Subject: Jay Leno

• Daily Briefs: Bear Stearns Absorbed; Luck o' The Irish Bars; More Whores!

  March 17, 2008

• Daily Briefs: The Smell of Dogs Not Desire, Wake Up to Wednesday, Strip Club Expansion

  March 19, 2008

• Daily Briefs: City Market Eviction; Sugariness

  April 15, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Three stories about "The Man."

  August 4, 2008

• Houlihan's fall menu isn't a real fall menu

  October 24, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Linkless Wednesday

  Meteorological Fantasy Camp: When I was a little kid, I wasn't always 100 percent sure what I was going to be when I grew up. But thanks to television, for most of the time that I was in single digits, I was pretty sure that my future career would involve carrying a gun. That's the earliest instance of technology augmenting my internal self-schema, and now, thanks to quad-core microprocessors and cheap RAM, I spend most of my day pretending to be various things that I am ostensively not. For ins

  December 3, 2008

• Funkhouser: Ready for your questions

  In a week, Mayor Mark Funkhouser, the Jay Leno of Kansas City mayors, will tape the next episode of "Straight Talk with the Mayor." It's unconfirmed whether Gloria Squitiro, the Kevin Eubanks of mayor's wives, will be along to add her too-hot-for-the-29th-floor comedy schtick. Crispin Rea invites you to send your questions or comments to crispin_rea@kcmo.org by next Monday. I'm sure he'll appreciate it. -- Justin Kendall

  January 6, 2009

• Studies in Crap: "1001 WaysTo Be Romantic"

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power. 1001 Ways To Be Romantic Author: Gregory J.P Godek Publisher: Casablanca Press Date: 1995 Discovered at: Turnstyles thrift store, Overland Park The Cover Promises: If you own this, your relationship is failing. Representative Quotes: "490: Greet him at the door with confetti." "495

  January 22, 2009

• Daily Briefs: "WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THESE AIRLINE PEANUTS?"

  I'm a man of action. When I'm not throwing myself across the hoods of moving cars, such as my girlfriend's moving car, and also this one time, Justin's moving car, I'm doing arm curls and ab crunches in order to get myself into shape for activities like leaping over small barriers such as fire hydrants and newspaper machines, parkour-style. One time, I face-planted over the handlebars of my bike, also parkour-style, leaving a frighteningly large District 13 splash of blood, and a tooth, on th

  February 26, 2009

• Jazz Jam Crashers

  October 26, 2006

• A True Horror Classic

  December 21, 2006

• Geekology 101

  Judd Apatow explains himself.

  June 14, 2007

• Impossibly Passable

  November 2, 2006

• Voter Fraud

  October 12, 2006

• Who's Retarded?

  Ry Kincaid's new play is fully developed.

  May 11, 2006

• Supper Club

  Guess who's coming to dinner?

  March 10, 2005

• Just One Hitch

  Will Smith helps others find love, though probably not with this movie.

  February 10, 2005

• Friends With Benefits

  Guster's fanatical supporters are all part of the family.

  February 26, 2004

• Fear Factor

  But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott.

  December 26, 2002

• On the Defense

  The Royals take whatever their foul-mouthed fans give them at Crown Center this Friday.

  July 18, 2002

• Rescue 9/11

  This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter.

  January 3, 2002

• Kay O'Connors Secret Diaries

  The senator's never-before-published musings reveal that it's been a long, difficult year for all of us.

  December 27, 2001

• Back to School

  Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm.

  August 30, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of March 1, 2001

  March 1, 2001

• Do brunch! Be trendy!

  Cupcakes have been a fad for so long that magazines have started guessing what's next. (Best current guess is corn dogs.) But like Jay Leno, every time you think cupcakes have gone away, they somehow reappear. For some reason the cupcake trend hasn't morphed with the other food du jour: bacon. Until now. Enter bacon's cousin ham, and delicious-looking honey baked ham cupcakes, which are proving to be popular and could become a fixture of brunches everywhere.The idea came from realizing that ham

  May 27, 2009

• Don’t worry about missing any great poetry at this year’s Shakespeare Festival

  June 25, 2009

• KCAI in the national spotlight tonight on KCPT

  ​PBS kicks off the second season of its series Craft In America tonight with a two-part special that includes a segment on the Kansas City Art Institute's Ceramics Department. During the second hour -- an episode titled "Process," which starts at 8 p.m. on KCPT Channel 19 -- expect 10 minutes featuring the department's chairwoman, Cary Esser (pictured with former student Johanna Keefe, right). So You Think You Can Dance addicts: "Process" repeats at 1 a.m.Before the local shout-out, the Craft

  October 7, 2009

• This is the change Kathleen Sebelius brings to D.C.?

  The H1N1 vaccine has arrived in the metro, thus staving off the spread of the zombie flu virus. Or so former Kansas Gov. and current Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tells us. Wait, what if screamy John Cusack is right?Sebelius isn't just leaning on Elmo and Jay Leno to stop the spread of the flu. The silver-haired sneezing expert wanted the common man to help spread the word with a public service announcement video contest. Unfortunately, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes d

  October 9, 2009