As Plog reported yesterday, George W. Bush is coming to Kansas City to promote his new book, which, judging from the coverage, is an unauthorized biography of Kanye West. The event is sold out, and from what I hear, Rainy Day owner Vivien Jennings likes to run the show at these things, so neither you nor Plog will get to…
The Noise FM moved from Lawrence to Chicago this summer, which was terrible news for fans of handsome men and muscular, danceable pop music. On December 11, the band returns, and for a good cause: the second annual Noise for Toys, at the Bottleneck. They’ve recruited some other very good local bands to play the show as well. Categories: Music…
Let’s try this again. Last week, the initial reports came in that two Kansas City police officers were fired upon in their patrol car. The thought of someone opening fire on police was a frightening one. Turned out that the officers were never in any danger. They’d heard a van backfire, thought they heard gunshots and started shooting at the…
Read Charles review of Jerry’s Cafe and try not to drool over all the primo diner food photographed by Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
This past fall, the University of Missouri officially launched its first guitar program, for both undergraduate and graduate students. It’s being overseen by classical guitarist, composer, and author Anthony Glise, and the program will allow music education, history, theory, and composition majors at Mizzou to choose guitar as their primary focus. Does that sound interesting to you? Why don’t you…
California illegal immigrants: 1, Kris Kobach: 0 Kobach lost his latest effort to tighten up immigration laws around the country on Monday, when the California Supreme Court upheld a state law that allows anybody — including illegal immigrants — who attended three years of high school in the state to pay significantly reduced tuition at state universities. Categories: News Tags:…
Kid Rock is coming to the Sprint Center on February 25. Cut-off jeans, trucker hats, guns, PBR, motorcycles, and Amurrrican pride: expect all these and more at this show. (And some bad tattoos, too, for good measure.) Either way, Kid Rock is one hell of a showman, and this is bound to be one big beer-flavored, decidedly un-classy party. If…
The neo-folksman will stop by Lawrence’s Liberty Hall on Friday, February 18. Josh Ritter is out on tour supporting his album that dropped earlier this year, So Runs the World Away. (It’s named after a line from Hamlet.) In other lit’ry news, Ritter is releasing his first novel in the summer of 2011, too. It’s called Bright’s Passage. Weird sidenote:…
Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock are all at Knuckleheads tonight, playing together as the Flatlanders. Here’s Rick Mason’s take on the Flatlanders’ legend: When the Flatlanders’ long-neglected first album was reissued in the early 1990s, it was called More a Legend Than a Band. Busy with solo careers, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock weren’t…
Public art. Casseroles. Recycled jeans. These are topics that radio host Jabulani Leffall has featured on recent episodes of Central Standard, his hour-long morning radio show on KCUR 89.3. This morning, though, Leffall broke the mold — and stressed out a few KCUR staffers — when he took on Markus Lee as his guest. The 26-year-old, three-time accused murderer, alleged…
Robert Sietsema, reporting last week on slashfood.com, explained how President Obama had the opportunity to taste his favorite soup, bakso, during his recent visit to Indonesia. Bakso, it turns out, is a meatball-laden soup (the meatballs are also called bakso) that can be prepared with beef, chicken, fish or shrimp balls. It sounds delicious. Where can I find it in…
One man is fighting for the right to run red lights and get a ticket from a living, breathing cop, not some red-light camera. Stephen Grider is challenging the constitutionality of the red-light cameras after getting a ticket in the mail for supposedly running a red light at North Oak Trafficway and Vivian Road, according to Fox 4. Grider wasn’t…
Since winter doesn’t officially start this year until December 21, we’re in for a nice long autumn (if only Mother Nature would cooperate). A glorious autumn dessert that’s good enough for breakfast — which is, in fact, exactly when I ate it — is the smooth, creamy and spicy pumpkin creme caramel offered at the WheatFields Bakery Cafe at 904…
Kansas, are you a Wildcat state? We’ll find out at the Sunflower Showdown on January 29 and Valentine’s Day. State hoops has been all Jayhawks for so long, but Kansas State’s recent success is changing perceptions. K-State guard Jacob Pullen (he of the awesome beard) is on the cover of the regional Sports Illustrated college basketball preview. It’s kind of…
That’s right, boys and girls: Once upon a time, men and women were allowed to smoke in restaurants and bars. They smoked with such unhealthy abandon, in fact, that restaurants put their names and logos on attractive glass ashtrays and put them on every table in the dining room (where they were frequently stolen). They gave away free matches, too!…
The widow of a Board of Public Utilities executive and Wyandotte County attorney are suing a Kansas Bureau of Investigation detective for allegedly making statements to a grand jury that linked them to the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of a political boss. The Kansas City Star reported that Jill Conklin, the widow of ex-BPU chief administrative officer Marc Conklin, and Rod…
Game night just got a little more interesting. I Am Bored has a picture of a homemade version of the game Battleship which apparently involves blind guessing and a handle of Seagrams. The game is called Battle Shots and appears to be best played in a winter hat and pajama pants. All you need to get started is some cardboard…
UPDATE: Two more Chiefs were added to the list, and one made the top 10. Read the update after the jump … Deadspin released the first half of its “The Bottom 100: The Worst Players in NFL History,” and the Kansas City Chiefs placed three guys in the first 50. The criteria, according to Deadspin: “Here, not only do the…
When you think of cotton candy, it might bring back memories or the circus or the county fair. Well, Golden Corral is about to crush all of those memories. According to Restaurant News, the buffet company has already placed machines in two of its restaurants, with plans to put them in all of its venues. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink…
Paul D. Sloan used to make a nice pile of money running the Airline History Museum. Today, he’s a convicted felon. Sloan appeared in Cass County court on Monday and pleaded guilty to stealing from the museum, which occupies a hangar at the Wheeler Downtown Airport. Sloan, the executive director, was accused of mishandling the nonprofit’s checkbook to the tune…
Jonathan Bender, our awesome food blogger at Fat City, has put together a list of five bar-fight maneuvers that everyone should know. Mostly, he’s talking about Sebastian Bach, though — the former frontman of the ’80s metal band Skid Row, who was recently arrested at an Ontario bar for smashing a glass of wine at the bar door after learning…
Code Pinkers, I hope you bought your tickets early to see President George W. Bush in Kansas City, because Rainy Day Books’ “conversation” with the president is sold out. Dubya is coming to Kansas City on Monday (November 22) to talk about his new memoir, Decider Decision Points. He’ll be at Unity Temple on The Plaza at 1 p.m., and…
On January 29, Kansas City will welcome Linkin Park to the Sprint Center. The California rockers are responsible for a wave of thousands of crappy, nu-metal rap-rock bands smattered across alternative rock. The original sinners will bring a set list of 96.5 The Buzz-friendly hits stretching all the way back to 2000’s Hybrid Theory. (Yeah, you’re getting old.) They’re out…
