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Leftridge: TV Time: Just in Time for Easter, ABC Premieres Resurrection
Upon first hearing about ABC’s new sci-fi drama Resurrection, my first thought was, “oh. OK. So… Walking Dead, but without the hilariously graphic violence due to network television limitations.” Then, I read a very brief synopsis—“dead people come back to life”—and my second thought was, “oh. OK. So, Pet Semetary, only with people instead of cats and junk. Well, except for the part where Gage comes back as a sinister, scalpel-wielding toddler and the main guy’s wife comes back with a bitchin’ head wound.”
The more I read, however, leads me to believe that it will be neither. It seems to be a little more character-driven and mostly absent of ghoulishness. (The recently reinvigorated dead won’t have sloughing-off skin and beetles crawling out of their noses, or anything.) I still don’t know that I’m 100% SOLD, but I’m willing to give it a shot with Sunday night’s premiere. Here’s why. Continue reading
Leftridge: Royals’ Surprise Report (Surprise, I’m Not There)
Once upon a time, John Lamb was the future of the Royals. He threw a vicious fastball with movement, and he did it with his left hand. Baseball America said he was the 18th best prospect in 2011. Shortly after their proclamation, his elbow exploded and he had the ol’ Tommy John. Last year, he struggled, posting an ERA well over 5 in Class A Wilmington. After showing promise in a couple of early Spring Training outings—his fastball was again creeping into the mid 90s—he relapsed. Saturday against the Brewers, he struggled with his speed, his command and everything else, giving up four runs in the first and failing to make it out of the inning.
This is sad not because he was expected to be a big part of this year’s team, but holy shit would he have made a fantastic story AND an unexpected 2014 addition.
But, alas. Continue reading
Hearne: Whatever Happened to Former TV 9 Weather Dude Joel Nichols?
It’s not easy being an aging weather wonk…
Not to be confused with a meteorologist. Times have changed and the days when sappy, fun-loving weathermen and comely, buxom weather babes could plight their troughs in the the wide world of TV weather. These days it’s an Olympic sport and if you don’t have the science chops, odds are you’re not gonna make it in a major market – not even one as small as Kansas City.
So it is that longtime Channel 9 cloud kicker Joel Nichols has been missing in action on the local TV weather front for coming up on three months. Somewhat obviously he’s not been snapped up by the competition at Channels 4,5 or 41. Still inquiring minds want to know the what, where, when and whyfors of the affable Nichols future career aspirations.
Which brings us to an email from a KCC reader who thinks Nichols may have gotten on full time at Johnson Country Community College. Continue reading
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Sounds Good: Middle Class Rut @ Czar Bar, Sharon Jones @ Liberty Hall, Dr. Dog @ Liberty Hall
I need to get into the beer festival business.
No, I don’t want to actually brew the beer, I just want to invite a bunch of other people who brew the beer to show up with the beer. Then I’ll put tickets up for sale for $30-ish or so, sit back and relax. And drink some of the beer, of course.
This Saturday is the Kansas Craft Brewers Expo at Abe & Jake’s Landing in Lawrence. Tickets online cost about $36 after all the fees and stuff. And it sold out in a matter of minutes, for two different 3-hour sessions. There are currently zero tickets available for purchase on Stubhub, and on Craigslist there are a few that are listed at over $60 per.
Then yesterday came word that Boulevard’s version of the event sold out in a matter of minutes at $75 a pop. Granted, I think that includes some food as well, but still.
I’m starting to think that people around these parts really like beer… Continue reading
Hearne: Why Kansas City Won’t Get the Republican Convention
There’s a reason Kansas City will not be getting the 2016 Republican Convention and it’s a lousy one, insiders say. Because KC mayor Sly James – a Dem by any other name – kicked “public affairs and corporate campaigns expert” Cathy Nugent – a Republican – to the curb in the city’s bid to land the big dance for the Cowtown.
“I don’t think Kansas City has a chance in hell of getting the Republican Convention now because of the way they played the game,” says one prominent civic leader. “They didn’t play the game ethically. They took an individual who spent two years trying to get the Republican Convention for Kansas City and then the mayor fucked up and got somebody else and took the process in house with another local Democrat and hired Kit Bond‘s wife to be a token Republican.” Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: ‘300: Rise Of An Empire’—Bloodbath Gone Wild
We’ve all heard of an EXTREME screen, but nothing that I’ve seen in recent memory prepared me for the visual bloodbath of 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE…
It’s the follow-up to the Zach Snyder-directed 2007 graphic, box office hit ‘300.’
Take note though that here Snyder turns the directorial chores over to Noam Murro (‘Smart People’) and sticks instead to co-producing and co-writing.
300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE pits Themistocles against the massive Persian forces led by mortal-turned god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
And this time the filmmakers of the epic saga have set most of the stylistic action on a fresh battlefield—the high sea—as Greek general Themistocles now attempts to unite all of Greece by leading a charge that will change the course of the war.
(Actually it’s all pretty Greek to me.) Continue reading
Hearne: A Bit of Shameless Handwringing for The Pitch
Regular readers know every now and so often I saddle up and take a look at what’s left of Kansas City’s one-and-only alternative newsweekly, The Pitch. And, full disclosure, I did lead the charge during the Pitch’s key formative years evolving it from a record store rag into a news and entertainment weekly prior to a certain someone breaking their word and hanging me out to dry.
However those days are long gone and at this stage of the game there continues to be a genuine concern for the well-being and survival of The Pitch, and thus the future of alternative news and entertainment journalism in KC. Oh sure, we’ve got the Internet and me and Tony and Greg Hall and Jim Fitzpatrick and a smattering of comers and goers here and there.
And while that’s likely the future in some sense, none of us – not even all of us combined – come close to providing the wide spectrum of more comprehensive, quality reporting and content that even what’s left of The Pitch provides.I say, “what’s left,” because at only 36 pages a week and a scant 16 pages of what appear to be paid ads (well under the 50 percent minimum needed for survival), the handwriting’s on the wall.
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Hearne: Radar Love on the Rocks — Valentine One vs. Car & Driver, Escort
For more than 20 years inventor dude Mike Valentine‘s radar detector the Valentine One has more-or-less been the undisputed champion in the speeding ticket avoidance industry. An industry that came of age during the Richard Nixon administration in 1974 via the The Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act which required states to enact a 55 miles-per-hour speed limit to receive federal funding for highway repair.
Now suddenly, according to a Car & Driver magazine’s latest radar test, the company Valentine helped start, Escort has overtaken the longtime champ.
Or has it?
“This magazine’s recent comparison of radar detectors reached an odd conclusion- that the elimination of false alarms ‘provides a higher level of real-world protection’ than you’d get from detailed information about those alarms,” Valentine writes in a full page ad in the April issue of Car & Driver. “I disagree strongly. Here’s why. GPS false alarm blocking systems fail the Murphy’s Law test.” Continue reading
Sutherland: A Law of Unintended Consequences or The Homintern Rules
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down what many saw as a troubling decision..
In Employment Division v. Smith, the Court held that an American Indian was not exempted from a criminal law prohibiting use of hallucinogenic drugs, even though peyote was used as part of the ritual of the Native American Church. The Court, in a majority decision by Justice Scaglia, found that since the statute in question did not single out American Indians in its ban on hallucinogens, it was not unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s prohibition of restraints on the free exercise of religion. Continue reading
Donnelly: It’s Time. Sporting Kicks Off This Saturday.
Not so long ago I was standing in my coveralls, huddled up with about 20,000 freezing fans at Sporting Park, watching Lovel Palmer drill one off the crossbar.
That chokejob sealed the deal for Sporting Kansas City. The players stormed the field and hoisted the MLS Cup for the second time in franchise history.
Man, it was cold out. That was less than three months ago. Offseason? What offseason?
And here we go again, folks. KC’s season opener is this Saturday at the Seattle Sounders. Here are a few thoughts, in no particular order of chronology or coherence. Continue reading
Valentine: Time Traveling to Oz with the KC Symphony
I’m not sure how they took out all the music and left in all the other sounds in the 1939 classic…
And I’m not sure how the conductor hit every cue to the second, but the KC Symphony – performing at the Kauffman Center – made sure that I had the best time I ever spent watching The Wizard of Oz on the screen.
Walking into the Kauffman always impresses me.
The four story glass walls in the foyer give a great night view of the Crossroads District, Crown Center and Liberty Memorial. As someone who grew up on Sci-Fi, the long views on a clear night feel like being in a space station. The white curved walls of the twin auditoriums add to that “clean room,” laboratory effect that I expect from the future. Continue reading
Hearne: KU Quietly Puts Screws to Women, Dials Back ‘Fieldhouse Apartments’
Keep this under you hat, but Bill Self‘s $17.5 million luxury apartments complex just got whacked…
What, you didn’t read any news stories about it either? The first mention of the whacking – from $17.5 million down to $10 million or less – came in the form of an editorial in Sunday’s Lawrence Journal World.
Which is kinda funny, cause when KU’s athletics department wanted to wipe the egg off its face after getting embarrassed by the Kansas Legislature recently, it put out enough press releases to get coverage about a “lead donor” being found for the Fieldhouse Apartments that it was even mentioned in the Washington Post.
But now that they’re going halfsies on the deal, mum’s the word..now here’s why.
Forget about women’s sports and Title IX insuring that “no person be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
The reason KU athletics is running quiet is they’re running scared. Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Diane Birch at the Bottleneck – This Saturday
I first discovered Diane Birch in Episode 24 of Live from Daryl’s House…
If you’re not a fan of the show and love live music, it’s a great mix. Daryl Hall, of Hall and Oates fame, invites new and old artists alike to his upstate New York estate for jam sessions that never let you down.
Check it out here at www.livefromdarylshouse.com. There’s a full archive of shows.
In Birch’s show she said she didn’t feel like she fit in anywhere because she didn’t sound like anything current. So she just decided to just write what she felt. And that’s what she’s done ever since. Continue reading
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Hearne: Small Town ‘Journalism’ Bane of Sleepy Lawrence, Kansas
Because a truly forward-thinking, progressive city needs a serious, take no prisoners news organization to help lead the way. To inform and inspire the citizenry. Which even given its many flaws, the Star does.
You think KC Confidential or Tony’s Kansas City can deliver those goods? Please.
Absent the above, you risk living in a town like Lawrence, Kansas.
Don’t get me wrong, Lawrence is a charming, little burg, bustling with college kids and profs, a sprinkling of aging hippies and beatniks, the odd local oddball and a hard working, hard partying core population.
It’s also a rudderless town of 95,000 and change, populated by people who remind me of the Eloi in the 1960’s sci fi movie The Time Machine. Continue reading
Hearne: Bono Was right, KC Frozen Out of Top 101 Restaurants
Maybe former Chiefs quarterback Steve Bono was right after all…
There are so many goofy surveys out there and year-after-year we fall for ’em. Best city to party, retire, bike or find romance in. The fittest, fattest, funnest – there’s no shortage of topics. And usually it’s a magazine or website hardly anybody really reads that puts these local media magnets out in an effort to garner attention and try and remain relevant.
Long ago pretty much everybody figured out one of the best ways to make a splash is to put out a list that purports to bestow awards (however dubious) on as many different cities and towns as they can. Knowing that the local media will pounce on said surveys and act like they actually matter. You know, that we really are the best, worst or fattest. Continue reading
Leftridge: Goodbye Garth, Hello Better Tomorrow
There are two infallible truths in baseball: superstition and tradition…
They’re both unavoidable, even if the first isn’t always as widely visible. What I mean is that we didn’t see Wade Boggs scarf down chicken before each and every game. (Though I suppose we could have seen him take precisely 150 grounders—no more, no less—and start batting practice at exactly 5:17 each day.) We’re not with Matt Garza as he makes a Popeye’s run, we don’t actually watch Justin Verlander shovel fistfuls of Taco Bell into his maw, and thank the good lord above, we wouldn’t know that Jason Giambi is rocking a gold, slump-busting thong if he didn’t tell us.
The latter truth—owing to the fact that it’s often in the “audience participation” realm—is much more apparent.
Starting in the early 1990’s, the Milwaukee Brewers instituted a “sausage race” during every home game, a buffoonish lark featuring people running around the perimeter of the field dressed as a bratwurst, a Polish sausage and an Italian sausage. (They’ve since added a hot dog and a chorizo.) This makes sense because, well, Milwaukee.