Apocalyptic, homophobic hatemonger Lou Engle deserves the “Pink Brick” award. The honor — it’s not one really — is handed out every year during the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration “to recognize groups and individuals who’ve run afoul of the community or pushed for anti-gay measures.” Oh, man. If that doesn’t define Engle. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Lou Engle
Minneapolis quartet Tapes ‘n Tapes have had a hard time of it. In the last several years, the fledgling indie band has fallen prey to bloggers that first hailed the band’s talent. Tapes ‘n Tapes shot out of Pitchfork’s Best New Music cannon with its 2005 debut, The Loon. Its affable, meandering energy and sprightly off-kilter melodies mesmerized fans, but…
Before we all fly off the handle over this story and turn it into a controversy that it’s not, let’s just remember: Missourians who don’t make a lot of money and rely on public aid do travel out of state. It’s probably not uncommon for them to leave the state to visit family or possibly to work, or maybe to…
This week’s Cafe review in The Pitch was a reflection on Chinese buffets. There are a lot of them in the metro right now. Richard Ng, the co-owner of the six local Bo Lings restaurants, won’t eat at Chinese buffets: “I have nothing against them,” he says, “but I’d rather sit at a table and have my food brought to…
The dark brick building at 1403 West 39th Street will probably always be best-known as the location of the popular Macaluso’s Restaurant, owned and operated by the late, larger-than-life personality Tommy Macaluso. It was a couple of other restaurants after Macaluso’s death, most recently the 1960s-style Chinese restaurant called Szechuan House. But Szechaun House, after a two-year-run, is gone, and…
Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church is just a day removed from a U.S. Supreme Court victory that’ll allow his followers to keep picketing funerals. In the spirit of the First Amendment, which protected the Phelpses’ right to picket, viral media watcher BuzzFeed.com collected 10 pieces of Fred Phelps fan art — at least, the non-X-rated ones — making the Internet rounds….
Listen, all I wanted was a nice quiet dinner. Is that too much to ask? A friend and I stopped at a neighborhood bar and grill last night — it wasn’t my neighborhood but close enough — and settled into a comfortable booth, opened the menu, and was suddenly assaulted by an unexpected and grotesque monologue from the peppy-looking suburban…
Church’s Chicken is attempting to make amends with Nashville, Tennessee. According to The Atlanta Business Chronicle, the fried-chicken chain recently announced that it would briefly close all of its locations in the city for 18 hours this weekend for a customer-service training workshop. “We let our customers in Nashville down, and for that, we apologize,” John Bowie, Church’s president of…
Need a new best friend? Animal Haven can hook you up. The Merriam no-kill shelter is housing 39 dogs and a cat that were rescued from puppy mills and animal hoarders, and many of them will be up for adoption on Saturday. Want a cocker spaniel puppy? They’ve got nine 1-week-old cocker spaniels. Love Chihuahuas? They’ve got four puppies and…
Because there’s nothing like petty spite, House Republicans are getting rid of biodegradable cups in the Capitol lunchroom, replacing them with Styrofoam cups. Of course, there’s going to be a link to Wichita’s billionaire Koch brothers. Via the Huffington Post: “Former Koch Industries executive George Wurtz owns WinCup, which supplies the Styrofoam cups now littering the building, following the House…
There are two ways to chef Charles d’Ablaing’s heart: salt and a sun-ripened peach. And he’d probably be happy if you could track down the motorcycle he sold so he could begin attending culinary school in Atlanta at the age of 18. Check out yesterday’s story to hear how he got his start before reading about what’s in his kitchen…
The satisfaction one gets out of a Matt and Kim show is quite similar to the satisfaction one gets out of popping a single piece of Bubble Wrap: dammit, you just want to do it again. And louder, this time! The Brooklyn duo will bring its newest installment of infectious tunes to the Beaumont on June 22, in support of…
The Bible warns against pride. But that hasn’t stopped Robert Ulrich, the chief apologist of beleaguered pastor Jerry Johnston, from allowing First Family Church to post a version of his résumé that’s nearly 1,000 words long. The Overland Park megachurch has been weakened by public defections and a potential foreclosure. Ulrich, the chairman of the church’s board of directors, has…
If you thought there were only five songs about sandwiches, you’d be wrong. The filling between two slices of bread has inspired a lot of men, with synthesizers, to sing its praises. (Don’t test this out on YouTube; it’s an endless rabbit hole of more than 5,000 results.) Now if you were to suggest that there are only five great…
Demony Wilson is just 17. He’s also charged with murder in the slaying of Nigerian-born University of Missouri-Kansas City student Oladimeji Oladipo. According to court records, Wilson told detectives that he shot Oladipo once while trying to rob him of his laptop computer in the parking lot of a McDonald’s at 6406 Troost last July. Wilson was charged today with…
They may be called Country Mice, but the indie-rockers making up the Brooklyn band are certainly city mice. That being said, frontman Jason Rueger and guitarist Ben Bullington both have Kansas ties, and they’ll be coming home to Lawrence for a show after spending a week at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Categories: Music Tags: Brooklyn, Country…
The Kansas Music Hall of Fame will hold its 7th annual induction ceremony at Liberty Hall this Saturday, followed by a performance of some of the most lauded acts to come out of Kansas: Bobby Watson, Rudy Love, Riverrock, Jimmy Wilson, Central Standard Time and the Rainmakers. (These performers are also all inductees into the Hall of Fame this year.)…
We’d hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend, so we’ve decided to run down four of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what we missed in the comments. This weekend, Arturo Sandoval showcases his world-class horn chops at…
