capitol Hill…
Listen — just once — to Free Energy’s radio single, “Bang Pop.” That’s all it takes for the refrain to lodge itself in your brain for six hours or so. The band’s glam boogie is full of the bad-beer fizz that teenage dreams should be made of. Categories: Music Tags: DFA, free energy
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. I Predict 2000 A.D. Author: Lester Sumrall Date: 1987 Publisher: LeSea Publishing. Great Bend, Indiana Discovered at: Goodwill The Cover Asks: “Will Russia attack Israel before 2000…
Return to the Sunflower State is a show of works by Jeremy Rockwell, Paul Flinders and Yuri Zupancic. Tue., Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m., 2010 Tags: Jeremy Rockwell, Night & Day, Paul Flinders, Yuri Zupancic
Local musicians gather at the VALA Gallery to raise awareness for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and pay tribute to Kansas Music Hall of Fame Inductee, Beth Scalet. The concert will benefit the National MS Society Midwest Chapter and the VALA Gallery community programs. Kathryn Lorenzen, Alan White, Doc Fuller, 8 Miles Down, Jeanne Jasperse, Heather Thornton, Jem Razz, Elaine McMilian, Jen…
The Beast (1401 West 13th Street, 816-842-4280) is billed as America’s largest haunted house. Although we’re not sure what organization audits all of America’s haunted houses for square footage, we’ll just report that, according to U.S. government sources, the Beast is a 40-minute tour of horrors, including a quarter-acre werewolf forest, a section of London streets in which you may…
This contemporary comedy won the Theatre Critics’ Association award for best new play. Jane Martin’s understanding of the complexity of being in love, her fair portrayal of both sides of the partnership and her stunning, roll-off-the-tongue dialogue make this modern, all but fairy-tale romance an undeniably entertaining and brutally honest portrait of the couple in love. Fri., Oct. 22, 7:30…
