Self-described “fat, masturbating, stoner” Kevin Smith is getting a lot of press for his recent publicity stunt at the Sundance Film Festival. Having just premiered his new Phelps family-inspired horror movie, Red State, Smith announced an auction for the distribution rights. The auction turned out to be an excuse for Smith to castigate the studio system that he’s been working…
Longtime Kansas City Chiefs fans may recall that quarterback Steve DeBerg broke his non-throwing hand during the 1990 season. Today’s story about DeBerg forwarding offensive e-mails (unless you have a kink for two women, a funnel and a fish) may have finally answered some questions. It did, at least, for one of the Plog’s Twitter followers. The Comment of the…
%{}% Of all the rankings that get awarded by Forbes or Daily Beast or Axe body spray, this is one where you don’t want to land in the upper tier. The Violence Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., gun-control advocacy group, released its annual report yesterday on African-American homicides, and Missouri finished No. 1 in the rankings … again. Categories: News…
Les Izmore, Reach and Diverse paid tribute to the rap group’s seminal 1991 album Low End Theory at the Blue Room. Here’s our review of the night. Check out the slideshow after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Blue Room, diverse, Les Izmore, reach
It’s unfair that John McNamara gets to live but Abby Cockrill is dead. McNamara was driving his Camaro SS drunk, maxing out at 152 mph on the night of the crash, August 22, 2010. When McNamara hit the rear of the Pontiac G6 that Cockrill was riding in, he had slowed down to 131 mph. It was shortly before 1:30…
What would this world be without chocolate cake? It seems like this pastry has been around as long as the cacao beverage that we now call chocolate, which dates back to, at least, the Olmec civilization, 1500-400 B.C. But after the Europeans took chocolate from the New World in 1519, it remained an expensive luxury for many years. The 19th…
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…
Les Izmore, Reach and Diverse paid tribute to the rap group’s seminal 1991 album Low End Theory at the Blue Room.
If you get an e-mail from former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Steve DeBerg, I strongly suggest you delete it. For what you may see inside the e-mail may not be easily forgettable. The images will change you. They’ll scar you. You won’t be able to look your wife or girlfriend in the eye again. According to a Tampa Bay television…
UPDATE: As expected, Charlette Blubaugh pleaded guilty today to her role in the University of Kansas ticket-theft hot mess. Her sentencing is scheduled for April 14. (She’s looking at up to 20 years at Club Fed.) Her husband, Tom Blubaugh, has a change-of-plea hearing scheduled for Friday.Original Story (January 19): Two more dominoes are set to fall in the University…
All it took to kill Brian Euston was a single punch. That’s the assertion that Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar made Thursday morning when he announced that Stanford C. Griswold had been charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter in Euston’s October death. Euston, 24, was discovered at Westport Road and Mill Street around bar closing time on October 10….
Local guitar players: Need new guitar strings? Then we suggest you head to your nearest Guitar Center and pick up a pack of Ernie Ball electric or acoustic strings, and nab yourself a chance to fly to London and hang with Eric Clapton. Between February 1 and April 30, Ernie Ball is hosting a contest to send 15 lucky guitarists…
Looks like Mac Lethal is churning out a slew of viral videos lately. In case you missed it, Mac’s challenge to George Watsky’s fast rap finally usurped Hayley Williams’ boobies on Wayward’s top-viewed posts (huzzah!), and now, the local rapper is breaking out a new format of speed-verse: narrating movies. Here’s Mac’s take on Dazed and Confused. Categories: Music Tags:…
Perfumers these days can bottle just about any smell you’d want to have spritzed across your body. I thought scent makers went too far when that crazy Vienna guy manufactured phials of vaginal scent (which, according to the website, is not a perfume, but whatever). Point is, there’s a market for just about any kind of smell, but Lady Gaga…
The reach of the everything bagel used to be confined to the paper sack, in which it befouled its poppy and plain brethren with sesame seeds and garlic. But now Kottke suggests that the everything bagel is taking over a much more influential form of communication — Twitter. The tech blog might just have uncovered the latest Internet meme, and…
Pitcher Gil Meche made the Royals relevant this offseason by walking away from the final year of his $55 million contract. Meche stopped pitching effectively in 2009, and he feels he doesn’t deserve any more money. “When I signed my contract, my main goal was to earn it,” he told The New York Times. The Times story adds context to…
Taco Bell…save these cows! This morning, Nathan Runkle, the founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Mercy for Animals organization sent a letter to Greg Creed, president of Taco Bell, requesting that the fast-food chain go completely meatless. Taco Bell has been in the eye of an intense media storm for nearly a week since a class-action lawsuit was filed in California…
The Kansas City police want you to know that they’re not a bunch of doughnut-eating fatties. In the latest of their “Why We Do What We Do” video series, the cutest little girl ever sheepishly asks: “Why do cops like doughnuts so much?” The answer is that they apparently don’t eat a lot of doughnuts anymore — but they did…
UPDATE Thursday, January 27 at 9:37 a.m.: As it goes with most new bands just getting off the ground, Burge and the rest of the boys of the much-anticipated new band, Pioneer, have decided to opt for a more personal band name. The four-part indie-rock group will now be known as Minden, a reference to the small town that Burge’s…
Yesterday, Bluestem’s co-owner and pastry chef Megan Garrelts talked about how her experiences around the country made her the chef she is today (click here for the interview). Today, she talks about reality television, why savory chefs are afraid of dessert, and whether any stereotypes about pastry chefs are actually true. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Bluestem, Colby Garrelts,…
