The Gay Blades hit the Riot Room tomorrow, December 2, and they’ve written a song called “KC, I Need You Now…” (downloadable here) to commemorate the occasion. Seems the band has written a song for every stop on their current tour. In the press release accompanying said song, James Dean Wells says he wrote it because he feels “like Kansas…
The season to be jolly is here, so Fat City is looking around for holiday gift ideas, preferably the kind that can be eaten (or used to make something that can be devoured). There’s nothing more frustrating than having a long list of friends and family members who require at least a token holiday gift, while you have a tiny…
Manuel Garcia’s “suspicious package” will get him a home for the next 18 months. Garcia, a 66-year-old homeless man, admitted leaving a mesh cooler with a note referencing “C-4” and claiming it would detonate at 7 a.m. outside of the Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse in April. The courthouse was shut down so the bomb robot could investigate. Inside the…
%{}% Somebody needs to convince The Cashew to put a griddle in its “Short Bus” — the half-size black school bus that runs drinkers to Chiefs games and concerts (while talking to them, feel free to ask them to go ahead and rename the bus, too). Wired has the story of Le Truc, a new “bustaurant” that opened yesterday in…
ride of Topeka Stik Figa will release From the Top, his new EP with Oddisee. I can say with certainty that the title track is legit. (Download it here.) To supplement the EP, Stik’s filmed a little mini-documentary that is half about Topeka and half about himself. Over the course of ten minutes, he touches on Brown v. Board of Education, Bay-Area…
The conference realignment talk apparently isn’t ready to die, and the latest rumor has the Kansas Jayhawks looking east. Austin American-Statesman columnist Kirk Bohls dropped two sentences in his Sunday column that has the University of Kansas being proactive and talking with the Big East about a jump. Categories: News Tags: Big East, Bill Self, Kansas Jayhawks
%{}% Pitch music blogger David Hudnall e-mailed me last night saying he’d heard a man had been shot in the head while sitting in his car outside of Tanners in Waldo. Unfortunately, what he heard was true. KMBC Channel 9 reported this morning that after being shot in the head at 75th and Broadway around 10:20 p.m., the man was…
All of the top politicians and law enforcement in the land of Missouri want to require a prescription to buy cold or allergy medicine containing pseudophedrine. The Mega-Powers of Gov. Jay Nixon and Attorney General Chris Koster forged an alliance yesterday just like the Macho Man and the Hulkster did but instead of the Twin Towers, their opponents are meth…
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200’s dismissal. In late October, days before the election, state Senator Russell Pearce directed his e-mail wrath at retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whom he decried as an “activist judge” with a “lack of trust and respect for ‘we the people.’” Russell Pearce contended that…
White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy. To FAIR patriarch John Tanton, The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 apocalyptic book by French novelist Jean Raspail, stimulates honest discussion. The graphic book tells the story of the downfall of Western civilization and the decline of the European white race at the hands…
Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers? In 2007, the U.S. Senate debated the doomed McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that aimed to secure borders, enforce workplaces, modernize the visa system, and allow non-criminal undocumented immigrants already in the country to pay a fine and stand in line for legal residency. (Under the proposed law, an immigrant would be…
Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population, But they’re accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes. Illegal aliens are tax dodgers. That’s one of the most shocking findings of FAIR’s most recent report on the “cost of illegal immigration. “Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes,” FAIR reports. “Among those who…
On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of SB 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer six weeks earlier. The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class Anglos waved handmade signs blaring such things as: “14 Million Jobless Americans; 13 Million Illegals, DO THE…
