Ah, the perils of an unlocked door…
When it comes to senseless regulations, Kansas City takes the cake, says Westport businessman Bill Nigro. Especially the good folks at Regulated Industries aka Liquor Control.
It all began four years back, when Liquor Control pushed through a rule that requires separate bars that share a single license in the same building to leave the passageway between them open.
Which in Nigro’s case is a door…but not just any door. Continue reading
Each fall, the same things inevitably happen.
The Chiefs begin a noxious, predictably sorrowful descent into mediocrity (or worse) within the first few weeks of the football season.
The Royals close out their otherwise miserable campaign with a deluge of victories that are viewed by virtually no one.
My ridiculous allergies render me unable to taste a bowl of my favorite Halloween mash-up monster cereal “Count BooFrankula.” (Also: the name of the inner-city child I haven’t yet adopted)
And somebody, somewhere—or, realistically speaking, millions of armchair executive TV producers everywhere—make the tired proclamation that, “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE IS DEAD.” (get it? See what they did there? GENIUS). “THE SHOW IS WORTHLESS. IT AIN’T BEEN RELEVANT SINCE CHEVY CHASE HUNG UP HIS GERALD FORD PANTS.” Continue reading
There’s a small film opening in limited runs this weekend in Kansas City…
I’ll bet you haven’t even heard of it. It’s called ARBITRAGE and was one of the best entries at this past year’s Sundance Film Festival.
And who would’ve thought it, there’s now Oscar buzz swirling around for its star!
He’s Richard Gere playing successful New York hedge fund manager Robert Miller whose personal and business life reeks of fraud, infidelity—and murder? Continue reading
U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of “Best Colleges” and Mizzou ranked #97. KU came in just below at #106. KU defends its inferior score by saying 106 is better than 97 in basketball.
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Kansas Speedway has added a road course to bring a six-turn design to the front stretch. More great news for Kansas City’s African American population.
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Tamba Hali says he didn’t like being away from the Chiefs during his one-week suspension from the NFL for substance abuse. He spent his week off qualifying for next year’s Tour de France.
Why Do You Want to Vote for Obama?
Especially if you are an American!
Especially after the debacles stemming from a lack of security and a true misunderstanding of who the ENEMY is which led to four Americans DEAD in our Libyan Embassy. While our Egyptian and Yemeni embassies are under siege…
WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT? Continue reading
Nick Wright is alive and well and doing his sportscasts in Houston…
And he’s made it painfully clear he’s very upset that his former boss, Ryan Maguire, did 610 Sports staffers Mark Carman and Jared Carter wrong by dumping them.
Maguire hired a pair of former 810 guys – Josh Vernier and Jay Binkley along with former Chiefs defensive back Jayice Pearson to replace Nick and crew with THE BIG SHOW on 610.
To start with they’re far more traditional than Nick. Wright was moving the chains for a younger audience and bringing himself into the show as a local personality on the rise.
It worked. Continue reading
The U.S. Men’s National Team bounced back Tuesday in Columbus with a 1-0 win over an athletic Jamaica squad that beat the Yanks just days earlier in Kingston – their first victory over the US… EVER.
And wouldn’t you know it, front and center was Sporting KC string-puller Graham Zusi, who had his best (by far) game in his young international career. Zusi got off an opportunistic pot shot that hit the cross bar in the 6th minute, cranked a close range rebound shot off the Jamaican keeper’s foot a few minutes later, and sent a blistering left footed volley just over the bar toward the end of the first half. Continue reading
There’s one less exit pending on SNL—at least for the time being…
According to VARIETY, NBC is expected to announce later today that Johnson County export Jason Sudeikis will stay with the long running late night comedy series at least until January of 2013.
Why? Continue reading
You never know…
Little did I suspect I’d get all of the opinions and comments – not just here on KCC – but from friends and acquaintances who read yesterday’s “Jack Gets Propositioned” story and contacted me afterwards.
The outcome of the Carla dating saga?
It’ll be revealed here soon enough. But until then here are a few excerpts from my favorite comments to the story so far: Continue reading
Any of you guys heard of this Winfield thing going on down south this weekend?
Apparently, lots of local musicia
ns are heading down for some hootenanny, leaving the Lawrence and KC cupboards bare of any roots, bluegrass, and country for the time being.
But don’t panic, oh loyal KCC music lovers. If you can’t make the jaunt down to the Valley, pop on over to Lawrence for some killer shows, starting on Wednesday with a truly unique showcase that mashes a half dozen local artists into one giant ball of sound.
Allow me to explain…. Continue reading
The Unicorn Theatre kicks the 2012-13 theater season into coked-up overdrive with the area premier of Stephen Guirgis‘ delightful, touching comedy The Motherfucker With the Hat (now through September 30 at the theater at 3828 Main).
Spoiler alert– this play is a Motherfucker!
A darling of NYC’s off-off-Broadway scene (and onetime contributor to “NYPD Blue” and “The Sopranos”), playwright Guirgis has created one of the wildest dramatis personaes you’re ever going to see in a Kansas City theater. Continue reading
The presidential television commercials are coming at us like bills in the mail…
We’re on overload.
Mitt Romney not only appears to have the edge in spending on TV advertising, he has it. The Barack Obama group now says it will add a truckload of new ads…starting now.
And now we’re told Obama was able to raise even more bucks than Mitt this past month.
The big difference in the Obama ads being Bill Clinton is on board.
Who has more charisma than this guy? Nobody. Continue reading
What do Elvis Grbac, Matt Cassel and Steve Bono all have in common?
Yes, they’re all former or current (and soon to be former) quarterbacks for the Kansas City Chiefs.
More importantly, they were all failures.
Now one could argue about Bono, since he did lead that outstanding 1995 team with Marcus Allen, Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith. But it was just for the one year, after that…bye-bye Stevie.
The other thing they had in common was a clear uneasy feeling about living in KC. Continue reading
Maybe Kansas City should schedule more Irish Fests…
You know, in the interest of the area getting more rainfall. After all, we’re in a drought and as most local worshipers of all things Irish know, the 10 year-old Irish Fest is one of the best torrential rain magnets going. The first fest got washed off the face of the map resulting in it having to move indoors to hotel rooms and the lobby of the Phillips House downtown. It rained so hard there almost wasn’t a second.
And this year’s rain soaked fest was accompanied by the headline,”Luck of the Irish Fest excludes the weather.”
Which brings us to the current drought plaguing the area… Continue reading
I’ve been sitting on this little personal story for awhile…
Earlier this summer during a party at a friend’s place, an acquaintance took me aside for a private conversation. He said that he wanted to fix me up with this friend. A young lady that I would really like. He said she was a dental hygienist and that she had a young son living with her in their Mission apartment.
He reasoned that Carla (not her real name) and I had a lot in common. Her favorite hobbies included movies and travel. Obviously right up my alley, right?
But there was a wrinkle in the equation. Continue reading
“Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well- being.”
So stated celebrated American interior designer Albert Hadley.
That aside, newsroom staffers at the Kansas City Star are quaking with dread over the prospect of taking up residence in the newspaper’s vast, newly-redesigned newsroom.
“I should send you a picture,” says one newsroom inhabitant. “Everybody in the whole news division is going to be packed into it – news, sports, business, Ink, features – everybody except the library and the people in Johnson County will be squeezed in there. I mean everybody gets like a seven-by-seven cube and they have no high privacy boards so you’ll be able to see everybody’s heads, hear everybody. Imagine if you’re interviewing somebody.” Continue reading
Sometime this year, taxpayers are supposed to receive an Economic Stimulus payment…
This is indeed a very exciting program, and I’ll explain it by using a Q & A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. It’s money the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen of it.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment? Continue reading
Vegas is great…again!
This time I’m staying at Mandalay Bay. Great place. I’d only visited here a couple of times before, never stayed. On one occasion, I saw my former girlfriend, Sandhal Bergman when she starred in the play Chicago. On another, I produced a show for Red Development starring J. J. Walker at House of Blues. The rooms are decent, there’s lots to do, it’s kept up well and there are good quality crowds.
And there are some fantastic rock bands playing nightly all over the casino.
It’s a very large, and fairly active casino. Another feature is a fun choice of pools, and if you come for a visit, you have to check out the shark reef! Well done, guys.
It was about 102 degrees today, clear and dry. My best gal pal Gina from California is here with me, sweet lady, and we are enjoying a relaxing three days and nights.
Now the big news….drum roll…what did I tell you about the Chumps? Continue reading
You can tell it’s time for Chiefs football when we reach the point of the year when you can’t find the Royals on Google.
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It was strange to watch people raving about former President Clinton’s oral skills for a change.
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Five area high schools have been designated 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools. Park Hill South, Lawson, Basehor-Linwood, Blue Valley High and St. Thomas Aquinas achieved Blue Ribbon Status… Continue reading
David Glass, preparing to pluck a fish from a stream with his razor-sharp talons
Meet Joe Accurso. You might remember Joe from such exploits such as “The Guy Who Wrote the Letter to David Glass That Was Published in the Kansas City Star.”
I initially shared my feelings about Joe’s efforts here, on this very website.
If you’re disinclined to read old stuff I’ve already spewed, here was the gist of what I said: nice idea, not the greatest execution. Only, you know, I took 1,000 words to say it because I tend to be a long-winded, rambling gasbag. It’s probably because I get paid by the word (not really. I don’t).
In any case, I said, “Joe, you’re a passionate man and blah blah blah, but who reads the paper anymore? What did you hope to accomplish? Why not some sort of digital petition? Why not stage some sort of walkout like Kietzman did 13 years ago? THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED!” or whatever. Continue reading
