The remote is lost. You’re glued to the couch. The TV is stuck on one channel. We are entering the pinnacle of food programming, wherein nearly every network has a food-centric show. If you have your doubts, see the Scripps Networks’ decision to launch a second 24-hour cooking channel, appropriately titled, The Cooking Channel, at the end of this month….
It seems that the only reason bands appear in movies is as a way for a record label to get their music directly to a target demographic. It’s been done time and time again on television programs (Remy Zero on Smallville, the Flaming Lips on Beverly Hills 90210, the Shins on Gilmore Girls, Cibo Matto on Buffy, et al.), but…
Hey, remember late last year when some overachieving pranksters distributed a press release supposedly from the ultraconservative Koch brothers? In the phony release, the owners of the Wichita-based Koch Industries said they had seen the light regarding environmental issues, and they made the astounding announcement that they were closing their pocketbooks to right-wing outfits like Americans for Prosperity. The release…
There’s a new farmers market in town. The Waldo Farmers Market debuted last Wednesday in the parking lot of the Habitat ReStore (303 W. 79th St.). The market, which runs from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, features plants, spring greens and a lot of Farm to Market specialty breads (sundried tomato, roasted garlic, pumpernickel, walnut, and pretzel rolls). Categories: Dining,…
Kansas City just can’t get enough of author Stephen Fried. The Pennsylvania-based journalist attracted a standing room-only crowd last year at the Kansas City National Archives when he gave a presentation based on his hardcover biography, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. Fred Harvey (1835-1901) wasn’t just the…
%{}% Former University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino is talking for the first time since he was forced out of the job 17 months ago. In an interview with his hometown paper, the New Castle (Pennsylvania) News, Mangino refuses to his acknowledge that his inability to control his emotions may have played a role in his firing. Mangino, for…
Baseball fans in Kansas City have become accustomed to the routine. For one weekend a year, St. Louis Cardinals fans take over Kauffman Stadium and watch their heroes beat up on their sad-sack American League cousins. But not this year! The Royals are off to a respectable 18-16 start, and the organization is beginning to act as though it has…
Into all lives, a few food-court visits must fall. Food courts are not exactly at the forefront of culinary science — the pizza cones at Oak Park Mall notwithstanding — so your choices are going to be fairly similar regardless of the mall or office park you find yourself in. There will be Chinese, dirty pizza, Mexican, a sandwich counter,…
African-American juveniles are more likely to be tried as adults if their alleged crimes are committed in St. Louis and St. Louis County. Jackson County, meanwhile, is “progressive” in its treatment of juvenile offenders, according to Judge Charles Atwell, who administered Jackson County’s juvenile court until recently. A report in the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit online publication, outlines the…
Symphonic Quixotic — the collaboration between Quixotic and the Kansas City Symphony — is unveiled this weekend at the Lyric on May 13 and 14. We’ve got two vouchers for two pairs of tickets to give away! Find details on how to score ’em after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: free! Symphonic Quixotic
Saturday brought the bizarre news of a burned man found outside the former Trinity Lutheran Hospital at 31st St. and Baltimore. Police and paramedics arrived on the scene of the building that’s being converted into condos and found the man suffering grisly but not life-threatening third-degree burns. Police quickly suspected that he and a partner had been cooking up some…
Kansas City’s latest buzz band, Minden, has been working hard. After Middle of the Map Fest, opening slots for national acts such as Pepper Rabbit, Maserati and Hugo, and the completion of a new, forthcoming 7-inch, Minden has been turning more than a few heads lately. Yesterday the group dropped its first single, “Swift Way On,” for digital download, courtesy…
Lil Wayne recently announced the second leg of his I Am Still Music Tour. The tour will begin on June 5. He and Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement and Lloyd will stop by the Sprint Center on August 23. Ticket price and time to be announced. Categories: Music Tags: lil wayne, Lil’ Wayne
Knuckleheads has added a second Rainmakers reunion show on May 15. The first show scheduled on May 14 is sold-out. The May 15 show is $15. Doors open at 7 p.m. I doubt I need to tell you to hurry, but yeah — hurry. Categories: Music Tags: knuckleheads, The Rainmakers
Natural Grocers has decided to open a location — the first in Kansas for the health food and grocery store based out of Colorado. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the store will be opening at 23rd Street and Naismith Drive in the spot currently occupied by a Burger King. The building will be razed in June, and the grocer is…
In 1997, H&R Block got into the subprime lending business. The Kansas City-based tax-preparation company bought an outfit called Option One. The diversification into home loans produced profits for a time. But eventually, the slimy practices on which subprime lending was built took hold like an infection. Block shut down the business in 2007 and sold it the following year….
Seven Eight food trucks hit the road, and one rolls home with $100,000 in prize money. That’s the premise for the second season of the six-city, six-week show, The Great Food Truck Race, that is currently being filmed for the Food Network. Last weekend, the trucks set up shop in Denver, and right now they’re on their way to Manhattan,…
The Transportation Security Administration has responded to a Twitter-posted photograph of a baby receiving a pat-down at Kansas City International Airport. TSA officials say the baby’s stroller “alarmed during explosives screening,” necessitating the “modified” pat-down of the baby’s diaper. Kansas City-based evangelist Jacob Jester took the picture of the baby being handled by security screeners. He spent the day fielding…
