| | | Welcome to Tony's Kansas City BY JOE TONE  Talk to people about Tony Botello, the 36-year-old man-boy behind Kansas City's biggest independent blog, and they inevitably ask some variation of the same question: "Does he really live in his mom's basement?" Botello makes regular mention of living down there, constructing an image of a lair filled to the ducts with porn and campaign fliers. Readers, though, wonder whether it's just an ode to a blogger stereotype. The answer is a little of both. Botello says he does spend most nights in his mom's basement. But he also thrives on his image as a bottom-feeding outsider, even as that image becomes clouded by his influence. Also, his parents are divorced. He spends a lot of time at his dad... more >>
| | | | | | | | Will 'Mine Is Yours' propel Cold War Kids into the spotlight? BY BILLY GIL  The curse of midlevel stardom is familiar to Cold War Kids. The California band has been trying to put its idiosyncratic stamp on modern rock for six years. So far, the band has toured with Death Cab for Cutie and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. It churned out two albums and a slew of EPs before hooking up with a major producer — Jacquire King, of Kings of Leon's mammoth Only By the Night &mdash... more >> | | | | | | | | At Chinese buffets, the dollar stretches almost as far as the imagination BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  The trade magazine Chinese Restaurant News has long insisted that there are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than McDonald's franchises. Three times as many, in fact. Is that possible? In the Kansas City metro, according to the phone book and various websites, there seem to be about 100 McDonald's locations. Yellowpages.com lists more than 126 Chinese restaurants in and around Kansa... more >> | | | | | | The Adjustment Bureau BY KARINA LONGWORTH  In this extremely loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1954 short story "Adjustment Team" (and the directorial debut of Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi), Matt Damon plays David Norris, a Brooklyn-born, bar-fight-prone congressman rocketing to the front of a Senate race, apparently on the strength of his charisma and the idealism of his young supporters. "Come November, I want [the nay... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog Building off My War-era Black Flag, Kansas City's No Class plays excellent testo-aggressive throwback hardcore. The band released their debut, Keine Klasse, in November on Deranged Records. (It's... Fat City Schlotzsky's Deli must really love Kansas City. What remains to be seen is how Kansas Citians feel about Schlotzsky's new look. The international franchise unveiled the results of a $15 million ... Plog Casey Brezik, the lunatic accused of stabbing a community college dean last fall, is one step closer to having his mental illness formally recognized by the state. "Time is limited," Brezik anno... | | | | |
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