In Case You Missed It
By CHRIS PACKHAM
• Jen Chen wrote about Tommy Farha’s dog, Tommy Farha.
• Crystal Wiebe talked about the end of Bingo Night at the Brick.
• David Martin wrote about 810 WHB host Kevin Keitzman’s strained political commentary.
• The affidavit filed by five Kansas Citians seeking a recall election to unseat Mayor Mark Funkhouser enjoyed some bureaucratic misadventures before being refiled.
• C.J. Janovy watched Kathleen Sebelius’ Democratic response to the president’s State of the Union address on Monday with a group of Kansas Citians at a coffee shop in the Quindaro neighborhood. Sebelius was lookin’ a little stiff, is the thrust. C.J.’s argument pivots on a badly lodged corn cob.
• Carolyn Szczepanski commented about Chiefs defensive end Jared Allen’s vegetarianism and the vegan diet practiced by tight end Tony Gonzalez. But did you know that KU coach Mark Mangino also observes a strict vegan diet?
• Twenty-year-old Lansing resident Olivia Jackson was killed last week; her boyfriend, Sedale Fox, is charged with murder. Justin Kendall wrote about the unhappy story revealed by their respective MySpace pages.
On the Wayward Blog
• Alan Scherstuhl looked at the rocky history of 99.7 KY as a crazy artifact of Kansas City history.
• Scott Wilson wrote about Mark Eitzel and American Music Club.
• Little Steven’s Underground Garage is returning to Kansas City.
• Andrew Miller wrote up this review of the Mars Volta show at the Beaumont Club.
• On Monday Music Junkie, Andy Vihstadt wrote about N.E.R.D., Arcade Fire, Professor Murder, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and several more. Follow the link to a few bonus MP3 tracks.
