Subject: NASCAR

• Rally 'Round the Family

  May 23, 2006

• Weekend Events, Suggested by David Foster Wallace

  September 28, 2007

• Red Sport, Blue Sport

  May 16, 2008

• Red Sport, Blue Sport

  May 16, 2008

• Breakfast buffet: Tuesday, November 4

  November 4, 2008

• Kansas City Strip

  March 1, 2001

• Around Hear

  July 19, 2001

• Around Hear

  August 16, 2001

• Off the Couch

  October 4, 2001

• Best Wearable Art

  October 18, 2001

• Best Local Musician

  October 18, 2001

• Further Review

  March 14, 2002

• Best Place to see Dorky Dancing

  October 17, 2002

• Overheard at the comic shop

  Pitch art director Zachary Trover gets sad every time he buys comics on a new comic Wednesday. Earlier this week, Zachary was shopping at the B-Bop Comics when a rather large and intense woman demanded several copies of the Barack Obama and Spider-Man Inauguration Day special edition comic book. The shop owner ignored the one per customer sign and let her buy four so she'd go away. Zachary thinks the woman might be banking on the comics being worth a lot of money some day. Uh, not if they're in

  January 30, 2009

• G Hits the Spot

  May 15, 2003

• Singin' in the Pain

  February 19, 2004

• Best Wall Art

  October 7, 2004

• Best New Restaurant

  October 7, 2004

• Daily Briefs: My screenplay is coming along nicely

  Basically, I'll do just about anything for money, up to and including dressing up in pleated khakis and working in your call center. I don't have much in the way of conscience about that. On "Office Food Day," I'll even set up a mini Crock Pot in the break room and fill it up with Li'l Smokies. I have no soul. So it goes without saying that if you dangle a few thousand dollars in front of me, yes, I'll do some script doctoring on the screenplay for your remake of the 1982 Kenny Rogers NASCAR c

  April 10, 2009

• Just Us Folk$

  Plenty of John McCain’s real Americans are right here in Kansas City.

  September 25, 2008

• Step Brothers

  July 24, 2008

• Here’s an astute observation about big-truck-lovin’ rural farm workers

  May 29, 2008

• Flowers are blooming, fountains are flowing and the Kansas City air is — sweet Jesus, what is that smell?

  April 10, 2008

• Hook-Up Hotels

  February 8, 2007

• Farce of a Champion

  December 14, 2006

• Farce of a Champion

  December 7, 2006

• Road Rage

  August 31, 2006

• Hit the Road

  August 31, 2006

• Cowboy Up

  April 13, 2006

• Postcards from State Avenue

  September 1, 2005

• Yee-hargh

  There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show.

  August 4, 2005

• The Santa Clause

  We don’t Forsee a miracle on 119th Street

  December 23, 2004

• Final Fantasy

  Forget the office football draft. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time.

  August 12, 2004

• Ladies' Men

  Lawrence's Vibralux uses a little glitter and a lot of rock to become queens of the new age.

  March 25, 2004

• Turnbuckles and Turntables

  Vince McMahon pile-drives the music industry with WWE Originals.

  February 19, 2004

• White Dork Down

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

  December 4, 2003

• Hefty or Wimpy?

  On America Recycles Day, Wyandotte County prevails.

  November 13, 2003

• Your Logo Here

  When you're driving in circles, there's no such thing as fast money.

  October 2, 2003

• Ragtag Fleet

  At Taco Tuesdays, drinking and biking are frowned upon -- but biking then drinking is not.

  August 21, 2003

• Vroom

  Hot Wheels line up.

  July 17, 2003

• Cheap Trick

  Saturday, Saturday 28, at Verizon Amphitheater.

  September 26, 2002

• Daily Briefs: Return of the Jump Tuesday

  When I used to live in a fourth-story apartment, I thought that a cool invention would be a charcoal grill that you mount outside your window frame so that you could enjoy the delicious, smoky flavor of meat slow-cooked over compressed briquettes of petroleum waste without any need for a patio. The obvious disadvantage is that a window-mounted grill might fall out of the window and plunge four stories into somebody's baby carriage, incurring the wrath of consumer safety watchdogs. Still, the s

  April 28, 2009

• Joe Po unveils Zack Greinke SI cover

  Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski previews his Sports Illustrated cover story on Royals pitcher Zack Greinke with a first look at the cover. Love the tease: "He's been a phenom and a bust. He's walked away and come back. He's been a starter and a reliever, a genius and a flake and he's only 25, right now ... The Best Pitcher in Baseball." Cool cover. But it doesn't sound like Greinke is too excited about the cover, the first by a Royal since 1993. "They'll probably sell their least amount

  April 28, 2009

• We don't know what this SUNDAY's Chomp Womp Family Night is, and neither do its organizers.

  "It's a dinosaur. It's a plane. It's Superman." That's about the best description of Chomp Womp I got from Jonathan Doerr - perhaps the reason he felt compelled to call me later and apologize for "poorly representing" Chomp Womp. I'd be inclined to agree with him if anyone else could explain the damn thing. Most obviously, Chomp Womp is a collective of Lawrence and Kansas City musicians who play shows and put out tapes - yes, tapes. They've been kicking around for three years or so, claiming f

  May 1, 2009

• Concert Review: The Spook Lights / The Black Hollies / NASCAR at the Jackpot

  Despite the possibility of impending awful weather, a decently-sized crowd gathered at the Jackpot last night for full-on garage rocking. Now, a little garage goes a long way, so it was thankful that the three acts who graced the stage all offered something different. Lawrence's own the Spook Lights ended up headlining, despite everyone and their mothers thinking they'd be playing after the Black Hollies. Some things got switched around, and the Black Hollies ended up going on second. Whatever.

  June 16, 2009

• Snickering Sneed

  July 30, 2009

• You're not a man if you don't drink wine

  ​In the face of declining sales, winemakers are starting to market their product to a new group of consumers: men. Theories as to why men don't drink wine are numerous, including the idea that they don't want to be told what to drink. It's also generally accepted that most men know nothing about wine. Wineries have crafted labels and names like Kung Fu Girl, Red Truck and Maximus. Targeted marketing has also led to some unusual sponsorships, like the decision by Bennett Lane Winery (the produ

  August 17, 2009

• Moonshine still here

  ​Moonshine is like pickling -- odds are you know somebody who engages in the practice -- and whatever you've sampled out of a mason jar has either been fantastic or mouth-numbingly bad. The main difference is that moonshine is illegal, while pickles are kosher with the law. Salon decided to look into whether our current do-it-yourself culture will expand into distilling spirits, despite that fact that it's currently illegal to brew your own liquor without a licensed and registered still. The m

  September 10, 2009

• Happy-Hour Hit list: Legends

  October 1, 2009