Subject: NASA

• Cup and Saucer Inaction News

  April 7, 2006

• Concert Review: The Donkey Show

  April 7, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Water ice on Mars, you guys! Plus: How to dress like a white man.

  June 20, 2008

• Drinks of Autumn: The Alcoholic Ones

  October 17, 2008

• The Download: Sample This (New Simian Mobile Disco, Coldplay/Jay-Z mashup, plus Anti- and Joyful Noise Records samplers)

  By ANDY VIHSTADT MP3: Simian Mobile Disco, In the Mix (N-Joy) 11/7/08 (thanks to Brooklyn Vegan) ZIP: Mick Boogie & Terry Urban, Viva la Hova (Coldplay/Jay-Z mashup album) ZIP: Anti- Records 2008/2009 sampler. Tracklist 01. “Mexico City” - Jolie Holland 02. “Pieces Of You” - Islands 03. “Say Hey (I Love You)” - Michael Franti & Spearhead 04. “Whispers” - Lyrics Born 05. “Freedom Highway” - Mavis Staples 06. “Big Mistake” - Tim Fite 07. “Rabbit Habits” - Man

  November 14, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Repent, scientists

  By CHRIS PACKHAM Gotta keep the devil way down in the hole: If you're like me, you spend a lot of time sitting in your darkened kitchen drinking Taster's Choice and listening to the police scanner, and you smell so strongly of Aqua Velva that you can see wavy blue-colored odor-lines wafting from your torso. And, thanks to the police scanner, you know that life in parts of Kansas City is terrifying and dangerous. Unfortunately for people who like numbers, such as Nate Silver and Jimmy the Greek,

  November 24, 2008

• Anita Bryant is alive ... and up to her old tricks

  Like Satan, Anita Bryant keeps coming back.Some of y'all are, sadly, too young to remember the woman who might be the country's original celebrity right-winger -- a milder, sunnier and way-hotter precursor to Fred Phelps. Younguns who've seen the movie might recognize her as one of the villains in the Harvey Milk story. But those of us who are a certain age -- old enough to remember her impossible-to-forget commercials for Florida Orange Juice -- know the former Miss Oklahoma (and second runner-

  March 26, 2009

• Space is overrun with tortillas

  NASA Sandra MagnusIt's a myth that Tang was developed for NASA but it is true that the agency did use the foul orange drink for many years on its flights. Food has never been NASA's strong point but astronaut Sandra Magnus is proving that, while food in space may not be 21st century, it's not the Stone Age either.Magnus is finishing up a five-month tour aboard NASA's Expedition 18 and blogs at length about the food. Surprisingly, she has few complaints. "It turns out that both NASA and Ru

  March 27, 2009

• ON the Fringe

  July 10, 2008

• They Are Real

  May 29, 2008

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall

  April 17, 2008

• Chafing Dishes

  February 14, 2008

• Rocket Men

  Reliving the glory of America�s giant leap for mankind.

  September 27, 2007

• Sperm: The Final Frontier

  May 31, 2007

• Fly Me to the Moon

  Billy Bob Thornton harvests man tears in The Astronaut Farmer.

  February 22, 2007

• Dark Alleys

  Chris Browne's bowling documentary has gloom to spare.

  September 22, 2005

• Mike Brown's Body

  August 11, 2005

• Neighborhood Fabric

  The Crossroads' low-rent Christo gives us pause.

  March 24, 2005

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  January 27, 2005

• Back to the Future

  Are we destined for disaster?

  January 13, 2005

• Roadside Attractions

  On Truman Road, images of the past collide with signs of the times.

  December 16, 2004

• Space Case

  Attention, aliens: Please return our science-fiction writer.

  November 25, 2004

• A Night at the Rite

  Just don�t call it HallowQueen.

  October 28, 2004

• Vital Organ

  Sam Beckett uses music to make the K special for suffering Royals fans.

  June 10, 2004

• We're Not Buyin'

  Jean Kilbourne thinks twice about ads.

  March 4, 2004

• Fully Loaded

  Arty and nonarty gun shows hit home.

  February 26, 2004

• Sneak Peek

  Martin Scorsese sent seven directors to seven locations to get The Blues.

  July 3, 2003

• Space Case

  Jayme Findlay's idea isn't so crazy -- he's just having a little trouble of getting it off of the ground.

  June 19, 2003

• Misbegotten Moon

  Pale Blue Moon is a dim, awful movie.

  March 13, 2003

• The Bleeding Edge

  A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults.

  February 13, 2003

• Block Party

  With two studios splitting space, it's a beautiful day in the Neighborhood.

  November 21, 2002

• Tattler's Tale

  Ronald Griesacker helped lock up right-wingers, then went to prison himself.

  September 12, 2002

• K-T Trail

  The alphabetical listing of local discs nears the end of the road.

  January 17, 2002

• Talkin' Tolkien

  Who has the right to write about the Lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

  December 20, 2001

• Money Talks

  Never heard of Money Mark? That might Change.

  September 20, 2001

• Earth to Rocket Science

  The first African-American female astronaut hangs up her spacesuit to change things on earth.

  August 23, 2001

• Ashes to Asses

  The digital artists of MK12 are smokin�.

  July 26, 2001

• Wizards of Oz

  Eccentric scientists work wonders in The Dish, a distinctively Australian time capsule.

  April 26, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of January 11, 2000

  January 11, 2001

• Geezers in Space

  Clint Eastwood directs a crew of veterans in his most engaging film in years.

  August 3, 2000

• Project Censored's Top 25 Stories for 1999

  May 11, 2000

• A question of darkness

  April 13, 2000

• Mission to Mars

  March 16, 2000

• Daily Briefs: Everybody hates their jobs.

  In space, no one can hear you bitch: The only people allowed to go into space are extraordinarily rich people like Mark Cuban who can actually pay Russians to launch them into orbit, or the astronauts in government space programs, who are qualified via a lot of fancy, rarefied knowledge such as how to fly jets and how to fuse four protons into one single alpha particle. Fat, farty-smelling old Earth-bound you and handsome, Aqua-Velva-scented me will never have the opportunity to escape the gra

  May 14, 2009

• Wayward Q&A: Crackin' Nuts with Robert Moore of Sonic Spectrum

  Robert Moore knows music. I caught up with the host of KRBZ 96.5 FM's Sonic Spectrum, CEO of local label Oxblood Records and ubiquitous face on the KC indie rock scene via e-mail and discussed past and present Kansas City music, DJ gigging and what sounds are cookin' so far this year. The Pitch: What is the best, most unique show you have seen within the last five years in Kansas City? Robert Moore: Well, best and most unique could actually be separate. A few that come to mind...AC/DC at the

  June 12, 2009

• A different kind of recycling

  It's one of the great stranded-on-an-island questions that inevitably comes up at a bar -- would you drink your own pee to survive? You might say no at first, but when presented with a series of qualifying factors -- there is no other water available or your shipwrecked mates have island fever and are holding a cutlass to your head -- you inevitably crack and agree that you would in fact recycle your own urine. This might make for funny barroom jokes, but there are three guys who wouldn't be lau

  July 22, 2009