Don’t look now, but the Liberty Memorial‘s eternal flame is poised for a comeback…
It’s been nearly a year since the once proud flame flickered mightily high atop the downtown landmark. The fake flame went dark last March as part of museum efforts to reduce costs and save energy. Continue reading
Soon you’ll be able to tweet a six-second video on Twitter….which means, I can start tweeting SEX!
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Temperatures reached the mid-70s in parts of the metro today. It made for a great excuse to go outside, get some fresh air…and check if my air conditioner still works.
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Don’t shed any tears for Joe Posnanski…
Sure the former Kansas City Star sports scribe took it up the you-know-what last year for giving disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno kid glove treatment in his book “Paterno.”
That after holing up with the Paterno family in State College, Pa. in the months leading up to and at the time the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke in late 2011. The rest is history as Paterno’s statue was taken down by Penn State as his sterling reputation lay in tatters.
Try finding a review that doesn’t bag on Posnanski for whitewashing Paterno’s role in covering up the scandal.
But forget all of that now…
Because movie director Brian DePalma has inked a deal for a movie about Paterno based on Posnaski’s book starring Al Pacino. Continue reading
Do us all a favor and just bring it…
Enough with lame headlines like the Pitch‘s speculating on whether now former KCUR FM host Jabulani Leffall was on drugs. He was not the alt weekly “reported,” according to an anonymous friend.
It’s time for Leffall to come out of hiding and come clean to local listeners as to why he pulled the plug on his radio show with no warning, no explanation.
Leffall owes them that, seeing as how they wrote his paychecks the past two years. Continue reading
The story behind John Hinckley‘s pending release from prison is a must read. . .
You might recall Hinckley was a seriously deranged young man who shot President Reagan in 1981. Hinckley was absolutely obsessed with movie star Jodie Foster and, in his twisted mind, loved Jodie to the point that to make himself well known to her, he attempted to assassinate Reagan. Continue reading
Dustin Colquitt may make his last punt in a Chiefs uniform Sunday at the Pro Bowl. His contract expires in March. While punting for the Chiefs, Dustin set the record for busiest leg in the history of mankind.
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Some adventurous mice snuck into the Wichita Police Department and ate some marijuana evidence in a pending court case. They chewed and nested in three bags of pot being held in a storage room. They were last spotted singing, “Forver let us hold our banner HIGH! HIGH! HIGH! HIGH!”
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Burger King is cutting ties with a meat supplier that has been linked with tainting beef products with horse meat. Continue reading
I can’t take it anymore…
Not that I’m mad as hell or anything, but the only thing more ridiculous than the ridiculous tale of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o is the ridiculous, lame news coverage of his fake dead girlfriend story.
Ad nauseam news coverage. Continue reading
I just don’t like spies.
I don’t mean I dislike them as one might dislike an opossum, as in, “Jesus, honey—those spies got into the trashcans again last night and shit all over the sidewalk. We need to set some spy traps.” I mean, I dislike them because they’re not interesting to me.
There’s nothing about a spy—the intrigue, the danger, the cool surveillance tools masquerading as household objects (A MUSTACHE COMB-CAMERA? COOL)—that holds my attention. James Bond stuff is boring, and I’d be more interested in the Rosenbergs if they opened a really authentic delicatessen in my neighborhood.
I feel like less of a man admitting this, trust me. For the most part, spies are an inherently masculine interest, falling somewhere on the continuum of youth between dinosaurs and girls. But like outer space and racecars, they just never became a “thing” to me. That said, I’m looking forward to FX’s January 30th premier of The Americans, a show about two Russian spies (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) and their children living as a normal family in a 1980’s Washington DC suburb. I’ll explain why. Continue reading
Think Quantrill’s Raid sans the massacre…
At this point the plans are a little sketchy, but if push comes to shove, Black & Gold Tavern owner Zach Cartwright may celebrate the 1863 burning of Lawrence by leading a band of MU Tigers to the Jayhawk capital this summer.
“August 21st of this year is the 150th anniversary of Quantrill’s excursion to Lawrence, so we will be celebrating it here at the Black & Gold Tavern” Cartwright says. “We might even take a bus load of Missouri fans over to Lawrence that night, but we’ll leave the matches at home.”
The first raid left between 185 and 200 Jayhawks dead. Continue reading
What do I think about the Kanrocksas lineup?
Lots of people have been asking me this lately. The question is inevitably followed by their own opinion, which by and large has been negative.
Hold it right there folks.
The powers that be at Kanrocksas have announced only three acts so far. And two of them seem like pretty good bets to me. Continue reading
Since when did making pizzas become a life and death struggle?
I’ll let new Dark Horse Tavern main man Bill Nigro answer that in a minute. But first let’s clear up the confusion about the whereabouts of Torres Pizza the past 10 years.
As one comments section gentleman noted, something called Torres has been available in Westport pretty much all along since the mid 1970s.
Trouble is, after Nigro got fed up hand making pizzas in 2002 he farmed Torres out to a concern who changed the recipe and hustled the pies less scrupulously.
No mas. Continue reading
With the new year upon us, comes another batch of forbidden fruit to keep you on the straight and narrow while cruising this great land of ours…
*Like in Minnesota where it’s illegal to have sex with a live fish.
* Or in Utah it is against the law to marry your first cousin before the age of 65. Continue reading
Baby Boomers control over 70% of the US economy. They have all the money. For the most part, SAVED UP. With no interest from CD’s or Savings, no safe investments, and deep fear of the stock market, they hold their money tight to their vest. Can the economy come back without the ‘boomers?’
Yep ‘Boomers’ are from 40′ to 60’s today. Some are already retired. Many own the major business concerns in this city and around the nation. They are the C.E.O’s of well over half our companies. Yet their spending habits have dropped way off. Why? Fear. They saw their stocks and 401K’s take huge hits these past ten years plus. Their CD’s pay almost nothing. Their children are in college or into the beginnings of their chosen fields. They are most of our nations ‘rich’ folks. Guess what, most of them feel they are nearly BROKE. Their bills are higher than their income. NO not all, but the majority. If they don’t spend,travel, go out or buy new homes, our economy may be on lock up. Continue reading
Charles, I mean Clark in Charge. Thank God. We are saved Chiefs Nation! The Chiefs owner, Clark Hunt has decided to keep Scott Pioli as general manager of your beloved Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs, as I wrote in previous stories, are THE MOST IMPORTANT THING in Kansas City. That’s the talk, the print, the media, at least in our town. So all decisions for drafting, who the new coach will be, who stays on this team and who goes will be answered by Clark Hunt. Happy now? Continue reading
The comments section has spoken…
In a photo finish the Sack the Scribe forces nosed out the Go Glazers in David Scott Whinery‘s unscientific poll of KC Confidential readers.
It was thisclose.
Truth is though while Whinery’s intentions were pure, the die was already cast.
After two years of hard labor, I just didn’t have the time or energy to edit the Scribe’s entertaining, true life stories any longer. Continue reading
Pastor Adam Hamilton from Leawood’s Church of the Resurrection spoke at the National Prayer Service in Washinton. It marked the first time a Johnson County resident had prayed for Obama.
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KC Mayor Sly James is now courting neighboring cities to link to Kansas City’s streetcar transit system. By force of habit, the state of Kansas offered more money for the entire system to cross the State Line.
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The almighty Super Bowl is right around the corner…
And with it comes its extraordinarily huge viewing audience. Especially given the popularity of this year’s game featuring a duel between the two team’s head coach brothers.
Then there’s America’s fascination with Super Bowl TV commercials.
This year a 30 second network spot during the CBS telecast game has escalated to $4 million. Which may sound huge but still seems reasonable when advertisers calculate the cost per thousand and consider the demographic reached by their commercials.
But what about the Super Bowl spots in Kansas City? Continue reading
Will it ever end?
The latest cutbacks – both now and coming soon – to the Kansas City Star: another round of employee furloughs (forced, unpaid vacations) and a shrinking of the newspaper’s print edition sometime between now and the end of spring.
Star publisher Mi-Ai Parrish unleashed the not unexpected furlough news this morning in a memo to staffers.
“As we make turn into 2013, we continue to see some signs of economic uncertainty, and our revenue projections, although improving, continue to track below prior year,” Parrish wrote.
Hold it right there… Continue reading
Once upon a time there was but a single pizza joint in Westport…
That was then.
Now there’s a gillion of em, says Midtown mainstay Bill Nigro.
“There’s pizza on the menu of practically every restaurant in Kansas City,” Nigro says.
That said, Nigro is bucking the odds by bringing back Torre’s Pizza at The Dark Horse Tavern, which is newly under his management. Continue reading
No, they’re not actually a family – it’s just a clever name – and the 
surname of the lone girl in the group, Kelsey Kopecky.
Any other questions before we get going?
OK, good. Continue reading
