Getting the word out…in a small way The Majestic Restaurant at 931 Broadway is best known as a traditional Kansas City steakhouse, but for the last three weeks the venue has been serving full breakfasts in its century-old dining room. It’s an appealing room for a breakfast meeting: quiet, elegant and sophisticated (yes, you can get an espresso with…
KJHK’s annual Farmer’s Ball has announced its competitors for 2010. It’s two nights long — Thursday, October 21, and Friday, October 22, and the audience votes on the winner. Check the contestants after the jump! Categories: Music Tags: farmer’s ball, Farmers’ Ball, KJHK
Jesse Ventura fears the Montauk Monster will show up in Kansas. The season premiere of Jesse “The Body” Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory went on the offensive against moving the Plum Island Animal Disease Center to Kansas. The controversial Plum Island facility is off the coast of Long Island and the thought of moving it to Kansas shocked the former boa…
We all have our breaking points — even gorgeous and charismatic teen idols like my boy Justin Bieber. You push a teen, and push a teen, and push a teen, and at some point that teen is going to snap. It looks as though that might have happened over the weekend at a laser tag facility in British Columbia, where Bieber…
Keep your eyes on the sky, Sarah. We all hang on to memories that we wise were captured in some way. Sarah Julson’s lucky she has a friend like Michelle Brost, who recorded Julson telling what some might consider a once-traumatic but now-funny story about going to Worlds of Fun and bird poop and animated it. Watch the video…
Last week, we Single Filed the new ACB’s track, “Boy Like Me.” On Saturday, the band premiered the video for the song at a show at Crosstown Station with Cowboy Indian Bear and the Prids. Were you there? Did you see it? I didn’t. But I just did right now, because it’s up on the internet. I won’t give away the…
You probably think a rock, chalk, something-rape joke goes here. Fuck you. Early Wednesday morning, a University of Kansas student was raped in an on-campus parking lot. There’s a lot of disgust and anger being expressed, but the one emotion that none of the students seem to be feeling is shock. “I’m not surprised,” KU student Rachel Thomas told…
Saturday, the Bloodz were at the Replay in Lawrence, and yesterday they posted a little video tour diary thing on Facebook that features them smoking a bunch of weed and counting money. Hopefully it’s a recurring feature? Categories: Music Tags: Bleach Bloodz
%{}% Joe Buck and everyone else who lives in St. Louis think they’re so cosmopolitan. We had baseball in the 1880s. We made Jon Hamm. We built a stainless-steel arch to make the obvious point that the Mississippi River is a notable piece of geography. The snooty comments, it turns out, are passing through some nasty-ass teeth. MensHealth.com says St….
%{}% The third episode of The Next Iron Chef wasn’t about the other competitors. This week, it was chef Celina Tio versus the flaming plastic mixing bowl. And in a move that perfectly displayed the theme’s episode of “resourcefulness,” we learned that the chef at Julian can even handle molten plastic. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
“A broken heart doesn’t have to mean the end of the world, or the apocalypse,” said Sufjan Stevens to the Uptown’s hushed crowd last night. “It always feels like it, huh?” For Stevens, it sounds like the apocalypse, too. The singer-songwriter filled the Uptown last night with his haunting cacophony, filled with fragments of madness, sorrow, and delicate beauty. Categories:…
%{}% Last week we talked about the Tennessee fire department that let a man’s house burn to the ground because he hadn’t paid protection money, and the rightbloggers who thought this was a laudable example of free market justice. This week they celebrated another free market triumph — though at least this time it had to do with people…
It felt like a prank call. Nervously dialing the number for a local liquor store, hoping the clerk who answered could settle a bar bet simply by saying the store’s name. Ostensibly calling to find out the hours, my dinner companion was hoping to discover the correct pronunciation of Berbiglia. “Burr-big-lia,” answered the clerk at 4500 Belleview Road. “Burr-buhh-hmmm,” said…
Twin Cities rapper Eyedea is dead at 28. He died early Sunday morning, just a month shy of his 29th birthday, of causes that are yet unknown. Here’s what our sister paper, Minneapolis’ City Pages, has to say about the rapper’s death. Micheal “Eyedea” Larsen, a longtime Rhymesayer, singer, lyricist and fixture in the indie hip-hop scene died early this…
We need to stop messing with produce. It is not our final food frontier. It’s the staple that’s supposed to balance out all of the other things we put in our body. But Grapples (pronounced grape-ulls) are testing those boundaries by changing the taste of apples. The produce section is getting a makeover, and I’m worried that we’re about to…
Tonight: Empathize with a lovable loser. She & Her Productions presents You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Crane Building. Tuesday: Pick out a pumpkin. Local patches are ripe and ready to sell you a homegrown future jack-o-lantern. Categories: News
The case of the missing recipes One of the most popular restaurants in the Kansas City metro during the Reagan administration was the Prospect of Westport, a stylish bistro in the heart of what was then Kansas City’s only true entertainment district. This week, veteran local chef Richard McPeake e-mailed me with a request for a long-forgotten recipe collection…
Andre Johnson gives Brandon Flowers a little push. A couple of weeks back, the Kansas City Chiefs were riding high as the only undefeated team in pro football. What a difference a few weeks make. After yesterday’s defensive collapse against the Houston Texans — giving up 21 points in the fourth quarter for a 35-31 loss — the Chiefs…
