You can love this woman, just please don’t dress like her on October 31. Remember Halloween 2008, when every other dude walking around downtown was dressed up like Heath Ledger’s Joker? It was an army of conformist anarchists taking self-congratulatory pictures with each other from Power & Light to Westport. So in the interest of public service journalism, I’d…
Roger Waters is bringing his reimagined version of The Wall to Kansas City, just in time for Halloween. Could it be possible that Pink Floyd is reforming for charity, too? Despite Waters and David Gilmour’s bad blood, it seems like drummer Nick Mason thinks so. He told the BBC, “I think it would be a very nice way for a band…
Roy Blunt voted against the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act in September. And now, he’s facing the fallout. The bill, which hasn’t been passed by the senate, would pay for 9/11 first responders who inhaled all sorts of vile crap, and got sick because of it. Blunt, and 159 other members of Congress, voted against the $7.4 billion law…
It’s hard to imagine Bristol Palin and Portugal the Man occupying the same sphere of reality. Then again, we’ve come to expect weirdness from Wasilla, Alaska. Both the newly minted Dancing With the Stars contestant and the richly imaginative indie band hail from the same town. The difference? Whereas Palin’s clan is known for its small-minded politicking, Portugal the Man…
The battle between Independence lawyer and restaurateur Ken McClain and his former employees — upscale hot dog vendors Marshall Roth and Harry Blasco of Dog Nuvo — took an ugly turn earlier today when a restraining order filed by McClain forced Dog Nuvo to close, at least temporarily. Tempers reached a new boiling point this afternoon when Roth and…
We only want to see the good stuff The worst father in the entire world? Ronald Clark O’Bryan — the notorious “Candyman” of suburban Houston who, in 1974, planted a cyanide-tainted Pixie Stick in his own 8-year-old son’s bag of Halloween treats in order to collect on a life insurance policy. Ronald was executed by lethal injection a decade…
A pastor’s son says his pit bulls couldn’t have killed his father. The Rev. John Reynolds’ body was found mauled to death in a pen of pit bulls that his son was raising. Sounds pretty cut and dry, right? Not exactly. Authorities in Callaway County are investigating the 84-year-old pastor’s death and the pastor’s son, also named John Reynolds,…
Bill Self, the Kansas Jayhawks basketball coach, dressed up as the disturbingly still-famous Vanilla Ice to talk about his career as coach for the last seven years. Justin Kendall has the full story over at The Plog: “Yo, Allen Fieldhouse,” Bill Self, pretending to be Vanilla Ice and wearing a crooked backward hat, gold chain and gold jumpsuit, asked the…
%{}% An especially violent football Sunday — which peaked with the head-on collision of DeSean Jackson and Dunta Robinson (video below) — has once again sent the NFL searching for ways to limit the game’s brain-scrambling hits. That, in turn, has further scrambled the brains of local radio sports squawkers, who manage to say even more really outlandish shit than…
This weekend, head down to the West Bottoms for a video shoot full of, well, sexy accidents. The local band, The Sexy Accident, is shooting a continuous, one-shot music video that sounds a lot like the labor-intensive, perpetually awesome efforts of OK Go. Categories: Music Tags: The Sexy Accident, video shoots
I can count on one hand the things I truly miss about Brooklyn. At the top of the list are two of my dietary staples — cheap, good Thai food and Yuengling Traditional Lager. So with the news that Yuengling has agreed to purchase a former Coors plant in Memphis, Tennessee, and KC Beer Blog wondering what inspires such love…
Ebony Tusks is a new side project from Marty Hillard of Cowboy Indian Bear and Oh! Mr. fame. “Sioux Empire” is definitely not the icy, groovy indie rock CIB fans know so well — Hillard’s rapping on this track, and he’s joined by MORRI$ from Team Bear Club. Listening to it on my iTunes, it alphabetically bled into an Edan album…
A home invasion in south KC has one family moving. Here’s a real horror story: Four men kicked down the door of a woman’s apartment with guns drawn looking for money and weed on Sunday afternoon. Problem was, the guys busted into the wrong person’s apartment. The Star reports that the men charged the screaming woman and forced her…
Food theft: the No. 1 topic of passive aggressive notes. Other than the risk of being killed in your sleep, the worst thing about living with someone you barely know is that she might steal your food. But even if tough times force some of us to bunk with virtual strangers, we can worry just a little less about…
The Missouri Republican Party has filed the world’s prissiest ethics complaint against state Rep. Jason Kander. Kander, a Democrat who lives in Waldo, has made ethics reform one of his priorities. His efforts to make Jefferson City a less scuzzy place leave him open to charges of hypocrisy — or so Lloyd Smith, executive director of the state GOP, thinks….
The claims against KC’s police academy instructors are no joke. A former Kansas City police cadet is suing the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Police Commissioners and five of her instructors for sexual discrimination. Crystal Henley claims she was targeted for discrimination when she enrolled in the police academy in May 2005 and “suffered humiliation, loss, physical injury, medical…
Well, everyone, the bar just got a little lower. Ke$ha — singer, pop star, professional dirty girl — has added a gold tooth to her already-classy get-up. This got us thinking: what other body modifications would be fitting to add to artists’ aesthetics? Here’s a list of five body modifications, and who should get ’em. Categories: Music Tags: body mod,…
From left: Skudra, Roth and Blasco are in a hot dogfight over hot dogs. Instead of hustling in the kitchen and grilling hot dogs for the lunch crowd, which typically gathers outside the glass doors of Dog Nuvo at 1724 Main, chef Marshall Roth and his business partner, Harry Blasco, sit in the sun at one of the cafe…
If you were at Kid Cudi’s show last night and you missed the rapper’s release date for his second album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, then you must have been fucking wasted. Kid Cudi — whose real name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi — must have shouted, rapped and repeated the date November 9th at…
Olathe builder Donald Bell Sr. has taken a well-deserved ribbing for positioning himself as Jesus’ moneychanger. Bell has claimed that God told him to buy a bank, an assertion discredited by Friday’s news that regulators had closed Security Savings Bank, which Bell built up after receiving his supposedly divine revelation in 1998. The failure of Security Savings is more than…
