Subject: National Public Radio Inc.

• Choga Korean Restaurant

  October 23, 2008

• Jazz & Banana

  January 8, 2007

• New NNHM Song

  April 9, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Superdelicacy; Cleaver Hearts Hillary; Local Candidate Has Awesome Geocities Page

  February 19, 2008

• Junkie Jukebox: Raconteurs on NPR

  May 30, 2008

• The Download Extra: New Goldfrapp Stream

  July 10, 2008

• The Download Extra: Ted Leo Live on NPR

  July 18, 2008

• Get Flatowed Tonight at the Pitch Music Showcase!

  August 7, 2008

• Rounding up some summer cookbooks

  As this weekend's weather proves, things are already starting to get unbearably hot. With the summer season come roughly 1,000 reading lists, including several focused on cookbooks.According to both NPR and the New York Time's list, the majority of cookbooks this summer will focus on basics, comfort food and growing your own food. Gone are the hedonistic days of celebrity chefs and expensive ingredients. Bang for your buck is in.Take Preserved, which focuses on the old-fashioned art of preserves

  June 1, 2009

• Daily Briefs: Packham Vic 20 II: The Rise of the Machines

  September 25, 2008

• The Download Extra: New They Might Be Giants Stream

  September 26, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 6/01

  Coming face to face with a wheat allergy is scary when you realize just how many things you have to give up. [Reality is not My Friend]Several interesting places to eat lunch in central Johnson County. Yes, such places do exist. [JJs in KC]Some brazen $2 rule-breaking is going on at Power & Light District, committed by none other than the Kansas City Police. [KC Beer Blog]How low can you go? Creating a wonderful meal for four and keeping the price below $10. [NPR]

  June 1, 2009

• The Download Extra: Tom Morello/Sonya Kitchell Concert Stream

  October 3, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Bodine, come here! I want you!

  October 21, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Don't Believe the MAX.

  ¿De que color es el autobus? Back when the thinly budgeted Kansas City Transportation Authority started the MAX express line from the City Market to Waldo, there was a lot of talk about the magickal properties that distinguished it from, for instance, the smelly old 57 line your grandparents are always going on about between defibrillations. One of the more fanciful Tolkien-grade claims about the MAX route was that sensors on downtown traffic lights could detect the buses and hold a yellow ligh

  December 11, 2008

• Despite NPR budget cuts, KCUR's OK for now

  With word earlier this week that National Public Radio, in budget trouble like everyone else in this country, would lay off 7 percent of its work force and cancel a couple of programs, we wondered what might be ahead for Kansas City's KCUR 89.3.Patrica Cahill, the station's general manager, tells me things aren't as grim as people might conclude from this week's news."I was on the board of NPR in 1983 when they almost went bankrupt, and this is so much better," Cahill says. That's because the ne

  December 12, 2008

• Tigers (No)Math

  One needs no hipster sensibilities to know that Marc Pepperman, Justin Tricomi, Ryan Pinkston, Adam McGill and Kenn Jankowski, the men of the Republic Tigers, are KC's latest contribution to the world of electro-pop. From NPR to Letterman, London to L.A., the Tigers are steadily building a considerable following alongside their 2008 release, Keep Color. Check out the hometown heroes for the first, 10th or 20th time tonight when Scion presents DJs and Rockstars at Crosstown Station (1522 McGee,

  January 30, 2009

• Joss Stone

  October 23, 2003

• NPR reruns KC gangland piece

  The scene of the Union Station MassacreI'd never heard NPR's "Kansas City's wholesome image belies mob past" piece, but yesterday "Day to Day" reran the September 2007 show. It's a quick, six-minute tour of KC's seedy mob past. Makes me want to take the tour. Hat tip to TKC.

  February 17, 2009

• Train Wreck

  June 10, 2004

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: vet candidates to thin the ranks of crooked officials in Wyandotte County, vent about KCP&L jacking up your electric rates, get involved in an East Side beautification effort that continues to flourish without city handouts and toss a pair of old shoes for your under-shod neighbors in Africa.

  March 9, 2009

• Download

  August 25, 2005

• Daily Briefs: May you be in heaven half an hour before, oh god, shoot me now

  Póg me hón: NPR's shrill, reedy Thistle and Shamrock, which you may have mistaken at one time or another for a gigantic Irish mosquito buzzing around the inside of your car, or a lengthy and very Gaelic test of the Emergency Broadcast System, pretty much lives for the week of St. Patrick's Day. At least, I imagine they do, since, to paraphrase David Cross, I would literally rather listen to the death rattle of my only child. SORRY, FIONA RICHIE! But it's kind of the equivalent of a weekly s

  March 17, 2009

• Neko Case live concert stream tomorrow at NPR.org

  Set your cell phone alarm and make sure you're near a computer tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. Eastern, when NPR will stream a live audio webcast of Neko Case performing at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. Again, that's 9:30, April 9, at the 9:30 Club. (Only it'll be 8:30 here, duh.) Let it be made official: Neko's new one, Middle Cyclone, is one of this year's few HOLY SHIT albums. It's amazing. Sweetening the deal on this broadcast is that Eric Bachmann's band Crooked Fingers will be opening the

  April 8, 2009

• Black Lips

  March 12, 2009

• Tigers + (No)Math

  January 29, 2009

• Musée Mécanique

  January 29, 2009

• The Food for Life Supreme Diner encourages patrons to be supreme beings

  May 15, 2008

• Vaudeville Camp

  April 10, 2008

• Night & Day Events

  Week of February 8, 2001

  February 8, 2001

• The Download

  August 17, 2006

• Iambic Infatuation

  August 17, 2006

• Get Inside

  Your three-month forecast of the summer’s top movies.

  May 18, 2006

• Home on the Range

  Get dirty where the buffalo roam.

  February 3, 2005

• Poetry in Motion

  We're in Dove.

  November 11, 2004

• Take That to the Bank

  Commerce gets arty.

  October 9, 2003

• Gossip Folks

  KKFI's Brit Schitt gives people something to talk about.

  May 8, 2003

• THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES

  PAY ATTENTION(ISLAND/DEF JAM)

  May 25, 2000

• NPR maps out the United States' vein-y power grid

  The U.S. electric grid is a hard thing to wrap your mind around but so much easier with NPR's vein-y looking maps. The map below shows existing and proposed (the orange ones) transmission lines keeping the PlayStation 3 kicking.Another map breaks down the sources of electricity in each state. And guess what? Coal is king in Kansas and Missouri, generating 75 percent of the Sunflower State's power and 85 percent of the Show-Me State's.Hat tip to Gizmodo.

  April 29, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 5/04

  If there were an award for Mexican restaurants and strangely colored sauces, this place would win by a mile. [KC Lunch Spots]Please, for your sake, click on this link about the Virgin Mary being seen on a griddle in California. If that picture doesn't sum up Virgin Mary sightings, I don't know what does. [MSNBC]Turns out that Hydroxycut might do more than help you lose a few pounds. According to the FDA, it can cause liver failure and death. [WSJ] A feel-good story about a bartender who turns wi

  May 4, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 6/09

  The Browne's Irish Market 122 anniversary party via Twitter. [Irish KC]Deliciousness in KCK. Church's Chicken may soon be headed to Wyandotte. [Kansas City Kansan]The Fiddlehead is one of the odder looking plants in the northeast, so naturally people have figured out a way to eat it. [NPR]White wine and rose wine traditionalists can breathe easier now that EU has abandoned plans to allow combining the two. [Independent]Sure you can make a vinaigrette with just oil and vinegar, but to make it exc

  June 9, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 7/03

  The first in a series about cooking on the cheap and making a family gourmet dinner for about $10. [Blog Well Done]So a blogger's Jersey cow just gave birth to a beautiful calf and now the "name my calf" game is on. [Just Me]The sheep in Scotland are getting smaller. The population's declining, and the actual sheep are getting tinier and tinier. Are they de-evolving? Scotsmen look for the answer. [Time]European nations have lifted the ban on irregularly shaped vegetables. Now you can finally get

  July 3, 2009

• Video: NOVA scienceNOW on Auto-Tune

  PBS' NOVA program recently featured a segment on the much over-used (and evidently dead, according to Jay-Z) bit of computer software known as Auto-Tune. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, you can find out all the science behind the whys and wherefores of how this miracle bit of coding has allowed the likes of Kanye and T-Pain to reach new heights of music sales. NPR has done two stories on the software, as well--one this past November, and another in 2004. Public broadcasting is bigger than hip

  July 7, 2009

• Incoming @ Midland by AMC: Volta, Sedaris

  Tickets for two incoming Midland -- and completely different -- shows go on sale this Friday, July 31, at 10 a.m. But chances are, if you're an NPR listener, you'll be down for either. Ross Halfin Who: The Mars Volta When: September 14 Whither NPR?: Now you, NPR listener aged 35 , might think you're too old for this, but let's look at the ingredients: long Santana breakdowns with a Steve Perry howler on vocals and plenty of '70s prog and Sun Ra stylings and nonsensical album titles like Defibr

  July 27, 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

• Comfort food and the recession

  ​If you've ever seen the Buck Night crowd at Kauffman Stadium, it's a no-brainer that in times of recession people not only love comfort food but cheap comfort food.  NPR's Gillian Gutierrez recently suggested that hot dogs should be used as an indicator of the economy's health of the economy. Based on the ingredients suggested on cooking Web sites, she figured more hot dogs means tighter times.  Not to debunk a perfectly good theory, but hot dog consumption always increases in

  August 31, 2009

• Stream the Flaming Lips' Embryonic

  Making like it's NPR, the Colbert Nation will be streaming the Flaming Lips' new album, Embryonic, from now until midnight on September 21. ​Surprisingly, when you go the website, there's not a lot of hullabaloo over the preview stream. There's no banner screaming "EXCLUSIVE" or anything like that. It's just a small player in the upper left-hand corner. As many Facebook updates as they've released about this (making it a pretty big deal, really), you'd think it'd be more obvious. Frankly,

  September 17, 2009

• Kind of Blue At 50

  I'd never owned a copy of Mile Davis' Kind of Blue until a couple months ago, when I bought a copy for $2 at a friend's yard sale. I'd heard songs here and there, as I subbed various Jazz In the Morning shifts at KJHK, but never listened to the album start to finish. ​You ever listen to something -- I mean really listen, forgoing all other activities to pay attention to what's coming out of your speakers -- after having only heard it in passing? You get that sudden realization of "Oh, fuc

  October 7, 2009

• Could Walmart make us healthier?

  ​Long criticized for its employee health care practices and in-store fast food offerings, could Walmart be the America's answer to improving people's diets? That's the suggestion from a recent NPR story, which posits that Walmart's distribution network and purchasing power could be the key to changing the way Americans eat. Before we even consider whether there is demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables, the problem is essentially one of supply. According to NPR, 75 percent of food prod

  October 8, 2009

• Comparing apples to apples

  ​This time of year you can't help but end up with too many apples. And your first instinct is going to be to bake or cook with them before they go soft or mealy. But not all apples taste better after a go in the oven. A recent National Public Radio story set to find out which are your best bets. The first lesson, which might be the most important, is that a mealy or rotten apple (unlike some other fruit) can't be saved by cooking it. In fact, sometimes heat will only intensify bitter flavors.

  November 2, 2009