Life Think this would be in the curriculum? The term “waiter” is arguably as all-encompassing as the term “blogger” — each contains those who see it as a calling and others who might be said to only dabble in the profession. The Village Voice’s Robert Sietsema suggests that there should be the equivalent of a vocational school for waiters, in…
Flickr: Magic Robot Sorry, there’s not going to be one near you (at least not in the near future). Twitter has a way of codifying rumors — taking a hopeful tweet and spinning it into a small frenzy of happy online folks who, in the span of a weekend, turn my Twitter feed into a cartwheeling celebration trumpeting the arrival…
Lost in the rather divisive brouhaha surrounding Nathan Clay Barbarick’s recent review of the Troost DIY Fest was the fact that the fest was in support of a cassette compilation. The compilation, Troost DIY, is now available via Bandcamp as a pay-what-you-want download, for those who have no tape deck nor the inclination to search for one. It’s 24 tracks…
Flickr: zoetnet Do you know what he’s saying behind your back? Customers who are unhappy with the service they’ve gotten at a restaurant or a bar can easily make a statement about their feelings by leaving a lousy tip. A tip isn’t an automatic gratuity, you know; it’s the acronym for “To Insure Proper Service.” It’s also a payback for…
One of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s pet projects has been keeping rural communities alive by using tax breaks to repopulate areas that are losing residents. The CBS Evening News reported Friday that one real-estate developer is doing his bit to ensure that people moving out to the sticks will have a nifty place to live. CBS reports (with the comically…
Sated Epicure Niche is holding a road-trip-worthy dinner later this month. There’s another reason besides fireworks to make the trip across Interstate 70 to St. Louis. In celebration of the release of their new cookbook, Bluestem: The Cookbook, Bluestem’s Colby and Megan Garrelts are collaborating on a five-course dinner with Niche’s Gerard Craft (a fellow James Beard Award nominee) on…
Matthew Reichbach Romney’s Kansas City connection doesn’t look good in hindsight. In August, Mitt Romney uttered the sound bite of the presidential campaign that separated him from the GOP field, when he told a gathering of Iowa supporters that “corporations are people.” Although many political pundits thought it was a tactical error, the statement appeared to shore up support for…
