Archives: November 2010
Wolf Parade promenades at the Granada tonight
Seattle Weekly writer Hannah Levin recently asserted that if Neutral Milk Hotel had continued making music after 1998’s masterpiece, In an Aeroplane Over the Sea, the group would sound a bit like Wolf Parade now. It’s an argument that might raise eyebrows (and heckles) from many of Jeff Mangum’s dedicated followers, but it’s a thought-provoking one. After all, Wolf Parade’s…
The top five things a fast food receipt should say
A man orders a Double Whopper with cheese, onion rings and a small drink. He pays. He looks down at his receipt. He then notices that his receipt has a two-word printed message, “F*ck You.” The Internet goes crazy. Offensive messages on receipts are old hat. (The Consumerist has a collection of horror stories from the past few years.) It…
Fifth grader actually listens in safety class, steps up after fiery bus crash (video)
Imagine you’re 10 years old and your school bus collides head-on with an SUV. The bus is on fire. The SUV is demolished, its driver dead. Five of your classmates are injured. What would you do? If you’re anything like the fifth-grade version of Plog, you would, in a calm and orderly fashion, pee yourself, gather your baseball cards (yeah,…
The Art of Smokology and four other weekend possibilities
There is an art to smoking meat. You just need a nice side of beef and wood chips instead of paint and a canvas. Executive chef Richard McPeake is teaching the Art of Smokology at 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Culinary Center of Kansas City. This four-hour class (good smoking takes time) is about all the basics of smoking…
Flo’s Cabaret wants to party on, but a neighboring church is being a drag
John Koop, aka Flo, the effervescent host of Flo’s Cabaret at 1911 Main Street, wants to extend the bar’s 1:30 a.m. license so he can stay open until 3 a.m. Koop’s crowds come from all over the Midwest to drink, dine and take in his outrageous drag show, he says, but once the performances end at midnight, folks leave Flo’s…
Ces Cru’s new video for ‘Float’ is good fun
It finally arrived yesterday. Directed by Justin Marmorstein, it’s a bright, shiny, affair with cameos from local hip-hop names like Miles Bonny, Bro Mo, and others. Categories: Music Tags: CES Cru
Shearwater’s at the Jackpot in Lawrence tonight
The first 10,000 copies of the latest album from Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago, came with an accompanying 50-page book. If that isn’t daunting enough, the album itself is. The quiet, understated music builds to an apex of euphoria — that is, if you stick around long enough to listen. In the beginning, Shearwater was Okkervil River’s quiet little brother, formed…
A brief turkey moratorium is the proper way to prepare for Thanksgiving
I’ve made the rookie mistake of ordering a turkey sandwich in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. I was hungry in the airport. I was looking to avoid something fried. That’s how I found myself mouth deep in a slightly soggy turkey sub from Quizno’s on Thanksgiving eve. And when it came time to use an oversized, two-tined fork to…
Two water-related weekend activities, plus a nighttime party and biking for charity
Wondering what to do this weekend? 1. Put on your swimsuit one last time before the winter weight-gain totally sets in. Thanksgiving isn’t for a few more days, which means your stuffing isn’t showing yet, and therefore you still stand a chance of enticing someone to take you home for the holidays. At the very least, maybe you can entice…
Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura may have been right about not wanting the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Kansas
Maybe Jesse “The Body” Ventura was right about the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. A report released by the National Research Council earlier this week questioned the plans to build the facility in Manhattan, Kansas. They not doubt watched the former Minnesota governor’s episode of Conspiracy Theory on the plans to move the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (which is…
Hate turkey? Detest dressing? Here are some alternative Thanksgiving ideas
Yes, it’s completely un-American to admit this — so please don’t tell Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity — but there are people who don’t like the traditional food served at Thanksgiving feasts. I’ll confess: I’m one of them. I find turkey to be bland and boring, I’m allergic to sweet potatoes, and I’ve never understood the fascination with the visually…
Comment of the Day: The Crap Archivist gets an answer to whether Am I Normal? meets the crap litmus test
Crap Archivist Alan Scherstuhl asked earlier today if 1983’s Am I Normal? is crap. Scherstuhl was perplexed because Am I Normal? appears to be “well-intentioned” but often comes with bizarre explanations for puberty. One of the city’s best bloggers, JJS in KCK, came through with a concise answer. “Not crap” for its reassuring tone and honest (if amateur) explanations. “Crap”…
Renee Kelly hires chef Nick Jonjevic from Ophelia’s Restaurant
Lawyer Ken McClain wasn’t very happy when Marshall Roth, the executive corporate chef over his Independence restaurants (Ophelia’s, Square Pizza, Cafe Verona), jumped ship earlier this year to open a hot dog restaurant in downtown Kansas City. In fact, he’s suing ex-employees Roth and Harry Blasco over Dog Nuvo. Today comes another high-profile defection from the McClain restaurants: Nick Jonjevic,…
Bambi is going to die in Shawnee Mission Park … again
Remember all of the controversy over culling deer in Shawnee Mission Park? The deer head of Victoria? The buckets of blood? Birth control for deer? It was so much fun last year that we’re going to do it all over again. The Johnson County Parks and Rec board voted Wednesday to thin the herd by 33 deer, according to the…
The Flatlanders’ legend burned through Knuckleheads last night
The winds of West Texas blew through Knuckleheads last night. Along with it came Texas legends the Flatlanders: Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Joe Ely. Also along for the ride was soon to be Texas legend in his own right: newcomer Colin Gilmore — Jimmie Dale’s son. Categories: Music Tags: Colin Gilmore, The Flatlanders
The dry-humping manager and other restaurant tales
Yesterday, our sister paper in St. Louis, the Riverfront Times, ran a post on its Daily RFT blog about an Alton restaurant manager who paid a big price — a $75,000 settlement — for sexually harassing a teenage hostess (including, she alleged, dry humping her from behind at the hostess stand). The manager was — surprise! — a member of…
West Edge project finally, maybe, sort of on track to be seemingly completed, it seems
The long-ago-stalled West Edge project, a hotel and office development near the Plaza, looks to be on the verge of maybe getting completed sometime sooner or later. Perhaps. The project started in 2005, when ad man Bob Bernstein teamed up with the city to build a hotel and headquarters for his agency. But four years later it fell apart when…
American Airlines serves up happy hour at 30,000 feet
Drinking on airplanes doesn’t have a lot of cache these days. It’s stadium prices and a fairly strict two-drink maximum. You’re not flying to party — you’re simply a party on board an airplane. So I got a little revved up when I saw that American Airlines would be introducing a happy-hour promotion in December. I might as well have…
Roderick W. Lloyd reports his roommate, James M. Elrod, gets charged with murder
Roderick W. Lloyd called police and claimed that he’d found his roommate dead in their apartment at 1100 Paseo on January 16. Police found 58-year-old James M. Elrod’s body between the kitchen and the living room. Elrod “had numerous cuts and bruises on his face and body and a portion of his hair was singed.” It’s about to get weird…
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