Subject: Manhattan

• Will Farrell and the Hamburger the Size of His Head

  February 5, 2008

• Daily Briefs: KC Altruists. PLUS: Don't worry your pretty head about the food supply.

  April 14, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 11/20

  By OWEN MORRIS Not exactly the news you want to hear any year, much less this one but expect Thanksgiving food prices to be significantly higher this year than last. [Forbes] An economist slap-down of New York Times food critic Frank Bruni being biased (duh) towards certain neighborhoods in Manhattan over others. What's surprising though is that the areas Bruni shuns the most have some of the best ratings by regular joes. [Portfolio] Costco does not want your food stamps which is odd consid

  November 20, 2008

• Sexxxiness for charity: A couple of Clothes Whore-ish events this week

    Tonight (12/2): From 6 to 8:30 p.m., Manhattan's Lounge (135th and State Line Road) hosts Silent Nightie, a "classy lingerie fashion show" featuring delicate underthingies from local boutique Clair de Lune (the picture of the gauzy nightie is from Clair's Web site). A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Surviving Spouse and Family Endowment Fund (SAFE), which supports the families of fallen law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency personnel. Ther

  December 2, 2008

• Stealing Time: Obama totally has the power of Grayskull

  So today, Prince Barack Obama becomes He-Man: Master of the Universe. I just know he's totally going to throw up his power sword in front of Castle Grayskull and scream "I have the power" or something and ride away on a giant tiger. At least, those were my expectations until I read Just Cara's reality check this morning. So thanks a lot, Cara. Here's her advice to the millions -- and millions -- with high expectations."Don't defer to one man's judgment. Don't assume that because he talks a good

  January 20, 2009

• Commit Me, Please

  July 11, 2002

• Best Waitress

  October 17, 2002

• A couple of sex columnists come home

  Marcelle Manhattan's Sexegesis site says she's a good girl in the bad apple. But not for long.A couple of sex columnists leaving New York to come home to Kansas City seemed like a strange coincidence to me. So I decided to see why Marcelle Manhattan and Emily Farris were leaving the Big Apple for the City of Fountains. Warning: Reading this at work is probably not a great idea.

  February 13, 2009

• Best K-State Athlete

  October 17, 2002

• Ga-ga over Goo Goos

  When the James Beard Foundation hosts a Valentine's Tea at the James Beard House in New York City this Sunday, the dessert offerings will include "Goo Goo Pies" created by pastry chef Jennifer Giblin (from the Blue Smoke restaurant -- a barbecue joint in Manhattan). This confection, inspired by the famous candy clusters, will be tartlets "layered with caramel, salted peanuts, cream cheese mousse, chocolate pudding and marshmallow kisses." It sounds delicious! I'm a longtime fan of Goo Goo C

  February 5, 2009

• Best Shrimp Cocktail

  October 7, 2004

• The Download: Leonard Cohen Live

  Last Thursday, the legendary Leonard Cohen performed in front of an American audience for the first time in 15 years at NYC's Beacon Theater. NPR has graciously posted a dozen of the songs on its All Songs Considered podcast (this link will fire up your iTunes, or you can settle on the streaming version). Here's the shortened setlist: "Dance Me to the End of Love" "The Future" "Chelsea Hotel" "Tower of Song" "Suzanne" "The Partisan" "Hallelujah" "Recitation With N.L." "Take This Waltz" "So

  February 27, 2009

• Cover Dish

  March 31, 2005

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  September 15, 2005

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  September 22, 2005

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  September 29, 2005

• Layer Cake

  October 19, 2006

• Doc Rock

  February 5, 2009

• International Sprockets

  September 25, 2008

• The Women

  September 11, 2008

• Summer Reading

  June 5, 2008

• American Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

  Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

  January 31, 2008

• Will Power

  That old last-man-on-earth setup? It really works.

  December 13, 2007

• Global Twelve

  September 27, 2007

• The Brave & the Bold

  On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

  October 4, 2001

• 1408

  June 21, 2007

• Superzero

  Spider-Man 3 spins a web of mediocrity.

  May 24, 2007

• Leftover Crack

  Monday, July 3, at the Record Bar.

  June 29, 2006

• Last Laugh

  The H&R Block Artspace lets artists tell their own jokes.

  March 2, 2006

• Brewhaha

  The KC Brewfest has a cure for what ales ya.

  August 4, 2005

• Slip 'n' Glyde

  Let's talk about sex, baby.

  November 18, 2004

• Candy Caine

  Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story.

  November 4, 2004

• Country Stampede

  Thursday, June 24, through Sunday, June 27, at Tuttle Creek State Park.

  June 24, 2004

• We'll Take Manhattan

  Café New Yorker proves Johnson County has a taste for eccentricity.

  February 19, 2004

• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

  Friday, January 3, at the Hurricane.

  January 2, 2003

• Jenny From the Crock

  Lopez's got backlash in Maid.

  December 12, 2002

• Lucky Charms

  At Lucky Brewgrille, reality is not what it seems.

  March 21, 2002

• Rescue 9/11

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

  January 3, 2002

• Royal's Screwups

  Anderson's film is like its characters: flawed genius.

  January 3, 2002

• Hell of a Long Day

  24 has been the most talked-about show of the season and for all the wrong reasons.

  November 1, 2001

• Around Hear

  Spirit Fest wrap-up, D.C. Bellamy, Kristie Stremel, and Lost Pride

  September 14, 2000

• Black and White

  April 13, 2000

• A beer kind of weekend

  A pint or two is the perfect way to celebrate this May Day weekend, and Saturday has two events for beer lovers to pick from.Saturday is the sixth-annual Microbrewfest 2009 in underrated Parkville, with more than 25 breweries celebrating the best the Midwest has to offer. A microbrewer is pretty much any place making beer not owned by InBEV or SABMiller. Say, Boulevard or Free State Brewery, both of which will be at the fest, along with other locals like McCoy's, O'Fallon, and the Manhattan

  May 1, 2009

• Summers with Boulevard Summer

  Notice the ginger beer in the backgroundLast year, the extremely talented bartender of Bluestem, Van John Zarr, was on a mission to give Kansas City its own memorable cocktail. Like the Manhattan for New York or the Sazerac for New Orleans. OK, it wasn't really a mission, just a thought. "We have this great brewery," he said, referring to Boulevard, "and you already serve wheat with a lemon so it's a no-brainer to make a cocktail out of it."Teaming up with general manager Jeremy Lamb, Zarr

  June 10, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 7/20

  Nothing beats the smell of bananas and cloves in the morning: Gone Mild explains what goes into the homebrewing of hefe-weizen. [Gone Mild]Surrounded by beer-drinking women, the Wort Hog ponders the topic of beer and gender. [The Wort Hog]Tim Horton squares off against Dunkin Donuts in Manhattan, and the battle between Canadian and American donuts shows how America's pastime just might be rating junk food. [The New York Times]Sustainability comes to hunting lodges. The result is a Mini Cooper pa

  July 20, 2009

• Throwback MP3 of the Week: Ruskabank, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"

  This week's Throwback MP3 is actually a two-fer of Manhattan bands. Not only do you get the Little Apple's ska-rockers Ruskabank, you get them doing a cover of Truck Stop Love's classic "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." The track was recorded for an aborted TSL tribute comp that never got off the ground. Bits and pieces of it float around in the ether. Lawrence's Disagreements did a version of "Stagnation," and Ultimate Fakebook's version of "Nothing Left to Start" made it onto their split with

  August 12, 2009

• Taking Woodstock

  August 27, 2009

• Throwback MP3 of the Week: The Egomaniacs, "Whiteshirt/Birdshit"

  Maybe it's because I did Ruskabank for this post a couple weeks ago, which has me thinking of Manhattan, and the fun times I had every time I went out there to visit folks or see shows. Or maybe it's because Sound Opinions had the Jesus Lizard on this week, and I got in the mind for some post-punk rock. Or maybe -- just maybe -- I wanted to see the word "birdshit" in the subject header. ​Whichever way it is, the Egomaniacs "Whiteshirt/Birdshit," the opening track to their 2000 release Pri

  August 26, 2009

• No Impact Man

  October 8, 2009

• The skinny on the world of cheesecakes

  ​As a boy growing up on the East Coast, there were certain inalienable truths. Among them was that the only place to get bagels and cheesecakes done the right way was New York City. And to this day, cheesecake remains a food that, outside of Manhattan, isn't the same. Whether it's a question of water or baking practices, or simply because it's a food that can't be replicated because it has already been fixed in my mind, the ideal of a slice of New York City cheesecake holds its value. It is th

  October 20, 2009