Archives: January 2011
The Green Hornet’s Black Beauty is at Hardee’s in OP until 1 p.m.
If you’ve always thought you could be a superhero, here’s your chance. As part of its promotion for The Green Hornet, a replica of Black Beauty — the 1965 Chrysler Imperial used in the film — is sitting in the parking lot of the Hardee’s at 10500 Metcalf in Overland Park. If you can get there by 1 p.m., you…
Possibly intoxicated woman crashes SUV into a parked train, lives
Hitting a parked train takes some skill. As a target, a choo-choo isn’t small. And if it’s not roaring down the tracks, then there’s plenty of opportunity to stomp on the brake. But that was apparently a problem for one woman earlier this morning. According to KCTV5, the possibly intoxicated woman ran her SUV into a train at 18th Street…
Capybara is playing SXSW’s official showcase!
Congratulations, guys: Capybara will play in South By Southwest’s official showcase this year! Here’s what the band says: Around this time of year, we and our musician friends near and far collectively pour one out over the inevitable receipt of the SXSW rejection letter. It doesn’t mean you can’t play the festival. It just means you’re not on the short…
Tech N9ne teaches you how to rap
Today in random YouTube finds: TechN9ne teaches us how to rap. In this audio interview for the book How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC, Tech outlines how he pulls together his flow and the influence the family breakfast table had on his music: “How did I come up with so many flows and rhythms on…
Inocente Monroy Alcantara sent to prison for stealing Marine’s identity
Poor Inocente Monroy Alcantara. With a first name like that, you now he’s going to have to hear the same joke over and over again in prison. Because he’s totally not innocent! Get it? Hello? (tap, tap) Is this thing on? Fine. Alcantara, 26, a Mexican national who’s illegally in the United States has been sentenced to a year in…
The five rappers we hope Flava Flav inspires to open restaurants
Look out, Kenny Rogers. There’s a new chicken shack on the block. Rapper Flava Flav opened his restaurant, Flav’s Fried Chicken, in Clinton, Iowa, on Monday. The former Public Enemy star’s anthem has gone from “Fight the Power” to “Bite the Fowl,” as his first commercial suggests. With Flav looking to cash in on his reality-television success (and a degree…
Blanc Burgers + Bottles now open in Omaha
%{}% Most Americans seek out the comfort of a known burger at McDonald’s when traveling. Well, Kansas Citians can now get a bite of home in Omaha, Nebraska. Blanc Burgers + Bottles opened its newest location at Midtown Crossing (3157 Farnam Street) on Thursday, and KETV has video of the restaurant. The opening comes only weeks after the Circle Restaurant…
Memphis-bound: Mary Bridget Davies, the Grand Marquis and Jason Vivone at Knuckleheads tonight
Next weekend, the biggest blues explosion in the world will go down in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge on Beale Street. More than 100 bands from Australia to Croatia will represent in this competition that is sponsored by the Blues Foundation, an American nonprofit that provides medical and dental care and funeral expenses for blues musicians and their families….
Megan Garrelts, Part Three: KC needs German food, not wet naps
This week we learned that Bluestem’s Megan Garrelts can be won over with a classic meat-and-potatoes dish. She also wishes that savory chefs would stop stealing her ring cutters. (Parts one and two of Fat City’s talk with Garrelts are here and here.) Today, our interview focuses on the food of Kansas City, and Garrelts gives her advice on where…
Bristol Palin was going to get $20,000 to speak about abstinence
Soak this in for a second: Bristol Palin was going to be paid $20,000 to speak about abstinence at Washington University in St. Louis. That’s $20K for maybe a couple of hours of talking about a subject that she may preach but certainly didn’t practice. Palin, of course, is the daughter of 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. She gave…
Langhorne Slim charms Lawrence tonight, with the Old 97’s
Langhorne Slim’s love affair with Lawrence is now several years old, but the honeymoon isn’t over. The folk troubadour stops through local venues at least once a year, but his tent-revival fervor never lessens. Slim’s lighthearted acoustic tunes hearken back to the joyful optimism and frank sorrow of 1960s and ’70s folk acts. Categories: Music Tags: Langhorne Slim, the Old…
Tut Tut strums its way into KC hearts with a new EP
Tut Tut Kansas City’s version of Stephin Merritt, Tut Tut (also known as Alex Abnos and his ukuleles), will be dropping a new EP, Heart Beats, at a CD-release show at the Riot Room February 3. But, unlike Tut Tut shows before, Abnos will be taking the stage with Charlie Gokey (his Secret Cities bandmate) and drummer Michael Judge for…
What’s Poppin’ Off: Tim McGraw, Deftones, Social D, Black Lips
You like it. You love it. You know you want some more of it. Tim McGraw is bringing his Emotional Traffic Tour to the Sprint Center on Friday, May 13. Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m. (Insert large-belt-buckle joke here.) Categories: Music Tags: black lips, deftones, jeff beck, Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson, Robert Cray, Social Distortion,…
Celebrate Kansas’ 150th birthday and four other weekend choices
Kansas hardly looks a day over 100, but this weekend, The Legends at Village West is throwing a 150th birthday party to honor the state’s history. And every party needs a cake, but few will measure up to the three-dimensional cake depicting the new Kansas stamp being made by MeMa’s Bakery. While you might enjoy looking at it, you’ll be…
Kansas City Southern’s $12,000 laser cannon stolen … not time to crap your pants
Growing up on Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers, I can remember wanting a laser cannon. Guess what? They exist. According to Gizmodo, a “potentially dangerous” $12,000 laser cannon was stolen from Kansas City Southern in Denton, Texas. The missing cannon isn’t weaponized — whew! — but it’s making a lot of folks with acronyms for names nervous (read: FBI,…
Kansas City Southern’s $12,000 laser cannon stolen … not time to crap your pants
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Canna Cola, the new “soda pot” from California, generates buzz
It’s either the soda you smoke or the pot you drink. While the tag line isn’t yet set, Canna Cola — the soft drink with THC — is designed to be sold at medical-marijuana dispensaries. California artist and entrepreneur Clay Butler talked to The Santa Cruz Sentinel about his plans for the soda line that includes flavors like Doc Weed…
Baby’s frozen body found in the bed of a pickup truck; mother arrested on drug warrant
Just when you think the awfulness of humanity cannot surprise you anymore, you hear a story like this one: A baby’s frozen body was found in a plastic bag in the bed of the father’s pickup truck. The Kansas City Star reported that the baby’s body was discovered Thursday in the 11300 block of East 49th Street. Wanda Benenhaley, the…
This Is My Condition freaks out at the Jackpot tonight
Free-form and hardcore come together in Lawrence’s mainstay one-man band This Is My Condition. Craig Comstock, who’s been playing on the local scene as a solo act since 2003, has fashioned his own brand of indie rawcore, which is noisy as hell. With drums, pedals and the occasional addition of an improv saxophonist, Comstock wrenches a sound from his instruments…
Mizzou student creates killer app, school demands profits
Telling your university to keep its money-grubbing paws off your hard-earned profits? There’s an app for that. In 2009, Mizzou student Tony Brown kicked ass on a school assignment to make an iPhone app. He and a few other students created NearBuy, an app that tracks apartment listings in your area and allows you to call a listing agent right…
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