%{}% Potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a tendency to conjure the Holocaust when he’s trying to make a political point. Speaking last week in Pittsburgh, he recalled a visit to a Holocaust museum in Jerusalem with his daughter, then 11, who wrote in the museum’s guestbook, “Why didn’t somebody do something?” Huckabee was talking about the national debt when…
The Photographs of Ray K. Metzger will be hanging in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art through June 5. But they’ll be up a lot longer at Story Restaurant in Prairie Village. The renowned photographer is chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen’s uncle, and it is his work that will divide the dining room from the bar area — local landscapes featured on three…
KCTV5 unveiled its big sweeps investigative piece last night about Frank Nigro. While being transferred from St. Luke’s Northland to St. Luke’s on the Plaza, Nigro died in a Kansas City Fire Department ambulance without the EMTs knowing. The TV station’s top investigative reporter, Dana Wright, tried to get to the bottom of how a guy could be dead for…
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Sprint Center Thursday, May 5, 2011 Everything seems to go silent as Bob Seger, at this point behind the piano, utters that last line of the last verse of “Turn the Page”— You smoke the day’s last cigarette / Rememberin’ what she said. It’s a heartbreaker, and it’s one of the night’s many…
Whenever I see news about Kings of Leon, I automatically think about pigeon poop. Sure, the band has experienced a lot of success and gained a lot of fans because of their accessible, rock-pop music. To me, though, all their hard work was outshone by a few pigeons’ July 2010 performance at the Verizon Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri. As…
And lo, the most talented chefs in the land were brought down from on high into the fryer, and it was declared that they must serve guests within five to seven minutes as per their expectations of fast food. “The best chefs in the nation are putting on a headset, wrapping things up in paper and putting them in a…
Orgasmic announcer Gus Johnson is reportedly leaving CBS, which is bad news for March Madness fans. Like no other announcer, Johnson captured the euphoria of March Madness’ biggest hardwood moments. Johnson’s new job is either going to be calling college football games for Fox or narrating some dude’s “mundane life.” Check out “Gus Johnson Narrates My Mundane Life” from Colin…
After months of reporting on the food trucks that are coming, it’s time to get your two feet over to the kitchens on four wheels. You’ll have two chances to try some of the new mobile kitchens. The Roasterie (1204 W. 27th St.) is holding a Food Truck Fiesta on Saturday — a benefit for the Cabot Westside Health Center….
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