Archives: November 2010
Listen up, kids, this is why you need to drink coffee
No regular coffee drinker can sit by and watch the bean grinders grind to a halt. The ink of life is apparently being threatened by a generation that doesn’t understand why a cup of joe is better than joe…to the extreme. Time reports that a new study shows only 27 percent of the age group between 18 and 24 years…
Drag queens, athletic aggression and ADD are on the plate this week
Today: Let’s face it, we’ll only ever get to see pro basketball players slam dunk at the Sprint Center during exhibition games. However, during the two-night College Basketball Experience Classic, we might get to see some future pros dribbling down our court. Tickets start at $10. Tonight’s game between Duke and Marquette starts at 6:30. Categories: News
Single File: ‘Rock,’ Reach’s new single from the Pen Pusha mixtape
Local emcee Reach drops his new mixtape, the Pen Pusha Mixtape, in January, and he’s just leaked the third single from the tape. It’s called “Rock,” and damn son, it’s hot. On “Rock,” Reach is participating in what he calls a “foreign exchange” — he’s working with Parisian producer Dela. There’s horns aplenty, many of which give the track a…
And now a video of Kansas City preacher Lou Engle screaming and praying in tongues
Next month, Lou Engle — Kansas City preacher and adviser to Sarah Palin — will be among the speakers at OneThing, a Christian conference that will attract thousands of young seekers to the KC convention center. Engle was at another conference for young people last weekend in Los Angeles. Fast forward to about 1:15 of the video below for a…
Jeffery E. Davis shot to death and Keith E. Foreman stabbed in weekend homicides
It was a blood weekend in Kansas City, Kansas, with two homicides recorded Friday and Saturday. The first victim, 32-year-old Jeffery E. Davis, was shot to death Friday night inside a home at 55th and Everett. Police hit the scene at 6:45 p.m., found Davis suffering from a gunshot wound inside the residence and rushed him to KU Medical Center,…
World-famous butcher Dario Cechinni at Michael Smith this weekend
Michael Smith — the chef-owner of his namesake upscale restaurant and the less costly but more hip Extra Virgin — recently returned from a trip to Spain with his wife, Nancy, eating at many famous restaurants. This weekend, the Smiths host one of Italy’s famous butchers, Dario Cechinni, who will be cutting up lots of meat for two special sold-out…
James Moretina becomes latest man to plead guilty in illegal gambling case
Normally, if you’re going to make money in gambling, it’s good to be the house. Not today. Yet another Kansas City man has pled guilty in federal court to running on online gambling business that processed more than $3.5 million in bets from 2006 to 2009. James M. Moretina, 61, was the last defendant in the case to plead guilty…
Churchgoers pray for relief after parish dinner goes disastrously awry
This is the kind of publicity that a small Kansas parish really doesn’t want. The Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Arkansas City, Kansas, hosted a turkey dinner on November 8 for 1,800 people. Two days ago, Barfblog revealed that 159 guests who ate the dinner had reported becoming sick, and one had been hospitalized. The guests who fell ill reported…
The dine-and-dash problem is making an expensive comeback
In a case of theatrics and real life combining in very bad behavior, Latvian actor and film director Janis Nords won’t be eating nearly as well in prison as he was before he was arrested in London last Tuesday on a charge of dashing out of nine expensive English restaurants without paying the bill. An unemployed film student, Nords, 28,…
Thirsty dudes to spring a woody for the Man Table
Aw, yeah — being a dude is pretty sweet. No one expects you to care about fashion, gardening or ignoring an itchy body part. In our increasingly gender-neutral culture, though, puberty can be a distant memory before someone finally tells a fella, “Welcome to manhood.” So thanks, Tom Stein, inventor of the Man Table, for putting that warm greeting atop…
Wizard of Oz remake to make Kansas culturally relevant, shame film nerds
Aside from Obama picking KU in his NCAA bracket, the opportunities for Kansas to get in the national spotlight are few and far between. Which is a shame, because Kansas has some good stuff to offer and middle America deserves a little cred. I’d like people to be aware of Kansas. But not like this. Not like this. Categories: News…
Carl Peterson, former Chiefs boss, can’t find NFL job despite Dick Vermeil guarantee
Something happens to football coaches after they win Super Bowls. They start to believe they can do and say anything they want. Jon Gruden thinks he’s projecting towheaded adorableness when he’s spouting cliches in the Monday Night Football booth. Tony Dungy turned into America’s sanctimonious dad after the Colts beat a so-so Bears team in the XLI edition of the…
What’s Poppin’ Off: Hooligan Holiday
%{}% Man about Midtown and resident Hooligan king, Rico Dejoie (a.k.a. DJ Rico) has serious ownership in the KC nightlife scene. Like a big, black Santa Claus, he delivers his followers and believers a grand throwdown for the ages, the Hooligan Holiday. This year, it’s so phat that it’s poppin’ for two nights. Categories: Music Tags: bill cosby, Blackpool Lights,…
The Hold Steady, a little off but still joyous at times at the Blue Note
How am I supposed to know that you’re high if you won’t even dance? Categories: Music Tags: Craig Finn, The Hold Steady
Kansas City crowns a new Miss Vixen Pin-Up
Being backstage at a Miss Vixen Pin-Up pageant is as girly as you’d imagine: nude pasties and eyelashes application, vamping and preening in front of a mirror, oohing and aahing over vintage dresses and heels. Categories: A&E Tags: burlesque, knuckleheads, vixen pin-up pageant
Project Runway hunk Jack Mackenroth visits KC, talks about HIV for World AIDS Day
A dapper, male-heavy crowd gathered in the lower level of the Bishop-McCann offices in the Crossroads last night for Patron’s Party, the first of three World AIDS Day events coordinated by and benefitting the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City. Besides excellent pesto and the opportunity to jaw with the elites of KC’s gay community, the evening provided a…
Tropicalia legends Os Mutantes are at the Granada on Sunday
Os Mutantes, the influential Brazilian tropicalia band, are stopping by the Granada on their reunion tour. It’s a chance to witness a band that’s successfully bent the minds of Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, Kurt Cobain, Talking Heads’ David Byrne, and more. Read Nick Spacek’s interview with Sergio Dias, the bandleader, here. Categories: Music Tags: Ariel Pink, Os Mutantes
Behold the McRushmore: A monument to McDonald’s and its animal kingdom
With NASA being dismantled, humanity is apparently searching for other ways to challenge his tolerance for extreme conditions and the unknown. The good folks at the Stew have pulled together the four members of the animal kingdom that currently grace McDonald’s menu and come up with a mouth-stretching sandwich dubbed the Mt. Rushmore. It will likely not be immortalized in…
Notre Dame de Sion golfers get cold shoulder from Kansas City city council
The mayor and city council of Kansas City, Missouri, like to talk at each other. And sometimes the noisemaking leads to them being really rude hosts. The girls golf team at Notre Dame de Sion went to City Hall on Thursday to be recognized for winning their fourth consecutive Class 2 state title. But an hour after the 3 p.m….
Miss Vixen Pin-Up Pageant contestants say all you need is confidence to be a vixen
What exactly makes a vixen? Is it gobs of perfectly applied ruby lipstick or pin curls and thick bullet-proof bangs that would make even patron vixen Bettie Page jealous? 2011 Miss Vixen Pin-Up Pageant contestants definitely brought that to the stage at Knuckleheads Saloon last night. But before vamping for a packed crowd, contestants told me the one, true thing…
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