I'm not bragging but I've probably seen Smokey and the Bandit 20 times* but it wasn't until reading this article in GQ that I put two and two together and realized that the beer Smokey is transporting -- the point on which the plot begins and turns -- is Coors! Coors might not have much cache today but that wasn't true in the '60s and '70s. There are pictures of Paul Newman drinking it; Benjamin Braddock drank it in The Graduate; Steve McQueen is rumored to have asked for it on his deathbed.You
Breaking news: Today, after work and after whacking the parrot or feeding the wife or whatever it is you do between getting off work and heading out 'n carousing, you, sir or madam, are going to Knuckleheads.
Here's why.
credit: Adam Hay
Those two charming bastards are Johnny Kenepaske (left) and Adam Lee who comprise one of KC's coolest new bands, Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company.
I wrote a column a month back about the hard honkin' and authentic yet refreshingly new sound of Lee
Sister food blog The Daily Fork evidently watches much more basketball than I do because I completely missed this challenge two nights ago of Charles Barkley trying to eat a piece of white bread in 30 seconds.Having never heard of the white bread challenge I found an old bag of Wonder at my house (does that ever go bad?) and tried the challenge. Sure enough, I failed miserably. I tried again with a slice of wheat bread and the same result -- bread by itself is like quick-setting concrete.The Dai
I had a lot of fun this weekend because of Bill Sundahl. The tireless force behind Spice of Life Productions held his fifth annual Crossroads Music Fest this past Saturday, with pre-parties the night before, and it was a gas. Not just any gas, though. A noble gas. Like xenon.
Forester MichaelClick on the Pornhuskers' backup dancer for more pics.
On Saturday, more than two dozen local acts performed at the Brick, the Czar Bar, the alley at Mercy Seat and the main stage and Skylight Room at Cros
