Americana music often comes loaded with a certain kitschy absurdity. Onstage, husband-and-wife folk duo Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart tell stories, make jokes and inflict puns. (Earle’s debut solo album carries the atrociously cornball title Simple Gearle.) And the band’s touring 1999 Chevy Suburban is billed as “the crew” on the pair’s website, its odometer displayed in pasted numbers on…
Kansas’ 4th District Rep. Mike Pompeo is one of 13 incoming Republican members of Congress who are packing registered lobbyists to accompany them to Washington. Pompeo announced earlier this month that he’s chosen Koch Industries heavyweight Mark Chenoweth to serve as his chief of staff. Chenoweth previously worked as a lawyer on the lobbying team for the Kansas oil conglomerate,…
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Doug E. Fresh, who seems as amused as the rest of us to find himself back on the cutting edge of pop culture, made an appearance on ESPN2 to rate video clips of sports personalities doing “the Dougie.” (He gave the Wizards’ John Wall a solid “9.”) This prompted the Plog to search YouTube for clips of local athletes doing…
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One of New York City’s most iconic restaurateurs, Elaine Kaufman, died last week at age 81. Kaufman was the owner and very public face of Elaine’s, her namesake restaurant on New York City’s Upper East Side. Although the restaurant was legendary as a hangout for famous writers and movie stars, KCUR 89.3’s Steve Walker — a frequent visitor to the…
A woman accused of committing Kansas City, Kansas’ first homicide of 2010 has been found guilty. A Wyandotte County jury found Tynisha J. Story guilty Friday of first-degree murder for shooting and killing 19-year-old Lakeasha D. Ross. Story, 20, shot and killed Ross in the 2000 block of South Mill Street in Kansas City, Kansas at 7:55 a.m. on New…
%{}% UPDATE: Got a call from a Ford spokeswoman, and the deal isn’t quite done yet. Read the update after the jump … Finally, some good economic news for the Kansas City area. The Ford Motor Company announced yesterday that the Claycomo assembly plant will get a new production line. Missouri leaders breathed a cliched sigh of relief. Lots of…
UPDATE: And the winners are … University of Kansas donors David and Suzanne Booth. The Star calls the Booth family “well-connected” at KU, which you’d have to be if the school’s Hall of Fame bears your name. Original Story: A Hooters waitress almost got really, really rich. Sotheby’s auctioned off the first-ever rules of basketball for $4.3 million. No word…
Lawrence’s Jackpot was transformed into a sweat lodge last night, in honor of NEON’s very last dance party ever after nine years of Thursday night fun. (Our photographer, Chance Dibben, reported that his lens fogged up, and his camera was incessantly jossled. Check out more of the mayhem after the jump.) Categories: Music Tags: dance parties, NEON, sweat
Yeah, this sounds pretty outrageous, doesn’t it? The ideal candidate to make this judgment is the man or woman in Kansas City who has eaten at least one slice of every single specialty pizza prepared and sold in the city. That would not, mercifully, be me — though I’ve eaten a hell of a lot of Kansas City pizza over…
Urchins and paupers, rejoice! You don’t have to worry about the results of a new study claiming that paper money and receipts are covered with bisphenol A, the chemical used to make clear plastic. BPA has been linked with a Pandora’s box of plagues, including cancer, hormone-disruption, obesity and early-onset puberty. Earlier studies have even suggested that BPA could be…
U.S. Sen. Kit Bond and his Senate Republican buddies have vowed to block all legislation until the Bush-era tax cuts get approved. Count a victory of all of the money bags out there. All legislation is so encompassing that it even includes blocking the 9/11 first responders bill — which would have provided medical aid to sick and dying first…
KU sociology professor ChangHwan Kim co-authored a study published this month’s American Sociological Review titled “Have Asian American Men Achieved Labor Market Parity with White Men?” In case your copy has come in the mail yet, here’s the Cliff’s Notes: Mostly no. Categories: News Tags: Arthur Sakamoto, ChangHwan Kim, ku, studies
BalconyTV is this interweb site that shoots bands playing all across the whole wide world and puts it onto the world wide web. They call it BalconyTV because the bands are always filmed on balconies, with city skylines in the background. Now do you understand why they call it BalconyTV? Here is the site. This Sunday, the Grisly Hand is…
We reported, over a month ago, that Raytown restaurateur Andres Orozco was making arrangements to move his seven-year-old cantina, Fiesta Azteca, from the original location at 7534 Raytown Road to much bigger quarters at 705 Southeast Melody Lane in Lee’s Summit. The new restaurant is open. “We got our liquor license yesterday and had planned to open on Monday,” Orozco…
Warning: Besides the Bloodhound Gang earworm that will invade your brain upon reading, this post has next to nothing to do with music. Except maybe that sex and music are inherently intertwined, and the rock scene is one big, constant orgy for which one should always pack protection. Anyone can stock a purse, wallet or back pocket with a trusty…
Where We Pee is a weekly look at the excretory facilities of the music venues and cool-kid hangouts around town. Blayney’s in Westport closed about a year and a half ago, but really it died years before that. Not to stomp on its grave or anything, but in its final years it lacked a certain mojo. This week, the space…
“Sherron Collins’s NBA career has taken a wrong turn,” reads the lede to a KSHB Channel 41 story on the Charlotte Bobcats sending the former Jayhawks point guard to the NBA’s Development League. And it’s totally wrong. The D-League isn’t a “wrong turn” for Collins. It’s the right move. KSHB treats Collins’ D-League assignment to the Maine Red Claws as…
It’s no accident that the first thing you notice when you walk inside the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange is the refurbished bar, with its dark wood backdrop and glass shelves for cocktail ingredients. This is a restaurant that aims to pair cocktails with the menu in a careful and deliberate fashion, much as partners Ryan Maybee and Howard Hanna…
Wanna take your lady-friend out all fancy-like, without the price tag? This SaturdaySunday, it’s Hooligan Holiday at the Beaumont Club. The event is 100 percent free if you’re 21-plus, and there’s burlesque, a fashion show, and awesome free tuneage from Hearts of Darkness, Audiovox, New Riddim and rapper Irv Da Phenom. Plus, if you’re one of the first 50 people…
