Versus: A Hip-Hop Battle has its fourth incarnation at the RecordBar on January 22, where DJs and MCs face off against each other in a bloodthirsty battle of the beats. (Check out a slideshow from last year’s battle here. That’s Swayzorblades on the left — 2010’s victor of verse.) Insults ping like bullets around the RecordBar’s stage. Count on a…
We may have to rethink the image of our ancestors as meat-obsessed carnivores. It turns out that they were more like your mother, likely forcing their children to down overcooked vegetables. Time reports that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that Neanderthals ate grains and vegetables. And that they cooked those ingredients…
If you’re bummed out about the future of Kansas, just kick back with a few cold Brownbacks and drink your troubles away. The owners of Topeka microbrewery Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant are honoring Gov.-elect Sam Brownback with a wheat beer, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported. I haven’t sampled the stuff, but I’d like to try the “rich brown” brew. Categories:…
Until yesterday, I hadn’t heard the story of Los Angeles restaurant owner Noah Ellis of Red Medicine, who “outed” a restaurant critic — S. Irene Virbila of The Los Angeles Times — by kicking her and her friends out of his restaurant last week. A story on Smart Blog on Restaurants reports that Ellis was “holding a grudge over earlier…
A fourth-string Iowa freshman running back ran all over the Missouri Tigers on the way to a 27-24 win for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa back Marcus Coker rushed for 219 yards and two touchdowns while filling in for injured and suspended Hawkeyes. Coker was good but two plays absolutely killed the Tigers — and an interception and an overturned catch…
Been a little chatter in my circles of late regarding Aerosmith. Specifically about later-era Aerosmith, and which of those songs are actually good. There was definitely a night a few months back at a bar when a large crowd of us (four men) danced, thrusted, and air-guitared the shit out of “Living on the Edge” for three consecutive plays on a…
There’s no black tie required in the drive-through, but you will have to make a reservation if you want to get your free spicy chicken biscuit at Chick-fil-A next week. The chicken chain is introducing its next breakfast sandwich with a free promotion between January 3 and January 8. In order to get your free biscuit, you’ll just have to…
Independence police believe a woman was abducted from an Independence QuikTrip Tuesday night. Around 10 p.m., several witnesses reported seeing a white or Hispanic male force himself into the car of a white woman, believed to be in her twenties, as she was trying to leave the parking lot of the convenience store in the 2300 block of South Lee’s…
La Bodega brings its small plates to the former JP’s Wine Bar in Leawood. Charles reviewed it in this week’s Pitch, but you can check out pictures from the tapas restaurant here. All photos by Angela C. Bond
Slowly but surely, Chiefs coach Todd Haley has revealed himself to be a total and complete loon, marching to some totally distinct and out-of-rhythm drummer. Early in the season, when mediocrity still seemed in play, it was infuriating. But now, with the team playing legitimately and undeniably well so early in his and G.M. Scott Pioli’s tenure, it’s sort of…
In our crusty old print edition this week, our music feature is on Saharan Gazelle Boy, the solo project of Capybara member Darin Seal. I wrote it! Read it here. As we’ve reported on the blog, Capybara is doing some reuniting in 2011, with plans to spend the year holed up in a house making music. But apparently they’ve gotten…
The war of the Nanny State’s potentially life-saving cameras and civil liberties wages on! And it looks like the infamous red-light cameras that stalk Missouri city intersections while supposedly lining municipal coffers and preventing crashes might not be so good at their jobs after all. In Columbia, anyway. First, the money. Categories: News Tags: red light cameras, red-light cameras
Once an iconic hotel, midtown’s Chatham building has spent the last several years as a vacant hideaway for drug addicts and vagrants. A developer will now gut it, but photographer Brooke Vandever went inside before it got cleaned up.
Pastry chefs have long been like Christmas elves — toiling in the back of restaurants and known only insofar as their creations are magically revealed at the table. But with the recent run of Top Chef: Just Desserts and an upcoming piece in The New Yorker, pastry chefs might just be the headlining attractions of 2011. Categories: Dining, Food &…
A model found dead in the mansion of the heir to a billionaire beer fortune. Yep, that’s ripe for national news coverage, especially when it takes 40 minutes to call 911 to report her death. CBS News did a lengthy piece on August Busch IV and the his 27-year-old girlfriend, a model named Adrienne Martin, seemingly asking if charges could…
The word “turmoil” doesn’t begin to describe the Iowa Hawkeyes’ break before the Insight Bowl game with the Missouri Tigers. The latest distraction for the Hawks is the arrest of already suspended running back Adam Robinson. It’s another unneeded distraction for the Hawks, who are already without Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, their all-time leading receiver who was arrested for “keeping a drug…
It’s called Lawrence Community Radio — that’s KAWR — and they’re having a coming-out party at Liberty Hall to raise funds to help cover the cost of the station’s projected start-up budget. KAWR will begin broadcasting over the internet after completing its studio, and they hope to be on-air by June of 2012. Help ’em out by going to see…
It’s time-consuming but not all that difficult to bake a tray of sweet rolls. It’s not that expensive, either, especially if you have the ingredients on hand. A box of Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix, the easiest way to make “from scratch” sweet rolls and cinnamon rolls, retails for about $2 a box. But nothing’s easier, insists a really lazy friend…
Here’s a game that my friends hate playing with me: “Okay, if you could book any act…at any venue…with any two opening acts…and they could all be dead or alive, who would it be?” I won’t subject you to the “dead or alive” clause, but I do want to know: who do you want to see play Kansas City in…
Kansas State forward Curtis Kelly’s suspension is no longer indefinite. Kelly will miss the Wildcats’ next four games as punishment for receiving so-called “impermissible benefits” aka discounted clothes from a Manhattan Dillard’s. Kelly and guard Jacob Pullen made the less-than-brilliant decision to accept more clothes than they paid for from the store. Apparently this wasn’t stealing because the clerk let…
