What looked like a playoff season for the Kansas City Chiefs is already falling apart…
It’s just one thing after another. The injury bug has already taken what looked like one of the league’s best defensive backfields down hard. Both starters Brandon Flowers and Kendall Lewis are out for who knows how long.
With those two out for the beginning of the season, that spells big trouble for KC. Continue reading
A growing number of industries have changed their business models from “all inclusive” to a la carte…
The most dramatic of those changes have, of course, come in the airline industry where your base ticket price basically gets you from point A to point B.
Anything beyond that costs extra.
Pillows, blankets, checked luggage, preferred seat assignments, food, drinks, extra legroom—the list goes on and on—can all add significantly to your end price.
And Las Vegas strip hotels have now joined the trend, where all the MGM Entertainment owned and operated properties are now adding a daily resort fee to your stay. That averages an additional $25 per night. Continue reading
Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight…
This journalistic contest was over before it started. In an attempt to breath relevance into the review of a book certain to be covered by the biggest guns in journalism, the Kansas City Star tossed a saddle on a little known, relatively inexperienced writer and laid down a bunt of a book review of former Star sports scribe Joe Posnanski‘s “Paterno.”
Given the circumstances, it’s one of the weakest book reviews I can recall. Continue reading
Where’d they all go?
Whatever happened to all those morning babes shouting out news, weather, traffic and fun on the radio? Shorty, Tanna, Murphy, Frankie, Glo, Darcie, Michelle, Katey – the list goes on.
Over the past 10 years local radio has lost most of the voices of its most colorful hotties. The Rock 98.9‘s Murphy Wells was unraveled about seven years ago, the same for Frankie from 101 The Fox three years back. Shorty who was the morning star on three different stations over 15 years took a bullet three weeks ago at Alice 102.1 and last week Tanna Guthrie of The Point, was discharged by Entercom.
There are others. Continue reading
Sporting Kansas City moved into first place in the East with a 1-0 win at Toronto Saturday, two points ahead of the New York Red Bulls who visit LIVESTRONG this Sunday.
KC deserved the win on Canadian soil, dominating possession and shot attempts per usual. Still it certainly wasn’t all that pretty.
“It was a sloppy game, this is really difficult for the style that we play when it comes to teams like Toronto,” said KC winger Kei Kamara. “When teams sit back we don’t get to really do what we are good at. The moments that they came at us are the moments that open up spaces…” Continue reading
OK, the Chiefs stunk it up last night…
Big let down, huge. In fact, it was likely the most watched preseason game on TV here in years. Our number one defense was awful and looked like that phony D of 2003. The one that was the worst in modern football, the one that never made the Colts punt once in the playoff game we lost that season. That one.
It was ugly last night. Continue reading
Who has the best quarterback lineup in the NFL?
It may surprise you to learn the answer is, the Kansas City Chiefs. Not even close. Our guys are the best.I looked over the other team’s guys and guess what? We win!
Oh wait a minute, you thought I meant the best playing quarterbacks?
Uh,no.
I mean the best looking. If Hollywood came calling, the Chiefs under center would all three be starters.
In a league that now has attendance issues – not due to popularity but too much TV coverage as well as ticket, food and parking costs – the Kansas City Chiefs have found the answer Continue reading
What’s up, dude? What are you doing this weekend? Bringing your mom home? Really?! It’s been 3 to 5 years already? Wow. Time flies.
Well, hey, I was gonna ask– when’s the last time you had authentic Siberian cuisine? You know, puréed polar bear loin? Oh, what? Never? Geez. Okay, well what about goat-face stew from Haiti? Oh… well did you like it? That’s cool. Continue reading
For three days when I’ve looked out my bedroom window I’ve gazed upon the Crown Center complex…
Which, as you might surmise, is because I’m staying at the Westin Crown Center Hotel. It’s been a while since I’ve spent this much time hanging at Crown Center, and that’s probably true for many of you. Unless like the great suburban masses you’ve barely been here ever if at all.
The experience has sparked some observations and even caused me to wonder about the very future of Hallmark Cards, that giant among giants of heritage Kansas City companies. Continue reading
KCI bus drivers have been involved in over 50 accidents in recent years and have cost the city $200,000. On the bright side, Kansas City is now the No. 1 city for people who know what they’re talking about when they say, “I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus.”
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KCI hopes to outsource busing at the airport. They’re currently looking for drivers who speak even less English. Continue reading
For the second time in less than five years Entercom has axed veteran radio personality Tanna Guthrie…
The longtime KY102 and 99.7 KY personality has parted company with The Point 99.7 FM – reportedly on “good terms” – after a little over a year on the hot AC station and three on KUDL FM before that.
“They didn’t get rid of her because she did anything wrong,” says Stanford’s Craig Glazer, a frequent flyer at Entercom. “They just didn’t want to have to pay her.”
If you recall, the former 99.7 KY personality was let go by Entercom in January 2008 when the classic rock station switched music formats. Kicked to the curb at that time were Guthrie and fellow KY stationalities Max Floyd, Traci Wilde and Slacker. Continue reading
By now, everyone who cares knows Alamo Drafthouse will suffer no fools at its new Mainstreet movieplex…
Not the sort who talk or text during movies anyway. That said, there’s practically no limit to the foolishness Alamo will eagerly participate in when the spirit moves – from heavy metal singalongs to nudist screenings.
The Alamo’s about to spring one such trap at 5 p.m. today. Continue reading
Well, the summer has just about come and gone…
Our city is now one year older, but is it getting better? Are we on the right track? I see many good things happening. Sure, there are still issues and problems, there always will be. But are we moving towards overall improvement? Continue reading
Usually I try to write some kind of lead-in that really ties the room together…
This is not one of those deals.
Nope, I found myself today just listening to this really great band that almost no one’s ever heard of, Richmond Fontaine. It’s not a dude, it’s a band. And they rock. Not rock like “Are you ready to rock Kansas Cityyyyyy!!!!?” They rock like, “Man, these guys are really good.” Continue reading
Remember a few weeks back when Channel 9‘s slot on Time Warner was temporarily replaced by the Hallmark movie channel?
That’s kind of how I felt when sitting down earlier this week to view THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN.
But that’s not a bad thing. Continue reading
The simple truth is this….
IT DOESN’T REALLY MATTER MUCH WHO WINS THE WHITE HOUSE. Fixing the economy is not something a president can just do. He can only help, kinda like a cheerleader with some inside scoop.
Sorry. Continue reading
Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front…
Fox 4 movie critic Shawn Edwards has nothing against babies – he even had one…once.
“I do love babies,” Edwards says. “Just not at the movies.”
However, were Edwards to ascend to say, The White House, moviegoing babies would be in deep doo-doo. Continue reading
Make way for Big Brother…
A spate of high profile killings by nut jobs – the Dark Knight massacre in Colorado, the Sikh Temple shootings in Wisconsin – have the country on edge.
So much so that a team at KU to keep an eye on suspicious types is in the limelight.
“Say you’re teaching a class at Kansas University and you’re worried about a particular student,” begins a front page story in today’s Lawrence Journal World. “Maybe a passage in a paper seems particularly dark or talks about suicide. Maybe someone notices a social media post that looks like a threat. Maybe a student unleashes a loud, verbal attack after receiving a failing grade. Where to call?” Continue reading
Talk about 100 minutes of hell…
You cannot go to a movie these days without sitting through a primer on cellphone etiquette. You know, about how texting is wrong – terribly wrong.
Here’s what you can do though:
And that’s go to a movie or promotional screening, like last night’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green. You can walk into the theater, take a seat, carefully turn off your cell phone and then sit back and…listen for 104 minutes nonstop to yelling, screaming babies.
Which is what went down last night at AMC’s Leawood Town Center. Continue reading
Not really sure how I feel about this pick…
Part of me wants to be really excited, while other parts are
terrified and incredulous over the selection of Ryan as Mitt Romney’s
running mate.
THE GOOD– Ryan is young and articulate. The kind of guy that “believes
what he says and says what he believes.” He’s well liked by the grass
roots of the Republican Party, has a very telegenic family and has
been consistently re-elected in a Democrat majority district.
Can you tell I’m struggling to find good things to say? Continue reading
