Subject: Japan

• KC Bands in AP's Top 100 for '07

  March 21, 2007

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 9/22

  September 22, 2008

• Sayuri at the Uptown Theater

  October 24, 2008

• Pitch Forks

  March 9, 2000

• Batter patter from the pancake guy

    I'll be honest here. Even though I've flipped more than my share of flapjacks and served many hot stacks o' pancakes over the decades (I've worked for no less than three pancake operations over the years, although one of those chains specialized exclusively in crepes, not that I want to flip out over little details), I had never heard of author Ken Albala until I read Owen Morris' delicious Fat City post about yesterday's lecture at the downtown branch of the Kansas City Public Lib

  January 8, 2009

• Best Local Company

  October 17, 2002

• Further Review

  February 13, 2003

• The Microphones

  March 11, 2004

• Best Homegrown Diva

  October 7, 2004

• Incoming: Def Leppard, Poison and ... Cheap Trick

  This July, if you want your Rick Neilsen and your Bun E. Carlos and your dream police and your want-you-to-want-me, you're gonna have to pour some sugar and take a little Poison to get it. Just announced: Headliner Def Leppard, plus Poison and "special guest" Cheap Trick, all coming to Sprint Center July 21. Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 14, at 11 a.m. $39, $59, $85 and $125 levels are available. Cheap Trick recently launched a YouTube channel and posted some rare footage from its Dream

  March 6, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday 3/12

  Colonel Sanders was just pulled from a river in Japan. Trust me, it's not as weird as it sounds. [MSNBC]Oatmeal cookies are the first item many of us ever baked, yet most people never bother to improve upon that initial recipe. Here are 25 tips for better oatmeal cookies. [Simmer till Done]Fans of hot salsas will enjoy this huge list and maybe see some they didn't know existed. [Hot Blog on a Stick] For the "I knew it was too good to be true" file: Red wine does not reduce the risk of breast can

  March 12, 2009

• The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's new hip-hop CD rounds the plates, riles up the club

  Hank Aaron and Jackie Rob/Cool Papa Bell and Hank Leonard/Yeah, they set the stage/But the baddest of them all was prob'ly Satchel Paige/Yeah, clear as the air you breathe/This beat is ballin' like the Negro League That isn't the rap of your usual children's entertainer - some kind of square, after-school-special hip-hop dabbler. Far from it. That verse is intoned by none other than the Doggfather himself, Snoop Dogg, on a compilation album of raps and R&B out today benefiting Kansas City's Neg

  March 24, 2009

• Japan's unexpected rice problem

  Flickr: FormosaSavage You don't have to have actually travelled to the Land of the Rising Sun -- or even be a fan of Midwestern Japanese steakhouses or sushi restaurants -- to know that rice is a major staple of the Japanese diet. But this story in today's New York Times reveals an unexpected truth: Japan's rice farmers are aging -- most of Japan's three million farmers are over age 60 -- and there's not a younger generation eager to take over the family farms. One of the farmers quot

  March 28, 2009

• Politically incorrect breakfast cereal

  Vintage Cereal Collection When I was putting up today's Fat City post about the potential rice problem in Japan, I was thinking back on when I first started eating rice. It wasn't ever a staple in our home (unless someone brought carry-out Chinese food over), but I've always loved it. Even as the ingredient in a breakfast cereal. Suddenly I flashed on a long-forgotten memory from my past: So Hi! So what? So Hi was the little Asian boy cartoon figure who shilled a cereal man

  March 28, 2009

• Patrick Bukaty

  June 4, 2009

• 2009 Oscar-Nominated Shorts

  February 12, 2009

• Whuddup, Freaks?

  July 26, 2007

• A Room of One’s Own

  July 27, 2006

• The Rip-Off Edición

  October 26, 2006

• Turning Japanese

  July 13, 2006

• Enter the Dragon

  January 12, 2006

• High on Grass

  October 6, 2005

• Peelander-Z

  Sunday, August 14, at the Brick.

  August 11, 2005

• Beyond Pop

  The Kemper shows that Asian art isn't all cute.

  June 30, 2005

• The Friendly Skies

  We didn't need to go all the way to the airport to make our connection.

  June 23, 2005

• Fantasy Escapes

  Be warned, though; this year’s summer reading isn’t exactly mindless.

  May 19, 2005

• Bad Meaning Good

  Peanut Butter Wolf's vinyl weighs a ton.

  April 15, 2004

• Mad Cowboys

  A Kansas beef producer just wants to sell safe cattle, but the feds won't let it.

  March 25, 2004

• White Dork Down

  Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords.

  December 4, 2003

• A Quick Trip

  Japanese culture takes over this weekend.

  September 11, 2003

• Blood Brothers

  Thursday, May 8, at El Torreon.

  May 8, 2003

• Lawrence Schools Foundation Benefit

  Thursday, May 8, at Liberty Hall.

  May 8, 2003

• Electric Eel Shock

  Wednesday, April 9, at El Torreon.

  April 3, 2003

• DJ Krush

  Saturday, March 8, at Abe & Jake's Landing.

  March 6, 2003

• Peelander-z

  Friday, January 3, at El Torreon.

  January 2, 2003

• Invisible Man

  Bruce Yonemoto uses a camera to see the world — and himself — a little differently.

  December 20, 2001

• Trash Talk

  Political views in the 1943 film Behind the Rising Sun may be garbage, but the prints themselves were rescued on their way to the landfill.

  August 9, 2001

• Sado Beating

  The Kodo Drummers are bound by neither musical tradition nor onstage attire.

  February 15, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of September 14, 2000

  September 14, 2000

• Staged Fright

  The Lied Center pulls the strings on Japanese ghost stories.

  August 31, 2000

• Faith of the Father

  8 1/2 Women.

  July 13, 2000

• Nara

  September 11, 2008

• Your chance to needle noodle Charles Ferruzza on "Walt Bodine Show" today

  Charles will be on The Walt Bodine Show at 10 this morning, talking the international language of noodles. Italy's linguini, India's ragi, Japan's udon -- virtually every country has several variations. The show is on KCUR 89.3 FM. If you're not in a car or if you're in another noodle-making country, you can still stream it live from the station's Web site. And if you know a good place to go for noodles in Kansas City -- especially soba noodles! -- make sure to call in for the second-half of the

  June 26, 2009

• Whiskey & Ice: A relationship on the rocks?

  The idea of a summer drink without ice is as perplexing as the wall of drinks at QuikTrip. Vanilla or Cherry flavor shot? What the heck is a Rooster Booster? QT itself has made it clear you're supposed to use ice, offering two kinds for those staggering in from the heat. But there might be one exception to the rule and that, fellow drinkers, is Scotch whiskey. Forget flavor shots -- the dividing line among whiskey enthusiasts is one drawn in water.  Recently the Daily Dust highlighted the I

  July 20, 2009

• You had me at Japanese ice balls

  If you're still blown away by the ice maker in your fridge, you might want to sit down for what you're about to read. Forget the argument about on the rocks or a splash of water -- you can now super-size your ice via spherical ice molds ($16). The molds create ice spheres that are 2 inches in diameter, they'll fit snugly in a lowball glass. The ice sphere has origins in Japan, where apprentice bartenders (possibly Ralph Macchio) hand carve spheres from blocks of ice. Expensive whiskeys are serve

  July 27, 2009

• Adventures in ice cream

  ​This is the time of year when ice cream always sounds good. However, some of the offerings uncovered by Better Homes and Gardens might not sound as appealing. Ice cream is apparently the next frontier for unusual tastes. At first the list is tame, with flavors like sweet corn and grilled potato. Corn seems an easy leap for cream; after all, its natural summer sweetness works well in cold soups and risotto. And, naturally, bacon is now an ice cream flavor -- why now, since Whole Foods sells a

  August 13, 2009

• City Come a-Walkin'

  August 27, 2009

• The kegerator evolves into a beer robot

  ​We couldn't let another country beat us to the moon. But we were scooped on a beer robot. The Asahi robot was part of a promotion for the Japanese brewer in 2006. The R2-D2-shaped bot would pour a tall cold one from a refrigerated compartment that could hold a six-pack and two frosty mugs -- but it was only available in Japan. Now, American ingenuity has found a way to improve upon the concept. Wired has built a robotic kegerator complete with instructions on how to make your own at home.Th

  September 8, 2009

• If you think race relations here are bad, try Japan

  Japanese? Black? Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin' to fuck with!​If you thought race relations in this country were lousy, go to Japan.During a presentation last night at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, traveling Japanese scholar Kohei Kawashima spoke about the formation of a race-based dialogue in Japan, where the ingrained racial attitudes bordered on shocking, even among university students.Kawashima said 32 of 34 Japanese students believe in innate black athleticism (versus 9 of the 21 Am

  September 10, 2009

• Meatovations: The next steps in cheeseburgers

  ​Every so often in our history, hamburgers take a great leap forward. Burgers got upgraded when cheese was introduced into the equation; blue cheese and Kobe Beef seemingly changed everything again in the '80s and '90s. Now cheese and another idea from Japan are spearheading the latest innovations The Chicago Tribune reviews two newly opened joints near Chicago that are hoping to redefine the cheeseburger. Gabutto Burger, a Japanese import, serves patties that are 80 percent beef, 20 percent p

  September 14, 2009